Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1858-12-18 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

BIRHOP BURTON MURDEM—Thomas Robs-m, Edward Thompson, and Woodthorp Marshall, charged %%kb being comp eted with the murder of Jex the gamekeeper of Mr. Richard Watt, of Bishop Burton, were examined in the magistrates' private room of the Hull Police-court oa Friday, the representatives of the press being excluded. After the lapse of an hour the prisoners were removed back to goal. It is reported Hutt part of Marshall's confess on is to the , 'Feet that be (who was wounded with six shots) and Cuth ert Wray, a notorious t ocher, who was also badly wptiod_ el, were carried to Cottingh in after the affray. When Marshall was removed some nights after to his sister's house in Hull, Cottiaghain was, it is said, named, bu they and Wray are still at large, It is expected that the prisoners will be handed over to the magistrates at 13<verley.  PRIZR ESSAYS BY WORKING PRIMA —Otos! y and Sons. Loud n omas Rochester, E-q of ton, Northumberland, announced five prizes. malZing £lOO in all, for five essays on .` Man's Duty to God," to be i.ritten by working men or women residing in that county. Fifty-four essays were sent in, and the prizes were awarded by the a judicators to five of the number. These, it then appeared, ii d been written by the following competitors :—T!:omas Horton, brazier, North Shields; George Stobart, tailor, Newcastle ; Alice Ride (aged twenty-three), daughter of Thomas Rule, slater, Norhatu ; Joseph Lee, miner. Nethorton, Morpeth ; and Robert 11 wick, husbandman, Twizel. The p, ize essays have bi en printed. and are remarkable emanations of the class from which they come. That the working men and women of Northumberland should have rent four and fifty champions into the literary lists, ant that a slater's d ughter (a girl of twenty- three), a brazier, a tailor, a pitman, and a husbandman (quoting, not Scripture alone, but Milton and Shakspere, Montgomery and Pope), should have produc d the essays before us, is a fact of which the county may justly feel proud.— Gateshead Wierrer.  REMARKABLE DISAPPRARANCR AND WONDERFUL EscAr X.—An accident of a most extraordinary character occurred on the farm of Mr Henry Newby, of Pittington Ilallgarth, under the following circumstances : —lt appears that Benjamin Oyston, one of Mr Newby's men, was engaged with a two horse cart, carting turnips from a field on the farm. Whilst proceeding across the field with the c.,rt, the earth opened and the first horse immediately disappeared in the chasm ! The man who was riding on the cart jumped off, and with great presence of mind seized the remaining horse by the head, and by this means prevented it following its companion. The harness of the fir-t horse held for some time, but when it gave way, the animal disappeared. Oyston immediately showed for assistance, a d after some little time, Mr Newby's cephew arrived at the spot, and laying himself flat on the ground, endeavoured to look into the rent of the earth, to see what had become of the horse. This was rather a dangerous expt riment, as immediately he got up the ground where be had been lying, and for some consideral le distance round, gave way, and was completely swallowed up. Mr Newby himself rode over the field a few fl is before, when there did Lot appear to he any indications of danger. The coal has been worked under the farm, and there cannot be the slightest doubt that the shrinking of the earth is owing to the operations of the millers. A light was let down into the chasm by a rope, Lot after being lowered for about tett fathoms it was (o•ving to the foul air) extinguished. Mr Newly: has, by this extraordinary accident, lost a very die hire, eight years old, and bad it not been for the courage and presence of mind of the man in charge, no doubt the other horse and the cart would also have been precipitated into the gulf.