The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-10 00:00:00

Mr. Gladstone's Visit to Bolton and

Far nworth.

Great preparations are being made, both at Bolton
and Farnwortb, to give a cordial greeting to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, who will visit Bolton
tomorrow afternoon, and on the day following will
open the public park at Fare worth. The right hon.
gentleman will arrive at the Trinity.street Station,
Bolton, at 4.38, where he will be met by the Mayor
and Town Clerk, Mr Barnes, M.P., Colonel Gray,
M.P., and Mr Alfred Barnes, chairman of the Farn-
worth Local Board. These gentlemen will escort
Mr Gladstone to the Free Public Library, where he
will be met by MrCAnnon and other members of the
Library and Museum Committee. They will then
proceed to the Market Hall, and thence to the
Temperance Hall, where the Mayor will present to
Mr Gladstone the following address from the Cor-
poration :

To the Right Hon. William E wart Gladstone, M.P.

Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Sir,—We, the Mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the
borough of Bolton, in the county of Lancaster. desire to
express the deep gratification which your visit to this town
affords to all classes of its inhabitants, and the great regret
felt on their part that your stay amongst them is unavoid-
ably for so short a period. In common with many of
our fellow-countrymen of all shades of poltical opinion, we
admire you as a statesman possessing rare and distin-
guished abilities, and as a Minister occupying in the Go-
vernment of this country a high position, and adorning
that Government with such gifts of oratory and financial
ability, combined with great scholarship, as have rarely
been equalled ; and we are glad that the town of Bolton
has the honour of being publicly visited by so illustrious a
man. The opening of the park at Farnwortb, which is
the occasion affording us the privilege of your pre-
sence, has our warmest sympathy, and it gives
us much pleasure to add that, through the liberal provision
of that Government whose finances you so ably control, this
borough is undertaking the formation of a park for the free
use of its inhabitants ; and we doubt not that the present
and future generations of our town, whilst enjoying the
benefits thus conferred upon them, will regard with grati-
tude the Parliament which, at your instigation, has furnished
the mean: of such healthful recreation. In conclusion, we
njoice in giving you a hearty welcome upon this your first
public visit to Bolton, and venture to express the hope that
the time is not far distant when we shall be favoured with
a longer stay than that which you are now enabled to make
amongst us—Given under the common seal of the borough
of Bolton, at a meeting of the Council of the said borough,
held on the sth day of October, 1834.

After leaving the Temperance Hall, the party will
proceed down Bradshawgate (to afford Mr. Glad-
stone an opportunity of inspecting the Crompton
statue), and from thence to the residence of Mr.
Alfred Barnes, Green Bank, Farnworth. On Wed-
nesday morning a procession will form at half-past
nine o'clock, at the offices of the Local Board, in
Derby street, Farnworth, and will pass through
the principal streets to the park. The ceremony
will commence by the Sunday scholars singing the
100th Psalm, and after a pryer by the Bishop of
Manchester, and addresses by Sir J. P. Kay.
Shuttleworth and the Rev. G. D. Macgregor, Mr.
Barnes will present the park to the inhabitants
for their use for ever. Mr. Alfred Barnes, as
chairman of the Local Board, will accept the
same, and Mr Gladstone will declare it open. In
addition to the gentlemen before named, the
Earl of Ellesmere, the Hon. A. Egerton, M.P.,
Mr Massey, M.P., Mr Bazley, M.P., Col. Gray,
M,P., Mr J. Pilkington, M.P., and Mr Hibbert,
M.P. have promised to attend. At one o'clock a
luncheon will be served in a marquee. At three
o'clock Mr Goddard will ascend in his balloon, at
six o'clock there wiil be a display of fireworks,
and at half-past seven there will bo a miscella-
neous entertainment in the New Hall, by the
Congregational Young Men's Mutual Improvement
Society. Great preparations are making, both in
Bolton and Farnworth, for the decorations of the
streets, and the day will be observed in the neigh-
bourhood as a general holiday.

The Collision on the Great Northern
Railway.

On Saturday it was announced that a Midland train from
King's-cross had run into a Great Northern train a'
Welwyn junction on Friday evening. Further details have
now been received, and it would appear that at the time of
the collision a train of trucks from Lincolnshire, filled with
potatoes and other agricultural produce, was entering the
Welwyn station from the north, the engine being under the
charge of an old and experienced driver, named Jessop, and
at the time there were several fast trains, both of the Mid-
land and the Great Northern due, including the Midland
down express. Whether from some misunderstanding on
the part of the pointsman or the engine-driver of the up
train could not be ascertained, but the agricultural produce
train crossed the line, and, instead of going into a left-hand
siding, crossed the line to the siding on the right-hand side
of the station. At the time the agricultural train was cross-
ing the line to this aiding, the down express, whioh was
known to be due, appeared in sight, and before the driver of
the engine of the goeds train had time enough to remedy the
mistake, either by going forward or retreating, the express
train dashed in amongst the trucks, smashing them to pieces,
and scattering the potatoes and other produce in all directions
on the line and down the embankment. The express train
was fortunately a very light one, having only seven carriage,
attached to the engine and tender, and not a very large
number of passengers, the rajarity of whom were in the
afterpart of the train. The shock was tremendous ; but it
is perhaps attributable to the velocity of the express at the
moment that a serious loss of life did not take place. The
engine of th, agricultural train, having crossed the line and
got on the siding. was not injured, the express engine hav-
ing struck this train near its centre, but the engine of the
express train. was much shattered and thrown off the
metals ; and although three or four of the trucks in the
agricultural train wore smashed, and several of the fore-
most carriages of the express train also, it is a singular cir-
cumstance that the engine-driver and fireman of tb e ex-
press engine, which it might be expected, would have been
annihilated, escaped with but slight injuries. The conster-
nation of the passengers is described as fearful, and so great
was the fright of many that they rushed out of the train
so soon as it was brought to a stand, and being unacquainted
with the locality, and there being but a very slight amount
of light from the rising moon, several would have jumped
over the parapet of the viaduct and been killed, had they
not been restrained by others who were acquainted with
the character of the neighbourhood of the occurrence. As
soon as the first alarm of the shock had subsided the station
master at Welwyn telegraphed what had happened to Hat-
field, in the direction of London, and to Hitchia downward,
to stop all trains either way, also at the same time tele-
graphed the news to King's-cross that the accident had
happened and the line was blocked. On receipt of this
news Mr T. Williams, police superintendent, and subse-
quently Mr Leith, general superintendent, and Mr Burge,
of the locomotive department, proceeded to Welwyn with a
large number of labourers, accompanied by Mr Kirkwood,
of the Euston-road, surgeon to the company, In the mean-
time Mr Dredge, of Welwyn, and other medical gentlemen
from the surrounding districts, were in attendance on the
sufferers, whose injuries, it is stated, were chiefly confined
to superficial cuts about the faces and hands in some 12 or
or 14 instances, and who with the exception of one gentle-
man, said to have had his ribs broken, were unable to pro-
ceed on their journey either on Friday night or Saturday
morning. This gentleman still remains at the White Hart
Hotel, Welwyn, to which house he was removed, but is
stated to be progressing favourably. The escape of the pas-
sengers, when the fearful nature of the collision is consi-
dered, is truly miraculous, as, in addition to an empty horse
box next the tender, which was almost demolished, the
whole of the foot boards, door handles, the panels of the
carriages were smashed, and the panels splintered and drove
on the right hand or off side of the train.
An investigation has been made into the cause of the ac•
cident, and it has been discovered that the points were put
right to have shunted the agricultural train on to the left
instead of the right hand siding, and it is believed that they
must have by some means shifted, and that the driver of
the engine of that train had not time to discover the error
and reverse his engine so as to get clear of the main line be-
fore the express came:upon them.

GENERAL GARIBALDI AND LORD PALMERSTON.—
When General Garibaldi came over to this country,
he came—so, at least, his frit nds say—with a curious mis-
sionary project in his head. 110 wanted and hoped to con-
vert Lord Palmerston to the cause of European nationalities.
In his interview with the English Premier, it is said that
he eagerly pointed out what a glory it would be to England
to come forward as liberator of Rome and Venice. Zhe
story goes on to say that he received the same answer from
Lord Palmerston which Victor Emmanuel is always re-
ceiving from the Pope. Lord Palmerston admitted the
weight of all that the General had to say, but closed the
conversation with a non possumus. To expect so enthusi.
astic a programme from the aged Premier was not merely
to ask England to enter on a now and active foreign policy
for which she might be unfitted, but to ask a very old man
to unfurl the oritlimme.

MR. BANIM, one of the authors of the " Tales of
the O'llara Family," is preparing a new edition of this
series of Irish tales, with new prefaces and copLus notes.

It is pretty well understood that many of these tales were
rounded on fact, and that the characters in them were living
Lunn. Thu' I'at her Connell is said to hw•o been described
from Father O'Donnell, the _Etonian CAtholie Dean of Os•
sort'. The new edition is to contain a good deal of gossip
on, the real persous of these Irish stories,

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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, OCT. 7.
The Quen, aceomptnied by Princess Helel3a
and Prince Arthur, and attended by the ID"'
Emma Llscelles, drove to Loch Callater yesterdal.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston bane
arrived at Cambridge House from Broadland&
Despatches were received at the Colonial office
u
Saturday from the Governors of Gibraltar an
Ceylon. Despatches were sent to the Governor°
of the Falkland Islands and Canada.

THE LATE MR JOHN MACDONALD —We learn that
on hearing, on Saturday last, of the alerming illnesg
of Mr John Macdonald, who, from the regularity of IDS
autumnal visits to the respected minister of Crathie, was
doubtless well known by personal appearance to the Queen'
her Majesty immediately requested her physician, Dr Jerle;
ner, to wait upon him; and the same evening, having beard
of his death, the Queen sent a message to the manse to es."
press how deeply struck and grieved she was to hear Of the
sudden and unlooked for event. The private telegraph off
her Majesty to Balmoral was at once offered as a means of
conveying tidings to Mr Macdonald's friends in Fain
burgh, and was used several times in the course of the
On Tuesday morning her Majesty sent to the manse to ill•
quire whether any of the relatives of the deceased gentlo'
man had arrived, and manifested great anxiety to learA,
whether any service couli be rendered in paying the 105
duties to his remains, This case adds another to the rasa
proofs we have tad how tenderly her Majesty sympathises,
with affliction in all its forms, and how kindly an interest
she takes in all familiar faces. We may add that the re
mains of Mr Macdonald were conveyed from the manse t:
the railway station at Aboyn on Wednesday morning bi
small company of relatives and other mourners, and were
thence taken south by railway to Edinburgh. On Friclal,.
they were interred in the Dean Cemetery,—EdinbutlP
Courant.

DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM TYLER.—This gentle'
man, for many years proprietor of the vast esti°
blishment known as the Royal Surrey Zoological
Gardens,
Lied on Sunday last, after a short illness, at his residence;
Cringleford, near Norwich. Mr Tyler became proprietor of
the gardens in 1844, having previously been secretary to
Mr Cross, the original founder of them, and he continued,
the proprietor.thip till 1858, when the property was vote,'
in a limited liability company. The grand music hall vt;
afterwards used as a chapel by Mr Spurgeon. and is II();
doing duty as the temporary site of St Thomas's Ilospite"
GUNPOWDER STORES.—The Home-office lias:111`
stituted inquiries as to the quantify of gunpowder in store
in the several localities where it is kept to any large amount
It is remarkable that there is a provision respecting the
quantity kept where the manufacture is conducted. There
is also a limitation of the amount kept on hand by the
licensed retailers of the article. There are also stringent
regulations for the protection of the Government stores 11
sea and land. But it is in the large warehouses of the
manufacturers and wholesale dealers that the greatest
quantities are to be found, and it is to these that the Devi
legislation on the subject will be specially directed.'
Observer.

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT,—The Lord Chan;
cellor and the commissioners who will be appointed
by Her Majesty assemble in the House of Lords on Thllrs,
day next, the 13th instant, for the purpose of proroguiele
the Imperial Parliament until Friday, the 11th November,:
There seems to be misapprehension in the public mind, and
erroneous statements have appeared in several newspaperai
in reference to the duration of the present Parliament. it,
was " beguu and holden on the 21st of May, 1859, ' and will
not legally expire until the close of next year. The last was
the "sixth" Session, and as Parliament is septennial'
" seven" cannot be holden. According to the usual rile'
tice the dissolution will take place next spring, and the e
new Parliament assemble in November folkwing for -
short time, and then adjourn to February or March Or
the transaction of general business.
SUICIDE FROM WESTMINSTER BRIDGEOII S.— tl4
turday morning, shortly before 10 o'clock, a man, apparently
50 years of age, leaped over the parapet of the centre areb,,
of Westminster-bridge, the bridge being at the time crowded
with foot passengers and vehicles. On the alarm be"
raised, Henry Phelps, pierman at the Surrey side of 111 a
bridge, put off in his boat, and succeeded in coming lie vitil
the unfortunate man before he had sunk the second 601
and brought him ashore alive, but senseless. Ho was take°
to Westminster Hospital, where, despite the efforts of the
surgeons of the institution, he expired in about 20 minuses.
FROM AN OVERDOSE OF LAUDANUM.--M 3
Saturday an inquest was held by Mr Richards, at the Adal
and Eve Tavern, Hoxton, on Sarah Ann Reynolds, age'
49, who died from the effects of laudanum. The deceased'
who was a sempstress, had been suffering a long time fr°l
nervousness and ticdoloreux. On Tuesday last deceased told
one of the lodgers that she would have no rest until she
took some laudanum. A female named Mears called to sea
the deceased on Wednesday morning, but could not mar de
her hear. The door was forcibly opened, when the decease,
was discovered dead, lying with her head on the bed
her legs upon a chair, with a bottle by her side. Mr
surgeon, who made a post mortem examination, stated that
he found the lungs and brain congested, which had beet',
caused through an overdose of laudanum. The deceased
had been in the habit of taking large quantities of laudarlaa.
The jury returned a verdict that the deceased died fro:11111e
mortal effects of laudanum, taken to alleviate pain.
AMERICAN BLOCKADE.—HaIifax, Sept. 22--TP"
blockade runners the Lady Sterling and the Armsfr°,ll
cleared for Bermuda yesterday. The Little Hattie, which
sailed a few days since, returned to-day. Havannah, Sept
;
17—The Denbigh arrived on the 15th from Galveston;
„rate
the Susanna, on the 12th, five days from Houston.
latter started wifh 325 bales of cotton, but reached this Par,
with only 73, having thrown the balance overboard to faci°
litate her escape from a Federal cruiser off Cape 6°
Antonio. The Federal steamer Honeysuckle reports thoe
capture of the Matagorda (formerly the Alice), with 6°
bales of cotton, and the arrival of the prize at Key Nireat.
The Matagorda was from Galveston for this port.
BEAU NASH.—His laws were suited to his ticoe6
and this is the test of a good legislator, He 08
obeyed, both in these and other particulars ; nor did 12°
admit the claims of rank or fortune to an exemption fram!
his ordinances. The balls were to begin at six and close 11;
eleven. He would not suffer them to continue a mace°
longer, on account of the invalids, and for the sake of I.ll°
reputation of the waters. Not even for the Royal Well/
would ho deviate from any of his rules. The Princes®
Amelia once applying to him for one dance more after ha,
had given the signal to withdraw, he assured her royal
highness that the established rules of Bath resembled the
laws of Lycurgus, which would admit of no alteration
out an entire subversion of all his authority. He now e:t
himself to correct the ball attire of his rude subjects.
appears that the ladies offended by coming in white apron*
and the gentlemen by appearing in riding boots. St' till'
compromising was his aversion to the former, that he oven
divested a duchess of her apron at a ball and threw it am°l3s„
the waiting women, saying none but Abigails appeared 1:
white aprons. The duchess acquiesced and begged his 31°
jesty's pardon. Whenever any gentleman, through 10°
,„4.
ranee or haste, appeared in boots, Nash would make UP I.;
him, and, bowing in an arch manner, would tell him that
'he had forgot his horse, But a more serious undertall
was to induce gentlemen to leave their swords
them. These inconvenient appendages were sometime'
alarming, for they were apt to get unsheathed on very light
provocation, and sometimes with fatal effects. A duel took
place in the Grove by torchlight between two gamesters, the
tragical consequences of which had the effect of aiding 111`3
policy of Mr Nash. He at length carried his prohibition
itro effect, and they ceased to be worn at Bath, to the great
relief of the ladies resorting thither. And if he heard of e
challenge given and accepted, he instantly had both partial)
arrested.''—Eagle's Guide to _Built.

FATAL LEAP OVER EDINBURGH CASTLE ROCK'
—On Friday morning, about 5 o'clock, a private in
the 74th Highlanders, named Robert Wilson, expired
the Castle Hospital from injuries he sustained by &ilia
or throwing himself from the Argyll battery of the Cwt
h:
on Thursday morning. He was discovered lying 91
foot of the Castle rock, near the railway, about fvni
o'clock on Thursday morning, and he was remove.
to the garriton hospital. 'Wilson was a man of aboult
35 years of ago, and had been 18 years in the regiraelt
He bore a good character generally, but was occasion e7O
addicted to over-indulgence in strong drink, and his stravb
°
behaviour on some occasions gave his comrades the inflocB
sicn that his brain had become affected during his servie:
with the regiment in India. It is said that on Weill:1001°f,
night he had been drinking, and it is conjectured that 11.,0
had thrown himself over the parapet of the battery 'aci"
cuff-firing from delirium tremens,--Scotsman.
COOKING WITHOUT FIRE.—The ingenious It
Babinet, of the French Institute, has discovered the
means of cooking without fire. He has just laid betel.° ell°
academy the result of his experiments. His recipe i°-c;
Place your food in a black pot, coverel with sundry Pan a
of glass, and stand it in the sun, Tho water soon boils,
the food is said to be of better flavour than if cooked fa Zhu
ordinary way. But we are in a season when, in Lond'
at least, it will hardly do to trust to the sun as a substitute'
for a kitchen fire, and the probability is that this neW
vention will be about as useful as that attempted in t."°
land where the inhabitants occupied themselves in eude'lli
ouring to extract sunbeams from cucumbers.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT FROM GUNPOWDF,R.---
Soturday, Frances Turner, 12 years of age, residing 5_
Brook-green, Hammersmith, was playing with hot
father Pr
powder horn, when the powder exploded, shattering 4eig
right hand in a dreadful manner, and otherwise seriOs
injuring her,