The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-24 00:00:00

THAMES.

BATHING IN THE REGENT'S CANAL.—A PUBLIC SCAN-
DAL.—Jtrentiah Kennar, aged 25, James Anttier, 20,
Charles Bilton, 16, and John Newinton, 13, were
brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with bathing in
public and exposed parts of the Regent's Canal, abutting
on Canal-road, Mile-end-road, and Rhodeswell-road,
near the Commercial Gasworks, Stepney.
It appeared from the evidence of Ram, a police-con-
stable, No. 259 K, that many hundreds of men and boys
were bathing in the canal close to the public roads
during the whole of yesterday, and again this morning.
Mr. Yardley said bathing was an innocent and
healthful recreation, and ought to be encouraged rather
than refused in proper localities, but the Regent's-
canal, in Stepney, and Limehouse, was not a proper
place for bathing. It was highly disgraceful for Kennar,
who was a grown man, to bathe in such a place and
exhibit himself as be had done before children of both
sexes. The same remarks applied to Angier. Ho fined
Kennar and Angier 10s. each, and Bilton ss. only.
The boy Newington would be discharged. Bathing
must be carried on in proper places, and if the fines be
had levied did not stop the evil complained of, he should
inflict fines of 40s. on every person offending.

.TIORRIILE MURDER IN AMERICA.

Saturday morning, at about a quarter past 5 o'clock
a shocking tragedy occurred here at the Sea View House,
Nevasink, N. J. Albert S. Moses, at the time desig
fluted temporary barkeeper, was heard crying murder as
he was running in his night clothes from the hall of the
third floor of the mainlbuilding, and on the approach of
those attracted by the cry he retreated to his room and
his bed, some 20 feet from the stairway. He was found
in his bed with his throat cut and bleeding profusely.
The matting on the passage floor was literally covered
with blood to the stairway. Upon inquiry the dying
man said that James P. Donnelly, the bookkeeper of
the house, had killed him ; that during the night they
had been gambling ; that deceased had won some 55
dollars of Donnelly, and that the assassination was the
result of a desperate. resolution on the part of Donnelly
to recover the money. There being no physician at the Sea
View House, a messenger was sent over to the neighbour-
ing hotel, Mr. Thompson's, in search of one. One of
the guests referred the messenger at once to Dr. Con-
nery, or as he is more generally known Coroner Connery
of New York, who with all possible dispatch repaired to
the scene of the hOmicide. First, as surgeon, he sewed
up and dressed the wound in the throat of the unfortu-
nate man ; next, in the capacity of coroner, he proceeded
to organise a coroner's jury, and an ante nzortem exami-
nation into the facts connected with the inevitable death
of the wounded man ; next, as a magistrate, the coroner
proceded to secure the prisoner in custody in the house
and to give the required notices to the appropriate local
autho.ities over the seloject. We understand from
careful inquiries among the guests and attaches of the
Sea View House that Moses, when asked by one
of the persons attracted to his room by his cries
and groans of the circumstances of this blosdy affair,
replied that the first intimation he had of the
Ipresence of his murderer was the fatal blow at his
throat, which startled him in pain and terror from his
sleep ; that he instantly sprang up in his be I and said
(for it was daylight) that Donnelly was the man, that
Donnelly fled, and that his victim pursued him down the
passage, crying murder. It further appears that the 50
or 55 dollars which deceased, during the night, had won
of somebody at cards, was not, the money of Donnelly,
but the money of the house or of a guest or guests of the
house, of which, as beekeeper, he was the custodian. It
is said tbat a portion of the money thus supposed to have
been abstracted from the safe belonged to an absent
Spanish gentleman, whose return was expected to-day,
and the theory of the case upon this startling point is
thus made out—that Donnelly had appropriated the
funds from the safe for gambling, that he had lost enough
to disclose his dishonesty she he fail to restore the money
before the regular hour of droceeding to business in the
morning ; that, accordingly, lie stole into the room of
Moses, who had fallen asleep, and that Dennslly was
searching for his money about the bed when Moses
made a stir, when, from the desperate excitement of the
moment Donnelly stabbed him in the neck—that there-
upon, frightened with the instant conviction of his
terrible crime, he instantly fled to make such efforts to
cover it up as the exigency of the case would allow.
Perhaps had Moses deposited the money between the
beds he occupied his life would not have paid the forfeit,
but he had taken the precaution to put the money
between the matresses of a bed in an a Ijsining room,
not occupied by any one, but having a communicating
door with his own room. Unable to find the money,
the presumption is that Donnelly's mind was wrought
up to a state of frenzy, and hence the murder. The de-
ceased, as he lay upon his bed the last of his blood slowly
oozing from the wound in his throat, tolda friend present
where to find the money: It was accordingly pro-
duced and found to consist of three parcels in a hand-
kerchief—one parcel 35 dole. in gold and 26 dole. in bank
bills, another parcel of about 12 dole, in small change
(bar money), and the third parcel a roll of small bills,
the whole amounting to nearly 93 dole. The coolness
and self-possession of the dying man in his his last agonies
were very remarkable. He persisted to the last that
Donnelly had killed him, and ordered him to be kept off.
He called for water, but it passed out of the gash in his
throat, the jugular and the cesophagus having been se-
vered, and the trachea opened by the stab. On examin-
iug the water-closet of the back yard, a lot of torn bank
bills were fished up from the sink, tear hole amounting
to 160 dole. Donnelly is 25 to 28 yof age, a small
man, pale, and very excitable and impulsive. The cai w
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cumstantial evidence against him is very ugly.—e
Yorh Herald, Aug. 8.

1855.

FATAL GIG ACCIDENT IN THE NEW ROAD.—COED.
NEE'S INQUEST.-0a Saturday evening an inquest was
held at Stepney, respecting tho death of Mr. Samuel
Carden, aged 34 years. On Thrirsday afternoon last he
was proceeding along the New Road, St. Pancras, in a
gig, when he came in collision with an omnibus. He was
thrown on to the carriage way, and when raised up he
was found to have received a concussion on the brain.
Verdict—" Accidental death."
TAKING THE VElL.—Yesterday, at the Roman catho-
lic chapel in this town, in the presence of Bishop Briggs,
of Beverley, and a dozen other priests, four young ladies
solemnly vowed never to obey the prime commandment
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given to our first parents in Paradise—viz., to "increas
and multiply" the human species. According to a re-
cent statement as to the property which nuns must give
up before the veil is taken, these girls wil hovelave sur-
rendered all their property, amounting to than
WOOL. 1,0001. to Romanist institutions, of a kind which have
The wool 'sales may be considered to have closed; but in this way, from a
during the present week rather lvrEcsupplies of low qua- 04 PAGW. ge to age, become immensely rich.—

Tallow despatched from Cronstadt to -
the 29th July, o.s. (estimated at 25
ifi•ods to the cask) ........ •• ...... 9,452 14,875 18,693
In ships loading and lighters .......... 4,154 5,974 9,490

Total loaded off St. Petersburg 31st
July, o s .. •• • . 13,00 d 23,849 28,183
Loaded off from St. Petersburg after this

date • • • • .. ..... • • • • •

Total at the close of the navigation....

112,05 106,123

112,395 106,123

London .................... .. 4,178 5,451 11,334
Liverpool ....... ....... ...... 1,291 3,244 3,147
llritol ..
Other English ports ............ 2,680 1,769 1,662
Ireland .......... ......... ..• 203
Scotland ....... ••••••••• • • • • ' • 721 100
Germany...... .......... .. 1,151 1,893 1,505
Ranee.. . • .... ........ •••• • • • 149 741
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Total.. .............. -;-9,45-2 14,875 18,693