The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LOSDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8. 1844.

WINTER ASSIZES.
NORTH' WALES ClRCUlT.—Chester, Jan. 5.
William Venables, aged 31, was indicted for having, on the
27th of September last, at Sandbach, killed his father, John
Venables.
On the day named, the races of Sandbach took place, and
the deceased kept a house for the sale of beer in that township.
The prisoner and a man named Sutton were in the house, and
commenced fighting ; two brothers of the prisoner separated
them. The prisoner still persisted in fighting, and at length
his father came to endeavour to restore peace. Immediately
upon seeing him, the prisoner exclaimed, " You old
rogue, are you coming ?" and struck at his father. The bro-
thers again got hold of him, and the old man fell on the floor.
The prisoner then gave his father a savage kick in the belly,
which so much injured the old man, that he died the next
day. From the evidence of the surgeon, who examined the
body, it appeared that death had been produced by the rup-
ture of one of the large intestines, and there was a discoloura-
tion of the !lter cuticle of the belly, produced by external
violence.
The principal question put by the Learned JUDGE to the
jury was, whether the rupture had been occasioned by the fall
or the kick. If the former, the case would be of accidental
death ; and if the latter, of inanslaue,hter.
The jury, after a short time, gave a verdict of Guilty, but
recommended the prisoner to mercy.
Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN asked on what ground they recom-
mended him to mercy ?
The juryman who had assumed the functions of foreman re-
plied, " We think it was an accident."
His LORDSHIP, evidently taken by surprise, said, if that
were the case, they had better reconsider their verdict, and
make up their minds as to whether they thought the death
of the old man had been brought about wilfully or by acci-
dent ; because, if it were an accident, the prisoner must be
acquitted.
The jury did not seem much inclined to adopt his Lordship's
suggestions. The foreman said they thought that death had
been the result of accident. They, however, did retire, and,
after a short absence, returned a verdict of Not Guilty.

seventeen years. He immediately proceeded to Greenwood
and Cox's, the army agents, and received a sum of 151. on
account of a gratuity which the Government had awarded
him, and then walked about until he had become so tired, that
he was led, being a stranger to the metropolis, to ask a man to
wham he was unknown, to act for him as a guide to a place
where he could in comfort and security rest himself. This was
at one o'clock in the day, and before half an hour after that
time witness was conducted into a house, situate, as he had
been given to understand, in West-street, Smithfield, where h?
went to bed by himself, and did list awake until between eight
and nine on the same night, when he found the prisoner with
a light in her hand emptying the money out of his pockets.
He endeavoured to seize her, but she was too quick for him,
and escaped from the premises, and the next time he saw her
she was in custody of the police.
Mr. BROUGHTON asked the complainant the reason he had
come over to England ? He said he had been discharged
from his regiment, and produced documentary evidence of that

SHIPWRECKS AN D DISASTERS

AT SEA.

On Saturday intelligence of the following disasters
at sea was received at Lloyd's :
The Sir James Colburn, Captain Davis, of London,
was totally lost, together with a valuable cargo of
1.100 barrels of oil, near Muscatt, about the 28th of
October last ; fortunately, the crew were saved.
The Providentia, Captain Patreira, for Batavia,
whilst off the island of Baburga, on the 17th of last
June, was lost, and crew only saved.
• The Wales, a fine vessel from Manilla for New
York, was lest about the Ist of August off West
Bucra ; master and crew saved.
The Margaret Hughes, from Tralee, on her voyage
to London, encountered such boisterous weather that
she was obliged on the 2d of this month to put into
the port of Cambletown, having lost her boats and
being seriously damaged.
The schooner Amity, of Briaport, fifteen miles
south of Plymouth, lost a man named Simon Crabbe,
seaman, who overbalanced himself and fell overboard.
The Fame, Captain Buckingham, from Villa Nova,
for the port of London, owing to the state of the
weather, was compelled to put into Brixham, Jan. 5,
having lost foretopmast.
The Maria, for Rotterdam, encountered a dreadful
storm, which completely swept her decks and carried
away her life-boats. She was compelled to put back
to Milford on the 4th instant.

tics.
Mr. BROUG HTON, having examined the evidence, said, " I
peeeeive that you leave with a good character, and as an able-
bodied man, and that your grant is only one year's pay. Why,
if yon had served three years longer, you would have been en-
titled to a pension for life. Don't you think that you acted very
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Prosecutor—Yes. Three or fourponnds, which are in the hands
of the officer of the vessel in which I arrived in London.
Mr. BROUGHTON—What did von first do, after you had
missed your mvey ? Prosecutor—i went into the streetand told
a constable.
Mr. BROUGHTON—It seems to me very odd that you should
have gone with a strange man, into a strange house for a bed,
with so much money in your pocket, when you could have got
back to your ship, and received the best advice from the com-
manding officer. Prosecutor—I was regularly knocked up.
Mr. Bitouctrou-1 suppose you told him that you had been
discharged from your regiment? Prosecutor—Yes, sir.
Mr. Baoneserosi—And that you had got plenty of money,
and wanted to be robbed? Prosecutor made no reply.
Police-constable, 144 G, stated that he met the prosecutor in
West-street, and heard from him that he had been robbed by a
woman at No. '2 (a brothel). which he pointed out. Witness
searched the house, but, the prisoner not being there, he ob-
ta;ned a description of her person, and afterwards, at the
earnest request of the prosecutor, who complained to him of
being extremely fatigued, he took him to a respectable
lodging-house. In the course of the night witness had dis-
covered the prisoner in the neighbourhood, and took her into
custody, and the prosecutor, on seeing her, instantly recognised
her as the woman who had plundered him. Only a few half-
pence was found upon her.
Mr. BROUGHTON observed, if she had had the money, she
would have found no difficulty in putting it into other hands in
that neighbourhood. The conduct of the prosecutor, from the
time he left his bread in Corfu to the present, seemed to be that
of a lunatic, as now very likely he would be reduced to a work-
house.—The prisoner was remanded.
The attention of Mr. Broughton, the magistrate, was four
times called in the investigation of a case of the utmost import-
ance to the public.
A young man named Magnis, a butcher, hurriedly entered
the Court about two o'clock in the afternoon, and stated to
the bench that he had just passed the premises of Mr. Lans-
downe, a sausage-maker, in Cow-cross-street, and seen three
calves carried therein, and feeling satisfied they were unfit for
human food, and being afraid they were to be cut up for
sausage-meat, he felt it to be his duty to direct the attention
of the magistrate to the matter.
Baylis and Waddington, officers of this Court, remarked that
they knew Mr. Lansdowne to be a very respectable man, and,
in their opinion, incapable of injuring any one.
Mr. BROUGHTON asked the applicant if he knew anything
of Mr. Lansdowne? He said no; they were entire strangers
to each other.
Mr. BROUGHTON—What attracted your attention to the
calves? Applicant—My knowledge of the trade. The men,
while taking the calves out of the cart, made a noise as if to
rouse up a live one, and being suspicious I looked into the cart
and saw that they were dead, and had not been killed; they
seemed to have been not more than two days old when they
died.
Mr. BROUGHTON—What use is made o calves fle ander
such circumstances ? Applicant—lt is often chopped for pork-
sausages, which are packed in baskets in London, and sent to
meet the Epsom, Dorking, and other country carts, and then
brought into the London markets, and sold as having been sent
from those places.
Mr. Beouostrost—But would not a judge of sausages be
able to distinguish between a pork and a veal sausage? Ap-
plicant—No ; I have tasted each of them, and could not make
a distinction, in consequence of the seasoning.
Mr. BROUGHTON—Have you any motive in making this
statement beyond one for the protection of the public ? Appli-
cant—Not in the least, Sir.
Mr. Bageoserosr—Yen say you are a butcher; where,
pray ? Applicant—l left my situation a week ago. I have
been in the trade seven years, and my father is chief manager
of ti.e Excise Dining-rooms, Bishopsgate-street.
Mr. BROUGIITON, having observed that he had no doubt
of the applicant's respectability and disinterestedness, ordered
two officers (Coles and Boyson) to proceed to Mr. Lans-
downe's premises with the applicant, and make a survey.
In the course of an hour the officers returned, and reported
that not only were three calves, which had died in calving, or
some other " natural death," there, but that two quarters of
beef, which the defendant had told them was for use, appeared
to them in a very shocking state, and unfit in any way for
human consumption. The only sausages they understood that
were made on the premises were German ones, saveloys, and
black puddings.
Mr. Baylis, as well as Mr. Waddington, the gaoler, said
they were certain Mr. Lansdowne made nothing else.
The applicant said that lie saw the beef alluded to by the
officers, and he never saw worse—it was only fit for dogs.
Shortly afterwards, in pursuance of a request of an officer,
Mr. Lansdowne appeared in the Court, and was addresed by
the worthy Magistrate, who stated all that had transpired to
lead to the examination. He said Mr. Lansdowne had been
represented to hits as a very respectable man, and he did not
wish to disturb his good reputation, but he might depend upon
it that it would be disturbed if he allowed a similar exhibition
to the one of to-day. To say the least of it, it was a matter
full of suspicion.
Mr. Lansdowne admitted that it looked suspicious, and as-
sured the Court that his only object in having the calves on his
premises was to skin them, and then send the carcase to a
knacker's premises adjoining. He contracted with Mr.
Johnson, a cattle jobber, Highgate, for cattle unfit for the
market, and he had the three calves, as well as alive disabled
cow, from him on that day.
Mr. BROUGHTON—Hew do you suppose the calves died?
Mr. Lansdowne—They were stifled in being conveyed to town

The Owen, a fine Welsh vessel, and the Percy,
were both obliged to put back to the same port, from
a similar cause, the former having lost her sails, and
the latter her topmast and back. stays.

,0 SS OF THE AMERICAN SHIPHERCULE S

During the night of Thursday last this fine vessel,
reported to be nearly 500 tons burden, belonging to
New York, was wrecked off Deal, near the Goodwin
Sands, and the crew had a narrow escape from
drowning. The letter received stated, that the Her-
cules left Shields on Monday last, early in the morn-
ing, bound for New York, with a general cargo. At
about ten o'clock at night on Thursday, the ship, in
bearing through the. Downs, with a fresh breeze from
the westward, struck with considerable force on the
Brake sands, where she became a fixture, notwith-
standing the exertions of the crew. Immediately on the
captain finding it impossible to get his vessel off he fired
signals of distress, which being seen by several Margate
and Ramsgate luggers,that are continually on the look
out for vessels in distress, he quickly obtained assist-
ance, when it was resolved to tow her off. Several
warps were made fast to the different luggers, and
after many attempts she was again got afloat. Pre-
parations were then made to make for Ramsgate, to
ascertain the nature of the injuries she had sustained
by striking on the sands, but all of a sudden it was
discovered that the ship's hold was rapidly filling with
water. All hands instantly turned towards the pumps
which were worked vigorously, in the hopes of
checking the leak, but upon examination the water
was found to increase instead of diminishing, pro-
ducing, as may be conceived, great alarm, to the
master and crew. They still laid to the pumps,
the crews of the Ramsgate and Deal luggers now
and then taking turns. But it was now
observed that if they did not quickly leave
her, she would carry all on board to the bottom ; for
by that time the water was within three feet of the
deck, and she was going down head foremost. The
master, seeing the imminent danger, had the boats
lowered, and some of the crew having saved part of
their clothes, the ship was left to her fate. The boats
had scarcely reached more than 50 yards before the
Hercules disappeared in several fathoms water. The crew

were shortly Picked up by one of the loggers, andpl-o-
ceeded to Ramsgate, where they landed in safety, at
about four o'clock the following morning, though
much fatigued by their excessive exertions.
The remaining luggers kept cruising about the
sunken ship, saving the different articles that floated
from her, which they landed. From the position in
which the vessel lies, and the strong currents con-
tinually running over the spot, it is considered im-
possible to raise her, consequently she is a total loss.
She is stated to be fully insured at South and North
Shields, but the amount we are unable to state.
Since the above was written, a report has reached
Lloyd's, which states that the vessel is sunk in about
four-and-a-half fathoms at low water, the North
Foreland bearing north by west In consequence of
her lying in the track of shipping to and from the
Downs, and her three masts standing, though all her
rigging and yards have disappeared, the Trinity
House brethren have placed a green buoy, marked
"Wreck," off the spot, in order to prevent disasters.

LOSS OF TilE OCEAN.

Within a few miles of where the above unfortunate
wreck happened, another vessel, cane,' the Ocean,
master William Watkins, laden with ground nuts,
from Sierre Leone to London, drove ashore on Wed-
nesday, between the Ness Sands and Margate, where
she has since gone to pieces. Part of the cargo has
been got out of the wreck and brought ashore.
A WHALING SHIP TOTALLY LOST.

Letters were also received on Monday, announcing
the wreck of another British whaling ship, the Sir
John Cockburn, commanded by Captain Davies, of
London, the loss by which is currently reported to he
at least 40,0001. She was the property of Ward, the
South Sea merchant, at Cock-hill, Rateliff, wlio is
not insured. This is the second whaler that Mr Ward
has lost within the last six months, the other beim,.
the Sarah and Elizabeth, of London, which, it will a
recollected, was captured and burnt by pirates, while
lying near Copang, who murdered three of the unfor-
tunate crew. Mr. Ward has received a statement

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and black puddings.
Mr. BROUGHTON—You said the beef which has been de-
scribed as unfit for human consumption was for use. Do you
not use meat in the making of German sausages? Mr. Lans-
downe—Yes, and that which is said to be bad is good. The
inspector of Newgate-rnarket would say so.
Mr. BitouGuToN—Will you abide by the decision of com-
petent persons in this neighbourhood, and burn it, or give it
to the knacker's, if I order you? Mr. Lansdowne said he would,
and he fetched it in his cart to the Court yard. It looked very
offensive, but it was decided that it had been killed, and was
fresh.
One of the butchers who examined it said if he could get no
better, he might eat it, but heaved at the thought of it.
Mr. BROUGIITON having also
it is
at it, said to the de-
fendant, "My decision is, that s unfit for the consumption
of man, and I order the officer, Cole, to see it conveyed to the
knacker's."

from Captain Davis, of the Sir John Cockburn, in
which the whole of the circumstances of the loss of

that ship is detailed. It states the ship run ashore on
some islands near Muscat, on the coast of Arabia,
and that she became a total wreck. The ship was a
very fine vessel, nearly four hundred tons burden.
The crew were all saved, but they are severe sufferers
LOSS OF THE HERMAN, OF SUNDERLAND,
AND AYLESFORD, OF DUNDEE.
Foreign-office, Jan. 3, 1844.
Sir,—l am directed by the Earl of Aberdeen to
transmit to you, for the information of the Chairman
and Committee at Lloyd's, the copy of a dispatch
from her Majesty's Consul at Stockholm, reporting
the wrecks of the brig Herman, of Sunderland, on
the 17th November, and of the brig Aylesford, of
Dundee, on the 21st November, both at Faro, north-
end of Gothland.—l am, Sir, your most obedient
humble servant, (Signed) CANNING.
To William Dobson, Esq., &C. &c., Lloyd's.
British Consulate, Stockholm, Dec. 19, 1843.
My Lord,--By a communication from Vice-Consul
Eneguust, at Wisby, dated 30th ult., I am informed
that the brig Herman, of Sunderland, C. D. Purdy,
master, from Riga to Sheerness, with timber and
deals, has been stranded at Faro, north end of Guth-
land, on the 17th November, and also the brig Ayles-
ford, of Dundee, David IVebster, master, on her pas-
sage from Cronstadt to Arbroath, with a cargo of hemp,
was stranded at Faro on the '2lst November. The
crews of both vessels were sent home, and part of the
cargo and stores of each have been saved, but in a da-
maged state.—l am, Sir, &c. &c.
(Signed) JOHN ROSS.
To the Right Hon. the Earl of Aberdeen, &c. &c.

LAMBETH-STREET.
At a late hour on Saturday Nehemiah Shakspeare sur-
rendered to his bail, to undergo a further examination before
Mr. Norton, on a charge of having wilfully and maliciously
caused the explosion of a steam-boiler on the extensive pre-
mises of Mr. Robert Johnston, cigar manufacturer, at No.
35, Gloucester-street, Commercial-road East, and severely en-
dangering the lives of nearly eighty persons.
The first witness, Wm. Henry Dought, proved the prisoner
was aware that some large casks, placed over the boiler for
supplying it with water, were empty on Tuesday morning, and
that they ought to have been kept full, and that a few days
before the occurrence there could not have been six inches of
water above the arch of the funnel.
Mr. George Fennell, an engineer in an extensive way of bu-
riness, stated that he had examined the boiler, and had no
earthly doubt, from its appearance, that the sole cause of ex-
plosion was a want of a proper supply of water, and the boiler
getting red hot. This witness thlught it must have been
negligence of the person attending the engine not to have dis-
covered the want of water.
Mr. John Adams, a feather merchant, said he had two
engines on his premises, and the boiler to one of them had
burst in the same manner as that on the premises of Mr. John-
ston, and the cause could not be accounted for, though he ac-
knowledged Mr. Marshall had assigned as a cause that the
funnel was not quite circular.
Mr. John Marshall, boiler-maker and practical engineer,
gave evidence in corroboration of that given by Mr. Fennell.
The case having lasted beyond the usual Court hour (five
o'clock), the prisoner was remanded, but admitted to bail in
two sureties of 110/. each, and himself in 200/.
Mr. Isaac Manvell, formerly a brewer, in a large way of
business at Homerton, but some time back engaged by Messrs.
Manners and Furze, of the King's Head Brewery, in Castle-
street, Whitechapel, was placed within the felon's bar on a
charge of embezzling moneys to a considerable amount belong-
ing to that firm.
It appeared that the prisoner was engaged by Messrs. Man-
ners and Furze as an agent, on an agreement that he was to
receive ten per cent. for all moneys received by him from his
connexion, and an abatement on certain descriptions of malt
liquor. In April last he left the firm, and was succeeded by
his son, but from information which had reached the firm last
week they
caused an investiffation into his accounts, and dis-
covered that he had received money to a considerable amount
on account of the firm that he had not accounted for. Proof
being given of one account of 6/. 17s. having been received by
him of which he had not rendered any account, he was re-
manded, but the Magistrates consented to take heavy bail for
his appearance on a future day.

A POLICEMAN SHOT BY THE REV. JAs. BROGDEN.
—At one o'clock en Sunday morning the Rev. Jas. Brogden,
residing at Childwick-hall, near Harpenden-common, St.
Alban's, believing, as he alleges, that some thieves were on
his premises, posted himself at the up-stairs landing window
of his house, with his double-barrelled gun, commanding a side
view of the road. Police-constable Wintle, of the Herts con-
stabulary, was making his customary round of the premises,
when he heard the report apparently of two guns from the
house. He immediately came up the Harpenden-road, leading
to the hall, a distance of sixteen yards from the outer gates,
when he received the contents of a gun in his fate, and up-
wards of thirty shots in the scalp of his head, abdomen, and
other parts of his body. He staggered several yards, and fell
bleeding to the ground from the wounds, exclaiming, " Oh
Mr. Brogden, lam shot." The Rev. Gentleman immediately
alarmed the inmates, and every assistance was rendered, but
from the serious nature of the wounds, and on the surgeon's
recommendation, he was removed to the West Herta Infirmary,
where he lies in a very precarious state.
On Saturday an inquest was held before Mr. Baker,
at the Wheat Sheaf or Railway Tavern, Lower Chapman-
parish, aged 63. Four witnesses
street, on the remains of Mr. George West, a stone-mason
and builder, and one ol the most respectable inhabitants of the
vrere called, but their evi-
dence merely amounted to the fact
o of the deceased being in his
usual good halth at eight 'clk on Thursday evening, his
going from hies own house to theoc oyster shop of Mr. Arnold, in
Cannon-street-road, and after eating four or five oysters, he
exclaimed, " Oh ! oh !" and instantly expired.—Verdiet, died
by the " Visitation of God." The deceased will be a serious
loss to many poor persons in his neighbourhood, to whom he
had been a kind benefactor, and it is asserted that, besides his
contributions to various charities, he had been in the constant
habit of giving away in private charity from 21. to 31. a week.
He was a trustee of Raines's Hundred Pound School, and a
donor to the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum, as well as a liberal
oßllsa,nkthoef Chan-
cellor of all the public schools in the neighbourhood.
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Comptroller-General, was in attendance.