Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-18 00:00:00

THE WRECKS OF 1858.

The annual wreck register, drawn up by the Board of
Trade, contains this year, as usual, a large number of
highly interesting statistics. At the outset, it is satis-
factory to find that 1,555 lives were rescued in 1858 by
lifeboats, other boats, and ships, and by the rocket and
mortar apparatus, and that out of 1,895 lives in equal
peril from shipwreck, 340 only were lost. This number
is still too large, and it must not be forgotten that the
average number of lives lost during the past seven years,
including the number in 1858, is 745.
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172 vessels were lost from stress of weather, 58 from de-
fects in ships or equipments,; including charts and com-
passes; and 69 from vaaious other oauses, more or less
avoidable.

10,902 persons have been saved from shipwreck by
lifeboats and other means since the establishment of the
National Life Boat Institution ; £28,061 have been ex-
pended by it on lifeboat establishments; and £11,671,
besides gold and silver medals, for saving life, have been
voted. Many new lifeboats are yet needed on the coast.
On the coast of Scotland there is a sad want of life-
boats. It is along this coast a large portion of our
trade with the Baltic, Greenland. Archangel, Davis's
Straits, and much of that of the Canadian and United
States trade is carried on. In addition to this traffic, the
Scotch coast is remarkable for its great herring fishery.
Peterhead has its 250 fishing boats ; Fraserburgh and
Buckie more than 400 sail ; while further north, off
the coast of Caithness, more than 1,200 fishing boats,
manned by 6,000 persons, nightly pursue their calling
during the season, exposed to the proverbial sudden-
ness of a north-east gale. About two years'alo, during
a fearful gale of wind, of a fleet of such boats five were
lost, from which 42 men were drowned, leaving 27
widows and 79 orphans unprovided for. Since .then
calamities to Scotch fishermen nearly equal in magni-
tude have occurred. Within the last two or three
months, the• National Lifeboat Institution has made an
urgent appeal to the Scotch people generally for as-
sistance, to station additional lifeboats on their coast;
but that appeal has met with but little response from
them.

The following table shows the loss of vessels on dif-
ferent parts of the coast : _

Vessels.
East Coast—Dungeness to Pentland Frith .. 514
West Coast—Land's End to Greenock .. 304
South Coast—Land's End to Dungeness . 89,
Irish Coast .. 168
Scilly Islands .. .. 14
Lundy Island . . .. 15
Isle of Man .. 6
Northern Isles, Orkney, .&c. .. 60

1,170

A large number of the vessels lost were under 50 tons
burden-199 out of the whole I,l7o—but the class of
vessels whose tonnage is between 100 and 300 tons has
suffered most, 467 vessels of the former having been
lost. 352 vessels between 50 and 100 tons were also
lost ; 96 between 300 and 600 ; 28 between 600 and
900 ; .23 between 900 And 1,200 ; and 5 above the last-
named tonnage.

THE CARLISLE ATHEN,EUM.—Yesterday (Monday),
Lord Brougham attended a meeting of the Diocesan
Education Society at Carlisle.

A ministeriale from the Ministry of Police at Naples
informs the director of finance that in-the French bazaar
of Carlo Ross, in the Toledo, buttons for shirts are sold
with the likenesses of Garibaldi and Victor Emmanuel ;
and the director is begged to be vigilant lest objects with
seditious and criminal designs should be introduced into
the kingdom.

RACES AT MILAN.—The day before yesterday (the
10th) the long-expected races took place on an open and
uncultivated spot about eight miles from the town, com-
manding a fine view of the Alps. The King, who had
arrived the day before at Monza, honoured them with his
presence. For anyone who has seen English racing, the
exhibition would have been too little animated and noisy ;
but, considering that horse-racing is in its infancy here,
this being the second year, the sport went off very
well. A tribune had been erected for the King; a band
and the National Guard of the neighbourhood were in
attendance. There was a fair exhibition of the aristocracy,
many of the members of which had come to town on
purpose for the races, and who had taken their places
with their carriages on both sides of the stands reserved
for the members ; but the most astonishing thing was
the quantity of country folk which flocked there from all
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