The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-23 00:00:00

SPECIAL COMMISSION IN WESTMEATH

MIILLINGAR, TUESDAY NIGHT, ELEVEN o'CLocit.—Bryan Seery
was this day placed at, the bar, charged with having tired at Cr
Francis Hopkins, Bart.
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The case laying closed, and the jury being unable to agree, were
locked up. •

A shocking attempt at murder has taken place in Tipperary, the
victim being a poor man who had aided a bailiff in levying a distress.
The culprits are recognised, and in prison.

THE PRICE OF BREAD IN THE METROPOLIS.—Tho
price of bread in the east end of the metropolis has, within the last
two or three days, been raised from 9d. to 9%d. for the best, and
from ad. to 83rd. per four pound loaf of an inferior quality. On the
Surrey side of the river the price remains as before, viz.. boar 934 d.,
second ditto, Bd.: some sold as high as 10d. In the neighbourhood
of Chelsea and Brompton, the price of bread is, with very few excep-
tions, 10d. According to the present price of bread, it is nearly twice
as dear as it was this time last year.
ALARMING ACCIDENT AT ST. JAMES'S PALACE.—Yes-
terday morning, as the Lord Chamberlain's carriage was about
leave St. James's Palace for Buckingham Palace, to join the tate
procession on its way to the House of Lone, a rush was made to-
wards it by the assembled crowd, and at the same time one tl
horses belonging to the treop of Life Guards, who were drawn pi zi
front of the Palace, became unmanageable. The soldier who was
mounted on the animal attempted to quiet it, but was unable to do
so, and he was unhorsed and thrown with great violence upon the
ground. The horse then dashed among the crowd and knocked down
several persons, and having made a passage for itself proceeded to-
wards St. James's.street, where its further career was stopped, and
the soldier, who was severely bruised, again mounted and jollied
the cavalcade. Among the persons injured were two police-cOn-
stables, named William Davidson Day and William Smith, of
the K division, who were present in plain clothes watching the
operations of some juvenile ptcpockets. Day's forehead was cut
open by the horse's hoof, and he received a very dangerous wound.
Smith was also trampled upon by the horse; his knees were cut and
he received very severe contusions en his backs and loins. Both
policemen were raised from the ground insensible and bleeding pro-
fusely from their wounds. They were conveyed to
the house of a
neighbouring surgeon, and after their wounds were dressed
and ban-
daged, they were sent home in a cab.
A
and residence are unknown, was also kneekegdendtioeinwir liy, wthhceee horse;nsnie
and when he recovered himself; he was bleeding rofhaidy
nose and month. A boy ,had his leg broken, andPwas takaufromto
owpoerelicalarnS°thets
en wereh on their thlirurweda.y hiotmise lansPihe"'
hospital. Other Othtahteraspstrhsoentws
cab, they saw a man maned Snaley,
and who has been long sought attir' iw o stands charged with felony,
The officers immediately alighted fromafter,
the
High-ethlet'
WhitechaPel.
custody, and lodged him in the the cab, took Snaley into
station-heuse.
THE LATE RA.
ILVAY ACCIDENT.—The followingatate-
tient is communicated upon such authority that we have no doubt of
its truth. The engine driOn the night previous tover, Hedges, resided with his wife at Ely.
loud scream from
his
wife the accident Hedges was awakened by
, which was followed by an hysterical lit.
Upon her recovery she said she had a frightful dream—that he was
killed by. an accident to the train. Ile laughed at her timidity, and
ridiculed her superstition, but on the next morning she implored him,
with tears in her eyes, not to drive the engine that day; and as he
left the door and bade her good good-by, she was seized with another
fit of hysterics, to which she was not subject. He w ent back, kissed
her, and left her in charge of a neighbour. She never saw her bus-
band again alive ; but within 24 hours of her vision she stood beside
hit mangled remains.—Jury Post.
' Air. E. Mitchell, of the Bristol Gardens, Kemp-
town, has now a brown Bury pear-tree in full blossom, and a jar-
gonel pear-tree bearing fruit three-fourths grown.—Brighton Gazette.
ACCIDENT ON THE DIINSTABLE RAILWAY.—An acci-
dent, which ended fatally, occurred recently on the works for the
formation of the Leighton Buzzard and ])unstable Railway. Joseph
Hodgens was at work in a cutting on the above railway, when the
earth gave way and buried him. After a time he was extricated.
but in a speechless state. • He lingered till Tuesday, when death re-
leased him from his sufferings. It appeared that the jaw-bone was
fractured, and that his ribs were much broken. At the inquest a
verdict of "Accidental death" was returned.

." FATAL COAL-PIT ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday evening
a young man named Thomas Meredith, who had been employed in
an ironstone pit on Ettingshall Colliery, near Bilston, Staffordshire,
lost his life by falling from the bucket, the chain of which broke as
the deceased and another were within a few feet of the surface. His
companion was saved by laying hold of the foot-hook which was at-
tachectto the main chain.
ACCIDENT AT THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY' .TER;
TituaSDAT.EVENIIIO.—Tnia evening, in sons new
buildings which had been in •yrpgross. of construction
.hiep of scat-
crease the accommodation for transfer 'of
vasto
little while
folding eame'with'a loud crash to the grou-.--.; fternuss, all more
five of the workmen were extricated from th
or less injured, and one or two very which has not
that others are not still buried bonFath the rubbish,
nor is it certain
yet been all removed. axigerousiyal

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