Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-25 00:00:00

TIIE EXPLOSION AT MAYENCE,

The following details are 'deilygd from the
Cologne Gazette number, of houses which
have :been completely destroyed by this terrible
disaster amounts, it is now ascertained, to 57 ;
but there is not, a house in the town which has
not more or less suffered. Up to .Friday last
-there were 28' 'corpses found,ll- being thoSe of
Prussian :soldiers. The number Of ' Prussian,
soldiers wounded amounts to between 80 and 00,
,and for, .many ,of„these there is .rio hive
,of
recovery.' The ntiraber of 'Atistrian soldiers
killed. -mid woittidbdThas ' riot been- ascertained:-
The wounded' amdngst the civil Population amount
to several hundreds. • After..eight hours' labour, a
woman who was seated on a chair beneath a hepe of
beams and rubbish, waSjescued from a. death that
seemed inevitable: An 'inhabitant of. - Mayence •
who hid been at Dirmstalt when the disaster
took place, returned at once on hearing of the
explosion,- and found all his family dead on his
arrival. A. military banquet, which wa.Bte. to have
taken m place close to the
,powder igazine
when the -exp7osion oecurred was fortu-
nately.: postponed in conseqUence of the state
Of the weather. \Verse it. not for this two hundred
Austrian .othicers .would, all probabijity,• have
been sacrificed. 'The loss has. been estimated at a
Million of florins, and it is said that the munici-
pality will Make'an applicatierf to.the Diet for an
indemnity. Within fifty yards from the mapzine
was a subterranean chamber containing 600 traded
shells. The door of till's rlimber washurst by the
explosion; hut happily'the 'bombs did ridt ignite
Had they done sd,' the whole-town would have been
in flames. .

THE TWO SICILIE9.

NAPLES, Nov. 17.

The official: journal furnishes us every now and
them, with details of the religious " dodges " in
Naples. With all due reverence, for religion; I can
find no other term for the exhibitions which one
witnesses in 'this country ; and one of the most
remarkalile,and most recent is that in which the
holy thorn of the crown of "our Saviour, preserved:
in Policastro, was observed to incline to the left ;
and for greater consolation to display its 'blood
red colour; and to be covered from the base to the
summit with foaming blond. Unanimous, says
the Archbishop, was the .wonder. ' A sacred horror
takes possession of "s m:te; others fall astonished
before the spectacle of this prodigy. The multi-
tude attest the miracle; but ei:zht sworn witnesses
•have deposed to the imperishable truth of this
fart. It happened under the folloWitig
.eircum;
stances :—" Heavy rains had fallen., threatening
most injurious consequences, sod a second
miracle follows the first. The whole po-
pulation of Policastro denianded that the relic
should 'be carried through the city. The regular
Itlergy, therefore, in a penitential dress, and the
galantuomini with mopes round their necks, and
crowns of thorns on their hlids, walk in precession
to the sanctuary,tabout two miles distant, through a
pouring rain. On arriving at the gate, the rain
ceasee, the air becomes serene....,., I invlA all
to penitence, (lashing with the -rope), showing
them the example.' ln tokel of gra'itide
a .magnificent. ostensorium is being made for the
more decent repose of the relic. For this purpose
These sent to the capital a priest to watch over the
.completion of the work: Two silver —lamps, also, at.
my expense, are iti the course of construction, to be
platted before the ostenserium, with the Santissima
spina" .Stich is a portion only of the report of the
archbishop 'of the 'diocese, as published in the
journal of the Two Sicilies; and the object
and the direct influence Of that eh':ich to which
the education of the public mind is Committed is
but too evident, A remarkable corneent on this
miracle and all' the circumstances c:innecteei with
it is a portion of a sAltion preached lastweek..in
the church of ,Gesu'Vecchio..

THE MONETARY CRISIS AT HAMBURG

HANTBURG,-TuEinAr.

Considerable alarm, almost approaching to • a
panic, was produced 'yesterday on 'Change by the
report of a highly respectable Swedish house being
in difficulties and unable to meet th-ir engagements
The report proved unfortunately. hut 'too well
founded, the amount of their aiceptanees beirg
variously stated atisix and ten -Millions of marks
bane°, a large portion of which have been dis•
counted -.by, and are in the hands of our two new
banks— he North German Bank and the- Vereins
Bank. A notice signed by. those two establishments
was
.p3sted in the Exehange-roorns 10.-the effect
that they hadmntually agreed not to take ex`reme
measures during this unparalleled financial crisis
but rather to assist commercial bottles in tempor3y
diffi..adties, which announcement had a very favour-
able effect,- and tended. to allay the prevailing
excitement. •In the Meantime the telegraph was
not idle, and aCa meeting held' in the afternoon it
was announced that. pecuniarya.ssistane& to a large
amount had been afforded to thehonse in queStion—
amongst mhersday the house of Solomon Heine„to
the amount of a mil'inn.marks banco,.the Bank of.
Sweden for a similar sum, and another of equal
iimount by the agent of and' for account of the
Crown Prince. Regent of Sweden. In consequence
of this tinaelynsaistance, thenreditors agreed not to
press their claims, and a.Satisfaetory arrangement
was concluded late last night.. The business carried
on by the firm in question with the North of Europe
is of such immense magnitude, that !t is stated'on:
,gOod authority that had the y been obliged to Sus-
pend payment at leastinne-half of the mercantile
houses in Sweden must have been swept, intO:the
vortex, -which would have proved- a national
‘cala-
mity, and produced a reaction involving thousands
and thousands of smaller merchants and tradeS-
men in ruin: The banking houses of Solomon
Heine, of this city, and C. H. Donner, of Alton e,
who :,are - creditors on the estate of Naylor.
Vickers. and Co., of Sheffield, to. the tune of
..1:i0,000 marks baneo each,- having ascertained
that :two of, the partners held shares in• the
British ship Levanter, lately arrived at this port
from South Amerita,applied to the President of
the Tribunal,of Commerce for legal ,permiss:on to
lay embargo on the above mentioned vessel, which
was granted, and.she is now secured by chain and
padlock ,for future adjudication. ' -This is the
first instance of embargo being laid on a vessel in
this port fora claim notimmers'Ailittely involving the
ship itself.