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COURT OF KING'S BENCH, SArrnpAr, Oct:.

WILLIAM 1)A11 GlItno! PoliplvoToN. REASC:ti ~i'

'lilt: 1.11% 1,41 Ck V.
TLia r3U.: ou.tpi.:4l thr ALA: of the .1.. y. 1
feature ;.t :7et:, imeres.. It awl an action bro•ght by toe ;•...
i..rt osuyr of I )own,',4 t'i • Isor Ctrs; _
Conliartoy, for having. in the re:s of uilkirt: into
Dock, iniitml foundA: the plmntili-s abut, tho
for repairing %hie!) had boat toady at 2,IWiIL, with other 4%1.,
ttnttutitit:g to tt.ith'.
31T.ScAttl.r. rr two ohe..t ions to the SIC!!11,1..-511,1, t:Lit t:
• 1111111111 A .11. tr Ir:1110 avcortliog to its:: thr.:cti..t.
t. I tork l'i,,t.pno) .11 '1:11;ro. . • . .

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:t 4,11 the ca•t: ILr Sik 141 if was hei, I.lat t.
s!, aild be coa.w...neel, tip! a iaun t..x months ~.e

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hal ava:at,a:ll,,!.
The Cot:..-t vrerral..l th, •ob.er‘i,•!:. that ti. c a.- •
ore o: the easo is uh.tlt tilt pralcipks of the cotottlan hta. want,'
I..ttonattly t C.,16Ir11C:i0:1 ot as Act of I'-1.7:
to Cite injury el'nn inat‘iduat. or to the sorking of o
Lt le. St'A't LEVI ‘t oto lit not !1A.., taken such I)
tha: this t, as the first of winch had bee:: brauAlit

ott,r.lry t•aL:

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• tt . r di.trrt train :11t. Ilt.4rrkt 1.1.i:.1 Lit 4.0 et
aria tl:. t will was o!tl,
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I`.l tqi,t
%Oh! Luau Curry it 1: twieliy terapite!e,..l the cviden...

01'.4.1.611.7. Acts relatolg to th,
i.orltEt Docks, ha•l t.carr :I;.i-.4.1 l'otova-y mn)
v:titt protection itgaittat Ulan vs CI.:11;.:,1 by

p,r«rrn in gencr4l.
'l'm Jury,

atter a very s'iott. constd:atioa, non t‘i a fr. .
1.1.1:•.itt..._ I lanis,;o.:„lfti.
T.,, NT.% applir.l to .Itidg", to certt:v that the cam: wte
It.: a .p:: eat Jury, and t.. I.ordahip coo,. arced.

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I'LL mitt u 13.
;'• CI STON.
Titus 11%14 an 3C::•nt of trewns, for itt,turhing the pLuut. C t p
WRisuMl of %a.nr prortily, xittliated bvt•II:15 l. 11.• 111.1 Puke I,
fret ei the evidence of the plAintifl".. pofte., .
. t!:.L: i,' 1 the rrorvrty in ques:.jn.

of the witnesses tur the defence was called to prove ;that tl.c I:l4in.
tiff had refused to pay tithes for this property, alleging that it was
uselvss to hint.
'flis (limy Jits7ter —f)lt, I suppose the tidies of thi•se seeds?
111 r. herjesnt Tenn* —No, my hoed; then axe beau tithes is
Imittun than tithes of seeds.
A Jittytt.an--I wish we had no tithes at All.
The Jury ultimately gases verdict for the plaintiff. wide nominvl
damages; the deft:l4lot undertaking to restore the pi • ulltes to
f lit it !town cndition.

WINTER HOME CIRCUIT.

K!:ST ASSIZES.

MAIDSTOWIC, L/LC. 17.
MURDER AT ISESAIENHAItf.
"Ammo Comma:, aged Z, wee indicted for the wilful murder of
I.l.utniti Morion, at llearnhaen, en the 111th of August, by
blooming him with a gnn luaoiril with gunpowder and slugs.
This trial excited consiskrable interest, and occupied the whole

ela
Ilanneatea (with were lily. Cs•altint and Mr.
l'AT011) anted the ease for the prosecution, and gave • succinct
detail of the minute, and somewhat curious circumstances by which
he proposed to bring the charge hone to the prisoner. The de-
ceased was uneler.gerdener in the envice of Emanuel (lengthen.
Esq. who needed at Langley Park, in the ravish of Beckenham.
In amsequettee of the prosecutor's garden having been rubbed on
sheath of May lint of eleven pine apples. two only of which were
ripe, anti also of a gun belonging to the deceased, he, the de-
ceased, was directed in fumes to sleep in • small room at the
Leek of the het-homes, for the better protection of the premises.
in tint °tension the footeems of a man of onnusual stature were
traced in the garden. When the head gardener went to work at
ate o'cleek on the morning of the 17th August, he hound the de.
caned lying dangereasly woutided, in the green-house, and about
ems o'cluek on the taint day he expired. In his dying moments he
silted that two rota bad entered the garden in the night, armed
with a mm, and, upon making his appearance, one of them shot
him. Ile returned the fire, but without efiect. From • lettuce-
bed un which he bad fallen, he crawled to the green-houes, where
fr was limed. In the gimlet'. on this occasion, were discovered
the impressions of it large (out, corresponding exactly with those
which had been seen after the robbery on the 11th May. The pri-
mmer was a retitarkebly tall man, and his shoe, which were
inches in leerit, tallied precisely with the font-marks found on
both occasions its the garden. About five o'clock on the morning
of the 17th Augnst the prisoner was seen at Lewisham, on his way
to London ; on the Idtli May, the day after the robbery fast above-
trebtionced. he offered ftw sale. to a fruiterer at Kennington, two
ne.applea, one of which was unripe, but the fruiterer refused to
buy them, sospec•ing they had been stolen. Again, on the 17th
Atu nia'. the day after the murder in question, the prisoner offered
Dottie fruit to the same person for sale. Suspicions were then
awakened ; the fruit was purchased, but only paid for in pert, the
fruiterer desiring lam to call again for the remainder of the
money, in artier that, in the mean time, he might have an °ppm-
'unity of rewertaining whether the fruit had been honestly come by.
1), the 9d September the prisoner came again to the same fruiterer,
onti cenred some melous and peaches for sale. The fruiterer
gating heard of the runnier, immediately secured him, and took him
to lanlou Ilan. Reline be was searched he retired to a privy. and
immediately afterwards • pistol was found in the sewer, which had
evidently been concealed shout his pernem. Ile was then
f -nr-ited and in his picket" were found a steel gun charger, con-
tenting :hot and pi. ees of bath, together with a pruning knife, and
some old glossa. At an early hour en the !9th of July, the pd.
*nix? was seen coining out of a wood called %Vestwontl. rear El-
there. This cirtuintetance exciting ohaervation, the wood was
ogn-ehed, end at • open to which his footsteps were traced, was
leitnti a gun in a seek, al4h turned out to be the identical gun which
it. to to stolen. Iron the deceased on the fith of May. The person
bevel the gen drew the charge, and, instend of the powder,
o tth•titeatel some letters, and after making it, replaced the min in
tee 't,ck to they had found it, intending to watch who came fir it.
Tie y sat tip two nights, unsuccessfully, and during the third it
nice taken away by some person tinpecental. In letober, doe same
ifoie w-s found emcee/et! tu a field called Smithfield. between Ike-
enkon church tied Mr. floadhart's premises. Round the lurk
wes bed an old glove, which was afterwards discovered to be the
tetboe of one of the !doves hand on the prisoner's penon. Upon
v.-nit-ening the shot anti slugs extracted from the body of the de.
with the contents of the gun, the pistol taken from the
privy, anti the steel charger found on the prisoner's perigee, rehl re-
rarely, there was a remarkable similarity between then. in every re-
spect. hut another still more singular coincidence wan observable.
in the prisoner's lodging were fennel some Peres of paper which
had funned mince') wrappers, and upon being compared with
e.e wadding of the gun and pew!, so completely dove-tailed. se to
leave no doubt whatever that the prisoner had wadded both instru.
twins. These chruntstances put tngether were mina sufficient to
justify the conclusion that the prisoner was the perpetrator of the
niorder. Hut the case did not rest here. The prisoner cohabited
with a young woman tamed Lawrence, to whom, at the time he wee
apprehended, he was about to be married. From her testimony
gr would appear, that on the morning of the 17th of August,
Seining IWwn out all night, he awe home jaded and tired, and was
evidently labouring under a dependent of sprits. In the course of
conversation be told her that he had shut a man ; but said, that if
he had not done so, the man would have shot him. The murder
at Seekentuant having afterwanle reached her ears, she expressed
her leen to the prisoner, in consequence of a hat he had told her,
upon which he threatened that if ever she mentioned to any body
what he had !Mid, he would shoot her. If all these circumstances
would reasonably justify the Jury in coming to the conclusion that
the prisoner had committed the endow, offence laid to his clirage, it
mild be their duty to convict him; hut if there was so touch
doubt upon the case, that they could not conscientiously draw out
inferent.e so final to the prisoner, they ought to say so by their ver-
dict. Whit h every way they detemiined the question, the per.
pOILCII of this prosectition would he satisfied.
The prissier, who was in a most destitute situation, was de-
fended by Mr. Creilleetin.

Gawp Lyne„ head gardener of Mr. lloodhart, at leuigloy.park,
deposed, fist the deceased was the under gardener. In the garden
are thee hot-houses, and • seed-house. On the 11th of Slay last
we last turn ripe and nine unripe pine apples, and • gun belonging
to thedereaseol. I saw a large footstep on a bonito which I com-
pared with my own. They were nearly twelve Inches long. After
this time Morgan used to sleep in the Deed-house. I saw Morgan
about its o'clock in the evening of the of Auguit, when I left
work. About sir the nest morning I found him Icing upon the
Sage in the green.lionie, badly wounded. I found ii hay-fork at
the end of the pinery. I put h to the marks on the outer gate.
which had been broken, and they corresponded. I saw large foot-
steps in the garden, and in the orchard, and traced them from
tbenee across the lane, up the hank, over into a meadow, called
Smith-field, which is about a mile from Fir. 600,1h:tit's premises,
and one note and • half front lieckenhatti church. A person might
go arrow there to Beckenham church. lint there was no foot path.
Charles WilletL--Saw blood on the lettuce bed. and tin the
strawberry bed, and picked up a gun of Fir. tioodhart's in the
ganlen.
Mr. William Scott, • surgeon of Beckenham, deposed, that he
examined the deceased; lie on wounded all 04111 the cheat, hands,
arid arms, with shin ; besides one severe wound near the centre of
the right breast, he had two near it.. stern and another near
ttie centre of the left breast. lle died at half-past one on the 17111.
On the 11th Benumbs, the body was disinterred and tinned. I
tnund Blithe lunge four slugs, one shot, and a piece of gravel, and
one slug and one shot in the chest.
Ann llarhek attended the deceased on his dying bed. He com-
plained of a violent pain in his stomach, amp was in great agony.
asked him if be knew the persona who shot hint ? Ile said he did
"Mt, but that two cot n came into the gsnlen ; lie went out to see
what they were about, when one of them shoo at I , anti he re-
turned the lire ; they were dressed in costs and trowsers.
James Pante, liow-street petrel, corroborated Lyne as to the
Cotatepe, and saw • footstep with Dade, in the lane leading to..
wards lininiley.
Mary Wright Lawrence, the young woman alto had cohabited
'lnth the prisoner, deposed, that she occupied • back-room, one_
pair, in Fox's-buildings, Kent-street, Borough. In August the
prisoner was living with me ; on the Sunday before I 'amherwell
Fair be slept at home ; we dined at one o'clock on Monday the
Nth, and he then went away. Ile *Aid he was going to a relation
of his, who lived at the other side of Eltham, and that if he was
not at home by eight o'clbck, be should not return that night ; he
returned about • quarter before eight the neat morning. My me-
dui! and 1 were iv hretikfast ; his tint was broken. 1 asks d him
bow it came broke t Ile told me it visa a good job his nick was
not broke. Ile mid he was not very well, and had a pain in his
head, to which lie wits subject. I asked loin if he would go to bed ?
r said he would lie down upon the floor. Ile dui so till din:.er-
time, and afterward• till tclAitsto. Atter tea he sat a: the widow.
ant! whilst there told me lie had shot at a usew„ 1 asked him why
he did it for I' Ile said, if hr ha,: 1114, the man would have shot
him. I asked him how lie did u ? Ile said he did not hurt him—
he only blew a little powder in hit two. 1 asked 'Mu where he
was, and he said at Steen Oalui ; I naked hint if he lead gone to
echidnas ? Ile told me to ask 11.1 questione, and he wanted to
go to best. lie skit at home on Tuesday night, and got up aril
went out on Wednesday morning ; returned home between one and
two, and slept at home that night. Ito Thursday we went to
Camberwell 1 air. and slept at home. Ile went to the Fair alone
on Ender. Whilst he vas gone, somebody told nit art the suurthe
of a gardener. %%lien he came home l told it to I ; ho said,
•• Thank Nest, t-doln't tin it, neither do I know any thing about
it." 1 sat 1 was uneasy on account of his being out that night.
lie totd tic I had no oceasim to be uneasy abort I could
cot hurt him. but if I mentioned it I might get him into tumid:.
told him I thought it very curious ; he said, if ever lie conked
tor sa3 tug any elting about it, he would shoot me. Some tinte
fore this, he to me he heel a foaling-niece at u friend's at
which he intended to sell in the alosoung season. Ile said he sup.
posed, if he Irft it three. it would get spoiled, as they had taken
die powder out and tilled it full of banes. Ile Mil not sleep con-
stantly at home after the Friday ; he had been occasiiioalty to see
ine between that time and the *I September. when he was taken
up. I loft Fox's-biiildings on the 34 September, locked the throe,
left my thinp there, and went to my mother's, at Brp:ford. I ea.
taken up on the Monday fallowing. 41111 the Writers took the Ley
from site. 'File lodging was a read,-famished one.
In giving her testimony, the witness was deeply affected.
Sarah Lawrence, the coo rner of last witness. was with Commits
sash her dittglcer in Yores lituldiogs, on the 17ah. Coombs came
in about eigh to th • mrning. She rootirtool the lost witness as
to the cony. ru.• etween her and prisor.ee. Ile was gloomy and
meat d.
Matthew Reilly saw the prisoner between four and live on Tues.

day morning, the Pith, on the Lewisham mad, going towards bon-
don. I bid him good looming, and asked if he was rocking is the
, neighbourhood of Lewisham ? He said no, he was at work et
Seven Oaks, and had rome Irmo thence that morning. 1 said—
" You must hare started pretty early." lie road* no answer.
This was shunt hallo mile from Ileekenhana church.
Lucy !look enavaintsl-11er Istals.uol is a fruiterer at Kenning-
ton. On the Pith of Mn,, the goisoner come to my husband's
• shop, about ten o'clock. I saw hilts offer two pine apples for wile
Ito my husband, one ripe, and the other unripe. I told my has.
band not to bt.y then, as I thou'tht they were stolen fruit. The
prisoner made no uteservathus. Ile aahal four shillings. I asked
the prisoner if he loot out the unripe one himself? He said he did
not. I said, whoever cut them did not ur.derstand their business,
or they had cut it in the dark. Ile said. Isis mate cut the unripe
one, sal be rut the ripe nor himself. My husband did tint buy
them. (in the 17th or Ilith of August he called for 3e. &1., and
said that toy husband had had a few grapes tram him in themorning,
and had nut paid him al:. Oa the :NI of September he came and
offived trielltms anl readies. My husband took him up.
Joiner Ilia•k, husband to the former witness, examined—On the
Illth of August the prisoner mile again v. ith four pounds and a
quarter of grapes. Ile sail " I WWI here notate time ago with two
pine apples, and Inn said they were stolen; I suppose you will say
these are staler.' lie tasked two slsiliings a pound tar them, and I
bought them. I paid live shillings only, that if I made up my
ound that they area stolen, I could arrest him as he ague hack.
lin the 2d of Scot:m.l,er he came again • he said, " I have brought
you some melons and peaches;" and a;ked a sum under the mar-
ket price for them. 1 took him into custody. He said " Don't
take me, but take my fruit, and let roe go." 31! neat door neigh-
bour and me took hint to Union Hall. Ile wanted to go into
every public-house se passed, his bowels, he said, were ao bad.
We took him to the strong room, in which wes a privy, at Union
IlaiL There was another person in the room when we put the
is/nonce there.
John liunn assisted in carrying prisoner to Union-hall ; I found
open him a steel charger, coma:fling abut and slugs, a pruning
knife, mine gloves, and paper.
lkoh filmes, turnkey in the Surrey awnpter, put prisoner into
the lock-up.room„ one other person war then, named Churchill ; I
afierwards looked dos al the privy ; I went down and fount ]a
pistol, which had been very recently put there. The boodle was
quite dry.
\Hillman rlitrehill 11/118 in the lock-up-plate with the prisoner.
Pitt not threw any pistol down the privy. About ten nunutta
before there were live or sii other persons in the room.
James Dlaimon, the Union.lsall officer, searched the prisoner
after lie came out of the strong room. There were marks upon
his shirt, and upon applying the pistol found in the privy to them
they rustily corresponded. Upon saucing the prisoner's lodgiug
lie found some pieces of tobacco paper, and the told glove now
produced. Ilino doubt that this odd glove is the fellow to that
found tied round the rock of the gun picked up in Smithfield.
Found a pair of shoes in prisoner's mow, which are eleven aid a
half inches long.
Job Boast, servant to Mr. Tyler, a farmer at Beckenham,
proved that, between four and five in the morning of the 29th July,
he saw the prisoner coming over the gate nut of Westwood, near
Eithem. Ile had a bag awl basket with him.
Mr. Tyler proved, that in corsequenve of what the last witness
told him, be troced footsteps from the IVentwood gate to a spot in
the wood, when be found some hnt-house grapes. Near the same
spot he found a loaded gun itz a bag ; be drew the charge, consist-
ing of powder, shot, and four pebbles • he then pot leaves into the
barrel, and resumes' the shot and whiles, bat left out the powder.
After marking the gun, he put it into the bag again, and replaced it
where he found it ; watched fur two nights to see who came fur it,
without success. (In the t'aird day he found the gun gone.
Mr. Green, a fanner, who was with the last witness, gave evi-
dence to the •ame drat. . . . ... .

Key wood, a labourer, pmv.d that in October hat he
fitund a gun toner:llrd arum,; some bushes and grass in a field
called Smithfield, bet seen ',jr. Gooditart's house and Beckenham.
It was loaded with slugs and shut, and an old glove was tied round
the rock. The gun was afterwards owned as the property of the
deceased. which had been stolen in May.
The gun was now ',minced and idh ratified by Mr. Tem. and
Mr. Green, as that which they had found in a lag at M estwood
na the 29th ofJ uly. Mr. (toodhart's had gardener also identified
it as the property of the deceased, which had been stolen on May 9.
The shot, slJgs, and pebble, taken from the wounds of the de-
cessod—the shot and slugs taken (ran the gun—the shot and slugs
taken from the pistol—and the shot and slugs taken front site
charges hound upon the prisoner, were now respectively protium!,
and compact! by Weirton and !fall, the officers, and several other
witnesses, all of-11110M gave it as their derided opinion that they
were precisely able in every respect, awl were portions of the sante
ammunition.

.....
Mr. James Watkins, a tobacconist, of Kent-street, in the Bo-
rough, looked et some pieces of paper found in the prisoner's room,
and comparing them with the paper wadding taken glom the gun
and pistol, had no doubt that they formed part of the wrappers used
in his shop, in the way of his trade. They corresponded exactly.
Two pieces of paper taken from the pistol, and fitted to a third
piece found in the prisoner's room, formed one entire bill, with his
name and aildtc,s Lpon it.
ti Lannon produce) a Wept' shoes, taken from the prisoner's feet
in the gaol. They were eleven incites and a half in length.
ins war the care for the Crown.
The prisencr being called upon for his defence, said, that some
parts of the evidence against I.im were untrue ; but he did net
mate in what particulars it was false. Plc said be had no friends to
assist hint in his defence.

......
Renate's,. at Maidstone hoymart and stone-merchant, said
he had known the prisoner for ten rears. Fur seven years of that
peeicd he bad employed hint as a labourer. du.ing which time he
had onithieted Ihreself with great propriety. For the last three
years he had known very little of him.
Mr. Justice Ile nallt*Gll summed up the case fur the Jury, as
one requiring the peculiar attentio3 of the Jury, tooling such ob-
servations as were tslculated to assist then in cooling to a satis-
factory conclusion, hem the various minute circumstances limo
which the question of guilt nr innocence depetted. If the Jury were
convinced, by what they had haul., that the *lsmer was the sour-
derv, they ought to ace so by their verdict ; but if they entertained
sty sober rotional doubt ',pun the subject, they ought to incline in
favour of innocence.

The Jury deliberated a I minutes, and found Pie prisoner
Ga illy.
111 r, Justice Ruaaorrn lor.orfliauly pmnounced the staid
sentence of the law, and ordered the prisoner w be executed on
Monday nett.
TWO other capital convicts, one named Ingram. for a burglary at
Sheerness, the other, George Shrubaulc,lor stealing *29 *heap, were
also left f.or recension. .

I lie Assizes ended on Friday evening, about seven o'clock.

POLICE.

HATTON-GARDEN.

NOT 4T Hour, on Tug DOCTOIII ntsrunan.n.--Amongst
the regular turnout of irregular watchhousc furniture from the de-
pot at the la:waster Estate, on Saturday morning, there was one
article of peculiarly boil's.. Character, which was discoveted about
" the witching time of night." in • quiescent state, at a field below
Tavistock-square, by one of the nightly guardians, who gave the
Co/lowing hiatory of the adventure :
" [lase your honour, Sir," says this Ilibernian conservator of
otelemal peace, " I was going around my burr, to see if it was all
right. so I just slips into the fields a bit or so, bekays of the new
houses tluit unit built there down he Tavishtock.shquare, when I
saw this silf-same man (roosting down in a heap of manor and
no/441;h. 5,t, says f—plase your !tontine, says I, what are you do.
ing there, haling down tit the inaltar, when you ought to be at fume
in your honest bed at this hour of the night ? Maybe you'd be
after robbing the in.pty houses bekays there's nobody to purtect
them you think--would you? 1 aged him the same question
twice icier again, but sorrow an answer he'd give me about it, whe-
ther he was er no. So, Sir, I jogged him, and stirred hint up a hit
with my stick, and then he stirred a little, so I thought maybe be
was wine rrirjhriatsite man that took a drop too much to drink,
and that he was smothered dead in the lime, so I bawled
in his ear two er three tuns, and at last be says to me—.
Pity* he, • I can't go; say the Ifoctor is not at home ; • an
then, sir, I theuglit it was all gammon, and wive but you
must rouse up, ilo-tor or devil (that was the word, axing your
neur's pardon) and come along,' but he only turned round again in
the lime, like as if he was in lied, ' and said ' I'm not at hunt,''—
if the lady is very bad, let her take twine brandy and water; she'll
hould nut till morning •• So, Sir, I begins to elamine his parson,
and having the lime anti mud, he looked like a darewl body, and
had a watch and a qui,zing 'Jim tied to his waistcoat button ; so,
thy comrade and myself took hint up cm our back together, and
brought him to the watch-h mat —that's ell, Sir, and he was very
quiet all the way. only that be didn't like being disturbed out of
his bed, u he called It."

When this interesting harangue WM concluded, the yloot doctor,
alto certainly had not yet slept otr the effects of his late dc_
hooch, was call.vl to give an ac:uunt of himself, which he did, as
we!l as lie was utile.

M hat are ymt, Sir, inquired the Magistrate?—Me, Sir t that
ant I—alt. ',is, my oroapation. you I.llC3ll—why. Sir, I am an
thi:.:uel i.ies Medicine ['room.. lam also versed
in surgery, and MI (hit cup) ALS well as any ntan—l mean to say
that 1 raii produte as mapsc—pee—table a clia--a—a—TWL? as any
prof—es—fessintal gent kola's in—in--I"ndon. What—what do
you say to that. Sir, eh ? Nothing but thla, replir.l the 31a.
gistrate, that you are adopting a very certain method to de.
sari that characte. ?lay be so, rejoined the Dotter, but
if y. ou Oink I stint, look to the hooks--books—.thieettp)—
the took' of St._.' t. tioor—flentge's and tit. Thomas's Ilos—
-011its—Sok--(oh doer, my luadj—lfusplials, and you sill titid the
nat.tt or Dr.

If 'Him will unfortunately mete fools of themselves, we will not
tontinn their eiiiyrage by pmelaitning the ravings of au over-beatad
imeatba:i.ub t'tt!riec It in v..y. thaa Surgeon. and .te-
rood:tor• received n shit i-iditett a polite frown
the preanling ltlagborate. to be ose a: boom" whenever he klt
inchiled to relit% front Lis professional a:tidies, and intlulgs in
lla.:cluasaltan

nirlaticlavly catastrophe took place at
Brighten on IVeilnesilsy. gentleman, a Mr. 11, who it
seems hail barn in a low ilestionaing way tOr some little
Cain past, cs)-"tniitt sitkide at h 4 Issidence, oa the Grand
Pat it

THE BRITISH PRESS.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT-EXPLOSION UlO .1
STEAM-ENGINE ROLLER.

] Further particulars, from the Manthoter Girard4re of Saturday.]

On Tuesday evening last, the neighbourhood of Major-street, in
this town, was thrown 400 great consternation and sham by an
explosion which sheer,s every house in the vicinity, and induced
sonny persons to thil.k that an earthquake had taken place; hut,
on inquiry. it WAS found that the shtick was caused by the berating
of the boiler tit a steam-zrigine, on the vim:scan' Messrs. Windsor
and Co. machine-makers, in Major-street.
The premises consisted of a large building, originally four stories
high, but the Gnat floor of which had been taken out, to make the
room on the ground thaw sufficiently lofty for a smithy ; so that. at
the time of the accident, the building had only three floors; the
ground flour, used Om we have stated) for a smithy, and two others
used as mechanics' werkshops. The building was fort .two feet
hog inside, occupying the whine length on one side of the plot of
viand on which the premises stood. One end of the remainder
was covered by a slight building, six yards wide, with a salt-pie
roof; one part of which was was used as the engine-house, and
the other as an iron-foundery. The rest of the ground formed a
yard, uhich was enclosed from blajor-street by a wall.
The boiler which caused the accidet was placed in the engine.
house, alongside the wall of the principal building, front which it
was distant about thrtc feet. it was made of east iron, of a eylin.
driestl form, about .14 %arils long, anal live feet in diameter, rub •
fire-place and line in die bride. The engine which it worked was
a high pressure engine, on Trevethick's principle, working ageing
the atmosphere, and was, we believe, the only one in use in this
town. . .

About half-past four o'clock in the eveninr. Mr. John Windsor,
one of the partnersin the Erin, before going linnie to tea, examined
the boiler, when he found that it ecmtained a sufficient quantity of
water, and all appeared to be right. About ten minute. before live,
as nearly as we can learn. the cm inter took bitten from the top of
the boiler, and went with it into the smithy, to the end opposite the
boiler. He hat! scarcely reached the spot when a our.: tremendous
shock took place, which was immediately followed by the falling of
the greater part of the building, leaving only that end standing in
which he then was. As soon as the tenor and alarni which such
as occurrence -ms calculated to predate had subsided, it was found
that the boiler hud burst, and feecru in the lower part of the wall
of the principal building for shove half its length= and the upper
Part, hating nothing to roe upon, had fallen to the pound, bury-
ing in the ruins a number of the work-people. The other building,
which, as we have already tested, comprised the engine-house and
the thundery, war entirely destroyed, not one brick being lit upon
another.

The attention of the people who had been assembled by the
shock, was now directed to the situation of those persons who were
'retied In the wreck of the building, and of those, who having
been in that part which had not fallen, were at first unable to make
their escape, u the staircase was at the cnd next to the boiler.
The latter, however, were speedily extricated ; those in the upper-
most Eery, by getting upon the roof of an adjoining building ;
and those in the middle story, some by leaping out of the windows,
and other, by letting theineelves down with a strap. Every exer-
tion was then matte to remove the rubbish, in order to extricate
those who were involved in the fall of the building. The two first
found were moulders, who, at the time of the explosion, were at
work in the fewndry. Of these, one, a man named Thomas
‘Vbeeler, etas quite dead ; the other, Henry Robinson, was still
allre, but was so dreadfully injured that he Bled the same night In
the infirmary. The item person found was a young man, named
el'lnughlan, who tended the furnace for melting the iron, and
who had been employed tin the premises only about a fortnight.
lie was taken to the infirmary, bite died during the night. Several
persons, who were mere or lam injured, were then got cut in sue-
cession ; and on* who was quite dead. This was an 014 man, 70
years of age, named John Mize, who was employed as a striker
for hie son, a smith, and worked in the smithy exactly oplswite the
centre of the boiler. Ile was found in a horrible situation, with
his head upon the hearth-tire, and the flesh of the face and neck
nearly coneumed. lie was of course quite dead when found, and,
front the other injuries he he ti recivird, there is reason to believe
that he had been killed inatarteneously. Ilia son, William Blaize,
was severely injured, and now lies in a doubtful state.
Several of the persons who were extricated, or extricated them-
selves from the ruins, with little injury, had most providential
escapes. Amongst these was a man named Richard Robinson,
turner, who was at work in the second story, and fell with it to ;he
ground. In the first instance one of the beams of the floor above
tell upon himf and would speedily have crushed him to death, but,
most fortunately, by the subsequent fall of the roof, the end of the
beam which lay upon hint was forced about two feet upwards,
leaving a vacant space beneath, through which, with some
nifty, he made his way, and got out at the back of the premises,
without having sustaieed any very serious injury. Another man,
named James Warm. was in the uppermost story, and fell with
the floor for some distance, but connived ity some means, which he
an hardly describe, to mintruble up the falling floors ; he thus re.
gained the uppermost story, and got out along with the others,
having aunained no further injury than a slight cut on his left
temple. Another man wages work in the second story, nearly op..
peens the boiler, vim*, wee alarmed by the shock of the espies-
aien, and, before the flair had time to fall, he ran to the other end
of the room, and leaped through use of the windows. Mr. James
Windsor, one of the parbera in the finn, was also on that part of
the floor which gave way, but enntrived to snake his escape from it
In time to avoid the danger. Two boys also fell from the upper.
most story to the ground, and escaped without injury.
_1

As it wu quite dark when the explosion trek plate, the extent of
damage to the premises and to the attjoining property, could hardly
be fully ascertained; but the next morning, a dreadful scene of
was presented to view. The house on the left of the pre-
mises the engice-house and foundry, and belonging to a
Mr. Froggatt, was aloiret shaken to piece.. and will probably have
to be taken down before it can be male habitable. The same
house, we believe, received considerable damage' some time ago,
by the fall of a chimney belonging lathe same works. The mnf and
wall of another house, at the back of Messrs. Windsor and Co.'a
premises, occupied by a Mrs. llarington, way partially beaten
in with bricks ; and it might serve to give some idea of the force of
the explosion, whco we state, that both the walls of Messrs. Wind-
sor's and Co.'s large Wading intervened between that house anti the
holier. A large rece demi iron, a fragment of the boiler, weigh-
ing about 8111ba. was projected with such force in another direction,
that it passed over a house, which hound,ti the yard on the right
of the preceding olio (and which, to the summit of the chimneys,
over which the piece of iron must have pasted, was at least five
and forty feet htgla) ant broke in the gable end of another house
lower down in llsoralrwet, about GO yards from the spot where
the boiler stood. Another piece of iron, apparently about the same
sire, ,eru carried nearly in the sane direction, about six yards
further, and broke through the roof of a sadler's shop in Ilall's
buildings. 4 hie of the weights used for loading the moottle valve,
weighing about three woods, was thrown over the buildings on the
left or the plan. and raised with considerable force throcgh the
window of a garret on the opposite side of 31inshull-street, in which
a carver and gilder was at work, and narrowly missed his head.
A large quantity of bliek.s and fragmewts of iron were driven with
great force in every direction, and broke a vast number of windows,
and did other trilling damage, on all aides of the premises ; but
fortunately no person, so far as we have heard, received any injury
from them. _ . _ .

AVith regard to the immediate cause of this fatal and destructive
accident, we do not know that any thing satisfactory can be ad.
vaneed. It will be QM below, that the engineer, in his evidence nn
the inquest,swore positively that no ad•litional weight 11211 been
placed upon the safety-valve ; and ihe weight with which it wall
usually loaded, &Übe. to the inch, is by no means great for such
engines. It is probable that the safety valve had by SOMemearts
got entangled and Mr. ii'indsor unfortunately did nut try it when
he examined the engine. bofore he went to tea). But whatever
might be the proximate cause of the accident, there can be no doubt
on the mind et' any rational man. that engines of this description
are exceedingly unsafe. About two years anti a half ago, we had
to announce the bursting of a boiler at Ardwick. We believe the
engine to which that boiler belonged, and the one now In question,
were the only Trevethiek engines in Manchester; and the boilers
belonging to them are the only ones which have burst in the town
since the commencement of our editorial labours. We trust that
no person after this time, and with these examples before his eyes,
will have s° livie regard for the lives of his fellow.creaturo., a. to
eeect another of tivwe dangerous engines ; and if titer:: should be
in existerkeAn this neighbourhood, it is to be hoped that
the owner will forthwith pull it down.

The following it a list of the pi.vsuus who have suffered from this
dreatlfel accident :
John Maize., smith, killed; Thomas Vriteeler, forenum of the
moulders, killed ; Henry Robinson, moulder. since dead • Henry
Al•laughlan. lilast.tender, since dead; William Indium, moulder,
since dead ; Thomas lVinstanit y, tiler, now in the Mariners,. with
fracture and severe contusions; Jonathan Taylor, smith. also in
the Intinuary, severely bruised and isrersted ; IVilliam Blaize,
smith, merely hurt; John Hughes liter, ditto; John Graham,
turner, ditto ; Richard Robinson. turner, slightly ; James Rich.
ardson, turner, slightly ; James WIATC, filer.

A etwnner's Inquest RAI held at etc Town 11211 Tavern, is T.
lane. at six o'clock on 'Wednesday evening.
Several witnesses were examined, but they could not account for
the accident.
The Jun• returned a vertlict—" That the deemed were acei.
dentally killed by the bursting of a steam-boiler."

On Monday evening !ast, Mr. Tiliford, the landlord of the
Roebuck public-house, in Campfield, lost his life in a
manner almost too horrible fer description. It appears
that he had gone into the yard with a candle during the
night (but at what hour is not exactly known) and by
sonic Meal:3 set tire to his clothes, which were gradually
consumed, without his having the power either to extin-
guish the tire, or to call for assistance. llow long he re-
mained in this situation is not known ; but his groans were
heard between two and three o'clock by the watchman,
who, however, was unable to discover from whence they
proceeded. About three o'clock the unfortmee man con-
trived to reach the house, and to divest himself of the re-
mains of his clothes. lie then made his way hp stairs,
and alarmed his atm, to whom he communicated his dread-
ful situation. Surgical assistance was immediately pro-
cured ; but after lingering a fcw hours, he expired.-.
A tpaciester

"Ralf LAST NIGHTS GAZETTE.

Al ILITA RY PROMOTIONS.

Wor-Olire, Deem?". 17, 1824.
Royal Regiment of Home (boards—Ensign Arthur Henry Lord
Dorchester, from half-pay oth Foot, to be Cana, by purchase,
vice Ilei.ryHealey, who retires.
4th Regiment of Light Dragoons.--(buret Mervyn Richardson, vice
Aliderson, deceased; and Comet Charles Agnew, vice Carroll,
decemed—to be Lieutenants, without purchase.
To be Comet by purchase—ensign Somerville William Harcourt
Ramabottorn, learn the MI Foot. vice Rich ardion.
oth ditto—Surgeon Robert liatlenaeli, 31.1). from the 13th Foot,
to he Surgeon, vice John Francis Sinet, who retires upon ball=
pay 811 Foot.
11th Ditto--Lieutenant Barton Parker Browne to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Smith, deceased.
Cornet William Wymer to he Lieutenant, vice Browne.
William Handley, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Wyatt?.
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards—Captain lion. William
Thomas Graves, from the half-pay, to be Lieutenant and Captain
vice William Sethaotsop, who exchanges, receiving the die
fc rence.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant Leonard Henry Dobbin to be
Captain, without purchase. vice Gell, deceased.
Ensign James 31• Gregor to be Lieutenant, vice Dobbin.
To be Ensigns—Alexander Barry Montgoinerie, Gent. vice Ill?Gre-1
;,nor; and Iledworth II oddleston (lent. vice Gordon,
promoted in the eth Foot.
feth ditio—Crevet Colonel John °onliner to be Lieutenant-Culonel,
without riche:A.
Brevet Major Reckville Taylor to be Major, vice Gardiner.
To be Captains, without purchme—Lieutenant Ralph Meredith •
Captain John Bor.auiv, from hal-pey of the repPment; and
Lieutenant William Colin Clarke, from the 77th Foot, vice
Taylor.
To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensign John Windsor
Stuart; Ensign Charles bee Martin; Ensign Frederick Ri.
chmilson; Lieutenant Thomas Ratliff, from half.pay Gist Foot;
Lieutenant Thomas 31inton, from half-pay 3d West India Regi.
ment ; Second lieutenant Arthur smith, from the 80th Foot :
Second Lienumant John Kelly, Iron the 60th Foot; Second
Lieutenant tieorge Forman Mordm, from the 234 Foot; Ensign
James Wilson, trom the :,oth Foot; Ensigo Joseph flowill
from the 14th Foot ; Ensign Cecil Hammond, front the 10d;
Foot ; and Ensign George Gordon, from the Ist Foot, vice Me-
redith, promoted.
To be Ensigns, without purchase—Barnard Toplison Faced Bowes,
(lent; John Crofton, Gent.; John Dumareol. Gent. vice •iart ;
Alexander Connor, Gent. vice Martin ; William Greene, Gent.
_ vice Richardson. _ _ .

To be Surgeon—Assistant-Surgeon James Trigge, from the 14th
Foot, vice Harrison. deemed.
Will Regiment of Foot—Ensign William Neville Thomas, from
the 31st Foot, to be Ensign, me Hammond, promoted in the 6th
Foot.

14tIC-iiitto—Gentleruan Cadet Charley J. Otter, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensiga, without purchase, vice Rowlby,

- , -
promoted in die fithi Foot.
ISM ditto--Sorgeon Kobett Punshon, from half-pay 5.111 Foot. to
be Surgeon, vice LadenAch. appointed to the LIM Light I.)rs.

goons.
Md ditto—Robert HiR (Arley, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant,
without purchase, rice Norden, promoted in the Gth root.
27th ditto—Lieutenant Francis Shea to be Captain, without put.
chase, vice Duhigg, deemed.
Ensign Charles Fitzroy Neynoe to be Lieutenant, vice Shea.
Brutus if:militia Solna! Hutchinson, Gott. to be Ensign, vice
Neynoe.
31st ditto—Ensign 'rhomu Tait, from the Ist Royal Veteran Bat-
talion, to be /mogul, rice Thomas, appointed to the loth riot.
113th ditto—Ensign Mark Dickens to be Adjutant, vice Weary,
who resigns the Adjutantcy only.
317th ditto—Lieutetiatit John Magill to be Captain, without pur-
chase, vice Perry, deemed.
To be Lieutenants, without purchaso—Ensign John Skeffington
'forma, vice Magill ; arid Ensign Alexander hope APLeroth,
vice Kerr, killed in action.
To be Ensigns, without purchase—Duncan Campbell, Gent. vice
Toners; and Joseph "Sullen, Gent. vice 31•beroth.
39th Riment of root—Lieutenant George Meares Bowen, from
the 3d Royal Veteran Battalion, to be Lieutenant, vice John
Burns, who retires upon half-pay oth Foot.
Herbert Byng Dan, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Ilanby, promoted in the tkl West Int a Regiment.
13d ditto__ William Fraser to be Captain, by purchase,

. .
vice Kersteman, who retires.
Ensign James Ruckus!! Buckman Estcourt to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Fraser.
Kith ditto—Ensign Thomas Glees= to be Lieutenant, without

purchase, vice Skelton, deceased.
Francis Ingram, Gent. to be Ensign, vice (Beeson.
47th dico—lirevet-Lientenant-Colonel John NV:lllarn 0. Do-
noghue to be Major, without purchase, vice Warren, deceased.
Lieutenant James Clarke to be Captain, rice I knioghue.
Ensign %Vilna:it Snow to be Lieutenant, vice Clarke.
If. 11. F. Clarke, (lint. to he Ensign, vice Snow.
49th ditto—Assistaro.Surgism James Freßch, M.D. from the 47th
Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Mach:Kilian, deceased.
51th ditto—Lieutenant Edward AReyne Evanson to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Coote, deceased.
To be Lieutenants, without inpurchase—Ensign Burrowes Kelly,
vice Domini!, deceased: Ensign R. Tyrrell Robert l'attoun,
vice Holt, deceased; and Ensign George Fenton, vice Evanson.
To be Ensigns, without pureilase—George Holt, Gent. vice Pat-
town ; and John Beach Dodd, Gent. vice Fenton.
To be Adjutant—Lieutenant John ('lark, vice Dowdall, deceased.
ditto--Robert A. Mackenzie, Gent. to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Wilson, promoted in the 6th Foot.
59th ditto—lieutenant Lewis Xavier Leslie, front the 97th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice Macdonald, who exchanges.
60th :into—Lieutenant John Campbell, from the 2d West India
Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Henry Alter.stein, who retires
urn 6th West India Regiment. William Bridges
Neynoe, Bent. vice Smith, promoted in the 6th Foot: and Fran.
cis Marlton, Gent. vice Kelly, promoted in the 6th Foot—to be

riecond Lieutenants, without.ittichase.
62d ditto—Sergraut-Majur John Buchan, from the 71st loot, to
be Adjutant, with the rank of Ensign, •ice Parker, pmmoted.
nth (Imo—Ensign William Clark to to Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, ticeClarte, promoted in the lith }cot. t icntlitman
Horatio Feowick, tram the Royal Military College, to be Ensign,
•ice Clark.

Robert Jmeph Kerr, from half-pay Glen-
garry Light Infantry, to be Lieutenant, vice .11ildmay, abuse
appointment has nut taken place.
bath ditto—Captain Richard Kirwan, from half-pay Gth Foot, to
be Captain, vice Janie* Ilirknian, who exchanges.
:*ll7th ditto—Lieutenant Allan 111 acdonald, from the &hit Foot, to
be lieutenant, vice Leslie, who exchanges. Captain William
Ore, from ball-pay Royal West India Rangers, to be Pay-
master.

911;h7litto-- Ensign Ilenry Eyre, from half-pay 73d Foot, vice Gra-
ham, promote:l in the Royal African Colonial Corps; and liar_
court 'l'ernaa, (lent. vice lin IL, promoted in the 2d West India
Regiment. to be Ensigas, without purchase. Assistant-Surgeon
I:Award Twills., from the Ist Dragoons, vice Vassal, replaced on
half-pay.
99th ditto—. Richard Gibbons, (lent. to be Ensign, by purthase,
vice Rimsbottom, appointed to the 4th Light Dragoons.
24 West India Regiment—hieutcnant Thomas Stewart, from half-
pay 66 West India Regiment. vice Campbell, appointed to the
linth Filet ; Ensign John 3lanby, from the 29th Foot, without
purchase, vice Henry, deceased; and Ensign Jonathan ('up-
page Nicol's, from the 93th Foot, without purchase—to be Lieu.
tenants. _ _ _ _

Ce;hinitegiment—Secnnd Lieutenant Jame% Stewart to be First
Lieutenant, without purchase, rice IVarburton whose promotion
has not taken place.
Royal African Colonial Corps—Lieutenant George Jaye, from
half.nay York Chaeseurx, vice James White, who exchanges;
mid Ensign Henry William Graham. from the 911th Foot. with-
out purchase, vice Cartwright, deceased—to be Lieutenant...
Ist Royal Veteran Battalion—Ensign Richard Elhott. from half_
pay 33th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Tait, appointed to the 31st
01.
3tl Royal Veteran Battalion—Lieutenant Anthony Gardiner Shiley,
from hal.psy Bth Foot, to be Lieutenant (repaying the differ.
mice), vice Bosco, appoinaisl to the 38th loot.
STAFF.

31aior William Read, Permanent Assistant-Quartermastet-Gene-
ral, to he Ilkputv Iluartermaster-fieneral to his Majesty's Forces
in the East with the rank of Lieutenant-Cokmel in the
Army, tire Maria!, deceastri.
Driest Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Ramis Forrest, from balittaz
31th Foot, to be Permanent Assistant-Quarternmster.Ge
rice Head, appointed Deputy Quartertnaster-General in the Last
Indies.