The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-14 00:00:00

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To the Directors of the English, Seotti4 as allan Chartered
Bank_ -
Gentlemen, --I request you will allot me shares of 201. each
in the above undertaking, the whole of which, or any less number
that may be allotted to me, I hereby agree to accept, and when re-
quired, to pay the deposit of 4/. per share, and execute the Deed of
Settlement of the Company.
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
Reference :.... ......

ENGLISH, SCOTTISH, and AUSTRALIAN
CHARTERED BANK.
No Applications for Shares in this Company can be received after
SATURDAY nest, the 18th instant.
By order of the Board,w. PILLANS, Secretary (pro tern.)
4, Adam's-court, Old Broad-street,
Sept. 13, 1852.

UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
Established by Act of Parliament in 1834'
8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London.
HONORARY PRESIDENTS.
Earl of Ceurtown
Earl Leven and Melville
Earl of Norbury Lord Belhaven and
,-.s, , of
Earl of Stair William Campbell, .c. .1.
Lord Viscount
E i
p
Earl Somers
Tilllcheivan.
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s t oe Falklandn
Stenton

BOARD.
M, Esq., Chairman.
Esq•, Deputy Chairman.
J. G. Henriques, Esq•
Thomas Thorbl, Esq'
MEDICAL OFFICERS.
PHYSICIAN.-Arthur H. Hs?!q., M.D., 8, Bennett-street,
SURGEON.—F. H. Thomson, Esq., 48, Berners-street.
,Qn4 to the 31st
The bonus added to policies from March,
Decemloer, 1847, is as follows :

LONDON
CHARLES GRAIIA
CHARLES DOWNES,
El. Blair Avarne, Esq.
E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., Resident.
Charles Berwick Curtis, Esq.
William Fairlie, Esq.
D. Q. Henriques, Esq.

Sum
Assured. Time Assured . Sum addedto Sum-----liaddedto Sun' P
P°licYinlB4l PolicyinlB4B at Death.
.65
X 638 -----------------
. 000 13 years 10 mths Z 638 0470 16 8
41000 7 years 6 8 £787 10 0 0
••
•• 157 10 0 1157 10
500 1 year aye le
~ 5() 511 5 0
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1 1

ne
* EXANPLE.—At the commencement of the year 1841,,at' fors°which
thirty took out a Policy for 1,0001., the Annual Payment - Eird., but
Is 241. Is. Bd.; in 1847 he had paid in Premiums 1681' 115 A. d (which'
the profits being 2% per cent, per annum on the suniinsur-
is 22/. 103. per annum for each 1,0001.), he had 1571 •
Policy, almost as much as the Premiums paid
ate scle, and
The Premiums, nevertheless, are .
on the most 1710
der-,.. hena the In-
only one-half need be paid for the first five years
w
surance is for Life.
Every information will be afforded on application to the Resident
Director. lOB. added to the

7 St Martin's-place, Trafalgar-
NATIONAL ASSURANCE
AND
INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION,
London.
The rove which was
established itment of money with this Association,
ur
sec es equal
advantages
n May, 1844, on a plan peculiar to itself,
and the pr ovident
ages to the surplus capital of the efficient,n
savingsopport of the industrial classes of the community, and afford
sat.
class seunitY for realising the highest rate of interest yielded by
_onoeurities, in which alone the money is employed.nvestment, are
Ys deposited with the Association, for I
exempt from 11
mattes
contingencies. as well as
the expenses aties on account of life cont e Depart-
ment, in
of management, which are borne by the Life
t t
to it by inves men
n consideration of the business brought
b._ transactions ; therefore, Depositors enjoy the entire profits yielded
The Capital Stock is altogether distal'
,iYhichtheir capital free from deduction of any kind—an advantage
no other Institution, either public or private, holds forth, or
can afford, to its members.
Interest or Dividend, is payable half-yearly'
in January
andjalY.
Capital Stock, XlOO,OOO.
Ass re.
Deposit ' artMent. It constitutes,
with ors Stock in the Investment DeP
the Premium Fund, a gaaraatee for the engagements of the
Association, and has been provided in order to render the security of
the Assured complete. ct and separate from the
This LIFE DEPARTMENT.
embraces a
3Ysteni of Life Assurance, abiable and important im-
Prov with many v
a ons for
Department comprehensive and well-regulated
emente.
obtained, on application
at
tFtull Information and prospectuses maybe
to the respective Agents,
b Head Office of the Association, or
throughout the United Kingdom.
PETER MORRISON Managing Director.
N R A
' • --PPlic ti
Director, Agencies may be made to the Managing

This Company
THE INDISPUTABLE LIFE POLICY
in terms of the Deed of
COMPANY,
No. 72, Lombard-street and 24, Connaught-terrace.
TAIISTEES.
and NEGOTIABLE DOCU-
MENTS M.P.
Y applicable to the
J• r, Richard Spooner,
J. Campbell Renton, Esq., M.P. I JAMS Fuller Madox, Esq,
combined an Insurance Richard Malin% Esq., Q.C• I William Wilberforce, Esq.
The POLICIES are INDISPUTABLE,
Settlement of the Company, duly registered, and are thus rendered
CERTAIN FAMILY PROVISIONS,
payable either at death or on at-
taining OF SECURITY.
Middle and Industrious Classes, a plan of SELF-PROTECTING IN-
SURANCE
~ whereby in one Policy for one rate of Premium, are
a specified age, and a pension or annuity after that age; and
giving the full benefit of all Premiums that have been paid, although
the Payments should at any time be discontinued.
cientorfodaucseadm,asp more peculiarly
ALEXANDER ROBERTSON, Manager.

either of
IVIETROPOLITAN LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY.
No. 3, Princes-street, Bank.
gaff-yearly, or Quarterly, or,
The Directors hereby give notice to Members whose Premium fall
due on the sth of October next, that the same must be PAID
within Thirty days from that date.
The Premiums are paid Yearly,
For the year
the sth of January, sth of April, sth of July, and sth of October,
year to Members. Persons, therefore, desirous of entering the So-
ciety as Members which several days constitutes the commencement of the
on the sth of October next, should appear or lodge
their proposals at the office on or before that day.
This Society, for Mutual and General Assurance, appropriates the
whole of its profits to the benefit of parties assuring their own /Ives
for the whole term of life as Members of the Society.
cent. has been declared on the Premiums of all Members of Five
ending the sth of April, 1853, an abatement of 51 per
Years' standing and upwards.
RICHARD HEATHFIELD, Superintendent.
rrincefiltreet,BADlE, Sept. 4, 1852.

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BOAT TICKETS.—TweIve Months, 51.05. ; Six Months, 81.
Three Months, 21. Os.; to be had of the Collectors on boar,
packets; or Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend.
July 8 1852.
,

Os.; .
the

LATE FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
The coroner's inquest concerning the frightful acci-
dent on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
Railway, terminated late on Saturday night, at which
time the cause of the calamity remained as great a mys-
tery as at the commencement of the inquiry. The lead-
ing facts may be briefly recapitulated. Last Wednesday
evening the Great Northern passenger train which leaves
Sheffield at 9.10 P.N. ran off the line, at a place which is
three-quarters of a mile short of Woodhouse junction,
and better than four miles from Sheffield. The line
curves at that point, and is upon a steep embankment
upwards of thirty feet high. When running at about
thirty miles an hour the train suddenly ran off the rails,
and the engine, rushing across the down rails, sped vio-
lently down the embankment on the opposite side. The
rest of the train (two passenger carriages, two goods vans,
so w
legsi n g
and a break) fell down the other embankment with a
fearful crash. The passengers escaped unhurt, hut the
guard (Charles Tuckwood) was killed on the spot, aid
goat the
frightful d i e
dtoorntuthree,fohlil
having been almost roasted off by the engine fire, the
engine haying fallen upon him.
(Samuel
The coroner's inquest was opened on Friday, and was
of more than ordinary interest, inasmuch as the cause
dt haey,e eagf
tienre-odurffi veer
iru
of the accident was altogether unaccounted for. It was
reported that the line was out of gunge, but the evi-
dence given below sets that question at rest. The most
important witness was William Leah, the stoker, who
said that all went on right till he observed some sparks
from the hindermost wheel on the right-hand side of
the engine. The next moment the train was off the
line. The road, he said, was very bad to travel over
between Sheffield and Retford, so bad that it made the
engine shake about terribly. The other evidence taken
on Friday did not bear upon the cause of the accident.
On Saturday the accident was resumed.
Thomas Spriggs, a man who assisted after the acci-
dent, proved that the deceased engine driver told him
he was quite unable to account for the accident.
Alfred Wheeler and Mark Briggs, two miners who
live on the margin of the line, concurred in stating that
the train in question travelled on the night of the acci-
dent much faster than they had ever seen it.
The next point of the inquiry was as to the state of
the line and the engine before the accident.
Edward Kemp, a Great Northern guard, accustomed
to travel on this portion of the line, said he did not
consider the line between Sheffield and Retford (a por-
tion of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
line) in good order : at all events not so good as the
Great Northern line. The trains were accustomed to
shake. A few hours before the accident, when accom-
panying the up-express train, his van shook, and on
looking out of tbe window he saw that the inner rail
was crooked. On being asked by the coroner why he
did not report the circumstance, he said it did not strike
him as sufficiently important.
Mr. G. Tuckwood, brother of the deceased, repeated
the statement which he made on Friday, to the effect
that ho had heard Kemp ascribe the accident to the line
being out of gauge.
Richard Hesketh, an engine-driver, in the employ
of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway,
stated that he drove over the line two hours before the
accident, and did not notice anything amiss with the
rails or anything else.
John Lyne, a plate-layer, said he examined that part
of the line in question twice on Wednesday (the day of
the accident), as usual, and found it in good running
order.

Mr. C. Banick, superintendent of the permanent way,
saw on Tuesday that at that particular place the line was
all right. After the accident he found that eighty yardk
of the up-rails had been torn up, and thirty yards of the
down line.

Mr. Richard Peacock, locomotive superintendent on
the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway,
after stating that he made en inspection in order to find
Out the cause of the accident, said—There is nothing in
the evidence I have heard and the examination I have
made, to induce me to suppose that the accident was
caused by any improper condition of the line. If the
rails had been bent, a.; stated by Kemp, it would not have
caused the engine to run off the line; but I have no
reason to suppose that the engine did run eff from any
defect in the rcad. From the appearance of the engine.
wheel,, I think the hind pair of wheels got off the line
first, but I don't know the cause. I think the txlo of the
trading-wheels of the engine (the hindermost wheels) was
strained slightly, and that that caused the accident. The
sparks spoken of by Leah might have been caused by
the springing of the frame of the engine in passing
round the curve, and thus bringing the wheels in con-
tact with a bolt head, which he perceived projecting
from the side of the tack of the engine. It is not dan-
gerous to travel along that curve at thirty cr forty miles
an hour.

Mr. Sturrock, locomotive engine:r of the Great Nor-
thern, ssid—l cannot satisfy myself as to the causo of
the accident; but I very much agree with Mr. Peacock,
as far as I cut' form an opinion.
After some unimportant evidence,
The CORONER summed up, and the jury consulted
with closed doors about twenty minutes.

The Foreman then delivered the following verdict:—
" We are unanimously of opinion that the deceased, Sa-
muel Wright and Charles Tackwood, have come by
their deaths in consequence of No. 12 Great Northern
train, with engine No. 29, running off the rails near
Woodhouse Junction, on the night of the Bth inst.; but
as to what caused the train to run off the rails no satis-
factory evidence has been given to the jury."
The inquest ended about eight o'clock P.M.