The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-26 00:00:00

No. IT.

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Bvo., in cloth, price 3s. 6d., by post free, 4s.
THE CURE OF STRICTURE OF THE' URETHRA, On Princi-
ples at' once Simple, Safe, and Efficient, in even its most Inveterate
and apparently Intractable Forms. To which is added, PRACTICAL
?if.r:,BE.RVATIONS .ON THE TREATMENT. OF , SVERMATORR-
teII,:
ecsom
'f-.A.,8Y CAUTERIZATION,; its Inefficiency and Danger.
- . BY_F. B. COURTENAY,
„ Thee
of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
how to e who e.omptain most loudly are those only who know not
'about htsth,, ,been in ari.ed with -all kinds bf ViOlencei an'
common instruments . . . . • The practice of, snr.
":b s-e
r v uatsi ee;
all the os"niaPle cure of diseases, and a passion for opexa.tions and
Indifference
' Such are
twee "r' S9lne
given the ~--,*._•"--" In pro)f of his view he (Mr. Courtenay), has
arid horrors of surgery."—John 13ell's Surgical'
as anY vriiie79eY .0f e great many-caiesqtruccesSffilly' treated, as bad:
peen adduced, and on wht
choperated.,
dof two," ~." at, xii., and xvili. No. ix. had resisted, for a
ntllmgd twx,'„,nseu's,thetreattaent by dilitation and was finally
in duratiOri- s"4llY.:,weekg But ' both
gravated ch"aervaecritet'ittPlicTalaBl67l4llll. apr'n,to4 rodijxjx.r.qilaPEorrtiii-414M'
treatment adopted by 2 ,tteboilott by idr'..:**-ithev-iii. 'yet the
77,Prige0Scr Lizars pa the Ceurtenai proved eminently successful."
Trott
Uncut of Stricture.

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,O ° D Is' Q. 0 D R." -'1 S.
TUESDAY' EXPRESS TRAIL •^''t,:
- An :EXTRA EXtRESS,:rRAIIi will leave the Lcndon-bridge
Terminus for Drayton and OhicheSter, on TUESDAY MORNING
at Nine o'clock. 0 , ,

111EDERICK SLIGHT, Secretary.
Londom•bridge Terminus, Tuly 24, 1832.

:OY2t.L ACA-DEMY OF Alt TS,
'a) TRAFALGAR-SQUARE.
7OTICE.
The EX,HIBITION boing- ITLOSED., Exhibitors are requested to
send for their several Performances on Thursday or Friday next,
without fail.

JOHN I'ItSOOTT KNIGHT, R.A., Sec.

THE BURNLEY RAILWAYACCIDENT.
The labours of the coroner's j ury,in this ease concluded
near midnight on Sattirday, having extended over three
days, under the' guidance of Mr. J...llargreaves, of
Blackburn, The result. was unexpected-L-a verdict of
" Accidental death," instead of .that generally looked
for, a manslaughter -against Parker, the pointsman,
who had exposed himself to, the charge by the manner
in which he delegated a' dutY Which devolved upon him'
to unauthorised persona. The facts, stripped of verbiage,
were developed in the course of the investigation as
follows: -
John Parker, the politsman,- a man—Who had been in
the employment of the company fora long time, and was
well acquainted with the duties to 'be performed by him
in that capacity, had arranged that the two excursion
trains which had gone eekto York and Goole that day,
ahould onstheir retura., riff' rrawu u ccintliabation .of
of thtemain line to the East Las7seshire.line, instead of
-running up to. the lassie' arrival and depa.riara-plarloym,
,which would have been incenvenierat, fre:si the limiaid
space -there at commaacl. . In order to pass the train
down the East Lancashire line, however, it. was
necessary that a pair of points, known as the East
Laticashire.points, situate about 100 yards from the sta-
tion, sheuld be kept open, or the train would, of neces-
sity, run up to the arrival platform, where it was not
intended to.: have it. 'Parker had himself made these
arrangements with respect to where the train was to go,
and was quite cognizant of what was'requiSite in -order
to carry them out. As pointsman, it Was his specific
duty to be at the most important points,:thosefor turn-
ing the train upon the EastLaneashire line, but, instead
of being there, without telling any one, he delegated the
.duty to a man named Crabtree, who, without_ being paid
by the company, or receiving any authority from any
of-their Superior officers, had been appointed as a points-
man for Sunday daty in the absence of Parker or the
guard., There was nothing to show that-he was not
competent to manage the points, and possibly if he had
remained where he-was told to stand he would have let
the train in properly; bat be,
without any authority,
told a man, named Bridge (a blacksmith, with such a
Penchant for rail .vay jobs that he was accustomed, after
Ire-had finished his smithy labours, to stroll to the sta-
tion _to take a turn there at the points when luggage
trains were to be let in, or to,assist the goods porters),
to do the work while he went up to see the train come
in.. Bridges statement,. partly corroborated by other
evidence, is that the engine which brought in the
train required to be. shunted by the use of another
pair of points (about five-yards from theobEpleeans t:aLcilod ran
ailiatcrao-i
shire points) into the engine-shed siding, and that just
after he bad so shunted and before he could get back
to, the East Lancashire points, the carriages came down,
pinats:etdbe stheidpinog.
intsTwhheiegbuseihodu4ld.ahsaqvueitbeeeuL
it, and the fatal accident_took place.
„Had he been at
the East Lancashire points, the train would have been
sent in the proper direction; but he declares he had not
time to get back before the train was upon them. The
train consisted of thirty-five carriages, and was laden
onlytwwiot
were
Ort7
gCto
unpa, erridssio
tnthos .e
workgTu There er
them,
he
ie
nwmeLeae
rfingvdee
abrrkegake di consequentlyut it,hptioTtnhee Ochnabaluryd..t
calculated upon going (loam 'the longer distance, and
with hi's two breaks he could have brought his train up.
The engine had been takeetriowoererffejaksriodl.letthdheatwspatehseead.rtehvie-r: eemiaos:
wtriiioatligheoculut applied
s inside, and it was argued by
the solicitors who watched the case as against the rail-
way company that that was a weak method of construe-
Lion. The buffers, too, of the carriages appeared
to have been of unequal heights, and it was urged
that this had tended to rear the carriages up, and so
lead to the accident. There was not a single extra
man at the station to receive this large train, and
hose regularly there, when called on to give evidence,
bandied the responsibility from one to the other in such
a manner that it was impossible to discover on whom
the responsibility rested. They all declared that Parker
ought to have been at the points, but he replied that hi&
tusy was. e-see-aas eaves; o!elixt!c.suaight, and that really;
he need not, have been at the spot at all. On the part of.
the company it was replied that the carriages were all
carefully examined arid declared sound by a competent
person before they were sent on the journey, and that
the framework of the ono broken was uninjured in that
part :Which would have to bear the shock of the col-
hsion; that the two breaks would have been Sufficient to
take the, train safely down, supposing the points had been
attended to,".and that in the presence of Captain Wynne,
the Government inspector, a train of 98} tons bad bean
brought to a standstill three times on the incline by the
action of one break, less powerful than that oa the
train, which weighed 175 tons, and had two breaks.
the irregularity of employing such men as'Bridge and
Crabtree was admitted; but Captain Binstead, the super-
aiteedent, said he had nut the slightest conception of
.uch a system being carried on.

The jury were an hour and a half in considering their
verdict, which they delivered as follows:
" We find that the four deceased lost their lives at the
Burnley station of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Rail-
way accidentally, in consequence of the return of the
Goole excursion train running into the siding iost,ad of
theanain line connected with the East Lancashire Rail-
way, and
ti norcott contact ctbtrividigteh 'appearstheat t
thboeu buffers fired fiijgn:2
zie‘ll::ifia.r
upwards
the
se
masonry abut
said siding, thereby causing violent concussion to those
carriages at the head, of the train, and the total demon,.
tion of the body of the carriage in which the deceased
were, found. The cause of the train being thus ma
in the siding the jury attribute to the points on the
wood bridge being closed when the train paned,
which should have been opened to shunt the train
on to the main line.
the ievidence produced, ' that there were 014 two
guards; each Working a break, for this train comic,.
onafgonoe? passengers, which they consider. quite'
.thousand
carriages, and containing
inadequute to check the impetus of such a train de-
scending an incline, and that, had more guards accom.,
pitied the train to work' the breaks, or had the
ea.(
gines not been detached tram the train, and their action
reversed in 'deacending the incline, the jury are deci-
dedly of opinion this accident would have been, if not
entirely prevented, very much less fatal in its conse-
quences.: The jury are unanimously agreed that the
sole cause of this accident was owing to the deficiency of
gdards and peintsmen to let the train safely down the
incline into the station, and by the employment of in_
competent and irresponsible men, to the want of order
and discipline, amongst the company a servants gene_
greatestor aff
fi l tleeatrain;nodfnegligence
tthei
i3ataodtuawthl I absence
tewy ac
to direct and superintend the safe arrival and unloading
the opinion of the '
pa tatratoi
caueldartloy the
on sgeeleeojeuutinroYtn
y fsoe
me
dl i s
plbounddisplayed
tthboigys r slat©
eotaollotaobs
.ii
soottnnx.h.esetottolott: the''
thaptatnhyoroonis
difference in of f ctahreriitrigiense
inequality
itihtyi s
itor a
sizem ,
the height above the rails to the centre of
, cosiven in evidc nee. tnaourde
the buffers- s • ' •
. , to ,
jury wish to record that, tae h tt theosparrttinnaniety
of
forming any opinion of their Zondaition"or constru t. C'
as thavhole were removed before they vrere easiled di tohan,
to visit the station. In conclusion • the jury bop ulacin
sub-
mit to the directors of, this railway that in their opiri 3n
the siding into which the ordinary arrival trains run'l;-
fraught With danger, inconsequence of-being situated 's
the bottom ran incline, and terminatin&
strong dead 1304." gquast a

e,
01111"BIJILDING IN LIVERPO Notwithatandinc„
our Many local advantages and the rapid rise of trade ji
cotrimerce, it is remarkable there are only about half-a-cl: -
shipbuilding-yards in this great port. From some tink„.n,
cause, whether the want of accommodation or the wen. known
high price of labour, the ports south and'north of us h,;;L:i'ven
us tar behind in the number and class of clipper vessels,' But,
it into be hoped this will not long continue. A reaction a "C
pearg to haVe Sprung up amongst she shipbuilding class
_l,':
ready, and the present may be considered an era in
thea
history of shipbuilding in Liverpool. In a yard on the west
aide of the. Brunswick dbck the keel of a vessel of 1P
war
of 2,000 tons ha. been Lid. When completed'she
be thea'
largest merchant Man ever built in England. The great fea_
tures in the construction of this vessel are that she will be
built of soft, 'wood—pitch pine, with -Amerizin oAk floor i.
The great injury which the shipwrights of this town, 1143,1.:
suffered through the it-flux of North American-built -iessei:,
which are sold here for about' one-half of the cost of a B . u
tish-built craft, will now probably receive a check: The
object of the, builders is to compete with our Transatlantic,
brethren, and, accordingly, air American process of c0n...,
structien is to be adopted throughout.' A noveltyalfnortthreligahrte
of shipbuilding in this country may now be wit ,esed. The:
e2.),10 feet "
usual practice here is to join rib by rib to the keel of the:
awbiyict
vessel until her hull is completed, and then ensues the pro.:-
cess of planking. In the construction of this vessel the ribs
are joined together on the stage, and hoisted' e'ninase to their''
frtlir4tiehne.r
ieT. his renders the work much more expeditious,anC
____S exbectcd that the vessel, which was laid only
Igo, wilt be ready for sea in rebrnary next.. S,lie. will bee
She is intended foT, the Australian trade, aft'
rade, and (:
long on the keel, and her lines tole and
iler to-st 1"g floor is expected to carry an immense cargo,`
char zed is expected to be a-little above half of that. usually
twa more 3.41(11 °ak'-.bailt vessel.- Within the-lagt fey weekt
Own
~ a proo, 3
.have been added -to the number in this-
0/ At , tof the inchased demand for shipping,. Liver;
po 9-,ur".
u
DHSSItTEnB r' I
ROM, FOREIGN 'Snips —ln an Act
passed in thalate Parliament, ‘ . t
:Into 40tOtilintaAgeme„ to enable ,her &rajas y.to, carry
apprehension of seaiMATlal.e.6lth foLeigq;,PosumfOr the.'
a provision to the effect
that
deserri7om thedihips, there is'
boars any deSelter is liableat an-
..T, person who proteot4 or har-
4, a Penalty of 101.