The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1826-09-08 (London, England)

BOAT ACCIDENT...4AV UMW., SYPT. 6.—We are sorry to hear that the Etna and Thetis, two of the New Post Office steam-packets, recently established bets een Liverpool and Kingstown, ran foul of eat h other on Monday night last off Point-Lyitars ; fortunately, however, the damage sustained was not so serious as to prevent either proceeding on their voyages. A melancholy accident occurred at Heathfield last week. Mr. Christmas, a young man, took a gun from over the kitchen fire-place, for the purpose of unloading, when accidentally the cock struck against a clock-case, and the contents exploded and caused his death. On Sunday morning last, as Mr. John ilawkesford, of 'Elston. was returning home with two ladies in a gig, from Wilenhall church (where the inhabitants of Bilston usually attend while their own church is rebuilding), a ferocious bull-dog, which was with its master on the road, siz,el the horse by the nose, which set him off at full speed, till the gig was overturned in a ditch ; time dug still keeping his hold, could not be got off without killing him, which was done by cutting his throat on the spot. We are happy to learn that neither Mr. Hawkesford nor the ladies received any personal injury, except the terror of the fright, and a few scratches from a hawthorn hedge, into winch they were all thrown. IVe hear that the dog belonged to a man commonly.called " Jack the Nailor," and was a very savage one, having bitten a man at Willenhall that same morning; the horse is much torn and lacerated about the nose, lips, and legs. We regret to find that the law affords no remedy fur complaints of this serious nature, but by action for the recovery of damages or by indictment, and u the expense.' (where the delinquent has no property) must fall on the prosecutor, it is next to no remedy at all. —lro'verhamplon Chronicle, Sept. 6. On the 25:11 ult. Philip Henry Guntset was tried at the Assizes of Strasburg, for the murder of his wife. It appears that the deceased was a most desperate termagant, often inflicting personal correction upon her husband. On one occasion she threw him front the top to the bottom of the staircase, since which his intellectual faculties teem to be a little deranged. On I7:11 April last, he went to the forest to cut down some trees. Shortly after his departure, his wife learned that he had contracted a debt of SS fr. with a Jew. She fell into a violent passion, and declared to one of the witnesses that she would follow her husband into the forest, and that she would settle with him after a summary manner. At three o'clock the prisoner came back, and asked if his wife had not yet returned ? The next day her body was found covered with wounds, and weltering in blood, near the tree which the Owner had been cutting down. Fifteen days before this event, be had been heard making use of threatening expressions, with regard to his wife ; amongst other things he said, " Do vole hear the mad dog? Patience for a little while, we shall Loth go out together some day or other, but only one shall return." Nothing more positive, however, having been Produced against him on the trial, and all the witnesses concurring in giving him an excellent moral character, the Jury returned a verdict of acquittal. On Saturday last, when John M`Taggart, one of the weavers employed in the Green, was levelling the bank of the river a little to the east of Nelson's monument, he round a silver coin about two fret below the surface. The coin, which is somewhat larger and much thinner than a shilling, is in tolerably good preservation, although tome Parra of the inscription are scarcely legible. This coin is of James I. of England. It bears the King's head crowned. The inscription, Jacobus D. G. Mag. Brit. Fra. "I fib. Rex. Behind the head there appear the numerals " • • iming the value to be sixence. On the reverse the armplys of Great Britain, viz. quarp terly, Ist and 4th the urns of France and England quartered, 241 anti 311 Scotland and Ireland. At the top of the shield 1606, the year coinage. anti the inscription rout.d the whole, Quo Deus ;•onjunxit Nemo Separet. The description of the coin is °I Ur. John Dillon, who says, that although of no great antiquity, he does not find it described either in AnderNtunismata nor in the treatises of Snelling or Cor,l.onnell on coins. Mr. Clelland, who was present when 1 the can was dug up, has presented it to the Huntcrian Museum—Glasgow Chronicle.