The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-20 00:00:00

CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY.)

Daniel TVaddy, a barman, in the service of Sir.
Payne, landlord of the Black Boy public. house, in
Whitecross-street, was placed at the bar, before Mr.
Combe, under the following singular circumstances :
It appeared that certain circumstances having induced
the prosecutor to suspect the barman of robbery, on
last Sunday morning he searched the prisoner's box ;
at first the prisoner refused to allow it, but eventually
consented, when Mr. Payne discovered, scattered about
the bottom of it, upwards of 200 sovereigns. He ques-
tioned him closely, but the prisoner refused to render
him the slightest information. A constable at length
being sent for he said that one morning, a long time
ago, as ha was passing the Bank of England, he picked
up a bag containing 180 sovereigns, opposite the large
door going towards Cornhill.
The prisoner—l did pick up 1801. right opposite the
Bank of England in September, 1845. There was no
ground for Mr. Payne's suspicion.
The officer who bad the prisoner in custody said, the
prisoner's statement with respect to his mode of becoming
possessed of the money found in his box, must be false,
because no less than twenty-five of the sovereigns were
of the coinage of 1847, and consequently could not have
been picked up in 1845.
The prisoner said those coins might have formed a
part of the money he received as wages.
Mr. Vickers, who kept the Black-boy before Mr.
Payne took it, stated that the prisoner had been in his
service fur seven months, and during that time he
seemed to be in want of money, as, whenever he went
out for a holiday, he always asked for a small sum in
advance. He never saw anything in the prisoner's con-
duct to induce him to suspect his honesty.
The prisoner was remanded.
Mr. CONBE said that, under all the circumstances
of the case, he should accept the prisoner's own recogni-
zances in the sum of 2001. for his appearance.

CITY

ELECTION.

(THIS DAY.)

IMPORTANT MEETING OF TIE FRIENDS

OF LORD JORN RUSSELL, MR. PATTISON,
SIR GEORGE LARPENT, AND BARON

ROTHSC HILD.
A most numerous and highly important meeting of
the friends of the Liberal candidates for the representa-
tion of the city of London took place to•day, at the
London Tavern, for the purpose of hearing the
statements of the different candidates of the grounds on
which they sought the honour of representing the city
of London. Long before the hour appointed for
the commencement of the meeting, two o'clock,
the large room of the tavern was crowded to
excess, as well as every avenue leading to it, by
persons of great respectability. The outside of the
tavern was literally besieged, and that part of Bishops-
gate-street presented more the appearance of a
fair than one of the ordinary thoroughfares
of London. The cause of all the excitement was doubt-
less the announcement that had been made that it was
the intention of Lord John Russell to be present for the
purpose of explaining the grounds on which he sought
to represent the city of London in a new Parliament.
Lord John Russell, accompanied by Lady John
Russell, arrived shortly before two o'clock, and
was loudly cheered by the persons outside, as
were also the other candidates upon their ar-
rival. On Lord John Russell appearing on the
platform in the large room the cheering was deafening
in the extreme, and lasted for several minutes. On the
platform we noticed Lady John Russell, his Excellency
Mr. Bancroft, the American Minister, Mr. Pattison, Sir
George Larpent, Baron Rothschild, Lord Marcus Hill,
M.P., Mr. Trelawny, ➢I.P., .General Sir De Lacy
Evans, the Right Hon. Vernon Smith, M.P.,
John Abel Smith, Esq., M.P., Sir William
Somerville, M.P., Sir William Molesworth, M.P.,
Lord R. Grosvenor, M.P., Sir Denis le Merchant, M.P.,
P. A. Taylor, Esq., D. Salomans, Esq., W. Haves, Esq.,
the Right Hon. Edward Ellice, M.P., and Nathaniel
Meyer Rothschild, Esq.
Shortly before two o clock, J. A. Smith, Esq., M.P.,
was called to the chair, and proceeded to address the
immense assemblage.
(We shall give a full account of the meeting in our
Third Edition.)

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUN-
TIES RAlLWAL—Yesterday evening, between five and
six o'clock, a dreadful accident, accompanied with loss
of life, occurred upon the above railway to a fine young
man named William Cold well, in the service of the
company as a carriage cleaner. It appeared that the
deceased, who had no friends or relatives in town, came
up from York about nine weeks since, and representing
to Mr. Grimshaw, the station-master at the Snoreditch
terminus, that he had lately been employed in a similar
office at Huddersfield, requested a situation upon the
railway, and was engaged in the above capacity. He
had repeatedly exhibited the most foolhardy daring in
dashing across the hoe while trains were in motion, and
been as frequently cautioned on the probable result of
his folly, but treated the cautions with indifference, and
persisted in the same course. Ou the preceding evening,
about half-past five o'clock, he was again seen crossing
the line before a train, and was called to by Mr. Grim-
shaw to take care or he would be splashed to pieces, but
the deceased made a careless answer and walked about a
thousand yards up the rails, and at the very moinei:t
that a pilot-engine was running towards the station to
pull out some luggage vans and horse boxes, he
attempted to run across the line. He was called to
by several of the porters not to do so, but he rushed
on, and before be could reach the opposite line
he was struck by the engine, felled to the ground,
and instantly killed upen the spot, his blood and brains
being scattered upon the rails, between which also two
holes of considerable depth were dug in the gravel by
the force with which his body was driven along. The
engine was instantaneously reversed, and upon raising
the corpse it presented the most frightful spectacle; the
right shoulder was cut and mangled in the most horrible
manner, the arm only holding to the trunk by a few of
the ligaments, and the flesh was torn away beneath the
shoulder, exhibiting a large hole, through which the
cavity of the body was perfectly visible; in addition to
which, the whole of the upper half of the head, from the
mouth to the crown of the skull, was completely crushed
off, the latter injury being manifestly inflicted by one of
the wheels of the engine, and that to the trunk and
shoulder by the guard of the wheel, a projecting piece of
iron, about a yard long, and half an inch in thickness.
Mr. Richardson, the company's superintendent, and Mr.
Grimshaw hastened to the spot, upon learning the occur-
rence, and immediately procured the attendance of Mr.
Wildbore, the surgeon of Shureditch; but the latter
gentleman, upon his arrival, pronounced life to be totally
extinct, and said that the man must, as a matter of
course, have been dead the instant he was struck by the
engine. All the persons present at the time of the
calamity concur in describing the occurrence as purely
accidental, and that it was wholly owing to the rashness
of the deceased's own conduct.
THE EXHIBITION AT WESTMINSTER HALL.—Yes-
terday the p ctute; and works of ar& at Wenttnit,ttil.
all, intended fur the decor,:ltion of the. New Hoes,. of
Parliament, were opened to public inspection gratis.
The collection was yesterday visited by upwards of
60,000 persons.

AQUATICS.
LAMBETH REGATTA.

The annual oars' contest for a purse of sovereigns,
subscribed by the ladies and gentlemen of Lambeth, took
place yesterday, and was both numerously and respecta-
bly attended. The race was in three heats, with twelve
watermen, many of whose names must be familiar to our
aquatic readers.