The Statesman. — 1824-01-09 (London, England)

PRISONERS. —Yesterday the prisoners who stood coniuritted on charges of felony, were removed from the several gaol. in the City of London and County of Middlesex to Newgate. preparatory to their trials at Justice Hall in the Old Bailey, where the Sessions will commence on Wednesday next. On Monday afternoon last, a decently dressed couple, the woman having an infant in her arms, were walking along Piccadilly, when, as they were passing the gate leading iute the Green Park. she suddenly rushed towards the canal, placed her child on the ground, and plunged into the water. Her husband, who was a step or two in advance when she left him, turned his head, and seeing her perilous situation, he ran towards the canal, intending to leap in hinted, but Wooton, one of the Bow Street daypetrol, seized him by the coat and jumped in himself, and rescued the woman at the risk of his own life. The husband could not swim, and be and his wife wonld probrl bly have both been drowned, but for the conduct of Wooton, who ti abort time before performed a similar' act of courage and bomanity. A quarrel between the husband and wife w4is the cause of her attempting the dreadful act of suicide. TRAWLS, Dec. 31.—0 n the night of Sunday last we were visited here by a tremendous tempest (from W.S.W.) attended by thunder, lightning, hail and rain, as awfully dreadful as any remembered for many years past.— The hurricane was at its height about five o'clock on the morning of Monday, and from the violence with which it raged for the whole of the night of Sunday, and the greater part of the following morning, it was consider. ed impossible that any vessels on our coast could have weathered the storm. We are, however, happy to say, that we have no account of any loss either of life or property.— (Western Herald.) UNPARA WALED Ouinaose—A few nights sive., some nocturnal depredators entered a school house, which had been erected at considerable expense in Saggard. by the Governors of the Trinitarian Charity, as an asylum fur one hundred orphans. and levelled the entire building to tne ground, The heartless and unfeeling wretches did not reflect that they were perpetrating an act. which, if the effects he not averted by the commiseration of a humane and charitable public, which has for the space of twenty seven years supported that charity, might be the means of leaviog one hundred little innocents without support or shelter.— (Dublin Morning Post.) During the awful thunder•storio on Sunday evening week, the Flag-staff of Duncannon Port was shivered to pi-ces by the lightning.—(Deblin Mail.) Among the instances of the mildness of the season, the following is sot the least remarkable; on the 30th olt, in the garden of Mr. Thomas Jefferson, Highhead Castle, on the edge of Broadtield, in this county, was pulled a tea-cup full of ripe strawberries, and the plants not bearing fruit, were mostly in fell flower. On Wednesday night, as one of the Blackwell stagecoaches was returning to town, et the Commercial Road, near the turnpike gate, it received a sudden jerk, by which one of the outside passengers (apparently a sailor, who seemed to be a little intoxicated) was thrown from his seat into the street, and the whee passing over his foot, so shattered it, that after being conveyed to the London Hospital, immediate amputation became necessary. The girl at Lawton is still in a very doubtful state.— She says that Sime not only asked her to drink of the vitriol, but thrust one of his beads into her mouth, in order to keep it open, while, with the other, he endeavoured to ,pour the liquid down her throat. He also, after having cat her throat. wanted het to go down with him to Lunen Water, that he might cleanse her of the blood ; but she refused to comply, fearing that he might attempt to drown her. - (Dundee Adeerlieer.) The Directors of the Lunatic Asylum at lioniisburg have established the game of nine pins, for the amusement of the unfortunate inmates. The desire of winning, as well as the anxiety displayed in taking good aim, and the init. rest excited in counting with precision the number of eitit• ties overthrown, oblige the players to fix their thoughts upon a particular object. Order and tranquillity have al• ready succeeded the noisy confusion which first attended the opening of the games, and happy results are expected from this experiment. Three children of Daniel Butler, of Broughton, just below the Bank Mal, Salford, were suffocated in their bed on the evening of Christmas Day. The bra rug, by some unaccounted for wane, hod taken fire, and there being no chimney in the :ehililren's room; and the door closed; the poor creatures WWI putilivd by suffocation. —(Maneliester Herald) •