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NAVAL AND MILITARY. The European; a>'i> ...
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OUR CIVILIZATION. THE GREAT NORTHERN FRA...
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THE WINTER ASSIZES. The Winter Assizes o...
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Shipwrecks. We Have Several Melancholy C...
and two of their number ( passengers ) died during this terrible interval . On Sunday , their eyes were gladdened by the sight of a friendly sail , which proved to be the Bremen barque Elise , Captain Nordenbolott , on board of which vessel they were immediately taken and made as comfortable as possible . Their limbs were frozen , and altogether they w « re in a terrible condition . " On the next day , in 3 at . 40 deg . 51 rain . N ., long . 65 deg . 40 min ., the Elise spoke the Hamburg "barque Elise , Captain JSTeilson , fcound for New YoTk . The Bremen barque was short of water , and Captain Neilson immediately consented to > give those saved from this boat a passage to New York . They all availed themselves of the offer except two of the passengers , Mr . Scheler and wife , who remained on board the Bremen barque , intending to go to Bremen . The Hamburg barque arrived last evening , having on board fourteen of the ship ' s company of the Lyonnais . "
In the various statements published in the New York papers there is some confusion of dates ; but the correct days of the several occurrences appear to be as above mentioned . Two separate narratives by M . Laguiere , moreover , contain certain discrepancies with reference to the facts of the case—contradictions which are in no way remarkable when we consider the fearful -whirl of events through which the officer had passed . Later intelligence will no doubt arrive to throw further light oft the calamity . The officers on . board the Adriatic state that they saw the lights of the Lyonnais twenty minutes before the accident . The captain of the former vessel , who was on deck at the time , supposed that the Lyonnais stood on
her course ; and he says he was not aware of the injury done to her . Another wreck is tliat of the Ilercus Monte , a Prussian , brig of 226 tons , commanded by Captain . If . W . Rickells , which sailed from the Mersey on the ( 5 th of last Marchj for Pillau and Konigsberg . She was manned with a crew of ten men . Her non-arrival at Pillau led to the belief that she had foundered at sea , and her fat « would never have been correctly known had not the Sandford , Captain Hughes , bound from London to New Zealand , fallen in with a portion of the wreck , and taken therefrom one of the crew , who was thus rescued , almost
at the last moment , from a lingering death . From the statement of this man , Michael Krattiat , it would seem that the circumstances were very similar to those attending the loss of the Lyonnais . The wreck of the Hercus Monte / was caused by a collision in the English Channel . The name of the vessel which ran foul of her was not ascertained , and , like the Adriatic , sh e offered no help , but went on h « r way . Krattiat says that he heard English spoken on board of her . The collision took place on the night of the 1 . 0 th " ' of March . After being rescued and recovered , Krattiat consented to work on board the Sandford ; and he proceeded in her to New Zealand , whence these details have been transmitted .
The steamer Superior has been wrecked on Lake Superior , North America ^ and some fifty lives have beea lost . A tempest was raging , and the vessel was driven , by the sea upon the rocks . In the accounts transmitted from America , we read that , after the catastrophe occurred , Captain Jones / went to the officers of the vessel , and said , " Boys , I want you to stick to the boat as long as there is anything left * of her ; this is the fourth boat I have lost , but I shall not probably lose another . If any of you get ashore , I want you to go and tell my mother that I did all I could to save the boat . " He was one of those drowned . The next morning (^ continues the narrative ) nothing -was visible but the wheels , which , being strongly made and anchored fast by the engine
and heavy machinery , lad not been swept away . Upon these were seen clinging the bodies of seven men , among them the two clerks and the first saloon keeper . As they were but three or four . rods from shore , their cries could be heard distinctly calling to those on shore to come with the boats and save them . But this was impossible , as the surf beating on the rocks would have swamped a good boat almost instantly , and those that were washed ashore -worn almost like the steamer , a wreck . One by one they dropped off into the water until all were gone . The scene is said to have boen painful beyond description , as the survivors were ¦ within speaking distance , yet without the power to
render assistance . Tho saved suffered extremely from cold and hunger , and all of them were more or less bruised . Three days they were weather-bound , and not only this , but rock-bound too , as the bluff at this point lisea nearly three hundred feet , and almost perpendicular , presenting an impassable barrier . At this time , the sea subsided sufficiently for them to roach Grand Island . They patched up the boats and started , going part of the way on land and part on water . Two boys died on tho way from oxposure . The saved were obliged to subsist during this time upon such articlca as chance threw on Bliore—raw vegetables , raisins , and flour .
Accounts liave been received at Lloyd's of tho loss of the ship Regina of London , which took place on the Hirtshall Shoal , in the North Sea , on tho 10 th of November . Tho crew were driven about at sea during three daya in a small boat , living on a little biscuit and seawater , and of the four landed at Ringkiobing , one Bcaman was Buffering from gangrene in the feet , and was
sent to the hospital . Of the other part of the crew , three seamen died in the boat , and their bodies were thrown overboard . A Dublin steamer named the Sylph , on her passage from London to Faltnouth and Dublin , ran into a Dutch galliot off the Foreland on Thursday week . The night was very dark , and it is reported that the galliot had no lights , but that the steamer had . The galliot was partly cut down , and in ten minutes after the occurrence she sank . The crew consisted of six men and a boy , and out of these only four men were saved . The steamer is said to have sustained but little damage .
Twelve seamen were landed at Dover on Sunday from the barque Dantsic , of Dantsic , part of the crew of the Neva steamer , of Hull , from Cronstadt and Guttenburg for Hull . On the 25 th ult ., in a gale of wind , the Neva sprang a leak , and struck with a heavy sea , pitting the fires out . She went down about one hundred miles from the coast of Jutland . All the crew and passengers took to the boats , and were picked up about au hour after they left the steamer by the schooner Helford , of Dundee , bound for London , on the 26 th . Part of the crew ( twelve ) were put on board the Prussian barque Dantsie . On the twelve men landing at Dover they were immediately taken to the Sailors * Home , where they were abundantly provided -with everything , and sent free by the South-Eastern Railway to London . Preparations were made at the Dover Sailors'Home for the remainder of the crew and passengers at any hour of the night . All hands were saved .
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Naval And Military. The European; A>'I> ...
NAVAL AND MILITARY . The European ; a > 'i > Australian ' Royal , Mail Stkamshii » Company . —The European and Australian Royal Mail Steamship Company , who have contracted for carrying tbe mails from England to Australia rw Alexandria , Suez ,- * and Point de Galle , have made arrangements with the Cunard ( Transatlantic Mail ) Company , under which the latter undertake to convey the mails , passengers , and specie of this route , between England and Alexandria , and Malta and Marseilles . It is also stated that the European and Australian Royal Mail Company intend to combine with their Australian service at Point de Galle a communication with India and China .
. The-Missing . Stkamek Rosmx . —A telegraphic message has been received at Leith from EL-iuorc , which may be said to extinguish any remaining hope as to the safety of the Roslin .-. Thnt steamer , " which belonged to the Hull , Hamburg , and Leith 'Company , sailed from Stettin on the 8 th of November ,. passed the Sound on the 10 tli , immediately before the furious gale which lately visited the northern seas , and was not afterwards seen . The Gertrude , which went out froni'Leith on tho 21 st , had orders . to make every inquiry and search for her ; and the master of that vessel now reports from the Sound that pieces of a vessel and a boat with the words " Roslin , Leith , Laurence Smith , " painted -inside , had been washed ashore at tlie Seaw .
The Rkcent Loss of * tiik -Steamship Tay . —The marine clerk of the Board of Trade has addressed the following communication to Captain "William . ' Strutt , who commanded the Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company ' s steamship Tuy on the occasion of her wreck near Cape Ross , in the Gulf of Mexico , on the 30 th of last August : —" Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade , Marine Department , Whitehall .- —Sir , 1 am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council of Trade to inform you that they have received the
report of Mr . Trnill and Commander Robertson , R . N ., on the investigation into the loss of the Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company ' s steamship Tay , on the 30 th of August last , in the Gulf of Mexico , of which ship you were at the time master , and , as tfie court have not attributed the loss of the ship to your wrongful act or default , I am to return to you your master ' s certificate of competency . In so doing , however , my Lords desire me to express their strong opinion of the slovenly and imofficer-like manner in which the ship was navigated by you . —I am , & c ., T . H .. Farreii . "
Sailing op the British Discovery Vkssei .. Reso-I .. UTE for England .- —Tho British discovery barque Resolute sailed on the 13 th ult ., at noon , from the Brooklyn navy yard , under the command of Captain H . J . Hartstein , one of the officers of the late Arctic expedition , for Portsmouth , England , where she will be delivered into the hands of her Majesty ' s Government as a present from tho Government of tlic United States . Captain Ilartstein , in command of the English barque Resolute , takes out a letter to Lord Clarendon from the State Department , enclosing the joint resolution of
Congress for tho purchase of that vessel from the American crew who found it , and tho presentation of it to the British Government , and expressing the gratification of the Administration on bcbalf of tho people of the United States in tendering this token of the friendly feelings by which our country ia actuated . Ifc will bo remembered that the Resolute was despatched by the British Government in search of Sir John Franklin , and was frozen in among the icebergs ; that her officers and crew had to abandon her , leaving all their effects on board ; that she was found several months ago by the crow of a whaling vessel belonging to New London , Connecticut , having
drifted about 1200 miles from the apot where she abandoned . Nor will it be forgotten that the sum ™ ? 40 , 000 dollars was appropriated by our own GovernmJf for the purpose of purchasing her from the fortiZ * whalersof New London—the English Government haS waived all claim to her ; nor that she has been renaW and fitted with tho utmost care at the expense of An > Government , with the design of restoring her to rtT Queen in at least as good a condition as she wasm ^ the time th « rexigencies of their situation compelled w crew to abandon her . With such completeness and at tention to detail has this work been performed that w onlhas everything found board been
y on preserved ewn to the books in the captain ' s library , the pictures in his cabin , and a musical-box and organ belonging toother officers , ; but new British flags have been manufacture ! in the navy-yard to take the place of those which hai rotted during the long time she was without a living soul on board . From stem to stern she has been re painted ; her sails and much of her rigging are entirely new , tlie muskets , swords , telescopes , nautical instruments , & c , .-which she contained , have been cleaned and put in perfect order . Nothing lias been overlooked or neglected that was necessary to her most complete and thorough renovation . —Ifeio
Yovk-Times-Lscai'is oi «* Deserters . —Four men belonging to the Fusilier Guards , who were under arrest , two for deserting , and the other two for being absent without leave , have escaped from St . George ' s Barracks . They scaled the outer , wall of the building , and contrived , to elude a policeman who saw them , and also to escape the guard . One lias been retaken .
Our Civilization. The Great Northern Fra...
OUR CIVILIZATION . THE GREAT NORTHERN FRAUDS . Rem'ath and Kent were again examined on Wednesday , when Mr . Giftard , who appeared for the prosecution , reminded the magistrate that at the last hearing six distinct cases of fraud--were made out against Kedpath ; ami it would now be the duty of tbe prosecution to show how Redpath obtained the means of carrying out those frauds . . The .. ' mode of doing business at the G reat Northern Railway was this : —When a transfer came in , it was placed on a transfer file , and afterwards it was compared-with a table of transfer numbers , which would show ' Avhether the transferee was still a stockholder or not . If he were , there was no difficulty in referring to that number in the register , while if he were not , the number was added to the table which showed the amount of stock held by each proprietor , as well as the transfer ; nutnb . cr .. From this table the dividend ¦ ¦ ¦ bal ance-sheets were made out every lialf-3 'ear , and it would be shown that Keilpath had caused the table to be altered under Kent ' s direction to meet the case of his particular frauds . This part of the ca = ii related to the common law offences of misdemeanour , but there . were four other statutable . chaTgcs of forgery which would be brought against Redpatli , though not on that day . It would be shown that he liad forged transfers of stock , some in fictitious names , ami others in the names of existing persons . After the reception of evidence , the case was adjourned until Friday . —On that day , the prisoners were again brought up , ami , after several witnesses had been examined , were again remanded .
The Winter Assizes. The Winter Assizes O...
THE WINTER ASSIZES . The Winter Assizes on the Western circirit opened at Winchester on Monday . The first person tried was Hester Smart , who was indicted for setting lire to a stack of corn ; also for setting firo to another stack of corn , and for stealing some shoes . She pleaded Guilty , but it was stated that she was a person of weak intellect . Nevertheless , she was sentenced to six months' imprisonment , with hard labour . John Morris , a nail-maker , has been found Guilty at Stafford of a robbery from the person of William Uiddle , accompanied by great violence . This 'was one of too numerous garotte robberies . He was sentenced to eight years' penal servitude . Several other cases of garotte robbery have been tried at tho various Assize courts . % - ¦ » - ¦ — . _ --
A ^^ * v ^^ ^^» w »* ^ v » »* ^* ** ^*» ™ ^ ™ ^ ^™ ^^ ™* ^* ^ ^^ — ~ ~ — — _ George Cribb has been found Guilty at Winchester of a murderous assault on Alfred Adama , a warder in the Portsmouth Dockyard prison , where the accused was a convict . He complained that Adams did not treat lum with justice ; and , after the act , ho said he mean t to km him , but he thought of liis ( tho warder ' fi ) wife and children , " and , " he ndded , " though ho had no mercy on me , I spared him . " It appenrcd , however , that lie iras only prevented from oontinuing his attack on Ad « ms oy the other convicts seizing him ; and lie then swore no would kill him another time . Sentence of death was recorded .
Mary Ann Street was Acquitted of a charge of murdering Ivor illegitimate child , on account of unsoundnofls of mind . —August Winkelcr has been Acquitted ot a cliarge of murdering Peter Duhr . Botli belonged to w British Gormnn Legion , and they had lifld a scuMe , » tlio course of which Dulir was wounded in tho twffo . but there was no evidence to show that Winlccier n » inflicted tho wound . ( 1 . William Fleming has been found Guilty at Newcastle
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 6, 1856, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06121856/page/8/
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