The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-27 00:00:00

LATEST PARTICULARS.

TWELTE o'CeocK.—SinCe&al;;;;;;s written, the
boy Leonard Tutchin, who is still lying in Mr. Sewell's
surgery, has made a statement, which, it true, goes a
great way to criminate one or more persons as having
caused the catastrophe. He informed the reporter, and
also Mr. Fairbrother, that whilst he was on the stairs,
near the money-taker's box, the parties standing near
him were amusing themselves by elbowing and squeez-
ing the persons in advance of them, so as to prevent
their moving either backwards or forwards. Not
cectent with so doing, they kept up a continued
shower of orange-peel and other things until the
shouts of the people became quite deafening. He
bee.g,ed of the parties to let him pass, as he felt the heat
so oppressive, but they refused, and kept pushing him
Er:' in one direction and then in another. At length
offered one man, whom he says he should know again,
eence if he would let him pass, but the only reply he
IT:de was the following, " No, you are here, and we shall
ge you up as close as we can." He (the lad) then
.reamed out murder, when one of the men laid hold of
under the arms, and, having lifted him up, threw
over the rails on the heads of the people below.
11- fell upon those on the lower landing, when one of
them, a lad, cried out, " Oh, I am killed," and never
spoke afterwards. He saw the person lying on the floor,
with blood coming from his nose, but he was unable to
assist hie] in the least, or to help himself*. Some one
came and pulled hint off the boy and removed him to
that house (Mr. Sewell's). He cannot tell what object
the man could have had in throwing him upon the
people below, unless it was to injure either them or him.
Up to the present time neither of the two bodies lying
in the vaults of the church have been identified, although
numerous persons, whose children were known to be in
the theatre have been to see them. The state of the
parties who have been there was pitiable in the extreme.
Some of them have beAeged the church doors, and with
cries have lamented the untimely loss of their supposed
children, and could not be satisfied that they were mis-
taken until they had seen the bodies.
Upon making inquiries at the residences of the other
suffarers, it was ascertained that, as far as Henry Neat
was concerned, nothing fatal need be apprehended, his
injuries consisting of severe bruises, no bones being
broken. George Astell was much injured, but not
fatally. Henry Sewell was, however, lying in Mr.
Sewelra private parlour, still in a very precarious con-
dition. The other boy, Leonard Tutchin, bad so far ral-
lied as to be able to sit up and relate the circumstances
connected with the occurrence.

Mr. Fairbrother, surgeon, of the London•road, who
was passing at the moment of the calamity, says, that he
has not the least doubt but that the two lads died from
suffocation, and not from being precipitated from the
upper part of the stairs. The appearance of the mouth,
nose, and eyes of each, warrants him in coming to that
conclusion.

Too much praise cannot be awarded to Mr. Sewell,
who for several hours had his regular business sus-
pended, in order that he might attend upon the
sufferers, who found a welcome asylum in his private
parlour.

- The following is a copy of the official report of the
disasier furnished by Mr. Fairbrother ;
" A terrible catastrophe occurred at the Victoria
Theatre last evening, by which two lads lost their lives;
and many were seriously injured.
" There had been during the afternoon a great num-
ber of people assembled to obtain an entrance into the
gallery of the theatre, and long before the hour of com-
mencement the stairs were crowded in every part.
" According to the best information which can be
obtained, there is no doubt that great confusion existed,
and many felt so inconvenienced as to be anxious to ob.
tain fresh air, but were unable to move from their posi-
tion. Wedged in, the crowd became unruly, and the
weaker portion were thrown down and trmpled on.
" At the landing on the staircase the crowd was so
great as to cause the death of two boys, and four others
were carried to the surgery of Mr. Sewell, in the Lower
Marsh, who, conjointly with Mr. Fairbrother and Mr.
Brookes, rendered every assistance to the living, two of
uhom were sent home, although suffering from severe
bruises. One of the others remaining is suffering from
concussion of the brain, and is in great danger."

SHIPWRECK.—It is our melancholy duty to an-
nounce the loss of another fine vessel on the hanks at
• month of our river, which took place on Wednesday
rning last. This vessel is a Prussian bailing from
the port of Rostock, and was only launched about six
~ks ago at Memel, from which place she was bound
t.• Dundee with a cargo of timber, &c., principally, we
behave, for the purpose of being coppered with the view
of proceeding for Buenos Ayres. The vessel's name is
the Johann Freidrick, and the captain's IL D. Bradhe,r-
,,
whose propertyshe is, and we are sorry to say that
not a penny_ of insurance is effected upon her. It was
aiuut seven o'clock in the morning when the vessel
went on the Elbow End; and there being nothing very
remarkab!e in the proper channel of the river, the wind
being favourable and several other vessels coming up
at the time, conjecture was rife as to what had occa-
sioned the unfortunate mishap. We may mention that
the captain himself blames the pilot, as being unqualified
to take charge of his vessel. About four hours after the
Johann Freidrick grounded, the crew (fourteen in num-
ber), including the master and pilot, were taken off by the
lite-boat, a very heavy sea breaking over the ship at the
time.—Dundee Advertiser.

ISLE or MAN.—Dr. Bowring has taken his leave
of the inhabitants of the Isle of Man in the following
short address:—" Public duty calls me to a distant re-
gion, where I shall be no longer able to render you
those services which, on various occasions, you have
been so good as to deem worthy your acceptance. My
regret at leaving my native country would be greatly
heightened had I not the conviction that you will find
advocates quite as able, but certainly none more zealous,
to promote your interests, to represent your grievances,
to assist in their removal, and generally to advance the
happiness and prosperity of the island. I certainly did
hope that it would have been my happiness to have seen
established among you a representative and responsible
legislature; and that the rights and privileges, the pos-
session of which ought to be every man's inheritance,
would ere now have ben secured to you and yours; but
that which is delayed is not, therefore, unattainable; and
while watching, as I shall watch, with interest and
anxiety, the tendencies of the world towards iraprove-
merit, I shall hope to see the Is!e of Man progressing
rapidly in a career of social, commercial, and political
advaneement."—Liverpool Mercury.
On Thursday afternoon, while a gentleman, the
brother of a resident clergyman of this city, was paying
a short visit at the house of a relative, in Holywell-
street, a fly drove up to the door, and four men rushed
in, accompanied and directed by the father of the vie-
seized him by main force, dragged him, notwith-
star-dim, the agonizing shrieks of hisiwife, into a fly, and
conveyed him to the Lunatic Asylum at Ileadington.
On Saturday afternoon his wife went to the asylum and
demanded her husband's release, when the unfortunate
prisoner was taken in a carriage to his own residence in
this city. From information we have received no blame
attaches to the authorities at the asylum, and, indeed,
the unfortunate individual speaks in the highest terms
of the treatment he met with there.—Oxord Chronicle.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
John Nicholson, a servant in the employment of Mr.
Jones, of Mark-lane, wine and spirit merchant, was
brcught up in custody of William Edmunds, No. 528,
on the charge of having in his possession three bottles
of wine and two bottles of brandy, supposed to be stolen.
From the statement of the officer, it appeared that
about twelve o'clock on Christmas-day he met the pri-
soner, whom he had known for some time, in Mark-
lane, and they wished each other a merry Christmas.
The prisoner then said he was going to the warehouse to
feed the cat, and after that he was to take any letters
that had arrived to his master at Hackney, which he
thought very bard on such a day. They parted, and
some time afterwards he again met the prisoner near the
same place, and observed a bottle sticking out of his
pocket, upon which he said that he thought he had been
feeding himself as well as the cat, and insisted upon
seeing the contents of his pockets. The prisoner rheis
master -
plied that he bad only two bottles of wine, which
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bottles to keep the Christmas. Some of the bottles pro-
duced had the seal cut off, and others were corked in a
very hasty manner. There were no marks to identify
them, but the affair was one of great suspicion. Last
week there was some deficiency in a quantity of brandy
which went to a lady, but although inquiry had been
made on the subject nothing transpired to cast suspicion
on the prisoner.
Alderman GIBBS remanded him until Friday, to give
the officer an opportunity of making further inquiries.
William Morcomb. of 12, Earl-street, John's-row, St.
Luke's, and Robert Land, of 74, Britannia-terrace, City-
road, were placed at the bar before Mr. Alderman Gibbs,
under the followin circumstances :
Mr. Michael Garrod, of the firm of Kent and Co., of
Falcon-street, hardware and brush manufacturers, said
he gave the prisoners into custody for having tried to
rob his bristle warehouse by means of a false key, made
from an impression taken in soap from the proper key.
Thos. Felstead, 13, Camera-street, King's road,Chelsea,
said that be was a weaver, and had been occasionally em-
ployed at Messrs. Kent and Co.'s for some months. A little
time back he went into the shop where Morcomb was at
work, to see if there was anything for him to do, when
that person said he should like to open the door of the
overseer's room, and asked him if he could not make a
something to effect that object. Witness replied that
he could, coinciding in the idea, for the purpose of as-
certaining what plan was laid for robbing the premises,
and who were in it. He called again, a few days after,
when he was asked by Morcomb if he bad made it, and
receiving a reply in the negative, he was then informed
that he need not trouble himself, as Land had taken a
pattern in soap, and was going to get a key made. He
saw the impression on the soap. In about three days he
called again, when Morcomb produced the key, and re-
quested him to go and try it, to which he consented,
with the intention of giving it to the overseer, but he
happened to be out at the time. He returned the key
without trying it, but Morcomb found it would not do.
On Friday last be made another call, when Morcomb
said, " I can't make that thing do," adding, " just can't
you?" After that they had a quarrel, and thinking he
should hear no more about it, he mentioned the affair to
another man, who at once informed Mr. Garrod of what
had been going on.
Mr. M. Garrod said that, on receiving the above infor-
mation, he at first sent for Land, and told him that if he
would give up the key he would let him go. He said
that he had not got it. Morcomb was then called down
and asked to produce the key, when he stoutly denied all
knowledge of it, until confronted with both Land and
Felstead, and then he said that if he was allowed to de-
part he would go and fetch it. He (Mr. Garrod) told
Morcomb that if he would tell whole it was to be found
he would go himself for it; but he refused to do so, and
both prisoners were given into custody. He wished fer
a remand, as he was convinced there were more parties
implicated in this conspiracy.
Alderman GIBBS asked the prisoners if they wished
to say anything ? Land—Why the fact is, Felstead was
the first person who proposed to rob the premises, and
said, " He could make two keys of wire, one to open the
door, and the other to lock it.
Felstead—No, you were the first who thought of it.
Land—You were the proposer.
Morcomb declined making any remark.
Alderman Giniss remanded them until Thursday.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Edwin Davis, a man of rather stylish appearance, was
placed at the bar before Mr. Hammill, charged with
having feloniously received a quantity of woollen cloth
and numerous articles of haberdashery, the property of
Mrs. Catherine Standon, an outfitter at Oxford.
It appeared from the evidence that about three months
since a young man named Samuel Marshall was engaged
by the prosecutrix in the capacity of shopman, and it
having been recently discovered that he had carried on
a systematic course of robbery almost since the first day
he had entered her service, he was given into custody,
and subsequently consigned to Oxford gaol to await his
trial. Upon searching his papers, a number of letters
were discovered amongst them, addressed to him by the
prisoner Davis, urging him to transmit to him various
articles in clothing, which were particularly specified,
and a large parcel, containing a paletot and other
property, so directed by Marshall, having been
stopped in transitu, Mr. Nicholls, the manager of the
establishment, immediately posted to town, and proceeded
on Saturday night, with the officers Fitaceerald and
Gifford, to the prisoner Davis's hou-e, in Duke-street
Spitalfields. Upon asking the prisoner whether he had
recently received any parcels from the country, he re-
plied not, but afterwards acknowledged that several had
been sent to him from Oxford, containing various pro-
perty, no part of which, except a satin scarf, remained in
his possession. On searching the house, however, they
discovered, besides the scarf is question, which was
valued at a guinea, a number of silk and cambric hand-
kerchiefs, articles of wearing apparel, and a remnant of
cloth, the whole of which were identified by Mr. Nicholls
as forming part of the property stolen from his em-
ployer's premises. A large packet of letters was also
found, relating to the different consignments, in the
handwriting of Marshall, and in answer to correspond-
ing ones from Davis, which were taken from the former
at the time of his apprehension. Amongst the letters
in the prisoner's handwriting, addressed to Mar-
shall, and produced by the foreman, was one ,which,
after adverting to a previous proposal to send him some-
thing for Christmas, proceeded in these words:—" You
are poking your kindness again upon me,_ my boy, but
I will not tax your generosity so much this time. You
write me that you are sticking it into the Oxford trades-
men. That's right, my boy, keep up your dignity at
their expense; gentlemen like yeti can't, of course, be
expected to wear shabby clothes. But I'll tell you what
you can do for me;"—and the letter then wound up with
a request hat he would send him a paletot and other
articles, which exactly tallied with the contents of the
parcel above referred to as having been intercepted in its
course to the prisoner's address in town.
A pair of gold shirt-links, valued at a guinea, but
which had been pledged by the prisoner Davis for Bs.,
were produced by the shopman of Mr. Barker, a pawn-
broker in Heundsditch, and were also identified by Mr.
Nicholls, as the property of the prosecutrix.
Mr. Pelham, on behalf of the prisoner, submitted
that the evidence in identification of the property was
of too loose and unsatisfactory a character to justify a
committal; but
Mr. HA.XMILL considered that the ownership and un-
lawful possession had been fully established, and there-
fore ordered the prisoner to be conveyed forthwith to
Oxford, in the custody of the officers, to undergo his
trial before the local authorities.
MARY LEBONE.
A young man, who gave his name Thomas Pheny, was
placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton, charged with
having uttered counterfeit coin, and it is supposed that
be is connected with others who for some time past have
gone about defrauding tradespeople in various parts of
the town.
It appeared from the evidence which was gone into,
that one day last week the prisoner went into the house
of Mrs. Humphreys, who keeps a small coffee-shop
near the Euston station of the London and North-
Western Railway, and there called for a cup of
coffee, for which he paid with a piece purporting to
be a crown, and which was put away by the poor woman,
who was anxious to make up her quarter's rent. A night
or two afterwards he had a cup of tea and bread and butter,
for which he paid with a coin resemblieg a half-sovereign,
and he then received as change 9s. 9d. On Friday
night last he came in a different a'tire, and asked for a
cup of coffee, which was immediately given to him, and
upon this occasion the prosecutrix also gave him change
for a half-sovereign, and amongst the silver which she
hended to him was three half-crowns. He returned to
her one of them which he said was bad, and she gave
another in exchange, upon which he went away. She
then examined a bag, in which she kept her money, and
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sovereigns(Saturday) the er. again attempted to pass off a
spurious half-sovereignpris in the same way as before, and
he was then given into
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Mr. George Well, a THAMES.
respectable-looking man advanced
in years, was charged with being
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in stealing four pieces of valuable damask,
of Messrs. Druce and Co., the extensive uparrested ain
the Bazaar, Portman-square.
On Thursday week Cobley,
named Arment, in Whiteehapel, who had on himan
piece of damask, of which he could give no satisfactory
a
account. The constable, after much labour, discovered
that the damask belonged to Messrs. Druce and Co.,
who had lost from their stock several other pieces. H
also found-that three of these pieces had been sold to
M. Jackson, an upholsterer in Shoreditch, at a very
low price, and another piece to an upholsterer named
Carter, in the Minories; and though the private marks
had been cut off they were recognised by the maker as
well as by Mr. Tray, who conducts the business for
Messrs. Druce. When Arment was at this court on
Saturday, Mr. Ballantine, the barrister, who was
engaged by Messrs. Druce to conduct the prose-
cution, said his clients were resolved to institute
a strict inquiry into the whole affair. It was
then ascertained that Wall had sold one of the pieces
for Arment to Jackson, and Cobley arrested him on
Sunday last at 42, Charles-street, Hoxton, where he
appeared to be living in a very respectable style. He
admitted having sold the piece of damask for Arment to
Jackson, but as it appeared that he only acted in his