Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-15 00:00:00

NORTHERN DAILY TIMES.

every shot of theirs told, while ours did but compara-
tively little damage to their mud walls:
At about five p.m. the signal was made for the troops
“needv

and. At that moment not a sou

victory.
Just as the first boat touched the shore, the forts
opened a perfect hurricane of shell, , gingall ball, and
rockets, which mowed• down our men as they landed.
The ships threw in as heavy a covering fire as they pos-
sibly could. The enemy's fire continued so heavy, and
the mud on landing being up to the knees, and some-
times to the waist, that, out of the 1000 men who

and wide ditches, which, after some out) yams 1/1
through the mud, presented' themselves before the
gallant few who got so far, and, out of that small nuai-
ber, scarcely 20 had been able to keep their rifles or
their ammunition dry. Nevertheless they boldly faced
these new difficulties, and some 50 of them, with

a crowd of officers, succeeded in getting as far as the
third ditch. They would certainly have made a good
attempt to scale the walls, but the ladders had been
broken by shot or had stuck in the mud. With the
remaining one, however, ten devoted men sprancr for-
-

ward, three of whom were immediately -s1
five wounded severely.

A vertical fire of arrows, as well as a cons
ban"'

LaSt night, the Reform Club, so called, met at their
rooms, No. 17, Clayton-square, under the presidency of
Mr. J. R. Jeffery, to discuss, or rather denounce, the
present mode of electing-aldermen t.nder the Municipal
Reform Act. The proceedings were very funny, but

more pressing
our readers wit'

• WOMAN DROWNDr.—Yesterday morning, about half-
past twelve o'cleck, the body of an eld-?,rly woman, named
Ann Blakeley, residing in Ivy-street, near St. Martin's
Church, was discovered in the canal near her place of
abode.' The deceased was much addicted to drink, and

ell into t

ae cana

Lnd was c

rowned

IRISH REVlVA.l:4:—Yesterday evening Mr. David
King delivered his second lecture, on this subject, in
Hope-hall. The attendance was respectable. The
whieb is already known

to our readers, in connexion with this subject, an(

pressed a hope that the mover
England.

:nt would soon extend to

At the coroner's court, 'yes-
terday-, inquests were held on the boiy of Joseph New-
bold, who died on Monday evening '"

CORONER'S INQUESTS

sustainer

spring cart, and

front

io was sever(

iso upon t

e---bocl, on Thursday last

on Tuesday morning. E

—Last night, a pl
the Talbot 11

PRESENTATION
sapped at Mr. Stout

and who died

lotte-street, with a view of making a complithentary pre-
sentation to Mr. Kelly, the landlord of the Reindeer
Hotel, which is in the immediate neighbourhood, and from

which, it appears,
opinion of many friends

le is about to reu
rho pre

may state,
ind

I at t2O,

which bore the following inscription :—" Presented to
Mr. James Kelly, on his retirement from the Reindeer
Hotel, by a few personal friends, in . appreciation of his
conduct while landlord of that house." The supper was
served in first-rate style ; and, although the. fire in the

tion was mad

Mr. Kelly respond

,sidin9; in S.

with ha

zeiaal evening was

Taylor
Mr. Geort

peared that: on Saturday
house of Mr. Rimier, IN

Sheaf, (

a. it ap-

piece in paymnnt

)al crowr

bad. all

;he prisoner was

stable Fenlon, No. 9. InquiriE
previous Saturday night, he had gone into Mr. Green's
Waterloo. Inn, Grange-lane, and tendered, in like man-

ious five-shilling piecE