The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-08 00:00:00

THE IRISH RAILWAY OATASTROPBE.

The dreadful accident on the Great Southern and:
Western Railway on Wednesday evening has produced
a feeling of intense atixiety—of universal sympathy for
the fate of the persons killed, and those who are suffering
from injuries received on the occasion. Many of the
victims were well known and highly respected in Dublin.
On Thursday Dublin was in a complete ferment, and
rumours of individual deaths were circulated which had
no foundation save in the imagination of some terrified
friend or relative of a possible passenger by the ill-fated'
train.
Subjoined is an authentic list of the deaths :
Mr. Jelly, Queen's County.
Mr. John Egan, Parsonstown.
Mr. M'Swiney, solicitor, Kenmare, county of Kerry,
and Mrs. M'Swiney.
Mr. Bateman, Cork.
Mr. M`Nally, solicitor, Dublin.
MISS Clara Kirwan, Abbey-street, Dublin.
Miss Margaret Palmer, Dublin. daughter of Abraham
Palmer, Esq., the Bank of Ireland.
Miss Margaret Leathly, 62, Eccles-street, Dublin.
Mrs. Smith, Mallow.
Mrs. Knapp, England.
M. Rill, Kildare.
Joseph Sherwood, servant of Dr. Stokes, Dublin.
The following persons were seriously injured, but are
progressing favourably :
Miss Ellen Farrell, Dublin.
Miss Emma Pack, Parsonstown.
Esther Cotley, Parsonstown.
Mr. Neville county of Louth.
A. child of Mrs. Knapp.
A- child of Mr. and Mrs. M'Swiney.
Mrs. Blacker, wife of Natham Blacker, solicitor of the
‘.. Customs, London.
"Ire. Croker Barrington.
Miss Esther Coffey, of Birn.
Sarah Jane Telford.
721 t is asserted that immediately after the collision, and
I+il
ere°"e..,the wounded were lying on the ground writhing
"Ilre, that some country people actually robbed the
more em. Miss Blennerhasset, a relation of Lord Guilla-
;ol'e,
fearyeas thus robbed of her watch, which was torn
;;11 her side. Several other allegations of robbery at
Taat ful period are reported.
tAn inquest was held on the bodies of the deceased
gtons on Thursday, and with the evidence adduced,
coroner caused James Gass, the engine-driver of the
the 5 trai_ e, James Bury, the guard, and John O'Hara,
luitir,,'Ker, to be arrested. The inquest was adjourned
‘l4lB day (Saturday).

FEdUL
SHIPWREOS.—THREE BUNDRED
AND FORTY-EIGHT LIVES LOST.

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trephesregret to announce one of the most terrible caters.'
the that has come under our notice for sometimneu,m--:
-.e to ,
blander loss of the ship Annie Jane, Mason, .
ashore
nd coast of Barra Islau ,
) belonging to Liverpool, which wasd
ddunnynegn
the on the iron- u ,
)0 recent gales on the night of Wednn—esdmayen,,twheom2Betnh,
`ut., when no fewer than 348 passenger
and Children —met.with a watery grave. Intelligence
of the disaster was first received at Lloyd's through a
communication from the editor of the Shipping Gazette,
w
11° Placed it at the disposal of Captain Halstead, the
secretaiy. The advices which had been forwarded from
heir agent at Tobermory, and, subsequently, the re-
Port of the loss, were confirmed by a telegraphic mes-
sage from Liverpool. The accounts, although some-
what brief, place the loss, it is feared, almost beyond a
doubt. The Annie Jane was a large vessel, and sailed
from Liverpool, for Quebec and Montreal, on the 9th of
last month, with some 450 emigrants, most of them
Irish families. It is presumed that she had made some
progress across the Atlantic, when she encountered
the late fearful south-westerly gales, which disabled her
said rendered her unmanageable, and in that hopeless
condition she was driven back and dashed on the
terrible coast of Barra, one of the Hebrides. With a
point called Vatersay, where the wreck occurred, the
island is six miles in length and two and a-half broad,
and lies some five miles south-west of the next island,
tist. The in habitants are mostly employed in the cod-
fishing. There is a light-house on the head, which is
the highest in the united kingdom, being 680 feet
above the level of the sea. Such is the terrible character
of the coast, however, that there is little chance of a vessel
being rescued when once it is. entangled among the reefs.
Several of the survivors contrived to get a passage
from the island over to Tobermory, a small seaport in
the Isle of Mull, and from them the authorities
learned that 348 passengers were drowned, and 102,
with Mr. Bell, the chief officer, and 12 of the crew,
saved. A message states that the master, Mr. Mason,
,as also preserved. The names o£ the passengers who
have arrived at Tobermory, are John Kingston, county
of_ Cork ; George brother to the former ; Timothy
Dineur, county of Cork ; James Edmiston, county of
A.ntrim ; Alexander M'Cormick, county of Armagh ;
Martha Tevanning, county of Cork, and some French
Canadians. The crews are James Boyd, James Mar-
shall, Charles Carroll, of Bay Chaleur ThomasGemmel,
Joseph Miller, Antonio Leitztt, Charles Bur
Wood, and Charles B (l on , Jame
...—...._

IN'
TELLIGENCE.
f this day.)
(From the 177-4.------journal
In dividend stocks there has been a fair
business transacted
Material alteration inag n this week, and without any
amount of
be
business is verpyri?es. In speculative and calling
ne submitted to in ord limited, and low prices have to
or two favourite mines.order to effect sales, excepting in one
Theof:_
.formation of another Mining Exchange is talked
and a meeting is to be held on Monday to arrange
preliminaries, by the appointment of a provisional com-
mittee, and to frame a set of rules and regulations, pre-
Us to calling a general meeting of the mining public.
awing in remembrance the causes of the failure of the
last Exchange, after about twelve months' existence, it
1,18 to be hoped that the one now mooted will be estab-
lished on a better foundation, and with rules not only
stringent in themselves, but framed with a determination
012 the part of the committee to put them in force when
occasion requires. The main advantages to be derived
from a Mining Exchange are, as it appears to us—first,
security to the public, and to the regular dealers in
shares, that all transactions entered into shall be com-
pleted within a specified time; and secondly the publi-
cation of an official Share List. Amongst those ac-
quainted with the mining market as at present consti-
tuted, there cannot be two opinions as to the fact, that
any plan which can be adopted to secure the first advan-
tage would be a consummation most devoutly to be
wished ; but it is worse than useless for any set of men
to frame laws, if they are to remain a dead letter. The
last Exchange failed through the inefficiency of its rules,
and the means of putting them in force. Let, therefore,
the promoters of the present embryo look well to its
main pillar of security, and the rest will be easy.
In the Metal Market, a most extensive business has
been transacted. Copper, tin, and lead are in great de-
mand, and maintain their prices firmly.
Considering the fluctuations to which all the other de-
partments of the Stock Exchange have been subject,
the gold mining shares this week have been supported
with remarkable firmness ; sales have, in few instances,
been forced, whilst there was at the same time some en-
quiry on the part of the public for the preferable de-
!Friptions. Yesterday evening, consequently, prices of
the leading stocks ruled generally at an advance on those
of last week.
In Miscellaneous Shares the market bas generally
)33Proved.