The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-03 00:00:00

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1852.

FEBRUARY.
Lincoln Spring

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MARCH.
Liverpool Spring
Coventry 9 Northampton 24
Doncaster Spric
Warwick Spring

APRIL.
Epsom Spring
Newmarket Craven ... 12 Malton
Abergavenny l5 Newmarket F. S 26

IIAY.

Chester Spring
Newmarket S. S.
Shrewsbury l2
Durham

Bath ... .. .......
Liverpool 11.
Epsom 25

Manchester ...
Ascot . . 8
BevQrley

Stockbridge
Winchester
Knighton 25
Carlisle
Ludlow

Hampton
Newcastle
Bibury

Salisbury
Newmarket 6
Worcester
Lancaster

Liverpool
Stamtord 2O
Nottingham 2O
Goodwood
,UST.

North Staffordshire 3
Brighton
Reading

York
Egham

Warwick 7
Doncaster
Eglinton Club 2l
Bedford
OCT,

:BER.

Chester
Yorkshire Union Hunt 6
Wrexham
Newmarket S. 0.
NOVE:
Worcester AuLi

Leicester 22
Manchester Autumn
Newmarket F. O.

IBER.

Holywell Hunt
Richmond
Newmarket Houghton 25

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FRIGHTFUL TORNADO.

Saturday, the 24th of January, 1852, will never
be forgotten by the present generation of the people
of Nenagh. The whole night the rain descended in
torrents, and at nine this morning one of the most
foightful hurricanes ever witnessed swept through a
portion of the town, carrying away the entire roofs
of houses and several chimneys at the same time. The
frightful scene did not last more than one minute;
had it continued another the entire town of Nenagh
would have been a heap of ruins. Alter the storm
ceased groups of people were to be seen, gazing in
amazement at the wreck before them. The entire
roof of she police barrack, a new and substantial
building, has been wholly swept away. Had it oc-
curred at an early period of the morning there is no
doubt but many of the policemen would have lost
their lives, as several of the men were in the habit of
sleeping in the room beneath. Never did Nenagh
present such a dismal appearance as it did this morn-
ing; every pane of glass and sashes smashed to
pieces in several houses, the blinds in some pulled
down, shutters closed, streets strewn with fragments
of timber and immense quantities of slates; in
fact, Nenagh looked as if a victorious army had passed
through our town and had put the inhabitants to the
sword. A few minutes before the tornado made its
appearance a heavy wind and strong rain prevailed.
This firightful hurricane resembled the noise of distant
thunder, and whatever it came in contact with it
levelled to the ground, or swept before it with in-
describable power and velocity. It is a very curious
circumstance that it pursued its terrific course
through Castle-street and a part of Summer-hill only,
where it ceased, after totally unroofing the house of
Captain Baldwin. The inhabitants of BArrack-street
and many other localities did not hear or know any-
thing about this tornado until they appeared in the
street, when they were horror-struck at the spectacle
presented to their view. It is with the utmost de-
light we have to announce that no life has been lost.
The dwelling of Mr. Bolton, solicitor, was made a
frightful wreck of. The roof was completely blown
off, and the windows, together with all the
glass, sashes, &c., were shattered to pieces. The
rectory, the residence of the Rev. Mr. Wolse-
ley, had about thirty panes of glass broken,
one window smashed in pieces, and the roof broken
in several places. Several others suffered severely,
the roof and windows of each house being more or
less injured. Mr. Jones's coach factory suffered se-
verely ; the back premises were smashed in, and in
the fall completely destroyed a valuable gig. The
roof of Mrs. Charles's house was broken by a huge
beam of timber from the police barrack ; and the
back premises of Mr. Bull, clerk of the union, were
completely riddled. Mr. Bolton's garden wall was
levelled at one side, and apple and pear trees were torn
up. In fact, we may say that numbers of houses ex-
perienced very serious damage. As an instance of
the power of this dreadful storm, we may mention the
fact that the mail coachs,wwephticaherwosass
tooptihoesitoethßerruanidde-
ley's at the time, was
of the street,
, and very near being driven in through
Mr. Clancy 's shop window. The sudden fright and
alarm which this memorable tornado occasioned will
not for some days be subdued. An immediate calm-
ness, accompanied by heavy rain, occurred when th
hurricane terminated.—Nenagh Guardian.

TURNER, THE PAINTER, AT HIS
STUDIES.
One day an invitation was given me by two
friends to run along the coast to Borough or Bur
Island, in the corner of Bigbury Bay, within the
Bolt-head. There was to be a winding-up for the
season of a fishing account. The invitation was to a
regale of hot lobsters; the fish, just taken from the
sea, were plunged into boiling water, and thus dressed
served up. Turner was invited to be of the party.
The coast scenery was just to his taste; he was an
excellent sailor. Captain Nicols, a fine old weather-
beaten tar--long gone to his account—owned a Dutch
boat, a famous sea-going craft, with the usual out-
riggers. Turner, and an artist named Demaria,
Captain Nicols, and a military officer in a new suit of
scarlet, made four of the party, which numbered six
in all. There was also a stout sailor boy to assist in
managing the boat.• The morning did not look
very propitious : there was a heavy swell rolling
into the Sound, and the wind rising. The sea
had that dirty perturbed appearance which is some-
times the forerunner as well as the follower of a
gale. We worked out into the Sound, where the
breakwater had been just commenced, keeping
towards Penlee and Rame-head, to obtain an offing.
As soon as we saw we were clear of the nearer head-
lands on the east, we got well off the land, and whileoff
still running to the eastward the sea rose higher.
part
r of
Stoke's Point it became very boisterous,s btuhtaouraboat
mounted the ridges bravely. he :s
afsu in
further up, are
the Channel, not broken so much
generally
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Atlantic. 'Turner
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fine I—fine ! Deniaria was very ill, and
the soldier was groaning,
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culated to myself—for sitting side by side—
art driven out of his head;
'boat. Indeed, he wanted
ballast in the bottom o t
his scarlet coat,
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and spoiling
he not been withheld.
to fling himself overboard,eandsawtOwualdtchhaivnegdtohnee s o had
Turner waves
and the headlands, " like Atlas unrete sea reamb oved."b Whenk
we were off the island, and saw
upon it, there seemed no possibility of our landing,
the line of white surf being connected and unbroken.
There was a river called the Avon within the island,
running up the main; we made towards it, and get-
ting
under the lee of the island, landed without much
difficulty, with a little wetting. All this time I
could see Turner silently glancing over the boisterous
scene. The little island and solitary house or hut
upon it, the bay in the bight of which they lay, and
the Bolt-head stretching darkly to seaward, against
the precipitous rocky shore of which the sea broke
furiously—all formed a striking scene, and Turner
thought so. While the unfortunate shell fish were
preparieg to be seethed I missed Turner, and found
him with a pencil and small book near the summit of
the island. I observed, too, he was writing rather
than drawing. The tumultuous waves boiling be-
low were seen to great advantage from thence. I
imagined he had observed something novel in their
appearance, but this, whatever it might be, I did not
com pre hend.—Fraser's Magazine.

PROFESSORSHIP OF POETRY AT OXFORD.—The
tion to the Professorship of Poetry is fixed for next Wed-
nesday fortnight, viz., February 18, at two o'clock, And
not on the 4th, ea annotutced in a local paper•

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Feb. 2.
The sittings of this Court, for the January ad-
journed session, were resumed this morning, at the
Guildhall, Westminster, by adjournment from Clerken-
well. Thy-re are eights -one prisoners for tan.), of
whom seventy-two are charged with larceny, and nine
wish misdemeanour.

The ASSISTANT JUDGE briefly charged the grand
jury

Patrick Burke, 20, convicted at the last session of
picking pocket,, was brought up for judgment. It
was proved that he was an old offender, and the
Court sentenced him to be transported for ten years.
Benry Beeson, 32, was found guilty of having
stolen a purse containing a 5/. note, four sovi-reigw,
and other moneys, from the person of Marianna
Webster, the wife of Henry Webster, at the entrance
of the Haymarket Theatre, at the conclusion of the
performance on the evening of the 16th of January.
The prisoner was defended by Mr. Huddlestone
and Mr. Ribton, and the defence set up was mistaken
identity.
The ASSISTANT. JUDGE said he had no doubt the
prisoner was a swell-mobsman, and had there been
anything against him the Court would have sentenced
him to transportation.
Sentenced to nine months' hard labour.

James Turner, 35, was indicted for stealing 4811)4.
of lead, value 9.., the property of the Governor. and
Company of the Chelsea Waterworks.
Mr. Douglas prosecuted ; Mr. H. Giffard appeared
for the prisoner.
The prisoner was a stoker in the employ of the
Chelsea Waterworks Company, and on the evening
of the day named in the indictment he was stopped on
his way home by an officer, who desired to know
what he had in a bundle that he bad under his arm.
It proved to be a pig of lead, bearing the stamp of the
company on it, and in his possession were found several
keys, one of which was a duplicate of the key of the
store-room of the works, from which the lead was
stolen. He had no right whatever to that key.
When the officer questioned him about the lead, he
said it belonged to his master, a tinman, who carried
on business in the neighbourhood.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and recom-
mended the prisoner to mercy on account of the, good
character he had previously borne.
The Court sentenced him to four months' hard
labour.

Joseph Raseiborski, 43, a Polish refugee, pleaded
guilty to an indictment in which he was charged with
stealing a hat and other articles, value U. 10s., the
property of the Rev. Edmund Mortlock, from the
residence of Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart, M.P., 6,
Stratford-place, Oxford-street.
It appeared that on the evening of the sth of Ja-
nuary, the Rev. E. Mortlock dined with Lord Dud-
ley Stuart, and at about seven o'clock the prisoner
went to the house with a letter addressed to his Lord-
ship. It was sent in, and the prisoner was informed
that an answer would be returned in the morning.
He then went away, taking with him Mr. Mortlock's
hat, scarf, and gloves, which were lying in the hall.
Information was given to Horsford, the officer of the
Mendicity Society, and the prisoner was taken into
custody in the Strand. He then admitted that he had
taken the property.
The Learned JUDGE said he found that the pri-
soner had been summarily convicted in August, 1850,
and in August, 1851, on each of which occasions he
was sentenced to three months' imprisonment ; and
also that he had been committed for three months
for fraudulently obtaining money as a charitable con-
tribution.
The Secretary to the Literary Association of the
Friends of Poland stated that, in January last year,
the prisoner had three months for stealing a coat from
Lord Dudley Stuart, and that he had suffered six
years' imprisonment in France for forgery.
The Court sentenced him to one year's imprison-
ment with hard labour.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,
MANSION-HOUSE.
William Cochrane was brought before Alderman
Cubitt, in the custody of Deady, of the detective
police, charged with having obtained goods from
several mercantile houses under false pretences.
Mr. Joseph Bennet, of the firm of Magnay and
Bennet, stationers, of Thames-street, stated that the
prisoner obtained stationery at the warehouse, and im-
mediately afterwards disposed of it to a party who
happened to be a customer of the firm, and that the
goods were lying on the counter of the customer when
the witness went into the shop to make inquiries about
them.
The officer not having had time to collect the pro-
per materials of each of the variety of cases, the pri-
soner was remanded for a week.
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Brown and Smith, seamen, were charged by Mr.
Pelham, the solicitor, upon the part of the captains of
two vessels, with having deserted for heavy wages,
and with having thereby caused great expense and
inconvenience to the ships they had abandoned.
Captain Black, of the Free Trader, trading to
Callao, proved that one of the prisoners had engaged
with him to go the voyage and return, and that the
seaman had with others abandoned the vessel in her
great emergency in that port.
Captain Myers, of the Wallace, proved that the
other prisoner bad played the same most injurious
trick upon him.
The expense occasioned by the defection of the two
prisoners merely for the purchase of substitutes for
the voyage back amounted, it was stated by Mr. Pel-
ham, to 621.; and that gentleman also mentioned
that the captains bad lost, by the desertion of eight
men, who left them st Callao, the sum of 1971., inde-
pendently of the charge for demurrage and expenses
necessarily arising out of the conduct of those who
had so basely abandoned their duty.
Alderman CUBITT asked the prisoners whether
they had anything like a defence to offer ?_One of
them said he objected to his captain on account of
the disposition of that functionary to encourage fight-
ing amongst the men ; and the other said he was ac-
tually afraid of going to the bottom, the captain was
so desperately attached to strong liquors.
Alderman CUBITT said the cases were both ex-
tremely bad, and in his opinion the Act did not give
the magistrate the power of inflicting punishment
commensurate with the offence frequently committed
by seamen engaged to work vessels. As he had not
heard that the prisoners had been guilty of any former
crime, he would limit the punishment to six weeks'
imprisonment with bard labour.
The prisoners, upon leaving the bar, said they
would not be prevented by the sentence fIOM rPpeat-
ing the conduct which the Alderman deprecated.
Mr. Pelham said, after the judgment was passed,
that one of the prisoners had had the impudence to
arrest the vessel for wages, under an Admiralty
process.