The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-08 00:00:00

THE LATE HEAVY GALES.

Since the announcement of the loss of the St. David
steamer, while on; a passage:from Havre to Plymouth
and Liverpool, during the recent fearful gales, consider-
able sensation has prevailed at those ports, relative to
the number of persons who perished with her, end their
respective names ; and from the circumstance of the
commander, who was lost, being the sole owner, there is
very little probability of an accurate list of the unfortu-
nate sufferers ever being obtained.
As was apprehended in our recent notices of the
casualties along the coast, others of equally as melan-
choly character have occurred. A sloop laden with
coal, from Newport. Monmouthshire, in a passage to
Caldicot Point, was totally wrecked on the Cornish
coast, and all hands lost. Four bodies have
been washed ashore, and amongst them were those of Mr.
Williams, of Redrig, part owner, and the master, Mr.
Opton, who were found clasped in each others arms.
The other bodies seemed to be those of seamen, and
being naked, it is presumed that they intended to save
themselves by swimming.
Near Bude, on a shoal, about two miles distant, on
Saturday, was lost a schooner named the Ann, of St.
Ives, laden with copper ore, while proceeding from De-
veron to Swansea. The gale at the time was blowing
very high from the W.N.W., and one of the crew, in
attempting to take in a reef of the mainsail, was blown
from the yard arm, and, falling on the deck, was in-
stantly killed. The crew, by taking to the boats before
she struck, succeeded in saving themselves. Another of
the crew, however, was shockingly injured by being
jammed between the boat and the ship's side, and is not
expected to survive. The vessel became a wreck.
A brig called the Dorothea, of nearly 300 tons bur-
then, belonging to Sunderland, was wrecked about the
same period off Hayle, on the Devonshire coast, but,
fortunately for the crew (nine in number), they were
rescued by the pilot boats that were put off from that
place.
Two fatal collisions are reported to have occurred in
consequence of the violence of the gales. One hap-
pened on the night of the 28th ult., about four miles
south-west of Beachy Head, to an Oldenburgh schooner,
named the Aurora, of Riga' and bound for Bordeaux,
which was run down by the Thorwaldsen, barque, on a
voyage from Copenhagen to St. Thomas's. The collision
was of that fearful character that the schooner sunk
within a few minutes after she had been struck, one of
the crew going down with her, and was drowned. The
remainder, consisting of the master, his wife, a child,
and several seamen, managed to get on board the Thor-
waldsen. The latter vessel lost her bowsprit, and
seriously damaged her rigging, so muck so, that she was
obliged to run. into Portsmouth to repair the injury,
when the survivors of the sunken vessel were safely
landed. The other collision was attended with more
fatal results. It occurred off Brighton, on the 27th ult.,
when the ship Donor, from London, bound to Trieste,
came in contact with a French lugger and sunk her, the
crew perishing with her. The ship was immediately
brought to, and rendered what assistance they could ;
but through the darkness that prevailed, nothing could
be seen of the unfortunate creatures.
The Unicorn, of Seaton Sluice, Mr. Lumsden, master,
foundered on the morning of the 22d ult., when within
120 miles E.S.E. of Flamborough Head. Her crew took
to the boat, and were picked up by a vessel belonging to
Yarmouth, which landed them at Sunderland.-
Wreckers have made their appearance alone. the
Devonshire coast, and we regret to say, in considerable
numbers. On the Ness Indiaman going ashore, as already
reported in this journal, near Padstow, the coast-guard,
seeing the disposition of the crowds that flocked to the
beach to plunder the wreck, promptly gave notice to the
Custom-house, and the military were forthwith called out
to protect the property. Unfortunately the isle con-
' tinued, and the ship, during the two succeeding nights,
broke up, and became a total loss, when, notwithstanding
the vigilance of the men on duty, the pillage was carried
on by the miscreants to a large extent. A man and two
women were found dead on te beach, having drunk the
' rum washed ashore from the wreck to such an excess as
to cause their death. For several days past the coast-
guard have been searching the cottages for miles round,
and in many instances have found portions of the pro-
perty secreted in the dwellings. All the occupiers are
lodged in prison.

THE MURDER AT YARMOUTH.
EXAMINATION OF YARHAM.
(Abridged from the Bury Herald.)
After two remands for a week each, Samuel Yarham
was brought up before a full bench of magistrates,
assembled at the Gaol Hall, on Monday last, at ten
o'clock in the forenoon, on the charge of being a princi-
pal in the murder of Mrs. Candler. Mr. Tolver con-
ducted the prosecution, and Mr. S. B. Sherrington at-
tended as his solicitor. A large concourse of people
assembled in the street outside the gaol, although the
examination took place two hours earlier than had been
very generally announced by the authorities. Amongst
the crowd we observed Royal, who was acquitted at the
trial last year for the same offence. The Mayor'having
informed us last week that the examination would be a
public one, our reporter applied for admission ; but his
Worship sent a message stating that the examination
was a private one, and that no one would be allowed to
be present but those necessarily engaged. We believe
that the subjoined will be found a tolerably correct sum-
mary of the evidence adduced against Yarham, but we
cannot pledge ourselves to any great accuracy.
The superintendent of our police narrated the particu-
lars of his attempts to apprehend Yarham, and of his
taking him at Blakeney, in Gloucestershire.
The principal testimony against Yarham will be his
own evidence when admitted a witness against Royal,
dell, and Mapes, and a conversation which Mrs. Dick,
on oath, states that Yarham volunteered to her " about
three weeks after the trial."

It will be the object of the prosecution to prove that
Yarham, when admitted approver, did not state the whole
truth, which, if they succeed, according to the opinion
of the Attorney-General, will subject him to a proseca-
tion for the murder.
Mrs. Dick adhered to the statement which she has re-
cently, though not until to-day on oath, made, which
statement we have recently published.
Mr. Sherrington cross-examined Mrs. Dick on the
improbability of her not knowing Yarham, having been
examined in each others presence before the magistrates
on several occasions and at the trial; on her talking with
him for a quarter of an hour in the most public part of
the town, and making a confession, the effect of which, if
true, jeopardizes his own neck.
A witness was called of the name of Sims, a boy in the
service of Mr. Hume, of this town, as chimney-sweep,
for the purpose of strengthening the statement of Mrs.
Dick, as to the fact of any conversation at all having
passed between her and Yarham. We understand that
this boy failed to corroborate Mrs. Dick's statement as
to the time when she alleges the conversation to have
taken place. The boy Sima states that he climbed up
on the barrack palings the day after the murder (not
three weeks after the trial) and saw Mrs. Dick and Yar-
ham in earnest conversation together.
Mr. Catchpole, solicitor, was called, who proved that
he came home front the Angel Inn, where he had been
dining, about half-past one on the morning of the murder,
and was let in by Yarham, who was dressed. Yarham
made no communication to him about anything having
happened at Mrs. Candler's (whose house, it will be re-
membered, was separated only by a thin boarded parti-
tion), nor was he made aware of it until the police came
and called him up shortly after he had been in bed. Yar-
ham went with him into the shop, and saw the body of
deceased ; he said he had beets awake all the evening,
and had heard no noise of any kind.
Police-constable Johnson, and ex-police officer Waller,
proved the trying of Mrs. Candler's door and shutters,
and finding the body of deceased behind the counter, in
the manner described by them at the inquest and trial.
J. B. Bales, sergeant-at-mace, stated that the day
after the murder he went to the Denes, where the money
was found, and examined several foot-marks, some
which, on comparing them with Yarham's shoes,
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almost literally the same as deposed to on the trial.
We have been shown a letter, dated Maidstone, April
24th, 1845, and bearing the London post-mark, the con-
tents of which prove that Mrs. Dick must have erred in
stating that the conversation between Yarham and her
thetook9th,
place three weeks after the trial. The trial was on
and he must, according to the date of this letter.
have left Yarmouth on the 23d.

COURT-MARTIAL AT CHATHAM.
CHATHAM, JAN. 7.-A district court-martial as-
sembled yesterday at the General Court-martial-room,
at this garrison, for the trial of Colour-Sergeant Wm.
Gordon, No. 223, of the 18th Regiment of Foot, by
order of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, in conse
quence of his Grace having received certain communica-
tions from Colonel Thomas Weare, K.H., commanding
the provisional battalion.
It appears that a Jew named Lucas, at Chatham,
lately obtained the serving of the depot of the 18th, and
in the month of December last, in consequence of a
recruit joining the depot, Lucas sent in a military
kit for his use, and it being the first received by the
pay-sergeant, the kit was inspected by Sergeant Gor-
don and the captain of the company, when it was
found not to be in accordance with the pattern-
kit kept at the depot, and therefore it was rejected
and returned to the out-fitter, Mr. Lucas. Mr. Lucas,
finding that the sergeant was the principal in the cause
of the rejection of the kit, wrote a letter to Colonel
Weare, intimating that be could not supply a better re-
gimental kit on account of his paying the sergeant a per
centage. From this the sergeant was placed under
arrest and brought to trial.
Witnesses having been examined,
Captain Geo. F. Call, of the 18th Foot, produced
exact copies of certificates of good conduct from many
high and distinguished officers who had known the pri-
soner—Sergeant Gordon, some 23 years, and others 20,
for honourable and upright conduct as a militaryman,
and worthy the esteem of every officer whom he has bad
the honour of serving under both abroad and at home,
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and that in case of his retiring from the service, several
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their utmost fur his welfare.
The decision of the Court willnotbe known until ti their their
bounden nden
duty testimonials
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con-
firmed by the Horse Guards.

Mr. Newman and his friends will remove from
Littlemore.to a college near Birmingham, where they will
pursue their ecclesiastical studies under the superinteedence
of the Right Rev. Drs. Walsh and Wiseman, Bishops of the
Midland District. The Rev. Messrs. Capes, Collvns, Neave,
and Estcourt, remain at Prior Park, near Bath ; Mr. Oakeley
enters at St. Edmund's College, in the diocese of London.
Mr. Simpson, of St. John's College, Oxford, has, we under-
stawl, been received into the Roman Catholic Church.—Post.