The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-29 00:00:00

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT IN ZETLAND.

We have to record another of those terrible calamities with
which the fishermen of the Zotland islands are so often visited,
namely, the loss of a boat, with not only all her own hands, but
five others who were passengers. The boat left Lerwick, to
return home, on the morning of Wednesday, the 14th instant,
but never reached her destination, nor has there been any left
to tell the tale of her fate. There were, in all, ten men in the
boat. Five of these had been fishing in it during the past
season, and were carrying home their entire earnings, so that
four families have been both bereaved and left totally destitute
by this terrible stroke. Five of the men were married, and
four, if not, five, have left families; Two of the young men
were on the eve of_marriage, one of them having left his bride
elect in Lerwick for a few days, intending to return for her.
Another correspondent writes as follows :—A six-oar boat,
'balonging to the Luichness, left town between eleven and
twelve o'clock in the forenoon, deeply laden with wood and
other goods. and containing, besides, eleven men and a female.
She was observed have performed the voyage in safety
until she passed Musa, but she was never afterwards seen.
The alarm, we understand, was first given by two persons
who had missed their passage in the boat, and who subsequently
had gone home by other conveyance ; and the foars then
entertained were confirmed by the boat, containing little or
nothing of her cargo, drifting ashore at Noness head. Accord-
ing to the latest accounts, none of the bodies had been found,
but some quantity of the goods has since floasel ashore. It is
stated that the party were all perfectly sober.—John 0' Groat s
Journal.

THE SUPPRESSION OF THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.

A public meetin was held at Myddolton Hall, London, on
Monday evening, for the purpose of co operating with the
United Kingdom Alliance Association, in endeavouring to
effect the total suppression of the sale of all intoxicating liquors.
Mr. Hugh Owen presided, and, in opening the proceedings,
said that their object was to obtain legislative enactment in
order to prohibit the iniquitous trade in strong liquors, but at
the same time they denied that they were in any way
interfering with the liberty of the subject. Letters wore read
from Mr. T. Duncombe, expressing his approval of the
endeavour to suppress the traffic, but at the same time stating
that he thought that. object would be effected better by moral
means than by penal enactments. Mr. Osborne, the member
for the county, stated that the subject should have his best
consideration. Mr. Towgood contended, that as legislation
had licensed the system, there was nothing unconstitutonal in
calling for their interference on the other side, when it was
shown that their previous legislation was injurious, Mr.
Horsfall said, that out of every ten shillings paid for the
support of pauperism, seven shillings was required in conse-
quence of intemperance. It was argued that the introduction
of the Maine Law into this country would have- tiro effect of
throwing a number of persons out of employment. The same
objection had been urged against railways, but it was shown
that they were the means of giving more employment than
they took away. Mr. J. Pope, the hon. secretary of the
Alliance, addressed the meeting also at some length, and said
that the prohibition of the sale of alcholic liquors was the basis
of all their political, social, religious, and criminal reform.
Resolutions in conformity with the views of the speakers were
adopted.