Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-01-26 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHHlpi_wax.x. TIMES,

Sin,—Liverpool_ has_been too frequently snubbed of
late. years byu government confessing Liberal principles,
but on no occasion perhaps more so than on the present,
where Sir George Cornewall Lewis has bad the effront-
ery to reject the appointment of Mr. Raffles As our sti-
pendiary magistrate, (in lieu of Mr. Mansfield, vecently
elevated to the London Bench,) and appoint a gentleman
of the name of. Bowen, quite a young lyirrister, and, if
report says true, of very moderate experience, and not
at all known in this_locality.
There is but one feeling on 'Change on this matter,
and that is of thorough disgust. It is either one of the
grossest -jobs ever attempted, or an insult to the town.
No time should-balost in forwarding a memorial to the
Queen, expressive of the feelings of.-this` loyal town.—
Yours, OBSERVER.
'Change, Jan. 25, 1860.

421-VERPOOL POLICE COURT.-YESTERDAY.

. .
(Before Mr. HAMILTON.}
•
APPLICATION FOR PROTECTION. —Mr. Bluck applied
for protectioiat on behalf. of a woman. named Susannah.
Broughton. She stated that she had been married up.,
wards often' years: Her husband had resided in Chester
up to the end of last year ; but she had not Seen him
for the last three ; and, being desirous of beginning-
business, she wished to be secured against his return.
No one appearing on behalf of the husband, the order
was granted.
(Before Messrs. GEORGE Hour and J. H. TURNER.)
STEALING COTTON.—Margaret ;-Drisboll; was, brought
up on the charge of -Stealing- about a,
.pound of cotton
from a bale; belonging to Shank Higson Co. The.
prisoner was committed for one month with hard labour.
CHARGE OF CRIMPING. —Henry Hodson, was sum-
moned on an information by John..Mofris, on a charge,
of crimping. Mr. Tyddal appeared for the Board of
Tra.de,•and,Mr. Cobb conducted the defence. Mr. Tyn-
dal said there were three distinct charges against the de-
fendant. The first was for: shipping a seaman without
a license to do sO, which was a contravention of the 147th
section of the Merchant Shipping Act ; the second for re-.
ceiving the sum of 2s. 6d. for doing so, contrary to.the
148th section ; and the inducing third was for the com-
plainant to desert from his ship, contrary to the 257th sec-
tion. In the first he was liable to a penalty not exceeding
£2O ;in the second to a penalty of and in the third,
t) a penalty of £lO,
.or to be imprisoned in default of any;
of these penalties not being paid. The henCh would easily
sae the important-of this act, both for supplying captains;
of British vessels with seamen, and for the protection of
seamen:.. John Morris, the complainant, was then called.
He said he had shipped on board the Emily, bound for
Ceara, on the 17th of December. last. His first inter-
view with Hodson took place on the 12th, in Bell's •
public-house, in . company with a shipmate, for
whom' the defendant had procured • a ship.
He asked him if he could get hiM a ship
also. The defendant said possibly he could, '
and accordingly On Saturday, the. 17th, he introduced'
him to Captain Gally, of the Emily,. with whom he
shipped at the office in the Sailors' Home. The same
evening he gave Hodson 2s. 6d. for his services. The
vessel sailed on the 24th, but was obliged to put back,
leaky, and was in the Prince's-dock till Tuesday, the.
17th January, on which day he came on shore along
with the mate, and went to a public-house in company
with Hodson; but having got tipsy, he had 'no very`
distinct recollection of what took place.' 9n going
down to the dock.next morning he found the ship was
gone. He accordingly went on board the Rock-Ferry
steamer, hoping
,to find the Emily in the Sloyne, but she
had sailed the previous evening. Caroline Hu,ghes,-
sister. to the complainant, was called, and deposed that
s'-ie was in the public-house with Hodson and her.
brother, and heard the:former tell him he would be soon'
"e tough on board the next morning. Mr. Cobb, in
addressing the bench on behalf of the defendant, can-
t mded that the sole cause of Morris not going to tlie
snip was his getting so drunk that he was incapable to
do so, and that the.prosecution was merely undertaken
t i screen himself.from being brought up on a charge of
desertion. The magistrates considered that the case, as
far as regarded the contravention of the 147th section
of the act, was perfectly clear, and would accordingly
impose a fine of 40s. and costs.

GOLD IN WALES.—It is reported that a discovery of
gold has recently been made midway between Dolgelly
' and Barmouth, or thereabouts, in a road to the right,
leading up to the Colgan mountain, upon which are
some explorations for copper, resulting in the production
of some twenty or thirty tons of copper ore per month.
About four hundred yards north of this copper lode is
another, having a bearing nearly east and west; this
lotte has been driven upon some ten or fifteen fathoms
in all, and at various times about £2,000 of gold, it is
said, have been taken out. Hitherto the gold has been
found in small bunches or strings, although as much as
14 oz have been extracted from 100 lb. weight of the
ore, At the present time the gold appears to be gene-
' i:ally diffused in association with copper pyrites through
'out a quartzose lode of about 2-4 feet wide, and visible
from the top to the bottom of thelevel.
OF SIR W. C. Ross, R.A.—We regret to
Unnounoe•the death of Sir William Charles Ross, R.A.,
• at his residence, 38, Fitzroy-square, on • Friday
last. The deceased artist was in his 66th year. He
::was the son of, a, miniature painter of repute, and
distinguished himself'-at the age of fourteen by gaining
medals of the Society of Arts for original drawings and
miniatures. He at first dedicated himself to historical

iaintings,i-lifit, after a while relitig.aished this walk
of 'art`-for 'pbrtrait-miniatures. the 'fist of portrait-
sitters during the -last thirty years would be simply a
reprint of the " RedA4k." Of the Queen, Prince
Consort, the royal chilidren, and various members of the
Coboarg and Onleaue4milies, he has executed admirable
portraits. Theminutotal of his works exceeds, -it is•
said, 2,000. '1'10837 be -was appointed-ininiature
painter., to the. 0/41a, ; in 10
a 8 he was elected an as-
sociate the Acileray; in 1842, an academician; and
in the same year he was knighted.
OUTRAGE A Q.n4ptlviilWe have already given
the particulars- of an r.nliarila'n outrage which was perpe-
Arated at Cradley, on Thursday morning, at the house of
Job Dunn, horse-nail maker, and the apprehension of
two men who vere suspected of having caused it. These
meri. qachttriali Willets, 4nd Wm. Feldon, nail-makers)
were. on. Friday brought before the Stourbridge magis-
-trates.• The court was densely packed, but before anything
was dond lithe oak every spectator was excruded. The men
were charged with maliciously destroying a nail-shop be-
- longing to Job Dunn, of Cradley,and with attempting to set
fire to the salad. The prisoners both had legal advisers.
Job Dunn al : I am a horse-nail maker at Cradley, and
parish const,ble as well. Yesterday morning, about
half-past twelve, I heard a noise. I got quietly out' of bed.
went down stairs, and my wife followed. I slipped
out of the house, and went round the front way, my wife
going the back. I saw four or five men running from
my, ire nises ; these two (pointing to prisoners) amongst
them. lam positive they are the men. I have known
them twenty years. I returned to bed after two o'clock.
A little before four_ there was a tremendous explo-
sion. I got up as soon as I could after the fright,
and went down stairs. When I got out of doors
all the brewhouse and nail-shop. was down. The
brewhouse, and nail-house join all under one roof.
In'the dwelline•-house the back window was shattered
all to pieces,, and" the doer was blOwn off 'the hinges.
The frame of the shop door. was crushed up, and one piece
of the door and the lock went fifty yards. I had no bel-
lows in the shop. I had got them out. Both the men
(prisoners) have threatened me. They are union
men. They meet at the committee every week. This
shop joins my dwelling-house, and there is a com-
munication between shop and house by a pantry
window. The dwelling-house and brewhouse are
all under one roof. The back wall that is against
this roof is crushed in. If it had come a few
inches further we should have been smothered ia
our beds. All the walls of the shop are thrust out. I
do not think there are fifty tiles left. It blew the wall
down opposite.—After some Cross-examination the case
rested here, and a remand was asked for and granted till
Friday next. The magistrates refused to grant bail.
The explosion was caused, it is supposed, by lowering a
hag of powder down the nail-shop chimney, with a cord,
which was found at the top of the chimney. A long
fusee would give the rascals time to escape in safety.
Dunn believes the damage done amounts to £2O. but it
will probably take a much larger sum to restore the
premises.--Birmingham Journal,

THE KING OF DENMARK AND HIS WIFE.

The following account of the career of the lady to
whom the;King of Denmark is morganatically married.
, .
is interesting:—" The career of the Countess Danner
has been one of the most extraordinary. ' Originally a
milliner of third-rate pretension in the town of Hanover,'
she: was induced to leave her native place in search of
better fortune by a member of the family of Blixen, and,
went to settle in Copenhagen, where she took a small
•-
• shop in a shabby quarter of the_ town leading to the
water-side, glad at that• time to turn the caps ~and
kerchiefs for the fair ones who work on board
the, boats and barges, and whose complication of
head-dress defies any effects of the milliner's art, and is
only acquired by long practice. The little signboard
'she put up ,on her first arrival at Copenhagen as lieeti
raked up Trent the obscurity where it had lain rotting
for years in garret, cellar,_ or rubbish heap, and paraded
~ before the'Kins windows, to serve as a banner to the
, . ,
- • insurgents, and the name of ' Ruttninssen 1 painted
thereon, haa, been bestowed by 'the' populace on SH
certain class' of females who abound in .Copenhagen;
as in every maritime city. It was the Minister
Blixen; lately deposed, and • now residing in Paris, I
who first made . discovery of the Hanoverian trea-
sure which has arrived to grace 'the town. He took
her from the shop and introduced her to the corps de
ballet of the theatre, where she figured, although with-
out much siteeess, in the ballets the King loves, best.
But, however much she may have been bent on capti-
vating the royal heArt, even at that period she might i
still have beets daneing,in the front row of the entree of
' The Hamadryad.s,' if' chance had not favoured her'
intentions, and delivered the royal captive bound
hand and foot, a willing, admiring, self-sacrificing slave.
One silent summer night the whole city of Copenhagen
. was aroused by an alarm of ' fire,' and in an instant
the , firemen were astir, the population afoot, am', as ,
usual, the King himself .on the spot.' His.
Majesty's': love of attending spectacles ,of this
nature is to well knoWn, that he is familiariy.called by.
the:Danish population the ' Brant-mayor of Copenhagen.'
He is • always first on the scene of. action, and last to
return home. In this case, he found his reward for once,
kir in one of the rooms of the, house mi.-fire stood the
Ruttmussen, looking so lovely 'in. thesliftle lace night-
eap; which, of course; she had made. herself, and
behaving with . such coolness and ' heroic courage,
'directing the firemen-with the- greatest self-possession,
and leading them, to the spot where the focus of the fire
existed, that his. majesty, .perhaps detecting in such
marked behaviour on the part of a female a sympathy of
taste, immediately yielded to the interest she had inspired,
and she returned to the ballet no more. As Countess
Daaner'she became highly popular, a. daughter of the
people. . She always patronised the people's claims,
and it. is only of late when, although willing to elevate'
the people, she opposes the intriguing which seek 4 to
lower ,her to the revel from which she sprang,. that •
she has become an object of hate 'to her 'former'
admirers. :No doubt exists of the malice, nor
whence it sprung, which has levelled the Chateau
of Fredeilicksborg to the dust. The King's refuge
sivas,..of. course, odious 'to those who hunt him down,
and, --compelled to- return 'to - Copenhagen, he has
not been suffered to steep a, single night in peace.
There was much dignity in . the reproach he addressed
from the windows of the palace to the raging snob
beneath a few nis.hts ago : .' It is a hard thing that I,
who ' have passed so many ;sleepless nights that the
people might repose in comfort and security,- should.
now be prevented sleeping by those for whom I have
been working all these years.' " ,
With reference to the recent popular disturbances in
Copenhagen and the cry, "Down with the countess," a
correspondent writes :-s-.." The-good, honest :Danish mob'
who utter it attach no other signification than a disap- -
proyal of the means adopted, and the life led. by the -
lady, to arrive at the honourishe is now enjoying, and
which to the nations- of the north are always fraught
with a shame and dis;race no subsequent success can
ever wash out. But the anti-German party who lead
on tire cry, know well enough that it is to end in the.
abdication of the King,. the election of Prince Christian,-
and the conseqn nt discord, wherein Russia will find her
account, for which she has been intriguing so long." •

FOREIGN DEssitinas.-1--. The Gazette Of Friday night
contains an order in council, Which, after reciting that
the Spanish Government will, afford facilities for recover-.
ing seamen deserting from British merchant ships in the
Spanish dominions, directs that, in accordance with the
provisions of the " Foreign Desertion Act, 1852," any
seamen, not being slaves nor British subjects, who may
desert from Spanish merchant ships when within the
dominions of her Britannic Majesty, shall be liable to
be apprehended and carried on board their respective
.ships ; but, should such deserters, have committed any
crime in her Majesty's dominions, they may be detained
until tried by a competent court, and their sentences
(if any) carried into effect.
AN IMPORTANT CASE TO EXECUTORS. - The other
day judgment was given in the Rolls Court in the case
of Bird v. Dingle, the suit being • one of not unfrequent
occurrence, and one which cornet be too often reported,
.as a warning to persons against mixing themselves up
in trusts which they do not understand the nature of.
The defendants are the executors of a person named
Dingle, of Bury St. Edmund's, and the object of.the
-suit was to hold them liable to make good a loss of
£6OO accruing to their testator's estate, owing to certain
shares in a public company being sold five years
after the time when the executors were directed to sell
and could have ssld them. There was no imputation
of fraud or wilful misconduct against the defendants, the
allegations in effect not descending lower than sheer
negligence and inattention. The defendants said they
acted. perfectly band fide, and with the full knowledge
of the residuary legatee and other parties beneficially
interested under the will of the testator.—The court
held such defence to be an insufficient one for the non-
performance of •the trusts which the defendants had un-
dertaken' as• the executor, of the testator, and made an
order..to the effect that the defendants must be held
chargeable with the loss occasioned by their want • of
vigiCance, •
WRECKS.. ON THE LANCASHIRE COAST.—IMPORTANT
LIFE-BOAT SERVICES.—.-FLEETWOOD, Jan. 23.—At six
p.m. last ''evening, a schooner was observed ashore about
four and a-half miles N.E. of Fleetwood. A very
heavy gale _was blowing from IV.N.W., with a high
and dangerous sea. The Fleetwood life-boat belonging
to the National Life-boat Institution, was immediately
despatched by Captain Wasay, R.N., inspecting com-
mander 'of coastguard, and reached the wreck at ten
minutes., to nine p.m. On reaching the wreck a
heavy sea broke over and nearly filled- the boat, at the
same time breaking two of her oars. The boat's anchor
was let go, and an attempt was made to get the crew
off from to windward •by lines thrown to them, but
the tide sweeping past at the rate of five or six miles an
hour prevented success. Efforts were then made to close
the: vessel to leeward, but ineffectually, as the vessel fell
over on her beam ends, her masts nearly falling on the
life-boat. The boat was then again anchored to wind-
ward, and veered down until nearly touching the wreck,
and lines and a life-buoy were thrown to' the crew, and
One 'line fastened to the vessel. One man was thus suc-
cessfully got into the boat, but the remainder, three in
numberi•appeared unable to avail themselves of the help
offered to them, or feared to throw themselves over the
vessel's side. A heavy sea at that moment broke over.
the **reek and the life-boat, and the latter was carried
some 300 yards to leeward of the ship. On once more
regaining, the vessel, sad-to relate, the men had all dis-•
appeared. The man 'saved stated that the. Master had
injured his back, and the boy had had both his
legs broken, which might have prevented their profiting
by the .aid so close at hand. After these gallant and
persevering efforts the life-boat returned to Fleetwood,.
where she arrived at half-past two this morning. She
was in charge of her coxswain, John Fox, chief boat-
man of coastguard. The wrecked vessel was the Ann
Mitchell, of Montrose, from Sligo, with a cargo of oats
to Liverpool. At 7 a.m. the services of the life-boat
11 ere again in requisition, a vessel being observed by the
coastguard on the Shell "Wharf Flats, six miles west of
Fleetwood,, the wind still blowing a heavy gale, with
a very high, broken sea. • The life-boat was this
time taken in tow by the harbour steam tag.
When about a mile from the vessel the latter was
seen to be foundered, but men were observed on the
part of her foremast which remained above water. At
ten o'clock the life-boat cast Off from the steamer, and
made two unsuccessful attempts to take the wrecked
men off, but drifting to leeward, had again to be towed
to windward by the steamer, and veering down from
her, fortunately succeeded in taking off the whole crew,
consisting of the master and mate and two boys, who
were safely landed at Fleetwood soon after noon. The
vessel proved to be the Jane Roper, from Androssan,
laden with pig iron for Morecambe, master, Wm. Ilarriss.
The life-boat's crew will be rewarded for their gallant
services by the National Life-boat Institution. .1

SORT

1 THE EMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND•

A Correspondent, says the New Zenhuzder, of the 26th
October last, has placed in our hands an. extract from
a late number of the 'Otago Colonist,- in whiCh it is stated
-that, " from a private letter, dated Auckland; Sept. 23,
we learn that a great many immigrants there.'are still
runable to find employment. Some of them have been
doing nothing for the last six months ; consequently,'
'many continue to leave for Sydney, Melbourne,
and other places.. A number have -returned-. to the:
home,
_country; particularly, by a ship which left
on the .22nd of September." . . . Directly We-read,
this extract, we -saw very clearly that the , letter was
written to serve a purpose; just as, the other day, "
Settler" 'wrote to a ifournal in opposition to the present
provincial government, running down a certain mot ve
popular or fertile district, and making that appear to be
a sample of the lands of the entire province.---forgetting
to statelhat he bad his own private reasons for wishing
to keep more neighbours from coming on to the Cattle- -
run, of which (thanks to the indifferent repute of the
district) 'he has the use for nothing:. So here the cloven
foot peeps out, and is detected through. the aid of dates
and details. ,

Dates are dangerous things, especially when they
prove to be inaccurate.; and " facts " are worse than
fables when they turn out to be fictions in disguise. No
ship left Auckland far England on the 22nd of Septeiriber.
The SWordfish sailed, it is true, on the 21st ; but bow
• many " immigrants " 'and "energetic settlers" did she
take away ? Let our Otago
:Contemporary turn to our
file, and he.will see that the total number of passengers.
by that vessel Was 22—of these, five were military pri=
soners—deserters sent home to .the'depot of their regi-
ment ; five were married women and mothers--three of
tkeni.old residents On a visit home, and leaving friends still
in the Province--and one, with two young daughters,
whoSe huSband' had aceepted such a bad engagement as
steward in the._ "Spray of the Ocean," that .his advancd
of wages enabled him to pay the passage of his wife
and children.' These last—a young wife and two young
daughters—were almost the actual " number" of recent
immigrants 'who "returned to the home country" by
the "Swordfish :" the husband and father was to. our
certain knoWledge in employment in Auckland till he
'accepted an engagement which 'he thought would suit
him . better than remaining here or going CO be an
'"energetic settler" Otago: Another,MOther and here
children returned to• England by the same vessel for.
family reasons, but .the father' remains in Auckland ;
and several of these parties may be expected out again
after a time.

It is true, that :every now and then we haie depar-
tures from here for Sydney—on the other hand, we as
frequently have arrivals from Sydney; and the immi-
grants who have recently left here for' New South
Wales were, 'we believe, ehiefly working engineers and
railway labourer4 who came out hoping to, obtain em-
ployment either here or at Canterbur—but- who,' find-
.
ing there was , moreimmediate prospect of
remunerative •occupation;- in their -vocation iii New.
South Wales, resolVed on trying their luck
there first. For Melbourne we do riot know
'of' any newly-arrived immigrants haVing left:
Auckland, but we'are receiving some addition to our-
population fran MelloMime. That many who come out'
in this or-that English ship leave for." other placeS" is
very possible—for Many take their Passages for "other
places" viti Auckland ; but we are receiving quite as;
many in return'from other places.
We do not imagine That our Ottig,o contemporaffhas:
any desire to speak otherwise than accurately as to the.
sta':,e of affairs in Auckland; but the "private letter" on
.the authority of which .he writes bears on the thee of
it evidence of 'having 'been' written by some .'opponent
of our present land 'regulations, who has told
,just so
much, and suppressed' ust so much truth 'as' he thought,
would serve his purpose. That the labour market in
Otago is not overstocked, we'are glad, to hear,—and 'We
willingly state, on` the authority of the Corodi,st, that at
Otago " there is still scope .for a large number of.
energetic settleri." We have no fear
,that we Shall,
therefOre lose all the' best of our newly-arrived
iminigrantS. 'We made a similar announcement.
the other day for the- benefit of the new Pro-
Vince of: HaWke's Bay ;, but our neighbours have not
as yet succeeded in procuring more than half
'the number of roadmen they wish .for—and those who._
have gone are chiefly old hands : the new arrivals mostly
stick by their land orders, and are spreading themselves
far'and wide throughout, the Province, 'greatly to the-.
disgust of the organs of the old landjobbing party:.
whpse game 'is done up thragh the working.
of the Auckland Land Regulations.