The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-12 00:00:00

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Later accounts from the ports in the North of
Europe furnish sad additions to the list of wrecks
and casualties announced in this journal on Tues-
day The abcecesnrseaexgvpeerelrrafiileenrEccenedlgyliffsohror
many year,. The destruction among the coasters
great.places raged fiercely for
72 hours, and its like has not been experienced for
many years. The destruction among the coasters
in the Baltic was very gr tl
steamers, outward and homeward bound between
Hull, Grimsby, and Cronstadt, being overdue,
the greatest anxiety has been manifested respecting
them, wCich was considerably heightened yesterday
by the receipt of the Borsen _Halle, a journal pub-
lished at Hamburg, which contained the two follow-
ing paragraphs :
" THISTED, Oct. 6.—On the south side of the
Agger Canal, near Langor and Rou, a steamer came
to anchor during the late gale, and shortly after
sunk. All the passengers, probably about one hun-
dred, drowned. When the news left people were
st;'l sec,. or_ 013 masts, but it was impossible to save
them. A number of bodies of grown-up persons
and children had been washed ashore."
"RINGJOBINef:Oct. 6.—Ten vessels are reported.
to be on shore between Seegaard, Saarstrand, and
Lemvig. Among them a steamer, with cotton,
which sank ere she reached the strand; the crew
and passengers drowned. A child is said to have
been washed on shore."
The places mentioned are situate on the north-
west coast of Denmark. Thisted and Rin gjobing
are about twenty miles apart, and it is a matter of
doubt whether it relates to one or two vessels. An
impression was entertained at Lloyd's that it re-
ferred to the' Arctic, Hull and St. Petersburg
steamer, known to have been wrecked. Captain
Boulton was despatched from London on Tuesday
night by Lloyd's Association to protect their inte-
rest. A telegraphic message has been sent to him,
to furnish some particulars of this supposed loss of
two steamers ; but as he was not expected to reach
Skieve till this morning, it is doubtful if the answer
gets back before to-morrow (Saturday) morning.
Two melancholy losses happened off Libau
during the fury of the storm. Lloyd's agent,
writing from the spot, dated Oct. 5, says—The
storm has now been raging 72 hours along our
coast, and no appearance of a lull. Much damage
has occurred among the shipping. The Eliza Kirk-
bird and another vessel (a schooner) were lost last
night, but BO assistance could be rendered from the
shore, the distance being about 200 fathoms, an
enormous high sea running in, besides a dark night,
with heavy rains and squalls of hail. At 7 o'clock
this morning seven men were to be seen fastened
to the rigging of the Eliza Kirkbird, but soon after-
wards the mast broke down and all perished. The
body of a young female, apparently the wife of the
captain, had been washed ashore. With the excep•
tion of a man's shirt on the upper part of the per-
son the body was naked. The ship has since broken
up into two small fragments.
The ship Trio, Capt. Anderson, belonging to
Arbroath, laden with coals from Shields for Leith,
has been wrecked on the Longstone Rock, where the
Forfarshire steamer was lost. The master and crew,
after being exposed on the wreck 12 hours, were
rescued by a boat from the lighthouse, manned by
the father, a brother, and two nephews of that
heroine Grace Darling. The father is now in his
' 75th year, 50 years of which have been spent in the
lighthouse service.

THE DURHAM MURDER.

CHESTER-LE-STREET, OCT. 10.

Milner Lockey, miner, was brought before the
county magistrates here to-day, charged with the
wilful murder of Thomas Harrison, Bankruptcy-
court bailiff, at Urpetb-mill, on the 30th of Septem-
ber. Mr. Hoyle, of Newcastle, appeared for the
prosecution. The prisoner is a powerfully-built
man, 59 years of age, and extremely cool and self-
collected. He has borne a respectable character down
to the time of committing the horrible offence
with which he is charged, and looks like, and is
described as a person of some intelligence,.....Tha
curt was much crowded during the examination,
and there was much excitement. The witnesses
examined at the inquest repealed their evidence.
In addition, Robert Coulson, a pitman belonging to
Lrasingthore Colliery, was examined. He said he
had known the prisoner for some time. He wrought
with him about a month since. Had frequent con-
versations with him regarding his wife. He used
thr.Jats often with regard to her. He was jealous
of the miller at first, and at the latter end. of the
nine weeks that he wrought with him, he said she
had taken a -- old bailiff to live with her, and
that if she did not live with him (the prisoner) she
would live with no one else. He doubted it would
be a bad job, and said, if he caught them he would
" coup" their heels up. He was not excited with
drink when he told witness this.

At the close of the evidence for the prosecution,
the Chairman (Major Johnson) said that if the pri-
soner had any statement to make it was now the
time to do so. He warned him what he might say
might be used against him on another occasion, but
tbat he need make no statement unless he liked.
He (the Chairman) would indeed recommend him
to reserve his statement, but, at the same time, the
Bench would hear him if he had anything to say,
and that what he did say would be written down.
The prisoner preferred making his statement, and
proceeded to do so in nearly the following terms :
" The first time I saw her after our separation she
was very kind. I went to the house about nine
o'clock at night and stopped till three in the morn-
ing. A fortnight after, when I next saw her,
1 she was all the other way. She dinna ken me,r
and she asked me what I was doing there. We
sat up till 11 o'clock. The man Harrison
wasto
About and all. My wife told him two or three'
times
she
go to bed, but he did not go. m
there
and
asked when
went upstairs. I followed her,.an d h
I was going. I said, 6I am going wi' thou.' She
lay down between the two boys.. It was not a bed,
but on the floor.
but two mattresses laid side by side
There was no room for me, and I lay down by the
side on the boards. I got cold and wanted to get
in beside them, when she got up and went down-
stairs. I then laid down with the boys. I said it
was hard for a man, after coming 19 miles across
the country, to have to lie on boards and the other
man in a good bed. I said she might have con-
trived differently. She said he paid for his bed. I
said I could pay for mine. 1-, I
.4.d a soverei •
gn. Next
morning she never spoke to me, but Mr. Harrison
was everything. She did give
I stopped till 11 o'clock. I thoughtme'a cup of coffee.
I would not
trouble them for my dinner; and I asked her if she
would gan and set me a bit. She went with me
about 50 yards, and said, 'Now, L ockey, ar't gan
fi,
to give me that sovereign . I said, ' Aye, hinny,
on conditions. If h ' .
t ou 11 live with me again thou
shall hae't,' She said she would consider by next
stopped fortnight. I with my son till Monday
morning, and went back to my work at Leasing-
thorne. I • was at my work about a week, when I
got aletter saying st e had been drinking at Pelton
on the Monday I left. I was esir put out when I
heard on't. When I came home last time, on the
29th, to my great amazement she was lying on the
bed with the man. [Mrs. Lockey—Oh, man !] She
came off the bed when I went in, and I

said, 'Now, hinny, how art thou?' She said,
Middling.' I said, Thou'rt going on bravely
here. -- your blood I've a good mind
to kill you both.' I was almost mad, and I
pulled out the knife. I stabbed her and then I
stabbed him. That's all I have to say."
On the above declaration being read to the pri-
soner, and laid before him for signature, the pri-
soner stepped briskly up to the table and wrote his
name in a bold, firm hand, remarking that he would
have been all the better of his spectacles. On. hav-
ing been formally committed to stand his trial at
the next assizes ho was removed from the dock, and
will be lodged in Durham gaol. We understand
that he is to be watched in his cell, as fears are en-
tertained that he will make an attempt to destroy
himself.

_ __---- .
SUBSTITUTE FOR THE POTATO.—ti. writer in a
contemporary says :—ln this and the sister island of Guern-
sey many thousand tons of parsnips are grown annually,
chiefly as food for cattle and pigs, but tho country part of
meal without a dish cif parsnips,
the population during the autumn and winter months sel-
dom sit down to a midday
preparcd in some simplo way or other; without his dish Of
parsnips, a real JerFeyll2till would scarcely think he had
admirably
dined—with salt fish the parsnip is an indispensable ace')
Jerseyther butte
rank rin th
p,ini,„„,,; a pig'S foot stewed or boiled with parsnips formsm-
or tasteless,
Tielnetses:
is produced by the use of the parsnip
the solo dinner of many a `poor family, Jersey
ot
butters
thes a
re ei
best in the world, is fed entirely on parsnips., the pork, the
triirache,anwdhdoneliincio°sut thsofiavereurbu
in
cows. The pike of this valuablethe feeding of the
root-
from is Gil to 2s the 1001 b, and in the island is now
year is unusually abundant. Thethe crop of the present
port would not exceed 10s, or freights to any English
1.
to the consumer in England w5B. per ton, so that the ccst
not one-half the price of ould be about 3s. per cwt.,
seasons. I venture, therefore, potatoes in the most plentiful of
that no more fitting erefore, to suggest to your readers
substitute for the potato can be found
than this highly nutritious and palatable vegetable.