The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-03-07 00:00:00

TILE GREAT JEWELLERY ROBBERIES.

William Henry Geoffrey, Thomas Caseley, Thomas
Brewerton, Anne Caselcy, Martha Geoffrey, and
Louisa Brewerton were placed before Mr. Flowery,
at Bow-street Police-court, on Tuesday, for farther ex-
amination, on a charge of bsing concerned in the recent
extensive burglaries in Cornbill and the Strand.
The accused persona, it will be remembered, were
arrested on Friday afternoon, and formally charged the
following morning before the magistrate at Bow-street,
with having been concerned in the recent burglary at
Mr. Abrahams', jeweller, in the Strand, and in the
recent one at Mr. Walker's. from whose premises on
eornbill jewellery to the value of £6,000 was carried
off.

--In addition to the above-named prisoners, James
Hurler and Ellen Hurley were also charged on remand
with being concerned in the same burglarifa.
The four female prisoners were the first placed In the
dock. They all appeared very unwell, and much chap.
fallen. The male prisoners appeared rather indifferent
than otherwise.

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Mr. Lewis applied, on behalf of Mr. Walker, of Corn.
hill and Mr. Johnson, of Threadneedle-street, whose
joint loss amounted to £lO,OOO, to have the am
remanded to the Mansion House, in order that the
prisoners might be tried in conjunction with the man
already in custody there.

The..ldag,strate gr-a-nte. d the application, and the
prisoners were accordingly removed.

A very remarkable circumstance has transpired in
connection with the robbery of jewellery at the shop of
Mr. Walker, in Cornhill. After the capture on Friday
of the six persona in Whitechapel, supposed to have
been concerned in the robbery, the police officers em-
ployed had reason to believe, from information they
had received, that much of the stolen property bad been
thrown into the Thames, and a part of the river was
pointed out near one of the bridges at Blackfriars as
that in which it might probably be found. On Sunday,
accordingly, and again on Monday, a diver was em-
ployed to make a search at the place indicated. The
result is that up to Monday five gold watches bad
been recovered from the bed of the river, all of which, it
is said, have been identified an belonging to Mr. Walker,
and there in reason to believe that much more of the
stolen jewellery will yet be found there. Some part of
the apparatus of the diver is understood to have got out
of order in the afternoon of Monday, and he was obliged
in consequence to discontinue the search. The pre-
snmption is that some of the confederates of the persons
in custody, alarmed at their arrest, threw the remainder
of the booty into the river, being unable otherwise to
dispose of it, and unwilling longer to incur the risk
consequent on its possesaion.

A Cincotta TEE...RUBE TROV6.—A lady was recently
committed to Bristol gaol, arrested for a debt of £5O,
when the Governor informed her that in a month he
would have to return her as a defaulter, when she
would be adjudged a bankrupt, and her property, if any,
divided amongst the creditors. She intimated she had
no property, and therefore must abide the result. On
being afterwards searched, according to the rules of
the prison, £BOO was found secreted in her dress.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR DONCASTEIL—A
fatal and alarming collision occurred on the Great
Not them Railway, near Doncaster, at an early hour
on Wednesday morning, by which en engine driver was
killed,and a number of passengers more or less seriously
injured The Edinburgh express, out of London at
9.15 p.m., arrived at Retford a few minutes nut its
time, 12.45 a.m., and proceeded all right for York, the
next station at which it was timed to stop. Some
twelve or fifteen minutes in advance of the train was an
engine and tender, returning to Doncaster from
Retford. When within some two or three intim
of Doncaster the engine in &chance broke down,
and was brought to a stand-still. Aware of the near
approach of the Scotch express the driver, Robert
Seddons, sent the stoker with& lamp back along the line
to warn the driver of the passenger train of the danger
ahead. The stoker had not gone more than thirty
or forty yards when he met the passenger train coming
along at a considerable speed. Fie did the best he
could to make the driver understand his perilous
position, but it was then too late to avoid the collision,
and the next moment the train ran smash into the
broken down engine and tender. The engine and one
carriage of the express were thrown off the line. A
great number of passengers were hurt, some of them
severely, and the greatest alarm and confusion prevailed.
in the midst of which the body of the driver (Sedions)
was found cut completely to pieces. A special train
(ram Doncaster took the passengers to that place. Two
of the number—Mr. Brown, of Blandford, and Mr. If.
Roe, of Newcastle, were so severely injured that they
were unable to proceed on their journey, but the
others, after receiving medical attention and assistance,
left by the five a.m. train.
TERRIBLE FIRE IN CONSTANTINOPLE. —ABOVE ONE
HUNDRED LIVES LOST. —The Levant Herald gives a
full account of the terrible and disastrous fire at Con-
stantinople on the 20th of last month. It broke out
shortly after eleven o'clock at night, in the ROMAN
Catholic Convent of St. Benoit, In Galata, and in a
short time spread amongst the wooden buildings around,
and raged over a large extent of ground. The sisters
and female pupils of the institution were with great
difficulty rescued, and rushed from the burning building
with any scanty garments they oould seise on the
moment. Some 60 toloumbajees, with four fire engines,
had stationed themselves along • high stone wall in a
corner of the convent quadrangle, where they were not so
much exposed to the flames,and could work their engines
with more effect. With them were standing • huge
number of policemen and general spectators, when sud-
denly, and without the slightest warning,the wall toppled
outwards, literally cresting over the doomed crowd
below like the curve of a breaking wave, and burying
the engines, with the whole of their crews, and a large
number of the police and on-looking crowd. Not •
man who had stood within the fatal shadow of the
fallen walls escaped. Almost simultaneously, a portion
of the western wall fell over on a small, densely-in.
habited house outside the convent limits, and crushing
through its roof, killed, it is said, eight of its inmates,
who were engaged in endeavouring to rescue their
effects. Altogether it is estimated that upwards of 100
persons lost their lives. The dangers attending any
attempt to extinguish the flames in the narrow streets
of Galata, the deficiencies of the capital in p.oper fire
engines, and the want of water, caused the conflagration
to have it all its own way, and it only became (11.•
tinguislied when it had burned out all within its reach,
and when its further progress was stopped by wide
gaps made by pulling down distant houses.

Mn. GUINNESS AND DUBLIN CATHEDRAL. The
Corporation of Dublin waited in a body on Mr. B. L.
Guinness at his residence in St. Stephen's-green on
Monday, to present him with an address which they
had unanimously adopted, conveying the sense the
Council entertained of his princely munificence io
restoring St. Patrick's Cathedral. The Lord Mayor
introduced the member., and Mr. Henry, the town-
clerk, read the address. It spoke of his having filled
the office of Lord Mayor with unexampled splendour
and hospitality, and of the enterprise he had always
shown as the leading merchant of the city, as well ail
his general courtesy and extensive charity, which bad
endeared him to all his fellow-citizens. It then referred
to the fact that the proudest and most ancient (male-
siastical building connected with the history of the
country, had, by his unaided munifioenoe, been saved
from ruin, and now stands restored to its pristine
stability and beauty. Mr. Guinness acknowledged
guilefully the good wishes of the Corporation, barely
alluding to the work he had accomplished. The Lord
Mayor then introduced a very numerous and influential
deputation, consisting of about 300 of the leading men
of the city of all creeds and parties, appointed at
recent meeting in the Mansion house. They also
presented an address, which was read by their hon.
secretary, Mr. John Norwood. Mr. Guinness replied
in an excellent speech. In the evening Mr. Guinnesa
was entertained by the Lord Mayor at • banquet in tlis
oak-room of the Mansion-house.
CONBUNITION 07 DRINB.—A parliamentary return
just isaued show. the consumption of various articles
60 years since as compared with time present. Accord-
ing to this statement the consumption of foreign and
oolonial spirits in Great Britain has fallen from 031
gallon per head in 1798-1800 to 011 in 186860; and in
Ireland from 01 gallons to 013. The quantity of home-
made spirits oonsuin,d has risen from 014 gallon per
head in Great Britian to 0-76, and in Ireland from 059
to 011. Of tobacco the consumption has arisen in
Great Britain from 115 lb. per head, to 116, but in
Ireland has fallen from 1141 b. to POO. The oonsurop-
non of malt has fallen in Great Britain from 210
bushels to 115, and in Ireland from 014 to 047. Of
foreign and colonial wine from 0'46 gallon in Great
Britain from 017 (1858-60), and in Ireland from 018 to
0 09. Of tea the consumption has risen in Great
Britain from 111 b. to 215, and in Ireland from 057 to
183 Of coffee from 007 Th. to 151 in Great Britain,
and from 011 to 014 in Ireland. Of auger from
20481 b. to 4117 in Great Britain, but fallen from 6•211 b.
per head to 5 8 in Ireland.
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