The Press. — 1853-08-27 (London, England)

SERIOUS STEAM-BOAT CoussioN occurred in the Tyne on Monday. The Sir John Ensthope, a heavy screw collier, ran into a passenger steamer named the William, bound from Newcastle, at the entrance to Shields harbour. The William was struck just abaft the funnel, and almost immediately sunk, throwing all her passengers, men, women, and children, into the water. A frightful scene of confusion and panic occurred, but, owing to the prompt succour afforded, it is supposed that no lives were lost, as no one was ascertained to be missing. Several passengers were, however, much cut and bruised by the shock, and Renwick, the steersman, had his thigh broken. AN ACCIDENT occurred on Wednesday to an excursion train from Leeds, proceeding by the Lincolnshire and Yorkshire line, to one of the watering-places on the coast near Fleetwood. At the junction of the Lancashire and Yorkshire line with the London and North-Western, at Euxton, near Preston, it ran into a luggage train, and a smash ensued, which had the effect of blocking up both lines of railway for some hours, but no serious injury was sustained by any of  the passengers. IN A FIT OF REVENGE one Patrick Sullivan struck down and kicked an officer in the Customs, named Gampton, so brutally that the unfortunate man died a few hours afterwards from injuries on the brain. Gampton, it seems, had seized some articles which a friend of the aggressor was attempting to smuggle. On a post-mortem examination a large shot was found imbedded in the skull of the deceased officer, just above the forehead, which was stated to have been lodged there twenty years previously, during a scuttle while he was on coast-guard service. A verdict of " Manslaughter" has been returned against the man Sullivan. A RUFFIAN named Mobbs, a jobbing wino-cooper by trade, and residing in Goodman's-yard, Minories, murdered his wife on Wednesday evening, and then sought to reconcile the deed with justice by attempt ing to destroy himself. The murder was committed in the most brutal manner, the wretch cutting the throat of the woman, whom it appears he had long ill-used. His subsequent attempt upon his own throat with the same knife was unsuccessful, and there are hopes of his recovery. His act seems to have been premeditated, as he was seen on the same morning sharpening the table-knife he employed in perpetrating it. He had four children, who have grown up in a state of utter neglect and wretchedness, and who are now consigned to workhouse guardian ship. A MELANCHOLY CATASTROPHE occurred off Islay on the 16th instant. A fishing lugger, containing five men and a woman, with a cargo of sheep and fish, bound for the coast of Ireland, was compelled to put back in consequence of a gale, when the boat struck upon a small rock close to the Ithins of Islay Lighthouse, and instantly sank. Two men and one woman, natives of Ireland, were drowned. The other three were saved. THREE SEAMEN belonging to a Greenland whaler were alleged to have been left on the ice, where they perished, by the culpable negligence of the captain. His name is W. Birch, late master of the ship Germanica, and the proceeding having been investigated by the Hull magistrates, and evidence heard, they committed him to prison on a charge of manslaughter. A DARING BURGLARY was committed last week at Lord Denman's seat, Stoney Middleton, Derbyshire, where property and cash of the value of more than 500/. was stolen. Amongst the articles VMS the massive gold box presented by the corporation of London, and containing the freedom of the city, a pair of gold candlesticks, which had been presented to his lordship by her Majesty, and a gold box worth 1001., containing the coronation medals of George IV., William IV., and Queen Victoria. The supposed burglar has been detected since while offering 6 'me of the purloined articles in pledge, and is now m custody. Most of the property has also been recovered.