The Sun.
London, England, 1832-07-18 00:00:00

RECORDER'S REPORT.

Yesterday the Recorder made his Report to his Ma-
jesty of the prisoners in Newgate under sentence of death,
convicted at the last May Session, viz. :—Andrew Mor-
gan, 52, John Dalton, 29, Thomas Fuller, 44, El;ztbeth
Peacock alias Paternoster, 49, and Cornelius Driscoll, 41,
uttering a forged will; Daniel Elliott, 26, Samuel Crow-
son alias Fisher, 27, James Crayford, 23, John Bates, 18,
Elizabeth Martin, 60, Robert Jones, 23, Ge, rge Robin-
son, 22, Henry Godfrey, 20, housebreaking; Patrick
Cane, 32, Richard Brown, 25, Henry M'Namara, 22,
Lucy Biddle, 23, stealing in dwelling house; George
Jones, 34, burglary; William Dancer, 20, and John
Grafton, 24, highway robbery; James Pearce, 39, and
Edward Mansfield, 25, cutting and maiming ; also
George Althen, 20, convicted at the last February Sessions
of stealing in a dwelling-h,iuse ; all of whom his Majesty
was graciously pleased to respite, during his Royal plea-
sure, except Morgan and others (forging a will), whose
case is postponed for further consideration.

THE CHOLERA.—We regret to state that
the cholera is spreading fast in some of tde prisons of the
Metropolis. Last night three deaths took place, and this
morning another, in the New Prison, Clerkenwell ; and
many patients affected with the dreadful disease are in the
Infirmary.
The " Sunderland Dock" Bill, after clouds of
witnesses had been examined by the Lords, and after the
attendance of crowds of Counsel, Attorneys, Agents, En-
gineers, Surveyors, Parliamentary Agents, &c., has shared
the fate of the London and Birmingham Railway Bill :
it also has been thrown out by the Lords, their Lordships'
Committee hav,ng, after all the investigation, and all the
expense (saying nothing of the fistyeuffs in the long gal-
lery) discovered " that the preamble had not been
proved." If the measure be desired, the Bill must be begun
de novo ; and the " pretty pickings" repeated.
On Thursday night last the eastern part of
Kent was visited by an alarming appearance of the at-
mosphere; in almost every part the electric fluid illumi-
nated the heavens, and often presented them in one blaze.
From eleven till twelve o'clock the scene was terrific.
From all the accounts that have reached us it appears the
heaviness of the storm was most severely felt at Margate,
the effects of which it is almost impossible to describe.
Hail, rain, thunder, and lightning, descended in quick suc-
cession ; the largest hailstones seen within the recollection
of roan covered the ground. The damage done is esti-
mated to exceed 1,0001 —Kent and Essex Mercury.
TORQUAY.—On Friday forenoon, it blow-
ing fresh, Mr. COGGIN, of Torquay, was standing for the
pier-head, in his yacht. The sail, in jibbing, knocked a
man overboard, who, in addition to his not being able to
swim. had a large heavy velveteen jacket, and but for
prompt assistance must have drowned. Two gentlemen
were standing on the pier-bead, MARSDON and
GRIFFITHS, Esqrs. The former in a moment threw off
hie coat and sprang off the pier-head ; the latter threw a
111-glass he had in his hand on the ground, and dashed in
without taking off an article of apparel. Mr. MARSDON
succeeded in reaching the poor man, and held him up until
a boat came to their assistance. Each gentleman had a valu-
able gold watch in his pocket, which of course was much
injured. Some two or th:ee years since, Sir L. V. PALK,
Bart., jumped off the same pier, and saved a child from
drowning._ll estern Times.
The cholera is, we are sorry to say, making
rapid strides in the metropolis. Yesterday forenoon a fine
little girl, al) ,ut six years of age, the ',daughter of Mr.
Thews, a chronometer-maker, in Lombard-street, fell a
victim to the disease in a very few hours. Mr. GUEST,
the pawnbroker, on the west side of Farringdon-street, also
died yesterday' after a short illness. A lady named
DONZELL, living in Bishopsgate-street, went out on Sun-
nay evening with her husband for a walk, and returned in
good health and spirits, and in the morning she was a life-
less corpse. No less than nine Jews are now lying dead
in the neighbourhood of Rosemary-lane with the dreadful
malady.
ACCIDENT TO A CLIMBING BOY.—Yes•
terday morning, at an early hour a little boy, aged six,
in the employ of Mr. Etnowis, a chimney-sweep, of Gray's
Inn-lane, was engaged in removing the soot from a chim-
ney-pot, at the house of Mr. HESLOP, landlord of the
Bose, at the corner of Hatton-garden, when the pot gave
way, and he was precipitated from the top of the house,
height of three stories, to the yard of Mr. HESLOP'S
house. The pot was broken to pieces, and the boy was
shockingly lacerated. His cries were terrific, and alarmed
the whole neighbourhood. He was taken to St. Bartho-
lomew's Hospital, where he lies without hope of recovery.
DUCKETT AND MORLAND'S BANK-
RUPTCY.—At a meeting of the creditors on Monday, in
the Bankruptcy Court, it was proposed that application
should be made to Parliament for an Act to enable them
to dispose of the Stort Navigation and the Hertford Union
Canals in shares, and to form a Company; but the propo-
sition was at length rejected, upon the ground that the
creditors were completely ignorant of the cost, expendi-
ture, and receipts of the canals, and they thought that the
property would be more beneficially disposed of by selling
it to three or four individuals, than by forming them-
selves into a Company. The Chairman then announced to
the meeting that the assignees had realised 26,893/. upon
the various estates of the bankrupts, and that there was
yet a considerable property unsold. The total amount
of debts at present proved against the jo:nt estate exceeds
130,000/. The good debts due to the estate amount to
nearly 105,000/.
On Saturday last, Mr. WILLIAM WEIR,
spirit dealer, and his wife, went aboard the Gleniffer, for
Gourock. In the passage down the river, Mrs. Went
was seized with the preivonitary symptoms of cholera.
On reaching the shore, she was enabled to walk to the
Glasgow Arms Inn, where she was at once received, and
where the utmost attention was paid to all her wants and
wishes. Mr. CRAWFORD, surgeon, and Mr. Baucx
from Greenock, were called, and every means tried for her
recovery, but they all proved unavail ng. She expired
about eight o'clock next nivrning, and was buri_d in the
course of the forenoon.—Paisley Advertiser.
From some circumstances which have tran-
spired in the course of the day, there is reason for suspect
ing that a deep manoeuvre is concocting on the part of
certain members of the Bank Committee, for the purpose
of getting out of the way other members of that Com-
mittee, whose sagacity and acute inquiries have gone the
farthest in exposing the evils of the old system ; the object
being of course to avail themselves of the absence of its
impugners to bring the investigation to an abrupt close,
and if possible, to carry the renewal of the Bank Charter
through Parliament before the termination of this Session.
At present it does not amount to more than suspicion that
such a plot is on foot, but the character of the men sup-
posed to be engaged in it does certainly lend great consis-
tency to such suspicion, for the parties referred to are not
only among the staunchest adherents of the old system, but
taire not without fears, perhaps, of personal consequences to
4, emselves from its breaking up. We shall not enter
furtheron this supposed conspiracy than to remark, that
one ofthe expedients is to withdraw the obnoxious mem-
bers from their attendance on the Committee, by raising
places
opposition to them in those
net
for which they propose
to become candidates in the Parliament, and hence
compelling them to leave town in
ordervv ka to secure them-
selves by an immediate canvass. Whatever foundation
foundation
4
there may ultimately peeve for the suspicion,
enough to desire that public attention
may, for somewek
daysn"
ria
to come, be very particularly directed towardsthe
pro-
ceedings of the Bank Committee. The next witness
to be
examined before it is Mr. Attwood, of Birmingham._.
Times.
SOMNAMBULISM.—Last week a gentleman
who slept at a respectable tavern in this city, while reposing
in the arms of Morpheus, dreamt that the tavern was on fire,
and unconscious of what he was doing, jumped out of bed,
and made towards the window, where in forcing his
burning cranium through, he broke two large panes of
that brittle material, the noise of which alarmed the in-
mates, who immediately repaired to the spot, and found
the gentleman in the situation described, vehemently cry-
ing Fire, fire," and bleeding from the effect of several
scratches he had received from the broken glass. He was
extricated, and awoke
,with much difficulty.—Exeter
r Gazette.