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The Manchester Examiner. — 1848-04-29 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

BERGS IN THE ATLANTIC.—About six, p.m. of the next day, 23d May, the captain came into the cabin with a look of some perturbation, and said, "After 11 my care, we are among the ice." All ran upon (leek; the veumg was clear and cold, and behold in the east, full in the f,ce of the setting sun, arrayed in dazzling whiteness, and enthroned upon the waters, appeared the glorious iceberg. In length it was supposed to be about one hundre I and fifty feet, in height sixty feet; the depth below the water is calculated at two-thirds of the height above. The form was that of a gigantic castellated edifice, with turrets at the two corners and a loftier one in the centre, all perfect in their figures and proportion. The horizon beyond this enchanted island wasof deep grey,approaching to black and tile sea below was of the colour of sapphire; on the side between the sun and the ship the surface of the water was of dancing silver. In silence, in solitude, and in mystery, refulgent with light, and armed with strength, the majestic form held on its irresistible way, luring all living things to destruction, and bearing in its spotless bosom—shipwreck, and famine, and murderous frost, and relentless and insanable death. The Scylla and Charybdis of ancient story. theie snares of the tideless Mediterranean are forgotten h ittuia coutenplation of the sublimity and beauty—the cruelty of the Iceberg of the Frozen Zone. tured until dusk, and some among us I been vouchsafed, the first mariners to whom such vision had how hardly we should have abstaint d felt erpupsleieme appeasing of finding t to our headlong into its fascinating snare, what miracle of the baebeonuttmtheoren. insatiable curiosity a' led thins sm our view. RecolAlmighty's power was thus presentedl-f 1 that had thane. u nesswe lecting ourselves, we rejoiced iceberg an tat been b • e escaped the danger, for leagues.to the eastward of our i vita: have been or had the fog still continut: , the course,we m sciously driven against the invisible mass—list. 42 degrees 10 seconds, long. degrees. N iceberg, but much larger, end at a great distunee • Read the curious pamphlet upon this 52. interesting subject, and examined the "Chart of Ice which accompanies it. The captain had not seen ice before for five years; he says that . these islands of ice are of all forms, sometimes rugged like reeks, sometimes smooth like mountains, sometimes pointed like steeples; he dues not believe that they are annually loosened from the masses of ice accumulated at the north pole; but that a portion .being formed or detached, ether masses are, by the action of the sea, shoved upon it; fogs alighting upou these fields of ice become instantly frozen. Many ships have been lost among them. Bursley saw ice in the Cambridge, in 1810; and an iceberg was seen by the Roscius, supposed (1 believe,) to be three miles long, and tw'es hundred feet high. The interviews of the Roscies with , the ice have been very frequent, and are all laid down in the "Ice Chart."—Mrs. Mauris Eugliduvornan in America,  SMALL PARMS tog
The Manchester Examiner. — 1848-06-27 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

BURGLARY AND MURDEROUS ATTACK.—Between one and two o'clock on Monday morning last, three men armed With bludgeons, entered the house of Mr. and Airs. Newlove (mother and son), at Warthill, near York, and finding Mrs. Newlove about to ascend the stairs in the passage, one of them struck her a violent blow on the head with a bludgeon. The son, attracted by the noise, was leaving the front kitchen to discover what was the matter, when he was also struck near the door, but he contrived to make his escape from the house. About half-past seven o'clock in the morning, a labourer went to the house as usual, for the purpose of obtaining the stable key. The back door was open, and not meeting with the son, be proceeded into the passage, where he found Mrs. Newlove laid on the ground, with her head bathed in blood. The village was alarmed, and a search was made for the son, who was found in the privy covered with blood, and insensible. On the floor of the passage of the house an iron candlestick 'was found, with the rim much bent, and having considerable portions of blood and hair adhering to it, there is no doubt that it had been used in the murderous attack. After the discovery, of the bodies, Mr. Wright, the surgeon' of Stamford Bridge, was sent for, when they were placed in bed, and were in a very dangerous condition when this account was written. It is supposed that the burglars hastily left the retired house without any booty, after the son had made his escape. Mr. and Mrs. Newlove are persons of very eccentric and wonorethbead,vaenryd largeer sum mpeonnueryir habits, tgenerally ai to rest until the other villagers had got up, in order that they might protect their money, of which it is known they sdletp o tbien had a considerable quantity on the premises. The house, h N on being examined, presented a deplorable condition, and have been changed clothes of Mrs. ewlove appeared not to changed for months; indeed, there was not an entire house, notes, upon her person. On examining the notes sovereigns, and cheques, to the amount of £1,20() or £1,300, were found in different places. Mr. Newlove is about 46 years of age, and neither of the parties have yet suffiCiently recovered to give a succinct account of the outrage. It appears that in February last three midnight plunderers entered their house, and found them in bed. One of the thieves on that occasion stood over them with n large knife, and threatened to cat their throats, if they gave any alarm. The house was afterwards ransacked, and a considerable sum of money taken away. The affair was investigated at the time before the magistrates, but nothing was elicited to lead to the detection of the offenders. It is supposed that they are the parties who have also been guilty of the present murderous attack. The police are actively excirtin them!ielves in the matten—Leeds Mercury.
The Manchester Examiner. — 1848-02-08 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

LOSS OF THE "BRITISH SOVEREIGN" WHALING SHIP, AND MURDER OF THE CREW.  tettets were reve4 at Lloyd's on Saturday, dated Sydney, August 17, commun;Cating the total loss of the barque british Sovereign, a whahog ship, Captain W. H. Jones, master, on the eastern side of the Sandwich Islands, and the reported horrible massacre by the natives of nearly the whole of the ship's crew. The vessel left Sydney on the Bth day of January last, for New Zealand, and thence to the South Sea Islands. In the course of the passage she called at the island of Thanna, where she shipped about 20 of the natives, to assist in procuring sandal wood. The captain then determined to make for Sandwich, first sending back the natives to Thanna in the ship's boat, in charge of the chief mate, and several of the men. • The ship left Errornanga on the evening of the 23rd of April, and at day-break the next morning, she was found to be close in upon the eastern coast of Sandwich. She was immediately hauled on a wind, and two boats were lowered for the purpose of keeping her off the land, but being within the influence of the ground swell, the boats had no effect upon her, and she soon struck on a rock, within a cable's length of the shore. She then fell on her broadside, and though her masts were cut, .and every means adopted to save the vessel, she in a few hours broke up and became a total wreck. For three days the crew remained near the wreck, in the hope of saving some of the stores, the natives behaving in the kindest manner. The captain and the crew, it should be observed, were rescued from the rock by the natives, who threw ropes to them from the shore. They wished them to remain, but it was considered expedient by the captain to make to the leeward harbour, to which vessels resort in visiting the island. After about four day's travelling they came to a bay on the south side of the island, where the natives appeared on the same friendly terms. They gave them sugar-canes and cocoa nuts to eat, and the chief to whom they were introduced took great liking to a child, a fine little boy, who was along with the captain. Amidst this apparent good feeling a tumult broke out among the natives, who fell upon the unfortunate crew, who were off their guard, sand most of them were brutally slaughtered. The captain endeavoured to escape and retreated into the water. They were, however, too close upon him, and his skull was smashed in. The man Weir, and three others,-succeeded in getting clear by springing forward into the sea, and swimming to a canoe, with which they reached an adjacent island. The natives pursued them, and Weir's companions were overtaken, but their fates were unknown; Weir contriving to conceal himself in the bush, where he remained for several days. Fortunately, the first day he ventured out to the beach, the Isabella Anna hove in sight, when he swam off, and was picked up. The number supposed to have been massacred is twenty-nine.
The Darlington & Stockton Telegraph, Richmond Herald, South Durham and North York Review. — 1870-05-07 (Darlington, Durham, England)

BRUTAL CONDUCT BY A HUSBAND. Francis Hildreth was .charged with assaulting Eleanor Hildreth, his wife, on the Ist inst.—CorrPlainant said that eleven weeks ago she married defendant, and during that time he had abused her in a shameful manner, without any reason whatever, excepting those which had their foundation in his own imagination. He had beaten her frequently, and made the foulest accusations against her, none of which he could support. He . .  hild refused to allow her even the control of the necessaries of life, which he kept under lock and key, and even when she had sent to the works to him for the keys to obtain food, he had refused, and she had been under obligation to her neighbours for a cup of tea. She had feared that he would murder her, as he had frequently threatened to put her "under the sod," and she had told the neighbours not to delay in going into the house when she cried out. At fir 4 she (lid not cry out when he beat her, as she did not like to make a disturbance, but some of her neighbours who were kind to her advisei her 6r4 to do so. About a fortnight ago he had taken her up stairs and locked the door and ill-treated her very severely, by striking and pecking her down. He had also pulled her out of bed and assaulted her violently. She had no children of her own, but defendant had three. On Friday night last one of defendant's sons struck her and kicked her on the'legs. Whilst he was doing so, the eldest son came in, a boy about thirteen years of age, and compelled him to desist. The younger son told the defendant what had occurred, and he said the boy had done quite right in striking at his mother, seeing what kind of a woman she was, and threatened to thrash the eldest boy for interfering on her behalf. On the Ist inst., defendant struck him for doing so, and afterwards struck her, and then turned her out of the house. He afterwards turned the boy out. It was after ten o'clock, and she was indebted to one of the neighbours for a night's lodging, with the boy. They had since been at lodgings, and she now wished that she might be allowed to live apart from him, so that she might earn her own livelihood.—Chas. Hildreth, son of defendant, corroborated the statement of his step-mother.—Defendant cross-examined him as to whether he had not corrected him for staying out nail ten o'clock on the Sunday night, but the boy's evidence was very clear to the effect that he was punished for interfering to save his mother from the violence of his younger brother.—Defendant denied striking at his wife, and said that she left the house of her own accord because he struck the boy, but did not call any witnesses to support his case.—The Bench committed him to two months' imprisonment, with hard labour, and ordered that he should be bound over to keep the peace towards his wife for six months after the expiration of the term of imprisonment, in a bond of PM.
Darlington & Richmond Herald. — 1873-07-26 (Darlington, Durham, England)

THE CONDEMNED IN DURHAM  GAOL.  The execution of Joseph Turnbull, convicted at the last Durham Summer Assizes on the charge of wilful murder, has been fixed to take place at eight o'clock on Monday morning next. During the past week efforts have been made with the view of obtaining a reprieve, but up to Thursday night no communication had been received from the Home Office, except the formal acknowledgment of the receipt of a petition. It appears that the petition was got up by the Rev. E. R. Ormsby, curate of Willington, who has been in constant attendance upon the prisoner, and to whose ministrations, in coramon with those of the Rev. J. C. Lowe, chaplain of the gaol, the unfortunate young man pays the most devout attention. The petition was signed in the course of four hours by 600 people living in Willington, and on Tuesday it was transmitted to the Horns Office. Mr. W. Brignal, Jun., the culprit's solicitor, has been instrumental ' during the week in obtaining evidence for transmission to the Home Secretary with the view of discrediting the testimony deposed to by certain witnesses for the prosecution during the trial. The demeanour of Turnbull since his condemnation has been such as becomes a man placed in so awful a position. He pays the most earnest attention to the ministrations of the two clergymen named above, for whose kindness and devotion he has frequently expressed his warmest thanks. Turnbull does not appear to be buoyed up with a hope that his life will be spared. On the contrary, he seems to he resigned to the fate that apparently awaits him; and he asserts that if he dies on the scaffold it is not because he was guilty of the murder of Hagan, but because it is a punishment that has come upon him for his past follies and transgressions. Since his conviction Turnbull has protested his innocence to all by whom he has been seen. On Monday he was visited by his father—who had seen him in gaol on three previous occasions—and who evidently feels convinced that his son is innocent of the charge of which he has been convicted. On Tuesday, tile prisoner had his portrait taken in a new suit of clothes, which had been sent to him for that purpose. Daring the operation we understand that he was remarkably calm and collected, and appeared as unconcerned as might any person having his photograph taken under ordinary circumstances. The arrangements for the execution are almost completed. Calcraft has been engaged, and will attend the execution, and the scaffold has been erected for the purpose of carrying out on the body of Turnbull the last dread sentence of the law.  The Lord Chamberlain has interfered with the performance of a burlesque at the Opera Comiqne. The chief actor was made up like the Shah. A Persian complained, and the manager, to oblige the Lord Chamberlain, :has had to whitewash his actor's face and remove:his hat.l
Darlington & Richmond Herald. — 1873-09-20 (Darlington, Durham, England)

TARING IT COOLLY.—A New York exchange describes the following incident :—Recently a lady, while riding in an omnibus, became aware that the " gentleman " on her right was feeling for her pocket under her cloak. For a moment a cold shiver passed through her, but it was broad daylight, and as there were many persons in the omnibus to whom she might apply for protection, she took courage, and recollecting that on the dress she wore, her pocket had much to her previous annoyance been sewed on the wrong side ef the skirt, concluded to sit still and wait the course of events. Having been sufficiently entertained by the vain efforts of her neighbour to find her pocket, she turned to him and said, quietly, "My Pocket is on the other side, sir." The man • immediately jumped lip, pulled the strap and disappeared with most amazing rapidity, the con.' temptn.ons coolness of the lady having been too much for his artistic nerves. A certain French baron, whose scientific tastes led him to collect the skulls of celebrated persons, one day received a visit from a man with whom he was accustomed to deal. "What do you bring me here?" asked the baron, as the man slowly •• unwrapped a carefully enveloped package. "The skull of Shakspere." "Impossible!" "I speak • the truth, Monsieur le Baron. Here is proof of what I say," said the dealer, producing some papers. " But," replied the baron, drawing aside some drapery which concealed his own singular s•t collection, "I already possess that skull." "Lie r.b must have been a rogue who sold you that," was . the remark of the honest dealer. "Who was it, t' monsieur?" "Your father," said the baron, in a mild tone; "he sold it to me about twenty-nine ." years ago." The broker was for a moment disconcerted, but then exclaimed, with vivacity, "I 'IL understand. Be good enough to observe the small dimensions of the skull on your self. Re .tli mark the narrow occiput, the undeveloped forehead, where intelligence is still mute. It is Shakspere's, certainly, but as a child about twelve .7.. t- or fourteen years old; whereas this is when he l!' , had attained a certain are, and had become the " great genius of which England is eo justly Gdi proud." The baron bought the second head, tr•r(  7.9 q, Mr. Lowe, Home Secretary, has written to 1 Mr. John de Morgan, stating, that Her Majesn, „Tty' s Government still declined to deal with the J r '3' „Fenian prisoners differently from ordinarY e°ll94• rview. ~ On Saturday, Thomas Atkin was brought lip o: ,before the West Mailing County Bench, charged fr•-, murdering Police-constable May, on cdw the 23rd ult. He was committed to take his .'trial for wilful murder.  • Another collision occurred about nine o'clock • ffiqn Fi*iday night on the East Lancashire Rail. iwway, between Bury and Snraraerseat. Both • 'F.-dines were blocked for a long distance. One of 77' the drivers was 1.);_lsly hurt, and i. pot Ex .pected to recover.
Darlington & Richmond Herald. — 1874-12-05 (Darlington, Durham, England)

MINING CASUALTIES IN CLEVE LAND.  A fatal acaident has occurred at Brotton, which is expected to raise a question as to the employment of boys—at least those of tender years—in certain occupations in our ironstone mines. The deceased in this case was one William Walker, aged 12, and his duty in Messrs Morrison's mines, where he was employed, was to lead a horse, in other words, to act as assistant driver on the tramway; and whilst thus engaged a few mornings ago, he stumbled and fell, and a number of laden waggons passed over him. On being picked up, the p3or little fellow was found with his right leg literally cut in two from the foot to the hipThe leg was shortly afterwards amputated, and the deceased, after lingering in great agony until the following day, expired. An inquest has been opened by the deputycoroner (Ur Robinson), and adjourned for the attendance of the Government Inspector.—George Rodgers, a deputy-overman at the Belmont Mines, Gnisbrongla, who had his foot injured by a fall of of stone some weeks ago, was on Wednesday under the necessity of having his leg amputated at the Guisbroagh hospital —0 wing to the reckless conduct of some miners, an explosion ccourred in Messrs Charlton's mines, Slapewath, near Gni& brough, the other morning, by which four of them were injured, three of them so seriously that some time must elapse before they will be able to resume their employment. The men are Matthew Wilson, John Gua2e, Joseph Album, Thomas Spring and George Rodgers, and they appear to have gone into a place where they had no right to be, to examine, it is stated, "a board" where Rogers had been working. The whole of them had lamps, with the exception of Wilson, who went in with a naked light, i.e , a lighted candle, and on reaching the place indicated, a quantity of gas, which had accumulated, exploded. The men, on becoming aware of their danger, at once threw themselves on the ground, that being their only hope of escaping with their lives, and, on the foul air clearing away, they proceeded to the month of the mine, Spring, who was the only one injured, leading the way, and rendering what assistance he could to the others. Wilson, Guage, and Album w(re so seriously burnt that they had to be remove 1 without delay to the Guisbrough Hospital, where they were attended by Doctors Merryweather and Beardsley. The other man Rogers, who was not much worse, was taken to his lodgings.  Mr Disraeli is still confined to his room.  Alfred Keighley was taken into custody at Halifax, on Wednesday, for having attempted to murder his wife, whom he attacked with a pair of tongs. Prisoner also inflicted a gash on his throat with a razor. DESERTION FROM THE ARMY .—Millbank Prison is now so full of soldiers suffering the penalty of desertion—there are 900 altogether—that Bedford Goal is to be used as a branch establishment for the custody of this kind of offendera.
Darlington & Richmond Herald. — 1874-06-13 (Darlington, Durham, England)

CAPE.  A shocking efts?, says a correspondent writing from Cape Town on the 11th ult., has just terminated in the Supreme Court. Three years ago a Mr Dirk Gisshert van Creda shot his wife at his farm, R tel River, in the division of Bredasdorp. Not three days after this, one of his brothers, a doctor, in a fit of delirium tremens, stabbed his wife to death at Fort Beaufort. The doctor was tried, found gnilty of the crime during a fit of temporary insanity, and sentenced accordingly. The brother's case lay hushed till he recently Mused a servant, who went to the tnagistrate immediately afterwards, laid an information against him .for the murder. stud caused his arrest. He was brought up to Cape Town, end till 'the Saturday before his triAl, which was to take place on the Tuesday, there appears to he notdirect evidence. His eldest daughter, now in her 16th year urged by the gravity of the occasion, voluntarily went to the public prosecutor, and made an affidavit that she was present when her mother was deliberately shot by her father. She hail made two contradictory affi invits previously. The resssn she aid so was, she seys, that when they were made she was under her father's roof, and in fear of him. She was now mdrtierl,having formed 'an alliance while her father was in prison, and being freed from his control, felt that she could not again forswear her cat.science. A verdict of culpable homicide, with a recommendation to mercy, was found. On that he was sentenced to five years' imprisonment with hard labour. Three days afterwards the daughter went to the office of the pubic prosecutor to ask for her witness's fee, 3/. odd, which she received.  The Times Calcutta correspondent telegraphs that a 4 per cent. loan of two and a half millions is announced.  A meeting was held at the Mansion House on Friday, the Lord Mayor presiding, in favour of the abolition of the East African slave trade.  Ahont 2,000 workmen in the employment of Messrs Craven, worsted mannfactnrers, Height/ y, have struck woill in consequence of a notice of a reduction Of wages. The rate of consumption of water is greater in Glasgow than any other geotch town except Grtenock. "What is it mixed with ?" asks a contemporary.  Mr Allen, the Sheffield analyst, stated b( fore the Committee on Food Advlteration, on Friday, that one packet of tea examined by him was found to contain 60 per c:nt. of in:q)lable matter.  In the Queen's Bench, on Friday, Mr Watkin-Williams, in answer to a question by the Court, said he had good reason to believo the Judicature Act would ba postponed for a year.  PETER'S PExcE.—The Catholic Uliict of the Consumers of Chocolate is the titla of an association which has been established in France, to swell the sum of Peter's Pence. The Society sells chocolate, and apropriates the modest sum of five centimes fri,m the price of each kilogramme said, the proceeds of this tax being forwarded to Saint Peter's treasury. Mural.lc: