The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-02 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

The Court was occupied for upwards of two hours this
morning arraigning prisoners ; several pleaded guilty.
Among that number was a person n•+med Philip Camp-
bell, who was indicted for stealing a quantity of wearing
apparel and other articles from a vessel lying in the Lon-
don Docks. Upon the plea being recorded the Common
Sergeant desired the witnesses to stand up. Among
the rest was Mr. Foy, the superintendent of the
Police at the London Docks, and in reply to several ques-
tions of the Learned Judge he stated to the Court that the
prisoner bad fur some time past been getting his living by
purloining articles from vessels. He had formerly been
very respectably connected, his father at one period being
an eminent merchant in the City, and subsequently
Consul at Copenhagen. His father was now dead and
his family had turned their backs on him in consequence
of the course of life by was pursuing.
The COMMON-SERGEANT said he was sorry to find that
a person who was so respectably connected should have
adopted such a course. The charge was an extremely
serious cne, and the punishment must be proportionably
severe. If, however, the prisoner had any thing to say
in mitigation, the Court would attend to it.
The prisoner made no reply, and was removed.
Robert Jones, a young man, described in the calendar
as clerk, was indicted for stealing, in the month of
November, five trunks containing a large quantity of
wearing apparel, the property of Clew Adam Marcus,
Count de Wuits.

Mr. DOANE conducted the pru,s,2cution, and Mr.
PHILLIPS the derence.

Count de Wuits, on his examination by Mr. DOANE,
stated that he had occasion to remove from his
lodgings in Oxford-street, and employed the prisoner
to convey five trunks, containing wearing apparel,
to the house of Mr. Gito.s, his solicitor, in Jertnyn-
street. Upon going to Mr. Gibbs in the morning,
he found that the trunks had not arrived. In a day or
two witness met the prisoner, and asked him what he had
done with his trunks. The prisoner said he had taken
them to various places, and afterwards stated that they
had been detained by a sheriff's officer in the city
Witness walked about nearly the whole day with
the prisoner who, on coming near the Park, ran off. Wit-
ness called out " Stop thief!" The prisoner was stopped
by a countryman, to whom he stated that he had stolen
nothing, and he let him go. He was however stopped by
another person, who delivered him over to a constable
connected with Queen-squire. The prisoner told the
officer it was all a joke. He, however, did not satisfy
the constable, who was determined to keep him in custody.
Cros--examined by Mr. PHILLIPS—The witness stated
that he had known the prisoner on the continent, who
had made a false claim upon Lim. The reason of the
witness leaving his lodging, was the statements of
the prisoner, that there were writs out against
him. Witness was ultimately arrested through the in-
strumentality of the prisoner, upon a bill given to his

tailor for 321. Witness had no animosity.
The prisoner examined the Count himself, but elicited
nothing particular from him. The prisoner however ob-
served that he believed the Count di I not attach any value
to an oath ; and in his defence said that he took the
trunks away in order to secure them for the debt which
the Count owed him, believing himself justified in doing
so. In answer to a question from the Jury the prisoner
stated that he was in no employment, but lived upon an
annuity of his wife's of sixty guineas.
The CoMaroN SERGEANT summed up ; and the Jury,
after retiring for upwards of two hours, returned a verdict
of Guilty, but unanimously recommending him to mercy,
this being his first offence.

Great excitement was occasioned in the pa-
rish of Croyland, on Thursday, the 19th instant, from the
eircumstance of Mrs. Mary Webster's family in Postland
being suddenly seized with the symptoms consequent on
Poison.i being received into the stomach, immediately after
dnesnt: er, which consisted of broth and boiled pork ; the sick-
an _
continued
Mrs. Webster, her son, and a female servant,
whde_
_tinned Ivith great violence for about four hours
n airs. Webster (seventy years old) died ; and her son
and the servant, having drank warm water freely, s ived
their lives. A
quest was held on the body by Mr.
Edwards, coroner, in
23d inst.
Many ro the 21st, and was adjourned to the
witnesses were examined each day, and
the contents of the
deceased's stomach put to various chy-
wal recorded to the effect that
Diary Webster died of poison; that no conclusive evidence
had been obtained whereby to judge whether such poison
t ‘a9 intentionally. On the
or design ; and that de-
ceasedhd been d
dial not
administered
take
theby accident
poisonmineral i
thathf:u wit was n tdh ei np
ol‘ilsrosn.
Webster's stomach, and it is concluded
must have been of the vegetable kind, but
in-
fused into the broth is still a mystety.—Lincoln ore urll
ACCIDENT AND SUPERSTITION.--OnTliu
day last, a poor child was dreadfully scalded in rs-
Grove-
street, in consequence of having seized the handle of
saucepan of boiling water, and the contents lolling over
her. Instead of applying at the Dispensary, the mother
bathed the child with vinegar, and went to a conjuror,
to have the pain and injury " charmed away l" The
child now lingers in a dreadful state of suffering.—Chel-
tenharn Journal.

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TREMENDOUS HURRICANE AT LIVER-

POOL.

LIVERPOOL, DEC. 31.—We have had for some
weeks past a succession of gates which have scarcely
ever abated. They have been slightly intermittent,
but have never ceased except to return with re-
doubled fury. Several hundred vessels were in con-
sequence, wind-bound for a considerable time, very
greatly to the distress of the poor sailors, who re-
ceive no pay except when on actual duty. The
suffering which has in consequence been produced
among this class of men, whose habits of improvi-
dence are proverbial, would scarcely be believed.
They have been turned out in shoals from the
boarding houses, for as soon as their money was ex
Fended, their credit also expired.
On Christmas day the barometer appeared •o ris-
a little, and on the strength of this uncertain secu.
rity, an immense number of vessels went out. Oi
that and the following two or three days, from 300
to 400 sail took their departure, including five of the
Are.erican packet-ships. It will be well for those
which had got clear of the Channel, and obtained
the advantage of plenty of sea-room when the gales
resumed their sway.
This morning about ten o'clock a singular phe-
nomenon was observed. Two ridges of foam and
spray were observed to be proceeding rapidly up the
river, the one about the centre of the stream, and

the other nearer to the shore. With the suddenness
of a tropical hurricane, the storm came on, carrying
everything before it. The waves literally had their
crests torn off by the wind, somewhat in the manner
so graphically described by Tom Cringle in his Log.
The vessels in the river,—we can as yet say nothing
of those outside,—were all, without exception,
driven from their moorings, and their fates were
various.

The Robert Isaac, which had put back, and had
not got into dock, dragged her anchors until she was
within half her own length of the pier, and a crowd
of at least a thousand or fifteen hundred spectators
were looking on, expecting momentarily to see her
dashed to pieces against the solid granite of which
the docks are constructed. At this crisis she hoisted
her fore staysail, but this increased her danger, and it
was speedily hauled down. They then hoisted her
fore trysail, and were enabled to wear the vessel
round, so as, with the aid of her anchors, to prevent
her from losing further ground.

The brig Liverpool, from Limerick, was driven
into the slip at the Prince's Dock, carrying away
her figure-head and part of her bowsprit, and crush-
ing to pieces a considerable number of boats
which were sheltering there. The Vale of Clwyd
steamer, which plies from this port to Rhyl, in
North %Vales, and belongs to Mr. John Richardson,
the agent for the Post-office packets to Dublin, was
driven from her anchorage against St. George's
pier-head, and was so severely injured by the con-
cussion, that in a few minutes she went head fore-
most as if diving. Fortunately the crew got upon
the pier and were saved.
It was high water about two o'clock, and it being
a high tide, the water rolled in unbroken masses
over the pier-heads, the breeze carrying the spray
over the tops of the highest warehouses. As the tide
receded the wind gradually abated, and it has now
subsided to what the sailors call a stiff breeze. _

The Jamaica, for Jamaica, which sailed a few
days ago, and got upon the bankir has been dashed
to pieces, and her wreck is floating in all directions
upon the surface of the water.

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