The Sun.
London, England, 1832-08-24 00:00:00

MARYLEB ONE.

Yesterday James Diltom, Esq., of Allsop's-terrace,
New-road, summoned the driver of Bolton's omnibus, No.
4,227, (James Gulliver,) for a serious injury he had suf-
fered from being knocked down by the pole of the said
omnibus, when the hinder wheel went over one of his feet,
on Tuesday the 15th July.

Mr. Dalton was crossing the New-road, Marylebone,
from Allsop's-terrace, on the afternoon of the day speci-
fied, when the omnibus was in sight, driving at about five
miles an hour. Owing to his infirmities, he was obliged
to lean either to the right or left ; he examined the road
and saw only one omnibus in the middle on the Mary-
lehone side ; it might have passed. The pole, however,
struck him in two places, and knocked him down, and the
hinder-wheel of the omnibus went over his feet.

Gulliver was ordered to find proper bail to answer Mr.
Dalton's complaint.

MARLBORO U GH- S TREE T.

Yesterday an elderly woman of very respectable appear-
ance, accompanied by a gentleman, came to the office, and
applied for assistance to enable her to recover her (laugh-
ter, who had disappeared from her house under the follow-
ing mysterious circumstances.—

The applicant, extremely agitated, stated, that she was
left a widow with 10 children, the eldest of whom was a
daughter, 22 years of age. For the last 18 months, a
young man, who represented himself of highly-respectable
connexions, and holding a lucrative situation in the excise,
visited her daughter, but much against the wishes of the
family, as well as of her daughter. Nothing, however,
deterred him from repeating his visits, and yesterday week
he called and said he had come to take her daughter to
Astley's. She declined the invitation, when the young
man, in the most solemn manner, pledged himself to bring
her home safe. She at length consented to accompany
him, upon condition that her sister, who is 20 years of age,
should be one of the party ; to this arrangement the young
man consented, and the whole party went to the theatre.
At the end of the performances, they returned home.
Nothing further transpired until Sunday, when the
young man proposed to take her daughter to Rich-
mond on Monday. She, in this instance, also expressed
her dislike to go, but at length he succeeded in
removing her objections, and they left her residence
on Monday for Richmond. But from that time to
the present she had not been able to obtain the least
tidings of her, neither was she able to ascertaia whether
they went to Richmond or not. What added to her sus-
picions that something had been done to her daughter,
was her discovering that the entire statements of the young
man as to his name, address, and profession, were utterly

false. Upon going to those places where he said he was
known, no such person ever visited there, nor was any in-
dividual answering his description in the excise. There
was another circumstance relative to the young man rove-
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loped in great mystery—namely, that whenever her
daughter went out he invariably objected to her taking
one of his arms. Accident, however, on one occasion, led
her to take his arm, when, to her daughter's astonishment,
it fell powerless by his side. From the false representa-
tion, and the marked dislike of her daughter towards him,
she was afraid that her child had been made away with.
and to endeavour, if possible, to ascertain what had be-
come of her, led her to make the present application.
The poor woman was informed that, as the case stood.
it was impossible for the Magistrate to render her any as-
sistance. The only thing she could do would be to conti-
nue her inquiries, and it was probable that some tidings
might be obtained.
The applicant said that the only place she had to apply
was to a gentleman living in Mecklenburg-square, and if
nothing was known of the young man there, she had no
other place to go. She was, however, afraid that htr
child was no longer living.
THAMES POLICE.

Yesterday Captain John Jenkins Large, master of the

Hero Gravesend steam-pAck,2t, app ared before Captain

RICHBELL and Mr. BALLANTINE, to answer a charge of
i legal), navigating his vessel at a greater rate or speed
than five miles an hour, between London-bridge and Lime-
house-reach, and thereby endangering the lives of his Ma-
jesty's subjects.
Mr. , Ryland the barrister, appeared on behalf of the
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Watermen's Company, who felt themselves called upon to
interfere, and, if possible, prevent a continuance of the
rapid and dangerous navigation of steam-vessels in the
river, by which many lives had been lost, property injured,
and boats and barges capsized. The Watermen's Company
were determined to prosecute all the captains of steam-
vessels who navigated their vessels beyond the I, gal speed
in the Pool. On the day mentioned in the information,
the Hero and Brilliant, belonging to opposition companies,
and which were in the habit of competing, ran neck and
neck together down the river, beyond the rate allowed by
a by-law of the Watermen's Company, made by the Lord
Mayor and Aldermen, and approved by the Judgts and
Privy Council. The master of the Brilliant was con-
victed on Tuesday and held to bail, and he had no doubt the
magistrates would come to a similar decision in this case.

Captain Large said he should like to know who were the
prosecutors.

Mr. BALLA KTINT said, the Watermen's Company, and
the learned coun'el had already stated as much. He must

say, without any prejudice to this case, that the Water-
men's Company were bound by their position to take up
all offences on the river, not only on account of their poor
brethren whose boats were injured by steam-packet racing,
but also on account of the public, who were inconvenienced
by it, and who were unacquainted with the laws and cus-
toms of the Thames. He was glad the Company had begun
to bestir themselves.

James Edward Cutler, beadle of the Wa.erman's Com-
pany, on Monday, the 16th of July, embarked on board
the Brilliant, at Fresh Wharf, London-bridge ; and on
arriving off St. Katharine's, the Hero came from the
wharf, and went a-head of the Brilliant down the river,
the latter vessel keeping close a-stern. They continued in
this way as far as the King's Arms, Litnehouse-reach, and
he timed the two steamers from the London-dock entrance
to that place, and they were exactly 16 minutes doing that
distance.
Mr. Ryland—Was there any swell.
Witness—There was a very great swell all the way
down, and the small boats and craft were tossed about as
if in a rough sea. The vessels were competing. .
Hartley, another beidle, confirmed this statement.
Mr. W. Nichols, a surveyor for public bodies, had mea-
sured the ground from the London-dock entrance to the
King's Arms, Limehouse, by the perambulator, as close to
the water-side as possible, and the distance was 2 miles.
3 furlongs, and 3l poles, which calculation gave a speed
to the steamer of auout 11 miles an hcur.
The defendant said of course the bench would do as
they pleased, he was at their mercy, and some conversa-
tion ensued between hint and the Magistrates, and Mr.
Ryland, in which Captain Large made use of such expres-
sions, and conducted himself in such a manner, that
Mr. BALLANTINE said, he should be under the painful
necessity of committing him if he did not behave properly.
Captain Large, after cross-examining the witnesses,
then entered on his defence, and said, the Hero unfortu-
nately was the slowest steamer on the river, and was
always last at her place of destination. She never went

so fast as 11 miles an hour since she was built, and accord-
ing to the opinion of Mr. Watt, the celebrated engineer,
she could not proceed at the rate of more than 9i miles
an hour at full speed, and between the limits prescribed
she was always but at half speed. He declared the Hero
never went at the rate of more than five miles an hour in
the Pool.
Mr. BALLANTINE said, the captains were mistaken if

they supposed what they called half speed was allowed

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The law said five miles an hour within particular limits,
and if a steamer went 16 miles an hour at full speed, as
some of them did, the half speed of eight miles could not
be allowed.

Captain Large said, the tide alone would carry a veste

four miles an hour and upwards, and the engines must be
at work to give her steerage way, and it was almost im-
possible to go so slaw, tide and all, as five miles an hour.
Mr. BALLANTINE-The law says you must not go faster.

Captain RICHBELL said, his opinion was, that the rate
of five miles an hour, allowed by law, was too much in

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that crowded river, between London-bridge and Green-
wich. Three was quite enough.
Mr. Thomas East, master of the Watermen's Company,
was in a large and stout boat with a party of seven ladies
and gentlemen a few days ago, when the Hero and Kent
passed them at a most rapid pace, off Lirnehouse Reach.
They were racing, and the swell was so great that his
boat was nearly capsized, and as much as five pails of
water washed over and wetted them all. The respectable
females at Greenwich, where he lived, complained that
the velocity of the steamers was so great, that they were
afraid to proceed to and from London by water ; and where
ten ladies used to go, only one went now, and the water-
men belonging to the passage-boats suffered great loss.
Other witnesses repeated their complaints of the injuries
done by rapid steam navigation.

Mr. BALLANTINE then convicted the defendant in the

full penalty of 51. and costs, for navigating his vessel be-
yond the I,gal speed; and as that could not be done
without endangering the public safety, he called upon him
to find bail, himself in 1001. and two sureties of 501. each,
to keep the peace, and be of good behaviour in future, and
not navigate his vessel so as to endanger life and property.
The fine was then paid, and two housekeepers entered
into the required sureties.
W ORSHIP-STREET.

A young mtn of " shabbily-fine" exterior, named Fore-
man, appeared before Mr. BitounuroN, on the complaint
of a poor cat's. meat man, who charged him with upsetting
and breaking hia cart, and causing the demolition of his
stock in trade.

The complainant, it appeared, had a little cart drawn
by a dog, and was quietly going his round with a load oi
meat for the supply of his customers' cats, when the de-
fendant came rattling furiously along in a cart drawn by
two large dogs, and, bouncing against his smaller vehicle,
upset the dog, smashed the cart, and scattered the meat in
the road, where great part of it was devoured, or carried
off, by the vagabond curs of the neighbourhood.

The defendant said it was an accident. He lived at a
public-house near St. Luke's church, and had been keep-
ing his youngest son's birthday, and was a little elevated
upon the occasion, but he came into collision with the cat's-
meat man as he was turning the corner of a street.
" Please your Worship," said the complainant, " my
poor dog could not have half a chance with his two great
animals. They came pounce upon him, and capsized him
like winking, and broke the cart."
Mr. BAOUGIITON (to defendant)—You talk of keeping
your younger son's birth-day. Why you look quite
young yourself.
The defendant was 27 years of age.

Mr. BROUGHTON-And what are you, that you go
driving about in such singular style? Defendant—A
professional man—a professional singer.
Mr. BuououToN—What, a singer at some of the
public places about town ?-11e defendant had no parti
cular engagement. He travelled about the country with
his dogs to the watering and other public places, and
visited the seats of the nobility and gentry, amongst whom
he was well known.

Mr. BROUGHTON asked him what part of the country
he came from last ?—The defendant had been to Margate,
but he arrived in town last week from Rochester, and had
since that visited the Marquis of Downshire's residence at
the west-end of the town. He travelled with great ex-
pedition, he said; his two dogs brought him up in a day
from Rochester with his wife, their two children, ann.'
their wardrobe. His wife was a ♦ery favourite vocalist.
Mr. BROUGHTON thought a donky would answer the
purpose better than the dogs.
The defendant said a donky would he too expensive;
and besides, it was rather low.—(A laugh.)
Mr. BROUGHTON-And I suppose that your dogs, not
being considered besets of burden, you have no toll to pay?
—The defendant passed toll-free, except when he was
coming up from Melton Mowbray, but then the toll was

ilsmanded; andbeing unable to arguetiss toll-collectors out
.1 it, he was obliged to pay l.ctore they et t hlT7l p.T.
The Magistrate, after some further inquiries with respec t
to his mode of life, told him he must pay for the damage
he had done to the poor cat's-meat-man.
Defendant in the result paid the complainant ss.
UNION-HALL.

Yesterhy, Mr. Sinchir, a respectable man, reading at
Penton-place, Pentonville, accompanied by his wife, at-
*vad.-d at this office for the purpose of makir:g inquir'es
r hLtive to his son, a lad between 17 and 18 pars of age.
vho wa• committed from this office to Brixton, on an
alleged charge of attempting to pick pockets at Camber-
vv.-11 fair.

Mr. Sitridair said, that he and his family had be.n in a
,tate of great anxiety ever since Monday I st until Wed-
slay, owing to the absence of his son, wi o had received
itermission of his mother, on the afternoon of the former
!ay, to visit Camberwell fair. In the course of Wednes-
ty, the applicant, to his astonishment, heard that hi, son
tad been titian into custody on a most siTicus charge,
end that he was then actu illy lying in gaol. The object
if the present application was to ascertain whether the in-
firmation he hail received on the subject was correct.
Mr. CHAMBERS perfictly recoliected the case. The
'ad was brought up to that office on Tuesday by a police-
nan named Higgens, of the F division, who, in his evi-
lenee against the accused, deposed, that while on duty in
:Main clothes, at Camberwell fair, he saw him thrust his
'land into a man's pocket, and immediately took him into
-ustody. The policeman, in addition. deposed that he
'mew the lad Sinclair to be a thief, and that he had been
previously in custody, both at Biaw-e:eet and Hatton-
4arden police-offices. Mr. Charnhers added, that relying
on the testimony of the policeman, pirticulatly as re-
tard d that portion of it which related to the accused hav-
ing been previously in custody, be considered it his duty
to commit him to Brixton for one month.

The applican', who was very mucl, agitated, declared
that his son had never been in custody before in the whale
course of his life. The lad had seryed his apprenticeship
to a baker in the neighbourhood of Bloomsbury-square,
And since then bad resided at home, where he was fur-
nished with every comfort that he requirt-d. The appli-
cant added, that his son had never shown the least pro-
pensity for thieving ; be always bore an irreproachable
character, had no acquaintance with other lads, was fond
of books and reading, and in fact his conduct was always
exemplary.
Mr. CHAMBERS said, that a greater number of juvenile
“ffenders had been brought before bins during the last
Camberwell fair, than he ever r.:=collected heretofOre. With
respect to the present application, he would advise Mr.
Sinclair to inquire at the police-offices, where his son was
alleged to have been in custody, whether there was any
foundation for the assertion made by the policeman.
Mr. Sinclair hod already inquired, although he was
convinced of the fact himself, and ascertained that bis son
had never been in the situation alleged by the policeman.
Mr. CHAMBERS said, when the lad was brought before
him, seeing that his appearance was unlike that of a thief,
he minutely questioned the policeman, who persisted in.
stating that he knew the lad to be a thief, and also of his
having been previously in custody.
Mr. Staples said, that the friends of some other lade,
who were committed from that office for similar offences.
on the testimony of policemen, hal called there to make
inquiries on the subject, and stated, that so p tsitive were
they of the innocence of the accused, that they (the
friends) intended—some to appeal, and others to apply to
the Secretary of State on the subject.
Mr. CHAMBERS should take especial care that the case.
of the lad Sinclair should be minutely examined into
immediately, with the view of liberating hint at once
from prison, if the policeman were found to have perjured
himself.

It seemed to be the general impression, that the police-
men on duty at the fair vied with each other, to see who
coal apprehend most prisoners from that annual scene of
confusion. The men selected to perform the duty of at-
tending the fair, were not all belongiog to one division,
but picked from various divi4ions ; and some of them had
instructions to appear in plain clothes to deceive offenders,
while others were dressed in the uniform. The former
were chiefly on duty in the hustle of the fair, and the
others in the outskirts of it.

His Majesty's ships Donegal, Castor, Tyne,
Snake, Prince of Wales, Onyx, and Nimrod, sailed
from Cork on the 19th, fir Plymouth.
One of those appalling subterranean occur-
rences, which the invaluable invention of Sir HUMPHREY
DAVY has now happily rendered so rare among the coal-
mines throughout the country, took place on Friti iy last,
it the little village of Nits-hill, contiguous to Hurlet
works, near Glasgow, about eix miles from town. The
pit in which the circumstance happened is the property
of Mr. DOVE, and is known by the name of the Wel-
lington Pit. The miners detected an accumulation of
the vapour, and about two in the afternoon they intimated
the circumstance to the overseer, as a reason far not conti-
nuing their labours any longer. The inhabitants of Berr-
head and Neilston, both near, were resigning themselves to
the mirth of their Reform Jubilee ; and the overseer taxed
the poor colliers with what would have amounted to nothing
more tha❑ a desire to disinter themselves to seek an after-
noon's refreshment in the light of day. He treated their
fears with a bravado, and lighting a common lamp, ordered
he miners to descend the shaft along with him, which
they did, the number being fire men and two toys. On
reaching the vapour, it exploded with tremendous
violence, shaking the earth for a great distance, and
making the clusters of cottages tremble to their founds..
Lions. While many hurried to the scene of the accident,
others, anticipating the worst, posted off on horseback fur
the assistance of medical men. The whole ettven were
•oon raised to the mouth, all bearing dreadful marks of the
shock. Medical practitioners were en the spot with all
possible speed, and every exertion made to alleviate the
sufferers. ABRAHAM TH031301.7, a young man, and J.
WATSON, a boy, died that night, and little or no hope is en-
tertained of the recovery of one or two others. The fate of
Tttoetsore was characterised by almost unparalleled hor-
tots. When extricated from the shaft insensible, hie
fiesta was reduced to one unvaried pulpy mass, severing
from the bones by its own weight. He was conveyed
home to his disconsolate wife, to whom he had been united
but six short months, when his body was wrapped in
eotton, and otherwise treated. In the evening, while his
wife was presenting him with a drink, in his frenzy he
upset the candle, which in its fall ignited the cotton around
his body, rendered doubly combustible by the presence of
some medical emollient, and enveloped tins in flames! The
poor wretch's tortures were increased tea-fold. Stung to
nadnecs, he gathered his sinking energies into one fearful
effort, sprung from his bed, darted to the door, and thence
to the middle of the road, gave a convulsive hemp from the
ground, which prostrated him with violence, and in about
three minutes expired.—Scottish Guardian.
THE EDDYSTONELIGHT-HOUSE.--The care
of this important beacon is committed to four men, tire of
whom take the charge of it by turns, and are relieved every
-ix weeks. But as it often h,ppens, e,pecialy in stormy
weather, that boats cannot touch at the Eddystone for
many months, a proper quantity of salt provision is always
laid up, as in a ship victualled for a long voyage. In
high winds such a briny atmosphere surrounds this gloomy
solitude from the dashing of the waves, that a man ex-
posed to it could not draw his breath. At these dreadful
intervals the two forlorn inhabitants keep close quarters,
and are obliged to live in darkness and stench, listening
to the howling storm, excluded in every emergency from
the least hope of assistance, and without any earthly com-
fort hut what is administered from their confidence in the
strength of the building in which they are immured.
Once, on relieving this forlorn guard, one of the men was
found dead, his companion choosing rather to abut himself
I up with the putrifying carcase, than by throwing it into
the sea to incur the suspicion of murder. ►n fine weather
these wretched beings scramble a little about the edge of
the rock, when the tide ebbs, and amuse themselves with
fishing, which is the only employment they have, except
,hat of trimming their nightly fires. Such total inaction
and entire seclusion from all the joys and aids of society
can only be endured by great religious philosophy, which
we cannot imagine they feel; or by great stupidity, which
in pity we must suppose they item ss. Yet, though this
.wretched community is so small, we are assured it has
sometimes been a scene of misanthropy. Instead of suf-
fering the recollection of those distresses anti dangers in
which each is deserted by all but one to endear that one
-o him, we are informed the humours of each were so
soured that they preyed both on themselves and on each
other. If one sat above, the other was commonly found
ealow. Their meals, too, were solitary; each, like a brute,
erowling over his feud alone. The etnoiument of this ar-
duous post is 201. a-year, and provisions while on duty.
The house to live in may lie fairly thrown into the bar-
gain. Tee whole together, is, pectin; s, one of the least
eligible pieces of preferment in Britain ; arid yet, from a
story which Mr. SMEATON relates, it appeers there are
stations still more ineligible. A fellow who got his liveti•
hood by making leather° pipes for engines, grew tired of
sitting constantly at work, and solicited a lighthouse-
s/13n's place, which, as coutpetitors are nut numerous, he
obtained. As the Eddystone boat was carrying him to
take possession of his habitation, one of the boatmen asked
him what could tempt him to give ❑p a profitable business
to be shut up fur months together in a pillar ? " Why,"
said the man, " because I did not like confinement."