The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-25 00:00:00

THAMES OFFICE.

Yesterday William Shepherd, a waterman, was brought
before Mr. BALLANTINE and Mr. BRODERIP, charged with
committing an assault on George Lynch, the master of the
George Canning, a Greenwich steamer.
The complainant stated that the vessel was going down
the River, on Wednesday evening, with a great number
of passengers on board, and in Limehouse-reach met the
defendant, who was in his wherry, rowing across the
stream towards Pageant-stairs, Rotherhithe. He hailed
him to row clear of the steamer, instead of which he
rowed right across her bows, and he immediately directed
the engines to be eased, to prevent his being run down, and
the vessel was stopped. The prisoner's boat then cleared
the bows in safety, on which he backed his wherry astern,
went aft, and taking a staple out of a box, threw it at him.
The instrument passed over the engineer's head, who was
standing up above the engine-room, struck the paddle-box,
and, rebounding, fell on him (Lynch), but without doing
him any material injury. The prisoner then picked up
another staple and threw at the mate, who was at the
wheel. He stooped and the iron staple just missed his
head and fell on the deck, where it stuck. The iron sta-
ples with sharp points were produced.
The defendant, in reply to the charge, said he Ras rowing
across the water, and the steamer came down so fast that
he expected she would go over and drown him. He was
very much alarmed, and sung out, on which he was laughed
at by the people on board, and was so exasperated that, in

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a fit of passion, he threw the staples at the people in the
steamer. He was very sorry for what he had done.
Mr. BALLANTINE said, if the captain of the steamer told.
truth, the defendant was rowing quite across the bow of the
vessel, and Lynch then stopped her, and what else couldhe
have done under the circumstances.
Mr. BRODERIP—And when the staples were thrown all
danger was over. It is an outrage which deserves severe
punishment. The vessel was full of passengers, and if the
staples had struck any of them, the consequences muse
have been fatal, the defendant would have been
charged with murder. The sharpness of the weapons was
proved by their sticking in ti? deck. It was a most in-
famous proceeding.
The defendant said the steamers had frequently swamped
his and other boats. He was often placed in great danger
by them.
Mr. BALLANTINE said that such conduct as the defen-
dantL had been guilty of, was not the way to remedy the
grievance. The steamers had enough to answer for, ant' a
Coroner's Jury had, only the day before, levied a deodana
of 1001. on a steam-ship, which had caused the death of a
woman, which was a very proper decision ; but be fre-
quently observed that when the steamers were going along
with all the care they could, the watermen put themselves
right in the way, or began hooting and hissing, or throwing
missiles at the passengers. It was nit to be borne.
Defendant—l have not done it, Sir, indeed.
Mr. BALLANTINE—But you have done it. I often see
the steamers disturbed, and the passengers annoyed. The
people have nothing to de with your quarrels. It is a fact
that you often put yourselves right in the way. Come here
if they do you any damage.
The defendant was then sentenced to pay a fine of 31. td'
the King, and the costs.
Air. Mussey, the owner of the George Canning, said be
had given strict orders that the steamer should be navi-
gated in a manner not to injure any one, or place life hr
danger. He earnestly entreated the Magistrates to remit
the penalty, on account of the poverty of the waterman‘
Mr. BALLANTINE said it could not be done ; arrd Mr'
BRODERIP expressed his surprise that such a question
should be asked. The defendant was very well off ;
it had been a question with the Bench, whether he ough
not to have been fined 51. It was not a question between
the watermen and the steamers, but whether the lives Of
his Majesty's subjects were to be placed in jeopardy on
the river.

The Magistrates, in allusion to the death of , Mrs. Cran'
nis, who was drowned by the neglect on board the Ente'
prise steam-ship, said as the Coroner's Jury had fully in"
vestigated the circumstances of the accident, and had levied
a heavy deodand on the vessel, there would be no occasion
for the Bench to inquire into the matter again, and the
summonses issued against the master and pilot would be.
discharged. They expressed their warm approbation 0;
the verdict of the Jury, the deodand they had levied, ana
the opinion they had expressed. It was the only way to
check any negligence, or bad conduct, on the part of the
steamers.

Mr. BALLANTINE took occasion to remark that steamed
were now so numerous, and were so constantly running uP,
and down in a rapid manner, that too much caution could
not be used. The decision of the jury would have at very
useful effect in checking any recklessness. He could 136 i
help observing that some vessels going very fast made less
swell than others going slow. There were the tow.ing
steamers always creeping along very slowly, but they P
on all their force, and agitated the river from one side o
the other.

ANOTHER STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT.— On TtieS'
day afternoon the Comet Gravesend steam-packet, on her voyage
to London, run down a boat, containing four gentlemen+
in Bugsby's-hole, between Greenwich and Woolwich. The
steamer was coming up the river at full speed, and the boa'
containing the four amateurs, who had been down the rives
to see Messrs. Robinson and Lewis practising previous to Or'
intended wager, were going the same way. The CaPtt_t
made signs for them to proceed in a particular direction, but
from some misunderstanding, and alarmed by the velocity
the Comet, they did not do so, and the steamer struck tlie'
boat and cut it down. Two of the party jumped out on Or
side of the boat, and two on the other, with great dexterity, ie
order to avoid the paddles, not more than two seconds before°
the collision took place, and thus saved their lives. The steamer
was stopped, and a boat instantly lowered from the dayite'
which picked up one gentleman. The others were saved by
the skiff of the Henry, Captain Lambert, and other ships' boats!
the men in which displayed praiseworthy alacrity. They were
all taken to London in the Comet, and were provided with
dry clothing. The boat was cut in two, and the escape of the
gentlemen was really'miraculous.
A CAMELION-HORSE.—A French paper states
that a M. De Caux nas in his possession, at Voyau, Deer,
Trelon, a young handsome horse, that has already change, i 1'
colour three times. Till the horse was two years old he 012
a bay brown, then he became an iron-grey, and soon afterware
re-assumed his former colour. Now long locks of white harp
are growing on his back and all down his shoulders. k
expected that he will soon become a perfectly white horse.
At a coal-wharf in the Strand there is a black waggon-hors.
with a tuft of very long white hair growing from the upper
He is called the Dandy Duke, from wearing an Imperial.
The Salisbury Herald of Saturday reports the VC";
ceedings of a Society established for the relief of the r°°,,,
Clergy. Upon this occasion, among other donations, waste
grant to the perpetual curate of a village containing upW9
of 500 souls, who performs two services on the Sabbath,
no private property, a wife and two children dependent
him, and the whole of whose income from his curacy bes
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therto been only 301. Thirty pounds a year for a clergYlT?a,
and his family I Contrast this pittance—not 2s. a day--eble,
the immense revenue received by a Bishop, and then say "!
ther the recently passed Church Bill ought to be a final mea-
sure.

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BITHS.
On the 14th inst., at Burtonß
Cottage, Leintwardine, gerefo4'
shire, the lady of John Gwilliam, Esq., of a son and heir.
On the 22d inst., at Pengelly House. Cheshunt, Herts, the
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of the Hon. C. L. Buller, of a son and heir.
On the 23d inst., at Connaught-terrace, the lady of P. N.
Esq., of a son.
On the 21st inst., at Cheltenham, the lady of J. Skyward, Pl"'
of a daughter. Or°.
On the 23d inst., in Lansdowne-place, Brunswick-square;
H. Wakefield, of a daughter.
On the 18th inst., the lady of Major Dickson, of a daughter.
of *
On the 23d inst., in Robert-street, Adelphi, Mr. G. Cate*
daughter. goo'
On the 22d inst., at Datchet Vicarage, the lady of CaptaL
crief, of a daughter. pkieely
On the 20th inst., at Mitcham, Mrs. C. Rivington, of
square, of a son. „
On the 21st inst., the lady of John Lucius Dampier, -EA' ,
daughter. 03
On the 22d inst., at Streatham-hall, Mrs. Frederick Goa.s"'
a daughter.

On the 22d inst., Mrs. Christopher Cuff, of a daughter. .4
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On the 20th inst., at Sheffield, the lady of J. M. Savage'
Royal Horse Artillery, of a son. f WO.
On the 22d inst., at Ivy-lodge, Edgeware-road, the lady 0
Baynes, Esq., of a daughter.
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On the 23d inst., at TrM
inityARRIED Church, Chelsea. Lewin h
Esq., of Gunby Park, Lincolnshire, to Jane, second datigu"-
the late Rev. IL Peach, of Cheam, Surrey. r-;
On the 2.3 d inst., at Christ Church, J. Bankes Friend, ~
Woburn-square, to Ellen, youngest daughter of Richd. r.°‘,o
Esq., Treasurer of Christ's Hospital. Tss,
On the 23d inst., at St. Marylebone Church, Henry of
Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, to Mary Philippa, the youngest dauguk-
Capt. H. Bradburne, late of the Queen's Bays. -d e,
On the 23d inst., at St. Bride's Church, Mr. J. J. Burl),
Fleet-street, to Ellen, youngest daughter of tho late J. Pate,
of Freckenham.
On the 23d inst., Mr. Henry Austin, Bermondsey, to Emily,
youngest daughter of Robert Fauntleroy, Esq., of the
Kent-road.

DIED. pi.,
On the 22d inst., at Norwood, John Warrington Roger's
of Manchester-buildings, Westminster, aged 52. 0. feq"
1.,
On the 18th inst., at Devonport, aged 76, Daniel 4''
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surgeon and accoucheur. ' lie G'
On the 21st inst., at St. Nicholas, Isle of Thanet, Bricig
low, Esq. a 68'
On the 19th inst., at Kimnbolton, Huntingdonshire, %ie for
John Pierson, Esq., many years Coroner and High Cons,"
the Hundred of Leightonstone.
76. a
On the 12th inst., Mrs. Taylor, of East Retford, ag—..A r 9-4
On the 22d inst., aged 61, Elizabeth, relict of G. Fitche '
of Clarendon-place, Edgeware-road. greoo
On the 23d inst., aged 88, William Row, Esq., of.Fsge-
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Tottenham.
On the 13th inst., at Galway, Isaac Robson, Esq 2 ,Mnarizi$:1*
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the Provincial Bank of the same place, son of Isaac lio°- " i
late of the Paragon, Hackney.
On the 21st inst., at Islington, aged 73, Mrs. Le Diell, relict 0.
Mr. G. Le Dieu.
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On the Ist of July, at Alexandria, Maryetza, the wife o
Agnew, Esq., aged 21.
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On the 21st inst., at Datchet, Vice-Admiral Sir .I°'
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toms for upwards of 52 years.
On the 21st inst., at Trumpington, Cambridgeshire, john OW
nington, Esq.
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ReOionagthiee, 2Eostqh.,inmsat.r,inageeadrtsis,t Agnes, eldest child of the
dauThtethreoflOvithriliiniasint.,
HineoLroyndwonhm,itageheenodr- eldest
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Dartford, Kent.
On the 16th inst., Edwin Grant, Esq., surgeon,
gon, Clifton. st3,2,EAsqn.n,
usre'tbs
On the 21st inst., in Bulstrode-street, 111anchester-5,1, to
40, Edward Turner Bennett, Esq., F.L. S. , Ise., Secrets..,
0.
Zoological Society of London. Twiekenba_,
On the 23d inst., Mrs. Watson, Mf!E!1i::ff'..,:.....0,
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