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BEAtTH of London Dmuso TH _« _Jv ' BSK .--In the week ending last Saturday , the deaths registered w the metropolitan districts were 9 **/ , a number which exhibits a considerable _decrewe on the returns of the last two months , December and January , during -which the deaths were usually above 1 , 050 ,. and in one week were 1 , 156 . The result is also favourable 8 s '« pmpaied with the . average , corrected for increase of population , of corresponding weeks in ten previous years . 1840-9 , which is 1 , 144 , showing a decrease of-87 - The sudden decline in tlie mortality from diseases of the respiratory organs is remarkable ; bronchitis , pneumonia , and asthma hare numbered
inthe last three weeks successively , 237 , 234 , and 165 deaths V the average far last week , derived from returns of the same week in ten years , is 187 , or , if corrected tor population , 204 . But the deaths from phthsis ( or c -nsumption ) have scarcely varied ; they nave been in the last three weeks 128 , 137 , and 135 respectively ; the average of last week for this disease is 155 . The deaths enumerated in the zymotic or epidemic clsss of diseases were 152 ; the corrected average is 24 & Small-pox was fatal last week to 8 children , scarlatina , to 11 , hooping-cough to 36 , measles to 18—all of there epidemics being under the average , and the first two being much less fatal than usual . Diarrbeea was fatal in 20 cases : in the corresponding weeks of ten years the deaths from it have ranged from 3 to 32 , and show a decided tendency to increase in latter years . No deat "»
occurred in the week from cholera . From typhus there wer e 27 , a comparatively light mortality from this cause . From influenza " there were 2 deaths ; from erysipelas , 10 ; fiom cancer 17 deaths , of which all except three occurred to women ; and 9 woman died ' after childbirth . In two persons fatal disease * s stated to have been the result of _intemperaace . The death of a woman of 47 years , which occurred in January , was accelerated by " destitution and exposure to extreme cold . " She had been previously removed to . Bethnal-green workhouse . The mean height of the barometer in the week at the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , was 29 457 in . The mean temperature was 44 deg ., showing an excess of 10 * 7 deg ., on theaTerage of thesame week of seven years . It was higher than the average throughout theweek . On Sunday the mean temperature was 12 deg . above the average , and on Friday and Saturday 14 dee . above it .
- Singular and Fatal Accident . —On Saturday last Mr . - Wakley held an inquest at the _Middlsex Hospital , on Anne Smith , late in the employ of Messrs . Crosse aud Blackwell , extensive Italian warehousemen , Soho-square , aged twenty-nine . On the previous "Wednesday deceased was bottling pickles in a part of the building under a loft where men were letting down by a rope and hook empty crates , when the handles of one of them having given way , it fell a height of twenty-four feet on deceased , knocking her down , and striking her head against a stone pickle jar , _whichdeeply and severely cut her . She was conveyed to the hospital , where the wound healed and she was doing well , when erysipelas set in , and within a short time terminated fatally—Verdict , ' * Accidental death . " -
Singuur . Accident . —On Saturday last Mr . W . Baker held an inquest at the Sir Walter Scott Pritchard' s-road , Hackney , touching the death of Mrs . Maria Brabrook , aged seventy , the-wife ofa gentleman residing in Clarence-terrace , Haggeret- n . It appeared from the evidence that on the previous Tuesday the deceased had heen oh a visit to a female friend , residing in Eli-street , _Kingsland-road , whose house the deceased left about eight o ' clock in the evening on her return home . ' - She was -observed by several persons to have great difficulty to get along on account ofthe very high wind which prevailed at the time , and she was last seen alive on the bridge over the Regent _' s-c'mal . Her body was found next morning in the canal , into which it was supposed she was forced by the wind "; there being no fences near the canal to save her . The jury returned a verdict of " Found drowned . " and the coroner said he would write to the canal'company as to the dangerous state ofthe fences .
Melancholy Acctdknt . —Mr . * W . Payne held an inquest on the 8 th inst ., at the Three-Colts , London wall , on the body of Mis . Ann Taylor , aged fifty-one . The deceased was the widow of a builder , and resided in Albion-buildings , London-walk Onthe 7 th of January last she was ont walking with her sister , and while looking in the shop window of Mr . Smart , a draper , in Crown-street . Finsbnry , a van laden with timber was passing . The wheel of the vehicle having got fixed in the gutter an attempt was made to relieve it , and the van stringing round the timber struck the deceased on the side and broke several of her ribs . She died from the effects of the injury on Ihe 6 th inst . The jury returned a verdict of- 'Accidental death , " exonerating the driver from blame .
_S-ospgCTED Poisonixg at Hackney . —On Saturday last Mr . -Wm . Baker resumed the - _iuvt-ai j gation at the Old Mermaid , at Hackney , into the cause of death of Richard Merritt , aged sixty-one , whose body had been exhumed by order of the coroner , in consequenee ofthe extraordinary disclosures made at the inquest oh the body of James Merritt , a sin of fhe deceased , whose wife , Mary Merritt , has undergone several examinations at Worship-street Police office , on the charge of causing his death by arsenic . Several witnesses having been examined , the jury returned a verdict of " Natural death from Asiatic cholera , " On Monday Mr . William Baker , the coroner , resumed for the fourth time , at the Fountain Tavern , Upper Clapton , the investigation touching
the death of Tames Merritt , which took place in the morning of the 25 th ult , from the effects of arsenic , supposed to have been wilfully administered in gruel by his wife . The coroner having read over the evidence , the jury , after half an hour ' s deliberation returned the following verdict : — " Thatthe deceased James Merritt died from the deleterious effects of a mortal poison , called white arsenic , found in his stomach , but when , hy whom , or in what manner the same had been administered to and taken and imbibed into the stomach , there is no satisfactory evidence to prove . " ___ The foreman of the jury then handed in the following recommendation , signed by thirteen ofthe jury : — "The jury , before they separate , wish to record their opinion regarding burial clubs , as they are at present constituted : they view
with fear , inasmuch as they seem to hold out a premium for the frightfal crime of secret murder , through the facility with wbicb the funeral money is obtained , several cases having recently come to light the facts of which are startling , and on which their fears are founded , besides the many they may presume to have escaped discovery . The jury , in noticing the evil tendency of these burial societies , from which is obtainable a sum of money upon the death of a member , are desirous that they should he differently constituted either by the act of their governors , or that some legislative measure be made to control or guide tbem . " Tha coroner stated thathe hid just received information that the son ot the deceased , a boy eight years of age , had died that afternoon , and he should consider whether it wonld be necessary to hold an inquest on the body .
Suicide bt a Compositor . —On Tuesday afternoon an _inquest was taken before Mr . Bedford , at the St . George ' s Hospital , Hyde Park Corner , on view of ihe body of John "Walker , aged forty-four , a compositor , who committed self-destruction under the following very determined circumstances . The evidence proved that the deceased was employed for many years at the establishment ofthe United Service Gazette , and he had also worked upou several ef the morning papers . He had lately been employed by Messrs . Schultz and Co ., the foreign printers , in Poland-street , Oxford-street , and on last Saturday week he received notice of dismissal , in consequence of intemperate habits . On the beginning of last week he purchased a shilling ' s worth of laudanum , * t the shop of Mr . "Walker , a surgeon , in _SUver-• rtreet , Golden-square , for the purpose of destroying _himself bnt it was taken away from him by Mi * . TJavis . the landlord ofthe Aneel and Crown .
Hedden-street , Regent-street , at whose bouse he lodged . He went to bed quite sober on Saturday night last , and about nine o ' clock on the following morning ho was found in bed bleeding profusely from several wounds in bis throat , which he had inflicted with a razor discovered lying by bis side . The deceased was quite sensible , and said to Mr . Davis , that" he was ashamed to look him in the face , but he was compelled to do it , as he had been in great agony all the week . " The deceased was speedily placed in a cab , and on being removed inside the hospital he was found to be quite dead . _^ Mr . Francis , the bouse surgeon , said the wounds in the deceased ' s throat were not sufficient to cause deatb , and from the appearance of the stomach and intestines , he was of opinion that the deceased had taken some corrosive poison which had caused death . The jury then ad ; jburned the inquiry , for the purpose of having the contents of the deceased ' s stomach analysed .
Stag Hunt Extbaobbinart . —About two o'clock on Tuesday afternoon the inhabitants of Camdentown were astonished at tbe unusual sight of a fine stag , or red deer , _runuinff at foil speed in the direction of _Somers-tbwn , with five hounds in full cry at his heels , followed by . one solitary rider and the huntsman , on horses that had evidently done a hard day ' s work . The . meet of Mr . Bean ' s hounds had been at Hendon , from whence , in a circuitous route the stag broke away for PincWey Common , skirting Coldfalls Wood , and passed Highgate , on to . the nretropoUs . He entered Somers-town by
Brewerstreet , and _tbrOugHvSkinner-street , Phillip ' _s-buildlngs , and Wilstead-s Street , finally crossing the Newroad , with the five hounds close at his haunches . He here made a bolt at the iron gate , leading _though . Mabledon-place into Burton-crescent ; but being headed by two of the hounds , and terrified at the number of vehicles passing in _thetfew-road , he ' _* _HK ' 'V \ the _&*» ' m fron < " <> f the house of _CKS ' - J r l m * stove-grate ¦ _Manufactory ; from 7 _^^ J _?™ _f _^ ° ? dboropen _, he darted into _SLfe _'^ i _** _t _^ sp _^ dily ' _secured . The unusual sight attracted _some _^ _oSinds of persons , policemen to preserve Messrs . Prior ' s railings from
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destruction . Such was the curiosity excited on the occasion that numbers of women and * children , paid a penny each for admission to the ; yard to _; see ; si ) strange a visitor .: The run , from first to last , was over not less than thirty-five miles of ; ground ; and although a strong field had . mustered- in the ; morning , dogs and horses were all fairly beaten except the small remnant who came up at the take . The stag was carted off from Ms resting place about six o'clock , amid the cheers , of many hundreds of spectators . ' ¦' . :.: _ri j .:,.. ; Fire in Southwark . —0 n _» Wednesday : afternoon , shortly before two o ' clock ,- a fire broke out in the premises belonging to Mr . Wilcoxon , paper-stainer , situate in _Lant-sireet , Southwark . 'The flames commenced on the first floor workshop , a spacious
building extending over three houses , and were caused as follows : —The workmen having gone to dinner , they left a great quantity . of paper ; on tho frames to dry . The draught from one of the open windows caused one of the lengths to . fall against a patent stove , and it instantly ignited . __ The flames then communicated with other pieces of paper , and the consequence was , that in less than five minutes the spacious floor presented one immense sheet of flame . The engines of the parish , London brigade , and "West of England company quickly attended , and tho firemen happily succeeded in getting the fire out , but not until the whole of the stock in trade was destroyed , and the premises very seriously burned . Brilliant Mbieob . —On Monday night , about a quarter befor _» eleven o ' clock , a brilliant meteoraccording to all accounts intense beyond any record in modern times—was seen throughout the metropolis . The direction in which it travelled appears
to nave been Irom W . to JE ., and it . is described by observers as having been remarkable for the beauty and variety of ita _coltura , the intensity of tho light proceeding from it , and the length of time during which it was visible . The body , when first seen , resembled a large hall of fire , ; ofa deep red colour , and the course , traversed by it seemed to . be a curve , in its passage over which it gradually acquired the appearance ; of a broad stream of fire of various hues— -green , crimson , purple , violet ,, _t & o . The light evolved was so vivid as . to approach that of noonday , and cast very strong shadows on the ground . Immediately before it , disappeared , its light seemed to be concentrated , when it burst like a rocket , producing an explosion the echoes of wbich resembled distant thunder . One of the most remarkable circumstances , attending the phenomenon was its long continuance , . which extended to five or sis seconds . It was simultaneously observed in various parts of the kingdom . | ¦
Pboceemngs of the Board op Health . —Among the parliamentary papers issued on Tuesday is an extract from the minutes of the proceedings of the General Board of Health . It consists : of the following resolution : — " That it -has been established by the commissioners for inquiring into the means of improving the health of towns , as . a general principle of legislation which has been confirmed by subsequent inquiries made under the metropolitan sanatary commission , and adopted by the legislature as a fundamental provision , of the ' Public Health Act , and which , - so far as this Board has proceeded with its own investigations ,
appears tobe equally applicable to the metropolis , that the works for supplying the public with water should be under tho same public jurisdiction or management with works of drainage , paving , and surface draining . That—apart from the merits of any particular scheme of new water-works , and pending further investigations as to ; the practical means of applying the foregoing principle to the metropolis—it is inexpedient to sanction the investment of fresh capital in - the same field bf supply , as it is probable that the new works will have to be re-purchased , and there can he no security that these will be applicable to the arrangements that may be hereafter recommended , _iri-rniii _^ _B _^ mi i i i " i
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A Mas Roasted . —The _Skerbomn Journal says : — - "We scarcely ever have had to chronicle a more revolting outrage than was perpetrated a few days ago in the parish of Compton Dundon . near this ' town . A small farmer , named Edward Allen was drinking in the houseof his tenant ,. a man named Paul Hill . He had purchased a quantity of cider of Allen , who had given them a bucket full or " two oyer , and a party _« f seven or eight persons were merry' making over the apple juice . Some of the . party proposed to send for tobacco , and asked Allen fur money , which be refused . In order to compel him to pay his portion , they blocked np the chimney corner in which he was sitting , and heaped fresh fuel on the fire , keeping
him there for a period of , it is said , two hours , and literary roasting him . When the poor fellow essayed to get off his ' small clothes , the skin of his legs came off with His garments , and be now lies in a vet ; _dangerousstate . j" . x Silver Lode . — A very valuable silver lode has been discovered on Ell Bridge estate , the property . of Mr . W . Wymoud , in the parish of Landulph . about four miles from Saltash , on the direct Callingtonroad . Applications have been repeatedly made for the pant twenty years for a grant ofthe sett , which , however , could not be obtained until about a _fortnight since , the proprietor not believing his estate
contained any mineral , and _supposing that his land would be broken up to no' purpose . . Operations were commenced on Monday , week last , and when only three feet from the surface , a valuable lode of silver _, lead ore was opened on , Bhowing that the opinions of the practical miners are correct . The ore taken from it , having been " carefully essayed , produced ten in twenty for lead , and 200 ounces of silver in the ton ore . The shaft has since been sunk about four fathoms , where the lode is four feet big , and -the ore found to be of much greater richness . __ This is one of the richest lodes ever seen in our locality so near the surface _.
The Old Oak of Ross . — This gigantic tree , which has for centurios been an ohject of attraction to the'Jtown . of Ross , was destroyed by fire on the Gth inst . The *"" " old oak of' Rbss'f is supposed to have been 1 , 500 years old . The circumfereRceat _^ hebase was fifteen yards , and eleven yards at three feet from the ground . Its destruction was caused by some boys lighting a fire in its trunk ; and , notwithstanding the efforts ofthe people , assisted by the town engine , it was all but totally destroyed , nothing being' left hut a heap of blackened ruins . EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT SWINDLING AT BIRMINGHAM . —One ofthe most impudent and barefaced attempts __ at ; swindling which have ever occurred in this neighbourhood has just been
exposed , by an investigation which took place before the local magistrates , at Biliton , on Saturday last . The party who felt most interest in the result of this inquiry was a respectably- dressed'foreigner , Count Von "Wladdislaw by name , according to his address card , and belonging to Hungary , Poland , Prance , or Germany , as best suited his convenience . The " Count first comes under onr notice , from the dis . closure now made , as a guest of Mr . Clements , landlord ofthe Royal Exchange Inn , Dale-end , Birmingham , where he arrived on the evening of Saturday , the 19 th , ult , having come in a car from the railway station . During his stay there he . lived in a style becoming an Hungarian noble , and on an early day he took Mr . Clements into his confidence , and gave
him a bit of information worth knowing , The " Count ' s" elder brother had been living with a female at Glasgow , and had become , so infatuated with her that he had given her the titles deeds ofa valuable property in Hungary . She was ignorant of their value-and the "Count" being anxious to get possession of them , he proposed that Mr . Clements should go to Glasgow as his agent , and offer the woman -65 , 000 tor the documents ; if he was succesful he should have £ 500 for himself . The offer was too tempting to be refused , and was at once accepted , with a proviso ( at the suggestion of a friend of Mr . Clements ) that the Count should pay his expenses to Glasgow , and give him £ 5 to bring him baoK . This was joyfully accede d to , and the evening * of the
following Saturday was fixed for the start . Mr . Clements was duly apparelled for the journey on the evening in question , when the Count left the house for a moment , as he said , but forgot to return . Thus was the landlord of the Royal Exchange " done " out of a prospective £ 500 , as well as the amount of his guest ' s board and lodging for- the week .: While the Count was staying at Mr . Clements ' , he was introduced to a Mr . Alfred Somerville _, partner in a Brussels firm engaged in the iron trade , to whom he stated that he was commissioned to purchase engines . & c , for the Cracow Railway Company , and asked his advice as to the most proper parties in Birminhain with whom he conld deal . Mr . Somervillo recommended him to Messrs Boulton and Watt , ofthe
Soho works _^ and having gone'there , the Count ordered two pairs of marine engines , of one hundred and forty horse power , and two pairs of eighty horse power , with iron boats to suit the same , which he said were to be used on the Danube in connexion with the Cracow Railway . He signed a contract to the amount of £ 27 , 000 , giving references in London as to his responsibility , and agreeing to pay £ 10 , 000 in a week . In the course of conversation with , Mr . Blake , one ofthe managers at the Soho , the Count mentioned that there were a number of Hungarian refugees iu Birmingham who were desirous of emigrating , but had not the means of doing so , and Mr . Blake offered him a £ 5 note as a contribution for
that object . The Count refused it , however , saying be could give more himself , doubtless thinking that Mr . B ' akewould increase the amount . : We are hot aware . whether this was done _; but from the inquiries which he subsequently made , Mr . Blake was induced to suspect that his customer would not be a veiy profitable one , and the contract was therefore'immediately . cancelled . After ; leaving Mr .- Clements ' _, house ; we find the Cqmit ina _daypr two distributing the orders he had been commissioned , to execute ; for the ,, Ci » co" _7 , : B « ilw ; in the _. ine _^ burhdod -of Wed-t _nesbury _andBuston , including ., a . 5 ( K ) 'horse power _stationary engine from _Messrs Perry , ofthe Highfield Foundry ; five hundred railway axles , from Messrs . Uoyd , Foster , and Company ; an eighty-
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horse power _high-pres * ure , engine . from Mr . Joseph SpenVer , bf , BHston _, and _SSUtons of _beststeel from ' a manufacturer , > t Moxley . of course , the , Count , in giving his orders , vdiscussed _. the merits of a few bottles of wine , at _^ expense of those whom be was honouring with his commands , biit this appears"tb have been the extent ofthe immediate benefit he derived . He wanted to borrow £ 5 from the Moxley steel manufacturer , under the pretence thathe had lost his purse in coming from the Willenhall Railway Station ; but this at once opened the eves of the other to the real character of his customer , and he tore up thecontract ; We next discover the Count in the custody of Inspector Thompson , at Bilston , by whom he was brbitght up at the public-office , as We . ;
have already stated , in order that it might be ascertained whether his doings brought him within reach ofthe hw . After due consideration , however , the magistrates , E . B .. Dimmack and John Jones ' _Esqrs , were of opinion that there was no evidence sufficient to warrant a conviction / and the Count was therefore discharged . The bench expressed a wish that' publicity might be given to the circums ' ance , for the purpose of putting the public on their _guards The Count has a Jewi « h appearance , is about thirty years of age , 5 feet 8 inches high , ef a dark complexion' has dark hair and whiskers , and wears a moustache and imperial . He speaks the English language imperfectly . _Feabfto Coimkrt Explosion at Stourbridge . —
A shocking colliery explosion , attended with tho loss of four lives , has happened this week at the _Dudley-woodcoal-pit _. atthe Five Ways , near this town , belonging to Messrs . Pargeter and " Darby , in reference to which an inquiry was commenced on Friday before the coroner . The circumstances of the explosion are somewhat singular , and may be attributed to the-effects ofthe hurricane of Tuesday night . The pit is 120 yards deep , and below the coal is an iron mine , one engine working both niines , there being a separate shaft for each , though they aro connected with each other below the ; surface ; A skip was descending the coal shaft at the timo of the explosion , and was hurled out to an extraordinary height in the air by the explosion , some
portions ofit falling at a distance of 100 yards from the mouth of the pit . In consequence of the rush of foul air from the pit it was some time hefore any person could descend into the mine . It should be explained that the two mines are ventilated in connexion , an opening being made between them by which the fresh air was passed from the coal mine into the iron mine , and then passed outward . The explosion had by some unaccountable process of nature reversed these currents of air , and this being discovered , an intrepid fellow , named John Webb , descended the iron shaft , and climbing into the coal mine , ' with a safety lamp in his hand , ; was the instrument of saving several unfortunate miners who were in a state of exhaustion in the pit ., - Others
followed Webb , and the miners w ere got out before midni ght , though four of . _them-r-named Joseph Warwick , ayouth named Griffiths ( son of the superintendent , who was also in the mine , and was blown some distance ) , and two brothers named Websterwere killed . Most ofthe men ( fourteen in number ) who survived were burnt ; Griffiths , the superintendent , has received some very serious injuries , and is in a precarious state . The cause of tho accident can only be surmised , thoug h ' it is pretty clearly traceable to the effect of the hig h south-west wind ef Tuesday evening . _Thewbrkings of the mine extend in a southerly direction from tho shaft , and , it is thought thatthe fire commenced about midway between the shaft and the head of the workings , near a "bolt hole" leading to an old working now
dammed off , where an inequality in the roof of the mine would allow of some little accumulation of the vapour undetected . The pit is occasionally liable to be charged with sulphur ; some four or five years ago eleven men were killed in it by a similar explosion . It appears that when tho wind is in a southerly direetion , or shortly before a fall of rain , sulphur accumulates inthe pit , and then safety lamps are used , though " at other times the ; miners work with naked lights , and this was the case when the explosion took place . Itis supposed that the high wind disturbed the foul air from , some branches of old workings , supposed to be securely dammed up , and thus escaping to the p lace where the men were at work with naked candles the explosion took place .
Sbrious Accident to a _CiiEROYMAN . _—AB the Rev . John Lowe , rector of Ardley , Oxon , was proceeding on horseback between that place and the neighbouring village of Middleton , the horse , a young spirited animal , became very _restive , and commenced rearing and plunging furiously . Mr . Lowe _. whpl is some- ; what advanced in years , aware , of , the _, imminent danger he was placed in , endeavouredi'tp retain his seat as much as possible , but at ' leiigthpe animal reared and fell baok to tho ground ; Therev ; gentler man was thrown with considerable violence , and sustained internal injuries of a serious character from the animal falling upon him . When the occurrence took place , being some distance from any dwelling ; some time elapsed before he could obtain the requisite assistance to convey him home . Not the slightest hopes were held out of his recovery . The sad event has bast a gloom over the whole parish , from' the estimation in which the rev . gentleman is heldi
Ashwbll _. ' -The late Fire ;—We are enabled to state that the exact number of cottages occupied by persons who have ; by reason of their misfortunes , become for a time dependent upon the public bounty was 26 , and that of their occupants 125 ; most of these latter were labourers in the employ of persons inthe neighbourhood . The church has been given up as a temporary asylum for these poor creatures , and a subscription haa been started for . their relief . In addition to other person-:, Messrs , _Mortlock ; bankers , and we believe aU the other bankers of Cambridge , have consented to become recipients of the bounty of the charitable . About six months ago an attempt was maae to fire tbe same barn ih , which the fire
originated .. A piece of tarred rope , which had been ignited , was found thrurst into the thatch on the first attempt , hut it is supposed that the dampness of the night then prevented the cosummation of the project of the villanous incendiary . , The Phoenix Fire-office will . be sufferers to the extent of about £ 20 , 000 ; and the remainder of the insurances for the property destroyed had been effected principally in the Norwich Union and Suffolk officers . No lives were sacrificed . A poor half-witted fellow has been _missing since the night ofthe fire , but itis presumed he has wandered away , as no sign of hig having perished has been discovered . A wall fell upon three men who . were working at the fire , and fractured the arm of one of them—the others escaped with some slight bruises .
Fall of the Cliff near _Dovsn . —On the 6 th inst owing to the sudden thaw , a tremendous fall of the cliff occurred between St . - Margaret's and Kingsdown , Itis supposed that some thousand tons of chalk have fallen ; the road is entirely blocked up , being buried for a considerable distance from 20 to 30 feet , and the chalk extending from the bass of the cliff to many feet below high water mark . I ¦ Kent . —Darino Burglary . —A few nights ago a gang of ruffians made an attack on thb house of Mr . _TSUis , a grocer , at Beltring , whioh is about a mile from the Yalding station , and within a hundred yards of tho Bell Inn . He also occupies a few acres of land . His man was instructed to call him at
three o ' clock on the morning of the 28 th ult ., but about one o ' clock he heard a noise , and supposing it to be his man , he opened the window , and saw three men on the outside with a ladder .. Mr . Ellis and his wife attempted to escape , when a man appeared at the window , who broke a pane of glass , threw up the sash window , and entered the room . It was a remarkably fine moonlight night , and the man ' s face was elearly recognised . Mr . and Mrs . Ellis ran down stairs , and Mrs . Ellis made an attempt to escape by the back door , but encountered a man with a stick in his hand , who aimed a blow at her , which fortunately missed her . She -then rah into the house and concealed herself till the robbers
had left ; hut the moon allowed her to have a full view of _theiJrufBans" features . ' 'Mr * Ellis in returning up stairs met the man who had got into the room at . the top of them , in the act of lighting a lucifer match , which again gave him an excellent opportunity of recognising him . The man immediately closed on Ellis , and called on his companions to bring a- knife . -Mr . Ellis , however , extricated himself fromthe . ruffian ' s grasp ; , and in making his iway to . the road , , met the man -who had Btruck at Mrs . Ellis—who gave him a tremendous blow on the head and caught hold of him . He ultimately released himself , but was followed by the fellow into the ; road , who hit ; him another blow on the shoulders . Ellis then commenced runnin _g and
calling for _. _assistance , when the , men made off without taking their booty , leaving two caps behind them . Four men were subsequently apprehended , anp _> three ol them wero identified as having taken part % _ff _$ he outrage , and were fully committed for trial . A search was made in the house in whioh they lived , and , in a cave , a variety of articles were found concealed among others , a brine tub , with mutton fat in it , and a collection of housebreaking implements , a large pistol , and a most formidable dirk . ' ¦ _- ., " ¦ i - . INCENMABT FlRB . —COOKHAM , _BERKSi—CU Suhday night , about half-past ten o ' olobk , afire broke out in the farm homestead belonging to Mr . -Phillips , which there is no doubt was the act of an
incendiary . The flames were first seen issuing from the barn : at ; tbe south-western corner of the _premiseB , and in the short spaco of two hours the whole of the farm buildings and implements , with three ricks of bay and an oat-rick , were entirely consumed . There was a large stock of poultry , which , with four fat hogs , was destroyed . Tho farmyard is situated in the centre of the , village , close to the street ,. and had the wihd . contmued _as _. high as it had been during the day , most probabl y the whole ofthe houses on that side of the way _wbuld-have been cohsumed ... ' - The property is '' insured , in the West of England and Phcenix _fire-officos . _iThisis the seventh fife that hashappehed in " this _neiehb ' ouihob . d . witlii _4 the last six months . ""' ' ' "'" '•""" * Defalcation of another Savings Bank Actuary . —In consequence ofthe late exposures ofthe Roch-
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dale arid other savings banks , _, the managers ef the Dartford bank adopted _meahs . ' ofhaving . _the ; books and accounts examined by ah examining committee of managers arid ' anaccouritnnt ' ehtirely . uric ' onnected with ., the establishment . Tho first meeting of the committee was held at ' . the ' Bull Ihhi on Saturday , th e 2 nd instant , wheh . ; about " 200 . book 3 were produced , arid as far as they were examined no , errors , were detected ... In the evening the secretary , ' Mr . Pain , calling on Jardine , tho actuary , sawadepositor ' s book lying there , which he opened , and found it differed nearly £ 100 from the ledger . He charged himself with having made a mistake , when the actuary confessed that he had committed fraud to the amount of about - £ 1 , 000 . This becoming , known riL . _' _i-, _«* A _kihA _* anvui _^ a l _™* nlra ' "H it * _marirtrrers of thc
to , some of the managers , Jardine was allowed till Monday , the 4 th , to examine his books , oil which day ho _. _Baid he was a defaulter to the amount of -62 , 000 . - A riieetingof the managers was held on Wednesday , at which the attendance ' of Mr . Tidd Pratt was secured , and it was ascertained that £ 17 , 559 , Is . 5 d . was safely invested in government securities , and that Jardine had _assigneaall his property to the trustebB , which will produce about £ 700 or £ 800 , and together with £ 1000 , tbe amount of his bond , will go towards the liabilities . . A subcommittee was chosen , consisting of Messrs . Hugh Johnston and John Tasker , and the Rev . James Kin ? , to invpstigate the matter , and to report the result as soon as possible . The business of the
bank is of course suspended . Jardine , with his father , have boen actuaries of this bank for upwards of forty years , and he has hitherto carried on the first drapery business in the town . ; ' Church Rates . — -At the Town-hall , Colchester , on Monday , Mr . E . W . Watts was summoned to show cause why he refused to pay £ 2 18 s ., due as church rates in the parish of" Holy Trinity . Air . Watt said , his reason for refusing to pay was his individualcpn fiction of the inconsistency of contributing to a ministry supported by the state . He had been repeatedly put to considerable expense in distraints and sales of goods , and considered it very
oppressive : he might state as another of his reasons the command of our Saviour to his Apostes : — ?' Freely ye have received , freely give . " It was from no pertinacious obstinacy that he objected to pay ; nor froni his acting on the conviction of others ' , he was guided only by his own convictions . —Mr , COoke said the magistrates respected every man s opinions , but it was a question they could not enter into . T-The Mayor also said the bench has no power , except to carry out the law . —Mr . Charles Marriage , or Abbeygatc-street , was also summoned on alike aocountj his rates amounted to 9 s . —Warrants of distress were issued in both cases . '•¦'" :
Explosion on the York ; Newcastle , and Berwick Railway . —On Tuesday an adjourned inquest on the bodies of John Tinkler and Thomas -Wilson was held at Darlington . The unfortunate men were killed by the bursting of the boiler of a' steam engine on this line last week ., After the examination of witnesses , the jury returned the following verdict , viz . *— " That John Tinkler and Thomas Wilson came tb their death by the explosion of a locomotive engine , No . 35 , on the 2 nd Feb . inst ., but how that explosion was , caused we have no satisfactory evidence to show . ; We also ; recommend that the company pro vide , vans to every train for the conveyance of the goods . " Francis Howe , the _giiard _^ . who was blown a great distance , still lies in a ' _veryi-preoaribus state . ; from Shameful
Staffordshire . —Death Neglect . —On the 8 th inst . an inquest was held at Bradley , on the body of Thomas Cox , a boy about nine years of age , whose death resulted from the reprehensible though common practice of leaving old coal pits without any fence around or any covering over them . ; The deceased , who lived at Bradley , left home on the previous Wednesday morning , with his father , for the purpose of going toworkin a coal pit , near Darlaston . When they got into Mr . Loxdale ' _s field , nearPotter ' s Bridge , the deceased ' s hat was blown off , ' and they ; bbth ran after ita _shorj . distance It began to rain , and deceased ' s fatheT desired _^ him to go . into a hovel close"b y , whilst he ( the father ) looked for the hat . As the morning was dark and windy , he could not find the hat ; . and in going to tbe hovel to meet his son , he had , using his own words , " a very narrow escape of his life , in not falling into an old pit , which was exposed
without any fence round or over it . He oouid not find his son , and it then ocourred to him that he had fallen down the pit . Some tackling was obtained , and the deceased brought up , with his head fractured , both his legs brokeri , and otherwise dreadfully crushed , quite dead . " The pit in question , " the boy ' s father said , "is . an old coaf pit , situate in the Old Squirrel field , near Bilston , the property of Mr . Loxdale , and inthe occupation of Mr . William Baldwin , of Bilston , coal and iron master . " A public road passes within twenty yards ofthe pit in question , and there is no fenco against either the road or the pit . The pit is about thirtyfive yards deep . There are two or three other pits near the ono in question in an equally dangerous state . " The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death ; " expressing an opinion that "there had been great want of proper ; attention and care on the part of the occupier of the pit in ., question in not having seen that it was properly protected . "
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Daring Highway Robbery . —On the evening of the 7 th inst . as Mr . W . H . _Apperley , land agent , was returning froni Abergavenny towards Hereford in his gig alone , he was stopped by three men in the parish of Llangua , at a lonely part of the road near the river , but elevated some eight or ten feet above the stream . „ Upon Mr . Apperley perceiving the intention ofthe one man who was foremost , he began to flog his horse . The man having caught the veins , and Mr . Apperley continuing to use the whip , the horse and gig were brought almost from the opposite side apainst the hedge upon the river side of the road . Mr . Apperley now observed the other resistance
two men coming to assist , and tbat was useless ; anfhaving a sum of money upon his person , he leaped from the gig over the fence down into a strip of land adjoining tho river , the field beinghere many feet beiow'the road ; almostbefore he regained his feet , he heard the horse and gig roll over the fence also . He ran . for assistance , and found three nien at home in a cottage not three hundred yards distant , who immediately returned with bim ; they found the horse and gig ) the latter doubtless upset in its passage across the fence ) near the river . The highwaymen had evidently . followed the gig down to the place , and ransacked the contents where it thus stood ; the driving-box was
broken open , but , only containing papers , they were thrown down , as was the lamp-box ; the only booty , therefore , they obtained , was a letter-case , in which were some tracings of maps , valuations of land , a rental book , and about five or six French coins , which from , the rattle , they no doubt thought a prize . Fortunately , not the least damage was sus * tained by either horse , gig , or harness . Mr . Apperley having sent a communication to the police at Abergavenny , proceeded on his journey , to Hereford . Mr : Apperley upon nearly all occasions travels with a six-barrel pistol , but unfortunately left it at home on this occasion , not expecting to be detained in Abergavenny so late .
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Glasgow Harbour . —We have much pleasurein noticing that the magnifieant first-class steamer Asia , ivhich was recently launched at Greenock , has arrived in our harbour , having been tugged up from the former port . She has been placed alongside of the Simoom frigate , atLancefield quay , preparatory to getting in her engines . « tc ., which , have been constructed by the Messrs Napier . The same tide that brought up the Asia floated along with it the largest trading vessel which , we have authority for saying , has yet entered our harbour . This was the American-built ship . Huguenot , Captain _, * W . Gardner ,
freighted , with a cargo of cotton from Savannah , from whence she made an excellent passage . Notwithstanding her great size , measuring , we believe , _nearlyJ _. OOO tons register , her draught of water was not . _solgreat as that of many vessels of inferior , tonnage which havegot alongside of our wharfs , being only 16 i feet . This is accounted for by the circumstance of her cargo being entirely cotton , of which she has no fewer than 3 , 500 bales . on board , the largest cargo of . this description which has ever been landed at Glasgow . Now that the capabilities of the river are becoming better known , we may calculate upon seeing more frequently as large , if not larger ships in our basin . — -jNbrtfc British Mail .
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Tehant-Hight'movement.— The State Of The...
_Tehant-hight'Movement . — The state of the northern province is daily becoming more alarming . In all directions the tenant-farmers are meeting , to denounce the Protectionist movement , to complain of the : "invasion of tenant-right , " and to demand reductions of rent suitable to the present prices of produce- In various counties the spirit of alienation between the owners and occupiers is extending . The meetings are generally ; . . held- in the Presbyterian meeting-houses , and several of the clergy of that , denomination have taken a leading part in the proceedingsfor the ;" ¦ legalisation ** bf _tenantrright , the
abatement of ; , rcnt 9 , and the establishment of legal protection on . behalf of tenant property . " In some instances speeches of a violent and communist chafaotev have been delivered , but in general a tone at once firm and moderate has been adopted by the speakers At Corhber , 6 n ; the estate " of . the Marquis of Londonderry , ayery numerous meeting was held on the Yth i _^^^^ _r- _PNu _^ _tturittt _^ _eetibgllibiiiie of the _mrt'Xm _to _* : , _K-The following were among' the resolutions adopted :- ! -,- ? , . _,- ' . V , - ,, ¦ J _i _^^^^ _- _^ _% _^^^ _# to 1 " -- * of . the _PrQteofton , _ofj agncultural _, preduce an ' unwisc and hopeless attetopt "to keep lip-landlord exactions at the expense of the public interests ; and , wc be-Jieye , every ta _? on the _bread "» the people , wliich
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renders the _suateptatiori " of human life more difficult , * ° _^' r' % fi " jr ? at public wrong .-We therefore'demand that the principles of _"Free-tradei which have , been adopted / by our _legislators-with regard . to food , be _*>*? . hy _themextendedltb land _/ iyhicli produces food , . That compensatioH for what are called ' iinex _* _- hausted improvements' is only one simple element in the tenant-right of Ulster / , and that no measure of tenant-right legalisation , which is based upon this element alone , can be satisfactory to the tenantrpnr-lpra triDuiVc . _fft-r . _fWi-: _l ;„ _APi . ; , _« , «« i : * v » _«* -. _*• - , - / -. _^ . _'ffiAMU'
farmers of this country , or can be accepted by them as a remedy for the existing grievances of the agricultural population ; -but , on the contrary , every merely fragmentary measure of this , nature shall receive our united and most determined opposition . ' ? ¦ Someof the . most extensive farmers in the county Dbwn attended this meeting . The Banner of Ulster , remarking upon the proceedings , assorts that some of the tenant farmers in the district have committed _sulcids , in consequence of despair , arising from their embarrassments . ' _'• ¦ •' ¦ _,
Two more fireB are mentioned in the last accounts —one near Donaghadee ,- on a farm from which the tenant bas been recently ejected ; the other near Rathfriland , where the house ofa flax-dresser , named Doyle , was burned on Thursday night the 7 th inst . Thb Encumbered Estates CoMMissioN .- _** The landed property of Ireland is rapidly passing into the Encumbered Commission Court , The petitions for the sale of estates now amount to nearly four hundred and fifty . ' The last batch of thirty-one , filed between the 1 st and Gth _instrtnt , contains the names of several extensive proprietors , but the remarkable feature In this list is ; that some of the landlords—for instance , Messrs . QustavusW . Lainbert , John Hyde , Oliver D . J .. Grace , and others—are petitioners for the Bale of their own estates . _^ And this is by no means surprising ; for they will thereby at once escape the meshes of Chancery , and obtain all the inexpensive facilities of the Encumbered Commission Court _.,-.
Representation of Sligo . —Sir Robert Gore Booth , Bart ., has addressed the electors of Sligo . lie says : — - "My constant residence in this county has made many of you personally acquainted with me , and others most probably have a knowledge of my principles . They are—national , as regards Ireland , and Conservative as regards the United Kingdom . I make no pretension to fluency of speech , but hope that you may agree with me in thinking that there are many members of parliament , whose constant attention to parliamentary business during the session would be more useful to their , constituencies than tbeir speeches . " The Sligo Champion says ihat Sir Robert s return " is beyond question , without his re-, ceiving the slightest opposition . ' *
Irish _Chuijch _IUvbnces and thb Poor . —The Limerick Board of Guardians have adopted a resolution that "tithes should be appropriated totbe ' _support of the poor , "' The Corfc Examiner remarks" This is one of the first effective steps taken in the church direction since 1832 . " Thb Lord MA . ron .-rThe Freeman ' s Journal says , "Two notices of actions for penalties -under the act have already been served on the Lord Mayor , for having presided in bis official capacity at the meetings of the corporation , held on the 1 st and 5 th inst . The person who has undertaken the office of informer is George Powell , who , we are told , is secretary to the Priests ' Protection Society . " ' . The Lat ** Storm . — Considerable damage was
done by . the late storm , in Belfast . Tht Northern Whig states that in the workhouse of that town three boys were killed by the stone and bricks of a Hue , which fell into thc room where they were sleeping . Upwards of a thousand pounds ' -worth of damage was done to the Queen ' s College . About two o ' clock , while the storm was raginj ? with great fury , the chimney of the house of William Cowin , of White Abbey , was blown down ; it fell in through tbe roof to the bed where Mr . and Mrs . Cowan and a young child were lying . The child was killed ; but , fortunately , Mr . and Mrs . Cowan escaped with very slight injuries . ' ;¦ ¦¦ ' ' The gales which have prevailed with little intermission for several days past have at length passed away , but have caused great irregularity in the
arrival ofthe English wails , The accounts of los cs on the coast are numerous . The Diana , screwsteamer , of Water ford , went on shore at the Great Burbo on the 6 th inst .: and on the following day the J . P . Whitney , American liner , from ; Philadelphia , struck on the rocks at the same place , and went to pieces , the crew having , however , been saved . On the western coast the effects ofthe tempest are described as . Laving been terrific , huge rocks on the shore having been moved by the waves to a considerable distance ; and numbers of houses having been levelled or unroofed along the coast . At Omagh the church spire was struck by lightning and much injured . Several cattle were killed in the same neighbourhood by tht electric fluid , and trees unrooted by the foree of the
storm . The _Ctn'h Examiner states that Dr . Sleigh / of - London ; a member of the council of the National Reform Association , has arrived in Cork , on a tour through Ireland , for the purpose of organising in this country associations to co-operato with the body in England in carrying out the reform policy ofthe present movement . Thb Commission- Court . —The eeremony of opening the Commission of Oyer and Terminier on Monday was distinguished from ordinary occasions of the kind by the circumstance of Mr . Reynolds ' attending , with great civic pomp , to assist in _openinu the court as Lord Mayor . The presiding judges were Baron Pennefather and Mr . Justice ; Torrens .
The former learned judge warmly shook hands with Mr . Reynolds , and both judges subsequently entered into conversation with him , and rose and bowed him out when he was leaving court . They took pains , indeed , to show that they differed in opinion from Messrs . Walker aud Wauchob of the corporation , as to the degree of deference which was to be paid to the hon . gentleman while continuing to occupy the seat of Lord Mayor ; Repeal Association . — Mr . John O'Conneil informed ; his Burgh-quay friends on Monday that it was his intention to retain his seat for Limerick
until ' some important question came before the house , and if unable then to attend , he would insist on his constituents' acceptance of his resignation , as his " circumstances " —the old story—would not permit him to lead a parliamentary , life . The rent was but £ 9 some odd shillings and pence—Mr . O'Conneil attributing this marked " want of confi _« dence" to the fact of his having entered into any negotiation with the Young Ireland party . ' * So you see ; " pathetically whined the hon . gentleman , " I am blamed by both parties , " and the result is an empty exchequer and as empty benches at Conciliation-hall .
The Victims of Starvation . —The minutes of evidence taken at inquests on the victims of starvation in some of the western and south-western unions of Ireland , still disclose scenes worthy of the worst period of the famine . At an inquset held on the 30 th ult ., at Knockbreck , in the Kilrush Union , onthe body of Michael Clancy , the daughter of the deceased , stated in her evidence . '—That he had five in family , and himself aad his ; wif _«; they were getting two stone of meal a week ; they uBed not to get it regularly ; they only got one stone for the whole family on Thursday ; week ; they had nothing else to subsist on since , except they got something from the neighbours . . While the stone of meal held they eat two meals a day , but had not enough in each meal . All
the meal was eaten on Saturday night ; they had nothing siace but a teacup of meal and a few heads of cabbage which witness got from the neighbours : witness's deceased father . partook of his portion of the teacup of meal and cabbage ; ho had not enough ; he would have eaten more if he had got it . He died on Monday , about 12 o ' clock . He drank the cabbage water on Sunday evening , as he had notenongh in the cabbage .. Deceased had no complaint ; he was as well the day hefore he dM a » be waa for some time . He was weak from hunger . If he had enough to eat he would not have died so soon , The family have nothing to live on to-day . Looking forthe meal is what caused her mother ' s absence that day . —And Bridget _Eustnce _, sister-in-law to the deceased ,
deposed that : —Michl . Clancy lived with witness , for about two months , until he left about seven or eight days ago . He wat brought baok to her house the day he died , as his own hut was too small , and it was almost impossible for any person to get into it , it was so low . He bad to creep in and out ofit him : self . He was getting two stone of meal for himself and family weekly . He did not get his meal regularly since about ten days before Christmas , until the second last supply ; and . tbe last supply was only half tha complement . He and his family were for twelve days trusting to four . pounds of meal . Deceased was delicate when he came to live with her ; but he told her it was want of food caused his ill health . They , had not enough of meal at any time . They were days ¦ on one meal , and . were frequently for three days without meal at all , having only a few turnips which merely kept the breath in _tham . — The verdict was of course " Died from starvation ; » <
but these things surely do hot take ¦ place , in the midst of abundance , in any other part ofthe world . A correspondent of the limerick and Clare Examiner writing from Newcastle "West , mentions thc following horrifying act ;—The body of unfortunate John Harnett , on whom the inquest was lately held , was on Monday dragged from his grave by dogs , and was devoured by . them . ; Thb Lo _* - *» Mayor ' s Cass . —A . meeting of tho coporation was held on Tuesday when it was resolved , on the motion of Mr . Hamilton , one of the ' conservative members , that no further discussion should take place there as tothe validity , or otherwise _^ of the retention of office of Lord Mayor by Mr . Reynolds ; but that that question . should be left to the proper tribunal to decide ,- and the ordinary business ofthe coporation ibe proceeded with . iiThis _* termination of the unseemly proceedings whichhave lately disgraced that ¦ body ' gives -satisfaction ; to all- ; classes of the _oitizensi-i- ' ' X . _ml l _? s j , x / ; i ;; , _v ; " ' . '' ' _^ 7 ' .
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Gale.On The Astern-Coast-Of Scot' ' Land...
GALE . ON THE _ASTERN-COAST-OF SCOT ' ' LAND ; AND 'L ' OftSlO ? LIFE-DESTBtfCTIOif : * BYFIRE / OPA STEAMER ; ' : ' _^ . 'The Ayr _Advtrtiiirmyii- ' "The / western coasfc has , been visited by , a hurricane , such : as has not been experienced for , a lengthened period-4-no sale of equal ' severity _^ or of so lengthened'duration h ad taken place . since Jan . 7 , 1839 . About mid-day of Tuesday , the Sth inst ., tho wind rose to a ' consider _, able height . ; Gradually it increased till about twelve o ' clock at night , when it blew a complete"h _* _iri-icane , It attained its height about four o ' clock on Wed . _nesday morning , and continued for fullythree hours with tremendous force . - Duringthe whole of Wed , nesday it still blew with much violence , while at in , tervals heayj * falls of rain and hail took place . Froa > _riiTw _' _nw'Vrtm nn _*^ _.
inland situations we learn that in the towns * and vil , lages of the county of Ayr , as well as in the mora exposed landward districts , no small amount of da . mage has been done ; but that sinks into _insip-nifi " cance when compared with the serious events which have occurred in the Firth of Clyde , and _thedisasten sustained by tho ¦ . . shipping along the coast . "At Ayr , the large , number of vessels in the har hour , and the heavy fresh in the river , combine d to render the hurricane more serious in its results than it might otherwise have ; boen . Many vessels _brokn from their moorings , and received c onsiderable da majfe . The scene of confusion and- disorder m ! heightened by other , minor occurrences " whioh scarcely call , however , for special notice ' / _althoush involving on the whole , serious loss to inaiiv of it craft lying in the harbour . " . . . _«* J _* WW «
Vksskw Ashore on the . CiRRrcit Coast _ q Men _Drownbo . —The casualties on the wild root bound coast of _Carrick are possessed of a _deerii and more melancholy interest than any of h . _nth _^ we have to record , inasmuch as they have been af tended by the sacrifice of six human lives . ' - At niaa o ' clock on the morning of Wednesday , the baroua Margaret , of Greenock ( _Nbrries ) _, bound _wittf a cargo of cotton for Greenock , having left j _* Orleans on the 31 st of December , went ashore a bout a quarter ofa mile to the north of _Duniire . She went ashore stern on ; ropes , were speedily passed to the shore , and by the aid of a number or . Dunure fishermen , whose zeal and activity merit due praise , the crew were safely rescued from their perilous
position . ' About two 0 clock one of the crew , a young man , a native of Aberdeen , fancied that by swimming to the vessel he might be able to bring his chest ashore . Arriving at his destination after great exertion , ho caught hold of a rope ' s end suanended from the side of the barque . He seemed to be much fatigued ; and , after holding on for about twenty minutes , he became so entirely overcome , that he sank exhausted into the sea , and was drowned . In the circumstances it was utterly im - possible that any aid could -have been extended to the misguided and ill-fated young man . - On Wednesday morning , the sloop Clauchloudoh ( Sevan ) , bound from Creetown , to which port she belongs , to Irvine , went ashore in Culzean Bay .
The crew , consisting of three hands , all saved . The same morning the barque Jubilee ; of Sunderland ( _M'Gregor , ) bound from Troon to Smyrna , with coals , went ashore on Brest Rock , _fourmiles north _, of Girvan . Many attempts were made to reach the barque , but in vain . The crew , amounting to ten men , took to the sma . ll boat , which , however , shortly grounded upon a rock , and three Ofthe men got out of the . boat for thejpurpose of pushing it off , and were left on a rock . The boat had not got well off when a huge sea rolled over it ; it _! instantly filled , and went down like a stone . One of the men , by extraordinary exertion , managed to swim within reach ol an intrepid lad / "who dashed _throuuh the :
serf and brought him ashore ; while tho captain , who bad attached a life-buoy to his person , was washed inshore , and by a desperate effort on the part ofthe same lad , brought from , deeper water . The other five men who were in the boat perished , and were carried out by the strong current . In the meantime , the three poor fellows left onthe rock were rescued from their dangerous situation by tvro young fishermen , who deserve espeeial notice foe their heroic exertion in venturing on their noble mission amid the terrrible breakers that raged with such unbridled fury . The first mate , who perished , was Mr . W . Anderson , son of the owner of the Jubilee . The vessel has become a total wreck .
Ardhossan . —Isle of Arrah Steamer Burned . — If there were no disasters here directly , resulting from the gale , the blank was fully filled up by the _altAOSt total destruction , by fire , of the Isle of Arran steamer ( Captain Blackley , ) which plies _between this port and the island whose name the vessel beaw . The steamer was to have sailed on Tuesday But this not having been carried into effect , and the boat being advertised to sail on the following ( Wednesday ) morning , her fires were kept on , ana she was ready to start , when , about four o ' clock , flames were perceived circling around the funnel , and over the top of thc boilers . By the ; orders Of Messrs . Barr and Shearer , the men engaged in their
skipbuilding-yard was soon on the spot . From the control that the flames had acquired" over the vessel , as well as from the rough weather , the only alternative left by which they might' save the remaining part of the steamer was adopted—viz ., tha scuttling of the boat . This was immediately carried into effect , and the Isle of Arran sank about five o ' clock . She was burned down to the water ' s edge from the funnel aft . Nothing whatever was rescued from the steamer , so that no inconsiderable amount of property has been sacrificed . She was the property , we believe , of a joint stock company , and partially insured—to the extent of £ 1 , 500 it was generally affirmed .
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Loss oi an _Immmv sear Margate . —On many parts of the coast the wind seems tb have but slightly moderated since Wednesday the 6 th inst ., and many fatal . wrecks have happened even in tha vicinity ofthe entrance of the river . We hare now to add a more calamitous event , viz ., the wreck of a West Indiaman . On the 5 th inst . the Sarah , Mr . Bridges master , bound from Jamiaca for London , made the Margate roads , and , in the course of the forenoon , she was taken in tow by the Trinity steam tug for the purpose of being brought up the Thames . As the day advanced the gale sprung up with destructive fury . The ship and the tug laboured severely , and between three and four o ' clock in tha afternoon , when running through the Prince ' s
Channel , the towing hawser snapped asunder and the ship got adrift . The tug immediately brought up in the hope that the weather might moderate . The wind , however , continued to increase until it blew a perfect hurricane , and about midnight the steamer was driven from her anchorage . " The Sarah was then lost sight of , and from the tempestuous weather that prevailed during the following twentyfour hours and the fact that nothing has been seen of her since , coupled with the circumstance that a quantity of West India produce has been picked up m the vicinity of where she went adrift , a 9 also pieces of wreck , ; apparently of the same class of vessel , there is little doubt that she went to pieces . The number of the crew has not been ascertained ,
or whether there were any passengers on board . During the height of the gale a fine Dutch ship foundered about forty miles south east ol 'he Spurn , on the Lincolnshire coast . It was seen by the True Abstainer , fishing smack , belonging to the Humber . The name of the ill-fated vessel could not be correctly ascertained . In the oourse of Saturday lastca fatal loss was reported at Harwick . A loaded Scotch vessel , apparently , was seen on a shoal in the _Swiii . She waa last going to pieces , and from several circumstances it was believed that the crew perished ; The porta in the neighbourhood of this channel are very busy in repairing vessels disabled in the storm . The Welshman says : — " About ten on the morning of tho Gth inst . a large-sized brig was . driven
violently into the bay , and in a few minutes was helplessly cast on the Cardi gan bar , and so terrific was the sea that in a short time she went to pieces . It is not accurately'known from whence ' she came : she is , however , reported to be the Thetis , of Limerick , bound from Newport to Limerick , with a general cargo . It is positively stated that eleven of the crew have met a watery grave , two only having boen rescued , but at the time our account left nothing was known with certainty . ' - ' # Wreck on ? Lowbstopt . —The Hurlington _, belonging to Mr . John Penman , of Sunderland , Daniel Cole , master , bound "to ' , Southampton with coals , sprung a leak during the late gale . The crew , seven in number , including the captain , worked
thirty , six hours at the pumps without being able to gain on the leak ; and at _half-past two o ' clock a . m . she went down , ' -after breaking in two . The _masta came together like the blades of a pair of shears . The providential rescue of the crew from a watery grave cannot be better described than in the words of one of the survivors : —" . We were about thirty miles off Lowestoft , and _finding the brig was _^ fasf _: sinking from under our feet , we had just time to jump into the long boat with a compass and a uuoket ; and as the brig . went , down the water floated the , Jong-boat from off her deck , and wa had the greatest , difficulty to disentangle the boat from the ropes of the mast , which fell over us . However we got clear ,, in the ; dark , and , with a boisterous sea , we committed _burselres'to the
nreservation of » merciful providence ; . At day lighfi we saw a vessel at a distance , but could not make them perceive our handkerchief , attached to thfl end of one of the oars . . We were benumbed with cold , exhausted by pumping without food , and had not been in bed for three nights , and we had greatdifficulty in bailing the . water out ' of the long boat to keep her afloat , when , about six o ' clock m tha evening we discovered a fishing sloop a-head , being nearly two miles distant ; We immediately _pliel our four oars in the direction of the vessel , which , we . j > erceived _! wasbearihgdbwhbhus _^ . and in half * _" _* ¦ h _W , i ! _which . _appaiei , to us ah age , the fishing smack Ho ., 59 , of _Ostend , _; came close enough to throw us a rope , _whioh-. we made faatirand drew our frail barque alongside-of the sloop ;• the mate of the fisherman , a fine stout young man , immediately jumped _jajo our boat a _£ < j _nndft 9 d tte bws mm
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 16, 1850, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_16021850/page/6/
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