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

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 King. were brought to Spithead
in the Active, landj, and sent off oa Friday for VViorl-
sor, under charge of a theillerd, who carte purposely to
take care of thew,

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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 the
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 homy
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 mut 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 found 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, Este. 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.

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