One of the seamen on board the United Kingdom when
she was run down last week by the Queen of Scotland steamer, summoned the owner of the former vessel, Mr. Fletcher, before the Magistrates, in order to obtain the wages for which he had engaged to go to Jamaica and back,—namely RV., and 'N. We. per month : but as it appeared that he, with his comrades, had left the vessel, and obliged the Captain to employ lightermen to get her off, Mr. Ballantine dismissed the case. The claims of the rest of the crew depended upon the decision in this instance. • • The wreck of this vessel has been at length safely hauled on shore, near the Blockhouse, at Gravesend, and the cargo is being taken out. The wreck passed the pier three several times by the mere action of the tide, and did not approach within one hundred feet of it; is a practical illustration of the fact, that the pier presents no istraction to navigation, owing to its being out of the set of the tide. The winter months promise full employ to the poor of Gravesend: the building of the pier, the repaving the town, the rebuilding of the national free school houses, will create a demand for much labour. In addition to which, the new chapel of ease is to be immediately commenced ; the entire capital, 5,0001., having 'been subscribed.—Chelmefird Chronicle. Air. Kerrison, the owner of the Emulation pleasure-yacht, which lately won the gold cup given by the Loyal Yacht Club, applied on Monday, at the Thames Police-office, for a summons against the Cap- tain of the Rapiksteamer. The complainant said he was coming up the river on Sunday evening in his yacht, when he met the Rapid near Blackwall. She was going at a 'quick rate, and Spicer, the Captain, told him to put his helm up ; which was impossible, as there was a dead calm. The Captain, instead of backing astern, then run the steamer on the bows of the yacht. The concussion was very great, and several ladies on board the yacht were much alarmed. The yacht, which was greatly damaged, had on a previous day been nearly turned over by the swell of the same steamer. Summons granted. William Bray and his wife were sent to prison from the Worship Street Office on Tuesday, for cruelly beating and injuring the child of the former by another wife. The neighbours were all in fear that they would murder the boy, and the Policeman entered the house just as the father had knocked him of a chair with great violence. The boy was sent to the Workhouse, and the Parish will prosecute the pri- soners.
A fellow, calling himself Captain Foster, was committed from the Union Hall Office, on Tuesday, to Brixton prison for six weeks, for cheating a number of cabmen of their fares, and boarding. house-keepers of the money he owed them for dinners, &c.
John Matthew Munyard, who %vas exantincil last week at the Green- wich Petty Sessions, on a charge of defrauding Thomas Coggin, a foolish cowkeeper, of about forty pounds, was reexamined on ties- day, and held to bail to take his trial for the offence ,tt the Assizes.
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