Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-08 00:00:00

LOSS OF THE EMIGRANT SHIP ST. CLAIR.

This ship, bound to Quebec, has been totally lost, In
lat. 50.30 N., long• about 19 W., and her passengers, 200
in number, narrowly escaped foundering in her. The St.
Clair was nearly 1,000 tons burthen, and sailed from
Traleo on the 12th of last month, in ballast and with a
small cargo of salt, for Quebec. On the 18th the barque
Grace and Jane, of Sunderland, from New York to Rot-
terdam, came up with the St. Clair, in the latitude above
given, in a sinking state, having a few days previously
sprung a leak. Captain Horan, of the bargee,. who
boarded the St. Clair, gives a painful description of the
deplorable condition in which he found the vessel when he
fell in with her, and narrates the efforts made to save her,
until it was finally determined to abandon the ship. The
crew had been pumping for four days and nights, but the
water still gained upon them, and when the vessel was
left to her fate she had from ten to twelve feet of water in
her hold. It. was with great difficulty that the crew an I
passengers, 250 in number, were got on board the barque;
the decks were crowded, and there were no means of
accommodation, nor any food but bread and water, save,
occasionally, a little tea and sugar. The discomforts of
the passengers in this wretched condition were extreme.
The barque at length succeeded in making Qeeenstown
in safety. The St. Clair was reported to be fully insured.

THE DUBLIN' MAYORALTY FOR 1858.—The Corporation
meets to-day, anti amongst the duties to be performed will
be the selection of a chief magistrate for the year 1858,
when Alderman Campbell will be unanimously placed in
the distinguished position of Lord Mayor Elect, for his
native city.—Dublin Freeman.
A CHAPTER OF ACClDENTS.—Carrickfergus on Tuesday
was the scene of a cbap'er of accidents. A fisherman
called Irvine, in an attempt to break another man's head
broke his own arm. He was quito alarmed at the con.e-
quences of his proceeding, and cried out loudly for some
one to get him a car, and have him conveyed to the
Larne Workhouse. On the same day a worn in, named
iVl'Quade, in an encounter with another woman, broke
tha arm of her oponent. A child two years old, had
swallowed a thimble, and is reported in a dangerous con-
dition ; another child swallowed a large marble; and a
third fell from a height and broke his back.—Northern
Whig.
AN OLD THOUGHT IN A YOUNG FORM.—A. little Swed-
ish girl, while walking with her father on a starry night,
absorbed in contemplation of the skies, being asked what
the was thinking, replied, I was thinking if the wrong
side of heaven is so glorious. what must the right side be ?"
To BOROUGH VOTERS.—Electors for cities and boroughs
are reminded that all poor-rates and assessed taxes, due
from them before the 5h of April last. must be paid on
or before the 20th July, or their names will be omitted
from the lists of the present year. Overseers and
collectors are not required by law to make a demand for
! their rates and taxes, in order to obviate the disfranchise-
ment of electors; the:efore s'mple non-payment dis.
qualifies. It is of the greatest importarce that all £lO
electors should see that all such rates and taxes are duly
paid before the 20th july.
PRESTON QUART SESSIONS, SATURDAY.—LORD V.
KERSIIAW.—This was an appeal against an order in bas-
tards*, made by the magistrates at Bacttp, in April last,
against John Lard, fur payment of 2s. a week in respect
of Martha Kershaw's child. Mr. Blair, instructed by Mr.
Par,imgton, of Rochdale, was counsel for Lord, the appel-
lant; and Mr. Whigham, instructed by Messrs. A. G. and
W. M. Eastwood, of Bacup, was counsel fir the rno'ber.
Toe case occupied the court five hours, and caused con-
siderable merriment. A request was made to the bench to
view the body of the child. The child was accordingly
produced, and it was suggested that the child had a marked
and unmistakeable resemblance to Lord in its nose and
upper lip, in which particulars Lord's father also had the
stale peculiarity. Eight witnesses were called and ex-
amined on behalf of the mother, and five on behalf of the
putative father.—The Court, without fully hearing Mr.
Whigharn in reply, confirmed the order in the court below,
with all costs, thus adjudging Lord to be the father of the
child.

ATTE►fPTED RAPE BY A POLICEMAN.—At the Midd;vex
Sessions, on Monday, Walter Spencer, a constable of the S
division, was indicted for unlawfully assaulting Frances
Elizabeth Hill, with intent, &c. Tue prosecutrix was
servaut at the house of Mr. Claxton, chronometer-maker,
Cornwall-road, Upper Holloway, and she stated that on
the right of the 16th of June, she had been to fasten up a
house, and get some matches, and was returning to her
master's about a quarter to eleven o'clock, across a plot of
freehold ground, on which Cornwall-road is situated, when
she was accosted by the defendant, who was the constable on
the beat. He placed his arm round her waist, and, notwith-
standing her strug::-les, threw her down on the grass, and
then committed the offence he was now charged with. She
got away from him, and went home and informed her
master of what had occurred, and he caused the defendant
to be apprehended by the clnstable 611 the next beat. She
had never spoken to the defendant before. Mt. Claxton
and two constables gave evidence. The jury found the
defendant guilty on the second and third counts of the
indictment, and he was sentenced to eight months' hard
labour.

UNFORTUNATE AND FATAL ACCIDENT TO A LADY.—An
inquest was held on Monday, at the Manchester Infirmary,
before Mr. Herford, on the body of Elizabeth Sane Labrey,
wife of a salesman residing in Green-street, Ardwick, who
died on Saturday from injuries sustained on Tuesday, under
the following circumstances :—Deceased was standing on
a counter in the shop of Mr. Leigh, hat-manufacturer,
Market-street, waiting to see the Queen pass, and was
talking to Ellen Cooper, her nurse, when she fell and her
head came against the other counter in the shop. She was
immediately taken up insensible and laid on a sofa, and a
surgeon sent for, but it was an hoar before one could by
obtained. It was found on examination that the teeth of
the comb in her hair had gone into her head, and blood
flowed profusely. After the surgeon came, deceased was
removed to the infirmary, and though the wounds did not
at first appear serious, she afterwards began to suffer
from concussion of the brain, which terminated fatally
on Saturday. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental
death."

A BURGLAIDOIIB Do(}.—On Monday, at the Wakefield
Petty S-ssione, a most notorious offender, named Simeon
Kershaw, who, according to the statement of the Chief-
constable, had been committed 33 times, and passed ten
years of his lire in prison (his last term of imprisonment
being eighteen months, for a murderous assault upon a
gamekeeper), was brought up under the following peculiar
circumstances :—About twenty minutes to four o'clock,
yesterday morning, a greyhound dog belonging to the pri-
soner was seen, by a man named John Wain, to enter the
fowl-house of George Wass, at the bottom of Kirkgate,
and presently come out witlia fowl in his mouth. When
near the goods warehouse of the Aire and Calder Canal
Company, Wain saw the prisoner go up to the dog and
take the fowl from it. Wain traced both Kershaw and
his dog to the house of the former, which they both entered.
Re then- informed the police, who went to Kershaw's
house, and apprelepnded the prisoner. It was stated that
the dog (produce in court) was educated by Kershaw to
become a practised thief. :Kershaw was committed for
trial, and the dog was ordered in the meantime to be kept
in the custody of the police.
THE SCHOOL AND TUN CUPBOARD.--The Rev. G. S.
Osborne communicates the following in answer to a leader
in the Times on the Educational Confererce:—The period
at which village boys will be removed from -the village
school is simply a matter of capbourd. Mother Hubbard,
in her family economy, will only allow Bill to draw
ratiots from her cupboard free up to that period of life at
which he can begin to earn, or to learn how to earn, bread
to put into it. She has each week to count the mouths
which consume against the hands which can produce ; she
will seize the earliest moment to convert a consumer into
a producer. Mrs. 11. will tell the parson or his wife, with
mach truth, " that the boys get soft-like when kept too
long at laming ; the pen and the book be all right for the
poor things, but they hands of Bill's must get a bit hard
afore he can hold plough or handle fork. She don't hold
to keeping children too long in-doors who have to get
their bread in the fields." I confess, sir, I agree with
Mrs. Hubbard. I feel that the necessity laid upon a
labourer's child to earn his own bread at the earliest
moment is one which I cannot contest. -I know that in
order to stand exposure to all kinds of weather—the lot of
out-door labour—it is well for a boy to be early inured to
it. lam quite convinced be will be no happier iu the
particular field of labour which is his destiny for that
amount of schooling, I see so many desirous to give him.
As to the " crime" question, it is not a year or two's more
schooling which will affect that in any appreciable degree.
The poor are more often detected, in crie:e than the rich,
because they are more constanely watched, and the crimes
to which they are tempted are just those easiest to detect.
But this I say in justice to them as a class, compare those
who can reed, write, and sum bitt a little, with those who
have had the grea'est educational privi!eges, and I believe

yon would find that in this our day, before God, the former
are the purest in life, the most honest, the most tempted,
the most loptl,—yes, and the most. Christian. In my poor
opinion we run some risk of making our schools mere
nurseries for young mothers, who never at home saw any-
thing of a mother's real duty. lam quite sure we are
making marriage very easy, the road to single, useful
"service" very difficult. People complain they cannot
get female servants. Do they think years passed in an
educational machine, the cramming the head, and fitting
the hand to nothing but pen, pencil, and needlework, a
promising process for the production of "maids" of any
work where, whore has common sense fled to