Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-11 00:00:00

ITALY.

A telegraphic despatch in the Univers announces
that the Carnival had concluded without the slightest
disturbance having taken place on any point of
Rome.

The Piedmontese Gazette publishes a royal decree
prohibiting the exportation of forage and oats by the
frontier of Lombardy.

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, March sth, via Trieste.—The
Intendant of the Mosques, Hassib Pasha, recently
appointed Minister of Finance, has annexed a council
to his ministerial department : it includes Fuad
Pacha and three European members.
The Wallachian deputation has been directed to
refer its demands to the Conference to be convoked
on the affairs of the Principalities.

ASTOUNDING ACCIDENT IN RUSSIA
3,000 PERSONS DROWNED.

The following extraordinary statement we take
from the Cologne Gazette, but without in any way
pledging our own belief in it :
The Russian journals announce an unexampled catas-
trophe at Taganrog, on the Sea of Azoff. Allured by the
mildness of the temperature, and by the purity of a cloud-
less sky, about 3,000 inhabitants of Taganrog followed the
fishermen upon the ice. In that country, fishing is the
favourite occupation of all, young and old, rich and poor.
The air was so calm, that all advanced, without mistrust,
farther and farther upon the ice, in the hope of obtaining
a richer booty. Suddenly a warm wind rose from the east,
which insensibly rose higher, whirled masses of snow, and
finished by detaching from the shore the ice which adhered
to it. In a few instants the vast sheet of ice cracked, rose,
broke in several places, and the unhappy people who were
upon it saw themselves carried out towards the open sea.
Two hours afterwards not a trace of life was perceived
from the shore upon the surface of the waves. On the
following day, the waves drove ashore a floe of ice on which
were five of these unhappy people ; three were dead, and
the others stupified by cold. The two last, a young girl
and an old man. The young girl died some hours after.
The old man survived, but from fright he had lost the use
of his tongue. He gave in writing a narrative of the events
of this frightful night. The number of persons who met
death in the waves amounts to 3,000.

THE PHCENIX CLUB
PROSECUTIONS.

TRALEE, WEDNESDAY

The Attorney-General, in continuing his address to the
jury, said, proof would be given of a meeting which took
place near Skibbereen, where the strength of the society
would appear to be about 900 —3OO persons were seen about
a mile from Skibbereen, with pikes and suns, who were being
drilled. lie submitted that the identity of the oaths used
in different places would be a strong proof of the conspiracy.
There was a mass of testimony of another kind, consisting.
of documents found in the possession of the prisoners,
which would leave no doubt as to the objects which they
had in view. In a pamphlet, found in a house of one of
the prisoners, the peasantry were instructed how they
could attack and dispose of her Majesty's soldiers; and the
difficulty of using artillery in parts of the country was
pointed out. The primary army of Ireland must be
composed, it said, of pikemen, and then came an elaborate
description of the pike. Every pikeman was advised
to procure himself a nine-inch revolver. The learned
gentleman, in conclusion, pictured the consequences of
foreign hvasien, and asked what had the Queen, the Parlia-
ment, or the Government done of late years to merit so foul
an attack on the constituted authorities ? It was a malig-
nant conspiracy, and he had endeavoured to unmask it. If
they could acquit the prisoners, in God's name let them do
so. If, on the contrary, the evidence coerced the verdict,
he trusted it would be one with which, for the rest of their
lives, they would be satisfied,
Daniel Sullivan's, the approver, examination was then
proceeded with, on the part of the prosecution, which, itt to
last evening, was IlOt COMIWIQd.