The National Register. — London, England, 1821-09-30 00:00:00

'V tempted to leave the been, bet wes prevented, and at tacked on the landing or*, Mem of the second floor by some desperadoes, with whom he maintained a long and desperate conflict, during which the stairs were literally torn np, and the walls bespattered with blood. He was seen at the window crying for help, but was dragged away by the persons in the room. A woman residing opposite them saw several persons enter the room, and a woman lift the man off the ground, and deliberately push him through the window into the street, where he fell on the curb-stone. Au alarm being given, Furzeman and Clarke, officers, with several watchmen repaired to the spot, and had the man taken to the hospital. He was covered with blood, his skull fractured, and several of his hones broken. Fitrzeman then entered the house, and secured several women, the ruffians who had been seen heating the man having made their escape. The interior bore evident marks of a recent conflict, amid every thing appeared in the utmost confusion.lre bannisters were torn away, as if some person clung to them, and the room was covered with blood. The injured man remains in the hospital, and declares lie was attacked and beat senseless In the room by several persons, but recollects nothing about being flung out of time window. He is a strong man, and acknowledged making considerable resistance. Very little hope is entertained of his recovery. A wo man named Pi ice directly swoae before the Magistrate to the woman Pethirk being the person who threw Sawyers sat of the window, The prisoners, in their defence, severally declared that the conduct of the man was very outrageous, and ac counted for his being found in the street by saying, that lie was so extremely intoxicated that he tell out of the window, also alleging that lie received no injury in the house. The Magistrate said, lie never heard of a more flagrant outrage, and remanded the prisoners for a week, to as certain whether Sawyers court swear to any of them, should lie survive. For that purpose Furzeman was directed to endeavour to discover the men who wet e in the house at the time of the affray. TOWN HALL, SOUTHWARK. CHARGE OF MURDER.—On Thursday, John Lambert, a poi ter in a corn warehouse, was bronchi up on a charge of killing his father in law, James Allingliani, a labourer in the same employ. John Harvey, the night constable of St. John's, stated, that about ten o'clock on the previous evening, while standing near the dour of the watch-house, he heard a shriek, apparently from Back-street, Pottet's-fti Ids ; he ran there directly, and found a man lying on the grouud senseless, and the prisoner and his wife near. On in quiring how it happened, the prisoner immediately said be did it, but he only pushed him ; he did not strike him. The witness assisted in removing the man into a public house, and then took the prisoner into custody. The circumstances which led to the unfortunate death of Allingham were detailed in evidence by Mr. May, the landlord of the Three Tuns public house, Back-street, Horselydown, where they had been previously drinking, and by a fellow labourer of theirs, who was in the house iu company with them; from whose account it appeared, that the deceased was intoxicated and quarrelsome in the public house ; diet there had been some words between him and a man of the name of Skater, but their differences were made lip, and they shook hands. Afterwards the deceased began to quarrel with his son in law, the pri soner. No blows, however, were struck, and by the interference of the landlord this quarrel was also made up, and the old man and his son sat down and took a friendly pot of beer between them. The prisoner, it seems, then urged the deceased to go home, which he ob stinately refused ; and on the son still pressing him, he struck him more than once. This was all that happened within the house, which they shortly after left together, and in a few miaetes the shriek before mentioned was heard in the street. The body was brought into the house, there was a cut on the back of the head ; but the deceased never spoke, and expired in a few minutes. A surgeon arrived, but not before Alliughain was dead, who declared that the skull was not fractured. The pi ironer, who seemed ranch affected, said lie had uo animosity against his father in law ; lie had been quar relling with him in the house, and when they came out began to goon again : he did nut intend to push him down, but merely put his ham' to him and said, " Be quiet, you foolish old man," when he fell backwards. The deceased, it was stated, had been frequently subject to fits. The prisoner was remanded, to await the verdict of the Coronet's inquest. MARYLEBONE. CA CTION TO LICENSED VICTUAL EHS—An information was laid at this office against a respectable licensed vic tualler, under the Act of William 111., entitled, an Act for ascertaining the measures for retailing, ale and beer, which imposes a penalty not exceeding 40s. and not less than 10s. ou any innkeeper or victualler, who shall retail or sell ale or beer in any vessel of whatever metal, if not plainly and apparently stamped and marked with the Ex chequer mark (W. R. and a Crown), done by the Lord Mayor or chief officer, who are bound to provide them on being paid one farthing fur each stamp. This information, which exposed the party, if convicted, to 321. in penalties, was on Friday quashed upon au intiamalit v. This the informer, with an associate, on Monday endea voured to amend, by tiling fresh informations against the same party. HI. hinted that the pewter pots set forth in the information, not having been marked according to the Acts of the 12th and 13th of William 111, left the magis trates no alternative bat to appoi lion the several penalties which it would be proved he had int:Hired. Mr. Spearman, for the defendant, maintained, that the Act of 25 George 1I l , commonly calk d the Marylebone Local Act, virtually repealed the old Act of William, as far as regarded the palish of Marylebone. The magistrates, upon reference to the two Acts, con curred in Mr. She:moan's view of the case, that the Local Act took the palish out of Ilse operation of the Act of William, and Melt:fuse the information could nut be sustained. Durinr , the Kina's stay to Dublin, an Irish gentleman presentee his Majosty %till) a piece if cloth sufficient for a coat, and al,o the Iwo slicep limn the fleeces of which the cloth was made. They are a cross front the Merino flock of the late Kin g . were brought to Spithead in the A c ti ve , l an dj, and sent off oa Friday for VViorl sor, under charge of a theillerd, who carte purposely to take care of thew, THE NATIONAL REGISTE A dreadful accident happened at Keighley last Sunday in the afternoon. There has lately arisen in Yorkshire, and in various other parts of the kingdom, a religious community calling themselves Primitive Methodists, from what they consider an adherence to the principles and practice of the original followers of John Wesley, by others they are called Ranters, from the fervour of their devotion, which frequently maniksis itself in bursts of enthusiasm, which run through their public assem blies. On Sunday last, in the afternoon, upwards of 200 of these persons were assembled in the upper room of a wool warehouse at Kcighley, for the purpose of holding a love-feast, which is a species of religious ser vice consisting of a simple repast, after which, such of the congregation as think their own experience will be edifying, relate the particulars of it to their fellow-wor shippers. When the services of the day, which had been peculiarly animaterl, were drawing to a close, and the people were abort to depart, a dreadful crash was heard from the breaking of the timbers of the floor, and in a moment the whole assembly was precipitated thro' the floor into the room below. It is impossible to de scribe the scene of confusion and dismay which followed. —The shrieks of the females and the groans of the wounded spread consternation through the neighbour hood. The young and the more active generally escaped without much injury, but from fifty to sixry persons, a large portion of them old women, were severely crushed and wounded. An old woman of the name of Martha %VOA died on Monday night ; and a number of others lie at the present moment in a very dangerous state.— The following is v list of some of the sufferers, with the nature of their injories :—Tiotothy Aini'ler, leg and arm broken.—Nlary Peck, one of her legs broken.—llarrison In tow, one of his arms broken.—W:ddow Wadding. ton, one of her legs broken.—Elijah Green, his leg broken in two places.—Sarah Sunderland, her leg and thigh broken.—Martha Brukhaw, foot dreadfully in. jilted and arm broken.—J. Naylor, his arm broken.— Susannah Leach, her thigh broken.—Mary Jones, her leg and thigh broken.—Mary Caner, a widow with three children', her collar-bone and three ribs broken.— Mary Ranisden, severely hurt, and since delivered of a dead child at a premature birth.—Widow Wilkinson, crushed so dreadfully that her life is despaired of. The other sufferers are many of them labouring under severe wounds and contusions, and the ushation of the principal part of them is truly deplorable. Poverty, in most of these cases, is added to their other sufferings; but the more opulent inhabitants of the place have very laudably opened a subscription for their relief. Discoveries in Egypt.—Extract of a letter from Rome, dated August, 1821 :—" A young Englishmen, of the name of Waddington, who has lately arrived in this city, has penetrated upwards of WO leagues above t h e second cataract, in following the army of the Pacha of Egypt. lit the whole of the way he fell in with only a few small Egyptian monuments, in desolated situations, and of no very remote date; but on his arrival at Schayni, where the Pacha encamped, he di,covered 35 pyramids of from 50 to 120 feet in height, but in a very ruinous state. lie also saw seven or eight temples, of which one (upwards of 3,000 feet in length) was covered with hie roglyphics. It is probably in the neighbourhood of these ruins that search should he made for Nahatha, and not the !throe of the ancients.—This traveller hiss copied some very curious Greek inscriptions. lie assures us that he has seen nothing in his travels comparable to the monuments of Nubia, and that he considers that pro vince as the cradle of the arts in Egypt." On Wednesday morning two labourers, who are employed, amongst others, in pulling down some old houses in Great Russell -street, Bloomsbury, were at work on the ground floor of one of the houses, when suddenly a huge beam at the top gave way, which, together with an immense quantity of bricks ai:d mor tar, fell with an alarming crash, and the two men, named Dutton and Daniel Davies, were buried underneath. The remainder of the workmen, with great alacrity, began to remove the rubbish at eventually the pour fellows were extricated from their perilous situation, in a state of great ex hanstion.—They were, without delay, conveyed on shutters to the Mid dlesex-hospital, where they were examined by the sur geon, who declared they had not received the slightest injury ; upon which the men, after thanking the sur geons, went to wink, previously takiott a glass of whiskey. Ott Wedne: , day (Iyth lust.) Lady Barker, while riding with some ladies iii her carriage near Brighton, met with an alart ttttt g accident. The coach was overturned, and her ladyship, as well as the other ladies, were severely bruised. Mrs. Cotitt. , , who had been for a ride, and was returning to Brighton, happened to pars by at the moment in her carriage, and undertook to send the party a coach from an inn at Brighton, to convey them home. with her usual kindness, however, Mrs. Coons did not wait while a vehicle could be procured, hut sent her own chariot for the purpose. No !.erious effects base, we bAeve, resulted I min the accident. Atwell of extraordmaiv depth is now 511111: at his Nlajesty's cottage, in Wimisor Great l'ark.—Doritig the progress of the work many curious inineials have been discovered, and at the depth of AO s.weral fossil remains, amongst which is a vei y perfect sl,vcinien of an oyster shell, have been dog out. At 1 is immense distance below the surface a very large tooth 11:.s also been Intind. It is of double fangs, which are at present about two inches long, but have been evidently broken off. The face of the tooth, which is of the sort tit no iMnated a grkder, is about an inch and a half long by one inch wide. It is of a dark brown colour, and bears a fine polish. At the same depth w: s found a h om y substance,something like the beak of a small bird. On SaturJay evening, just after dark, a man was dis covered hanging on the branch of a tree, at the east entrance of Guilford. He was immcniatcly cut (limy'', and medical assistance being at h r. 3, was bap. pily restored. The unfortunate mu t was a mechanic out of work, and having Leen ill on the road, had spent his last shilling fur medicines. SUICIDE.—The body of John Irwin, an unfortuate journeyman baker, who is supposed to have committed suicide, was foun d Thursday morning iu a ditch near Green.lake, Stoke Newington, with his throat Cut from ear to ear. The rash act is believed to have arisen from the profligate conduct of a young woman to whom he was attached. Some few months back he formed an acquaintance with a female who lived servant to two foreign gentlemen in Finsbury.square, and he was re. ceived as a lover and as her intended husband. Within a few days past it was insinuated to him, that she had been carrying on a criminal intercourse with one of her masters, and that she was in a state of pregnancy. This intelligence so affected his mind, that he became me. lancholy, and appeared quite dejected. About 6 o'clock on the evening preceding, he called on his faithless in tended, and remained with her till six o'clock in the morning, when he left her, and proceeded to the place where he committed the dreadful act. It is said that overtures had been made to the unfortunate man by the master of the young woman, that he would give him 1001. as a portion with the young woman if he married her in the state she was in, but this he indignantly refused. This season, a family of young sparrows, four in number, quite white, were observed, scarcely fledged, in Bothwell parish, and immediately gives chace to in the eagerness of pursuit three of this unfortunate fa. Inly were killed ; the remaining one was canglit, and sent to a gentleman at Glasgow, where it died On Tues day se'rinight, hut nit fortunately in an unfit stale for prestrvation. Thus has the beauty of this family been the cause of its ruin A tremendous storm of thunder and lightning, accom panied by the bursting of a water-spout, occurred at Holywell, Film shire, on Friday. The water came down in torrents front Pen-y-ball, bringing with it immense quantities of stone and gravel, and carried away a house and store-home, at Greenfield, filling up the pool with stones. The pavement was forced up, and holes made in the new road four feet deep. The picking-room belonging to a cotton factory, and a shop, were en tirely destroyed. The water broke the windows of the Old Mac carried away the wall at the bottom of the garden, and floated the beer and liquors out of the cellar of a public-house. Bales of cotton, household furniture, Sac. were seen floating about, and a hay-stack was car ried away some distance. The roof of the rolling-mill belonging to the copper-works was also carried away ; and the smelting-house caught fire, in consequenee of the water breaking into the furnace; a great part of the yard was carried away, and 19 tons of copper lost. The garden of 1). Pennaut, Est e . son of the celebrated tourist, was nearly destroyed. Roarry.—On - Monday night a most daring robbery was committed in Whitechapel-road, on the person of Mrs. Fox, a respectable widow lady, residing in Ginn cester-terrace, Com inercial-road. She was seized, while walkina, by a eilliau, who thrust his hand into her bo som, and with great ink tee tore a minature, set its gold and pearls, to which was stilt mled by a chain round her neck, and which was attached two gold seals. The thief made off, but was subsequently stopped and se cured; he had previously conveyed the property to his associates, with which they escaped. He was taken be fore the Magistrates at the Police , office, in Lambeth street, where he was recoguized by the officers to be the notorious Jack Lynn, who is the head of a most fermi. dable gang of robbers, that hate for a considerable time infested that planer. lie was folly committed for trial. DKEADFU L OCCURRENCE.—I n Further acetimulAt on of the horrors incident to the slave trade, we have to notice the fate of the Spanish slaving schooner Carlota, which sunk a few days since ofF the Gsllinas, with a full complement of slaves on board. The Carlota sailed front the Havannah, and was found at the Gallinas by Sir Geoe Collier, in his voyage down the coast. The cargh of the Ca dohs was on shore, with every appearance that it was in the course of barter for slaves. Th.: Com modore took her down as far as Cape Coast, and after authenticating some papers to show the illegality of her voyage, allowed her to depart. She returned, it appears, to the Gailinits, and there took in 250 slaves, with whom she sailed trona the coast ; but dreadful to relate, before she had proceeded far she was taken unprepared by a tornado, overset, and sunk, and all on hoard perished. with the exception of twelve! Thu imellissnce of this horrid evvitt has been brought to the colony by three Spanish sailors belonging to the vessel, who arrived a few days in a very small boat in a wretchedly exhaustest condition. 'they were immediately placed in the mili tary hospital, where, notwithstanding the greatest alter. tion and kindest treatment, one of them has since (lied the other two continuing still in a very weak state.—. Siva Lon Gazette. EXTKAORDINARY FOOTPAD..--AbOin dusk on Tues. day evening, a young lady reswing at Piinlico.aml Capt. Willis, were taking the air in St. James's Park : they sat for some time on one of the betiches, and observed a furious looking fellow pass then. several times. The voting fuly observed he had the look, of an assassin, and sate thongut he was looking out for prey. The Captain only LlLL:tied at her timidity. She, however, nr,..:ed him to quit that spot, and they walked into the Green Park. Witco arrived about half way they saw the same fellow approach them from the pond, and when he came op to them he pulled out a Loge knife, declaring with dreadful impreca:ims, he would murder them both, if they did not deliver up their watches and monev. The Cat'tato happened to carry a dirk; and pulled it lions tinder his coat. The lady screamed, which attracted the attention of some gentlemen in the Mall, who ran tip, lint whether that, or the appearance of the dirk ter rified the robber, he took to his heck and reached Pic cadilly, and escaped. A proper description is gtvcti to the police. There have been illuminations and other vejoic— lop in different parts of Portugal, in conseqnence of the abolition of the office of Ctpitan-Mor, IttLicb w•as last occupied by Lord Bcrestind. , P 1' • • , • ; ~. ,~ ~~ .