The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-06 00:00:00

STEAM BOAT ACCIDENTS.

Yesterday afternoon, at half-past three o'clock, an °eel;
dent which caused great alarm, occurred on the river or!
Fthe London Bridge-wharf. The Vesper, a Gravesen
steamer, Captain Busby, and the Greenwich steam-b°4tl
ci
Greenwich, were leaving the wharf with passengers, ain
. tit.? Royal Tar, Greenwich steamer, and the Pearl .3
Gravesend steam-packet, were coming in to take their.
places, and both were lying right athwart the tide--hi
Pearl rather further out in the stream and below the ItnYa
Tar than the other, when the Greenwich, which was a little
ahead of the Vesper, and was under the necessity of keeping
headway to prevent the flood tide carrying her stern agains
the bridge, ran foul of the Pearl's stern, and a fearful
crash ensued, to the terror of the passengers as well as the
people on the quays. The Greenwich was fixed in her
position, and the stern of the Pearl was driven against bedr
larboard bow. In a few seconds the rail, bulwarks, an
paddle-case were torn away, and the creaking timbers
and planks fell one after the other. There were many
persons forward, and among them several females, wil°
were hastily pulled aft, and escaped without injury, bu t
rthie
was long before they recovered from the fright. r
Greenwich, having cleared the Pearl's stern, was driven a
little over towards the south shore, and a large sailing
barge laden with hay, coining up at the same time, "5
forced against her starboard side, but very fortunatelY
mischief was done. The Pearl soon brought up alongside
Fresh-wharf, and her stern, the stoutest part of the ves"
sel did not appear to be much injured. From the sitt"r
tion of the various steamers the Vesper had great 1.;1--
ar
culty in avoiding a similar collision with the Royal
which, as we have before described, was lying Parallel wit"
the Pearl, athwart the tide, and it was only by great dexterity
on the part of Captain Busby and Mr. Smith, his mate, that
she cleared her, the paddle-box of the Vesper all but touching
the Royal Tar. The Greenwich was enabled to proceed 00
her voyage with the working of her paddle-wheel exposed to
view, and presenting a dilapidated condition. The accident
is attributed to the improper position of the Pearl in lying
to athwart the tide close to the wharfs before the other
vessels had fairly got out. The accidents at this wharf:s
very frequent, as the numerous steamers are going in t
out, and heads are knocked off and bulwarks stove in almost
daily, arising in a great measure from the cireurnscrine,
limits of the river and wharfs, which are incapable
afford-
ing adequate accommodation to the many steamers embark-
ing and debarking passengers there, and the want of a
su-
perintendent afloat to regulate the situation of the vessels
as they come in and go out. A princely revenue, is
ing, it is said, to at least thirty thousand pounds a-year,' ;it
derived by the proprietors of Adelaide and Fresh-wharfs
London-bridge by the toll on steam-boat passengers' aad
the steam companies and the public have a right to ge
of
accommodation.
On Wednesday afternoon, about half-past four o'cloekl,l
the large Herne Bay steamer City of Canterbury, Capt,,t.
Large, was coming up the river at full speed, off the
ul
geants, Rotherhithe, when the swell raised by her pow to
paddle-wheels rolled into the plying-place, doing ininrY•
the wherries lying there, and dashing over the unoccuPlo
wharf below the stairs, beneath which a waterman was
his boat. He endeavoured to steady her, amidst the C 0
o,
motion of the water, which drove his boat with great viv
lence against the piles of the stairs, and she was soon OP:
sized, and turned right over, with the waterman underneati;
her. In this situation, tossed about by the heavy stirgd
caused by the action of the steamer's
paddles, he remain
, ed.
for five minutes before any assistance
could be render: a
The watermen at length succeeded in extricating him, 7ble
on pulling him from under the boat he was almost insensl he
from his long immersion in the water and the injuries e
received. He was conveyed to the nearest public-Wsatell
where he was provided with restoratives, and ultim
sufficiently recovered to go home.

MRS. S. C. HALL'S NEW NOVEL, ccUNCI4O
HoaacE."—Among the numerous works of fiction
have lately issued from the press the one now before us only
assuredly rank with the best in public estimation ; not
for the interest which the story itself is calculated to avvan-e-'
but for the bold, and at the same time beautiful and o,,the
e-
ral style in which the characters are pourtrayed, ~cf
hero, " Uncle Horace," is a grand specimen of the svea'tl
and independent English merchant ; and the conception
the characters of the gentle Mar Lorton and the nobio
e"
minded Lady Ellen Revis is alone ycalculated to tamp Mrs.
s.
Hall as one of the first novelists of her day.—
Mercury.
MISS LANDON'S NEW NOVEL, cc ETHE4O
CHURCHILL."---We have been much indebted to the fair
vex this season for works of fiction. Mrs. Gore, Mrs. Hall,
and Miss Landon, have severally contributed to our enter-
taiment ; and the novel which is now before us will con
oni
vince the public that the last named lady is as successful in
prose as in verse. The style in which the work is written
i;si impressive and continuous and each chapter is prefaced.
y an original poetical effusion of
great merit.
Churchill"
will probably become the most popular Ethe
of Ali"
Landon's productions. In some of the more lively chap ters
we arc introduced, with exquisite tact, to Miss Fenton (the
celebrated Duchess of Bolton), Pope, Sir Robert \Valpole,
Gay, Swift, the Duchess of Marlborough, Lady Wortley
Montagu, and several other noted characters of the day.

4
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BIRTHS. parks
On the 4th inst., Mrs. Constable Maxwell, of Everingham
of a son and eir.
On the 3dh inst., at. Bognor, the lady of the Rev. F. G. Rawlins'
of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the 30th ult., at Eastbourne, John Wilson, Esq.L°f, the
t i
Middle Temple, to Georgina, third daughter of the late ilic"`-
Shepley, Esq., of Carshalton.
On the `.Bth ult., at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, the Rev. III• pa,`,"
son Duffield, of Park House, Bere Church, to Frances Arne"t
elder daughter of NV. Brummell, Esq., of Wivanhoe House, Ilea'
Colchester, Essex.

DIED. Abel
On the Ist inst., aged 90, at Glandovan, Pembrokeshire, ---
Anthony Gower, Esq., brother of the late Admiral Sir Erasmus
Gower, and formerly a merchant of the City of London.
On the 4th inst., in Stamford-street, Maria Ann, widow 0
Johnson, Esq., of the Stock Exchange.

London : Printed and Published by i\IURDO YOUNG, of 110.
112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand,
of Middlesex.—Friday, October 6, 1637. in the county