Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1859-12-31 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SEA. Intelligence has been received that the Accrington, bound from Liverpool for Calcutta, with soldiers' wives and children, had been spoken with on the 17th of November, in lat. 2 N., and long. 31 W., with the captain and mate dead, supposed to have been poisoned, and upwards of fifty children dead of the measles and scarletina. The Accrington intended putting into Rio Janeiro. At Stoke Church, on Sunday evening, the clergyman expected was, by some accident, absent. The rector, the Rev. W. J. St. Aubyn, was therefore compelled to preach, and expressed his hope that under the circumstances the congregation would not object to hearing his sermon of the morning over again. The sermon was accordingly delivered !—Plggiontb  On Friday, 3fr. Albert Smith was attacked with apoplexy. The attack was, we are informed, of a severe character, causing very great alarm to the friends of Mr. Smith. After much care and medical assistance, we are happy to hear that Mr. Smith last night had somewhat improved. the more violent and dangerous symptoms having subsided.—Morioiny Amt.  TH E CHARGE OF BURYING A CHILD A LIVFC• Sarah Aldridge has been acquitted, at the Derbyshire a,sizea, of the murder of her grandchild, which she buried in the garden. There was a difference in the medical evidence as to the question of the child having been buried alive. The Judge put it to the jury that it was murder or nothing, and though the case was full of suspicion, she escaped.  Suicing or A CLERt; 1.:0 AN. —The Rev. G. M. Nelson, of Boddicott Grange, near Banbury, a retired clergyman of the Church of England, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head with a pistol a few days ago. It appeared that he had considerable property, but he had got an impression that he was embarrassed. lie had not been able to sleep, and had been for some time very excited. The verdict at the inquest was temporary insanity.  ATTEMPT TO MuttoEtt.—A diabolical attempt was made at Worcester on Monday night, it is believed, by a man named John Williams, on the life of his uncle, James Williams. The latter was returning from his work between six and seven o'clock, when the would-be assassin sprang out upon him, knocked him down, and cut his throat. Luckily the vital parts were missed, and the poor old man crawled back to his master's, where his wounds were dressed. The nephew was soon after apprehended in bed, when a bloody knife was found in his pocket. and marks of blood found on his clothes--lie was examined and remanded. Three wrecks are recorded, which it is feared have involved a great loss of life, though, we hope, some oi the sufferers may have been picked up. The tlio•rip Castle, with fifty persons on board, appears, from the pieces of wreck which have come ashore, to have gone to pieces in the Channel, about the middle of last week. The Ladll I,i,il.lin, which left Liverpool near the end of November for Maranham, was wrecked by a collision in the Atlantic, and a man who was picked up, believes that he was the only survivor out of nineteen on board. The schooner .5,,..(/ottit was sunk in the Irish Channel on Friday night, by coming into collision with a steamer, and four men were drowned.