The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-06 00:00:00

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INAIGRE BO RDE XUX.—The • first
qualify of. rAENCH. WHITE ;WINK vrislEciAit it a pure
vinou
tack]. awl surpasses another in delicacy of flavour and strength.
It is sold, throughout the kingdOni, at a moderate price, by Chemists,
Grocers, and Wine Merchaz a, whsse names may .be learnt by ap-
PlYing to the importers, W. and S. KENT and- SONS; "Upton-upon-
Sevezn, or «.'.g. auuisey, 3, Queen-street-placU, Ctufapside,.-sole.
Wholesale Agent for London land surrounding Counties. .

LEA and TERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE
SAUCE is universally allowed to ,be•the Most Piquant and
the Richest 'in Flavour of any Sauce in use, and for Fish, Gravies
for Roast Meat, Steaks, Gime' &c., or .a zest for Curries, Soup, Cold
Meat, it is entirely unrivalled. . .
The unparelleled sucoess 9f this, Saute having induced imitations,
purchasers are particularly requested to see that the -name of LEA
and PERRENS are upon the Label and the Metallic Capsules, as also
to read the Testimonials (which are enclosed- with every bottle)
from the residence or Royitity, the principal Clab Hohses and Ho-'
tels in London, Edinburgh, &c: &c., and from private Families in
the omntry.
Sold by the proprietors; Lea and Perrins, 6, Vere-street, Oxford-
street, London, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester; Messrs. Barclay
and Sons, Messrlo. Crosse. and Blackwell, "anti other Oilmen, London,
and generallyby all dealers in sauces.

THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT
AT HAVRE.
. . . .
HAVRE, Auousp 3.—The town- is in a state of great
excitee.ent and consternation on account of this deplor-
able accident on board his Majesty's (Louis Philippe)
yacht, the Comte d'Eti, one of, if not the most beautiful,
models of French naval arChitecture, acknowledged to
be such by naval: officers of bothecountries. She was
built by Mr. Normand. the most :esteemed pal*, con
structor France. The vessel had made two -or threi--
.experimental :rips, and hat not answered the expects..
41,11.3 of her officers. About a fortnight ago, on visiting
die ves4d,' the captain. in answer to an inquiry as to th
wise of deficiency in speed, said he conc.-ire d it to he
in:the construction o.'r her-betters, Which del net give eut
eflteaiii.expecie,d. The decoeetions behe
eetnpleted, she left this yesterday evening for Ch! rbeerg,
when at the othereide4 voltetae.df smoke ,
was seen i suing fr,M3 the engizie,roo;n,
.onit crops nt,
" Water! water!' were-heard on every side. 'The' heat
end smoke were ad overpnvering that it was with diffi
culty one could breathe on deck.. The captain,
tidwever, although 'with only one arm, descended,
ind at the risk of his lite, endeavoured
'notch the sufferers from their awful situatiOn. Th,
tia:ches were token of, and three and-Let: my &elle
Were di,,covertd in every possible state or agonising
suffering. 13,-fore ten o';!lock, p.m., nine had died; and
the wind being adverse, the captain decided on returning
to Havre. It was ascertained that the beiler had."burst
in its inferior-part ; there was no explosion, no shock,
nothing but the torrents of vapour which escaped from
the machinery: The effect of this in a conf tied space,
by causing instantaneous asphyxia, will account for the
number of deaths in the first inAsnee. Of the eleven
sent to the hospital, one died this morning, and five are
now in the agonies of death,
,their breasts and limbs to-
tally stripped of flesh from the boiling water ; their
cries, indeed, were harrowing.
(From the French papers of Wednesday.)
"A lamentable accident has occurred on board the
royal steamer the Comte d'Ea. This vessel quitted
Havre on Monday for Cherbourg, where her machinery
was to be inspected and tried by a special commission.
At about half-past six in the evening, when off Barfleur,
part of ona of her boilers gave way, and the boiling water
milled into the engine-room. Twenty men were vice
tims of this accident. Seven of them had died when the
account left, and thirteen were seriously injured. Of the
seven vho are dead, three were stokers, one an engineer,
and three seamen, Of the thirteen wounded, four are
stokers, one is an engineer, one a man employed to put
up the machinery, and the rest seamen. The Minister
a Marine has ordered an enquete, in which the makers
of the engine will be examined. We have extracted the
above from the Moniteur Parisien. The following is a
letter written by a person on board the Comte d'Eu.
After mentioning the bursting of the boiler, he says:—
" There was immediately a cry of Secourez les
chauffeurs!' but how was any one to go down to the
engine-room ? . The commander of the vessel, however,
listening only to his courage (although he has only one
arm) went down at the risk of his life and directed the
removal of the victims. The deck was soon covered with
twenty, 'in a state impossible to describe ; they hardly
resembldd human bodies. Before ten at night nine of
them had yielded up their last breath ; two hours be-
fore thii-commander had decided on returning to Havre.
At two in the morning We cast anchor in the road!
stead, and orders were given imthediately to' put out
all the boats to convey the dead and wounded
to land. In our boat we had four dead bodies, and
having arrived rather before the other boats, we went
for assistance on board the Rsitierir, and 'to the post of
the National 'Guard at the Maude. Every one hastened
to prepare litters and 'other meanskfor conveying the
wounded, elevenein number, and suffering horribly, to
the hospital.'
" The Journal du Havre of yesterday says—' There
was no explosion; no concussion was even felt on the
decly where the, accident was only manifested by the
torrents of steam that escaped from the engine-room.
The boiler burst at the lower part, and the water falling
upon the fires arid out of the flues of the furnaces, spread
over the room, and inundated it with steam and the still
burning remains of the fires. Of the wounded who were
conveyed to the hospital; one expired this morning, and,
of the other ten, five are in a state which leaves little
hope of recovery. Among the dead, some who appear
to have been attacked on the breast and face by streams
Of boiling water or. hot coals, have those parts burnt;
others, who were plunged in the boiling water, are
swelled and not recognisable. The legs of all the dead,
and also of the wounded, are excoriated and completely
denude dof the skin. 'This sad event has filled our tewn
with mourning. To-morroW, at eight o'clock, a funeral
service, for the repose of the souls of the dead, will -be
performed at the church Of Notre Dame, and the bodies
will then. be interred.' "

DOUGLAS,, IpLE or MAN, AUG. 5. We are in-
formed that her Majesty the Queen touch at and
fund upon thi4' island on Friday next, 13th inst., on' her
;passage'from thi.4.llenai Straits to Scotland. A meet
-
'fig of tae Commissioners of Harbours was held in this
town yesterday, when a pilot was appointed fur the
occasion.
THE NEW MODEL LODGING-ROUSES, ST. GILES'S.
--The committee for managing the affairs of the new
model lodging: housesta St. Giles's have determined,
by the advice of 30M* le novelent individuals, to give all
;poor lirsh agricultural labourers and their families one
week's lOging fre, upon their producing a certificate of
good character from'-their last employer. The coinmit-
tee have been induced to adopt this step in consequence
of the numbers who are unable to obtain a shelter at the
various' metropolitan unions.
' COLLISION "ON THE THAMES.—A. collision, 'Which
enight have been attended with fatal consequences, took
place on Wednesday evening, between the Pearl steamer;
sine of the. Diamond .Company's. ,boats, and_ the Star
:steamer. The former of these two left Gravesend at
halt-past seven. o'clock,. and was nearing the' pier, at
:Waterville, when she was met by the Star. The bul.
warks of the Pearl, the cooking-house, and paddle- box
'were injured, and the passengers thrown into katate of
;great consternation, some of them in their attempt to
*escape the threatened danger being thrown down and
loan:vied upon. It does not appear, as yet, to whom
the_blame of this collisitin :and the danger.produced by
it are to be attributed. In the mean time the public
ham been jeopardized, and a recurrence of the results of
the -two accidents which have very-recently taken place at.
Rosltierville pier, by which two persons have lost
ficu rred. - It is quite time that those in authority should
3ce.l t their power to prevent such catastrophes. - If they
.1 isivte not adequate powers, their powers should be in-
( tree sod, so that at all events passengers, who have no
t tote trol over the boats, should be protected. .

MELA.NCROLY SUICIDE.—Last evening Mr: Mills
1' 101 an inquest at 20, Paddington:green, the residence
if :Mr. Howse, a gentleman of independent fortune, upon
,nah Knowles, aged twenty-two, a spinster, late cook
i ati he family. Elizabeth Griffiths, the housenaaid, stated
t hat ; her mistress, suspecting the deceased was enciente
s eat; for.her mother on Monday, to whom, as she- bail
d aon several previous occasions, she denied that
bhe was so, and attributed her bulky- appearance to
. d ?sy. - While with_ her mother she. cried bitterly,
alai tore hei hair And cap. During the evening she
was melancholy, and upon. going to bed and several
time sin the night vomited. - Witness left her in bed, ap-
parently better, between five and six o'clock on Tuesday
ting, and upon visiting her a little before seven
lowa I her dead. Mr. Kay, surgeon, Cambridge-ter-
race, stated that he was called upon to attend deceased
at
sevet o'clock on Tuesday morning. She was then dead,
but Ili the body was warm. and as he found that she
we s far advanced in pregnancy, he deemed it his du+ v
to re .unove the child by the Caesarian operation, whic,:h he
of feet ed with the greatest facility. Thy child, which
w as of eight months' gestation, was also dead. Upon a
la( ist•ni 'Orient examination he detected in deceased's ato-
m ach a sufficient quantity of arsenic to cause death.
11 ow she got the arsenic, or when she took it, no one
cot ild tell. Deceased's mother, a very respectable wo-
me who was deeply affected, deposed that she knew
no this ig of her daughter's pregnancy until Monday,
wl len instead of upbraiding, she did all could,she,, eah,:cf
in VW in, to soothe and calm her. Verdict,
lOr mils° nntledwhheerusestbcuotmtmheirtetedw."thenoraesvhidoeere of here state

Sc iUTHA MPTON DOCK COMPA T.—Yesterday, the
ha, If- yearly meeting of the above company was held at
they offices, Bishopsgate-street Within, Colonel Barlow
in he chair. The report of the directors stated that
th er e bad been an increase in the business of the corn-
pe in y since the opening of the docks, the total receipts
of ti ie half year ending the 30th of June, 1846, having
be ea 4,800/. 18s., while those to the 30th of June,
MU. , were 7,626/. I Is. lid. This warranted the di-
rects ra in declaring a 'dividend for the half year of one
per cent. Contracts had been entered into for the
coost :ruction of a second dry dock. and for the erection'
of several additional buildingq.. The total receipts, hi-
el nal ng 36,9201., borrowed on debentures, amounted to
3 8,61 SU 14s. 7d., and the expenditure to 44,1861. 101.
2d. The report having been adopted, and a dividend
c if or re percent. declared, Mr. Melville brought forward
motion for paying the directors for their afirilvaiteeeso,f
aopfietlleeocfhair man and
fvoarinepropfse2n(t)iorti.g,
butth e crtlitaresin.eciwuietsht and
directors, this notion watt withdrawn, The meeting
ibVll34lParated.

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