The Press. — London, England, 1853-10-01 00:00:00

OCTOBER 1,1853. in` every portable article ha could lay his hands upon, he tre• quently stripped his little brotners and sisters of their personal clothing to furnish himself with the neeessary miens for the gratification of his vicious indulgences. lii the course Of Sault• day night last. after .witness and his family had retired to rest, the prisoner stealthily entered his sleeping apaittueut, fleas which he abstracted a horse pistol and various articles of wear. ing apparel belonging to his mother, and then proceeded hb the bedroom of the children. where he removed the upper covering from off their bed, and clandestinely left the house with the whole of the property. On missing the articles next morning, witness proceeded in search of the boy, whom he found lurking about in one of the adjoining streets. and, in answer to his inquiries as to what he had done with the property, coolly stated that he hail sold the pistol for 341. to a man he had accidentally met in the street, and with regard to the other articles that he had torn them up and disposed of them as old rags at a marineostore dealer's at llaggerstone. The father telt so in censed that ho at once gave bun into custody, but was most re• luctant to proceed with the charge, and trusted that the magi.. trate would have the power of procuring his admission into 'toms asylum with a view to his ulthuate reclamation. 11r. D'lL:vsuot• air said that it was certainly a very distressing ease, and, in order to consider the niost advisable course to be adopted under the circumstances, he should order the prisoner to be remanded for a week. THE CRIME OF MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS was alleged ag ainst the master and four seamen of the barque Q ueen of the feign at the Thames Po:ice Odle° on Monday. The master's name was Stooks, aid two of the other defendants, named Ahan and Ali, were Malays, the remaining two being English men. They were charged with having caused the death of five Lascar seamen belonging to the same vessel on the 22nd of last July, shortly after crossing the line, on the voyage from Singapore to England. Some previous investigation of the charge had taken place at Gibraltar, whence the magistrate had for warded a cofilu-like box to the British police court. On this box being opened by Mr. Yardley, divers fearful weapons were produced, including crowbars, long iron bars, cutlasses (some broken near the hilt, some in the middle, and some whole), with throe or four Malay daggers, called kreis, of singular workmanship, with polished wooden handles and sheaths, and formid able blades of about fourteen inches long. There was also a large paper package, containing what appeared to be a log-book and copies of depositions taken before Mr. William Woolrige, the Gibraltar magistrate. The evidence now given before the court was most con flicting. One witness, a seaman, declared that all seemed going on right, and the Lasear seamen, who numbered fourteen in all in the vessel, were behave ing well until the night in question, when he was roused by a " row " on deck, and, going up, found that some of the Lasears had been cut down and wounded with cutlasses, shot with pistols, or thrown overboard. There were five, he said, killed in all, and all the defendants were noticed to he more or less participating in these acts of violence. Mr. Triatt, chief mate of the barque, gave a different. narrative of the affair. He was a watch on deck at the time when the Lascars made a rush aft, pursued and wounded the man at the wheel, and. breaking out into open mutiny, attacked him with kreisses, and other weapons, wounding him severely, insomuch that his life was saved only by the timely arrival of the captain, who had been disturbed by the uproar. Much resistance was made, however, by the muti nous Lascars, which resulted in the death of five of their number before they could be thoroughly over powered. Their object, evidently, was to seize the ship, though none of them were competent to navi gate her, and she was eight hundred miles from land at the time. Mr. Yardley adjourned the ease, trust ing that, the affair would be investigated by the professional authorities. Bail was accepted for the defendants. _ THE CutEr or rim Zeus KAFFIRS, now exhibiting at Hyde-park-corner, appeared at Westminster Police Court to answer a charge of assault. Mr. Cal dicott, son of a merchant at Port Natal, whom his father had entrusted with the charge of the Zulus forming the exhibition, came forward as eomplainailt. The chief, it appeared, had gone out without leave, accompanied by his brother Kaffir+, to take a walk. They returned with a curious crowd at their heels, and were roughly chidden by Mr. Caldicott for their absence. Ile was said to have pushed them with some violence, and the Katfirs, on reaching the gallery, showed evident symptoms of wrath, swinging their clubs, and threatening serious damage to the on-lookers, and especially to the complainant. The charge was brought in order to obtain some inrezi , +- terial sanction to precautionary measures in future. Mr. Meow...sir inquiretl whether the defendant had signed any document giving to Mr. Caldicott the power of controlling his outgoings and incomings Mr. Caldioott produced an agreement., signed by the defendant and the others+, and duly s•ertitleil. to the etfeet that Mr. Caldicott +should pay their passage to England. clothe. maintain, and allow them a certain sum per h. and land them again at l'ort Natal within eighteen months. milevii a further agreement +should be made by mutual consent, for which they agreed to Kerte him faithfully during the 'raid period. by performing all midi native dances and other customs aM might be required for the purposes. of eNhibition or otherwise. Mr. Itiommtir: The Kaffir+ agreed to tame tuittguily. by verfortulng native dances and other native euvlonia for exhibir lion;" but he could Out, by their utrreement, put them to any mental etaphivtueist ; and the acen-cil now wanted to know why lie wino not permitted us go out. the contract containing no re 'friction in that revert*/ Mr. Caldicott pointed out, that if they were permitted to go abroad at their own ri..axare. without control. the ccnsegitcneen the rub* lltt& b Ide mot setiout. dot two. THE PRESS. VW entirely ID Dia ebarge while they were from their native country, and his father was under sureties. to the amount of Lhilttl, to see that they were properly eared for, under the agree ilieut to the Colonial tioverument, and lauded at Port Natal at the sitridated tone. Mr. Buoitr R p save Mr. Calilieott 4 relit for carefully lookup: after them, hut still the question was, whether he had any power to prevent their going in and out at pleasure. so loug as they " perforated native dances said other customs tot exhibitton." Their agreement was strictly ewitined to that. What complain• ant wished was very proper. and showed • due regard to the public ; but the question was, whether he was legally justified in putting restrictions upon them. tie had better, perhaps. have not been so strict with them on this occasion. The very moment violent hands were laid upon them they bietuno eacited. They required the exercise of • great deal of judgment and prudence. Mr. Cahlieott said it was not their first offence ; they had be fore been violent. . Mr. lIRODERIP. addressing the interpreters, said: Tell the defendant that if he striker anybody he will be punished ao• cording to our law; but if be has any complaint about the way be is treated, and violent bands are laid upon )lIM, they must let him Mils here and complain. Will he undertake to behave wed in future. and not to be indent. but come here if he has any complaint ? Inc interpreter, having comniuninated this. announced the defendant's reply. that he was very sorry, and that he would uut do it again; but if a man pushed him he must push again." Mr. lima:mem : Tell bun he must not 'waif again, but that the man who pushes wrongfully will be brought hero and punished. lie was then discharged. THE DISCHARGE OF A YOUNG MA named Parker was opposed at the Insolvent Court ou behalf of a number of tradesmen, who alleged that their debts were fraudulently contracted. Insolvent's father is an alderman of Liverpool, who allowed his son 4001. a year, and the young man had besides the expeeta tion of some reversionary property. Ho had run deeply into debt with various shopkeepers for clothes, jewellery, guns, &c., being introduced to most of them by certain gay and anstoeratic acquaintances as a youth of vast future wealth. As such ho had given himself out on many occasions, and had be sides formed connection with money-lenders, for whom he signed bills, and bor:owed money at usurious interest from them. Ile had also signed cheques, which he got cashed, but which were liner• wards dishonoured at the Bank. For the insolvent it was alleged, principally, that he had boon deceived in the presumed value of his reversionary property. He expected to obtain enough from it to pay his debts, but in the end it seems to have passed into the hands of a money-lender for a comparatively trifling sum. Mr. Commissioner Murphy, in giving judgment, said : "If the Caen rested on the money transset our. he shroud have pronounced a diNcharge, but the insolvent had, in rontraettng debts with the tradesmen who appeared, shown a reckless die poattion. Trus it was that ' evtl communication,' corrupt good manners,' and he was afraid that the persons with whom he had been conneeted,aud who had intmdueed him to tradesmen, had given him a degree of recklessness which hail wade him indif ferent to the interests of others. There had been something like • systematic wrong towards his creditors; and the mode of paying a little, and then getting large supplies, showed that he was not so innocent a victim as had been allegro] by his coons'''. It was his intention to deal with the CAM' in • penal unuitier. and give such a jUIigInVIII. WI would perhaps get the creditors their money. lie should therefore remand the insolvent, at the sluts of nine shopkeepers, for a period of welt.• calendar mouths front the vesung order." Ittihad% anb Oftentts. THE EQUIMKTIAL GALliii commenced on Sunday last, and have been characterised by unusual severity and fatality. From all parts of the coast accounts of numerous, and in too many instances calamitous, accidents arrive. The passenger transit across the British and Irish Channels has experienced consi derable interruption, and on Sunday and Monday the Mersey, the Downs, and the settlioards generally, were scenes of incessant disasters from drifting ves• sets, &p. Altogether the damage done to shipping has been very extensive. The American packet-ship Neva, which sailed from Liverpool Oil Thursday, put back through stn.- weather, and arrived in the river on Sunday evening. During the gale she dragged her anchors, and went. ashore near the Sun don Dock-basin. She bad on board 101 passengers, and when she went ashore several attempted to jump from the ship to the pier head, but tell into the river and were drowned. While the gale was at its wildest two small vessels, whose names are unknown, were seen to go down off the North-west Light-ship, and it is presumed all on board perished. As TED! STF.AMER which conveyed Lord John RUs. sell from lloseneath to Greenock was passing the quay, she fired several guns, when the wadding front one struck the skipper of a tug steamer on the kg, and so fractured it that it was found necessary to convey him to the infirmary, and amputate the limb. Lord John did nut hear of the accident till next day, when he immediately proceeded from Itoseneath to the Greenock Infirmary to inquire into the condition of the sufferer. ON Saturday fourteen rick% of corn and other agricultural produce were destroyed by tire on Sher field Court Farm, five miles from Itiisingstoke, the result of childish thoughtlessness in making a bonfire in the road, from which the burning straw was blown into the farmyard. Although Mr. Butler, the pro prietor, was insured, it is believed that he will be a great lobes' by tine conflagration._ 515 THE LATE FATAL. CATASTROPHE nt THE STRAND has been investigated btiore a coroner's jury, who returned their verdiet on Monday la.st. The evidence taken Was exceedingly voltuilmous, and in some respects pt‘rple..iug, hut the jury tinally auxibutod the death of the tour victims to gross negligence on the part of Mr. Abraham, the surveyor employed by the Duke of Nortoik and the Mystirs. Smith, in not causing the party-wall to be sudktently shred up and UnderinUne s i erten, the excavaumis for the new building were cutunienced. 'lnc coroner stated that this verdict amounted to a finding et manslatighttm, add, though tile lortinitu declated that they had not couwmpiatod such a result, the jury refused to re tract or aiwr tu..tr judgment, and a warrant for Lilo appreheubioh of Mr. Aorahatus on that charge nas forthwith issued. AN ACCIDENT from presumed carelessness, with fatal cousequeuces, occurred un the oi ill Kent Hallway uu Saturday. Chamberlain, guard to a train un the line, was found lying ou tun top of a carriage severely wouuded. It is supposed that he missed the braaa-van, and was mak►ul; his way to it along the carriages, when the train passed under a br►tiso, against which he was dashed. lie was token thu hospital, but died before ass►stancewuld mach him. A BLIND MAN Wall found early on Thum'.lay morning in l'ye-street, Westminster, 1)1144 on pavement bleeding profusely wit tusetisibie. It was ascertained that he had luubed at the house a Mrs. Etienin, 8, Old l'ye-strutt, and pave suspiuun exists that he was thrown uut ut a thud dew ainuow in that house. lie was conveyed to the Westuonstor Hospital, but from the severe mimes he bad received he shortly expired. A VERY DARING ROBBERY has been committed at Knowsley-hall, the sea. of the Larl of Derby. An entrance is supposed to have b en effected about 8 cialock in the morning, and the thief ur tidevts got clear away without beiss r ; perceived by any one cue fleeted with but lordship's residence. Many arueles of yemillery, ornaments, ite., were carricit oil by the deprcd at ors, for winse capture a rtwuril of 51. has been uttered. Ste 'lVit.i tem Ilvmusiow, the distinguished lire fess'''. of I.ogic in the University of Edinburgh, re ceived a fracture of his aim on Saturday evening, from a fall nt Largo It is undetatood, however, that he is progressing tavourably. A Swat:SlM) CASE or WITIC•SIAUGHTZR occurred in I.e.eis on Sunday, when a young woman, ail months advanced in pregnancy, tell a victim L 4.1 her husband's brutality. Ho was an Irishman named Michael Reynolds, a hawker of mats, and lived with his wife in Shephertea-yarti, Ebenezer street. (In the previous evening they w. et to a neighbour's house, where then. was dancing going on, anti sub sequently found their way to the Fleece gun adult cent, and there Michael liecanw the worse for liquor and stniclt his wile. lit:tweet, 12 and 1 o'clock in the Morning .die went home, followed by her husband and an acquaintance. Hero the husband matte some advances towards a reconciliation, lint, receiving some slight provocation, his brutality appeals to have been at wive aroused, and be struck her in the lace, and then, flinging her upon the door, kicked her with terrible leree, rupturing inii.ortaiii vessels and tear ing open the flesh leighUtilly. She sank upon the floor, and died before the arrival of medical aid. Ihe brutal huslaunl escaped, and Is still at large. jury who sat upon his victim's body contented them • selves with finding a v. rib,t of " Manslaughter." Ax ExetosioN ow Nsrirou killed three men in the empky tit Messrs. Smith, elientists., at Norwich, yes. terduy week. THE SHIP h'iugara arrived at Now York, front Liverpool, on Wednesday, the 14th tilt, having lost thirty eight of her passengers —one-eiglith of the whole number—by ship-fever. Tire Cameron, an iron screw steam ship, of :El3 tons regibtcr, running between Hull and Rotterdam, was totally lust on Sunday last. She hunt on boattl a large cargo of cotton and woollen goods, manufac tured iron, oil, earthenware, coma', wool, &c., twelve passengers ' and twenty rem. 'I he dilated vessel encountered a terrific gale, which scut bur on shore about fourteen nudes from (inert c, at tlae month of the Masse. The bouts acre got out, istel IMMO, excepting Captain Cross, the second malt-, and Henry Jubb, a seaman, were 101VVII. N. itht r the ship nor cargo was insured. A lloardu lilassat et: has hien perpetrated eti board the brig Arratoon .Ipcar. on her voyage to Singapore and Calcutta. She anchored m the ,L,rama Channel, and about n.idnight the (713ineAc port of her crew, six to eight, and ten Chinese pameopers. supposed to have come Irvin Hong Kong to Join the rebels, rushed down to die cabin and murdered the captain, both talkers, and a passeegt r ; another pas senger jumped overboard. 1 bey then took about 6,000 dollars. and left ui the blip's boats. The ship wan brought into harbour by the remaining Lcaear crew. .