The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-29 00:00:00

PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.

J. Ji rid, Brynmawr, Breconshire, shopkeeper, 45., on
Widne slay, Oct. 13. or any subsequent;Wednesday,
between: the hours of ten and twelve, at the office of Mr.
Miller, Bristol.

J. Falmouth, general furnishing ironmonger,
Is. 6d , aJny Tuesday after Oct. 6, between the hours of
eleven a ni 1 two, at the office of Mr. Hirtzel, Exeter.

J. W. Marvey, Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, grocer,
2s. 6d.1 any Tuesday after Oct. 6, between eleven and
two, at tb4 office of Mr. Hirtzel, Exeter.

R. Loos' more, Tiverton, Devonshire, scrivener, 6d.,
any Tuescla ty after Oct. 6. between the hours of eleven
and two, at the office of Mr. Hirtzel, Exeter.

J. Shepherd and B. Shepherd, Exeter, wine and spirit
merchants, 45., any Tuesday after Oct. 6, between the
hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Hirtzel,
Exeter.

H. Lov utt, Liverpool, merchant, 45., on Thursday,
Oct. 7, or, any subsequent Thursday, between the hours
of eleven etsd two, at the office of Mr. Cszenove, Liver-
pool.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
J. Looln vood, Upper Baker-street, Dorset-square,
builder, Q Jt. 19, at half-past one—J. H. Llewellyn,
Strand, stir; ;eon, Oct. 19, at half-past one—G. South
well, Whit stable, Kent, baker, Oct. 19, at twelve—E.
Thomas, ldersgate-street, City, draper, Oct. 19, at
eleven—J. M'Kenna, George-street, Hanover-square,
and Russe II -street. Chelsea, tailor, Oct. 21, at half-past
two—S. H -tup, Neithrop, Oxfordshire, carpenter, Oct.
19, at tweil.lie—P. Colston, Ashley-terrace, City-road,
silk mercer,. Oct. 20, at half-past twelve—E. Wood,
King Willie m a-street, City, tobacconist, Oct. 21, at half-
past one—J.. Barlow, sen., and J. Gill, Calvert's-build-
ings, South' n, ark, and Maidstone, hop factors, Oct. 20,
at half-past 1' ,velve—C. J. Hamilton, High street, Isling-
ton, bookse Is ler, Oct. 19, at one—W. H. Trencher,
Regent-stret it Quadrant, furrier, Oct. 19, at two—H. C.
Broom, Law ri .ante Pountney hill, City, grocer, Oct. 19,
at eleven—El. Smith, Brentwood, Essex, cheesemonger,
Oct. 19, at t e .o.

In the Country.
T. Hunter, Bishopswearmouth, Durham, grocer, at
the Court, ewcastle-upon-Tyne, Oct. 19, at eleven—J.
Newman, Fr a mpton Cotterell, Gloucestershire, carpenter,
at the Court 5, Bristol, Oct. 19, at eleven—W. Crump,
Abergavenn y , Monmouthshire, earthenware-dealer, at
the Court, !3 r istol, Oct. 21, at half-past twelve—T. Hill,
Liverpool, it o nmonger, at the Court, Liverpool, Oct. 19,
at eleven—S,. S. Hargill, Newlay, Yorkshire, at the
Court, Leed.s, Oct. 21, at eleven—L. Marshall, Northal-
lerton, York sh, ire, grocer, at the Court, Leeds, Oct. 21,
At eleven—J', F oster and W. Davey, Hunslet, Yorkshire,
flax-spinners, at the Court, Leeds, Oct. 21, at eleven—
EL Evans, Fires nor, Derbyshire, builder, at the Court,
Nottingham„ O ct. 29, at eleven—A. Smith, Leicester,
worsted-spins ter. at the Court, Nottingham, Oct. 29, at
eleven—R. I !prices, Edgbaston, Warwickshire, wine-
merchant, at the Court, Birmingham, Nov. 13, at twelve
Garda s r, Nottingham, baker, at the Court, Not-
tingham, Of t. 22, at eleven—C. Tabor and W. Clarke,
Nottingham. , lace-manufacturers, at the Court, Notting-
ham, Oct. 21 2, at eleven—J. H. Denner, Noitirgham,
pawnbroker, at the Court, Nottingham, Oct. 22, at
eleven—W. B. Cooke, Repton-road, Derbyshire, tape-
manufactur e r, at the Court, Nottingham, Oct. 22, at
half-past tei ". —R. Weston, Manchester, music•seller, at
the Court, Yi anchester, Oct. 20, at twelve—W. Wain,
Manchester, socket-book maker, at the Court, Man-
chester, Oct. at twelve.
ittruZ-ke Court of Review, Oct. 19.
R. Serge nut, Maidstone, oilman—W. F. Westall,
Manchester, ihotel4teeper—Mary Elizabeth Bell, Finch-

lane, Cornhill, newsvender----.T. llaly, Suir--w-street.
S:rand, and St. Peter's-:.Ley, Coruhill,
Parton, Poole, innkeeper-IR. Alrotnersl,-y, Stony Strat-
ford, Buckinghamshire, hat manufacturer—Sarah Bow-
ring, Pendleton, Lancashire, plumber.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

W. Colter and W. C,l“,r, juin, Narrow-,trei4,
riggers and ship .-han‘ilers—C. and V.
E. Richardson, Selby, Yorkshire, attorney.. and ,olicitors
—W. H. Cope, J. Shaw, W. Robins, H. Crutchley, G.
Lloyd, J. Horton, E. Deeley, S. Horton, .T Earlier, J.
H. Pideoek, G. Jones, and B. SiAley, Patkfi,l,i Lon
works, Staffordshire, ironunisters (as far as r: gards G.
Jones and J. Barker)—F. Jay and C. A. Bartl:
Paternos':er-row, propri: tors of the Rey. W. Ja-:'s wo%
—G. Staples, G. Trotter, T. Tuckett, anti IV. J:icksor,
Gloucester, coaehbuilders—C_ I. Humble arid IV, Mti
bourne, Bishonwearmouth, Durham. ship ;:nil insura;:,q,
brokers—R. Barton, C. R. Rcbinson., F. llobilvon,
and E. Robinson, Manchester, merchants and calico.
printers (as far as regards F. Robinson)—S. Taylor and
J. Lamb. 11Ierchesier and Choriton upon- Medlock.
grocers—T. Hunter and D. R. G. Walker, Budlei;t,,
Salterton, Devonshire, surgeons, apothecaries, and ac
coucheurs—R. White and J. Gillard, Plymouth, coal
merchants and shipowners—B. Westrop and J. A.
Melhado, Old Broad: street, City, stock and share-
brokers—P. Guy, R. Brown, and IL Brown, Brecknock-
place, Camden-town, cabinet-makers, upholsterers, and
joiners—C. Coventry and J. Hollier, Dean-street, Soho,
music-sellers and publishers—J. Lester and H. M. Jack-
son, Crown-street, Finsbury—J. Malcomson, J. Mal-
comson, J. Malcomson, R. Malcomson, W. Malcomson,
T. Malcomson, and W. Archer, Liverpool—S. Blakeley,
J. Blakeley, and J. Nuttall, Liverpool, masons and
builders (as far as regards J. Nuttall)—C. N. Robertson
and T. Garland, Church-street, Hackney, schoolmasters
—II. Hirst, jun., and C. Farrar, Huddersfield, fame)
woollen manufacturers—W. Matthews and R. Matthews,
High Holborn, sta'ioners.
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
Jason Boulton, Ipsley, Warwickshire, needle- 'Raker.
Samuel Stephens, Stonefield, Staffordshire, shoe-manu

nufacturer.
Francis Jewell, Bristol, licensed victualler.

Thomas Douglas Homer, West Derby, near Liverpool

accountant.
James Eccles. Cheltenham, carver and gilder.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

A. Paton and J. Paton,"Stewarton, Ayrshire, ti&ler-
merchants, to meet within the house .;f Widow John
Smith, innkeeper, Stewatton, Oct. 2. and 30, at one.
M. Wilahere and J. Pholps, Edinburgh, merchants or
warehousemen, to meet within Cab's &de- rooms, Edin-
burgh, Oct. 5, and 26, at one.

1. Gillespie, Glasgow, tavern keeper and spirit-mer
chant, to meet within the chatiabcTs of James Miller,
writer, Oct. 4, and 25, at ten.

W. Weddel, Edinburgh, draper and hosier, to meet
within the chambers of George Cotton, Edinburgh, Oct.
5, and 27, at two.
J. Aikman, Edinburgh, grocer, to meet within the
chambers of John Young, in the Supreme Courts, Edin-
burgh, Sept. 29, and Oct. 29, at one.

FATAL COLLISION ON THE
SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.
Yesterday the investigation relating to the death of
William Henry Sawyer was proceeded with at the
Dock and liuck Inn, Wimbledon, before Mr. Carter,
the Surrey Coroner.
On Friday night, at half-past eight o'clock, a goods
train of twenty-three trucks and vans left Southamp-
ton for London. It was increased to fifty-one, as
several were picked up at the intermediate stations.
The deceased acted as breaksinan in the last carriage
but two of the train, the guard and his breaksinan
being in the fifth from the engine. What with the
heavy load and a fog, which rendered the rails very
greasy and prevented the wheels "biting," the train
was considerably behind its time. It lost eighteen
minutes at Andover, was late near an hour and
quarter at Woking, and by the time it had pissed
Wimbledon station was more tnan two hours behind.
Its proper time to arrive at Nine Dins %%as twenty
minutes past two o'clock, which gave it full two hours
in advance of the mail train. This reaches London
at twenty. five minutes past four o'clock. At Kingston,
the last station the goods train stopped at before the ac-
cident, the trucks seemed securely coupled. On nearing
Wimbledon station the fog was found to be more
dense, and on entering the cutting the rails were so
greasy that some difficulty was experienced in getting
the engine and train to grip the metal. To overcome
this difficulty, the engine driver suddenly shut off the
steam to bring the carriages closer together, and that
being accomplished, the steam was as suddenly turned
on, when the train proceeded at a quicker pace. On
reaching the Richmond junction at Wandsworth, the
guard missed thirteen carriages of the train, and con-
cluding that they had been dropped somewhere down
the line, he went back on an engine in search of
them. In 'Wimbledon cutting he found them sta-
tionary, and quickly perceived that they had been
run into by the mail train. The two last carriages
had been forced on to the van in which the deceased
was. All three were considerably shattered, and the
poor fellow's remains were.discovered shockingly mu-
tilated. The testimony of the fireman of the engine
attached to the mail train showed that there were no
signal lamps placed down the line, or even at the
Wimbledon station. On the engine passing under
the bridge on the London side of the Wimble-
don station, the three red lights at the
rear of the trucks were seen, and as subsequently
ascertained, not more than 300 or 400 yards distant.
The fog, as before mentioned, was thick, and the
driver and stoker thought they were further off than
they really were. The steam was shut off, the en-
gine reversed, and all breaks applied. The rate they
passed the station (30 miles an hOur) was consider-
ably slackened ; but unfortunately the distance was
not sufficient to prevent the collision. From the cir-
cumstance of the body of the deceased being found
in the van, and the usual signals not being placed in
the rear of the trucks to indicate there was a stoppage
on the line, it is supposed that he must have fallen
asleep in the carriage, and was in that state when the
mail train came up.
Mr. Stovm produced a copy of the regulations
issued to the company's guards, &c., by which it
was clear that the duty of the unfortunate man
would have been to take the red signal some dis-
tance behind the trucks on finding them parted from
the other portion of the train, and at a stand-still
on the line. This he did not do because, as it is
presumed, he was asleep. The breaking away of the
carriages was satisfactorily accounted for by the failing
of the connecting chains. The two trucks which
parted were not coupled by the ordinary " screw,"
like those used with passenger trains. but by links
and hooks. Two of the latter were found to have
been carried away, and it is suspected that the sudden
shutting off the steam in the cutting, the consequent
bumping of the trucks together, and the strain in
re-starting might have some effect in damaging the
connexion.
The CORONER at. some length addressed the jury on
the important nature of the investigation. He then
dwelt upon the leading points of the evidence, and
thought, that if there had been any dereliction of duty
by any of the company's servants, it was on the parr
of the unfortunate deceased, who had suffered from
his impropriety.
The jury, after a lengthened consultation, returned
a verdict of " Accidental death," the Coroner inform-
ing the officials of the company who were present,
that the jury hoped that some more secure plan might
be adopted in connecting the carriages, for should a
similar 'failure take place, it might lead to another
and probably more serious calamity.
Mr. Stovin replied that the recommendation should
meet with every attention.

SURPRISING ESCAPE FROM
PAISLEY PRISON.
We recently noticed the apprehension of two ac-
complished housebreakers, who had entered both the
Post-office and an apartment mistaken for the Stamp•
office, in the course of one night, by means of false
keys. An early hour this (Saturday) morning
was fixed for the removal of these thorough-bred
depredators, and the other prisoners indicted, to
Glasgow, for the purpose of their being tried
before the High Court of Justiciary next week ; but
on the officers of the prison going about their busi-
ness this morning at six o'clock, they were surprised
to find the outermost door of the prison, and the main
gate immediately within it, both open, while the two
culprits in question, with another companion, confined
in a separate flat from themselves, were all missing.
The names of the prisoners who have made so
opportune an escape are James Campbell and
Thomas Mackay, indicted for trial, with William
Fox, a convicted housebreakerr, who was under
sentence, and had but three months of his imprison-
ment to run. One of the two first-named prisoners
had been suffering from fever of late, and he had been
removed, with his associate in crime as a nurse for
him, to one of the large airy front rooms in the south
end of the prison. The apartment referred to,.
though larger than the common cells, is one of
a series of apartments constructed with double doors
for the security of the most daring prisoners, and
the outermost door is fastened by a strong bar, in place
of a lock, from the corridor of the prison. It was
impossible that this apartment could be opened when
once fastened up, except frFomoxt,hteheoourthseidrep,riseoitnheer,r
by a false key or otherwise.
was confined in the flat above, the third story of the
prison, in one of the ordinary cells, and was locked
up by a key that fastened twelve rooms. On exa-
,nining the fastening of all the doors that have
been so cleverly opened this morning, there is not the
slightest appearance of force or effort having been
used beyond the application of well-fitted keys, the
only change being that the lock of the outermost
door of the prison appears to have been particularly
well ailed to prevent its creaking or making noise
during the operation. A warder sleeps on the same
Hat in which Fox was confined, and this person did
not hear the slightest noise from the proceedings,
although the removal of the bar and pain( ck from
the cell door in which Campbell and Mackay were
confined can scarcely be effected even in daylight,
and with the greatest caution, without making con-
siderable clanking and noisy.. The mystery that

I,alrs over this ably accomplished prison-breaking
:.(:erns principally to be, whether Fox had been fur'
ni,hrd with tic• implements for opening the doors, or
whether they Iltv hen opened by parties enteriug
from the Outide, after having scaled the walls into
the court-yard.—lle:; rew,,hire .Thfiirmer.

A NIGiiT FROM HOME.
An incident of a rati,kr interesting nature happened
e
at Perth last week. Three Luvs, two the sons 01
Sergeant Caripbell, and another whose name we have
not learned, the oldest fifteen s ears, and the youngest
eleven, took a fancy, on Thursday forenoon, being
up the water-si.L on a ramble, to cross to the island
eppoite Scone Palace, and known by the name of
"tare woody island." They accordingly all waded
:ieross, the water being comparatively shallow ; but
after scjourning an hour or two upon it their
state of mind may be conceived, when, ap-
preaching the bank to return, they found the
river so swollen from a sudden flood, as to pre-
clude the entire possibility of any
attempt to recross.
The poor little fellows wandered about on the bank
the rest of the day, earnestly gazing on the opposite
shore, and along it as far as their vision could stretch,
or as far as an object could be seen, in the hope that
some friendly form would appear and be the means
of making known their situation and of bringing
them relief. No one, however, although they occa-
sionally saw some stroller in the distance, came within
hearing of their cry. The result was the shades of even-
ing descended, and with the darkness sunk their hopes
of assistance for the night. They accordinglY,
and
with wonderful fortitude, although cold, hungry, and
weary, set about accommodating themselves to their
circumstances as they best could. Occasionally, they
ran about to keep themselves in warmth, and At other
times huddled together under a tree or bush for the
same purpose ; and in this position they sometimes
got a little sleep. At length the morning dawned,
and they were again on the look-out on the bank, but
several weary hours passed before they saw any one
approach. It was eight o'clock when they saw a
man, and their joy may be imagined when the
Campbells found him to be their own father. We
need not say on discovering his children, whom he
had searched for the whole night, that he immediately
stripped and waded across for them with all a father's
anxiety and delight at finding thorn
scathless and
even wonderfully cheerful. But one thing remains
to be told. fie wanted to take his oldest son over
first on his back, but the son refused, saying, " :
ye maim tak Willie, he's bare fitted, an' awful cauldf
and on asking him to go second, he replied, `139,
The
tak this time, for he's littler than me!"
little trio had had no food from eight o'clock the
previous morning.—Perth Courier.