Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1868-10-09 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE WRECK REGHSCER AND CHART FOR 1867.—1 t appears from the Annual Wreck Register of the British Isles, just published under the auspices of the Board of trade, that 2 513 .hipwrecks, representing a registered tonnage it 464 0,0 tons, took place in the .eas and on the coasts of Great Britain during the past year, with a lose of 1,333 lives, and that, taking the Average of the last nine years, no less than 1,961 shipwrecks have annually occur, ed ou our shores. Of the 2.513 w ecks which took place during the past year, 2 113 are kntiwii to have been those of ships belonging to Great B itain and its colonies, with British certificates of registry, and 338 are known to have been those of foreign ships Of the remaining 62 wrecked vessels the country and employment are unknown. Of the British ships 1.551 were employed in the British coasting trade, and 562 in the (over sea) foreign and home trade. Of the foreign shi, is 17 were employed in the British coasting trade. We have already stated that the number of ships lost or damaged on our coasts during the past year amounted to the distressing total of 2.513; and, nidwiihstanding the attention this great and national subject has received in the last eighteen years, we are grieved to add that this number is 224 in excess of that in 1866 ; and, indeed, the total number (2.513) is larger than any number of shipwrecks on our coasts in one year hitherto published in this country. Of the 2,513 vessels lost or damaged in 1e67 89 were rigged as ships, 141 were steamships, 727 schooners. 429 brigs, 277 barques, 287 brigantines, and 241 smacks. The remainder were small vessels, rigged in various ways. Of the 2.51:1 vessels referred to 1.147 did not exceed 100 tons burden, 261 were from 100 to 300 ions. 286 were from 300 to 600 tons, and 119 only were above 600 tons burden. As we said before, 1.333 lives were lost from these vessels. This is in excess of the number lost in any ye it except 1859 (the Royal Charter year), when the number reached 1 647. The work of the National Lifeboat Institution here stands prominently forward, for it can show a glorious roll of 1,086 lives saved mainly through its instrumentality during the past year. THE ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE AT OLonam.—At the Oldham Police C .urt, on Saturday, James Ireland, a young man, aged about twenty, was charged with attempting to murder a servant girl named Margaret Jackson. Both parties, it wit be remembered. were in the employ of the Rev. T. Ireland, vicar of Werneth, Oldham, the prisoner in the capacity of a cowman, and the female as a domestic servant. Mr Ireland and his family, with the exception of the eldest son, went to Blackpool a fortnight ago, leaving the prisoner and the girl Jackson to perform the wok of the house. Most of their time was taken up in cleaning the rooms, and it was stated to the bench ih it the prisoner was of a lazy and lethargic disposition, so that he girl Jacks o had to push him tin with his work On Friday, the 21st ult., they hid dinner together, and about three o'clock she directed him to be sharp about cleaning some windows. The girl herself was engaged in washing out a closet, and. without any apprehen ion on her part, she suddenly found herself assailed by the prisoner, who struck her a number of heavy blows upon the head wlth a poker. She succeeded in gettii g out of the house, all,l alter screaming for help San assisted into the house of Mr W. Ascrotr, solicitor, where she was taken every care if and on Saturday she was 80 tar recov,red as to appear before the bench in support of a ,hinge • uaii,s[ thr priunuiier. When he occurre cc  -he,-ame _hbown a party. _ll pmeeeded to the vicar liwre touim Ireland. lying in the cellar, with in 111.- Ii mat Arz 0. covered with blood was tool near kin nod in the i•iichen a large knife, also e.,r.• a, hheet was dis•overed, whilst in one -ion- upstairs a poker .tamed with blood wee o . roes. were produced in court, along with the eltsi big v,hiell the girl had on when the attack was made. It appeated to kive been completely saturated with hind, sod its production created great sensation in the crowded court. The medical evidence went to show that the young woman had sustained thirteen wounds about the head, three of them being of a dangerous character. Owing to the weak condition in which they were, both the prosecutrix and the prisoner were accomumdated with seats. The latter appeared very lOtle concerned, and at the close of the ev,dence the officer in charge of the dock stated that he pleaded not guilty. He was committed for trial.  A