The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-17 00:00:00

IMPORTATIONS OF PROVISIONS

FROM IRELAND.
The importations of provisions into the port of Liver-
pool from the Irish ports during the week from the 30. th
ult. to the sth bst. inclusive, comprised the following
list of articles :-10,179, firkins, 300 half-firkins, 1,07 S
baskets, casks, &c., and 323 boxes of butter; 312 sacks
and 602 barrels of wheat, 1,952 sacks of flour; 196 sacks,
800 qrs., and 2,256 barrels of oats ; 21 tons weight,
399 sacks, and 430 packages of oatmeal ; 50
barrels of barley, 72 sacks of malt, 512 boxes and
tierces and 35 other packages of linens and cottons ;
50 tons weight and 347 bags of meal, 11 bags and
6 casks of seed; 317 kegs and 8 casks of lard;
44 bags of feathers ; 259 barrels, 24 kegs, 42 firkins
and 10 other packages of pork ; 13 packages of general
provisions ; 11 packages of hams, 142 casks of
whisky, and 332 bales of bacon. The arrivals
at the port of Bristol in the same period comprised
110 cwt. and 14 casks of oatmeal, 4,271 barrels and 300
sacks of oats, 175 hampers of bacon, 1,624 packages of
butter,24 of pollard, 137 kegs of lard, 64 barrels and
72 other packages of barley, 66 of pork, and various
other articles ; and, according to a second return from
the same port, of the arrivals from Ireland up to the sth
instant, G 46 barrels of barley, 700 firkins of butter, 445
bales of bacon, 120 kegs of lard, 35 tierces and 39 bar-
rels of pork, 50 sacks and 150 barrels of oats, 26 casks
of whisky, 31 firkins and casks of lard, several packages
of hams and other articles, which do not require to be
more particularly specified. The importation of similar
articles of supply into the British metropolis from the
sister island, up to the latest authentic and current
returns, consisted of the subjoined list in a compen-
dious form, which includes the supplies at this port
from the quarter mentioned, from the 30th ult,
to the 10th inst., inclusive :-3,457 quarters and
888 barrels of oats, 1,000 barrels of barley, 4,597 tierces
and hampers of bacon, 29,526 packages (of various kinds)
of butter, 703 tierces and other packages of lard, 148
bales of linens, 49 packages of hams, 1,498 packages of
pork, 33 of waste, 197 of middles, 229 of papl)r, 123 of
whisky, 1,800 boxes of soap, 737 packages of general
provisions, 361 casks of porter, 60 packages of malt,
24 of Farina flour, 1,294 boxes and other packages of
eggs, 24 of tongues, 104 of beef, 40 of lemons, some of
portable soup, 46 pigs, 41 head of horned cattle, 138
sheep, 107 of general merchandise, and a variety of other
articles, of too varied and general a character to be more
specifically enumerated. In giving this list of arrivals
at the ports of London, Liverpool, and Bristol, from
Ireland, which are of especial interest, and of equal im-
portance at the present time, we forbear to advance any
concluding remarks, further than that the supply of
butter has been of an unusually extensive nature, whilst
that of other descriptions of provisions have far exceeded
the usual average arrivals from that country.

TENACITY OF ORGANIC LIFE IN AN ALLIGATOR.
—Some weeks previous to the period of which I am now
speaking, a solitary alligator had made his appearance
in Galveston Bay, nearly opposite the doctor's house,
and had been so far petted by the men, who threw him
waste fish, as to have secured, apparently, his residence
in that quarter. Feeling anxious to obtain the skin of
one of these reptiles, I one day went out to shoot him,
if possible, having loaded my gun with ball instead of
shot. At about fifty yards distance I got five discharges
at the mark formed by his eye, which just rose above
the sea sufficiently to enable him to look along the sur-
face. The visible portion was not larger than the centre
of a target, and, as my fowling piece was not adapted
fur ball, it is no marvel that so small a mark was
missed. When the ball passed within an inch or two
above his eye, he took no notice ; when it hit his head
or body, he merely sank for a few minutes, and came
up again as coolly as ever. At length the doctor
brought down one of Colt's six-chambered rifles, and, at
the second shot, hit him. -1 sent a man into the water
to fetch bim out, when it was found that half the upper
part of his head was carried away, leaving the brain
bare. Still, his muscular power was excessively strong,
and rendered it no easy task to meddle with him.
Under these circumstances, as well as in order to free
the creature from pain, I cut the head quite off, and pro-
ceeded to skin the carcass. This operation lasted nearly
five hours, and even when, after that lapse of time, I
threw the remains into the sea, the vitality had by no
means ceased. This amazing tenacity of life could never
have been believed unless it was seen • but, of course, all
sensation must have ceased when the decapitation was
effected. The skin of an alligator will not strip off like
that of any ordinary animal, as the hard, teadinons flesh
grows into it, and thus renders the operation of separating
the two both difficult and tedious.---Simmons's Colonial
Magazine.
THE LATE FATAL OCCURRENCE ON THE LONDON
AND NORTII-WESTERN BAILWAY.-011 Monday even-
ing, Mr. G. I. Mills resumed the inquest on the body of
Enos Lea, aged 29, a porter in the employ of Messrs.
Thomas Stricland and Co., railway carriers, who was
killed by being jammed between the buffer of some lug-
gage trucks at the Camden-town station of the aboverail-
way, on the morning of Friday last. The inquiry was
adjourned on account of neglect being imputed either to
the police on duty, or to the engine-driver of the train.
From the additional evidence adduced, it was shown that
the luggage train, which ought to have left Birmingham
at nine o'clock on Thursday evening, did not do so until
an hour after, and its time of arrival at the Camden-
town station is three in the morning; but on Friday
set it did not arrive until forty minutes after seven, up-

wards of four hours and three-quarters after its proper
time. Shortly after its arrival, while the deceased was
engaged in moving a truck from the turn table
'to the weigh bridge, the signal was given to the engine-
driver to close the buffers, for the purpose of slacking
the coupling chains, and in doing so deceased was
crushed between the buffer of the truck he wit! moving
and the one next to it, and was killed almTitTiTasttaEntl.
The jury returned the following verdict :
buffers of two
Lea was crushed to death between thetrn Railway,
trucks on the London and North-1
iVneeswhich had brought
im-
pelled by a certain locomotive ethi:eg
previous night, from
the train of 54 carriages, on
th hours
the and
fae
fact
three-
quarterstha tßirmingham; that such train
r
behind its time,
eboeuipnlgedibuw
there was a disregard of signals, was the main cause of
the occurrence; al -
a the jury cannot but express their
sense of the danger
such neglect of which must always result from
time signals." The Deputy-Coroner
•
having expressed a hope that so powerful and wealthy a
company would for the future pay attention to these two
essentials in railway management, the proceedings ter-
minated, after lasting nearly three hours.
The remains of the late Colonel Spottiswoode, of
Spottiswoode, were interred in the family vault, at Cold-
stream, on Friday, having been removed thither from
Torquay.
Sir it )pert Peel is recovering from a severe attack
of gout.
ACCIDENT.—FIERCE ATTACK BY A HoßsE.—On
Saturday evening, as a fly-driver, named Burch, in -the
employ of Mr. Barber, omnibus proprietor, Hackney,
was in the act of stooping near his horse, the animal
became suddenly violent, and, turning round quickly,
kicked .the man with his hind legs for some minutes.
Burch's cries for aid increased the fury of the horse,
who, with almost incredible sagacity, so placed himself
as to prevent any one from entering the stall, and,
although severely flogged, the animal would not advance
an inch, but, in a state of savageness, kicked his un-
fortunate victim with great violence. After some
difficulty the horse was secured, and Burch was taken
out of the stall in a state of total insensibility. Medical
aid was obtained, and the unfortunate man conveyed
home, where it was discovered that his left arm was
broken, and his head and neck frightfully contused.
Various injuries were -inflicted about his body, and be
now remains in a very dangerous state.