The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-02 00:00:00

AMERICAN PAPERS.

(FURTHER EXTRACTS.)
(From the Philadelphia Gazelle.)
HORRID MURDER ON THE DELAWARE.—The par-
ticulars of the following dreadful occurrence were made
known at the Mayor's office this morning by Captain
Benjamin Reynolds, master of the schooner Oread, of
Eastport, Maine.

The schooner was bound to Bristol, Bucks county,
for a load of coal. About eight o'clock last evening,
when abreast of Frankford, a strong ebb tide compelled
them to drop anchor. After doing so, and making all
secure, the captain and mate turned in, leaving one man
and a boy, besides the cook, on deck, and requesting to
be called when the tide turned.

Some time in the night the cook, whose name is
James Morris, fell upon the man that was left on the
deck, killed him, and, as the body is not to be found,
the presumption is that he was thrown overboard ; then
struck the boy on the side of the head with an axe,
wounding him severely, and depriving him of his senses.
After some time he recovered, and the cook came up
to him, and told him he would kill him if he spoke or
made the least noise.

Soon after, it is supposed, he left the vessel, as the
boy, fearful that all on board had been killed, remained
in the forecastle until relieved by the captain and mate.
The watches of the captain and mate were both sto-
len, as also the clothes of the hands. The boat in which
the cook made his escape was left ashore.
The name of the boy is Edward Prime, a resident
of Eastport. He was taken early this morning to the
hospital, where his wounds were dressed, and all at-
tention will be paid to him.
The villain who perpetrated this deed of blood was
shipped in this city only yesterday.
Mayor Swift immediately despatched some of his
officers in pursuit of the murderer. as also a posse to
search for the body of the murdered man.
P.S. Since writing the foregoing, we have conversed
with Captain Reynolds, who states that there can be
no manner of doubt as to the unhappy fate of the man
above referred to. The forward part of the deck was
covered with blood, as also the night-head and side of
the vessel towards the bow.
The name of the unfortunate man is Aaron Cross.
The boy, it appears, was not upon deck, but asleep in
the forecastle. Hearing a noise on deck, he put his
head up through the scuttle, when he received a blow
with an axe ; another blow was aimed at him, which
missing him, broke away a portion of the companion.
After lying some time the cook came and felt him, to
see if he was dead. After ascertaining that he was
not, threatened his life if he spoke. The cook after-
wards went into the cabin, where the captain and
mate were asleep, and took therefrom two watches.
A hatchet was found, with which, if they had awaked,
it was, no doubt, his intention to despatch them. 'lle
axe was found o❑ deck, smeared with blood.
Morris is a black, about five feet seven inches in
height, stout built, and somewhat pitted with the small-
pox. He was seen in the city about four o'clock this

o'clock line for New York. He has a small trunk with
him.

FIRE AT HADDINGTON.—We are informed by a gen-
tleman from the vicinity of Haddington, about four miles
from the permanent bridge, that a serious coal tgration
occurred in that village last night about eleven o'clock,
at the country residence of Mr. Potts, of this village.
The dwelling was totally consumed, the inmates
barely escaping in their night clothes. A portion of the
furniture was saved with great exertions.
SUDDEN BEREAYEMENT.—MOUrRiIIg has been sud-
denly carried into the bosoms of four families at Port-
land, by the deaths of five young ladies, who were
drowned in the harbour. A party had been made up
to visit the ships of war, then lying in Portland har-
bour ; it consisted of nine persons, three lads and six
young women. They embarked in a sail-boat, or yacht.
called the Banner, and after going on board the men-of-
war, and cruising among the islands, were returning,
when the boat was struck by a flaw and immediately
fell over on her side and filled. Five of the young
women had just gone into the cabin, on account of the
heat ; the other and the three lads were on deck. A
small boat was attached to the Winner, which one of
the lads cast off tr.id rescued the other two and the
maiden, but the five in the cabin perished. Their bo-
dies were recovered by some gentlemen who were in an-
other boat, at some distance, and hastened to the relief
of the Winner; but half an hour elapsed before tile
sunken boatcould be sufficiently raised to extricate them,
and
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five
cc life
%lio"p'eerreisi'h'aeidrhare, Frances E.
Ingraham, Julia Piumer, Adeline Thuston, and Eliza-
beth and Caroline Ilsley, the latter two aged 11 and 13.
Mr. John Gill, for many years a citizen of Baltimore,
was instantly killed on Saturday morning, at 8 o'clock,
near his residence in Baltimore County, by being
thrown fro)) his cart and the horse falling on his body
and head, breaking all his ribs, and entirely shattering
hisskull.—Baltimore Patriot.

LOSS OF THE STEAM-BOAT PoCAHONTAS —The
St. Louis Gazette of August 22d, says :—We learn by
the Leavanworth, which arrived this morning from the
Missouri, that the steamboat Pocahontas, on her down-
ward trip from Couicil Buffs, was snagged ten miles
below Big Platte, and will be a total lots,
ANOTHER VESSEL BURNED.—The Mobile Register
of .August 06 states that the schooner Black Hawk,
C. A. M'Near, master, left New York on the 6th of
July, with little. On the 19th of August, at 12 o'clock,
Pan., 175 miles to the northward end westward of
Tortugas, smoke was discovered issuing through the
bulkhead into the cabin. The Captain secured a few
articles 01 clothing, half a barrel of bread, and a few
pounds of beef, when the smoke drove them on deck ;
the cabin windows and doors were secured and fastened
down in fifteen minutes after the fire was first disco-
vered ; the next morning the fire had burned through
the deck in three places ; planks were nailed over the
holes, and on the •)2(1 she made Mobile Point, came
over the bar, and proceeded immediately to town. She
was stripped and moored on the shore opposite the city,
and scuttled. On opening the hatches the tire burst out
fore and aft, and was still burning at the time the ac-
count was written. The vessel and cargo it was pre-
sumed would be a total loss.
Tile cargo consisted of
684 casks lime, 506 kegs and 10 cases paints, and 43
pieces granite.

‘‘ Lord Morpeth, --
"MASS nousEs."—The following paragraph
is copied from the
_Dublin Mail of last evening :
(Sunday) in the Roman Catholic Chapel in Niarborough-
street, suddenly took his departure for England in the
Lordship, were t) be found some members of the Vi
afternoon. HLordship
His was not
after having heard High Mass yetcrday
singular in his attend-
ance at the Maks-houstAmongst the other distinguished
performers who graced the hi h altar in company with his
regal household—the Right Hon. T. F. Kennedy, the
Scotch Repealer ; a son of the Bishop of Kildare, and an
ce-
ex-apothecary."—lt is a lie that Mr. Kennedy is, or ever
was a repealer. It is true that Lord Morpcth was pre-
sent at the Catholic Cathedral, and the other personages
mentioned, including a son of the Bishop of Kildare. But,
did his Lordship stain his dignity, or
put his Protestantism
into question, by listening to the celebration of that wor-
ship which his ancestors attended for a thousand years.
Not his dignity certainly, for Kings and Emperors still
bow down before a Catholic Altar—but his Protestantism?
Lord Morpeth needs no defence—be asks for none; he
went to the Catholic Cathedral to hear Father Mathew,
the Apostle of Temperance, deliver a sermon, and he was,
we are assured by those who were present, abundantly re-
paid by the simple and eloquent earnestness of the Rev,
preacher. —Dublin Evening Post.
ANOTHER FACTORY GIRL SEVERELY IN-
„HIRED BY AN UPRIGHT SHAFT BEING LEFT EXPOSED.—JH
your paper of the 22d
of Au ust last (Mr. Hayworth
writes), you gave a full report
of the action at the Liver-
pool Assizes, by Lord Ashley, on behalf of a girl named
Cottarell, against Messrs. Stocks and Son, for grievous
injuries suiitaned by the girl in their mill, by their having
g
neglected to box an upright shaft, when the defendants
slid to pay l 0.0,!. to the girl, together with all tbePOnses
or'
as between tittospey and-client.- Another case of tho genie
sort would have been brought tod trial
Lhad Ashle d not ts
he
party submitted to the term dictate V y
solicitor, Mr. Law, a few days before. —.llianciiester
I
s
Guardian.

THE REGISTRATIONS.

MIDDLESEX.

The Revising Barristers met yesterday at the Vestry
Room, Church-lane, Limehouse.
(Before Mr. COVENTRY.)
The lists revised by Mr. Coventry were those of the
parishes of All Saints Poplar, Ratcliffe, St. Paul Shad-
well, and St. Mary Stratford Bow.