The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-13 00:00:00

S Ny JANUARY 13, 1847.

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moment the train came up to the spot, and the buffer
threw the unfortunate stranger on the line, with his
legs across the rail. The consequences may be easily
imagined ; both of his legs were cut off below the knee.
He was conveyed to the Cherry Tree, under the care of
Mr. John Reilly, surgeon, who happened to be at the
station at the time of the accident. We could not ascer-
tain his place of residence, but he states his name to be
Roe.—Herts County Press.
The National having stated that the directors of the
Rouen Railway had given the privilege of travelling by
it free of all charges to the first President of the Cour
Royale of Rouen, M. Frank Carr 6, who fills that high
office, has addressed a letter to the National, affirming
that no such offer has been made to him, and that if it
had he should have declined it, because, being a judge,
he might at any day be called upon to decide upon cases
in which the acts and interests of the company were in-
volved, and he should have been seriously wanting in his
duty if he suffered himself to be invested with such a
privilege.
WITHDRAWAL OF COACHES.—Yesterday week, in
consequence of the opening of the rail, two coaches were
withdrawn from the Ipswich road ; one, the " Old
Ipswich," driven for 37 years by that old favourite
coachman, " Tom" Emmerson, and the other, " The
Regulator," by Robert Sewell.—Bury Herald.
EDINBURGH AND PERTH.—The town council, it will
be seen, have, by a large majority, decided to take 100
shares in this new undertaking, and to assist its progress
by every means in its power. It is now generally re-
ported that two of the most powerful railway companies
in Scotland, too obviously interested in its establishment
to require more particular specification, are to lend it all
their influence in its progress through the Legislature,
for which every Parliamentary requisite has been pre.
pared, the arrangement with the old company for the
plans, &c., executed by its orders, having been com-
pleted last week.—Perthshire Courier.
How TO MAKE LANDED [AND RAILWAY?] PRO-
PERTY VALUABLE.—A very curious rumour is in circu-
lation through the district of rouge, in the vicinity of
the Croydon line. It is stated that a petition or
memorial has been sent to the directors of the London,
Brighton, and South Coast Company, from the inhabi-
tants of the above village, requesting or praying that
the benefit of a station may be extended to their imme-
diate neighbourhood. Now the rumour is, that Mr.
Schuster, who has recently rendered himself so famous
in the railway world, has purchased a large landed pro-
urty at or close by the spot where the inhabitants de-
sire to have a station, and that he is about to build ex-
tensively upon it. Can this be " cause and effect?"—
Railway Record.
ASHFORD AND HASTINGS.—The new line of railway
from Ashford to Hastings appears to be steadily pro-
gressing. NotiCes have been issued to all the landowners
preparatory to the purchases, for some of which the
company are already in treaty. The works are to be
submitted for competition during the present month. It
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sive work, for which no possible compensation can be
derived in the shape of traffic.—Dover Chronicle.
MANCHESTER AND BOLTON.—It has been already
noticed that, owieg to the recent accidents on this line,
a memorial was forwarded to the Board of Trade,
calling for an investigation into the state of the line.
In compliance with the prayer of the memorialists,
Captain Coddington arrived at Bolton on Friday, the
25th of December, on this mission. It was shown that
the lessees of this line, the Leeds Company, had already
put down six miles of new rails out of the ten, and were
proceeding with the other four miles, to put that por-
tion of the line in like repair, a course which Captain
Coddington appeared to think evinced a proper desire on
the part of the lessees to secure the public against future
accident; but he is said to have recommended that,
until the four miles not yet laid with new rails are com-
pleted, trains on that part of the line should travel at a
reduced speed. His attention was called to the state of
the bridges by which the turnpike-roads are carried over
the line. These bridges are flat ones, supported by
pillars between the lines of rails, and are so dangerous
that passengers leaning incautiously out of the carriage-
windows might suffer injury from them. One of the
Bolton Company's servants was killed in that way.
Captain Coddington suggested the construction of better
bridges, and that an arrangement should be effected,
with the aid of the county magistracy, for diverting the
roads whilst the new bridges are being built.
KENT LINE.—TONBRIDGE, MAIDSTONE, AND CANTER-
BURY.—A notice, with this heading, has just been put
into circulation in the county of Kent, signed by the
solicitors of the London, Brighton, and South Coast
Railway. It runs thus:—"The committee of directors
entrusted with the conduct of the Bill for the Kentish
lines promoted by the London, Brighton, and South
Coast Railway Company, have authorised us to invite
the co-operation and support of the landowners and in-
habitants of the county of Kent, and to state that they
will be happy to receive any communications in further-
ance of the objects of the undertaking. The committee
will take an opportunity of circulating a statement and
msp, showing the course of the lines, and the great ad•
vantages which their scheme of railway communication
will afford to the county."—Railway Record.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. - An accident of a
very deplorable character on the Eastern Counties Rail-
way, near Laken-heath station, which involved the loss
of two lives, was the subject of a coroner's inquiry yester-
day forenoon, at the Railway Tavern, adjacent to the
Brandon station. The names of the deceased were
Joseph Roderham, aged 31, and William Talbot, aged
25, both ballastmen in the service of the company. Mr.

Ashcroft, the irspector of the permanent wily, was
present to watch the proceedings. The evidence of two
witnesses thus describes the circumstances attending the
unfortunate occurrence : At daylight on Thursday
morning a train of twelve loaded ballast trucks was pro-
ceeding along the line from Brandon towards Laken-
heath, the soil being required to keep up the permanent
way. The deceased, with several other labourers, ac-
companied the trucks, in order to unload them ; they
were seated on the top of the soil. The train proceeded
apparently in the usual safe manner, but on nearing
Laken-heath, the fore-axle of the truck on which the

deceased were seated, from some unknown cause, snapped
asunder in two places. The body of the machine instantly
dropped, and as the train was drawn along the next
truck mounted the one that was broken, and the poor
fellows were crushed underneath it. Fortunately the
speed was not great at the time, being not more than
ten or twelve miles an hour, and the engine-driver per-
ceiving the disaster brought the trucks almost imme-
diately to a stand-still. On the disabled waggons being
removed, the poor fellows were found to be most shock-
ingly mutilated. Talbot had been killed on the spot.
Roderham, although his legs and arms were fractured
in a shocking manner, was still alive, but ere he could
reach Brandon he had breathed his last. Mr. Samuels,
the resident engineer, was sent down by the company to
inquire into the cause of the axle breaking. He exa-
mined the metal minutely, found no defect in it; the
cause of it breaking was a matter very difficult to ar-
rive at. The jury expressed themselves satisfied that
the company had adopted the necessary precautions for
the protection of such workpeople as the deceased, and
that the accident was the result of circumstances over
which they had no control. A verdict of " Accidental
death" was returned. The deceased were married
men. Mr. Ashcroft, on behalf of the company, directed
that every attention should be paid their widows and
families which their melancholy condition would suggest.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—A terrible accident
happened on Saturday last at the works of the Oxford,
W orcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, near Worcester.
This line of railway, which has now been in course of con-
struction for several months, runs eastward of Worcester,
and at about the distance of a mile from that city, is a
shot t tunnel (about 300 or 400 yards long), passing
unsitl. Spooner's or Rainbow-hill. To carry on the ex-
cavz.itions in this tunnel, two shafts have been sunk, and
it was at one of these shafts that the accident happened.
Th 4, soil, it appears, is removed from the tunnel, by the
use of large windlasses, and " skips" or large buckets,
men. being placed at the mouth of each shaft to receive
the skips as they are brought up from below. On Satur-
day one of the men, while engaged in the work of
Idrawing a skip upon the platform placed for its reception,
gat on his wrong side, and was in a moment, before a
h e3ping hand could be held out to him, forced off the
platform into the shaft, and falling to the bottom with
his head upon the rails, laid below for the purpose of
a ssisting the removal of the soil, was literally dashed to
pieces. The poor fellow must have died instantaneously,
for on being picked up it was found that (to use the ex-
pression of of his fellow-workmen) there was not a
whole bone in his body. The body was removed, and
now awaits a Coroner's inquest.
FIRE AT LAWSHALL.—About half-past six o'clock
on Sunday morning, a fire was discovered on the farm
c f Mr. Smith, of Lawshall, which, in spite of every
e ffort to subdue it, resulted in the total destruction of a
barn, containing 30 cooznbs of wheat and a quantity of
peas, the produce of six acres ; a stable, with harness,
all the tools, a good quantity of straw, and
in.atheduaphpoeurt
portion of a dwelling-house, which wasso re
tine roof and walls that it is feared the whole will have
to, come down. No cattle were lost, but the utmost diffi-
culty was experienced in blindfolding
Man through the flames. Suspicions are a horseenter to get
tained that
dais, like many an act of the same kind, is the work of
a.n incendiary; but as yet there are no traces of the
snalprit. This is the fifth fire that has taken place
within a mile of the same spot in two years, 31r
Nunn's, Mr. Cadge's, Mr. Reaman's, Mr. Smith s,the
!brother of the present sufferer, and that we record
Cambridge Paper.
EXPERIMENT WITH SULPHURIC ETHER.—Mr. R.
Lucas, veterinary surgeon of this town, on Monday suc-
cessfully performed an operation upon a large New-
foundland bitch whilst under
mthoeveinafiuteunmceouorf sulphuric
ether, ether. Mr. Lucas hyper re
animal, and, us an ment, he placed a quantity of
cd. a jar which had been previ-
the ether at the bottoh
ously heated. The mead
the
the bitch was then intro-
duced into the mouth of. jar, and the animal in a
moment became insensible.Duringthe period of in-
sensibility the operation was performed, and the poor
thing evinced not the slightest evidence of pain. In a
short time the bitch recovered from the effects of the
stupefaction, and is now doing well.—Liverpool Mercury.
The penny omnibus system is about to be put in
I operation by a company in the cities of Bristol and Bath.

P aicE SD.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

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12 o'clock train of the South-Western Railway, and em-
barked at the Clarence-yard in the barge of Captain
Chads of the Excellent, and were put on board the Echo
steam tug (the only steam-vessel out of nearly a dozen
in commission at this port in a sufficiently serviceable
condition to convey their Lordships to Spithead), in
which vessel they proceeded to the roadstead to visit and
inspect the Thetis, new 36-gun frigate, Captain Cod-
rington. Their Lordships were accompanied by Admiral
Sir E. Codrington, G.C.B , G.C.M.G., Captain Chads,
C. 8., and Captain Codrington, C.B. Their Lordships
were conducted over the ship by her gallant and experi-
enced captain, and expressed their unqualified approba-
tion of the internal economy and the seagoing efficiency
of the beautiful vessel, which certainly reflects the high-
est credit alike upon her constructors and captain. Their
Lordhips partook of a detainer, and remained on board
nearly three hours. They returned in the Echo, and
were expected to visit the Excellent, the Dauntless
new screw steam-frigate, and the Kestrel brigantine,
and conclude their visit by dining with the Commander-
in-Chief, Admiral Sir Charles Ogle. Their Lordships
sleep at the George Hotel, and return to town to-morrow
morning.
The Hyacinth, 18, Commander Scott, sailed to-day fur
Sheerness, to be paid off.
All the disposable boys on board the Victory (about
60) were put on board the Thetis to-day for passage to
join the squadron under Sir W. Parker in the Tagus.
The Dauntless is to be fitted for sea, and tried with all
possible dispatch.

COLONIZATION.
As the subject of systematic colonization is now be-
ginning to engage a large portion of the public attention,
the following memoranda relative to the Nova Scotia
claims cannot fail to be read with interest.
The Baronetage of Scotland was erected in 1825
under express stipulations, that no Baronet should be
created in Scotland except for the sole cause of promot-
ing the colonization of Nova Scotia; that the country of
Nova Scotia should be divided into counties containing

ten baronies, each three miles along the coast, and ten
miles into the interior; and every Baronet should
be a Baron of some one or other of the said Baronies, and
was therein to have ten thousand acres of property, be-
sides his six thousand acres belonging to his burgh of
Barony, to be holden free blanche, and in a free barony
of the Crown, as did the barons of the realm of Scotland.
The charter of the Premier Baronet, Gordon of
Gordonstoun, dated the 28th of May, 1625, and the
charters of the Baronets Campbell of Glenorchy,
Innes of Innes, Wemyss of Wemyss, Macdonald of
Macdonald, and Murray of Cockpool (now respec-
tively represented by the Marquis of Breadalbane,
the Duke of Roxburgh, the Earl of Wemyss, Lord
Macdonald, and the Earl of Mansfield), conferred
from the 29th of May to the 19th of July, 1625, are
made by the Royal Commission of King Charles I.
to the Lords of the Privy Council for creating Baronets
of Scotland and Nova Scotia (bearing date the 26th of
July, 1625), the regulating fundamental constitution of
the whole Scottish Baronetage, i.e. of all the families
made Baronets from 1625 to the Union in 1707. These
Charters, to which every patent of Charles 11., James
11., and William and Mary refer, contain clauses and
provisions to the following effect, viz. :—" The said
charters are, and shall be, valid sufficient and effectual in

all time coming in all parts thereof as set forth for ever,
to the said Baronets and each of them, in law against the

king, his heirs and successors, and against all other
persons whatsoever, in all his Courts, and those of his
heirs and successors and in all other places whatsoever

at all times and occasions, notwithstanding whatsoever
law, custom, prescription, practice, ordinance, or consti-
tution hitherto made, ordained, or published; or here-

after, at whatsoever time to be made, ordained, and pub
lished or provided, and notwithstanding any other cause
or occasion whatsoever."
The Charter of the Premier Baronet was renewed
and confirmed by William 111. in 1698—seventy three
years after the period of the first grant. The proceed-
ings in which the Baronets are now engaged for the
restoration of their rights commenced in 1835 ; and
between that date and the treaty of Paris in 1763 (when
the rights of the Baronets revived under the jure post-
liminii) only 72 years intervene. This is an important
historical fact in a case of this nature, inasmuch as the
precedent of the recognition of the validity of the
rights and privileges conveyed in the Gordon Charter
by the King and Government in 1698, ought to rule the
Crown and Government in the present day.
But the rights and privileges subsisting in the families
forming the Scottish Baronetage are protected by the
Act of Union in 1707, nine years later than the renewal
by William 111. of the Gordon Charter, i. e. eighty-two
years subsequent to the foundation of the Order—a
period almost exactly the same as that which has elapsed
since the treaty of Paris, in 1763, and this date.
Within, however, twelve years from the date of the
Treaty of Paris (viz., in 1775), various meetings of the
Baronets of Scotland, took place, when steps were
adopted for the revival of their common rights and pri-
vileges. Whilst somewhat later, in the months of July
and October, 1783, meetings of the said Baronets, and of
representatives in right cf their lands in Nova Scotia,
were expressly held in Edinburgh-Ist, because "mea-
sures were being taken in London, which might mate-
rially affect their interests in the estates granted to them
in Nova Scotia;" and, 2d, "to consider a memorial to
the Lords of the Treasury on the subject of their grants."
At the last general meeting of the Order, on the 7th
of November, 1844, it was supposed that no proceedings
had followed the meetings in 1783, but within the last
eighteen months two original letters of the late James
Cummyng, Esq., of the Lyon-office (who acted as secre-
tary to the then Committee of Scottish Baronets), have
been recovered. From these documents (which bear
date 30th April and 4th August, 1777) the following are
extracts :—" Our Baronets, not content with the re-
covery of their badge, are determined to apply to Go-
vernment for the lands granted to their ancestors with
their titles, and I have long been employed in selecting
the description of the boundaries of their lots (16,000
acres each) from their charters, and adjusting it to a
plan of the country on as enlarged scale which will soon
be laid before the Board of Trade;" and again, " I have
lately got extracts from the Lord Register's-office of the
patents of all the Baronets, with descriptions of the
lands in America bestowed on them, from which I am
to foam a plan of the grounds, marking each member's
name on his grant." These notices are decisive as to the
character of the meetings in 1783.
Two and a half million acres, out of the eleven in
New Brunswick as yet unlocated, would suffice to quiet
the claims of the Scottish baronets—and it is to be re-
membered, that since this question was raised, in 1836,
our Government has yielded up, to the unjust demands
of the United States. a larger portion of the roil of that
province by the settlement of the boundary question.
Further—within the same period, the " Irish Society of
London" incorporated by James I. in 1613 for the Plan-
tation of Ulster, have revived their objects after remain-
ing (as shown by Mr. Hall in his late work) for " above
two centuries as utterly unacquainted with their estates,
as if they bad been situate in Kamschatka."
But allowing no such precedents could be cited—
nevertheless the condition of Scotland on the one hand,
overburdened with population, and of New Brunswick,
on the other, now being settled in a way that is certain
to terminate in a vulgar republic, combine to form most
powerful moral and political reasons why the Scottish
Baronets should again exercise the rights and objects of
their institution. The Order was founded hereditarily
to promote " the opulence, prosperity and peace" of the
mother country and the colony—and with famine in the
Highlands, and one-tenth of the inhabitants at large-
-250,000 souls—in a state of pauperism, it is full time
that those concerned should, by a vigorous, united, and
patriotic effort, make the Baronetage the mighty state
engine of practical usefulness whereby (as contemplated
by its royal founder) each baronet in particular, and the
whole Scottish nation generally, shall have honcur and
profit."—Ross-shire Advertiser.