The Sun.
London, England, 1836-04-06 00:00:00

PAISLEY.—Among the other branches of manu-
facture which now yield a lucrative employment to a considera-
ble portion of the population of Paisley, those of dyeing and
printing form a prominent part. About thirty years back, two
or three dye works, which did not afford work for more than
two or three men each, were the sum total of that department
of manufacture in the town. At the present day the number
of works of that description will be at least ten times three,
and on the average.we presume they will give employment to at
least thirty hands each. Only ten years back, cloth printing
was a branch of manufacture quite unknown in Paisley, but
during that short interval, and particularly during the last three
or four years, a great number of extensive works have been
established, and many others are in course of erection, all of
them affording well remunerated employment to a great num-
ber of both men and women of all ages.

COACH ACCIDENTS.—On Monday is the Magna
Charta coach was proceeding towards Lincoln, when about
two miles from Newark, a passenger fell off and pitched on
his head. The coach was immediately stopped, and the
leader taken off in order to fetch a surgeon; but the mes-
senger galloppcd the horse at such a rate as to cause his
death immediately on reaching the town. The person who
first met with the accident was not seriously injured.—
Tuesday the Wonder, Lincoln and Nottingham coach was
upset a short distance from Bracebridge, owing to the reins
breaking, and the horses running away. The coachman re-
ceived some severe bruises, but we have not heard that any
passenger was hurt. —Lincoln Gazette.—[ Whenever the reins
break the proprietors are exclusively and entirely culpable.
Such an accident as the above could not possibly have oc-
curred but from the criminal parsimony of the proprietors.
Reins to be safe evidently require to be renewed frequently.
Odd rotten reins often used by coachmen arc disgracefully and
dreadfully dangerous.]
WOMAN AND CHILD POISONED.—Some time
ago we noticed that a woman in the
.parish of Cleish, had died
under suspicious circumstances of poison having been adminis-
tered to her, and that a disinterment of the body was about to
take place, to afford evidence if such had been the case. We
are enabled to add that this has since taken place, and a scene
of double murder has been disclosed of no ordinary descrip-
tion, it now being brought to light that, not only did the mo-
ther fall a victim to the hellish malice of a neighbour, but also
her feeble offspring, who had only been a few days in this
world when it had the fatal poison administered to it. The
person who is suspected of this enormous crime is a woman
named Betsy Burt, who, under the guise of a friend, was al-
lowed to wait upon her unsuspicious victim, on her recently
being delivered of the child above referred to, and who seemed
to have desired this opportunity to gratify a revenge she had
long cherished against the family. The woman murdered is a
Mrs. Spark, a native of Berwickshire, and has with her
hus-
band been for some time in the employment of the Lord Chief
Commissioner Adam, at Blairadam. The prisoner is now se-
cured in Kinross Gaol. Arsenic was the poisoned adminis-
tered, and such an occurrence as this enforces the necessity of
druggists being extremely cautious to whom they sell this and
other virulent poisons, so often administered with such fatal
effect.—Stirling Journal.
BANK or ENGLAND At a meeting of the Pro-
prietors of Bank Stock, held yesterday in the Court-room of
the Bank of England, James Pattison, Esq., M. P., and Ti-
mothy Abraham Curtis, Esq., were re-elected Governor and
Deputy-Governor for the ensuing year. The ballot closed
at four o'clock, when the numbers were reported to be 87 for
each of those gentlemen. Mr. Wells tendered a protest
against the election, on the ground that under the terms of
the Charter the gentlemen reelected were ineligible. The
Governor declined to receive the protest, inasmuch as Mr.
Wells was not a proprietor of stock in his own right, but only
as a trustee. The Governor and Deputy-Governor were then
sworn in, and the Court adjourned.