Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-07-13 00:00:00

THE NO,RTHEIW TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JUL! 13 1859

GREAT LOSS OF LIFE AT SEA.

A letter from Alexandria of the 30th says :—A frightful
catastrophe has thrown the European inhabitants of this
city into consternation. The steamer ' Silistria, of the
Ottoman Company, which left Alexandria for Constanti-
nople on the 25th, with about 350 Turkish and Christian
passeagers on board, foundered at sea, in consequence of a
leak which she sprung in a few hours after she left the
port. Only 273 of the persons on board were saved by -a
small Egyptian transport, the remaining seventy-seven
having perished. The captain and Turkish crew of the
vessel are said to have acted with the greatest barbarity,
preventing by violence and murder the unfortunate
Christians from availing themselves of the assistance
thus providentially sent to them. During the
few hours previous to the vessel going down, scenes of
carnage took place en, the deck bet Ween the crew, under the
orders of their captain, and the Europeans on board. A
Venetian'bad .his head laid open by a "cut from a hatchet,
and others were killed, in the struggle, The Christians, in
addition to losing all their property on board, were ,robbed
of all the money and jewellery they had about them.' The
captain and crew of the steamer, on being bronght back to
Alexandiia, were put into confinement to await the investi-
gation into the affair. We consider it our duty to mention
the noble conduct of twenty-eight Austrian sailors, who
were passengers on boord, and through whose assistance a
number of lives were saved which would otherwise have
been lost. -

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TILE Austrian armion the Adige drink the water of that
river, which is clean and cold ; but the allied forces, and the
Austrians inPeschiera and Mantua have only the water of
the Mincio, which is turbid and warm. .

The following announcement of a marriage appears in a
Calcutta paper :—May 16, at Kuppurthala, by the Rev. J.
S. Woodside, A.M., of the American Mission, his Highness
the Rajah Randhir Singh Allowalia, of Kttppurthala, to
Miss. Henrietta Melvina Hodges, eldest daughter of the late
Robert Hodges, Esq., of Kuppurthala
The Bombay Tithes states that Hessen Ali Khan, the new
Persian Ambassador to the Courts of 'England, France, and
Belgium, is to take with him fifty youths, selected from the
first families in Persia, to be trained, at the Shah's expense,
Paris, in all military studies. The ambassador's medical
tendant, Sadvk Khan, is a Scotch graduate.
lect committee appointed by the
ieratioh the uuestion of
Loom A.

RATES

churca rates met on Monday for the
The peerS present were the Duke of
chair), the. Archbishop of Cante

rst time, In
INiarlbOrengh (in the
the Earl'of Derby,

that of the

Fail Granville, Lord Eversley, the "Marquis of alisbury-
Earl Stanhope,- Lord Stanley of Alderley, .and lord Mont-

- ,
post; and above all, that of two planks,- with which we

This i

believe the sixteenth century was unacquaintE

Archdeacon• Hale was called a'ud examined as a
witness at some length, but as the press were excluded, and
no one but the witness is admitted, we are unable to Present

what it consisted of : the hauls of tue patient were
and he was placed thus between two planks, disposed

a report of the proceedings.
Some idea of the effects of the long-continued dry weather
iu Dublin maybe gathered from the fact that the corporation
have issued a public notice, stating that the supply of water

to form a

makers for the drainage of water ; he had to pass the
night upon this new-fashioned bed of pain, where it was

viith'whiCh they are served has become deficienY even for

impossible to obtain a single instant of repose during long
hours of torture. The other pnuishments were !themselves
the object of unheard of improvements. Thus in the case
of the savate. which seventy pupils were sometimes compelled
to join in as assistant torturers to the worthy Father
Augustin, the patient was compelled to kneel upon the back of
an overturned chair, and in that position receive the blessing
intended for him. Then, with a bruised body and scarcely
sufficient strength to crawl to his bed, Father Augustin
would propose, as a relief to his pain, a bath of salt water !
Another time, says one of the witnesses, Father Augustin
threw a shoe at the mouth, of a pupil, knocked out two of
his teeth, and 'then adniinistered to him the punishment
of the savate into the bargain. We seem to be dreaming
when we hear of such horrors. .And we have not yet
related the most odious charge broug
Trappists of Forges-les-Ohimai
what is due to justice _to anticipate in any manner the
decision she is nailed upon to make, but we should consider
ourselves. wanting in Our.first ilutiei as journalists
to withhold the facts elicited by the examination now
proceeding before the tribunal of Charleroi. These facts ar(
all the more grave and deplorable, inasmuch as they ate

domestic and manufacturing purposes. The consequence is
that the watering of the streets in the southern districts of
the metropolis is to be curtailed and the inhabitants of the
most populous and fashionable portion of the city Subjected
to all the miseries of a perpetual dust storm, Such a
deprivation as a short supply of water is a perfect novelty

in Dublin.
ACCIDENT ON THE B,IVER,-On Monday afternoon, a
small rowing boat, in which were four apprentices and a
young woman named Charlotte Clark (a servant-in Dept-.
ford) imprudently: attempted to cross the bow of a steamer,
and was overturned, all' five becoming' immersed. They
were With difficulty rescued by two boatmen of Greenwich,
but we regret to add that. the young woman sustained such
severe injury on the head, that her recovery is extremely
doubtful. The accident occurred almost opposite the Com-
mercial Docks. The boat, of course, was completely
smashed, and it is littte short of a miracle that any one of
the party escaped with life. . •
Timcentral dome of the ,Church of the Trinity, in the
large monastry of Jellovodskii, at Makarew, in Russia, a
short time since, suddenly fell in with a tremendous crash.
Fortunately no one was in the building at the time. An
enormous plated lustre, suspended from the centre, and
which dates back so far as 1660. was broken to pieces, as
were also the statues, with which the church was ornamented.
The violence of the commotion was such that the large iron
gates at the front entranco were burst open. This building,
which dates from 1658, had been richly ornamented by
presents from the merchants *eventing the fair held at
Malcardw,"before its removal to Nijnii-Novgorod in 1817.
AMERICAN CREDIT. —The State of California has refused
payment of interest on a fraction of its bonds—about £5,000
—on the ground that they were fraudulently issued, - a plea
wholly inequitable as respects innocent holders: The State
of Minnesota is described to be in financial trouble through
an indiscreet grant of certain railroad and banking privileges
to a set of " political adventurers,," and a plan has been
suggested that she should redeem her bonds by paying, not
the value they represent, but "the sum they may actually
imneoaens
os ,taccordingi tgoththeer
reproach
ipahroviews d
io.uf
have cost those who now hold them. " This is mentioned
peopleas the boefl
ti.tohne
—The Times.

it a,zainst the

luiow too ' well

were w

imputed to.liaen charged with the instruction and the moral
trainingof-youth; men whose garb ought to be a guarantee
of probity and virtue, and who, far from being all we have
a right to expect of them, have become an occasion of
disorder and scandal."

BURY CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY. The report of this
society is now before us, and presents some very cheering
features: The capital of the society has now reached more
than £l,OOO. The profits from the various 'departments
during the quarter amounts to £5ll is 2.1 d, which, with
£l6 7s 100, as • surplus from the last quartor,_ leaves a
balance to be divided amongst the members 0fE526 9s Ofd.
In addition to this the society has paid a' dividend at the
rate of. TO'per cent: "on £4,350 purchase money, and carries
forward to next quartei a surplus:of tali 17s 9d. The com-
mittee, state: 1-that the accoMmodation, -convenience, and
amount of capital is such as to admit of the society doubling
its operations, with proportionate benefit to the members.—
..Bury Times;
)f• FATAL rAcrioN FIGHT.—An inquest was held on Friday
at Dandonald, in the -county Galway, on the body of a
hoemaker; .named Dolan, who died from the effects of a
beating received in a' fVtion fight. It appeared. evidence
'flint the '" Knocktonsand,•Costellos" were hereditary enemies,
that they met at a public-house to fight ; that they adkurned
to: the open air for the purpose, and.whilst sticks and 'Stones
were plied with terrible effect the shoemaker rushed in to
have a blow at anyone: Thus .he came in for more than he
was able to bear. His wife depdsed to having come up
just before her husband fell. Saw him receive two blows of
a stick each from- two. of four men who were engaged
fighting. By the -WaY, the deceased was a cripplee. The
pry, found :—" The, opinion of the jury is that Thomas
Dolan's death was caused by 'drink and a fall, as it is likely
he lost his crutch by some means not known to' the jury."
Thus the jury ignored the blows,' and attributed the death
of aolan to drin and a fall. ' • •
" TAKING TIME BY THE FORELOCK.”—UpOII the death
of arector of a parish in the country, .a dispute arose be-
tween two neighbouring clergymen as ~,ta;:who should
officiate during the vacancy, each conceiving; that a tem-
porary attendance for the tune would be a recommendation
to the patron who had the _disposal of the living. One of
the Competitors was a very- thin man--his opponent was
short and fat. The tall Om man, in order that he might
secure the perforMance of the duty, took his seat in the
readinm_desk at six o'clock in the morning, which was an
effectual' bar to hi 4 rival, as the only -mode of ascending to
the pulpit was through the reading-desk. When the com-
munion service was ended, the tall priest straightwaY
stripped tiff his surplice, and advanced with regular -86-
Jemnity up the pulpit stairs. The little man instantly rose
upon a hassock in the pulpit, and said Let us pray."
He had been there all night..
A ItHAVE ‘! VIVANDIERE."—Madame- Cros, a vivandiire
of the Foot Chasseurs, a pretty woman of twenty-two, and
the wife of one of the* Chasseurs, requested permission of her
husband, who was in the reserve, to follow the attack and
assist the.wounded at Solferino. Taking with her a keg:of
brandy, a canteen of water, and a package of linen and lint,
she wept forward into the thick of the fight, heedless of the
bullets, and dressed the wounds of many, of the men, and
'
among them that of the-Cent Garde who was struck in the
11)neaed' ofWte e
11:nt'laT to the rnperor. A short time after she saw
Clll.B Ou the ground, wounded in the
gde.. She stooped down to hint and gave him sonic water
'While the man was
Ici,riitnhkaingse.ir drops of brandy' in it.
a ball broke her little finger, 'smashed the
glass, and killed the man. Madame :Cros then proceeded
to the ambulance to have her wound dressed, and
While on the way saw a soldier named Riche, both of
whose
legs bad been perforated by a ball. Being
wounded herself, she could not lift the man up, but she
adopted another expedient.' She stooped down, and telling
him to clasp both his arms round her in that manner
she managed to drag him to the ambulance. On the follow-
ing day Mine. Cros was 64
Well,by then, surge" she saihd,at " do it° at
told the on t her finger
must be amputated.
her middle her
-
a word. Sonic rings on finger which were
once," and the operation was effected without littering
broken by the ball were afterwards presented to the Emperor,
of the eantiei' was
to whom the COPlageolo
related.
•
-conduct , me

-INIONKISII ATROCITIES SUSPICIOUS DEA. T H
_ . _ • .
" IN BELGITIMI -'' IN SOUTH- STAFFORDSHIRE.
The
,Correctional Tribunal of. Charleroi is just now On Sunday morning a horrible case of murder, similar in
occupied with a charge brought against the Trappists circumstances and almost equal in atrocity, to the one at
of the convent of Forges-lea-Chimai of cruelty Moat Colliery, Princes End, was
made known, at a small
place called Lower Gornal, which is a small town of
towards the children placed under their care for
cottages belonging to. Lord Ward, in the parish of Sedgley.
educational purposes. The evidence already adduced
The scene of the awful event is not more than four miles
proves that the conduct of the reverend fathers has
from the Moat Colliery, the place of the late outrage. .
been of the most inhuman kind, disgraceful alike to
For some time a man of the name of William Hyson, a
their religion and their humanity. Some details of brewer, and occasionally a gardener, and who formerly was
the case are embodied in the following remarks from a publican and kept the Old House at Home in Dudley,
the Independence Beige, the leading paper of and has been in the police force of this county, has kept
Brussels : loving company with ,a smart-looking and very attractive
" While the accusation against these men—whom their yonng woman of 18 years of age, named Mary Smith
profession seemed to call to the mctice of virtue—was not the daughter of William Smith, a shoemaker of Gornal
verified by pUblic and judicial documents, we, maintained Wood, who is very respectable, though humbly to do. Hyson
a prudent- ieserve, leaving to the tribunals the duty of is double Miss Smith's age. He represented himself as a
separating truth 'from falsehood, and of fixing upon the single man and without iucumbrance, and she received him
proper persons the responsibility of the odious acts de- as a suitor for her "heart' and hand." Through domestic
nounced by the public voice. The motives which dictated differences with her sister, she did not, though in opposition
this reserve no longer exist. If justice has not yet pro- to her father's wish, reside at home, but lived with a woman
nounced, at least light has been thrown upon this affair by named Mary Ann Hickman, as a lodger, during which time
the depositions of the witnesses examined. We now deem Hyson is said to have been received in favour, and ,that he
it our duty to speak, quite as much as we previously felt it by his manifestations purposed marrying her, having oF
our duty to remain silent.. We will state, then, that we
1
have read with profound stupefaction, and with indignation still
more profound,, the reports published by the journals of
Charleroi of the first proceedings of the Trappist trial. In her two guineas a short time ago to buy her -
reading of such monstrous refinements of cruelty, we may
well doubt whether we live in Belgium in the middle of the
19th century,and ask if men whose fertile imaginations :
have invented such means of torture for poor children are i
not the descendants in a right line of the Torquemadas, the I
Petor Titelmanns, and Juan de Vargas: Let our readers
'judge for themselves. The witnesses for the prosecution
against Auguste Vertulle, otherwise Father Augustin,
unanimously proved that that excellent man was the sworn
Itormentor, the contractor for all the dirty wet* of the.
' convent; and that this post was far from being a sinecure.
I An ingenious refinement of barbarity had Multiplied and
varied the punishments destined to lead back to the path
of duty the Unfortunate little beings subjected to the
Idiscipline of the convent. There was the punishment of
the savate, that of the cask. that ,-,e +l.- •

new sill

he was receiving 7s a v

for Messrs. Cresswell, ironmasters, Tipton, in addition tc
having a respectable dressmaking business

Saturday

She kissed her sister and sister's child

previous night
repeatedly, telling them she should "never see them more

covered floating in Askey Bridge Pool. On being taken

out she presented the appearanco of having been used
roughly, as both her arms were bruised. Two persons of
the names of James Marsh and Jonah Hickin have declared
to policeman Taylor that they saw Hyson with the deceased

o'clock to twelve at night on the

Gornal

the Coope

a little a'

.s to be ma

W

iver the Fielc