Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1868-09-18 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE VESSEL BURNT OFF WITHERNSEA.—We learn that the vessel burnt off Withernsea, on Wednesday, was the hr g Baltic, of Whitby, Captain Welburn. AS we ventured to hope, the captain and crew were picked up by one of the vessels seen hovering near, and they were landed at Hull, and have gone to Whitby. The Baltic was bound horn Holland to Newcastle with hay end wool At about five o'clock on Tuesday evening Captain Welburn discovered his ship to be on fire, and efforts were made to subdue it, but without effect. Finding the ship doomed, the captain and crew took to ! the boat, and about one o'clock on Wednesday were p eked up by the Swedish ship Gevalia, Captain Ekhohn, bound from Gefle to Hull, and brought into Hull. Captain Ekholm also saved the boat The captain and crew of the Baltic were unable to account for the origin of the fire.. AUSTRALIAN MEAT FOR THE ENGLISH Meeexr.—Experirnents in the preservation of meat still excite public interest. From- New South Wales we learn that an attempt is about to be made by Mr Mort in conveying a cargo of meat, froz-n by his process, from Sydney to England. The process has been fir a long time before the public, and the practical test of it will be watched with interest by all concerned in what is now one of the most important coestions of the day. An instance of the success of the process car-id on by the Victoria Meat Preserving Company, under the management of Mr R. M'Cracken. has recently been brought under notice. Two legs of mutton cured by their procesa were hung in the rigging of the brig Greyhound, and remained there six weeks, while the vessel made a trip from this port to Hobart Town and hack. The Victoria Comp my supply meat cured in this way at a cheaper price than salt beef, end it will no doubt come into extensive use among the shipping The Mellnurne Meat Preserving Company still carry on their operations, under the management of Mr Ritch e; and in the preparation of tinned meat, to , which they limit themselves, they will inevitably take H leading position among colonial preservers of meat for . the home market. A gratifying piece of testimony to , the suceese of Mr Ritchie's process was afforded by Messrs Wilkie, Welch, and Co., in a letter to this jeurnal a few dais ago, stating that a most eatisfactory trial had been noide by Mr Welch, in London, of some Auatralian roast mutton cured by Mr Ritchie before his connection with the company. Mr D Medlock's process of coring joints of meat by dipping them in liesulphtte of lime was put to a public trial the other day at the Governor Arthur Hotel, Little Bourke. street, where a number of gentlemen dined off roast and boiled legs of mutton, and roast and boiled beef, which had been sulj-cted to the process about three weeks before. The meat was served up hot, and proved to he ell to repel to fresh cuts, the gravy being retained Mr Medlock's process is expected to prove very useful far families and shipping. He is, however, like almost all the numerous pi•ejectors of schemes for meat preservation—ambitious to get at the home irket. and a shipment of meat pre- (treed by his pro revs was sent to England by the Lincolnshire on her ,set trip The result of the experiment cannot be known for some time to come, but should it prove succeeaful, a cheap way will have been found of solving the problem witch ha- engaged so many ingenious minds among us. —Melbourne Age, July 18.  DISCOVERY OF ANOTHER PLANET —Dr. Petals, of the observatory connected with Hamilton College, New York, announces that he has discovered a new planet of the group of asteroids, equal to a star of the eleventh magnitude. It is in the cone ellation Pisces, and on the 24th of Ample', 3 a m., 18 degrees 38 seconds right ascension, and 19 degrees 54 seconds decl nation, moving slowly to the east.  A very shocking murder is reported from Arbroath. in the north of Scotland. A. fisherman, named William Cargill. who is said to be of drunken habits, taok a little girl, five years of age, his niece, into his house, and brutally beat out her brains with a poker. He was seen in the act of committing the crime. It does not appear to be known why he did it, thou.th it is supposed to have been connected with a quarrel he had had with the parents of the child. He was at once taken into custody.