The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-30 00:00:00

VAL NEWS.

Privy Seal—Lord Minto

Honie Secretary—Sir G. Grey.
Colonial—Lord Grey.
First Lord of the Admiralty—Sir F. Baring.
President of the Board of Control—Lord Broughton.
Lancasterian Chancellor—Earl of Carlisle.
Secretary-at-War—Lord Panmure.
Postmaster-General—Marquis of Clanricarde.

First Commissioner of Public Works—Lord Seymour.
From what we hear, the grumbling felt among the
Whigs at this illiberal treatment, is likely to break out
before long in a manner which will be unpleasant both
to Lord Aberdeen and Lord John Russell.—Morni*j
Advertiser.

MR. GLADSTONE AND THE UNIVERSITY OP

OXFORD.

The following letter has been forwarded to us for pub-
lication. We congratulate Mr. Gladstone upon Arch-
deacon Denison's opposition :
" East Brent, Weston-super-Mare,
Christmas-day, 1852.
" My dear Gladstone,—The day on which I make this
communication to you adds more than I can express in
words to my deep pain and to my sense of responsibility
in making it.
" After a week of anxious suspense, the fact of the
existence of a Coalition Government—i. e., of a Govern-
ment in which you are joined with Lor John Russell
(with Lord Lansdowne in the Cabinet*), may be said to
be ascertained.

"I wish to use few words where every one I write is
so bitterly distressing to me, and must, I cannot doubt,
be little less so to yourself and to many others whom I
respect and love.

"I have then to state to you, as one of your consti-
tuents, that from this time I can place no confidence in
you as a representative of the University of Oxford, or
as a public man.

" I have read and re-read your published letter to R.
Phillimore. lam obliged to say that it appears to me to
be a matter of no importance at all, and quite beside the-
question, whether the concert,' or combination,' or
coalition was effected previous to, or at the time of, or
subsequent to, the late division.
" I reserve to myself the right of forwarding this letter
for publication by Tuesday's post, and also any reply
which you may make to it. I will only say, by way of
anticipation, that any amount of guarantee which may
have been taken by you in accepting office in the new
Government for non-aggression upon the Church of
England, or for the concession of her just claims, is, in
my judgment, absolutely valueless when weighed against
the fact of the coalition.

"Faithfully and affectionately yours,
" GEORGE A. DENISON,
"Archdeacon of Taunton

"The Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, M.P."

"* Sir William Molesworth's acceptance of office, with
a seat in the Cabinet, presents the coalition' under one
more aspect."

TIIE GREAT AND PERPLEXING CAB
QUESTION.

It appears that, in consequence of the somewhat un-
seemly differences of opinion of the metropolitan police
magistrates as to the construction of the law in reference
to cabs admitted to, and taking passengers from, the
various railway stations, the opinions of the late Attor-
ney and Solicitor Generals (Sir Frederick Thesiger and
Sir Fitzroy Kelly) have been taken on the point. lc
will be recollected that Mr. A'Beckett, of Southwark
Police-court, has given various judgments against the
Brighton and South-Eastern Railway Company, or rather
against the drivers and owners of cabs privileged to go
into their stations, for illegally plying for hire at a place
other than the stands appointed for that purpose
by the commissioners of police. It also appears
that Mr. Combe, the second magistrate at Southwark,
was inclined to a similar opinion ; and Mr. Hammill, of
Worship-street, not only convicted a cabman plying at
the Eastern Counties Railway, but so alarmed the direc-
tors of that line, that they actually for a short time re-
fused the admission of any cab on their private property,
and the numerous passengers coming to town were
obliged to turn into the street and pick up vehicles as
they could. This, however, was found to be so serious
an evil that the cabs were soon brought back, but the
experiment proved not only the utility, but the absolute
necessity for the present system. Cases were brought
before Mr. Long, at Marylebone, and Mr. Tyrwhitt
at the Clerkenwell Police-court, in which penalties
were sought to be recovered for similar offences as those
upon which Messrs. A'Becket and Hammill had con-
victed, but the former magistrates were of opinion that
railway stations were not within the meaning of the act
of Parliament, and, after an elaborate judgment, dismissed
the summonses. In consequence of these decisions, the
opinions of the late Attorney and Solicitor Generals have
been taken, and they, it is said, are in accordance with
those expressed by Messrs. Long and Tyrwhitt—namely,
that railway stations are not places comprehended
within the act of Parliament under which the commis-
sioners of police are authorised to select and appoint
cab-stands. There is no doubt, however, that the ,dif-
ferent railway companies will make assurance doubly
sure by going to Parliament and obtaining a special act
on the subject.

MANSLAUGHTER IN SPITALFIELDS.—Yesterday Mr.
Payne, the coroner, held an inquest at St. Bartholo-
mew's Hospital, on the body of Daniel O'Brien, aged
45, who died in that institution, a few hours after ad-
mission, from injuries received at a house in Spitalfields.
Dennis Murray said he lived in Hampshire-court,
Whitechapel, and was a skindresser. On Tuesday
night, between nine and ten o'clock, he was in a public-
house in Great Pearl-street, Spitalfields, but he could
not tell the sign of the house. The deceased and a good
many other people were there in the tap-room. There
were some pots on the table. Robert Nevill took up
one of the pots, threw off his coat, and then struck the
deceased two violent blows with the pot on the
head. O'Brien fell to the ground with the first blow,
and while he was on the ground Nevill gave him
the second. Both O'Brien and Nevill were sober at
the time. Witness ran off to the station-house for a
policeman, and on his return to the house he could
not find Nevill, and in the meantime O'Brien had
been taken to the hospital. There had been no quarrel
previous to the blow being struck. Mr. George William
Callender, house surgeon, said the deceased was brought
to the hospital at about ten o'clock on Tuesday night.
He was immediately attended to, but died on Wednesday
morning. He had made a post mortem examination, and
found a large quantity of effused blood on the external
part of the scalp, with a fracture of the right parietal
bone. Below the scalp there was a great effusion of
blood, pressing on the brain. These injuries were the
cause of death. Nevill said he had been in the house
from three in the afternoon. A man got up and said if
they did not keep order he would chuck the best man
out of the room, upon which he (Nevill) said there was
no necessity for fighting, as he would put them to rights
directly. Upon this a woman made a blow at him with
a pot, but he stooped his head and the deceased must
have got it. The jury returned a verdict of man-
slaughter against Robert Nevill, and be was committed
to Newgate.

THE RECENT HURRICANE'•

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Accounts continue to pour in from all Parts
coast detailing the dreadful effects, both on sea, and land
t,
of the hurricane of Christmas-day and Sundal last,
adding enormously to the long list of catastrophes
appeared in yesterday's journal. It is gratifying
tode ra
serve, however, that they report a considerable ni e
in the ssrie
tion of the weather. The wind remains
quarter, S.S.W. (in which direction it has been for se
many weeks), but a heavy sea generally prevails 31°13g
the whole range of coast.
In the Swin, and almost at the mouth of the Thslliest'
the hurricane was as severely felt as in any other
For upwards of 48 hours a tremendous sea existed. 'e
t
Mouse light-ship was swept away by its full' and
havoc occasioned among the coasters and small Craft' 3nl,
a large ship named the William and Mary, fans leirrieoo
driven on to the Gunfleet Sands. She was between a
and 700 tons burden, barque rigged, and in ballast, Ihtl/.0
to London. Encountering the gale of SundaY
the. Swin, she brought up with two anchors, and s°Fnei
mauled until between eight and nine o'clock on the
lowing (Monday) morning, when a fearful blast of tiiel
hurricane drove her from her moorings on to the °dill,'
about three miles above the Trinity beacon. In vain
the crew try to get her off, the heavy sea carried
further on to the shoal, when she fell over eil brae
broadside. The position of the poor fellows on b
then became the most painful, the boats being StovelP;
Te
indeed could they have been launched, their weatherh
such a surf was quite impossible. The crew took to t s
In
mainmast rigging, to wliich they lashed themselves.
this situation, exposed to the violent lashing of 01. je stem
and undergoing the greatest suffering, they rernaill'A the
whole of the day. Night set in with all its horrerg'f.e
poor fellows' sufferings became more severe, exPee'lt°
as they did every moment that the ship -would go :a
pieces. About ten o'clock some smacks came ePtin'lll e
in consequence of the terrific surf which Was the
could only approach within 200 or 300 Yards, '
- the'
ror, However the smacks, the Traveller and he
ror, both of Colchester, contrived to cruise aboilir
of their
spot, and by dint of great exertion on the part
crews, they, about 3 o'clock in the morning, e°°,l.e
plished the preservation of the poor creatures, lib:. wrY.
clinging to the rigging, including the master gr' -Teoir
As may be imagined, they were in a very exhauste-t;
dition when got on board the smacks. They Were
on to Brightlingsea, near Colchester, where WY ;,'.64,
landed, and received that attention which they requp; of
The ship has since gone to pieces. The occurren-tero
other disasters during the tempest, higher up the ea's'a
coast have been recorded, and between Yarn:l°ubees
Flamborough Head much mischief appears to Pave
done the coasters. f aces'
The extent of disasters in the Channel is not Ye" ship
rately known. The ill-fated German emigrant, 0°
Louisa Emilie, driven ashore near DungenuetLi
Sunday night, has become a total wreck. She 11-06
tween 60 and 70 German emigrants on boe'rci. ,acer
number who met with a watery grave have been-toct
tained to amount altogether to about 40. Shce,s
opposite the No. 3 Dungenness Coast-guard Sts her
It is supposed that the master imagined himself Bing
off the English coast than he really was, and that
AS IC
tie
leh
suddenly overtaken by one of those frightful V
prevailed during the night, she was carried Witbqb
mendous force on to the shore of the west bay
posi'
coast guard had previously observed the peril°ust celit
tion of the ship, but could not by any means P-e
the catastrophe which followed. The Inoreenttrsel
ship struck, blue lights were fired, in order ton
the notice of those on shore and to obtain asst 004
Happily for them, the officers of the coast '6O!
were on the alert. The captain and crew lost 110 ilea
in sending a life buoy adrift, which quieklY ire t°l
the shore. The coast guard then attached life
it, and signalising the wreck, they were hauled old
made fast, by which means 41 persons were ss'v
eluding the mate and four of the crew. Ijniltritilfoll'fii°.
at this moment the ship yielded to the feariu'ael"
the surf, she commenced to break up, and the 1A .qb
-
the unhappy beings who remained by her perishe`,:i st";
exertions of the chief boatmen of the Coast 011A3't
tion, together with a Mr. Croskey, conneet..,%-
Lloyds' agent, and the boatmen of Lydd, of :4
the poor creatures from the wreck, are spoke
cos
very high terms. Some of the survivors were itiv wer
plete state of nudity when brought ashore. °IL' 46
removed to Lydd, and the inhabitants of the t°",,,Del r"
them as comfortable as they could. A large ne.t,
disabled vessels have brought up at Deal, Rainsgs:;;ll;
and while the storm was at its height a large frlY
the Kitchen, from Antwerp for Liverpool, dr°.„.
her moorings and went on the Brake Sand. i'O'rjiA,
extraordinary circumstance she got liberated 'r-
shoal, and being nearly full of water, went sar',v•
crew abandoned her, but she was ot hold of 'is' I,.€olif'
Margate boatmen, who contrived tog get her into b‘a.Sl'l
The wreck which we briefly reported Yesteit;e7,,
having happened within a short distance of 13°'.
has been ascertained to have been a barque, suPP-,ia
Wanderer, of London, and that every soul Wien°
her perished.
Lower doWn towards the mouth of the Cl't'lline'J.
the Cornish coast, much havoc was occasione",
emigrant ships, both bound for Australia, 113:,111 fof1„11
providential escape. They encountered the i'-e.re:bre
the hurricane, and for a time were placed in the,: `l,,
peril. One of the vessels was the Patrician, tl"
commander, bound to Sydney from London• j';:esi);
ship was the Sophia Moffatt, Mr. Bell, nmste,,i'e `.lO
left the Thames a short time since for .A.delni.o ti
had nearly made the entrance of the Channel
et Q
encountered the gale. The sea broke over ;c,+4
great violence, carrying away stanchions,
washing overboard three men, who pc/481170:10'110
much difficulty she contrived to run for ."eei'
which she safely gained. Numerous vessels h'''.o.t'
been lost or seriously damaged on this range of ° ;10
Many losses took place during the storm on tilereijr
west coast, besides occasioning extensive de.n°lP.ll
inland. A vessel called the Nuova Fortuna, frol,
pool, bound to the Mediterranean, was carried
the northward of Port Lorgan, Shanor, °II 01. 41
morning, and the greater part of the crew drovv°o,
the vicinity of Crookhaven, the Calder, from 0,0
for Liverpool, was °
driven from her moorings Oil+i t° 0
of rocks to the north of the coast-guard s°-
became a wreck.
tend
In that portion of Morecombe Bay which 0
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wards Ulverstone, the hurricane appears to 11°0
great amount of mischief. Several vessels ''''ol; of
ashore in the bay, but no list has been obtajoe'
names.

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A ship, called the Reine des Agnes, was 11°i,
Christmas day, a few miles to the eastward of 340.0
and "Lloyd's List" contains numerous other
„ti

on that range of coast.

All the reports agree that the hurricane Wit'
greater destruction to life and property than

occurred in January, 1839. 04
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PLYMOUTH, DEC. 29.—The sea has carried - coy:
a quarter of a mile of sea wall of the West 0.
Railway, at Marazion, and destroyed th:he
Fifteen bodies have been washed ashore frora sp
of the Ocean Queen ; one was that of a blacl' r;e10
inquest is being held on the bodies. Two /e°,o
just been brought up in the Sound, with 10ss
all their upper works.

refit
CORONER'S INQUEST.—Last night Mr. • ar ,
75--vcr Ps'lliA7"
an inquest on the body of Charlotte RoffeY):',4.4ol
the Falcon Tavern, Upper Thames-street. ',ware, rte.{
that the deceased had been spending the Chirfftfe'l,,,o
a daughter, who resided at Mitcham, an a, ov't f 0
taking of a hearty dinner, on Tuesday afterna%boyo
by the omnibus to town. She got hoine,.„t De el
o'clock, and appeared in very good health,
I";illgil°o`''
seven and eight o'clock she complained of I,‘ jile 0,,,
in her chest. Her niece, who lived in the Odor rci
obtained some brandy, which she drank„anciA inc P.,
some peppermint and water. She contina'" 0. A
but refused to allow a doctor to be sent for.lib srtifl
for some time previously been trouoblheder:::etaDbieders';
n
Her niece remained in attendance up
eleven and twelve o'clock she discovered th„ne 5 to 4
was dead. She then went to Mr. May's, -"1"rooeto v,
who promptly attended, and that gentleman 1(1) tio 0 5,
life to be extinct. When he was questieen ive 13 ii .y
cause of her death, he stated that he could berry 51
nion. She had never complained of paine.,,,i-brO Det,
She had sustained an injury to her leg in qbereti",4"
from a mail cart, but had got well of it. r trey
no suspicion against any person of imprePe„ visl of
the jury returned a verdict of—" Died by t' e
n i
of God." 1/4;011,••
A dreadful scene took place last week at loper ppej
Toulon. A convict named Demoulin, aeen9beiuiloBt)
other prisoners of having informed ag.aiot 018 v 13"0,
ing been concerned in a plan for escaping% , thel,-,sfliill
denied the charge, and, after some bicker:n(7i the,;lolfe;
returned to their places on a bench in er last 1?e PI,
There the quarrel recommenced, and 3'oolor:fort/
stabbed the other in the face with, a shoe revee'd I.lie
the adjutant of the ba,ane, hurryingPelenf.,'l3, JP,
mischief, was stabbed by him in the able Oli ro'
ther officer received a deep wound in tpeeloaooliff,
sight of the blood appeared to excite lied ibel',, l)0
i
perceiving the man to whom he was elni 01' ,sea"cor
him with an air of horror, struck him —a to pr.',„0,,,
as well as two or three others who trie oy.ell Ore
shedding more blood; then, fearing to he, hos: At 1,11
tody for his sanguinary acts, he stabbe%oo !, lee
edly, crying out—" I will never be liti; beA"
one of the blows happening to pierce
dead across the bench.—Qa/ignani.