The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-07 00:00:00

KINGSTON POLICE,

elderly man, named B(;.-wird ICcarucg, was :,:-.au,.ght
before Mr. John the Mayor of Kingston, cllarged
with being disorderly.
The defendant, vho is between fifty and sixty years
old, and apparently in a most miserable state, was for-
merly in very good circumstances, ar.d was brought np
at one of the UniverAtte;, and received a classical edu-
cation. In consequence, however, of his depraved
habits, all his friends forsook him, and he was reduced
to the most-abject state of distress, and has latterly
.got
'his living by mending old saucepans, retiring at night
to A miserable tent in Oil. Milt-lane, Kingston.. The
charge against him on the present occasion was, that,
while very drunk, lie had ;one to a beer-shop, kept by
j a person named Shaw, and, when requested to leave the
house, he refused to do so, and assaulted the servant
who attempted to remove him. As he had acted in a
similar manner on previous occasions, Mr. Shaw gave
him into custody.
Mr. ICING asked the defendant what answer he had
to make to the chaii*.t., of assault ?
The defendant cominenced an address to the Magis-
trate in Latin, but he iNpped him, and told him that
this proof of the education-he had received only aggra-
vated his misconduct. It was melancholy to see a man
possessing the advantages of the defendant conduct him-
self in such a manner ; but he felt himself called upon,
under the circumstances, to commit him for seven days
to the House of Coi'rection.

The defendant was accordingly conveyed to gaol.

A RO E'S HISTORY.
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A convict named Thomas Rainbow, who was convicted
at the last Summer Assizes, and ordered to be transported
for life, and who has recently been removed to the
Justitia hulk, at Woolwich, preparatory to his being
sent out of the country, made the following extraordinary
statement of his career of crime, to the governor of the
gaol, prior to his departure. His statement was as fol-
lows :—He said that when a boy about seven years old,
he was employed asia bird keeper in the corn fields, and
ho saw the fine pheasaiits.walking through the corn, and he
thought he should like some of them, and upon making in-
quiry of some young men in the village, he was informed
how to catch them, and he bought two rat traps or gins, but
he said he did not tslake much of them, as he sold them
to the young men for a trifle, but in a very short time he
found a better market,- and this made him look out for

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hares, and led him on to visit gardens and orchards,
stealing fowls, ducks, and anything else that came in
his way. Soon after this he fell in with a gang of young
poachers. and they were not satisfied with the profits of
day poaching, but took a worse step by going out night
poaching, and spending their days half drunk in the beer-
shops, and they then sallied out at night armed with guns,
and took all the game they could lay their hands on. In
1830 he, with one of his comrades, was committed for house-
breaking, but on the trial they were acquitted. In 1832
he and another were committed for night-poaching. bat
there was some difficulty as to their identity, and the
Grand Jury ignored the bill. In the same year he was
again committed, with two of his companions, for bur-
glary, and was again acquitted. The next assizes he was
tried for fowl-stealing, - and was again fortunate enough
to be acquitted. In 104, however, the law overtook
him. He was convicted of night-poaching with gins,
and was sentenced to. be kept to hard labour for twelve
months. Since this time, he says, he was in ten
or twelve different gaols for various offences.
In 1837 he and two. of his companions com-
mitted a highway:, robbery and left the neighbour-
hood and went into. Wales, where they got work in
the iron mines, and earned about eighteen shillings a
week ; but this did not do for them, and they soon re-
turned to their old courses, and went from place to
place stealing from houses and robbing every one they
could on their way. They seldom, however, he said,
committed a fresh offence until they had disposed of all
the booty which they had obtained from their preceding
act of plunder. They had a great deal of cash and a
number of watches, and sometimes got hold of some
plate, but they had no difficulty in disposing of
the stolen property, no matter of what description
it was. On !-being . interrogated on the subject,
he said that he did not recollect ever hurting any body
that they robbed ; but if any resistance was offered, they
gave them only a bit of a squeeze, and they were then
generally glad enough to give up all they had, without
any more violence being necessary. The convict, in
conclusion, admitted that he had been concerned in more
than a hundred and fifty robberies, axd that he knew of
as many more having been committed by his companions,
but in which he had taken no part. The country may
congratulate itself on being rid of such a hardened ruffian
as this fellow has owned himself to be.

GALLANT AND ENERGETIC
CONDUCT.

In April last, whilst her Majesty's ship Conway was
lying off Whampoa, a party, consisting of Licut. Bea•
don (receatly made Commander), Mr. Smith, Assist-
ant-Surgeon, and Mr. Tournour, midshipman, and
fourteen men, let her in a large boat, and pro-
- ceeded to Macao, where they stayed a few days, and
left that place to return to the Conway about noon on
Easter Manday. A fine breeze carried them safely
over half their distifire, when, it being too dark to see
the numerous fishing- takes laid down at the mouth of
the river, or to discover any of the landmarks, they cast
anchor about midnight. At one A.M., on the 30th,
Licut. Beadon. feeling the boat ride uneasily,, gate or-
ders for the cable to be cut, but, before even this could
be done, a heavy squall took her, and she filled head
foremost, becoming instantly a wreck. The miserable
crew clung on till daylight in spite of a terrific tempest,
accompanied by violent thunder and lightning. Seve-
ral junks passed and avoided them (which, perhaps, is
not surprising), but, to their shame be it spoken, an
European boat, belonging to the same people at Ma-
cao, passed the helpless group with equal apathy. At
length, after being washed about for. some hours on
Its which Lieutenant Beadon, almost single-handed,
bad
nneold
man they
Lieutenantdescri ed a
cocstructed, for, with the exception of a man and
a boy, the iseve were too panic-struck to render much
assistance
fiscehini
n-;esjutta
itteong thCialaing together,
one
Beadon forbade any Whining supplication, but ordered
the men to give three goodlearty English cheers ; the
good old fisherman (who proved himself a Samaritan
truly, whatever his creed) waved his hand, and
instantly bore down to their assistance. and picked
up their scattered and exhausted party, and
gave them food and covering. Lieutenant Bea-
don offered him forty dollars to take them to her
Majeity's ship Welleslekthat being the nearest). He
did so, carefully concealing them from his own country-
men. They sustained the loss of one man, a carpenter,
named Shroushire ; he was washed off the deck when
too much exhausted to regain his hold, and sunk to rise
no more. Lieutecant Beadon endeavoured, during
fourteen hours of awful and appalling danger, to stimu-
late the crew to exertion, telling them it was a mockery
of God to give themselves up to prayer without at the
same time using the bodily powers and mental faculties
he ,(1 given them for the preservation of their lives ;
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but immtZliately they were on board the junk he ad-
dressed the mt.:" u
eon the uwful warning of the uncer-
tainty of life they tljust received, exhorting them
to
"umencement of a new life, by
'•'s own urfitness and un-
tmhaekheetibpantftohende,raanodf tiahme
ecititing
!Joon their
imploring each to offer one up in his own heart.
worthiness to offer ugh prayer of than.:.c..giving. earnestly
arrival on board her Majesty's ship Welle;lPY they
were warmly welcomed by Captain Maitland and of
ficers ; the former immediately ordered eighty &Bare
of the public money to be paid the old C'ninaman, in
addition to the forty Lieutenant Beadon had promised
from his private purse. Mr. Beadon was a consider-
able loser by this unfortunate occurrence, having lost his
sword, dressing-case, spy-glass, clothes, bedding, some
silver, a variety of handsome presents he had bought
to send to his friends in England (from wham he has
been separated beyond the usual period of foreign ser-
vice), also his desk, containing all his private papers
and sundry articles of comfort for the ship's company,
purchased with his own' money, about 3C/. worth, and
a variety of other things, making altogether not less
than 801. or 1001. worth.— United Service Gazette.

ALARMING FIRE AT CHILDWALL.—On
Sunday forenoon, between eleven and twelve o'clock, a
fire was discovered to be raging in a large Dutch barn,
at Childwall-house, a farm belonging to the Marquis of
Salisbury. Immediately word was sent to the different
fire stations in Liverpool, when two of the parish en-
gines, and the West of England, accompanied by a large
body of firemen, proceeded to the spot. Fortunately
there was very little wind, which enabled the firemen to
confine the fire to the building in which it broke out. In
the barn were deposited the produce of thirteen acres
of wheat and four acres of oats, value about 6001.,
the property of the incoming tenant, Mr. Ro-
gerson, for whom great sympathy was expressed,
as he is a very intelligent, respectable, and indus-
trious man. The7re was also about 250/. worth of hay,
belonging to Mrs. Ashcroft, the outgoing tenant; a good
part of W hich , we believe, was sold, but not delivered.
The damage to the building, to the amount of 20C/., we
hear, is not protected by insurance. All the firemen
exerted themselves with great spirit in mounting the
burning piles of straw, and throwing them down so as
to enable the water from the engines to penetrate, in
which occupation they were at times almost suffocated.
J. S. Leigh, Esq., of- Childwall-hall, and Mr. White-
house, of the West of England Fire-office, were early
on the spot, directing and assisting in the suppression o
the fire. By twelve o'clock at night the fire was so far
subdued that the parish engine and firemen were
withdrawn, leaving the West of England engine
(which office, we hear, is principally interested) to re-
main on the spot all night and all next day, to play upon
the burning masses as.they were removed to the adjoin-
ing fields, two of whiali were covered with cartloads of
the partially-burnt hay and straw. It is fortunate that
the farm buildings on the other side of the yard did not
catch fire, as also those in the occupation of Mr. l'ye, the
adjoining tenant, in which case the amount of loss would
have been 5,00C1. or GOOCL at least, We are sorry that
there is reason to fear that the fire is not the result of
accident, the grounds for which we are not at present at
liberty to state.—Liverpool Courier.
A young man nrrned Benin, of Doncourt aux
Templiers, in the Meuse,
sought a young woman
of thatplace in marriage, but her parents per-
emptorily refused their
consent, .although the at-
tachment was mutual. Yielding to the violent feel-
ing thus excited, he prevailed upon his sweetheart
to give him a rendezvous in a neighbouring wood,
where he, immediately on her approaching, shot her
with a gun, and killed her instantaneously. Taking up
the lifelesS•and disfigured body, he carried it home to
the poor girl's mother, and, laying it down at her feet,
said, "There's your daughter ; marry her to whom you
will !" He then fled, and has not since been seen. •