Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-02-17 00:00:00

LiverPo°l,

-to W/
sailed

A rumour prevailed at ,Galway that a mast, supposed to bef
from a very large vessel, having five bodies, two being those :I,
ladies, and three of gentlemen, lashed to it, had been driven
the Connemara coast. A large quantity of wreck was dally
washing on shore, and pieces of boxes, trunks, &e., were occa-
sionally washed up.
The Fortitude, Lord, from. Patook to Queenstown, which
to.
on shore south of Cape. Gracios-a-Dews, Honduras, previous
the Bth December, has become a total wreck.
. The Lizzie Oakford, Kelly, for Falmouth, 'put pack to CO°
on the 16th January, leaky.
The Princeton (American barove), in going out of the Ea
't
Bute dock, Cardiff, on the 14th instant, caught the gronnd oli
the west bank, but was expected to be of off the next tide.
ALostisßy, Feb. 10. --On the night of Mond.o- last, or,earlyo','
Tuesday morning, the chassemaree Jenne Frederick, Tansr
of Portrieux, when off Tourgis" Bay, was overtaken by a squ' h
'"
which carried away her masts, and rendered .her unmanageabl_it,
The anchor was let go, but not holding, the chassernaree
towards the shore, whereupon the crew, consisting of the master'
a man and a boy, took to the boat in hope of .reaching the land •
The day was then just breaking, and an artilleryman, Jan'l
Campbell, stationed in Rat Island Fort, seeing the men in ~,,
boat, hastened •to the beach for the purpose of rendering ''„"t
assistance in his power. But before reaching the shore the b°'
the
• was upset, andthe two men and the' boy were thrown in to bie
water. Campbell (lathed into the sea, and wading a considers
distance succeeded in laying hold of the boy, whom he resen,
1
in a drowning state, while two other artillerymen, !ton
Goodwin and Hannigan, with similar intrepidity and human t;i;
saved the man. The master, however, disappeared beneath
water, and it was not till half an hour later that his dead boolZ
was recovered. An inquest was held on the corpse by the coin
in the course of the day, when the above facts were deposed Doef
and the court, after expressing their warm cornmeadati°nfor
the conduct of Campbell, Goodwin, and Hannigan; but ed
whose exertions two more lives must have bees lost, return
a verdict accordingly. The Jenne Frederick was secured an,
towed into the harbour by the steam-tug Watt on the following
day, when the hull was found to be uninjured.

OUTPORTS.
HOLYHEAD, Feb. 15. -Arrived : The Dolphin, Murray, fran
Liverpool for Hang Kong ; Royal Arch, Liverpool for Bonny. to
DEAL, Feb. 16. -Anchored : The St. John, • frbm 'Med°
Cardiff; Franklin, London to Cape of Good Hope; Jane 0
' Maria London to Havre; Annie, and Lydia 31'11e:dry-both fr° .
Shields to Carthagena ; Phantom (of Bristol), Blyth to Lisbolj
Jollys .(brig), Shields to Constantinople;
,London, Shield! t 5
Carthagena ; Restless, London to Demerara; Clarissa, Eas',
Westward; Eleanor Alice, and Z G B NY (Commercial Code briTo
-both from North to Westward ; Linch, Hartlepool to
Malta ; Dare, Sunderland to Cherbourg; Matilda, Hamburgli
Bahia; Danzig, Hartlepool to Genoa; Blaga, Plymoot,ll,.
Hartlepool ; Augusta (ss), London to Liverpool ; Abdul MeoP-jf
London-to Shanghae ; Plover, London to Barbadoes ; Wan s
.
Life, West to North; Pauline, Boulogne to St. thee; Jant-
Cabina, Newcastle to Coruna.
GRAVESEND, Feb. 16.-Arrived: The Faugh-a-Ballagh. fr°l°
Rouen ; Osprey, Seville ; Percivals, Media ; Blink, • Rio PlatB;.
Ozalchueno Railway, St. Michael's ; Prince Albert,
Maria, Abeirs ; Elizabeth, Messina ; Choice, Colombo; EcliPse
(s), Madeira ;. Ampthill, Malta ; Neptune, Gravelines ; Charles,.
Harlingen ; , Providence, Gravelines ; Anne China, Gronini:erl
Sailed : Thnllortense, for Boston ; Vanity, Hamburgh. filer
MILFORD, Feb. 14.-Put back, 13 : The American ship Car be
• Simpson, and sailed 14th for New Orleans. Windboun •
Ave, North, from Cardiff,,and Clara, Pouter, from LiverPog
both for Gibraltar; American ship. Lima, Johnston, from Ca
for Boston (U.S.) ; Confidence, Davies, for Nantes, and Ceit,
Quier, Guillisser, for Alexandria-both from Swansea;
Jones, for Seville, and Padarn, fbr Leghorn-both fr
Port Talbot i Louisa Ann, Evans, from Williams.'Ardrossan for Bordeauxs:
Truant, Davies, from Alicante for Shields; Edward Johib.J°nfor
from Galatz for Cork; Uran tr, Williams, from Newport
- has
Dublin. The Ganymede, Budney, from Newport for Lisbon,
been put on the bank this day to complete examination of botts
Seville,
Put in, 13 : The Isabel; Wall, from Neath for Liverpool ;
Sa
ledr
of Wexford; Vivid, King, from Newport for Wexford. t,
"„td
14 : The Faithful, Price, from Newport for Plymouth. The
Mill, Grey, from Swansea for Gibraltar, is undergoing rePaf,j,
The cargo of the Jupiter, Banastre, from Belfast for N°'
Yarmouth, will be sold by auction this day. o• fr
FAtmouurn, Feb. 14.-Arrived : The Caroline, Raschm,
itio Janeiro.
DI:WORNNESS, Feb. 14. - Arrived off: The Agatha and 3fari'4
from Amsterdam for Liverpool.
RAMSEY BAY, Feb. 10.-Arrived : The St. Nazair
pool for Nantes

mLivez.-

LIMERICK, Fe
Alexandria.

b. .16.—Arrived : The Thomas Englih, fr°nl

Kmosrows, Feb. 18.—Arrived : -The Annie Jones, from G 13-
st,
Row for Roucn ; Eliza, Glasgow ; Catherine, Glasgow for4l
Übes • Dove, Ayr for Newport ; Princess, Newport ; El_iza"for
and Ane, Glasgow for Newport. Sailed : The Bab— -
Genoa.„

from Bordeau%i

DUBLIN, Feb. 16. !Arrived:- The. M.
Matthew, Lisbon; Martin, Rouen.
QuEEssrowN, Feb. 16. Sailed : The Bolina, for LverPo°l'
in tow of the 'steam-tug Resolute.

BELFAST, Feb. 16.—Sailed, 15 : The Emma, for Glasgow'
GREENOCK, Feb. I6.—Arrived: The Ralston, from Mauritius'

THE ISAAC WEBB.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES. r
Sir,—ln your paper I have observed a letter
from the agents here of the Isaac Webb, impute',
T
unfairness to me as correspondent, in my repot of
the, return of the Isaac Webb with emigrants, a
impugning the accuracy of my assertions.
The most painful episode in the career of a °it:
respondent of a respectable journal is, to have tnv
accuracy of his statements questioned—reflecting
as it does upon his honesty and integrity in giving
to the public a garbled and vindictive opinion. t
The Isaac Webb returned to port on the 31St
ult. I saw her passengers land from the Ente,,
prise steam-tug, with their bedding, in a Most
forlorn state. Amongst them was a passeuge3
a townsman of my own (whose . name
enclose,) and who came to my residence the saga
evening, aad gave me 'the particulars I forwarae
to you.. I .could, from a ten years' knov,dedge of
him and his friends, place implicit confidence 111)°'
his assertions, borne out, as they were, by a dial.;
taken at the time. He also confirmed it by shosvillg
me a document, signed by nearly one hundred of the
passengers, which you will admit presents ll'
widely different aspect to the color de rase state"
meutin your paper.- I may add, that on the clal
after the Load Webb returned to port, I called, 01
company with one of the officials of the Gorell:
merit Emigration office, at the agents' - office, -1'
Waterloo-road, seeking for further -information'
and during the time I waited, I could not get
except the grumbling of the poor creatures, all
the arrangements for the payment of their deters"
tion money. The official from the Government
office will bear me out in my statement, that nv„
e.
information could be got from the agents on.
.occasion.

It is remarkable that, on the appearance of
a
similar report in the local journals, Courier an
Gore's Advertiser, and to the same purport in
the other local journals, no reply was vouchsain"
by the agents, until after the vessel which carried
the majority of the poor creatures, had sailed frq.,„,'
the port. The reports appeared simultaneously Pa
the Liverpool and Dublin press, on the 2nd an
3rd instant, and up to the Bth, no complaint 1
ever mentioned in Liverpool, while the Harvesci
Queen, having a large number on board, agile
from the river on the 6th instant. Had I knol,e
that my statements were disputed (and of ttli
truth of them not having the slightest doubt),
should have detained the party who kept the dial,
alluded to, as while engaged on the sth, 11PPI
another case of ill-treatment of .passengers, -
handed the original document to Captain Soho
berg, R.N., the respected government officer -3
the port, who, on reading it, said, if any of they
would go to his office on Monday, he would.°
them redress. The majority sailed the previous 8,7 i
I think (with the documents enclosed) I cann°l
be charged with making statements " utterly
entirely without foundation ;" and as regards tu,,
alleged attempt to " mislead intendino. migrant%
I think the leading shipowners in the American,
and Australian trades can bear me out, that
lengthened experience they have found a tot°
contrary feeling.
I have the highest respect for.the owners of the
)
Isaac Webb (Messrs. Baring, Brothers and Cc'e ;
and not having the pleasure of the acquaiuton
of the agents of the ship, I can surely disclaim all'„
personal feeling in the matter ; but on 'wifeoccasion, occasion, in which by an expose of the tr
'
facts of a case, or by an advice to the emigr3-„t,
his position can be improved, I shall not fail to IP4,
my exertions to attain that end.
a 0
Hoping that this statement will prove .be
answer to the charge, permit me to subserl
myself, your correspondent, JOHN ROBINSON' Correspondent to the Dublin Express
and Freeman's Journal.
Liverpo9ll Fcbg 14? 1859.