The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-23 00:00:00

THE YARMOUTH MURDER.

RE-APPREHENSION OF YARHAM.
GLOUCESTER, MONDAY.—Our readers will doubtless
remember the particulars of the murder of Harriet
Candler, a shopkeeper in Yarmouth, on the night of the
18th of November, 1844.* We have from time to time
detailed the circumstances and particulars as any fresh
evidence or fact has been adduced, and we have now to
state that Yarham has been apprehended at Blakeney, in
Gloucestershire. Our readers will remember the extra-
ordinary testimony of the woman Dick, who stated that
Yarham had confessed to her that he wa, conceFned in
the murder. On the strength of this evidence a warrant
was granted by the Yarmouth magistrates, on the 6th of
December, for the apprehension of Yarham, and placed
in the hands of Captain Love, the Superintendent of
Police there. Some suspicion being entertained that
ho was in Gloucestershire, Captain Love came to
Gloucester on Saturday morning last, and immediately
proceeded to Mr. Williams, the Superintendent of the
Gloucester City Police, who, together with the Captain,
went off to the town of Blakene-,-, about sixteen miles
from Gloucester. At the house of Mr. Smallwood, shoe-
maker, Yarham was found at work, and informed of the
reasons of the presence of the officers. He said he was
aware of the circumstances of the murder from reading
the newspapers, but denied the truth of the statement
made by Dick, who said that he had confessed his guilt
to her three weeks after his release from custody, whereas
he says he left Yarmouth fourteen days after. This he
says he can prove. Ile was taken to Gloucester, and on
Sunday morning was removed to London, on the way to
Yarmouth.

GREAT LOSS OF LIFE AND PRO-
PERTY ALONG THE COAST.
One of the fiercest storms that has been experienced for a
considerable period took place soon after midnight on Sun-
day morning, from the N.N.E., and continued the entire day,
occasioning innumerable catastrophes along the coast, and
great loss of property. Off Margate, a homeward bound
vessel, engaged in the Indian trade, was driven ashore on
the Knock sands, and speedily became a wreck. She was
called the Woodman, commanded by a Mr. Good, and was
from Bombay, having on board a valuable cargo of mer-
chandise and several passengers, who had a narrow escape
from drowning. Shortly after she had struck the, sands
several luggers came off to her, and having preserved the
passengers from the wreck, resorted to every possible means
to get the ship off, but after many hours' labour, and all
proving in vain, they were forced to leave her.
At Bowcastle, a melancholy shipwreck happened about
three miles up the coast to the northward. When the gale
was at its height, a quantity of snow falling at the time, a
brig named the Mary Ann, laden with coal, from Swansea,
for London, was seen buffeting with the wind. She eventu-
ally drove within a short distance of the land, when the
crew let go her anchors. The coast guard acted most cou-
rageously, for never had a vessel been witnessed being
brought up under such circumstances as she under a lee
shore. Her anchors held until after dark, when about nine
o'clock a heavy sea struck her, snapped her cable, and she
was dashed ashore with great violence, and with the excep-
tion of two seamen, the whole of her crew perished. The
two poor fellows who escaped were washed on the beach
from the vessel, which became a total wreck.
Off Holyhead—Two vessels came in contact, and one it is
feared foundered, with ten persons on board, the number of
her crew. The vessel is the Aeolus, from Liverpool for the
Azores, and the one which ran into her is the Young Queen,
of the same port. Two only of the Aeolus's jumped on board
the Young Queen, and before the vessels parted another at-
tempted a similar escape, but fell overboard and was drowned.
A vessel was lost at the entrance of Sunderland harbour.
The Swift (a brig from Ross bound for Leith), it appears, at-
tempted to run into the harbour, when she was struck against
the south pier by a tremendous sea with such violence, as to
turn her completely to the southward. The crew were got
on shore, by means of lines thrown by rockets.
At Bideford the gale blew terrifically high all day, with
heavy falls of snow. In the early part of the day the wreck
of the yacht Fanny, the property of Charles Montgomery,
Esq., of Swansea, was driven in the harbour, and her frag-
ments strewed the shore on both sides for a considerable
distance. It is ascertained that the vessel must have struck
upon the bar in attempting to make the harbour, when she,
no doubt, was instantly dashed to pieces, and all on board
perishing. None of the bodies of the crew have as yet been
picked up ; but a memorandum, of which the following is a
copy, has been found amongst some papers washed up :
"John Baillie and William Curran came on board the Fanny
on the 20th of October, 1845." Many other fearful casualties
occurred, but the correct paiticulars have not been as yet
learned.
(From a Second Edition of the Pembroke Advertiser, Friday
night.)—lt is with extreme regret that we have to announce
the wreck of two vessels at Fishguard Bay, which happened
to-day. The stern of one of them has floated in, on which is
inscribed" Howard, of Savannah." There were from thirty
to forty persons seen on her deck previous to her going to
pieces, but from the boisterous state of the weather no as-
sistance could be rendered, and it is supposed that all hands
perished. From the size of the stern, she must have been a
ship of about 700 tons burden. The name of the other vessel
we have not yet been able to ascertain, but full particulars
will appear in our next.

Private letters have been received by this morn-
ing's mail from Madrid, of great commercial importance, in-
asmuch as they show a disposition on the part of the present
Spanish Ministry to abandon their ola restrictive policy,
and adopt more liberal principles of trade. The Ministry, it
seems, have resolved to admit English cotton manufactures
at a decreased rate of duty, those sorts paying the least which
are not manufactured in the country. According to this mo-
dification of the law, it is said that goods of 100 threads to
the square inch will pay 50 per cent., and the finer kinds not
above 12 to 15. The coarser sorts will have a much higher
protective duty. These measures, it is understood, have not
been adopted by the Ministry without consulting the Catalo-
nians, whose opposition, in matters of this kind is so much to
be apprehended; and they are about to obtain, if possible,
the permission of the Chambers, or, if not, to try the new
tariff without discussion, and by an order of the Government.
No doubt seems to be entertained with respect to these facts,
as far as the intentions of the Ministers are concerned, but
their ability to carry those intentions into effect is subject to
that doubt which attends everything Spanish.
1.1 he late John Irving, Esq., M.P. for Antrim, late
of Magheranemona, near Lisburne, Ireland; of Ashford,
Middlesex; Richmond-terrace, Whitehall; and Tokenhouse-
yard, London. By his will, which was proved in Lon-
don on Friday last, the 19th inst., by his nephew and
sole executor, John Irving, Esq., and which was made in
August, 1845, he therein confirms a testamentary disposition
executed by him according to the law of Scotland, whereby
he devised his estates at Newfield, in Dumfries, North
Britain, to his brother-in-law, Alexander Currie, for life;
and at his decease to John Irving Currie, the son of the said
Alexander Currie, and his heirs. All other his estates in
Scotland he leaves to his said nephew, John Irving, and ap-
points hiss: residuary legatee, subject to a provision for the
payment of certain annuities and legacies; and amongst
other bequests he leaves to his nephew, John Davidson, 2001.
a year, and a legacy of 5101. to his children. To his nephew,
William Davidson, 2001. a year; also several legacies of 500/.
to nephews and nieces. To his partners, Sir John Rae Reid,
Bart., George Reid, and James Milligan, 5001. each; and
has remembered other of his friends with similar bequests.
The personal estate in England, within the province of Can-
terbury, was sworn under 30,000/., which is independent of
his property in Scotland and Ireland. The Hon. Member
died at his residence, Richmond-terrace, on the 10th ult., at
the age of seventy-eight.—Post.
ST. ANNE'S, Sono.—The rectory of this parish,
which has recently become vacant by the death of Dr.
M'Leod, is in the gift of the Bishop of London. It is worth
nearly 1,000/. per annum.
THE BASTARDY LAWS RIGHT or MARRIED
WOMEN TO BECOME PLAINTIFFS IN QUESTIONS OF Am-
LIATION.—A case involving a question of considerable im-
portance, came before the sitttng magistrate, Mr. Grove, at
the Woolwich Police- court, on Friday last, on a summont
obtained by a married woman named Holt, against a young
man named Terry, whom she charged with being the father
of her illegitimate child. The husband of the complainant
is a private of marines, and it was during his absence in
South America, where he remained for a period of four
years, that the child was born, of which the woman alleged
the defendant was the father. The view taken by Mr. Je-
remy when the summons was applied for, was whether
a woman debarred, as in this case, from all intercourse with
her husband, was not to be considered as a single woman
for the time. Mr. Pelham, who appeared for the defence,
took an objection in li,nine to the summons, which he con-
tended could not stand, as the complainant, being a
married woman, had no standing in law, she could not
be plaintiff in any action at common law. The present
Act of Parliament was made for single women, and a wife
could never lose her marital rights except by divorce.
The husband must be the complainant, and even if he
where, it was doubtful whether, in a case like this, she
could give evidence involving an accusation of adultery
against herself. Mr. Nokes, the clerk, said it was singular
that a similar application was made at Greenwich that morn-
ing, and both himself and Messrs. Traill and Jeremy, after
looking closely at all the Acts bearing on the question, were
of opinion that the summonses ought to be granted. It was
true the Act was not for married women, but the question
was whether a woman whose husband could not possibly
have access to her was not to be dealt with in the light of
a single woman. Mr. Pelham said it was quite clear that if
a married woman had half a dozen children by as many
men, her husband must support them all. It was clear, also,
that the settlement of the children must follow that of the
father, and this would be the view the magistrates would
take of it, supposing the children were paupers. In civil
matters, even where the wife was separated from the hus-
band and occupied a house of her own, it was called the
husband's house, even though he had never been in it and
she had paid the rent. If the parties were married legally,
it was only by the same legal mode that they could be di-
vorced. The case was ultimately dismissed from the absence
of any corroborative evidence for the complainant.
A HARD MASTER.—At Colchester Town-hall,
yesterday (Thursday), William Greenwood, a tailor, living
in Walford's-road, attended to hear a complaint brought
against him by his apprentice, a youth named Golden Balls.
From the statement of the latter it appeared that he was
bound apprentice to Greenwood by the parish of St. Botolph,
who supplied him with a new suit of clothes; for several
months past his master (who made no complaint of the boy's
conduct) had subjected him to a series of ill-usage. Besides
" pinching his belly" by a short supply of food, lie had robbed
his back by pawning the clothes with which lie had been
furnished, and suffering him to go about almost in rags ;
the boy was also made to work at his trade the whole of
almost every Sunday ; and in order to prevent his making
any complaint, he was in the habit of telling him that it
would be no use his going to the magistrates, as they always
took the master's part. The boy, however, who appears to
be of very dooile disposition, found an opportunity of tell-
ing his tale of woe to a married sister, named Baker, by
whom it was narrated to the Mayor, who directed the at-
tendance of the parties. The defendant admitted most of the
boy's statements, but urged that want of money had com-
pelled him to adopt the course complained of. -The bench
handed over the poor boy to the care of his sister; and, after
expressing their sense of the heartless conduct of the defen-
dant, dismissed him with an intimation that he would before
long hear more of the case.—Essex Standard.
REVISION OF THE BUILDINGS ACT.—We are never
willing to find fault, and would at any time step a little way
out of the path of strict duty to avoid hurting the feelings of
a professional brother. Our object in alluding to one or two
instances of unwise conduct on the part of district surveyors,
at the present moment, is to induce those who are deputed to
see the Act carried out, to " do their spiriting gently," and
not by an avaricious grasping after fees, to increase still fur-
ther the feeling of disapprobation which has been engendered.
If they would consider for a moment, as we well know a large
number of the body do, that they hold their office for the
protection of the public, and not for their own personal ad-
vantage, their eourse of action would often be different from
what it is. The Act is not put into an officer's hands simply
that he may find occasions to demand a fee, but that he may.
see its provisions for the general good (often opposed to pn-
vate interests) honestly carried out; provision is made in it
to pay him fairly for all he does, but anything beyond this
he ought not to look for and what is more, must not.--The
udder.

AMERICAN NEWS.

THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.

By the Sea, Captain Freeman, from New York,
which has made a quick passage of seventeen days to
Liverpool, we have received the Message delivered
by President Polk, to Congress, at Washington, on
the 2d instant.

This document, as expected, is very decided as to
the right of the States to the Oregon territory, and
recommends that notice be given to Great Britain of
the wish to terminate the convention of joint occu-
pancy at the end of twelve months.
The national finances of the States are represented
as very prosperous, and the Message recommends a
reduction of the tariff to a standard required only for
revenue purposes.

OPENING of THE TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS.

(From the Journal of Commerce.)

The first session of the twenty-ninth Congress com-
menced at Washington city on Monday last. Both
Houses are Democratic ; the Senate by a majority,
including vacancies which are certain to be filled by
Democrats, of six ; the House, by a majority of
nearly two to one. The annexed letter from our cor-
respondent presents an outline of the introductory
proceedings :

WASHINGTON, DEc. 1.

The Democratic Caucus re-assembled at ten o'clock
this morning, and there were present one hundred and
fifteen Members.

On the first ballot for Speaker, the Hon. John W.
Davis, of Indiana, had 65 votes; George W. Hop-
kins, of Virginia, 16 votes ; George C. Dromgoole,
of Virginia, 7 ; C. J. Ingersoll, 12 ; Mr. Bowlin, 1;
Mr. M'Clelland, 2. Scattering 9.

Subsequently, a number of Members changed their
votes, and Mr. Davis received 77 votes, which is two-
thirds the whole number given. So Mr. Davis was
nominated both in conformity with the majority rule
and two-thirds rule. This is a memorable election
on many accounts. It is the first distinct and un-
disguised assumption of the power of the West, and
the first marked proof of the declension of the puwer
of the South.
The following is

THE MESSAGE.
FELLOW•CITIZENS OF THE SENATE, AND HOUSE OF

REPRESENTATIVES,

It is to me a source of unaffected satisfaction to meet
the Representatives of the States and the people in Con-
gress assembled, as it will be to receive the aid of their
combined wisdom in the administration of public affairs.
In performing, for the first time, the duty imposed upon
me by the constitution, of giving to you information of
the state of the Union, and recommending to your con-
sideration such measures as in my judgment are neces-
sary and expedient, I am happy that I can congratulate
you on the continued prosperity of our country. Under
the blessings of Divine Providence, and the benign in•
fluence of our free institutions, it stands before the world
a spectacle of national happiness.

With our unexampled advancement in all the elements
of national greatness, the affection of the people is con-
firmed for the union of the states, and for the doctrines
of popular liberty, which lie at, the; foundation of our
Government. _ _

It becomes us, in humility, to make our devout acknow-
ledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the
inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we

are favoured.

In calling the attention of Congress to our relations
with foreign Powers, I am gratified to be able to state
that, though with some of them there existed since your
last session serious causes of irritation and misunder-
standing,: yet no actual hostilities have taken place.
Adopting the maxim in the conduct of our foreign affairs,
" to ask nothing that is not right, and submit to nothing
that is wrong," it has been my anxious desire to preserve
peace with all nations ; but at the same time to be pre-
pared to resist aggression, and to maintain all our just
rights.