Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-16 00:00:00

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT•

On Thursday evening, North-street, Brighton, was the I
scene of a frightful accident to a lady, by which she was
suddenly deprived of life. The name of the lady is Mrs.
it
Shores, a widow, residing at Worthing, and appears
that on Thursday afternoon she came to Brighton, ac-
companied by her daughter,. aged about 18 years. About
seven o'clock she was walking up North-street with her
daughter and a young gentleman named Cheesman, an
articled pupil to Messrs. Burrows and Taafe, the two
former intending to return home by the train. When
opposite the Clarence Hotel, a horse and fly belonging to,
and being driven by a man named Jones, the horse having
run away, came at a furious pace through Bond-street, and
dashing
.with fearful violence across the road, forced the
lady against the shade's entrance of the hotel, completely
doubling her up. The horse turned suddenly round, and
returned up Bond-street, and when nearly half way up the
street ran the fly against a lamp-post, and literally smashed
it to pieces. The deceased observed her danger, but
seemed transfixed and unable to escape, but the daughter
rushed down the street, and Mr. Cheesman avoided the
catastrophe by running upwards. The deceasei was picked
19 and carried into the shades, and Mr. Seabrook and Mr.
Taafte were in attendance as speedily as possible ; their
services, however, were unavailing ; the unfortunate sufferer
had received such fatal injuries that she expired within a
Minute or two after their arrival—Brighton Observer.

THE CRYSTAL PALACE FRAUDS ROBSON'S

CREDITORS.

The following particulars have been obtained from official
sources :—The total amount of the trade debts proved
against the estate of the convict William James Robson is
£3,707 ; and the assets realised by the sale of his furniture,
plate, horses, dog-cart, &c., have been sufficient to enable
Mr. Johnson, the official assignee under the bankruptcy, to
pay a dividend of 3s. 9d. in the pound, which any of the
creditors may now receive upon application to that gentle-
man. The balance remaining after all the creditors
have been paid is £1,206, out of which sum, in pursuance
of the compromise entered into between the Crystal Palace
Company and the assignees of Robson, the former will be
entitled to an amount equal to that paid to the whole of
the other creditors, viz , about £691; so that, after payment
of all the expenses, a balance will still remain at the dis-
posal of the Court, which would not have been the case had
the large proof of the Crystal Palace Company been admitted
sub silentio. In the latter event the whole of the assets
would have been absorbed, and the trade creditors would
have received no dividend, and therefore it was to this
point the astute mind of the official assignee was directed.
Difficulties, however, of almost an unparalleled character
crossed him at every step. From the information gleaned
from Robson in Newgate, after his conviction, the official
assignee demanded to inspect the books of the company,
and it was not until after considerable controversy that
this object was attained—indeed, to such an extremity was
the opposition carried out, that the shilling admission fee
to the palace was demanded of Mr. Johnson upon his
official visits, bat which he resisted, of course, successfully.
Once the books and the transfers in his possession—the
admission of the employment of law stationers to execute
,certain work hurriedly upon the eve of the meeting of the
shareholders, confirmed by the statements of the convict
Robson, Mr. Johnson came to the determination of not
allowing th e enormous claim of the company to be admitted
under the b nkruptcy. This led to the compromise, which
has turned out so beneficial to creditors. Robson still
remains in Newgate, his services being required in matters
of a pecuniary nature connected with his estate, which are
still pending, Nothing is known of his wife sinco her inter-
view with him when he was last brought up to attend a
Private meeting at the Court of Bankruptcy.

At LEWIS & COMPANY'S, Ranelagh street,
BOYS are CLOTHED from the Azes of 6 to 20 Years.

Emigrants to the UNITED STATES and C INADA, by ta ing the
Through Pickets of the Grand Trunk Railway Company, are conveyed
from their port of landing to their destination in less than ONE
CUJARTE it OF THE TIM w. taken by Steam Boats, and at about the same
rates of fares. Thus a passenger can reach Chicago from Quebec, a
uistance of 1,007 miles, in less than 2s} days, whereas by water it is
nearly doable the distance and requires from 12 to 15 days, with five
or six changes of Steam Boats, during all of which they are exposed
to the arts and machinations of designing persons, whose sole means
Of living is by their plunder. The Steam Boats, especially when
crowded, scarcely afford protection from the weather. Passengers
With Through Tickets are allowed the same amount of luggage, free,
/son board the ship, and it is conveyed from the Ship to the Railway
Station without any charge whatever. The Agents of the Grand
Trunk Company will give Mechanics, Artizans, and Labourers, on
their arrival, the best information in respect to employment, the
places at which it is to be had, and the rates of wages. Intending
Emigrants can have sent to them, free, a Tariff of passengerates ;
and all their enquiries with regard to the sailing of both steamers and
Bailing ships, Scale of Dietary, &c., will be immediately answered on
application, either personally or by letter, at the offices of the Grand
Trunk Company, 21, Old Broad-street, London.
INFORMATION RESPECTING C A NADA.—The Canadian Government
has published an interesting pamphlet on the resources of Cararla,
and the prospects in store for the industrious of all classes who desire
to emigrate there. It has been gratuitously circulated throughout
the United Kingdom, together with the two lectures upon Canada,
delivered by Mr. Rollo Campbell, of Montreal, in January last. Every
Clergyman in Scotland has been supplied with a copy cf both, together
with the particulars of the Grand Trunk system of Through Booking,
and a Map of Canada, upon which all the Railways and their connec-
tion with the United States are shown. These, and other documents,
continue to be issued gratuitously to all persons who apply for them,
either personally or by letter, at the offices of the Grand Trunk Rail-
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way Company, 21, Old Broad-street, London, E.C.
CALIFORNIAN PEN.—The everlasting question of "is this

good pen" has been answered by Mr. E. of South John
street, who has succeeded in producing a metallic pen, which he
designates, not inaptly, as above. There is hardly anything more
annoying than a bad pen—every one knows the misery. The pen
made by Mr. Hall, is fit for any hand to use (light or heavy), and
what is of the greatest value, it does not corrode, but will work with
equal facility in any ink. From experience of metalic pens, we can
say that this ens, w.iich is plished so gold, and will last nearly as
long, is the best ore we have ever used,—Northern Times. One
box, containing six dozen pens, sent tree on receipt of Cs 6l in
postace stamps. Agents wanted for the country.—Adv.
THE DI ING BULL-FIGHTER.—Madrid mourns, and crape
covers the bull-ring, for Desperdicios is dying. Deeper-
dicios is the nom de guerre of Dominguez, a famous
toreador, who was expected shortly to gladden the eyes
and hearts of the lov€rs of tauromachien sports. But
fate and a fierce bull have otherwise decided. On the Ist
instant, in the buil-ring of Puerto de Santa Maria, Des-
perdicios met with one of those grievous accidents which
sometimes occur even to the most skilful of these modern
gladiators, A bull (says the account) caught him on the
right side with the left horn, then on the left with the
right horn, tossed him, and as he fell caught him under
the chin, splitting his jaw and driving the horn up to the
right eye, which it forced out. The poor fellow displayed
the pluck usual in members of his dangerous craft ; he
submitted with great fortitude to the necessary operations ;
but the loss of blood was so great that it was
deemed impossible be could survive, and the last sacraments
were administered. Nevertheless,on the following morning
his state was somewhat better. 10,000 persons were spec-
tators of the horribto sight. On the same day El Tato,
another well-known bullfighter, was wounded in the leg.
In the south, in hot weather, bull-fighting is particularly
dangerous, owing to the furious ex eitement of the beasts.
Some very serious accidents occurred the other day near
Madrid, at a festival of Novillos, or young bulls, held at a
village caned Getafe. On such occasions the spectators and
amateurs are apt to get in the way of the bulls, and to
commit the most extraordinary imprudences. This was
probably the case at Getafe, where one person was killed
on the spot. and upwards of a dozen went into hospital ;
some of them, it is said, with small hopes of life.
Fisnettins.— In a recent number we took occasion
torefer to the return of the Diana, of Hull, from the
Greenland Seas, our purpose being to call attention to the
fact that a screw-steamer had been employed for the first
time in the seal fishery with the best result, and to point
out the results likely to follow from the employment of
steam in chat important and rising branch of enterprise.
Our remarks were especially directed to that end, but it
seems that a northern contemporary has taken umbrage
because we placed Peterhead in the same category with
reference to sealing as Hull and Newcastle. We are quite
aware that Peterhead sends out to the Greenland Seas six
vessels for every one despatched from any other port ; but
it, SO happens that Hull and Newcastle are the only ports
which have as yet fitted oat sealers with steam power. One
of them, the Diana (455 tons), has just returned from
Greenland, and the other, the Volunteer (313 tons), is set
down as belonging to Newcastle, upon the list published
at Peterhead on the Bth of last mouth—a document which
the Peterhead Sentinel ought to have consulted before it
asserted that all communication between Newcastle and the
lix.‘"tic Seas has ceased " for years." We may state, for the
Ittlonnation of our contemporary and of our own readers,
atthere are at present 55 vessels belonging to the
Northern and Scotch ports employed in the Arctic fisheries.
Of this number ten are engaged in the Davis' Straits Whale
Fishery—
fro •
m Kirkaldy, two e. four from Aberdeen. four from Dundes, one
hail from wo from Hull. Of the entire list thirty
Aber-
deen, four Peterhead, five from Frazerburgh, six from
Hulre froth Dundee, three from Kirkaldy, five flews
regret to learroin Bo'ness, and one from Newcastle. We
not likely eertethat the profit of the Peterhead sealers are
The enterprise 'f'ci large this year as we had anticipated.
reward • but Weo t the men of Peterhead deserve a better
the baciprospeessi.ort that our contemporary exaggerates
earned a creditable atrade by which his town has already
land and Greenland distinction.ea.i As regards the Newfound-
Fisheries, we have only to" and
the Davis' Straits Whale
the chief wealth of a greatrepeat that the former constitute
wielo.rtion of our colonist ,
s • and it
may be further added
self-evident, that the useuoaft indeed would appear to be
steamers, especially in the
whalb fisheries, must be of the greatestopportunities
advantage, inasmuch
as they can take advantage
which in the
very nature of things are denied to
ping Gazette. ling vessels,—Ship-