Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-29 00:00:00

FATAL SHIPWRECK. i.

Two schooners and the while of their crews, belonging to the
ort of st. Ives, Cornwall, have been lost lately. On the 6th inst.,
the Britannia, Thomas Ledira, master aid °will*, sailed from Neath
for Hayle, with a cargo of cods, and she has nit been hoard of
since. The crow, five in nuifeer, consisted of thi master, his two
nephews, one seaman, and a biy, The M try Welch, Mi hael
Welch, mater aril owner, left Cardiff on the 17th inst., with a
cargo of coals, for H .yle, and wes wrecked on those dangerous rooks
the stones, off .odrevy Island, in th eastern p irt of St. Ives Ray, a
few nights ago. It was blowing very strong from the eastward, and
was dark, with rain, and it was thought the cre•.v could not sea the
land. The crew consist-d of the master, his see, an t feu • others
not belonging to St. Ives. Tha cutwater, fignreheal, and other
parts cf th , Mary Welch have drift d on sh we not a qiarter of a
mile from Captain W.,lch's dwelling-house. A fe v diys ago the
mast a v,e_el, suppissd ti be a lugger, was pissed by Copt ,in
Veal, of th 3 Blanch, about a mils off Portreath, an 1 it is thought she
sunk at that Fpot.

OUR ENLIGHTENED LA.Wi AND OUR
RESPECTABLE LAWYERS.

John Beng, the father of young wan nu, 25 years of age, who had
been seduced and had been delivered of a child, brought an action, at
the Quarter Se eiians of Belfast, again it one 'ee, the se lucer. The
CW!enrious'y and sally ii ustra'es thi state of the law, in regard to
the mime of s iducti in, ant also oily instal .es the lax morality of
lawyers in co mention with that Mass of actions. Mary Beg; WiS a
servant girl. The defendant "co trted " her for two years, and
seluce I her un ler prom'sf3 of marriage. When hit purpo ,e was
ace -.mplished with this girl, he rnarrie I aril her wem an. She became
preen ant, col wis throw). out of pane; her f the:, consela natty ,
having to stapp art h ir. Nothing could b 3 &neer than the case ; and
in fact qr. rice, the deice last's nrney, did nit wt.-I:net to
diseete tin feet of rile:: ion. Bat Mc. O'alorka defended the
case; and the public should know the grouals. He pealed
that the father Ipri no grotto I for action, been .e the girl
was oat at " service," and, censeimeetly, the father hal suffered
no +O3, by the soda Alen of his datt;hte:: Fortunately, it timed out,
upon dates b iing examind, that the seduction toots plane at a period
when the girl had left one place an I had not entered anceher ; and,
this being shown, the chivalric Fee—the sentimental O'itorke not-
withstanding—had to pay £lO and costs. Thus rules the law. A
ruined women:--Price £l5. Now, we ,up?o33 Mr. o',dorke wis
acting on " i istrnctions" from his client. Ile had an advocate's
right to use thi law to defeat the ends of j itice. Bat Mr. O'llorke
must be info med. that he cannot exper to hell a respec ab'e or
resp,:cted position in society, or in his trofess'on, if under certain
circumstances, he does not deMine to ant o n the ldstructio es of a par-
ticular species of clients. The learned genie-Man ma t surely have
head that solicitors refuse, now and then. to dir'y their halls with
a peculiar business. fie mai: reme-nb r installers of berristers
throwing un their brief W 13.1 the hopeless scoandr 1 sn of their
clients has been unmistakeah'y deve'oped. We have always argued
that conase! have bat one day to perform when they take a case in
hand—to win for their client. Bat corms 1. know very wall when,
as h mast men, they shrea'd ant as j edges, in a Ivanee, and rep idiate
a fee—and even clients qnserly name 1 yes. As respects seduction
cases, we are strongly of opi e'en tie at in nie3- y-nine 01435 oat of a
hundred, the f in't La exclusively with the man, all that the villany
is deliberate villany against the womm ; all we are quite sure that
no s ought b touch se:h eases, to defend them, until hs is
perfectly sera that there is a consplraw against 'ha man, or that no
fair co-npeasition, so fir as there can b 3 cemple atioa, is do be
arrives at, withal'', g•iing tub court. In Late case, the girl's:father
demande £2). Was that too much to pay fa:the luxury 0'661u:-
don ? Let us, ho vevor, call attention t r the astouldine c induct
of the presiding barrister in this in utter. His worship s The
plaintlf was old eneagh to k iow what she w as theut"—a clear attack
from the beach oa the unfortne ate woman ieekiag justice. Ile went
o a to obiicrve—" Thera is nothing end insly bad cn the ra t of the
defendant " Why :A—Because "he has not, in any way, attempte 1
to tarnish the woman's char :clam 1" Ills worship ex iectel that the
seducer would have denied the previlas chastity of his victim ; th it,
in 'esd. is the rule with na es. in Fee's unfortunate position. His
worship artm+res Fee for the self-denial of not co omitting perj try
against a lsel;desa servant girl ; and, in his adnir a' together
ove looked the fact, tdat a disgraceful, quibh ing defence ha i bee
set up. An I his worship decides—" I think justice will be met by
giving ade ree for eelo and cede." Well, after the law and justice,
we thick selectio s ought to p-osaa-. Let the men of Bel as` and
stand that they can blight the life of a woman for £lO, if the woman
is mat of place during the act o' so lumioa ; and that it will cost
noth'ng. if they are p 'talent enough to ruin the g.rl whi e she is
under a stranger's roof.—A'or:hera Whig.

MILITARY FRACAS AT FiIANKFORT.—AC3OIIIIfS from
Frankfort of the 2)th state that, on the previous day, a
serious conflict took place between sol:liers of the federal
garrison and men of Aasttian and B.virian tegitn
The affray commenced at the l'f telzerhof bail rooms, and
W-19cintinu-ti in the public streets. S Yards and bayono s
were brouiht freely into use, and a great aurnber of the
soldiers wire wounded on both sidea. The commandant
of the garrison has adop•e I the most rig-)roux measu-es to
prevent a recur:tette° of vela a same.
Diet PoTAT3 CROP —We regret to see, in both S.3c,tch
and Irish papers. unfavour,b'e accounts of the general
prey lence of the potato dise,s s, now that the crap is in
the gay of being gathered in for eta-ing. In this and
surrounding ei;tricts the loss on the crop has been cons-
derable, so much so, indeed, as to g..eatly enhance the valor
of potatoes in our marlte-. Notwithstanding the defect:te
str,te of the crop however, large Ttantities continre to be
shipped for Liver! col a'rd elsewhere, .and this nags' ulti-
mately tend to raise pines above the average of 1856.
Sligo .Tournal.
BP.RICELv.Y PEFRtOC.—Mr. Flsn-y B 9 dle writes,
to a contemporaryt—Observing in y ur paper to day a
letter headed " Berkeley Pee rag a," front the Hon. Grantl.l
fterkelev, containing an accusation of cmspiracy against
Sir Maurice Berkeley, all his bro•h-re, brothers-in-law
Colonel Kingseote., the Rev. Dr. Moreton Brown, end
lastly myself, I trust that you wi 1 admit this letter, which
is in rely to r. quest that your refdera will suspend th,:ir
opinion until the g ntlemen thus maligned may unite and
place before the public their version of what took place on
the occasion referral to in Mr. Grantley B2rkeley's letter,
far I do not hesitate to state on my own responsibility that
Mr. Grantley Barkeley's memory has sadly deceived him
with respct to what did actually eceur.

Intim SEPOYISM iloanv !—We find by the following,
which has been cupied by ou; C irrick-An-Suir co-resp talent
from written placards, that on Sunday morning last were
fonnd posted on a wall near the chapel of that town, and
upon the gate of Carrickbeg chapel, that the aulacioui
Sep ,y scribe is again at work, despite the vigilance of the
authorities and the reward offered by the inhabitants for
such information as might lead to his apprehension. The
plicatds have been all written in a bald, legible hand; and
it is strange that for the third time these seditious writings
should he affixed in the most public places without detec-
tion. We would ask whether the authorities intend to join
the inhabi ant of Carrick-en.Suir is rffering some sub-
stantial reward for the apprehension of the guilty parties?
S .ch proceedings should not be p rmitted to draw down
disgrace upon s cit a respectable community as are resiiin'
in that town. We give the placard as it has reached us:
To the Irish pro:dr !—Fellow-Countrymen- After
centuries of grinding oppression and wrong—he irr-rending
injustice—and' sanguinary persecution—an oppo tunity
has at length pris.naed itself if fre ing your necks fr m
the iron grasp of your R:glish taskmasters. Do you mean
to let it pass ? —or has the spirt of Naionality so tang
nursed and cherished in the breas's of all true hearted
Irishmen di. d away ?--that spirit for which Emmett
mounted the scaffull, and Lord Edward died to maintain
We ask you once mo-e do you mran to let it pass ?—when
British :•,ower, lately Oaken by the Crimean war, is now
totally annihilated by the victorious sword of the gallant
Sepoy ! ! Now, when the robber flag of England is pulled
down and trampled upon, will you alone be b.4ckward ?
you, whose altars they have pr, faned—whose rejig on they
have mocked—whose eons they have banished—and whose
patriots they have exiled and hanged. Up then, wen r.f
Irigiand !—up to the c y of Liberty and your Country, and
make one more Grand Stria for the freedom of your native
line., which Effort, we hope, will terminate by ranking her
amongst the bee nations of the earth.--Tats FRISVPB 07
LIB ERTY."—Clonmel Chronicle.