Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-28 00:00:00

saw two vessels,

hale, belonging
Tonsberg. In the meantin.-
hard at work, and the boats were
got out in case at emer
gency. It became evident, however, that the ship could
not be saved, and at midnight she was abandoned, the
crew saving themselves by the boats and getting on board
the vessels above-named. Within a very short time after-
wards the steamer went down. Captain Martin states that
he considers the loss of the ship attributable to the boister-
ous state of the weather. The intense frost had contracted
the rivets of the iron plates, and he supposes that she mug
have been struck by some pieces of ice, which produced the
leak. The steamer was insured at Lloyd's for 418,000.

had beE

STRIKE IN TI
operative shoemal
all and Parker, f.

SlioE TRADE AT BLACKBURN.—TI
:ers in the employment of Messrs. South
:hoemakers, have ceased to work, then

gentlemen having
for closing and

sad to dispense with their machines
r boots and shoes. The one!

issued on Friday a long address to the public, calling upon
the inhabitants to "buy shoes made by hand."—Prestos

Guardial,

THE WORKS AT PonTLAND.---General Sir John Burgoyne
and Sir Joshua Jebb have inspected the extensive fortifica-
tions and other works at Portland. It is said that the
number of workmen and convicts will be materially increased,
and that the new fortress and batteries will soon a.
formidable appearance. The main portion of the breakwate►
is fast approaching its completion, and affords secure and
most welcome anchorage to the mercantile marine during
the prevalence of contrary winds, and is frequently the resort

A same p

of men-of-war.
DEATH OF. MR. FERDINXND GLOVER.—We regret to
announce the sudden death of this gifted vocalist, which
took place on Saturday, at Hull, where he had been per-
forming in connection with several other members of the
Pyne and Harrison English Opera Company. He was the
eldest son of Professor Glover, of Dublin, but studied his

Profession for some years in Italy, principally. at...NlVes,
where he distinguished himself highly, both as a performer
and a composer. On making his elebta in London about
three years since, he achieved a decided success, the organs
of musical criticism being unanimous in their favourable
award, the justice of which all his subsequent efforts tended to
confirm. kr. Glover pssessed a baritone voice of great
richness and capacity, while his Vocalism was always
characterised by that expressiveness of style in which singers
of the same class are too frequently deficient.
FATAL EFFECTS OF A. PRIZE FIGIIT.—The magistrates
at Rochester were occupied a considerable time on Monday
afternoon in investigating a charge preferred against a
shipwright employed in Chatham dock-yard, named Joha
Robinson, who was charged before them with having killed
another shipwright, named William Moore Beasl:7,, in
fight which took place on Chatham Lines on Saturday
The facts, as sworn to by the several witnesses,
_,,wed that the, prisoner and deceased, who were always on
the best of terms, had. been drinking with several other
shipwrights, at a public house in Brompton all Saturday
A quarrel, afterwards arose, when prisoner was
-ht another man for. ss, the deCeased being

evening

evening
backed to

made stake-holder. The parties fought in the tre..
and prisoner.having been beaten the deceased gave up the
stakes to the other man. On this prisoner challeng‘_
deceased to fight, and althong,h both were very drunk they
commenced fighting. After the first round they both fell
heavily to the ground, prisoner being under. -In falling
deceased struck his forehead violently against the ground,
on which he groaned three times and immediately expired.
On the body being examined by a surgeon it was found that
deceased had died from dislocation of the neck, caused by
the fall. The magistrates committed the prisoner for trial,
but aii;nitted him to bail.
A MAN KILLED •IN -MANCHETER AT MIDNIGHT
Shortly after midnight, on Saturday, a factory hand, named
John Wall worth, of Short-street, River-street, Hahne, was
found by .apolice constable lying insensible in Medloch--
street, Hulme, with a crowd of persons around him. The
man was bleeding profusely from the ea*, and with assistance
the constable conveyed him to tin Chorlton-on-Medlocli
police station, and afterwards to the Manchester Revs'
Infirmary. The house surgeon at once pronoun,
to be in a precarious state, and he died about the middle of
the day on Sunday. Wallworth had been to Knot Mill
Fair on Saturday night with his wife, and, on his
return home, after drinking freely, he called at the
Globe Inn, Medlock-street. He appears to have bees
outside the house when the fatal occurrence happened. A
man named Welsh, who was passing down the street at the
time, saw two men standing on the path together, at a short
distance from Walworth. Suddenly one of the men wer
up to Walworth, and struck him a blow on the head, wl
knocked him down; and then both ran away, joinir
other men who had been standing at a greater di
the middle of the road. A woman who was near
time also witnessed the blow, but could not identif
man by whom it was struck. The police are -
gaged in endeavouring to find the guilty parties.
DREADFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.---TWO MEN Kt,
On Monday an accident occurred on the Monklands
way, between Airdrie and Coatbridge, whereby tN
(Henry Rolland, fireman: and William Dinning,
man), were instantly deprived of life, and the engine-.
John Aiken, was very seriously injured. The followin6
the particulars, so far as we have been able to oatlie.
:---It appears that a train leaves the station in t'Hall-
craig-street daily at half-past one o'clock with empty
trucks, and after proceeding up the incline to Baer-
tp.e engine-
from the eastward. To-day the
yards, returns to the station
train
nli
htandelegtioaosdsuiticoar,.anmgd
with eleven
man was proceeding down t Yinaerds'
k hen from some cause, the engine had
loaded true s, w
after leaving the empty waggons at
got too much way, and when they came to Common-
head station---the flat portion at which is the foot -
incline and the top of another, the engineman was unable to
bring his engine to a stand, and the train went over the fep
of the second incline, down which it proceeded with fearful
velocity. After passing the foot of the incline sever-
hundred yards, the engine went off the rails at a crow-
and engine and tender and several of the trucks were sr
to pieces. The body of the breaksman was found iv

I his life

tively

and that-of the

J in
fireman a short distance out from the engine. He
have been thrown to the ground with great violen
the engine went off the road, and instantly kille
enlin.ectarn,,,hwihnoiulrveas found lying
d.
Allthei)artibe6eshidaevethbee firer
eni,

siderableiiMe In the company's employment

Daily Mail.
DISTRESS IN CANADA.—The Glasgow Herald publishes a
letter written by a young gentleman, formerly of Glasgow,
and addressed to his uncle in that city, which reveals a ml:4
dissressing state of matters in a considerable section of
Canada. The letter is dated "Kincardine, C.W. 31'11
27, 1859," and says " A special bill has passed the Legis-
lature, empowering the County Council to raise the sum of
£B,OOO for the purchase of spring seed and breadstnffs for
those in actual want. If £15,000, instead of £B,OOO, had
been raised on the credit of the county, we might have got
through ; but as it is, the hunger and suffering that mast
exist till another harvest, is terrible to think of. I could

relate to you cases of suffering that wonld melt the mast
adamantine heart, cases which have come under my own
personal observation, where I have gone into houses and
found little children (sometimes four or five of theta)
crying from the pangs of hunger, and not a bites
the house to give them ; with often a pale-faced mother
with a sucking babe in her lap, looking pitifully ow
her little ones in the very agonies of despair---the father
away, perhaps, looking for a little dour or a few
potatoes from some distant neighbour to keep the spirit
within the bodies of his little ones until other relief
was to hand. But I need not harrow your feelings with
any further recital of the sufferings existing in this country_
If we can manage to get in crops, and are blessed with a
favourable harvest, it will make a great change but it will
take some time before this county can recover from its pr.-
sent severe blow. Business is completely deranged, there to
nothing doing, and it is thoroughly impossible to get irt
money—indeed, it is never looked for ; and people are well
off if they have sufficient to purchase food.—Edinktryl
Courant.