The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-08-01 00:00:00

LOSS OF THE SHIP VESPER

Our usual shipping intelligence communicates the fact
of the foundering at sea, on the 18th July, in lat. 43,
lon. 33, of the ship Vesper, of Thomastown, bound from
this port to New York. We have to append to this

ordinary news the report given of the disaster by the
commander of the lost ship. Captain Peter Vesper
reports :—" The ship Vesper sailed from Liverpool for
New York on the 28th June, with all on board happy
in the prospect of a safe voyage, having perfect confi
deuce in the ship, and that she would carry us safely to
our desired port. We had light winds and fine weather
for two weeks, and everything passed on as we could
wish, the ship leaking only a trifle more than when we left
port, but nothing to cause the least anprehension of danger.
On the morning of the 13th July, on pumping the ship, we
found the leak had greatly increased, bat as we had good
pumps, we still thought we should have no trouble in
performing the voyage. We kept her free until the
afternoon of the 15th, when we found that with all
hands pumping the water gained on us two inches per
hour, and from that time it kept increasing, so that at
eight o'clock the next morning, the lower hold was
nearly full. All hands were then so much fatigued, that
we fled to the boats, as the only hope of saving our lives.
We divided ourselves into three companies, and moored
our boats to a line made fast to the stern of the ship,
hoping that some vessel would heave in sight, and that
we could save much from the ship. She kept up until
Friday, when at nine o'clock, p.m., with one plunge she
went down, giving us barely time to cut our line. We
remained in our boats until Monday morning at two
o'clock, when the ship Stephen Crowell, Captain
Burgess, resoned us from us from our perilous situa-
tion." Of the conduct of Captain Burgess, on the
trying occsasion, the grateful persons he rescued thus
express themselves in an address to that gentleman
" We, the captain and his wife, officers, and crew of the
ship Vesper, wish to express our heart-felt gratitude to
Captain Burgess, end all on board of his ship, for the
exertions they made when they discovered us to get us
all safely on board, and for the kindness we received
while there. We feel that we never shall forget it, and
it is our prayer that the captain nor none under his com-
mand may never need like aid; but should such be the
case, that they may met with as kind friends, and as
welcome a reception.—Yours, Ste., " PETER VESPER."

EARL GRANVILLE'S EXTRAORDINARY
MISSION TO MOSCOW.

His excellency the Earl of Granville, Ambassador
Extraordinary to the coronation of the Emperor Alexan-
der 11. of Russia, accompanied by the Countess Gran-
ville, left Carlsbad on Saturday last for Dresden, which
capital the noble earl and countess were to leave on
Monday for Hamburgh, en routito Kiel, there to embark
for Cronstadt, thence to St. Petersburg. On Sunday and
Monday, Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., and Lady EmilY
Peel, the Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford, the Ear
of Dalkeith, Hon. Frederick Levesou and Lady Margaret
Gower, Mr. Villiers Lister, Lord Burghersh, Hon. Gerald
Ponsonby. Dr. Sandwith, &c., all attached to the embassy,
left town for Dover, in order to embark on board the
St. Jean d'Acre, 101, screw steamship, under the
command of Captain George St. Vincent King, C.B.
which fine ship left Devonport at an early hour on Sun-
day morning for the Downs. The five carriages and
above twenty horses, with the principal number of the
domestics of the noble earl's household, left the Thames
about ten days since for St. Petersburg. The state
coach of his excellency was made by one of the first
manufacturers in London, and was constructed in five
weeks. It is of a royal blue, pinked out with crimson,
orange, and light blue, all the mountings being of
silver. At each of the four corners is a richly
chased lamp, surmounted by an earl's coronet,
and at the corners of the roof is an earl's coronet on a
cushion, also in silver. The hammereloth is of white

cloth, ornamented with white and blue gimp and fringe,
tastefully designed, on which is a crimson velvet banner,

on which are displayed the family arms of the earl in
chased silver. The lining and cushions of the interior
are of rich white watered silk. On the door pannels,
and in front and back of the coach, the arms of his
excellency are fully emblazoned, the side panels-being
emblazoned with the family crest. The four other carri-

ages are very elegant but less gorgeous, as they are in-
tended for the noblemen and gentlemen in the retinue of
his excellency. In addition to the noble earl's family
plate, his lordship's uncle, the Duke of Devonshire, has
lent him his costly service of frosted plate, which occu-
pied no less than seventeen cases, It is a singular fact
that the Duke of Devonshire was special ambassador at
the coronation of the late Emperor Nicholas, in 1826,
and on that occasion the magnificent hospitalities of the
noble duke made a great impression on the Imperial
family, and a cordial feeling has ever since existed
between its members and that distinguished nobleman.

BANKRUPTCY COURT.-YESTERDAY

(BEFORE MR. COMMISSIONER STEVENSON.)

IN RE C. P. EDNEY.—The bankrupt was one of the firm
of Edney and Rtines, wholesale druggists, of. Liverpool. This
was the certificate meeting. Mr. Rymer• appeared for the
bankrupt, and called on the court to grant him an immediate
certificate of the first class. No one had been so great a
sufferer by the bankruptcy than Mr. Edney himself, who had
lost by it a fortune of £l4 000, and though it had not been
brought about by any act of his, he had done all in his power
to redress it. He had, unfortunately, trusted to his partner,
who h.:4 absconded, and up to the last moment had believed
in his representations, that their business was in a most-pros-
perous condition. His partner had the chief management of
the business. Nothing ever transpired to arouse his suspicions;
a book-keeper being employed, at a large salary, to keep the
books, and everything appearing to be going -on well. So far
as his own conduct was concerned, it would be seen that the
difficulties of the firm had not arisen from any extravagance
on his part, when, as was show❑ by the balance•sheet, his
personal expenses, for the nineteen months over which it
extended, were only £231. "Under those circumstances, and
considering that there was no opposition, and that Mr. Edney
had given every assistance in his power to the assignees, he
trusted that the court would :nark its sense of such conduct,
by granting a certificate of the first class. Mr. Evans, jun.,
who appeared for the assignees, said that they offered no
opposition to the application, and that they totally exonerated
Mr. Edney from all part in the conduct which had produced
the bankruptcy. His Honour said that he also considered Mr.
Edney free from all blame, and that it would not be just to
punish him for the misconduct of his partner. Holding that
view, it gave him satisfaction to be able to grant, in the case,
a certificate of the first class. Certificate of the first class
accordingly granted.

THE Paws.—Mr. Herbert
_lngram, M.P.,entertained

the parliamentary reporters of the principal London morning
and evening papors at dinner on Tuesday night, at the
Trafalgar, Greenwich.

NAVAL COURT-MARTIAL. —PLYMOUTFL—A court-mar-
tial was held on board her Majesty's ship Impregnable, at
Plymouth, on Tuesday, Sir James H. Plumridge, 1C.C.8.,
president, to enquire into the circumstances under which
her Majesty's troop ship Belleisle was run ashore on the
Englishman's Shoal when passing down the Bosphorus at
about 6 a.m. on the morning of the 12th of June, 1856, and
to try Commander James Hosken and Mr. Henry Hutch-
ings, master, both of that ship, for their conduct on that
occasion. After: hearing witnesses and continuing the
enquiry for several hours, the court was of opinion that
blame was attributable to both Commander Hosken and
Mr. Hutchings, the master, and adjudged the said Com-
mander Hosken to be admonished and be more careful in
futurei and, in consideration of the low, services of Mr.
Hutchings, and the good certificates he Produced, did only
adjudge him t ) be severely reprimanded, and admonished
to be more careful in future.