The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-27 00:00:00

rents, William and Ann, of the possession of the said
child. Another count stated her intent to be to steal
the apparel.

Ann Harvey deposed that she lives at Bromley-le-
Bow, and has a child four years old, named William.
About half-past one on the day in question he was
playing near her dwelling, from which period to the
hour of seven next morning she never saw him till at
the Bow station-house, but he was not denuded of any
of his apparel.
Eliza Dyson, of White Horse-court, Mile-End-
road, stated, that she met the prisoner about 7 o'clock
on the evening of the day in question. The little boy
(William Harvey) was with her, and crying very much.
Witness was induced to inquire about the child, and
the prisoner said it was her brother's who lived at Brom-
ley. Before that her answer to the question was,
" What's that to you ?"
A female of the name of Pearson saw the prisoner
and child together near Bow Church, Middlesex.
The prisoner, when called upon for her defence, said
she found the child astray at Bow-bridge.
Mrs. Harvey was re-called. She said that Bow-bridge
was two miles from her dwelling, and the child was
never known to wander from home.

The Jury immediately found the prisoner guilty.
The prisoner was again indicted for that she, on the
4th of March last, was convicted of stealing a child
four years of age, when, in consequence of a repre-
sentation in her favour, her imprisonment was of short
duration.

The evidence to confirm the certificate having been
heard, she was again declared as the person formerly
convicted.

The. COMMON SERGEANT told the prisoner she was
an habitual child-stealer, and if inquiry was made, per-
haps ber guilt would become more apparent. It was
hardly possible to name a case which caused more dis-
tress in a family than the offence of child-stealing. The
sentence was that she be transported for seven years.

TREMENDOUS STORM.

About half-past four o'clock on Tuesday last, this
town was visited by a most tremendous storm of
thun-
der, lightning, and rain, which continued without inter-
mission for upwards of an hour and a half. The com-
mon sewer in the side burst in two or three places,
hurling the pavement along with great. violence, the
water joining with what came down the street from the
high part of the town, rushed down to and over the quay
like a cataract, sinking a wherry that was laid at the
Lead Stairs, and filling the cellars of Messrs. Surtees
and Co., wine merchants, at the foot of the Butcher
Bank. Two girls, who attempted to cross the street,
were knocked down by the force of the torrent, and one
of them nearly drowned. There is scarcely a part of
the town where the water has not found its way into
some of the buildings. The battlements of the bridge
at Ouseburn was knocked down to allow the accumula-
tion of water to escepe, and a wall on the Leazes was
levelled for several yards. The barracks, too, have suf-
fered severely ; and we shall be justified in saying, that
such a storm, for the time it continued, Las not been
witnessed here for many years. In the Close there has
been much mischief done by the water entrringshops and
houses. On the Castle-stairs several shops were filled.
The water passed down the Tuthill-stairs with such force
that it burst through the foundation ofa wall into the yard
of the George the Fourth public house, carrying with
it some tons of soil, &c. Several of the bottle ware-
houses of Messrs. Cookson were filled with water, and
many of the private houses were here completely inun-
dated ; in some the furniture was floated, and in one a
cradle with a child in it was swimming about. The
lightning entered a house in the Close, passing through
the roof, but did no further damage than breaking
the ceiling. In the kitchen of Mr. Small's house, Han-
over-square, the water was 5 feet 7 inches high, and
his aged mother, who happened to be in the kitchen at
the time it rushed in, was with difficulty rescued. At
Low Elwick several gardens were damaged, particularly
Mr. Parker's at the Shot Tower. At High Elwick
the electric fluid entered two or three of the houses
through the roofs, and came in contact with three men,
one of whom, the overman, of the pit, recovered the
following morning, but the others are suffering from
the effects of the stroke. In the house of Mr. Richard-
son, publican, Marlborough-street, a boy was deprived
of sight. for some time by the lightning. In the same
houso, and several adjoining ones, the cellars and low
kitchens were filled with water. The cellars of the
Durham Ox public house, Forth, were also filled,
as were several shops and, low rooms at the foot of
the Westgate ; and in a yard, in Thornton-
street, the rooms of several poor families
were completely inundated. At the head of Newgate-
street the destruction of goods and furniture was very
great. The water had come down the Darn Crook in
such an immense body that it passed through Piper's-
entry and Glover's-entry, and along Green-court.
where it carried away 30 yards of walling, nine feet high.
In the two entries named, nearly 20 families have suf-
fered great loss. Some of the women were with diffi-
culty saved from being drowned, having to be dragged
out of their rooms when they were nearly filled with the
flood. In the shops in the front street- the water rose
up to-thabeight of the counters, arid great-destructien
hes been caused anioogst the goodsln'thoseihops; from
that of --(who:Elia a vale-
' able stock of cheese in the cellar), to that of Mr. Brank-
ston, grocer, between which there are fruiterers, drapers,
hucksters, Sze., and the Chancellor's Head public-
house ; all have suffered much loss, but in particular
Mr. Brankston, whose stock has been nearly all wasted.
Mr. Bruce's premises have sustained considerable da-
magage. In Pandon Dean some of the houses have
been rendered uninhabitable ; and at Stockbridge the
shops and houses were four feet deep in the water. Con-
siderable damage was done in the shop of Mr. Brown,
baker, and in the steam mill of Mr. Taylor. -In Con.-
gate some of the shops were filled, and in Pandon and
Sandgate some of the low houses and shops were filled
with the water. Also on the New Road, and in the
new streets there, the low rooms and underground
kitchens were filled. At the Ouseburn, there was in-
jury done by the houses and shops being flooded ; the
water entered the shop of Mr. Copeland, grocer, whi'ch
is built on a bank-side, and passed through the floor into
the rooms below. At the Ballast Hills the water
poured down the banks into the houses ; and, indeed,
eastward as far as Dent's Hole, all the low houses were
inundated. In Gateshead, as in Newcastle, the low
houses and shops were filled with the water ; and in
Hillgate and Pipewcllgate the water rushed down
the banks in fearful torrents, filling the dwelling-rooms
of miny poor families. At Morpeth and its neighbour-
hood, the thunder and lightning was awful. The light-
ning set fire to an oat stack at Shadfin, belonging to
Mr. Thomas Swan ; but by the timely arrival of the
fire-engine from Morpeth, the fire was confined to the
loss of one stack. At Tantoby, the lightning struck
the house of John and Catherine Teasdale, and, melan-
choly to relate, they were instantly killed. It is im-
possible to particularise all the various kitchens, cellars,
and shops, which were flooded, and in which goods to a
very considerable amount are either lost or seriously
damag2d. The loss sustained by many poor families is
truly deplorable, and to relieve their immediate dis•
tresses a subscription has been commenced.—Tyne
mercury.

_Artr, 'TUNG BY AN ADDER.--011 Tuesday
morning last a girl named Beer, the daughter of a labour-
ing man residing at Buckland, whilst proceeding with
some refreshments to her father, who was at work in an
adjoining field, accidentally trod upon an adder lying at a
hedge side, when the animal turned upon her and bit
her on the top of the foot, occasioning her great pain. The
foot instantly swelled to an enormous size, and the poor
girl had difficulty in reaching the place where her father
was at work. Medical aid was promptly obtained, and by
the application of the remedies prescribed by the surgeon,
the girl was somewhat easier in the evening ; and though
she then endured considerable pain, no serious consequences
were apprehended.—Dover Chronicle.
LITTLE BELL, TIIE JOCKEY.—As Mr. Forth
was one day walking down Oxford-street, he perceived a
child riding and managing with great dexterity a very
frisky horse. Forth, being in want of a lad in his training
stables, made an offer to the boy, which he most eagerly
accepted. The boy rode at Ascot, and made his running
so well and with such judgment that he won his race.
Lord Errol afterwards presented the little fellow to her
Majesty, who very kindly addressed him, " Well, my boy,
and what do you weigh ?" upon which the little boy Bell,
in a most unsophisticated but knowing way, answered,
" Please, ma'am, master said I wasn't to tell."
TRUE PHILOSOPHY.—Two farmers, who were
neighbours, had their crops of early peas killed by the
frost. One of them came to condole with the other on
their misfortune. "Ah !" cried he, " how unfortunate we
have been neighbour ! I have done nothing but fret ever
since. But, bless me ! you seem to have a fine healthy
crop coming up just now: what are these?" " These,"
said the other ; " why, these are what I sowed immediately
after my loss." " What, coming up already ?" cried the
fretter. " Yes; while you were fretting I was working."
" What ! and don't you fret when you have a loss ?"
" Yes, but I always put it off until I have repaired the
mischief." " Dear ! why then you have no need to fret at
all." " True," replied the industrious gardener, "and
that's the very reason; in truth, it is very pleasant to have
no longer reason to think of misfortunes; and it is as-
tonishing how many might be repaired by a little alacrity
and energy."
Her Majesty's ship Benbow, of 74 guns, Capt.
El Stewart, arrived in Leith Roads on Friday. She is
in want of a few men to complete her complement of
hands.—Edinburgh Advertiser.

THE CHARTISTS. The address to the
Queen, praying her Majesty to dismiss her present Minis-
ters, which the Brighton Chartists have lately sent up
was curiously enough presented by Lord John Ruasell,
His Lordship has sent the following reply to the Vestry
Clerk : " Whitehall, June 12, 1839.
" Sir,— I have had the honour to lay before the Queen
the loyal and dutiful address of certain of the inhabitants
of the town of Brighton, which accompanied your letter of
the Bth instant.
" And I have to inform you that the same was very
gracbusly received by her Majesty.
" I have, &c , "J. RUSSELL.
". Somers Clarke, Esq., Vestry Clerk."—Susses Express.
STEA M-SH IP LIVERPOOL.--011 Sunday morn-
ing a boLtle, containing the following note, was picked up
in the river Mersey :—" This bottle was thrown from off
the steam-ship Liverpool, on her outward passage to New
York, in lat. 41 deg. 12 min. N., and long. 22 deg.
26 min. W. All well on board. Wind S. S. E.—Signed
J. Williamson, passenger.—P. S. If this is found, please
let it be inserted in the Liverpool papers.—June 17, 1839.'
On Saturday forenoon a most serious collision,
which had like to have been attended with extremely fatal
consequences, occurred on the London and Birmingham
Railroad. At ten o'clock the usual train at that hour,
consisting of sixteen carriages, left the terminus at Eus-
ton-square for the purpose of proceeding on its journey to
Birmingham. On its arrival near Chalk Farm the train
was, as usual, stopped for the purpose of detaching the
rope drawing the train up the acclivity, and of attaching
the engine. The train in question being, however, more
than usually heavy, it was determined that an engine
should be attached at each end. That in front was at-
tached without any accident, but the one in the rear ap-
proached with such force that, before it could be stopped, it
ran into the hindermost carriage, dashing it into pieces, and
forcing the remainingls offthe line. The hindermost carriage,
which is that of the first (or best) class, was numerously filled
with passengers, both male and female, the whole of whom
were, we understand, in a greater or lesser degree injured,
and one roan, named Arthur Hallam, about 45 years of age,
a footman to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, so
dreadfully injured that he was immediately conveyed to the
University College Hospital, Gower. street, when it being
ascertained to whose establishment he belonged, a messen-
ger was immediately despatched in a cab to Kensington
Palace, to acquaint his Royal Highness of the accident.
The Duko of Sussex, on learning the circumstance, with
his accustomed benevolence directed Mr. Beckham, his
steward, immediately to proceed to the hospital, and
ordered that every possible attention should be paid to the
unfortunate man. Mr. Beckham was informed by the
house surgeons that Hallam's skull was fractured, but it
was hoped the brain was uninjured; yet, from the nature of
the severe bodily injuries he had sustained, no hopes of his
recovery were held out. Hallam had been for some time
in his Royal Highness's establishment, previous to which
he was in the service of Lady Cecilia Underwood, by
whom be was much respected, and who bas been greatly
affected by the melancholy circumstance.—Observer.

WILD ANIMALS KILLED IN THE PAMPAS
BY HAIL.—We were here told a fact which I would not
have credited if I had not had partly ocular proof of it_
namely, that during the previous night hail as large as small
apples, and exceedingly hard, had fallen with such violence
as to kill the greater number of the wild animals. One
of the men had already found thirteen deer lying dead,
and I saw their fresh hides ; another of the party, soon
after my arrival, brought in seven more. Now, I well
know, that one man, without dugs, would hardly have
killed seven deer in a week. The men believed, that they
had seen about fifteen dead ostriches, part of one of which
we had for dinner; and they said, that several were
running about evidently blind in one eve. Numbers of
smaller birds, as ducks, hawks, and partridges, were
killed. I saw one of the latter, with a black mark on the I
back, as if it had been struck with a paving stone. —Dar.
win's Narrative.

THE SUN, LONDON, TictURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1839

DUTCH AND GERMAN PAPERS.

AMSTERDAM, JUNE 220—MeS3rS. Van Haye Bomme,
Aide-de-Camp to the Hereditary Prince, who left Stutt-
gard on the 18th in the evening, arrived yesterday evening
at the Hague. He brought di-patches for the Royal
Family, and the news of the celebration of the marriage of
the Hereditary Prince on the 18th. The festivities on the
occasion were very splendid.

RorraanAsi, JUNE 21.—The first Belgian ship under
Belgian colours arrived here to-day.
SAS-VAN, GHENT, JUNE 19.—Here, and in other places
of this district where temporary fortifications had been
hrown up, a beginning was made yesterday, with levelling
them, so as to put everything on the same footing as it was
before the fatal insurrection of 1830. Thus the inhabi-
tants of Philippine Hulst Axel and this place are relieved
from the inconvenient measures adopted by the military
respecting the opening and shutting of the barrier, which
is a great restraint on the trade of those places, though
rendered necessary by the circumstances in which this
kingdom, and especially this district, was placed.
THE HAGUE, JUNE is said that the States
General will meet very shortly, and that the Government
will propose measures for executing art. 214 of the funda-
mental law, among which will be a project of law con-
taining some regulations respecting the militia, which are
rendered necessary by the change of circumstances.
We hear that in the course of July the men belonging to
the levy of 1834 will be discharged with unlimited furloughs.
BRUSSELS, JUNE 23.—Venloo was evacuated on the 21st,
at four o'clock in the morning, the Civic Guard imme-
diately undertook to do duty till the arrival of the Dutch
troops, which are to enter on the 22d. The Belgian gar-
rison of this place is gone to Beverloo.
AMSTERDAM, JUNE 24.--Tbe King's Commissioners
for taking possession of Limburg, have addressed a pro-
clamation to the inhabitants of the province, acquainting
them with his Majesty's resolution of the 12th instant
relative to this province.

BRUSSELS, JUNE 21.—Madame de Stussart, the First
Lady of Honour to the Queen, has thought herself called
upon, in consequence of the treatment experienced by her
husband, to tender her resignation to the Queen.
Yesterday evening it was reported that the Ministers
Desmagures and Weltnan had resigned, because the other
Ministers wished to appoint M. Von Schierval, an Ultra-
Catholic, to the post of Governor of Brabant. It seems,
however, that the majority of the Cabinet has desisted from
this appointment.

Th'e Orange flag to be hoisted on Saturday at Venloo,
teas-wont to that place by-the stage coach from Tongres.—
Dutch Papers, June 25.

FRONTIERS OF EAST PRUSSIA, JUNE M.—The Atlas,
Captain Crow, an English ship, arrived at Memel, on the
20th of May. It bad on board, disguised as a sailor, the
Polish Major Urbanowicz, a native of Sunguliszki, in the
environs of Wilna. He had a Belgian passport given
him by M. Sytrain Van de Weyer, at London, on the
22d of March, for Belgium, and for one year. He was
provided with a pretty considerable sum of money; he
had also inflammatory writings, proclamations, &e., as
well as arms, and, what is the most strange, tools to
open locks and break chains. Immediately on his arrival
Urbanowicz entered into a negotiation with a well-known
smuggler, whom he bribed with fifteen pounds sterling, to
convey him by sea or land to Sarnagitia. But before this
plan could be carried into effect he was arrested by the
Prussian authorities. His statements are evidently false,
in fact he has contradicted to-day his depositions taken
down yesterday.—Algemeine Zeitung, June 21.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF DEATH.—Yes-
terday an inquest was commenced before Mr. Wakley, at
the Montague Arms, Montague-street, Russell-square, on
the body of Mr. Joseph Hall, of Rathbone-place, who died
whilst under an operation for the cure of deafness, per-
formed at Dr. Turnbull's house, 48, Russell-square, by
one of that gentleman's assistants. The case has excited
the most extraordinary interest. The jury having viewed
the body, which was in a very decomposed state, and lying
at Dr. Turnbull's house ; and after some conversation, be-
wean Mr. Wakley and the parties interested in the in-
quiry, the inquest was postponed till to-morrow (Friday).
This delay took place in consequence of Mr. Liston, one
of the principal witnesses, being called away to perform
some surgical operation of vital importance.
EXTENSIVE FRAUD ON THE REVENUE.—
Yesterday William Napier, a young man who has held a
confidential situation in her Majesty's Customs, was
placed at the bar before Mr. Hardwick, of Lambeth-
street, far further exan ination, on a charge of being con-
cerned in forging and issuing certain documents, and
thereby defrauding the revenue of a vary considerable
amount; some say of 10,000/., and others five times that sum.
Mr. Thaekery, the Assistant Solicitor to the Customs,
Mr. Walsh, and other gentlemen connected with the Cus-
tom-house, were in attendance for the prosecution, and
Mr. Penwill, a solicitor, of New Inn, appeared on behalf
of the prisoner. It appears that a system of fraud almost
unparalleled in its extent had been carried on by the pri-
toner and other parties, some of whom were employed,
like himself, in confidential situations in the Customs, and
which has lately come to the knowledge of the Board of
Commisf,ioners. After a short consultation it was con
sidered advisable, for the purpose of procuring further evi-
dence, to postpone the investigation till Friday (to-mor-
row). This extensive system of robbery, it is stated, has
been concocted in a public-house where the parties were
in the habit of meeting, and the owner of which had a
grcat portion of the property. He has absconded since the
apprehension of the prisoner, and others concerned in the
transaction have followed his example.
ALLEGED MURDER OF A WIFE.—A coal-
whipper, named Curley, residing in New-street, Slit:dwell,
stands suspected of having caused-the death of his wife by
i-eating ar,d kicking her during one of their frequent guar-
rata— An inquest will be held on the body.
POST OFFICE CIIANGES.—A notice has been
iQsued by the Postmaster, announcing that on and
after the 21st inst., the Carlisle mail with the London
bag will arrive here at ten o'clock, A. Si., and be des-
patched at ten minutes after tWCIL'e F'. m ; and the second
will arrive thirty minutes after twelve r. ta. and be des-
patched at forty minutes after fotir P. m. The North and
South Shields and Sunderland posts will also be altered
to suit those times. The first delivery in the town will
commence at fifteen minutes before eight, and the second
at thirty-five minutes after ten P. M. ; the third delivery
to be discontinued.—Tyne Mercury.
The crops in the neighbourhood of Deal and
Sandwich are looking remarkably well, and there has not
been a fairer prospect of an abundant harvest for many
years.----Dover Chronicle. -
Fine seasonable showers, followed by warm sun-
shine, have wrought a wonderful change in vegetation of
all sorts; the grass, wheat, spring corn, turnips, &c., &c.,
promise abundantly and of excellent quality.—Bath Jour.
The splenditlfete given on Thursday last by the
Marquis of Westminster to the Queen, it is said, cos
4,0001.

DEATH FROM DRINKING WATER.—An in-
quest was held on Wednesday last, at Cobridge, on the
body of Richard Perkin, fireman at Messrs. Wood and
Brownfiell's manufactory, Cobridge. It appeared that
the deceased bad been engaged on the previous Saturday
in his usual labour of drawing the kilns, which at that time
were very much heated. About one o'clock he went home
to dinner, being in a very heated state ; but before eating
anything he drank a pint of cold water, when he imme-
diately complained of violent pains at his heart, also in his
stomach and bowels, and said, " 0 Lord I shall die I" Ile
continued to get worse until noon on the following day
(Sunday), when death put an end to his sufferings.
Verdict—" Died by the visitation of God."—Staffordt hire
Adve)tiser.
A simple-minded old dame, residing near the
Water of Leith village, was attentively listening, the other
evening, to her grandson reading a statistical account of
the proportion of females to males in various countries of
the world. She easily comprehended how that, in Britain,
the women exceeded the men by six in a hundred, and in
Spain by one in a thousand, but when it was stated, that
in Sweden the females exceeded the males by seven and a
half
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in everya hundrha be m
hundred, she exclaimed,
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