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      II *• T" »_ . rdTf t » v T _ Tnuo « tT *» Tr ^ 'Hi . _ *» i - _ A tfFDL Death by LiGHTNiNG . ~ The village of Sulton Valence tf aVvisited by a terrible thunderstorm on Tuesday week . I half S four vmd flashes of hghtmng , attended by crashin g pealTof fiota «> F ° < T h ofcher ™ » PW succession , rendered more rrible by its exceeding nearness , while a perfect deluge of rain and Sseemed released by each successive discharge . Alarm spread ily of some approaching catastrophe , nor was it groundlel fn *

      • a ' hop tarm at me enn ot the village , belonging to Christ ' * osp ital , and tenanted by Mr . Walter Blunt , the ^ oVpicS in am ber about twenty driven by the rain to desist from their work ook iefagem the oasthonse . On this the storm , which had now d for about an hour , after a momentary cessation , dealt the fatal 5 tr oke . Four of the number , three men , and one woman far advanced in pregnancy , were killed instan taneously by the shock

      S e the rest some were knocked down , and others received as lhey repr esent , a violent blow on the Uead , rendering them f or the m omen t insensible . Ihe scene in the oasthouse , described bv an ^ witness , must have beeu fearful and painful in the extreme filled 0 it was . by a dense vapour , the agonising shrieks of the terrified inmates , and dead and senseless bodies .

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      Loss of the Brig DARLlvG . -The ship Cromwell , which arrived at Liverpool on Sunday , reports having on the 16 th ult , in lat . 44 4 lonefallen in with the brig Darling of London , from New York fo ? London , laden with gram , and taken oft the crew , eight in number Ihl brig had sprang a leak twelve days previous , and the crew , exhausted with pumping , were obliged to abandon her , not being able to keep her fi ™ from water . It blowing a strong gale from E . N . E . at the time , with a very heavy sea running , the Cromwell had to lay by the brig twentv four hours before the men could be taken off . "gwuuy Loss of the MoBiLE . ~ Intelligence has reached Liverpool of the total loss of the American ship Mobile , Captaiu Furber , which sailed from the portou Monday last for New Orleans , with upwards of forty passengers and a crew of about tnirty men . At half-past two on Wednesday momma shestrudk on BkckwaterBank , and shortly afterwards began to break up Eftbrts were made to launch the boats , but , in consequence of the heavv

      sea , they were fruitless ; and at every succeeding sea one or more of the passengers were washed off the wreck , until all had disappeared , with the exception of eight seamen and one passenger , who were saved , but Captaiu Furber , together with all his officers , perished . The Mobile was upwards of 1 , 000 tons burden , and nearly new . Wreck off Beau 31 af . is .--A severe gale visited the North Welsh coast on Tuesday week , during which the sloop Harriett , of Bangor , laden with coal , struck on the Dutchman's Bank , near Pepmon , and sank immediately . Melancholy to relate , five persons were on board , the captain , his wife , a female passenger , one man , and a boy , and the whole are supposed to be drowned . The deck and bulwarks of the vessel , together with her boat , have floated to Bangor , but no bodies heve as yet been washed

      ashore . The brig Carr , from Liverpool to Shields , laden with salt , had her sails blown to atoms , and after a violent encounter with the gale , went ashore in Kedwharf-bay . The Moelfra life-boat put out and happily succeeded in saving the lives of master and crew . The Recent Gales . —Intelligence has reached us that several vessels dt 8 ma 3 ted , and otherwise damaged , have put into Yarmouth Roads . One large barque ha 3 been wrecked on the Scrob y Sandsrand the master and a boy drowned . A vessel laden with railway iron was ashore on the beach . Fire at Sea and Sufferings of a Ceew . —By the arrival of the Jordeson , Mr . J . Yenables , master in the docks on Wednesday , from Manzauilla , in Cuba , intelligence has been received of the total destruction , by

      Ure , of the English vessel Helen , and the marvellous preservation of the crew , who , for upwards of ten days , were buffeted about in the boats , in the wide Atlantic , . with but trifling provisions , and exposed to the most boisterous weather . The Helen , Mr . Turner , commander , laden with a cargo of general merchandise , amongst which were one hundred and forty tons of Iudiaft rabber , left Para , in the Amazon , South America for Liverpool . Mr . Wallace , a gentleman who has attained some fame as a naturalist , was a passenger in her to England , and her crew , including the master and mates , numbered ten . The vovage went happily enough until the morning o f the 6 th of August , the vessel being in lat . 30 . 30 K , -on . 52 W ., when at about nine o ' clock much alarm was caused bv a

      quantity of smoke being observed to issue from the fore scuttle . Mr . Tamer instantly adopted the most prompt means to ascertain the seat of the fire , and to suppress it at its then apparent early stage . The fore hatch was opened , and it was then discovered that the flames were raging w the after part of the ship immediately below the cabin . Water was thrown down the after hatch , and in order more effectually to reach the body of fire , a hole was cut va . the cabin deck through which , a vast quantity was poured . The highly " inflammable character of the cargo , however , seemed to defy all efforts " to save it from destruction . The destructive element made * its way to the main hold , and the intense heat and smoke soon drove the seamen from the cabin . The flames rolled

      * P both sides of the vessel with such fury , as to render all hope 3 of subduing them impossible . Mr . Turner , anticipating the sad fate , « hi 3 ship , had previously directed the long-boat and gig to be lowereda ^ a as much provisions ' as could be procured placed in them . But small quantity could be obtained . At length , about half-past eleven 0 clock , after exerting every effort to preserve the vessel from entire destruction , it was deemed prudent to order the hands to take to the boats . Holies of flame had shot up through the hatchways , and the heated con-JMion of her decks proved " that she was alight below from stem to stern , ihe crew , with Mr . Wallace , the passenger , put off from her in the longboat and gig , and hovered about her at a . safe distance , in the hope that ? er blazing state mierht attract the attention of vessels passing : by , and in

      ° eanng flown would see them , and pick them up . Morning came , howev » , -without any sail being in view . Exposed as the unfortunate men weje to a powerful sun , their sufferings from thirst became most intense , and as days passed by without there seeming the least chance of being observed , a terrible fate appeared to await them all . The boisterous father tried the boats severely , and the fear of their foundering kept the Poor creatures in a most painful state of suspense . Several of the men , as also Mr . Wallace , became much exhausted . At length , on the evening of Jje 16 th of August , towards dusk , they espied a sail in view . Happily , "f ey were perceived by the vessel , the ' Jordeson , the master of whom , Mr . fables , promptly bore down to then : aid , and picked them up in lat

      £ ¦•*» in , ion . 61 W ., the island of Bermuda being some 2 UU miles distant . ¦ Ueir sufferings , however , did not altogether end on their being got on p fcrd tne Jordeson . The latter ' s provisions , owing to the addition of the Helen ' s men and a somewhat protracted voyage , ran short , and all on °° ard were put on a very small allowance , at onetime almost next to nothing ; indeed , but for a supply which -was obtained from the Ocean Wa homeward bound , they would have been all starved before they bached the Channel . Strange as it may appear , some rats were caught " « board , and , being cooked , were devoured with much relish . The contorts of the grease pot were also consumed , and , indeed , anything that c sustain life . The escape of the two boats of the Helen has excited luuc h interest . A day or so after thev were picked up most formidable leather had set in , and had thev been " out in it , they must all have been sa crificed . > Vp . eck of a Schooner off Biughtos . —On Mouday evening a atmtary vessel was seen tossing about in the offing . The weather was very roi at the tim « , the wind blew hard from the S . W ., the sea rode nioun-

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      , and immersion One of them , a man named Kichards , when taken off , was completely exhausted , but proper restoratives being applied he soon recovered . But for the prompt help rendered them , S , SievTou d all have perished The boat , after some difficulty , was towed ashore and it was sta ed _ with what truth we cannot state-that , when righted , the two end airboxes had water in them . The mishap wi h such a boat has created much exc tement .

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      Fatal Beershop Apituay . —Mr . G . S . Brent , deputy-coroner held an inquest at the Middlesex Hospital on the body of James Fitzgibbon aged thirty , a bricklayer ' s labourer , who was scalded to death . It appeared that on Monday afternoon the deceased entered a beershop in Orchardplace , Portman-street , Portman-square , where lie began drinking and smoking with some other Irishmen who were there . About five o ' clock deceased and another man , named Stokes , having had some words agreed to wrestle it out . They were both the worse for liquor , and in struggling for the mastery they fell against the fireplace and then on the floor , the kettle thereby being upset , and its boilmg contents poured over them They were immediately conveyed to the hospital , where Stokes ' s iniuries been dressed admitted

      having no was an out-patient , and taken home Thedeceased was frightfully scalded over the head , face , bad ? , and chest " and was placed in bed . Every attention was paid him , but delirium ensued , and lie gradually sank , and died . Verdict , " Accidental death " Suicidk of Mr . Winstanley . —On Saturday afternoon an inquest was held before Mr . Payne , at the Crown Tavern , Bow-lane , Cheapside , ou the body of Mr . Edward Newnham Winstanley , aged fifty-two , chemist , of No . 7 , Poultry , who committed suicide by swallowing a powerful dose of prussic acid . —Johu Simpson , a cab driver , said he was , on Friday afternoon , about two o ' clock , called off the stand in St . James ' s-street by the deceased , who told him to drive steadity to Bow Church , in Cheapside . asked what the fare and said he

      He was , would-give him 2 s . The witness happened to turn round in Fleet-street , and saw deceased lying back in the cab as if he were asleep . At Bow Church he got down and opened the cab door , when deceased was still lying in the same position . Thinking he . was asleep , witness shook him , but not receiving any answer he drove him to a doctor ' s house , and from thence to the police-station , when he was found to be dead . There was a plual in the cab containing the remains of a dose of prussic acid . The deceased did not appear to be in au excited state when he got into the cab . —Other evidence having been heard , the coroner summed up , and observed that , as many of the jury might know , a more amiable man than the deceased could not be . —The jury found « That deceased destroyed himself while in an unsound state of mind . "

      The Fatal Fire at Eothekhithe . —Ou Tuesday , Mr . W . Carter resumed , at the Angel Tavern , Rotherhithe Platform , the adjourned inquest respecting the deaths of Kosina Riche , s and Jane Elizabeth Brown , who perished in the late extensive fire , which occurred on Sunday fortnight in the premises of Mr . Hogg , optician , ironmonger , and ship chandler , in Kotherhithe-street . The jury , after examining several witnesss , returned a verdict , " That the two deceased were burnt to death in the fire , and

      that , in their opinion , the fire originated from an accident . " Stbange Affair . —Mr . W . Payne held an inquest at the King's Head Tavern , Alfred-place , Newington-causeway , on the body of a child , aged four months . —Ellen Frost , 4 , John ' s-place , London-road , Southwark , deposed that towards the latter end of June she was in Greenwich-park , when a gentleman , apparently . about forty-five years of age , after following her about for an hour , spoke to her , and asked her if she should like to take a child to nurse . Witness said , "No , ' * but she would see if she conld find

      any person that would , and promised to meet him the next evening in St . James ' s-park , the gentleman saying that he would give £ 10 to any person that would bring the child up . Witness spoke to a neighbour named Duffet , who agreed to take the child ; and on witness ' s meeting the gentleman , he said if she would meet him at the same time and place next evening ( Wednesday , June 30 ) , he would make it all right . They met at the Horse Guards in St . James's-park , according to appointment , and the gentleman took a cab and went to Chelsea , where the cab stopped at a lodge , but she did not know where , and there witness saw a lady , about eighteen years of age , with a baby , who got into the cab . The vehicle

      went towards town , and the gentleman gave witness £ 10 and some baby ' s linen , and leaving the child in -witness ' s care , got out of the cab , and paid the driver 3 s . to take witness to London-road . She took the child to Mrs . Duffet ' s , but that person being out , she gave it , with the money , to a Mrs . Endecott , who lived in the same house as Mrs . Duflfet—Dr . " Merriman , physician to the Waterloo-road Infirmary , deposed that he had made a po $ t mortem examination , and from all the appearances he should assign the cause of death to inability to get sufficient nourishment into its system . The jury returned a verdict of " Natural death from inability to take sufficient nourishment . "

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      The Meusey in Danger—Rumour is busy exaggerating the circumstances which have led the Marine Surveyor , Lieut . Lord , to remove many of the buoys which mark the entrance to the port . It is openly stated that the channels outside are filling up , and that we are threatened with a similar calamity to that which has befallen the once-thriving port of Chester . Sir Charles Lyell , the geologist , is studying the geological formations of the eastern part of New Brunswick ( N . A . )

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      A Sham Doctor Committed .-At the Stafford Police-court on Tuesday week James Lowe , alias Dr . Taylor , was charsel uno remand with obtaining lls . for two bottl / s of rnixtui ^ , Se t fa se pretence that it would cure any complaint . John Glen Alfred Tildesley were a so charged with aiding Lowe in the imposition . Lowe , who was dressed in black , and hod more of a profe * sional appearance than his associates , was , it appeared , someyeara since a policeman at Wolverhampton . From the evidence addCd it appeared that the party were in the habit of leaving bills advo ™ tismg a mixture at people ' s houses , and calling the next day for the bills , and also to know if anything was required . In this in « stiTu . o upon the biU being called for , Lowe announced nims if ' Taylor to a Mrs . Bartlett , and said he was come to give his advki

      She described her pains , upon which he looked at her tonAie nmi felt her purse , and then prescribed his own valuable medicine . He sok her two bottles for Us observing to Mrs . Bartlett ' s hSband who came m at the time , that the mixture used to be a guinea an ounce , but he would let them have it at 2 s . 9 d . an ounce IV bottles were subsequently taken to two dispensing chemists who deposed m court that they contained water and burnt su ^ ar iirt x few drops of essence ot lemon . When apprehended , Dr . ' TJvlor and the other prisoners were drunk . Lowe , the " doctor " ind rim , we committed for trial . Tildesley was discharged .

      Serious Case of Stabbing .- ^ Monday some soldiers of \ h , 12 th Lancers were engaged in their room in the barracks in M < id stone m various employments , when some words arose between two of them , one ot whom , Richmond , had recently joined as a recruitthe other , Cooper , an old soldier who had deserted , but who IV , undergone the punishment awarded to his offence . In the course of the dispute Richmond taunted Cooper with having been a desert , " to which the latter retorted by giving him a box on the ears Rich ' mond who wasat the time cleaning and polishing his sword and I ^^ ASKWIS ? * " ^ hooper ; the

      swordform-, nately merely inflicted a slight flesh wound , having glanced from one ot he ribs just below the region of the heart . Cooper a ' a struck Richmond , when the latter snatched up a pair of scissors ( which were lying on an adjacent table ) and stabbed Cooper in the back io lowing up the blow by another stab in the meanwhile Imvm-been taken to the hospital . On a first examination it was feared that the vertebra had been severed , and that the point of the scissors ( uhicb were found to have been broken ) had remained in the wouivi On iurther examination , however , it was ascertained that the iniuries uiflicted were not likely to lead to a fatal result

      Burglaries in Cheshire . —Late on Tuesday night the <> l-t i , u * "J 7 * f MnMau - Hob-on . of Norttwii tS ^\ tl \[ robbed , and on Wednesday night , the 22 nd ult ., the house of Mr Charles Balshaw , of Altnncham , was entered and robbed . On Saturday morning , John Molloy , an Irishman , was taken before ' Mr Joynson , having been remanded from the previous day on a char ^ of breaking and entering the house of Mr . Balshaw , and stealin / a of books and ther

      quantity o articles . John Bowden , of the township of Grange , farmer , stated that about three o ' clock on Thnisdiv morning he was passing through Altrincham , and on reaching Hi 4-street , Mr . Baylor told him that he believed thieves were in MBalshaw ' s shop , opposite , and he desired witness to look at the end ot his house , which he did , and found a parcel containing a quantity of books , &c . He then aroused Mr . Balshaw and Mr . Turton ( wh ,, lives next door to Mr . Balahaw '*) while he kept watch at the cellar door , whichJiei found open . In a few minutes Mr . Turton appeared . and went into Balshaw's , and brought the prisoner out of the

      how-, Isaac Tuiton described his entrance into Mr . Balshaw's cellar where he found the prisoner was concealed in one corner of the reliar bchmd some coab . 1 here were several parcels of books and some stationery packed up , and placed ready for easy removal from Z cellar by the window . On the prisoner he found some silver " a spoons , a bunch of keys , and some other articles . Charles Balshaw corroborated this testimony The prisoner was committed to the next assizes . Ihe thieves-for more than one had been thwregaled themselves with some of Mr . Balshaw ' s port wine , aud ' ihev v i , » . , _ *» — — -- « -. » w j / irxu M tin ; , emu . iiit ; v had either eaten earned off

      or some roust beef and plmn pies Police constable Simpson proceeded on Friday to Leeds ; whom he apprehended Barney M'Hugh and Mary M'Hugh on a chart ot being concerned in this robbery . On Saturday morning the poliro receivedinformationofarobberyat Northwicli , withadescription ofthe missing articles . On Monday morning the two M'Hughswere taken before Mr . Joynson and charged with the robbery at Balshaw * Police constable Simpson deposed to their apprehension at Leeds ' and to having met the prisoner , Barnard M'Hueh incommm-S s = if ^' ft ^^ ri » ^ f the ^ or ¦ *; ro 2 nri quarter of mile from Altrincham

      a , coming in a direction ftora ; T n parley to where the robbery took place . He also found a pa r of Wellington boots and a coat upon the male prisoner , who sa dUhev belonged to Mo Hoy . Barnard M'Hugh was ^ ommi ted to Ske lus trial at the assizes , but Mary M'Hugh was acquitted . The two prisoners were then charged by Mr . Halliday , special hkh constable wah a robbery committed at Northmen on Tnes lav niX the 218 t ultimo , the evening previous to the robbery at BaS ' Miles Hobson . oi Northwich , deposed , that on JuiSg up on the morning ot the 22 nd ultimo , about five o ' clock , lieffifthe cupboard doors m the kitchen all open , and that thie ' ves had been in tL house

      during the night . They Wl made 7 ^ * r ^ c 7 th ugh d £ ? a htT * ° V arUcl » slolen ™ » Wac printed dress , a black silk drawn bonnet , one white straw bonnet , one pair oi stays , one grey alpaca dress , one bunch of keys , quantity of blue , A' S' u ° ther Pr ° P ertv W * ien the prisoners were apprehended at Leeds , there were found upon them a pair of Wellington boots , a print dress , a white straw bonnet , and other property . Isaac Turton apprehended John Molloy , and found the silver spoons and a bunch of keys . When apprehended he had no shoes on . The pair of shoes worn by M'Hugh were found on the vremises o { the prosecutor on the night of the robbery . The prisoners were both commuted to Chester Castle for trial .

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 9, 1852, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1699/page/5/