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      FEARFUL WRECK OF AN ENGLISH BARQUE OFF THE COAST OF MASSACHUSETTS . The barqae Josepha , of Gloucester , England , Captain Carney , left Bristol on the 19 th March , 1852 , with a cargo of railroad iron , ffhite lead , skin 3 , &c , bound for Boston , Her ere * , all told , consisted of eighteen persons , and all young men . Up to tbe day of her wreck she had a short and prosperous voyage , and made Cape Ann Li ght at twelve o ' clock on Monday night , April 19 th . The night being thick and foggy , and an easterl y gale blowing , the Captain

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      stood off en a scutb-esslerly course , and when he judged himself far enough out , tacked and ran in , intending to make C 3 j . e C- ; d ai : d so up the bay . The fog was extremely thick . The vessel \ : zi approached the coast so nearly that in tackinr , afifr sounding and finding fifteen fathoms , the ship was on ihe ed ge of the breakers , and struck on the outer bar abm : t hair a mile to the northward of the Highland L ' ght , Cape Cod . This was at about three o ' cloek in the afternutin of Tuesday , April 2 Otb . She probably strock her bows first , the n heeled off end lay on her beam ends , and a ' ter a few sea 3 struck her , which , after a long easterly storm , run with fearful violence on the outer bar , her starboard quarter broke off . In the meantime the pinnace had

      been got cut and lowered from the starboard side , but this boat , as well as the long boat , was instantly stove and swept off by the vialence of the seas . Her decks no * gave way from the stem to the foremast ; her main and mizz < -nmast Trent overboard , and her larboard aide fell in on the rail * road iron with which she was freighted . She was sis years old , of about 600 tuns burden , built chiefly of larch and other North Country wood , in a heavy and substantial mode , and iron ? d with heavy braces , iron knees , and other iron fastenings , which , added to the enormous weight of the railroad iron in her , made her almost a complete anchor in herself , jet , snch was ihe terrible force of the sea that rnns on the outer bar , she was carrier over this and brought op

      on the inner bar . In this situation she lar , so thick was the fog , without any one on her seeing the shore , or being seen from it though only abont three hundred yards distant , until about five o ' clock , the sea making a breach orer her , when three boys who were walking the beach , the fog now lifting a little , saw her , and proceeded to the Highland Light , and informed Mr . Hamilton , the keeper of the Light , of the fact . The cries 6 f persons were also heard from the wreck . The keeper of the Light got ont the articles belonging to the Humane Society , such aslife-preBervers , India rubber coat ? , caps , and one of the rockets deposited at the Light for the purpose of throwing a rone from the shore to the

      vessel , and went down to the beach opposite the bark , where the people from the Pond village in Trnro ( about one mile from the beach ) were soon assembled . The men could ha plainly seen dinging to the larboard side of the ship , and their cries for assistance are described as being heart-rending beyond all imagination ; the spray flying over the foremast , which was still standing . About seven o ' clock , two men from the Pond village in Truro—Jonathan Collins 2 d , andD . H . Cassity , both young , the latter twenty-three years of age , and the former abont thirty-five—procured a fisherman ' s dory , so-called , belonging to the Light House , and avowed their intention to peril their own Jives in ac attempt to save the unfortunate men exposed before their eyes to immediate death . The resolve a most hazardous one , and the experienced persons present

      entreated them not to go . "When a heavy sea is running on the outer bar , the in-shcre snrf is a little , diminished , and there was little doubt , as every Cape Cooman is a master of his boat , that their frail dory could be successfully launched and carried over the shore-wave , but , as after an easterly stone , long-continued , the current at this point sweeps with irresistible violence to the north , and the sea was tasking a breach over the vessel , it was considered certain death to approach the eddy near the ship . In spite of all remonstrance , these heroic yonBg men went off through the surf , and approached within about fifteen yards of the barque , near enough to sprak tothoseon . board , where the dory capsized instantly , like a basin , ' to use the expression of a bystander , and nothing more was seen of the two men in her .

      Tbe ror&et for throwing a rope over the vessel was now got ready , as the life-bias had been brought down , the plan being in such case 3 to get a line to the ship , if possible , then to ply between the shore and the vessel in the life-lost . The rocket ha 3 a much larger stick than the consaion rccket , to which a line is attached , and a heavy charge to carry it a sufficient distance . It was now fired by Samuel Small , inn ., and G . T . Lewis , when the charge ex . ploded and burst the chamber instead of carrying the rope to the ship , thu 3 endangering the lives ef those who fired it , as well as the bystanders , the stick going over the bank to tbe leeward ; it was almost a miracle that no lives were lost by tbe explosion of the iron chamber , when the amount of tbe charge is cinsidered , and the immediate contact of the persons .

      It is evident now that nothing more could be done from the shore , unless the life-boat could be got off . Bat it was evident alter the experiment vriih the dory , which bad ended fatally , that tbe attempt would be in every probability perfectly unsuccessful-tfce only hope of safely carrying off alue-boat bring by the aid of a rope from the vessel . Tbe life-boat at North Truro is a large and heavy boat , and diffi-CUit to m * n : ge in the in-shore surf , where facility of execution is ^ dispensable , and one-half moment ' s " delay may sweep off boat and crew , and as it was now dark and breezmg np , no further attempts could be made to communicate with the vessel .

      Fires were built on the snore to show tbe unfortunate persons on baard that they were not forgotten , and companies formed to walk the beacb . The awful cries of the crew for aid , and tbe cracking of the large timbers as the ship finally broke up , were beard at a house about half a mile from the beacb , in spite of tbe terrible surf which crashed like the heaviest thunder on the echoing shore , and the remorseless beating of the tempest . At abont eleven , the ligat-keeper ietttraed to tbe beacb nanng gone at ten to the light to trim his lamps , and saw

      a man kneeling before one of the fires , who proved to be one of the crew , and on being asked if any of his compamons had been saved , he informed the light-keeper that one other was lying near the water ; the Utter , John Jasper , was in a dying condition , much bruised abont the teet , and would not have lived another half-hour . Both of these men were taken to the ligbt-house , one mile and half off in about two hours , by the exertions of Mr . Hamilton and nis companion . Rev . Mr . Lord , of North Truro , the bank above the beach being a hundred feet high , of yielding sana , and Jasper unable to help himself .

      e » L ^ foremast gave way ' thetw () men who were sated went over with the broadside ; and though washed off two or three times , and although the rigging caught in the radroad iron and kept them by the wrelk for an hour and « Mf ft 0 m wWcll thay 8 aw their f ( Jurteen ™ swept off . hey eventually went ashore nearly oppoitethl X / n I ™* Tl * ' { 0 T at the « ght-bouEe by Mr . Hamilton and his wife . Six bodies of the crew £ ? iiT f r « o ered andbllried at P «> vincetown , ** also that of D . H . Cassity , at North Truro . Thus sixteen persons perished in this terrible shipwreck , and two of our SiS ? " i " Cape Cod fisheraen . *• < 5 SBtftLT e > eS ° ** brOther « B "" - » 2

      i n <*»«» -The cause of the late fire on board the X 5 £ ^ n beea "Opined bj Messrs . H . C . p uapmanand Co ., agents to Lloyd ' s / to have been the S aMf , / ifer **** ™ ° ** fcHorSong qiriSKi ^ j ^^ a - ^ Ung theharque Jane Steers , frcm Boston to ffion which rSS ^ vVs ^ aSS = s 3 SS ' . sasaaa

      SSSg azzz&z Ohve Branch . —The following U the report of the wrerit !?• GuTfl ? S T BranCh ' ° f * from Stockton foMhfs wT * S ' LmencP > % « 27-Tfae barque Olive Branch , Jefferson , of and from Stockton , with ids and pa = s £ nger 8 , for Qusbec , while proceeding on h ^ vovaee 2

      fi ^ di-P - »« , „ v i - ' uu S ' Quantities of inS £ f e ° f ^ 5 ° mUCh *«««» t » Se sunk he- Gztlf * ltmtf' ™ t hmt an ? P ° « ibility of saving SitSSiC * , W * - * - > * & * t about Tne b ^ ue Shr Tee ?| d l ? 8 eWn 8 ont the three boBts-Q « el , ec bJnt S c ' te S Harris ' of aad from Grimsby for Bran h (^ Town - ? W * **** * see 3 n * «*• A « h » « KlSSSri T ^ lMHlIedbet wind « ** made in his Po 4 r SL towards « s , and rendered every a-sistance M *» tW ; J \ ° f « ce took place about 8 . 30 a . m ., 8 t ' P > ° mPaW'Sr ! eJen passenSers and eleven of the tHwea- barque ? " w fe cn **** of tbe above-mencvet

      ~~ y ^ u xxarn s ana Ks m »»« . u y « naness Irom anjwe arrived . ^^ SJ e remainder of out passage , *»«* . of and fruS 3 « r ° lw t ' - ^ c , MayV Apnl 8 , fflakin t - ' verpooi for Canso , was spoken , » = • Burto * , arrived tere .- ^;^^ " - by ««¦ tW

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      the mam lines of the York , Newcastle , and ? Berwick 3 XW £ ' ? Ga ^ sheaa . which happily was not at 2 S * with any loss of life . The mail train left York for the north at eight o clock in the evening , and on aniSe 2 ten minutes to eleven o ' clock within a quarter of a mile man tbe Gateshead station , it ran into an engine and tender which were standing upon the line . The train at the time was proceeding at the rate of from twenty to twenty-five miles an hour . The fireman and guard were not aware of the danger until they came within twenty or thirty yards of it , as there is a curve on the line at that place , and no signals had been displayed to give them an intimation of it . At the moment of the collision , the passengers , twelve in number , were thrown with great

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      lecceirom their seats , and upon the stoppage of the train th aOout , twenty ya « i 3 from where the collision happened , tney rushed out in great alarm , when it was found that tfiey were all bruised in various parts of their bodies , but none of them had apparently received any serious injuries . Jrl ; Vrt < luiry 5 , was ascettamed that the engine into S ? mi ? v wl tr ? m had run waa on to ™ y from South bhields to Newcastle , and was in charge of drunken men , one of whom , after the accident , was observed by all the passengers who noticed him , to be incapable even of taking Af « « nr ! . \ nd one passenger directed the attention Of a police officer to him . It appeared that the fires had been neglected , and the steam becoming exhausted , the engine came to a standstill at the very moment the mail tram was due . The two engines and tenders were nearly smashed to pieces . It is almost a miracle that no lives were lose .

      Accident to Mr . Lewis Ricardo , M . P . - As . Mr Rioardo waa riding along Rotten-row , on Monday evening , at a very moderate pace , his horse stumbled at one of the numerous imperfect spotB in the road , and slipped up on his side The honourable member lost his seat , and pitched heavily oh his left shoulder . Several parties ran to his assistance , and he speedily reoovered himself and Proceeded to hisresidence in Lowndes-sqnaie . Mr . Teevan , of Ohesham-street , who was sent for , saw the honourable member a very short time after his arrival at home , and on examination , discovered a dislocation of the shoulder which he at once reduced . Mr . Ricardo is progressing favourably , and is not likely to Buffer more than a temporary inconvenience from the accident . Fah . Down a Precipice . —A fatal occurrence has just taken place at Pont-y-Twr , in the vicinity of Oewen Lake .

      to a little Doy , son of Mr . Charles Jones , master of a fiohool established by the Hon . Colonel Douglas Pennant , at the above place . The child missed bis footing and fell down a precipice upwards of thirty feet high . Ho was killed on the spot . To add to the painfulneas of this distressing calamity , another child of Mr . Jones' died suddenly the same day . Singdiar AcciDBitr fbom LiaHTsufG . —Daring the storm which passed over Ipswich a few days ago , a young woman named Stevens , living with Mr . Cater , butcher , in Magdalen-street , was struck by thB eleotrio fluid . She had retired to rest , and noticed aothing during the storm beyond being greatly heated : but unon risineon the following

      morning she discovered that the whole of her hair on the right aide , and part on tue back , of the head , had been burnt off by the lightning , the other portion being much singed . The left ride was uninjured . It i 3 regarded as a most singular circumstance that such an accident should have taken place without her having the slightest knowledge of it , or feeling the least shock . The hair removed is about a foot long .

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      INQUESTS . Manslaughter on Shipboard . —On Saturday last an inquest was held before the Liverpool coroner , on the body ° / rFdmawl Mielke , an apprentice on board the barque Amelia Laura , who on the preceding morning was struok by the mate of the vessel , in consequence of some alleged disobedience of orders , and after repeated blows the deceased was knocked overboard into the dock , which being dry at the time , the young man received suoh injuries as to cause his death shortly afterwards . The violence of the mate ( Schwarz ) was deposed to by two English carpenters , who were passing . The jury returned a verdiot of " Manslaughter a « d the prisoner was committed to Kirkdale Gaol to take his trial at the next assizes .

      Death of a Woman is a Police Station . —On Tuesday Mr . r . iyne held an inquest at the St . George ' s " Workhouse Southwark , on the body of Eunice Kingtnore , aged twentvone , who died on Sunday last at the atation-housa , Stone ' send . Several policemen of the Mdivison , and a woman who was locked up with doceased , deposed that the deceased was found drunk in the Dover-road about nino o clock on Saturday evening , and locked up'in a cell in wbioh rnii «? " ° i . ? t . wer ° P laced - ^ ceased appeared very ill all the night but did not complain tillthe morning about ten o clock , when one of the women having some tea brought to her , she gave tho deceased some ; and on tho police bomsrmade acquainted with her illness , they immediately sent for the police surgeon of the district , but on his arrival life was extinct . A juror inquired if the deceased had any refreshment np to tne time tbe woman gave her the tea . The superintendent of police , who was in attendance , replied that persons locked up are allowed to have anything brought to them , except beer or SDirits

      ana it taeyare destitute , and locked up all day , they aro allowed three-pennyworth of tea or coffee and bread and butter ; but nothing more , except in extraordinary cases . Mrs . Squire , Bister of deceased , stated that she did not believo that her sister wa 3 drunk at the time she was taken up . She had been ill for Borne time , and had been five times in tho hospital with an affection of the heart and inclination to consumption ; and such was the peculiar nature of her complaint , that she would fall down in the street in a kind of fit , and for hours after would appear to be intoxicated . Witness had seen her since her death , and there was a largo bruise at the bottom of her stomach which appeared to have been caused by a kick . Policeconstable Lewin was re-examined , and proved that the deceased smelt strongly of liquor ; and a woman named

      ( rabbins corroborated this statement , and added that she was in the habit of getting intoxicated : Mr . Odline the police surgeon , gave it as his opinion that the decea sed had died of affection of tho heart , which had produoed congesturn of the lnngs . The murks } spoken of by deceased ' s sister was not the result of a blow , but waa merely a greenness caused by decomposition . The jury , upon this testimony returned a verdict of » Natural Death ; " but they considered that more direct attention ought to be paid to persons who were taken to the station-house in a state of insensibility .

      Frightful Death . —Caution to Parents . —On Monday , * TY ^ " » k « held an inquest at tho London Hospital , on the body of & > berfc Valhck , aged two years , whose parents reside at No . 56 , St . George ' s-street , Ratoliffe . The mother on Saturday morning last , proceeded npstairs , for the purpose of scouring the wainscoting and flooring , taking with her a pipkin containing cauBtio potash , and while she was engaged in a corner of the room , the deceased entered the apartment , and , before 8 ho could turn round , took up the vessel and drank a portion of its contents . Tho deceased soreamedwith agony , and was immediately taken hwhn

      mower to a chemist ' s shop , where sweet oil and other tefhf ? we ' e i appi t * ^ child was aft erwards removed to tho hospital , where the resident apothecary rendered every possible assistance , but the deceased lingered in Biroh had been attending fire females who had taken vari ous kinds of poisons ; the latter be attributed totheVeck He was utterly astonished to think government did not S ^ Tr ^^ fasSS s ^ isattaritwsftS

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      Disgraceful Outrage—As Mr . Hicks , the wellknown actor , was returning home , about twelve o ' clock on Friday evening . May 21 st , from the City of London Th atre where he had been performing , and was proceeding towards his own residence , n Nicholk quare , Hackney , mSSS by h » w , fe , upon reaching the top of ShiedKhfuS found themselves impeded by two ruffians , who planted themselves before them in such a manner as to \ S theirpassing . Ife therefore took his wife by thearm , S order to place her inside and get by without insult , but the fellows again got before them , and one of them , without the

      slightest provocation on bis part , aimed such a heavy blow at him thRt , oa its unfortunately missing bim and striking his wife , it sent her reeling back several Jaces and but for her coming into violent contact with a brick wall ' she must have dropped on the pavement . Seeing that Ms wife wm so shaken and injured that she was nearly faintini , he left the prisoners to catch her , and was supporting her tiB £ XiS ? £ &z& -k aSH « r « B » H the ground . He quickly recovered his feet , and tried o defend himself by keeping them off until the police came SSnF ' F- ' * - " ^ 'T " ' Wd he could only use it with di

      ^^ r . ex-S 7 Piancef f ft ? V 8 Wl « 0 « S ~ «« » S twntSZV S }**> OnseeiD S them , started off ggt ^ a- ^ jss SM' ^^ - ^ fes toFSSir i ? r ? •«! £ « tf * Wta Mr . Hatnmm at fio ? ft ? ' ° i Office » the next da ?' laminaiiflt ^ ^ ^ !»!• h « seriously contused and swollenand who

      , was oblV \ upp ^ VK self into court upon a stick , stated that his wife who was not in sound health before the occarrenri iS X „ ! were , ; i . tenoedtop . r * 5 , ataudktm JnltaE SKiKj , "" * wlhe - »• * - « «

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      LAUNCH OF THE AGAMEMNON . This fine screw steam ship of ninety cun 8 , and GOO horsepower , was launched on Saturday . Tho steam-boats to Woolwich were well-filled , and soon after great numbers of persons arrived by the North Woolwich Railway , and took np their position on the Essex side of the Thames , opposite the dockyard , where they would have an excellent view of the vosse ! as she entered the water . The crowds who rushed to the London-bridge terminus of the North Kent Railway after twelve o ' olook . rendered it necessary to put on long special trains at very short intervals , and it is gratifying to state that , although the number of passengers was far beyond what might have been anticipated , not the slightest accident occurred at the railways nor in any other quarter to mar the general satisfaction of the spectator ? , of whom there could n ot have been less than from 90 , 000 to 100 , 000 present , There were upwards of 1 , 000 persons on board the Agamemnon when launched , including the pensioners , who had served in tho old

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      memnon . At half-past two o'clock the Duke of Northumberland , Eirst Lord of the Admiralty , with tho Duchess , and other noteables , proceeded on board . The usual ceremony of breaking a bottle of wine over the ships bows was performed by Mr . Uetlon . Immediately afterwards the noble ship was loosened , and in a few minutes was sailing in her future element , amidst the cheers of the assembled thousands . The Agamemnon was built very rapidly , her keel having only been laid in December , 1849 . Her engines , of 600-horse power , are to be fitted by John Penn and Son , on their patent trunk-engine principle .

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      That our readers may understand this case we havo to narrate that Lieutenant Swain , the aggrieved person , had been on visiting and intimate terms with Captain Hawkey and bis wife . From certain rumours which had been afloat Captain Hawkey was induced to forbid Lieutenant Swain to visit his house in his absence . Evidence was adduced to the effect , that oriminal intercourse had taken place between Lieutenant Swain and Mrs . Hawkey . Captain Hawkey was unwilling to believe in his wife ' s infidelity for some time ; but from tho actions of

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      Lieutenant Swam , Captain Hawkey was almost driven to madness . On the 26 th of last month Lieutenant Swain met Captain Hawkey and his wife as they were walking at Woolwich , when tbe latter let go her husband ' s arm to shake hands with Lieutenant Swain , and spoke of her engagement to dance with the Lieutenant at a soiree that night , notwithstanding her husband had fobidden it . This led to the altercation which had brought about this courtmartial . The address of Captan Hawkey ( during the delivery which the Captain was often moved to tears ) was highly affeofcing . mL _ _ Woolwich , Mat 22 . Tho

      court-martial held on Captain Henry Charles Moorehead Hawkey , of the Woolwioh division of Royal Marines , having concluded its sittings , and the finding and sentence of the Court having been confirmed by the Lords of the Admiralty , we are now permitted to promulgate them . * The following is the charge on whioh Captain Henry Charles Moorehead Hawkey was tried by a court martial , of whioh Colonel George Batt Bury , Royal Marines , was president * . — " For conduct unbecoming the character of an officer and a gentleman , in having , on the 26 th day of April , 1852 , in the public road between Woolwioh and Charlton , in the county of Kent , violently assaulted and struck First Lieutenant Henry ThomaB Swain , of the Woolwioh division of Royal Marines , such conduct being in brench of the Articles of War . "

      The evidence for the prosecution occupied the Court one day , and for the defence two days , and extended to a great length , and is of such a nature that it would not bo justice to either party to give an abstract only of it . The following is the finding and sentence of tho Court ' : — "FisniNo . " The Court having maturely weighed and considered the evidence in support of the prosecution , together with what the prisoner haB urged in his defence , and the evidenoe in support of it ; taking a ' . Bo into consideration the

      great and long continued provocation he has received , and the very peculiar nature of that provocation , is of opinion that he , the prisoner , Captain Henry Charles Moorehead Hawkey , of the "Woolwich division of Royal Marines , is euilty of haying violently assaulted First Lieutenant Swame , of the Woolwich division of Royal Marines at the time and place stated in the charge , but that ho is not guilty of conduot unbecoming the character of an officer and a gentleman , and the Court thoreforo most fully and honourably acquit him of that part of the charge . " . ' r

      " BENTESCa . " The Court having found the prisonor guilty of part of the chage preferred against him , which boing in breach of the Articles of War , and taking into consideration tho very high character given of the prisoner , do now sentence him , the prisoner , Captain Henry Charles Moovehead Hawkey of the WoolTOioh division , to be reprimanded . " Royal Marine Barracks , Woolwich , May 17 , 1852 "

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      GAROTTE ROBBERY AND MURDER . Ht'Lt , May 22 . —This morning , at an early hour , great excitement was created in the town by the report that a young man , well known among the commercial firms here as engaged in the house of Thomas and Co ., merchants , as a clerk in the cashier ' s department , had been robbed and murdered last night . The report turned out , unhappily , to be true . It appears that a policeman , on going his rounds at three this morning in Prospect-place , a cul-de-sac street with houses on one side only , built on tbe eastern suburbs of the town , discovered at daybreak the body of a young man lying on the edge of a ditch which separates the road in front of these houses from a piece of waste land which they overlook . He at once communicated with the sergeant on duty , and they aroused the nearest surgeon , Mr . Boulter

      of Draypool , who , with a feeling that does him infinite credit , assisted to convey the body to his own house , when it was in a short time identified as that of Mr . F , W . Mapletborpe , residing with his father , a retired tradesman ' , in the abovenamed street ; marks of a scuffle on the pavement and the dragging of a body across the rood were perceivable , showing that the poor youth had been attacked within a few feet of his own threshold . The external appearances of tbe body indicated that death had been occasioned by suffocation , no marks of violence being observed , but some scratches as of human nails upon each cheek . A gold watch , which the deceased carried , had been torn from his waistcoat pocket , and his money to the amount of about £ 11 had also been taken from his person . Immediately after the discovery , Mr . M'Manus , the chief constable of

      police , was on the alert , and at eleven o'clock to-day two men , giving tbe names of John Snape and John Smith who had been apprehended in a low lodging house , were placed at the bar of the police court on a charge of murder and highway robbery , and remanded till Tuesday next . Aninque&twasheldon the body this day , and adjourned till Wednesday next . The evidence on both these inquiries went to show that the prisoners , being strangers in Hull , had , immediately after tbe murder was supposed to have been committed , taken a cabfrom the centre of the town for a 2 s . drive on the Beverley road , and there dismissed the cabman ; that the prisoner Snape had some scratches and bruises on his bands and arms , and that his clothing was torn and muddy , the earth on them bearing a resemblanca to that which formed the bank of tbe ditch where the corpse was found .

      EXAMINATION OP THE PRISONERS . ' Htol , Tuesday , May 25—This morning John Snapa and John Smith , each about twenty-three years of age , were placed at the bar of the police-court , before the Mayor and a full bench of magistrates , on a charge of having perpetrated tbe above murder and robbery . —Watson , a detective policeman , deposed that be t&ppfehended the prisoners in a low lodging-hoUBe in West-street at eight o ' clock on Saturday morning . They were sleeping in a double-bedded room-and a woman was in bed with Snape , whose jacket and boots witness immediately took possession of . The former was covered with dirt , and the boots had mud on them similar in appeatanca to that of the ditch where de ceased was found . Snape had two bruises on his arm , and a small wound on the back of his hand , as if made by a human nail . He said those marks had been occasioned in

      a fight with a man in Paragon-street on the previous evening , and both prisoners said that they were in bed before ten o ' clock . A few shillings only were found on them . James Spoyle , a private in the 21 at Fusiliers , quartered in this town , deposed that on Friday night he left the barrackB about half-past nine , and on reaching the corner of Dry poolplace , he observed two men . Thinking that he knew one of them , he went up to them , and saw Snipe ' s features distinctl y . Presently he heard some one folio wing him , and on looking round saw Snape with his arms folded , walking leisurely behind him . Witness then went into his house and smoked bis pipe for about half-au-hour , when his wife asked him to cloBe the shutters . On going out for that purpose he again saw Snape near the deceased ' s house . Snape walked towards the end of the street , and witness , on watching him , saw him return to the deceased ' s house .

      Witness , having closed his shutters , went into his house and went to bed . Was brought to the gaol on Sunday and shown two men in a cell . Witness stated they were not the men he met on Friday night . Was then taken into another cell , when , unassisted by any person , he at once pointed out the prisoner Snape as being one of the men though he was then dressed in the prison uniform jacket ' The prisoners were remanded for a week .

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      1 THE ENGLISH SUBJECT SENTENCED TO DFATH BY THE POPE . 1 ,. » , « ,,. „ ... ^ 7 ZZrZ ~

      Mr . Murray , who has been sentenced to death by the Secret Tribunal of the Pope , is , as now appears , the son of a late captain of the 8 th Regiment of Foot , and , as will be seen by the following letters , a member of a family lone connected with the English army . The mother of the unfortunate rana was a native of the Ionian Islands , and Murray himself was born in Italy , whilst bis parents were staying for a time in that country . When the democratic parly obtained power in Rome young Murray was an ardent promoter of their views , and thus earned the animosity of the priestly party . On the overthrow of the Republicans , Murray was apprehended , and his long imprisonment has often been referred to in the letters if the Roman correspondent

      of the " Daiiy News . " Hi 3 friends in England had corresponded with the English consul about his detention and their hopes of the ultimate release of their relative were strengthened by a letter receivpd from that gentleman—an extract of which we give—in which he expresses a distinct belief in Murray ' s innocence , and alludes to the causes tbat prolonged the legal proceedings . His relatives in this conntry— -not supposing parliamentary interference necessarylived on in hope that time and innocence would ensure tha release of the prisoner . Great was their horror to see by the newspaper despatch tbat Murray , without open trial , was to terminate his long imprisonment by a public execu tion . His aunt , the writer of the letter signed " An Englishwoman , " published in our paper last -week , went in a state of destraction to the representative of the Pope in this country , Cardinal Wiseman , in the hope of gaining his intercession for

      mercy—if not justice—but she was not permined to see the Cardinal ; bhe then went off to that distinguished member of our Catholic nobility , Lord Arundel and Surrey , and urgently supplicated his signature to a petition to the Pope to save Murray ' s life . This plea for mercy Lord Arundel and Surrey coldly refused to sign . Tbe destracted lady could uot understand this apathy of a Christian to plead for tbe life of a fellow-creature and fellow-subject -she forgot the polities of the condemned . Meanwhile the ' Duke of Argyll had mentioned the subject in the House of Lords-and the " Times" had published a leading article onMurray a case , pointing out the pleas under whicn our Tory Foreign Secretary might well escape from all trouble in the matter ; and making Murray ' s impending execution a peg on which to hang an argument for adding another costly ambassador to our present list of those expensive ineffi . ciencies . The following is the correspondence : —

      EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM THE BB 1 TISII CONSUL TO THE UNCLE OF 5 '" ™ ™ . DATED ANCONi , 19 th OF JONE , 1850 . sj-ttttifBttjasaigasi = SSK $ Ss ^ n *« arc ^ aS 5 SSS = S = ( Signed ) -GEOBQB Moobe , British Consul . ' agamatus . MHS , L ' fiSTBANOE TO THE DUKE OP AKGYIX a SBsaanaraisdai'ss Sf «« . l % ? ? nfo ; t"nate P rIs ° ner . not yet thirty years of age beg to state thathu father , grandfather , two great uncles , two uncles , ana three consuls , wen all officers of the British aiiy , in active service during the war extending over a period of shtv vems I think , therefore , his claims on the Intertirono Tot her Etv ' s S Tw y T trons > : nm 8 orryto « M thathlfSffi ft ** Place about two year , amco , was much hastened by excessive grief , brought on in consequence of my nephew ' s unfortunate position .-I have the honour to remain , my lord duke your grace's most humble and obliged servant , Jane L'Estbakob THE DUKE OF AEGUI ,, TO JIBS . L ' ESTEANGE . , r . ( Copr . ) Mnv 21 a * low Madam ,-I regret very much to hear that one bo nearlv con nected w th officers of the British army should be cir ? um Lced as Mr . Murray is reported to ba . I fear , hamvor , from the fact of no appeal to the British government having been Zde for R 0 long a t , m on his behalf , that the situation in which he had p ? aced himself dd not appear to hia relatives to hold out much Mosnect of success in tbe event of auch appeal being m » de prospect I aui , madam , your obedient servant , " Aaom . KB . L ' ESTBAHGE TO THE DCKE OF ABOIM . My Lord DuUe .-Thankiog y ^ Stt ?^ communication 1 beg to inform your Grace I havesincerefifrJefto a letter written to me by Mr . Moore ei-ht months after Mr Mur-StZr f T- i by Wh - ich your Grace will perceive that the exact nature of his accusation was not made known to us nrfihw was it auggHtea that any application to h « MajS s Koye ? nment wasneoessary . The extracts { given above ) w 11 show to ™ ur Grace we were not made acquainted with the full parttenlws \ nd wereqmte ignorant , that a memorial could havo benefited Mm Had we been better informed on tho subject , every exertion should have been made oumy part to have obtainedill eSlwlnterS K ^ nT ^ J ' Wife is the only ^ lative of hi " late father . His other relations ore on the mother ' s side , all rosidina abroad . It is through the public papers the news of 1 sSfil situation reached us , aa we have not received any " ters from hi family for nine months , which hu much surprised w hSth forward the extracts for your Grace ' s perusal , as yo 4 r Grace la been pleased to bring forward the case of the unfortunate 5 oung man , and I hare ths honour to remain your Grace ' s most humble obedient , and much obliged servant , F . 11 . L'Estbmge '

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      CHAMPIONSHIP OP THE THAMES . Tbo championship of tho Thames , the first of the threo ; reat sporting events of tho week , was contested on MondaT ind so extraordinary a boat raco was never seen . After the * nosfc gallant struggle on rec-rd , from tho first to the las " > vor acourse of nearly four milesand a half , the o £ rapion f tbe Thames and Tyne , the hero of nearly half a hundred esperate conflicts , theprido of the Thames , sustained a iefeat . It had beon thought that he was as good as ever Jot nothing in the shape of humanity could wrest from &i f ? ' ?^ . flood ' " so sanguine were Jo eipectationB of his friends that Robert Coombes , of ffhomwe speak as he who held the proud distinction , was t the moment of starting absolutel y backed by ma two to one , and a very large amount of money has charged owners upon the result , which was certainly unexpectedly £ L 171 ^ WW ° f < l a « cs . Some notion may be formed of the interest the match created when we mention that no less than ten steamers , some densely crowded accompanied the match , to say nothing of the thousands ranged along the course and in every description of craft . Tho match was for £ 200 a side besides the honorar ? 3 s fifS" , f , r »? & »>! « d the competitor ? So-ThonSTWrS r plon , ° f many year 8 ' standin * » nd Thomas Colo , of Chelsea , who aspired to that honour The former has been betoro the public for the last twenty vears , and earned suoh extraordinary reputation for the pre-H « T 7 n the aIVtaat «« ny , despite his being in his forty-third year , considered him invincihla s

      ? Wf dl tanM 7 a 8 fr ? m Putney-b " dge to Mortlake , and the attendance of spectators was the greatest we ever saw n « PoLV ' , . ettin S ^ 8 brisk at sfx anLvea to S on Uombes , and in some instances two to one . At a little after five both men rowod to their station , Cole having the choice , and taking the Middlesex side of . tht centre arch . M Royal was umpire for Coombes ( , ' Salter for Sli ? ii ? \? earIe officiated aa r * ereeCSS dashed his fioulls in the water with almost the rapidity of ightning and'took a lead of something like a quarter of a length , which he retained for only about twenty yards , and then they were scull and scull , and no two rowing men ' ever so ably displayed the perfection of style , while their pace * ai surprising . The speed of both 4 s unabated , and the cheers of encoura _ getQent by the partisans of either n » , t Z

      air jsonabot through the water towards Hammenmith . b » dg « . Surrey pier , and the dashing work of Col " 5 * him through the bridge a dear length and a half in advance , but between this and Chiswick Eyot the " old one" had applied himself so vi gorously to his task that their referee called he par ticularattention of the umpires to the position of he boats , Coombes hav ng forced his way within a yard or so of hia opponent , and his rowing was here so strong that his nfiirolXl ? P . . although he continued stroke after stroke for three minutes in the same position Cole again increased the gap between them to a borfa length On nearing the railway bridge at Barnes it was aSa lessened by another desperate effort of Coombes but he could not get in front , and although ha rowedi as W as nf w Sf - ? he co - uld not win - ^ JuS S 5 " t of the most determmed exertion he decreased his adversary ' s lead . Cole kept in advance , and won by half a clear iS doing the distance in twentynine ^ JeKJS ^^

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      MSziXz ™ * tTS 7 a J ziyr ° ' tho 18 th ultimo , and was interred in fK \ R . 08 B" 8 huVn , Rosekeen on the 19 th . If v ? e are not t , -T , rou nd of afc the period of her decease was thT ^ med Jane ' Scotland , if not in Great Biifc ' iin Li oIde ! * womanm years of ase and tw 5 . * for sl " » was at least 110 even morl ' III * Ta ! wT , Z % ° ' - ieve that 8 be ™ national event of thebauS if ou leOtl ° ! l , of tko ^ her nearest relations X iw , Culloden . and from many of been "out" in 8 romantK a " d ™ nzie 8 , having could detail a whole S £ « i " ent 6 r P » > she nected with these eventful til , W " . incidents ? ; mode of life and comp actSvM ? « fr ( ™ her retired iuuuu tuoir ws

      way into nrinf T « t . " « * mvvj « v » v » there has passed awavSi ^ rfn ??^ Munro * bclLe ™ was alive when ChavKdS ftbltant of Scotland who skulked as a hunted £ >? Z ^ Jf It st , ate in Holyrtod , or was a staunch Jacobite tiffin ? * ! We 8 t 1 rn Isles ' , She no doubt , the last individual i * ^ n ff a ? d , ? ' - we h * l 0 conscientiously believed th . ? * « Bntlsh dominions who byanunlawful tonure Sh !? " 5 estyheW the Crown passed during the fl ™ Bni SStranse to ^ nk of whathaa elapsed since this veni ? £ f years and ten which havo wasinfche rinLofl 4 S A T n T . wa 3 listened . She wore English colonies . ^ n *^ United States of America poleon giined hfaSSrLm M beoome elderly before Naago before Eie-iZri i ttl 0 ! and she had lapsed into old . T ! LfT . u . Etea , raors . ° rlocomotivfi Mii .. m « L wj « f .

      • to ' i ^ H ^ widow for the nwLS ""^ roiahod character , and was a tiu Zt 1 ZJzES ££ forty : throe years - * *» retained and preview toWA weroise of her mental faculties , with CnS eye . fcllne 98 couldread * BDQallest P rint ab ? e ^ o rTfr om h Ru 8 Sia is in a ™? ™ akslate ' ^ * much one flvfi ^ her couch Rer eyesight suffers very ETare $ Vff » S T ^ lost ' Altogether her vital func-WUWiAtaSaff * ' keptfromstagnation oWofly the-SSK . Sj ? " * ss .-OnIy two of the editors of editor of ? hn « ft - pap ^ s are Englishnien-painoly , Delaine , KeS <¦ " ft ^ ' Hu « fc ' the edit « r ofthe " Dai'y ^ ld '' , nf . « ni L tor bfthe " Standard , " "Morning"He-AdvertiS > « 2 be " , l M »*«»«> I and of the Moniog Advertisor , « Sun , " and « Morning Post , " Scotchmen ,

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      THE COLLIERY KPWSIOH iS ^^ In our Town edition of last Saturday we ffa count of this frightful explodion , by whSv sll ° * were m one moment sacrificed and Xm >* " W e now give the following Ore teit » % injS ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS The pit m which the accident occurredni ¦ a mile and a half from Chorley , S M ^?* 4 * Freeman by Mr . John Harereaves Tho . d fr ( "n iT i » th . colliery , all commmiicat g ifa ^ ^ mine throughout is very dry , and in » . h ol her amount ofduatwas accuLJed b ' th «<»• S O ! d Pitt to supply rs ' ufficS" r & . « * * J off . This seems to have been a ey 1 Z * ™ <* $ the prevention of accidents , but hVR Precauti | » fJ ** ° - J ^ ^

      . ame purpose . "Y , Tew ^ h l ^ C m f » irithlh . davy lamp / and , so iai ' VS ^ aseertain , very little , if any , restriction has befin n £ f ' « them . u the use of naked candles in the Srfc d ^ colhery is under the management of Mr . John in ? . *' , ^ consequence of the alarming frequency nf It- a ' ^> k to the one we have now toUSJ ^ J S ?? . ** tions from Mr . John Hargreaw that i ! ml I ? lnstt ^ appearance of danger , the works should be tinn 11 ghte « caution was communicated to the firemen S ' ' ^ and John Watmough , whose dnty it wa " ' tit ? . ^« i mine every morning , previous to the commenp ! TV he work ; the former taking the southern 2 S ? f 0 { Utter takmg the northern part , more particufarW to ? , tbfi he currant 0 pure air , there being comparati I Iff ^ formed in that direction . Altogether nearly 200 mi . gB 3 employed in the colliery ; and of these about fifty nl ' ere went down about six o ' clock to commence work ' a ^ and a half before that time the two firemen had det ! . ? and proceeded to their several department 8 | XnSt ?' whether or not there was any dangerous accumuS gas . On making his round , Smith , whose duty , s ° , ° stated , was to examine the southern working Ln / , 1 ady viunujiuh reiurnea

      , mnuu ue 10 one ot the main ai * A little below the pit-eye , where the men were * ai ni ft mission until he had concluded his examination Li ad plaining his position of the dangerous places , he ' toW !?' colliers that none were to go down that " shunf LmT naked light , but they were allowed to go into til ? J workings on the braw , where there was no cause for lf ? hension . Leaving his son at the door , to warn anvrt might subsequently come down , Smith proceeded , vT northerly direction towards the Old Coppull mi in MV to procure by ventilation a current of pure a \ r and tor place the noxious vapour which had accumulated durum 1 Z night . No sooner , however , had he left the men , than < Z of them , named Thomas Gregson , with a recklessness of cnn sequences peculiar to his class , passed through the air dl

      with a naked candle , and was followed by four or fiveothZ and , after they had proceeded some distance down tbe brow ' many of their comrades , encouraged by their assurances imi ' tated their foolhardy example . One of the workmen ml cautious than the rest , remonstrated with them on tbenetU they were incurring , but , being disregarded , he went to tha pit-shaft , and informed John Ellis , jun . ( who acted as snner intendent in the absence of his father , ) of what was takinj place , upon which he immediately hurried down the brow where he overtook a number of the men , whom he ordered to return , remarking that every man who had disobeyed the firemen ' s orders would be fined 5 s . Passing them , ' he fol . lowed those who bad gone first , and while the former were '

      retracing their steps to the pit-mouth a tremendous explo . 8 ion was heard , followed by two others of less violence which instantly diffused the greatest consternation through ! out the rume . Those who had been commencing work ia the side levels hurried on their clothes , and rushed precipi . tately into the main road or Down-brow , but on reaching it th ? y were almost suffocated by the cloud of dust and slack which had been raised by the explosion in consequence of the dryneBs of the mine , and in the darkness and subsequent confusion many of them mistook their way , and , instead of going towards the pure air at the pit-eye , they went in an opposite direction , and were met by the " afterdamp " which completely overpowered them . Nor did those who haa taken the right direction fare better than their com .

      pauions , for the deadly current pressed on them with lightning speed , and nearl y the whole of them were thrown to the ground in n stats of all but insensibility . It was about a quarter to seven o ' cloek when the men in attendance at the top of the pit were alarmed by the report , mid , feeling satis . fied that an explosion had taken place , information wasim . mediately sent to Mr . Ellis , who resides a short distance from the colliery . He was just leaving his house at the time to go on business to Southport ; but , hastening to tbe pit , he descended , and , notwithstanding the volume of " dhokedamp" and dust which wa ° streaming to the pit-eye , he pro ceeded hihands

      on s ana kneee , followed by a few of those who had arrived from the northern part of the pit , to en . deavour to extricate the sufferers . The first body found was that , of Thomas Banks , a hoy , who was then alive , and , giving instructions to those who followed te remove him to the pit-eye , Mr . EUia proceeded down the brow , and . about six yards below , he came upon the dead body of the boy ' s father . The nest body found was that of a boy named Robert Smith , the fireman ' s son , who had been left to warn the men against going into the dangerous places : and further on John Eatington , Samuel Howcroft , John Yates , and two boys , John Kilahaw and Robert Banks , were found , and got out alive . Notwithstanding the increasing density of the << choke the

      -damp , " Mr . Ellis ^ till piloted way , in ihe hope of finding living men ; but , alas ! he came upon a heap of fourteen dead and dying . They , also , were removed . Still eager io save life , and « hoping against hope" that his own son might yet survive , he went so far tbat lie fell doffn from exhaustion , a faint moan reanimated him , and , with a desperate effort , he reached another blackened corpse , finding it impossible to render further assistance in that direction , he returned to th © pii ' s-mouth , and relays of men were despatched in search of the bodies , all hope being abandoned that any could survive . Ultimately it was aseertained that thirty-two lives were lost , and six were desperately injured . Two of these expired on Saturday . The following is a list of the killed -

      t ' lrii- FOUND BEAD IN THB PIT . William Green , left a widow and five children ; Richard Green , his brother , widow ana two children ; William Hot . ns , widow and two children ; Thomas Miller , unmarried ; Thomas Southwarth , drawer ; Ellis Derrv , widow and two children ; William Derbyshire , widow and four children ; James Derbyshire , his son , drawer ; John Bradley , widow , without children ; Thomas Banks , widow and five children ; lhomas Banks , his son , drawer ; Edward Robinson , widow and one child ; John EUi « , underlooker , mtnamed ; lhomas Gregson , widow and five children ; John Gregson , his son , drawer ; Robert Smith , son of the fireman , drawer ; WilliamKilshaw , unmarried ; Henry Kilshaw , his brother , unmarried ; William Riding , unmarried ; John Buttetwotth , drawer ; William Ainscoagh , widow and tbree children ; Wiliam Blackhurst , unmarried ; Thomas Watson , tout children ; Robert Tootal , unmarried ; James Turner , widow and five children ; Richard Booth , widow and two children ; George Howarth , drawer ; John Roscoe , unmarried ; Peter Maorfield , widow and two children ; James Almond unmarned ; William Baxendale , widow and two children ; Stephen Turner , widow and two children . Additional deaths . — Robert Banks and Samuel Hancroft . Mr . Palmer , coroner , of Preston , opened the inquest pro forma on Saturday in order that the bodies of the deceased might be interred . The inquiry was then adjourned ; until Friday . Mr . DickenBon , of Manchester , the government in * spector , has made his examination of the pit .

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      Extraordinary Religious Fanaticism . —A letter fto ^ Drontheim , 29 th ultimo , states that the inhabitants of Fm « mark , the most northern district of Norway , are in complete revolution—not politio . il , but religious . Inconsequence of the preaching of missionaries belonging to sorne new sects , the people have all abjured tho prevailing religion * ^ d driven away their former priests . The Bishop of Drontheim , in whoso diocese Finmnrk lelonss , on hearing of this event , sent two members of his clergy , D" - Zedlitz and Stockfleth , to expiain to the Finlanders tho serious error into which they had fallen . On these gentlemen arriving at their destination they found matters even worse

      thau they had been represented . Men , women , and elm * dren were lying about the streets , their clothes in disorder , and their heeds covered with ashes , lamenting what they had been just taught to consider the errors of tho « ccd w whioh they had hitherto lived , and thus m erited eternal damnation . In some parts of tho country this religious fanaticism had degenerated into perfect madness , and thosn who refused to join this new sect wore assailed in the mosG violent manner , and their property destroyed . A superior officer of the police and a body of troops had been despatched from Drontheim , in order to bring these deluded people to reason , and to arrest tho authors of this

      disturbance . "WheD seen at a distance a tea plantation looks like a little shrubbary of the evergreens . 4 s the traveller threads his way amongst the rooky scenery of Woo-e-shan , lie »» continually coming Supon these plantations , which are dotted upon the sides of all the hills . The leaves are of a dark green , and they afford a pleasing contrast to tua strange and often barren scenery which is Qverywne" * nround . —JbrtHne ' s Visit to ( he Tea Districts of China «• " ? India . I iThe town of Whydab , on the coast of Africa , ^ oem recently burnt . After the firo there were discover ed in m ruins of the town the charred remains of 150 slaves , J »» had been unablo to escape , owing to their being ohameo i gether by the neck . It is supposed they were oolleeteo 1 1 « getber ready for shipment . The town of Dahomey , . iw the king of that country resides , is also reported to w heen burnt . L . t / ,, _ th 8 Gutto Peroha-the most versatile of vegetables-- ^ ' * Disraoli of raw materials is now used as a baitforcna ^ .

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      A Fasi Yousq Ladt . A member of one of the leading clubs m London , and a master of foxhounds , will hir > U- I young lady for from £ 2 , 000 to £ 5 , 000 , to ride against an ? to Birminghamm twelve hours , usbg two horses ; to ride four miles over New Market Course ; to a four mile steenle chase over Hertfordshire ; or to hmt thiHursevfo ? houndB m October next and to kill a fSiS SSSS iiytt

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      6 THE STAR OF FREEDOM . lSKo

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 29, 1852, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1680/page/6/