The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-26 00:00:00

At Redcar for three days it blew with terrific
violence, and on Sunday evening, a vessel, supposed to
be the brig Commerce, of Stockholm, Mr. Lister,
master, foundered to the southward of the harbour,
and every soul of her perished. A vessel seeing her
go down bore down to her in the hope of picking up
some of the unfortunate creatures; but none were to
be seen. She had sailed from the Tees on the pre-
vious Wednesday from Dundee, laden with coals, and
the inference is that the captain, finding the gale con-
tinuing, endeavoured to return, and in doing so met
' with her unfortunate loss. One of the crew was
washed on shore on the following day, and was re-
cognised as being a native of that place. No other
bodies have been picked up.
Near where the ill-fated Margaret, Hull steamer,
and all belonging to her, was lost—on the Dutch coast,
near Norden, where the gale was fearful—another
wreck, of nearly as appalling a character, occurred—
viz., the total loss of an English vessel, supposed to be
the Bellona, from Jersey. The vessel was discovered
early on the morning of Thursday, lying bottom up-
wards on the sands of Nordenay ; and, from subse-
quent inquiries, it has been ascertained that all
her crew perished, and no portion of her
cargo has been saved. Amongst the fragments
that were washed on shore were found some
papers and two bills of exchange--one drawn in
Palermo, on the 4th of October, 1845, for 751., by G.
Dickinson, on Lewis Reis, payable on Power and Co.,
London; the other is (Wel Messina, dated Oct. 21,

845, for 801., by G. Hopkins, orilris and Co. The

number supposed to have perished is 14 or 16.
Further up the same coast, four other vessels were
lost, the exact particulars attending which have not

as yet been received.
A steamer belonging to the port of London is re-
ported to be missing, and strong fears are entertained
that she was lost during the gale, with all hands,

while on her passage from the river to Bremen. She

is called the Tom Bowline, and it appears that she
left on the 11th inst., and nothing has since been
heard of her.

The above, it is feared, forms but a small number

of the disasters consequent upon the gales.

BURGLARY AND ATTEMPTED
MURDER.

BRENTWOOD, THURSDAY.—Yesterday, at the petty
session held at the village of Orsell, a few miles dis-
tant, considerable interest was excited by the exami-
nation of two ill-looking young men, named George
Freeman and James Scovell, before the magistrates,
on the twofold charge of having committed a des-
perate burglary and made a diabolical attempt at
murder. The prisoners were brought up by Mr.
Thomas Coulson, the superintendent of the county
police ; and during the examination, which lasted
more than four hours, the Court was much crowded
by the gentry, farmers, and others of the neighbour-
hood.

The evidence adduced was very conclusive; and the
subjoined narrative will be found to detail the whole
of the facts of this alarming affair. On the night of
Friday last, the 18th inst., Mr. William P. Stevens,
a farmer, residing in the district termed Bulphan Fell,
near Orseu, retired to rest, as also his two sisters,
who alone live with him in the house, at ten
o'clock. Nothing transpired until about half-past one
o'clock on the following morning, when, hearing a
noise in the room which was immediately under the
one he slept in, and, thinking it was thieves, he got
up, and on opening the window gently and looking
out he saw a light shining through a hole in the lath
and plaster in front of the house, and by which the
burglars had gained an entrance. He instantly armed
himself with two pistols which he kept by his bed-
side, loaded, and then peeped out of the window,
and on looking through the hole saw in the room
three men. One, who had his face blackened, with
a white Guernsey frock on, instantly on seeing Mr.
Stevens, rushed close up to him, and said, " You
you die !" and fired a pistol at him without
injuring him. Mr. Stevens then aimed one of his
pistols at the ruffian, which missed fire, and noticing
the burglar was making after him, he ran away.
The villain, however, still followed him, but did not
gain upon him, and finding the chase ineffectual,
he fired another pistol at Mr. Stevens, within seven
or eight yards from him, but fortunately it did not
take effect. The courageous farmer turned round and
attempted to return the compliment by firing another
of his pistols, but it also missed fire. The burglar
then returned to the farm, alarmed his comrades, and
they then no doubt made off. Mr. Stevens lost no time
in proceeding to the police station at Orsell to give them
the necessary information. Mr. Superintendent Coul-
son promptly forwarded mounted and armed officers in
all directions in the vicinity of the burglary, and so
surrounded it as to prevent almost the possibility of
the villains escaping. As soon as daylight broke, a
police-ccnstable, James Birdseye, No. 128, stationed
at a place called Herongate, traced the footsteps of the
burglars from the farm-house for upwards of two
miles, and then saw where one had left and taken an-
other course. He pursued the latter, and, on going a
few yards, found one of the prisoners, who gave the
name of George Freeman, lying in a thick hedge,
and sheltered by long grass. He was forthwith taken
st
into custody, and briefly examined before the local
tme radg!y, magistrate
order of Bulphan,
to
of the other two burglars. Mr. Superintendent Coul-
important informa-
tion,uan, who remanded him until yes-
son, having received some very
sent Mr. Inspector Smith to London, while he
give the police time for the capture
proceeded on to Chelmsford. Mr. Smith, after tracing
the prisoner James Scovell about the east-end of the
metropolis, succeeded on Sunday night in apprehend.
ing him in Ratcliffe-highway, and conveyed him to
Orsell for examination with Freeman. They were
then identified as having been seen on the night of
the 18th instant, at the George public-house, at a
neighbouring village, called Corbets Tey, together
about ten o'clock, and drinking out of one pot.
Scovell was then noticed to have a handkerchief tied
across his shoulders like a shot-belt, which appears to
have had the Guernsey shirt rolled tightly in it. They
were distinctly sworn to by the servant of the public-
house, who deposed that they left about eleven o'clock
on the morning of the burglary. Mr. Superintendent
Coulson made a minute examination of the footsteps,
and plainly saw that two of the men had ran away
without shoes, and one with shoes. He instantly had
the marks covered over to prevent them blowing away,
so as to preserve them, and after Scovell had been
captured Mr. Coulson took his shoes to the field, and
found them exactly correspondh
with. the footsteps of
the person who had quitted with - shoes on. There
were two nails protruding from the edge of the right
boot, which rendered the identification more complete.
Scovell is the one supposed to have_ fired the pistol at
Mr. Stevens. He has been. in the habit of wandering
other trifling articles.
the
about the country hawking brushes, tea-trays, and
In answer to the Bench, prisoners denied the
charges preferred against them in the most positive
manner.
The Chairman (the Rev. Thomas Hand) remarked
that the evidence was very satisfactory, and he should
commit all the prisoners for trial on the two charges.
The prisoners were then removed, strongly hand-
cuffed, and conveyed to the county gaol at Chelmsford

Lreo left town for Westbrook,
H
•
CART ACCIDENT.—About one o'clock on Thursday
morning an accident of a very serious character hap-
pened to a woman named Mary Smith, living at 7, Dean-
street, Westminster. She, with some other friends,
were returning home down Tothill-street, and when
they had got near the Abbey, her foot slipped off the
curh-stone, and a dray at that lime going by,•
she
was
knocked down and the wheel went over her loins. It
was at first feared that she could not survive, and she
was taken to the Westminster hospital, when it was
found the injuries were not so serious as might have
been expected, and she is likely to recover.
STOCKTON AS IT WAS, AND AS IT IS.—ln 1788,
Stockton imported coals for the consumption of the town—
the duty on the consumption of the coals brought coastwise
ss. 6d. per chaldron, having amounted in that year to
117/. Bs. 11,4 d. Last year (1844), the port of Stockton ex-
ported coals, coastwise and foreign, to the extent of 1,621,227
tons, Whitehaven and Berwick are now coal exporting
places ; yet in 1788 the former paid duty 4gl. 9-s., and the
latter 941. 17s. 10d. on coals imported for home consumption.
—Carlisle Journal,

limited, in consequence of the dreadful serf. All be-
longing to her, excepting one man, met with a
watery grave. The poor fellow remains in such a
state as to be unable to furnish any facts concerning
the loss.
The effect of the gale on the north coast, from the
mouth of the Thames to Scotland, appears to have
been as disastrous as in the Channel. About sixteen
miles to the north-east of the North Foreland, on a
dangerous sand, called the Kentish Knock, and India-
man, called the 'Woodman, Capt. Good, from Bombay,
was driven on it in the height of the storm on Satur-
day morning, her crew and passengers escaping in a
very miraculous manner. Had the weather abated,
there would have been some probability of getting
her off, but the continuance of the gale caused her to
be a total wreck. Between forty and fifty bales of
cotton belonging to her cargo floated out, which have
been picked up and landed at Ramsgate and Deal.
Her loss is said to amount to near 30,0001. Off Har-
wich, Lowestoffe, Yarmouth, Bridlington, and other
ports along the coast, the traders and colliers sus-
tained extensive damage. At Bridlington, the bay
presented a most animated scene, by the number of
vessels running in for shelter. There were upwards
of two hundred at one period, the chief portion
of which had lost anchors, cables, boats, bulwarks,
and round houses, by their decks being
swept by the surf. Near the Hasborough
light a brig called the Idea, bound to Limerick from
the north, with a cargo of coals, drove on to the
sands, when she immediately capsized, the crew
barely having time to cut away the boat and leap
into it before the succeeding wave took her off into
deep water, and then she immediately foundered. The
crew were subsequently picked up and landed at Yar
mouth in the most destitute condition, having lost a
they possessed.