The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-03 00:00:00

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ijiiThrE- WNG, DECEMBER 3, 1853,

PUNCH'S POCKET BOOK, FOR 1854.

Illustrated by John Leech and John Tenniel,

Punch-office.

It was a fortunate thing for Punch, that imme-
diately on the retirement of the incomparable
Richard Doyle—the celebrant of " Ye Manners and
ye Customs of ye Englishe," and the immortaliser
of "Messrs. Brown, Jones, and Robinson"—the
proprietors secured in John Tenniel an illustrator
worthy of being the colleague of that inimitable
artist of. the leech-bottle. Of the really remark-
able ability of Tenniel as a humourist, we take his
ni linings in the new specimen of Punch's Pocket
Book (for 1854) as conclusive attestation. Testi-
mony of this may be found in the sketches
of the Queen and Prince Albert riding on the
Lion and the Unicorn ! In Gob and Magog
angling for Turtle ! In Field Marshal Punch sur-
veying his army in battle array from an eminence,
in his capacity as Commander-in-Chief ! In a fly
of a numskull client entangled in the network of the
law and seized incontinently therein by a spiderous
barrister ! In a wonderfully comical group of Punch
(again ! like Mr. Spenlow) in the aspect of a leer-
ing Assyrian Lion, viewed by a yokel of a British
Lion with spindle ancles and a smock frock ! In a
goblin drollery of Punch armed cap-it-pie bestrid-
ing a heraldic griffin—the griffin, by the way,
intensely prancant ! Punch (again !) kissing
a barmaid—himself clad in the costume of a thea-
trical postilion ! And finally, an exquisitely-absurd
representation of Punch in his character as a father
rushing wildly into the nursery to chastise a cluster of
fractious infant Punches! Leech's principal contribu-
tion to the Pocket Book is, as formerly, the coloured
frontispiece. This time, "Topsy Turvy, or our Anti-
podes"—Regent-street in Australia ! A party of
ruffian gold-diggers waited upon by members of
what we have been hitherto wont to call the supe-
rior classes of civilised society ! One cut-throat
bawling, " Now, then, you master of arts, look
sharp with that pale ale !" Another yelling,
" folio, there, you intellectual being, where the
doose are my highlows ?" Besides these, Leech
has some capital little sketches in the second part
of the Pocket Book as embellishments to a very
indifferent jumble of prose and metrical contribu-
tions of a ludicrous character. Punch contrives, of
course, as usual, to render his merry little " Pocket
Book" useful as an Almanack, and mingles with
his fun (both pictorial and literary) a mass of sound
business information.

LOSS OF A HULL STEAM-SHIP AND ONE
HUNDRED AND SEVENTY LIVES.

On Thursday afternoon a rumour was very current in
the town of Hull, that the Marshall, a steam screw-ship
of 300 tons, belonging to the Elbe Humber Steam Na-
vigation Company, and trading between Hull and Ham-
burgh, was lost, with a large number of souls on board.
The Marshall left Hamburgh on Saturday evening last,
and the Elbe on Sunday. She had on board a large and
valuable cargo, and upwards of 150 emigrants, besides
her crew, about 18 in number. She should, in the or-
dinary course of events, have arrived in Hull on Monday
evening, but up to 3 p.m. on Friday she had not made
her appearance. On Wednesday one of her boats was
picked up in the North Sea by a fishing-smack, named
the Flirt, and it has been brought to Hull and landed.
The crew of the barque Woodhouse, Captain Gatgens,
from Stockholm, state that between ten and eleven
o'clock on Monday night last, the weather at the time
being very thick and the night very dark, a screw
steamer came in collision with their vessel near the New-
sand Float, just as she was making for the Humber.
They further state that they hailed the steamer, and
asked her name, but no reply was given ; and it is there-
fore supposed that she must have gone down head fore-
most, and that the passengers, who would be in their
berths below at the time of the collision. have all met
with a watery grave. The steamer first struck the
Woodhouse on the bow, and then, swinging round,
caught her on the stern. In making some repairs im-
mediately after the collision, a young man, named Ed-
ward Burn belonging to the Woodhouse, fell overboard,
and was drowned.

It is reported that the crew of a Prussian vessel,
which has arrived at Hull, had heard on Monday night
cries of distress from a vessel at sea. At the time men-
tioned, between ten and eleven o'clock, the Prussian
had a narrow escape from collision with a paddle-wheel
steam-ship from the south.

THE LATE COLLISION ON THE LONDON AND
NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY.

The collision which took place on the London and
North-Western Railway, on Thursday, between two ex-
press trains, near Berkhampstead, proves to have been
much more serious in its character and results than has
already been stated or was anticipated.
The 9 a.m. express train out left the Euston station
at its proper time, consisting of the engine, two first-
class and one second-class carriages, and two breaks.
Nothing occurred to attract notice till the train arrived
in the Northchurch tunnel, between Berkhampstead and
Tring, when the driver fancied there was an unusual
motion, and immediately on emerging from the tunnel,
whore there is an ascent of the line, the crank axle of
'`the engine broke, and the engine ran for several hun-
drAtyAtelli, rearing up, with its foremost wheels com-
pletely off the line. This circumstance rendered it
extremely difficult for the driver to shut off his steam.
He had scarcely done so when the engine left the
down line, and dashed across up the bank, throw-
ing the two first-class carriages and the guard's
break-van across the up line. In this break was the
unfortunate guard Blaney, and in the first-class carriages
were a number of gentlemen who were going down to
the vicinity of Aylesbury, to attend the meet of Baron
Rothschild's hounds. The latter fortunately escaped
with but a few slight contusions. At the time of the
accident to the down express, which occurred about a
quarter to ten o'clock, the 7.30 up express train from
Birmingham had left Tring, and although every precau-
tion was taken to stop its progress, the steam upon her
engine was so great that it was impossible to stop its speed
before itthme into collisionwith the alreadydisabled express
train lying on the up line. The poor guard of the down ex-
press, Blaney, was no doubt killed by the first accident, as
the attention of the hunting gentlemen was attracted by
groans proceeding from the foremost break ; they were in
the act of removing him therefrom when the whistle of
the up coming express warned them of their danger, and
they had to run to save their own lives. In an instant
the collision took place. The first-class carriages and
the break-van already thrown over, were shattered to
pieces, and the carriages, as well as the passengers, in
the up express-train sustained a violent shock ; but,
singular to relate, although both engines were thrown
off the line, the drivers and stokers escaped with but
very slight injuries. The guard of the down-train,
Blaney, was, soon after the collision, discovered amongst
the debris of the break frightfully mutilated and quite
dead. His body was conveyed to the Crooked Billet, at
Northchurch, where it awaits an inquest. Nothing of
any consequence happened to the passengers of the
down express, but many of those who were in the up-
train 'suffered severely in the shape of cuts and contu-
sions by the collision, and two or three are so seriously
injured about the head and face, that they were obliged
to be conveyed to the Swan Hotel, at Berkhampstead,
where'they remain at present under medical treatment.
It appears that Mr. H. P. Bruyeres, the General
Superintendent of the line, was on the spot imme-
diately after the accident, as he happened to be tra-
velling down by the train immediately following the
express, leaving Euston at half-past nine. He imme-
diately issued orders to stop the traffic both up and down,
but considerable delay ensued in communicating what
had happened to the London Terminus, in consequence
of the telegraph being broken by the accident. A large
number of workmen were, however, in the course of the
morning despatched to the scene of the disaster, and in
three or four hours after their arrival the line was cleared.

The report yesterday was, that the injured passengers
were progressing favourably. The inquest on the guard,
Blaney, is appointed to take place at eleven o'clock this
(Saturday) forenoon.

APOTHEGARIES' HALL—Names of gentlemen who
passed their examination in the science and practice of
medicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thurs-
day December 1, 1853 :—Charles Slater Adams, Wed.
nesbury, Staffordshire ; William Roberts, Mynyddy-
Gof, Anglesea; William Henry Ludlow, Leir, Leicester-
shire.

In our report of the proceedings of the Metropolitan
and General Freehold Land Society, yesterday, the
number of rights to choose allotments should have been
about 800, and those the society had marked off, by
supplying them with land valued at 15,0001., to about
600. The capital of this flourishing society amounts to
close upon 100,000/.

SUSPECTED MURDER IN SCOTLAND.-011 the eTen-
ing of Monday the 21st instant, a man in the prime
of life, named M'Donald, holding a small farm in the
parish of St. Fergus, near Peterhead, left his home
to proceed on some business to the blacksmith's shop,
situated at some little distance, and as he did not
return the same night, his friends naturally became
alarmed about him. The next morning he was found
lying dead in a field, with a discharged pistol by his
side, by a bullet from which, it was evident, he had
come by his death. It was at first conjectured that he had
committed suicide, but when tidings of the event reached
Peterhead, the agent of the Northern Insurance Com-
pany there—in which office M`Donald's life had been
insured for 500/.—was led to suspect, from the cir-
cumstance that the insurance had not been effected bh9
' M'Donald himself, but by another person, a Dr- Sm;:otul
residing in St. Fergus, that there had been
play in the matter. This suspicion was
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strengthened when 'it was ascertained
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of the unfortunate man was insured t
insured son in a second office for 500/., and in b ayh te h re ci 1. ; n
donian, for 1,000/. ; and further, that
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for in this latter office was only
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one
the period of the policy
wouldtee .and, consequently,
of a few days from the present darel months the pre-
the Cale
if M'Donald survived the
tv'ss.,°ould b© lost money.
mium paid on the
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was lying, a that the
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discovered the dead man
shot had taken effect, M'Donald
pistol could have been Bred
has been apprehended, and
M`Donald himself. The
on the charge of hav-
result was of Peterhead,
now lies in the gaolned in the death of the deceased.—Edin-
ing been concerned Smith
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