The Sun. — London, England, 1841-12-27 00:00:00

EVENTN4 SUN MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAIL WAY: (From the Manchester Courier of Friday.) Yesterday a spscial meAing of the Snarcholders in this railway was held at the Company's offices, Hunt's Bank, "for the purpose of taking into consideration a proposal that t / lie said Company shall unite with several other Railway Companies, for the purpose of promot ing the formation of a line from Darlington to New castle; which line, when formed, will complete the railway communication between London and Newcastle, and also between Manchester and Newcastle ; also to consider the propriety of proceeding with the extension of the Manchester and Leeds line to Hunt's Bank." There we rather a numerous attendance, about 50 or 60 Shareholders being present. Amongst them we observed the Hon. Captain Best, R.N., Thomas Houldsworth, Esq., M.P., John Feildcn, Esq., M.P., William Marshall, Esq., of Preston, James Heald, Esq., of Parswood, Joseph Pease, Esq., of Darlington, James Woad, Esq., William Entsvisle, Esq., and nearly all f:e largo Shareholders, representing about seven-eighth,7 of the entire stock of the Company. Tee chair was filled by Henry Houldsworth, Esq , the Chairman of the Board of Directors. Mr. JELLICONE, the Secretary, having read the ad- vernsement, • The CHAIRMAN said, of the two questions they hail to consider, that of the Hunt's Bank xtcnsion was so Jewell the most important, that it would be better to discuss it first. The Directors regretted that, since the last meeting of the Proprietors of that Company, there had not appeared to be any change in the feelings of the Liverpool and Manchester Company, with regard to proceeding with their part of this project; and it could not be denied, from the short time which had now to elapse before the power of purchasing land ee pired, that they had every reason to conclude that the Liverpool and Manchester Company had determined not to proceed with the junction. Hence, this Com pany were placed in a situation of great difficulty ; the whole question bad been forced on the consideration of the Board, and must now be submitted to the Pro prietor:4, as the time allowed them for the purchase of land expired in July next. The views of the Board were unchanged with regard to the advantage of harming the junction, and all the experience they had gaMed by the working of the line, only tended to con firm their opinion of the great advantage that would result Con•efrorn. Tnis project originated in the year 16re ; i., July of that year, the first conference between the Liverpool Board and this Company to'k place. On the 23d of that month a letter was received from tile Secretary of that Company, stating that the Di sectors were confirmed in their first impression of form icg tar e junction, and were ready to enter into the fleece sexy preliminery arrangements. Oa the 31st of the same uiooth they reported to their Proprietors that a proposition had been made for a junction, and that it would receive their best attention. In September they entered into negotiations with the Bolton Railway Company, over a part of whose line the junction hoe wee to pass.. On the 221 October, the Secretary of the Manchester and Leeds Company sent them plans of the junction, and an estimate of the traffic, accompani , d, however, with a request that they would consider the traffic estimate as the best opi nion that could be offered at that particular time. In November, it was necessary to give notice of an application to Parliament, which the Liverpool Company did ; the uegotiatiou with the Bolton Com pany was going on in the meantime, and there appeared to have been considerable difficulty in coining to an ar rangement. Toe first proposition was, that the junction should be made by the three Companies : by the Leeds Company from their present station to Hunt's 'Bank ; the Belton Company should continue the line over the river to their etetion; and that the Liverpool Company :should clo the remainder. This was objected to, and the negotiation was carried 'on the principle of the Li verpnol Company making the whole of the junction line from Hieut'e Bank, and paying a toll to the Bolton Company ; road the negotiation with the Bolton Com pany was not settlei when the parties west to Par liament. Both the Liverpool and Leeds Companies applied about the same time for Parliamentary powers. Mr. Gill, then the representative of the Leeds Com pany in London, was anxious that the Companies should enter into an engagement to complete the junction in two years; but the Liverpool Company declined to enter into such arrangement. This was the first inti mation they gave of anything like indecision on the subject of the junction ; it was in March, 1839. About that time a request was sent to the Leeds Company for their estimates of the traffic. Mr. Stanway had been em ployed several months in making them out; but they were sent to the Liverpool Company on the 23d March. On the 25th the Secretary of that Company addressed a latter to Mr. Gill, asking for explanations of certain items ; and the same letter stated that one or two largely interested Proprietors in the Liverpool Company had had a conference with the Directors, and had intimated their desire to have more definite and conclusive informa tion with regard to the remuneration likely to be derived from the junction, re-id had stated that they would not oppose the Directors in bringing !I proposition before the Proprietors if' they would agree to submit the whole question to them arreha at a future day. On the 9th April, this Company roce:ved a letter from Mr. Loch, the representative of' the Bridgewater interest in the Liyerporil and Mainihester Company, containing a copy of' a letter he had addressed to the Chairman of that Company, calling att:ntion to a junction of rail ways round the southern part of this town, and re presenting that he believed such connection could be made at a less cost, and would be more beneficial to the public. That communication came a very few days after the communication of Mr. Boothby wherein lie said that two or three lar g ely interested Proprietors were not convinced of the benefit of the connections. The letter was remitted to Mr. Gill in London ; but the Liverpool Company proceeded in obtaining their Act for the Northern Junction, which they obtained in June of that year. In the meantime, no more was heard of the Southern Junction, and they very naturally cencluded that it had died a natural death, as it appeared to persons locally acquainted with Manchester, quite out of the question thet such a line would ever be made, as what, ever benefits it might possess for other Companies, it was certainly not calculated to promote the interest of the Lirerpool Company. In June, 1839, the half-yearly meeting of the Liverpool Company was held, when the Direet)rs pledged themselvesto bring the matter before the Shareholders at a future period, before proceeding with the junction. No more was done till October, when the Liverpool Company pointed out some discre- panties in the traffic estimates, stating that they hac derived inf orma ti o n f r om other sources which showed that the amount of traffic was immeasurably less than %vas contained in the estimate of the Leeds Company. They'could only refer to the principles, which were the same as had guided Mr. Stanway in making the esti mate for this line and others. His estimate of the traffic passing along the Leeds and Liverpool canal was 89,000 tons per annum ; and that 210,000 tons per annum passed through Manchester on the Rochdale canal. The mode in which he obtained these facts was to station ,for a week, men at different points upon the canal, to take the tonnage of the vessels that passed, and to obtain from the Captain or the men information as to the destinatio n of the cargo. But, to ascertain the traffic to Manchester was a matter of very great difficulty, because of the water commnnications through Mareliester, there was a delivery at the lower end of the t 0.,, ,, a delivery at the upper end of the town at Piet:3(l;llc, and gpassing throughoods the town. He,l , however, took the traffic at th e C astle Field lock, at the lower end of the to wn ; at the Mi nshull-street lock in the c‘ntre ; and nt the Islington l oc k , out of the town towards Yorkshire ; and from th e result obtained, he considered that 210,0 00 tons were passingo annu a lly through Manchester from Liverpool towards Yorkshire. by the Liverpool The estimate brought forward 01 and Manchester Company was. that, instead of 89,000 tons, there were only 17,000 tons passing along L' that 45,000 Leeds and Liverpool Can al, and ti‘" Liver_, , 45,000 was the tot al tonnawe between pool and places cast of Blanchester. Every en. . ills.. deevour was made to discover the cause of thus crepancy, and deputations from the two Companies met for the purpose of conferring on the subject ; but after a lengthened sitting, it was found impossible to convince the Liverpool Directors that there was any error in their estimates, and the Leedi Directors could see no good ground for supposing that thcro was any error in theirs ; and fr.-at discrepancy remained to the present time. In January, 1840, the Liverpool Company drew np a minute r.;fcrring to this subject, which might be considered as their manifesto, stating the grounds why they, demurred to proceed with the junction line, Which were principally the discrepancy in the estimates, and the projected Southern Junction. The conclusion from this neces:Arily was, that the Liverpool Company not ordy were not desirous to move forward, but were anxious to find arguments for delay, and for post !lnning the formation of the junction indefinitely. This Cortpany had always viewed it in thrtt light, and tllou,h not much attention had been paid to the sug gestions of a second junction, it did, in some degree, occupy the attention of the engineers and Directors of that c o -,; alpzny ; and they had come to the conclusion that it would be more expensive than the Northern Junetioth and that the 'Manchester and Birmingham Company would have no interest to induce them to join in makin g such a junction. If the Liverpool Company demurred to spend 2.50,000/., the estimated expense of the Hunt's Bank junction, to secure the traffic of the Leeds Company, which there was no d ou bt, f:orn the district their line traversed, must be throe . o: four times the extent o f th a t w hi c h t h ey would derive from the Birmingham Company—it never could be the interest of the Birmingham Company to spend an equal sum, for the interest they would have in the junction. And they had come to the conclusion that it was not a line that would ever be made, unless the Liverpool Company would undertake to make the greater part of it, which there was no reason to ex Pe• Plans, ct however, h a d b een d eposited previous to this, in order to go to Parliament, for this line Two or three m onths after the publication of the do cument referred to, a deputation from the Liverpool Company waited on the Leeds Board, suggesting that they should get an act to make their extension to that station of the Birmingham Railway ; but this scheme appeared so impracticable that they were told it would be impossible for the Leeds Company to make such extension, unless:the Liverpool Company were prepared, not only to bear a considerable part of the expense, but also to bear harmless the Leeds Company in the ex pense already incurred iu the Hunt's Bank extension. And his impression was that the deputation of the Li verpool Company left them with the impression that the junction line they proposed could never be effected. Since, then, however, a communication had been made, from parties professionally employed in the Duke of Bridgewater's interest, to the effect that it was exceed ingly desirable that the southern junction shou'id be per severed in, and these parties were exceedingly anxious to have it carried out. Knowing that the Duke of Bridgewater's interest was so important at the Liver pool and Manchester Board, they were bound most carefully to consider this subject ; and by showing the impracticability and improbability of its being carried out, they should much simplify the course of the Liver pool Company, as well as their own. The length of the southern junction would be 5,000 yards of new work, while thet of the Hunt's Bank junction was but 4,035. It would be, in fact,two miles and eight-tenthswholly upon arches. It would cross the river Irwell, Water -street, Deansgate, Oxferd-road, Garratt-road, Loadon-road, Ancoats-street, and Oldham-road ; seven of the princi pal streets in the town. It would cross the river Med lock four times, and at one point the river itself would have to be diverted ; and as that river was thickly studded with works of all kinds, it might easily be sup pose:l that a line skirting that river would cut through a great deal of valuable property. It would cross the canal five times between the Birmingham station and the Liverpool line, and he could not say exactly what number of times between the Birmingham station and their own. Then there were difficulties about the station, which would have to be in Ducie-street ; the existence of the canal, of coal yards, and of several large factories on the other side, rendered it impossible to ob tain adequate station-room there. So far as his recol lection went, the Liverpool engineers estimated the cost at 700,0001., while the northern junction would be but 400,500/. ; of this 700,0001., the amount entailed on the Leeds Company, would cause to them a difference of 50,0001. in eagineering; and, including the value of the laud, the cost would be nearly doubled. The Hunt's Bank extension line passed over ground that was scarcely half built on, while the other would take in a great number of most important buildings. The further they looked into this question, the more did they see the impossibi lity of carrying out such a line ; and the Liverpool Board could not, entertain any expectation of its being completed in any reasonable perio,i. The only other objection of any consequence was as to the traffic. It might be exceedingly difficult, by any statement of figures, to make it clear that the junction would be a remunerative one ; but, looking at the general cir cumstances of the ease, nothing could he more clearly demonstrated. Mr. Stanway had taken the trail; estimate on the same principle as he prepared the estimate for their line. Their Parliamentary es timate was 113,0001. per annum ; and during the last six months they had received at the rate of 96,0001. per annum. And it was notorious, however much they might be deceived by estimates of expense, traffic esti mates in general were exceedingly correct, time being allowed for the development of the traffic. On that ground they had a right to presume that Mr. Stan way's estimate would be borne out. But there was another way of putting the mattes. The inhabitants of Manchester and the district around amounted to 800,000 or 900,000. The Liverpool Company had a traffic of 4,000 tons per week, and the water communications of probably 10,000 tuns ; making a traffic between Liver pool and this district of 14,000 tons weekly. Conti nuous to this line, in Yorkshire, was a population ex• needing a million ; these must consume as much as the same number of people in Lancashire, and must draw their supplies either from Liverpool or London. Now the estimate of the Liverpool Company would go to show that not one-tenth of the amount of produce and other articles which necessarily came from Liverpool to supply this part of Lancashire, did come to supply the million of people in Yorkshire. This led to the conclusion that there must be some error in the estimate en which the Liverpool Company relied. Now, were the inhabitants of Yorkshire supplied from Liver pool or London ? If from Liverpool, the amount must be vastly greater than their estimate showed ; if from London, it proved the importance of the Liverpool Company increasing the facility of com munication between their town and that largely con suming district.—(Heir, hear.) Another considera tion was, that traffic was limited in a most extraordi nary degree by any interruption of the continuity of railways. Their traffic was now nearly double its amount when the line was but partially open. What was the communication between Yorkshire and Liver pool, but a partially epened railway ? There was a blank here at. Manchester ; and what inconvenience could be greater than the tumbling out of carriages of one railway into an Ounciik,U3, null lap Bing to ‘.l.lve through the streets of a crowded town, at ten or twelve miles an hour, for the purpose of catching the other train ? That inconvenience was increasing daily, as the number of their passengers increased. Then the expense of carting (foods through the town, and rodoading them, and the delay which this caused, must materially diminish the amount of goods thus conveyed. Taking these two subjects into considera tion, they believed a very large increase of traffic would take place if a junction line were formed ; and it should be remembered that a very small increase would remunerate them for the outlay. An increase of 100 tons a day would secure to the Liverpool Company an interest of more than fire per cent, on their outlay ; and Capt. Laws was prepared to state that more than double the necessary amount of remuneration would accrue to them, if they would form this junction. Looking at the question as one simply between the j northern junction and no junction at all, and looking at it as a question of cost on the part of the Liverpool and Manchester Company, he had no hesitation in saying, that if that Company would put the question on that ground, the Directors of the Leeds Company would submit to their Proprietors, at a special meet ing, a proposition for guaranteeing the Liverpool Company, in the event of their completing the junction from any loss that might arise, and forgiving this guaran tee on condition of receiving but one-half the advan tage that would accrue from the junction.—(Applause.) And we know enough of the sentiments of some large Proprietors in this Company to say that they would cheerfully support the Directors in such a proposition.— (Applause.) It had always been the wish of the Direc tors of the Liverpool Company to secure this junction ; but in order to ensure its advantages it would be neces sary that the most cordial and thorough understanding should exist between the two Companies, and that the mode of working the traffic should be most harmonious, and on that ground he had wished to avoid, in giving this historical detail, anything which might seem to re flect on the Liverpool Company. They now came to the great question, what course this Company ought to adopt under these circumstances ? Though it might be a question, whether, if they were starting de novo, the advantage of the water communication would be such as to justify the expenditure they must incur in extending their line to Hunt's Bank ; but in the position in which the Company stood, it was a fair question to consider whether it might not be to the interest of the Company, and might not ultimately bring about the communication they wished to establish, if the Proprietary should acqui esce in the Directors proceeding with the junction. He did not present that as a resolution at which the Board had arrived without great difficulty, or as one of a very satisfactory nature, but he believed it to be the most satisfactory conclusion which they could come to under the circumstances. The communication by water had certainly increased very much of late ; and there was the advantage of goods being carried by night, by which the time con , sunned might be said to be almost neutralised. Looking at the capability of the river for extension and improve ment, and l oo ki ng a t th e e ff ect w hi c h i t wou ld h ave on the navigation s if this Company decided on making th e Pro pextension, he thought the arguments decidedly preponderatedbad anxiously in f a v our o f suc h a course . Th e B oar d considered the subject, and had come t o They that decision. !y wished, however, to thr ow th e question up on the deal with it Proprietors, believing that th e y wou ld they thought be s t. Th e y s h ou ld be glad to igiven thee Way n f but he thought thyereurther information in thei r p ower ; delaying the matter. would be no advantage in f u rth er Mr. MAnsuALL, of Preston 1' thorising the Directors to proceed with a motion, au with the formation of the extension line. The motion was seconded by Mr. JAMES HEALD. In answer to questions from Air. m PEASE, of Dar lington, the CitataaN said that Mr. G esti mate of the cost o f com p letin g t he line, i n theoch's perfect manner, as originally contemplated was 2 1, most _ 4,0001. ter his part of the works. Upwards of 30,000/. had been already expended in land, and it was estimated that nearly 40,0001. more would be required ; the to. tal amount being about 200,000/. By a mor e recent and economical estirnato, the total cost might be brought within 160,0001. or 170,0001., on the s uppo _ sitiou that the buildings they were then in were made suitable for a station. Of this sum, 30,000/. had al ready been paid for land ; so that the difference in ex pense, between remaining as they were and completing the extension, would only be I°o,ooo/. or 130,0001. Mr. J. FIELDEN wished to pledge t h e Directors to adopt the lowest estimate, but the feeling of the meet ing was against their being fettered ; and the motion was put and unanimously carried. After a lucid statement from the Chairman, of the circumstances under which the Company were asked to Join in a guarantee to the Shareholders of the Northern Union Railway, from Darlington to Newcastle, Mr. JAMES HEALD moved that the Company should join in the guarantee to the extent of 2,0001. a year, on certain conditions recommended by the Director', the principal being that the cost of the railway should not exceed 500,0001., that six per cent. should be gua ranteed to the Shareholders for tea years, and that the THE SUN, LO * IsiDON MONDAN, DECEMBER 27, 1841. overplus of the receipts should be divided amongst the Companies furnishing the guarantee. Mr. HumpliaiEs seconded the motion. Mr. J. FIFLDEN strenuously opposed the proposi tion, contending that it was an infraction of liberty for the Company to bind the whole of their members in a guarantee ; and d,claring his intention to give it all the opposition in his power when the Northern Union Company came before Parliament for an Act to sanc tion such guarantee. After a protracted d►scussion, the motion was put, and carried with only two dissentients. At the close of the business, W. Entwisle, Esq., read a statement showing that the net revenue of the Company, from the Ist of July to the end of the pre sent year, would amount to 116,000/. The expenses of the six months, including the half-year's salaries, would be 40,0004 ; the interest to loan-holders, minus the interest on the banking account, would be 31,000/.; making a total of 71,000/. of out-goings, and leaving a balance of 45,0001. net proceeds. Dividends of three per cent. on the old and the half shares, and of ten per cent, for three months on the quarter shares, would re quire 40,000/. ; leaving a surplus of 5,000/. out of the half-year's proceeds, as a depreciation fund, without touching any of the previous earnings.—(Applause.) Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the proceedings terminated, after occupying three hours and a half. DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY, INQUEST ON THE BODIES. It appears that shortly after the melancholy accident had been communicated to Mr. Saunders, the Secretary to the Railway, that gentleman took steps to get the ne cessary parties together, in order that a Coroner's Jury might be empannelled to inquire into the cause of the death of the eight unfortunate men in question. Accord ingly, Mr. May, the County Coroner, issued his warrant, and at three o'clock in the afternoon of Friday, a jury, consisting of twelve inhabitants of the parish of Sonning assembled at a small inn, on the London-road, about two miles from Reading, called, " The Shepherd's House." The jury, after being sworn, proceeded to view the mangled remains of the eight poor men, and after wit nessing the distressing spectacle, returned to the inn, and the inquiry was proceeded with. The jury room was crowded hy some of the most re• spectable inhabitants of the neighbourhood. Mr. Saun ders, the Secretary to the Great Western Railway Com pany, Mr. Sadgrove, the Railway Superintendent, and other officers of the Company, were likewise present. The following statement of what occurred before the Coroner's Jury may be relied on as being, in substance, a correct account of what took place : Mr. Edward May, surgeon, was the first witness called. He deposed that about eight o'clock on that morning he was sent for to the Reading Rf ilway Station, and was in formed that an accident had occurred on that part of the line known as Sonning Cutting, and that several parties had been injured. He instantly repaired to the spot, which is situated about halfway between the Twyford and the Reading stations, and about two miles and a half from the latter tows. Upon arriving . there he found two dead bodies lying on the side of the train, and his atten tion was afterwards directed to three other bodies that were lying under a truck or carriage. He was also in formed that three bodies had been previously removed to a hut on the London road, which was a short distance from the slot where the accident had occurred. He saw those bodies afterwards. Thus making in all eight per sons who had been killed by the accident. Examined the bodies and found that in respect to the first that he noticed both arms and legs were broken; the third exhi bited a similar injury; the fourth displayed a fractured skull; the fifth, fractured ribs ; the sixth, fractured ribs and broken collar-bone; the seventh, fractured ribs and pelvis; and the eighth, fractured chest and other injury. Of course he need not say that the injuries which were thus exhibited were the cause of death. Thomas Reynolds, the engineer, was next examined ; he c'eposed he left the Paddington station with the train to which the accident occurred, which is called the goods train, at twenty minutes to five o'clock on Friday morn ing, and got to Twyford about twenty minutes to seven o'clock. He proceeded onward and met no obstruction until he came near to a wooden bridge which crosses the railway, and leads from Woodley to Sonning, and then the engine ran into a body of earth which had _fallen upon the railway, and which was caused by the slipping of the embankment through which the railway was cut; the consequence was, that the engine was turned off the line, the carriages then turned over one ano ther, and thus the fatal occurrence that took place had arisen. At the time the accident occurred the train was going at the usual speed, namely from sixteen to eighteen miles an hour. This was the rate at which the goods train travelled. About half a mile before he got to the slip in question he saw a policeman who showed him a light that "all was right." Had noticed slips in the vicinity of the place where the accident happened, but did not think them of any consequence. When the accident occurred it was very dark, and witness could scarcely see any thing ; when the collision took place ho turned off the steam and leaped from the engine. George Hassam, the guard, who had the care of the train, was next examined. He said the train consisted of the engine and tender, two passengers' carriages, a truck for passengers' luggage, and sixteen luggage waggons. lie also deposed to the fact of the train arriv ing 'about twenty minutes to seven o'clock at Twyford. When about half way between this station and Reading the engine was thrown off the line in the way already described. This obstacle to the progress of the train caused a dreadful collision, by which the carriages were thrown off the line, causing the melancholy accident in question. He was in the habit of travelling in the train by night, and usually observed a watchman on the line. lie, however, missed him during the lait week. The morning was extremely dark. The engine driver was perfectly sober, and there could be no ground for attach ing blame to him. Witness had reason to believe that the earth fell on the train as it was passing, for he was nearly smothered from the quantity of earth that fell. It was however so dark that he could not see. Mr. Thomas Bertram, assistant engineer to Mr. Bru nel!, deposed that he had the care and superintendence of that part of the line which lay between Readingand Pad dington. He constantly watched and examined the state of the works between the points he had mentioned. He did this daily by travelling up and down from Reading to Paddington and back. Had inspected " a slip" which had taken place a short time since in Sonning cutting, and had taken the necessary steps to prevent any evil consequences arising from it. Employed foremen at short distances along the line, whose duty it was to re port to him constantly the state of the works in every respect; and if any thing required attention he instantly gave orders that the matter should be looked to. In the event of any thing occurring in his absence that required prompt attention the foremen had power to employ per sons to do what was necessary. He was quite sure the " slip" which caused the accident was a new " slip"—for there had been no indication of danger in that quarter previously. If there had been, he should have seen to it. Thomas Bottrell next deposed that he was employed on that part of the line where the accident had occurred, and that it was his duty to report any matter affecting the railway in his locality. He noticed the Sunning cut ting, where the slip had taken place, at five o'clock the previous evening, when it was all safe. Witness at tended about a fortnight ago to a " slip" which had oc curred near that previously adverted to, and during the time it was undergoing the necessary repairs witness had watchmen night and day at the place to prevent the slightest possibility of injury arising, and also to see if any new slip had, or was likely, to take place. Was sure no new slip had occurred. Thomas Carpenter, of Gray-street, Blackfriars-road, and John Nurse, of Hannon, near Bristol, deposed that they were passengers by the train in question. They also deposed to the train proceeding in a very regular manner to Twyford, after stopping at which place the train proceeded at a steady rate until it came to the place where the accident occurred. The engine having be en stopped by the falling of the earth, the carriages in the rear were forced over those that preceded them, and the shock was so great that they were thrown out of the car riage in which they were. It was extremely dark when the accident took place. This was all the evidence that was proceeded with before the Coroner. Mr. Millard, the foreman of the Jury, said it was cur rently reported that the parties connected with the rail way had received an intimation three weeks ago, that the earth was slipping at the very place where the fatal acci dent had occurred, and he therefore thought it the most desirable that the inquest should be adjourned, in order that the Jury might be enabled to come to a decision upon that very important view of the case. It was most desirable that the public mind should be set right on this point, and the Railway Company itself ought to be anxious that the fullest investigation should take place in respect to this statement. The gentlemen in attendance from the Railway Com pany denied that such a communication could be made to any party connected with the Company, as in fact there were no indications of the earth slipping previous to the moment when the fatal accident took place. Several of the Jury, however, concurring in the pro priety of an adjournment, the inquest was accordingly adjourned until Monday next (this day.) Of the seventeen persons who were taken to the hos pital injured, only twelve remained. The following is an account of these persons, who they are, and the nature of the injuries sustained by them. John Sainsbury, aged 30, a navigator, from Lambeth —Severe contusions on various parts of the body. Thomas Wheeler, aged 30, newspaper reporter, resid ing at Mill's-building, Knightsbridge, London—Contu sions in the face. This patient, however, was so far re covered as to be able to leave the hospital by three o'clock on Saturday, and proceed to his friends, who live in the ueighbobrhood of Reading, and to whom he was going to pay a visit. Ann Wheeler, aged 31, wife to Thomas Wheeler, the last-mentioned patient. Injury—Broken arm, and con tusions of the head and back. \xVto patiento hu Thomas Hughes, ag e d 15, a pai n te r , res idi ng a t Ham mersmith. Injury—C o n c ussion of the br a in, con t us i o ns o t u f r the on the face, and injury to the abdomen. A bad case. The n e i om the sseve supposed which be enamed Richard he Las received he has not been able to say from whence he came, or where he was going to. He is suffering from a compound fracture of the skull. He is insensible, and his recovery is doubtful. Thomas Hawkins, aged 24, a stonemason, who was re turning home to a place called Fishponds, near Bristol, to spend the Christmas with his • family. He is employed at the Woolwich-dock-yard. Injury . —a dislocation of the great toe, part of which h a d to be amnutated. Anthony Batten, aged 43, a saddler, residing in Man chester-mews, Marylebone. Injury —contusions in various parts of the body. James Stapleton, aged 31, a stonemason, was also re turning home to his family at Cheltenham. Injury—dis location of the shoulder. William Baldwin, aged 52, also a stonemason. He was likewise returning to his family at Cheltenham. Injury —a fracture of the ribs at the right side. Eliz:.theth Barnes, aged 20, a servant, r es idin g i n Ad dle-street in the City. Injury—a laceration of the scalp and a contusion of the back. Elizabeth Carpenter, aged 99, a servant, living in Charles-street, Blackfriars-road. Injury—contusion of the legs. Hannah Cooper, aged 40, a servant, living in Tho mas-street, Kennington Common. Injury—dislocation of the bones of the right foot. _ _ Of the eight men killed only two have been owned, namely Henry Williams, who has been recognised by his father, who was in the train with his son when the accident occurred, and who fortunately escaped unhurt, and John Ralph, a man about forty years of age ; he was recognised by his aged father, a farmer residing at Horwall, near Vantage. It was really distressing to witness the grief of the poor old man as he gazed upon the mutilated corpse of his departed son. The following incident, connected with the accident, has been much spoken of :—"Amongst the passengers in the luggage train at the time of the occurrence was a fenialo of most respectable appearance, who was going to Bath to spend the Christmas with her friends. She had with her a little girl, and on being extricated from the carriages, she was unable to find her for full ten minutes, when the girl was found lying between two of the deceased persons, under one of the carriages, appa rently unhurt. The female, who had received a contu sion on the eye, declined going to the hospital to have it dressed, and went on to Bath with the little girl." SECOND EDITION GREAT WESTERN RAIL WAY ACCIDENT. (BY EXPRESS.) (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) Thomas Goodchild, in continuation, said—The three last waggons were on the rails, but all the rest were thrown off them. The former waggons cut a groove through the soil, and the mud was up to the bed of the others. The waggons were covered luggage-waggons. John Keep—l saw a slip from the bridge about a fortnight ago. I am in the habit of going over the bridge every day, and returning every night. I cannot fix the precise place. The Coroner said it was clear that the witness had nothing additional to add. It had been ad mitted that there had been sonic slips near the spot, and it was unnecessary to multiply evidence on that point unless the Jury required it. Edwin Gosling—l have nothing to state but that I saw two slips, one exactly opposite the other, and one precisely in the spot where the ac cident occurred. I had seen it before, within a week or ten days, and the day before the acci dent occurred, I saw that the turf was cracked, and the earth bulged out below, about the middle of the slope. There was none of the mould upon the rails. I was on the wooden bridge on horseback. I saw no one at work, but men might have been at work without my knowledge. The slips appeared to me in precisely the same state as when I first saw them. It was about half past twelve o'clock en Thursday last when I passed. Mr. Brunel had no question to ask the witness. A Juror asked whether he thought there was any danger, but the witness said he could give no opinion on that point. If he thought there had been any immediate danger, he should have gone and informed the servants of the Company. Thomas Stokes Salmon, Esq., of Sunning, said he had nothing to state further than what had been deposed to by the previous witness. In the last fortnight or thereabouts he had ob served the appearance of a slip in that part of the bank where the accident took place. The embankment appeared to him to bulge; he observed it on several occasions, and he went one day nearer, in order that he might see it more closely. He then saw that the ground had an appearance of bulging, and the moment he heard of the accident he said, " That must be the spot where I saw the ground bulge." He saw no men at work there. John Plant—l saw the slip about a fortnight ago. I dont know wh e ther an ythi ng h as b een done to it or not, as I did not see it again till after the accident. I saw it two or three days before the accident, and it was then in the same state. I am assistant gamekeeper to Mr. Palmer. I never observed any watchman near the place where the slip occurred. By a Juror—l saw the luggage train pass the following morning after the accident. The pas sengers were then in the eighth and ninth wag gons from the engine. Mr. Gosling said there were six or seven other witnesses to speak to the same point, but did not think it would be necessary to examine them. The CORONER said, it was for the Jury to decide whether they should examine any additional witnesses. The Foreman said there was one witness whom he wished to have called. Walter Bridges—l am employed upon the line at the Sonninb cutting, by Mr. Wm. .Bothell. saw a slip there about a tbrtnight or three weeks ago, just where the accident occurred. Four men and myself were employed to repair it. We cut a drain round it and put some tiles down. It was made secure as we thought. I was four nights there, with another man, while it was under repair. I acted with him as a watchman through the cutting. I was not watch ing the night of the accident. There is a po liceman there during the day-time. By the Foreman—l had left off watching a week before the accident. We gave up the watch because we considered it quite safe. My employer never said that he would have no watch there when I called for my wages. We never had a word on the subject. In answer to the Coroner, Mr. Sadgrove, the Superintendent of the Railway station, stated that there was no nightly watch. There was a policeman on duty from six in the morning to seven at night. The Foreman said it would be desirable to as certain the width and depth of the cutting and other particulars connected with it. Mr. Brunel said he would procure that infor mation for him, and in the meantime, Joseph Collard, Superintendent of the Police and watch from Paddington to Hay-lane and Cirencester, was examined.—He said, I employ policemen on the whole of the line by day, and at the different stations, crossings, and gates by night. The police are put on at six in the morning. There are two between Reading and Twyford. Gregory would be the policeman on duty at that part of the line where the accident took place. Gregory would come on duty at seven o'clock, I think. • He leaves the Reading station at eight o'clock. He remains on duty till tart at night. The other man who starts from Twvford goes on duty at six, and comes down the line to within about a quarter of a mile of where the accident took place. His beat extends from Twyford to Mustard-lane Bridge. The Reading policeman would not get to the place of the accident till about nine o'clock. By Mr. Saunders—l am now talking of the regular police of the line. I am aware, also, that the engineer, Mr. Betham, employs a watch man to go through the cutting the first thing in the morning. Thomas Hardy Bertrand re-examined.—l employ a man named Higgs, to go over about a mile and a half of the line through the Sonning cutting. He does that the first thing in the morning. He has in almost every instance walked over that portion of the line previously to the passing of the lug-age train which reaches Reading about a quarter past seven. In this in stance the luggage train was earlier than usual. The CORONER thought it would be better to hear the statement of the man himself as to tha point. By the Foreman--I am assistant engineer to Mr. Brunel. I was examined on Friday last. I think part of the land behind the railing of our ine has subsided. The CORONER thought it would be better to read over the evidence given by the witness on Friday, which was accordingly done. Mr. Palmer said as he passed on Friday, about half-past twelve o'clock, along the embankment he could state that there had been no subsidence of the earth outside the railway on his property. ggs---I am employed by Mr. Bo G ge tt e r o e r llto watch the Sunning cutting, and to repair the slips. My portion of the line in cludes where the accident occurred, and up to Mustard-lane Bridge. I always go over the line twice a day, and sometimes four or five times. I inspected it on Thursday last, the last time, about half-past five in the afternoon. Everything was then perfectly safe. There was a place close to where the accident occurred in which a trifling slip had taken place about a fortnight or three weeks previously. The last slip came right from the top. The previous one had been repaired, and tiles laid in to drain it. Three or four tiles were lyi ng d ur i ng its repair on the side of the bank for some days. When I passed at half-past five, it was too dark to see distinctly. I passed that way at four o'clock the same afternoon. There was some water running down, and I turned it into the man-hole. There had been a good deal of rain during the day. I generally go once along the line, and again along the top of the embankment. At four o'clock I was on the top, and when I came near thn cutting I went down. I went three times up and three times down the line on Thurs day last. if we see any occasion for it, we have the line - watched at night. About three weeks ago, during the wet weather, some trifling slips came down, and a man was sent through the cut ting at night. He was on duty for three or four niglas. By Mr. Saunders—l pass through the cuttin g the first thing every morning as f ar as M us t ar d lane Bridge. I generally do that between six and seven o'clock. do that before the six o'clock Paddington train comes down, and it is generally down before the luggage train. I was coming along the line when the accident occurred, but had not got so far. I was a little later than usual that morning. The luggage train was earlier than usual. By the Foreman—l was never warned to be on the line before seven. The luggage-train sometimes comes into Reading between eight and nine—it is very irregular. My time to put the men to work at this season is seven o'clock. By the CoaoNln I see 2.;;Tihirp::;iss on the line, I have no signal to - make to the engine driver. I must have run to meet them, and held up my hat to them, and called out. The police man is generally in that part of the line, and I would have gone to him. The way to stop a train is to hold up both arms. I have stopped trains in that way. I could see the train a mile off, but the engineer could not see me till he came close to me. The Jury expressed a wish to hear the evi dence of Bottrell, as given by him o❑ Friday last, read over. The Coroner accordingly read over his evidence. [We shall give the conclusion in a THIRD EDITION, at Seven o'clock.] SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.--In the case which has just occurred in Paris, there has been a most disgraceful perversion of every recognised rule of law, and every principle of equity, for the purp o se o f p un i s hi ng M. Dupoty, not so much on account of any enormity in his alleged offence, but almost avowedly with the design of warning the Edi tors of other Papers against the consequences of express ing their sentiments with what those who are the subjects of censure may consider an unpalatable degree of lati tude. In order to effect this object, Dupoty is accused of writing certain articles nit!' the view of bringing about a certain event, which never was accomplished ; but some other circumstances of an unlawful nature having occurred at another time, the intentions of the writer are dovetailed to the illegal acts of others, which it is confessed he did not in any way prompt ; but he is nevertheless condemned, because he is said to have, some time back, penned seditious articles, and because seditious doings afterwards occurred, though the latter were in no way connected with the for mer, and did not arise out of them. The case of Dupoty may be illustrated thus ; and its enormity is not less than would attach to one we are about to compare it to :—A man tells a party ofdweli disposed persons to do an illegal act ; they refuse to proceed on his advice, and the deed is not performed—but some individuals, without instigation, go 'and commit a crime of tots lly a different kind to that which the others had been advised to perpetrate, and the man who gave his counsel, which was not followed in either instance, is declared to have prompted the second offence, and is punished accordingly. We are not surprised that the French Press should have taken up a determined position against a principle so dan gerous, to its freedom, and to the personal liberty of its members, as that involved in the sentence we have alluded to. Articles written long since may be brought against them whenever a political offence is perpetrated, no matter how remote the writer may have been, either in fact or intention, from having prompted it, or desired to instigate its commission. If Dupoty's writings were amenable to law, they should have been prosecuted, at least if the Government thought fit to take measures for punishment ; but it is a disgrace to the Court of Peers to have pronounced a man guilty of an alleged offence long gone by, and wholly without re sult, under a prosecution for another crime, of which he is avowedly entirely innocent. STANDARD.—We understand a document has received the sanction of some few influential names, by which it is proposed to the two Committees of Mr. Garbett and Mr. Williams that these two gentlemen should be withdrawn, with a view to the substitution of some third candidate, who might be elected without op position. The reason assigned is, a desire to avoid un seemly contests in the University, and an apparent difference of opinion in the Church. This is all very specious and fair-spoken, and is likely to meet the wishes of many very excellent men, who possess in a high degree " That drivelling virtue of this moral age, Candour, that softens party's headlong rage ;" and it will be very convenient beside:, to those who may have private reasons of their own for not wish ing to displease either party in Convocation, and who know that to abstain from voting, if it go to a poll, would be to displease, both. But surely those gentlemen, if they reflect a little, must see that such a course is exceedingly unjust towards the stronger can. didate ; and since his Committee cannot, as men of sense, listen for a moment to any such pro position, the only effect of it must be to embar rass him and them, and expose them, in the opinion of those who have more candour than acuteness and discrimination to the reflection, which they have not deserved, of protracting a religious controversy. This may be a very good reason why the proposal should meet with favour from friends of the weaker candidate, who would thus convert into a drawn battle what is now a certain defeat ; it is of course an equally good reason why the stanch friends of the good cause should very carefully avoid all contact with it. Party feeling has had no doubt a good deal to do with this question on both sides. But Mr. Garbett's Committee have very properly disclaimed its first in troduction, and we call upon them now to say whether they are prepared to withdraw their candidate in consi deration that his oppouent shall also be withdrawn ? If they are, they falsify all their professions, and show the world plainly that they fought not at all for their can. didate—but altogether for or against a party. They will betray their candidate and stultify themselves. The President and Fellows of Trinity had the game in their own hands. The only name which would be at all likely to succeed is that of Mr. Claughton. Why did not they put forward Mr. Claughton at first ? He is a member, the must distinguished member, of their own College. By whose instigation, and to serve what purely academical purpose they were induced to bring forward Mr. 'Williams, let them now answer. They have only themselves to blame ; the consequences they must take. COURIER.—We, on Friday, in reference to Mr. Christopher's speech at Lincoln, adverted to the grati fying proof it afforded of the readiness of British land owners to meat the wishes of those who have assumed an attitude of hostility and antagonism towards them, hoping, rather than expecting, that the manifestation of such a feeling on their parts would have allayed some what of the bitterness that had been exhibited towards them ; but it seems only to have inflamed it the more, augmenting its intensity by the insolence of anticipated triumph. Mr. Christopher's well-meant and generous offer, for peace-sake, has been treated as " a signal' o f dis tress " by the o rgans o f that party which affects so much anxiety for a settlement of the Corn-law question. Surely it may be permitted to us to doubt the sincerity of advocates, who bewailingly admit tie superiority of the agricultural interest in both branches of the legislature, and then pretend to deride and strive to misrepresent the liberal and extensive coneessions which the guar, dians of that interest are willing to make, in order to se cure an equitable adjustment of the much-vexed ques tion. This is surely neither politic nor just ; it evinces more of hostility against opponents than of anxiety for the successful issue of the cause 'of which it has as sumed the advocacy, anti aims rather at the prostra tion of one great interest in the State, than at the maintenance and salvation of all. It may serve the purpose of those who live upon dis sension and glory in party strife to vituperate and menace " the squires "—to. misrepresent their actions, and malign their motives —to excite feel ings of hatred against them and then boast of the deed ; but sure we are that no beneficial result can follow either to the capitalist or the operative, and that whatever effect such a line of advocacy may be attended with, i tends to the obstruction rather than the advancement o the so earnestly-desired settlement. THE ESCAPE OF RAPALLO.—WC understand that this individual was originally under the impression that after his release from Ne%vgate no other steps could be taken against him with regard to the forged Exchequer bills. Having, however, sonic doubt of ;,his security from the risk of further molestation, and feeling desirous t o be upon the safe side, he hastened, on the very even ing of his discharge, to the private residence of a certain eminent counsel ; and, after a consultation, he lost no time in getting on hoard a Boulogne steam-boat. had he been tried and acquitted he could not, of course, have been again indicted for the same offence ; but as the proceedings went no further than an examination before the Police. Magistrates, the opportunity of clear ing his character (if he can) by a trial at the Old Bailey is still open to him, should he feel disposed to return to take advantage of it. REMARKABLE STORM OF HAIL AND LIGUTNING.—An esteemed correspondent wishes us to pit On record same particulars of a storm of thunder and lightning, accompanied by hail, that passed over the peninsula of Lleyn, on the morning of the 17th inst. In its passage over the park at Madryn it was of a most awful and alarming character,_ and did immense damage to a long range of glass-houses, pits and frames, that are used for forcing, besides putting in imminent danger a large collection of valuable plants. Some of the hailstones, we are assured, measured no less than three inches and one-eighth round the base—all of them being of a conical shape. Hail of the same magnitude and quantity has not fallen in that part of the country within the memory of tho present age.—Curnarvon Hler•ald. DESTRUCTIV E F 1 UES. On Saturday morning a fi c broke out in the house of a Mr. Level!, en extensive pork butcher, residing in High.street, Camberwell, and nearly opposite the Mother Red Cap. During the whole day, and especially at night, the family had been exceedingly busy, and about twelve o'clock they retired to rest, and from the fatigue of business soon went to sleep. Shortly after one o'clock as the constable who was on duty, belonging to the P di vision, was passing the house he saw a great body of light issuing from one of the rooms, which induced him to go into the road, when he discovered the place was in flames. He instantly alarmed the inmates when other police con stables came to his assistance. The parish engine was procured, but by this time the flames began to burn with great fury, and placed the inmates, in a most perilous position. A little boy, about seven years of age, the son of Mr. Lovell, in the confusion was forgotten, and when he was looked after_and recollected he was still in bed, it was found impossible to enter the house ; fortunately a ladder was procured, and the poor little fellow was got out at the window, and thus escaped a most painful and agonising death. By this time the Southwark-bridge road, Waterloo-road, West of England, and other en gines reached the scene of destruction, but, in conse quence of the want of water, only the Waterloo-road and West of England engines could be put into opera tion, and it was then found impossible to save the pre mises. By four o'clock the whole was one mass of ruins. The loss ofproperty is estimated at about 1,0001. or 1,2001. Scarcely had the various engines from the above fire reached their respective stations, when they were called ,to a furious fire raging in the extensive manufactory of Messrs. Bryan and Sons, patent japan leather-dressers, &c., Dacre-street, Broadway, Westminster. Surrounded as the extensive premises were, by a dense and thickly populated neighbourhood, the utmost alarm prevailed amongst the inhabitants in consequence of the inflam mable nature of the property on fire. The manufactory, which is divided into several departments for the carry ing on the various branches of the trade, occupies a very extensive area, while that portion in which the process of varnishing and making the leather impervious to the weather is performed stands at the further point of the building, and it was in that part the fire was discovered. From it being Christmas morning a great number of persons were about, and information reached the stations in the course of a few minutes ; the Horseferry-road, Waterloo-road, West of England, Chandos-street, and County, were soon upon time spot, followed in rapid succession by the more distant ones. The portion in which the fire originated was, however, reduced to a heap of ruins. The loss is estimated at 2,0001. The loss will fall upon the Messrs. Bryan, as this part of the building and stock was unin sured, the fire-offices refusing to effect a policy on ac count of the dangerous nature of the stock ; the other parts of the building, as well as stock, are insured in the County Eire-office. Between eight and nine o'clock, as the horses were about to be put to the different engines, for the pur pose of leaving the scene of destruction, a mounted messenger arrived, stating that the whole of the ex tensive premises known as the Eagle Saw Mills, Old brompton, were in one body of flame. The informa tion appeared to astonish every fireman pro sent, and upon turning the horses heads round, those attached to the Waterloo-road engine took fright, and started off at a most tremendous speed up as far as Charing-cross, where they were stopped. Upon the arrival of the firemen at Old Brompton, the information was discovered to be unfortunately too true. The entire pile, about a hundred feet in depth, and between forty and fifty in width, were enveloped in one body of fire. Unfortunately, as at the two previous fires, no water could be obtained for some time after the arrival of the various engines of the London Fire Establishment, and the consequence was, the devouring element consumed everything that stood in its way. Directly after the out break Messrs. Pye and his partner, the proprietors, were upon the spot, giving by their information every facility to stop the progress of the fire, but without ef fect. The place being full of timber rendered the heat nearly insupportable, and when water was procured it was with difficulty that the firemen could approach suf ficiently near to play upon two cottages which joined the mills, one of which was saved, but the other, used as a counting-house, was very much damaged. AN ARMY OF DESOLATION. It gives us great pleasure to find that the manufac turers of this populous section of the kingdom are fast opening their eyes to the power—the tremendous power —which they possess, and which they can wield at pleasure, in their conflict with their despisers and con temners for justice. The visitation of the houses of the poor of this bo rough has brought many important facts to light. In the 2,965 houses visited, containing 3,162 families and 15,823 individuals, 1,150 families belong to rural pa rishes ; and if we estimate the houses not visited to con tain a proportionate number, deducting about a thou sand families, who (from occupancy of property of sufficient rental) have obtained settlements, we find that of the ten thousand families in this borough, above three thousand have claims for maintenance upon the estates of those whose commercial restrictions and plundering exactions have our once-happy homes with destitution ! The announcement of the above startling fact, at the meeting at the Corn Exchange, Manchester, on Thursday last, created an extraordinary sensation ; and every deputy present seemed to say to himself, " This is a point which we have all overlooked except the people at Stockport ;" and the proposition to send an army of desolation to cat up the rent of the landowners was received. with tremendous cheering. Taking into consideration the whole of the unem ployed and partially employed work-people of this borough, it cannot be less than about equal to the whole labour of above four thousand families, or one thousand families too many for the quantity of employment, even though the whole of the three thousand families, which belong to the landowners, were sent back to their kind benefactors. The rural districts want no labourers, for they, much AS we have relieved them in this respect, are still over stocked. They have no remunerative employment to give to those whom the bread-taxers may compel our manufacturers to send back to them. Therefore, all that we send them must be kept out of their poor -rates ; and we find, on inquiry, that every family of five persons will consume the rent of about twenty-five acres of land! The three thousand families of this borough would cat up the rental of 75,000 acres ; and the 50,000 families, which might be sent from Lancashire alone, would ab sorb the whole rental of tracts of land equal in extent to several small counties ! If what we have heard be tree, and we have no rea son to doubt the correctness of our information, some manufacturers have already begun to seriously entertain the idea of clearing their estates (their manufactories), and we have heard of one, not trany miles off, who has given notice to quit his service to every family belonging to certain districts. We again warn the landowner not to push things to extremities, and above, all, let them beware of oua " ARMY OF DESOLATION-"—Stockport Chronicle. DISTRESSING Loss OF LIFE IN THE Hum- BER.—On Friday morning last a distressing loss of life occurred on the other side of the river, near New Hol land. The schooner Stourbridge was comhig up, having a boat in tow, when th e p a i n t er g i v i ng wa y by which it was attached to the vessel, Vie Captain, Jeremiah Smith, anxious to prevent, its being lust, threw himself over the stern of the vessel into the boat, but unfortunately alight ing with his back on the gunwale, he was stunned and fell into the we ter; the boat drifting away at the same time, his own crew were deprived of the power to assist him, and after hanging by the broken painter attached to the drifting boat, until seemingly exhausted, he sank to rise no more. It is lamentable to add that Mrs. Smith was on board the vessel, and consequently a spectator of her husband's melancholy death. A light sloop from Goole was going down the river, with the wind in her favour, at the moment of the catastrophe, and although passing within twenty or thirty yards, those 011 board were deaf to the hail of the schooner and the cries of the crew to save their Captain.—Hull Advertiser. SMUGGLING OF SUGAR.—Attention has for a long time been drawn to the fact of the importation into Southampton, from Jersey, of large quantities of foreign sugar as a manufactured article. It, is formed into large cakes, as manufactured, for the purpose of fraudulently introducing it into this country. It is often seized at the Custom-house, because it is unmixed with any other ingredient. The quantities of foreign sugar thus frau dulently imported are small compared with the quantity of sugar consumed in the United Kingdom ; but the practice has increased of late, and gives an unfair ad vantage over the regular trader. But this is not the only practice connected with Jersey which excites attention. The whole of the laws and customs of that island must undergo revision. The inhabitants of Jersey import into this country foreign wheat and chicory as the produce of their own island, arid the laws which are enacted to punish the parties who are guilty of making false decla rations in Jersey are defied, because the Jersey Legisla tive Assembly wilfully neglect to allow such laws to re ceive the Royal assent. The criminal courts of Jersey also transport their convicted felons to Southampton to be let loose upon Great Britain—and the Jersey . laws of debtor and creditor are so iniquitous that a creditor in this country has no chance of recovering his due from a Jersey debtor. INIQUITOUS CHURCH-RATE.—Three permit's of Stanley Church for th e pur poserecently met in the vestry of levying a Church-rate, in addition to the on e now attempting to be collected, for the Wakefield distri ct , thus making a double close 'lie f. 7hr t t h e e irdoisricSlitiaalns ecru. leY-cu. Wrenthorp rate-payers. l were the Churchwardens an d the Pa rson ; and these three officials had the audacity and cold-bearted ness to impose a rate on their starving neighbours, many o f whom are now existing !or days tog e th er on nothing but common Swede tur ni ps. We know i nstances of some families who have , been fed an d li fe sustained by nothing but this beasts food. Sha me upon the men who thus attempt to wring . moneyfrom the se poor wretch e s, to support the overfed and overgrown State Church ; and who threaten all who do not, on a certa i n day, by them appointed , pay this iniquitous demand with the terrors of the Church eccle s i ast i c. I s there none in this large district to protect the poor from such a disgraceful imposition.—Leeds EVENING SUN SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. RIPON" MEETi NG, DEC. 17.—A Sweepstakes of 8 soy& value was won by ...qr. Meek's Lady, beating Af t, Clarke's Atalanta. The second Sweepstakes, valup sovs., won by Mr. Parker's Crucifix, beating Mr. Thornton's Bess. CRESSWEJA, PARR, DEC. 16.—The Cup was w on by Mr. Crawthrd' s Sp ee d, b ea ti ng M r. A n d son ' s Thistle. :LATEST MANCHESTER BETTING —(FRWAY'') TILE DERBY. 8 to 1 agst Attila 11 to 1 agst Chatham 22 to 1 agst Robert de Gorham 45 to 1 agst Meteor—taken 1000 to 20 agst Master Thomas—taken 1000 to 25 agst Seahorse—taken THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS, Wheat. Barley. O ats . B e ans, I Pease l'er Ouirter. IB.to s. s. to s. s . t o s. s . to (4. Is. to /•.... , • Carlisle ,59 73 N 3 --:4 - 46 - 46 .......' Hexham '6O 70 36 38 .3 28 - - - a Morpeth Si 16 30 3Q 19 kt 40 4Q 36 "" Penrith 64 - 33 - .2 - 4'; -- A 7i Sheffield I - 66 -2; - o 3 - 47 -- S 3 Per r' CO 1,9 23 32 20 96 40 42 3 5 , ‘ - d, Per Bushel. Is, il. s.d . s.d. s. d. S. d. a.d , a. ii. s.d 5..„ '7, 0 CarmaCarmarthen I 7 0 a I 0 0 40(1 0 93 5 6 000 '" 0 rthen 7 6 8 0 0 0 4l' 0 0 3it 5 0 5 3 0" 0 0 :wansea '7 6 80 4 0 44 2 6 30 5 6 6O 56 Per 8011. I 51 10 0 Darn:,rdcastl 16 it .20 08 9 90 4 0 74 9 6 11 0n • lOO Durham 136 166 li 6 90 59 69 00 106 g 0 a Richmond l_6 1S flO 0 110 60 7410 0 11 0 0 Stockton l5 0 19 6 9 0 9 (.1 (3 0 7 9 9 0 11 0 9 • WAKEFIELD CORN MAR h pw. Wneat, Red, Norfolk and Sittlblk ..... .... - -- Lin. and Cain. :-...----- Yorkshire -s. 2 8 s . tote s. fineries. -- 'White ---- Foreign, Red --- White -a. tiss. to 701. nue . = Barley, Norfolk and Suffivlk 285. to 3IG doe .-- --- Lincolnshire los to 315. fine;: •fine 3 --- Yorkshire Weld -14 : 26 13 :6 :... t tt 0 00 - - - 36i'.1' s filinfiee l e : Foreign Beans, New - fine. 6B. 2 - old - ( M e 2 9,. Oats, Potato -s. to Os. fin e _ , s. - - Poland -s. -s. to 265. rine 2 1,. --v. vricslan4 and Small . ...... ... -healing .. Shr.lling 283. to 295 0.1• Per , „..4 Malt Rapeseed NEWCASTLE CORN EXCHANGE. White. Red. Wheat, North tims,erland 543 .665. 553.5, b. - Norfolk and Suffolk O5, 69.,,,„.., 685. -1 ---- Berwick and Scotch sos. 64. 5 4, f, 56 t -- Foreign 663 70;....... OS'. 7 25. Rye, Narfulk and Sutl u lk -- F oreign 36v. 4g .. .-' 5 . .""--_ ! Barley, Malting, Norfolk an d S u ff o lk 3ls. :tic...". a."' '''' .. 7 5 Grinding and Feeding 295. 355. -5. .- rer Malt, Norfolk and SurfOlk 1:65 60. • -s• ': . . F. Beans, Small - a. - - Tick ... 4tki. 4is -- 5._ ,---- Pease, White 42s. 445..... .." 4 . - - Gray Oats, Northumberland, l'otatoe . . 325. 345.. ..... .." ..... 2 . 245. 26s -/ • - y; -- Feed 22 "4 - - L s - s ....... ...., --- Foreign .., j , Flour (per sack) 4 Bs. 515....... --s• SCOTCH M SCOTCH MARKETS._______---- -- ~A c ini6 Wheat. Barley. Oats. Mane. .................-.* .•-. -..-..•-• --- --------- ---- .. 3 S (0 9 5 thcrdeen... 130 to 70 2S to 39 15 to 21 i— to „'"Z Ds .1 Berwick 35 45 IS 23 15 21 ;30 ,„'' 58 '- Coldstream Cupar (Fife' .48 65 126 31 IS 22 I 2.1 ~,,." 51 ' Dunbar _,_ 60 62 23 I'3 18 24 37 r„ .... 7., Elgin 7O 7.‘: 30 31 22 26 48 ~,..' .... Inverness - Kelso . , ~,, ~ 15 47 17 24 16 18 30 r 43 -- Kirkaldy Perth 6O 67 31.4 40 25 35 41 ' ',. o unt rY • e - !..;;,. Thusize of the measure varies throughout Ow ''' H A DDINGI'ON CORN MARKET. rose. Wheat. Barley. Oat s . Bean I ....s Od First Os 6.1 33s 03 26s Bsi 40 , (Ai i 6 0.1 Second 5B. Od 30s 1 d 22s Od s (id ...5 N I third. sos Od 27s Od 20s Od :303 Od Average )/, 173. 11.1.9.1 204 ' GLASGOW CORN MI RKET. a. 166 1 2641 b. L .1 . Wheat, per 240th. s. d. s. 11. Oat; per 1 7 (3 . . British, old 3401037 6 Iriali ................... ... 19 0 t° 2o I' mew 0 e British ................ ~. 23° Canada, free — 0 0 Irish 0 0 ,i 3 B l 0 0 sp E ce t o t as g t l te i i i3 s : l h e i s 2 . :....:.;. t. .. i . l i 7. h. . r . . .............................. 66 3 2 ,,v i 2 , (1 : Barley, per 3201 b English Scottish Irish 6 0 t:: 2 6 5 1 0 1 FOlaotunire.aple,rpigolif,?.l.b... ...... . 4 r o 00 DALKEITH CO Wheat. Jamey, First 64s 044 34s 04 Second Od 30s Od Third 465 Od 2115 (id RN MARKET. I Oats. Istd2/ 22. s s 6 d 13s 4.1 34s Cd ti ‘ O e i d I 41 f P , n• LI CORNWALL MARKETS. (Calculated at 24 gallons to the bushel.) (Calculated at 24 gallons to the bushel.) ___./' _ Wheat. Barley. 1... .....— . -- -31- i• r - r °„ • 1. d. to I. d. a. d. to s. d. s. (I. ''' ;2. I rruro — 0 7 5 0 38— ° 3 ° o 9 Helstene - 7 8— 0 3 il -- 3 St. Austell 0 80— 0 38- 0 a 3 Bochum 0 8 8 0 44 — 6 3 v t.iskeard _.o 7 6 0 3 6 2c. Launceston - 0 3 8 "7, 6 0 2 1. Camel lord 6 6 7 C 9 t 3 4- i 2 u Penzance 7 8 8 4 -- 0 4 0 "- THE DEATH OF THE EARL OF EG M° , l , r i . o f The Right Hon. Henry Frederick James, fifth _nal.. and foeuroula Egmont, Viscount Perceval (in Ireland), t°°l‘ P t; ore- Baron Lowell and I lolland (in England), the 23d instant, at his Lords:iip's residence in 11 to John , street. The deceased Peer was great ratty, the second Earl of Egmont (first Lord of the Admt _ 63) in the Ministry which succeeded Lord Bute', in who was father, by a second marriage, to the late Lora The late Arden, and the Right Hon. Spencer Perceval. Earl was in his .47th year, and, dying unmarried, his titles have devolved upon his cousin, the Right George James Lord Arden, captain in the navy vg .4 l !" served with distinguished gallantry under the late , f , '; Exmouth at the siege of Algiers ; and, before succe ing to his peerage, represented the western division v; the county of Surrey, in the late Par g li r re s n ° t n . James, the present and sixth Earl of Egmont, in 179-1, and married in 1819 Jane, eldest daughter °I the late John Hornhy, Esq., of Hook, near Southampton, now Countess of E ,, mont. Ilis surviving brothers Ara_ the Hon. arid Rev. ' Charles George Perceval, rector of Calverton, and the Hon. arid Rev. Arthur Pereeval, one of her Majesty's chaplains. or Loss FIRE-DAMP EXPLOSION AND took atplaceo_. THREE LIVES.—An explosion of fire -damp Horn, near Ilales-owen, in the colliery of Mr. Attlavodds A man named Churchhill, another named Jones'a n d A A man named Churchhill, another named Their bodies boy, were in the pit, and fell a sacrifice. Their bo ero have not yet been recovered : repeated attonP ts "' the made on Wednesday last to descend the shaft, butlife, atmosphere was found to be too impure to sustain and the attempt to recover the bodies was necessart. 0 abandoned. When the explosion first corn was born wo o o loa fire spread with fearful rapidity, consuming all the d work in the pit, together with the ropes, el! cic w ere not be extinguished for several days. Five nee d in the mine at the time, and were, of course, destroye • Worcestershire Chronicle. menced ow _ E. J. DENT, 82, Strand, by SPec ia lvrt Ali t P o t he ment CHRONOMETER and WATCHMAA-'0111; QUEEN and his Royal Highness PRINCE calledir obtained the great Government Reward fur the uneg. e d eftr , v ori . to formance of his Chronometer, No. 114, which ou,Y a dditi o four hundredths of a second in twelve months. i n f the Lord this distinction, he has just received, by order ° d no w 0- - Commissioners of the Admiralty, the highest resca! e _keepora' V in o by their Lordships for th e goo d per f ormance of ight arise Mr. Dent, anxious to remove any prejudice whi a ' - nt i is el to his general business from the idea that hi , a tte heg 9t° elusively devoted to instruments of the highest ,i o ; r der te d th state, that while his principal care is necessarily wr_ f wa tches , latter, he is not unmindful of the manu.acture ustifficientlY which, while they are greatly lower in price, are b e alwaP i accurate for all ordinary purposes, and wil!, watche s most in demand. The whole of his extensive stock 0 an d be has had the advantage of his selection and exa minat r i letule ntt ,' has arranged a department, under competent soPe- in r ice for offering to the public good plain watches at ""aPuntici‘ is compatible with any pretensions to correctness, fu ll y ~o op ety pating, from an increase of business, an advantageo us Gol. l sation for reduction in price. Ladies' or Gentle men - ---eh a/ 4s. Watches, from 10/. 10s. each ; Silver ditto from• Strand. therefor ou. ADE' GOLD WATCHES, LONDON-M- -- T. COX SAVORY, Watchmaker, No. 47, Cernhill, Lc a t ! o , s seven doors from Gracechurch-street, submits for ae le , c o ; e of very large STOCK of GOLD WATCHES, the w" on the which are carefully examined by experienced workrne° premises, and each is warranted for correct performance' . . SIZE FOR LADIES. Fine Vertical Watches, jewelled, in engine-turned,,„ :0 gold case., and gold dials, wa rr anted .............. X,'" Fine Vertical Watches, jewelled, with double-back ed ~.2 12 engine-turned gold cases a n d go ld di a ls, warranted ' Patent detached Lever Watches, jewelled in four holes with double-b ac k e d go ld cases an d gold dial s, 1 4 14 0 warranted ..................... SIZE FOR GENTLEMEN' four Patent detached Lev er W a t c h es; j ewe lled 1" I". holes, seconds, and d ou bl e -b ac k e d go ld eases, 13 13 0 ranted in • ...' ................... Patent detached Lever W a t c h es , cappe d, jewelled d 0 six holes, seconds, doubl e -b a cked gold cases and 1 7 11 enamel dials, warrant e d Patent detached Lever Watches, capped, jewelled in six holes, seconds, double-backed gold cases and . 0 0 gold dials, warranted ................................. •g • 2 t o ting Either of the Gentlemen's Watches may be had in old $ cases, for 31, 3s. each extra. N.B. Second-hand Watches purchased in exehae. BIRTHS. , On the 25th init., at the York-road, Lambeth , 31rs' peto I of Ona son. the 23d inst., the wife of Christopher Walton, E sq ' of Ludgate-street, of a d aug h ter. n' On the 23d inst., at Walworth, Mrs. H. Groom, o f a 9° 4 G. On the 23d inst. at West-hill, Wandsworth, the la d y " D. Longstaffe, E sq . , , of a son. ' s ' wood , On the 24th i nst., at M.D. Grove-end-place, St. John the lady of J o h n F enton, Esq., of a son. J Ne Onthe Ist of July, IS4 M I, 4 a R t tßhellgnfle.pendent Cbape f Sydn e Y' Southw Wales, Mr. George Alfred Lloyd, eldest son of, t, h rt e i daughter I of Norwood , Lak e late use Lloyd, Surrey, to blary, tni er of the Rev. L. E. Threlkeld, of Ebenezer, Macquaire. DIE. On the 25th i ns t., Thomas Colle D tt, Esq., second son o! ei e late q., M.P., e 35. On the 18th ollett inst., at Blackfor ag d, d Miss Margaret Trotter daughte r o f the late Trotter, Esq. of Mortonha ll, aged 90. On the 23d inst.. at Church-row, 'lslington, Mrs. Barri:toff eldest daughter of the late Mr. Richard Barwick. e d On the 23d inst., at Brighton, John French , Esq., 72 ag . On the 23d inst., at Dalby-terrace, Islington, bay Knight, Esq. aed 68. On the 23(1 , ins g t., 11r. William Procter, grocer, Whitecrosr street, aged 67. On the 24th inst., at Grove-end-place, St. John's-I'loi' John Davison, Esq. On the 13th ult., Mr. H. C. Cropley, of Tunbridge W• 11 '" On the 21st inst., Mr. H. Morten, of the Savoy Faro', Denham, Bucks. t. S. e On(n ) t t i h w e 2 2 5 3 t d h it i i n s s t. t , om ., T a h tci a o s K udeesriefolo-terrace, of Bread-str Me Fuller, aged 80. Islington, trees. London : Printed and Published by 111 URDO YOUN of No. 112, Strand, at The Sux Office, No. 112, Strand, I the County of Middlesex, Monday, December 27 1841. a 10( t 4,11. na',l63 tfilti R 0 T Offi( IL :. , - WA Till 13111 Gra Nol thara c Pat! 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