Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-27 00:00:00

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few minutes the engines of the parish, a
private one, four of the A section under the command of
Mr. Fogo, the chief officer of the A district, and another
from Farringdon-street station, attended. Fortunately,
a good supply of the East London Company's water
having been obtained, the firemen went to work in an
admirable manner, and copious streams of the water
were thrown upon and into the blazing property ; but in
spite of this the fearful element continued to spread, and
had it been night time the reflection must have been seen
from miles distant. Fortunately the firemen, by dint of
great perseverance, managed to get the flames subdued,
but not until the leather cloth factory (100 feet long and
25 feet wide) was burned to the ground, and the drying
rooms (200 feet long), together with the machinery,
severely damaged by fire, water, &c. Unfortunately, the
sufferer was uninsured. The cause of the misfortune
could not be ascertained.

The 22nd company Royal Engineers (forinerly Sappers
and Miners) which has been five years and nine months
at the Mauritius, is the first on the station for relief, and
expects to return to England in the sprilig.

'MILITIA LinnAßlEs.:—There are no fewer than 35 of
these libraries in England, Scotland, and Wales, and nine
in Ireland. They are centrically placed in each district,
and are easily reached in half-an-hour, or an IMur by rail,
from any place where the regiment may be quartered.—
United Servic3 Gazette.

The large stone dock which has been constructed at
Chatham dockyard at a considerable outlay is now ready
for the reception of any line-of-battle ship required to be
fitted. The channel at the entrance to the basin has
been considerably deepened by the piles which obstructed
the entrance having been drawn, and the largest line-of-
battle ship in the navy can now be floated into the basin
to be fitted or repaired.

THE REPRESENTATION OF EAST WORCESTERSHIRE._
An address from the Hon. F. H. W. G. Calthorpe, son of
Lord Calthorpe, is the first open solicitation of the
suffrages of the electors of East Worcestershire which has
yet appeared. An influential meeting of Liberals was
held at Stourbridge, on Monday night, at which we
believe resolutions were passed pledging those present to
support Mr. Calthorpe.—Birmingham Post.
ALARMING EXPLOSION OF GAS AT THE UNITED
SERVICE CLUB HOUSE. On Tuesday evening, about
five o'clock, considerable alarm was caused in the
vicinity of Pall-mall, in consequence of a fearful explo-
sion taking. place in the basement (exterior) of the
United Service Club House. The explosion took place
whilst some workmen were at work, owing to a leakage
from the main pipes. The workmen and firemen happily
succeeded in allaying all further fears of danger, but
considerable damage was done by the force of the
explosion. _

hEBREW PUBLIC MEETING AT SYDNEY..—The Jews
of Australia have received with considerable satisfaction
the news of the admission of their "people" into
Parliament; and as a proof of the fact a meeting was
held at Sydney on the Bth November, for the purpose of
expressing the sentiments of the Israelites in reference
to the act of the present Government in allowing Baron
Rothschild to take his seat in the Commons. Mr.
Joseph Simmons was called on to take the chair.
Speeches were made and resolutions adopted in accord-
ance with the object of the meeting.
CLOSING OF THE WIGAN EXHIBITION.--This exhibi-
tion, which has during the past month been so great a
source of enjoyment to the inhabitants of Win-an and the
neighbourhood, was finally closed on Saturday evening
last. Vete of thanks to the members of the borough,
Colonel the Hon. James Lindsay, and the many other
parties who have so generously contributed to it, were
unanimously passed, as vas also one to the lathes who
have for so lengthened a period given their services,
The receipts have been upwards of £4OO, in additon to
which a donation of £2O has been received from Henry
Woods, Esq., M,P.
It has been decided by the War Office to erect a battery,
and other buildings, on the Lighthouse Island at the
Mumbles, in Swansea Bay. It is understood that this
battery is to be a powerful one, armed with heavy gnns,
and destined to protect the numerous shipping which run
into the roadstead for shelter on any change of wind, and
which have amounted to 300 sail. Col. Vicars surveyed
this site as far back as 1851. It seems that during the
last war with the French, the Mumbles was used by the
Admiralty as a rendezvous for the merchantmen of the
whole British Channel, whence the convoys were escorted
to various parts by the men-of-war.
EXTRAORDINARY SALE OF NEGROES.— One Of the most
extraordinary sales of slaves—not so much on account of
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uuc YLae ouLainca lOT them,
although even the number was very large—was made at
public auction at the village of Autaugaville. 170 slaves,
belonging to the estate of Richard Morton, were sold on
twelve months' time, with interest added, for the enor-
mous sum of $160,000, being an average of $941 and a
fraction over. In the large number composing the lot,
were old and young, halt and lame, and one deaf and
dumb. A girl aged 14, black, and a field hand, brought
$1,935. A young fellow was bid off for s2,l6o.—Mont-
go merry Confederation.

FRIO.II IFUL COLLIERY ACCIDENT NEAR WOLVER-
HAMPTON. —One of those terrible accidents, occasioned
by the snapping of drawing chains, occurred on Tuesday
morning at a pit at Ellingshall New Village, about two
miles from Wolverhampton. The royalty is held by a
butty miner named Edward Lees, and at about six a.m.,
as this person's brother, Emmanuel, along with another
man, named Jarvis, were descending the shaft to begin
work, the chain broke, and the skip, with the two unfor-
tunate men, was precipitated to the bottom, a depth of
about thirty yards, the massive chain rushing down upon
them. Lees was killed upon the spot, his spine being
fractured and his skull driven in. Jarvis was severely
injured ; several of his ribs have been forced into his
left lung, and he cannot survive.

S.. •
LORD MONCK ON THE STATE OF IRELAND.—Ireland
has, for some years past, been making enormous strides
in the direction of order, peace, and prosperity. For the
first time in her history, all classes of her inhabitants are
convinced, by. practical experience, that they have an
equal interest m maintaining the laws, in supporting the
existing order of things, and in advancing the material
prosperity of their country. I think any man, or body
of men, will incur a very great responsibility, who, under
such circumstances, takes any step which is calculated to
suggest the idea that the "nobility and gentry " of Ire-
land have any interests inconsistent with those of the
groat mass of the people, or that they seek for their own
caste any privileges incompatible with the enjoyment by
all classes of their fellow-countrymen, of the rights, and
immunities of the Constitution.

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE. —An inquest was held on
Monday evening, by C. J. Carttar, Esq., coroner, at the
Telegraph, Madenstone-hill, Greenwich, on the body of
o thett hh ee r
then
oliEllen Wallis, a laundress, who was found dead in a
cistern at the back of her residence, in Cottage-place, on
Saturday. Sophia Wallis, sister of the deceased, deposed
that she last saw her alive on Wednesday. On Saturday
morning, between five and six, deceased's SOD. came to
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couldn't
and saw her sister's dead body. Witness alarmed a
neighbour and sent for the police. No one lived in the
house but the deceased and her child. She had appeared
very strange of late, and had been low-spirited from the
jtime of her husband's death, about four years ago. The
ury, after a short deliberation, returned the following
verdict : "That the deceased had committed suicide."
BRITISH COURTESIES TO AMERICAN FILIBUSTERS.—
The kind assistance and courtesies extended by Governor
Seymour, of Belize, and the officers of her Britannic
Majesty's steamer Basilisk to the shipwrecked vaga-
bonds on board the schooner Susan has created a
marked sensation, and augmented the good feeling
towards England in every circle and among all classes
in this country. In view of the hostile feelings to which
these self-styled heros gave vent when they ran away
from our sheriffs, and their loud threats to fight every
Englishman they met, the British officers might have
imprisoned them, or sent 'them up for trial for their
lives, and little notice would have been taken of
as
here. Instead of that, they looked upon
friendshipthe
unfortunate Americans, and in a spirit of
them home to
worthy of the highest praise, have
Mobile, giving them a chance.,
citizens. Congress
and to become honest and industrttooutbhe
general sense of
should at once give expression;solation of thanks to the
the country, and concur in a
.r
and hospitality extended. for the courtesies
to repentsenof their evil ways,
British officers
board the schooner Susan. Perhaps Mr. Clingman, who
to the unfortunate American vagabonds wrecked on
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resolution now called for,---Aretv York Herald.

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