Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-02 00:00:00

had on a stocking

lit; ;VT

'oers as

my melo-dramatic

ideutiW of-11

tale cre

the hair 'is ligh
II bruised. She almein

have

parts.
Some of our readers r

reraenaber a. very

but the fc
to be About twelve years old

ores are -Mt

1 Oiling

We are
glad to observe that her talent .has been-duly
appreciated in London, yhere, at the Princess's
Theatre, under the auanagement of Mr. Harris,
she has found poet and musician ready to write
for _her; 'and gratified audiences earnest in, their

inforrd, 1

of missing stays

le _fault of
It. sot►

sally tong

Us' BOA
A mons'

The troxPng Ga.:

agreeable. and clever littl(
,rade Hall .Mon-dayby, name _Lou

ht, and

lady singing at the
Eileniny Concerts, of

)o a 'uplift

rict ar was killed one

'Die enzpiofees Of .Messrs,' Gibbs, nee,
Co the owners of theivessel, were 'froth. an early
kouteon .Saturday anoeriing preparing, under the one Wsinla. 'sUpp- ose ought to hay
..immediate supezentendence of Captain Martin, that small screw, With only 200 ehorse-power
theenecessary apparatus for working the diving- ecould not give her - sufficient steerage .way to
bell, in the hope of atrriving •at the geld wife, in bring her head to -Windward, against both gale
! which were deposited•the various boxes containing and . wave and cnreerft. - The tide-table would
'I :the treasure. Theeg-eneeal belief at the scene of *hew that the ebb 'veld conduce-4o .Set her .on
•' 'the wreck is that-the very weight 'of the large . -the land. The mairitopsail was set, and it was
.chest would prevent its being washed out to sea, tried to " luff" her Up, but she rebelled ; and as
•
even suppesing it to have become unlashed from. _the breakers -could be heard, to " wear" her
.its fastenings by the'breaking up of the-ship, and ' -was out, of the'-;question. -To turn her. that
that, therefere,;thagold will be foundatthe base--; Acay round, would be to run her dead ashore.
rtrent of the rock. • I 'have no doubt. all was- done that skilful seaman-
- dn 'Saturday morning the body of o', young -slip' could acccintfiEsh-pilotveould not help her
',woman, apparently about the age -of twenty, a --=it--w:es too late. The only 'ohs:nee was to cast
"..Which was Seating about two miles from the rock :the ar/ehers, and -they failed. It was the first
where the ship ,went down, was picked pup. The error that waiii,the-fatal one---kh-staving the land;"
'body, wialch .ts 'supposed to be that of a saloon -and n rot leaving arnple • room to wear a ship,
i- passenger, was 'hut partly atdred ; the under- 'which„ I am -tedd.-and these; are matters upon
clothing was much torn, and her- face was con- =which . one can only 'be guided by testimony-
,siderably scarred. A small gold locket, with' " wou Id scarcely stay once-in twenty times."-,
double glasses, one containing light -hair andtliC -Such is the Cement of the -young. sailor, W.
other a looltofjetiblack plaited hair,*as found on; Scott Hughes, s: and upon -which he-can be 'oanes- i .-,-,-... .... —.-,.... ....., ..„-.-, ______,,_ _
._ , _
the neck, fastened with a gold clasp. _The right etione; L .He ;ieeeqnally definite, as is also.' Mx. ----ne-we.a.
leg was 'broken -in two parts. The-ander-linen, Brads *ry,ilacto the captain mot being in a per-
: which *us enpezfine, bears the initials -E. -G. lectly • sober ':state. -If -so, .was it the want ofa
At ten dsclock-.on Saturdew -morning , a :descent clear head that made hine:go so cloSe to danger
with the divingebell took place, :but nothing re- for a pilotP ',Agee rumour ise spread, iind spread-
• suited ire= lit. ' ' • • ! ing, • and.AT,it ,be false, evidence should be pro-
Newe had arrived at Bangor that five more alma lat thainquest to dispel the injustice. .
bodies were;picked up at a idistaneeeif four miles . •
from the ',wreck-two men., a moman, and two '
e;
children, a :boy,neid girl. -This` •wonlot ;make :a Thew rork ollaying down the moorings was successftilly
set E GIcEA:f...E.ASTERN.-=S6ti.THAmPTON; Monday.-
total- of some forty bodies recovered.vp to twelve • finish( dat 1 / ,p.m. to-day, and the fact was immediately
o'clock on .Saturday morning.
MOEBFRA BAY, :Monday .Afternoon.
nit.t.saytelteh.gartatmhe winz.rials.ngbs
iphreille.Mr. R. J. .11.'."CarnPbell, the chairman of
Two experienced divers, 'who camefrom Liver- ,
the
were a ll readYeand that Bowyer, the pilot,
.started •last
pool in theateam-tug Fury,the property of Gibbs, '
1 might r. for llolyhead. ' The task has happily 'lemur-
bo whou
r s has
hisal
l
nerilethla,
Bright, and Co., made a descent yesterday, and
f"orwar.irdres'edtto'!ChaipptaiCnomllpaarrniyso.
I thedmithout any accident, and all parties eon-
hisMiiifee Jb.een Sharples,
engaged a wino rt kb ien
severe
Ns,
remained a .considerable time under-water, but i'-'e,cecwarned
they saw• no corpses beneath, neither did they •
,reo,- " may. sensgratulate therneeves on the sacoeftful
at ion •Of-satint , rtant a result. Seventy-six men
find any gold, 'but t heytelid see esome copper. .
This. morning they res timed . their. descents under -have be: us employ,' in the' work, under the superin-
tendence I of NeSsre:. Hall and Cluett, 'late of Portsmouth
very favouriblemreum, stances, as regards weather Meckyar. 1., who bawl for many 'years been employed in craft, and who is in eve every sense entirely self-
and the state .of the se a. =They have-discovered that yard' far -similar purposes. __All is now ready for taught, has recently
no bodies, but eap to o-.,ae ;o'clock in the afternoon the Great 'Eestern. M'dire-e
r. Magnus. one of the ters a picture of his own painting, called "
The
they had succeeded, ev ith7lhe ' assistance given of the Gr. eat fillip Company,' was here on Saturdaye: and Forge." ' The following account of him is taken
therm by men on board theateanietug, in raising 'was much pleased with a
.personal inspection 4-the from a prospectus; accompanies-vehich -th k
e wor - :
en lorings : end the facilities of the port.
about three tonsof copper ;hers. These bars have -" James Sharples is an' operative smith at the
Da. LIJIMOSTONE AND THE MISSIONARY Ex.rßD-1- undergone som.esnieltines, hitt are not in. it finished DR.
,of Messrs. Yates, _engineers, Blackburn.
eaaers.-Sinet Ithe.last mail, by-which letters were re-
He is self-taught' as painter . and engraver, the
_.
state. There is a good et ea La silver mixed with
cowed front Dr. Sivingstone announcing the discovery the copper. At :one o'cictekrthe divers-suspended of Lake Shiewa t(twenty or thirty.miles wide and fifty only assistance he has ever had being six 'Months'
operations for a short rest; and. refreshment. They or, sixty
,longA„ Moe further intelligence has reachedeus teaching in ornamental drawing at the Bur
resumed after about an h Mies interval. ' ' frem the Zambezi. -A letter from.:Kartiman, however, eale ICAMTR .62 SCOTLAND. Atherneum. Although he follows his trade as
Some additional articl es ,sef wearing apparel, mentions that the-venerable missionary, Robert Moffatt, During the past ten days: the north ef:Seotland has been smith, he has followed painting most assiduously
with spars, See., have been eaettip upon the beach. had left that static/li, for Moselekutze's country twelve visited by -storms of snow, wind,. and rain of suck in the evening. Among his first efforts are ' The
Head of Christ,' One or two canvas huts ha- been erected on the :days beforee and -news had been received from 'him. severity as is •bat rarely experiexeed at this period of the and a portrait of his own father
f th s a
remnants of masts, and irrl-Irent of one of these down •to the ith ,August:' from Sicklagoli, which he year. 14 to the 21st ult. the' eather lac! been com-• both life-Size, and an emblem for the Amalga-
snch articles as . breve nom es: Ate them, or would andehis companion, Mr. Sykes, had 'reached, after ea. paratively fine. On the inernieg of that day, however, mated Society of
Engineers, 111 h'
otherwise serve Ent, nirpose sof identification, are journeT distinguished by the greatest ovation be, snow began to.fall very heasillr, and by night it lay in desi-
gn carrying Ciao', the firstae .s4s &.e -
1:11. , ~ his
spread out in neelaneholy arfrey. Amongst them consequekncoef of
theth.te want of water. :They had pursued many places six or eight lnches deep. This .was Forge' is Ins first attempt tat en prizr. "The
are seven photographi--two erfemen, two ottladies the
11".‘e had he two parties,vrho had preceded succeeded ity• akeen frost and further snow, and the painting was his own coleeptiOn,grving. The
' them.i.uutnot ;rustwith any natives who had seen severity of the :weather may in some measure be cal- and took the
two of children, and one louldscape. None of them. There were xeports (according to the Argus) 1 culated from the fact that two men in their prime, evenings of nearly three years in its execution ;
these have as yet been idenLitified as portzlits of that lekr-tilities were 'lmminent between the 11fatabeles but who had,ocearion to be travelling in the night-time' and when finished, he got a steel plate and spent
any individuals whose friends;:have arrived gat the and -tla.el3amangwatesonsad • that Preterias had advieed perished inthetstorm-the one. in Banffshire, the other' -the evenings of about five more years in enerav-
scene of the wreck. There is a Atocking with the Secheleenot to allow Mt. and Mrs. 'Thompson and Dr.: in . Aberdeenshire. On Wednesday, the 25th; the rng it, on a scale of four inches to the fooecom-
name of ."Jane Murray,"- and.sother with the Palgrave!to pass his ferritesey as they had three cannons esnow changed into a 'perfect:hurricane of rain and Pared with the painting." Mr, Sharples for°.
•es
name "F. Davis" uponat. There is a portion of a' in their sweggon for Moselekatze (!)-e-eoe.pe and .Nate ',wind, and acreempartied, we regret to say, with farther the heavy wrought iron-work for steam- engines,
shirt, with the name •".a.. E. ,-Smith," and another elrele's- lass of life. 'The knowing lamentable occurrence took and most of the tools which he-has
as used for the
With the name " it. Thornhill" followed by the Tire (bLtT Sr. Leora--I am not aware that there , :place on Werlnesrl.....ey evening, neai Aberdeen :-Mr. engraving were made by himself.
It May be
date 1846." A Large ,coarse ,wrapper, has the exists aneevery authentic Amount of the•erigin of this Cooper, farmer, ••Strathorn, Lo' new
was re, mentioned that so uninformed
celebrated race; Dr. Miller, who publishes.-
." History turning frem a .sale with a neighbouring farmer, Me modes of proceeding in . was he of the
inscription `' C. R. Ross ;passenger, JtoYal Char-
, one ter- about 1804 makes no meetion of it;;Booth.. On their w the way ey ere joined by Mr. Fawns common . use among
ter;" painted in black letters upon' it. On a°f D--- a'' „ice le .' ' • • -
whatever. .r. unter •an his " History of Smith eattle dealer, Brechin and the three friends rode together • neglected the •
use of
pieeesda shirt " E.,Feneeiek ;".on another. "John Yorkshire," iel-shed ' ' de s'i
. 9 7 ' . r, acid, and produced ' •
rtu 1 in 1.82,e, states, un reefoncaster en ,111 r. Cooper's Between the turnpike-road and every line by the graving
Lees, e 655." .0n a piece eta, steckire, q w
' " e'. --- -e'' ' that "in 1716 the famous tSt. Leger Sues were' the gig.
,farm of Strathore they had to ford the ury, which
_
and on.a small piece of linen "T. 0." There are
.founded, the first race being wonby the Marquis of Rock- in its usual state as; there a pleasant stream, some seven • ' ...________4_7_,_____ , .
a number of visiting cards syread on a piece of engham's horse ;Sampson." • lethinki however, that the or eight yards in width. The tremendous rain - ---- -EARTH LT • - -
CORNA ALL—A shock of an earth-
woOd- One: has' the inscription- "Mr.
~Eddowes, game of the firiterrinner was Aikbaculia, by Sampson. Chia
.Bout the day, however, had swollen it .to a lwake wasafAlt)(E IN
146, Cambridge-street, Pimlico; " another 4 Mr. In the absence nf ,better authority, I believe am cor- perfect torrent The hour being about eight at night, The sound felt at pn the 21st ult. about 7.10. -
Sam: Mosley Wade, Low and Cill, Liverpool." sec= t tin fh4f.
r_e in 6a eg ___. the name was given to the -stakes darkness prevented the state of the stream being passing throueh a street. lof . heavy-laodceit_ waggons
On a piece of linen is "James ',Davis Woodside, outef compliment to Lieut. General Anthony St.fLeger, seen, are, unfortunately, danger had not been suSpeeted 'shook the houses to an alarnn 'nlanY parts:
wf,liihefi place it
1859." The whole scene of: the Wreck is ren ex- whceatfttet time relic at Park gill; in the neighloar- before entering it. Tbe.R.Pand not advanced farin the many of the inmates to leavlculfh:ir houses to inquire tremely melancholy. one ; but a peculiarly affeet- hoodo Doncaster.: : :He is said to, have originated ;the water, however, before i'ir- ‘-'°° r, Perceiving their wbat the strange sensation was. The vessels that ivire
incident
inn took place to-day. A poor yOun race en 1776, but I have been informed that it was not position ot alarmed, and exclaimed that they
g 'until two ears after 1778 that "t '(I all drowned. M F be •
was formally style • a r. awns, w at thismo + + with
would be aground in the pier shook and trembled very much. ere
The
men. sat earthenware and glass appeared in many houses to
woman was searching along the beach to endeav- ~ a
the ..4. ears
' ' ' - 1 '
t., and that the name was then given .te Mr. Booth on his knee, called out to t have
he other two been set quite in commotion. The shock lasted for
our to find solUe truce of her husband, about it by the Marquis of Roelci hail at a dinner at the Red gentlemen to hold on by the gig, i possible. He had . about one-miuute• Such an occurrence. was :never re_
whose fate she was uneertain- She discovered a Lion Ina, Doncaster. Gen re St. Leger above men- Scarcely spoken when the -- was swept down the membered in this place by the oldest inhabitant.-
Waistcoat which had just been washed in, and tioned married, in 1761, Margaret, daughter and co- ' ;current ...and overturned. ;Fawns, though en- Cornwall Gazette. .... which had been hung up in front of- the tent by heiress of William Wombwell, 'Es of of Wombwell. cambered with a waterprod overcoat, by eat A LEVIATHAN FIRE-rnoo
one of the coast-gna,rd. Almest, frantieelly she She died without issue December 20, 1776. Tbe general exertions managed to reach the further bank of 't
egrriver curiosit was excited yesterdayP• b SAl'. Considerable
pulled it down. It proved to be that of her died-in 1786, and was succeeded in his estate at Park by swimming, but theothers- had disappeared at once, by an enormous fire-proof safe a9ut noon, in. the city,
• a. Barrett, who had Hill by his nephew,ll •
Inisband, a man named' been , ' , eajor_General John St. Leger, and were never seen again alive. •• Their bodies were . her of horses,-on a large -eae. being_ drawn by a Hum-Thegrief of
painter aboard the Royal Charter. . commonly called " Handsome Jaek , St. " the found next morning friend- and comp -of G IV • .Leger,P in eof horse and - a long way
,down the river.. The largest ever made, and wei 1-. e
me safe is-probably the
eels about ten tons. I '
• t is
the poor widow was most heartrending to wit-
wales. To the anion eorge- ~ when_ gig had also been carried down a considerable made of wrought iron and li • •
lined with drill-proof steel,
of St. distance ness, Some a the standers-by, in an attempt to Leger race h b latter general the foundation e
._. by the current, and-when seen the animal had . and fitted with. the patent 1. locks, which •'-
re lanceit is
comfort her, suggested that she might be mis .
_ e as een frequently attributed, but, as it shared the same fate as his master:: The wind and rain , impossible to pick
appears, erroneousl Of bonne, and I dare wstill
e .e. e
.. ere continuing. with great violence up to Sunday meat, or evert or'
aj' , ea to .be 1
drill With any., picklock or but-.
t,...7,-.1 .....1......-e....._ _ P'•• •
taken. , ".0h no," said. she; "here is my own say still is • t park • •
_ , , a Hill. trn, f: has' Sir ()shim mr,,,,,..,-,
mien it. My husband-
upon

Cl iuci.

is week by

st season

Keeley

T of convic

been foreseen

tention was

w blows

frolli the chatigkoll
the let

Kenyiet 3 served
_to aespatch

ile, and calantoiling l'ae was found to

zo ieet in .1
of the larg

iNe 1

1. of in Panang

applause. As " Cupid," in Planche's burlesque
" Love and Fortune," Miss Keeley is pronounced
charming by the critics, who are- equally eulo-

storm, one is met-

gistic in7thetir estimation of her feline impersona-,
tion in a piece called " PusSl or Metempsychosis,,",
'a translation from a well-known French vaude-
ville called " La chatte Metamorphosee."
Louis. Spohr, a name honoured by all who can
estimate.. sterling music, died a few days ago, at
Cassel, in his seventy-siith year. The son-of-an
eminent physician at See-sen, it was not till about
the year 1804 that he became known as a per-
former on. the violin, in which branch of his art
he acquired the highest distinction. His guar-.
tetts aro:l.l4ler cpncertcd_.pieces divided the atten-
tion of the musical ;weird' with' those of Haydn
and Mozart. • Afterivards he produced a number
of German-operas, am' ' --h _" Faust," "Jef.f.

tioncd by a gentleman '*ho ,re tamed from the neio-
- of ConwayC.Aorway =tn We anesclay night. During
that afternoon two little 'boys, cute eleven and the other

•
-only nine years of age, lathed 1-4.3 a piece of plank or small
*bit of timber, were -washed aF mare at Conway, both still
,; alive. It appeared that-they Thad been launched on the
-stormy waves by their-father,. from a little vessel, on its
'proving unseaworthy. Our: informant adds that the
' father also reathed-the-sh are in safety, and that the
little boys must have made a perilous voyage of at least
-six miles on their bit-of pl• talk. •
THE COMPASSES AFFE( ;r-ED TELE NATURE OF THE

CARGO.—An instance of this
Prussian ship Burgomeis ter
cargo consisting -chiefly

'marred,

Glasb
ast-iron pi

,gow with a
-'nes, the

captain found the
at Garelochhead

ontpas mes in error. 0n being tested
wa found that the cargo had
he extent, of no less

and " Zemire and Azor" have gained a
world-wide celebrity; whilst his sublime works,

' influenced tL
than thirty degrees. Islimpeataut, therefore, th.,
the compasses of :all v( ssels .loaded to any great :ex-
tent with iron -should be •carefully examined before
going to sea. We are i uformed 'that Mr. It. E. Pinhey,
a gentleman in -the I kniinsular and Oriental Com-
pany's service, has invented an -instrument for ascer-
taining and correcting t l alocal errorsto which compasses
are particularly liable m 11roardiron-aliips. A chronometer
box is hung upon final and having over its top a
dumb-card (similar to F riernd's peloms) anthan equatorial,
or sun-dial, which, by • means of a:graduation, are at the
side, can be adjusted to the 'latitude of the place. The
observer, with awatch set at theapparent time, or time
of the ship, causes the saulow -of -the dial-to fall on the
part of the instrument r epresenting the time. One portion
of the cross ,will -then kie-'in the direction :of the true
meridian of thqlace ; c ansegnentlfall true bearings can bo
ascertained at-once---a mapetic -bearings, by applying
the known variation ft s tthe place cif observation. - The
instrument may be tis ad in any ,part of the ship, the
only adjustment requi. seB I.ing to put the lubber line
towards the ship's head , :then, hyplacing the dumb-card
to correspond .with the meridian,orthe magnetic meri-
dian, as may be desired,,, the ,cafferentte between its indi-
cation and that ,of the compasses on board will be the
errors for which allow ewe -must be made.--111r. ;John
Campbell, 7, -South C actle-street, has been appointed
agent for the—sale of lie :abs.ve :eon ass • corrector in
Liverpool.
THE WEATHER IN

ue •compass es
It

"The .Last Judgment," "The Crucifixion
Inc "Fall of Babylon," will descend to posterity
along with the masterpieces of Handel.. Spolir
was frequently in England, and some of his
greatest works were written for this country.
His oratorios, " The Crucifixion," and the " Fall
of Babylon," were written• for the Norwich fes-
tivals of 1839 and 1842. He has resided for
nearly forty years at Cassel, in the capacity. of
Kapellineister to the Grand Duke, an office from
which he re-tired last year on account of the in-
firmities of old age. His character was noble,
generous, and kindly, Ana few men hate-been.
more respected and beloved by those IyhyApeyv,
him best. "

God look
thOse Who anxiously

suanu.-- Re olds" Linn-mu
yto * &other. with :one of his, royal- friend -by temptit
iiinongst Hoare: General John St., .Leger .died in. India, un- the- :del
h
married, I believe, i 109,---Xotes and Queries. night

our pane

o vessels were at-
berdeen. Rain to neo

me time to'imlock th

rm are

afe,:or more properly sped

inepectea every rel.