ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1534, 17 January 1879, Page 3

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

[Br Telegraph.] At Glasgow the depression and distress is unexampled. The streets aro swarming with idle women and children. At Manchester vast numbers of middle class poor, who will not appeal to charity, are suffering keenly. London, December 22. Tho proposed reduction of twelve and half; per cent, in‘tho wages of colliers in South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire has affected one hundred thousand men. A monster mooting will be held soon when a proposal for striking in mass at tho commencement of the year will be discussed. London, December 19, A number of Oldham mills have commenced running part of their machinery at a redaction. The strike has entered upon tho fourth jweek, and there has been lost in wages alone £60,000. There is great distress, and appeals are being made for relief by the laboring classes. THE GOOCH CASE. The Gooch case has been another sensation of the month. The charge against Lady Gooch was that she unlawfully conspired with another woman to palm off on her husband a strange child as her own. All tbo proceedings had commenced, when Sir Francis Goo:h wished to retire from the prosecution, but the case had gone too far, and the attempted imposture was of too serious a nature to justify the magistrates in preventing it from going heforo a jury. Sir Francis had been rather roughly handled in society for having taken the proceedings against his wife in a matter which was so palpably an imposture, but unless absolnie measures had now been taken, forty years hence it would be very difficult to disprove any illegal claims to the estates dependent upon the issue of the trial. Fir Francis Gooch only did what was right in tho interests of h : s family. Instead of censure, he deserves pity. When Lady Gooch appeared in Court her face was deadly pale, and she was supported on the arm of her solicitor. On being seated, she pnt on a dark thick veil. On tho second day, just at the opening of the proceedings, she swooned away and fell upon tho floor of the Court. After she was carried out screams were heard from the adjoining room, where she had been carried, and whore she was held up in paroxysms of hysterics. Her conduct seems to have been dictated partly by hatred of tho branch of tho family <;o which the estate would revert in default of her issue, and partly by a forlorn hope of winning back tho estranged affections of her husband. THE POMERANIA DISASTER. The papers give a detailed account of the terrible disaster in the British Channel in the loss of tho steamship Pomerania by collision with tho Welsh barque, Noel Ellens. Tho steamship sailed from New York on the 14th of December for Hamburg with a moderate passenger list and a crew of over 100. She touch 1 * at Plymouth on the night of tho 24th, and landed a small number of passengers. On leaving that port the passenger list numbered 109, principally steerage. The disaster occurred on the following night during the prevalence of a dense fog in the Channel, at all times swarming with shipping of every description. The locality was not far from whore tho great German ironclad Grosser Kurfurst met her fate in broad day less than a year ago. The steamer was proceeding cautiously with an extra watch in the bows and on tho bridge. The captain was also at his post. Suddenly the barque came bowling through'he fog before a free wind at right angles with tho course of the Pomerania, nnd before any time was permitted for the slightest manocuvroing she struck the steamer amidship, and the latter went down in ten minutes. The steamer Glengarry happened to be close in the vicinity and went to the rescue, and 170 were saved out of a total of about 320, passengers and crc v. Captain Schwaren was on his one hundred and fifty-first passage across the Atlantic as commander. After the collision ho maintained his post on the bridge, directing tho movements of tho crew for tho rescue of passengers, and ho went down with Ins ship. “ The conduct of this faithful and heroic commander,” says an English paper, “ presents a lesson, and it is useless to suggest in what direction it applies.” Thos. Blight, a certificated officer of the British Mercantile Marine, is detained as witness by the Board of Trade. lie was a passenger on tho steamship, and says the Pomerania was going at half to three-quarter speed. There was a good look out, th i lights were burning, and it was very foggy. He heard no whistle or f g horn before the steamer sank. There was time to save every life, if order had been maintained. He was beside the captain when the latter put on his life belt. Ho heard no orders given. It was too late for orders. One ox the officers told him the doors of the watertight bulk heads were all open. There was no more sea than usual in the Thames. All could have been saved if the sailors had not rushed to tho boats. The captain was saved by means of a spar on which he floated till he was picked up by the steamer City of Amsterdam, tho same vessel that rescued most of the passengers. The contractor for raising the German ironclad has signed a contract for raising tho Pomerania also.