Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-17 00:00:00

SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT CARDIFF.

About three weeks since notice was given that on and after a
certain date no more vessels would be allowed to enter the East Bute
Dock, as the contractors intended clearing away the embankmen t
between that portion already in use and the extension just completed.
For this purpose the water was turned out of the dock, and the inner
gates of the lock were taken up, not being considered sufficiently
strong to bear the pressure of water upon them, and another pair was
ready to be laid down. The contractors, Messrs. Hemingways marl
Pearson, int on a large number of hands in removing the bank, and
it was thought that the work would have been completed in about a
month, to the satisfaction of all parties. We regret, however, to state
that about one o'clock on Monday afternoon (the water being out) a
large portion of the eastern wall gave way, carrying with it the
foundation, the tramway, and a quantity of iron ore which was along-
side. The wall, for at least 60 or 70 yards, is completely pile,
the angle where the slip occurred projecting some 10 or 15 feet
beyond the level, the stones being separated from each other•
and some of the large blocks of forest stone, about three feet thick,
being completely smashed—some of them into a thousand p eces.
None of the wall has fallen into the dock, but it is feared that another
slip may take place at any moment. The tramway, which was close
to the stonework, has sunk about ten feet, and so simultaneous was
the fall that for a distance of about thirty or forty feet the rails are as
level as they were before, some of the irons, however, were doubled
up as short as one's finger. The cause of all this can now be s..el‘
although it was not before anticipated. A great. quantity of iron ore
Is brought to Cardiff from Whitehaven and other places, and some
6,000 tons have been standing on the bank. A portion of this has
been removed opposite the basin during the past fortnight ; but,
judging from appearances, some 4,000 tons are now remaining on the
bank. The heavy weight on the banks, and the support suddenly
withdrawn by letting out the water, have been the sole can e. The
damage is estimated at between £ll,OOO and 415,000, but it is feared
that if another slip should occur, the whole of the side will have to
be rebuilt. Numbers of men are already employed in removing the
rubbish on the quay.

AN ATLAS GRATIS WITH THE " DISPATCII."—On end after
Sunday, October 4th, 1357, each copy of the Dispatch will he
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so as to furnish to each subscriber, gratis, the most comprehensive,
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newspaper, six maps and two plans, in each year, will be of double
the size-17 inches by 25. The ordinary maps will be correc ly
tinted, the charts will be properly relieved in blue, and the plans
will be printed in a rich colour. The double maps will be the object
of great attention in the' desire to make them beautiful specimens of
map colouring. It is hoped, in the course of no unreasonably pro-
tracted time, that the Dispatch Atlas will contain more names and
positions of places than any other English publication of the kind.
he counties will be given separately, and where they are large and
populous, as in the case of Lancashire, each division of the county
will occupy a pogo; again, the States of Italy will be the stile-
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pounds being devoted to their cost, and they will be taken from
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Friday evening edition may be received in the most distant parts of
the kingdom on Saturday morning.

AN ANTI-MALTtIUSIAN Sow.—During the last eleven
months, a sow, belonging to Mr. Charles Allan, farmer,
Bodachra, has given birth to the extraordinary number of
forty-nine pigs. They were produced at three litters, and,
with a single excedtion or so, were all fine, healthy little
animals.

IMPORTANT FINANCIAL DIALOGUE.—John Bull, looking
across the big pond the other day, raised his voice :
" Hello, Brother Jonathan, how are you ?—how do you
?" Jonathan, looking up, and cocking his hat, cried
out . " Oh, pretty well, I thank you ; I hold my own, I
believe."—" Yes," said John, rather gruffly, " you do
hold your own, and hold mine, too ; you have five
hundred millions of my dollars, and be hanged to you."—
American Paper. _ _ _

In a supplement to the London Gazette, pub'ished on
Tuesday night, despatches are given relative to the opera-
tions at Lucknow and Delhi, and to them are added lists of
the killed and wounded. General Havelock, in one of the
new despatches, tells the story of his junction with the
garrison of Lucknow. His advance to the residency was
through streets of flat-roofed houses, each forming a sepa-
rate fortress. This despatch of General Havelock is dated
from the Lucknow residency, 30th September, and was
received by telegraph from Cawnpore, but by what means
it was conveyed from Lucknow to Cawnpore is not stated.

A LUCKY Youne.—lt having been rumoured that some
gentleman had presented the lad named Turner, who
attends to a book-stall on the Great Western platform at
the Gloucester station, with a cheque for £lOO, a news-
paper correspondent has made inquiry, and is assured that
the statement is perfectly correct. The gentleman, who is
a military man, is said to have been benignly disposed
towards the lad (who is civil and well behaved) in conse-
quence of his exact resemblance to a departed child.—
UsePenitain Examiner.

SMALL PDX PATIENTS IN PRUSSIA.—A curious law
suit is going on just now in Berlin. A rich banker of
that city, who is ill of the stnoll pox, has had two actions
brought against him, one by his barber and the other
by his upholsterer, who claim damages because he com-
municated the malady to them. They demand compensa-
tion for the doctor's expenses and the time they have
lost. According to the Passion law, the banker was
bound to bang up outside his door a notice with the
words : " There is a parson here ill of the small pox."