The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-12 00:00:00

THEI FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TIVELTE O'CLOCK.
Consols, which closed yesterday at 911 for Money,
and for the Account, 91i 92, opened at the above prices
this morning with scarce a bargain doing. Exchequer
Bills, 48 ZiO prem. ; India Bonds, 49 .51 prem. ; Bank
Stock shut.

In the Foreign Market Spanish Active closed at 19 ,
without dividend ; opened, 20a with Coupons ; Portu-
guese closed at 39i to 391 ; opened the same ; Three
per Cents., 25i 26 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half, 524.

HALF-PAST:ONR.
Consols have been during the morning at 92 for the Ac-
count ; Money, 91i 91i, with itt doing in either of the
Markets ; Exchequer Bills 48 1501 c India Bonds 50 51 ;
Bank Stock shut.

In the Foreign Market Spanish Active has somewhat
improved, reached 204 '2l ; with Coupons at present may
be quoted 20} 20 ; Portugue,e improved to 40 ; Three
per Cents. 2.51 26 ; Brazilian 86i. ; Columbian 251
Danish 721 73 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52
521; Spanish Passive 5 ; Deferred 8.
Consols for the Account, 92.

THREE O'CLOCK.

On Saturday evening the train for Birmingham left
Manchester at six o'clock, and proceeded, at the rate of
twenty-five milos an hour, as far as the Kenyon junction.
I-12re, unfortunately, was in waiting a train consisting of
two coaches from Bolton. They were waiting for the Man-
chester train, and were on the line on which the Birming-
ham train was approaching. The engineer, from some cause
not yet explained, did not slacken his speed, and the result
was, that he ran right into the two Bolton coaches. The
concussion was terrific. The roof of the coach next the
engine was carried away ; and a lady who sat in the inside
was killed on the instant. A nurse, who had a child on
her knees, in her alarm, and in order to save the infant's
life, flung it out of the coach. Unfortunately, it too was
killed. These, however, were the only deaths which the
accident occasioned. Several persons were by the shock
precipitated on the road, and some were more or less in-
jured, but, we are happy to say, not so seriously as to pre-
vent their being conveyed to Wigan, where every attention
has been paid to them. This is the first time since the
opening of either the Liverpool and Birmingham, or the
Liverpool and Manchester Railways, that one train has run
into another. The hour being early, and it being clear
daylight at the time, a suspicion has arisen that the engi-
neer was not only negligent, but something worse, at the
time. If report be true, he is of this opinion himself, for
it is said he disappeared immed.ately after the accident,
and has net since been heard of. Perhaps this, however,
is only a part of the exaggeration which has magnified, in
this town (Liverpool), the extent of the calamity to the loss
of a dozen live',

THE MAYORALTY.—For some days past a ru-
mour has been afloat in the City that there will be a severe
contest as to who shall be the Chief Magistrate of London
for the year ensuing. Mr. Alderman Cowan is the next in
rotation, and, personally, there can be no objection to his
elevation to the civic chair. A great portion of the Livery
however, seem inclined to oppose this on another ground,
and re-elect the present Lord Mayor. They say that his
rigid attention to the public business of the city during a
M tyoralty in which many eventful circumstances have
arisen, and which have entailed on him great additional
trouble and expense, he ought not to be deprived of those
honours which it is expected her Majesty Victoria will con-
fer on the chief ruler of her faithful city of London, when
she pays her promised visit on the 9th of November. It is
also stated that Mr. Alderman M. Wood, M. P., who is
called among his brethren of the ermine, " The Queen's
Own," will also be put in nomination. Another party
name Mr. Alderman Harmer as the most eligible candidate.
A few days ago Captain Jones of the Illalgnet, one
of the oldest, as well as one of the most respectable captains
on the Margate station, while in the city, felt ill in his
stomach after eating some oysters, and a gentleman, a friend
of his, who was with him at the time, recommended him to
a druggist's shop in the neighbourhood, where he would get
something to relieve him. He expressed his willingness to
do so, and they both went to therdruggist's shop, and the
young man prepared a draught which Captain Jones swal-
lowed. He had scarcely done so, however, when he was
seized with a violent burning in his stomach, throat, and
mouth, and the first impression on the mind of himself and
his friend was that- he was poisoned, and that the young
man had made a mistake in mixing up the ingredients. He
WAS attended by a medical man, and was so far recovered as
to be able to prof.eed to his residence at Poplar. Since that
time he had also been attended by a medical man, and was
supposed to be going on very favourably until Saturday
evening, when, while he was sitting in his chair, he sud-
denly fell hack, and was instantly a corpse. Information of
the circumstance has been forwarded to Mr. Baker, the
Coroner, so that the unfor: unate circumstance will undergo
a thorough investigation.
Last evening an inquest was held before Mr. Higgs,
at the Coach and Horses public-house, Flood-street, West-
minster, upon the body of William Lane Bath, who com-
mitted suicide in the following strange manner :—lt ap-
peared that on Monday evening the deceased was passing
through Regent-street, Westminster, shortly before ten
o'clock, when he stopped before the shop of a respectable
butcher, and stretching across the stall reached to a largo
knife, with which he inflicted a deep and wide wound in his
neck. He was immediately taken to the Westminster
Hospital in a state of insensibility. The windpipe and
passage to the stomach were cut through ; but the blood-
vessels on both sides were uninjured. He was apparently
recovering for some days, and food was administered
through the opening in his throat. But he died suddenly
on Saturday morning. Whilst in the Hospital he wrote
down a request that the House Surgeon would write to
his father, a bricklayer, at Spalding, in Lincolnshire. In
the same way he informed the Surgeon that he was twenty-
one years of age, and that he owed his misfortune and the
state of mind in which he committed the dreadful act, to
his bad conduct and disobedience to his parents. He had
been but a few days in London, and had no fixed lodging.
It was the opinion of the Surgeon that the deceased was
decidedly a madman, and it had frequently been necessary
to put a strait-waistcoat on him in the Hospital. Verdict
—" Temporary Insanity.l

Holyrood House, Edinburgh, where the election of
the 1 6 Scotch Peers lately took place, is one of the oldest
palaces in the United Kingdom ; it was built in 1128, and
thoroughly repaired in 1753,