The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-21 00:00:00

NEY MARKET.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

From the manufacturing districts the accounts for
the past week mention that business generally has re-
ziaiced very i*.nactive. At Manchester, however, both
Yarns and'picce goods have slightly aivanced. The
Woollen trade at Leeds, Bradford, and Huddersfield
has been very quiet, and little change of importance
Can be recorded in the hosiery and lace trade of
Leicester and Nottingham, although a more cheer-
ful tone prevails with regard to future prospects.
In the hardware districts, viz., of Birmingham,
Sheffield, and Wolverhampton, there has been
rather more activity in several branches of busi-
ness, chiefly, however, for articles made for home

About £66,000 in gold was taken into the Bank
° England on Saturday.

On the 24th inst. an instalment of 10 per cent.
becomes due on New 5 per Cent. Italian Railway
Lan.

The City continues to present a holiday appear-
'pee. The Stock Exchange is closed "by order of
the committee," and the attendance in other depart-
Thents of business has been thinned by the attrac-
tions at Brighton and other places, the brilliancy of
the Weather affording a great inducement to all
who can conveniently absent themselves to leave
town..

Enrrisn FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
SATURDAY.
%4...-
.per Cent. Reduced Annuities 92,1 8 8
3 Per Cent. Consols Annuities
New ,
0 per Cent. Annuities 92/ I a
India b 1 uek
,Ditto 5 per Cent.
!ISDitto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent 92
t.. Ditto 5 per Cent. lO3l 3
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 1001 1
Ditto ditto April, 1864 1001 f
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 1001
s'ellequer Bills £l.OOO, 3 per Cent 2l 18
POREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
pltador New Consolidated
l'alian, 5 per Cent (Maremmana Railway)
Mexican
Scrip
'texican, 3 per Cent
pDitto Aeon nt
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 —
RDAccount .
sian .5 per Cent 1822, £ St ..
Ditto 3 per Cent. 1859 .. 611 1
TParlisb. Cert. of Coup. not funded
urkish 6 per Cent. —
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account - 1
Ditto, £lOO Bonds
4 , Dividends on the above payable in London.
align, 5 per Cent., 1861 671
TWO O'CLOCK
938
93/ 94

CollRols, Money ....
bitto Account ..

6710CEING RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

GLOUCESTER, SATURDAY.
t A frightful accident happened to the express
tsin from Milford to London this afternoon. The
train leaves Milford at 8.15, arrives at Chepstow
/it 1.45, and does not stop again until it reaches
orange
b Court Junction, where the South
aka and Hereford and Gloucester lines
merge, and which station it reaches at 2.15.
Shortly before arriving at Lydney station, about
t/17° o'clock, and when the train was going at nearly
t
ft.! miles an hour, the engine, from some cause at
present unknown, got off the rails. The coupling
ne"lea were broken by the violence of the shock,
nd the engine ran along the permanent way for
4ul°tlt 100 yards, and then turned almost completely
no°er, on the up side of the line, the tender turning
ti/',el' also, and partly resting on the engine. The
i\?er and stoker (Henry and Barrett) were under-
'th the engine and tender, and were afterwards
rescued, though both badly injured ; the stoker
ha •
°lng received a severe scalp wound, and the driver
Ile rib fractured, besides being scalded. The train
t°lleisted of three carriages, a second-class at each
d, and a first-class between. The first two car-
lages broke away in an opposite direction to the
naine the first of them crossing the down line and
striking with great violence against the corner of the
k
'°(lde shed ; so violent, indeed, was the collision that
ll
°f the
of the carriage was knocked away, and one
the passengers in the first compartment—believed
t° be Mr. S. Bennett, tea merchant, of Market-
' ace, Bath, from a letter found in his possession-
-8 thrown upon the line ; his leg was broken and
:t,rekingly lacerated, it is believed by the step of
r Carriage, and he expired soon afterwards from
a" hemorrhage. In the compartment with him was
man who was wounded in the hand, and the
tcflange of the wheel cut away part of his coat and
leg of his trousers, but he fortunately escaped
'lthout severe injury. Several of the other pas-
-Bengers were more or less bruised, and one, a female
lltrl'ant to a gentleman named Baker, of Broms-
Zt°e, was cut about the head and face, but no bones
ere broken.

)43 soon as the disaster happened intelligence was
tiegraphed to Gloucester, and Mr. Ashbee. the
olperintendent, instantly obtained the attendance
Tl, kr. Barrett, and Mr. Clarke, surgeons, and started
BPecial train for the scene of the catastrophe.
eY found that the third carriage, in which the
t°nd guard was riding, had kept its place on the
lie, and ran some distance past the engine and
„k
`"r carriages before it stopped.
Everything that humanity and medical skill
ti4llcl devise was done for the passengers, and the
Iltiver and stoker having been conveyed to the
c/tel at Lydney, Mr. Ashbee returned to Gloucester
otu. the passengers ; they arrived here at five
wtklek, and were enabled to continue their journey.
son of Lord Tredegar was a passenger by the
Blain, and occupied a seat in the first-class or mid-
thatag of the tree ; the hon. gentleman states
hrre scarcely felt h
the shock.

0;11e will of Sir Henry Paston Bedingfeld, Bart.,
2°xborough-hall, near Norwich, and of Brailes,
vill'wickshire, was administered in London on the
Bth tilt. It bears date as far back as 1834. The
t
tcutors appointed being Edmund Jerningham,
sci• (since deceased), and Edward Norris, Esq.,
,°ho renounced ; whereupon letters of administra-
tlo/), with the will annexed, were granted to his
£O4 and heir, Sir Henry George Paston Bedingfeld,
'art.
e Lady Bedingfeld, the relict, having first re-
rinced the grant, her ladyship being the residuary
,gatee of the personalty-, but taking only a life in-
terest in the plate, library, and furniture. The
i eazies are few, and of small amount. The late
(„
Henry died on the 4th of February last, aged
He married, in 1826, Margaret Anne Bishopp,
VY child and heiress of the late Edward Paston,
' 41. He succeeded to the baronetcy and estates
;
44 1829, and in 1858 he was declared a co-heir to
the barony of Grandison.
A CURIOUS BIVALVE.—The compartment No. 12
}ic the aquarium at the Zoological Gardens of the Bois de
It has just received a stone containing a pholas.
first sight it might be taken for a mere petrifaction, but,
It'
e 4 closer examination, a very small hole is perceived,
through which this strange shell-fish has penetrated into
e Interior. This small hole, moreover, must not be taken
as
h a measure of the creature itself, which generally attains
length of eight centimetres, or three inches. The pholas
r,.
"1‘ Ascidia, vulgarly, called piddock, is a white bivalve,
ie
I,eatly resembling the common muscle in shape. When
tl).. Young, the pbolas commences its operations 'Ton the
It4Y, atone, or wood which it has selected for its habitation.
,geterally succeeds in boring a fine hole into the sub-
,7tice, and thus obtains an entrance. In the course of time
401 lows out a chamber sufficient for its growing size,
irtetrating further and further into the heart of the hard
ilbstanee in which it is now imprisoned without the pos-
a'bilit _
It of escape. Ihe instrument which the pholas has at
command for this mason's work is a soft, fleshy, and
tise'l lozenge• shaped tongue, with a somewhat rough
to"trace. When finished, the cavity bears some resemblance.
tohareo-pipe, the tube being that part through which
the Pholas has entered. It has two entrances, by which
„e tenant squirts out water ; and it likewise contains a
tTesPhorescent liquid, diffusing a strong light around in
Re dark, a property which it communicates to all it touches'
4eits are sometimes found pierced through and through by
th
e 4 creatures, and in all directions. They chiefly resid,
ear Ancona, and likewise on the French coast between
eehefort and the sand banks of Olonne, where the finest
e,:ieB, the pholas dactylia, is to be found. It is considered
bdelicacy, but very few pholades are brought to market,
ecause the only way to get at them is to break up their
vo,etles ; and as they generally haunt the lower stratae
ieh arc seldom left uncovered by the sea, it requires
4FeatTil activity to get a sufficient quan'ity of them for sale
' e rock from which the specimen of the Bois de Boulogne
I:htekerl, lies near Rochefort, and presents the curious sir •
metre, of a continuous perforation at the depth of a
and extending over nearly 10 hectares. During the
Gat equinoctial tides, when the rock is dry at low water,
to4lll:abers of men may be seen hard at work with pickaxes,
got thus shell-fish.