The Potteries Examiner : — 1871-07-15 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

THE CHANNEL. NARROW ESCAPES.  About two o'clock O; Tuesday 11101 Ming a colli,ion took place in the Channel, which resulted in the loss of a large steamer end a full rigged ship, and placed in great peril upwards of sixty persona. The ship in question wan the Madagascar, 1,311 tons, Captain Brunswick, belonging to South Shields, M ballast, from London to Quebec. The steamer was the Widgeon, of Cork, Iron Liverpool, with a general cargo and passengers for Rotterdam. At the time of the collision, whioh was shortly after midnight, the Eddystone Light was bearing ÜBE., about eight miles. Bate veseels began to sink immediately after the collislon, and within an hour the steamer had foundered. The Madagascar, however, continued to Boat till nearly tour o'clock. Fortunately, • Plymouth trawler, Uncle Sam, woe passing at the time and got alongside both ships, took off their erews and passengers, and landed them at Plymouth. From the statements of the crews it appears that the steamer Widgeon saw the lighte of the Madagascar half an hour before the secident, but the latter apparently did not see the steamer mita on the point of striking. Both ahipe put helms hard a•port, but it was too late. The Ma& gas°. was ' sailing up Channel with a fair wind and every gait set, g,ing nine miles an hoar. The Widgeon wan eteambag E.S.E. course, against a strong head wnd. about seven miles an hour. The bow of the Madagascar out into the Widgeon midway between the funnel and the wheel, crushing the sailor at the wheel Iso severely that he was taken to the hospital. The stewardess had a narrow escape, the funnelfalling sloe. to her andknooking her beekwardeintothecabin. The ! water rushed into the stokehole, and extinguished I the fires. The steamer's lifeboat being crushed, nine of the crew, four lady passergers, and a German pilot got into another boat, and pulled off : for a trawler boat a mile distant. fietenteen of the I crew got into the remaining boat, a email dingy, and were three hours before they were picked up by the trawler, which then went in search of the other vessel, and found it rapidly sinking. The mew of I the ship, thirtyAhree in number, including nine etowsways, had taken to their five boats, and were all taken on board the trawler. Nothing except life wee saved from either vessel.  the Albatross. The seventh corvette, to be built at Dental°, is the Louise. It will be commenced in a TEREATENING LETTERs.—The assizes in three few days, as soon as the Ariadne is launched. Irish counties were opened on Monday. In King's STREET OUTRAGE IN SUErnEED.—A street County, Chief Juetioe Whiteside oaegratn'ated the outrage was perpetrated in Sheffield on Sunday even, grand jury on the lightness of the calendar, but re. tug. Six people quietly walking home were net upon gretted that fourteen threatening letters had been by a mob of fifty young men, who savagely treated received, some having reference to land, and urged them for about ten minute.. The ruffians tied stones the grand jury to endeavour to put an end to this to the end of their handkerchiefs, and esrung them in practice. Referring to the Westmeath Act, he said the faces of their victims, who were seriously injured. he believed Aired a tranquillising effect, and would in. MEETING OF THE HOME GOYERNWENT ASsOCIA- testers with no well-disposed perma. The writere of TION IN DuREIN.—The Echo's Dublin correspondent threatening notices would be punished by penal eays,—The Home Government Association have just servitude. At Longford, Chief Justice Monahan held their annual meeting in Dublin. Their last said it afforded him very great pleasure to be ablate recruit is the Rev. Samuel Houghton, Professor and state that the condition of the comity had very much Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, whose name is now improved eince he last visit visited it, twelve month linked with that of Prof... Galbraith in the bonds ago. There were only five or six cases, including one of polities an well a Of science your readers murder, which, however, was not agrarian. Threaten. being probably aware that Galbraith and Haughton's Tat EMPERoIt Or Timm, IN A