The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-11 00:00:00

THE LATE STORM.

The storm which raged here with so much severior is
the beginning of the week, was felt with equal force a ow;
the east coast. At Berwick, on Tuesday night, av€ ssel
from Bremen came ashore at the Magdalen Fields, raid,
melancholy to relate, all on board perished • a few fr ag-
ments drifted ashore from the wreck, and which were
found next morning, were all that remained to tell tie
tale. On the same night another vessel attempted to
take the harbour, at no time a very eau underta2l-
- and peculiarly dangerous in. a rough sea, suclL a;
then raged along the coast .; in the boiling flood the
helm lost its power, and she was driven- ashore on
Spittal Beach. The crew were got out in safety, and
next morning the vessel herself was got off the be ich,
and brought up to the quay. On Thursday ruewn.;.ng
a small. schooner, trading between Hull and Oh s-
gow, through the eniiin Canal, and which had encoun -
tered the gait? of the previous day, attempted to take,
Berwick harbour, with four feet water in her hold ;
after much difficulty she succeeded, the storm having
somewhat abated of its violence. It. is also reported
that the Eclipse steamer,' trading between Newcastle
and Hull,
.was lost in the Ole, but we have not been
able to ascertain the particulars. The streams on the
east coast were much flooded. The small rivulet, the
Eye, which, taking its rise among the Lammermoors,
falls into the sea at Eyemouth, hat; burst its banks on
Thursday, and had made sad havoc amongst the tur-
nips and stocks in the fields on its sides. E9me of these •
were standing amongst the water, and one t:'eld of tur-
nips, a little way above Ay ton, was entirely. immersed
in the flood. The Esk, the Water of Leith, and the
other streams in our own vicinity, were also much
flooded.

GLASGOW,—Sinee Monday the weather has been vury
ungenial ; throughout Wednesday rain fell in torrent
and yesterday was dull, and showery. Fortunately littlo
grain is out in this district, if we except the high lands
in the precincts of Cumbernauld, where much oats, barley,
and black victual, are still exposed. A single ivetelz of
dry breezy weather would, however, take every
from the field to the stack-yard.—Heratl.
RoxnunonsurnE.—Since Sunday last this district of
the country has been visited by constant rain, accon-
panied by vi3lent gusts of wind, which have proved very
injurious to the crops still lying out. On Wednesday
morning the Tweed and the Teviot rose to a great height,
and the other tributaries of the Tweed, particularly the
Eden, have swollen to such an extent, as to overflow
the adjoining banks and fields.—Kelso Mail of Thursday.
DUNDEE, OCT. B.—From Friday till Monday we had
fair weather, with moonlight ; but on Monday night it
began to rain. On Tuesday the rain continued, with
the day exceedingly stormy—so much so, that the mail
was an hour and a half later than usual, and the Edin-
burAt steamer did not venture to brave the boisterous
surge ; in fact, it blew a perfect hurricane. ThrOugh-
out the night it cleared up ; but it rained again yester-
day, and it is to be feared that the late weather must
prove detrimental to those crops still outstanding.
LEEDS.—On Monday night the rain fell in such tor-
rents that the Bradford Beck ove:flowed its banks, and
the lowest parts of the town were it; .consequence inun-
dated. The water, however, subsidei without doing any
material damage. The barometer oit Tuesday night
sunk to the exceedingly low point or 0. 15-100ths.
Heavy rain fell in the night, which caused the rivers to
overflow their banks. In the south and west ofngland
the weather has been extremely unfavourable during; the
last fortnight.—Leeds Mercury. •

FLOOD.—On Wednesday week, this
neighbourhood was visited with a very heavy fall of rain,
from which the crops have suffered severely. The rain
fell in torrents, such as we are little accustomed to (ex-
cept, perhaps, occasionally for a few minutes during a
thunder-storm in summer), and continued, without in-
termission, till nearly eleven. The Isla and her diffe-
rent tributaries became rapidly swollen, and by the time
the rain began to abate, had assumed rather an
alarming aspectthe whole haughs, from brae to brae,
where the Burn of Haughs joins the Isla, being
under water. The consequent destruction and loss of
crop was great, the rise being so very sudden that it
was in many cases impossible to save the crops within
reach. At times, the water might have been said to
be covered with, corn, giving active-employment to the
people along the banks, who were intent on saving as
much as possible from destruction. Here might be seen
a couple of houacks, as they are called, going bodily down
the stream, and nodding to each other as they passed—
there a whole bevy of stooks leaving their quiet rest ;
and, instead of to the stag.kyard, betaking themselves t 3
the stream, where, after being tossed for a while on the
troubled waters, they sought shelter in some turning of
the stream, or went far beyond their owners' ken.
Owing to the late unfavourable weather—which has
prevented the crops from being housed, though nearly
the whole are cut—there was much more at the mercy
of the waters than we remember to have seen at once on
any former year ; and several of the owners have tuffered
severely. But, great as the loss of crop is, we would
be happy were this all. We regret, however, that we
have to add the loss of life, in circumstances of a pecu-
liarly distressing character. The sufferers were a bro-
ther and siskr of the name of Wilson, children of a
small crofter in Cairney, the eldest being but about four-
teen years of age. It would appear that, having to pass
over the Burn of Ardonald, they found it much swollen
tthoooumgh, ucthfosro,hiasslitthtele sboiyst,etrhteoebldeeastbloof
ttohewtattiveo,
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fellow, therefore, took her on his back and
entered the
water, but even he was not able to resist the increasing
force of the stream ; and, rather than
hold of his
sister, struggled till the current carried both down, and
they perished together.—Aberdeen Herald.

BRIGHTON, SUNDAY. Another dreadful
gale from the south came on here this morning. Some
eighteen fishing-boats were out, but fortunately they
arrived all safe in the course of the day. Such a con-
tinuation of hurricanes and rain has not been witnessed
here for many y ears.
• A GOOD JOKE.—The
le late Duke of Richmond
.
wts one of the kindest hearted sportsmen. I ever knew.
His ultimate death, as every one knows, was owing to a
bite from a pet fox that had previously become rabid.
I shall never forget my first interview with his Grace.
,Shartlyafter I joined the sth (we were then quartered
Dublin), I was ordered on duty as officer of the guard
at tho Castle ; his Grace was Lord-Lieutenant ; the
Board of Green Cloth held its sittings, and the officers
on guard were strange hands just arrived. We were in
the room assigned us near the Castle gates, when a care-
less free-and-easy sort of half sportsman, half groom,
strolledin to us, and sitting down to our table, began to talk
of the sports of the season and the fun then going on
in the Irish metropolis, I did not care to interrupt him;
but Delville, a young Cornet of Dragoons, looked at him
through a glass, and made one or two very contemptuous
replies to the stranger's observations, which, so far from
being affronted at, the other took in great good humour,
chuckling with laughter, and kicking his legs under the
table as if actually dancing with delight. At last Delville
deliberately rang the bell. The orderly answered it.
" Orderly, ivlio is that fellow?" asked Delville. Judge
how he felt when the reply was "His Grace the Lord
Lieutenant !" " Good day, gentlemen! Good day, gen-
tlemen!" said his Grace, laughing heartily as he went
out of the room—Old Sporting -Magazine for October.

EVENING SUN

THE MURDER AT AMPTHiLL.
' On Saturday an inquest, which had been twice pre-
..viously adjourned, was resumed before - Mr. Eagles,
Coroner for Bedford, at Ridg,mont _House, the residence
of Mr. Crouch, an opulent farmer ~Jf Hidgmont, new'
Ampthill, Bedfordshire, to investigate. the circumstance.,
connected with the death of Miss Mary Anne Crouch
aged 19, his niece, and daughter of Mr. William Crouch.,
of Chalfont

The deceased, together with the whae family, had'
been poisoned, and suspicion alighted on .Ann Lee, th;.,
cook in the service ut Mr. Crouch, who was about to
leave her situation, and a male servant:named-George
Peppot. _

Mr. Greene, solicitor, of Woburn, was in attendance.
on behalf of the family of Mr. Crouch; 'and Mr. Richards.
solicitor, of Ampthill, on behalf of the prisoner Ann Lee.
Peppot had no adviser.

From the evidence read over by, the Coroner, it ap-
pears the circumstances were as fullow:-- ,

On the morning of Saturday, the 25th the cousin
of deceased,. a, young lady, named Dover, who was on a
visit to Mr. Crouch's family, at Ridgmont, prepared to
make some cakes, as the deceased and other friends were
expected on a. visit the following day. The batter being
prepared, Miss Dover required some yeast, but being
unable to procure any, she desired the cook, Ann Loe,
to let her have a little soda. The accused, Lee, said she
had some ready for Use in the spice-box, and handed it
to Miss Dover, who mixed it with the batter. On the
same day the family dined off rump-steaks, partridges„
and sago-puddings, which were partaken of by the whole
of them. Shortly after dinner the whole of the family-
were taken very ill, and vomited violently. On the fol-
lowing day(Sunday) the deceased, accompanied by a.
friend, Miss Ann Gazlee, arrived on a visit from Chal-
font. They partook of wine, and ate .a., considerable
quantity of the cakes which Miss Dover had made..
Miss Gazlee, however, ate the most, and shortly after
was seized with violent fits of vomiting, and -brought
great deal off her stomach. The deceased, hOwever,,
was unable to do so,. and, notwithstanding medical aid.
was called in, she died on the day following. A post
nwrtem examination of the body was subsequently made,,
arni,the contents of the deceased's stomach subjected to
cht mical analysation ; and it was discovered that they
wer, o impregnated with a large quantity of arsenic. The
renittinder of the steaks were discovered to be impreg-
nated, with the same deadly poison, which the medical
men de, Glared to be the cause of the deceased's death.
Betsey' Galon, the housemaid, deposed to having eaten.
a small vantity of the batter' with which Miss Dover
was malting- the cakes, and being very ill for two or
three days afterwards, but %%as unable to account for the
cause of it.

Mr. Roberts, a grocer of Ampthill, proved that the
prisoner Peppot, a few days before the occurrence, had.
purchased a quantity of Arsenio of him at his shop, say-
ing it was for his master,. Mr. Crouch, to destroy rats
with. He had since, howkwer, ascertained that he had
purchased it without the „slightest knowledge of his
master.

The CORONER asked the acct..seq parties if they wished.
to say anything in the matter ? They both . declared
their innocence, and Peppot statesi that he dined on the
remainder of the partridges after they came from the
dining-room on the Saturday ;_ and :Jet!, the cook, said
she ate some of the steaks, and neithe,- 'of them felt any
ill effects from having done so. They cs mid not account
for the soda and pepper being mixed with arsenic. Pep-
pot declared that he bought the arsenic ot..Mr. Roberts
to kill rats, and nothing else; that he never put it in the
cupboard where the spice or pepper was kept, and that it
was all used for the.purpose he stated.
The CORONER summed up at considerable length, ex-
pressive of regret that there was no distinct evidence to
convict any party of having committed the horrible and.
inhuman crime which had led to the deceased's death..

The Jury then retired, and, at a late hour, return.'d
the following verdict That the deceased Miss Mary
Anne Crouch, on the 27th of September last, died fronr.
the effects of poison, in eating a cake in which soda was
used instead of yeast, which soda contained arsenic wil-
fully and maliciously put into the same, by some person
or persons unknown, for the purpose of destroying life."
On the delivery of the verdict, Ann Lee exclaimed,
" If she had done 'it, it was by accident, and not wil-
fully and maliciously ; that was wrong."
The prisoners were then told by the Ccroner, as far as
he was concerned they were released from custody.

THE PRINCESS ROYAL.
The steamer of this name belonging to the Brighton apt il
Shoreham Stearn Company, of 45 horse power; and fitted'.
with Mr. Smith's patent screw propeller, has furnished
several proofs of her extraordinary capabilities as a tug,
during the late gales, at Shoreham.harbour, on Ihe Sussex
coast, having on one occasion towed out two large brigs at
on; time against the wind, and a tide setting in at'the rate
of four miles an hour. Last week she took put a brig,
,when it was deemed impracticable by almost every one
present to make the attempt, owing to ' the heavy seas
that was then rolling into the harbour. The Princess,
however, accomplished her task nobly ; and, to give:
some notion of the violence of the gale, the brig, in sect—
ting reefed topsails, carried away both topmasts imme-.
diately after the steamer had cast off, and was obliged!
to' run for Newhaven, the first port to the eastward of"
Brighton, to repair the damage.
On Saturday, the 2d inst., the Princess Royal.' went
.to sea with ease, whilst the Dart steamer (a vessel of
120-horse power) which left her moorings five minutes
later, was for more than half an hour between the. pier-
heads, try:ng with all her power to get out, which she
dialwhen the tide slackened, after being drifted eastern
towards the harbour several times ; thus showing the
disadvantage the cumbrous paddle-boxes and wheels
labour under in a strong wind and rough sea ; whereas
the propeller, from its protected situation under watts,
maintains its power uniformly, and prevents *the vessel
:loosing her way at intervals, which is' the case when the.:
paddles are lifted out of the water by the rolling or.
pitching of the vessel, whereby, from the inequality of •
the steam upon the tow-rope, it is frequently broken, and
the risk of considerable damage to the ship is incurred.
Such practical results prove the superiority of the
screw over the paddle-wheel for general purposes, and
there can be but little doubt much advantage is derived
from placing the means of propulsion in the after part of
th a vessel, and being, as it were, shielded from the in-
fheoce of strong currents by the body of the vessel; and,
Nate7its 'rating directly on the counter-current, 'or dead
v
doubtless accounts for the foregoing cireustanot.
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