The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-20 00:00:00

" DECLARATION.

" I pledge my honour not to vote (in the event or a poll
at the ensuing election) fur any other tha❑ the Retorm
candidates.

" Name,

"NOTE.—Ballot to commence at„ nine in the morning,
and close at eight in the evening.
On the postscript of this letter is the number of
taking
feaincgh
elee-or on the register, and the arrangements for
the ballot are as follows:
Sc"
hoo Barriers have been erected all round the Riding
l, and there are ten votincr divisions and ballot
boxes, viz., one for Paddington, five for the five electoral
di.tricts of Marylebone, and four for the electoral
dtstriets of St. Pancras. Each division will be indicated
by a printed placard, corresponding with the ballot card
held
g." by he elector, showing the division to which he may
The f-llowinz is a copy of ono of the ballot cards :
" Voting Card 'or West Pancras.
SIIEE.

STUART.
HARVEY.
Strike out two names, and leave only one, or the
vote will not be counted."

TO COLD PUNCH DRINHERs.---Is it generally known
2.
good fellows that water is the greatest enemy to
ibz. ? these
Sunshine
dissolvearles
srapici.,!4rn-
,t)hra.nrucpoi :ilii;atht,a,tii
Water at 40 Ll,,grees will
dry air at 70 degrees.
ACCIDENT AND
Or LIFE ON THE BLACEWALL
n.vr
RaAY.—BetweeLoss
n eleven and twelve o'clock on
Saturday forenoon en eccidenti loss o
happened
life.t It a
the Black.
wall Railway, which terminated
was
proceeding along
pears that the Stepney
carriage
the line, between the
.Limehou,e and West India Dock
station, towards Blackwell, when the guard.
of perceived
line.iveda
men walking near the rails on the south
Bide
Seeing the iminin-nt danger the man was in, the guard
mm.ediate:3r blew his hand whistle, and by shouting en.
The poor f eavoured to apprise him of the approaching carriago-
ellow, however, seemed to pay but little heed
to the cries, probably not hearing them from the noise
of the ropes and wheels, which were going at the time,/
and in a few seconds the carriage struck him with such
fearful violence that he was killed instantaneously. He
was
line, name Ccognisedollier as being a plate-layer, employed on the
31r. Walton, who has been connected with the
Princess's Theatre ever since its first opening, as an
actor (and occasionally as acting manager), died on Sa-
turday last, after few a days' illness.

'THE GUN COTTON EXPLOSION.
The explosion of a gun cotton mill at Faversham has
prev, ev,.o wore disastrous than was at first stated. So
loud was the explosion that the noise was heard within
two miles of Maidstone, a distance of seventeen miles.
The sound resembled thunder heard at a great distance.
The houses within the circumference of a mile were all
as if by the shock of an earth-
Tuoarke
e. or lessAs theaf fe
dayc td' e
was beautifully clear large volumes
of smoke which followed the explosion were seen at a
distance of several miles. One gentleman travelling on
the Dover-road perceived the smoke upwards of ten
miles from Faversham. Mr. Topping, the superinten-
dent of the works, who had entered the premises only a
few seconds before, and who is one of the victims, was a
practical chemist, of considerable ability, from Lon-
don. The escape of Faversham from injury is sur-
prising. Within a distance of thirty yards of the
spot where the explosion occurred, there are premises
containing no fewer than 136 barrels of gunpowder.
These premises were saved by means of high mounds
of earth which separated them from the mill in
which the explosion took place. One of these enormous
mounds is said to have been moved from its place by the
terrible force of the explosion. One boy escaped with
his life under very extraordinary circumstances. He was
dug out of the ruins after being buried in them upwards
of two hours. He lay between two other boys, both of
whom were quite dead. A large piece of timber pre-
vented the ruinous mass from pressing on him, as it had
done on the others, with fatal effect. The entire number
of persons who have suffered is supposed to be thirty-four;
of these, twenty. one have already died. Their funeral,
or rather the interment of the fragments of their bodies
that remained, took place on Saturday, on which occa-
, sion the town presented a scene of distress difficult to
describe. Ot the twenty-one dead, the remains of ten
only have been identified, owing to the dreadfully
mangled state of their bodies. Of the sixteen still living,
several are not expected to recover. Awfully destruc-
tive of human life as the accident has been, it might,
and but for a providential circumstance would, have
proved more so. It fortunately happened that a consi-
derable number of those usually employed in the works
were at the time the catastrophe occurred engaged in
haymaking. The immediate cause of the accident still
remains, and most probably ever will remain, a mystery.
At the Coroner's inquest, held on Friday last, on the
bodies of the sufferers, nothing that could be relied on
as to the cause of the catastrophe was elicited. Four
witnesses were examined, among them Mr. Hall, one of
the proprietors of the works, but neither of them could
give evidence throwing any light on the cause of the
mischief.
Mr. Hall stated that the house in Faversham was con-
nected with the German inventor of the gun-cotton, and
that they had been manufacturing the article on a much
larger scale than had ever been before thought of in this
country,
Mr. H. Davy said, I reside in Ospringe-road, in the
parish of Faversham, and am superintendent of the gun-
cotton manufactory at the Marsh works. I have been
five weeks in Messrs. Hall's employ, and came down
here expressly to superintend these works, with the
management of which I am acquainted. Mr. Henry
Topping was the resident engineer and chief superin
tendent. On Wednesday morning last I was in the
stove, a drying room, with Mr. Hall, during the work-
ing hours. I went in at six o'clock and remained till
breakfast time, at eight o'clock. I was away about
halt an hour and then returned, and remained in the
works and about the building until within a minute
ef the accident occurring. I wanted to see Mr. William
Hall, and went to find him, and met him within a half-
minute's walk of the buildings. I had only exchanged
two or three words with him, when I felt a concussion of
the air, which appeared to strike me in the back. I in-
stantly found myself covered with dust, and heard an
explosion Immediately afterwards. It did not appear to
me very loud; it was more of a rumbling noise than an
explosion. The materiais of the buildings flew about in
all directions after the explosion. As soon as I con-
sidered it safe to move I ran after Mr. Hall, who had
left me, and we then returned together to the stoves. I
found the premises in ruins. All the labourers who
could be procured were immediately set to work to get
out the workpeople buried in No. 3, and in rendering
assistance generally. Several of the bodies were taken
up a.ive, and carried away. It was part of my
duty see that the orders of Mr. Topping and
Messrs. Hall were carried into effect. To the best
of my knowledge they always were so. The factory
was conducted in such a way, that I always con-
sidered myself, as well as the persons employed
therein, perfectly safe. Mr. William Hall had ordered
the stoves to be kept at a certain degree of heat, No. 3
never to be more than 120, and No. 4, 110. To the
best of my knowledge these orders were always adhered
to. I consider that degree of heat perfectly safe, and
that a much higher degree of heat might be used without
danger. I cannot account in any way for the explosion.
There appeared to be two explosions, or rather a con-
tinuation of one ; the two were so close I could hardly
distinguish them separately. After the accident, Mr.
Hall, individually and by giving directions, used every
exertion to relieve the sufferers and get them from the
ruins. Every precaution was always taken for the
safety of the work-people while employed in the fac-
tories, even though it was considered there was r.o
danger beyond that ordinarily attending the manufacture
of gunpowder.
CORONER—Did you hear Mr. Topping say, on Satur-
day last, that if the prevailing hot weather continued he
feared some accident would happen ? Witness—l did
not hear him say anything of the kind.
Examination continued—Robert Cheesman was fire-
man, and had charge of the fire during the hour pre-
ceding the explosion. He is seriously injured, and un-
able to attend here to-day. I examined the state of the
thermometer about ten minutes previous to the explo-
sion. The one in No. 4 marked 108 degrees, and the
other, in No. 3, ranged between 119 and 120 degrees.
Even in the event of a larger fire having been made up,
the heat could not have increased to so great a degree in
the interval as to have caused an explosion. The ther-
mometers were always regulated by the heat of the fires,
and not by the state of the atmosphere.
Mr. His/DE, the coroner, finding that neither of the
witnesses could give any evidence immediately bearing
on the cause of the catastrophe, adjourned the inquest
for a month, in the hope that some of the fourteen still
surviving sufferers may be so far recovered as to be
able to lay before the jury more definite information re-
girding the circumstances under which the catastrophe
took place.
The following has been given as a correct list of the
deceased parties whose remains have been identified :
H. Topping, T. Tilley, J. Hammond, A. Wyles, J.
Petty, H. Knowler, E. Irish, Mercy Clark, Sarah Hinds,
G. Ransom. The following are also known to have
been at work in No. 4 stove when the explosion took
place, and are, therefore, returned as dead, though only
fragments of the bodies of any of these have been dis-
covered :—J. Redrnau, Mary Cheeseman, Anne Stringe,
H. Irish, Catharine Hall, J. Coppin, J. Rose, G. Mar-
moueh, IL Bourn, W. Coppin, H. Amos. The following
have been more or less seriously injured by the explo-
sion, and are now lying under medical treatment in
Faversham and the neighbourhood :—R. Cheesman, T.
Smith, W. Smith, G. Wraight, J. Vidion, J. Kempsall,
J. Chambers, J. M'Kewen, H. Alliott, T. Stringer, 11.
Sparkes, R. Cullen, J. Denne, W. Rogers, T. Woolley,
Mary M'Kewen.
In addition to the numerous deaths caused by the
explosion, another death took place under very peculiar
circumstances. A young man who had been employed
in the neighbourhood having gone to assist in extricating
the sufferers, and digging the dead out of the mass of
ruins, suddenly felt himself taken ill in consequence of
the inhalation of the noxious atmosphere caused by the
explosion. He went and represented to a medical gen-
tleman in Faversham how ill he felt, and the medical
gentleman told him to walk about for an hour or two in
the open air, adding that it he did not feel better then,
be must call on him and he would prescribe some medi
tine for him. In the course of three hours the unfor-
tunate man died. An inquest was held on the body,
when the medical gentleman referred to gave it as his
decided opinion that he had died from the effects of in
haling the noxious air. The jury returned a verdic
accordingly.

SINGULAR CASE OF SOMNAMBULISM.—A most fear-
ful
and accident occurred on Sunday morning, between one
loto'clock, to a little boy only ten years of age, the
son otfw r. Charles Stuarmt Vr.osuliells, a solicitor, residing in
.setvreoeati
breakinge
sWindsor.of g hearingl a
sa
st that early ParktoM
hr-ell, an articled clerk
etwahreysound of something
hour in the morn-
fin:lint g heavily on the , and the sound of something
falling heavily on the paved yard below, immediately
descended from his bedroom,p when he discovered Mr.
Voules's son completely doubled up on the stones and
insensible. Mr. George Chapman, and other medical
men in the town, were speedily aroused from their beds
and were in attendance. Although the poor little fellow
y
was most dreadfully bruised, his body showing
o one mass
of contusions, no bones fortunately were broilltg n
gathered from the little sufferer, as soon
h ee
as. helt
was
restored to sensibility, that he had been dreamingwas
bathing in the river, and it is supposed that when he
was
in the imaginary act of leaping from a bank into the
water, he sprang from the dressing table through the
window, falling from a height (his bedroom being on
the second floor) of upwards of 28 feet. Although- the
glass he leaped through was little more than a
foot square, of
sciu are, he sustained not the least injury from the
br ken glass. We regret to state, that from the ex-
tremely severe nature of the injuries he has sustained
but very faint hopes are entertained of his recovery.
A FOREIGN VICTIMISER.—On Saturday informa-
tion was circulated, with a description of a foreigner,
who, on Friday afternoon, stole a quantity of valuable
Property under the following circumstances, from Mr.
eatchpole, a watchmaker and jeweller, in Regent-street.
Theperson mentioned, who, although a foreigner, gave
the name of Thompson, called at the shop, and selected
a
adpigapin:l:olvnadwl
rims (valued
gold guard-chain and brequet key
attached, a gold ring, set with an emerald; and two
,F,..(.v1a511ue
,4j altogether at 340, to be sent for
however, took the shopman to I,ord-street, and a shopman ac-
companied him to the with
E i a thed,o
3,,s goods.
Hotel He
Seven
v ethen,
II
cheque for the amount, anrd,
eight houses distant,
to 151, and got possession of the valuable
which he made off, lie is described
thirty
.N ears of age, fire feet
mustachios and whiskers, cut close
and wore a black frock coat and blact
pretence of getting him a
him there, returned
valuable property, with
souTrioluAs‘ers.
eight as apparently about
D.eIPeTowN, SA.
3se inches high, with
and turning grey,
THE WEST
Royal
Mail iLs;t—earn.ship
TURDAY.—The
Allan, Esq., commander, left Southampton, at thre William
with the mails for the West Indies and South America,
She She t ,kes out 46 passengers for the different islands, nd
a vary large and general cargo, including 60,0004 in
dollars and English coin on Government account for
Barbadoes and Bermuda, also a large suns on merchants'
account. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steam-ship Jupiter, Captain Mehan, left at three o'clock,
for the Peninsula, with the mails, a full cargo, and a
largo number of passengers.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COUifT, July 19.
IN BE WILLIAM HAMBER, JUN.
The insolvent, a surveyor, was opposed by two of his
assistants, named Newland and Walker. He was sup-
ported by Mr. Nichols.
It appeared that the insolvent had been engaged in
the Great Leeds and Direct Railway Company, from
whom he now claimed upwards of 8001. He had em-
ployed about 4 men.
Newland, the creditor, stated that he was to have
been paid two guineas a day for his services. He op-
posed as for a debt contracted without reasonable means
of payment.
The insolvent denied that Newland was to have more
than one guinea a day.
The other creditor, Walker, claimed 8/.

It further appeared that the insolvent bad 1,1001.
owing to him. lie owed about 3,0001., and had a great
many creditors and debtors on the schedule. He had
been connected with several lines, and had employed a
great number of assistants.
_

The COURT Si as of opinion that no complaint had been
proved under the Act of Parliament against the insolvent.
The insolvent was discharged.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Winchester, July 17.
(Before Lord Chief Justice WILDE and a Special Jury
BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—HARVEY V.
JOHNSTONE.

Mr. Cockburn and Mr. Phinn were counsel for the
plaintiff, and Mr. SergeantKinglake and Mr. C. Saunders
for the defendant.
The declaration stated that the plaintiff, in August,
1845, was unmarried, and living in America, and that in
consideration that she would leave America and return
to Ireland for the purpose of marrying the defendant, he
(the defendant) would marry her; that the plaintiff re-
turned to Ireland, and the defendant had notice thereof,
and was required to marry her, but he refused to do so,
and that by reason of her leaving Canada she lost her
business of a milliner and dress-maker. The defendant
pleaded that he did not promise; that the plaintiff did not
arrive in Ireland within reasonable time after making the
promise; that he had not due notice that she had arrived;
that the plaintiff was not ready and willing to marry the
defendant; that he bad not due notice that the plaintiff
was ready to marry him; that a reasonable time had not
elapsed when he was required to marry; and that the
plaintiff absolved him from the promise.
Mr. COCKBURN, in stating the case to the jury, said
the plaintiff complained of the defendant, and brought
this action to recover compensation in damages for the
breach, on his part, of one of the most important and
solemn engagements that any individual could enter
into. It had been said with truth that this was
one of a class of cases which might differ in the
most extreme degree; which might be of the most
aggravated character, and embrace circumstances of great
,mitigation, which might seriously tend to diminish the
wrong of which the party complained, and the redress
to which the party was entitled. He felt that he was
justified in stating that this case was one of the most
aggravated nature. In the whole course of his expe-
rience he had never heard of a case of so aggravated a
charalter, and when he had stated the facts he was sure
they would sanction his statement. The plaintiff was a
young lady about thirty years of age, the daughter of a
highly respectable farmer residing in the north of
Ireland. The defendant was a surgeon in the navy, at
the present moment serving on board her Majesty's ship
Spartan, now on foreign service ; he was also a native
of Ireland. So far back as 1839 the mother of Miss
Harvey was taken ill of a fever, of which she died. The
defendant was residing in the neighbourhood. He was
connected by marriage with the plaintiff, and from that
circumstance; an acquaintance existed between them.
The defendant conceived a passion and attachment for
Miss Harvey, who was the eldest of the daughters, and
paid his addresses to her. This went on till 1841. He
then manifested some falling off in his attentions, and
paid them to another young woman, but in 1842 he re-
newed his attentions, and a correspondence took place;
and it was necessary to remind the jury, that the imagina-
tion of parties in the sister kingdom was more warm
than was to be found in persons living in this country.
The Learned Counsel then read an immense number of
letters written by the defendant to the plaintiff, of which
we have only room for some extracts:—
" All I want now to complete my happiness is my own
sweet Jeannie. 0 ! but I seriously feel the want of my Jeannie,
when I see others enjoying the sweets of their better halves.
0! Jeannie, it was my chief desire, even long before the
bathing season set in, to have the pleasure of your society
here a few weeks, or some such place. I had a dream con-
cerning you last night. Miserable Tommy !
" The last links are broken which bound me to thee (No.no!)
And the words thou hest spoken have rendered me free,
That bright glance misleading, on others may shine (No!),
Those eyes smiled unheeding when tears burst from mine;
If my love was deemed boldness, that error is o'er,
I have witnessed thy coldness, and prize thee no more.
Oh ! I have not loved lightly, I'll think on thee yet (Yes,yes !),
And pray for thee nightly till life's sun hath set. (True, true,
[true, I hope.)
"Tommy, being thus overwhelmed with grief and sorrow
that Jeanie has thus estranged herself from him, she speaks
to Tommy as follow:
" When thy bosom heaves the sigh,
When the tear o'erflows thine eye,
May sweet hope afford relief,
Cheer thy heart and calm thy grief.'
"How can it be cheered when absent from Jeanie?"
"Oh, my Jeannie, I did not see you this morning, and I
dread the cause of your non-appearance. Oh, Jeannie, have
you so little confidence in your own Tommy? Oh that we
were united, that there iright be an end to your doubts and
fears. Oh, my Jeannie, do not doubt the sincerity of my
affection, for indeed and in truth I prize my beloved Jeannie
, above all the world. Oh do not doubt my love. Oh, it is
only too xrreoa,t4, it laTo_sin
B iik-BELOVED JEANNIE.
" Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer,
Tho' thy friends have fled from thee thy home is still here;
Here still is the smile that no cloud can o'ercast,
And my heart and my hand all thy own to the last (true).
Oh, what was love made for if 'tis not the same
Thro' joy and thro' torments, thro' glory and shame.
I know not, I ask not, if guilt's in that heart (oh, no!)
I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art (I do most
truly).
Thou bast call'd me thy angel in moments of bliss,
And thy angel I'll be 'mid the horrors of this.
Through the furnace unshrinking thy steps to pursue,
And shield thee and serve thee, or perish there too.
" Oh, my beloved Jeannie ; how can I part from my be-
loved Jeannie—my love—my love—my love—my love and
delight.
"It is, my beloved, quite plain that my heart yearns to be
with my heart's delight. Oh beloved, beloved Jeannie,
what will become of your own Tommy ? Alas, peor Tommy ;
his heart will certainly break. Oh, Jeannie, do not stay
long away if you go, my love—my dove—my beloved.
" Thursday, 7 afternoon.—Saw my only beloved Jeannie.
Did ever any creature love as I do? surely not. Oh, my
Jeannie, I fear we must be separated. I believe there is
nothing else for it.
" No, never shall I break the solemn promise I have made,
I'll keep it, though the world may frown and many will
upbraid.
" I shall be faithful unto death. The Lord has seen that
we idolised and worshipped each other, and neglected him;
therefore it seems to be his will that we should be parted.
How often does God snatch away the darling of our heart
when we set our affections too much on the object of our
love. If it had been the Lord's will that we should have
been joined by the ties of wedlock, how Jeannie would have
shone in her own house. But alas! it seems it is not to be,
at least with her Tommy."
Miss Harvey's father having married again, and as she
perceived there would be a difficulty in procuring the
consent of the defendant's friends to the match, and
having a brother residing at Toronto in Canada, she and
her sister, considering that they might establish them.
selves in business, then determined to go to Canada, and
they sailed on the 17th June, 1844. Still the defendant
continued to keep up the correspondence, and the follow-
ing are some of the extracts from his letters:—
" Sept. 25, 1844.—Beloved, although you are now in
a far distant land, still I have the strong hope that you
may still be mine. August 25—Dreamed of having my
Jeannie in my arms ; distance makes no change in your
Tommy's affections. Oh come, come, and you will see
that you will not be disappointed ; come and console
your broken-hearted Tommy, I dreamed you had been
home ; I met you and implanted a long kiss on your
sweet ruby lips ; neither did my Jeannie refuse me. I
am aware, beloved, you have experienced the danger of
the sea, but I have the confidence you would undergo
twice as much danger for the sake of your Tommy ; and
again, speaking of your faithfulness to your Tommy, call
to my mind how you refused entering into plays at Mrs.
Sproule's less you should be obliged to kiss any one but
your Tommy. Saturday, September 28—I was at our
poor mother's tomb to-day renewing your dear initials
with a nail. September 24-1 dreamed I saw our late
mother • she looked better than ever I saw her. She
appeared to be in a perspiration, and held an infant at her
heart. Beloved, let me know if you are perfectly willing
to come home to your Tommy. Oh, come and be a com
fort to your own Tommy. Beloved, lam sacrificing all
the young ladies of this place for my Jeannie's sake.
Beloved, please to write to me often. Do not consider
the postage expense. Come to me, come to me, and you
shall be mine. Dec. 31, 1844.—Ah, beloved, how the
tears ran down your Tommy's cheeks when he spied the
tea things in a drawer which Jeannie was wont to handle
oe ea tmi nn
so adroitly in company with her Tommy. The Lon; in
atoknows
my
writing
mercy pardon our sin in thus idolizing each other. My
inof my
to you.ysendingmyaonuyt this, and
has
escaped ndhes no b-
j
from my bosom since you left. One
day I was sighing
deeply; she said, `if we had known you had loved her
so dearly it was a hardship to let her go.' Beloved, I
think they had the idea that it was you that was after
me, and that I did not care so much b a out you. I write
on all the covers of newspapers, and
also mostly on
their blank margins. May 27, 1845 .—My
y dearly be-
loved Jeannie—shall I say, my spouse. Now, beloved,
a gleam of hope arises in my hitherto disconsolate
bosom; praise be to the Lord that if there be sorrow in
the night joy cometh in the morning. Certainly, sell off
what goods you have on hand. Now, you have nothing
to fear on your arrival; we will have our union consum-
mated as speedily as possible after your arrival. You
will very dearly have bought your Tommy when you
get him."
On the 31st of May, 1845, the defendant wrote the fol-
lowing letter to Miss Harvey in milk upon a newspaper,
which when held to the fire became legible:—

" Beloved,—My friends' order is now, send for her if
you cannot live without her. Now, beloved, I cannot
possibly live without you and be happy. Oh, no, I must
have you now. Beloved, come to me, you shall not be
disappointed; no delay on your arrival, it will be done as
soon as possible, let nothing prevent you; my friends will
not stand in the way of your happiness any longer,
therefore, do not fear disappointment, it verily shall
not he—you shall most certainly be mine on your arrival.
Beloved, in your last letter of the 17th of April, you pro-
mised to come home if I thought it right you shoul I lose
There
eerreynt of the house, viz., 35/. Now, beloved, keep good
your prwnise, and come home, your Tommy does not
hesitate one moment to say to you come home and be
his; what signifies the loss of 351. to the loss of my Jean?
takeowvillThoemmnoy,osbwstoaredle
forin ‘thhaet.wavy onnotyour arrival,uly
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