The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-14 00:00:00

ARRIVED AT LIVERPOOL, JAN. 11.

The Groton, Waterman, from New Orleans; North Ame-
rica, Dixey, New York (packet of the 16th ult.); Virginia,
Harris, New York: (packet of the 24th ult.) ; Helem, Kin-
mear, Oporto (in 11 days.)
ENTERED FOR LOADING, JAN% 11.

The Archer, Matthowson,foi Barbadoes; Amelia, Machon,
Constantinople and Smyrna; Tyro, Carter, Monte Video ;
Catharine, M`Kenzie, Messina and Palermo; Intrinsic,
Chambers, New Orleans; Actif, Vandenbroeck, Ostend,
CLEARED OUTWARDS, JAN. 11. ,

The Gertrude, O'Brien, for Lisbon; Lapwing, Osborne,
Buenos Ayres; Nythsclale, Gruyson, Rio Janeiro ; New
Jane, Williams, Algiers; - Rosalind, Little, Bombay; Ruby,
Farrant, Lisbon.

SAILED, JAN.

The John Jay, Gooddey, for New York; Greenviek, Wes-
turlund, New York ; Nev Jersey, Barlow, Boston; Veracity,
Allen, St. Thomas's; -Minerva, Gotland, Philadelphia.

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

The Edward Robinson, from the Mauritius, off the Isle of
Wight, sailed the 17th of October ; the Eliza Jane,. from the
Mauritius, in the Downs, sailed the 17th of October, and Table
Bay the 11th of Nov.
ARRIVALS AT Sr. HELENA.-The Gulnare, NOV. -, from
China and the Cape, and sailed the 19th for London ; the
Bromley, Nov. -, Mauritius ; the Adams, Nov. -, Mauri-
tius and the Cape, sailed the 21st for London.
ARRIVALS AT TUE MAURITIUS.-The Cervantes, Oct. 11,
from Marseilles; Flinn, Oct. 10, Cape of Good Hope; Ex-
porter, Oct. 10, Calcutta ; Gloucester, Oct. 10, Marseilles ;
Miranda, Oct. 11, London and Rio; Helen; Oct. 11, Bor-
deaux ; Courier de Bourbon, Oct. 11, Nantes ; Demerara,
Oct. 12, Calcutta; Sinus, Oct. 12, Marseilles; Zoe, Oct. 16,
Liverpool ; Cambrian, Oct. 7, Calcutta.
DEPARTURES FROM THE MAURITIUS.-the Britannia, Oct.
7, and the Bromley, Oct. 10, for London ; Maria, Oct. 12,
Bristol ; Eliza Jane, Oct. 12, Cape and London.
ARRIVALS AT MADRAS.-His Majesty's ship Victor, Aug.
29, from --; Fortitude, Aug. 29, Boston ; Samuel Brown,
Aug. 30, Ireland ; 'Antoinette, Aug. 31, Mauritius • Napo-
leon, Sept. 2, Pondicherry ; Isidore, Sept. 2, Bimlipatam ;
Royal William, Sept. 3, London; Thomas Snook,. Sept. 4,
London and the Mauritius; Protector, Sept. 5, London, and
sailed Sept. 9, for Calcutta ; Bolton, Sept. 9, London.
DEPARTURES FROM MADRAS.-The Trail, Aug. 31, for
Calcutta; Duchess of Northumberland, Aug. 31, Coninga
and London ; Catherine and Frederica, Aug. 31, Northern
Ports; his Majesty's ship Wolf, Aug. 41, for a cruise; True
Briton, Aug. 29, Calcutta ; Hayworth, Aug. 29, Pondicherry
and the Mauritius ; Bengal, Aug. 29, Bordeaux ; Soobrow,
Aug. 29, China ; Samuel Brown, Sept. 1, Calcutta.; Antoi-
nette, Sept. 2, Mauritius; Harald°, Sept. 2, Ennore ; his
Majesty's ship Victor, Sept. 3, for a cruise; Duke of Sussex,
Sept. 3, China; Sir A. Campbell, Thomas Grenville, and
Indus, Sept. 3, Calcutta; Eleanor, Sept.. 4, Calcutta;
Hydros, Sept. 4, Moulmein ; Alfred. Sept. 4, China': Ann,
Sept. 9, Penang, Malacca, and Singapore.
ARRIVALS AT BOSIBAY.-The Kirkman Findlay, Oct. 2,
from London ; Royal George, Sept. 1, London ; /3oyne,
Sept. 23, London ; Parkfield, and the Duchess of Clarence,
Liverpool.
DEPARTURES FROM BOMBAY.--The Liverpool, Oct. 4, for
London.

ARRIVALS AT CALtUTTA.—The Bengal, Sept. 6, from

London.

DREADFUL AND ALARMING EXPLOSION.—On
Monday afternoon, about one o'clock, the inhabitants of
John-street, Oxford-street, and the vicinity, were thrown
into the utmost terror and confusion, in consequence of a
tremendous explosion which shook the houses to their foun-
dation, and was heard at more than the distance of half a
mile. Immediately after the shock a dense cloud of steam
and dust.was seen Issuing from the extensive premises of
Mr. George Smith, coffin-maker and undertaker, of No. 4,
in the above street, when it was soon ascertained that a
steam apparatus, fitted up for the purpose of warming the
house, had suddenly burst with such a violent explosion as
to throw down a wall eighteen inches thick, and force the
windows into the street, overturning every thing that op-
posed it. Mr. Langley, the clerk, who was sitting at his
desk in the counting-house, in the rear of the shop, near
which the boiler was situated, was thrown from his seat,
and buried under a heap of bricks and other materials, and
was with great difficulty rescued from his dreadful situation,
when it was discovered that he had recerved,very severe in-
juries on the head and other parts. After surgical assist-
ance had been obtained he was conveyed to his lodgings in
St. John's Wood, where he remains in a state of great suf-
fering. Mr. Smith, who was in an adjoining apartment,
with two of his children, at the time, fortunately escaped
with only a cut on the head from a piece of glass ; and it
providentially happened that all the workmen had left the
shop for the purpose of getting their dinners ; had it not
'been so, the consequences to some of them must have been
fatal. The damage done is very considerable, the whole of
the glass front being shivered to pieces, and scattered about
the street. The desk at which the clerk was sitting is
shattered to fragments, and the inkstand forced up into the
Ceiling. Mrs. Smith had only been put to bed a few hours.
So 7iolent was the concussion that a glass lamp which stood
in her room up stairs was broken to pieces. The apparatus,
which had never been found to answer, was fixed up about
six weeks ago by a person named Mosier, residing in Turk's
Head-court, Oxford-street.
A MAD Cow.--Between eleven and twelve o'clock
on Monday forenoon, an over-driven cow started from a
drove which was proceeding along Holborn, and ran off at
full speed in the direction of St.' Giles's Church, near which
she ran at an old apple-woman, who was sitting by a stall
at the corner of New Compton-street, whom she lifted upon
the post against which the stall was placed, providentially
without doing her any injury. By Meux's brewery she ran
at a young man who was crossing the road, who, putting
up his umbrella, saved himself, and turned the animal
towards Oxford-street. Near Wardour-street she knocked
down a man who was crossing the street with a load on his
head, who was much injured. The infuriated animal con-
tinued her course along Oxford-street, running at every
thin.' in her way, until she arrived at Hellos-street, up
which she turned into Cavendish-square, the circuit of
which she made, followed by upwards of two thousand men
and boys ; and passing along Margaret-street, she regained
Oxford-street by way of John-street. At the moment of
her passing the premises of Messrs. Smith, the undertakers,
in that street, a tremendous explosion took place, one of
the pipes of a stove used for warming the premises bursting
with a loud report, and severely wounding the clerk who was
sitting in, the counting-house, which is destroyed by the ex-
plosion. The , shop-window was also forced out, several
pieces of which struck the cow as she passed, and increased
her fury. After proceeding some distance along Oxford-
street in the direction of Cumberland-gate, the enraged
animal ran at a- lad who was standing at the window of a
hosier's shop, who,-jumping aside, her horns struck the
window with great force, and shivered several squares of
glass. At the corner of Park-lane she ran at another
woman, who, with great presence of mind, dogged the cow
round a post„ when, finding herself foiled, she vented her
fury upon the poor woman's stall, which she totally destroyed,
tossing the fragments into the air. Her attention was then
attracted by a dog, which she followed into the Park, to the
great alarm of both equestrians and pedestrians, who fled
in all directions, and having jumped over the wooden railings
and crossed the head of the Serpentine, she paid a visit to
the Life Guards Barracks, from which she was soon
ejected. She then proceeded along the Park until she ar.
rived near Kensington-gate, when she dropped from ex-
haustion. The mob at that time was so great, that it was
considered necessary to send for a body of police, and in a
short time parties of the C and T divisions arrived, and
kept back the crowd. At four o'clock, a cart was procured,
to which she was, with great diffictilty,..lashed, and con-
veyed to the premises of Mr. Smith, hatchet, 146, Edge-
ware-road, without doing any further mischief.
The colossal tower o Tervier, in the island of Wal-
cheren, built in the centre of the church, which had been
converted into a hospital, fell down last week. There
were three hundred patients in it, And many of them were
injured ; but when the account came away, only seven had
been found dead.
Neither of the theatres in New York suffered from
the dreadful conflagration in that city, which will, however,
be injurious to their interests for some time to come, from
the extent of the mischief and the great number of persons
whose property will be involved in the calamity.

-1-10,-sham, shoemaker, surrendered to
take
PEVAVORTii SESSION.
In Lent charging him with spreading
false and malicious reports'
x,,egarding the tre :trocnt of chil-
dren in Shipley work-house, .and with saying before the
E dlinliasr tdria liflonlis an' oifndic,
Horsham Bench cf Magistratet, "a is Horsham rtscally thing ;
you are a very nice gentleman Cid, Mr. Percy Burrell
would hang any man."
Defendant pleaded gullty. C_ lIAIRMAN said,
During the progress of the trial
Well, Mills, what have you to say ?
Defendant Mills—Great misrepresentati.ans were made of
what I said respecting the treatment of the children in
Shipley work-house ; and when I was brolight before the
Bench about the matter, they refused to a;low me to call
witnesses to prove what I had said, but called-
toup on
sa me to
find recognizances. That it was that induced no it
was " a rascally proceeding."
CHAIRMAN—Do you still believe the children' were
shamefully treated ?
Defendant—l have that belief. I think if I had not
fetched the children away they would have perished.
CHAIRMAN—We have given you every -opportunity t/4
retract your mischievous reports and equally mischievous
conduct, those reports being disproved by the testimony of
several good witnesses, all of whom speak to the good
treatment of the 'paupers, and some even speak to "a well-
stocked larder. It seems also that the poor receive the
same allowance of food as before the passing of the new
poor law. ;
Defendant—l don't mean any offence, but I . can't belie
my conscience. Ido believe the children were not well
treated.

CiimamAN—We are sorry that you still adhere to that
assertion. The judgment of the Court is, that you be im-
prisoned in Petworth House of Correction for six weeks,
and at the end of that term that you enter into your own
recognizances in 20/., and give two sureties in 10/. each,
to be of good- behaviour for two years ; and that you bc•
further imprisoned till such recognizances and sureties be
lodged..
The ejrighton Guardian,- from .whose report_ we have
made the above extracts, has the following remarks on this
Case :
Although we feel too sensitively to allow:our:elves at
the present moment to write on the subject, convinced that
it would not bn wholesome to our state that we should do
so, Ive.cannot refrain from calling attention to the case of
an elderly man named Mills, which will be found fully re-
ported in onr Petworth Sessions news. Our contempora-
ries, who are more removed from the scene of action, who
only read the report, but did not witness the proceedings
and receive the burning and indelible impression they were
en well calculated to make, may with safety comment on
them ; we feel only at liberty to say that, judging from
appearances, the defendant would merely have been bound
over to keep the peace, had lie repudiated the rumours in
question—but being unable, despite the impending sword
of angry JuStiee, to " belie his conscience," he is sent to
prison for six weeks, which we call " suffering for con-
science. sake."

IMPROVEMENT IN Looms.----A wearer at Black-
burn has invented a new mode of making metal healds for
weaving silk, worsted, cotton, linen, or any other fibrous
substance, from which cloths made ; and it is said the
discovery will effect a great saving both to power and hand
loom manufacturers.

-
FALL OF A CHAIN BRIDGE.—In the afternoon of
Saturday last, the chain bridge over the. river Calder, on
the Denby Dale road, between Thornes and Dirtcar, about
a mile from Wakefield, suddenly fell in with a tremendous
crash. The bridge, which was erected so recently as 1828,
had two roads ; and it was that on the western side which
gave way ; it was more generally used than the other, being
on the same side as the toil house. At the time a horse
and gig (driven by one of the servants from Bretton Hall)
a waggon with three horses, and a Cart with three horses,
both loaded with barley, belonging to Mr. Bayldon,
Hollinghurst, and a cart with one horse, with a load of
ashes, were on the bridge, and fell with it. Immediate as-
sistance was rendered from tie farm of Mr. Andrew Car-
ver. It is a most singular and fortunate circumstance that,
with the exception of the gig horse, no lives were lost ; it
got entangled in the chains, and was hung above the water ;
three other horses were hung in a similar way, but were
released in time to save their lives. The driver of the gig-
was so severely bruised es to require surgical aid ; he is,
however, gradually recovering from the directs of the acci-
dent. Another of tire drivers had luckily paused to talk
with the barman, and. was in conversation with him at the
moment the bridge fell. The weight in passage across the
bridge has been - estimated at .about 14 tons. The water
at Ellie part of the river, in the absence of afresh, is seldom
above three or four feet deep ; tar.:, may have been
about its depth on Saturday.. The-horses were soon taken
out of the river, and the carts, as well as nearly the whole
of the barley, were afterwards recovered.- We have heard
it stated that the bridge originally cost 4,0001., and that
the estimated cost of one built of stone was 6,ool:l.—Leeds
liztelligcncer Df Saturday. •
THE WOMAN CHARGED WITH POISONING HER.
HUSBAND.—On Thursday morning the prisoner was again
placed at the bar, and the evdenee against her was then
gone into at sonic length. We :sad prepared a detailed re-
port of it, for which, howeVer, we
clearly proved, as well as repeatedly
have no room. It was
prisoner, that she bad purchased a penn,v%
ac_knovvledged by the
-orth of arsenic at
the shop of Mr. Thomas Goodman, el-n-Wist, Oldham
Road, stating that she wanted it to poison ..-a.ts ; and in a
statement she made to Mr. Thomas, she said ibat the dc-
i;ato which
ceased being poorly, she made him some gruel,
she put some of the arsenic by mistake, supposing-
to be
Tith-
suear. Being asked by Booth how she found out lie""es.
titi:e, she said, " I tasted it." He - next asked her,
Did
you give it- to your husband after that?" and she replie.i,
"He would have it." The prisoner declined to enter into
any defence, except that she stated she had gone out of
the way because she was in
.debt. She was fully com-
mitted to Kirkdale House of Correction for trial at the
assizes for the southern division of the county,—Maachesfer
Gazette.
MAIDENHEAD, JAN. S.—Two men were talet'l
into custody on suspition of setting fire to the outbuildinjs
and ricks of Mr. Alloway, of Stroud farm, on Saturday'
morning last, but they have been discharged, there being no
evidence to implicate them. As soon as the fire was dis-
covered an alarm was given at Maidenhead, and assist-
ance Was rendered with the most praiseworthy activity.
To Mr. Bigg, of the Maidenhead subscription engine,
and to Mr. James Lovegrove and Mr. Woodhouse, who
took their engines, the greatest praise is due ; and to the
troop of Royal Horse Guards, who, under the command
of Colonel Hill, drew their engine the whole distance
from Windsor to the scene of devastation, and most me-
ritoriously exerted themselves, may be attributed the final
subduing of the fire without greater loss .than has been
occasioned. The conduct of the troops was the subject
of general eulogium. At one time there were three or
four ricks on fire, and the scene then presented a truly
awful appearance, and, bad it not been for the gallantry
and intrepidity displayed by those who had volunteered
their assistance, the whole must have been destroy-ed. The
estimated loss is about 800/., and the property was insured
in the County Fire-office. The farm and buildings are the
property of the Corporation of Reading. It is impossible
to imagine whist motive could have induced any feelings
of resentment towards Mr. Alloway; whose name, stanCs
deservedly high with the labourer, as a good and excel-
, lent master.

COMMISSION OF LUNACY.—On Monday a Com-
mission of Lunacy was held at the New London Bridge
Hotel, High-street, Southwark, before Mr. Commissioner
Whitmarsh, to inquire into. the state of mind of Miss Fre-
derica Dickenson, to whom property had recently devolved
by the death of her mother. Miss Caroline Streetor de-
posed that she had known Miss Dickenson for the last
twenty years, at the commencement of which period they
went to school together at Woolwich. At that period Miss
Dickenson- was an exceedingly lively girl, possessing a high
flow of spirits, and was considered very accomplished. _For
the last four or five years witness had seen her frequently,
and her demeanour was that of an insane person. One of
the peculiarities of the disease was a habit that she had of
walking backwards, when taken out for the purpose of
exercise ; and when remonstrated with, would still persist
in the act. She was also. in the habit of breaking out into
immoderate fits of laughter, although there was nothing to
calla forth. At other times she would talk upon religious
topics, and in the midst of it suddenly break off and re-
vert to other subjects of a totally different nature. sl'c
would inquire why people died, and express her
ld
put surprise
that they did not live for ever. At times she wou
of
her dress the wrong side out ; and, even in the presence o
company, Would squat on the floor of the parlour, instead
of taking a chair, or sitting on the sofa. Sarah Best, a
servant who used to wait on Miss Dickenson at her mo-
ther's house, described many of the peculiarities under
which she laboured ; and amongst them, that when dinner
was placed on the table, and the course did not exactly
suit her taste, she wouldinmnainngifesatthtehredispleasuremb
Miss
thump-
ingssarSarah
on the table, and
Pell, who keeps a boarding-school at Brixton, stated that
Miss Dickenson had been an inmate of her house for eleven
yearc during which period she had betrayed great imbeci-
lity of mind, approaching to childishness. She was in the
habit of sitting on the staircase, and talking to herself in a
strain that no one could understand, and this for hours to-
gether. She seldom employed herself, or amused herself
by reading ; and although she-never exhibited violence, yet
she was in that state of mind that, in witness's opinion, she
was quite incapable of managing her affairs. The Jury
returned
of O
da verdictctobe—r:iBT2h3a.! she was of unsound mind since
hi

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