Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-07-30 00:00:00

e bill for LI
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the way home several amateur freaks were gone through it
the carriages, which served to .kee,-.

conviviality that existed,during the day

THE LOSS OF THE HERON

The following

account of the lass of her Mu'esty

the vessel :—" On the morning of the 9th of May,
1859, in about lat. 5 deg. 1 min. N., and long. 15 deg. 30
min. W., at 4 a.m., I relieved Lieutenant Porter. Her
Majesty's ship Heron was then on the starboard tack, up,'
topgallaut sails, single-reefed. topsails and cours,-
and boom-mainsail, steering north-east by nor,
east-south-east, going between two and thrc knot

north, wind
• At

)OITOW money sir

a quarter to five, Lieutenant Collingwood came upon
deck ,and piped 'Watch and idlers coil up ropes.' As

the weathe

looked unsettled. I

expressed

wish tc

oul4 rather he would not

He said, Why net ? I want to get the decks washed.'
I replied, 'Because it looks unsettled; and inclined to be
squally.' He looked to windward, and said, 'Oh ! there is
nothing there.' I asked hint to re7t.eve me, and I would go
below, but he said No.' As soon as the ropes were up
he piped, 'Watch and idlers wash decks.' I got upon the
midship gun in the gangway, the first lieutenant did the
same. The watch and idlers were then washing the decks.
In about ten minutes or so the breeze began to freshen
steadily, but quickly. As soon as it commenced, I piped
'Watch, shorten sail; ' gave the order, ' Man, clew gar-
nets,' and tried to take the mainsail Dff her ; the men
were at their station waiting for the ropes. The wind
still freshening; finding that the main tack could not
be started, I gave the order to let go, the main sheet,
then to let go the peak halliards and lower the topsails.
The quartermaster was tFying to put the helm up, hut
could not on account :of the after sail. The
peak halliards were let go, but would not render,; as the
coil was triced up above the' bits, not a rope was clear, and
nothing could be started. - in less than another minute slit
W4S on her beam --ends. The eommander was then upon deck,
and. gave, orders to cut away, the mainmast and clear away
the booni-boats. She was then filling,
down hatchways. and skylights ; all th

'uslnn.g

on me, with

The order wa

world tak

away the first whaler and spare spars;. I collected what
men I could that had knives, and assisted to clear away the
spars ; she Was then sinking: As soon as they were clear,. I
rooked round. and' saw that the whaler was clear of the ship,
With the commander, boatswain, and gunner, and about
fifteen men ; the water was :then washing over the hi-alt,
and the spars flOated out. Most of theinemwere then clear
eller. I remained on tlie..side with it, few others, until:
she sank under use and then struck- out, au& succeeded
in. reaching a
.topsail yard;:to which. about twenty men
were clinging. On loOkim round I could see the whaler
puffing to get clear of the men that were tying to get
into her, but they said that they could' take no more, as

persuasion, I got Lim t

years f.

brothel

they had already too many. She pillbd awry ahead of th
shit), and Nye saw no morn of her. As the brig sank sh

• •b••••—•, wile rem uown ratter py Duo Ilea& At claytign.t
f4.re were only eight oruS left on theyard its rolling over
and over had drowned many, and others were washed off.
As there were several small spars raid: things floating about,
we joined them together and made a. small raft ; oout an
hour after daylight we. saw the jally-boat. with some Kroo-
men in her; we.tried to paddle towards her witl
but

. .
it was no use • she did not come near us, but pulled to
windward.. In alma two hours. mono we saw the cutter
to windward ; sho had floated, clear of the ship ; the
men that were near her remained by her ; she was full
of water, but a bucket floating by enabled them to bale
her out. The jally-boat coming, down, I, with two or three
otherg, left the spars and got into her and made for the,
cutter; As soon as I, got into her I sent the jolly-boa to
leciyard to see itshe 'could pick up, anX, more, and took the
cutter to the spars tlitit men' were upon, took them all off,
had a good look round, and.palled about in hopes of finding
some more,, and succeeded in picking up, one man,' a
Frenchman, but that was all, and I eau safely assert that

when we telt the piaeG there was not a lining being left
behind. There were then thirty-five of us iu the cutter ; but
as the jolly boat had no starboard topsides, and a large hole
in her quarter, sho,wOuld:only carry. five men, and was only
kept afloat by, constant baling. I told the men their poSi-
tion as near as I could guess.. I shaped a,north-east course
by the sun, hoping te malce the land below .Sierra Leone ;
we bad not been pulling many hours,when a.Krooman sang
out, " Sail, ho !" The oars were
_immediately double

banked, and by file p.m. we ere on board the Eleanor, of
Cardiff, bound to Ascension. The.eaptain of her said that
as he chartered for Government, ho could no: tal
'Sierrateone. I did not think I should -
in(r., to reaCh.the land with forty men '
outside she could not 1.--
/ water and.so came cr-

o Asceusion

v office in Grap
prisoner or her father on the. same day, but I believe
I wish I conic' speak positively, but I believe id
In anise-

he nine day I saw therii at

once of what I had heard from
cm those bills

)rinerod, I told

that "it was by her permission I signed
,o." I had afterwards
li bill purporting to

s. Ormerod says
.od says Anni-

iid "it was s

)ine talk - with her respecting
e accepted by yruden3e Stephemoi

vas about her father going to Hanley to get the bill signed.
"hey were both torther, and he said he had been to Han-
ey to get the bill, The priamer presented it to me, and said
alluding to the state of the paper) " I have singed it with

ing it." I rer.iarked, " I don't think the singe will matter
Ilion we
all.". Some days after I thought it was very Strange Annie
ientleY could singe the bill while her father fetched it from
lanky. The next time I saw her I said to her, " When you
resented the bill you told me you had singed it with drying
and your father fetched it from Hanley. I therefore do
mot believe it is a genuine bill." She made no reply. I
I never saw her again until she was in custody. I have
) and concentrate the • nothinz further to add respectiwr the bills.

Oros-o:dMined : I obtained' a warrant against Miss
Bentley at the same time I got one against her father. It
was in 1857. I knew Miss &lacy, lived with her father,
and-'she appeared to know more, I thought, about the busi-
ness, than her father. I did ant know she was.the servant

or assistant of her father. She act
She was not the eldeSt daughteri
assistant when she came with him

;ed as other daughters did.
She acted as her father's

The prisoner became very excited at this point, but was
ultimately calmed, but not until she had been removed from
the court for a short time.

Datinued : Miss Bentley has come to
nd alone. She has not" come alone

in reference to any of these matters (the bills in question.)
Respecting these bills she has always been with her father.
She has never acted independently 'in these matters. I
obtained the warrants in 1857, but did not hear that Miss
Bentley had been residing in Warrington several times. 'I
ha:Ye since heard that she has resided.in Warrington. By
the= .bench : •When Miss Bentley had come to me singly
and alone to borrow money, she came on her father's ac-
count, always giving me to understand it was for her father.
Her father always acknowledged the amounts. I have
spoken of a conversation with Mr. and Miss Bentley
regarding the signature of Mrs. Ormerod. I cannot recollect
more thlin what 'is placed on the depositions. No money
changkl hands. I beli:xe Miss Bentley was present when
the bill for £4OO was presented. lam not sure it was on
the 10th, or 17th of April, that the bills for £lOO and £4OO
were presented. If on the 17th, I gave them a cheque for.
•L'3o. • lam perfectly certain Miss Bentley was present. I
am positive Miss Bentley was present when the bill for £4OO
was presented. • _

Mary Allen, sister to James Bentley, -said :. My former
name was Mary-Orrocrod: I resided then in Bolton. .On
examinin--?, the bills purporting to be accepted by Mary
OrmeroCt'for £4OO arrd'£loo,.the signature is not mine. To
the best of my belief, the s,gnattires are in the handwriting
of Annie Bentley. I never ;Two the prisoner any authority
to use-ny-naive. One bill I have signed my name to. It
was to keep my brother from disgrace. A gentleman carko
bill for £l6O, w'iicli had " Mari, Ormerod"

FOREIGN iNTELTAGENCE

:LANCE.

The brief but most important Th
morning's Moniteur, and which
you before this, corroborates the st
letter of Sunday last about the (l
remarks in the official journal, of
French and English Budgets, seem
contradiction; but to-day, to all apt,

let right aga

Moniteur tells
that the land
peace footing

this importai

with whieh t

liberty on 't
to be believ
to be affect;

and slow of
these canon

packed in st

forwarded in

they faneie

vario

at, a sudden pdnie w

indeed, it

—even that seetion- which, in other firm
party par excellence. These Liberals,
cans,- would certainly have nrefei
England taking her stand in the field I
France in the Italian war ; but they c(

position,
themselve

td were reasonable enontrh
with he

rumour of the posiibili

two Powers' in the world gq.'ned. cc

dismay was great indeed

any love for us, bnt they felt that if
attacked, the only secure ab of Ii!)
Europe would be violated and, if we
contest, that the last :mark of freedou
extinguished for ctnturies. Military g
it is true, h'tve reconciled them to

July 28.
)h in th

It in rriN

ponvey
lee, all

id wh

but the victories that would ma'
it lutist be far great(
battles of 1..1 Taftenta and

Republ
to sc

lered her

3 content

lencyj

land was

rstod in thr
would be

y might
,ervitmle

consideration had

half:Won

any weight I know not

sere Is no use in innuirinv : 01l we des;

sant news given in th

mq:s; be serious
e &aro

ent " by

and trustworthy; and that tl
laud and sea" in-.), be truly carried opt. From the
different modes of raising men in France and Eng-
land, France must always have an advantage over
lig in point of time, and in the facility with which
the conscription enables he

to re-aßFemble them
Nevertheless, we must make the beg of the matter
and be thankful in the meantime that the Emperor
has had the good sense to adopt the resolution.

1 hear it fo-r the s;:..‘eond or third time r-ported that
the Emperor purposes to pay a visit to T,oodon—and
even an early day (Saturday, they siy is fixed for that
purpose. We have been so accustomed to surprises
lately that I should see nothing stranze in this fact.
It is just in his way. He loves these sudden coups
now and then—that is, the sudden execution of a
long deliberated plan. It would certainly be curious,
after all that hls passed, to find Napoleon 111. once
more a guest at Windsor or at Buckingham Palace:
and to see him suddenly make his appearance at
Charing-cross, or even as a listener to your debates
in the House of Loids or Commons.

It 'is said that a banget will be giverrin the Champs
de Mars to the representatives of the array of Italy,
on the return of the different corps. The railroad
companies have roceived orders to combine their
efforts to bring up the troops to
The Marquis de Bonneville, First Secretary of the

- - -
French Embassy at Vienna, has left Paris' for the
Austrian capital, with a mission from the French

Government

The Monitemr publishes the official return of the
Customs' revenue for the month of June, and for the
first six - months of the present year. The former
period shows a decrease of 91:3,805f., and the latter
an increase of 1.837.286 f. on the eorresnondino•

period of 1858. In comparing the receipts of the
six months of i 859 m ith those of • the nreceding year,
we find the followi 'g results i Increase foreign
sturar, 3,832,021 f.; coff e, 1,345,6°5f.; coin, 538,286 E;
coke, 510,884 i.; raw cotton, 472,890 f. : heps, 214,006 f.;
arachides, 280 196 f. ; raw wool, 210,808 f. ; coal,
177,8701. ; oleaginous seedo, •1.13,661: ; pepper,
113,5351. ; lead and brass, 112,961 f.: silver and gold,
77,363 f. (the quantity of the former imported was
5,724,637 f., and of the laWr 1,291,671 f.) ; hemp and
flax, 70,159 f. ; linen and Imnren thread,. 67,470 f. ;
oil, 56,816 f. ; linen and heolivsn cloth, 55,337 f. ;
copper; 52,464 f. ; 45.448 f. ; cocoa, 37,338 f. ;
TRW and spun silk, 12,836 f. ; steel, 12,319 f. ;. cattle,
10,827 E; sulphur. 6,680 f. Decrease : French, colo-
nial sugar, 2,793,6150 ; sundries, 2,705,014 f. ; rough
castings, 5,35,4-5 f.; mahogany, 1 84,963 E; pot-
able liquors, 159,776 f. ; tal!owt, 83,313 f.: bar iron,
46,59-1 f nitrec of soda and potash, 24 3531. ; and
coeh7neftl, IC,9r''.f. The movement of shipping in
the difrerrnt p, its du;-'ng the six months was as fol-
!Ows ivals-: French, 4,7q5 vessels. 772,785 tons,
be,ng a. &,crease as compared with the 'corresponding
!icrioil of 1858 of 140 vessels, and on increase of
",171 tons. ro—if..),ll, 7,365 vessels, 1 151,144 tons;

1,n7 es els.