Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-03 00:00:00

THE LATE FEARFUL GALE.

The fall extent cf the garage infVetel on the shipping on the
'eastern coast by the is to f arid ga'e is only just coming to light. • At
Eacton, on the Norfolk Linn., a brig was wrecked and the crew were
drowned. At Mundeeley, a bark, name unknown, was also lost, and
the crew of ten men were drowned, one dying soon after he had
succezded in reaching the shore. The schooner Mary Ann, Kirk
master, came into collision with the schooner Brothers, off Lowestoft,
and the I Ater vessel sank. Tly: brig Premium, Bennett master, of
Sunderland, from Seatt_an for Nieudied, sus'ained immense injuries
in her sag., mats, &c , and st oao time the vessel lay helpless in the
trough of the sea, so that it was expo ted she woald become a total
wreck ; was fortunately assisted, however, into Lowes-
toft hartour. The Lord Farcham sank in 1 owestoft North
Roads; and the Fre !erick, of Sunderland, foundered off Corton ; the
crews were saved, and have been forwarded to their homes by the
Shipwrecked Mariners' Society.

ATTEMPTED MURDER IN THE SUNDERLAND

ROADS.

On Friday aflernoon, the bark John U. Brookman, of and for New
York, left Sunderland with a cargo of coals. an gaining the roads,
the captain left the vessel in charge of th.. North Sea Plot, 'until ha
returned to the shore and engared two able seamen, and a young
man named Paer Mitchell, to make np his complement. With theso
ho returned to the vessel in a pilot boat, but the pilots efnied to put
either the captain or the crew on board until they received their
" fey." The captain paid tAm, but was in a towering plssion•
About a quarter of an hour after he was pat on ho I'l, one of the
men newly shipped, olPerced t. his messmatea that the vessel was
not tally mann d , and he and oth, rs went to the ca,etain and lodged
a complaint to that effect. The captain w,,is then lens', and would not
hear them, but as sours as he left th- c ,bin he took np 'an axe and
rushed to,vards Alexander Irving, the spokesman, and asked him,
with an oath, whether ha still complaine I of the barque bed ig shot t
handed? Iry ng did not reply, and tae captain, almiag a furl°, a
blow at hislead with the axe, struck h'm to the deck, the first mate
folio ing his suit by at iking the man with the I.elaying pv.
Another man was then struck by the second mate, and as the
captain rushed at a third Mitchell), the latter, though unable
1
is swim, jumps I eve board, end was picked up by a pilot
the boat. The pilot became alarmed, and hailed the pilot boat
to come back. His color was obeyed, and the pilot droi:-
ped over the siren into the boat. The ship then weighed
anchor, and sailed from the roads. Ih3 pilots, :on landing brought
Pater Mitchell to the police station, where he gave a detailed account
,of the whole aff-dr, and the aWkoritles are now on the look-out fur the
, captain, whole passage, it Is lived, may be i tercepted. The batch
have taken the depositions of Mitchell and the pilot, and have
re,olynl to transmit the sum to Lo d Clarendon, with a request that
the ship may be stodpel if possible, or that he *di take suck
other m.a ures as he may think best to bring the offender to justice.

THE DUBE OF NEWCASTLE AND A LUNATIC

AS YLUM.

The ceremonial,of laying the corner stone of a new Lu
natic Asylum on the Coppice Hill, near Nottingham, was
performed on Friday by the Duke of Newcastle in the pre-
sence of a vast concourse of spectators, amongst whom
were the Nike of Newcastle, Lord Belper, Viscount and
Viscountess Newark, Lady Pe4am Clinton, Mr. Paget,
M.P., the Mayor and Corp 3ration of Nottingham, &e. The
Duke of Newcastle,' in laying the first stone,
delivered a long speech on the treatment of
the insane, and in conclusion he said:—This
ceremony began with the singing of a hymn by a class of
persons who are deeply afflicted by the Almighty—
the pupils of the Blind Asylum. I have before now had
to plead their cause; I have stated what I then felt—
how truly they deserve every assistance and kindness
from those who have the privilege to enj )3T the blessing of
sight. But that class of individuals, deeply as they are
afffeted, have, nevertheless, a great compensation, awl
very frequently their other faculties are in them greatly
sh proportion as their sense of sight is lost.
How different, then, are the circumstances of those who
are to be the inmates of this asylum, how small, in this
world, at any rate, is their compensation. Th2eply as I
sympathise with the blind, the deaf, and the dumb, their
case is not to be compared with those who are deprived of
the blessing of reason, who, though possessed of immortal
souls, are nevertheless in this world reduced to the level
of the beasts, and deprived of that Divine essence which
distirguishes man from the other animals of the creation.
Ladies and gentlemen, I think a class like this does de-
serve our earnest sympathy and our warmest support in
every way in which we can affArd it to them. I feel satis-
fied you will all leave this ground to-day determined that
this institution shall be supported in future by the county
and town of Nottingham in such a way at shall conduce
to the satisfaction of your own approving consciences, to
the honour and credit of this great county, and to the
relief of the unfortunate inmates,as well gs to the comfort
and consolotion of their relatives and friends, who are
hardly to be less commiserated than the patients them-
selves. (Hear, hear.) I will conclude simply with the
words which I uttered when declaring this stone to be
laid—" May God Almighty bless the undertaking com-
menced this do." (Loud cheers )

OFFICIAL APPOINTEIENTS.--SEMnel Leon ird Talley, Egq •
has bees appointed Secretary, and Charles Fiahsr, Esq.,
Attorney-General, for the province of New Brunswichr.
iscph Shervingrov, Esq., has been app iinted rreasurer,
and William Quin, Esq., Alcounfant, for the Treasury
Department, Weill of Antigua Julys C , has
been appointed a District Magistrate for the island of
Mauritius.
`,'RUSSIA AND THE SCA7'!DINAVIAN IDICA.—A. letter from
Stockholm sta'es that M. Nordenskiold, professar at the
University of Helsingfors, in Finland, has betn dismiss d
from his chair, for having, kg a recant solemnity,
delivered a speech in which he defended the Scandinavian
idea—the netoi of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Fun-
land, under the Swedo N irwegi in dynasty. The profess it
has returned to the S Yedis'a u&versity at Lund.
SUDDEN DEATH IN THE STREETS.—At about five o'clock
on Saturday eve ,ing last, an eldeily,famale was obierved
to fall down in Cleveland-scree`, New-road, London. A
surgeon was sent f .r, Who, attempted to b!eed her, but
Without success. The surgeon having pronounced the
pooroman to be gaits dead, the police obtained a shutter,
and aided by the bystanders, proc;.eded with the•body to
a nighbouriv la olthousl. The officials of the workhouse,
however, refused' to receive the body, on the grouud that
the death had not occurred in th dr prrisi. 'jibe p4ieJ
carried the body to Middlesex Hospital.