The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-06 00:00:00

THE GREAT YORKSHIRE AGRICUL-

TURAL SHOW AT SHEFFIELD.
The fourteenth annual show of the Groat Yorkshire
Agricultural Society commenced its msnifold proceed-
ings at Seeffie!cl on Monday. A high degree of interest
has been excited by this event amongst its vast urban
population. It has engrossed public attention, in fact,
all the week, to the exclusion of almost every other topic
The elections and things political have been overlooked
as matters of no immediate moment. We trust we are
correct in assuming that this intermixture of the egri-
cultural and manufacturing population of this " epitome
of England," as the vast county of York is not inaptly
styled, will prove a mutual benefit, and as such, an ad-
vaetsge to the nation at large. The instructive advan-
tages of the great periodical agricultural gatherings to
husbandry itself have been over and over again demons
strated for some years. As to the Yorkshire Society,
from its commencement down to its present moment it
has steadily increased in strength and importance, and in
naafuluess. It has proved itself an indispensable adjunct
to the successful pursuit of the agriculture of the county,
and in that manner its roots have bean continually
spreading, and striking deeper.
The eyes of a large section of the great body of British
farmers have been opened of late to the absolute neces-
sity of stretching their sails to catch every passing
breeze of improvement, and the numbers of the en-
lightened and enterprising are daily on the .increase at
an ever-augmenting ratio. Toe demand for implements
and machines of the best kind thus created has awak-
ened already a large au:welt of enterprise, and infused
much now blood into the body of agricultural meehani
cians; and we infer, from ail that we observe around us,
that to that class of the msnufacturinm conimunisy a pro-
fitable mine remains yet to be worked.l The seeds of a
still further improvement have been sown, we trust, by
the holding of this exhibition et Shefflo.d. We do not
despair of seeing Sheffield, at no distant period, an im-
portant seat of manufactures in the department of agri-
cultural implements.
The centre of the society's operations is a grass field,
situated about a mile from the centre of the town, known
as the Royd'e Cricket-ground. All things considered, a
better site could not have been chosen. The field is as
level as a bowling-green, and under no disadvantage in
respect of draining. Its situation has been found very
convenient. The internal arrangements of the show-
greund were admirable, and such as manifested great ex-
perience of multifarious requiremenze. '
The entries exceed those both of the Thirak and Brid-
lington meetings, the excess oyez the latter being of
nearly 100 entries. Among the noble exhibitors, who
are more numerous than usual, are the Duke of Devon-
shire, Earl Fiszwilliam, Lord Faversham, and Lord
Wenlock. There are about 60 exhibitors of implements,
and 400 entries in this department. There is a large
entry of stock, the number being pretty nearly 600.
JUDGES.
INPLEMENTS.--Mr. Peter Love, Naseby, Northamp-
tonshire; Mr. William Hislop, %Volley, Wakefield; Mr.
Peter Stevenson, Itainton, Thirsk; Mr. Thos. Oath-
waite, Basinesse, Catterick; Mr. C. E. Amos, South-
wark, London.
Carrna.—Tarr. John Moore, Badsworth; Mr. Thomas
Tindall, Wheatley, near Rotherham; Mr. J. F. Butter,
Thorngumbald, Iledon.
FOR BEST COW FOR DAIRY PCTRPOSES.--.Mr. T.
Turner, Eastwood, Rotherham.
SHEEP AND Pres.—Mr. W. E. Hobson, Kettleby,
Thorpe Brigs; l`dr. John Brown, Wranbrooke, Wake-
field; and Mr. Charles Hudson, Blyth, Bawtry.
HORSES.—Mr. George Gurnell, Sturton, Brigg; Mr.
Thomas So iverby, Newton Morrell, Darlington; and Mr.
Charles Garfit, Tapley Hall, Knutsford.
POULTRY.—Mr. T. 11. Travis, York; and Mr. Edward
Bond, Leeds.
The field committee consisted of Messrs. M. J. Elli-
son, William Fowler, and Vincent Corbett. -
The trial of reaping machines and other implements
took place on Tuesday in the presence of a large number
of spectators, and excited much interest; and the award
of prizes, so far es completed, was to be read last night
at the Council dinner.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Aug. 5.
(Before Mr. Commissioner LAW.)
IN RE HENRY COLEMAN.
The insolvent, who described himself as a dramatic
author and lodging-housekeeper, was opposed by Mr.
Dowso and Mr. Malree for various creditors. Mr. Cooke
supported.
The insolvent was a bankrupt in 1838, and again in
1848, soon after which latter period he went to Boulogne-
sur-Mer, and commenced business in partnership with a
Mr. Harris, as ale and wine merchants, money changers,
and bankers. This business went on until August, 1851,
when he left Boulogne on account of not being able to
meet a draft for 3701. which he had given to a creditor.
During his absence, proceedings according to the French
bankrupt law were taken by the creditors, and while
Mr. Harris received his immediate certificate, the insol-
vent, not having surrendered, was condemned par contu-
mace to ten years' labour at the galleys. The insolvent
said he believed now that if he had surrendered he would
have cbtained his certificate, but had been induced to
quit France by the knowledge he possessed of the se-
verity of the French laws relating to bankrupts.
A long inquiry was gone into respecting the disposi-
tion of some furniture in the insolvent's house, which
was promised to be given up to the creditors.
In the course of the examination, the insolvent was
asked his means of livelihood since his return to this
country, to which he replied that he bad written dra-
matic pieces, including. two melodramas for the Maryle-
bone Theatre—Leila the Betrothed, and Poll of Padding-
ton—for each of which he received the sum of 51., the
mention of which sum produced a roar of laughter
throughout the court.
Mr. Commissioner LAW thought that some of the
creditors who had dealt with the insolvent as a banker
might have reason to complain of him, but as they did
not appear to oppose, the court could not do so for them.
As to those creditors who had opposed, their opposition
was of a general character, and not of a nature to induce
him to delay the insolvent's discharge.
A discharge, conditional upon the delivery of the fur-
niture to the auctioneer of the court, was then pronounced.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Abraham Monheen, a Hindoo laaggar, ho has been a
great number of times in custody, convicted and punished
by various lengthened terms of imprisonment, for as-
' saults upon woolen, was placed at the bar for final exa-
mination for an outrage of a similar nature upon an
unnaarriad lady residing at Sutton-place, Upper Hackney.
The case excited the greatest interest in consequence
of the publication of the evidence given nt the first
examination, end the court was inconveniently crowded
throughout the hearirg.
On the prisoner !doing remanded from this court at
the first hee.riraa after making a desperate attempt to
split open the 'head of the gaoler with a pewter pot
in the cells of the court, he was conveyed to the
House of Detention, where he was placed in a cell
alone, and immediately huddled himself up in a cor-
ner, with an obstinate determination neither to take
food nor to speak to any one, though he can
talk English with tolerable fluency. In this
morose temper and position he remained until
the following morning, when one of the turnkeys
went in to look after him, and the prisoner instantly
hurled a heavy missile at his head, and the next day
so violently assaulted another of them that they
found it necessary to lock him up in one of what are
called the " silent calls." Thit, however, appeared
to have produced no beneficial effect upon him, and,
though confined in that manner until it was requisite to
bring him up to this court, the instant the officers of the
prison attempted to remove him to the prison van, under
the inspection of the governor of the prison, as soon as
he caught sight of the latter he made a desperate at-
tempt to inflict vengeance upon him, and it was only
with the greatest difficulty, and by main force, that he
was lodged in the van. Upon being brought to this
court he displayed such a vindictive disposition that it
was necessary to have four officers to lodge him in the
dock, where he instantly crouched down upon the floor
with his knees up to his chin; and, Seaman, a constable
of the H division, who frequently acts as a very useful
interpreter in such cases, was sent for to translate the
evidence of the witnesses to him. This, however, was
found to be perfectly unnecessary, as the prisoner
at
once told him that he thoroughly understood all that had
been detailed against him, and launched out such a num-
ber of disgusting appellations towards the magistrate
that the interpreting constable was obliged to request
that all women might be ordered to leave the court
before he could repeat them.
Sergeant Mote, of the N division, and Eovis
a, s
h 39avin7 N,
were then both sworn to identify the prisoner g
been tried, convicted, and sentenced to lengthened terms
of imprisonment for similar outrages upon respectable
women, and upon Mr. ilammill ticking f
Mr. Vine, th
re
chief clerk, and Alderman, the gaoler, i thoy alto
cognised the prisoner as having been before guilty of
such ontriges, they both at once did so, and the latter
stated that the prisoner had been placed at the bar of
this court and punished repeatedly, not only for out.
rages of that kind, but for begging, accompanied by
terrifying threats, and also most outrageous attacks
upon the
The evidence given by the proaccutrix and her Fister,
two ladylike young women, who were accompanied by
numerous highly respectable friends, and upon
whore
the a complimeniaty eulogium forca
the magistrate
de)o a case on
their fortitude in appearing to prosecute such
behalf of the public, was than reduced
to
~,the same
71r, ffurlston,-•, the second clerk, in much sttions by
terms as those before detailed, but with at
cueastances of aggravation, end the tudonal air_
dog-
gedly refused to offer a siegle ward „sune having
bi9eattduat, was ordered to ba ft
crittuncix;:touluttotrr_,,r.

Lilco lf.cktd up in
and on tho y"11 reaching the court tha gaoler attemptod

to remove him into it, but the instant he reached the
steps of the vehicle, to which he was carried like a
bundle of rags, as ho rcfused to either walk cr stand up,
he dealt such a furious kick with both Ive feet at the
face of the g toter as must hive tetled him to the ground
but for the van sergeant being able just in time to save
the officer by the interposition of the van door, against
which one of the prizoner's feet was canent, while the
other dealt the gaoler a very heavy blow upon the
shoulder; and upon Vaughan, the constable inside the
van, attempting to get him into one of the van divisions,
the prisoner, before he could do so, again flung himself
upon his back and dealt the constable such a violent
kick in the face that the inside of one of his lips was cut
completely through.

ANOTHER FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE
LONDON AND NORTH- WESTERN RAILWAY.
We regret to announce the occurrence of another ac-
cident on the nk,rthern division of the London and
North-Westorn Railway, by which the lite of an engine-
driver has been sacrificed, and that of a stoker placed in
jeopardy.

Tee circumstaeces attending the accident may be thus
briefly told—" The 9.30 A X. up-express train from Li-
verpool left that place at its taual hour yesterday morn-
ing. The train consisted of about teelve carriages and
two break vans, and there was an unusually full eemple-
ment of passengers. The Crewe Junction wes reached
at 10.45 and at this station as additional engine
was attached to aesh,t the train up the Madeley-bank,
a rather steep incline, about six miles south of Crewe,
and three miles north of Whitmore. It is usual when
an extra locomotive is attached to ordinary trains for
the purpose of assisting thorn up thia bank, for the driver
to detach his engine as soon as the line becomes level,
run on to Whitmore, and there cross on to the down
line. When assivatice is given to an express train, the
extra engine generally runs through to Staff )rd; but
yesterday it appears the driver had instructions to
cross the line at Whitmore. As soon as the driver of
the extra engine had detached himself he put on extra
Enema and in a very few moments shot some distance
ahead of the train. As the latter approached the Whit-
more station, the driver and guards observed that a red
flag, the signal of danger, was hoisted from the pilot
engine, which still remained on the up-rails. The
steam was instantly shut off, and the express
was brought almost to a stand-still before reaching
Whitmore. In the meantime the driver of the pilot
engine dropped the red flag, and, sounding the
" all right" signal, ran on towards Stafford,
still upon the up-line of rails. As soon as the pilot
had obtained a start, the driver of the express again
laid on his steam; and proceeded at the usual speed. He
had run only three miles beyond Whitmore, when on
coming round a sharp curve on the line, about a mile
north of Standon-bridge Station, the pilot engine was
observed in the act of crossing on to the down line at
Standon coal-yard. When first seen the two engines
were scarcely two hundred yards apart, and as the pilot
was partly on the up rails (it is alleged to have been
stationary at the time), the avoidance of a collision was
of course quite impossible. The driver of the express
sounded his a histle and shut off the steam, but before he
could do more than this the poor fellow was a corpse.
The collision turned the engine of the express train com-
pletely round, and both that and the pilot engine were
almost totally destroyed. The guard's van, following the
engine, was Pis° turned completely round, and thrown into
a hedge, Parker, a very oid servant of the company, escap-
ing by a miracle with a few severe bruises. The stoker
was dreadfully injured—his arm, leg, and thigh were
broken, and his shoulder dislocated. Eight of the car-
riages in the train were thrown off the rails, and the
passengers were many of them eoverely shaken and hurt;
but it is a most remarkable and satisfactory fact that,
with a few exceptions, the persons in the train do not
appear to have suffered so severely as might have been
anticipated. Oee gentlemaa had his ancle dislocated;
another sustained a severe laceration of the face; two
or three others were cut and bruised about the head, and
two ladies sustained a slight coneuision of the brain. It
has been stated that the driver of the express was killed
on the spot. His body was :baud under one of the car-
riages, shortly after the accident. What became of the
driver and stoker of the pilot engine is not accurately
known; but neither of them wise hurt. What they can
have to say in explanation of their conduct remains to
be seen.

The 7.30 A.M. third-class train from Liverpool was
passed by the express at the Madeley station, and as it
follows very closely, fears were entertained of its run-
ning into the express after the accident occurred. Pres-
ton, the Manchester guard, who was in the break at the
rear of the train, and who suffered only a severe shock
from the collision, immediately ran back some distance
and stopped the progress of this train, which he took
back to Whitmore, 'tad brought from thence assistance
in the shape of carriages and labourers. A telegraphic
message was also sent from Whitmore to Stafford, re-
questing assistance from that station, which arrived
within a very short period.
The line was so much disturbed by the collision that
several hours elapsed before it could be got clear. Me-
dical assistance was on the spot very soon after the acci-
dent, and aid was rendered in all cases where necessary.
Some of the passengers preferred returning to Liverpool,
but the greater portion came on to London. It was nearly
five o'clock when the train left Stafford, and it did not
arrive at Easton-square until after nine o'clock.
There had been greatly exaggerated reports of the
accident prevalent during the afternoon in London, and
a large number of persons having friends in the trainassembled at Easton-square waiting its arrival with
great anxiety. When it drew up at the platform there
were many hearty greetings exchanged, and the congra-
tulations that the consequences of the accident had not
been more serious were loud and frequent on all sides.
Only one person in the train, a foreign lady, appeared
to have sustained any severe injury. Her head was
bound up, and she seemed to have suffered considerably.
Every attention required was assiduously rendered, both
to this lady and the other passengers, by the officials of
the company, Messrs. Bicknell, Coulter, and Watts, the
two latter attached to the superintendent's office.
Among the ladies in the train was the wile of case of
the officials of the company, Mrs. Watkin, who fortu-
nately escaped without injury.
Captain and Mr. Bruyeras are both gone down
the line, and the circumstances of the accident will no
doubt undergo a very searching investigation this day.

SEAIi ()ANL MAILS.
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