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      Io The Stab Of Freedom. August21,1852

      io THE STAB OF FREEDOM . August 21 , 1852

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      Fire And Loss Of Life.—On Saturday, A Fi...

      Fire and Loss of Life . —On Saturday , a fire attended with serious loss of property , and followed by fatal results , broke out in the premises occupied hy Mr . H . Foyle , at No . 3 , West India Doek-road , Poplar . The first discovery was made shortly after 2 o ' clock , by a policeman of the K division , who in passing perceived sinolce issuing from the lower part of the building . He immediately sounded an alarm . Some time , however , elapsed before the residents were made sensible of their impending danger , and on reaching the staircase , the hot smoke was so

      dense that it was a work of great difficulty for any of the parties to reach the street . Some were obliged to slide down the banisters of the stairs , whilst others jumped from the top to the bottom of the house . The inmates , with one exception , managed to gain the street , which they had barely accomplished when the flames took possession of every room in the building , and finally penetrated the roof . By the exertions of the neighbours and the firemen the fire was extinguished , but not until the premises in which the disaster originated were destroyed .

      Fortunately , the only damage flono to Jar . Drake ' s premises ( the house adjoining ) was that occasioned by the hasty removal of his furniture . As soon as the ruins were sufficiently cooled , the firemen searched them , and in the basement found the headless body of a lodger , named James Franks , burned almost to a cinder . The deceased , who was a sailor , was only 36 years of age , and had fallen from one of the upper floors through the rafters . An Inquest on the body of the deceased was held on Tuesday , when a verdict in accordance with the circumstances ,

      was given . Fire in Tottexhaji-court-road . —On Monday morning a fire broke out in the narrow passage , called Fitzroy-court , in Tottenham-court-road , which resulted in the total destruction of one house , and hi injuries more or less extensive to six others . Peterborough , August 18 . —Afire broke out in the gaol of this city at four o ' clock this afternoon , and raged with considerable violence for some time . Fortunately there were but five prisoners under confinement , and no loss of life occurred .

      Destructive Fire from Lightning . —We regret to state that during the heavy storms of thunder and lightning , accompanied with rain and hail , which swept over Colchester and its neighbourhood , on the 10 th inst ., the extensive farm premises in the occupation of of Mr . Samuel Bloomfield Blyth , of Langham , were struck by the electric fluid , and totally consumed in a very short space of time . About half-past 5 o ' clock in the afternoon the electric fluid , which assumed the character and appearance of a rocket , was seen and heard to go hissing through the farmyard and strike the end of a barn , and in a few minutes

      it was all in a blaze . A messenger was instantly despatched to Colchester for the engine of the Essex and Suffolk Equitable Fire-offiee , but long before it could travel a few miles to the scene of the catastrophe , the whole of the farm-buildings , consisting of a double and single barn , a very long range of bullock sheds and stabling , a waggon laden with peas , two haystacks , and the produce of six acres of wheat , were a complete mass of fire , and all efforts to save any portion of the property , although there was a plentiful supply of water , at hand , proved ineffectual . Fortunately the dwelling house was saved . We understand that the loss of property is estimated at £ 2 , 000 .

      Burning Of The Steam Boat "Henry Clay." ...

      BURNING OF THE STEAM BOAT " HENRY CLAY . " The Henry Clay left Albany , State of New York , at 7 o ' clock on Wednesday morning , July 28 th , having on board , as near as could be ascertained , some 300 passengers . The Armenia left the same place a few minutes afterward . On the passage down the river there was , as witnesses testify , a continuous strife or race between the two boats . At one time the Clay crowded the Armenia almost upon the western shore , and forced her to drop

      astern , & e . The passengers on board the H . C . finally became greatly alarmed on account of the racing , and some time before the fire a number of ladies were crying and running about the cab ' n , as if sensible that some catastrophe was impending . Some of the officers of the boat went auiongthem , assured them that there was no danger , and tried to pacify them . However , no accident or outrage occurred nntil a few minutes after the Henry Clay passed Yonkers , when it was discovered that the woodwork near the boilers and flues was on fire . The alarm

      spread , but the officers of the boat ( judiciously , without doubt , ) told the passengers that there was no danger . The pilot , however , saw that no time was to be lost , and headed the boat for the eastern shore . The river here is nearly two miles wide , and the boat in her regular course w ould have been a mile and a half from the east bank . Before reaching the shore , the flames had spread so as almost to prevent communication between the fore and aft parts of the boat . At about 3 or 3 | o ' clock the boat camp ashore , lying at right angles with the river , and the bow driving up some 25 feet on dry land , andplunginer with

      tremendous force into the railroad embankment , which is there some six or eight feet high . The shock overthrew the smokepipe , displaced everything movable , and added not a little to the spreading of the flames . While the bow was high and dry , the greater portion of the boat , and unfortunately that which held nearly all the passengers , was in deep water . The passengers immediately began to jump overboard . Those on the bow got off safely , and began to help the others . A board fence , near by , was instantly stripped , and the boards thrown into the water . By great exertion , a large majority of the passengers got ashore , some scorched , nearly all with loss of clothes , trunks , & c . But the rapid spread of the fire , which forced the

      passengers at the stem overboard , was the cause of the unless of a large nnmber of lives . The scene was one of the most terrible character . Mothers with their clothes in flames , trying to save some dear child ; children straggling in the waves ^ without a hand to help them ; husbands and wives drownmg together rather than separate , and the remorseless fire rapidly destroying the last standing place of the helpless victims . There were very few houses in the neighbourhood , and very little help could be had from the shore . But all who knew of . it hastened to lend their aid . The boat was entirely destroyed before 7 o ' clock ; nothing was left at 5 o ' clock , except a fragment of the bow , some ten or twelve feet hi < rh . winV . h

      burned slowly like a warning beacon to light up the shapeless wreck of charred timbers a nd iron below . Taking it Coolly . —The tranquility of the Scotch in the most extraordinary circumstances brings to mind ( says Coleman , in his Random Records ) the incredible tale of the Scotchman ' s tumbling from one of the loftiest houses in the old town of Edinburgh . He slipped , says the legend , off the roof o ^ a uamtation sixteen stories high : and when midway in his descent through the air , he arrived at a lodger , looking out of a window oi the eight floor , to whom , as he was an old acquaintance he observed mpassant , « Eh , Sandy , man I sic a fa' as I shall ha e "'

      Shipwrecks And Accidents At Sea. Wreck O...

      SHIPWRECKS AND ACCIDENTS AT SEA . Wreck of the Christian . —By the overland mail we have received intelligence of the wreck of the ship Christian . On the 23 rd of June she was observed about three p . ni . ashore , within a mile and a half of Angria ' s Colaba . She went to pieces on the rocks in half an hour after she struck . The tide was at the full , and 17 of the crew , including the master and the two mates , took to the water in the longboat and on spars , & c , but , owing to the tide being on the turn , they could not make the shore , but were carried out to sea . No assistance could be rendered them from the land , though hundreds were

      witnesses of their danger . The wind and rain now for some time obscured the spot where she had struck , and when the latter ceased the people on the shore thought the Christian had got off the reef , for they beheld a vessel tacking and making out again . This was the ship Pilgrim ; the Christian had entirely disappeared . On the morning of the 24 th , eleven of the erew reached Alibaugh , they having managed to land four miles down the coast—the other six were drowned . The master ( Mr . Brown ) and the ten seamen left Alibaugh for Bombay on the morning of the 25 th , and have reached in safety .

      Wreck op the Ship Centaur . —It is with extreme regret that we have to announce the total loss of the ship Centaur of Calcutta , Captain W . T . Salmon , on the Coast of Arabia , about one hundred and twenty miles from Muscat . The vessel was proceeding to the port named and had made out the land , when during a fog at midnight of the 13 th ultimo , the current carried her on to a reef near Ras-el-Kubba . As she hung by the bows only she would probably have been got off , but the Arabs came on board in great numbers , compelled the crew to desist from their endeavours to extricate her , plundered the ship and all on board her , of course , and finally it appears set her

      on fire . The Centaur had a valuable cargo on board , including about sixteen hundred chests of indigo , for Muscat , Bushire , and Bussorah . We trust that the British Indian government will not allow this outrage committed by the rascally Bedouins to pass unnoticed . If the Imam of Muscat has no influence over them , he cannot object to his allies inflicting the chastisement which they deserve . Captain Salmon , with his officers and crew , proceeded in the Imam ' s ship Artemise towards jthe scene of the , wreck , but the Arabian man-of-war made such little progress against strong head-winds , that the commander deemed it expedient to bear up and return to Muscat .

      Shipwreck and Loss op Life . —Terrible Supperin & op the Survivors . —Information has been received of the total wreck of the Blanche Indiaman , which foundered off Helen ' s Shoal off the south end of Lord North's Island . The Blanche , Teddrington master , was on her passage from Singapore to Ningpo , China , and had proceeded through the Java Sea to the Pacific , when , on the 3 rd of February , at 4 a . m ., the weather being cloudy and thick , the vessel struck on Helen ' s Shoal , and in ess than a quarter of an hour sunk alongside the reef with all her sails set . On the surface of the reef there are only eight feet of water . One of the boats was nearly swamped in being

      lowered , having had a large hole knocked in her side , which was obliged to be stopped up with clothes , bags , & c . So very sudden was the calamity that only a bag of bread of 1001 b . weight could be secured , and the crew had not time to get a drop of water . With this limited supply of provisions the captain , mate , and the crew , consisting of Europeans , Lascars , and Malays , numbering twenty-nine persons , left in the boat . Soon after they fell in with the whale-boat , bottom up . Having righted her , the gunner , carpenter , cook , and four men were put on board with some biscuits , and directed to keep in company . Both then left the shoal at 5 o ' clock a . m ., and steered

      in the direction of Lord North ' s Island . The following night the boats parted company , and nothing has since been heard of the whale-boat or her crew . After rowing for two days and nights the captain found that the boat made little progress , in consequence of an adverse current , and then stood on a southwest course , in hopes of falling in with some vessel bound to China . A sail was fashioned out of a tarpaulin which was fortunately in the boat , and an oar served for a mast . The unfortunate crew relieved each other in rowing , and after five days of severe fatigue made the islands of Syang and Wyang , and on the next day reached the island of Balaboluk , where they found fresh water and some shellfish on the beach . No human

      beings having made their appearance , it was supposed that it was uninhabited . Here they repaired the boat in the best manner they could , and sailed for the island of Gagy , where they found some natives . After having been supplied with refreshments , the crew , who suffered severely from fatigue from row ing under a tropical sun , without a drop of water to quench a most intolerable thirst , refused to proceed ; whereupon Captain Teddrington , Mr . Ross , chief officer , a Lascar seaman , and a Chinese servant , embarked , and in two days reached the island of Geby . The Rajah , who is brother of the Sultan of Tidore ,

      treated them very kindly ; they enjoyed his hospitality for thirteen days to recruit their wasted frames , and on the 24 th of February the Rajah forwarded them to Bataria . Arriving there on the 26 th , they were thence taken to Weila , in Gilolo , whence they went overland to Pihio , thence to Geta , and from Geta crossed over to Tidore , where the Houge fleet were about to sail for New Guinea to collect tribute and bring back slaves . From this place 'they were conveyed to Ternate , arriving on the 7 th of March . The captain here found a part of the crew that had remained at Gagy in prison . They had been brought

      by the natives and delivered up to the Dutch authorities , who , not considering the account they gave of themselves satisfactory , had them confined , but released them on the arrival of the captain . He , with his mate , proceeded in a Portuguese vessel to Timor Kupang , and with a great deal of difficulty succeeded in obtaining a passage in a Chinese junk to Macassar . Thence , after encountering innumerable perils and privations , suffering much under a burning sun without shade or shelter , they were taken on board the British ship Amelia , Captain Maiden , and conveyed to Singapore .

      Accidents And Casualties. Fall Op A Hous...

      ACCIDENTS AND CASUALTIES . Fall op a House . —On Sunday morning , between eight and nine o ' clock , the inhabitants of Church-street , Bethnal-green , were greatly alarmed by the fall of a large building , No . 101 , in that thoroughfare , used as a storehouse by Mr . Clements , a corn chandler . Happily no personal injury attended the occurrence . Singular and Fatal Accident . —A few days ago as a farmer and his wife , who resided near Callington , ' Cornwall , were returning from market in a cart , the horse , without any apparent cause , at a certain point of the road , ran backwards and upset the cart , and itself falling upon its back . On a neigh-

      Accidents And Casualties. Fall Op A Hous...

      bour coming by he found the man and his wife under the cart and the horse on its back , and on lifting the cart it was found that the woman was dead . The man was extricated , having exhausted his strength in his efforts to get from under the cart . Melancholy Accident . —A sad accident happened on Tuesday in the Southampton docks . The monster steamer Orinoco was in the middle of the docks , and about fifteen workmen on board of her got on a raft or fiat to go ashore to dinner . The raft upset and the whole were precipitated into the water . Most of them were rescued—some of whom , however , were terribl y bruised . One or two were drowned .

      Death by Lightning . —The storm which visited London on Tuesday evening proved fatal to a young man named Mahon , employed in a trading establishment at Islington . Deceased was carrying a box along the road not far from the Angel , between seven and eight o ' clock , when one of the vivid flashes which immediately preceded the heavy fall of rain struck him to the earth . He w as at once removed to his home by the neigh hours , and in a few hours expired .

      Death op Mr . Hartland , the Comedian . — -On Wednesday evening Mr . W . J . Payne , the deputy coroner , held an inquest at St , Thomas ' s Hospital , on the hody of Mr . Hartland , the once celebrated comedian and pantomimist , whose death was caused by the falling of a portion of a scaffold in Mount-street , Westminster-bridge-road , on Monday afternoon . The jury found a verdict of " Accidental death , " and added to it an expression of their opinion that blame attached to the superintendent of works for not seeing that the scaffolding was not more secure . The deceased was in his 70 th year .

      Dreadful Accident . —A deplorable event took place at Brest on the 12 th on board the frigate "Uranie , used as a naval school . During the firing of the guns for practice one of them burst , and wounded eleven men , two of them so seriously that their recovery is doubtful .

      MURDEROUS OUTRAGE . —FIVE PERSONS SHOT . On Friday the 15 th inst ., David Dacres , landlord of the Seven Stars public-house , at Lower Swinford . was committed to Worcester county gaol , for trial at the next assizes , on the charge of wilful murder , under most extraordinary circumstances . The prisoner combines the trade of a gardener and publican , and is a married man , having one child , a son , 15 years old , who is also charged as an accessory before the fact A few nights ago a number of railway labourers from the adjacent works , who had been drinking at the prisoner ' s house ,

      quarrelled and turned out to fight . On their return to the house they continued to make a great disturbance , and the consequence was that a crowd of persons collected in the front of the inn . At this period Dacres came home , and -was much annoyed at the collection of the crowd in front of his house , which consisted for the most part of noisy boys , though there were some men and women among them . He endeavoured roughly to disperse them , and struck several with his walkingstick , on which they hooted at him and threw stones . The prisoner immediately rushed into the house in a violent passion , declaring that he " would blow their heads off , " and went up stairs followed by his son . The prisoner had two guns , a

      single and a double barrel : these he fetched out , and his son got out the powder and shot . The guns were immediately loaded , and the prisoner went to his bedroom window , and leaning out , presented the gun and fired among the crowd in the street , exclaiming , " Here ' s into ye , " using a foul expression . Immediately afterwards he exclaimed , " I ' ve given ' em a sweep , and I'll give em another ; " and he immediately fired a gun . His son assisted him to reload : and altogether four shots were fired and five people "wounded—one killed on the spot . The guns , when found in the house , were both loaded with powder and shot ready for use again . The affair has created intense excitement . The magistrates also committed the son , but admitted him to bail .

      A Convict ^ Prison Robbed—About four o ' clock on Friday afternoon a discovery was made that some person had obtained entrance into the steward ' s office of the new convict prison at Portsea , and had broken open the cash-box therein , and extracted £ 4 ( Mn gold during the temporary absence of the Steward . Death prom Fright . —A melancholy death , the result of what is termed a " practical joke , " occurred in Mildenhall , Suffolk , a few days since . It appears that a poor half-witted gardener , named John Parker , of Westrow , was married about a month since , and that on Wednesday week , between twelve

      and one o ' clock in the morning , some one got admittance into the house and crept under the bed in which the pair were asleep , and raised the bed in such a manner as to cause both husband and wife to roll on the floor , which so alarmed them that they both ran down stairs into the road , screaming frightfully . The poor woman sickened from that time , and died on the 29 th ult . An inquest was held on the body of Mr . Henry Wayman , when the husband , who could not identify the person sufficiently , expressed his suspicion of the guilty party . After a lengthened investigation , the jury retired , and ultimately returned a verdict of " Manslaughter" against some person or persons unknown .

      Atrocious Outrage . —Another of those revolting outrages upon a defenceless young woman which of late have been so numerous has just been committed in a part of South Wales which has been hitherto singularly free from heinous crime . Six young men , all agricultural labourers , named William Rogers , Isaac Rogers , George Thomas , John Phillips , David Matthias , and Thomas Jones , have been taken into custody and examined before the magistrates at the town hall , at Pembroke , charged with having committed a rape upon the person of a girl oi 19 years of age , named Anne Matthias . The complainant was in the employ of Mr . Roch , of Penyholt , as likewise were the whole of the defendants ; and whist the party were engaged

      m a hay field upon the master ' s farm at Hubberton , near Pembroke , they set upon the poor girl , and several of the defendants held her down upon the ground , and in spite of her struggles and entreaties , one of them forcibly violated her . The other five then in succession committed the same offence , the rest aiding and abetting . Information was given by the unhappy girl of the gross outrages to which she had been subjected , and Superintendent Gedge , with assistance , arrested the whole of the prisoners . The Magistrates having heard the evidence , were full y satisfied , and committed the whole of the prisoners for trial at tho next assizes for the county of Pembroke .

      Manslaughter . —On Wednesday Mr . Payne , jun ., resumed the inquiry at Guy ' s hospital into the circumstances attending the death of John Evans , a coachmaker , aged 54 years , who died from injuries caused by a kick inflicted on him on the evening of Saturday week . The coroner very clearly summed up the evidence , and the jury , after a brief consultation , returned a verdict" Manslaughter against Matthew Hayes .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 21, 1852, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_21081852/page/4/