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, .. '; xassion-tiojjse . WssniDAT . —Bigaxt . —Mrs . Mary Trances Xeele fnrrehdjered in discharge of the recognisances entered into by her husband on Wednesday last for her re-erami--nation upon the charges of bigamy preferred against her " lyliflrmother-inJaw , Mrs . Sarah Keele , of Canterbury . Mr . ClarKson appeared onhehalf of the defendanVwho , in consequence of her had state of health , was ordered hy thelVordiliyor to Wccoremodated mth a liair intrant « jf the oar . The endeuce which had been given hy tne prosecutrix and her ton ( the hushandl , as wen as tn 0 statement made hv the defendant atthe last examination , having heen read over , John Pixon , city Pohceman , from the register
Wi , produced two marriage certificates Ofthe parish of St George ' s , Hanover ^ nare—the one rfamarrfage solemnised between John Weller and Mary Frances Witham on the 7 th of June , 1831 , and the second of fee marriage of William Gurney Keele with Mary Frances Weller in the month of October last year . —William Gurney Keele repeated his former testimony , and added that die prosecution had not heen instituted by his desire or trish . The letters produced were in the handwriting of his mother , who had repeatedly applied to him to leave his wife and return home . Since his marriage lie had not sent any money home , hut when he and his wife h-ft Canterbury to come to London , the latter , knowin ? he condition of his mother , gave her-30 s . —Mr . Clarkkw : Answer this question—have you not stated , since
you have heen hereto-day , that nothing on earth should induce you to leave the defendant , though your mother has stated you wished toleave her 1—The witness hesitated 5 out , on the question being repeated , replied , that he had no reason to complain of his wife ' s conduct , and that he should not wish to he separated from her in case her first hushand was really dead . —The young man Keele said , he would be answerable for his wife's appearance , in casejshe should be required again . —The Lord Mayor intimated to the prosecutrix , that if she could procure any evidence to show that the first husband was still in existence the defendant could be brought up again . At present the defendant was discharged for want of evidence . —The parties then quitted the justict-room together .
Saturday . —Chabge ofKobbehy . —John Kirby , and and a man named Armstrong , who were charged with being concerned in a robbery of certain articles of mous-Selin from the premises of Messrs . Letham , of CheapsiSe , were again brought up and the evidence of two or three witnesses taken . The evidence was not important , and the prisoners were again remanded till Thursday next . Kirby was released on bail . A number of vagrant cases disposed of , and we are glad to be able to state that on this occasion the shoeless and shirtless met with more consideration than upon previous occasions .
BOW STREET . FainiT . —The Leicester Bajje Hobbesv . —Richard Elliot , who stands charged on suspicion with being concerned in stealing the sum of £ 1 , 07116 s . 101 , during the transfer by railway to London , the property of Messrs . Pares and Co ., Leicestershire Joint-stock Banking Company , was brought before Mr . Jardine , for final exammatien . Mr . William Bradley , 41 , Stafford-street , Birming ham , gun-maker , said , that in September last he received the letter produced by post , enclosing the sinister halves of two £ 5 Bank of England notes , and an order for a double-barrelled gun , two single barrelled guns , and six pair of pistols , amounting to £ 13 . The numbers were 49 , 760 aud 93 , 011 , and having completed the order he sent the goods to Mr . Moore , care of
Mr . Draper , Globe Tavern , Hatton-garden ; hut he never received the corresponding half-notes . — Mrs . Jane Jones stated that In September last she was housekeeper in the service of Mr . Draper , at the Globe Tavern ,, and recollected a person coming to request that a letter , addressed to Mr . John Moore , might be received there , and he afterwards took the letter and a box directed to that person ; hut as the man wore a fustian coat and a different dress from the prisoner , she could not positively swear that he was the person . —Inspector Shackle said -that completed the e \ idence , but he thought it necsssary to add that he found other property upon the prisoner ,
which the . parties to whom it belonged declined to come forward and give evidence upon . —Mr . Robinson submitted whether his client ought to be committed for trial on such evidence . There bad been a number of notes found by" an old woman near the - Euston-square station , and because two corresponding notes of a robbery , which took place twelve months back , were found in the prisoner ' s possession , which he might have received in the course of bis trade as a tobacconist , be was to be prosecuted , although the numbers of the notes were not known even at the Leicester Bank . —Mr . Jardine said it was a fit subject for the consideration of a jury , and ordered the prisoner to be fully committed for trial .
Chabge of Bcbglabt . —A young mau named Thomas Coffee , described as a painter and glazier , ivas placed at the bar , charged on suspicion with stealing from the Feathers public-house , in Great Wyld-strcet , Idncoln ' sinn-fields , the sum of £ 90 in gold , £ 8 in silver , a quantity of copper money , a silk handkerchief , silver spoons , and a sUvcr watch , the properly of George Mason , the landlord . Remanded for a week . Saturday . —Street Begging . —Maria Sullivan was charged with being found begging in Russell-square . The constable -who took her into custody stated he had often seen her loitering about ; and though he had watched her , he nevcriounftherm the act of hogging till that day . She was very artful , and eluded their vigilance . She was adjudged one month ' s imprisonment .
Atxempxixc to Pass Base Coin . —Eliza Williams Was Charged by Mrs . Parr , of 221 , Torlenham-court-road , with passing a counterfeit shilling on the previous evening in the purchase of a pennyworth of tobacco . It appears the prisoner had ' gone into the shop for a pennyworth ox tobacco , for which she tendered the shilling when Mrs . Parrhmnediately came round the counter , and without making any remark , caUed for a constable and gave her in charge . Mr . Twyford said Mrs . Parr had no right to give fheprisoner into custody without some proof , showing tliat the prisoner knew the shilling to be bad-She was accordingly dismissed .
A suspicious Case . —A boy of the name of Da vies was brought up under the following suspicious circumstances . One of the police force seeing the prisoner with a handle under his arm , in Great Charles-street , and suspecting that all was not ri ght , he took the bundle from him , and found it to consist of a sheet and a blanket . On asking the prisoner who they belonged to , he said they were his mother ' s , and that he had brought them from near King ' s-cross , Uew-xoad , to Brury-Iane , in order to he cleaned . The constable then said he would accompany him home , on which he shuffled and gava another address , where he said his brother resided . On going there the constable learned that no such person lived there . The prisoner was remanded , in order to make inquiries about the owner of the property .
Coming it Strong . —A youth , who gave his name as Antley , was charged hy a shopkeeper in High-street , St . Giles ' s , with stealing ham from his shop , on Saturday morning , about eight o ' clock ,-while the shopkeeper was taking down tho shutters . Seeing the prisoner running out of the shop with the ham under his arm , the latter ran after him , seized him , and gave him into custody . The prisoner , on being interrogated respecting the robbery , declared that he did not take it , but that a man in the shop threw it to him , and he ran off with it Committed for trial . " A IIabb Case . —An old woman , whose name we did net learn , was charged with having stolen a pint pot from a public-house in Seven Dials . She admitted having taken it , as she wished to be transported rather than to be living iu the state she was in . 'She was committed for triaL
Tuesday . —Post Office Hobbebt , —William Omey a letter-carrier employed on the Islington district , was placed at the bar before Mr . Jardine , charged with stealing a letter containing a £ 5 Bank of England note , and 30 s . in gold , the property of the Postmaster General . Mr . John Brooks Johnston , a clerk in the Royal Exchange Insurance Ofiice , 21 , Lombard-street , stated that at the Christmas of 1885 there was a policy of insurance effected for furniture to the amount of £ 100 , in the name of the prisoner , the address being 15 , Begent ' s-terrace , near Hegent ' s Canal , White Conduit-fields , Islington , in the county of Middlesex ; the annual charge upon which is 6 s . In the month of December in each year a printed note Similar to the one producedis sent to each of the insurers , and in December last one was sent to the prisoner ,
informing mm that the sum of 6 s . would be due on his policy at Christmas . On the 30 th December last the notice pro . duced was brought to witness at the office by some person Who paid the insurance with the £ 5 Bank of England note produced , Leeds branch , No . 20 , 595 , dated July 25 , 1843 , which he marked with the number of the policy , 443 , 116 , and he gavehmxthe change . —Matthew Peake , aconstable employed at tho Post Ofiice , said he was present in the senator ' s office when the prisoner was brought in , aud hang asked where he lived , hegave his address , saying he had resided in the samehouse during the last eleven vears , at a rent of £ 21 annually ; that he paid the taxes , and had insured his furniture in the Royal Exchange Insurance Officefor £ 100 , the charge for which was 6 S . annually-Onbemg asked who had made the last payment , he
replied he had done so himself , and , as if recollecting him . self , he said , "Oh , there is some mistake about that payment , for I received a notice after Christmas , stating th & t the insurance would be due , but in a few days after I missed it He then said he had spoken to Mr . Wood , the charge-taker at the Islington Post Office about it , adding that he did not know what he should do without it , and that Mr . Wood advised him to take the number from the policy , -and to go to the insurance office , which would answer the same purpose , which he did ; and to his great surprise he found it was paid by some person , but he never asked by whom , and he came away satisfied . In a lew days after he received a receipt for 68 . in a letter ,
through the Post Ofiice , which he showed to Mr . Wood and other persons at Islington . He was then told that a £ 5 not © was used in the payment at the insurance ofiice , which was sent in a letter ou the 27 th December by post fromDewsb ttry , addressed to 3 io . 14 , Upper Bransburystreet , Liverpool-road , Islington ; aud he replied that he didnotknowwho had paid the policy for him . He then said , "Caa I see the gentleman V and being questioned what gentleman , and what he wanted him for , he said , " -Hie gentleman who lost the money , and 1 would pay him the moneyIf I should pledge my bed . " Witness then went to the prisoner ' s house , and on making a search found the file produced on the top of a book-case iu the front parlour , on which was the receipt for Gs .: andin a
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bureau the policy produced , marked « 3116 which corresponded with the number of the receipt . » rtness then returned to the Post Office , and having taken the prisoner into custody , he requested , as it was then late , that witnessMiTonld take him to his own house for the night , which he did . On-the way he begged that Mr . Wightlock , a lodger of lis , might be -sent for ; and on his arrival he desired him to wait on Mr . Wood , in Moor-street , who would tell him where Spinks lived , hy whom he would be informed where the gentleman resided who lost the letter , and to do what he could with him ; at the same time giving directions to get the money , if his bed should be pledged for it . Witness upon this cautioned him , and the conversation dropped . The prisoner was remanded .
MARLBOBOUGH-STREET . Fbidat . —A Black Case . —An overgrown chimneysweeper , with bis features hidden by a thick mass of soot , ascended the witness box , and making a profound reverence to the bench , begged to " ax for a varrant in a ca se of climbing . "—Mr . Hardwiek : Where did this occur ? —Applicant : At Earl Grey ' s , in Barkly-skvare , yer vership . The criminal ' s name is Towser , and cos he ' s got so large about the lines that he can't climb himself , he sends to borrow a boy wot ' s only Id years of age , and aint liable to go up no chimhly according to the new hact . — Mr . Hardwiek : Your complaint is , then , that this Towser does not use machinery ?—Applicant : No , he gammons to use the machine ; but I ' ve got vitnesses to prove as he shoves up the brush firsts and sends the boy up arterwards . —Mr . Hardwiek : The penalty , I think , is forty shillings . —Applicant : Ten pounds , yer vership—and little enough , too , for sich a crime . —The summons was granted .
Tuesoai . — . Sight Robberies . —Lucy Arnold , a woman of the town , well-known at this court , was brought before Mr . Maltby , charged with having assaulted and robbed a gentleman , who gave his name and address James Edward Pye , Ko . 4 , Berkeley-square . Mr . Py e said he was passing homeward through St . James ' s-square about twelve o ' clock the last evening , having previously been dining with a friend and drinking rather freely , when he was accosted by the prisoner and another woman , who persisted in foUowing him into Yoik-street , He turned down Apple-tr . ee-yaTd to avoid them , but he noticed that two women , " and he believed a man , came after him , and almost immediately afterwards received a blow on the head wluch stretched him on the ground insensible aud bathed in blood . He believed he was taken into a
publichouse , and that the landlord sent for a police-constable . He could not recollect anything very clearly ; all he could say further was , that he missed his pocket-book , to get at wliich his coat must have been unbuttoned , and the top of his diamond pin , Worth £ 2 , which had been torn from his stock . —Inspector Plume said the complainant was not sober when he came to the station-house . He believed the complainant said something about having taken the prisoner into a public-house and treated her with a glass of tvine . —The complainant said ho had no recoUeetion of having done anything of the sort . In fact he had not a very clear recollection of what really had occurred . —Mr . Maltby said he feared that the imperfect idea which the complainant had of the whole occurrence would prevent a jury from convicting the prisoner on his evidence . The prisoner was then discharged .
wedsesday . —Night Robberies . —Mr . Hardwiek received the foUowing letter yesterday , in relation to that class of robberies committed at night in the less frequented streets at the West-ond , by men who act in concert with women of the town , a number of which cases have received publicity from this court : —
TO ME . HABDWICK , MAGISTRATE . Sib , —Seeing in the police reports that a woman was taken up for a robbery on a barrister , in Regent-street , I wish to inform you , for the benefit of the public In general , that this system is now arrived at such a pitch that unless it be checked by prompt measures , no person by-and-by will be able to walk about the streets without being robbed and maltreated as this gentleman has been . The purport of this letter is to let you know where he , for the- ends of justice , is to be found . He is , however , very reluctant to prosecute , though he has been very badly used , his mouth very much cut , a tooth knocked out , his eye bruised , aud his clothes cut about .
The writer coucludcd by giving the address of the injured party . —Mr . Hardwiek remarked to Mr . Superintendent Bcresford , who had come into court on business , tliat it appeared to him a necessity existed for adopting stronger measures to put an end to this increasing class of rob ' heries . From the complaints made to him in his judicial capacity it would appear there was a particular set of loose women , confederated with thieves , who contrived to waylay or otherwise induce persons of respectable appearance , especially if these persons had the appearance of intoxication , to accompany them into some dark or unfrequented street , and , when there , to commit robbery with violence by the help of the men with whom the women were leagued . An instance had come under his notice of a friend whose pocket
had been dexterously picked by a woman who accosted him for a moment in the street , The gentleman shortly afterwards met with the woman again , and , ou taxing her with the theft , two men came up aud began a quarrel with him . —The Superintendent said he was quite aware that robberies hy persons of the character described were just now by no means unfrequent . He had taken care , however , to have additional policcplaced in those districts where these offences were usually committed , and several constables had been specially appointed to look after those women who were suspected of being concerned with thieves in night robberies . The best way to put an end to this offence would be for gentlemen to avoid speaking to or walking with women of that low class by which such robberies were committed . The ordinary way in
which such robberies were effected was this : —As soon as one of the women was seen to induce a gentleman to walk into a by-street , two or three men were sure to make their appearance , one of whom , in a rough manner , demanded to know from the gentleman what business he had to speak to his wife The gentleman , naturally alarmed , either permitted himself to be robbed by giving his purse to bo let quietly off , or , getting involved in a scufile , had his property forcibly taken from him . The police were made acquainted with but a few of this kind of offences , from a natural reluctance of persons who had been plundered to come forward and disclose the whole ofthe circumstances which had led to their losses . —Mr . Hardwiek said he should depend on the additional precautions adopted by the police for a diminution of this sort of daring robbery .
MARYLEBONE . Fbioay . —Extensive Robbeby of Plate . — John Simms , driver of the cab No . 1190 , was brought ^ p In custody of police constable Hillsden , 42 S , and placed at the bar before Mr . Long , charged on suspicion of having stolen a considerable quantity of silver plate , the property of Captain Thomas Callen , who a short tune ago arrived at Liverpool In hia vessel from Calcutta . Robert Mayner , the captain ' s steward , deposed that on the previous night , about twelve o ' clock , he got into the prisoner ' s cab at the Spread Eagle , Gracechurch-street , and was driven to the terminus of the London and Birmingham Railway , Euston-gquare , where he alighted , and soon afterwards missed a bundle containing a number of silver spoons , forks , ladles , fish slices , < tc „ all of which he
was about to take down-with him to Liverpool by the first train in the morning , in order to deliver it to Captain Callen , the owner thereof . Soon after daybreak he met the prisoner , and asked Mm if he knew anything respecting the bundle , to which he replied that he * did not . He was then given in charge . The prisoner denied the robbery , and said that if any parcel had been left inside of the cab , which he did not believe to have been the case , it must have been taken away by some one during the time that he was absent , while endeavouring to get from the prosecutor bis proper fare . The prisoner ( as there was a considerable deal of doubt with regard to . his guilt ) was given to understand that he would not be committed to prison if he would procure good bail for his being forthcoming on Thursday next .
WEDNESDAY . —ATTEMPT TO STAB A CONSTABLE . —A ruffianly-looking fellow , named John Robinson , was placed at the bar before Mr . Rawlinsou , charged with the follou ing sanguinary outrage upon police constableSoutcr , 212 D , who , from the injury he had received , was so lame as to render it a matter of some difficulty for him to step into the witness-box ; he is still on the "sick" list , and unfit for duty . The evidence given was to the efi ' ect that on Monday night there was . a loud cry of " Murder" and "Police" in the ttsbridge-road , and on Souter going to the spot , he found the prisoner engaged in au
altercation with two other persons , one of whom was bleeding profusely from the nose . The party who had been assaulted refused to prefer any charge , and the prisoner was desired to go away ; he refused to do so , and abused Souter in a most shameful manner . He was then taken into custody , and on the way to the station-house he kicked him ( witness ) upon the legs with aU Ids force , and injured him seriously . Before his arrival at the station he contrived to draw from his pocket a clasp knife , with which he made a lunge at his ( witness ' s ) side , and the instrument perforated the whole of his clothing . Mr . Rawlinsou committed the prisoner for one month .
LAMBETH . Fbidat . —Chabge of Mubueb . —A few minutes before five o ' clock , and when Mr . Norton was about to leave the bench , Thomas Jones , a middle-aged man , a jobbing carpenter , was brought before him in custody of Mr . Brooke , beadle and assistant-relieving officer of St , Mary ' s , Newington , and two constables of the P division of police . Brooke , the beadle , said that being informed by the medical gentleman who attended Margaret , the wife of the prisoner , that she had died from the effects of injuries which had been inflicted upon her , he felt it to he his duty to give him into custody . Several witnesses proved that the prisoner had been guilty of great violence upon the person of the deceased . The prisoner was remanded for a week , to give time for the coroner ' s inquest .
Monday . —Chabge of Muitoer Ann Attempteh Suicide . —John Campbell , alias Wright , was charged on suspicion of murdering his mother , a poor old woman of 60 years of age , at a low house in Fore-street , Lambeth , and afterwards attempting self-destruction , by throwing himself into the river Thames . Police constable L 89 stated that between twelve aud one o ' clock on Sunday morning , the prisoner was given into custody , on a charge of creating a disturbance at the door of Mr . Morgan , the Ship public-house , but Mr . Morgan did not press the charge , and the prisoner was liberated . About two o ' clock the constable received information that the prisoner ' s mother was found dcadin the passage of the house ' where she rented a room . —Thomas Masscy , L 39 ; The house in which the prisoner and his mother lived is in my beat . Shortly before two o ' clock , a person , close to where the deceased lived , told mc that there was something lying iathe passage ; inconsequence of which I went to the
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passage , and then I saw the deceased was ivihg on the ground quite dead . Her right thigh and part of her person was exposed . There was some , liquid on the ground , which smelt as if she had been drinking rum . Her tongue was protruding , and her mouth was wide open . She was quite cold , arid there was no pulsation . Mr . Jeffery , surgeon , was sent for , and arrived in about twenty minutes ; he attempted to bleed her , and could get nothing but some congealed black thick Wood . I assisted to carry the body to the dead-house at Lambeth Church , where it at present awaits tlie coroner's inquest . —W , Hull , L 88 , has known the prisoner for five years . He 16 the son of the deceased , whom he has been in the habit of cruelly ill-using . —Another policeman stated that about two o ' clock he saw the prisoner making for the river ,
near Lambeth-stairs , when he stated that he had destroyed his motller , and he should find a place of rest for himself . The prisoner endeavoured to get away from the police , and ran towards the river , but was overtaken , and charged on suspicion of causing the death of his mother . The magistrate was informed by Mr . inspector Evans that there was ajierson at the coffee-shop who heard the prisoner exclaim , " Keep your legs out . of the way . " This took place in the passage , and it is supposed that the prisoner , who was then very drunk , was ill-using the poor old woman . The prisoner denied having stated that he said he had destroyed the old woman , and said that he had no quarrel withhis mother on Saturday night . —Mr . Henry directed that Dr . Jeffery might be sent for , and the prisoner was remanded to await the result ofthe inquest .
' The Suspicious Death in Fobe-stbeet , Lambeth . — John Campbell , alias Wright , who has been in custody since Monday on a charge of attempting to commit suicide , and also on suspicion of having caused his mother ' s death , was again brought before Mr . Henry , and further remanded . Thursday . —Death op a Wife from the ameged Im-tbeathent of heb Hubband . —Thomas Jones , a jobbing carpenter , who has been in custody since Friday last , on a charge of having caused the death of his wife , Margaret Jones , by violence , was brought before Mr . Henry for further examination . Brooks , the beadle of the parish of SI . Mary ' s , Newington ,- was in attendance , and informed Mr . Henry that eiiwe the last examination of the prisoner an inquest had been held
before Mr . Carter , the coroner ; and Mr . Body , the surgeon , who had made a post mortem examination , having expressed it to be his opinion that the deceased ' s death was the result of natural causes , aud not produced by violence , the jury had returned a verdict to that effect . The beadle added that , notwithstanding this , he felt it to be his duty to cause the attendance of all the witnesses who had been examined on the former day , as well as two young ' women , the daughters of the deceased by a former husband . These two young women wore examined , but wore not able to speak to anything that happened for some days previous to the death of their mother , as they were not at home , but deposed to the general ill-treatment which their mother had experienced at the prisoner ' s hands . The prisoner was again remanded .
CLERKENWELL . Monday . —A Biujtai . Schoolmaster . —Michael Donovan , schoolmaster at tho St . Aloysius Roman Catholic School , Granville-strcet , Somevs Town , appeared upon remand to answer the charge of violently assaulting James Cavanagh , a boy of nine years , one of his pupils . — Mr . Greenwood directed the boy to expose his back ; he did so , and every one present was shocked at the spectacle . —Mr . Crouch cross-examined some of the witnesses , and attempted to shoiv that the boy ' s back had been much injured by rubbing against the bottom of tho bed , when creeping under it ; but this supposition was distinctly negatived by all Hie witnesses . —The prosecutor admitted that he had been well fed , and comfortably clothed and lodged : butsaid , "Brother Luke , " as well ' as the prisoner ,
had been unkind to him . His mother was dead , and his father lived in Bristol . —Mr . Broad , a surgeon , Uviiig in Goswell-street , stated that the marks on the boy ' s back must have been caused by brutal treatment . If injuries ofthe same nature had been inflicted on the side , they would probably cause congestion of the lungs . ' ' The leather strap with which the boy was beaten was produced —a thick heavy weapon . The prisoner alleged , on Saturday , that if the flogging of the boy with such a strap was improper , the authorities of the school were to blame ' for putting it into his hands . —Mr . Cooke , on behalf of the Rev . M . Narinckx , hoped the pubUc press- would , in justice to the establishment of St . Aloysius , notice thefact he was going to state—viz , that the masters had . been strictly forbidden to beat the boys with this strap , except
on the left hand . No corporal chastisement of a severe nature was sanctioned by the directors of the school . — Mr . Crouch , on behalf of the prisoner , observed that the punishment inflicted on the boy was not more severe than the punishment inflicted on the boys at Westminster and St . Paul's schools . —Mr . Greenwood safd his opinion was against corporal punishment altogether ; but the Act of Parliament permitted the master to use the same reasonable degree of punishment as parents used . The case was of too serious a nature to be dealt with by him , and he would send it for trial . The prisoner was then formally committed for trial , but ultimately was held to bail to appear at the sessions . The prisoner ' s functions were suspended on the spot , and the little boy removed to St . Pancras Workhouse , there to remain until the result of he trial be made known .
Wedsesdat . —Cbweltx bt a Step-mother to a Child . —Yesterday , this court was crowded with spectators iu consequence of its having been generally known that the parish officers of St . Luke ' s were about prosecuting a woman living at No . 3 , G-eorge ' s-yard , Golden-lane , St . Luke ' s , for cruelty of a most atrocious character towards her step-child . John Marks , a smith , and Anne Marks , Ms wife , were brought up on a warrant , charged with cruelty towards Anne Marks , aged ten years , ; the daughter of the former , and step-daughter of the latter prisoner . Between four and five o ' clock on Saturday evening last , a poor woman , Uving next door to the prisoner , went to the police-station , and informed the Serjeant on duty there that a child had been most brutally treated in George ' s-yard . The police Serjeant ( Kidney ) ,
and pohce-constable Few , 154 G , went to the house ofthe prisoners , and found the female prisoner sitting in a lower apartment somewhat intoxicated . They asked for the child , but she refused to give any answer concerning her until her husband was present . The husband was sent for to a public-house , and upon his arrival the child , who had been washing out arpom , was produced . The officers declared that her appearance shocked them , She had no covering but a threadbare shift , black with dirt , aud a piece of a sack , quite as filthy , about her shoulders . There was an . ulcer on one of her feet , and a bruise on her back , and another sore in her neck , her skin was literally covered with scales of dirt , and the smell proceeding from her was intolerable . The child deposed—My name is Anne Marks , and I will be 11 years of age
next April . My mother sent me for a kettle of water on Saturday morning , and when I returned with it she meme at the door , and , saying that I had been idle , she seized me by the hah' and dragged me into the passage . She lifted me up in her arms and threw me down as hard as she could on the floor , and kicked me on the body . I screamed , but she took me up and " chucked " me down again . She kicked mc on the side and on the thighs , and r when I was lying on the ground she poured the kettle of water on me . I lay there crying . When my mother went away I went out and sat upon a door step in the court . I sat there crying for half an hour , when a woman came and took me in . I had nothing to cat up to this time . The sore on my leg was caused by a kick my father gave mc a fortnight ago . . My back was very sore .
I stopped more than au hour in the neighbour ' s house , when my father came for me and brought me home . As soon as my mother saw me she ran at me and kicked me again , but my father heather for doing so . The child added that she did not wish to hurt her father , who had given her bread and butter . All the clothes I had on was a shift and a bit of a sack , and sometimes the skirt of a petticoat fastened upon me with a rope . The poor child , who as she proceeded with her testimony was becoming more and more convulsed with grief , at length swooned away in a paroxysm of grief , and was removed from the court in a state ' of insensibility . The female prisoner did not seem in the least moved , hut actually shook her head and laughed when the child was borne by her like a corpse . Mr . Combe said , he should discharge the male prisoner , but send the female for trial .
S 0 UTHWARK . Saturday . — Basing Shop Robbebt . — Artful Depence . — William Wade n a middle-aged man , who was described on the charge sheet as a hawker , was placed at the bar , before Mr . Cottingham , charged with entering the shop of Mr . Rowland , tobaconist , No . 32 , Bermondsey New-road , and stealing therefrom a box of Havannah cigars , value 26 s . Mr . Rowland stated , that on the preceding night , about eleven o ' clock , he was sitting in the parlour , at the rear ofthe shop , when he suddeidy missed his dog . He got up from his chair and looked into tlie shop for it ; when he saw tho prisoner enter , followed by another man , the former seized a box of cigars off the counter , and was in the act of putting the contents in his pocket when he ( witness ) ran out of
the parlour . The other "man got out of the shop and made his escape , but he seized hold of the prisoner , who was running after his companion with tlie box of cigars . They had a struggle together , in which the cigars were thrown on the floor and trampled on ; but a policeman passing at the time , came in and secured the prisoner , —Prisoner said that he entered the shop to purchase some tobacco , when another man came suddenly behind him , and pushed him into the shop with great force . He unfortunately fell near the edge ofthe counter , and knocked the box of cigars on the floor , when they were trampled on . Had he had the box in his possession , he should have run away with them , and not have remained to be collared by a
policeman . —Complainant remarked that he held him so tight that he had not the slightest chance of running away . The prisoner said that he . frequently had purchased tobacco at Mr . Rowland's shop , and he said to him when they were struggling together , that if he had done anything wrong he . had better kick his backside and let him go . —Mr , Cottingham said that most likely he concocted the robbery when he purchased his tobacco on a previous occasion . It was quite clear from the sworn testimony of the prosecutor , that he had the box in his possession . The prisoner replied that he merely trampled on them . Mr . Cottingham said that unless he altered his course of life , he would soon be transported ; as this appeared to be his first offence , he should merely commit him for one month ,
THAMES POLICE , Tuesday . — Abandosmeht of . Bbixisu Seamen , — Captain Alexander Simson , the master and part owner of the barque Elizabeth , appeared before Mr . Broderip to
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answer a charge of having wilfuUy and wrongfuUy left Win . Burgess , a seaman , at Quebec , contrary to law , by which lie had rendered himself liable to be indicted for a misdemeanour , and , if convicted , to fine or imprisonment , or both . After hearing evidence , and a great deal of argument , Mr . Broderip ordered'the defendant to find bail , himself in £ 80 , and two sureties of £ 40 each , to answer the charge at the ' next session of the Central Criminal Court , Bail was immediately tendered and accepted .
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Fire at Portsmouth , Jax . 22 . —At about six o ' clock this morning a fire broke out in the back of a house , in the centre of . High-street , occupied by Mr . Blackwell , furniture broker and cabinet maker . It was first discovered b y Dr . M'Lean , of the Y 6 th regiment , a lodger in the house , who was awoke by a strong smell of smoke . He immediately awoke the peo ple of the house , and gave the alarm . The town and government authorities were soon on the spot
with engines , & c , but some time had elapsed before water could be procured . The fire raged with extreme violence for some time . Fortunately , there was not any wind , and at- nine o ' clock no further danger was apprehended . A great portion of Mr . Blackw-ell' s stock was burned , and the damage has been estimated at £ 3 , 000 . " \ Ye hear that in tho cellar ofthe house was a large quantity of powder ( it is said as much as three or four ban-els ); providentially this did not ignite , or the destruction of life and property would have been most distressing .
Fire . — On Saturday week an alarming fire broke out , about hali-piist ; four o'clock , on the premises of Mr . Webb , a broker and auctioneer , residing in Peter-street , Whitechapel . As a man named Wilmot was passing , he perceived smoke issuing from the grating over the kitchen window , and saw a large body of flame . He at once raised an alarm , and the inmates were with much difficulty made sensible of their perilous position . Fortunately the flames had not reached the first floor , so that they were enabled to make their escape through the hall . In leas than five minutes after , all the lower part of the building was one body of flame .
By this tune several engines from the adjacent stations were in attendance , and succeeded in confining the fire to the lower part of the premises , the greater portion of wliich , as well as a , large quantity of furniture which was stored there , was totally destroyed . Ivrdcss than half an hour the firemen had so far succeeded in subduing the flames , as to banish apprehension with respect to the remainder of the house , or the adjacent premises , which at one time were in imminent danger . Unfortunately , Mr . Webb was not insured .
iREiAKn . —Elopement . —A painful fact has occurred in this country within the past few days , which has brought indelible disgrace on a lady of rank , the mother of a large family , and her paramour , an officer in a cavalry regiment . Lady Georgiana II is connected with several noble families in England . Her unhappy husband is a stipendiary magistrate of a midland county , and was formerly a captain in the army . His elder brother is a Companion ofthe Bath —an honour conferred upon him . for his services during the Peninsular war . Captain and Lady had thirt child ten of whom
Georgina H een ren , are living , and they were heretofore a most interesting and happy family . Lady H has , in an evil hour , left her home and family , and formed a criminal connection with Lieut . M—' — -, who is in his 25 th year . He possesses property of the value of about £ 15 , 000 a year , in a county adjoining that in which the family resided whose peace and happiness he has destroyed . Legal proceedings have been commenced against Mm , and the damages laid at £ 20 , 000 . The case , it is said , will be brought before a jury in the month of May next . .
Murderous Affray at Kiluloe—A desperate conflict , attended with loss of life , took place near the town of Killaloe , between twelve and one o ' clock on Thursday morning . Captain Cole's company of the 15 th Regiment is there stationed , and it appears four of tlie soldiers accepted an invitation from a few ofthe townspeople to a night ' s party on the river , with the intention of amusing themselves by moonlight fishing . Previous to going on the water the company rambled as far as Clanfadda , about a mile and a haif from Killaloe , where they agreed upon taking supper on a small island , wluch they intended visiting , known by the name of Friar ' s Castle , nearly opposite the lord bishop ' s residence . Bcinga little elevated from lKUM ' , they made free with a counle of srecsc belonsinsr to a
farmer named Gleeson , which they carried away to their boat , and embarked for the island . Soon after the owner missed Ids fowl , and having traced their route , immediately repaired to Killaloe , where he gaveinformation of whathad taken place to the police , only two of whom , sub-constables Brophyand Callaghan , were at the barrack , the remainder of the party being at the time onpatrole . A boat having been procured , the two policemen accompanied Gleeson to the island , where they found the" soldiers and their friends _ enjoying themselves ; and they bad by that time kindled a fire under the pot for supper . Gleeson was directed by the police to look for his geese , but while he was in the act of doing so he was struck by one of the party and knocked down .
Sub-constable Brophy remonstrated , and the party instantly turned on him and his Comrade , knocked them both down , and one of the four soldiers , it is said , unscrewed the bayonet off Callaghan ' s carbine , and with it stabbed him in the body , until he lay for dead . Brophy received two bayonet wounds , from the effects of which he too fell ; but , watching an opportunity , again raised himself from the ground , and though writhing with pain , grasping the carbine which lav by his side , he discharged it in the direction of his antagonists , one of . whom , a young man named John Ellis , fell dead , the ball having passed through his neck . Before he fired , his ramrod ' was drawn from his carbine by the party , thrust into his mouth , and forced out at the back of his neck . The
policeman re-loaded , fired again , and it is said the shot took effect , as one of the party , named Malone , is missing , supposed to have fallen into the river when he received the shot . While this dreadful affray was going on , Gleeson had ' escaped from the island , but soon returned with a strong party of police from Ballina and Killaloe , who made prisoners of the four soldiers , and William and Joseph Ellis , brothers ofthe deceased . The military also received bayonet wounds in the desperate conflict with the police I ( but which are not of a serious character . The life ot sub-constable Callaghan is despaired of . As soon as the additional police force appeared in view , the rioters dispersed along the island , and it is feared some of them perishedjn the attempt to swim ashore , as thev were seen strupirliiio- in t-hn xi-ofni . Tl . n « ,. ;
soners and wounded policemen were soon after taken to the police barrack , and subsequently the body of Elks , to aw « it the coroner ' s inquest . The names of the soldiers under arrest arc Edward Ban-own , Thomas Moore , Edward Greene , and Thomas Wethers , the latter known in the 15 th as " The Manchester . pugilist . " State of Limerick .-A Rock manifesto , of which the annexed is a copy , was served upon Mrs . J . Westropp , of Attyflin , near this city : — "Mrs . Westropp , take notice , we request of you to prevail on Mr . Westropp to get rid of and discharge Michael Molony from his employment before ten days—or if not we will take away . nislife ! We would be far from injurin g Mr . Westropp , but if he keens Molony in his service we
will' kill him dead' in the open day . ' If he compels us to come forward to visit him , we will certainly take away his life , if he does not discharge Molony before ten days . Signed—Captain Steel Ribs , County Tipperary . " On Friday morning , at seven o ' clock , a strong armed party of countrymen appeared on the lands of Aherina , near Doonas , the estate of Colonel Wyndhara , and dashed in the outer door and windows of the house of Michael Kenny , lately placed in possession of the fawn . They were resisted at the entrance by Kenny's daughter , whose arm they broke , but Kenny bravely defended himself with a pitchfork in a room inside , and the fellows then made a wreck of all his furniture , after which they departed , firing shots . On Wednesday evening , the house of Thomas
M . Bradshaw , Esq ., of Coolready , between Castle-Connelland O'Brien ' s Bridge , was attacked by an armed party , who struck tho gentleman ofthe house , beat him severely with tho butt-ends of their guns , and carried away a fowling-piece . Four of the supposed gang have been since apprehended by the police . On Saturday night a Rockite notice was posted on the shop window of Mr . Henry Burgess , of Borrisokane , threatening him with death if he had anything to do with the Finnoe-road . Two persons have been arrested at Borrisoleigh by sub-inspector Malone ; for the barbarous murder of Mr . Samuel Smith , of Lisduff : Thursday night , four men , with their faces blackened , and representing themselves as police , broke into the house of * one Michael Quirk , near Gort . on the estate of James Daly , Esq ., of
Castledaly , demanding money , and proceeded to open a box : but not succeeding in doing so , commenced an attack on Quirk and his wife , the latter receiving much injury from the blows of a spade , while endeavour ing to save her husband from the murderous attack made upon him . Kfext morning Charles Wallace , Esq ., of Lime-park , immediately took steps to have the party arrested , and placed his warrant in the hands of constable Belford , who succeeded in capturing the entire of the party that night , who were forwarded to Gort petty sessions , where three of them , having been identified by Quirk ; were fully committed . The fourth was then brought to Quirk ' s house , where the wife identified this man as the person who struck her , and he was also fully committed .
Horrible Death ax Fahnacre ' s CouiBBr , near Newcastle-upok-Tine . —One of those dreadful casualties , to which pitmen are daily exposed , took place on Tuesday last at the above colliery by which a deserving man lost his life . He was one of- the firemen , and was descending the shaft , in a cage , whilst the other fireman was ascending the same shaft in another ca ^ e . The former was about sixty fathoms from the ° bottom , when , without even a moment ' s warning , the wire rope by which the cage was suspended , and in which was the helpless individual , broke , and precipitated him to the bottom ! Not a vestige of the ponderous cage so large as a walking-stick could be found , and he , who but a fevr minutes before was in the full
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vigour of iifej was' ^ thc ^^ fromrthc wreck of the cage a handful at a time ' of clotted matter , so completely wds every bone reduced to a mummy . Fanvacre ' s Colliery-is two miles S . W . of Newcastle-upon Tyne . We have * not heard the result of the inquest , " ' which we presume : must have been held , for we are informed tim mortal fragments were interred on Wednesday evening . What will the Durham Special Jury of coalowners , and their relatives , who have averred tho safety of " wire ropes , ' ¦ ' say to this melancholy occurrence ? We opine the well-fed " no-risk-men" will conclude ( as in the cases of Jarrow and of Thornley ) , that had the rope been a hempen one , the result might have been the same . But we beg to observe to a
discerning public , tliis difference—this very material difference , between a hempen rope and a wire rope for these purposes . When the former is overstrained , and unable to perform the work to which it is applied , the outer strands first exhibit symptoms of weakness ; and the cracking noise occasioned by the separation of the innumerable fibres of which it is composed , from each other , gives , in most cases , timely warning of what is about to take place , and thus there is a very material chance of preventing the sacrifice of human life : besides , the men—the banksmen especially , have an opportunity of discovering a failing part of a hempen rope , and of
reporting its inefficiency in due time to prevent many accidents : not so with the wire rope—there the wear is internal ; the insidious defect is progressive and unseen ; wire after wire yields to the unequal task to which it is assigned—the ' exteriorisso besmeared with grease and dirt as to defy the detection of injury , untiUhe too-confiding Miner is launched in a moment into eternity ! Had the Durham Special Jury been practical Miners , instead of special protectors of Mining Capital , these facts would have been known to them . It is high time that public opinion was brought to bear upon this subject , to prevent the future sacrifice of human life at the shrine of insatiable monopoly . —Correspondent .
Awful CmcuirsrAh-cE . —Death from Carboxic Acid . —A most awful and painful circumstance took place in Worcester-street , Birmingham , on Sunday last . Mr . Edward Woolley , a paper-stainer , dealer , and hanger , who resided at No . 77 , iu that street , came to his death from suffocation , in the following manner : —Mr . Woolley , as appeared by the evidence adduced on the coroner ' s inquest , which was held on Tuesday evening , about one o ' clock in the afternoon went into the cellar for some colours , of which there were two tubs mixed up , that is , made into a liquid .
The servant girl , Sarah Plumb , wanted the keys of a cupboard which she knew the deceased had in his pocket , and having learned from a little boy , the son ofthe deceased , that he was gone into the cellar , she followed him down , and was horrified to find him lying by the side of one of the tubs , the lid of wliich he had apparently removed . He lay , as she said , doubled up . The unfortunate man had been lulled by the carbonic gas arising from the colour . An inquest was held , and a verdict to the above effect returned .
Mysterious Death at Camden Tows . —On Thursday Mr . Wakley , M . P ., and a most respectable jury , assembled at the Elephant and Castle , King's-road , Camden Town , to investigate the death of Mr . Anthony Portington , aged 64 , house and land agent , of No . 1 , Oxford-crescent , who was found drowned , in the Regent ' s Canal , on the morning of Tuesday last , under very mysterious and suspicious circumstances The jury returned a verdict of Found Drowned , but how deceased came hi the water there was no evidence to show . - w . »^ xy ** ** + * s * s * " ~^ 4 i ^^*~* * * *** f * * ****** .
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TERRIFIC STORMS . Storm at the Cape of Good Hope . —A very severe hail-stonn has visited the Cape , doing much damage to the village of Colesburgh . The following description of its effects , taken from a letter published in the Graham ' s Town Journal ofthe 5 th of December , will give some idea of such an event at the Cape of Good Hope : — "Tlsis village was visited yesterday ( Nov . 24 ) . with one of the most violent hail-storms , accompanied with a gale of wind , ever yet witnessed . Some idea can be formed of its violence when I say that branches were lopped from tho trees and carried to a distance of at least 200 yards . Such a scene of havoc lias seldom been witnessed . The approach of the storm was notified by a low murmuring sound , and those who were able closed the outside shutters to their windows ; hut the windows ofthe majority of
the houses , winch arc unprovided with shutters , were literally smashed . In many places sashes were broken , the plastering knocked off in large pieces , and the town presents the appearance of having been bombarded by an enemy ' s cannon . The number of panes of glass broken exceeds 3 , 000 . In the Dutch church 380 panes are destroyed , and hardly a house stands that has not lost from 20 to 50 . Not a vestige of a garden remains , and the streets arc completely covered , with green fruits and branches of trees . I never witnessed such destruction by the element . I do not exaggerate when I tell ' you that many ofthe hailstones were as large , and in some instances larger than a pigeon ' s egg . Last Sundav the thunder and lightning were awful . The electric fluid has three
tunes struck the Kopjes in the vicinity of the village , but no damage has been done , except that one unfortunate ox was killed . Not so ,. however , in the neighbourhood , where I learn that several farmhouses have been consumed , the lightning setting them on fire ; and the hail has destroyed large ficHs of standing corn so completely that not a vestige of them remains . On some places from 50 to 60 sheep have been killed . I am , however , happy to say that the hail-storm which passed over us seemed to be confined iu its transit , not spreading over a large space . " Another letter published in the same paper says— " It is no exaggeration to state that each hailstone was the size of a pullet ' s egg , and so tremendous was the forcc . with which they came down , that you
will scarcely believe the fact that eveiy pane ot glass on the western side ofthe village is broken , amounting to several thousands in number . Not a single house escaped , and the town presented a most grotesque appearance after it was over , resembling ^ place that had been severely bombarded . How , in such sultry weather , these congelations , so large and hard , can be formed , is more than lean well explain . It is clear their formation must arise from some other cause than cold—most probably from a highly electric state of the atmosphere . This I think probable , as there had been the evening before some very severe lightning and heavy thunder-storms , so severe , indeed , that an ox was struck and destroyed by the electric fluid within a short distance ofthe town . "
The Storm at Dumfries . —In recording the heavy gales of Thursday last wc had no idea that the elements would deepen into still wilder tempest on the nig ht of Saturday , and even Sunday , long after the hour of noon . The wind on the last occasion blew from the north , and . its fury by nautical men was considered the more remarkable , seeing- we very rarely experience gales of equal intensity from that quarter . By common consent the hurricane is set down as the most threatening remembered since the truly awfulone of the Tth January , 1839 . In many houses the inmates felt the beds shaking under them , and when daylight dawned it became obvious that devastation had been widely at work in the shape of smashing chimney cans , tirling the roofs of houses , more particularly old tenements , & c . One corner of St . Michael ' s Church has been a good deal damaged , both as regards the lead and slates : and in the case ofthe latter , a heavy fragment descended with such
force that it cleft an upright tombstone into two parts . In the country the woods have again suffered , and even in our own vicinity not a few trees have been broken or blown down , including a venerable saugh at Tinwald Downs , containing eighty cubical feet of timber . On the coast the turmoil was literally deafening , the sea-birds , startled from their hole s among the rocks , uttering wailing cries in every direction . This morning the scene changed entirel y ; when few expected such a visitation , the ground was found covered with snow , and trees and bushes beautifully frizzled beyond expression ; but as the barometer is still falling it seems the reverse of probable that this new variety of livery ofthe winter will be of lengthened continuance . On inquiry we Icarri that two of our coasters are missing , and one of them , a regular trader , had not been heard of for a fortnight . Ihe owner , in fact , is beginning to lose hope of the safety of his vessel . —Dumfries Courier of Monday .
Thk Weather in Ccmbehland . —During the whole of Friday last the state of the atmosphere in the neighbourhood of Keswick , says our correspondent , gave indications of an approaching storm : the wind continued howling and roaring through the valley , and . at night the rain descended in torrents , which seemed to increase as dayli ght approached . The tempest , which continued during the whole of Saturday , became extremely violent about four o ' clock in the afternoon , when it raged with awful fury , forcibly reminding the inhabitants of the ever-memovablc storm on the morning of the 7 th of January , 1839 , and continued increasing in violence till about five o ' clock on Sunday morning , when it may be said to
have reached its climax . At that period the tempest became most destructive : a great number of large trees , on the estate of Sir JohnWoodtord , at Derwentwater Bay , were levelled to the earth . Two very large spruce fir-trees fell upon the cottage of Alexander Macready , Sir John ' s wood-ranger ; but as they both fell against the gable end of the cottage , the damage occasioned was but trifling . > A number of stacks were also capsized , and heavy showers of hail occasionally fell during the whole of Sunday . It is worthv of remark that this destructive tempest came in the same direction as the great storm of 1839 . Yesterday both the mountains and low grounds in the neighbourhood of Keswick were covered with snow . —Cumberland Pacouet .
The Stoum . —Disastrous Accident at Dehby On Saturday night last this town was visited by a very severe gale of wind , wliich did considerable injury to various buildings , and was the occasion of a most disastrous occurrence in Bourne-street , by which five houses were almost totallv destroyed , and another very greatly damaged . Our townsmen , the Messrs Holmes , coachmakers , had just completed the erec-
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tion of a large and lofty eliinme v „« , - ^ for the purpose of having steam kpn iod ? ' P r % their extensive establishment , the hiiiM : a Par had been entrusted to Mr . Edwin Tu 'ng * i chimney was sixty feet high , and was >• 1 for the iron capping . It was SurrouJ 2 ri ' < heavy and substantial scaffolding aj / Jav wliich there is every reason to believe to ^ able extent contributed to produce the sZu ^ we have to record . On the night mS ?^ ( Saturday last ) , fears were entertained tW « ^ ney so largely encompassed with senffilv ^ cl > which had been roundit , we believe for f ' » 0 past , awaiting the finishing of the chimney £ e t ! cause alludedI to , that of the cast iron «!» m danger of falling from the severity of thV « f ' as early asbetween five and six o ' clock on tl , !« morning , ' Mr . E . Thompson went to aJZF * far this really was the case . When then " nl mendous squalls of wind waved the pon . ' eroiu of woodwork to and fro in a verv alainiin , ! ner ; so much so as to induce tliose person resided in the houses immediately < Zl ' with Messrs . Holmes' premises to leave them n diately , though the chimney itself appCarej tirely unmoved . Fortunate , indeed , was it i
the residents did quit them , tor at a quarter eight o ' clock , forty feet of the sixty of the chirn fell with a terrific crash on one side of the roofs of five houses , literally cutting them in two , and molisliing them to the very foundations , and iW , ing every piece of furniture they contained ; brcal the chairs , tables , beds , chests of drawers , ic . ' i fragments as though they had been so many ^ twigs . Never was wreck more complete . It most providential that the accident did not o < during the night when the inmates were in bed ; had such been the case , the loss of life would li been frightful . As it was , no one experienced slightest personal injury , except a workman of E . Thompson ' s , who w as but a minute before accident endeavouring to remove one of the gi ropes to a more favourable position , for keeping scaffolding from blowing against the chimney , received some slight injuries from the falling brj Immediately on this unfortunate occurrence becon
known , the utmost eagerness was evinced bv neighbours to assist in the removal of the hnriu pile of rubbish , and to scrape together such thing might possibly become again in any degree uscl ' u the persons deprived at one stroke of their dwcllin Messrs . Holmes kindly undertook to have the flu ture replaced , and procured food and lodgings such of the families thus thrown out of their habi tions , who had not friends to receive them , f Chesterfield correspondent says : — " During tlie hi wind on Sunday morning three or four pinnae were blown from the tower of St . Thomas ' s Chun Brampton Moor , here , and burst througli tlie r » destroying the gallery , and doing considerable iiijj to the church . Fortunately Divine service had [ t commenced , otherwise a fearful loss of life must ]« ensued , as the children of the Sunday school tm that part ofthe edifice . "—Derby 3 Rrcv . ru .
Lloyd ' s , Friday Night . —Dreadful Siiirn-REtt and Loss of Life . —During the storm on Mon < k the Lady Anne , a sloop , Paget , master , bclongiiiit ' i Yarmouth , was lost opposite the harbour of St . ive'i The crew were endeavouring to run into the hrirboi ? to take shelter , when a tremendous sea drove f against one of the piers , causing such mischief to k hull , that the crew had barely time to effect ante in the boats , before the vessel sank . Off l ' adstot thegaleis described to-have been'fearfully violetwhile the sea ran very high , presenting a most awg scene . At an early hour in the morning a bri » « g driven on shore near , the entrance of Patlstjt harbour , and became in a . few minutes a total logall the crew with her . The occurrence was is
known until daybreak , when the Coast Guard i served the wreck within a short distance of the sIioe There was something floating also towards the bca « " which was at first imagined to be a dog , huts proved to be one of the crew of the name' / James Hewison , lashed to a spar , and who was am vcntly lifeless . When dragged out of the surf , Hie sp « was cutaway from him , and he was conveved tt |[> nearest inn , whore , in the course of a short time , fnc the kind treatment exercised , he revived . Theimfotunate vessel was then ascertained to be tlie Wilfe Pitt , belonging to Sunderland , and her master Mi Cowser ; she was from Alexandria , with a cargos beans , and was working her way onwards to ( ffc . cester , when the fury of the gale rendered linr &
manageable , aud she was driven ashore as descrM Since then four bodies of the ill-fated crew liavcte washed up within a mile ofthe spot where the wrcd happened ; one of them is named Morgan , but th names of the remainder are not yet known , 'ft-Twecdsidc steamer , belonging to Sunderland , ws totally wrecked in the course of the same day . Sfe had , it appears , gone out of the harbour at the commencement of the gale , for the purpose , it is understood , of rendering assistance to vessels in distas . When about seven miles off tho land , to the southward of the town , she came in contact with a Ins named the Concordia , from London , with mm violence as to stave her larboard-bow completely k The sea rushing into the Tassel' s hold , the m
were , for the safety of . their live * compelled to amadou her ere many seconds Jura elapsed . Anote distressing wreck took place on Monday mon ing , within a few miles of Newport , in Pecbrokeshirc . Amidst the heavy squalls , a vessel seemingly between 60 and 10 tons , with masts coi away , was observed , apparently making for the harbour , when suddenly a tremendous sea threw tfe vessel on her beam ends , and she disappeared will all on board . Several pilot-boats have since bet out , in the hopes of discovering something of ft ? wreck , but as yet all exertions have failed . The brii
Northumbria , of Cardiff , for London , was wrecks during the same gale , among the Scilly Islands , ats place called the Icross Sound ; her crew were an *! by taking to the ship ' s boat . Reports have also bee received from the master of the Rose , recently arrived at Bologen , relative to a large vessel liavfcj been seen dismasted , and evidently in great distress , * : Monday last , within a short distance of thoEddyste Lighthouse . A . great number of vessels ' cngagedb the guano trade are reported to he lost off diftereparts of the coast . _ Sixteen vessels are stranded * the coast of Romelia , in the Black Sea . Most pa - of them are expected to become wrecks .
DnEADFUL SUIPWHECK A 2 . D LOSS OF LlFE . —Oil 5 C * day afternoon intelligence was received at Yarmoni of a vessel being on the Scroby Sands , opposite Gaiter . The yawl Phoenix , belonging to tlie Star Copany of Beachmen , put off to her assistance about ' quarter to one o ' clock , having on board thiitw beachmen belonging to this port . On reaching ffi vessel ( a collier ) they found her fast sinking into •» sand , her rigging and wreck floating about in all « jrections , and the crew clinging to the iua ' uirr » The yawl anchored alongside of her , but she soonfe her anchor and stove her bows in against the wrosj her foremast broke , andthe crew at once saw tp tlieir only chance was to jump to the stranded com and fasten themselves to the masts and rigs *
They could see the crew of the wreck on the as and mainmast , and the beachmen d etermined » share the same fate . The crew strove at once tot up the fore-rigging ; six men succeeded in doing ft but seven failed in the attempt and sank to rise fi more . The captain and crew of the wreck « k » washed from the deck and mainmast by tho viol * of the sea and exhaustion . The life-boat was no » sent from Yarmouth , and arrived in about tw minutes at the wreck , where they found six men * of thirteen clinging to the rigging , some of then * tenacious of their hold that it was with difficulty w could be persuaded to leave go and trust themsel ^ - to the ropes which were thrown to their assist The jetty and beach were lined with thousands * spectators attracted to witness the return of the "j * boat with fonlincra nf p . iir-insnf . v avmnnthv . andnuW *
interest . Amongst the spectators wc observed it wives , brothers , sisters , and parents of those whop left in tbe yawl , and heard the opposite cxclamaWJ ; of each party as their loved one was proclaimed * ' | saved or loat . The following arc the names ot " ^ beachmen who were saved by the life-boat : —Satt " r Coltwas , James Gurney , Samuel Shields ,. M : Duffnoll , Thomas Motts , and Benjamin Gui-ling . ^ following are the names of the men , and the nur > of their families , who were lost : —James Bo * ( two boys and one girl , all married ); "William V *; ner ( single ); James Shreeve ( two boys and one gif "; James George ( single ); George Barney ( sing ' 'i Abraham Wetherell ( seven girls and two boys ) I & Gannam Hilling ( two girls , and a wife near h er f \ finement ) . Thus perished seven fine and placemen belonging to this port , in the attempt to sJ their fellow-creatures ' lives .
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DEATH . At Sheffield , at eight o ' clock on Saturday mo"" ]' -: January 25 , 1845 , Wimiah Bubxev , file-cutter , Aru »^ street , aged 52 . The deceased was au unflinching # ** crat , and from the commencement of the Chartist v $ ' j tion a consistent and untiring mcrnher of the set * * popular associations . For real morality , and an a * ' love of truth , justice , and liberty , William BostEf *\ an example to his species . He fulfilled all U ' cdu life as a husband , father , friend , and patriot , « ' »« ' omission , and has departed from this life without » tary stain on his name . Was society composed of »* men as William Bubley , oppression and wrong w 01 * ' ^ unknown , and freedom and happiness would be tl »« i all . He was an obscure , but a good man , therefo the many mourn his death , and lament the loss ot who was truly an honour to his kind .
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street , Haymarket , in the City of Westminster , * ^ Office in the same Street and Parish , for * J prietor , FEARGUS O'CONNOR , Esq ., and pubUsl ' " WlM . UK Hewm , of No . 18 , Charlag-su-Mt , W »» street , Walworth , in the Parish of St . Mary > A ; ^ ton , in the County of Surrey , at the Office , »»• Strand , in the Parish & CSt . Mary-le-Stratul , « CityofWestmivister Saturday , Febuary 1 , 1 S 15 .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 1, 1845, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_01021845/page/8/
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