The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-21 00:00:00

7HE BLACKWALL RAILWAY.

Notwithstanding the numerous complaints rela-
tive to the management, or rather mismanagement
of the Fenchurch-street Station, the system so gene-
rally condemned, viz., compelling first and second
class passengers, indiscriminately, to pass a very
narrow and inconvenient barrier in front of the
ticket-window, in order to obtain the necessary
cheque to enable them to take their seats in the
carriages, still continues. Time after time this
system has called forth loud and general complaints.
At the meeting of the Tilbury and Southend Rail-
way company, a few days ago, an indignant pro.
prietor called the attention of the Chairman to the
fact, and, in no very complimentary terms, told
him of the great inconvenience, ladies more particu-
larly, were subjected by the arrangement, adding
that it was next to an impossibility on Saturdays
and Sundays for them to obtain tickets without
submitting to the total destruction of their dresses.
But the inconvenience is not confined to the days
mentioned by the hon. proprietor, and it must be
confessed that when a passenger is willing to pay
first-class fare, it is rather too much to call upon
him to crush through the narrow gangway in the
rear of a stalwart navvie proceeding to the sewage
work in the neighbourhood of the line to take his
ticket. If the window at present in use was closed,
and those on either side of it opened, two distinct
pay-places would be obtained, and thus a system
which is generally condemned would be readily got
rid of. The remedy being so simple, it is unac
countable why the directors adhere to the present
objectionable arrangement,

PROPOSED BANQUET TO LORD PALMERSTON AT
DERBY.—In about a fortnight it is expected that the noble
Premier will pay a visit to the extensive estates of Lady
Palmerston at Melbourne, in Derbyshire, and other places
in the surrounding neighbourhood ; and it is stated that the
leading inhabitants of Derby have resolved upon inviting
his lordship to a grand banquet on a day to be selected
during his lordship's stay in the county.
Mr. J. L. Ricardo, M.P, for Stoke, died yesterday
morning. He was the founder of the Electric Telegraph
Company, and by untiring energy succeeded amid great
difficulties in establishing a commercial telegraphic system
in this country. 11l health compelled him to relin-
quish the chairmanship, which was then accepted by the
late Mr. R. Stephenson. He was also chairman of the
North Staffordshire, and the Norwegianßailway Companies,
and a director of the London and Westminster Bank. He
devoted attention to all matters connected with commerce
and finance, and was the anther of " The History and
Anatomy of the Navigation Laws."

PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN.
—Names of candidates who passed the major examination,
Aug. 20, as pharmaceutical chemists :—John B. Bailey,
Reading; William H. Kitchin, Whitehaven; Sanderson
Flesher, Scarborough ; Philip Marrack, Crediton; Joseph
Ward, Nuneaton; George Welborne, Grantham.

" The state of health of M. Horace Vernet,"
says the Moniteur, "is at present causing uneasiness to his
friends. The Emperor has several times sent to make in-
quiries about the great painter, who has just undergone a
very painful operation. The state of the patient is still
very serious.

TEE EXPLOSION AT HOUNSLOW.—Yesterday
Mr. James Bird, coroner for the western division of Mid-
dlesex, instituted an inquiry at the Sawyers' Arms, Felt-
ham, touching the death of Wm. Shrieves, who received
severe injuries from an explosion of gunpowder at the
Barnfleld Powder Mills, the property of Messrs. Curtis and
Harvey, at Hounslow, on the Bth inst. The jury, after a
short consultation, returned the following verdict—That
the deceased died from injuries received from an explosion
of gunpowder, but how or by what; means the explosion
was caused, there was no evidence to prove.
In the New Court yesterday the jury in the case
of Charles Williams and Henry Duthoit Balch returned a
verdict of not guilty.
FATAL,
shocking accide
d "MUTATION OF SENTENCE,—The sentence of
Cents Passed on James Laurence, at the last session of the 1
"1441 Criminal Court, for the murder of his sweetheart,
at Hendon'
haRsAWAY been commuted to penal servitude for life.
party of factory
woaccrkeurred near Belfast on Saturday. A
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nt ACCIDENT IN IRELAND.—A •
curaion in a crowded 7 were proceeding on a pleasure ex-
tonhtact with one of the electric
over by the train.
upAothththeeineompany for
them was carrying ettra:t when a flagstaff which one of
wires, and the result vfte thac
citieeatwthris dragged out and run
allowing too many
casting the blam a jury found a verdict,
to- be racked into the carriages, so that the unfortunate
mall was obliged to stand in an open un.