The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-01 00:00:00

THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 1, 1860

THE _RECENT GALES.

Long before daybreak the storm had seriously
damaged many of the larger-sized vessels lying in
mid-stream and along the wharves on the Middle-
sex and Surrey sides of the river, and the naviga-
tion of the Pool at one time was considered im-
practicable and dangerous to human life. Many
heavy crafts broke away from their powerful gear,
and were drifted a considerable distance. In some
instances the property destroyed was very valuable,
and many large ships were unable to enter the
docks at Blaekwall or other similar establishments
lower down the Pool. At Bromley Cut, a part well
known to the Eastenders, a little boy, named George
White, was playing upon the deck of a barge, when
a sudden gust of wind whirled him into the water.
An instant alarm was raised, and although drags
were brought into requisition the bogy was not re-
covered for some minutes. He was conveyed to
the nearest receptacle, but all efforts to restore ani-
mation were unfortunately of no avail. The body
awaits An inquest.

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STOCKPORT.—On Tuesday, during the severe
gale of wind, the Wesleyan day-schools, in Great
Portland-street, Brinnington, Stockport, were par-
tially blown down whilst 420 children were pur-
suing their studies inside. About half-past eleven
o'clock the wind, which was blowing from the
north-west, took off a part of the roof, without,
however, doing any serious damage. The school-
master and mistress, Mr. Joseph Farnsworth and
Miss Hall, became alarmed for the safety of the
children, and ordered them to quit the building.
Whilst the children were leaving a terrific gust of
wind came from the same quarter as before, and
lifted the roof from the walls. A debris of stones,
bricks, and wood fell on all sides, and a number of
the children were knocked down whilst taking
flight. A little boy, about four years old, named
John Ashton, whose parents live in Chapel-street,
Brinnington, was killed on the spot, being fright-
fully mangled by the fall of debris; and a number
of others were severely, and in some instances, dan-
gerously wounded. The cause of the accident was
commonly reported to be the way in which the
schools were built. The architect was said to be
Mr. Wilson, of Bath, and the contractor Mr. War-
: burton, of Collyhurst, near Manchester. The build-
:. ing was erected in 1858, which date appears on the
north wall. The walls were brick, with a facing
of Yorkshire stone. The style was Gothic, the side
walls having buttresses about 12ft. apart. The
ground floor was divided into half a dozen class-
rooms, in which 320 children were being taught
at the time of the accident; the upper story
comprised a single room, with an open timber
roof of considerable steepness. The more advanced
class occupied this room. It is rather a singular
fact that a bell turret on the side where the
wind seemed. to have caught the roof was entirely
uninjured. The schools stood in an open space
of ground, surrounded by an iron railing. The
large stones from the walls, as well as heavy pieces
of wood from the roof, not only fell through the floor
of the top room, penetrating to the room below, but
in two parts of the building they also carried away
the floor of the ground-floor rooms into the cellar
beneath. The schools were under the management
of a committee of gentlemen living chiefly in the
neighbourhood, and their original cost was about
£2,000. This is the second accident that • has
occurred 'atthe schools, the roof having been blown
off in a similar manner during their erection.
DERBY.—The gale was severely felt at Derby on
Monday. Between three and four o'clock on Mon-
day afternoon, the fine spire of the new parish
church of St. Alkmund, Derby, was seen to wave to
and fro, and directly afterwards a large portion of
it fell with a tremendous crash on to the high-
pitched roof of the church, penetrating through,
smashing the organ case, and doing considerable
damage. ; Several hundred pounds will be reauired
to make good the damage. Almost at the same
time one of the pinnacles of St. Marie's Roman
Catholic phurch fell into the churchyard, but the
damage was not great. Thelarge chimney at Messrs.
%Vest's colour works, Nun-street, was blown down
on the workshops beneath, but as timely warning
had been given, the men had all got out of the way.
Numbers of trees in every direction were torn up by
the roots, and although we have heard of hair-
breadth escapes of men, women, and children, we
are happy to say that no loss of life has occurred in
the neighbourhood. The storm ceased about twelve
on Monday night.
MAN en EST ER.—The following is the only case of
accident or injury:of which we have heard, as re-
sulting from the heavy gale which commenced early
on Tuesday morning, and continued till the after-
noon. William Boyce and James Moore, two little
boys, who live in Barter-street, were passing along
Corporation,-street, at about noon, when one of the
placard boards used by Messrs. Taylor, Garnett,
Evans, and Co., was blown down, and fell upon the
boys, injuring them about the head. They were
removed to the Royal Infirmary, and after Boyce
had been attended to he was taken home. Moore
remained, but a speedy recovery is anticipated.
Noliwtell.—Norwich and the neighbourhood was
visited on Tuesday afternoon by a gale of such
severity as to amount almost to a hurricane. At
Thorpe several large trees were torn from the earth,
in one case with such violence as to knock down an
adjoining wall. In St. Giles-street the side of a
house was blown out in a strange manner, and one
of the small spireleta of St. Martin's-at-Palace
church was torn down. A chimney shaft in the
manufactory of Mr. Ketton was also partially blown
down ; and the number of tiles and slates torn from
the roofs—in one or two cases stacks of chimneys
shared the same fate—was immense.
Stu ELDS.—The north-west gale, which blew with
terrific violence over the Northumberland coast on
Monday, subsided about midnight. It was suet-
cacaled by a heavy fall of snow which came on a
daylight. Telegraphic communication, which will
stopped on Monday night between London
Newcastle and the East of Scotland by the poles
being blown down between York and Newcastle,
was resumed on Tuesday morning.

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LATEST PARTICULARS.
We have to add to the already large list 'of acci-
dents the following account of the casualties
caused by the violence of the late gale :—Along
both banks of the river the damage has been
immense, there being searc:Ay one of the ware-
houses that has not had its roof most exten-
sively damaged. Between Blackfriars and South-
wark bridges, on the Surrey side, a lightning
conductor, attached by strong fastenings to a
lofty shaft, was forced from its position and carried
away, dragging with it a large portion of the brick
work, which with a loud crash fell to the ground.
In the Westminster-road a man was delivering
some goods from a cart, and whilst in the vehicle
the wind suddenly caught him, and he was thrown
out on the, roadway and sustained very severe in-
jury. A very alarming occurrence took place at the
Addington-square Baths, Camberwell-road. It
seems thP.t whilst the gale was at its height the
inhahliants of the locality were suddedly alarmed
by hearing a tremendous crash, when it was disco-
vered that the whole frontage of the baths facing
the canal had been blown down, and the debris
hurled into the canal, nearly stopping the naviga-
tion ; several- persons had a very narrow escape.
The extensive premises of Mr. Thomas Farmer,
vitriol manufacturer, near Kennington park, have
been most extensively damaged. One of the build-
ings, of upwards of 150 feet in length, had the cop-
ing ridge carried quite off, together with a peraon
of the roof. A man named George Rumsell, aged
60, who lived in Lambeth walk, was proceeding
down Victoria-street, when a large chimney, blown
from one of the houses, struck the poor fellow a
terrible blow on the head, which hurled him to the
ground. He was taken in an insensible state to
Westminster Hospital. A man named William
Wooton. aged 20, was struck by a piece of
coping-stone blown from a house in the West-
minster-road, and he sustained such severe
injury Lhat he was obliged to be removed to
the hospital. ' A woman named Mary Yaning,
aged 40, whilst crossing Vauxhall-bridge-road
received a tremendous blow on the head from some
brickwork blown from a house. She was dread-
fully hurt, and was taken to Westminster Hospital.
A serious accident happened near Westminster-
bridge to a man named Richard Martin ; one of the
lamps being blown from its position, and falling on
the poor fellow, inflicted such serious injuries that
his removal to the hospital was found to be neces-
sary,

CLARK V. CLARK,
Dr. Deane, Q.C., for the petitioner, moved fro :an
order upon the respondent to submit to cross-, exa-
mination with regard to the facts stated in hi
a an-
swer to his wife's petition ter alimony pendent e lite.
The wife charged against him an income of about
£B,OOO a year, including an establishment at
id race
horses at Epsom, a lead mine, and. a large ap iount of
money owed to him by various prArsons, for • which he
held security. In his answer, he. admit.te d that he
had been in possession of this property ,1- ,ut said it
had all been mortgaged in November Ir‘st, and he
had no income at present but an al 101 re ,nee of £3 a
week made to him by his principal . creditor.
Dr. Phillimore, Q.C., for the rest )0 ndent, opposed
the motion. The substance of the : Inswer was that
in October last the respondent be. mme so embar-
rassed in his circumstances that Eu 1 execution was
issued against him, and he was in d anger of arrest;
that he could not have parted wi th his property
except at a great sacrifice, and that he applied to a
gentleman, who consented to advaz ice £17,000 to
pay up the premiums upon his policies of-insurance
and other pressing claims upon hal -ing as security
an assignment of all his real and 1 zersonal estate.
He submitted that this was a sufficient answer.
His Lordship said the accounts s ere very com-
plicated, and he must take time to 10. ak into them.,
BOYNTON V. BOYNTON.
Dr. Spinks (with whom was lI c. D. r:ean e) moved for a rule nisi for a new trial in this ease • an
the ground that the verdict upon the issue of
cruelty was against evidence. The, petition v ras
by Laura Elizabeth Boynton, for the dissolution .of
her marriage with George Boynton on the grot End
of adultery, coupled with cruelty, and it was ti ied
before the full court and a jury on the 27th , of
January last. The jury found that the allegati
.ons
of cruelty as well as those of adultery had I seen
established. The learned counsel referred to dif-
ferent parts of the evidence of Mrs. Boynton, and
to the letters she had written to her husband du ring
cohabitation, for the purpose of showing tha tno
such cruelty had been established as would have
justified the court in granting a judicial separr Etion,
and that she had never thought of makint ; any
complaint of her husband's ill-treatment unt it her
indignation had been roused by his infidelit3.
His Lordship was of opinion that there v ras no
ground for disturbing the verdict. The jur y had
paid great attention to the case, and no cog
plaint
was made of the summing up of the I earned
judge, Mr. Justice Wig,htman. The fact thr Et Mrs.
Boynton had allowed the ill-usage with which
she charged her husband to pass without no. lice for
a considerable time was well worthy the at tention
of the jury, but it was left to their consid( ,ration,
and there could be no doubt that the adul .tery of
Captain Boynton remitted Mrs. Boynton to her
original position with regard to her right - to com-
plain of that ill-usage if it had been corn
lamaittstehde.
Mrs. Boynton depose in positive terms to various
acts of violence ; she said she had been be aten on
four or five occasions, that she had been ( !ragged
babadourte,etehiNa,etdshaeh lezaadyybebelenwvieoalebnetrlyhsehaadkwenhiet
h broke
her comb, and that she frequently had m
,arks of
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, servant.
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of
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r wasuis e son
corroboratedhei• arni
by The letters which were addressed to her bus
1853, when he was in the Crimea, were reri
tarkabl for the affectionate terms in which the
written, but the learned judge pressed th( y were
the consideration of the jury, and told th ,rn uponem that
they showed either that Mrs. Boynton I
lad not
spoken truly, or that she was of a vely- f, „givinn.
disposition. The jury must have adopted t he latter
view. The fact that she made no Complain
she discovered the adultery was consistent Pill
view, for she might have condoned the that
cruelty when that last outrage wasperi ?eatreatsteodf.
The case went to the jury upon her evidentlt a against
that of Capt. Boynton. It is painfu band and wife positively contradicting Oils;
; an ot
upon oath, but it was for the jury to come ;e a
hus-
er
con-
elusion as to which of them was telling I
he truth
and he could. not say that the conclusion to a ,
the jury had arrived was
not sufficient evidence towszta
i.zosng at which
therefr.,re, refuse the application
for a 1 ule for a

ASSIZE INTLLIGENCE.

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HOME CIRCUIT.--HERTFORD, FE
The commission for the county of
opened in this town on Tuesday, and
morning both courts proceeded to disp(
business, Lord Chief Justice Erie presidi
Civil side, and Mr..Tustice Wightman in
Curt. There are nine causes entered 01
side, four of which are special jury case:
criminal side there are 22 prisoners for
none of the charges are of a serious char.
CROWN SIDE.
(Before Mr. Justice Wightman
Wm. Dimmock, 36, and Simeon Rich
were indicted for a robbery, with viol
Jonas Valentine.
Mr. Bushby conducted the proseeutioi
The proseekor
was a farmer, residi
neighbourhood of Essendeia, near Hertf
the evening of October 26th he was ;
house at that place, called the Salisbur3
left to return home about a quarter pa!
When he had get'a short distance, a
he believed to be the prisoner Richards
to him and put some question to him,
was about to reply the prisoner knock(

B. 29.

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