Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-24 00:00:00

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

VESSEL SANK IN THE RIVEII.—The Victoria, from
Mogodor, that was ashore on the Brazil Bank, was towed
off last night, full of water and on her beam-ends. She
sank in deep water off the Magazines. A wreck buoy
has been sent out to mark her position. .
AUSTRALIA.—The Black Ball clipper ship British
Trident, Captain O'Neil, which sailed from Melbourne
about the sth of August, arrived hero on Saturday
afternoon, making the run in less than eighty days. The
British Trident brings 32,700 ounces of gold, valued at
ze80,850 sterling.
SAILING OF THE AmEntc4.—The British and North
American royal mail steam-ship America sailed on
Saturday, for 'Halifax and Boston. Besides the usual
mails and a valuable cargo, the America took out 127
passengers, among whom it May. appear singular to
state, were two gentlemen, named respectively Mr.
Bright and Mr. Cobden.
BRITISH COAL Ex-ronTs.—Messrs. W:* and H.
Laird, of Liverpool, in their circular just issued, state
that during September, the exports from the Northern
ports were 363,941 tons; Yorkshire, 32,884 ; Liverpool,
51,286 ,-- Severn ports, 131,032 ; Scotch ports, 47,349 ;
total, 626,492 ; being a decrease, compared with Sep-
tember, 1868, of 24,232 -tons, but an increase in the
period froM January to September, as compared with
1858, of 246,400 tons.

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING- CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE
'JEWS.—Our readers will be glad to see that the annual
meeting of the Society for Promoting Christianity
among the Jews will be held this evening, in the hall
of the Collegiate Institution. The Lord Bishop of
Chester will take the chair at half-past six o'clock, and
the meeting will be addressed by the Rev: C. T. Good-
hart, one of the deputation by the Rev. Thomas
Nolan, formerly of St. Barnabas' Church in this town;
and other clergy.
ACCIDENTS.—A fisherman, named John Gregg, resid-
ing in Bispham-street, was received into the Northern
Hospital on Saturday last, suffering from a frac-
ture of the ribs, which he received by a sea
striking the boat, and knocking him against the
mast.—A man, named Peter Flatly, residing in
-Smithfield-street, was taken to the Northern Hospital,
yesterday, having been found in a state of insensibility,
and nearly frozen to death in (iheapside. It is sup-
posed that he fell, while in a state of drunkenness, and
sustained the severe scalp wound from which he is at
present suffering.
A COLD BATH.- —Yesterday morning a sailor, named
Charles Burns, thought he had a right to get drunk,
and he acted up to the mark. He was endeavouring to
get home, during one of yesterday's snow-showers, and
as his way lay by the banks of the Leeds Canal,
and as Mr. Burns had no particular objection to
a slight deviation from the direct line, he quite
unintentionally fell into the " liquid stream," thereby
subjecting himself to a cold bath, which he did not at
all .seem to like. Some persons were near at the
time, and they gallantly rescued the "jolly jack tar,"
who was conveyed to the Northern Hospital, where
proper care was taken to relieve him from the effects of
theimmersion.
INSCINENCY COURT.—The following cases were heard
at Lancaster, on Friday, the 21st of October, before
Robert Segar, Esq., judge —John White Isherwood,
dealer in cigars and sundries, Birmingham, three months;
John Broadbent, umbrella manufacturer, three months ;
John Nuttall, lodging-house keeper, Bolton-le-Moors,
three months ; Thomas Millward Geddes, commercial
traveller,Livezpool, six months; William Sykes, cabinet-
maker, Manchester, discharged ; Michael Neville, brass-
founder, Liverpool, discharged; Edward Fell Wright,
fish dealer, Manchester discharged:; George Bates,
foreign fruit merchant, Kingston-upon-Hull, discharged;
Thomas Hargreaves, licensed victualler, Manchester,
discharged ; Lester Priestly, commercial traveller, Sal-
foird, out of custody ; Edward Knowles, grocer and tea
dealer, Bolton-le-Moors, adjourned; Robert Buckley,
tobacconist, Manchester, adjourned; George Schofield,
rope maker, Salford, adjourned.
THE ETERNAL CITY.—" The habitual residents of
Rome," says a letter in the Post, "are beginning to
make theirre-appescance in the Eternal City, after their
customary summer's absence—the artistic portion of the
community being, as usual, in the van. Mr. Gibson,
R.A., has been here for some days, and Mr. B. Spence
is already at work in his studio, in consideration of a
new subjee, for which, during his stay in England, he
received a commission from the Queen. Having
been summoned to wait upon her Majesty at Balmoral,
where he was received most affably by the Queen and
Prince Albert in • their Highland home, Mr. Spence was
requested by her Majesty to undertake a marble figure
as a companion to that of Highland Mary—one of Mr.
Spence's most charming works, already in the Royal
palace, The Queen requested that the statue might re-
present a Scottish subject, as it was destined to occupy
a place in her Scotch residence, and to form the pen-
dant to Burns's exquisite conception of Highland loveli-
ness."

LECTURE ILLUSTRATIVE OF SCOTISH HISTORY.—
On Saturday evening Mr. Alexander Milne, the cele-
brated Scottish vocalist gave a lecture at the Concert
Hall, 'illustra ire of Scottish song and music. The
lecture was highly interesting in itself, was rendered.
doubly—or rather inestimably valuable by the flue,
racy, and characteristic style in which he saw-,'
the Songs and ballads illustrative of his theme.
Among the favourite songs by which he enforced the
claims of Scottish minstrelsy to general favour, we
may mention his very successful rendering of Burns'
beautiful song, " Of a' the airts the wind can blaw,"
which was deservedly applauded and encored. Nor
dare we forget his spirited singing of the quaint Jacobite
ditty, the " Wee, wee German lairdip," which was given
with all his accustomed feeling and expression. , The
satirical powers of the vocalist were well evinced in that
ballad, and -also in the expressive, though somewhat
coarse, narrative song, " Hame cam our gudeman at
e'en." In the fine ballads of "Bonnie Prince Charlie,"
and " Come nuder my plaidic," Mr. Milne was, as usual,
great. The piano-forte accompaniment of M Joseph
Skcaf was highly creditable to that gentleman, showing,
as it did, a flue appreci4ou of the duties and require-
ments of his office,