The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-25 00:00:00

ELOPEMENT OF THE BRITISH

Week •Cs ,
ending NAME OF RAILWAY. Week. -
Last g "6. 4,..,• l e
5
P. a;
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A A
Sept. 19 Amiens and Boulogne . . . • 7lB -163
•
18 Arbroath and Fort •-•
. 261
17 Chester and Birkenhead .••••• • '' - • • 824 777 r,
862 933 1.-',
16 Dublin and Drogheda. ••• •• ''''' •• • 888 1,091 Di
21 Dublin and Kingstown •• •••••• - '• • • 920 347 N
1B Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen •• • ••• . •
4,684 4,509
1 18
Edinburgh and Glasgt"r ....E;;;;;; 12,176 10,129 nr
19 Eastern Counties and North
18 East Lancashire •• ...... •• •• ••••
..▪ • !•::)6
12 Eastern Union.. • • t"l'ulciAyr ,,1 2,55 n
1,329 1,210
188 Glasgow an"md Greenock .• .. .. .. . •
..
1,737 886
of Great Southern and Western
21,041 20,417 (
19 Great Western, Ezc •••• • • • •
18 Lancashire and Yorkshire.... .... ..
17 Lancaster and Carlisle ••••••• • • • • • • • 1,643 -
18 London and North Western, Sze.
19 London and Blackwell ..... ... •• • _ 1,055 1,296 j
18 London and Brighton .•••• • • • •
19 London and South Western. ••• • •
f - Manchester, Leeds, and Bull Assoc- - -
18 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincobashlre 2,90 2,819 .
IS Maryport and Carlisle ••••••• • • • • • • • 6726
-
18 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham.. • • 26,079 23,217
19 Midland Great Western (Irish) .• -• • 700 -
18 Newcastle and Carlisle ••••• • • • • ... .. 2,346 2,295
- Newcastle, Berwick, and North Shields -
19 Norfolk ••••• • • • • ..• ... •••.••• • • • • .. 2,365 1,739 1
18 North British .. •••••• • • • • • • ........ 2,837 2,004
18 Paris and Rouen .••••• • • • • • ........ 8,789 8,199 4
f- Preston and Wyre ••••••••• • • • . • • • • • -- - 1
18 Rouen and llavre .. ••••• • • • • ....... 3,386 -
17 Shrewsbury and Chester •••••• • • • • • • 587 1
18 South Eastern and Branches -• • .... 11,361 ~ , ~,,,
17 South Devon ••••••..•• • • • • • • • • • .... 16' \ %'""
18 Taff Vale ••- • • •
19 Ulster. • ..
[ 18 Whitehaven Junction •...... ••• - \ Si 6 786
18 York and Newcastle -
1 18 York and North Midlane ••• • •• •••• 12,430 6,461
-•••••• • • •., 1 10,110 7,748

WAKEFIELD Cr:7,-4 . , .
The supplie. '• -.4-: AIARKET, FRIDAY, SEPT. 24
fair di.- ~ this we ,k are pretty good; and there is a
b. -play of sarat,les from vessels near at hand. We
...ve a good retail demand for wheat at a reduction of
2s. per quarter olti new, of which the supply principallave
consists, and Is. to 2s. on old. Malsters generally have
\
not commenced working, which causes barley to be in
limited request, and prices are 2s. to 3s. per quarter
lower. Oata and shelling meet a ready sale at fully last
week's prices. Beans are the turn dearer.
ace of an
• ELIM CRAPEL.—Yesterday, in conseque
order by Aldermen Hooper and Johnson for the imme-
diate suppression of the nuisance caused by the breaking
up the vaults and coffins underneath this chapel, a
number of workmen were employed in laying concrete
over the ground, breaking the roof, and stopping up all
holes, to prevent further escape of effluvia or obnoxious
gas.

QUEEN.

An inquiry of rather a delicate nature touchiug
the recent performance of the lady who, among tra-
velling companies, is known by the above designation
(but whose real name is Mrs. King), was instituted
before the magistrates in this town on Tuesday last,
when a young man, named House, of Market La-.
vington (the latter portion of whose life has beon
passed in the employ of the famed Mr. Wombwell, of
wild beast notoriety), was brought up under Super-
intendent Wolfe's care, charged with having in his
possession a quantity of wearing apparel and about
1501. in money, belonging to Mrs. King's lawful
lord and master. It appeared that about a month
since, in consequence of a misunderstanding with his
employer, Mr. King relinquished his avocation and
settled in private life at Newcastle-upon- Tyne ; but,
not to disappoint the public of the delights pictured
in the hand-bills, he permitted his better half (at
Mr. Wombwell's request) to remain with the
company a short time longer, at the ex-
piration of which he looked forward to the
domestic repose which the joint exertions of him-
self and his wife had promised to secure. Letter after
letter, couched in the most affectionate terms of
anxiety for her return, and at the same time convey-
ing sincere respects to Mr. House (who was one of
the band), had been posted by the attached husband ;
all of which—as Mrs. K., unfortunately, could neither
read nor write—were placed in the hands of House,
who answered them as his feelings prompted
At length the engagement with the company expired,.
but no Mrs. King appeared at Newcastle. -Her hus-
band began to grow uneasy; and, upon inquiry, dis-
covered, with astonishment, that the faithless 'Mrs.
King had left the establishment with his " friend "
nearly a fortnight. Dismayed and bewildered, the
thought suggested itself that the pair might contem-
plate a trip to America. Off he started to Liverpool,
searched the whole of the packets bound for that wide
land of adventure, but Mrs. King was nowhere to be
found. Gloucester was next visited; then Chippen-
ham ; and subsequently Devizes, where such a
clue was found as to induce Mr. King to place
the facts of his situation in the possession of
the police, through whose aid he was escorted to
Lavington (where House has a mother and sisters
living). Here the whole secret was soon unravelled ;
wearing apparel (belonging to both Mr. and Mrs.
King), and 1481. in gold and notes, were found, and
subsequently the wife herself was compelled to face
her much-abused partner in a private house in the
town. Upon this, all parties were brought before the
magistrates ; and after, a great deal of theatrical dis-
play, Mr. House (upon his refusal to give up the
property) was handed over for a night's lodging in
the police cell. The next morning found him with
his determination unaltered, notwithstanding an offer
of 201. by Mr. K. to settle the matter. A warrant of
committal, however, soon turned the tide; House, in
his cell, reflected upon the matter, accepted the 20/. ;
and, taking with him the remainder of his property,
Mr. K. (with his wife by his side) started in a car-
riage and a pair of mules for Chippenham, en route for
the north, where change of climate and scene may,
it is to be hoped, efface all unpleasant recollections
of the past. —Devizes Gazette.

A BURIED WOMAN ALIVE ANI)

WELL.

" Truth is strange, stranger than fiction," and the
following story is not more extraordinary than true.
Two or three weeks ago the daughter of an old sol-
dier, who resides in Miller-street, in the north-
eastern part of the city, was seized with fever, and
was conveyed to one of the hospitals. The old man,
of course, made frequent inquiries at the hospital as
to the progress of the disease, and was pained to learn,
on every visit, that his daughter was gradually get-
ting worse. At last be received the melancholy in-
formation that she was dead. The necessary ar-
rangements were made for the funeral, and the body
was interred in Sighthill Cemetery, on Thursday of
last week. On Tuesday last, while the mother of the
buried woman was engaged in her usual household
avocations, the door slowly opened, and, 10, there en-
tered, pale and emaciated, the figure of her dead
daughter, which uttered the word " mother." "Ye
canna get in here—ye canna get in here !" exclaimed
the affrighted mother, " your father buried you
last week." And having thus endeavoured to lay
the ghost, fainted. On coming to her senses,
and observing the unwelcome visitor sitting
in the house, she rushed down stairs to
the workshop of her husband, and exclaimed,
in the same voice of extreme terror, "Oh, the daugh-
ter ye buried last week is sitting up stairs!" and she
went off in another fit, while the husband in terror
and surprise dropped the implements of his craft, with
which at the time he was engaged. When the old
couple had recovered a little self-possession, neigh-
bours were called in, the haunted house was entered,
and there sat—not an intrusive, ill-bred ghost—but
the veritable daughter, pale and thin, but as truly in
life as ever she was. Here was a mystery not easily
to be solved at the moment, but subsequent inquiries
showed that the daughter and an Irishwoman of
nearly a similar name lay in the hospital next bed to
each other. Hence the mistake of the father being
misinformed as to the state of his daughter's -b.ealth ;
and when the Irishwoman died, her body was given
to the supposed father, who is, we learn, a Scotch-
mai, and from the circumstance of the virulence of
the disease, interred without identification. We
have been informed that the father of the recovered
daughter is about to institute legal proceedings against
the manager of the hospital for the expense in-
curred by him in the interment of a stranger.-0/418-
gow Examiner.

THE LATE PRASLIN—AFFAIR-
We find the following in the Constitutionnel :-
4, Mdlle. Deluzy has for some days past been re-
lieved from her secret confinement. She now takes
exercise in the yard of the Conciergerie at the same
hours as the other prisoners. It is even said that she
is shortly to be set at liberty. She had a short time
before forwarded to the Chancellor a justifies tory
memorial, which has been transmitted to the ~(age
d'lnstructioi intrusted with the affair in which she was
concerned ; and it is to this, it is said, that her change
of position is to be attributed. It was rumoured at
the Palais within the last few days that certaun spec u-
lators had proposed to Mdlle. Deluzy a consideral
sum to allow the whole of her correspondence wi .th
the late Duke de Praslin to be published. MdJ de.
Deluzy, it is said, at first absolutely rejected such an
offer, which, if accepted, would he the effect, of
rendering public letters of an entirely confide)
ntial
character ; but, on the other band, as the desii ,e to
explain,her conduct ought to be exceedingly strong in
her mind, perhaps she has not as yet definitivellr re_
jected the idea of publishing these letters. It may,
in fact, be remembered that, some time after the pro-
cess of Rhodez, which for several weeks occupied the-
attention of France, and indeed of all Europe, Mdme...
Manson, the heroine of that case, came to Paris to
carry out a speculation of a similar character. A.
shop was opened at the Hotel de Nantes, near the
Carrousel, and in it Madame Manson herself 8(.31d a
little pamphlet, containing what she called the un-
published letters of the Fualdes case. It is r;18° "ru-
moured at the Palais that two persons have sent in
offers of marriage to Mdlle. Deluzy, and that the
head of a lady's boarding•school at London had
made several propositions to her to come and joint her

1,739 a,„. „ -,-------
MANCHESTER RACES.—FRIDAY.
SPORTING IN TELLIGENC] L.
Thelrwell Park Stakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft, w ith. 50
added; the second to save his stake; for three y rs old,
Sit 41b; four yrs, Bst 41b; five yrs, Bst 121 b; 57 (X yrs
and aged, 9st 21b; mares, &c., allowed 31b., The
winner of the Broughton Stakes 51b extra. Yale and
a half. (10 Subs.)
Captain Harcourt's Ellerdale, 3 yrs ... (r.i.yder ) 1
Mr. Arrowsmith's Lady Hylda, 3 yrs ~,,
.... 2
Mr. J. Clarke's Maid of Lyme, 4 yrs ~.. .
.. 3
by 10,1 f a leng th.
sto 1 on Ellerdale. Won easily
I,ovs. each,, h ft,
The Aututn St. Leger Handicap of 10
with 50 added; the second to save his stake. One
mile and three-quarters. (10 Su'or )
Mr. Disney's Keleshea, 6st 71b
Illb
Captain Harcourt's Ellerdale, 75t ••• (Folei*y) 1
Mr. Arrowsmith's Lady Ilyh'As -
i fit 81b ~, ... 3
sto 2 oil Ellerdale. Wc.,o
easily by two leng tbs.
A Free Handicap of 10 sov,s,.
mile. each, and 50 added- One
'O2 S b• )
Mr. Skerratt's Roman( u s'
-,e , 4 yrs, 6st ......... (Tasks?r) 1
Mr. Robertson's 819- girdl.-} l2lb
Mr. Irwin's :loan F
Mr. Heap's, Brow.a :1;-,
Mr. Coe 2
4 y_r,
s 4,
sysrts
7,
1b 63t
....
...
....
45
1— --- ,Jwirt, 5 yrs, 6st .............. ........... 3
tuOn'a Fa',r Star, 4 yrs, fist 10lb
sto 4 agst, Blackbird, 4to 1 agst Dean Swift., 4to 1
2,004 "' . Romance, and sto 1 agst Fair Star. A filus?, race,
8,199 Veat by a neck; Dean Swift a bad third; the others
i beaten off.
The Selling Plate of 701.; the second to receivne 101,;
for three yrs old, 7st 51h; four yrs, Bst 91h;: 5 yrs,
9st 21b; 6 yrs and aged, 9st 51b; mares, &c., a) lowed
albs. The winner to be sold for 2001., &c.; if e utered
to be sold for 1501., allowed 7lbs, if fur 1001., 1,..41b5, if
for 501., allowed 211bs. Heats. One mile..
Mr. Arrowsmith a Bedale, 5 yrs (501.)
.... 0 1 1
Mr. Copeland's Cheapside, 3 yrs (100/.)
... 1 0 0
Mr. S. L. Fox's Meaux, 3 yrs ••• . 0 0 2
Mr. Dawson's Bretwalda, 5 yrs ~,, 0 0 3
Mr. Heap's Delaine, 5 yrs „,
.... • . 0 2 0
Mr. Worthington's ch fby The ProYrist, 3 yrs 3 0 4
Mr. Lamb's Lady Flora, aged •• 0 0 0
..• •
Mr. Merone's Goodwood, 3 yrs (5e,/,) ••• 0 3dr
Mr. Brooke's Luminous, 3 yrs ...
Mr. Irwin's Dean Swift, 5 yrs. (1001.)
BETTING AT MANCTILESTER.— I-zit-Iply.
CESAREWITCH STAKES.-13 to 2 agst V far Ea
(t),
gle (t),
13 to 1 agst Wood Pigeon (t), 16 to 1 ar st Rob R
16 to 1 agst Slander (t), 20 to 1 agst FARmiaiseence (t),
,
20 to 1 agst Lady Wildair (t), 20 to 1 agst Ulysses (t),
20 to 1 agst Rufus, and 20 to 1 arpt AL's,s Whip.

The Lord Chancellor of krelar 1d has appointed
Richard Nugent, Esq., of Fanen Co.
Cnaek, House, Mount
Nugent, a magistrate for the
c-okr ity Meath, on the re-
commendation of the Vice-Liewv ,narit of the county.

/••••••+, anus,. Lacts,
LATE STEAM-BOAT EXPLOSION.

ADJOURNED INQUEST.

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
By Mr. James—Anything respecting the ma-
chinery and the boilers does not come within my
province. In this case I felt bound to investigate the
matter myself, because my own life and that of my
friends was in danger. Mr. Smith looks pretty sharp
aftet me. Edwards was not discharged, I believe, for
making an " oration." He was discharged for
neglect of duty. Clarke discharged Edwards. Ed-
wards called Clarke names in my presence. Calling
Clarke names I should think neglect of duty in the
Thames navy.—(Laughter.) Seriously, I consider
this neglect of duty. That •ifi my idea of discipline.
I heard Edwards say, when Clarke discharged him,
" I'll do the yet." I think Edwards went away
in the boat atter his " oration." I heard that Skinner
gave Clarke a " lift under the ear" at the Fox-under-
the-Hill, in a dispute about the valves. I
kept a sharp look after the valves after the
charge of Edwards, without Clarke's knowledge. I
may have heard it from Clarke, but I will not swear
Vat I did. I saw the vessel a very few minutes be-
?ore the explosion, and immediately after I spoke to
the secretary about tying the valves; but I made
no formal report to him. I put too much
confidence in Clarke to believe that he would
tie the valves. I do not recollect giving out quan-
tities of rope for the valves. I did not find that
Clarke had been drinking that Sunday. He was
sitting down. I will swear he did not appear to be
drunk. I can't tell when either you or any
othei gentleman takes a glass of liquor.
NotHiug more was done than taking Clarke's
denial. I do not know whether Mr. Smith made
any further investigation. I make reports more
frequently to Mr. Smith than to the secretary. I
have been a stoker—l need not tell you where—but
main this company, to which I am proud to belong.
By Mr. M'lntyre—l did not inspect the valves on
the morning of the occurrence. Buttress took Ed-
wards after Clarke discharged him. It was not my
business to ascertain whether he did his duty or not.
By a Mr. Morgan—l cannot tell whether steam
was blowing off in the morning. I can't say whether
it blew off or not when the captain said " Stand by.
(This witness conducted himself, during his exami-
nation, in a very indecorous manner. His replies to
counsel were excessively impertinent. His brusque
mode of reply, however, caused much merriment.)
An engineer eculd throw the strings on and off in a
moment on hearing any one coming down.
This closed the whole of the evidence with respect
to the explosion.
Mr. Thomas Meecham, Mr. Joyce's foreman, was
next examined. He said—l am an engineer. I was
managing foreman to Mr. Joyce up to April last.
Mae beat was at Greenwich from the 4th till the 26th
ef March last, and also on the ad of August, to
undergo a general repair. The repairs of the 4th of
March were merely casual repairs. I examined the
boilers, they were tolerably good. A little corking
and a few ferrules were applied to the tubes.
1 considered the boiler then perfectly sound. I just
examined the boilers. I did not perceive anything
wrong. I did not observe any difference between the
tube plates from the time they were first made. The
valves were generally out of order, like the valve
produced. The effect would be a great loss of steam.
The valve seatings of all the valves were milled.
They were put to rights. She left on the
26th of March. On the 3d of August last
the boat came down again. Some of the
tubes were leaky. One was replaced, and the
others were ferruled. I afterwards saw the boiler
'Proved at a pressure of 1501 b. to the square inch with
cold water. It was proved between eleven and twelve
at night. I noticed no injurious effect. The com-
mon hand pump was used, and the valves were
weighted with iron bars. Nine fire-bars, weighing
from 111 b. to 14th. each were used for this purpose;
they were placed on the extreme ends of both
levers. These bars were placed over the four valves.
At the extreme end of each lever a weight of 831bs.
-was placed, which produced a pressure of from 1411bs.
1501bs. to the square inch. One of the valves
leaked a little and lowered the water, and I made the
man pump until the extreme pressure lifted the valve.
I considered this experiment conclusive, and I am in
the habit of pumping all the valves in a similar
manner. I did not observe at all that the front
plates; bulged. After this I directed the fireman to
repair the tube, to get up the steam to the pressure I
'bad upon the boiler, and to take a turn to Blackwall,
to see that the boilers were as Clarke wanted them.
1 don't think I have been on board the boat since. As
I was going to Italy, I offered to visit and inspect the
`boats without acknowledgment. I did so on the 17th
of April. I found a smaller blister over the fire-
-place of the larboard boiler. I got a hammer and
chisel, and it turned out to be a mere scale not
larger than a 6d. I was examining the boilers about
two hours. I found the tubes very well ; they
were all sound. On the 23d I went on board the
Bee, and after examining her boilers I went on
board the Cricket. Whilst I was looking at
/he engines during the passage of the boat—
By Mr. Chambers—l am reading an extract from
my diary. I did not bring it, because there are things
in t, diary that one does not wish to make public. I
am on my oath. This was about ten in the morning.
Buttress and Edwards were talking. I thought they
were quarrelling, as they were talking very loud. I
tutned round to inquire the cause. Buttress replied
that the valves were tied down. I said " D—n it,
cut the d—d strings away." I was in the act of
turning round when I said this, and they were then
hanging down in front of the boiler. I did not leave
the engine to go close to the valves to look at them.
They could not have been tied when I turned round.
I ineanfe when I said thie, that they should dispense
with the strings altogether. I left immediately the
boat got in. I did not believe that the. valves were
-tied. I was merely taking the boat into the
pier when this occurred. If the valves had been
tied down I think I should have discovered it from
the working of the engines, but that does not follow.
I could not believe it. I have heard of such a thing
as valves being tied down. I had great confidence in
Ciarke. I think, with respect to the statement of
Mr. Lloyd, that if one of the four valves had been
°peg, it would be very improbable that the boiler
would burst from the pressure. Ido not say that
such a thing is impossible. The aperture of
the valve of the boiler that burst was 24
inches and 1-16th. The area was 3 square inches,
instead of 2 7-10ths, as stated by Mr. Lloyd. The
weight on the valve of the exploded boiler could not
ie placed at the end of the lever without stopping up
*waste pipe. It could not be placed nearer than
hree inches of the end, so that Mr Lloyd's statement
incorrect. When I saw the lever the weight was
about an inch or an inch and a half from
the end, and that was nearer the end than
the engineers of the company were directed to use it,
because it caused too great pressure—a pressure of
571b5., instead of 301b5.; it caused, with the weight
and the lever, a pressure of 591bs. The boiler was
of ordinary construction ; when Mr. Lloyd proved
_lt, it had been materially strained, but if the stays
road •,been used, and the boiler was in its ordinary
state, it would have borne a pressure of
'250 lbs. (A model of the boiler was here placed
on the table, and it was suggested that the
evidence of Mr. Trotman, the person who made the
original boiler, should be taken.)
Mr. James said Mr. Lloyd's definition of the boiler
was perfectly correct.
Mr. Meecham said it was.
By Mr. M. Chambers—l think Kent told me the
flat plate was bulged, but I told him it arose from
the position in which he stood, and also that it was
orkinally made slightly convex; but it was almost
slat. The boilers, like all new boilers, leaked. If the
boiler had bulged out considerably, I must have seen
it when the boat came down to Greenwich. I don't
think the boilers were injured by being proved. If
they were to bear a pressure of 701bs. they should be
proved to the extent I have mentioned. I can't be
responsible for the conduct of Clarke in another situ-
ation. When he was with us he vas a good man,
end Mlle wanted drink he could not get it, as the gates
were locked. Clarke left Mr. Joyce became he
ioined others in a strike, and Mr. Smith knew this,
and also that he hadlabeen charged with drunkenness.
By Mr. James—
.g7 the contract I superintended
the boat for the first txxonths. Kent was not paid
by Mr. Joyce for these Six
thnthbs, but by the com-
pany. After the six
the
boat
wasoat was resigned
.7to the company. When
f:repai red, Clarke generally"
sent sentdo down to
I gavewn Clarke
/wee required to be done.
;; card where he could get a steam
gauge.
1 would as soon imagine that Clarke was as likely
to hang himself as tie the valves. I am of opinion
*hat the explosion would not have taken place if
he valves had not been meddled with. Supposing
Clarke to have tied the valves, it is impossible to
state the amount of pressure which the boiler must
Nave undergone. One valve would have relieved the
'pressure at 59. The screw valve was screwed down
to 30, which would give a pressure of 60. These
wives are intended to act last, so that if the
~then valves had been tied, the spring valves,
if they had not been interfered with, would have
zeted. Assuming the valves and machinery were in
roo d order, and the boiler containing plenty of water,
and the lire in proper condition, I cannot give any
solution of the cause of the occurrence.
Bylr. Le Breton—It is the duty of the engineer
ea :look at all the valves. Some difficulty would be
expel-Tented in keeping the valves of high-pressure
expel
boilers out of' the custody of an engineer. It does not
follow t.'t if the valves were tied the pressure was
excessive.. Haisman, as far as I know, is perfectly
aware the nature of engines and boilers. He had
a misforf nne once in the Wasp, but I have never
found him , other than a sober man. Mr. Smith pos-
legsgs con sielerable engineering knowledge.
:rd the cry--If serer? e nfpneer of the Cricket I