The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-18 00:00:00

EVRNiNG, OCTOBER is, 1847.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NORTH ALLER'FON RACES.—FRIDAY.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, with 10 added; for two
yrs old, 6st 81b ; three, 7st 101 b; four, Bst 61b; five,
&c., 9st; fillies allowed 31b. One mile and a distance.
Mr. B. Green's Sylvan, 2 yrs ... (Barham) 1
Mr. J. Scott's Ennui, 4 yrs ...
... 2
Captain Potts's Isabella Noel, 3 yrs
The following also started, but were not placed :—Mr.
Shafto's Try-me-again, 2 yrs—Mr. Ewbank's Louisa
Newell—and Mr. S. L. Fox's Psalmsinger, 5 yrs.
Betting-5 to 2 agst Ennui, 2to 1 agst Louisa Newell,
3 to 1 agst Sylvan, and sto 1 agst Isabella Noel. A
fine race. Won by half a neck, Isabella Noel a good
third, and Psalmsinger fourth; the others beaten off.
The Selling Stakes of 7 sons. each, and 10 added; for
two yrs old, 6st 1016; three, Bst 10Ib; four, 9st 51b;
five, &c., 9st 121 b; the winner to be sold fur 1001., &c.
One mile and a distance.
Captain Allen's Camphine, 2 yrs ... (Barham) 1
Mr. J. Scott's Miss Cobden, 2 yrs ... ... 2
Mr. IL sseltine's Doll, 2 yrs ... ... 3
Betting-5 to 4 agst Camphine, sto 4 agst Miss Cob-
den, and 3 to 1 agst Dull. Won in a canter by four
lengths.
The Cup Stakes of 5 sovs. each; for three yrs old, 7st;
four, Bst 31b; five and upwards, Bst 101 b; mares, &c.,
allowed 2ib. Heats. Two miles.
Mr. S. L. Fox's Meaux, 3 yrs ... (Berwick) 1
Mr. Dawson's Conceit, 3 yrs... ... 2
Mr. Wormald's Hydrometer, 5 yrs ... 3
Won easily by two lengths.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Tiverton Hds., Thurs., Dulverton ; Sat., Gibbet
Moor, 101.
Mr. Trelawny's lids., Tues., Slade Hall; Fri., Cadover
Bridge, 10k.
Mr. G. Nutley's Harrs., Tues., Fivehead ; Fri., Five
Dials, 10i.
Brighton Harrs., Wed., Thunders Burrow ; Fri.,
Dyke, 1 to 11.
Brookside Harrs., Thurs., Teiscombe Tye, 1 to 10.
Sir Tatton Sykes' lids., Wed., Welham ; Fri., Set-
trington House.
Sinningten lids., Tues., Ampleforth ; Fri., Calter
Bridge.
Cleveland lids., Thurs., Marton, 101.
Durham County Hds., Wed., Pershaw Village ; Fri.,
Witton Gilbert, H.
Mr. Deacon's Harrs., Thurs., Lew Down Inn, 10.
Herefordshire lids., Thurs., Ruckhall, 10i.
South Devon Harrs., Wed., Blakemoor; Sat., Diptford
Court.
Glyndbourne Harrs., Fri., Broyle.
Mr. Morgan's lids., Wed., Long Cross; Sat., Hunters
Oak, 10.
Sir Harry Seale's Hds., Wed., Holne Cot ; Fri., Sum-
merly Cross.
Devon lids., Thurs., Haccombe.
Mr. Furse's lids., Fri., Dowland.
F. B. lids., Fri., Carrnanton, 10i.
Mr. Roe's Hds., Wed., Worswell; Sat., Kennel, 10.

ettrD VZbuton

SUSPENSION

OF THE

LIVERPOOL ROYAL BANK

(From the Times.)
We have received the following important dis-
patch:—

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.
We regret to announce to you the suspension of
payments by the Royal Bat.li of Liverpool this day.
A deputation of the directory is now in the me-
tropolis, with the view to obtain assistance, and if
happily it succeeds, the establishment will resume
operations.

The suspension results from the absence of notes
and specie with which to perform the ordinary busi-
ness of the bank ; an evil resulting in part from the
universal 'contraction of the currency, and specially
also from the excitement created by the recent forced
sales of the Bank Stock fur cash, at a very low figure,
referred to in the public journals. A run upon the
resources of the bank followed the statement of the
fall in its stock.

The Royal Bank of Liverpool is a joint-stock es-
tablishment, and was first opened in January, 1839.
From the commercial article of the Albion of this
morning we make the following extract with regard
to the state of commercial affairs in Liverpool :

SATURDAY EVENING.

We have witnessed this week the severest pressure
that has yet been felt during the present monetary
crisis, the commercial markets and the Stock Ex-
change being simultaneously acted upon by pressing
demands for money ; the former chiefly from the large
amount of bills falling due within the next two days,
and the latter from the settlement of a heavy " Bull"
account in Consols, and the repayment to the Bank of
loans upon stock. The immediate cause of the pres-
sure is, therefore, passing away, the Consol account
having been settled, the loans repaid, and the bulk
of the bills retired, so that should no further sus-
pensions be reported within the next three days,
" the darkest hour that precedes the dawn" will,
in all probability, be past, for every day re-
duces the amount of bills payable, which by de-
creasing the demands for cash, is tantamount to an
increased circulation. We regret to state that several
failures have occurred in Liverpool during the week,
al though it is gratifying to add that the aggregate
amount of the liabilities is not heavy. The parties
are Matthew Steele and Son, soap manufacturers ;
Mocatta and Son, and Samuel and J. L. Mocatta,
West India merchants; William Pearce, commission
agent; Brown, Tod, and Co., provision dealers; P.
Cornthwaite, wholesale grocer ; and A. Mitchell and
Co., American merchants, besides several share-
brokers and stockjobbers.
Letters were received this morning from St
Petersburgh to the 6th October, which state that a
violent snow storm commenced on the 2d, and con-
tinued with little interruption till the sth, and that
the mass of snow that had fallen was immense. A
return of mild weather, however, was expected, the
early severity being no evidence of its continuance.
Exchange on London was 38k.

TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING.
Six O'CLOCK.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
8 to 1 agst Geraldine
12 to 1 agst Prior of St. Margaret's
12 to 1 agst Hydrangea
13 to 1 agst Collingwood
13 to 1 agst Patriot
15 to 1 agst Foreclosnre
20 to 1 agst Queen Mary:
20 to 1 agst George Hudson
25 to 1 agst Newcourt
25 to 1 agst War Eagle

THE FATAL PANIC AT BACUP.

In our last we gave some particulars of a fatal
accident in a chapel at Bacup, caused by a ground-
less panic, which led to three persons being killed
by the crush at the entrance door of the chap', on
the false alarm being given. An inquest was held on
Wednesday afternoon last at three o'clock, at the
George and Dragon Inn, at Bacup, before Mr. John
Hargreaves, coroner. It appeared from the evidence
that there were two distinct panics or alarms, but
there was no doubt that it was in the rush consequent
on the first that the fatality occurred which deprived
three unfortunate persons of life. It seems that 'in
the chapel near the door, in a sort of aisle, stood a
store for warming the chapel in winter. The chapel
being crowded in every part, there was quite a
throng of persons standing about the stove, and some
leaning against it. This, it is supposed, moved it a
little, probably about three inches. The horizontal
pipe, carried along under the gallery to diffuse the
heat, was supported by an iron rod, carried up and
secured to the bottom of the gallery. When the
stove was moved the upright rod gave way at the
fastening, and the pipe, at a joint, went downwards
only a few inches, with a sort of cracking noise.
Some persons immediately apprehended that the gal-
lery was giving way, and they shouted " The gallery
is falling ;" others cried out that it was the chapel.
The panic spread notwithstanding the efforts of the
minister, and there was an immediate rush to the
outer door, in the midst of which the deceased were
knocked down and trampled upon. The chapel was
crowded to excess, from the unusual attraction of
hearing a female preach. It seems that a Mrs. Jack-
son, of Wakefield, had engaged to preach in this
chapel both in the forenoon and evening of Sunday
last. Both Mrs. Jackson and:the Rev. Mr. New-
ton, the regular minister of the chapel, were in
the pulpit at the time of the alarm ; and Mr.
Newton immediately implored the congregation to
remain seated; assuring them that there was no
danger. Unfortunately but very few gave heed to his
words ; and when the panic was over, very few per-
sons remained in the chapel, and these chiefly in the
gallery. Being unaware of the fatal circumstances
attending the rush of the people out of the chapel,
and being desirous to restore confidence the choir
commenced singing a doxology ; on which a man
in the crowd outside advanced to a window on the
ground floor, apparently in a state of great excite-
ment and apprehension, struck the glass repeatedly
with his hands till he broke a pane, and then shouted
through the aperture, " Are you going to stop there
till you are killed ? The place is falling." Imme-
diately a second panic was produced; there was a
second rush to the door ; and two or three persons,
who had been assisting to extricate the weak and
feeble in the first rush were thrown down ; but this
time it was unattended with any serious conse-
quences. It appeared by the evidence that Mr.
William Smith, cotton manufacturer, Bacup, made
great, and in many instances successful exertions, to
rescue the weaker persons who had been thrown down,
and that he extricated Mary Ashworth while yet
living. The boy, Moorhouse, was taken up by a
man named John Earnshaw, warehouseman to Mr.
Lord ; and Mr. John Burton, schoolmaster, extri-
cated young Richard Law. These, and other wit-
nesses, distinctly stated that all three deceased were
found lying outside the chapel door. The jury, after
deliberating a few minutes, returned a verdict of
Accidental Death. All the other sufferers are im-
proving, and likely to do well.—Manchester Guardian.

THE ISLE OF ELY POISONINGS.—The jury, after a
most patient inquiry, have at length returned a verdict
in the cases of child poisoning at Manea. They enter-
tain no doubt that the children were poisoned, and that
by arsenic ; but the evidence was not sufficient to carry
the crime home to any Individual ; but we sincerely
hope that circumstances will, ere long, arise to lead to
the discovery and punishment of the perpetrator of this
most dreadful crime. Here have three children been
cruelly and deliberately murdered ; a circumstance of so
dreadful a nature, that the contemplation of it fills the
mind with horror ; and yet, such is the ignorance and
brutality of the wretched inhabitants, totally devoid
of any moral feeling or restraint, that they laugh
at the proceedings of the Coroner, and devote the
day of the inquest to revelry and drunkenness. While
the jury were deliberating (says our reporter) the
scene below beggared description. Aubrey was in a
state of intoxication, and Hartley half drunk ; Youngs
sat in a state of silent stolidity, but his better half did
talking for them both. The most obscene language was
made use of, and the witnesses, one and all, seemed to
care more about the money they would receive for their
attendance than for their deceased children. One of the
others, indeed, went so far as to say, that " Ile did not
know but the old woman was right after all. There was
a deal too many of 'em, and nine O•it of every ten ought
to be put out of the way." This is, indeed, a dreadful
picture ; and if there is a difficulty in raising the people
from so degraded a state, where there appears to be no
moral restraint whatever, surely it is the duty of Go-
vernment to impose a heavy penalty on all chemists who
sell •of poison any description except the purchaser has
some person with him cr her, and to make it illegal to
sell arsenic at all unless it hes been coloured.—Cam-
bridge Independent.
1:11E GLASGOW LONDON MAlL.—This mail now
arrives about three hours sooner than formerly—the
morning arrives at 24 minutes past 5, and the evening at
34 minutes past 5. The London mails are dispatched
f..om Glasgow at 7 40 A.M. box closing at 7 15 ; and 5 2
P.M., box closing at 415 P.M. In a short time the Post-
office is to take advantage of the Trent Valley Railway,
by which an hour and a half will be gained ; and, as the
Caledonian Railway will shortly be opened from enl to
end, we may expect by December to have the Lor don
evening mail in Glasgow about 2 P.M. on the following
day, and the morning mail at 2 A.m.—Glasgow Poss.