Mr. Macnanghten, agent for the London and Leith Shipping Company,
who, according to the evidence of Mr. Gooch, one of -We passengers in the Earl of Wemyss, had said that " the loss of life on board that vessel was nothing to the loss of the owner's pro- perty," has made the following affidavit before the Lord Mayor ; which certainly renders it probable that Mr. Gooch had misunderstood him. Malcolm Maccangi ten, of the Leith and Berwick Wharf, near the Tower, agent for thv London mid Lelia OM Shipping Company, who are the owners Of the Earl of Wirmyss snack, makcar oath and saith, that the observation Vepreseuted in the Times newspaper otinesday, thA 8th day-of October instant, to have been made by him in-a conversation with Mr. Gooch, relative to the loss ot life and property on board the-said packet, upon the late most melancholy occasion, was never spoken by him. but it is an entire misconception of what this deponent did actually say ; and this deponent further smith, that the comparison be drew upon the occasion referred to, was between the loss of property sustained by the surviving passengers-Intl by the above-mentioned owners; that he never, upon any occasion, either in thought or word, estimated the value of life by the value of property ; that he considered the late awful calamity as a visitation of Providence, which nothing on earth could compensate to the relatives of the decease&
" MALCOLM MACNAUGHTEN.
" Sworn at the Guildhall, I °ado% this 15th (lay of October 1833, before me, e, Laurie, Mayor."
William Ashton, a confidential clerk of Messrs. Bywater and Co., upholsterers, in Lower Grosvenor Street, decamped on Monday last with 5001., which he was directed to pay into the bank of Messrs. Cockburn, to the credit of his employers.
On Wednesday afternoon, as Mrs. Maxwell and her daughter, who reside in Seymour Place, were passing along Park Road, a monkey, which was seated on the iron rails of a garden, unobserved by either of them, suddenly leaped on the child's shoulder, and seizing her band with its paws and teeth, endeavoured to obtain an apple which she was eat- ing; and in so doing it inflicted some severe lacerations on her hand. Mrs. Maxwell, observing the perilous situation of her daughter, struck the animal with her parasol, when it instantly flew at her face and arms, which were very seriously lacerated before the owner of the monkey could make it quit its hold.
Last night, an inquest was held at Guy's Hospital, on the body of Joseph Snarr, a labourer in the employ of Mr. Shovel, of Symond's Wharf. He was engaged yesterday week in shipping a cask of tallow, and was standing on the edge of the wharf; when James O'Brien, a fellow-labourer, without the least provocation walked up to him, and struck him with his fist a violent blow under the ear. He fell, heels- uppermost, into a barge which lay fifteen feet below ; his head struck against the gunwale, and the blood rushed from his ears and mouth. He was taken to the hospital, and soon died. O'Brien was suffered to walk quietly away, and has not since been heard of. He was formerly a prizefighter, and is a very powerful man : the deceased was an inof- fensive, weak man. The Jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against O'Brien.
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