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      358 The Deader, [No, 469, March 19, 1859...

      358 THE DEADER , [ No , 469 , March 19 , 1859 ,

      Accidents

      of Boston , and the Sir William Carden , drif ted on to Tynemouth Rocks . The lifeboats were got out , and rockets were fired . An immense concourse of people lined the sea banks , and after most heroic exertionsby the coastguardmen and the sailors on shore , the crews of the Elizabeth and the Sir William Carden were landed , though in a very exhausted state . Neither lifeboats nor rockets were able to reach the crew of the George ; The master , Mr . Reed , and the crew of four seamen , were ' drowned under the very eyes of the crowds on the sea banks , aid being impossible .

      The gales of last week on the Cumberland coast caused a great deal of mischief The sloop Hope , from Liverpool , struck on Selkirk Rock , and immediately went down , the captain and all hands perishing . . She was laden with vitriol . Another vessel , a schooner , was seen to go down near the same place , but farther out at sea ; name unknown at present ; all hands lost . The Mary Jane , of Fleetwood , was driven by the violence of the gale on shore . The vessel being light , and the tide at flood , she ran up on the beach high and dry at Braystbnes , near Wliitehaven . Several vessels have put into Whitehaven , some dismasted , others with loss of sails .

      The Board of Trade have ordered an investigation , into the circumstances attending the recent casualty to the Royal Mail steam-packet , Prince Frederick William . From Weymouth we hear that the French brig Cinq Scetirs , of Bordeaux , was driven on shore near the village of Wyke , on Monday night . The master and one man saved ; the rest of the crew ( six ) drowned and from Jersey a correspondent writes that the cutter Eclipse Labey , sailed from Gorey on the 8 th inst . for the usual fishing-ground , and is supposed to have been lost on the same day off the Minquiers . There were on board the master and his two brothers , with three others ; in all six lives . were lost . iioTie of the bodies have been found .

      At Maidstone ; , Assizes on Thursday , John Norton and George Herbert , privates in the Royal Marines , were found guilty of robbery , with violence . The prosecutrix keeps a small shop at Frindsbury , near Rochester , into which the prisoners went to buy a loaf , and took the opportunity to knock the poor woman down and rifle her pockets , and also to rob her sljop . They were sentenced to penal servitude for 20 years , the judge telling them that if they had done the prosecutrix any material injury he would have left them for execution .

      ACCIDENTS . Two men who were trespassing on the line of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway , near Wigan , were caught between two trains . One man was killed on the spot ; the other miraculously escaped with a broken arm . The drivers of both trains saw the men , and sounded the steam- > whiatlofl , but they were not able to stop in time . Wo have accounts of several disastrous shipwrecks on the coast this week . At Shields , on Monday , a fearful gale caused numerous vessels to run for the port , and while crowding in , throe of thorn , the Oeorge , of Worth Shields , the Elizabeth ,

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      ' - ¦ ; ¦ ' ' . ¦ ' ¦ :.. THE NAVY . ¦ " ¦ ' . ¦ . ' , ¦ Sir C Napier , in moving for some corresppndence between Sir B . Walker and the Admiralty , took occasion to reiterate his censure upon present and past Boards , for allowing the navy to fall into its present state of dilapidation . —Mr . Corry denied that the present Board of Admiralty deserved censure . —Mr . T . G . Baking vindicated the late Board of Admiralty from the charge of neglecting the navy , After some explanations from Lord Lovaine , and a few words from Mr . Lindsay , Mr . Whitbreao , Mr . Hudson , and SirC Wood , the House divided : —For the motion , 26 ; agauistj 177 ; majoBity , 151 . TKe House went into committee upon the Law of Property and Trustees' Belief Amendment Bill , and the Ecton and Wilton Exchange Bill . The Oaths Act Amendment Bill was read a third time , and passed , and other bills . were forwarded a stage . The House adiourned at twelve o ' clock .

      Gatherings From Iav7and Police Courts. A...

      GATHERINGS FROM IAV 7 AND POLICE COURTS . Ax the Court of Bankruptcy on Tuesday a lengthened hearing was given to an application for certificates by Schlesingers and Purfltt , drysalters , of Basinghall-street . The inquiry not haying terminated at the rising of the court , an adjournment to the > 24 th inst . was ordered ; Joseph Sutcliffe , cashier in the service of Messrs . HillWoodand Hughes , Coal Exchange , was placed

      , , in the dock at the Mansion House on Tuesday , charged with embezzlement . According to the terms of the accusation the prisoner had been in the habit of leaving ^ cheques for considerable sums unentered in his cash book , and in some instances of altering entries that had been made so as to show much less than the true amounts The total deficiency is hot yet ascertained . No defence was offered , and the alderman acceded to the request for a remand .

      At the Liverpool police-court , on Monday , Buchanan and Mitchell , the engineers charged with roasting to death the stoker Landon , were again examined . The evidence given on the former occasion was corroborated , and the prisoners were committed to take their trial for manslaughter . The trial of the poachers concerned in the Bishop Burton murder was . brought to a close at the York Assizes on Tuesday . The particulars of this case , in which one of the keepers was killed and two others seriously wounded , hp , ve been so recently and frequently stated , that they must be well known The jury acqufcted the prisoners Plivyforth , M'Grath and Stoven ; the other four were found guilty . Of these Markham was sentenced to eight years ' , Franklin and Johnson to fire years' each , and Marshall to three years * penal servitudei

      Mr . William Newton , the printer and publisher of a weekly newspaper , called the East London Observer , appeared on a summons before Mr . D'Eyncourt at Worship-street Police-court , to answer a charge of libel . The charge arises out of the case " Gardner v . Godfrey , " tried at Nisi Prius a short time ago ; and the alleged libel is contained in certain comments on that trial , said to be defamatory to the character of Dr . Godfrey , the prosecutor in the present instance . The defendant pleaded Not Guilty ; and after hearing evidence , the magistrate intimated his intention to send the cn . se for trial to the Central Criminal Court ; . Bail to the amount of 5507 . was allowed .

      Criminal Record, The American Papers Bri...

      CRIMINAL RECORD , The American papers bring us the account of a terrible tragedy at ; Washington on the 27 th ultimo . The parties concerned are . not unknown in London . Mr Sickles filled the post of Secretary of Legation during the mission of Mr / Buchanan to England . His , young wife was there "vyi ^ h tyim . Her husband , on returning to New York , succeeded in obtaining the Democratic nomination for Congress from one of the metropolitan districts , Being a personal friend of the President , as well as a cool and ready debater , he easily took a prominent rank in the House . Mr , Philip Burton Key , was the nephew of the Chief Justice of the United States , and himself

      the Government Distriot Attorney for the Washington district . A criminal connexion between Mrs . Sipkles and Mr . Key commenced In April last , and tbifo injfcipcwicy appear * to have exoited some remark in' ^ aBhlngton j but the gossip appears to have b ^ n . fruitless . On the opening of the session this winter the intimacy -was renewed , more systematic cally . Mr . Key Hired a house vlnere they might meet unsuspected j and thitUer , when the absence of her hwooand would permit , the faithless wife , lured , out by the signal of a waved handkerchief , . would iepatr . On the 25 th ujt ., while entertaining tb ^ 'PreBldent at dinner , Mr . @ ickl < Q 9 learned these details flfom an anonyrnouB correspondent . The next day vras spent in investigating the facts , and inquiries proved their truth . The wife was tlien

      accused , and confessed the truth . The unhappy husband , brooding over his wrongs , sat by the window facing the President ' s-square . Mr . Key just then came out of the eiub-liouse on the opposite side of the square , and made the usual signal . The husband saw it , and in a frenzy rushed after him , exclaiming , " Villain , prepare to die ! " He then fired a pistol at Key , and a ball grazed the lover . Unarmed , he draws an opera-glass from his coat pocket , and throws it at his assailant . They then close together * and he endeavours to wrench the pistol from the husband ' s handw He fails , and the husband , releasing himself , raises his arm again to fire . " Don't kill me ! " prays the unarmed man . The merciless finger moves , and the victim falls . Another shot insured the certainty of the work that had been before done . Sickles then saying "Is

      the — scoundrel dead ? " turned away , surrendered himself to the officers of justice , and went to prison a martyr . The affair created great excitement in Washington , and strong sympathy , we read , was manifested for Mr . Sickles , who was in prison , and in a complete state of mental prostration . At Piilgwemly , in Wales , a labourer named Francis lived unhappily with his wife , and for beating her was summoned before a magistrate . himshe left

      Although she did not appear against , his house , and refused his solicitations to return . On Saturday he went to the house where she was living , and on her repeating the refusal he cut her throat with a razor , causing almost instaht death . The blade was tied open so as to prevent its closing when used . From this fact it is naturally inferred that the deed was a premeditated one . - On being examined before the magistrates , he confessed the crime and was committed for trial .

      The culprit Bifkitt ; who was sentenced at Nottingham Assizes to be hanged for the murder of William Whatmore at Barnby-m-the-Willows , has been respited during her Majesty ' s pleasure .

      Ireland. At The Phoenix Club Trials Last...

      IRELAND . At the Phoenix Club trials last week , two of the witnesses refused to give evidence , and , all threats failing to induce them to change their resolution , they were ultimately comnaitted for contempt of court . The vast mass of evidence which has been given adds but little to the facts already made known by the preliminary investigations before the magistrates , but some documentary proofs have been put in by the Crown which certainly tend , to strengthen the belief that the conspiracy was more deep-rooted than the public could have supposed at the first discovery of the plot . On Monday Baron Greene summed up , and the jury retired to their

      room . At six o ' clock t hey had not agreed , and his lordship adjourned until nine . At that hour the court was crowded . Counsels on both sides were in attendance . The High Sheriff intimated that the jury wanted another quarter of an hour , which was granted . At the expiration of that time they had not agreed , and Baron Qrecne adjourned the cpurt until nine o ' clock on Tuesday / morning , The jury were locked up , but could not . agree in their verdict . The trial has been postponed till the 30 th of March , and the jury discharged .. A true bill was found by tlie grand jury of the

      county- of Kilkenny against Martin Hawe , one of the Phoenix : Club men . The Crown , however , were not -in a position to try the case at the present assizes , and an application was made to admit the prisoner to bail . Baron Richards said he would let the case stand for' next assizes . An . inquest lias been held upon the body of Edward Dourneen , the old man who was shot dead on Sunday week near the town of Gorey , and a verdict returned to the effect that he came by his death frpxn a gunshot wound inflicted by some person or persons unknown . '

      At the Cork assizes on Wednesday , the grand jury returned two true bills against the prisoners indicted for treason felony , in connexion with the Phoenix conspiracies . On the meeting of the court , owing to certain circumstances , the trials were postponed till next assizes . The judge refused the application for bail , directing that requisition should bo made in the Court of Queen ' s Bench .

      Naval And Military. At Sheerness Dockyar...

      NAVAL AND MILITARY . At Sheerness Dockyard the following screw-steamships will very shortly be ready for sea : —Hero , 91 ; Edgar , 91 ; Queen , 116 ; Forte , 51 ; and numerous gun-boats . The workmen are engaged night and day in pushing them forward . At Woolwich two new screy-steamers , the Wolverine and Bristol , have been laid down ; and at Chatham orders have been received to commence the Rattlesnake , 26 . Mr . W . Gosling , of Woolwich , announces that he has succeeded in the invention of an unprecedented piece of ordnance , which he is anxious to submit to any testy -with , a view to its adoption by the

      Government . ' ; * The Moniteur de VArmhe remarks on the Armstrong gun , that , in the Baltic and Crimean campaigns , the English produced the Lancaster gun . On the practice-ground at home it throw to a great distance . and with precision ; it launched fulminating projectiles of terrible effect ; but in the field . and in an active war it did , not realise the advantages which had been promised by the experiments ait liome . The new cannon , like the Lancaster gun , must be definitively judged on the field ot battle , _ . French

      We learn that five frigates of the navy are to be sheathed with iron so as to make them shotproof . The contract for one is j uat concluded . Mr . Wliitworth . has written to the newspapers to correct an impression that cannon made by mm have failed in practice , He says : —• ' My experiments have for some time past been mainly directed to the subject of rifled small arms ; but , as tlie system which I have adopted is equally applicable to ordnance of ail sizes , I bored and rifled several pieces of cannon , which were supplied to mo in tue nnlld hv * h « Government . For the strength ot those

      guns I was in no degree responsible ; they wore tne ordinary pieces made for the smooth-bored cannon used in tflhe service , and provoql too -weak to tooax the strain of firing long rifled projectiles . I nope soon to be enabled to make trial of two guns wnion , on my own responsibility , I an , constructing oitno requisite atrength , and which ; I doubt not , will tuny ToaMso the expectations entertained by those wio witnessed the first experiments in April . 1856 , witn the 34-pounder brass howitzer which I bored me rifled . At that time projectiles , varying froni ™« to six diameters in length , having , aulok rotftry motion , were fired with great success .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), March 19, 1859, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19031859/page/6/