The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-07 00:00:00

TFIE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, 'OVEMB.KR 7 183

CAB ACCIDENTS.

{We willingly insert the following letter, The Fa
tent Safety Cab Company is entitled to great praise. It
has broken up the old crazy vehicles by which many
persons were killed, and been the means of introducing
others perfectly safe, commodious, and at the same time
built with great taste. In fact it has made a complete
revolution in the system, and every one except the inter
lopers must wish those who have the merit of the in-
vention success ]
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Stn,--I have just seen in your paper of yesterday
a statement which requires contradiction. It is to the
effect that " a very spirited horse in one of Hansom's
patent safety cabs took fright, and, running away, Killed
Mr. Ripple in the gateway of the King's Arms Ta, ern.'
This distressing accident was not occasioned by any
horse or carriage belonging to this Company, and they.
only bear the designation quoted above.
It is possible that your informant may have been mis•
led by the fact that there are several cabs in the str(cs
built in imitation of these cabs, and in defiance, for a
time, of the patent (Gillett and Chapman) by which
they are protected. One of these may have occasioned
this sad accident.

It is the more important to us that this contradiction
should be made public, since we have it yet to say, that
but one life has been lost either through the description
of carriage now used by the Company, or by any act of
their servants or horses in working.
That 600,000 persons should have been conveyed
through the crowded streets of the Metropolis with this
extraordinary degree of safety to themselves and others,
is a boast of which we would not willingly be deprived
by the accidental misinformation in which the paragraph
of which I complain, doubtless, originated.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
J. CHAPMAN, Secretary.
Office of the Patent Safety Cab Company,
November 6, 1839.

DINNER BY THE EARL OF MORAY

TO HIS TENANTRY.

The return of Lord Moray to this part of the coml•
try, after an absence of seventeen years, and the cor.
diality with which the Noble Lord has mingled with
all classes of the people, seems to have called forth a
sort of springtide of joy and congratulation throughout
his extensive possessions. On Tuesday the 22d ultimo
the Forres and Nairn Agricultural Society entertained
Lord Moray to a public dinner in Forres. The fes-
tival, however, was but the precursor of another more
interesting meeting—a dinner by the Earl to his tenants
in the counties of Inverness and Moray, in his beau-
tiful baronial mansion, Darnaway Castle. Randolph's
Hall—a vast and venerable portion of the Castle—
in which the first Earl of Moray assembled his
retainers in the days of Robert Bruce, was the
scene of this kindly and cheering festival. This magni-
ficent apartment, which is 100 feet long and 90 in height,
crowned with a roof of carved oak, that can scarcely be
paralleled in Britain—and when the Hall was lighted
up, the huge fire-place filled with its loads of blazing
timber—the aged Earl and his family, and numerous te-
nantry, seated around the well-filled tables, the scene was
one of the most impressive ever witnessed. It seemed a
revivification of the ancient days of feudal strength and
splendour, stript of all that was harsh, repulsive and de-
grading in that once-powerful system. At four o'clock
the enlivening strains of the pibroch, playing " The
Old Stuarts back again," summoned the party into
the hall, where two long tables, and a third running
along the top of the apartment, " groaned with the
weight of the feast." The Earl of Moray took his
scat in Randolph's chair—an ancient heir-loom of the
family, that has been illustrated by both painter and
engraver, and which, " if tradition may be in aught
believed," formed the state chair of the first Earl. On
the right of the Earl sat Lady Margaret Stuart ; the
Master of Grant, M.P. ; Miss Lydia Smyth, Dowse
House, Dorsetshire ; A Dunbar, Esq., of Duffus ; Miss
Cullum ; William Young, Esq., of Marvhill ; Dr. Allan,
Forres, &c. On the left of the Noble Lord were Lady
Ann Stuart ; Sir 'William Gordon G. Cumming of
Altyre, Bart. ; Lady Louisa Stuart ; P. B. Ainslie,
Esq., of St. Colme ; J. Fraser, Esq., Cromarty, House ;
Captain Macpherson of Drummond, Inverness ; A.
Colvin, Esq., Earlsmill ; P. Brown, Esq., of Link-
wood, &c., &c. At the bottom of the right hand table
sat the Hon. George S, uart, supported by Penrose
Cumming, Esq., of Altyre ; Edward Dunbar, Esq., 22d
Regiment ; Henry Cumming, Esq., of Altyre, &c.,
&Q.—Edinburgh Advertiser.

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

PREFERMENTS, &c.

The Rev. R. N. Adams, D.D., Fellow of Sidney
Sussex College, Cambridge, has been presented by the
Rev. Dr. Chaly, master of that society, to the rectory
of Rempstone, Nottinghamshire, void by the death of
the Rev. T. Hosking, B.D.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has granted a dis-
pensation to the Rev. John Bluck, A.M., Rector of
Bowers Gifford, Essex, to hold the same with the vicar-
age of Mountuessing. On Friday the Lord Bishop of
Loudon instituted the Rev. Gentleman to the vicarage
of Mountnessing, vacant by the death of the Rev. W.
Bowskill.- Patron, Lord Petre.
The Rev. William Pridden, M.A., to the vicarage
of Broxted, Essex. Patron, I. B. De Beauvoir, Esq.
The Lord Bishop of Winchester has collated tae
Rev. William Gibson, M.A., to the rectory of Fawley,
vacant by the death of Lord Walsiegham.
The Rev. George Richard Atnsey, of Acomb
near York, to the perpetual curacy of Wilsdon, York-
shire. Patron, the Vicar of Bradford.
The Rev. William B. Delmar, to the rectory of
Elmstone, Kent, vacant by the death of the Rev. J.
Gregory. Patron, W. Delmar, Esq.
The Rev. Mr. Bartlett, late curate of St. Paul's,
Exeter, to the chaplaincy of St. Thomas's Union
Workhouse, in that city.
The Rev. J. F. Cole, 8.A., to the vicarage of Kirk-
ford, Sussex.
The Rev. J. C. T. Dunn, late of Lewes, to the
curacy of Newhaven, and chaplain to the Newhaven
Union.

DREADFUL SUICIDE of ADMIRAL

SIR HENRY TROLLOPE.

On Monday last an inquest was held on the body of
Admiral Sir Henry Troltope, of Freshtord, before Mr.
Uphill, Coroner for Bath; aid a respectable Jury; at the
New Inn, Freshford, near Bath.
Mr. Trollope, nephew of the deceased, had some
time past lived with Sir Henry for the purpose of
looking after his business, he .not being of , a sound
mind ; and had taken the precaution of unloading the
pistols which the deceased kept by him. On Saturday
morning last deceased rang the bell tor his butler. On his
cuniii g into the room deceased asked where was his
powder horn. Tne butler replied that Mr. Trollope
pad got it. Deceased then requested the servant to
ask Mr. Trollope to 'come to him. On that gentleman's
coming, Sir Henry asked him where the powder-horn
was. He replied that it was safe ;on which the de-
ceased said he would like to see it once more. Mr.
Trottope gave it to him. Shortly afterwards Mr. Trol-
lope went out and took a walk. He returned about
fuur o'clock. When he came home he was informed by
his daughter that the deceased had shut himself up in
his room and locked his door. Mr. Trollope thought
nothing of this, as deceased was frequently in the habit of
doing so. He had not, however, been at home more
than ten minutes when he heard a report of a pistol.
He immediately ran to the apartment of the deceased,
at the door of which he found the footman and gar-
dener. On their breaking open the door they tound
the deceased lying across the bed. His head was com-
pletely severed from his body, there being no part of the
head left except a part of the lower jaw bone. 'fhe
head had been blown completely to atoms, and the
various parts of it were scattered up and down the
room. . .

On going to view the body, one of the jurymen after-
wards picked up the pistol from under a wash-stand.
On being examined in the jury room it was found that
the iron cock was broken and the flint was gone, and
the stock was shattered in many places. The pistol
was a boarding pistol, and there was no doubt that it had
been loaded up to the muzzle. A large quantity of
swan shot was scattered up and down the room.
James Kelson, gardener, stated that he had lived with
the deceased for upwards of sixteen years. He had slept
in the room with him for the last five or six months. De-
ceased always went to bed with an open knife in his band,
wrapped up in his handkerchief, in order, as he stated,
that he might be ready to stab the first person that broke
into his room. He kept a blunderbuss, a knife, and
several brace of pistols in the bed-room, and had
long been impressed with the idea that some person
bad an intention to break into his room and rob him.
He discharged his butler, who had been in his service
16 or 17 years, and got other servants, the greater
number of whom lived with him only a day or two.
He had declared to the witness that his old butler had
come down the chimney and stolen an old pair of
braces, and ieft a new pair in their place. He also ac-
cused the same person of having stolen several letters
from him. He afterwards gave an order to the car-
penter to make a large strong board to fix in the fire-
place to keep the butler from coming down the chim-
ney. Two days after this was done, he engaged the
same butler to return into his service.
Mr. Gee, and Mr. Prince, of Bradford, surgeons,
were also examined, and proved that the deceased had,
for some time, been in a state of insanity.
The Jury returned a verdict of insanity.
The deceased was 84 years of age, and had served
on board the same vessel with Ls late Majesty, Win.
IV., and had signalised himself in several naval actions.

-WO
THE CHECK REEL.

BY ONE OF JOHN TAMSON'S BAIRNS.

John Tamson was great grandfather, by the mother's
side, to the humble individual who now ventures upon
the attempt to do justice to a tithe of his claims to
immortality. John Tarrson was a genius, who knew a
little of everything, though, like all of his order, had his
own little foibles, much to the comfort of the duller
order of beings, who manage to maintain their position
in society by the mercurial constitution of your men of
genius—the wayward rambles of the latter laying them
open to censure for instability. Like many a wiser man,
he stepped cut of his path on one occasion, and bought
a key bugle and a pair of bagpipes. But alas! here
he went beyond himself, so that the neighbours, mad at
the disturbance, complained sadly against him, and he
felt himself bound to " keep the peace."
John Tamson issued one day, from his humble shiel-
ing of Tupstharm, with the air of a man who knows
where he is going. He pursued his journey to the
dacha?: of Crossfern, where it had been arranged he was
to meet Johnny Drake, the merry miller of Piuclantie.
Johnny Drake was a genius in his way too; and well
named ; for dearly the body liked to swatter in strong
drink, from the rising of the sun even unto the going
down of the same. And the cronies did meet, and it was
a dreech parting. There was a balance of a crown and
better betwixt the parties. John Tamson reared sheep
and sold wool, and Johnny Drake was a miller and sold
meal, for he had a famous sucken, and late it was before
the two could dissolve the balance betwixt them into
jolly goo 3 ale and strong. It is astonishing, however,
what perseverance will effect, even in the transmutation
of metal into liquid, for they accomplished their inten-
tion, though it was a late hour before John Tamson
found himself at his own door.

It the reader please, we shall just step into the house
and see how matters stood before John entered. There
was Lizzie, the idol of John's adoration ; and in truth

sbe was a " bonnie body," and a thrifty one. The house
was as clean as a naw looking-glass, and a cheerful fire
blazed in the ingle. Now, the weaver had been at
Tupstharm that very eveunag, to inform the guidwife
that he could get on no farther with her web for want of
yarn ; tberefore Lizzie was as busy as a bee on a June
morning. She was drivinc, away with the old hand-
reel, and a rude piece ofa machinery it was, being
worked round by the turn of the wrist, while the

opera, or had to count the length of six scores,
being one cut, eighteen cuts forming one spindle. Now
Lizzie was reeling and counting when John meandered
into her presence, and was greeted with the following
salutation : " Woare hae ye been trefeckin' to a' cl,,y ?
thou is seven and twenty—(John thinks he is standing
more erectly than ever he did in his life, but gives a
lurch which he is u!terly at a loss to account for, and
Lizzie continues,) synding hour hause wi' my thrift—
thou is aught and twenty—if you get a sark o' this
wab—thou is nine and twenty—the diel rive it aff yer
hack—and thou is thretty." Now, John Tamson was
too much of a genius to reply to and banter with Lizzie.
Like a true philosopher, his great mind passed from
the compliments he had received, to the fact, that the
infernal old hand-reel interrupted the natural flow of
Lizzie's eloquence. The gia-it Watt was then in
embryo—steam had not begun to puff and splutter—
and gas had not been imprisoned in pipes. The thought
struck John's noddle, that he might invent a reel that
could be worked silently ; and, after an engagement with
his habiliments, in which they were all routed, from the
stocking to the neckcloth, and scattered over the room,
John committed his cranium to the holster in that mel-
low state most productive of new ideas. He thought
and turned, and turned and thought again ; and ere the
sun rose, John Tamson had invented the Check Reel.
—Ayr Advertiser.

THE DUCHESS OF ST. ALBANS' MEMOIRS.
—We are requested to state that Mr. Colburn, of
Great Marlborough-street, has this day published
" The Duchess of St. Albans' Memoirs," in 2 vols.
post Bvo., with portrait, price 245., which may now be
had of all Booksellers. Mr. Colburn has also just ready
for publication a new novel, ent►tled " Preferment," by
Mrs. Gore, Authoress of " Mrs. Armytage," " Stokes
hill-place," " The Peeress," &c., in 3 vols. post Bvo.

THE MONEY CRISIS

the results Ottite late speculative mania in France
atid the money crisis by which it was followed, have
been eifietieneeti in the almost total annihilation of the
swarm of mushroom compatilea, the P'rete*t of which was
some plausible enterprise, but the real intent of the
schemerit io a foundation for premiums on shares and
Stock-exchange gaud:J(l4i The failure and disappearance
of such fraudulent projects and pr01!,,,6(11•4
no regret, but the case is otherwise with thoSe Moro
laudable undertakings-whose public utility is incontesi-
, able, although in some instances they were, doubtless,
urged forward prematurely during a season of unexam-,
pled credit and apparently inexhaustible abundance of un-
employed capital. Among the numerous ra,l roads of which
prospectuses were then issued and shares distributed, two
or three of the shorter routes have b'en proceeded with or

completed only, all the more important ones having been
either abandoned for want of the capitals, which, shares
having tallen to a ruinous discount, and the money pres-
sure extreme, the holders have been unwilling or unable

to pay up, or they remain still in abeyance until the
advent of more favourable circumstances. The ruin
in which such vast numbers of imprudent speculators
have been involved has, in addition, created so much

distrust among capitalists, large and small, that rail-
ways projected, and nearly or absolutely completed ac-
cording to the original plan, years before speculation
in them had reached to a frenzy, have become in-
volved in embarrassments, the works suspended,. ne-

eessary repairs and improvements stopped, or the
companies of proprietors formally declared in a state
of insolvency. In this state of things the atten-
tion not only of those directly interested, but of
many other parties zealous for the publie good, has
been called to the consideration of various plans,
not for reanimating public confidence, but for procuring
the direct intervention of the Government in aid of
works already established, and of those yet in prospect.
In a sensible pamphlet recently published in Paris,
under the title " De la Crise des Chemins de Fer," the
writer very properly discourages any proposition which
may have for object the patronage and advance of pub-
lic funds for enterprises projected only, but neither
commenced, nor with a capital stock paid up, accord-
ing to the prospectus or estimate, which would lead
only to share jobbing. He limits himself to the case
of those in action, the expenditure of which has ex-
ceeded all previous calculation, as is invariably the
case, or the repair and enlargement of which, to yield
beneficial results, require an outlay far beyond the
profits realized already, and the means of the pro-
prietary. The first of these railways cited in one of
these predicaments is that from St. Etienne to Andre-
zieux, upon the Loire. Its length is stated to be
17,700 metres, or four French leagues and a half,
without comprehending 2,250 metres of biranches. It
was first authorized by ordinance in 1823, and was
first opened for traffic in 1828, from which, and other
railways to be noted, it will be observed that the fiirma,
tion of railways had engaged attention in France long
before the fact had been understood here. The capital
subscribed amounted only to 1,750,000 f. Notwith-
standing the strictest economy of the engineer, himself
a very large shareholder, it may readily be con-
ceived that means so limited did not cover the expendi.
tune, so that for several years the greatest portion of
the receipts had to be expended in the finish of the first
works. Since 1836 the traffic has so largely increased,
that it has become necessary to double the line, to re-
duce the slopes, and rectify the bend in the route ;
also to replace bridges of wood with stone, and cast-
iron rails with stamped .or wrought-iron, &c. ; by all
which a vast expense would be incurred beyond the
means of this concern, otherwise prosperous. The
second railway constructed in France was that from
St. Etienne to Lyons, the length of which is fourteen
French leagues. It was commenced in 1826 with a
capital of 11,000,0001., which at the time was judged
sufficient. In 1829 scarcely two-thirds of the works
had been executed before the funds were exhausted.
Three tunnels, an expensive bridge over the Saone,
with the enormity of the cost of the land, and the op-
position of interested and prejudiced parties, were
among the chief causes of this deficiency. In 1831,
by dint of loans, the work was finished, and is reported
to be extensively in use for passengers and merchandise,
but it is encumbered with debt at a heavy rate of in-
terest, and yields no profit to the shareholders. A
third railway is that of the Loire, or from Andrezieux
to Roanne. This was begun in 1829, with a nominal
capital of 10,000,000 francs. Scarcely were the works
begun for this road of seventeen French league.
than the revolution of July arrived, the confusion
arising from which prevented the shares being
paid up. No more than 6,000,000 francs was
realized. By dint of loans and skilful man-
agement, it was finished and opened in 1834.
But so costly has the management been found, and the
pressure of debt so heavy, that the railway has only been
able to cover the current expenses. The interest of the
debt being no longer paid, the Company has been de-
clared insolvent. Thus in the rich mineral basin which
separates the Rhone from the Loire, 36 French leagues
of railway have been executed at a time when in this
country they were only just beginning the trial of
railway communication. The coal mines of St. Etienne,
which in 18'27 only produced for consumption 6,000,000
of metrical quintals of coal, in 1836 furnished
11,000,000, and production was yearly on the increase.
But the railways themselves were in a state of decay or
ruin, in debt, requiring repairs and extension of lines to
meet the great augmentation of traffic. Capitalists and
'bankers would only lend at exorbitant rates of interest
or usury on such kinds of security. Thus 6 per cent.
per annnin was exacted, with a part of the net profits
after their previous payment, in the proportion of two-
thirds to the lenders or new shareholders, and one-third
only to the original proprietors.
Under these disastrous circumstances, it is urged on
the Government to come to their assistance, by way,
not of gift, but of loan, at the rate of 3 per cent., which
is the same as Government pays itself to depositors in
Saving Banks and on the debt, the loans to be secured
on the works, with the creation of a sinking fund for
their eventual redemption by payment of a supple-
mentary rate of 1 per cent. per annum.—Times.