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London, England, 1865-03-02 00:00:00

THE SUB, LONDON, THURSDAY. EVENING, .MARCO 2, 1865.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

ROLLS COURT.
(Before the Master of the Rolls.)
TURNED, V. MANSFIELD-JUDGMENT.

This was a motion by the plaintiff, a part proprietor of a
mine at Bradford, Yorkshire, for an injunction to restrain
the defendant, who had some ironworks in the neighbour-
hood, from discharging any portion of the water from his
works into the mine of the plaintiff. It appeared that
originally the defendant discharged the mill at some dis-
tance from the mine, but that latterly it had overflowed or
had been so diverted as to get into the mine to the detri-
ment of the plaintiff's property, and from its noxious pro-
perties it was calculated to prove injurious to the health of
the parties employed by the plaintiffs. The defendant
admitted that from iron pyrites and other materials he had
to use in his work a very disagreeable smell was generated,
but he denied that it caused any serious inconvenience to
the plaintiff.
The Master of the Bolls delivered judgment, and granted
the plaintiff an injunction in perpetuity, but said he would

give defendant ample time before he considered that he
infringed the injunction.

POLICE INTEL LIGE NOE.— This Day.

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MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
A GENTLEMAN CHARGED WITH NEGLECTING TO PAY HIS
CAB FARE.-Mr. Wm. Burroughes, of No. 46, Wigmore-
street, Cavendish-square, was brought before Mr. Knox,

on a warrant, charging him with unlawfully refusing and
omitting him to pay William Joseph Newton, cab pro-
prietor, of No. 10, of Ann's-place, Milman's-row, Chelsea,
the sum of Gs. for the time of his cab.

The complainant said—About 11 o'clock on the morning
of the sth of January the defendant got out of a Hansom
cab, saying that he would not ride with such a brute of a
fellow any more, and then said to me, " I hope you have a
good horse, and are a civil driver. I will engage you by
time." The defendant then told me to go to No. 61,
Grosvenor-street. When I got there the defendant said,
"Is your horse quiet, and will he stand at the door." I
said it would, and he then told me to come into the house,
which I did. The defendant said ho was going to write a
note, and that he wanted me to take it to the
Lost Property-office of the Great Western Railway,
as he had left his hat in a train. The defendant then wrote
the note, and, on remarking that he had not put his name
and address to it, he said I was a clever cabman, and not
like the generality of them. I then went to the Great
Western Railway, but after waiting there some time, and
the hat not being found, I left and went back to No. 61,
Grosvenor-street, and to my surprise the defendant was
gone. The page told me that the defendant had said, that
as I had been gone so long he could not wait. I then went
to the London and Westminster Bank, to the defendant's
club, and afterwards to Nelson's Hotel, but could not find
the defendant. I waited there till two o'clock and then
left, and went again at six o'clock the same evening to the
hotel, and while speaking to the porter the defendant came
up. I told him what I had done and tho amount of my
claim, but ho said, " I will not pay you ;" but as I was
going away he said, " I'll give you a shilling, and if you
don't take it you shall have nothing." I then applied for a
summons, but the defendant did not attend.
Mr. Burroughes—l did not receive the summons, hav-
ing been in the country. Last night on going home I was
taken on the warrant.

Davey, one of the summoning officers—The first sum-
mons was left at Nelson's Hotel, the address given, and the
second at the defendant's club. He told me that he had
received one summons while in the country.
Mr. Bun oughes—l did engage the complainant to drive
me to my doctor at 61, Grosvenor-street, and then requested
him to go the Great Western Railway to get my hat and
cane back. I waited upwards of an hour, and then left.
I left word where I had gone, and two or three hours
elapsed before I saw any more of him. He said he had been
to the railway office, but I don't know whether ho did go.
I don't charge him with not going.
(The complainant showed a paper which proved ho had
been to the railway, and the hat was not there.)
Mr. Knox—You do not make a charge, but you have
made an insinuation—do not do it.

Mr. IhnToughes—l received one summons while in
the country. I waited so long for the complainant I could
wait no longer. What could Ido ?
Mr. Knox—l am sorry you have been locked up, but
you have brought all upon yourself. You ask me what
you could do. You might have left the money with your
friend for the complainant, and that would have saved you
all the trouble you have been put to. Ido not think, con-
sidering where the complainant went, he spent an un-
reasonable time, and he also brought back with him a
paper, showing he had been to the railway. The com•
plainant is a man earning his living, and a hard living it
is too, by driving a cab about the streets of London, and
he appears to have done all he could, and I do not think
his claim is excessive. There have been two summonses
and a warrant which he has had to pay for, and he has
had to attend here three times. You must pay the Gs.
claimed, and 13s. Gd. costs.
The defendant at once paid the amount.

MARKETS—This Day.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.

There was about an average supply of beasts on offer
here to-day, and most kinds moved off slowly at Monday's
currency. The extreme figure for the best Scots was 5s 4d
per 81b. We were fairly supplied with sheep. On the
whole the mutton trade was inactive, at barely late rates.
The best Downs, in the wool, sold at 6s Gd; out of the
wool, 5s 2d to 5s 4d per 81b. Lambs were inactive, at from
Gs 8d to 7s per 81b. Calves were in short supply and fair
request at full quotations—viz., from 4s Gd to 5s 8d per 81b
The pork trade was steady. In milch cows very little
was doing.

Per 81b to sink the offal,

sds s d
Crse. & d inf. beasts... 3 8-4 2 Pmeers-wool slicep 5 10 6 2
,ceond quality do t 4 4 8 Prime J'thdOiVil o 6 4 6 6
Prime large oxeu ..4 0 5 0 La ge coarse calv,s.4 6 5 2
Prime 8,..i0t5. &c,...5 0 5 4 Pr me small do .....5 4 5
Crse. and inf. sleep. 4 6 5 2 Large hogs 3 6 4 0
ecoud quality du ..5 4 5 8 Small porkers 4 2 4 10
Lambs....os c d to 0 Od.
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EuAling cafes, 19s to 225; slid quarter-old store id.s, 21s
to 20s each.

Head of stock on sale.
Total supply. Foreign supply.
Beasts l,lO Beasts . 360
C, ws .. 160 Cows
6 licep .... • • ........ 2.912 Sheep
Calves I7J Oa ves l6l
Pigs 36) Pigs —

Collision on the Great Northern Railway.

DONCASTER, Wednesday.
This morning, shortly before 2 o'clock, a most alarming
collision occurred upon the Great Northern Railway, about
midway between this town and Rossington, the first station
to the south. An engine-driver in the employ of the com-
pany has been killed and 16 persons more or less injured,
but no limbs are broken. It appears that an engine had
been with several goods trucks to a point beyond Retford,
and shortly after midnight it left Retford to return to Don-
caster, to run into the locomotive sidings there until again
wanted. The driver, a man named Robert Seddon, resid-
ing at Doncaster, proceeded in safety as far as that portion
of the line where the Gainsborough extension will leave
the main line, when he ascertained that something was
out of gear in his engine and pulled up. Knowing that
the Scotch express down train starting from London at 9
p.m., and timed to pass Doncaster without stopping at 127,
was due, it then being beyond that time, he directed his
fireman to go up the line and warn the driver of the ex-
press that he must pull up. Seddon then went under-
neath his engine, and from the fact that he was afterwards
found with a screw-key, hammer, and lamp close to him it
is supposed that he had ascertained something was wrong,
and had gone under to repair it, in the hope that his fireman
would be able to stop the approaching train. If this was

his calculation ho was in error, for before the stoker had

proceeded 40 yards on his way the mail train came in sight,
and in another minute, at a speed of 20 miles an hour,
dashed into the stationary engine and knocked it all to
pieces, killing the driver on the spot. The collision threw
both engines and two carriages off the line, and the engines
were in such a position that both lines were blocked up.
A messenger was despatched to Doncaster, and as soon
as the intelligence of the sad accident was received Mr.
Robert Storrs and Mr. Rueben Sykes, the company's sur-
geons there, were summoned, and a train was prepared and
despatched to bring down the wounded passengers to Don-
caster, where it was thought the best attention could be
given to them. After a delay of about an hour all the pas-
sengers were got out of the carriages, and it was then found
that 16 passengers had been very seriously injured, and
many others were suffering from the effects of the violent
shock they had received.
At Doncaster the wounded passengers were attended to,
and the rooms on both sides of the platform ware converted
into temporary hospitals, whore the surgeons as well as the
officers of the company paid the sufferers every possible
attention. The driver and fireman of the mail train had
an extraordinary escape of their lives, but beyond the
shock they experienced no injury, and no doubt many
of the passengers owe the preservation of' their lives
to the promptitude of the men in charge of the tele-
graph departments. The engine left Retford only eleven
minutes before the mail train, and its non-arrival at Don-
caster caused the man in charge of the signals at the cor-
ner of the car about a mile from the station to announce
to the night signalman at Rossington that the engine
had not arrived. The message only just reached in
time, and as the mail train passed the Rossington station a
few minutes behind its appointed time the danger signal
was shown, and the driver shut off steam and proceeded
from that point to the scene of the collision at about 20
miles per hour. Had the train, which was unusually heavy,
both as regards passengers and luggage, been running at
the usual speed of 45 miles per hour, the consequences
would have been much more fatal.

As soon as the collision occurred the company's servants
took the utmost precautions to secure the safety of the
traffic, and the up and down trains were worked by pilot
engine under the cliarge of Inspector Ruxton.
The passengers proceeded from Doncaster at 5 o'clock, with
the exception of six, who were considered by the surgeons
to be too much hurt to proceed with safety. Subsequently
two of these, Mr. Brown, of Brentford, and Mr. Henry Roe,
of Newcastle, were removed—the former to the Angel
Hotel, and the latter to the Elephant Inn: The other pas-
sengers were enabled to resume their journey in the course
of the day.

Mr. Sturrock, the locomotive engineer at Doncaster, Mr.
Ray, the clerk in charge, and other officials, were early at
the scene of accident and rendered every assistance. -
The body of the deceased man Seddon was removed to
the Railway Inn, where it awaits an inquest, which will
be held this day by Mr. Lister, the coroner.
Captain Tyler, one of the Government inspectors, has
been communicated with, and it is expected that he will
attend the inquest either this day or whenever the adjourn-
ment is held.

Shocking Accident at Erith.

On Tuesday afternoon, a little before fivo o'clock, two

ong-boats belonging to the Worcester, whichlies off Erith,
were sailing up the river, manned by 22 cadets each, Cush-
man, the boatswain, and a man named Locke having charge
of the one, and Cook, boatswain's mate, of the other. It
appears that when about to reach the Southern outfall, the
works of which they were going ashore to examine, one of
the boys in Cushman's boat lost a cap overboard, and Cush-
man called out to slack the fore-sheet to bring the boat
round, and the boy accidentally let the sheet " fly loose," but
just as several hands reached over to get the cap, a puff of
wind caught the sails, and she capsized, instantly plunging
all hands in the river to struggle for life at a" distance of
about two-thirds the way over near tho Essex coast.
Cushman struck out directly and called upon the boys to
do so too, and reach the boat, which nearly all did, and
hung on to her, as she floated lightly, having very little
ballast ; but unhappily the weight was onesided, and she
heeled over on to the poor lads, who by this time were both
cold and exhausted. Several of them were drifting down
with the tide, and calling upon Cushman for aid and asking
what to do, and he, bidding them keep up their spirits,
struck out and saved two who could not swim, whom he
swam ashore with. By this time Cook's boat came along
under all sail, and rescued five by thrusting out the oars,
and Cushman again plunged in to save a third, but in en-
deavouring to got his coat off, ho nearly lost his life, and
would have done so had not a'boy seized his sleeve cuff,
and by pulling at it dragged one arm out. By this time
nine poor fellows had sunk to rise no more, chiefly clinging
to each other, and Cushman had no less than five lads cling-
ing to him by the neck and feet, and with difficulty getting
free he caught one little fellow by the hair, as he was sinking
for the last time, and held him breast high out of the water
till a waterman's boat took the lifeless body ashore. A
noble lad, Denton, was seen upholding two of his com-
rades, and was swimming ashore with them, but a third,
catching hold of the brave boy's feet, they all sank toge-
ther within reach almost of the shore. Another lad, named
Beckwith, stimulated by Cushman's gallantry, dived in
again after having recovered a little of the exhaustion, and
brought one boy ashore who was sinking for the last time.
As soon as possible those rescued were taken ashore, where
there happened to be two medical men who applied every
restorative with the aid of Dr. Tipple, from Erith, who had
driven off to the spot on hearing of the disaster, the result
of which was that the poor boy that Cushman last brought
ashore was the only one pronounced beyond the power of
man to recall to life.

Cushman himself was so exhausted that on regaining
the shore for the last time he-fell forward into the mud ;
but Mr. Webster and Mr. Houghton of the Sewer Works,
and the other officials, vied with the workmen and navvies
in doing their utmost to relieve the sufferers, and are de-
serving of public thanks for their humanity and great
exertions on the occasion. Indeed, the navvies pulled off
their clothing without hesitation, and, wrapping them round
the bodies of the half-drowned boys, carried them as
tenderly as if they were their own ; and it was mainly owing
to the untiring friction of their honest, rough hands that the
lives of those fast ebbing away were saved. Cushman, in
speaking of their attentions said, "that Messrs. Webster
and Houghton, with the other officials and the labourers,
were so kind and attentive that the recollection of it un-
manned him," which it certainly did. Of course this
frightful calamity has cast a heavy gloom over the inhabi-
tants of the neighbourhood, equal almost in intensity of
feeling to that of the late explosion, and Capt. Whitbey,
of the Worcester, is in a very distressed state of mind. In
fact he and the whole of those connected with the Wor-
cester are seriously indisposed by the shock. Some of the
cadets were brought to Erith in Dr. Tipple's carriage, and
he is attending them at a private house, where they will
remain for a time ; others are at his house, and some have
gone on board again.

The boat was a very large one, and powerful as a man-
of-war's pinnace, pulling 12 oars, being Oft. Gin. in the
beam, and 28ft. in length, with a double back.

THE LOCK-OUT IN NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE.—
Wolverhampton, Wednesday.—lronmasters from
North Staffordshire have been iu this town to-day, and
have had an interview with Mr. W. 0. Foster, M.P., the
chairman of the Ironmasters' Association, and other mem-
bers of the committee, by whom the affairs of the trade are
now regulated. They have reported that the puddlers
evince no disposition to resume work, and that in conse-
quence it was presumed that the determination come to at
the great meeting of masters to lock out after the 4th inst.
would be adhered to, the resolution of the delegates of the
operatives come to at their meeting at Brierly-hill not-
withstanding. The official address of the delegates, pub-
lished this morning, was discussed, and regarded as of a
character precluding any notice from the employers. It
was arranged that the lock-out should be enforced on Sa-
turday, and circulars sent to the ironmasters throughout
the United Kingdom to that effect.

THE RAILWAY BRIDGE AT BLACKFRIARS.—The
Princess of Wales has granted permission that the London,
Chatham, and Dover Railway Company's bridge at Black-
friars may be named the " Alexandra-bridge," after her
Royal Highness.

LAW REPORTING.—The following are the members
of the council appointed in pursuance of the scheme of the
Bar Committee :—" Lincoln's Inn—Sir F. Kelly, M.P.,
Q.C., and Mr. W. T. S. Daniel, Q.C. Inner Temple—Mr.
William Forsyth, Q.C., and Mr. George Markham Gifford,
Q.C. Middle Temple—Mr. T. W. Greene, Q.C., and Mr.
J. B. Karslake, Q.C. Law Institution—Mr. W. S. Cook-
son and Mr. William Williams, Vice-President of the Law
Institution. The Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General,
and the Queen's Advocate are ex officio members. We
understand that Sir Fitzroy Kelly has been appointed
chairman, and Mr. Daniel vice-chairman of the council.
Mr. James T. Hopwood, of Lincoln's Inn, has been op-
pointed secretary.