The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-12-09 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

OLD BAILEY—(TaiIs Aloaxmo.)
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John Chapman was found guilty of stealing, on the
eeening of the 28th October, an umbrella. valor Ss., the
property of John Williams, from his shop door, in Hol-
born.

Jokn./Dews. and Wm. Dodd*. were indicted for steal
ing is the dwelling house of Mary Mills, a feather bed. and
other articles. value 40s. ber property.
Mary Mills stated that she keeps a lodging house
at No. 2, Dean's Court, St. Martin's in the Fields
She lost a feather bed sad ether articles, on the
30th of September last, from a back parlour which was
occupied as a hed room, by a man named Watkins.
Several boxes had been broken open and the articles in
nitration taken away. Witness gave information at Bow
Street, and shortly after went to a public house in Great St.
Andrew Street, Seven Dials, where ■he saw the prisoner
Brown. She told him she wished to speak with him.
Prisoner made no answer, but raa through the house and
got away.

John Watkins corroborated the loss of the property.
Edward Stevens,a Bow Street Patrol stated, that be went
with Mrs. Mills to No. 14, Vine Street, in consequence of
in'ormation he received that thegoods were concealed there.
He apprehended the prisoners in the room in which the
sheets were found. Dodds was employed cooking some-
thine in a frying-pan,for dinner. There were two women
la the room. Witness said. " Dodds, I have come for
von, and I suppose you know what for." Dodds replied,
" I know very well, anal bad intended to give myself up
in two or three days." The articles were here produced
and sworn to by the prosecutrix.
George Avis, a patrol of Bow Street, upon examining a
hat. left behind by the thieves, immediately exclaimed—
* this belongs to Jack the ',abater, a man with a bit out of
his nose." Witness apprehended him (Brown), at the
corner of Kind Street, Seven Dials. On searching him a
crow bar, alias a Jemmy, seven skeleton keys, and a knife
were found upon him.
Brown in his defence denied all knowledge of the hat,
and stated that when accosted by the prosecutrix, at the
door of the Marquis of Granby, he did not hear distinctly
what she said to him. He therefore walked away without
answering her.
Dods& called two persons, who cave him a good
character.—Guilty of stealing to the value of 311 s.

THE STORM OP WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY.

On Tnesday night, a strong wind prevailed from the
west, and went across the island, from the Irish Sea to the
German Ocean. The gale continued, with some abatement.
through the greater part of the day on Wednesday, and
iu the course of that night it increased to a hurricane. We
have accounts from Liverpool, Rochdale, Halifax, Hod•
dersfield, and Bradford, as well as from the Craven district,
all of which concur in representing the storm to hate been
dreadful, particularly from three to four o'clock in the
morning, when it raged with its utmost fury. Off the
Lancashire coats, there were many vessels on shore, and it
is feared that toe details, when they arrive, wilt be very
dir reding. At Liverpeol,many chimneys were blown down.
and several houses cranially unroofed; bat the most allicoire
occurrence happened in St. Vincent street, where two ladies,
the daeghters of the Rev. C. Winstanley. while asleep in
an upper roam, were buried in rains by the falling of
chimney epos; the roof, which burst through into their
apartment. and killed one of them, a young lady about 20
rears of age, on the spot ; the other, who was the yonnicer
sister, was happily extricated without suffering much at -
jury. At ()render,. near Halifax, a factory, five stories
high, which was building for Mr. Peter Bold, for the pur-
pose of weaving by steam. was reduced to a ruin. At Had
dersield. the roof of the Wesleyan chapel suffered consider
able injury ; and at Sotto., in Craven, a new chapel, which
was building, and nearly completed for the Baptist emigre*
ration at that place, under 14 ministry of the Rev. Joseph
Gaunt. bad one of the principal end walk driven in by the
violence of the storm, and the sceatliap of the gallery
nearly destroyed.
At. Burley. In the parish of Headinglev. a stack of
ehimweys was blown down upon the roof of Mr. Thack ray's
babe, and fell into a room which a part of the Nattily had
providentially just quitted. under the apprehension of
danger. At Holbeek a chimney from an adjoining house
fell upon a cottage. and penetrating through the roof,
deposited its ponderous materials upon the bed, in which
the head of the family and his wife with two children were
sleeping; bat though the pressure was so great that the legs
of the besides,' were forced throng!' the door, the whole
family escaped with their lives, though not without several
severe bruises. A vessel, stone laden, belonging to Messrs.
Cousin & Co. was sunk in the Leeds and Liver3ool canal,
near the brain at Leeds; and another, belonging to Mr.
Berry, laden with door; grain, and tallow, stink in the
same canal, near Kildwiek. Several factory and dye-house
I chimneys were blown down, and the damage during the
night must have beenf immense. At Wakefield the servants
of Mr. D. Mande and of Mr. Harrison, narrowly escaped
from a stack of chimneys haring burst through the roof
and fallen on the beds in both of these houses ; and the
roof and • quantity of furniture in the house 'of Mr.
heaths's', the banker. whose family were fortunately from
home, suffered materially by the falling of no fewer than
four chimneys. Several of the hones in St. John's have
suffered considerably, and tart of the dye.house of M
Holdsworth, on the south side of the Calder, was unroofed.
At Doncaster, the sailed' a windmill, though fastened in
Gm usual way, Mere pat in motion by the violence of the
gale, end the building having taken fire from the friction,
was reduced to a shell.—(Geed, Mereury)
From the York Herald it appears, that the storm was
more tremendous in that city than any that had been
experienced there for many years. A poor woman in
Petergate was mush injured by the filling in of the roof of
a house, and other persons in other parts of the city by
similar accidents. Ahont 40 trees were blown down on
the New Walk. The steeple of St. Martin's Church, which
was undergoing repair, and on which several beautiful pin•
nodes had been placed, has suffered much. One of these
pinnacles fell through the roof of the church. At Mrs.
Morgan's and Mr. Kneoton's houses, in Coney Street, and
at a bons* in the Minster yard, the chimneys were blown
down and fell through the roofs; and many others were
blow. down without Micklegate and other bars. The
house of Mr. Wallis, in Petergate, was also ranch damaged;
and a wall at the Gas works' one on the Fultord road, one
on Bail Hill, and two on Peasholme Green, and a new
house' Heworth Moor, and a house without Walmgate
Bar, were levelled with the ground. The neighbouring
villages, it is understood, bare authored no less, in propur
lion, than York.

Livaneoot..—lt is presumed the calamities of the night
of the kb, last year, so alarmed all persons as to occasion
the greatest care to prepare, effectually, for the winter of
t►is year. It is a curious coincidence that so tremendou.
a gala should have occurred in both years so very nearly at
the same time.

The family of a poor and bed rid man, named Goring,
in Bakehouse Lane, himself, wife, and five children, in one
room, were enveloped in the ruins of the roof and chim-
ney of tie house (No. 9, in that street), and a girl was
much bruised and lacerated. The roof was entirely
blown off, and a central partition wall hurled on the top
of the occupants. The side of a new house, very recently
painted, aid ready to be inhabited, on the North Shoe,
was blown in; and several others in the

were•more or Inns injortd.
Four children, in Bridport Street, had sca
room is which they slept, when a stack of '
and carried the roof sod room door down

story. In Warren Streit, at two o'clock,
oarrow escape: the violence of the gale di

window. mid the densest exertions prevented the rein of
the house. ' The back chimneys of Mrs. D'Agollar's
brim Great George Square, fell , through the rooft no
fatal accident occurred. In Daulby Street, about thirty
yards of a garden Wall wire Wein down, a part of which
fell upon the watchmen as he wall passing by.
The Henry Hell, steam-packet, was, during the gale, on
her way from the Isle of Man to this port, and weathered
the storm nansfully. The Lady Stanley steans.packet was
considerably damaged by being driven in against the
pier.
The Chester Chronicle says, the slated roof.; of many
houses in this city ere much injured, and the garden wall
of Mr- Brace, in Houghton, and a wall in the Post-office
yard, are laid pro.trate. On Saturday night, the Prince
Llewellyn stesni-packet. between Liverpool and Dublin,
was obliged to put intcrHollyliead, during the tremendous
gale of Saturday night, crowded with passengetsy The
latest accounts inform us that she still remains there.' TI e
Predetiek bound from Liverpool to Lisbon, for fruit,
ballast, struck upon the rucks near Holyhead, and was
totally lost; the crew were saved. The remains of the
crew of an American vessel, name unknown, which was
upset at sea, were landed at the ,same port. The crew were
originally fourteen in number, ten of whom perished, one
by one, through fatigue and hunger, having clung to the
wreck wail their strength was exhausted. The survivors
were sixteen days upon the wreck, eight of which they
were without food.

MANCHISTER.—Daring the whole of Wednesday night
the wind was extremely boisterous ; hut it seems to have
been most violent about two o'clock in the morning, when
its force was truly tremendous. Many families, terrified by
the roaring of the wind, and by the recollection of what
occurred last year, left their bed-, and retired for safety to
the ground floors of their houses., A factory erecting at
Knot Mill, belonging, we understand, to a Mr. Jordan,
and of which five stories had been built, was partly levelled
to the ground, and the remaining walls were so much shat-
tered, that they must be almost entirely taken down.—
Three or four new houses, near Lower Mosley Street, are
completely shattered ; and one near Knot Mill had the
gable end hlo oat. The gable end of the new fire
proof building, erected by ftlessr,. Hobert, !fill, and Co.
adjoining Felkner Street, was partly blown nut, and crud).
ell io the roof of an adjoining building. The new factory
of Messrs. Appleton an'l Co. in the stone neighbourhood,
and which is, about eleven stories high, has sustained very
serious injury. The whole of that side which was exposed
to the wind is bent inwards, so as to farm a very consider-
able curve, sod the opposite wall forms a similar torte
outwards, thus giving the whole building an appearance
of great insecurity. At the house of Mr. 11. Weight, in
Oxford Komi, the chimnet•s of the kitchen fell upon the
roof, carryi ag with them the floors, Etc. down to the lowest
story. Mortunattly Miss W. bad taken the precaution of
directing the servants not to sleep in that part of the house;
so that no personal injury nas sustained.—Some cot•
cages in a course of erection near Strawberry Hill were
blotto down.

At Rory, a new factory, erecting by %fr. J. Hutchinson, was
blown down, Mama to the ground. A warehouse occupied by
a Mr. Wood. a manufacturer, experienced a simiier fate. At
Rochdale. Ike gable end of a factory belonging to Mr. G. At-
kinson, was blown down, and a new `stone one, erecting by
Mr. J. Scnoldeld, rece:.ved much adore extensive damage;
little accept the gable ends being left stan•ling.
Jascu Carron FACTORY BLOWN DOWN.—the high winds
which prevailed for 'errant days last past, have been very de
solatiog its their effeets at Preston. On the evening of Wed-
oitsday last it blew a perfect hurricane there, from the north
west, and *boat three o'clock in the morning of Thursday the
newly erected cotton mill, belonging to Mr. Riley, situate In
Fishwick, was blown down with a tremendous crests—scarcely
leasing one brick standing. The building was jest covered
in, and part of the windows were glasel. The large beams
were broken io two, as if only reeds. it is a remarkable co-
incidence that it should bo exactly twelvemonths since a simi-
lar accident htppenrd. The loss is this instaace is estimated
at 20001. heskes the delay that must occur before the building
cgs be raised again. The extensive cotton mill hoildiog by
Messrs. Swaioson and Co. near that of Mr. Riley, also suffered
severely, the branding having been throws about l inches oat
Of thasquare.t. bet it is expected that it will be able to be
screwed op. The damage done at Meagre. Swanson and Co.'s
will exceed Mi. A great many windows Isere broken
in the houses in exposed situations ; and there will
be work for the slaters and masons for some days to come. We
are happy missing able to state that no lives are lost. Chore
ley also felt the effects of the storm, and the Church building
there, out of the money granted by Par:isment, is partially
blown down, the loss amounting to upwards of 10001.
This country and the vicinity of this town have been
visited by violent gales of wind on Wednesday night.—
Houses have been unroofed, & stacksoverthro an in various
directions; two extensile garden walls, belonging to bliss
Stnytheman, near the Mount, were blown dowo.—The
London and HolyheadMeil to this town was nearly an hour
behind its time list night, (a moat unusual circumstance)
in consequence of a tree having been burled into the road
at Dunchurch, at which the horses took frigb, and the
coach was overthrown and broken. No person sustained
any injury.—(Shrewsbury Chrunirk.)
The weather has assumed a tuncia more wintry aspect
since our last. Several heAvy rains accompanied with
strong gales of wind have been experienced. particularly
on Wednesday night, when 10:1IC snow also tell. Consi-
derable quantities of snow have, we understand. fallen in
the more inland parts of the county.— (Carlisle Journal.)
Maw,' Dec o.—On Wednesday night, the; wach box
which bad been placed at the corner of Wellington qnay
and Essex Bridge, was blown by the violence of the storm
down to Temple Bar. We have not heard that Charley
a as an inside passenger.
It has been stated to os that on the same bight a party
of the patrols., in passing throuzli the Pin:soil Park, were
blown into the pond, and out alit rqrain, by the violence
of the storm ! Same night, upwards of dusty men, women,
and children, applied fur shelter from the storm at Wer-
burgh's watch house, add were accommodated for the
night.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT TATTErtiALT.'S—Dsc. S.

RIDDLESMORTR.-3 to I apt Reformer-3 to 1 ;gat Pro-
dence-3 to 7 apt Quadrille-7 to I agst DJII Carlos—ti to I
agst Cressida—l7 to I agst sr to Sailor.
Dan Ito 2 agst Swiss—ll to 2 agst Reformer-10 to 1
agst Agnes-11 to 1 agst Ridicule-16 to I agst Cressida-20
to I agst Banshee-33 to 1 agst sr to Arbutus.
OANS.-4 to 1 agst Prudence-6 to 1 agst Lyrnessa-7 to 1
apt sr to Sailor-14 to 1 agst Miss Jigg.
ST. Leona.—lll to I agst Altisidora tilly-20 to I apt Dia-
dem-23 to I apt Ringlet.

f PEDESTRUNISM.—Fifteen nines in an hour and thirty two
minutes was undertaken yesterday •orning on tiw Colchester
road, for two hundred sovereigns. The pedestrian Is William
Ann, who lately performed ten miles in fifty eight minutes at
Knutsford, and is not more than five feet six in height. The
ground was two milts, which was done as fellows

51in.See. I Min. Sec.
First two miles in.... I I 24 1 Sixth ditto l2 I
Second ditto ..... .... II 85 I Seventh ditto l2 st)
Third ditto II 50 I Fifteenth wile.— 6 51,
Fourth ditto . ... I 1 39 I

Fifth ditt0............ 12 10 9J 44
The ground was measured over again, and it is coestdered
one of lbw g►eatest feats ever recorded.
Balton bas challenged Ashton, or any other man in England
to too twice round Duncaster Race Course. for lOW. a side.—

HATTON GARDEN. This Dat

A respectably dresseB (mat., who • gave her. name
Harriet Phoenix, was charged with attempting to defraud
Mrs. Jones, a linen draper, in Marchmnnt Street, of goods
to the value of 101. It appeared, that she purchased anise
shop articles to that amount, which she ordered to be sent
to an address which she gave. On their being delivered,
she ordered the young man to write a receipt,
and observed, that she in the mean time would take tie
goods down stairs to show her mother. Under this
pretence, leaving the room, she went out of the house
with the goods, and was stopped by Mrs. Jones,
who being suspicions of her, waited 'maid.. She
made no, defence, but begged hard to be fully commi.t.d.
Mr. LAING said he could not grant her request, aul
remanded her for further examination.

QUEEN SQUARR.—This DAL

NSW INTRIIIINCE !ROM SIR. MARTIN'S ACT.
WS. Margaret Moody, an Irish basket woman appliti
for a warrant against her husband. She had a pair of
black eyes. and was severely bruised in several parts of the
body by the teeing she received. She said to the magis.
Irate on approaching to him—" Plate you. honour, Sir. I
want a warrant for tray husband, for bateirl ani WUrdef7
ing the as you are hear," lifting up her petticoats.
MAOIITRATE.—Mrs. Moody lam not a doctor, and dor't
want to are your wounds; Only relate your murder.
Mrs. Moody.—Your Worship, I was last night having
my nipper and sup you know, when Mr. Moods- flew into
a passion and murdered me as you see. Larry Hasken the
watchman came in, hut when he saw Mr. Moody and my.
self, sure he would not meddle with as. So I wants .o be
parted from Mr. Moody if you pine.
MAGISTRATI.-1 cannot pail a man and his wife; you
had better go home, andkir. Moody will be kinder to you.
Mrs. Moody—Your Honour, Sir, aura I am hi a lawful wife,
and works hard for a bit of bread; and you don't give me law,
when I told him I would have the law of id e.
AIASISTSATR.—You drink too much girl, I believe.
Mrs. Moody.—Your Honour. Sir. it you went
,for fish to
Hillingsgate, you would want • sop after carrying your load.
It is very strange and hard too, that a wife cannot get 11.1 good
law as a horse. You tined a man for beating his own horse,
for I heard it in the paper.
MAGISTRATE.—I have no power to floe a husband for heat.
ing his alfe.—Go hone and humour him; he'll not beat you
again.
Mrs. Moody.--Oh home, the blackguard will. A horse
can get law, but a woman cannot.—Mrs. Moody then left the
Office.