The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-02 00:00:00

THAMES-OFFICE.

Yesterday Captain Philip Partridge, late master
of the brig Jarrow, of Liverpool, was brought before
Mr. Ballantine, charged with the wilful murder of
three Spanish seamen, between Princess Islaud and
Teneriffe, in the year 1841. This was the third
examination of the prisoner, who has been in custody
nine months, and the proceedings excited very great
interest.
Mr. Hayward, clerk to Mr. Maule, the solicitor for
the Treasury, conducted the prosecution on the part
of her Majesty's Government, on whose demand the
prisoner was given up by the Spanish authorities, to
be dealt with under the English laws. Mr. Price, a
solicitor, appeared on the behalf of the prisoner.
Joseph J~ isher, able seaman, whose deposition was
of great length, stated that he went out as boatswain
of the Jarrow, from Liverpool, and came home as
mate. After leaving Benin, on the coast of Africa,
the ship became very leaky, and they put into Prin-
cess Island, where they shipped four Spaniards as
able-bodied seamen, but who turned out to be other-
wise. They were all sick or weakly when they came
on board, and three of them were repeatedly flogged
and ill-used till they -died:" The first one who died
was ordered on one occasion to go aloft and lend a
hand to bend the maintop-gallant sail, but he could
not do so, and the Captain flogged him with a rope.
He died six weeks after the first time he was dogged.
The man was repeatedly flogged. He could not say how
often. Sometimes he was beaten with a piece of worm-
ing, and at other times with a thicker rope. The man
could not do much work, and occasionally when he
came upon deck, the people drove him down again. Ile
believed the last flogging took place a fortnight before
the first man died. One day witness picked the
Spaniard up out of the lee scuppers, nearly drowned,
and he appeared to have been sitting upon some spars,
and by the rolling of the vessel to have fallen off. He
died next day. That man was called Humbry, and
he was not known by any other name on board. The
second man who died was called Marianna, and he
saw the captain beat him five or six times. He was
also very weak and ill when he came on board, and
not able to do much work. lie was flogged as often
as the first man. About thirty-six hours before he
died, the captain beat him with the log-slate. The
man was at the wheel at the time, and did not steer
well, and the captain beat him most severely over the
head with the log-slate, the frame of which was
broken to pieces by the blows, and his face and head
were swollen to that degree that he could not see out
of his eyes. After the captain drove him from the
wheel'his head bled very much, and he was sent to
the pumps, but he either could not or would not pump,
and the captain ordered him into the rigging, as a
irther punishment. This was between six and
eight o'clock, and he remained in the rigging till
ten, and was then sent below, where he remained
till twelve, and then went to the wheel again
for an hour and a-half, and by his incompetency
put the ship a-lee. The captain struck him and
ordered him into the rigging again, and he
remained there, exposed to very bad weather, from •
about half-past one till nearly seven o'clock, when he
was taken down quite senseless, and his arms and legs
were hanging through the ratlines. The Spaniard
never spoke afterwards, and died the following night.
The third Spaniard who died was called Rosanna,
and he was flogged twelve or eighteen hours after he
came on board because he did not pump hard enough.
He was also in a very weak condition. He never saw
Rosanna flogged but once, but he hadseen the Captain
knock him down and kick him. Rosanna died at Te-
neriffe a week or ten days after the second man. He
believed his death was produced by filth, hard work,
an I hard usage. The Spaniards had not proper
clothing, in fact, scarcely any at all, and no bedding.
At Teneriffe the ship was put into quarantine; and
the doctor came alongside in a boat, and the sick man
and the others were mustered at the gangway, but no-
thing was said about any one being ill or requiring
medical advice. He reported Humbry's death to the
Captain and informed him that he found him in the
lee scuppers dying, and the Captain turned out imme-
diately and gave him medicine. The Captain was on
deck when the man Rosanna was taken out of the
rigging quite stiff, and lie thought he was not in a fit
state to be sent into the rigging.
After a number of other witnesses were examined,
who to a considerable extent confirmed these state-
ments, Mr. Hayward submitted there was ample tes-
timony to warrant a committal for trial.

Mr: BALLANTINI3 hoped it would be distinctly un-
derstood, that on the evidence of the five witnesses,
whose evidence had been taken down and read over,
he should commit the prisoner for the wilful murder
of the three Spaniards.
The prisoner was then remanded till Thursday
next, and at his own request was allowed to remain
in the outer office to consult with his solicitors and
friends until five o'clock, when he was removed in
the van to Clerkenwell Prison.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY.
A considerable number of bets were laid on the St
Leer in the course of the afternoon, without in any ma-
terial instance affecting the prices as quoted on Monday
last ; the only novelty was an official announcement that
The Golden Rule will not start either for the Leaming-
ton Stakes or the St. Leger. Closing prices :
LEAMINGTON STAHES.
. 6 to 4 agst Major Hay's Retriever—taken
4 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Rhodanthe— taken
5 to 1 (offered) agst Retriever winning this and the
Great Yorkshire Handicap (take 6 to 1).
ST. LEGER.
sto 4 agst Col. Anson's Attila—t. several times
12 to 1 agst Mr. Forth's Policy—taken
12 to 1 agst Mr. Ferguson's Fireaway—taken
15 to 1 agst Mr. Ramsay's Cabrera—taken
15 to 1 agst Mr. Bell's Eboracum—taken
18 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Seahorse—t. assl aft. off.
20 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Agreeable colt—taken
and afterwards offered
22 to 1 agst Mr. Dixon's Ballinkeele
25 to 1 agst Mr. Coombe's Rosalind—taken
35 to 1 agst Mr. Clark's Master Thomas—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. S. King's Cattonite—taken
50 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Sir Harry—taken
and afterwards offered
' 50 to 1 agst Mr. Allen's Belcceur—t. and aft. off.
10 to 1 agst Scott's lot, bar Attilla—taken
ECCLES RACES.—TUESDAY.
The Gentleman's Purse of 30 sovs., added to a Handicap
of 3 sovs, each. Heats, twice round and a distance.
Mi.. Park's ch f, by Physician, 3 yrs, 7st 71b 1 1
Mr. Jones' the Fairy, aged, 7st
Won in a canter.
The Hunters' Stakes were won by Mr. Hay's Kate
Nickleby.

WEDNESDAY.

The Hurdle Stakes of 3 sous. each. with 30 added,

Heats, twice round and a distance. (5 subs.)
Mr. Lam plu,gh's Birthday, aged (Owner) 1 1
Mr. Hay's Kate Nickleby, aged
Won easy.
The Cavalry Stakes were won in two heats, by Mr.
Gillimore's br c, by Bay Malton, and the Ladies Parse
by Mr. Jones's Fairy.

ONE OF TILE FORCE.—Our Leeds Correspondent
. states that David Hill, one of the Leeds Police Force,
has bolted to the States, after having made use of his
anthority for every purpose except the prevention of
crime. His last appearance in Leeds was in the cha-
racter of a fence, in which he obtained change for a
stolen Bank of England note for 100/. ; the whole of the
change, however, except about 111. he left at home, so
that it would appear he bad been obliged to make a more
sudden bolt than he had at first contemplated. lie was
under recognizance to appear at York Assizes in a case
of forgery, but so sudden became the emergency that he
had not time to wait until the trial came on, and the pri-
soner will, we suppose, be entitled to " the benefit of the
(policemen's) act." From a letter which the delinquent
has written to his wife, it seems that he sailed from the
Mersey, for Boston, on Friday last. York Courant.
The late rains have done immense damage in the
neighbourhood of St. James's Park ; one of the drains
in the Green Park having blown up with a loud explo-
sion, and overflowing the road to the extent of three or
four feet. The lower part of Buckingham Palace has
been inundated ; and the residences of the King of Ha-
nover, Lord Adolphus Fitzelarenee, Duke of Sutherland,
and the Duchess of Kent, have been seriously injured.
At Clarence House, the water at one time rose to up-
wards of six feet, and the domestics had a narrow escape
with their lives.

L PARLIAMENTARY PETITIONS.—During. the last
session the number of petitions for a repeal of the Corn
and Provision Laws, and in favoiir of free trade, amounted
to 3,585, with 1,590,636 signatures ; while against the
Government measure on the. Corn-laws, there were 185
petitions, with 104,533 tignatures. In favour of the
abolition 'of the system of Church patronage in Scotland,
there were eighteen petitions, with 17,689 signatures ;
and for an increase of emolument to' .the. parish school-
masters of Scotland, were 22 petitions, with •111 sig-
natures, . .