The Sun.
London, England, 1837-04-13 00:00:00

ESCAPE AND RECAPTURE OF A
PRISONER FROM NEWGATE.

This morning about five o'clock, it was discovered
.that a
prisoner, named Richard Jackson, who had been convicted
yesterday
sentenced by the Learned Recorder to two years' imprison-
ment in the Penitentiary, had made his escape from Newgate.
It appears that he effected his escape with mucL difficulty, and
Y
had been engaged in the undertaking for many
hours. He
managed to climb up the well hole, through the window
of his cell to the roof of the gaol, and in his pasoge neces.
sarily made a noise hy wrenching out one of the bars. The G-
he
o
vernor and Mr. Newman were alarmed, the turnkeys on
.tbi
e
alert, and men stationed in Warwick-lane with all pose. .n
dispatch ; he, however, eluded their vigilance. A butcher >.
the neighbourhood, on getting up to go to market, saw a.
person drop from the roof of a house at the east side of thee
prison and run off. Pursuit was made, and the prisoner was-
discovered at his lodgings in Queen-street, Waterloo-road, which-
had been taken by his wife a few days ago. He was captured
and conveyed to Newgate, where he arrived about nine o'clock.
He had broken his toes in making his escape, and received
other injuries. He was obliged to be carried to the station
house. He admitted that he had commenced his work at nine
o'clock last night, and finished it about five o'clock this morn--
ing. The only instruments he had were a small knife and
part of an iron pail hoop. The police of the L division, br
whom the prisoner was retaken, found his wife and children in
a state of great misery and distress.

The Corsaire of Thursday contains the following
" Extract of a Speech (the King's) in 1830 :--‘ When a King
goes abroad surrounded by the affection of his subjects, he has
no need of an escort.' A fact of 1837 :--` The Ministry
de-
sire to create three squadrons of cavalry, to serve as an osc.ort
for the King!' "

On Sunday night last, some thieves broke into the:
back part of the house of Mr. Craske, grocer, Colchester, an&
succeeded in effecting an entrance into the front shop, where-
they extracted 51. in copper and 31. in silver, from the desk.
They also stole a half sovereign, and six pair of stockings,
belonging to the maid servant. They then made a fire in the
kitchen, and put on a saucepan containing some water, in
which they boiled about three lbs. of ham they had stolen out
of the shop. They went into the cellar and drew aJI of
elder wine, and then sat down and regaled themselves in the
kitchen with ham, bread, and elder wine.—Essex Herald.

Tuesday information of the following desperate
tempt at burglary was received at the different police Aces)
and station houses :—Shortly before four o'clock that morning
the family of Mr. Harris, a gentleman of property, residing as
Greenford, Middlesex, were alarmed by a noise in the bottom:
part of the house. Mr. Harris instantly jumped out of bed,
and proceeded down stairs, when, on reaching the bottom, he
found that a door leading from the kitchen had been bored
through with a centre-bit ; and, on running to an upper win-
dow hw saw two men escaping through the adjoining shrub-,
bery, at whom he immediately fired, and, from traces of blood
being afterwards found, there i 3 no doubt one of the men was
wounded. On examining the premises it was found they had
attempted to effect an entrance in no less than four placed
but they only carried off a few silver spoons from the kitchen.
Several similar attempts have recently been made at houses imx
that neighbourhood, and within the last fortnight, Manor-
house, the residence of Colonel Leister, was entered, and
robbed of property to a large amount ; and on the same
night Mr. Harris's residence was also entered, when, arming
other articles carried off, were two loaded pistols which that
gentleman had placed on the table for his protection.
_ _

On Saturday night, about half past 12 o'clock, the
ground floor of an eating-house, No. 97, Ratcliff.highwayr
gave
.way with a tremendous crash, precipitating 12 or 15.
persons who were in the shop, partaking of their suppers, anal
Mr. R. Smith, the eatinghouse-keeper, and another man, into
the cellar below. The alarm and confusion among the in-
habitants was frightful, and as soon as the clouds of dust
caused by the fall of the floor had cleared away, lights Were
procured, and several shopkeepers and policemen proceeded
t) Vie aid of the sufferers, who were all got out alive, with the
exception of one man, a blacksmith, named Wm. Thompilch,
of North-street, Poplar. He was found under two sacks of
flour which had fallen upon him, and on being taken out, he
was conveyed by the police to the house of Dr. Bird in the
Highway, who opened a vein, but no blood flowed. The
man appeared to have been suffocated with the weight of the
flour. The accident was caused by the rotten state of the
beam which supported the flooring; and which was quite irk"
adequate to support the weight placed upon it.

It would appear that amongst the curious effects
produced by the introduction of gas into the Austrian oapitalr
not the least- curious was that of actually setting the Danube:
on fire. For several successive days the glancing lightt and
phosphoric appearances upon that river attracted universa: at"
tention, and the most extraordinary speculations as to 00
cause were indulged in by the superstitious or ignorant-10ov
arc not a few—in that morbid city. At last the authoritia
fJund it necessary to interfere—a commission of learned inves
tigators arc appointed, and after a multitude of inquiries, the
source of the mystic phenomenon was traced to the channel of
refuse from the gas works, which had been clandestinely led
and discharged into the Danube at night. The government
immediately caused this communication to be closed, and was
last occupied in ascertaining the numbers of fish killed or of
pcopl I poisoned by eating them.

Mr. Waller, son of Sir Wattle') Waller, Bart., pro..
coeds to Brussels, as Secretary of Legation, in the room at
Henry L. Bulwer, Esq., M. P., who resigned the appointment"
it being, we believe, incompatible with the retention of his seat
in Par liament. 4,
On Monday morning, between seven and ,eight;
o'clock, Mary Browning, a young woman twenty-four year*
of age, a servant in the employ of Mrs. Lemstois, of Sloane,
Street, Chelsea, was accidentally shot by her fellow-servant,
a young man twenty years of age, whilit he was cleaning 16
large horse-pistol belonging to his young master, which was
loaded with small shot, unknown to him. She entered the
pantry and commenced playing, when he jocosely said that if
she did not quit the room he would shoot her, at the same
moment presenting the pistol, when he pulled the trigger, and
the contents entered her side, which wcunded her so serious',
that but faint hopes are entertained for her recovery.
POETICAL SENSATION.—" To-day, for the firs=
time in my life," writes Sir Humphrey Davy to a friend, "
have had a distinct sympathy with nature. I was going on the
top of a rock to leeward. The wind was high, and everytho4
in motion. The blanches of an oak tree were waving ai
murmuring in the breeze. Yellow clouds, deepened by gref
at the base, were rapidiy floating over the western hills; the;
whole sky was in motion ; the yellow stream below was agitated
by the breeze. Everything was alive, and myself a part of the
series of visible impressions. I should have felt pain in tea"
iag a leaf from one of the trees."

Sir F. Madden brought under the notice of the
Society of Antiquaries, on Thursday last, an original letter Of
Perkin \Varbeck, the Pretender to the throne of England In
the reign of Henry VII., to Isabel, Queen of Spain, the P,
tron of Columbus, in which he gives a narrative of himsell:
from the period of supposed escape from the Tower. .11.
will
second letter from him, signed " Rychard of England,''
be exhibited to the society, with other inedited documents'
among them the deposition relative to a Plot to deprive Henri
VII. of his life in favour of Perkin, of which the leader o'o._
8
John Kendal, Grand Prior of St. John of Jerusalem in E'c't,
land, a man remarkable for his being the subject of the earlies
contemporary English medal extant.

T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, &c., 47, Comilla
London, informs the Public, that he has a considerable varierl
SECOND-HAND GOLD WATCHES, any of which he ofte"!:
at EIGHT GUINEAS each. They have all been carefully"
amined, and are warranted.—Watches purchased in exchange' or

BITHS.
On the 10th inst., at Burghleß
y, the Marchioness of Exeter, of
daughter.
On the 12th inst., in Grosvenor-square, the Right Hon.
Poltimore, of a son and heir.
On the Bth inst., at St. Neot's, Mrs. Neville Day, of twiraiAg
On the ith inst., at Wilshall, near Alton, the lady of Commie"'
George Dobson, of a son.
On the Bth inst., at Carshalton Park, Surrey, the lady of
John
Taylor, Esq., of a son.
On the 10th inst., the lady of the Rev. R. Kidd, of the rre-
cinets, Norwich, of a son. •
On the 11th inst., in Keppell_street, Russell-square, the
of W. Rodwell, Esq., of a son, still-born.

RD.
On the 11th inst., at St.MAR
Mary'lEs Church, Cheltenham, JO d,
eldest son of I. Cookson, Esq., of Meldon Park, Northumber,`,lld,
to Sarah, eldest daughter of the late Sir Matthew White lb'
Bart., of Blagdon, Northumberland.
On the 6th inst., at Macduff, Banffshire, Ralph Compton, Est'
of Church-court, Old Jewry, solicitor, eldest son of B. C°r"th-ird
Esq., of 3lelkington House, Durham, to Harriet Jemima',..ups-
Norto
daughter of the late G. Smith, Esq., of Budla House,
berland. Esq„ to
On the 6th inst., at Gretna Green, Barratt Lampert,
Miss Rose Key, of St. Mary Abbot's-terrace,

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DIED. tea
On the Bth inst., at Sayes, Arthur Edmund, the infant aciL
Lee Steere, Esq. ~,j7B,
On the 10th inst., at Fenton House, Hampstead-heath, ag„', ior-
the Right Hon. Lady Elizabeth Eleanor Dundas, relict of -LL'an'aet
General Thomas Dundas, of Fingask, and daughter of Ale°
Earl of Home. Mar'
On the 11th inst., in York-place, Mile End-road, Wiilia -n'
tin, Esq., aged 5'
.'estop, '-
On the 6th inst., at North-end, Fulham, Mr. John W
On the 11th inst., in Hereford-place,
his 65th year. a Pit'
Mr. Simeon Latter, aged 09. a 3'
On the 9th inst., at Bridgewater, Mr. Richard Burt, s.g:v ,jolio
On the 6th ifist., at Thorp-hamlet, near Norwich, the 11 '
hel
Botel Innes, aged 54.
n Step
On the 9th inst., at Borden, near Sittin b e I'le-t. 9 g ourn P
Walter, Esq., aged 33. treet' 5
On the 7th inst., Wm. Marr, Esq., of Upper I3aker-' Thooat
George L;,q. o'
On the 27th of February, at Madira, aged 9,
Commercial-roa
Wrighte, only son and heir of the late G. T. WYndhan''
On the 1 lth inst., at Hurst, Perks,
Cromer Hall, Narfolk. °lc, fscl.'
William
aged 82, formerly a Magistrate for the county. e
On the 9th inst., at Bowness Cottage, Windermer ,
fog'
Garnett, Esq. Foot, of
On the 9th inst., at Beaumaris, aged 39, Robert 3L i, fsa.,
On the 10th inst., Susanna, the -wife-of Alfred Vgii
i%fidsbiE-
Cadogan-place, aged 22. aw,
On the 24th ult., at Chatham, Edward Peploe L_
t, _ ft,s,
man of his Majesty's ship " Vernon," eldest son of "
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Law, of St. Petersburgh.
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Lutuiwk : l'iiii,e,i ~ka Pubil-hed hy vi 0 [(DO 1 s.; ''n oie o'l'
Richard Westbro
112, Strand, at The Sure Office, No. 112, Str""l
of Middlesex.—Thursday, April 13, 1837.