The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-23 00:00:00

ANOTHER MANIAC RAILWAY

TRAVELLER.

The rapidity of locomotion peculiar to railway travelling
would really appear to have a most extraordinary effect on
the minds of some men, if one may judge from the strange
occurrences every now and then taking place on the principal
lines of railway. It is only a few weeks since that the pub-
lic were startled by au account of a gentleman who, after
threatening to murder his companion in a first-class carriage
on the North-Western Railway, leaped from the train, and
by a miracle escaped with only a few slight bruises. The
day before yesterday an incident of a somewhat similar cha-
racter occurred on the South-Eastern Railway. A person of
respectable appearance, whose name has since been ascer-
tained to be Scott, booked himself at the Folkestone station
of this line by a third class train for London. During the
progress of the train his manner attracted the observation of
some of his fellow passengers, but it was not until their ar-
rival at the Godstone road station that anything of a serious
character occurred. On reaching this place, however,
Scott exhibited an extraordinary degree of excitement, and
calling aloud for assistance, declared that his fellow-passen-
gers were attempting to stab him with their knives. The
guard endeavoured to appease him, but he insisted on get-
ting out of the carriage. Under the impression that if the
train were once in motion the unfortunate man would remain
quiescent, the guard gave the signal to the driver to proceed.
He had scarcely done so when Mr. Scott burst open the car-
riage door, and jumping en to the platform, bounded over
the hedge into an adjoining field, across which he ran at full
speed.. The guard observing all that had occurred, imme-
diately stopped the train, and giving chace, came up with
the poor fellow in a few moments. Partly by persuasion and
partly by force, he induced him to return, and having placed
him in a second-class carriage, under the care of a porter
and two of the passengers, who kindly offered to undertake
the disagreeable duty, the train again proceeded. After the
train was in motion Mr. Scott's excitement increased, and
notwithstanding the utmost precautions he contrived to force
his head and shoulders through the window of the carriage,
smashing the glass and frame to pieces, and being with great
difficulty prevented from precipitating himself out of the
carriage. On arriving at London Bridge he. was consigned
to the care of the police, who conveyed him to Southwark
Police-court. Mr. Pulsford attended on the part of the com-
pany, and by desire of Mr. Macgregor, the chairman of the
board on the magistrate undertaking to see that the unfortu-
nate man was restored to the care of his friends, expressed the
desire of the directors to take no further proceeding in the
matter. It has been ascertained that Mr. Scott is a stndent
for the Catholic priesthood, and that he was on his way from
a collegiate institution at Calais to Liverpool, where his
friends resided, when the above facts occurred.

The late Rev. W. R. H. Churchill, of Colliton
House, Dorchester, has left in funded and personal property
100,000/. To
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among them on the demise of their mother, to whom he
leaves his residue; the household furniture and effects, and
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and sons. There are several specific and pecuniary legacies.
bequest ealcoll,ollol., his
His farms and land in the parish of Sturminster Marshall,
Dorset, to his wife, and at her decease to his son George, and
then to his grandson George. His valuable estates and free-
holds in Nuston, Bonnie, and Lowford, all in Dorset, com•
prised in marriage settlement, he leaves to his eldest son,
the Rev. W. Churchill, as also his freeholds in the parishes
of Buckland Ripers and Potersham, who will also become
entitled to his mother's separate property, and in all proba-
bility succeed to the real estates of his uncle, John Churchill,
Esq. The deceased held the rectory of Winterborne Ander-
stone from the year 1815, and the sinecure rectory of Wither-
stone from 1799 until his death.

Mx. -BrNo's WILL. —The late venerable Member
for Middlesex made his will on the 11th of September, 1844,
and has bequeathed to his widow for her absolute use all the
growing crops and farming stock, arrears of rent, household
stores, carriages, horses, &c., and the residue of his funded
and personal estate, which lone amounted to about 60,0001.,
the furniture, statues, bronzes, pictures, books, and other
household effects at his residence at Wrotham Park and St.
James's-square, to be enjoyed by the tenant in possession of
his real estates, and descend as heir-looms. His numerous
freehold and landed estates and tithes in the cities of London
and Westminster, and at Harmondswortb, Barnet, and else-
where in Middlesex, and all other his estates in the counties
of Hertford and Kent, and in all other parts of Great Britain,
be has devised to his brother, the Right Hon. John Lord
Strafford, and his issue male. The trustees are the Right
Hon. and Rev. Lord John Thynne, Prebendary of West-
minster and Rector of Walton, Somerset; Henry Tufnel,
Esq., M.P. ; and Samuel Charles Whitbread, Esq. Lord
Thynne is the acting executor. Mrs. Byng is also appointed
executrix.
THE RATE-PAYING CLAUSES OF THE REFORM
BlLL.—Last evening a public meeting of the inhabitants of
the parish of St. Pancras, was held in the Vestry-rooms,
Gordon-street, Gordon-square, for the purpose of taking into
consideration the rate-paying clauses of the Reform Bill, and
petitioning the Legislature for their repeal. The chair was
taken by the churchwarden, who having briefly ad-
verted to the object for which the meeting hail been called,
several gentlemen addressed the assembly, showing how
heavily the rate-paying clauses affected the great majority of
the householders, many of whom, in consequence of not
being able to pay their taxes in time, were annually dis-
franchised. Resolutions in accordance with the views of
Hampshire
extraordinary
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the speakers having been adopted, a vote of thanks was
shot
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Colonel
passed to the chairman, and the meeting separated.
EXTRAORDINARY SROT.—An
was last week made on the Ham
Hawker with one barrel of his 2001 b. gun, and 12-ounce
a
patent cartridge by Eley. He picked up, at this
one shot,
178 oxbirds and a plover, exclusive of about three
more birds that escaped in the scramble dozen
killed and wounded. of collecting the

THE SCOTCH IRON TRADE.—GLASGOW, FEB. 20.
—The price of Scotch pig iron, delivered free on board here,
may be quoted to-day at 745. per ton net cash, for mixed
numbers. Our market was this week buoyant. There were
extensive buyers at 735., 738. 6(1., and 745., cash in 14 to 21
days, at which rates a large business was done, and sellers
l us um scarce at the figure quoted to-day.