The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-10 00:00:00

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males
Females

Total

..1,548

LOSS OF THE EAST INDIASIAN THE CITY of POONAH.
This fine vessel, one of Mr. Green's, of Blackwall, has
been recently wrecked on the beach off Saugor, about
95 miles from Calcutta. She left that port early in May,
on her homeward passage to England, with a rich cargo
on board and several passengers ; and on her arrival
near the Saugor Lighthouse, near the entrance of the
Hooghly, she brought up some distance from the shore.
The weather at the time was particularly fine, scarcely a
breath of wind stirring, the ship riding apparently in
perfect safety. About midnight, however, there came
upon the vessel a tremendous rolling sea, which swept her
from her anchors, and before the pilot who was on deck at
the time was av are of any danger, the ship was actually
carried high up on to the beach, where the waters left her.
Neither the crew nor passengers sustained the least in-
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jury. According to the last accounts received by Mr.
Green, there appears to be not the slightest probability
of the ship ever being got off, unless carried off by such
an extraordinary action of the waters that swept the City
of Poonah on. She was freighted with a most valuable
cargo, consisting of 750 chests of indigo, 68 bales of raw
silks, 2,700 pieces of silk goods, 6,219 bags of saltpetre,
3.769 bags of sugar, 2,095 bags of jute, 468 bags of
shellac, and a vast quantity of other articles, the produce
of the East Indies, in all, value it is said of upwards of
100,0001. It is understood that the whole of it will be
saved. The City of Poonah was rated nearly 1,000
tons burthen, and has made some rapid passages be-
tween London and Calcutta. She was uninsured.
VIOLATION AT MISSON.—A. shocking case of cruelty
occurred at Misson, a small agricultural village in North
Nottinghamshire, on Thursday evening last, which is
likely to terminate fatally. During the hay harvest a
girl aged 15 years, the daughter of a poor labourer re-
siding in the village, had been employed in making hay
along with three men in a field at Misson. On the eve-
ning in question, about seven o'clock, two of the men
had occasion to leave the hayfield with a load of hay
which they were taking to the stackyard, and thus the
girl and the accused (George Smith), a labourer, were
left there alone. After they had been gone a short time
Smith proceeded to take improper liberties with her,
which she resolutely struggled to resist. He kicked her
violently, threw her upon the ground, and committed
the offence with which he now stands charged. On
the return of the two men to the field, the poor creature
was found lying upon the grass in a state of insensibility,
and her clothes torn almost off her back. She was im-
mediately removed home, and Mr. Nelson and Mr.
Slater, surgeons, were called in. After some medicine
had been administered to her she in a short time rallied,
and the facts of the case were briefly, but with great dif-
ficulty, extracted from her, she being scarcely able to
speak. Smith was immediately apprehended, and taken
before Mr. James Lee, one of the magistrates at East
Retford, and remanded to a future day, to await the
issue of the girl's fate. She had not been able to
eat, sleep, or stand since the occurrence, up to
Monday, and no hopes whatever are entertained as to
her recovery. Smith, since his apprehension, admits
that he threw her upon the ground, but denies the coin-
mission (f the capital offence ; but the evidence against
him is perfect and incontrovertible, there having been no
one in the field at the time besides himself and his un-
fortunate victim.

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FATAL ACCIDENT.—An accident of a frightful nature
happened on the 21st ult., which proved fatal to a young
child, aged five years, the son of Mr. P. Williams,
Ynyssau, Pumpsaint, in this county. It seems that on
the day in question he was playing with another child
in a garden at Dolan Cothi mill. In a short time after
they went to the garden, a little girl, the miller's daugh-
ter, ran to her father and told him that the little boy
was under the grindstone. Without losing any time be
hastened to turn the water off the wheel that worked
the grindstone ; and on proceeding to the spot he found
the deceased between the grindstone and the wheel, the
stone broken in two places. The unfortunate boy was
taken out, but the vital spark had fled. A coroner's
inquest was held on the body the following day, at the
Dolau Cothi Arms, before J. P. Lewis, Esq., coroner,
and a respectable jury. Verdict, "Accidental death."
—Carmarthen Journal.
NEW PATENT LOCK.—A new lock peculiarly appli-
cable for banking purposes is stated to have been in-
vented and patented by Mr. Francis Whishaw. It is
urn an entirely new principle, electro-magnetism being
the agent employed, so that very great security is con-
sidered to be gained, without the multiplicity of parts
of which most other locks are composed. The most
simple form of the invention is a plate of soft iron at-
tached to the door, which when shut is in contact with
the poles of an electro-magnet, the fastening and open-
ing of the lock being effected by the making and break-
ing of the circuit, and any number of locks throughout
a house may be secured or opened at the same instant.—
Times.
BRADSHAW'S RAILWAY GUlDE—lmproved / is
worthy of the especial notice of all travellers nowa-
days that their old " guide, philosopher, and friend,"
Bradshaw, has come forth in its new number (the instal-
ment for this current month of August) with the merit
of a most appreciable and really long-desired improve-
ment. This improvement we may at once briefly remark
has reference to the time table department. It facili-
tates to the traveller in quite a remarkable manner the
connection of the various junctions with the main lines,
and their different branches. And so easily ! The ar-
rangement being simply effected by numbers introduced
in the station columns of the pages—these numbers
having reference (by page) to divers connections with
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