Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-07-20 00:00:00

1-Eastern Circuit, have alsO been
wnhora n 4 "Ma,.

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former years.

carriages -Which liad not been damaged by the shock, they
were conveyed to Paisley, where those of them who lived in
the neighbourhood were taken out, their wounds being
attended to by Dr. APKinlay. Among these was a little boy,
named Wm. Kelly, from Elderslie, who sustained a fracture
of the thigh, and had to be removed to the infirmary. The

rest of the `wounded passengers were brought to Glasgow,
where, on the arrival of the train at ten o'clock, they were
attended by Drs. Fleming, Tyndal, Stewart, Dunlop, and
McMillan, who, with Mr. Edgar, station master, and Mr.
Robb, assistant superintendent of police, did everything
in their power to alleviate their sufferings. Stretchers
having been procured, several of the wounded were

gentlemen, with the ex'

SIR W. SOMERVILLE'S BlLL.—Mnch opposition is about
being offered to this In pursuance of a requisition,
numerously signed, the high sheriff of the county Ferma-
nagh has called a meeting of the nobility, gentry, clergy,
and inhabitants of Fermanagh, for the purpose of taking
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louse of

Commons, to disturb the existing arrangements of the
Emancipation Act of 1829, which is to be held in the
Court-house, Enniskillen, on Friday, the 22nd instant.
Petitions against the proposed bill are being forwarded

'rom several other towns in Ireland."
ran Inisu POTATO CROP.—The Dublin Mercantile
We have now passed the time when, in
iccounts of appearances of blight in the potato

crop usually began to appeir. As yet, fikunately, there
have not been even rumours of diSease in the growing crops
unless from one or two western districts ; and the potatoes,

at the commencement of May, a considerable portion are
small in size, and we fear that this complaint is rather
general. _

WHITEBOY 017TRAGE.—The Armagh Uwardian says irt
its last impression :—" We have frequently heard of Terryalt
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persons, cautioning tnem
against remaining in possession of some particular farm or
house, through sympathy for the previous occupier, but it
is a new phase in Tipperary crime to find a man warned,
under certain disagreeable penalties, against leaving his pre-
sent abode for another. A case of this kind, however, has
lust occurred. The other night shots were fired into the dwell-
ing of J. Maher, who resides at Beechwood, about four miles
from this town, and in the morning; when the terrified inmates
got out of bed, they found a notice posted an the door, of
which the following is a copy Captain Starlight :
give notice to stop where you are, and not to go further, or
if you do there will be a lump of led made for to through
you. Attend to this." At the bottom of the notice there
iers, not so i was drawn out the figure of a cOffin

On the same night
mee of Mr. Arthur

,easy, of Kiiruareee, about two re

the foregoing outrage, and it is considered both offences
were committed by the same party, as Mr. O'Leary had
given a site to Maher to erect a forge and dwelling-house
near his residence, and for his convenience.

THE GALWAY MAIL CONTRACT.--The grand jury of the
county Louth has passed unanimously a resolution to the
effect that their county representatives be requested to give
every opposition in Parliament to the attempt to annul the
contract entered into with Mr. Lever for the conveyance of
mails to America from Galway. This body express ac
opinion that such an attempt, if successful, would inflict a
severe injury upon the commercial progress of Ireland. The
example of the gentry of Louth will, it is expected, be fol-
lowed by other counties towards the east side of the island,
as well as those nearer to the sea board of the Atlantic.

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS

FOREIGN SEAMEN AND APPRENTICES.---A return under
this head shows that the number of foreign seamen employed
in British ships registered in the United Kingdom was 5,793
in 1851, 5,700 in 1852, 7,321 in 1853, 13,200 in 1851,
12,927 in 1855, 13,321 in 1856, 14,375 in 1857, and 12,344
in 1858. The number of apprentices serving in British
registered vessels, on the 31st December in the following
years, was as follows :—ln 1849, 31,636 ; in 1850, 24,394;
in 1851, 17,411 ' • in 1852, 11,105 ; in 1853, 13,826; in
1854, 18,423 ; in 1855, 22,082 ; in 1856, 24,847 ; in 18571
25,096 ; in 1858, 53,831.

CRIMINAL OFFENDERS (SeomAND).—An abstract of the
criminal statistics for the year 1858, as compared with 1857'
exhibits a decrease of 58, or 15,104 per cent. For the last'
mentioned year, 2718 males and 1064 females were cony
mitted for trial or bailed, giving a total of 3782, of whicll
number 3167 were tried. Of these 2891 were eonvicteal
outlawed, or found insane, and. 845 convicted under aggr3'
vation of previous convfctions. - None were sentenced to
death. The offences against property "committed wtih
violence" were 440, as against 408 in 1857. Of the entire
number committed in 1858, there were 515 males and 29'1
females who could neither read nor write ; 1566 males and
670 females who could read and write imperfectly ; 529,
males and 91 females who could read and write well ; ana
80 males and but 3 females who had received a superior
education.

The people of St. Joseph, Missouri, having built tWO
theatres, now think of building a church. -A
THE BURNING OF THE TROOP-SHIP EASTERN MORARCIC
AT SPITHEAD.—At the Winchester assizes, on Monday',
Charles Gardner, ship steward, was indicted fur the maw
slaughter of Robert Smith, at Spithead, on the 3rd June.
Mr. Collier, Q.C., and Mr. Poulden, prosecuted on behalf of
the Treasury ; Mr. J. D. Coleridge defended, the prisoner.
Mr. Collier said the prisoner was charged with the very
serious offence of manslaughter; and having on behalf of
the Crown stated the circumstances of the case, told the jury
they would have to consider whether they were satisfied on
both of two points, viz.: first, that there had been negli-
gence on the part of the prisoner; and, secondly, that the
steward's negligence had led to the catastrophe. Very few
reasonable men could doubt that it was a very careless thing
for a man to go to the magazine and throw a light upon the
floor. After an intimation from the learned judge, Mr.
Collier withdrew the indictment of manslaughter, and a
verdict of not guilty was taken. The prisoner was then
arraigned on an indictment for misdemeanour, under the
239th section of the act of 17 and 18 Vic., of the Mercan-
tile Marine Act, which enacts that if any seaman shalt by
breach of duty or drunkenness do any act tending to, the
destruction or serious damage of the ship, or to the loss of
life of any person on board, he should be guilty of a mis-
demeanour. The jury, after a brief consultation, returned
a verdict of acquittal.
SINGULAR OccunnErreE.—One night this week, a Daniel..
lington (says the,Ayraire Express), a little girl upwards of
two years of age, whose vital spark was just ebbing away,
was surrounded by her parents and friends watching the
dying struggles of the little innocent ; a cage of canaries
was hanging at the window, and the birds sitting on the
spars, when all of a sudden one of them dropped from itS
seat into the bottom of the cage, and when taken out was
found to be lifeless. In about an hour afterwards the little
girl expired ; and just as she drew her last breath the second
bird also dropped down, and expired without a flutter. The
birds had a plentiful supper of both seed and water, and
were, to all appearance, in good health.

THE CLAIMS OF THE FAMILY OF HENRY COAT.—The
family of Henry Cort claims compensation from the British
nation for the unjust forfeiture of their father's rights. This
Henry Cort was the inventor of the process for the con-
version of pig iron into malleable iron by the flame of pit coal
in the pudding furnace. Before his.time our ironmasters were
compelfed to employ charcoal for fuel. Having thus got pig
iron into the mallpdm. • •

conaition, Cort invented a farth
process for drawing it into bars by means of grooved rollers.er
In other words, he reduced the labour and cost of producing
iron to one-twentieth of what they were before WS, day, and
the iron was of a better quality.• How, it may be
asked, can the children of such a man be. in want ?
How is it they are not among the wealthiest of the
land ? The answer is this :—Mr. Cart had entered

into partnership with a certain Mr. Adam. Jellicoe, at the
• time deputy-paymaster of the navy. Jellicoe. advanced moner•
and was to receive in return half the proof the trade. Core
assigned to him, besides, his patent rights, as collateral secu-
rity. In the year 1789 Jellicoe died, and was found to be a
public defaulter. The Navy Boardissued extents against the
trade effects of Cort and Jellicoe, and confiscatedCoreg
patent rights, which they treated, as valueless. The hardship of
the case was this : a property- which should have been esti-
mated at the value of £25,000 was forfeited to insure pay-
ment of a debt which the estate would have satisfied seven
or eight times over had it been fairly handled. Nobody
but the ironmasters profited by this mismanagement, and
the Corts' were ruined.. It should he emphatically re-
marked that it. is not even suggested Cort had anything to
do with Jellicoe's defalcations. He was purely the victim of a swindler • but, although it might be right to cause
the firm to refund the sums in which one of the partners
'stood indebted to the public, it was utterly wrong to
destroy the noble fortune which this ingenious man had
won by the force of his intelligence and industry. Eng-
land is indebted for a large share of her present prospe'
rity to Henry Cort's inventions ; but now his four surviving
children—all of them being persons about seventy years of
age—are beggars, and only saved from the poorhouse hi,
pensions amounting in the aggregate to £9O per annul There should be more gratitude in an iron age to the. child
I dren of Henry Cort,—Times.