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

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

W. Coker and W. Coker, jun., Narrow-street, Rat-
cliff, riggers and ship chandlers—C. Newstead and W.
E. Richardson, Selby, Yorkshire, attorneys and solicitors
—W. H. Cope, J. Shaw, W. Robins, H. Crutchley, G.
Lloyd, J. Horton, E. Deeley, S. Horton, J Barker, J.
H. Pidcock, G. Jones, and B. Slaney, Parktb-ld Iron-
works, Staffordshire, ironmasters (as far as regards G.
Jones and J. Barker)—F. Jay and C. A. Bartlett,
Paternoster row, proprietors of the Rev. W. Ja)'s works
—G. Staples, G. Trotter, T. Tuckett, and W. Jackson,
Gloucester, coachbuilders—C I. Humble and W. Mil
bourne, Bishopwearmnuth, Durham, ship and ir,surance
brokers—R. W. Barton, C. R. Rcbioson, F. Robinson,
and E. Robinson, Manchester, merchants and calico-
printers (as far as regards F. Robinson)—S. Taylor and
J. Lamb, Mcnchester and Chorlton upon- Diedlock.
grocers—T. Hunter and D. R. G. Walker, Budlcigh,
:•!lalterton, Devonshire, surgeons, upothecaries, and ac.
coucheurs—R. White !Ind 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 11. Brown, Brecknuck-
place, Camden town, cabinet-makers, upholsterers, and
joiners—C. Coventry and J. Hollier, Dean-street, Soho,
music-sellers and publishers—J. Leq)-r 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 I'. Garland, Church-street, Hackney, schoolmasters
—H. Hirst, jun., and C. Farrar, Huddersfield, fancy
woollen manufacturers—W. Matthews and R. Matthews,
High Holborn, stwioners.
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
Jason Bonito!), Ipsley, Warwickshire, needle. maker.
Samuel Stephens, Stunefield, 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, timber-
merchants, to meet within the house .if Widow John
Smith, innkeeper, Stewarton, Oct. 2. and 30, at one.
M. Wilshere and J. Phelps, Edinburgh, merchants or
warehousomen, to meet within Ca.y's rooms, Edin-
burgh, Oct. 5, and 26, at one.
1. Gillespie, Glasgow, tavern keeper and spirit-mer
chant, to meet within the chambers of James Miller,
writer, Oct. 4, and 23, at ten.
W. NV eddel, Edinburgh, draper and hosier, to meet
within the chambers of George Cotton, Edinburgh, Oct.
5, and 27, at two. _ _ _

J. Ailmmo, EcUniTurgh, grocer, to meet within the
chambers of John Young, in the Supreme Courts, Edin-
burgh, Sept. 29, and Ocr. 29, at one.

FATAL COLLISION ON THE
SOUTH-WES FERN RAILWA 1.

Yesterday the investigation relating to the death of
William Henry Sawyer was proceeded with at the
Dock and Duck 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 breaksman in the last carriage
but two of the train, the guard and his breaksman
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 a
quarter at Woking, and by the time it had passed
W imbledon station was more than two hours behind.
Its proper time to arrive at Nine E!ms was 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 ,'cloek At Kingstot.,
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 enterieg 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. Ali 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 ; hut unfortunately the distance was
not sufficient to prevent the collision. From the c;r-
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. Stovin produced a copy of the regulations
issued to the company:a 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 standstill
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. Ile thee
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 part
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 bad 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 doGr i
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 from the outside, either
by a false key or otherwise. Fox, the other prisoner,
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-
mining 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 oiled to prevent its creaking or making noise
during the operation. A warder sleeps on the same
flat in which Fox was confined, and this person did
not hear the slightest noise from the proceedings,
although the removal of the bar and padl. 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 noise. The mystery that

hangs over this ably accomplished prison-breaking
seems principally to be, whether Fox had been fur-
nished with the implements for opening the doors, or
whether they have been opened by parties entering
from the outside, after having scaled the walls into
the court-yard.—Renfrewshire Reformer.

A NIGHT FROM HOME.
An incident of a rather interesting nature happened
at Perth last week. Three boys, two the sons of
Sergeant Campbell, and another whose name we have
not learned, the oldest fifteen years, and the youngest
eleven, took a fancy, on Thursday forenoon, being
up the water-side on a ramble, to cross to the island
opposite Scone Palace, and known by the name of
" the woody island." They accordingly all waded
across, the water being comparatil ely shallow ; but
after sojourning an hour or two upon it their
state of mind may be conceived, when, ar
roachiug 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 ba
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 aear 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 sometime!
got a little sleep. At length the morning davvnea
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.
man, and their joy may be imagined when
titretit
Campbells found him to be their own father.
need not say on discovering his children, whom
ly 12e
had searched for the whole night, that he immediate
stripped and waded across for them with all a father's
anxiety and delight at finding them scathless a.nds
even wonderfully cheerful. But one thing remain
to be told. He wanted to take his oldest son over
first on his back, but the son refused, saying/ ",1:4
ye maun tak Willie, he's bare fitted, an' awful cau,ta
and on asking him to go second, he replied, `riu,,.eet
tak this time, for he's littler than me! qe
little trio had had no food from eight o'clock
previous morning.—Perth Courier.

RAILWAY SHARE IVIARKEV3'
LIVERPOOL, SEPTEMBER 28. n ca-
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Birkenhead. Laq
shire, and Cheshire, (late C. and 8., 5 per cent. on s°_:,
14 p -London and North- Western,
Shares till 1849), 351- Liverpool, Crosby, and SoutMT_
Quyters, 81% p.-
cent.), 25 Ditto, Fifths. 10% p.-Midland Stock,
,1.01/2-Ditto, Halves, 1:le p.
-North Staffordshire, 1% P---_,.
159i,.2-Ditto, 1%1
Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, Preference (guar. Pe_l
Thirds, at 6 2-3 (Its.), 1" dis.-York, Newcastle. and 13e"
wick (G. N. E. Purchase, guar. 6 per cent. ti 111850), 21/e P'
p.-South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 (issued as
-Dutch Rhenish, 4% dis.
MANCHESTER, SEMBEIG 28,
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales aEPT
re--Ambergate, Notting;
ham, and Boston, 1 11-16 dis.-Fleetwood, Preston,
an;
West Riding Junction, 4 dis.-Hudderefield and Manches-
ter Railway and Canal, 1 n
NV dis -Lancashire and Yorkshin!
Fifths (late West Riding Union), 1 9-16 dis -London
North
- extern ( Manchester and Birmingham), Quartets (CL,
41% p.-Manchester, Sheffield. and Lincolushire, 74 C.....
Ditto, Preference, 1-16 p.-North Staffordshire, I% P'-ad
Preston and Wyre, Halves (A), 4 c. p.-South-Eastern,a_.
Dover, No. 3, 5 dis.-Ditto, No. 4, 174 dis.-York, I\e„wv
castle, and Berwick, Preference (guar. 6 per cent. till Ifinve,
21/2 p.-Ditto, Extension, No. 2,2% p.
LEEDS, SEPTEMBER 28. Notting'
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Ambergate,
ham, end Boston, 30s dis.-East Lancashire. New, 331 a";
dis.-Ditto, Quarters, 17s. dis.-Great Northern, 4L 65. e"'
it. dis.- Huddersfield and Manchester, 225. 6d. n. dr
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Halves (late Hud. and a-
Sheen
v d'
5 dis.-Ditto (West Riding Union), 345. n. dis.-Leed,s ,-•
Dewsbury, Halves, 20s. n. dis.-Leeds and Thirsk, 147 R
tlis.-North British, Thirds, ss. 6d. p.-Ditto, Quarters,
v,3.
p.-Norih Staffordshire, 265. 3d. p.-North-Western,-
dis.-York, Newcastle. and Berwick, No. 2, 21. Bs. 9d• P'
EDINBURGH, SEPTEMBER 27. 32/
.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, - is
Airdrie and Bathgate, 3/. 10s.-Arbroath and Forfar, 26
_-"*.
Ditto, Halves, 13/.-Ayr and Galloway, 21. lOs __caied_o
nian, 40/.-Ditto, New, 14 17s. 6d.-Caledonian and VuTi.
bartonshire, 10sCdesdale Junction,
155.-Dunblane ,Dune, and Callender, 1/. 7s. 6d --1)0„nutto
and Arbroath, 391.-Ditto, New, No. 1, 29/. 10$.--1/1` '
Dundee
New, No. 2, 321.-Ditto, New, No. 3, 31. 75.--• .231.
and Northern Junction, II Ils.-Dundee and Perth, vot
ters, '.'"
12s. 6d.-Ditto, New, Reg., 17/. 10s.-Ditto, Quar _„
55.-Eastern Counties, 17/. ex div.-Ditto, York xtensiv,l
84 10s.-East of Fife, 4/. 58. -East Lothian Central, l'ci
Bs. 6d.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 61. 105.-Edinburg gv.
Glasgow,ex div.-Ditto, Halves, 151. 15s• e- end
53e-peeside, ieee
Ditto, Quarters, 13/. 5s ex div.-Edinburgh, Leith, j
Granton, 171.-Ditto, Preference, 20/.-Ditto, New, N0.,5:
3L 195.-Ditto, New, No. 2,2 L-Ditto, Quarters, Reg" 1181.
3d.-Ditto, ditto (scrip), 7s.-Edinburgh and Northern' 12k
155.-Ditto, New, Reg., 2t. 2s. 6.(1.-Ditto. ditto
-Edinburgh and Perth, 1/. 2s. (sclri. 75.) 6d.
12s.- Ditto, Newport, 8/. 38.-Ditto, ditto, New, Beg., 3
5 . ed.:7
uar.), lli.
Glasgow and Ayrshire, 107/.-Ditto, (5 per cent. g _..
rss.
-Ditto, New Stock, 41/. 155.-Ditto, Halves, No. it
ni4-1, L,_
6d.-Ditto, Halves, No. 2, 94 10s.-Glasgow, Du Irv.
and Carlisle, 81.-Glesgow and Garnlork, 38/. 15s.
"Greenock'
-Glasgow General Terminus, 114-Glasgow and 0,.
17/. 2s. 6d.-Ditto, Halves, 8/. 175.-Ditto, Preferene2ez a
-Ditto,' Halves,
2s. 6d.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 31. 6d.
-Great North t.f Scotland, 18s.-Morayshire, 1/. 75._,...,
North British, 27/. 55.-Ditto, Halves, 13L-Ditto, #2,/,'A.
ters, 5/. 2s 6d.-Ditto, Quarters New (scrip), Reg., 109. Ti.
-Ditto, Thirds, Reg., 1/. 7s. 6d.-Ditto, ditto, (scriP).,.;h
Be.-Ditto, Fifth, 51. 55.-Scottish Central, 261.- Se(:l.,
Midland, 171. 155.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 4/ /7"ea
ling and Midland, 71.-Wishaw and Coltness, 4.),,,rig,
div.-York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 137/. 155.-Vittiardrss,
New. and Her.), 31/. 2s. 6d. -Direct Bombay and .-e.. Aia,
Is. 9d.-East Indian, 1/. ''' Os. 3d.-Great North of le,ei.
2s. 6d.-Great Southern of Madras, Is. 9d.-Madras.
lore, and Arcot. ls. 6d.-Scottish Grand Junction, 19s
GLASGOW, SEPTEMBER 27. Oh.'
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are- Caledonian, -•- Ad.
Ditto, New, 375.-Caledonian and Dumbartonshire, 9s•
"„d
-Dundee and Perth, Quarters, 65x.-Edinburgh, Leith, 8,0',.
Granton, Quarters, 7s.-Edinburgh and Northern, New, '4-
-Ditto. New, 265. 6d.- Edinburgh and Perth, Halve* '''',
9d.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 1061. ex div. ex and
-.Ditto, 401. Shares, 411A2 ex div. ex new-GlasgoW $7....
Greenock, 17 t,4 ex div -Great Northern, 70s. 6d. ex io!'e
Manchester and Southampton, Is. 6d.-North Bri119,;;
Thirds, 275. 6d.-- Ditto, ditto (scrip), 265. 6(1.-Ditto,,i"..l
Quarters (scrip), 10s.-Paisley, Barrhead, and Hurlett °-
hit°
WIGTONSIIIRE.--in low and early lands all or a
crops are in the stack yards, and the beans in stook, e_
almost ready for stacking. The evidence of tbe batruiti
yard is truly.. convincing and satisfactory, the gain
tieing decide (14 above- an average, and both grainis a
straw of pritrfquaLty. The turnip, on the whole, bulb
se
promising crop, though we have en early crains /011
better before thi, season of the year. The late _
, veto
:r.atly recruit them, however, and ere the end
`"h° Po.
T
livr we
expect to see them an excellent crop. oder-
t tato crop is also, on the whole, in a better stsie e who
ground than could have been expected by o°s
press.
knew that they were long ago affected.-Free t for a
THE COLLIERS' STRIKE. -After holding. 0:1j stoue
period of nearly three months on a c°lrdluminer
s °f
against the masters, the operative colliers
ano,_
agreed to
Lanarkshire have, this week, given waY'_ they had ofr
terinel
return to their employmeet Cu the
bine themselves
jeered to. Thus, they have been Puni'-'-:- to no Pur;
and injuring their families for three
ontns
les WO'
these an" of
pose. This is always the case knew on°
strikes and combinations. W e never yet ... Vire
them doing the slightest good to the working ults6 just
have no &tailed esti nate of the loss 011 the I.sogioe it,
terminated, but, one way and another, we .Thrners
ail' amount to at least 200,0001.--Scolch -av/-
Gazette. nest,
vo et dar r d
A LITERARY SmuGGLEa.--For some aorke
I en'
the Octroi officers at the Barriere du Roule r _
jar),
roan sitting in the far end of an omnibus r.e,gsuks on bi.s
teriag Paris with a parcel of newly. bound ?_(ino. parts
knee. Considering that this regularity in vlrilotrs, the,'
with the same quantity of books was 505Piceamniniogs
yesterday requested him to alight, and ontside b°°k
his parcel discovered that though the ottof tin oesty
were bond fide volumes, the inner ones welitre of 5001
painted, containing each upwards of "',e 9sovved tio
of wine. Being pressed with auestions, "
: by the J3l/r
. • tpd Paris J , ianle,
he had for about a fortnight quit- • 're Mt '.`"
Barrie , gbe
Hare de l'Etoile and entered it by the
• without Wine of
each time intrc.ducing spirits of wine
1 a the officer°
duty. He was placed at the disposai -
justice.-Galignani's Messenger.

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d-Lothian' tbe ladY e''
of Onthe tihteev2. E2ddiost., at Newton St. Loe
Edward Holland, of Brighton ht
son. '
On the 23d inst., at Montpelier-road,
near Baths the
, 6 lad/
On the 25th inst., at the Rectory, Lead of Major Woodward, of a son. en Roding, Esses'
F. G. Rawlins, of a
theoloadtrieof2sthe Rev.
25th inst., in Brunswick-square' th rife
tain Hathorn, WO
Royal Navy, of n
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..., Rent the
On the 25th -
inst.,
at Harrietsham tiectory, 0
of the Rev. John C. B. Riddpll, of a (laughter. ._,4031(
On the 26th inst., at Winston House, near BirtnoT.
the .lady of James Ward Hoby, Esq., of a son, still-b?rlWeed,
daughteer.._ a cap,
On the 2 ith inst., at Northiick-terrace, St. John . i
the wife of Thomas Sawer, Esq., surgeon, of a son. e wife 0,
On the 26th inst., at Lambeth-walk, Surrel, th
Mr. George Wren Le Grand, of twin sons.
MARRIED. ir 0 f St'
On the 23d inst., at Jersey, John Hichens,
i'rib,ptaiu
Heliers, to Ramona Eliza Pearse, widow of the lates
Whitmarsh Pearse, R.N., C.B. nt. Ilti'le
Oa the 23d inst., at Betio-, Staffordshire, Clans.
..n.btot
kips, Esq., Cheltenham, to Elizabeth Dutton, eldest aa'b
of the Rev. Wright Willett.
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NEB. gight
Justices of
Oa the 25th inst., at the Firs, Hampstead-heath, the 0
lion. Sir Jahn Bernard Bosanquet, late one of her Ni'ijel
Oa the 25th inst., at King's-parade,
the Court of Common Plras, aged 74. d, 010,01
Mr. John
On the 2Sth inst., in Sew Bond-street, Mrs. Joao& ,ha
On the 26th '
inst., at the Rectory, Lawford, Esselto P'
Rev. W. Brett Whitfeld, B.D aged 78. =.. WO
On the 27th inst., in Pat k-place, Liverpool-road; !sa
Ring's-roa
Mrs. Sarah Hallows. aged 71. .
t: and, Printer, at The Sun Office !4;:, il'i. -,tr and. ir. _...,,,,th. 4-'lO9
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