Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-06 00:00:00

respecting this ease will probably lead to the appoint-
ment of a public prosecutor. .

.Angleseit : Liverpool to Buenos Ayres, sunk by collision
with the Hoang Ho. An admiralty suit instituted, and
bail accepted for the Hoang Ho.•
Atalanta : Liverpool to Buenos Ayres, sunk off 'Holy-
head by collision with the Times steamer. The
admiralty suit instituted against the steamer was success-
ful. The case has been closed by the distribution of the
proceeds of her sale.
Ellcrslie : Liverpool to Barbadoes, stranded near
Wexford. Cargo discharged, more or less damaged, and
returned to Liverpool for re-shipment or sale. Ship
floated under direction of our agent and the captain, and
towed to Wexford for repair.
Eugenie (s) : Stettin to Hull, stranded near Ystad.
The consignee of 100 puncheons of spirits had endea-
voured for eight months to get information from Lloyd's
agent respecting his property, when the case was placed
in the hands of your committee. After some correspon-
dence the agent rendered accounts, showing the salvage
charges to exceed the original value. An arrangement
was made to pay the salvors their claim of 33 per cent. in
kind. The remainder of the property was recovered, and
is now in possession of the parties interested.

Fusilier : Valparaiso to Liverpool, wrecked under the
lofty cliffs near Pembroke. Shin a total loss ; a large
portion of .the cargo has been recovered, namely, 1,199
blocks copper out of 1,326 shipped at Valparaiso, and
rather more than one-fifth of the copper ores and regulus.
Arrangements making for sale of residue.
John Duncan: Savannah to Liverpool; towed, with
damage, from Dundrum Bay to Liverpool. Inquiries
respecting average statement referred for the considera-
tion of the committee.

Steam Dredge : Liverpool to Wexford ; sunk in Church
Bay, near Holyhead. The Dredge was raised from nine
fathoms water, and placed in Holyhead Harbour. Sub-
sequently it was brought to Liverpool for repair.
Murray : Cronstadt to Liverpool; sunk by collision
with the American ship Kate Swanton,
Dr.ar Cop.iiliagen.
The cargo was saved in a da waged. state by divers, and
.01d at Copenhagen. Wreck of ship sold by auction.
The Kate Swanton, on her arrival in England, was
attached by order of your committee, and was afterwards
sold by decree of Admiralty Court. The proceeds are now
in course of distribution.

Science : Buenos Ayres to Liverpool ; on shore near
Pembroke, after being abandoned at sea. Portion of
materials and cargo now being saved.
This statement sufficiently indicates the general charac-
ter of the duties of your committee. It will be observed
that three of the cases have involved admiralty suits.
Two of these have already been brought to a successful
termination, and the third now awaits the decision of the
court. In these, as in all the other cases placed in their
charge, your committee believe they have satisfactorily
carried out the objects for which this association was
formed. During the last year the nett proceeds from
wrecked property, salved under the direction of your
committee, amounts to about £23,000. A considerable
portion of this has arisen from property that appeared
hopelessly lost. Your committee have pleasure in stating
that the friendly exchange of information with the
corresponding committees in London and Glasgow con-
tinues, and is believed to be of mutual benefit. During
the past year inquiries have been made or answered
referring to the following ships. (Here follows a list of
more than 100 ships.) Your committee have also to
state, as a result of their communications to the Board of
Trade on the subject of salvage claims by pilots, that a
clause has been inserted in a recent Act of Parliament,
by which no legal claim can be made by the pilots or
life-boatmen of this port for salvage services, without the
sanction of the Mersey Conservancy Board. It will be
seen by the balance-sheet that the financial position of
the association is very satisfactory, the present balance to
credit being £620 15s Id. The charges for services
during the past year amount to £250 16s, while the
receipts under this head, in 1857, were £67 16s. Your
committee, however, recommend that the present annual
subscription of one guinea be continued for another year,
as it is desirable that a reserve fund should be formed
before any reduction is attempted. The experience of
your committee has confirmed them in the conclusion,
that in most cases of wreck or casualty the prompt and
united action secured by this association, and the practical
ability of the agents whom it employs, tend very materially
to reduce the ultimate loss ; and they believe that, as
the association and its objects become better known, a
similar conviction will become general among the ship-
owners and merchants of Liverpool. The financial
statement showed a balance from 1857 of £373 lOs 7d;
subscriptions and services, £531, 13s 6d; deposits on
wreck account, £2,918 8s id. The credit balance at the
bank, after payment of £1,895 16s 9d and other smaller
expenses, being £1,633 6s 8d; and the nett balance in
favour of the association, £620 15s ld,

The report having been unanimously adopted, the
following gentlemen were named as members of the
committee for 1859 : —Messrs.W. T. Jacob. Thos. Gair

T. M. Blythe, P. H. Rathbonc, W. M. Moss, J. Campbell,
Alfred Holt, J. Palmer Palmer, Geo. Kendall, H. G.
Sutton, P. G. Heyworth, W. H. Jones ; also the following
as members ex-officio, viz., the Chairmen of the Liverpool
Chamber of Commerce, the Liverpool Underwriters'
Association, the Liverpool Brokers' Association, and the
agent in Liverpool for the New York Underwriters.
Votes of thanks were then passed to the committee for
their attention to the business of the Association during
the past year, and to the secretary, Mr.W.W. Rundell.

STANLEY DOCK IRREGULARITIES

TO THE EDITOR, OF THE NORTHERN TIMES

Sir,—ln answer to a statement inserted in your
respectable journal, dated 27th December, 1858,
by a person stylino. himself " W. H. Parkinson,
Foreman Stanley Dock, South Side," calling me a
slanderer, and accusing us of " sly malicious prac-
tices." Sir, my statement put forth was, " extort-
ing money from unskilled men, by the up-stairs
foreman, ,at the sampling desk." I met the
superintendent on the sth December. I asked
him if he had looked or enquired into
the substance of my letter. He said, was
he going to look over four or five hundred men ?
I said no; only inquire of the day-men up stairs.
If the gentleman had only inquired of ten or
twenty of the men, he would have found the facts
to be correct, only for fear of losing their employ-
ment ; it is well known what the result would be
if they did tell the truth. Now, Mr. Parkinson,
did you not raffle a pair of razors of your own,
and also denied before the snperintendant that you
did ? If you would be so kind as to give the mens'
names—l dare say you can produce a list of them—
for watches and albert chains and other trumpery
that was raffled, and no working man in dock
could ever win any of these articles. It was some
fictitious name that always won. If the clerk's
that attended at these raffles will produce the list,
it will sale a deal of trouble, as I don't wish to
injure working men. If I would mention their
names they would get no more employment. Sir,
with respect of my non-attendance, I wrote on the
Bth of December to the chairman of the Dock
Trust, and I received no answer from them when to
attend. I took it out of the superintendant's hands
altogether. When Mr. George Lloyd and W. H.
Parkinson came to me on the Exchange, I was
employed at the time. They said Mr. Turner
wanted me. I asked what Mr. Turner, and they
would not tell me. I told them that I had left it
in the Dock Trust's hands, and that I would
attend any time they thought proper. I have lost
nine weeks in vindicating any charges against me.
I am only a working man, and I cannot afford to
lose all my time. If their time is paid to them,
mine is not, unless I am working.
In conclusion, in addition to what I mentioned
about a bale of cotton, I further state that I was
at the making of three more, and I can produce
the two men that assisted me. And, sir, lam
prepared to meet the Dock Trust to substantiate
what I have stated.—Yours, &c.,

EDWARD CORLESS, Operative Porter

N.B.—lf the gentleman wishes to give an an-
swer, my address is No. 5, Whittley-street,
Liverpool.

PARKHILL ROAD.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES,

Sir,—l am glad to see from your editions of
yesterday and to-day's date, that the inhabitants
of the above neighbourhood are at last giving
publicity to the shameful state of this road.
Although not a resident, I have occasionlly
to go along it, and it is with fear and dread
that I do so, for not only is the road cut up in
puddles and pools of water, but it is inefficiently
lighted. I trust that, if the authorities do not take
some measures to repair the evil complained
of, the ratepayers may take mere stringent
measures, so that in future I hope my shoerbfaek
will not have to complain so bitterly of my
Liverpool, January 5,1859. DIRTY BOOTS.