The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-28 00:00:00

CRICKET.

BANSTEAD YEOMAN AND WALWORTH BEEHIVE CLUBS.
—This interesting match came off on the Yeoman Ground,
Banstead, on Tuesday last. The score stood thus when dark-
ness pnt an end to the game : —Banstead, 116, and 29, with
the loss of six wickets :—C. Chadband marked 25 and 0 ; Ben-
nett, 22 and 2 ; W. Richarthon, 3 and 17 ; 11. Richardson, 9
and 5 ; Nichols, 3 and 0; Cooper, 1 and 0; A. Chaohand, 3
and 0 ; Russell, 23 ; H. Richardson, 16 ; Hentley, 2 ; G.
Richardson, 0 ; Byes, &c., 9 and 5. Walworth-69, of which
Heath marked 16 ; Brockwell, 12 ; Buckett, 12 ; Hinckley,
6 ; Day, 4 ; booth, 3 ; Paul, 2 ; Prior, 1 ; Bennett, 1 ;
Groom, 0 ; Page, 0; Byes, &c., 12. The return match will
be played on the Beehive Ground, Walworth, on Thursday
next.
TIIE MARYLEBONE CLUB AND GROUND WITH PILCH
v. THE NORTHERN COUNTIES.—This match was commenced
at Nottingham on Monday, in the presence of a large assem-
blage of spectators. The state of t score up to Tuesday
night was as follows : —Marylebone, first innings, 176;
secraid, 106; Northern Counties, first innings, 108; second, 38.
THE MARYLEBONE CLUB AND GROUND V. THE COUNTY
OF HANTS, WITH Box, PILCH, AND MARTIN.—The match
between these two elevens terminated in favour of the Mary-
lebone Cub by 138 runs.

CHARGE AGAINST AN AFRICAN

CAPTAIN AT LIVERPOOL.
Mr. Rushton, the stipendiary magistrate, was on Tues-
day afternoon engaged in an investigation, which had
been ordered by Government, relative to certain charges
which had been brought against Captain Glover, a member
of the firm of Barton and Glover, of Liverpool. The origi-
nal aspect of the case, as brought under the notice of our
Government by a French Captain, was rather of a se-
rious character. Captain Glover commanded a vessel
of sixty-seven tons, named the Lydia, which sailed
from Liverpool to the coast of Africa. The
crew consisted of eleven hands. The first mate
was Benjamin Heseldine. It was alleged that when
the Lydia was lying in the Gaboon river, Capt. Glover
tied up a :,eaman by his wrists, with the tips of his
toes just touching the deck, and then ordered the mate
to flog the man ; that the mate refused to obey the
order ; that, in consequence of this refusal, he was put
in irons, and a number of black men conveyed him
ashore at night ; that he was kept there almost without
provisions ; that he was ultimately abandoned by
the vessel, and left on the coast in a state of distress,
without the means of returning to England ; and that
he at length succeeded in getting a passage to Havre
in a French vessel. The mate and captain were .on
Tuesday summoned before Mr. Rushton. Hesel-
dine stated that the above account of the af-
fair had been gleaned by the the French captain from
the exaggerated stories of the negroes. The captain
alleged that Heseldine had been a disobedient and insolent
officer, that he had treated the crew harshly, and that he
had threatened to take his (the captain's) life before he
reached England. The log, written by Captain Glover,
was put in in support of this statement, and Mr. Robert-
son, the surgeon of the Lydia, was examined at con-
siderable length. He deposed that Heseldine, who had
been a sober and tolerably well-conducted officer up to
the arrival at the coast of Africa, quarrelled with a
seaman for having abused his mother, fought with him,
struck at the surgeon for interfering, and for two hours
after had to be prevented by main force from renewing
the contest. In the evening, when the captain returned
on board, and called him aft to inquire into the
occurrence. he went with his sheath knife in his hand,
owing to which two men were ordered to stand close
beside and watch him ; and on the surgeon's report
being read, he flatly asserted that there had been no
disturbance. He was then handcuffed and put in the
boat, and when there he abused and threatened
the captain. The blacks who took him ashore
to the Prince received orders to provide him
with food, and three biscuits per day were sent ashore
for him. There was no room in the vessel to confine him.
Mr. Rushton thought that the conduct of the mate
had been very blameable, and said that he would
not require Captain Glover to find bail then. He would
forward the evidence to the law officers of the Crown,
and if any further proceedings were deemed necessary
both parties should have notice.

AQUATICS.--ROYAL ACADEMY BOAT-RACE.—The
gentlemen of this highly respectable club rowed a pair-oared
race on Tuesday evening from Battersea to Putney for a pair
of silver cups, which were won by Messrs. Atkinson and Wood-
cock.—The Oriel Club match occurred at about the same time
and nearly over the same course, the start being at Battersea,
but the race extending to Hammersmith. The prize was a pair
of gold oars, and was gained by Messrs. Dodd and Botterell.
The Marquis of Anglesey is sojourning, for the
benefit of his health, at the Hydropathic establishment, at
Sudbrook. park, near Richmond, conducted by Dr. Weiss.
We are unaffectedly concerned to learn that the
declining health of Mrs. Sheil, and of Mr. Sheil, jun., impe-
ratively requires a visit to the more genial clime of Maeira.—
Tipperary F, ee Press.
TROTTING V. GALLOPlNG.—Yesterday a match for
101. aside came off at Wimbledon-common, between Mr.
Mould's mare, which was to trot in harness, against Mr.
Williams's horse, to gallop under saddle. The contest was for
two miles, and the former was to receive two hundred yards at
starting. At the commencement the mare went away at a
good pace, and concluded the first mile one hundred and forty
yards a-head, and continued steady at work. The saddle-horse
was following closely upon his opponent, but the number of
vehicles in the immediate rear of the mare in harness prevented
the horse passing, and Mr. Mould drove in the winner by one
hundred and twenty yards, and accomplished the two miles of
road in seven minutes and ten seconds.
DEATH OF LADY THEODOSIA HALE.—We have to
announce the demise of Lady Theodosia Eleanor Hale, wife of
Mr. R. H. B. Hale, who died on Saturday last, at an ad-
vanced age. Her Ladyship, who was the youngest daughter of
the late Earl of Mayo by the only daughter of Sir Richard
Meade, Bart., was married in February, 1807, to Mr. Robert
H. B. Hale, by whom her Ladyship leaves a numerous family.
The families of the Earl of Mayo, the Earl and Countess of
Clanwilliam, Hon. General Meade, &c., are placed in mourn-
ing by her Ladyship's death.
NEW EXTRADITION TREATY.—A reciprocal ex-
tradition treaty, respecting criminals, has just been concluded
between France arid Prussia. The principal crimes to which
this convention extends, are—murder, parricide, rape, forgery,
robbery, fraudulent bankruptcy, and forging counterfeit coin.
The ratifications will be executed at Berlin in the course of
the present month.
" READING THE WlLL."—Last evening Mr. Mills
held an inquest at the Flask, Flask-walk, Hampstead, on the
body of Wm. Dobbs, a pensioner, aged eighty-eight. The
inquiry occupied much time, in consequence of some relatives
of deceased having entertained an opinion that he had died
worth considerable property, which had been concealed by
parties who were about him when he expired. The Coroner
subjected the witnesses to a very searching inquiry, all of
whom proved that the deceased had been most kindly treated
by his landlord, and that all his wealth consisted of nothing
more than his furniture, which boasted very little of luxury.
Deceased's nephew, however, would not be satified without
the will being read. The Coroner, to allay the nephew's
anxiety, had the will produced and read. The interest with
which deceased's nephew watched the reading of the will was
truly ludicrous, and his chop-fallen countenance, when he
found that his uncle had made his will in favour of his landlord,
and that he was cut off with an angry shilling, even made
the Coroner smile. The jury returned a verdict of " Natural
death."
FATAL COLLISION OFF SOUTHEND.—On Tuesday
Mr. Codd, the Coroner for East Essex, resumed and concluded
a lengthened inquiry at the Crooked Billet public-house,
Leigh, near Southend, touching the deaths of William
Gilson, aged 25, the master of a fishing-smack, and his ap-
prentice, William Emery Ingram, who lost their lives by being
run down by the Portuguese barque Durate IV., on the
14th instant, off Southend. Mr. Pelham, the solicitor, at-
tended to watch the proceedings on behalf of Wil-
liam Spence, the Trinity pilot, who had charge of the
barque at the time of the occurrence. The barque left the
London Docks for Oporto on the day above-mentiened, and
on nearing the Nore, off Southend, a fresh breeze sprung up.
Here several vessels were tacking up the river, and many
fishing-boats, amongst which was the deceased's, lying to al-
most stationary, with their nets out. On the approach of
the barque, the deceased master got up on the fore part of his
smack, and waved his hand for her to port her helm, but her
course was not altered, and she struck the smack right amid-
ships, instantly sinking her. The body of the master was
washed ashore on the following morning, and that of the lad
was discovered entangled in the rigging of the wreck. They
were both on deck at the time of the accident, and were evi-
dently killed by the force of the collision, and not from drown-
ing. The afternoon was very clear, the tide being about an
hour before ebb. A fisherman, named Ellis, satisfactorily
proved the above facts, and further stated that the crew of the
barque were all foreigners. He did not know the pilot, but,
seeing a person crying and wringing his hands on the deck, he
concluded that he was the pilot. Mr. Pelham addressed the
jury at some length, and said that he took the whole respon-
sibility of the pilot's absence from that inquiry, which he had
advised. He then produced a declaration agreed to by the
captain, passengers, and crew of the barque, sworn before Sir
C. Marshall, setting fcrth, that though the pilot had charge of
the vessel, he had not the helm; she was steered by one of the
seamen, a foreigner, to whom the pilot, on perceiving the dan-
ger, called out to " port, hard aport," but he, not understanding
English, the course was not altered, and thus the unfortunate
catastrophe was occasioned. The Coroner summed up, and,
after a brief consultation, returned a verdict of " Manslaughter
against William Spence, the pilot," and the Coroner's warrant
was instantly issued for his apprehension.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday morning, about
half-past four o'clock, a van loaded with people, and driven by
a man named William Wetherell, 2.5, Derbyshire-street,
Bethnal-green, was proceeding at a furious rate towards Bow
fair. Just as it arrived at Bethnal-green church a poor woman,
named Ann Giyton, aged 73, the wife of a sawyer, living at
2, Charles-street, lobe-road, happened to cross; Wetherell
called out witnout slackening his pave, but the pour old crea-
ture, either shinned with terror, or incapable from age and ins
armity to rush from the danger, remained rooted to the spot,
and the van, with its heavy lead, passed over her body, break-
ing some of her limbs, crushing her jaw-bene, and inflicting
several other serious injuries, of which she died in half an hour
after in the London Hospital, whither she was instantly re-
ove notwithstanding, still continued to drive
on at the same furious rate, and might have escaped but for the
activity of constable IS.ersey, 112 h, wigs stopped the yen and
se.k the itriver into custody.