The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-21 00:00:00

NARROW ESCAPE OF SIR JAMES

BROOKE.

This gallant knight (well known from his connection
with Borneo, Labuan, &c.) had a narrow escape at
Monson, near Worsley, on Saturday afternoon last.
Sir James left London on Saturday morning, on his way
to spend a short time with the Earl of Ellesmere ; and
on arriving at the London-road station he got into a cab,
to proceed to Worsley New Hall, the seat of the noble
earl. At Menton there is a road through some of the
earl's private grounds (affording a short cut into the
main road near Worsley) at each end of which is erected
a cottage one?, with stout stone gate-posts, stiles, &c.
Adjoining the gateway, at the end nearest Patricroft, is
nonton- bridge, steep and skew, over the Bridgewater
Canal, the fencing to which closely adjoins the parapet
of the bridge to the left. It appeared that the cab, in
which Sir James was, proceeded rapidly until it reached
the point where the driver quitted the Eccles Old Road
to cross towards Menton ; and shortly after this the
horse (a very powerful and spirited grey) increased his
pace so desperately, that the united s fforts of the driver
and a servant lad of Sir James's wholly failed to check
him. In the midst of his endeavours, the driver got
pitched from his seat, and was very nearly run over,
and the lad at the same time loosing his hold of the
reins, the horse went on at a fearful speed. He ap-
proached Manton at little less than 18 or 20 miles an
hour, and most fortunately turned slightly to the right,
towards the gateway we have mentioned. The gate
had been removed for repairs, and a stout bar had been
put up in its place, and against this the horse dashed
without checking his speed in the least. The offs
wheel en ruck and knocked down the stone
,gateposts.
and frcm the force of the blow the cab was whirled
naiad to the right. The horse seemed to have cleared
himself from all the harness at the same instant as he
struck the bar, and he galloped off along the private
road, leaving the cab with its shafts splintered, and
buried nearly a foot deep in the bank on the right side
of the road ; this splash-board was fractured, but the
body of the carriage was uninjured. Sir James Brooke,
although severely shaken when the cab was brought to
so sudden a stand, received no more than a few bruises;
and the servant lad was enabled to keep his seat, escap-
ing without the slightest injury. The driver came up
shortly after the accident, and the horse was caught at
the gateway, at the further end of the private road, and
brought back by a labouring man. The animal seemed
terribly excited, but not much injured by his contact
with the bar. After satisfying the lodgekeeper that the
smashing of the gate-nest would be satisfactorily arranged
with his lordship, Sir James walked on to Worsley
New Hall. The escape altogether was a most providen-
tial one. Had the gate not been removed, or had the
horse taken the bridge, the cab would in all probability
have been completely smashed, and Sir James and his
servant must have been injured to some extent ; while,
had the horse dashed against the canal fence, and
broken it sufficiently to take the cab after him into the
water, there would have been very little chance of Sir
James's life being saved by those who came up soon
after the accident, although the servant, from being on
the box of the cab, might have escaped if pitched into
the canal.—Manchester Guardian.

average by
the docks is below the average
stock of port wine in
THE WINE TRADE.—The
sherrywithin andoe briaanstd both well up to the mark.
about 2,000 pipes ;
days
1 wines which were la stir has taken place in
lithe London
for-
merly held from 221. to 28/ inn
of
falue have
yfewared
the port wine trade, anda
During the last
ad vs at
nnccke d
h2als.
.. on exporta-
to 31. per pipe. The reduction
acted barometrieally on the m
in the Douro,
month there have been but few arrivals,
have beeen3selsnt tofdMiraecyt.
by the expected reduction of levied,iroporitvals, Caused
'chiefly
ti Al to Europe—there arc 17 ships ,imports
waiting for cargoes, some of them sinyceintgb
Dialing this year four cargoes
from Oporto to our Australian colonies (the Gazelle has
entered outwards for Porto and Sydney,and the
Randolph is there leading for Port Philip). This
merce yields no source of revenue to the Portuguese
-
treasury, or emolument to toe wine company. Freights
here here from Oporto are down to 255. and to Australia 51.

per ton.
quantity. ofgenuine
d to d filly
millions
champagne CHAMPAGNE a
nannually
u quite insufficient
millions a bottles, a quantity, however, q
numbers of -
as tho great es-
to me:A the public demand,
—Tae
slid
spurious champagne
SINESS DONF tablishmk,nts for the productio❑ of d authority, that
LONDON '
STOCKand EXCHANGE, O. 20. in one establishment alone upwards 0f 500.000
Erquelines, f orn the stalks
Luxembourgl6—Dijon and Basangon, Qi— s~•called champagne, made principally
r id lea may be
Paris
(Railway), hi. ',non 14— of the rhubarb, are annually sold. Some
aaapagne
and Lyons, 2,7, 41—Lyons and - vit, ,
is—Sambre and Meuse 10. formed of the relative consumption of real co
f the
I by different countries
• • from the following return o
The
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TRIBUNALS OF Ct sales in 1843 of the department of the Marne.
cut' eommittea for )11mERCE.—A meeting of the exe- total quantity amounted to 2,659 000 bottles, which were
rlals of Commerce was
prrnoting the establishment of Tribu- distributed : England and British India, 467.000 ;
with a view to or7a a.s held at the London Tavern, yesterday, ItusEia and Poland, 502,000; Germany, incliiiirag Pros
vigorous prosecutionozoefall the preliminaries requisite lor the '
; si4 end the Austrian domiuion,, 439.000 ; United
great attention throughoutthe movement, which is exciting States of America nod the West Indies• 400,000 ; Italy
we may mention that the kingdom. As a roof of this, .
Street o a meeting is to takeplace in Regan;- ' ; Holland,
600,000; Belgium, 56.000 ;
30 000 Swedch
_ a the 16th November, of deputations in,
Chamber of from every and Denmark, 30,000 ; S,,itzerlantl, 30,000 ; South
Br.._ Commerce in the United Kingdom, which Lord America, 30,000 ; Spam and Portugal, 20,000 ; Turkey,
"gam will preside. at
; 5,000 ; and France, 620,000 bottles.