Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-18 00:00:00

LIST OF PRIZES

DIVINITY ESSAY.-Ist class, H. Wart.; 2nd elms, l
Beckett ; 2, Pick.
HISTORICAL ESSAY.-Ist class, D. Lewis._ _ _

PRIZiES FOR HOLIDAY WORK.-Ist class. H. Warr ; 2nd
class, Hamilton ; 3rd class, H. Dagnid ; 4th class,
Lidderdale; s:h class, J. Spence ; 6th class, J. Ware.
CLASSICS —lst class, D. Lewis ; 2ad class, E. Duguid ;
3rd class, Barker ; 4th class, Allbutt, sth class, Orriss—
Lidderdale,* Stubbs,* Bark.*
MATHEMATICS.-15t class, Crabtee ; 2nd class, V.
Smith ; 3rd class, Barker ; 4:11 class, Webb ; sth class,
Irvine—Pick,* Armstrong,* J. Pemberton.*
FaEsca. —lst class, Maciver , 2ad class, S. Kerr ; 3rd
class, Foster; 4th class, Alexander : sth class, Arm.
strong—H. Warr. * Nugent,* Lid.!erdale,* Mulvany,* G.
Wa• r,* Pierce,* W. Evans *
GERmAN.—lst class, Lidderdale ; 2nd class, E. Bent;
3rd class, Allbutt—lEaclver,* H. Warr,* T. Casson,*
B lundell.*

IMPROVEMENT IN WRITING.—W. Watson—Lumb,* A
Warr,* Claus,* Stubbs *
DIVINITY PRlzEs,—Lown ScHoOL.—lst class, Lidder-
dale ; 2nd class, Webb.

DRAWING.
OIL PAINTING.—Phipps.
WATER COLOURS.-1, Maples; 2, Troughton.
SEPIA.-1, blacker ; 2, -Beholfield.
PENCIL, PEN AND INK. H. Duguid.
OUTLINE —Mackinlay.
IMPROVEMENT.—Tobin—lrvine*, C asson* , Ashcroft..
'Boys whose names are mentioned with praise ; the
prizes for drawing are the gift of Elias Arnaud, Esq.,
president. The drawings of Mr. W. L. Kerry's pupils
may be seen during the three next days in the Gallery of
Arts of the Royal Institution.

The decrease shewn in the weekly traffic returns of the
London and North Western Railway is £5,708, and in
that of the Great Northern £2,285.

WRECK OF THE FLYING CLOUD.

TERRIBLE .€CENES AND SUFFERINGS - HER CAPTAIN roun

FROZEN IN THE RIGGING -HER CREW LYING DEAD ON

THE BEACH- ONLY TWO SAVED.

Peon] the cue survising sailor of the ill-fated schooner
Flying Cloud, on Lake Michigan, the following thrilling
particulars of her loss are learned:—The Flying Cloud
left Chicago, for Cleveland, with a cargo of 10 000
bushels of wheat. She had proceeded dawn the lake
some fifty miles, with a fair wind, and was near Racine
whea she encountered a violent gale, accompanied with
anew, her sails split, and small boat swept away, and she
was rendered completely unmanageable. Suddenly the
wind changed to the northwest, and the vessel was
headed for Chicago. The weather was intensely cold, and
the tea made clean breaches over the vessel. She was
driven at the mercy of the waves hack toward the head of
the lake diming the night of Wednesday. About ten
o'clock on Thursday a blinding snow storm set in, and
about two o'clock in the afrerneon, the rust bitter cold
day of the season, she struck en the rocks at a place
called Grand Calumet, a wild bleak coast, covered with
snow, and no friendly hands to render nssistance. The
catitain and crew immediately took to the rigging, where
they remained all day, and at night came down and spent
the night on the quart-r deck, lashed to she so nee In the
morning two of the men were, found dead, and the captain
scarcely able to articulate. '1
be whole of the crew were
already nearly frozen and unable to swim. They
eensisted of nine eersens, mostly belonging to Cleveland,
viz :—Alexander Sherveced, captain ; George Gordon, Ist
mate; Paul Stedd, ?ad mate ; John Flanders, steward,
(shipped in this city from barque Morgan,) and J. Small,
Geo. Grimley, Watt Bain, Francis Fox, and Henry
Coleman, crew. The captain, eteward, John Small, and
Geo. Grimley were soon so badly frozen that they were
unable to move. The captain wanted to jump overheard,
but was prevented by the others, as tee would have
drowned immediately. though he was only to die by the
more lingering death of freezing. Ab In 9 a.m. the mate,
Geo. Gordon, jumped overboard and swain ashore. On
reaching it he perceived two men dragging a boat down
the beach to their shanty at the mouth of the river. He
was subsequently found within twelvy rods of the shanty,
having mistaken the path, cold and lifeless. A sailor by
the name of Bain followed the mate overheard, but fell
within six ro Is of the vessel, where his body was
afterwards found. Both froze to death, and are now ore
the beach dead. Another seaman, by the name of
Franklin Fox, was the next to jump over, and was
fortunately met by the men with the boat, who directed
him to their shanty, a mile and a half from the creek,
while they laboured to rescue the others. They sumeded
in saving a toy by the name of Horny Coleman, but on
taking on anode r, the boat was swamped and broken to
pieces, and the unfortunate man was drowned. The
captain was se chilled as to be unable to stand, and could
not avail himself of the efforts to rescue him. Fox was
badly frozen and crippled, was without any clothes, and
after being supplied by some shingle makers, went to
stetioa on the Michigan Southern Railroad, three
miles distant from the wreck, and came to Chicago. The
bay Coleman managed to get ashore alive, and remained
at The shanty near the wreck, badly frozen. Oa the arrival
of Fox at Chicago, a subscription was set err foot, and a
handsome sum collected. Mr. J. B irney end William
Ilea iminedi itely proceeded to the scene of disaster, and
found the vessel broken in two, with the captain and two
others enveloped in their icy shrouds, in the position in
which death overt:oh them, npon her deers ; but having no
boat they were unable to tele, off their bodies. The bodies
of the mate and Bain were found lyiog where they fell.
Ciptain Ilea and Mr. Barney returned from ;he wreck to
Chicago on Tuesday, with ihree of the bodiea—that of the
ma'e, George Gordon, and W: tt Bain, and George
Grimley, seamen. Bain sad Grimley belonging to Cleve-
land, and Gordon to Port Huron. The bodies were
terribly frozen and distorted, showing the intense agony
the victims must have suffered ere death released them.
The bodies of the captain, cook and boy are still on board.
and can be plainly seen from the beach. It was impossible
to get them off cu Tuesday, the sea running mountains
high, bat they will probably be brought off soon. The
Coroner of the Lake c iunty, Indiana, bell the inues:s on
the bodies brought to the city, and they will be buried by
subscription of members of the Board of Trade. The hody
of the captain, when recovered, will be taken to Cleveland.
The captain leaves a wife and child, and George Grimley
a wife. The rest are unmarried. The Fiying Cloud was
owned by Barney, Corning and Co., of Cleveland, end
was insured for 6,000 dole. in the Cleveland Commercial
utual.

PRIVATE LETTER FROM INDts.—Grtiigna2ti publishe
some private letters from India. An officer writes from.
Nusseerabad :—" Tile state of the country is wonderfully
quiet ; the villagers come and offer food and rations
willingly, and they have themselves come forward and
offered to bring in their tribute. The are cate enough to
see the difference between the bloodthirsty Sapp who
attacked their defenceless towns, sparing nothing and no
one, and an orderly army—no plundering, beraing, nor
devastation, everything paid for that is brought into our
camp, themselves treated with civility, and their wiva3 not
even looked at. No, no, their sympathies (those of the
Hindoo districts particularly who were in several instances
very kind to fugitives) are with us, au I in furnishing sup-
plies they have been of great use."
FATAL CoAL PIT ACCMENT AT BITLEY.—An adjourned
inquest was held on Monday afternoon,!by Mr. Jewison, at
Batley, near Devvsbnry, on the body of John Gledhill, a
miner, aged 61 years, who died on the s:h instant front
barn arising from a gas explosion in the coalpit of the late
Mr. Mathew Kaye, at Clarke Green Batley. The mine
was descended by the:deceased and his son on the '33rd ult.,
prior to its beirg examined by the underviower. The
bank on which they worked was found. however, to con-
tain inflammable gas. The deceased immediately ordered
his son to retire into the air passage, with his lighted
candle, while he agitated and fanned the gas with a shovel
in order to its dispersion. But is this process the gas was
partially driven out into the air passage, ignited with the
candle and exploded, and the deceased was shockingly
scorched. The evidence showed a f:ightful amount of
gross carelessness and disobedience to the general printed
rules for the safety of miners. The Coroner said that the
evidence amounted to manslaughter, and that this mine
appeared to be conducted (as it was to be feared many
others were) upon a system of false a• .d d tneerous
economy. The jury, however, after an hour's consultation,
returned a verdict of " Accidentally killed by an explceime
of gas imprudently driven upon a naked candle." The
case will, no doubt, come before the magistrates, in order
to enforce suitable penalties for violation of the general
rules.

AMERICAN VIEW OF THE STATE OF TaE INDIAN MUTINY.—
The fuller details of the latest news from India, brought
by the Vanderbi't, confirm the substantial value of the suc-
cesses won by the British before Delhi and Lucknow, and
reinforce the conviction we have already expressed, that
the menacing importance of the Sepoy revolt has bees
thoroughly dissipated. The mutineers, under the
inspiration of their Mahomedan leaders, made this out-
break from the first a contest of rac3 with race. They
challenged the superiority of the rulers to wham, for a
century, they and their fathers had submitted.
Doubtless, many recollections of the Alfghan disasters.
and many vague impressions of the checks inflicted
upon the ever-victorious English in that Great Russian
war, of which vague histories were transmitted to Bengal
along the mysterious channels which penetrate and per-
meate the societies of Lela, mingled in the minds of the
soldiery of India with the instigations of the Oudeatz
aristocracy, upon whom events are more and more dis-
tinctly fastening the chief responsibility of the rebellion.
But, by whatever motives excited, and animated with
whatever hopes, it is certain that the Mutineers of Meerut,
the defenders of Delhi, the assassins of Futtyghur and
Cawnpore, fully counted upon humiliating the " narrow-
eoultd, yellow. faced infidels," upon routing them in the field,
upon disgracing them in defeat. These expectations have
been signally disappointed, and in this disappeintmeat
England has made herself mistress of the position. This
cardinal point has been won, too, more rapidly an I wi h a
less exhausting display of power than was anticipated even
by the most sanguine of English statesmen. That the
English armies in India, however small their numbers,
would be able to hold their own until the arrival of rein-
forcements from home was conceded from the first by all
who possessed any proper intelligence of the relative value
of the opposing parties, and any authentic information of
the general attitude of the country. But the English
armies in India were not content with holding their
own. They assaulted the mutiny in its centre at
Delhi, besieging a garrison of quadruple their owe
strength, and finally taking the city by storm after
a sanguinary contest of nearly a week with a greatly
superior force, in the streets and squares of a hostile capi-
tal, and under a September sun. They repairs 1 the errors
of incompetent commanders along a 'line or nearly nine
hundred miles, aed succeeded in eo balancing the scale of
chances in their favour at an early stage of the disturb-
ances as to command the adhesion of all the native princes
most important to their cause. And, finally, at the expi-
ration of a little more than four mouths from the beginning
of the troubles, they had virtually restored the threatened
supremacy of their race throughout the Peninsula, and
were only awaiting the arrival of the great armatnent
despatched to their assistance to complete the great work
so nobly begun.--eVeie Yorke Times.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-YE 3TERDAY.

LIVERPOOL.

BEFOILE M. DIXOS.

DISHONEST —Thomas Potter, a carter in the employment
Hof Mr. John Davis. cartowner, of Lightbody-street, was
brought up by detective officer Kennedy. on a charge of
having stolen a quantity of property belonging to his
employer. Mr. Bluok defenJed the prisoner, who was
charged more for giving the other men a warning. than for
;he value of toe property. The officer, in searching the
'louse of the prisoner, got a variety of property, and
mongst it a sack belonging to Messrs. Soh der, that had
'leen stolen. The prosecutor, in reply to Mr. Bluck, said
t man was very eobsr and steady, and he was sorry he
was obligel to proceed egsinst him; but done so to
warn others. The prisoner was reman
Ournace--A young woman, named Mary Anne Thomp-
ion, was charged with being concerned in the following
outrage :—Martha Harold, who keeps a to aging house at
45, Peilew-street, said a knock was heard at the door the
previous night, and cn her son opening it, the prison ;r,
with another woman and a man, asked to see her. She
earns to the door, with a candle in her hand, when the
throe persons rushed on her and knocked her down, tore
off her gown, ran off with the citirt, an'i also Si. that she
had in her pocket. She never saw the prisoner before.
The prisoner was followed and caught. The other persons
-got away. The prisoner was sent to jail for one month.
USING A WRSNG CERTIFICATE.—John Connell, a sailor,
was charged by Superintendent Murphy, of the Sailor's
liome, with having used a certifcc e belonging to a sailor
named John Green. Mr. Tpaiall prosecuted for the
Board of Trade. The prisoner went to the Home the

previous day, and produced the certificate of John Green,
representing himself to be that person, but, on being
questioned by Mr. Murphy, he airnitted he was not, and
that he got the certificate in order to procure a ship on it.
He was fined £2O, or in default of payment, throe months'
imprisonment.
ROBBERY BY A SERV,INr.—Eliza Holden and Margaret
Pilkington, were brought up by detective officer Horn, on
a charge of having stolen a gold watch, value £2O. from
Mrs. Dauber, of 17prer Beau-street. The facts of the
case were these :—Some time ago, one of the prisoners
lived as servant with Mrs. Dauber, and on the 1.51 Oct.,
she called to pay a complimentary visit to her former
mistress, about an increase in the family. Soon after she
went away, the gold watch was missed, and, as no other
person could have taken it, of course she was suspected.
On the ltl'h Octcher, both prisoners sold the watch to a
publican named John Woodfall, in Warrington, for £6.
The arrest of the prisoners, on the present charge, took
place in consequence of their being in custody at War-
rington, on another charge. The case being fully proved,
both prisoners were committed for trial.
Tun " SLY AGE IRISH !"—George Huddlestone, a resident
of Thurlow- street, was charged with having bitten the
greater part of the left side of the face off John Kersley,
his father-in-law. The complainant is an old man, and
seemed to have suffered much. His daughter is married to
the prisoner, and from the evidence of the wife, her father,

and other persons, it appeared that the prisoner was in
the habit of ill treating his wife in the most brutal mann-r,
when she could not give him money to procure drink.
They reside tcgethor, and on Wednesday night the prisoner
came home drunk and demanded money from his wife.
She could not supply him, when he commenced beating
her. The father interfered, when the prisoner knocked
him down on a sofa, got his knee on his chest and com-
menced biting him on the jaw, until he nearly tore all the
flesh off it This was proved by several witnesses, and it
appeared the injuries on ti,e old man were serious. In
reply to the charge, the prisoner addressed the Magistrate
and said, " That old blackguard is only a savage Irishman,
and his daughter is just the same—a savage." Alsgis-
trate : Ani what are you.pray? Prisoner : I'm an
Englishman. Magistrate: And you are one of the
• greatest savages I ever heard of; this is a shocking
affair—commit the prisoner for trial. Ho was accordingly
committee.

SEVEN LEAGUE BOOTS.—A fellow, named John Cunning-
ham, was charged with being found in the garden of Mr.

Smith, Davonshire•roud, at half past eleven o'clock on the
previous night, with no good intent. The case being
proved, the prisoner, in reply to what brought him there
at that time of the night, said he was crossing the country
in a direct line, and he walked through gardens and every
where else, independent of any stop by walls or houses:
He walked over the wall of the gar:en (lowest height, six
feet,) with as much facility as if there was no wall at all
there, and he was proceeding on his way %%hen he was
arrested. He was remanded. [Perhaps the seven-league
boots, which he evidently must be po;sosied of,will enable
him to walk out of the gaol ]