Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-05 00:00:00

NORTHERN DAILY 11.31 E-,.

SAVING LIFE DURING THE LATE STORMS

A meeting of the Royal National Life-boat Institution
was held miThursday, at its house, John-street. Adelphi,
Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P., in the chair. There were
also present several other gentlemen.
Mr. Lewis, the Secretary, read the minutes of the
previous meeting.
A reward of £l4 was granted to the crew of the insti-
tution's life-boat stationed at Filey, for putting off in
the night and rescuing the crew of three men from the
sloop George and Mary, of Hull, which, during the
fearful gale of the 25th ultimo, was stranded off Filey.
A reward of £6 10s, was also 'voted to the crew of
the Rhyl tubular life-boat, which belongs to this society,
for going off and saving six men from the schooner
Oriental, of Lancaster, which, during the very heavy
gale of the 25th October, was wrecked near Rhyl.
A reward of £9 was also given to the crew of the
society's life-boat stationed at Aberdovey, for putting
off in her and rescuing four persons from the schooner
Endeavour, of.Portmadoc, which was seen in a sinking
state off Aberdovey during a heavy gale of wind on the 26th
ult. It was said this life-boat had only been a few months
on her station. The officer of Customs, who reported
the case, said, " this service and the last quarter's exer-
cise have created unbounded confidence in the new
life-boat. Having been, myself in the boat • on both
occasions, I can testify to her behaviour in a heavy sea."
Whenever the new class of life-boats of this institution
have had fair trials, and have been handled by, able and
willing crews, they have on all occasions performed
noble service. The Dean of Norwich also reported to
the meeting, that he was the other day at Walmer, and
had been himself told by the coxswain of the insti-
tution's life-boat on that station that her services on
the Goodwin Sands during a recent shipwreck had
been marvellous.
A reward of £7 10s. was likewise voted to the in-
stitution's life-boat at Berwick, for rescuing the crevt.
of five men from the schooner Majestic, of Dundee,
which, during • a hurricane on the 25th ultimo, was '
wrecked off Spital Point. The crew of the lifc-boaf
expressed their admiration of her behaviour on that
occasion.

A reward of £5 10s. was also voted to the crew of the
society's life-boat stationed at Teaby, on the Welsh
coast, for
sloop Brothers, of Milford, which was wrecked
off that place during a gale of wind on Tuesday last.
The society's life-boats stationed at Lowestoft, Pake-
field, and Yarmouth, and other places, had also put off
to the rescue of shipwrecked crews during the late heavy
gales; but reports of these valuable services had not as
yet reached the society. In some places the crews of
the boats had also been assembled so as to be ready for
instantaneous service.
The reports which had reached the institution from
many of its branches on various parts of the English
and Welsh coast, described such creneral disaster, as was
perhaps never before witnessed general
the oldest person
living. To use the words of Inspecting-Lieut. Hippisley,
R.N., Coast-guard, Dungeness, it was a perfect hurricane
at times, as dark as pitch, and such a sea that twenty
vessels might have been lost before any one could have
reached the institution's life-boat. In fact, I expected
that the life-boat houses had been blown down, for it
blew sometimes so hard that the buildings along this
'coast shook • under me. Had the poor crews of the
numerous wrecks on this coast made signals before dark,
and resolved_to quit their vessels, I doubt if any boat
could have reached them." •It is impossible to state
with any degree of accuracy the number of these dreadful
disasters for too many vessels have sunk with all hands'
on board, that will never be heard of. It cannot, how-
.ever, be doubted that the late terrific gale proved fatal
to upwards of 800 of our fellow-creatures; from more
than 350 vessels.

Several rewards, amounting to £35, were granted to
various crews of shore and other boats for their
courageous conduct in rescuing shipwrecked crews on
different parts of the coast during the recent boisterous
weather. One of these, a fishing-boat, in the neighbour-
hood of the wreck of the Royal Charter, with a crew of
eight men, to whom was voted_ £l2, had striven for up-
wards of an hour to save life from a wrecked schooner,
and having been driven on shore four times, succeeded
at last in reaching the wreck, and in bringing the poor
fellows on shore in a -most exhausted state. Another
boat's crew, who received £3O from the society, had re-
mained by a wreck all night, watching for a favourable
opportunity to snatch her crew from a watery grave near
the Goodwin Sands. At last it occurred, and they were
brought to Margate the next morning. "Ye gentlemen
of England, who sit at home at ease," think of these
castaways, and consider wheVier out of your abundance
you .cannot spare a little to succour them in the hour of
their extremity. _

It was reported that a lady, a resident in Stafford-
shire, had munificently presented to the Life-boat Insti-
tution the cost of two life-boats, and that a city mer-
chant had also given the like substantial proof of his
desire to succour in the hour of distress, sailors who
might be shipwrecked on the Scotch coast. It is hardly
possible to conceive a more- suitable thank-offering, and
one which is more, calculated to confer a real boon on
the cause .of humanity, in its most helpless state, than
the presentation of a life-boat to a dangerous locality.
The meeting expressed great commisseration and
sympathy for the families of the very large number of
persons 'who recently perished at the wreck of the Royal
Charter, on the Anglesea coast. ,
The gold 'medal of the institution and £5 were
ordered to be presented to Joseph Rogerson, a colored
man, who, when that ship was thrown broadside on the
rocky beach, had bravely volunteered to.battle with the
boiling surf, and convey a line to the .shore. By this
means several persons were rescued from the , watery
grave which closed on 450 others.

A report was read by the inspector of life-boats to
the society on his recent inspection of its life-boats on
the north coast of England and Scotland.
A benevolent military officer offered to give £5O to
the Life-boat Institution, if five other gentlemen would
contribute-a like amount toward the establishment of a
life-boat station. An urgent application was made for
a life-boat to be stationed at Folkestone.
It was.,reported that the institution was about to for-
ward life-boats to the Lizard and Fowey, Cornwall, and
and Skerries, near Dublin.

Payments amounting to £l,lOO for life-boats, trans-
porting carriages, and boat-houses, having been made,
the proceedings closed.

A-most valuable discovery of diamends as recently
been made at the foot of the Ohralliountains, Russia.
One specimen brought the lucky owner' £60,000. 'Mere
is every reason to believe, eays- the account before us,
that a mine of inexhaustible wealth has been discovered.
THE ASSASSINATION OF COHNT,ANVITI.—The Cour-
rier de Lyon publishes a letter from. Parma relative to
the, difficulty of punishing the murderers of Colonel
AnTiti, in which it says :—" The judicial examination
which has been commenced makes but little progress.
The principal actors in the affair are said to have taken
'to flight, and are already in a place of safety ; as to those
who have , been arrested, no one will be found to
come forward' against them. A part of , the popu-
lation would, openly , take part in their &votu if
the), dared,. and the populace are well armed, having at
their disposal fr0m,.4,000 .to 5,000 _muskets, ,without
reckoning the more 'dangerous weapons which 'they are
able ,te conceal beneith their clothes. This mass of
persons strike terrorinto.themindi of all well-intentioned
pemonsran.dvrau-proclue-a.oertaiti- effect—on -the Diotator
Parini himself, who dares not attack them boldly, be-
cause he perhaps feels that in that layer of society con-
sists his principal force' against the reactionists, whom he
fears and detests above, alUthings. It may therefore-be
anticipated that 'the murder of Col. Anviti will remain
uhrims. hed•

DELIBERATE SulcruE.---A.n inquest has been held
by J. Taylor, Esq., ,coroner for the Honor of Ponte-
fract, at the Rose and: Thistle Inn, Dodworth (West
Riding), on the body of Thomas Holland. The de-
ceased, who was 68 years old, and a linen hand-loom
weaver, had resided for a number of years in a house
by himself. He had latterly had 'but little work, and
had been in low spirits. Last Wednesday evening
week, the deceasesi was at the Chandlers' Arms'lnn,
whence John Whitham, a shopkeeper, of DodWorth,
aiebmpanied him home. and on the way the de-
ceased said that -he should be found dead some day.
A nephew of the deceased had intimated to him his
intention of visiting him on 'Snudav; but the latter told
him he had better not, as it was his intention to lay in
bed thi.whole of the day. This was on the Wednesday,
and the deceased was seen about his oWn premiSes, several
times between that and Sunday. On Sunday he was not
visible, nor up to five o'clock on Monday afternoon, when
the house and iound the body of
deceased suspended from the railing or tue stairs, rile
deceased was not in Want. His house was well fur-
nished, and he had between £2 and £3 in his pocket
and a 'silver watch. A verdict of "Felo de se" •
turned, and the coroner ordered the body to be buried
between the hours of nine and twelve at

was re-

THE DISCONTENTS IN HUNGARY.

IThe Vienna correspondent of the Times says

The Protestant Su

.ntendencies

Hungary, in defiance of

the ministerial ordinance o:

*he Bth Ode

as they did before the year 1848. Thus t:

continue to meet

s open warfare

between the government and the Hungarian Protestants, who
ley are doing battle

are backed by the whole nation,
in defence of the

cause t:

historical rights and privileges." Govern-

Imeta has a very difficult

game to play, as the Hungarians evine

a determination not to agree to any compromise. Two years ago
they might, perhaps, have been satisfied with concessions of

minor importance, but tit

demands are now such tha

vernment cannot grant them without imperilling the existence
of the empire. Not many days ago the leaders of the old Con-

servative party,Caunts Mailath, Desewffy,Szechenyi, and Baro

Josika, presented a memorial to t

.e Austrian Government, in

which they insisted on the necessity for the restoration of the
ancient kingdom of Hungary, and of her constitution and
"which were cleansed of their dross by

municipal institutions,

the events which occurred

the month of March, in the yea;

1848." The entire contents of the memorial are not known,
but it has transpired that the Old Conier+atives did not

neglect to care for their own interests. Among other things
they demanded that the ex-Hof kanzler, Court Chancellors,
should be re-integrated in their Aices, and a Hungarian
Stadtholderate formed, with a Palatine at its head. The

Old Conservitive party considers itself the legal repre-
s a Liberal party in. the

sentative of }Tungary ,
kingdom which has more real influence, and enjoys a greater
popularity. The Old Conservatives are said to have proposed

but the

that everything should be placed in statu quo ante before a

Diet was convoked. Several of the

Hungarian nobles hay

recently refused to pay their taxes in order to force the govern-
ment to distrain ; and it is related that one of the Counts
Carolyi made the Pesth Museum a present of 30,000fi. imme-
diately after some of his cattle and corn had .been sold in the
The Archduke Albrecht has again taken
the supreme direction of affairs in Hungary.

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SIR JOHN HERSCHEL ON VOLCANOES AND
EARTHQUAKES.

econd general meeting of the Leeds Philosophical

and Literary Society, on Tuesday night

Sir John F. W. Ilersche

;, a valuable paper by

" On Volcanoes and Earthquakes,

was read before the members by P. O'Callaghan, Esq., one of

the hon

O'Ca'.

.11,,ghan read the paper, which was ill

series of excellent diagrams oft'

to: Sir Jot

after ad

strated by a

pal volcanoes referred

knowledging the distinction conferred

upon him by the society last year, in electing him as an hono-
rary member, said he proposed to tell them about volcanoes and

earthquakes, and to lay before them a sketch of the nature of

these phenomena in general,- and the principal instances of
them recorded in history, as well as the part they played in
the great scheme of nature. It might be asked whether these
dreadful visitations were aot sent by the Almighty for some
beneficent purpose, or at all events that they formed part and

some great scheme of providential arrangement,
which was at work for good and not for evil ; and he thought
he should be able to show that the volcano and the earth-

parcel of

incidents in a vast systE
the very ground,. , they

of action to wh

quake were in face unavoidable, he had almost said necessary,
they owed
which

itood upon-- without