Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-11 00:00:00

to be pitied. The ancient satirist tells us, that

the wise man is always himself—

—except when his

nose runs. We should, therefore, advise the wise
ring a north wind

man to keep indoors du

intervals of impatience might be then few and

What Mr. ROBERTSON G

ept down,
tend to say. But why will he be for ever
conking occasions which bring it up, and trans-
fuse the most wholesome food of other men into
poison ? At the appointment of Mayor, a
strong north wind blows over the Council, which
he should of all things avoid. At the election
of Aliermen, it comes down closer to his
level, and seems to spend all its fury upon his
unlucky proboscis. Let him keep in-doors. Nay,
let him on such occasions lock and bar, put on
himself a strait waistcoat, fill his ears with wax,
and bury for a brief and decent period his public
and political life.

when his

The 9th of November is the Saturnalia. That
morning Mr. GLADSTONE hath eaten hellebore.
Duke est desipere in loco. Into the Council
chamber he rolleth, as into a bear garden. He
armeth himself with his pole ; and a look, or a
cough, among the spectators, suffices to set on fire
his wrath. Dangerous to the most unoffending
and the most silent, to be within range of his
ugly staff. There are no " sucking dove " notes
in his roar ; from the top to the bottom of the
scale it resounds horrible. Yet it is not a bear-bait,
for no one troubles himself with setting the dogs
at him. It is mostly a solitary enjoyment. He
layeth out his tail, but scarcely the most pugna-
cious condescendeth to tread upon it. He at last
sneaketh into his corner, in a long commotion of
sullen and aimless rage.

vessel.

Yet the Council is not the place -where frantic
Malays should be on the loose. Though, too, it
is not the region of the most solemn deliberations,
a
we think Billingsgate should be left at the door.
dignified
fi
Hedal nor
l,
as
in
amiable Mr. G
objectLADsToNmEarischingtothe T
neither a
dio
the troop of POPE'S Goddess of Dullness to
" Fleet Ditch."

"Here strip my. children, here at once leap in,
Rem prove who best can dash through thick and
thin,
And who the most in love of dirt excel,
Or dark dexterity of groping well,"

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hannor

Even a

'own Cour

as the public ought by any means to be
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with; and one cannot wonder that the °
ne-
Trade should have seen the absolute P-ortill'i
is such further inquiry, as may afford an °Pr
we do not pre-I of ascertain' ~rf

ig the real causes of so fee
Not merely the immediate cause,—

she was driven among the rocks on

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coast, and after being battered for a 1°

Pethem, with stupendous force, went tol 400,
all, or nearly all, who were on board VI
but the reason why she got into such

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—why she was not kept out at selr--',•tioo
also, when unhappily placed in a P°s-scor
danger, she was so utterly incapable 0
e
from it

These, then, we say, are the Vie Pc*to
which the inquiry ought more esPeci°ol/0
directed : first,—why was the ship drivele 110.,1
and, second, how was it that she br°, it
suddenly. As it has been well observe' e)(
" be, that when Captain TAYLoIt, letvel;
" anchor at ten o'clock on tkat 0311/44,1
" night, it would have been more ad a o(
" him to steam out into mid-channel, °
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" the whole fury of the storm where rev"
" sea-room was to be found." Or it 010(0
he miscalculated the power of his shiPoi egf
the perils of such a situation. This Ist, oillete
involves a very delicate question,--tbaeo of, to
of the actual condition and sea worto te.
01 'o°n
Royal Charter. We should be 50111' td tetl
cast the slightest reflection upon the eiotiff
rl
and most respectable owners of
re,
For they might not be I;'lo,9itig
not suppose, indeed, they could b 8 001/P-tateil.
any imperfection in her construetilioadil s 00
there were any—which we see it beer 01,-,
there must have been, or she coulall It 104 011
aquu quality,--that iutry
have gone to pieces as she did. ape, tila
publicly stated, we say, and bY °lleobicew i 1.04
competent to give an opinion on tile
_osetile
the ship so suddenly went to pieces heo aji itif`
f
of which she was constructed was ° ,
t 0 b:
iron for their ships,—that any loud
the trade, considered good cnoi
therefore
,i—routhasthiiptbius
irdeercs uvlohra,ci.endepeccit'

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