The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-31 00:00:00

THE LOSS OF THE SHIP CONFEDERATION.

Last evening a meeting of the American captains in this
port, was convened at the Royal Hotel, Dale street, ‘4 for
the purpose of considering measures to be adopted regard-
ing the loss of the ship Confederation, and the melancholy
fate of Captain Corning, and those who remained on board
with him." There was a large attendance. Mr. Haw-
thorne, the American Consul at this port, was unanimously
called upon to preside. In taking the chair, he
said that they were met together to perform a
mournful duty in a calamity that has lately arisen, by which
their country had been deprived of a good inn, and many
of them of aa associate, for he had no doubt that Captain
Corning was well known and esteemed by most of them,
and it was to pay a tribute of respect to his memory that
they were then mut. Having paid a high tribute of respect
to the memory of Captain Corning as an American captain
and as a private gentleman, who had nobly done his duty
by standing to his ship :o the last, thereby setting a noble
example, and expressing the deep regret all must feel for the
widow, who was his companion on the voyage, and had
only left him about an hour before the ship went down, he
called upon the meeting to move any resolution they might be
prepared with. After a brief consultation, Capt. E. J. Crocker
moved the adoption of a series of resolutions, expressive of
the deep regret they felt at the melancholy catastrophe,
which were unanimously adopted, and it was decided that
they should be advertised in all the Liverpool newspapers.
There being no other business to transact, the chairman
declared the meeting disolved.

FRANCE AND THE WAR WITH PERSIA.—We should like
to learn the opinion of France respecting this Persian
quarrel. The Emperor, in his reply the other day to the
Ambassador of the Shah, was pointedly reserved, and did
not deem it prudent to treat the oriental so unceremoniously
as he did the Swiss Helvetic Confederation. it may be
that, at this critical juncture, the visit of the Persian
Ambassador is merely one of form, but we suspect there is
more in it than meets the eye, and that the flattering; mes-
sage sent by the Shah to Louis Napoleon and his family,
and the presents of rich Cashmere shawls to the ladies of the
Court, conceal an intrigue that has yet to be developed.
Will our ally of France permit us to fight out this quarrel
alone ? and may not the private encouragement given to
the Shah be the very cause of his exhibiting that courage
which now appears rather remarkable?
THE UNEMPLOTED ARTIZANS. —Various bodies of the
unemployed artizans of London, paraded the streets there,
on Thursday, in order to excite sympathy, the view of
obtaining subscriptions to alleviate-their present distressed
condition. Each party consisted of from fifteen to twenty
individuals, and most of them bore the appearance of being
respectable, hard working men. One member of each
assemblage carried a placard, written in large characters,
which sEt forth that they were most anxious to obtain
employment, but were unable to do so, and calling upon
any person who required work performed in any branches
of their trade, to select the hands from that assemblage. At
the top of the pole upon which the placard was borne, a
trowel and other emblems symbolical of the trades the
party represented, were carried. Mach sympathy was
expressed by the public generally, that so large a body of
the industrial classes should, in consequence of the exigen-
cies 'of the times, be compelled to wander the streets as
beggars, when they wei e perfectly able and ready to work
They were allowed to walk through the streets without
molestation from the police, and all their proceedings were
conducted with the greatest decorum and good order.
Notwithstanding there were upwards of 35,000 artizans
connected with the building trades out of employ last week,
that number, we regret to state, has been nearly doubled
during the last few days, owing to the heavy frost having
stopped all out door operations.
VICTIMS OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY.--A correspondent,
commenting on the several cases of mistaken identity wh'ich
have recently been brought before the notice of the prAblic,
thus concludes :—" In all these eases the unhappy 'Victims
have hitherto had to depend upon the precarious er,eport of
public charity. Is it asking too much of some 'influential
member of the House of Commons to introduce, a short bill
into parliament in the ensuing session, enacti•eg that when-
ever such a legal accident shall occur in fur ure, the victim
of it shell be publicly and honourably acqr;itted in the same
court where he may have been sentenced. and that an annual
stipend shall be paid him from the public purse for the
remainder of his days, to salve over the wounds which
public injustice has inflicted, on hit, and which tardy justice
can never heal P"