The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-11 00:00:00

NEW CUSTOMS' REGULATIONS.

The Board of Customs have considered the regula-
tion by which free goods and flour have been allowed
to be examined. and passed overside from the importing
vessel in. London, under certain regulations, and being
of opinion that additional facilities and dispatch might
be afforded to the trade of the port of London, without
risk to the revenue, by the extension of the privilege
to other goods, and the examination and passing of
the same being placed under the superintendence
of the Waterguard Department, the inspectors of
the rive! and tide surveyors taking care that no
article liable to duty be passed as free under a wrong
description, the Board have therefore directed, as an
experimental measure, that the articles enumerated in
the list annexed to this minute be examined and
passed by the officers of the Waterguard Department,
whether in the docks or in the river, provided the oils
be imported in casks, and the goods in bulk or in
bags, subject to the regulations and conditions ap-
proved by the minutes of the 16th of April and 19th
of May last ; the former with respect to free goods,
and the latter to goods liable to duty, and upon
which the duty has been paid, it being understood
that the importer is to be at liberty, whenever he may
think fit, to send his goods to an approved landing-
place for examination by the landing officers, accord-
ing to the present practice. '[he following is the
list of free goods and goods subject to low duties,
the latter being da y-paid, which may be examined
and delivered out of charge by the officers of the
Waterguard Department under the above minute :
Aanboylia-wood, animals (living), antimony ore and
regulus, asphaltum, bacon, berate, hark of all sorts,
bar-wood, basket-rods (peeled, not exceeding three
feet in circumference at the band), basket-rods (un-
peeled), beans (kidney or French), beef-wood, berries
of all sorts, birds (viz., singing), black wood, bones,
boxwood, Brazil-wood, Braziletto-wood, brimstone
(unrefined), hullrushes, camwood, canes (not mounted,
painted, or otherwise ornamented), caoutchouc, cedar-
wood, chalk (unmanufactured), cherry-wood (being
furniture wood), cobalt ore, coir rope and junk
(old and new, cut into lengths not exceeding
three feet each), copper ore (regulus, old or
in bars or plates), cork, corn, catch, divi-
divi, down, ebony, feathers (undressed), flax
and tow, flour, furniture woods (not enume-
rated), fustic, galls, glue, glue clippings or waste of
any kind (fit only for making glue), greaves for dogs,
greaves of tallow, guano, gum in bags, gutta percha
(not in packages), gunstocks in the rough (of wood),
gypsum, hair of all sorts, hay, heath for brushes,
iron,
horns, hempseed, hides, hoofs of cattle, hoops of
horns, horn tips, and pieces of horn, ice, iron bars (un-
wrought), iron (old, cast, and old broken), iron (ore
of), iron (pig of), king wood, lead ore, lead (pig),
vitas, linseed, logwood, live creatures (illustrative of
natural history), mahogany, manganeze ore, manures
(unenumerated), meat (fresh), mother-of-pearl shells,
New
marble, moss, Myrabolane berries, lispum
Zealand
wood, Nicaragua wood, nickel ore, nitre (cubic
nitre), nuts (coker), nuts (chestnuts), oakum, oil
(olive, palm, fish, seed of all kinds, seed cake),
olive wood, ore (unenumerated), palmetto thatch,
potatoes, purple wood, red wood or Guinea wood,
rosewood, rapeseed, sapanwood, salt, . saltpetrune,
sassafras, Santa Maria wood,
dressed), stone in lumps not in any manner
skins (-
hewn, ditto (lime), ditto (flints), ditto (pebble),
ditto (in blocks), shaped or rough scalped,
ditto (slate in rough blocks or slabs), ditto (marble,
in rough blocks or slabs), ditto (mill, burr, dog stones,
rough, shaped, or hewn), sweetwood, sumach, spelter,
tar, terra Japonica, teeth (elephants), tin ore, tulip
wood, turmeric, turpentine (not of greater value than
15s. per cwt.), valonia, walnut wood, whale fins, wool
(sheep and cotton), yeast, den zebra wood.

THE THUNDER STORM IN WORCES-
TERSHIRE.
The deluge which spread over so large a tract of
the fertile vale of the Teme, as reported in The Sun
of Tuesday last, having now subsided, the disastrous
effects of the fearful storm are apparent. Of the
crops, the hop yards, in which the vale abounds, have
suffered most, the corn crops, with the exception of
the beans, having been got in before the storm. Some
of the drowned cattle have been carried down the
Temo into tho Severn, and thence as far as the Bristol
Channel, where the rotting carcases have been picked
up. The great force of the storm appears to have
been felt at Martley, Clifton-on-Teme, Supey, and
the district thereabouts, north-west of Worcester,
which is very hilly, and where the Teme runs in a
lovely valley surrounded by hills cultivated to their
tops. Netley Court, once the residence of her late
Majesty the Queen Dowager, is situate amidst these
picturesque hills. At the Devil's Leap, about a mile
and a half from Martley, a cottage belonging to a Mr.
Sprague was swept away. The torrents, verging upon
gardens and roads, completely washed the latter and
the produce of the former away in many places. At
Brockhill, near Shelsley, a hop yard—poles, hops,
and all—belonging to Mr. Dance, was almost en-
tirely washed into the Teme. At Hennick-mill,
near Worcester, a rick of hay of about twelve tons
weigh, was moved a yard from its original position.
At Doddenham, on the Tame, the rush of water broke
into a cottage of a man named Beavan, and the family
only escaped by a miracle. At Broadway, in the
same neighbourhood, thirty-two sheep, depastured
near the river, were washed away and drowned.
They were the property of Mrs. Davies, a lady who
had been ill for two years, and who in the midst of the
fury of the storm herself expired. Mrs. Harrison, a
widow of Broadway, also lost 24 sheep, and had much
of her furniture injured and destroyed. Twenty-four
sheep belonging to Mr. Williams, of Doddenham, a
magistrate, were with much difficulty saved. A fu-
neral procession which was returning from Whit-
bourne Church was overtaken by the storm, and had
to wade waist deep in water. Leigh brook rose more
than twenty feet above the ordinary level. At Alpeck
several tons of earth fell into the turnpike road from
an eminence, and blocked it up. A similar slip of 100
tons occurred at Cruskill, and a third not far off. The
body of the woman drowned at Bridges Stone, as re-
ported on Tuesday, has not yet been found. The
cottage was scattered in fragments all over the sur-
rounding neighbourhood.

THE WATCHERS' REPORT ON THE
CASE AT SHOTTISHAAL

The committee appointed to investigate into the
case of Elizabeth Squirrell, who for the past five
months is reported to have lived without food or
nourishment of any kind, have just completed the
report of their labours. This voluminous document,
after treating of the facts which have already ap-
peared in The Sun, gives the following additional
particulars :
" From the statement of the various members of
the committee, it appears the girl and her parents
frequently expressed a desire that the watch should
be shortened, on the ground that she might have
the ensuing Sabbath to herself for meditation and
prayer. The watch was commenced by Mr. G.
Tovell and Mr. W. H. B. Webster, a surgeon,
who experienced some little hostile feeling when they
presented themselves at the house, and announced
the errand upon which they had came, their pre-
sence producing agitation and excitement. Even-
tually, they were allowed to remain, but the father
steadily refused to leave them in complete charge, or
to allow the bed upon which the girl lay to be re-
moved from the corner of the room. The room has
two doors, and person% were allowed to have access,
so that the attention of the watchers was liable to
iabed
repeated interruptions. Desirous of giving as little
annoyance as possible, the committee suffered the
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parents to communicate with their daughter in almost
alleged any way, and with as much frequency as they re-
quested. They even permitted them to raise her up
tg—etifeieesoffiee which was ofte❑ performed. They
also allowed the girl to have a parasol in use, day and
night, because it was pleaded, notwithstanding her
indulgences
blindtness, that from her exquisite susceptibi-
lity,
wtw,auiyits distressing to her, particularly at
committee state state that they failed to
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circumstance occurred which did not exciteewatch
sus-
picion at the time, but to
mentioned. On the last morning of
the watch, when the R.-v. J. Whitby was present,
the girl awoke from an, apparent sleep in extreme agi-
tation,fb,aecetns
just
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peculiar noise
wassitting •
with heaving of the chest accompanied by a
up, exclaiming, ' Oh, my
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placed therein the end of a towel, as he said, the
lock-jaw should return. The towel was very soon
removed, but no symptoms
nor was any further allusio❑ made to them.
" In addition to the statements which have already
appeared in reference to the discovery made by the
nurses, they also found a white handkerchief under
the person of the girl wet. A handkerchief just
I like it had been put into her hand in the course