The Express.
London, England, 1861-11-16 00:00:00

GALLANT LIFEBOAT SERVICES.

CAISTOR, NEAR YARMOUTH, FRIDAY.
Last night the Caistor lifeboat, belonging to the
National Lifeboat institution, was launched to the moue
of the crew of the brig Lively, of Clay, Norfolk, which was
observed on the north part of the Scroby Sands, burning •
tar barrel. It wu blowing aheavy gale from the N.W.,
with sleet. Thegreatest difficulty was experienced in launch-
ing the lifeboat, as the sweep on the beach was tremendous,
many of the noble men who misted to launch the boat
during the fearful night being rolled away by the sea
twenty yards from the boat. However, the launching of
the lifeboat was ultimately accomplished; but on sp
preaching the sands, nothing could be seen of
the wreck. After toiling bard all night, just before day-
thenthe lifeboat proceeded towards the light vessel, and
discovered the wreck to the eastward. Here the
huge warm were bursting with terrific force —hut they
must be faced. The lifeboat plunged through them. The
da.pairing mariners, who had given themselves up for lost
! during the fearful night, were ultimately reached. At this
time a steam.tog came up to the assistance of the lifeboat,
With its help the despairing crew of five men and their
vessel were rescued from their perilous situation. The
lifeboat's crew, consisting of fifteen men, state that this was
one of the most dangerous services ever performed by them
—that nothing could have induced them to remain out that
dreadful night, except the hope of sucoouriug their drown-
ing fellow creatures. In this ease the lifeboat crew will re-
ceive salvage of property, in addition to a reward from the
Lifeboat Institution.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

BATISIDAY, NOVIIIOIIIII 1.4 8 A.M.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

CoURT oF ARCHES.
Rf MAR r. HEATH.
THh SENTENCE.

.li.itely after Dr. Loshiogtou took his scat on the
Is, a tbl.

snowed for the plaintiff is the above
..1...rvt4 that at the last sitting the court gave Mr.
II fortuight to consider whether, is aoeordasee
a,t,. ii.. statute, he was prepared to revoke his errors,
intimated that in that case it was desirable that a
f• ..t retractatiou should be submitted to mussel. He
4a, Lwow what ...mow lr. Ilsath intruded to pursue.
Lushingtou said the court gave Mr. Heath a fort-
or:: whethet Le would retro.* &cooling to the
4 , tr ; awl if he declared that day that he was ready
, • cart, the court would two him further time to shape
s ...tr....Mhos. which would, of course, he submitted to
vora-el on the ether side.

I g said the other day lie was himself unfor-
t ii...cly alhsent. Mr. Heath, be uoslentood, found conOiler-
i.: difficulty in knowing exactly bow to act in this
Animg other remote because be did not quite under -
AA. I with regard to the 1:1 articles brought against him
whether the decisiun of the court was that they were
ie retracted separately from and independently of
esh other, or what shape the retractotkin was to WNW"
.11d on.t dearly undeetand whether he was to retract
th.• errors in the form in which be was accused, or in that
which they appeared in the sentence ; there being, io
fact, sumo daffaeso between the two. He Philli-
more) submitted that the proper course that MOM-
ig4 was that his leirned friend should state the from
retractation, which ou behalf of the promoter
th.- suit, be required Mr. Heath to sign, and that then
11r. Heath should have an opportunity of stating whether
h. would sign it or not. He did out know of any ease in
which a form of retr.o•tation was ever brought before the
court eurept Stone's case, in which Mr. Stone himself drew
31, ..De that the court thought insufficient. In the pre-
eut me*, in which there were thirteen articles relating
t.. a book of sermons. it was difficult to kcow whether the
r tiactatioe was to Ise A retreetatioa of the passages cited
c, the artk le or of the errors cone lined in the summary at
the aid of each charge. Ile thought it only fair, therefore,
to sick that a farm of retractatiou should be suggested either
Iv the other aide or by the court. If that mane
were pursued—if a form of retractation were made
nut, Hr. Ileath would perhaps be allowed three
toys, or any other time the court pleased, to consider
the twitter. Yr. Heath did not at all wish for delay ; there
was out the mmllest intention on his part of throwing any
us:hi:kid session or soy ditfirultie. iu the way. But he
,'.sued great difficulty et present in making up his
mini, for the reams be (Its. I'Lillimore) hail mentioned; and
ts• thought that if the c.iiirt were to order a form of retracts-
tiun to he prepito,l at once, and call upon Mr. Heath
say within three .toys, or any other period, whether he
s•ailil accept it or not, they would then be in a position to
o, whether the court should proceed to per sentence ; for
apprehended that at prevent the court had not pawed

Luslairigtou had not the least hesitation in declaring
he opinion that it was in DO respect whatsoever the dut► of
the court to frame a retractation to which Mr. Heath
Auld give hie assent. What the court had done was this.
nut of the question the formal articles, which were
• the subject in discussioa, and which
the subject in dim:notion, there were four articles
proved which the court thought contained erroneous
doctrinea If Mr. Heath wan prepared' to• retract
the errors coatained in those four article*, that was all the
•ourt could desire ; bat it wee for Mr. Heath to frame his
retractatioe, ad not for the court or the opposite party to
tale any steps in the matter.
l'hilliniore said he did not himself think that the
form of nittactation could relate to the errors, but rather
to the peasages cited. He had no authority for saying th►t
his client would do anything of the kind, but suppose to
acre to say, " Such feud such passages are charged against
me I have no objection to retract/those pumps ;" or sup•
• be were to say, "Such and such errors are contained in
such awl such passagee-1 retract those errors."
Lushington sash the court certainly would Dot, before
s retractation came before it for its consideration, give ad•
sire as to the manurr in which it should be framed. He
could sot go bound pronouncing, as he bad dons, that
fte doctrine. set forth by Mx. Heath, in certain pings%
s-re repugnant to the Thirtydriae Articles.
Twins presumed that if Mr. Heath retracted he
c.ust retract the erroneous doctrines contained in the pas-
mge•.

14. Luslungtou said it was for Mr. Heath now to say
whether be was prepared to retract or not. If be declared
that be was crop arral to retract he would give him
further time to consider; if not be should proceed to pass
kuteucp.

Dr. Philliniore then explained aloud to Mr. Heath, who
r‘tremele deaf, that the court required him at once to
e. rte up his mind whether or Dot he would retract the
,inirs contained in the articles proved against him, the
rev me form of retractatioo hying reserved.
Mr. Heath, iu reply to his counsel, maid, it was impoe-
Ode for bum to retract the peaveys.

.
Iv. PhiHimont —Well, ea to the errant °attained in them!
Mr. Heath —The error u charged, or aa laid down in the
'adamant ! They are different.
I'lullimurr—The errors contaioed in the judgment.
Mr. Heath— Well, I really don't know what is wanted
ate. (Turing to the judge). Perhaps it I had another
forteizht 104.1 make up my mind. Today I really do
tot know what is wasted.

Philitmore—U( course, my lord, the sentence is
*hat lir. Berth h • to look to. The errors whirls he is
triluired to retract must be the errors referred to in the
sentence.

Dr. Luthington require en answer to this guestima—
te Mr. Heath prepared to retract according to law or not?
If he ta, I will give Mtn further time to slaps retracts-
hos ; if he to sot. I must proceed to pre ecames aestence.
Its. h teing repeated to Mr. Heath the formal
gumbos just put from the bench.
Mr. Heath, after • pause. said—Well, my saswer must
be, that I tiusit krone what the Law requires of me.
1.. Luslonston —I must bare • pueitivit &sewer to the
question whether he is prepared to retract or sot. If he is
bA. proceed onnscdtately to plll•mentence.
Mr. Heath - I doe% know whet the law restores of me.
Dr. litillitsiore (to Mr. Ilusthl—You must gore a positive
►a.w.

Mr. iirrith—No, I CAM give no other answer. I don't
Mom *bat the law rergirrev tne.
With the ermsest of the court. Igr. Phothnuore here re-
tired with ins Wiest for vonvoliatee. rM their return
thy tie lases of only two or three esoeutse.
LY Minimum cud—]{r. Muth instructs me to ray. my
Intl. that he Isaa soother mower to make Ulm that which
b.. ire

Lwahoigton—Thea I have Do option. I deeply
mind that the newt ia placed in the situation t►at it is by
I. ; hot, according to the terms 01
etatato. I am hound to prowoooce anvirst Yr. Heath
ILs sentence od deprivatieis sod I do so accordingly, with
torte.

Notice of an of pool to the Judicial Committee of the
Pn.v Council waa iromothately after gorse oe behalf of Mr.

I.IILAMIWARS r. INICX)K.
Is lila ea. DT. appeared oo behalf of the R.,..1
N1,114.4ite. soca: of the parish of St. Peter the
Great. tilher. ISOO the sub desaery. Chichootero against Dr.
Walter Yeepoloar Hook, clean of Chichester. Tbo plaintiff
fliargod th- oldoialoot with boric,' wrongly intruded ,
lomat tato hi. ratio, puhlicly rearm( Os* 'atrial service
over the leafy d thaw late D oho of Richnload cootrary to Ws
twooostram,' 31.. with having during the last two
tens% 'vacuoles! hoopelf tato the preciacts of the Cathedral
I Ineit, aituet—l th.• .lostriet under tho parochial
charge. The Iwo .. LC 0.• metope g..rndtt interestuog, too-
cotong to a great oafent of refereoces to obl registers toed'
topographic,' outhoce. The beerieg wan expected to last
one or two Jays.

The /).,b, .V. 1,/ of this morning contains no leas
than t►irtr inn columns of advertisements of notices of
nulissy and other undertakings.

‘VEATHEIt IN THE BALTIC.—The Hello stoma_
ship. cad the Jose stesraship Weft ordered off from Cr.,.-
..st.elt the 12th M.A.. is conoequeoce of the we. A Ml.
Petemburg telegram of the 14th. states that the Pembroke
had sailed for !lull. The nerigaikii had become closed.
There ha l boom complete orioles weather ewe the 11th.
Hisent. BRIGHT •EU TERM CARPET WEAVELA.—
At the Rochdale Po:ice-court yesterday, Hoary Cos. John
Matthew', Thomas Clarice. sad Mobil ()trier, were
summoned for saaoriag and intimidating David Butter-
worth. Mr. Cohlaitt soreined for MOMS. Bright, the
*Anal complainente. and Mr. &seat Jones for the de-
fendant., who some weeks since left Messrs. Bright's em-
ploy in aoseenuireco of as allege, bat ilesied diminution
of the nits of payment for carpet wearing. Mr. Jones
raised the point that several &Hipbone were included is
acs isformatins, mid that the was final. Mr. Coblett
urged that though them were offeeose Cu differeet dates,
they constituted bat owe coatiatsous otiose.. Their VW-
ships Med that lin ohjeetion was fatal. and it was weed
to rue sew stimulants, returnable on Friday seat.

TIM MURDER OP A LITTIx Gli:L BY HEIt
BROTHER.-EXAMINATNN AT BOW-STREET:
- (Tills DAY.)

Richard Reeves, Reeves, a boy apparently about 1L years
of age. but stated to be between 17 sod Is, was brought up
in custody of Police.constables Veoey F tel, charged with
the wilful murder of his sister, Mary Ann Reeves, aged 11.
The prisoner is a lad of en intelligent and rattier hand.
some countenance, and was neat and tidy in his apparel.
The c.i.e kid attracted much attentaue, and even before
the opening of the court the street in front was throned
with per.uus waiting to see the prisoner removed from the
station-house to the court. The police, however, kept the
epAc.• immediately before the court as clear as possible.
limping the crowd beck to a considerable ilkance on either
side.

Mr. Currie having been eitgagLd with the night charges
till eleven o'clock, a nievage was then sent to the police.
steion opposite for the prisoner, who was shortly after-
wanls brought across, and was placed at the bar at half.past
II o'clock.

Mr. Burnaby (the chief clerk), addrawing the prisoner,
said--Richard Reeves, you are charged with the wilful
murder of Mary Ann Reeves, at 10, Drury.court, St. Mary.
le•Strand, by strangling her with a rope.
Mary Reeves, the prisoner's mother, a woman between
40 and "10, was the first witness. She wore a large patch
over the right eye, an if concealing the effects of a blow.
She said—My hustanira name es Thomas, he is a bisket-
maker. We live at 10, Drury-court. My little girl Mary
would have bees 11 next January•. I last saw her between
10 and 11 yesterday morning.
During the whole of the time consumed in this evidence
the priaoaer gazed wanderingly about the court, apparently
at his ease.

Mr. l'orrie—The prisoner is your sou!
Witnees—He is my husband's sou. Mary Ann Reeves
was my own daughter.

The primmer shamed asking his mother any questions.
Jobs Lyme—l live at No. 7, Drury-court. I have
worked as porter at an hotel?
Mr. Currie—What do you know about this ?
Witness—At ten minutes to 2 yesterday afternoon I wile
slandin; at the cornet of Drury-court, when the primmer
came to me and said he bad lost his little sister. He asked
me and William Carney to take a walk with him down the
Strand to find his sister. He said we would, and we took
a walk as far as the pillars, near SL Clement's Church.
He then told us it was no use looking for his sister ; we had
better go home and tell his father, if be wanted Mary Ann—
that is his sister, sir—be had strangled her, and she wag
in the opal-cellar. I ran to his father—me and Carney.
Mr. Burnaby—What became of the prisoner
Witeeer—H• raa away—at least he went away from us.
We weld to his father's house. We saw him. He was
tipsy at the time. We told him what we bad heard, and
we went with the father into the cellar—at least, the
father went as far as the trap. We went into the cellar,
and found the body of Mary Ann, the little girl. I bad
known her before. She was bins on her face on the coals,
I found that the body was dead. I raised it in my arms and
carried it as far as the trap, and handed it up to Mrs. James
and Mn. °Milks through the trap-door. I ran off to
King's College Hospital.
Mr. Baroaby—Wail anything round the child's neck when
you found her!
Witness—Yes.

Mr. Burnaby—What was it
Witness—A piece of clothes-line.
A piece of cowl WY produced and identified by the wit-
ness ZS thet which be found round the little girl's neck.
Mr. Burnaby—Do you wish, prisoner, to ask this witness
any question
Prisoner, is a tone of indifferettre—No, sir.

William Oaroey, like the last witness, a young man
living at the same house, said he was a carpenter's
labourer. He this said—l know the primmer, and I knew
the little girl who is dead. Yesterday afternoon I saw
the prisoner at Drury-court ; I went up to him and said
" Hullo, Dick, let's go and look after .our sister." We went
as far sa the pillars near St. Clement's Church, and then the
prisoner said, " It's no use going any farther, Bill ; I have
dranglel my little sister, and she is dead in the coal-cellar.
If you want my sister tell my father he will find her there."
I ran back to the hones with the last witness, and told
the father what the prisoner had said to us.
The prisoser asked no question.
Yrs. Ellen James, wife of William James, also living at
No. 10, Drury-court, deposed—Hy husband is stage car-
penter at Coyest Garden Theatre. Yesterday morning the
little girl was lost About half past nine I heard Dick (the
prisoner) call out to her ' Polly." Polly said,
What do you want, Dick?' The prisoner se-
" Bring me the keys of theback place." She said.
• Dick, I don't know where they ;ire." He said, " You
will 6ud them on the table in the hack room." Shortly
afterwards she came down and I heard her say, " I've got
'em, Dick." A quarter of an hour later, her mother
out, "Polly, are you upstairs?" I replied, "She is
not." About 10 o'clock the mother asked me if I had
sent her no an erraod. I said I had not. She was
missed from that tiros, till the former witness Lysin.
banticil her up to me from the cellar through the "trap. I
placed the body on the sofa in the father's shop. There was
• string ti Right round her neck ' • and I loosened it. It
was tied in two running knob" ; sod we untied them. The
rope produced is that which I took from her neck. The
holy remained on the mots till the doctor sod the police
Came.

_
M r. Durnahy —Will Tou tell the magistrate whether you
have ewer beard the prisoner and his sister quarrel
Witness—Yes, often. The prisoner, poor boy, wu a hard
I working boy.
The prisoner, still maintaining an air of unconcern,
' declined to questicu this witness also.
Mr Chas. Henry Alifree, house physician at Kiog's Col-
lege Hospital, deposed that be was yesterday fetched by the
two witnesses. Dynes and Carney, from the hospital
to Drury-court, Mrantl, where be found the dead body of a
little girl, and eranaincil it for the purpose of ascertainiog
the sue of death. The rope handed to him htted to marks
round the neck, and there was no doubt that death was
caused by suffocatioo.
Mr. Corrie—Suffocatioo by strangulation
Witness—Fluffocatioe by etraolulation. There were no
other mark, about the child except those round the neck.
There were no marks of videos*.

Oorrli—Ob. no ; there isno s4gestion of that.
The primer put no question to this witness.
Jentlina Carnatlge I live at No. 2. rbars-court. Ship-
yard, Temple.lux. lam nomirried, awl 1,4 years of age.
Yesterday morniwy, about 10 o'cloa, the prisoner cams to
me and said, "I have murdeml my sister." I said, " I can-
not believe that ynu have done such a thin." He said.
" But I hove done that." He had first asked, "Where's
Lizzy !" mid when Lizzy came down he told hoc the same
that he had told me.

Mr. Corrie—He dido't tell you how he did it, I suppose ?
Wawa. -He told ise he hail stningkd her. He went
away, and I saw him 'pin at 2. 1 hail not told anyone
what he bad said —1 was afraid. At 2 o'clock he came aga io
sod mid, "I can't rest; I have sent two chaps to tell my
mother where Polly is." At half-past 4 o'clock he came
a !MU and said he *mkt sot net, and he said he wanted
401111 P tea. thou after I heard that he won "matched."
Polieencin Charles, (kimonos Vanes, 9G F, depoied that
'in coosequeuce of instroctions from Superintenrlimt
L)irkio, he went yesterday ofterooon in plain
clothes in s.arch of the prisoner. At • quarter to
three he row this l' ranee on • post is Carey-street,
at the corner of :Sorbs-Ow*. Witness weut up to him,
put his hand ups him and said, "I want you." He irnme-
ilioiely replied, "I know what fur. I will go
with you .• I it." I mid. " You are charged with the
murder of your sister ; be cautious what yore my, fur what
you my I shall me in midesee." He again said, " I did
it ; she •Nravated me to it." I conveyed him to the
station sad searched him. and found an old purse containing
three duplicatee and • watch key.
Mr. Corrie—Yon are charged, prisoner. with the wilful
murder of your sister. Hare you anything to say to the
charge! You are sot bound to say anything ; bat anything
that you may say will he taken down, and may be used
amnia, you at year trial. After that caution, do you wish
to say auything?
Prisoner (in • sidlen tose)—l won't say nothing.
Mr. Burnaby—Yon are committed to Newpte to take
your trial for the wilful murder of your sister.
The witnesses were thee bound over to prosecute and
give, evidence.

FATAL AIX! DINT AT Misea. COBITTB'. —This!
morning informatires wee forwarded to the coroner for the
weeterndivision of Middle/4t of the frightful death of
Henry lONIC Strone, .zed tt, a smith's labourer, ramie e at
12, Margaret-street, Clerkenwell. The deceased, who was
a quiet, sober. respectable man, had been in the employ of
the Mears Cabin, the extensive builders, of the Gray's-
lea•mad, formals time, and yesterday afternoon be was sect
by the smith to fetch a pair of tones. Fur this
parries the deceased had to pars under • tunnel
when part of the machinery worked. Not return-
eg for some time, the smith went to look for
him, and was horror-stricken to fled the deceased
caught in the machinery. He at owe hail the engine
stopped, but when the poor fellow wee taken off he was
foiled to be quite dead. He was at ones taken to the
!Loral Free Hormitel. and attended to by Mr. Rill, the
liceuesingees. The decreed wee literally mangled, his arms,
thighs, legs, and feet being smashed and the side of his
face eery mud, bruised. Ws regret to say that the
dea.asd has left • wife and fully to warn his un-
timely loss. It in.,, be stated that the deceased was,
happily for his wife and family, • provident man, and
was • free member of the Ancient Order of Foresters,
belongisg to the Court Fraternal Union, 1717, held at
the Mouthwark•bridge-road. The inquest is axed far
Monday seeming.

ATTEMPTED MURDER IN TIM STAFFORD-
SHIRE POTTERIIsS.
Yesterday a labouring man, named William
Brown, wee brcught before Mr. Campbell and Mr. West-
bead, magistrates, at the Town Hall, Stoke-upon-Trent,
char ed with cutting and wounding his wife, with intent to
murder her.
Amelia Brown, a poor diminutive individual. who ar
peered in court with her face bitudagel up, said ou Wed-
nesitiy evening her husband came to the house where she
liolges. in Park-street, Fenton, he having deserted
her niece August last, visiting her twice in the interval,
and giviug her on one occasion 51. He had visited her II
fortnight previously to Wednesday, and on that occasion
he Nod be had a good place to go to work, and he should
send for her to join him. On Wednesday evening, from wh►t
sho had been informed. she was induced to refuse to sleep with
him, and she acoordingly slept with her children, In the
bedroom occupied by her landlord, a man named Pepper,
and a 1,0114111 named Critchlow, with whom Pepper
cohabits. The prisoner sat up all night, and on the follow-
ing morning, after Pepper had gone to his work, the
prisoner threatened to murder her (prosecutrig)if she would
not le►ve the house and proceed with him. Critchlow
informed her what the prisoner had said, and she became
alarmed and scut for a policeman. Critchlow ordered
the prisoner out of the house, and fastened the door.
He, however, declared that he would wait till he had an
opportunity to get her and stab her. Critchlow, who
went fur the policeman, mine back without one, and as she
was enteric; the house, the prisoner !Imbed past her, and
forced his way in. He immediately attacked his wife, and
threw her on the floor. He then took a long table knife,
and commenced stabbing her. He cut her three times
across her throat, once across her lip, and in her strug-
gles she got her hands cut also. He then allowed
Ler to get up, and when she reached tho door be
:4(AiD attacked h•r as fiercely as before. He stabbed her
ou the hack of her head with a fresh knife, threw her
on the floor, and tried to strangle her. Critchlow then
pulled him off, and cried " murder!" when further
assistance came, and the prisoner, who attempted to run
away, was taken into custody. The knives with which the
wounds were inflicted were produced in court. Corrobora-
tive evidence having been given, the prisoner was committed
for trial at the next amines for Mtafford. The prisoner ap-
peered to disregard the serious nature of the charge against
him, and continually interrupted hie wife when she was
giving her evidence, until warned by the magistrates. The
prisoner and his victim have three small children. He
accuse.; her of infidelity, which he assigns as his reason for
having attempted to murder her.

lly the death of General Sir Howard Douglas
the following Army promotions will take place, viz. :
Lieutenant.Generk W. H. Sewell, K.C.8., Colonel of the
79th Highlanders, to be General ; Major-General H. E.
Porter, to be Lieutenant-General; Colonel A. T. Hemphill,
late of the 26th Regiment, and now commanding a brigade
in Dublio to be Major• General ; Lieutenant-Colonel J.
Croft Brooke, balf.pay, late 4th Regiment, to be Colonel ;
Major E. Fellowes, formerly of the 1 lth Hussars, and now
on the Staff at the Cape, to be Lieutenant-Colonel; and
Captain C. Armstrong, 16th Regiment, to be Major in the
Army.—A ray and NOru GaLef.e.
THE You NG MARQUIS or Bert —The following
letter was received on Thursday, by the Mayor of Cardiff,
from the above young nobleman, in reference to the address
recently sent him by the inhabitants of Cardiff, on the 12th
of last September, Lord Bute's birthday :—" May-place,
Malvern %Vela. Nov. 10, 1861.—Sir,-1 have had the
pleasure of receiving, through Mr. Boyle the address with
which you have honoured me upon my four-
teenth year, and I can only my how much grieved I
am that so great a lapse of time has passed before re-
plying to it. I address myself to you as being the
most capable, from your position, of exprewiime to the
inhabitants of Cardiff my warmest thanks for their kind.
nevi, which cannot fail to be most gratifying to myself
and all those connected with me at Cardiff I must
also beg that you will not omit to mention 'how much
pleasure their kindness both for my health and prosperity,
and that I may make Cardiff *my residence in future years,
has given me. lam happy to say that I think I shall be
at the castle during a part of the Christmas holidays. With
best wishes for yourself and for the inhabitants, trade, and
prosperity of Cardiff, I have the honour to be, air. your
most oblige' and humble servant, BOTH and Dritraiwt."
EXTRAORDINARY RENTOKATION or SPZEUH.—
Mr. John Underwood. eon of Mr. William Underwood, of
the Fox Inn, Baxter-gate, Loughborough, joined the
Marine Artillery about nineteen years ago, and in Febru-
ary last went abroad. He was meizal with an attack of
paralysis, which took away his speech, and every effort
that medical skill could devise was tried to restore him, but
without success. He returned home about tour months
since, but quite dumb. On Monday last, being very food
of sport, be went out fishing in the neighbourhood of
Loughlwough, and bad not been at the waterside many
minutes before he caught two small fishes. Immediately
after this, he succeeded in hooking a large pike, ands •
Imo; time trying to get it ashore, it suddenly made • bolt,
breaking away his line, and he, of course, lost his fish. He
felt so much enraged at this, that he actually in a stutter*
loaner uttered an exclamation. Debasing it to have beam
some one behind him who had spoken, he suddenly turned
round, but could see no one, and therefore came to the
pleasurable conclusion that it most have been himself. He
put up his rod at once, fell down on his koees, thanking
Clod for the happy !relates he had experienced, and then
made the best of his way home. Feeling so delighted at
the thought of being able to talk, be used his tongue very
freely to himself all the way. On arriving at home, he
fell into hts mother's arms and cri:d out in a burst of
ecstatic joy, "Thank God; I can talk.”—Notawjaasi Daily
A'r pleas.
FLOOD IN THE NORTH RIDINO.—The late heavy
rains have caused the rivers Rye and Derwent to rise
rapidly, and on Friday morning it was found they had over-
flown, and laid all the adjoining land under water. From
Helmsley on the one side to Ayton on the other, the course
of the streams is one vast lake. The roads in the low lying
districts are many of them more than three feet deep in
water. The waters are still rising (Friday afternoon), bat
the weather is now fine. _

PRACTICAL &MINI). —A few days ago a man
employed in the gas factory of Woolwich Arsenal, having
been saturated with rain while employed in outdoor
duty, entered the furnace-room, nod having stripped off his
wet clothes and wrapped himself in a thick covering of
tow comment, I drying his garments before the furnace
flre. Line of his fellow•labuurers, perceiving him thus
attired, heedlessly cast a live cinder at him, which, adhering
to the flimsy and combustible matter, rapidly ignited the
entire mass with which he was enveloped, biasing furiously
over his whole person, and defying every effort to quench
it. Remedies were applied, and the sufferer, although
burnt in *severe manner. is now in a fair way of recovery.
The aggressor, who acknowled3ed his culpability and ex-
pressed his sorrow fur the consequence, voluntarily en.
gaged an a part compens.ition to allow the patient 12s.
per week from his own turnings ('.are.) until enabled to
return to his work._

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DEATH OT SIR JOHN FORBI4. —We have to record
the death of Sir Jolts Forbes. physician to her Ma-
jesty's huesebeld, who expired on Wedmeday ic his 74th
year. The deceased was the fourth son of the late Mr.
Alexander Forbes, and was born at Cuttlebrae an 1787. He
was educated at the Endowed Grammar School, and at
Marischal College. Aberdeen, but received his medical
education at the University of Edinburgh, awl served fur
Immoral years is the medical department of the navy. In
1814 and 180 he was gag-surgeou to the Commander-is-
' Chief in the West Indies, where he was present in several
naval engagements, and received the naval war medal.
Is 1817 he graduated so M.D. at Edinburgh Uni-
versity ; in 1821 he introduced to the English pram
titiomts the great discovery of auscultation by tmoslatiog
Emcee's treatise, and wrote au original work on the mime
subject is 1821. In 183t1 he was appointed physician in
ordinary to the late Duke of Cambridge, physician extra-
ordinary to his Royal Mightier the Prince Coolant in 1840,
and physician to the Queen's household in the following
year. Sir John was an honorary member of the principal
medical societies of Europe and America, one of the editors
of the ••Cycloprolia of Practical Medicine," and the author of
emend prolemional and other works. He received the
tumour of knighthood in 1853, was a fellow of the Royal
of Phyincians, a Doctor of Civil Law, fellow of the
CROylirSociety, and several years consulting physician to the
Consumption Hospital.
AOCIDENT TO A CHANNEL STEAMER.—A heavy
gale of wind blew from the westward on Thiinday, as the
South-Eastern Railway Company's fart steamer Victoria
was creasing the Channel from Boulogne, with 80 passen-
gers on bird, and just as she reached the shallow water in
marl-channel, known as the Ridge, a sea broke in over her
bows, stove in the topgallant forecastle, drove the support-
in; stanchions clean through the main deck, and 811.1 the
men's bunks with water, thereby bringing her head down
by warty a foot. The vessel, which is the fastest steamer
afloat, is very strongly burls in compartments, and, though
she came into Folkartose harbour with her fore compart-
ment full of water, there had been no damage sustained in
any of the other compartments of the weasel. The Victoria
is of mune laid up for repairs, but a few days will see her
as seaworthy as ever.

A Ramia. 'Emma VOYAGE. —The boy who WAR
the only one on board the brig Amelia when she made her
extraordinary von 3e acroes Teas Bay, during the gale
of the Ist sad 2nd Mgt, has given some account of his
lonely passe3e, from which it appears that the Amelia,
which belonET: West Hartlepool, was laid upon the
gridiron, undergoing some repairs, the only person on
hoard being a named Alexander Brown, a native of
London. About midnight on the Friday the vessel
broke from her moorings and drifted out to sea. It woe
deemed impossible that a light ship, without ballast and
without% crew. could outlive the increasing tempest of wind
sad seas which were running mountains high. It ap-
pears that the ship, stern foremost, gas driven by the
wind straight acmes the Tees Bay, and, about two oclock
no Saturday rooming, she stranded upon the beach at
Coatham, near Bedew, and became a total wreck. During
the perilous voyage, Brown was twice or thrice washed off
the deck ; but by some means 4 which he cannot give any
account, he succeeded in regaining the ship, and on her
striking the beach, by the mane unacesmotable means, be
managed, in the absence of say assistance, to reach the land
in safety. He had only joined the ship three days previous
to the oocurrenee.—Sradtrlcid Herald.

therrrAL PALACL ON! Simms° Dmr.
FRIDAY, Nov. 15.—Admissioas oa payment, 931; ditto by
saws tickets, 1,164 ; total visitors, 2,093.