Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-02-15 00:00:00

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS.—CLAYTON HALL.,—Joe Brown,
the champion jig dance-, takes his benefit on Thursday
evening, it being the last representation by the Christy's
Minstrels at Clayton Hall.

WRECK YASSED AT SEA.—The ship Sunbeam, from
Calcutta for LiVerpool; put into peaumaris, reports pass-
ing the wreck of a sloop, with bow under water, painted
green inside, about ten miles S.W. of the Skerries.
ACCIDENT TO.A SHIP AT THE RING'S Docic.—Yes-
terday (Monday), the 'Rowena of Yarinouth, for Athens,
which had been repaired on the King's gridiron, was
being taken off, when she struck, and she remains in a
verl precarious position.

trliE STEAMER EMPEROR.—This steamer in coming up
the Channel from Limerick, went on shore at West
Hoyle, yesterday (Monday) morning, but was got off at
high water, and her cargo being taken out of her, she
was docked, and on exanunation very little damage was
apparent.
COLLISION AND PROBABLE. FOUNDERING OF Two
VESSELS.—lntelligence juf,t received mentions the arrival
at Falmouth of the vessel George. The captain reports
that he witnessed a collision between two large vessels off
the Lizard, and he -is afraid that they both ,foundored.
lie could not make cut their' names or nation, nor ooule,
116 rondor any asistance,

GOVERI`DIENT EMIGRATION. —The Government emi-
Brant ship Melbourne, 1,170 • toas, Captain William
rodie, winch sailed from Liverpool on the • 4th of Sept.,
in charge of Surgeon-Superintendent Charles Kitching,
with 73 married couples, 89 single women,' 75 single men,
36 boys between the ages of 1 and 12, 27 girls between the
same ages, 3 male infants and 12 female, making a total
of 388 souls, equal. to 3113-- statute • adults, arrived at
Adelaide; South AUstralia, on the. 6th of December.
SEVBRE WE4TILER AT, SEA. —The Peveril of-the Peak
arrived at Queenstown, from the Mauritius, reports
enc,matering a severe storm from the cast, on the 19th of
January, in lat. 19 N, lon.- 32 IV, which continued to the
23rd, veering round to the S.E., losing sails, bulwarks,
&c., and one boat broken. On the 3rd of February, she
encountered another terriflic gale, from N.W. to S.W.,
with a very heavy sea, and had to lie to on several
occasions.

WIIITEMAN'S NEW BRUNSWICK HOTEL, CLAYTON-
SQUA.RE.—Mr. Thomas Richmond, jun., son of Mr. John
Smith Richmbnd, of Lime-Street, Liverpool, celebrated
his majority- of apprenticeship on Saturday the 12th inst.,
at the" above Intel," late apprentice to our worthy towns-
man, Mr. J.Crellin,,*plumber, of Lime-street, who was met
by a select party Of friends on the occasion, and partook
of a splendid. supper. The chair was taken by Mr.
Chadwick, and the vice by Mr. Lea. The evening was
spent with the greatest conviviality, to the entire satis-
faction of the whole company.

PRESENTATION TO A CLERGYMAN.—The congregation
of the parish church of Bebington, Cheshire, have just
presented a silver inkstand, and a purse containing £37,
to the Rev. , John Firth Franks, M.A., Trinity Hall,
Cambridge, on the occasion of that gentleman's resigna-
tion of the curacy of the church, after a service of four
years. It is most pleasing to find pastor and flock parting
on such happy terms, apd we trust that the rev. gentleman's
health, which has been delicate of late, is now sufficiently
restored to enable him to enter upon some sphere where
energy, activity, and welMempered Christian zeal may
have fnfl scope.

LECTURES BY W. KIDD, THE NATURALIST.--Mr.
W. Kidd, the eminent naturalist, will deliver a course of
lectures at the Hope Hall, commencing on. Monday,
the 28th instant. The first will be a general gossip about
"birds, aviaries, happy families, drawing-room favourites,
and domestic pets of all kinds ;" the second, " Old heads
for young shoulders ; " and the third, "The. power of
kindness over all nature." The lectareS 'will, we have
no doubt, be well attended. No man knows better than
William Kidd, how to reach the innermost recesses of the
human heart. No man uses. the same means to accom-
plish the same ends. As a London contemporary has
observed, " A more lively orator never addressed a public
audience. Well furnished with anecdotes, he entertains
while he instructs ; and so accomplishes, with compara-
tive ease, the benevolent object of his much loved Tom.
tion." • •