The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-12 00:00:00

ACCIDENT AND LOSS OF LIT' AT
BLACK FRIA ES-BRIDGE.
Last nigb(, ele,u. eine e'eeesk, the temust alarm and
exci•etzti at, were sewer seeeed by the persons passing
over Black:rnirs-braege, oil vviinessing at, accident of the
most serious description, by which it is feared that the
lives of several peraons are sacrificed.
It appeared from the best information that cohid be
obtained that at the tizna above slimed a shallop was
seen coaling up the river on the Middlesex side near to
Biackfriara-bridge, containing six men and three women,
' but iii cousequance of the Watertasn steamer No. 11,
lying alongside, and landing her passengers at the pier
at the time, they pulled the b ,at farther into the stream,
and passed through the first arch of the bridge, but had
scarcely got through, when they found themselves close
upon the Dahlia penny steam-boar, that was on its way
I with a load of passengers to London bridge, and not
stepping at Blackfriars bridge pier, was going at a
rapid speed. The consequaece was, that the boat came
in Collision with the steamer, which immediately
swamped her, and the whole of the persons were precipi-
tate) into the river. A scene of the most exciting
end painful ensure immediately ensued. Cries for help
arose not ozdy from the unforitinate persons, hut from at
least a hundred persoes on tee bridge, who witnessed
the melancholy cecurrence, cod in an instant two of ;he
men engaged at the pier nuzzled John Ball and Willism
Neary, tamped into a boat and rowed to the spot, and
succeeded in rescuing Thomas Gwyene, a man 65 years
of age, and James Gwynne, his bOl3,
who were just on
the poiet of finally sinking, and conveyed them to the
Glaziers Arms in Water-street, where they were put to
bed, and Mr. Hutchinson, the surgeon, promptly attended
them. upon The other persons who were hi the tv'at
consisted of George Williams. Francis Williams, Alfred
est i wear: (iar, e bco hers), Mary Williams (wile of George
Williams), James Smith (who had charge of the boat),
and two tamales. whose names could not be ascertained,
but were personal friends of the Wilizatrisea.
The persons on board the Dahlia rendered every
as.istance in their power, and from iequsries made fete
last night it was stated that they had succeeded in saving
Jerre s Smith, and a female, whom it was believed to be
Mary Williams. It was therefore feared, that the rest
of the party, consisting of the three %.filiarnses and the•
two other females, h.d perished; but in cons( (pence of
the great excitement that prevailed it was with difficulty
that any information oould by obtained It is to he hyped
that sours of the persons may have escaped, but the
worst fiats are entertained Mrs
Williams, on her 'inl-
atil at the Seen Tavern, Leiden Bridge (to which. place
she had been taken on board the Dahlia), made frequent
and anxious iequiries as to her husband, and hopes were
kept up to her that he was saved; but it was all along
feared that ho had met with a watery grave, as nothing
whatever was seen of any of the met, by this piermen but
the two above alluded to, who were saved. When they
were taken out of the water the poor fellows were
clinging to the rudder of the steam-boat, and nothing
whatever was seen of their companions.
Mr. George Williams, altheugh much injured, was
rescued. The paddlebox caught the left side of the
face, lacerated the flesh, the wheels of the steamer then
seiz-d upon his shirt, lifted him twice or three times out
of ;he water, and in all probability would have drawn
him into the flats of the wheel, but he, having the pre-
sence of mind to tear his shirt away. and in so doing his
chest was terribly cut, and at the time this account was
write n he was obliged to be conveyed to the surgery of
Mr. Hutchinson.

It was steited by the youpger Gwynne that before past•
ing through the are cf the bridge 'hey called to the
persons on board the steamer, areing themselves in
great denger, but that they were diaregncled, and the
cotninuid on her way, while, on the other hand, it is
said that eve ry thirg was clone by them to avert the
calamity.
The boar was caikd the Moor, and belonged to Mr.
Chathy, of Ilungertotd. It was hired in the morning by
thp..tarity to go to Greenwich, and was on us return
ewohneenct._thdetn.amorsielat choly accident occurred.
For hours after the occurrence the bridge was ren-
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ATIiER.
me tiFAlu'Amlnerflef :lu7: d,--aths directl OF THWf
attributable to
the extreme heat of the weather increase mai every day.
At eleven o'clock en SAturday night Mr. G. S. Brent.
held an inqoest the Wellington, University street, S
Pancras, on Mr. Oscar Wt bb, ageqi 39, cheesensionger,
109, Tottenham court-road. On Friday afternoon de-
eea-ed, ~hle standing in the shop, was visited by a
trietid, aho said to him, 1. It's a very hot day," to wt ich
tic ceased replied, " very," and in, tently dropped dead.
Mr. Derbyshire made a post mortrn examination, and
tound in the right ventricle ot the heart a rent produced
by the heat of the weather, and which caused an effusion
into the pericardium, and that produced death. The
heart had been previously diseased. The Coroner said
that he held the inquest at so late an hour in consequence
of the putrified state of the body, and the intense heat
of the weather, which rendered it so dangerous to keep
a body in that state in the howe, that Mr. Carter, the
landlord of the Wellington, had kindly allowed it to be
removed to his premises. The jury unhesitatingly re-
turned a verdict in accordance with the medical evi-
dence.

Communications have reached London from several
districts announcing numerous fatal catastrophes from
the same cause.

A Paris contemporary of Friday says:—The great
heat of the last few days has occasioned many cases of
mental alienation; on Wednesday not fewer than seven
persons giving evident signs of insanity were found in
the streets. I❑ the evening of that day a tradesman
residing in the Rue Pageviu plunged into the Seine at
Choisy-le-R )i, but was rescued before ho could commit
suicide. He could as,ign no reason for the act; and on
being taken before a medical man WAS declared to be
mad. On the same evening a female, aged 74, who
formerly kept a wine-shcp at Mantes, threw herself
into the river at Choisy-le-Rai, but was saved by
tyro persons who were passing. She also said that she
could not explain why she attempted self-destruction.
All these persons have, by order of the Prefect of Polioe,
been admitted to asylums. The heat of yesterday was
not tempered by the pleasant breeze which prevailed
daring the two preceding days. The thermometer of
M. Chevalier marked, at two o'clock, 30 deg. B.loths of
centigrade, or 87i of Fahrenheit. Several horses have
fallen dead in the streets in the course of the last few
days by the excessive heat. Yesterday one fell dead
under an omnibus belonging to a school just as it came
to the descent from the Pont des St. Peres. Madame
Gonzales, widow of to army surgeon, and mother of M.
Emmanuel Gonzales, an author of some note, died at
Paris on Thursday, of apoplexy caused by the extreme
heat. As M. .Laureau, the manager of an eating house
in the Rue Fontaine-Moh6re, was the evening before
lest standing at his counter conversing cheerfully with
some friends, he suddenly fell lifeless to the ground.
He was immediately bled, but without avail. He was
only 38 years of age, and was a man of very robust
constitution.

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From the report of the Eastern Steam Navigation
Company issued on Saturday, preparatory to the meeting on
Monday, it appears that an entirely new plan
before the shareholders in place of that which
formed in accordance with the views of the Parliamentary
Committee and subsequently rejected by the
wasori Hy
gina
Government.
is to
.b! laid
in
Instead of seeking by the aid of a subsidy, sad
conjunc-
tion with the steamers of the Austrian Lloyd'sow
establish a second line through Europe,
construct steamers of sufficient size ands powerme
voyage to Calcutta, via the Cape, in
overland route. At present, unders theortest
cir-
cumstances, thirty-five days is the h
in which the journey can be accomplished,
distance were performed bysea
seventeen knots an hour without n Company, to
proposed to
ti than by the
less
most favourable
estimated period
ist is
s to make the
but if the entire
at the rate of from fifteen to
stoppages, from twenty-
eight be all that would be required.
to be submitted to the meet-
eight to thirty-two days %rotor°,
should forthwith be built,
for the entire voyage, together with
capable of carrying coal
at l'ln'hgeisre, recommendation,
veneedsaetisioonf, therefore.
speed
present paid to sailing vessels,
a heavy freight at the rates
passengers at about half the fare
and a large number
ships making one voyage out and
overlandnese route, but with a greater amount of
months would, it is contended, wield an
home every two%
the capital required, and there can be no
accommodation- charged
ample revenue
os
« far as the public are concerned, the experi-
question that, e
b one of the utmost importance. Should it
meat wo:ttildwould not only demonstrate the advantages to be
succeed, ".., employing vessels of large capacity, but also
derived ~,,
fropossible for those connected with steam enterprise
that it is w from that timid dependence on the bounty s 3 s-
to witbtirg
h is no less injurious to themselves than to the
tern vr-- ic
E.--On Saturday lag the
collar,'
-'-Times
PORTLAND .
aCiEtyAAK.wrtAit.
Consort, the Prince of Wales, and the Prince Alfred,
Prince by the Hon. Colonel G attended
paid ordon, Mr. Gibbs, and Cap-
tain Crispin, R.N., an unexpected visit to the Portland
ureekwater, arriving shortly after noon in the Victoria and
-4`i' Den yacht. In the absence of Mr. Rendel, the engineer-
in-chief, they were received by Mr. Conde, the resident engi-
neer, and were conducted by him to the end of the break-
waterstage, where they examined with much interest the
t differente engineering operations involved in the carrying on
h works. The Prince expressed himself highly gratified
with the progtess made since the first stone was deposited by
his Royal highness in 1E49. The Royal party left for
Osborne about two o'clock amidst the hearty cheers of the
assembled workmen.
A gentleman holding a distinguished position in the
royal navy visited Portsmouth on Saturday, for the purpose
of making a survey of the port, and reporting on its capa-
bilities as a port of departure and arrival for the packets of a
new steam navigation company, being established for run-
ning a line of paddle-wheel steamers between England and
Australia.

•
MAD DOGS.—On Saturday a notice was issued by
the Commissioners of Police, Whitehall-place, calling upon
all owners of dogs which showed any rabid symptoms to
keep them within their houses, and which stated that should
any be found at large exhibiting appearances of suffering
from hydrophobia, they would be destroyed by the police,
who had authority to take that course.
SHOCKING SUICIDE WITH OXALIC ACID.—On Sa_
turday a young woman named Frances Skilton, aged 20,
committed suicide under the following circumstances. The
deceased resided at No. 16, Throwl-street, Spitalfields, and
at eight o'clock she was discovered lying in bed in a state of
excruciating agony. A surgeon was called, and it was soon
s
found that she had swallowed a large quantity of oxalic acid,
wThheicshtosmheachha-dpupmurp was
purchased at aa
chemistand every'slbe :u were resortedp in Brick-lane.
to to counteract the effects of the powerful acid, but the de-
ceased expired shortly afterwards. The cause of the rash
act is not known.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following
were admitted members of the college at
igi")ofallie Court of Examiners on the 9th inst*:—
gentlemen having undergone the necessary examinations
Augustine Batt, Witne
tfhohlreesstmhrsee.elederick Carter, Birmingham ; James Ford, Aus-
tralia;
Fletcher, Earl's Croome, Worcestershire- William Roecroft,
Wigan, Lancashire; Thomas Croudace, Sunderland, Alfred
3', Oxfordshire; John Wells
Adams Mantell Bilton Gloucestershire; Griffith Griffith,
Thirrewddn, Merionethshire • William Waters, Dublin
and John Cautley, Ueda, Yorkshire.