The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-08 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The 2(1 battalion of the Royal Regiment, stationed in
Cork, tinder command of Lieut.-Colonel George Bell,
has received a letter of readiness to prepare for embark-
ation about the end of next month—destination Corfu.

The 31st Regiment, stationed at Fermoy under
Lieut.-Colonol George Staunton ; the 148th Regiment,
stationed at Newport, S.W., under Lieut.-Colonel Hon.
Alexander adzell ; the 57th Regiment, stationed in
Cork, under Lienr,Colonel Thomas Leigh Goldie, and
the 71st Highland Regiment, stationed at Kilkenny,
under Lieut.-Colonel William Denny, are also under
orders for the gismo station, The reserve battalion of
the latter corps is at present serving in Canada. The
31st returned from Bengal on the 6th of December, 1846;
the 48th from Jamaic^, in March, 1847 ; the 57th from
Madras, on the 28th of September, 1846 ; and the 71st
from Barbadoes, on the 25th of January, 1847.

FALL OF A RAILWAY EMBANKMENT. An acci-
dent occurred on Friday evening by the falling in of a
portion of an embankment on the Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire Railway, by which three men have
lost their lives. Their names are Joseph Beesley, car-
penter; and William Ragg and John Camp, excavators.
A large engine shed is iu the course of erection on the
side of the railway west of Sheffield, about three quarters
of a mile from the station, and the men had been en-
gaged for the last few days in making the necessary
preparations for laying the foundations of the wall which
was to run along the side of the railway. The line at
this point- runs upon en embankment about 20 feet high;
and to render the foundations quite secure, a trench has
been dug in the side of the embankment to a depth of
about 35 feet below the level of the rails. On Friday
afternoon the sides of the excavation suddenly gave way
soon after four o'clock, burying the three men above
named, who were at work in it. A fourth man, named
Sutton, had a narrow escape. A moment previous he
observed the sides giving way, and after alarming his
companions, was making his way out. He succeeded in
getting so far out of the trench as to escape injury, but
the other men who were below him, were overwhelmed
by the falling earth ere they could escape. All idea of
rescuing the men alive was deemed hopeless, as they
were buried under at least 20 feet depth of earth, any
attempt to remove which, in the then state of the sup-
porters of the sides of the trench, would have brought
the whole of the embankment upon them. Since then,
however, thesupporters have been replaced, and the
bodies of the men removed.
ENCUMNERED ESTATES IN IRELAND.—On Friday
in she Encumbered Estates Court, half a dozen proper-
ties were put up for sale and rapidly disposed of, the
gross sum realized by the day's sale being 50,1451. Be-
tween the 15th October, 1849, and the Ist July, 1852,
no less than '2,389 petitions had been lodged, being an
average of 70 for each month. The produce of the sales
amounted to 7,215,000/., of which 935,318/. were the
produce of private sales. The produce of sales distri-
buted among the different provinces amounted in Lein-
ster, to 1,969,0001.; in Munster, 2,493,000/.; in Ulster,
1,261,0001.; in Connaught, 1,491,0001., in round num-
bers. Tho gross annual rental of the lots sold was
520,000/.; the number of acres, 1,293,573, of which
403,000 were bought by 114 English and Scotch pur-
chasers, being the contents of 95 different estates, sold
in separate lots. The purchase money of these lots
amounted to 1,100,000/. Of the 114 purchasers set
down t.s English and Scotch, eight were Scotch, the
remainder being Englishmen, with the exception of one
America. A very interesting table is that which shows
the amount of purchase money invested by each of the
2,455 purchasers. Of purchasers under 1,0004 there
were 1,040, of whom 24 were English or Scotch; from
1,000/. to 2,000/., 447 purchasers, of whom 18 wore Eng-
lish or Scotch; from 2,0001. to 5,0001., 549 purchasers,
of whom 26 were English or Scotch; from 5,000/. to
10,000/, 314 purchasers, of whom 21 were English or
Scotch; from 10,0001. to 20,000/., 83 purchasers, of
whom 13 were English or Scotch; at 20,0001. and up-
wards, 22 purchasers, of whom 12 were English or
Scotch; showing an increase in the proportion of English
and Scotch purchasers as the amount of purchase money
increased.
MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE ISIS.—
A distressing and fatal accident occurred on the Isis, on
the afternoon of Friday last, by which a young gentle-
man, just in the crime of life, met with a watery grave.
From the evidence adduced at the inquest before G. V.
Cox, Esq., 11. A., coroner for the University of Oxford,
on Saturday morning, it appeared that three undergra-
duate members of Jesus College, Oxford, viz., Messrs
William Llewellyn Howe, R. Kendall, and L. Morris,
hired a boat called a " dingy," and rowed down the Isis
to Abingdon; on their return, and just after passing
Sandford, the wind began to freshen, when they resolved
to hoist the sail, and while in the act of doing this Mr
Rowe overbalanced himself and tell in the water; the
sudden movement caused the dingy to sink, and his two
friends had to swim for their lives. The body of the
deceased was found in about an hour afterwards, and
conveyed to the public-house at Sandford, where the in-
quest was held, and in accordance with the evidence a
verdict of " accidentally drowned" was returned. The
deceased had been at college about a twelvemonth. Ha
was a native of Cardiff, and has left a widowed mother,
childless, to lament his untimely end.
EXPORTATION CF SPUCIE.—The Custom-house account
of the shipment of specie and bullion direct from the putt
of London during the week ending Thursday last,isas
follows:—Gold coin: to llamburgh, 28,620 ounces;
St. Petersburgh, 4,200 ounces; to Belgiutn, 850 ounces.
Gold bars: to Hamburgb, 6,600 ounces. Sllverenociens;
to Calais, 70,000 ounces; to Hstriburgh, 4,000 ounces;
to Belgium, 2,000 ounces. Silver barsi to Calais,
12,000 ounces. This gives a total of 40,270 ounces ,f
gold, and 88,000 ounces of silver, of the aggregate value
of about 178,000/. The other shipments include only
17,000/., in half imperials, by the Ranc,er, for St, P t -
burgh, and 19,165/. by the Orinoco, to the West Peters-
burgh, Indies.
The total ext orts from the kingdom for the week are
thus raised to about 214,0001, and there is, consequently
a balance of imports over exports of some 630,000/
being a very large difference.