The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-11 00:00:00

TUi SOA.Y EVENING, FEBRUARY 11, 1862.

L ATV IA TELLIG.ENCE.—(This Day.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.)
COMMERCIAL TRAVELLING-IN RE ROWSELL.

This bankrupt was described as of Richmond-road, Dal-
ston, commercial traveller, and now came up on an applica-
tion for discharge from custody.
Mr. Drew, Basingball-street, supported. The failure is
attributed to the insufficiency of salary, which had been sud-
denly reduced from £3OO to £lOO per year, on which he had
to maintain a wife and seven children.

His Honour granted an immediate discharge.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.)

IN RE TURNER.

This bankrupt was a licensed victualler and builder at
Penge, Surrey, and this was a meeting for last examination
and discharge.

Mr. Brough appeared for the bankrupt, Mr. Dowse and
Mr. Redpath for creditors, and Mr. Sorrell, Mark-lane, for
the assignees.

The opposing creditors asked for an adjournment sine
die, without protection, as the bankrupt had not filed any
accounts.

Mr. Sorrell said he could see no good from such a pro-
ceeding. The assignees wanted to get accounts from the
bankrupt, and it was not the way to get them by depriving
him of protection from arrest, as men could not make out
accounts in prison so well as when they had liberty and free
access to their books and papers. He (Mr. Sorrell) there-
fore thought it desirable that a day should be named, with
protection.
Mr. Brough said the cause of delay was the illness of the
bankrupt—and asked an adjournment, with protection, till
the 27th March.

Mr. Sorrell suggested that as there were many creditors
desirous of proving the proofs should be sent to him for
examination before the next meeting.
The list was very long (nearly 80 causes) chiefly first
meetings disposed of by the Registrars.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(.7I4 Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

CHARGE OP STEALING A CORONER'S WATCH AND
CHAlN.—Sarah Evans, a prostitute, was charged with
stealing a watch and chain from Mr. James Teague, coroner
and magistrat,e, of Ilighe House, Blakeney, Gloucester-
shire.

On the prisoner being placed at the bar, Mr. Tyrwhiti
asked where the prosecutor was ?

Godwin, 206 C, said the gentleman was in liquor that
morning, and that might perhaps account for his not being
present. The gentleman was a coroner, and he thought he
would attend.

Mr. Tyrwhitt asked what the charge was ?
The constable said for stealing a watch and chain.
It appears that Mr. Teague went into a public-house in
Holborn and had some drink with the prisoner, and left
with her in a cab, and on arriving at the Black Horse, in
Coventry-street, missed his watch. The prisoner was
searched, but the watch and chain were not found, and the
cab had driven away, and Mr. Teague gave the prisoner in
charge.

After waiting some time, prisoner was discharged, no
prosecutor appearing.

THE MURDER IN MARYLEBONE.

The adjourned coroner's inquiry relative to the circum-
stances attending the death of Mr. John Wincott, lately
carrying on the business of a butcher in South-street,
Manchester-square, was resumed this morning by Mr.
Humphreys, at the Bedford Arms, South-street, Man-
chester-square.
It will be recollected that the four men, Quail, Walsh,
Cox, and Poulton, on Monday week created a disturbance
in front of the shop of the deceased, and that in his en-
deavour to prevent Quail assaulting Byles, ho (Quail)
seized one of the knives lying on the shop board and
plunged it into Mr. Wincott's abdomen with such vio-
lence that death ensued in a very short time afterwards.

After the evidence, which was the same as tn.-:t given at
the Marylebone Police-court, had been completed,
The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against all
the four prisoners.

.ROYAL NATION4L LIFE-BOAT IN-

STITUTION.

A meeting of this institution was held on Thursday at
its house, John-street, Adelpki, Thomas Chapman, Esq.,
F.R.S., V.P., in the chair. There were also present :
Lai d Henry Cholmondeley, George Lyall, Esq., M.P.,
Sir Edward Perrott, Bart., Capt. Washington, R.N.,
F.R.S., Hydrographer of the Admiralty, Admiral Gordon,
Alexander Boetefeur, Capt. W.H.,Hall, R.N., C. 8., Colone
Palmer, Admiral Bullock, and Capt. Ward, R.N., Inspec-
tor of Lifeboa's to the Institution. The secretary having
read the minutes of the previous meeting, a letter was read
from Sir George Grey, 8art.,..M.P., Principal Secretary of
State for the Homo Department, to the Duke of Nor-
thumberland, President of the institution, stating that
he would take an early opportunity to lay before her
Majesty the loyal and dutiful address of the Royal
National Lifeboat Institution, on the occasion of tke
death of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort. A re-
ward of £l2 was voted to the crew of the institution's life-
boat stationed at Eastbourne, for putting off and rescuing
nine men from the barque Druid, of Sunderland, which
was wrecked off Eastbourne on the night of the 12th
ult,, during a heavy gale of wind. The Lytham lifeboat,
also belonging to the institution, had succeeded in bring-
ing safely to port the schooner Chance, of Preston, which
during a gale of wind and foggy weather had stranded
on the Horse sandbank on the 17th ult. A reward of
LS was voted to the crew of the society's lifeboat at
Dundalk, for assisting to bring the schooner Rook, of
Liverpool, to a port of safety on the night of
the 16th ult. She was found thumping on the
sandbanks on Dundalk Bar. A reward of £4 103 was
also given to the crew of the Tyrella, Dundrum Bay
lifeboat, belonging to the society, for rescuing the master
of the schooner Bellona, of Liverpool, which, during a
heavy gale of wind, was wrecked in Dundrum Bay on the
night of the 17th ult. A reward of £7 10s. was also voted
to the crew of the Southwold lifeboat of the institution, for
putting off and rescuing the crew of five men from a small
boat belonging to the schooner Princess Alice, of Ipswich,
which during strong winds and heavy seas had sunk on
Sizewell Bank on the night of the 27th ult. A reward of
£l2 was likewise voted to the crew of the Cardigan life•
boat belonging to the institution for putting off and
rescuing ono man from the brig Pioneer, of Carnarvon,
which during a terrific gale of wind was found on the
23d ult. in a dismantled state in Cardigan Bay,
Seven of the crew had previously taken to their own boat,
and had unfortunately perished. Rewards amounting to
£5l were likewise voted to the crews of lifeboats belonging
to the institution for putting off with the view of render-
ing assistance to vessels in distress, which did not, however,
require their services. Several other rewards were also
voted for laudable services in saving life from variouslwreck N.
A letter was read from the Lords Commissioners of the Ad-
miralty, granting permission to officers and men of the
navy to wear the medals presented them by the institution
for their intrepidity in saving life from shipwreck. During
the past month the institution had established a lifeboat
station at Kingsgate, near Margate. Another was about
being inaugurated at Plymouth, the lifeboat of this
station beinc, the munificent gift to the institution of Miss
Burdett Cots. A communication was read from Admiral
Sir G. Sartorius, stating that the Portuguese Government
had decided on placing five additional lifeboats, on the plan
of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, on the coasts of
that country, and requesting the co-operation of the insti-
tution in building the same. A letter was likewise read
from the Royal Thames Yacht Club stating that the com •
mittee had decided on voting an additional donation of £lO
in aid of the funds of the institution. During the past two
years upwards of 1,000 lives had been saved by lifeboats
alone from various shipwrecks on the coasts of the United
Kingdom. Sums amounting to £530 having been die •
penned to various lifeboat establishments, the proceedings
tominated.

TRIS DAY'S MARKETS.

HAY MARKETS.

SMITIIFIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 to £4 15s ; clover, £3
lOs to £5 10e ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s Od per load.
Trade dull.

CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 15s; clover
do., £3 lOs to £5 10s; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s per load.
Both hay and straw were in slow request at our quotations.
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 15s; clover,
£3 lOs to Lb lOs Od ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s per load.
A slow demand.

DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT.

Yesterday, about 1 o'clock, a lamentable accident,
causing injuries more or less severe to nearly 30
people, occurred in the Waterloo-road. For some
days past it appears that a sherifils officer has been
posted in ten of the little houses and shops on the
left side of the short street called Wellington-
terrace, running from the south side of Waterloo-
bridge to Stamford-street. The occupiers are tenants
of a kind of middle-man, named Jeffs, a builder in

the Corn wall-road ; one Jones, living in the vicinity,
being the superior landlord. They have, it is said,
in every instance paid their rents, due up to last
quarter day, to Jeffs, and hold his receipts ; but, in
spite of that, on Friday or Saturday last a distress
for rent, alleged to be due from him, was put into
every house at the instance of Jones, to the great
inconvenience and annoyance of all of them. The
houses there follow the incline of the roadwaT4 lead-
ing up from Stamford-street to the bridge, and in
front of them there is a space, about 611. wide, and
in places some 30 or 40ft. deep, covered over with
flagstones mostly, with here and there an iron grat-
ing to ventilate and light the abyss below. It appears
that yesterday morning " the man in possession"
of the house and shop there of a widow named
Clayton, a blind-maker, presuming on her forbear-
ance, left the place to go to a neighbouring public-
house for some refreshment. Her nephew, a young
man, occupying apartments with his wife in the
upper part of the house, taking advantage of the
absence of their unwelcome guest, locked the door
upon him, and on the man's return amused himself
by laughing and jeering at him from one of the

windows. The neighbours around and people pass-
ing treated this as a practical joke, and the fun

continued all the forenoon. At length the dis-
comfited bailiff, procuring advice and assistance,
attempted to break in the door, using for that
purpose and with much violence a piece
of short, stout planking. With this he stove
in two of the panels and effected an en-
trance. The nephew of the widow Clayton,
rather than allow his and her furniture to be
retaken for rent which they conceived they did
not owe, began pitching chairs and tables out of
the windows into the street. Of course, a scene
like that in a great public thoroughfare attracted
the notice of every one passing, and a crowd col-

lected in front of the house. Most of them unhap-
pily—men, women, and children—stood upon an
iron grating, about sir or eight feet square, near
the adjoining shop. In an instant this grating gave
way, and some 25 or 30 of the unfortunate people
fell pell-mell into the area beneath, a depth of about
35 or 40ft., shrieking terribly. Several others were
caught by bystanders as they were falling with the
rest, and so rescued. The greatest consternation
prevailed above and below. The people in the
street rushed down to the Belvidere-road, which is
on a level with the bottom of the area, to render
what assistance they could in the emergency. A
yawning gulph appeared in the street above. By
degrees the people who had fallen were got out
through an adjoining house an the lower level.
They were in many cases shockingly injured. Some
had both their legs broken ; others their skulls
fractured;, all were more or less wounded. It was
distressing, in particular, to see the bruises and
broken bones which boys of 12 and 14 had received,
and the grief to which their parents gave way. The
sufferers were conveyed as speedily as possible in
cabs to the nearest hospitals; the greater part of
them being taken to that of St. Thomas's, and the
rest to Guy's and Charing cross, except a few. who

lived near and were removed to their own homes.
One was a policeman who had been engaged in
keeping order; another a shoeblack boy, who had
his skull fractured.

Subjoined is a list of them, with the nature cf the
injuries they have sustained.:—Francis Raymond,
aged 41, 4, South Lambeth-road, injuries in the
back and left leg ; Thomas Baker, 18, 6, Cornwall-
place, Cornwall-road, right thigh fractured and
injuries to the face; Edwin James Robbins, 27,

living in the Waterloo-road, injuries in the abdo-
men ; George Clement Ridley, 14, 188, Waterloo-
road, compound fracture of the right leg and scalp
wound; Thomas Grange, 15, 2, Commercial-road,
scalp wound and injuries to the left leg; Edwin
Woods, 14, 20, John-street, Waterloo-road, fracture
of the pelvis and contusions ; Frederick Harriman,
28, 2, Roupell-place, fracture of both legs; Wm.
Hember, 11, 42, Princes-street, Stamford-street,
injuries in the right knee; John Wheelhouse, 32,
Hammond-place, Cornwall-road, both thighs frac-
tured and foot injured; Robert Larkin, 43, 15,
Felix-street, Blackiriars-road, injuries to thigh and
chest; Francis Cunningham (a shoeblack), 7,Woot-
ton-street,Cornwall-road, fractured skull; William
Venus, 30, police constable 142 L division, 52, Bird-
street, West-square, injuries in the spine ; John
Head, 23, 47, Wentworth-road, Bow-road, scalp
wound and injuries to both thighs; Daniel Mur-
phy, 35, 10, Waterloo-road, injuries to back and
chest; Sarah Harding, 41, 27, Old Nichol-street,
Shoreditch, injuries to right knee and abdomen;
Mary Goldsmith, 18, 11, York-road, injuries to
right shoulder and face; Fanny Robinson, 28, 1,
Cox's-buildings, Belvidere-road, injuries to back
and right leg ; Rose Metlock, 14, 191, Wellington-
terrace, Waterloo-road, injuries to the left knee and
chest ; Elizabeth Goldsmith, 14, 10, Princes-court,
York-road, injuries to both knees and thighs. (All
the above, are in St. Thomas's Hospital, and the
next two in Guy's.) Joseph Reader, 16, 181, Wa-
terloo-road, bruises and internal injuries; and
Thomas James, 16, 56, York-road, fractured thigh.
The next two are in Charing-cross Hospital-John
Mitchell, 22, 4, Strand-lane, Strand, scalp wound;
and Alfred Absolam, 24, 1, Exeter 'Change, Wel-
lington-street, internal injuries, not severe. The fol-
lowing were taken to their homes :-Thos. Dulton,
12, 31, Southampton-terrace, internal injuries, and
Henry Beard, porter,York Hotel, scalp wound. The
injuries in some cases are so serious that death is
apprehended ; but up to a late hour last evening
none of the sufferers had died. There are pecu-
liarly painful circumstances connected with the case
of George Clement Ridley, a fine boy of 14. Not
long ago his father and several of his little brothers
and sisters died of a fever, and since then his poor
mother has been struggling to maintain the rest of
the family and herself. She was well-nigh distrac-
ted yesterday as she accompanied her unfortunate
boy to the hospital.
It appears that after the iron grating had given
way it hung by the edge for a moment or two and
then fell with a fearful crash, carrying some of the
flagstones with it, upon the people who had just
been precipitated into the area below, and also
upon two children who were playing there.