Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-02 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1859

" her island ho

me" shall indeed be " safe from
foreign invasion, and internal convulsion ;" and the
latter would inevitably follow the former, were there
no other malign influence to unhappily call it forth.
But, at any rate, that is at present the first great
dutythat devolves upon the Government,—to keep
this envied isle of ours' an isle of peace—and, as
3. end, to preserve it "safe

essential to this bl

from foreign in.vasior.

aat duty

the Government
and for this, if

ppear to be d

thfully

for nothing else, it is entitled to the people's respect

and gratitude.

Now there i

no part of this duty of greatei

practical importar

!e than that which relates to its
" The wooden walls of Old

naval defences

England" must be maintained in all their strength,
if her position upon the sea is to be safe, and safe

we must take care that it is, whether we have or

we have not the amity of any other Power—
American or European. It was Sir JOHN PAKING-

TON'S observation, we see, on a public occasion, a

occupying the high

and hono

31e position in her

A.dmiralt

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL COUNTY COURT.—In the County Court,
yesterday, a number of unimportant small debt cases came
on for hearing before Mr. Blair, one of the judges, out of
which nothing arose of the slightest public interest.
THE JUBILEE.—It will be-remembered that, some two
months ago, the Jubilee, while on her voyage from China
to London, struck on the bank at Boulogne, and sunk. A
quantity of her cargo, consisting of silks, tea, &c., was saved,
and the ship has since been raised, and we learn by telegraph
that she left , Boulogne-roads for London, yesterday
morning. _

THE° SHIELDS SHIP-CARPENTERS.—On Saturday, a
further number of shipwrights left Shields for her Majesty's
dockyards. During the last three months, it is calculated
that about 1,000 shipwrights have left Shields, and the
other northern "ports on the east coast, extending from
Blythe to Whitby, for the naval dockyards. Higher wages
are paid at the dockyards.
CAPT. SCHOMBERG or H.M.S. ABOURIR.—The Aboukir,
of 91 guns, to which Captain. Schomberg has just been
appointed, will shortly, it is stated, be stationed in the
Mersey, where Captain Schomberg (who during his resi-
dence in Liverpool as Chief of the Government Emigration
Department gained such general popularity), will doubtless
be very successful in obtaining men for the navy.
ACCIDENT IN THE WATERLOO DOCK.—Yesterday, a sea-
man, named Emanuel Bouquet, belonging to the ship
Samuel Hincks, lading for New York, and at present lying.
in the Waterloo dock, fell into the hold of the ship, and
received severe injury to the head, sustaining concussion of

the brain, also several contusions on different parts of th
body. He was conveyed to the Northern Hospital..

513.01E:4' ,ADVA.N6E NOTES. -On Monday night, a
meeting of persons in the habit of discounting seamen's
advance notes, was held in Glasgow, for the purpose of
endeavouring to do away with the present ten-day note
system, and reverting to the system of day notes adopted

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111.A.umn Disamats::—'-rlntelligence ..,en received here
that the Anne Armstrong, from Liverpool to Bombay, when
160 miles west of Lisbon, came into collision with the Alcar.
The latter entered Lisbon to repair, but the Anne Arm-
strong proceed -hat damaged. The

on her voyage somew

Iris, from Saviiir
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for Liverpool, was run c

3wn on Mon-
Agliaes, and

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