Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-12 00:00:00

ERUPTION OF MOUNT VESUVIUS.

A letter from Naples says On Thursday (Oct. 1) we had ona of
the lest eruptions of Vesavati possib'y to be seen. Towards 7at
night, the crata ap;'eared oa E:ae, lo >g Etms suddtnly arose
from it, then the lava gashed forth, on a vo-y broad surface and/ with
very great rapidity, in the direction of the Fosse Dell Faraoae, and in
less than three hours it hal ru.•e over the diet asce that separates
the orator from the. Atri> del Cavallo, the place where sued the
Vesavian Oescrvatary and the famous herm'tage which serves as a
refuge for travellers of allcouutries, for no foreigner comes to Naples
without making the »sec it of Vesuvius. Thanks to the fine moun-
t s'n road th-1 the Government has made, oat aseeads easily in three
hours. All the quays of Naples w•re throfiLed with people admiring
t b:..autlaul eruption."

TH. 2 EQUIN OCTI kr, G kLES.-D RE LDFUL

WRECKS.

Oa Fr:city morning, a ship w is seer on the east end of the Goodwin
Sands. Boattn,n ware seat of iron Daal aid other places, and on
retching near the wreck it was fnund to be a ttio American ship.
named the A. B. Kimbal, of Portland, in the United States. She
was ballad to New Y irk with a general cargo from Sunderland, and
she is reported to have gone on the sands late on the previous night.
The cr.w are stazed to have beau saved. The ship is a wreck, and
her loss will be considerable. So tremendous was Ills sea runrOng in
the Channel that the mall steamers were unable to le Ave.
On tho south side of the Lie of Wight, the Portagaese barqae
Temerarla, Captain_ Maceido, bound tc. Oporto from the Tyne, WAS
driven ashore on Thursday 111 during the height of the gale
The ship InrnediaVy la,gal to break...up, aid her comtnauder, chief
mate, and oae of the seamen were, drowned. She was laden with
coals. Abo it the same time another foreign vessel was lost at the
back of the island. The ili-fated, ship was the Spanish brig Nuesah
Senora d l 4.)arunm, oaa voyage from Bilbas, to Norway. She could
not we ither the gale, and was driven ashore near Darnsey, but the
ere., saved them elves.

Lower down the channel the gab if pos3lble raga more severely,

In the v:cinlty of Lyme, to, the westward of Portland, several small
vessels were wrecked. The Glory, belong' t) Plymouth, was driven
from her moorings and, fonnlered. The Emu, of Jersey, and James
and Charlotte, weze, wrecked near the northern wall of the
harbour. Anther small vessel, the Little Stm, of auernsey, parted,
went on Lucas Ledge, and then ashore. The crews were all saved.

1111 accounts from the Cornish coast speak of the gale having
reach,d the force of al.no.t a hurricane. M any ca,ualties are reported,
uut It is feared that the full extent of tht mischief is yet to be learned.
A fatal loss is rap srted to have ozz.urred in Carmarthen Bay on
Wednesday evening. During a heavy equal, a French veszel, loaded,
with three red sails, drove from her alchorale near Hooper Lasd and
foundered, the whole of her cre going down with her.

THE MURDER NEAR NOTTINGIUM,

APPREaRNSEON OF A MAN AT DONCASTER

On Friday, a man named John Roger., 43 years of age, was
apprehended at Donee ter, on suspicion of having murdered the boy,
.Ic,ion Wesley Atkinson, in nottingham Forest, and stolen the boy's
boots. The i risoner was remanded to Not. iiighom for examination.
It will be remembered that Atkinson, a child of eight years ol', was
indncedby a stranger, who offered him ten shillings to go with him
two miles to show him some place, and was found dead under a
hedge, evident'y from strangulation or suffocation, and his boots
gone. Tae body was found on Friday oveaing, the 13th alt., after
tlc boy hod been miising twenty-four hours ; arid at the inquest it
was statod by the medical Mall, that the child's finger had been
bitten by some man, who had lost (very other tooth in one j.Aw.

OUR WATER SUPPLY.