The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-07 00:00:00

SEAFORD (SUSSEX).
A meeting of the bailiff, jurats, and freemen of the
corporation of this ancient town and port was held en
the 2d inst.
Mr. Henry Simmons (bailiff of Seaford) presided,
and introduced the subject of the Patriotic Fund for
relief of the widows and orphans of the soldiers, sailors,
and marines tilain in the present war, and invited the
co-operation of a local committee to carry out the be-
nevolent object agreebly to the Royal Commission.
Mr. J. S. Turner (magistrate) proposed a vote of 5/.
from the corporation funds in behalf of the Patriotic
Fund. _

Mr. James Booker seconded the motion, which was
put to a show of hands by the chairman, and agreed to
unanimously.
A local committee has since been formed, consisting
of the bailiff of the town and corporation, the resident
magistrates, the vicar, tradesmen, &c., for collecting
subscriptions, and the readiness with which persons of
all classes contribute is a gratifying proof that we are
engaged in a necessary and popular war.
Meetings have also been held in Liverpool, Ports.
mouth, Leamington, Warwick, Monmouth, Derby,
Arundel, Hythe, Penzance, Falmouth, Torquay, North.
umberland, Ballivasloe, Waterford, Nenagh, King's
County, and Tullamore, at all of which places handsome
sums were collected.

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FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE IVMT

LONDON RAILWAY.

Yesterday an inquest was held before Mr. Wakley,
at the Lord Wellington, University-street, Tottenham-
court-road, on the body of Charles Turner, aged 26, a
breaksman in the employ of the London and North-
Western Railway Company.
James Turner, brother of the deceased, having iden-
tified the body,
Frederick Laker was sworn. He deposed that he was
under-breaksman, and had been employed for some time
under deceased. On Friday last, on arriving between
Kilburn and Sudbury, on the junction of the London
and North-Western Railway, deceased got over the top
of some coal waggons for the purpose of unhooking a
portion of the train which was to remain at the Kilburn
station ; while doing so, the coal gave way, and de-
ceave sed
both fell
his legs.upon the rail, some of the waggons passing
or
Coroner—Then he attempted to unhook the carriages
before the train came to a stand. Was there any occa-
sion for him to have done so 7—Witness—lris object was
to save time, as the Aylesbury passenger train was dae,
and he was anxious to proceed, so as to leave the limo
clear for it.
Fatenination .continued—Had seen deceased do the,
same upon one other occasion. He wail not directed by,
any rule of the company to do so. —"Ere had been in thli
company's service three years, and was upon the point
of being married. He was quite sober at the time. The
train was behind time at starting, and they had bad luck
on the road, a coupling-iron having broken. Imme-
diately after the occurrence of the accident the train was
shunted into the siding, and, the passenger train coming
up. deceased was conveyed in it to the Euston station,
and thence to the University College Hospital.
By the Jury--There was no medical man called at the

time of the accident, nor wore the wounds bandaged. A
handkerchief was tied round one leg, which bled a great
deal. He could not state the exact distance from the
Euston station, but they were about three-quarters of an
hour doing the distance, including a stoppage at Camden.
The Coroner considered that the place where the acci-
dent occurred was rather remote, and that the very best •
thing that could be clone had been done.
Henry Kiallmark, house-surgeon at the University
College Hospital, described the injuries sustained by the
deceased.
The jury consulted for a short time, and returned a
verdict of accidental death.

SUSPECTED MURDER AT ROCHESTER.

ROCHESTER, MONDAY.—A most painful degree of ex-
citement was experienced in this city and neighbourhood
the whole of yesterday, in consequence of the discovery
early that morning of the body of an exceedingly fine
young woman, with her throat cut, and lying in the
ditch adjoining the land-wall, just above Rochester-
bridge, in a place known as Mr. Wickenden's meadow,
quite dead. The discovery was made by two men,
named Tidey and Walker, who, on proceeding round
the land-wall, about half-past six that morning, • had
their attention arrested by seeing a bonnet and shawl
lying on the top of the wall. It was scarcely light at
the time, but after looking about for some little distance
they discovered the body of a female lying across the
ditch, partly out of the water, the head and face being
in the slimy water, of which there was about a foot in
the ditch at the time. Having procured the assistance
of a police-constable, the body was taken out, when it
was perceived that deceaFed had received a severe cut
across the throat, but although every search was made
by the constable and others, no razor, knife, nor instru-
ment of any kind, with which the wound could have
been inflicted, was discovered.

The body having been removed to the Queen's Arms
public-house, inquiries were set on foot for the purpose
of discovering who the deceased was, and in the course
of Sunday it was ascertained that her name was Mary
Ann' Saunders, aged about 27, the daughter of Mr.
Saunders, who keeps as Alton ale-house called the
Golden•cross, High street, Chatham, and that she was

last seen alive on the preceding (Saturday) evening,
when she left her father s house in a rather hurried
manner. The place in which the body lay is a very
lonely one, and far removed from any house, the land-
wall, as it is called, sweeping cut to a bend in the river,
and was built for the purpose of preventing the tide
flowing over the adjacent marshes. The bonnet and
shawl belonging to the deceased were found lying at
some distance from each other, and the latter was
covered with blood on certain parts, as if used, by what-
ever individual it was who inflicted the wound, to atop
the fl )w of blood. A piece of rag, completely saturated
with blood, was also found pushed tightly into deceased's
bosom, - There were no marks of struggling apparent
near the place where the body was lying, the supposition
being that deceased must have had her throat cut first,
and then placed in the situation as described. On the
pockets of deceased being searched, only a few trifling
articles were found, but no money. This is in itself
fraught with suspicion, as deceased was well known to
be always with a supply of money in her possession,
being in the habit of assisting her father at the bar.
During the whole of Sunday the body was viewed by
several magistrates and medical men, the latter of whom
gave it as their opinion that the cut in the throat of de-
ceased was not sufficient to cause death, and that she
must have been placed in the ditch at that retired spot,
where she was suffocated by reason of her head and face
being under the water.

This morning a highly respectable jury was summoned
by the coroner, Mr. J. Lewis, and assembled at the
Guildhall, for the purpose of investigating the circum-
galices by which deceased met with her death ; and the
above facts having been adduced in evidence, the inquiry
was adjourned until Friday next..
The C,roner ordered that the keys found on the de-
ceased should be retained in the hands of the police till
the conclusion of the inquest, and gave directions for
the bores belonging to the deceased to be searched.

DEPARTURES FROM THE PORT OF LONDON.—The de•
partures from this port for the Australian colonies during
the week have comprised 17 vessels—four to Sydney,
with an aggregate burden of 2,098 tons ; four to Hobart
Town, with an aggregate burden of 2,085 tons ; three
to Port Philip, with au aggregate berden of 1,240 tons ;
two to Adelaide, with an aggregate burden of 1,202
tons ; two to Launceston, with an aggregate burden of
790 tons ; one to Port Wakefield, New Zealand, of 849
tons.
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morning
Blackburn, Leeds,l arts:ll,7in:
of a man named George Towler, of Farnley-wood;
unmarried, and 22 years of age. Towler had been
for some time labouring under insanity. Late on
Saturday night two men employed in watching the
furnace of the Fernley forge heard a noise near the
entrance of the furnace, and on looking out of their
cabin discovered the deceased standing near the
furnace mouth in a state of nudity, and his clothes lying
near. Before they could reach him he flung himself
head foremost into the furnace, which was at that mo-
ment filled with fifty tons of molten iron and glowing
coke. Every effort was made to draw him out, but
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cleared out, and such of the buildings
for the reception of goods are now as are at all fitted
In one place, near the font of a chars, used as warehouses.
has sprouted into a remarkable
ehe.re, a quantity of grain
floor of the building exposed to the" of
grass, and the
verdant and flourishing a mantle air is covered with as
seat. One of the wharfs h as the lawn of a country
purpose— not certainly anticipated
been put to a very useful
By the erection of woodenanticipated at its construction.
lent and commoilione shops
snore enthusiastic trader', w°
on the quayside, had a shed fitted theu
hoardings half a-dozen excel-
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hashave been made, and one
for "resolving
his reception
house"
on
veryit few days after the fire. The drapery goods of Mr.
arbottlc were yesterday dug from the ruins of the
building, and the smoke arising from the injuried mate-
rials, even after 21 days' interment, showed how requi-
site it was yet to bestow some watchfulness on the ruins.
—Newcastle Chronicle.
Tne FISHERIES.—Tho pilchard "harvest," as it is
usually called in Cornwall, has, we regret to state, bees
a complete failure. We fear the poorer inhabitants along
the ceast, will feel the scarcity most acutely during the
coming winter, and more p ixticularly so, seeing that
corn s advanced considerably within a very shorktimre,
with a probability that it will rise still higher. Them
has not, we understand, been such a scarcity of pilchards
for many years. . r
The mackerel season in this locality
Those which have bun
.has gone by with similar results. T
brought into our port have been either sent to the Lou.,
dbn markets, or sold here at an vzorbitut price,—ply,
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