The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1875-12-18 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

GERMAN VESSELS -WRECKED ON TFIE  ENGLISH COAST. The following Eg nii,h es iesoaltis, h t woftolisee crews and Geerremaneve wrecked on passangthe have been saved during the past ton ye trs by • lifeboats of the National Lifeboat Institution antine Germania, of Bremen, 7 lives saved ; barque eeirc on h s Ida Maria, of Dantzie, 14; brig Regina, of Swine" munde, 9; ketch Jupiter, of Hamburg, rendered assistance ; shin Stralsund, of Stralsund, 15; ship St• Johauner, of Dintzio, assisted to save vessel Mil crew, 18; Prna-dan schooner David, saved vessel sr!' crew, 6; schooner Dollart, of Detzum, 7; barque P!,° Schwalbe, of Rostock, saved vessel and crew, 1 barque Fomalhaut, of Greifswald, assisted to sava vessel and crew, 11: Prussian barque Triton, 1 ; brig Gitana, of Memel, 10; barqle Gutenberg, of Flamburg, assisted to save vessel and crew, 20; schooner Helksne, of Hamburg, 4: barque Anna, of Bremen, 16; and s.s. Altona, of Hamburg, 14. The foregoing lit gives a total number of 202 lives saved by the English lifeboats from German vessels in distress during recent years, beside. 5 vessels the lifebaatg 11.1ve L.:Aped to rescue from destruction.  THE CONDEMNED MAN IN ...kR,MLET  GAOL  Since his incarceration in the condemned cell at Armley Gaol, the man Smedley, who lies tinder sentence of death for the wiltul murder of Eliza Firth, at Sheffield, in November last, has shown every sign of repentance. He is very attentive to the administrations of the chaplain of the gaol (Bay. 0. Cookson), and pays great attention to what is sail to him by all who have charge of him. Nlgnt an°. day he is in charge of a warder, and is never left alone for one moment. The culprit is not stinted in his food, and is allowed almost anything he wishes to eat and drink. He is drersed in the usual prison attire, but when the last penilty of the law is carried out he will wear his own clothes. We are informed that he is quite repigued to his fate, and has given up all hopes of a respite. He eats and drinks very freely, and has generally slept very roll. On Monday he retired to bed about eleven o'clock, and slept very soundly until about three o'clock yesterday morning, when he was awoke by the noise of a prisoner who was hammering his cell door, HOMO distance from the murderer's cell. The culprit spends the greater portion of his time in reading the Bible and various hymns. He has been visited by his brother and son, and the interview was a very painful one. On Friday next he will be visited by another of his relatives. As hia reasons for committing the atrocious act, the culprit has stated that on the night of the murder he was walking out with the deceased, whom he says ha loved very much—even doted upon her—when he notieed that one of her ear-rings was missing. He asked her where it was, and she told him that she had left it in a bed where she had been sleeping with another man, who had given her 10s. The deceased offered to give him is. cf the money, knowing him t• be hard up at the time, but he refused to take it. This, says the eulprit, he could not endure, because he loved her so much, and knew she loved him ; and when they had walked a little farther together he pulled out the rampr which he had in his pocket, and gut her throat.  The execution will take pleas on Tuesday next, at nine o'clocx in the morning, and Askem, of York, will be the executioner.