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" LAMBETH . — Thb Accident oh the Sobth-Wsstbbn Railway . —Samuel Brownsmitb , guard , William Jones , engine-driver , and Jamas Flemmlng , fireman , servants of tho South-Weatem railway , ware charged , by order of the directors , with having , by their nef IIgenco caused a serious collision on the line on Friday nig ht week , which led to the death of David Markland , the engine-driver of a passenger train . The first witnew called was Mr Wm . H . Young , tho assistant gaperinjsndent of the South Western line , who deposed that on the preceding evening he loft Southampton et six o'clock fn the tip-passenger train , and oh arriving on Purbright Common , which 1 b oitnated between tho Farnborough and Wolting stations , something was found amiss with the engine , and the trftin was Btsppod . The
eng ine-driver , MarWand , and the fireman got off iot the purpose of repairing the injury to the engine ; and Wbl . tinp , the head-guard of the train , gave directions tohU undor-guard , the prisoner Brovrnsmith , in bis ( witness ' s ) presence , to go back and signal the up-train on the same line of rails to stop . The prisoner did so , When he had been gone about twenty minuted , witness heard , and in faot saw che lights oi a goods train coming towards the stationary train , nnd perceiving that the steam was not Bhut off , he ( Mr Young ) sent a clerk balonging to the company to stop it , but it camo on at a tremendous rate , and ran into the passenger train . The shook was bo great that the carriages in the passeBger train were aeparated , and some of them were forced off the . line to a considerable distance . Markland , the eng ine-driver , who was unfortunate !/ under the engine at the time ,
was found to be Quito doadj having received so serious an injury on his head , tbot his death must have been instaataoeeus . Tha fireman was severely injured , as were also several of the passengers . —Mr Elliott : Did you see the prisoner Brownsinith after he had been sent to signal and Btop tho coming train ?—Mr Yojng : Tos , sir : ha cama up after the accident , and said he held up his hands with the red light , and called out as loud ai he could , but could not make tha driver or fireman on the goods train sen or hear him . —Mr Elliott : . Was it th « duty of BrownBtnith to have taken any other signal with him than that of the red light ' —Mr Young : Y « s , air . Your worship will see by the 47 th rule of the regulations whioh are 1 b tho hands of every servant of the compaDywhat hia duty was . —Mr Elliott here rend the 47 th
, rule which was as follows : — ' In case of any accident occurring Be a » to impede tho pwgveBB of a train , the under-guard shall ha despatched to the nearest station astern the train to give notice thereof , and in bis progress thereto , shall fis at a distance of sir hundred yards from tho point of obstruction a signal to stop , 8 Hd fog signal , so as to indicate danger to the coming train . MeaeurfiS should also be taken by sending the fireman , or soy other available person , to ndvise the agent at the nearest station ahead of the occurrence . ' The fog signals Mr Young described as detonating balls , which were to be placed on the rails at a distance not greater than ono hundred yards opart , aaa which tho engine in passing over broke : thereby causing an explosion , whieh alarmed the persons 1 b charge of the trsin . Mr
Young , in conclusion , said the director * of the line fait it to be their duty , under the circumstance , to send the three prisoners before . a magistrate . —William Whiting deponed , iUi hs was haid-guard of tho piugenger train that l'fc Southampton for Loadon at sis o ' clock on the evening before . The train came at its usual pace until about eight o ' clock , when it arrived at Parbright Common , when the driver blew bis whistle for stopping , and did Btop ; witness got from his usual place and found Marklanfl , the engine-driver , and the fireman on the lino , am ) the fireman said there was something the mat * ter with the engine which must be set to rights , He then requested witness to hold his lamp , and got under , neath ffle engine . Previously to this , however , witness despatched his under guard , Brownsmitb , to signal the
next up train to stop . Morklond , or examining the works of the engine , said the ' executor ' had brok « n away , but he thought he would be able to set it to rights in three or four minutes . He observed him take away a portion of the engine that had broken away , and soon after he soU , * All iii ready now oeo that your panscn . gers are all right . ' Witnoss then left the li ght alongside the eng ine and went to look after the passesgers , and immediately after the goods train came up and ran right into them . Had the deceasSd come from under the engine at the time he said that all was ready his life would have been saved , and ho could not Bay what was toe cause of his staying there , but that he was under the engine at the time of the collision there could bo no doubt . The witness added that , besides the signal sent out by
BrotvDsmitb , there were three signals at the back part Of the passenger train that could be seen on such a night as that of Friday at a distance of a mile and a half at least , if not double the distance , and he ( witness ) was at a less to understand why it was , more particularly as they were on a high embankment , the prisoners Jones and Flemmlng did not sec them in time to have stopped 8 Bd prevented the accident . It was the duty of the pri-SOner Brownsmith to have taken the fog sig nals and placed them on the lino . —G , Tofeald , inspector of police en the line , said be took tho prisoners Jones and Flemming into custody , at an early hour that morning , and Brownnmith he also took into custody between nine and ten o ' clock . The former prisoners said that immediately before the accident they were proceeding at the rate of
nbout twenty . five miles an hour , and had not seen any signals ^ until they observed those behind the passenger train , and they were at that time too near to prevent an accident . The third fviaoner did not make any remark that he recollected . —The prisoner Bronnfmlth , who appeared a very smart fellow aad intelligent man , said that when the train stopped he asked the head guard if he should go back to signal the next train , and did so . Ho proceeded three quarters of a mile , when he saw the goods train coming , and made every effort to make tte driver or stoker seethe signal , < sr hear him , but could not see either of them on the engine . The fog signals were kept in a van , aad a « the night was not foggy , but , on the contrary , quite clear , and the stationary train on a high emimnlsment , and easy to be feon at e considerable distance , he should Bay three miles , he did not
think of using any but tho usual red signal , —The pri . soner Jones , who is also an intelligent man , declared that the night was foggy , and that as soon as he saw t ' te signal at the back of the passenger train he reversed bis engines , and used the utmost meanfl within hfa power to prevent a collision ; but owing to the shortness of the space , tho greasy state of the rails , his coming down an inclined plane , and his having behind him thirty . one tracks heavily'laden with goods , that propelled him forward , in spite of all he could do , he could not avoid the collision , By keeping on his steam he said he was enabled to uie a much greater force to atop the train than by shutting it off . —Mr Elliott said he did not B ' , e that there was anything in the conduct of Brownsmith to justify bis detention , but the other prisoners he should remand until a future day .
Removal of PaisoNias . —Mr Young , the assistant , superintendent of tho South-western Rniiwaj Company , applied to Mr Elliott , at the request of the directors , for an order to remove the prisoners Jones and Fleming , in custody , on suspicion , of causing tho donih of David Markland , to Woking , so that theymight be present atthe coroner ' s inquest , to be hoiden that evening , to suggest any questions to the coroner and jury , or make such statements as they might deem benefioial to them under the circumstances In which they were placed . —Mr Elliott replied that he had no power to givo such an order , that
authority being invested only in the Secretary of State for the Home Department . —Mr Young asked if it was likely the governor of Hommougor-lane Gaol , in whose charge the prisoners were , would sanction their being taken down to Woking in proper custody , the directors being anxious that they should bo present to hear the evidence against thorn . —Mr Elliott replied he did not know , but Mr Young might wait on Mr Keen , and ask him the question—Mr Young said be would do so , but Boon ufter returned ) and said the permission was re « fused .
The Innccbnt Convicted . —Honry Weuman , a stick manufacturer , was placed at the bar before Mr Elliott , on a charge of receiving and disposing of a watoh and gold chain , well knowing them to have bees stolen . In tho month of October last , a young woman , named Mary Ann Turfit , who had been committed from this court , was found guilty , on apparently conclutive evidence , of stealing a silver watch and gold chain , and sentenced to sis months' imprisonment end hard labour at Brixton Hoa 8 o of Correction , Nearly a month after her conviction , and whilo undergoing tho punishment , a little urchin ( tho son of the prosecutris ) made a fall confession that he was the thief ; that hla uncle , Henry Wenman , ( tho present prisoner , ) had disposed of the property for 50 s . ; and that he ( the lad ) had spent the
money . The lad , who 8 & name is James Win . Ward , in consequence of this confession , wag apprehended , and subsequently pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey , when he was sentenced to seven years' transportation . Since his conviction the lad has raa < 3 o some disclosures to the Chaplain of Milbank Penitentiary involving his uncle in the alleged guilt of receiving the silver watch and chain with a guilty knowledge and keeping 45 s . of the money received for himself , and this circumstance led to the prisoner ' s apprehension . Tho prisoner entered into a engthened statement in his defence , said that the charge was brought through mere spits and molico , and declared ho had sold the watch for tho boy upon his
representation that bis mother wanted the money for it , ami that ho gave the lad the whole of the money . Mr Elliott remarked that the evidence before him proved the fact that the prisoner , when disposing of the watoh , bad given a false account of it , and it was sl « o clear that the prisoner was perfectly aware of the faot that the young woman was innocent of the charge alleged againBt her on the dny site was taken into custody , yet it was not until after her conviction and sentence to six months ' imprisonment that ho disclosed the extraordinary fact . Mr Norton had already taken some trouble in the case , and was acquainted with tho wlroleof the circumstances , and he should therefore reraond the prisoner for further examination . : Inhuman Robbebi . —Joseph Pa * nell , a little fellew , whose bead did not raaoh the top of the bar of the felon ' s dook in which he was placed , was charged with stealing eight sovereigns , belonging to bis parents , and Sarah Walker , a middle-aged female , was also charged with receiving a part of the money , knowing it to have been stolen , and further , with unlawfully harbouring a child . —From the statement of the mother of the youtb . fat prisoner , nhich was corroborated by himself , it appeared that , on the 5 th mutant , her sou abeootidad . tuk . Ing with him eight sovereigns , which herself and h r husband had , with the greatest care , saved , and did to
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7 = "«»« . theday . erore . ^^ KJ ^ S to tho boy , sho elicited that , on *•/ " * *• " ££ money , he met a boy belonging to »• * j £ * 55 and accompanied him home , and from that time an day before she harboured him at ^ mhow . « « JJg i » - ^ -trSs cbas ' d a suit of coarse slop clothes and a ^ J ^ 69 * 6 ' ; go as to make his disguise perfect ; but on Undiog : Jtaj ollhi * raon . y wm gene , she turned him out , »* «»••»?* him to g « about hi . business . The poor ~ ** seemed almost heart-broken , said that she had eleven J » £ c biWren-ste of whom were younger than the ] pri . ° Srthat she worked hard at honlig from monj g ^ ^ rT ^ ti . theday ^ ore . Jfr , m queflS ff totojdput
s ; mn ght h ^ t he ; husband had also been obliged to work hard to JUpport their largo family ; yet the fruie . ? £ . £ >«» labour . «** »•* » bich th < * accumulated nvTiipeucs uA shillings at a time , was now gone . — The only defow set up by the female prisoner «« , that her boy had brought his fellow-prisoner home , when the ifttter Lid be had got no father nor mother , ana that he monS «« his Own .-Mr Elliott very much re . gr tud the loss of the pros . cutrix , "d ajmttlrt * J robbery in her case , and with so large a family , one of Jreat hardship . He remanded the prisoners until Jfonday Lst ' but as the boy was so extremely young , only ten TMTS old , ho , on the application of the mother , 3 USI"im to go bom , till tt » day of h- " * " *™' THAMB 8 -F « iaDCTMBMT otmi « i »» IOoam .-W
. Barker and J . Lerott were charged with obtaining a fon of coals by false pretences , with intent to defraud Mr Saneant , of New Cran .-wharf , WappUg-wall . The 5 tow . w B . rW wm to the employ of Mr C . M * nMn ,. coal-dealer , in Cree Churck-l » ne , LeadenhalUtreet , and on theWth inst . he was sent with his master ' * horsaand cart to fetch a ton of coals from Mr Sa ? j « nt s wharf . Ho left before six o ' clock in the morniDg , but did not return till balf . paat ten , when he accounted for his long absence by stating that his horso had fallen down , and thatLcvott , who was then with him assisting to get the coals out of the cart had helped him up with bis horse . Mr Marshall subsequently ascertained that Barker had called twice on the morning of the 10 th at the coal wharf and obtained a ton of coal * npo » e »« k occasion , but only
brought one ton to his master s Bhop . On being given into custody , Barker said in coming borne from the wharf with the first ton of coals ha met with an old ship , mate , who asked him if ha wouW have something te drink nnd that ha went Into a public-house and gave a man named " Prank Moore a shilling to drive * &" oorBB ana cart home , but Instead o ! doing so he sold the coals , Mr Yurdloy discharged levett , and committed Barker for trial . Two Wives . — 3 .- Mitchell , on engineer , aged thirty , was charged with unlawfully intermarrying with Ann Esther Gore , bis first wife , Emma Mitchell , being still alive . —Rebecca North said she acted at > bridesmaid at the marriage ot the prisoner to his second wife , Ann Esther Oars , at Rotherhithe Church , on Whitsun Monday , 1846 . The parties had Siace lived together as man an 4 wife . —The prisonor said hia tecond wife knew be was a married man when she was united to him . He
only lived with her a short time , and had not saen her for seventeen months . He returned to his first wife , now present , who brought him to that court fer sot supporting lKr . He bed sinee maintained her ; he gave hnr it on Saturday Bight , cod ^ e bad since pawn ed all bis clothes and g « vo him into custody for bigamy . —The wife here said she brought her husband to the court for beating her and giving hor two black eyes . —A police constable said he had just received the prisoner in charge , and he said he thought ho hud a right to marry a second wife , as he allowed the first a maintenance . — The prisoner : I wag enticed on and drawn into the second marriage . —The prisoner wm remanded .
CLERKENWBLL . — A Mithebibsb Biibh . — A jouag wosaan named Matthews , v » as charged by a Mrs Leonard , the wife of a respeetablo mechaaie . —The complainant stated that the defendant had for several weeks importuned her for maney , alleging that she ( witness ) was h « r mother , for which statement there lvasnotthe slightest foHnaation . —The prisoner , in her defence , Said her husband had left her to seek for work , and she was in want . Sno added , that she . bad been brought up by a woman in the country , who told her that she had had her from her infancy to nurse , and that Mrs Leonard was her mother , and she therefore thought she had a claim on her . —Mrs Leonard ( laughing ) ; Why she admits that she is twenty . two years old , anl as I am only thirty . four , is it Jikely I can be ht * mother 1—The magistrate said , certainly not ; and having cautioned the defendant , and having obtained her promise that she would not repeat the annoyance , she was dinchargeri .
WORSHIP-STREET Muedsioos Costist . — J . Strange , was charged with having assaulted a market gardener , named Jeremiah Robinson , so brutally , that scarcely any hopes are entertained of his recovery . The prisoner was taken into custody at the instance of Mr Clark , surgeon , of Hackney , who is attending the injured man . Two certificates wire produced , one dated that day , stating that ha was very much worse , and that unless a favourable change took place within twenty-four hours , tfee case must terminate fatally . Mr Cooibe , on ascertaining that fact , immediately procceded with Mr Tine , the chief clerk , in a cab , to the residence of Robinson , and took bis deposition , ns follows . — ' Between three and four o ' clock on the afternoon of Thursday , I went Into the tap-room of the
Dolphin , where the prisoner was seated , in company with two other persons , I sat down at the opposite side of the room , nnd commenced smoking , v ? hen the prisoner threw something at me , and broke my pipe . I called for another one , which the ptissner broke in the same manner . The prisoner then advanced towards me and struck me a violent blow on the right eje , and followed it up with another blow in tho pit of the stomach , which took away my breath so that I was unable to stand . He afterwards struck me such a terrible blow at the bottom of the sbort ribs on the left side that I was compelled to lie dowD , and have suffered acute pain eve ? since . I managed at luftt to crawl into the yard , and was assisted homo , where I have been
since confined to my bed , under the care of a surgeon . I have known the prisoner for a long time , and do not believe that he intended to injure me to such an extent , '—* In answer to the charge , the prisoner said that the eompMoant commenced a violent attack upon him in the first Instance , which he was endeavouring to rapel in tho best way he could , when bis antagonist sustained a heavy fall , in which his side came in contact with the edge of the table , and thereby occasioned the injuries . He then called two witnesses , who confirmed his statement that tho injured man had used provoking and threatening language to the prisoner . The prisoner was remanded , but Mr Combe consented to ndmit Lim to bail , himself in 2001 . and two sureties ii : 100 Z . each .
MABLB 0 R 0 UOHSTRBET , —Leajcnitoi » to London IN TWELTE HODRS , —CBnELTl TO k HOBSB . —Edward Nunn , Esq ., of Leamington , was summoned before Mr Hard wick for having on the 10 th instant wantonly and cruelly ill-treated and beaten a horse , in the parish of St George ' s , Honorcr-square , of which ill-usage the animal afterwards died . —Mr Thomas , secretary to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals , said MrNunn had admitted that he had ridden the mare from Leamington to London for a wager—ten to one were tha odds . Witness had evidence to prove the great cruelty that bad betn exercised , and also that the mare had soon , afterwards died . Mr Nudh wished to compromise tho matter , but the society felt tbat this was a case which ought to be prosecuted , and they had
determined to listen to no representations of tbs sort . — MrNunn pluaded guilty to tho charge , —James Borland said he sow the defendant iu Bond-Btreat on Sunday night . Mr Nunn came from the direction of Brutonotreet . The animal had a man on each side of it . One with a stick was beating it , Mr Nuun was spurring it , and he continued to whip and spur the animal until be arrived at L ng ' o Hotel , Bond-street . The sides of the aaimal were bleeding , and blood nm running from the onus of the animal . Mr Nunn got off the animal , and lod the way to some stables in Bruton . street . The mare was carried rather than ltd to the etablos . The animal was apparently unable to drag one leg after the other , and presented a pitiable Bight , —Mr Nunn , on being asked if be had any question to put to this witness , said
'No ; he had no deienoa whatever to make . '—Daniel Watson , constable of the Royal Society for the Preventl-n of Cruelty to Animals , said he went to the stables and found tus mare WOS d « ad , it had been disem . boweiled . The animal ' s lips were black with inflam . mation : Witness treut to Leamington to serve the defendant with a summon ? . The defendant said it was an unfortunate business , and he waa sorry it had happened . He wished to know if the matte ; could not be compio . mined , and wbetber he caaid not be spared toe necessity of coming to town to answer the complaint . —Another cinatablo of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals , named Smith , oaid Mr Nunn called at the society ' s office , Pall Mall , teknow if , by payment of a certain sum of money to a charity , the society
would abandon further proceedings . —The first witness was recalled , and he said , when ho saw Mr Nunn in Bond-street , it was about twaive o ' clock on Sunday night , the 9 th instant . —Mr Thomas said this was tho Case . —Mr Hard wick : What answer have you to make to the charge f—Mr Nunn .: I have nothing to say in justification or extenuation beyond this , that I regret exceedingly the termination of this unfortunate affair . The wholo thing was done la a frolic , but , had I conceived tbat the death of the animal wouldhavobaon occasioned , 1 would not have done what I did on any con-Bidera-ion . —Mr Hardwick : The circumstances as detailed in evidence , givo riio to no other feeling than that you bare bees guilty of a gross and wantoa acl of cruelty . To this cruel eel yon were moved by a base and sordid purpose . For the paltry gratification ef
winning a sum of nionsy by wager you did not hesitate to subject yoat * horse to the most oruol torture , and to death itself . Tho penalties ot the law tor such cases ore wholly lna , d * qu » te . It la a mere mockery of justlce to inflict a fine of 40 s . on a parson of your station ; Instead of this small fins the jovertist punishment ought to be inflicted ; but , as tha law forbids this , there is nothing left than to eapreos censure , indlgoatlon , and reprobatien of this act In the strongest maa . ner . You have dhgraoed yourself by the commission of an act of cold-blooded brutality , and you loave thhi court disgraced with tha charge of having committed an aot of cold-bloodea barbarity to this animal from sordid motives . You 6 Sa fined tha full penalty of 40 s . and expenses . — Mr Nunn pulled out £ 50 . In bank-notes , and ( lacing them in tha hands of Mr Thomas begged again
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to express hia regret at what had occurred , and h I thanks for the courteous treatment ho had resej £ from the floeiety , and more especially from the seel / . ' I having refused to coropromise ' the case . He dejired th I his fine and expenses might be taken OHt of the mom ? ' I he had placed in the secretary ' s hands , and the bslanH 1 banded over to the funds of the society . —Mr Hardwkt ^ remarked that it was creditable to Mr Nunn to find ih » I he was sensible of his fauit , and was willing t 0 make » ii « the amends in his power . —Mr Thomas ^ paid he was in Ihopes that the Legislature would be induced to make tlj . I lawegainBt cruelty to animals much more slringaatin P the ensuing session . " * p t 0 ? preM hja regret at what had occarre ^ d' 7 : 1
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LOSS OF HER MAJESTY'S BRIG ' SNAKE . ' f The following ia tho copy of a letter , written by m , ' officer of her Majesty ' s brig Snake , describing thn total loss of that TCBselia tbeMoztmbiqiieChannp ] on the 29 th of August last : — * ;¦ . Sib , —You will ba sorry to hear of the total loss of ^ her Majesty ' s sloop Snake , which is now lying with hj t tide open from the port gangway down to the keel , on coral reef about ( is miles from this anchorage . Afut visiting Zanzibar and Anjuan , or Johanna , we were re . turning to this port , when , en tho afternoon of the 26 ^ Jo ? y , if I remember correctly , we made the land same . what to the northward . We stood off to the eastward fer the night , under easy soil , and the next day found ' that the sat bad driven us upwards of fifty miles to ttm
southward . The wind was from the southward and westward , with a tremendous sat directly in the contrsjy direction . Tha latter it was tbat baffled our endeavoun to reach the port during the next two or three days . At Sun 891 | on the 2 dtfa , the outer { or easternmost ) one q ( the small islands off Mozambique was obierved to bey about north . When these islands ceased to be visible , owing to the coming obscurity o the night , tbe Smk steered north north-east , so as to pass a couple of points outside of all . But tbe tremendous set I h av « mentioned , together with a flood tide driving ns in to . wards tbe land , tbe north-north-east course we vere steering became , in fact , a north-north , west one , is con . sequence ef which at 7 , 45 p . m ., we found ourselTei aground , unfortunately , just at tha top of high water .
As the tide receded , the vessel heeled over till ids reached her bearings , when sha settled dowa with her deck at an angle with the horizon , © f between 30 and 35 drg . B » iag a weak vessel , her butt-ends started , when her lee , or port-Bide , immediately filled . As , evsn then , it could sc&Kcely be credited Ih&l lha eiu * 6 nl bad sat « to the westward to the extent I have described , foubtj began to arise as to tbe islands we had seen at sunset being in reality what we had token them for . Hcncs & painful anxiety eilsted during the long night wo had before us , for wo were perfectl y awaro , that hsd « 9 to take r « fuge on shore , at any distanco from Uozambiqw Itself , w » could only have maintained a precariousfootiag by constant hostility with numerous and warlike tribes , not unprovided with fire-arms . There was som * oppre . henslon , also , lest tho ship ghould fall over altogether oa her beam-ends , or the mastB 50 by ths board , neither of which could well have taken place without the Iobs of
life to some , and savers injuries to others . But 18 m truly happy te be bo able to add that no one has lost his life , or been hurt in any manner ; indeed , we hays not had a death on board since "e were pat in commit . sloh , h 6 w nearly twenty ttontlie age- . F *> m ( be lading position of tbe ship , nobody can live on board , and ths crew are accommodated on shore abreast ef her , at tig distance of about two miles , in excellent tents made witfc the sails and some spars . They aro busy in savisg stores , &c ,, and will , probably , be removed to this place in a few days , the governor having removed the soldiers from the San Domingo barracks to make room for their reception . Tho French barque-corvette TeltJgear , of M guns , arrived here on the 7 th of September , As there ii no British man-of-war in the Mozambique Channel , I believe that , if none arrive here before the end of tea month , merchant veaselB will bo taken up to convey us to the Caps . —Mozambique , Sept . 10 . 1817 .
P . S . —Sept 18 th . —I have nothing particular to add sinee the foregoing was written . The whole of the cren were removed here on Monday last , the 13 th . I hare reason to think this will reaek ' you beforeIho original , U that was Bent via Zinaibar . ' It was found impossiblj te- get the guns out by means of tho lower masts , as their inclination had already caused an immense strain on the weather rigging , the heart of which was gone ; nnd , owing to the surf , it was found impossible to rig a dswiek « a lb « baHata , c < mseque&tly ths sating of ths guns is for the present given up . But a Portuguese man-of-war schooner is going out or Monday morning , manned by a portion of our crew , to watch the breaking up of the vessel , now near at hand , and , if pessible , to pick up some of the guns .
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| i » Otii— $ MIDDLESEX SESSIONS . ? Stabvatiok . —John Poole , John Smifh , John Barrett , Thomas William * , James Jackson , aad Thomas Mills , i tver * indicted fc-r-steaUng 3 loaf of bread , worth 3 | d . Thj 1 fire * two pleaded guilty . It appeared from the evidence t . that the prisoners are ' navigators' out ef employment , ' ^ and that on the 13 th instant , as they were passing along | ' ; . Marylebone-lane , Pocle and Smith entered the shop of -s the prosecutor , and took up a loaf , with which they mada 3 off , and joined the other prisoners . The prosecutor fsl . j lowed and . * ave them into custody . The prisoners said 5 they were starving , and that was the reason why they had taken the bread . On their being searched only ob « i halfpenny was feund amoBgst them , They were on | tha way te the office for the pnrpose of otainlng ticket * for s night ' s lodging . They had not been in bed or tasted ] food for eight-and-forty hours . %
The learned Judge , in his summing up , said the casfl was a very melanchol y one . It was dreadful to contem . plate that in this groat and wealthy metropolis so manj unfortunate men should be walking about the streets iaa state of starvation , and committing robberies in order to satisfy the cravings of nature . He would take thai opportunity of mentioning a very painful case which had come under his notice as one of the visiting justices o £ the Westminster Bridewell , in which a prisoner , who h » d been committed therefor a similar offence , had after . wards died . On his admission , the prisoner was found
to be in such a wretched state of emaciation that it wai neceisary to place him in the infirmary , where he re . ceived every attention that msdical skill could device , but without effect . A coroner ' s j ury sat on the body , and re turned a verdict tbat he died of starvation . The court did not sit to administer justice with a stern and unrelenting hand , but while protecting the rights of property it was thtir duty to attend to the sufferings of humanity . The jury retnrneda verdict of guilty against tbe prisoners , with a request tbat the court would deal with them as leniently as possible . Thr court sentenced them to one month ' s imprison , ment in the House of Correction ,
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RATE OF WAGES AND MODE OF LIVING 7 OF THE WORKING CLASSES IN TUB 8 VARIOUS PARTS OF THE CONTINENT . % BBEMBtf ;—Daily labour in the country , in the sum- fi raer season , is paid with Is , ; in the winter , && , ; an « J nually £ 17 10 s . to £ 22 . In the town , labour is 25 ii per cent higher . Women are paid daily in the coun- a try , in the summer BeaBon , with 6 d . ; in winter , 4 d . ; 1 ia the town , 4 d . The earnings are enough to support I them well . Their usual foed is potatoes , buckwheat , I gut , rye bread , and twice a week meat er bacon . ;
Ltjbkck . —Peasants' labour , or land labour , ii .: paid in the summer , 9 d . ; in winter , 7 d . ; autumn , \ Is . ; annually , £ 12 . Common labourers in toffDi ; i daily , Hi , \ annually , £ 18 , Women in town , 7 d .: i in the country , in autumn , also Id . They may lite I upon it . Their food consists of coarse ryo bread , po- 1 tatoes , bacon , good milk , pea 3 soup , herrings or other 3 cheap fish , butter , and lard , butyery seldom meat ; : a cup of coffee in the morning is considered a great -I luxurj . Hi
Mbcklksbbro . —Labour in the country—weekly , 3 s . 6 d ., dwelling , a garden , and pasturo for one co * and two sheep , in the summer , and fodder for ths same in the winter . In the towns—wages weekly , 5 s . 3 d . to 7 s . It ia sufficient to procure good whole some food , and occasionally also a dish of meat . Dasizic . —Labour of tbe peasants in the country —daily , m the summer , 5 d . to Ii . ; in the winter , S ^ d ,, to 4 Jd ., beside ? a dwelling , either rent-free or of a trifling amount ; pasture for one cow , and a little hay for the winter . Wages of the common labourer !
aro—daily , in the summer , in the country , 8 Jd . w ll * d . ; in town , 8 } d . to 10 d . In the winter , in the country , 4 Jd . to 7 d . ; in town , 7 d . to 12 d . Yearly , in the country , £ 8 10 a . to JE 9 . ; in the towns , £ 10 to . £ 10 10 s . A woman can earn daily , on an average 3 d . ; a child , Id , Parents with four children n » y ~ t support themselves if they ba industrious and frugal' ^ Saxoht . —The average amount of wages for pea-L sants' labour is not more than Od . daily ; women , onan | average , 3 d . ; and a child , Id . Parents with iou * children may earn a livelihood . %
TViRTEMBBJiG . —Wages of the peasants , annually p with food and dwelling , in the towns , £ 5 to £ 6 ; lip tho villages , £ 2 to Si ; without feod and dwelling , ; £ 15 . Women , weekly , la . 5 d . to Ss . ; in the manu- p factoringdistricts , from 3 s . to fis . The labourer majjl subsist by it . In the morning he has soup and potivi toes , or bread ; at noon , vegetables or pudding ; avih in the evening , potatoes and milk ; also meat twice » f | week . ; Bavaria . —Wages of the peasants—go * d labourers , : daily , 8 d ., and in the hamst season , also food-1 There aro but few day labourers in the country-J Usual wagea in the towns , from 8 d . to I 6 d . daily . I Fbamkfobt . —Wages ot common labourers , lOd . to I Is . daily . Women , 8 d . to 18 . 4 d . daily . Living-1 I wice in tee week , meat ; vegetables , potatoes ; bresdi % aad beer , dail y . ' ** ? ; Austria , —in the German provinces of the erop W J the minimum rate of wages , without food , in :- !» a Austria , below the Ems , 04 ., ( Vienna excepted , )^ where it is 9 Jd . ; Aiutria , above the Ems and Sa !> to » & 8 d . ; iaStyria , 8 d . ; in Karnthern and Kraia ? 1 9 $ d . ; in tbe coastland , Is . ; in Tyrol and VowKs monntain , ] 8 . ; in Bohemia , 5 d . ; in Moravia w ' - } Sileaia , 5 | d . . >
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At length , by the arrival of tho Levant mail , full p articulars of the wreck of the Avenger have ar . rived . The worst fears have been realised ; there is no ground to hope that more than four persons have escaped . Our Malta correspondent , dating the 5 th inst , gives us the following information : — H . M . steam sloop Hecate arrived on the 2 ud from Tunia . Previously to entering the harbour , ehe signalised , Have four of the Avenger ' s orew on boardrest all perished . ' These four proved to be tbe persons mentioned in my previous lutter , Lieut . Rooke , the
gunner , a man and a boy . The Hecate cruised about theSorelli , visited the Island of Galita , the mainland ot Africa , but not a vestige of any survivors could be found , nor any particle of tbe ill-fated ship . She must have gone literally to pieces and every soul have perished . This lost has created a Btrong sensation here . Some have lost relatives , many have lost friuuii * . A Mr Speed , a merchant here , was daily in expectation of embracing a younger brother , a cadet on hoard , whom ho had not seen for ten years . The total number lost is computed Qt about 250 . There were a number of officers , principally asslstant-BurgeanB , seamen , and bojB on beard , as supernumeraries for tho fleet .
We have been favoured by Lieut . T . W . Langton , the Admiralty a ^ ent on board the Pasha , with the following narrative of his parting intercourse with the captain of the ill-fated Avenger : — The Fasha arrived at Gibraltar shortly after noon on the da ; of the 17 th of December , and having laeded the mail for tbat town , I proceeded by water to wait upon Captain Napier , the senior officer ; on my way- I met him In hia gig-, Accompanied by a military officer of rank , going to call upoH the governor , Sir Robert Wilson ; an I bad the samo duty to perform , I begged permiasion to accompany them , VTe landed at the Ragged Staff , and on our way I related ell the English news I h&d to communicate . Captain Napier and myself were received by his Excellency , tho military officer waiting for us below .
As I understood , the Avenger was detained in consequence of the non-arrival of the Inditm mail . He now received from the governor bis despatches for Sir TV . Parker , tbe commander-in-chief , and we took cur leave . In the event of our arriving before him , be charged mo With a message to Sir William Parker . As he expected a pack 8 go by tbe packet , be sent a boat with unefficer to make the necessary Inquiries , to whom I delivered the latest English papers In my possession , The Avenger Gtenmed out of tbe New Mole about four o ' clock , and Shortly after rounded Europa point . The Pasha compUted coaling , and , by half-past nino the same evening proceeded . On the morning of the third day tho Avenger wns seen , and continued so within a few hours of the dreadful catastrophe .
The following narrative , from one of the survivors of the wreck , ha 9 alao been forwarded ;—We wera running at tbe rate of ten knots an hour , from Lisbon to Gibraltar , bound to Malta , when , on the night of ths 20 th December , at four bells ( ten o ' clock ) , in the first natch , the ship suddenly struck on a reef of rocks . At this moment Captain Napier was on the paddle-box , talkieg to the master . Heutonant Rooko , one of tbe survivors , was in his cabin , in the act of taking off his coat . Tbe gunner ( another surriror ) ran on deck in a state of nudity . Immediately she struck , all hands rushed on deck ; as the ; did so , she heeled over on her broadside , the mainmast fell across tho puMe-bos boat , and no doubt a number of those engaged in clearing it away were killed . The crew appeared completely
paralysed ; nothing was heard but now and than an exclamation , ' Ob , God ! oh , God ! we are all lost , ' Heavy stas swept over the vessel , and scarcely a man could retftla his hold . The last seen of Lieutenant Harryat was his being washed from his hold , and carried away , with some twenty more , to leeward . At last , Lieutenant Rooke , tbe purser , second maBter , gunner , and four others , contrived to get into a quarter-boat . Here Providenca interposed to savo them ; in lowering tha boat the foremast fall got jammed , and the after one going freely , the beat had her stern in water and her bows in the air , when a jacket belonging to one of the men fortunatt-ly got into the sheave-holeof the after-fall , stopped it , and enabled them to out the fulls adrift , Afser push , ing off from tho wreck , they endeavoured to regain her ,
to render such assutanco as was possible , and to pick up any of the orew ; to approach her thojr found impossible . The wind blew a gale from tbe southward . The sea was very high , and breaking completsly over her , After ro . maining as near as they could got for two hours , they bora away far Galita , distant about fourteen miles ; an hour after they had done so tbe wind suddenly shifted to the north , ond blew harder than it hod dono from the otber quarter . This cempolled them to bear up again , which thsy did , for the coast ii Baibary . On their way they passed the wreck , over which tho sea was making awful sweeps . Soon after daylight they made the ooast of Barbury , having run all night under a small lug-sail , and steered with on oar . In running tho bont in , nhe grounded on a reef , and all hands wore thrown out ; tbe boy , however , regained the boat , k « pt to her , ond drifted
ashore alive . Of tho remainder , only Lieutenant Rooke , the gannn-, and steward , were Baved . The others perished in tho surf . The Arabs , treated thorn kindly , dried their clothes , and gave them warm mltit . A ( Ur a repose they walked thirty six tniloi , till they couia proonre horses , on which they rode to Biserta . Here they received every hospitality from the governor and the consuls . A boat took them to Tunis , whence Sir Thomas Reado sent a despatch to Malta , Tho Hocate started immediately for the fatal » pot , whither the Bey of Tunis "had already at nt vessols , but not a vestige of the wreck remained . It is supposed that , with the shift of the wind , she heeled over into deep water , and aunic . There are from thirty to fifty fathoms all round thtsoroclto . which are steep to within a ship ' s Iingth . The total number loat is 253 .
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¦¦ _¦ ctfTtnmij *' l Within the last twenty years , upwards of 30 , OflO - " I wealthy Jews have emigrated from Bavaria , oa «\ I count of the restrictions to whica they were m , ^ 1 jeciaJ . / ¦ '
The Loss Of The Avenger.
THE LOSS OF THE AVENGER .
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™* " * ° aana January 22 , 1848 . ! 2 ______ - __ . — — ¦ _ ——
Rw Thk Congeale D Cause That Preys On. ^ The Lshs Shoktens The Duration Of Human Life. Illdstb4ted With Colodbed Bnobatlkas.
rw THK CONGEALE D CAUSE THAT PREYS ON . ^ THE LShS sHOKTENS THE DURATION OF HUMAN LIFE . ILLDSTB 4 TED WITH CoLODBED BNOBATlKas .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 22, 1848, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1454/page/2/
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