The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-17 00:00:00

NA.JNUAR if. 17, 1848.

THE FATAL ACCIDENT NEAR
WOKING.

(F'URTHER PARTICULARS.
It appears that the train which leave. Southampton
for London
At 5.30 P.m., and is due in London at 50
minutes past eight, proceeded on. Friday evening as
far as the 'Farnborough station without anything
particular occurring; but shortly after leaving that
station something was f %mid -to 'be wrong with the
engine; and on arriving at' the point we-have men-
tioned above the train was brought to a standstill.
On this every precaution , was taken to prevent acci-
dent by the other trains which might be on the line
running into that which had become stationary, the
second guard, BrOwnsinith, being sent down the line to
exhibit his red lamp as a token -of danger to approach-
ing trains, but, as the result -proved,- unfortunately
without:effect. In.the meantime the engine-driver,
David Markland, who was considered one of the best
and steadiest drivers on the line, being a fitter as
well ai a drive'', proceeded to examine
,the engine,
and, having diScovered that the 'eccentric tap was
broken, to repair the injury,- and -to' tie' up the
clack:of the feed pipe; :While engaged's luggage
train was observed to be approaeling, and, a -1111111
named -West was directod to, go; down the lino;and
look after BroWnsinitli.. to impressi, upon him the:ne-
cessity t3f- making his signal understood b 4, the driver
of.the luggage. engine.' This was 'about forty minutes
past -eight, :the ;train .hating then been stotiftng
!nearly three-quarters :of an hour. At this moment
Markland desired the first guard, who was holding a
light to enable him to see to make the repairs, to
tell the various passengers who had got out of the
train to resume their seats. Many of them did so;
and .immediately afterwards, notwithstanding the
signals, the goods train ran into the back of the
passenger train, and drove it forwards with
considerable force, by which, the ash-pan of
the engine struck Markland, who was sitting
under the engine, fracturing his skull in a most
dreadful manner, breaking his left arm, and
leaving him lying dead between the rails. The
collision also caused considerable damage to the last
four Gosport carriages of the passenger train, by
which some of the passengers were rather severely
Injured; the stoker of the passenger engine, Thomas
4alvert, and Thomas Fortescue, the guard of the
goods train, being also dreadfully injured. About
loalf‘past eight o'clock, the train being half an hour
behind the time, Mr. Miller, the company's agent at
Woking, dispatched a pilot engine up the line to look
for it, at the same time delaying the Guildford train,
which arrives at Woking at a quarter-past eight.
Shortly afterwards a man came down to the station
with the information that an accident had occurred,
and it was feared that Markland was killed. Mr.
Miller immediately dispatched messengers for medical
assistance, and proceeded with the Guildford train to
look after the passengers, but had got a very short
distance when the pilot engine was seen approaching,
bringing a portion of the train with it. Mr.
Miller consequently returned with the Guildford
train to the station. At the station Messrs.
Jackson and Waters, surgeons of Woking,
Mr. Miller, and Mr.. West, the station clerk, paid
every attention to the sufferers. Mr. Waters, with
Mr. Scott, a director, went to view the body of
Markland, left behind. On arriving at Nine Elms,
Fortescue and Calvert were conveyed to St. Thomas's
Hospital, accompanied by Mr. Fletcher, when it was
discovered that Fortescue, who it is believed was
thrown from the train while applying his break, had
sustained a compound fracture of the left arm, and
several very severe contusions of the scalp, which
appear to have affected his brain, as he has been
raving mad ever since ; and though amputation of
the arm must take place, it has not yet been deemed
prudent to perform the operation, as, while he remains
in his present condition, very little, hopes can be
entertained of his life. Calvert had the index finger
of his right hand destroyed, so as to render imme-
diate amputation necessary, his lower jaw fractured,
and some severe contusions upOn his head ; but at the
last accounts he was proceeding very favourably.
The passengers Who were injured were conveyed to
the Railway. Hotel, opposite the Nine Elms station,
where they were immediately attended by Mr.
Statham and two uther medical gentlemen, when it
was discovereTllint the principal sufferer was the
Rev. Mr. Hutchins; of Atherstone, Stoke-upon-Trent,
who had sustained a fracture of the thigh. It ap-
pears that Mr. Hutchins has for some time laboured
under a stiff knee, and was sitting in a second-class
carriage with his leg resting upon the seat, when two
or three other passengers were thrown with such
force upon his leg by the collision of the trains as to
break it just above the knee. ' Mr. Hutchins was
accompanied in the carriage by Miss Hutchins, who
is rather severely cut in the forehead; the Rev. Mr.
Richings, whose arm is much contused ; Mrs. Rich-
ings, who received several contusions and a general
shock to her system; - and Mr. Hutchings, a brother
of the Rev. Gentleman,, who was so slightly injured
as to be able to leave the hotel yesterday. Four or
five other passengers, itlis believed, were also slightly
injured by the broken glass, and by being thrown
from their seats, but no exact information can be
obtained on that subject, as they were enabled to
proceed to their homes on the Guildford train
arriving in London, which it did about eleven o'clock,
P.M. instead of twenty minutes past nine, its usual
time.

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IRELAND.
STATE OF THE COUNTRY.

DUBLIN, JAN. 14.—The spirit of insubordination
which has so long pervaded the south and west has
lately; it seems, manifebted itself in the hitherto
peaceable county of Wicklow. The Evening diail
says—
" On Saturday night two villains entered the house
of a man named Jones, a workman in the employment
of Mr. Hume, and living in a cottage on the demesne
of Humewood. They came in searc of arms. Jones
happened to be from home, but his wife was obliged
to get up and let them in. They made her light a
candle to search for arms, which was .the object of
their visit. Not finding any they left, saying they
would return again when Jones would be at home.
They then proceeded to the village of Kiltegan, which
Was close by, and posted oa a tree on the'tair green a
Humes.
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scarcely legible, but purporting-to be' written by the
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eighty,-six. landlords and agents
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Hume is the, principal resident, proprietor, and in
which, ever since last autumn, he has been giving
employment to every man, woman, or child who seeks
it. At this moment the weekly average is 400 men
and boys engaged in draining, fencing, and other im-
provements over the Humewood estate. And not
resting here, Mr. Hume has issued an order to his
steward to refuse no one (employment who may seek
it, till the works laid out are completed, and which
are so extensive as to require at the present average
number of hands engaged, some years to finish. But
this is not the first occasion of outrage and threaten-
ing notices in this part of the hitherto peaceable
county Wicklow ; a short, time back lir. Pierce Ma-
hony, of Grangecon, was served, either himself (r
steward, with a threatening notice; and so was Mr.
Greenbam's steward, of Stratford-on. Slaney, and
others that we could name. An investigation is now
going on into the above matter, but there is little
doubt the miscreants do not belong to the neighbour-
hood of Humewood or Kiltegan electoral division,
but are from the neighbourhood of the town of Bal-
tinglass, which is the property of Lord Aldborough,
an absentee landlord, which is in a most wretched
state; besides this, there have latterly been several
strangers from the disturbed districts prowling about
the barony of Talbotstown, Upper and Lower, but
I upon whom we are given to understand the authori-
ties have an eye."
THE MURDERS AT CASTLETOWNROCHE.
An inquisition was taken on Friday last at Castle-
townroche, before Mr. Richard Jones, County
Coroner (assisted by Sub-Inspector M'Leod) and a
respectable jury, on the bodies of Catherine M'Carthy
and Margaret Reynolds, her niece, whose deaths were
mentioned in the Reporter of Saturday last. It
appeared in evidence, that the aunt, Catherine
M'Carthy, kept a huckster's shop at Castletown-
roche, by which she acquired about 601., and having
got into delicate health lately had brought her niece
to attend to the business. That two men came to
her house to lodge on Tuesday night week, one of
whom was in the habit of lodging there before. They
sat down by the fire, and spoke in a friendly manner
to the deceased, who were the only inmates of the
house; but one of them kept his head down when
persons came in, for the purpose of concealment. In
consequence of the door and windows being closed
all day on Wednesday, and up to three o'clock on
Thursday, the neighbours suspected that some-
thing wrong had occurred, and sent for the poliee,
who broke open the back door, which
was bolted inside. The front door was
locked and the key taken away. On entering a
bedroom next the kitchen they found the aunt and
niece lying dead in the same bed; the niece was
quite naked with the bedclothes thrown over her.
There was a considerable quantity of froth and some
blood in her mouth, and the mark of a large finger-
nail under her jawbone ; the back and shoulders were
quite livid, the body was cold and stiff, and life ap-
peared to have been extinct for at least a day. The
aunt lay near her, with a small piece of whipcord tied
tightly round her throat. On searching up stairs,
one of the beds appeared to have been recently slept
in by two persons, two boxes were broken open, some
small articles in them were tossed about, no money,
was found but a halfpenny in a drawer ; a dry blad-
der, such as is generally used as a purse, appeared to
have been turned inside out, as if rifled of its contents.
Mrs. M'Carthy's cloak, two coats and smallelothes
which belonged to her deceased husband were mis-
sing; a pair of old trousers, which appeared to have
been recently worn, and wet, were left behind. Mi-
chael Troy (who lived next house to the deceased)
and several other witnesses, proved they saw the two
strangers in the house that night, and deposed to other
very important facts.
Dr. Tuckey, having been examined at great length,
proved that the deceased came by their deaths by
strangulation.
The jury found a verdict accordingly.
JAN. 15.—There is but little intelligence of note
from the provinces to-day ; and beyond a few of the
ordinary cases of assault on the person and robberies
of arms in Tipperary and Longford, the accounts
would seem to indicate that the Special Commission
has not been altogether sped in vain ; and that a ces-
sation of murder may at least be calculated upon.
In the Queen's County four men have been remanded
for further examination on a charge of conspiracy to
murder Mr. John Robinson Price of Westfield-farm ;
while from the same quarter it is reported that
" Captain Fireball from Kyle" continues to ply his
vocation after the following fashion :
" A threatening notice was served on the house of
John Lalor, of Trummera, and a shot fired into his
window. The notice was signed Captain Fireball,
from Kyle.' It ordered Michael Hogan to give up
working on the railway, or death would be his doom.
It also stated, no stranger would be allowed to stay
in the place. On the same night a shot was fired
through the window of Daniel Kenna, of Trummera;
and a notice posted on the door, signed, Your truly
Fireball from Kyle.' It intimated death to one
Michael Carroll ; if he, a stranger, continued to work
on the railway that he would be shot."

THE REV. MR. TIGHE AND MR.

JOSEPH HOLMES.
TO THE EDITOR OF 7'HE SUN.

Sia,—With the sole object in view that I may not
lie open to the charge of asserting that which I am
not prepared to avow, I beg to observe that the state-
ment which appeared in The Sun of Friday last, re-
lative to an occurrence in the Roman Catholic Chapel
at Ballaghadiren on the 6th instant, is substantially
correct.
Allow me to add, that when I alleged my brother
had expended 20,000/. in keeping down the markets
in his neighbourhood, I meant that he had imported
into the district provisions to that amount (at great
risk to himself from the rapid fluctuation of prices),
which he disposed of at first cost. His means, which
consist of a fee-simple estate of 1,100 acres in the
county of Sligo, would obviously not admit of his
sacrificing so large a sum as that mentioned.—l have
the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
A. E. HOLMES.

5, Chester-street, Grosvenor-place, Jan. 15.

A small appointment became vacant recently in
Dublin, via., that of Solicitor for Examining Bills of
Costs, connected with the Auditing of Public Accounts
in Ireland; the office was offered to Mr. J. M. Cantwell,
an active and able solicitor in Dublin; but we under-
stand that the Lords of the Treasury, after further in-
quiry, have decided upon reducing the emoluments of the
office, which will now be discontiaued as a separate ap-
pointment, and the duties will, in future, devolve upon
the Crowe Solicitor in Dublin.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF BIGAMY.—An extra-
ordinary case of bigamy was investigated on Saturday at
the Cheltenham Police-court A richly dressed female,
who has lately introduced herself into fashionable circles
in this town, under the name of the Lady Ada Alice
Wyattville, was placed in the dock, chargt d with bigamy.
From the evidence produced against her it appears that
she was married on the Bth of November, 1838, at Ken-
sington Church. under the name-of Octavia Sarah Moore
de Bellevue (at which tithe shi described herself as the
daughter of Lucius Moore de Bellevue, Marshal of
France) to Mr. Henry Wyatt, architect, son of Mr.
Matthias Coles Wyatt, the celebrated sculptor. Subse-
quent to the marriage the parties went to reide at
Boulogne-sur-Mer, but they separated after a short re-
sidence there. It further appeared, that in May last the
prisoner was charged with bigamy at the Marlborough-
street Police-court, London, by intermarrying with a
person named Koller,- from which charge she escaped.
The offence now charged against her is, that she con-
tracted marriage, on the 17th of December last, in the
parish church, Cheltenham, under the name of Lady
Ada Alice Wyattville, with Mr. Thomas Hinckley,
engineer, her first husband, Henry Wyatt, being alive
at the time. The prisoner was fully ooramitted for trial
at the next Gloucester assiAea.
DEATH Ole Mltli. DAWSON, SISTER TO SIR ROBERT
PEEL.—We regret to state that this lady. who had bet:n
ailing for a considerable titue, died on Saturday morn-
ing, at a quarter to five o'clock, at the tvmporary
deuce of her husband, the Right Hon. Georg. ;Yawson,
at Brighton. She was eldest4a;:gliter of the late Sir
Robert Peel, and was consequently sister to the ot-rrq-
Rier *A to 140 laealle

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has, however, ..le,eeia ram AMA V
week than has' b4A` the case
lately, and, from the great caution exercised by the
manufacturers, the stocks continue low, and prices in
consequence are niaieteined. Business has been
rather better in the warehouses this week ; during
the last few days there has been a number of the
London buyers in the town, but at this early period
they purchase lightly. The shipping houses are
rather improving.—Leeds Mercury. . .
BRADFORD, THURSDAY .—WooL.—Mere is no:al-
teratiotein the wool market. The purchases made are
only for present consumption, and on the most limited
scale.. There is very little weed coming to '• the
market, owing to the producers and wool
dealers not being - content to accept the
going prices. There is a steady but limited de-
mand for yarns for the home trade; the shipprs are
doing less, on account of the continental rivers lieirig
frozen. There was on Thursdae an average businees
done in pieces, and more inquiries for fancy goods.
Several of our chief manufacturers expressed coeti
deuce that we have seen the worst in Bradtord trade,_
and henceforth it will rapidly improve. There is
hardly any stocks on hand, so that, if demand in-
crease, there must be great improvement.
iIANCRESTER, FRIDAY.—We have had during the
entire week a comparatively slack demand' for most
kinds of cloth, and the poor 'manufacturers since.
Tm.,sday have been pressing sales, which to effect-
. have been made at a slight la duction even on Tues-
day's rates. With the exception of the Greeks and
Americans, no extensive business is going on for.
export. ur home merchants are buying more freely
than cf late. Our dyers too are busier, which is an-
other good sign. Yarns are also easier to buy, but
as this is the exact period at all times when business'
is. doing, little is thought of the matter.
TRADE OF NOTTING E1A.5.1.—1t is now evident that,
there is an improvement in several of the branches of.
the hosiery manufacture ; this, it is considered, - will
increase as the year advances. The emigration to
America continues, and from all. we can learn, the
stockingers find no difficulty in obtaining employ-
ment, at high wages, in Philadelphia, where several
Dutchmen have purchased frames, and have com-
menced as. hosiers. The cotton bobbin net trade,
though certainly improved, is yet in a depressed con-
dition, but hopes are entertained of a great improve-
ment in the spring. Many of the shops engaged
in the making of machinery are nearly at a . stand, -
the repealing of the law which prevented the free
export of machinery, from which so much was ex-
pected, has proved of little advantage to them,
as- the bobbin-net trade in France and Germany
is described as bring in a worse state than in England ;
this is evidently correct, as there are now in Notting-
ham many machine-smiths who have returned from
various parts of France and Germany, where the
mannfacture is carried on, having no employment.—
Nottingham Review.
LEICESTER.—The improvement in the demand for
goods is very gradual in its progress, but as the stocks
of the retail dealers are considered to be low, they
must be buyers of more or less goods, as their wants
may require. There is rather more material gieen
out by the hosiers than before Christmas. A very
large number of frames are, however, yet idle. Most
of the spinning factories are working short time.
Wool is firm, and rather more doing in it.—Leicester
Chronicle.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, JAN. 14.—1 n a congregation holden this
day, being the first day of Lent Term, the following
degrees were conferred :

Bachelor in Civil Law, by com►nutation--Robert
Evans, Jesus, head master of the Bristol Grammar
School.

Masters of Arts—George Guerard Lawrence, St.
Edmund Hall; Rev. George 'William Chamberlain,
Wadham ; Rev. Frederick Sowdon, St. Mary Hall;
Rev. Charles Thomas James, Exeter; William Merry,
Worcester; Edward Augustus Freeman, Trinity;
Rev. Robert Scarr Redfern, Queen's ; Rev. George
Sereynsham Master, Rev. 'Thomas Huila, Rev.
John Henry Brookes, Rev. Joseph Wagstaff Barlow,
Rev. Gilbert Herderson Philips, Brasenose.
Bachelors of Arts—Henry Thomas Salmon, Exe-
ter; Alexander Wishaw, Trinity ; Richard Fort, St.
John's.

The Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology intends
to begin his course of lectures of the present term on
Monday, the 28th of February.
Such members of the University as are qualified to
become scholars in theology, and are desirous of
attending these lectures, are requested to call upon
the Professor on Saturday, the 26th February, be-
tween the hours of, eleven and two o'clock.
The next regular degree day is Thursday, Feb. 3.

ALARMING OCCURRENCE.
On Saturday morning the inhabitants of Islington,
Holbeck, near Leeds, were thrown into a state of
alarm by observing a considerable quantity of hair
and Hood upon the gate-posts forming the entrance
to the road leading to a disused coal pit, a tuated
about ten yards from the Leeds and Elland-road,
near to Islington. Upon examining the spot, several
stones were also found stained with hair and gore, an&
drops of blood could be distinctly traced along the
whole of the path leading to the coal pit. A short
distance from the pit a pool of blood and several
bludgeons clotted with gore and hair were discovered.
'There were also other indications, as if some unhappy
victim had here made a last mortal struggle for exist-
ence. On further examination, the fence around the
pit was likewise stained with hair and blood, as if the
victim had been violently dashed against it. As
might be expected, the most horrid apprehensions
began to prevail, it being evident to all that a most
foul and unnatural murder had been committed.
The excitement was increased by the ru-
mour that an individual of the name of
Samuel Carlton, residing at Beeston, who had left his
home on the previous Thursday, had not been heard
of since. In the minds of the people the cause of his
absence was now accounted for; nothing, to them,
was so natural as the conclusion that he had been
murdered and robbed, and that the perpetrators of the
foul tragedy had cast his body into the coal pit to
escape detection. Mr. James, the indefatigable su-
perintendent of the Leeds night police, was sent for,
and on his arrival finding that the appearances ac-
cord with the statements that had been made to him,
he applied to the Mayor (F. Carbutt, Esq.), and ob-
tained his permission to erect a scaffolding round the
mouth of the pit, in order to its being searched. The
preparations having all been completed on Sunday
morning, thousands of persons flocked to the spot.
Mr. James, with his assistants, soon arrived, and a
man Ras lowered to the bottom of the pit. The ap-
prehensions of the spectators had now reached a most
painful state of intensity. After a short interval, the
man at the bottom of the pit gave the signal to be
drawn up ; the excitement was at its height—scarcely
a breath could be heard. At length the man appeared,
bringing up with him the mutilated remains of—a
large dog,whose brains it appeared some miscreants
had knocked out, and afterwards thrown the body
into the pit. Carlton has since turned up, not from
the pit, however, but from Kirkstall, where it appears
he had been enjoying himself with some friends.—
Leeds Mercury.

EXPLOSION OF A LOCOMOTIVIL—A most serious
accident took place on Friday at the Carlisle a.nd Mary-
port Railway station by one of the locomotives ex-
ploding, and destroying the greater portion of a build-
ing called the engine shed, and injuring two persons.
The locomotive was standing underneath the shed pre-
paratory to taking a passenger train out, the engine-
driver and stoker cleaning the machinery at the moment.
Both men were much injured, but fortunately not dan-
gerously. The force of the explosion propelled the
engine along the line at an enormous speed; bad a
passenger-train been in its way the consequences would
have been most disastrous. The directors have since
caused an investigation into the accident, and have as-
certained that the explosion arose through both safety
valves being tightly screwed down. The boiler exploded
just above the fire-box, and near the tender.

, - ----. THE FREE TRADE DEMONSTRATION uN MAN-
CHESTER.—Since our last, letters, signifying teir inten-
tion to be present at the Great Free Trade Demonstra-
tion, on the 27th instant, have been received from the
following Members of Parliament:—The Right Ron. T.
M. Gibson. Mr. R. Cobden, Mr. John Bright, Sir Joshua
Walmsley, Leicester; Dr. Bowring, Bolton; Colonel T.
P. Thompson, Bradford; Messrs, J. B. Smith, Sterling;
James Kershaw, Stockport; John Dixon, Carlisle; Joe.
Brotherton, Salford; J. L. Ricardo, Stoke-upon-Trent;
George Thompson, Tower Hamlets; Thomas Thornely,
Wolverhampton; William Ewart, Dumfries; Mather
Wilson, Clitheroe; W. Scholefield, Birmingham; C.
Hindley, Ashton-under-Lyne; and J. Pilkington, Blacx-
burn.—Mancliester Guardieri.
The Swiss Diet sat on the loth. After the
Deputies for Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz,. and Valais had
beginsworn in, the proposition of the committee of
seven to accept the guarantees offered by the canton of
Uri for the payment of its quota of the expenses of the
Kstl roeumahiniss
rdeutier.ingAfvroomte
war was agreed to, and three years accorded to it for
ftowirLt
the reimbursementwas
passedo
representative of Lucerne. Friburg,
'oLthfuect
pheroansntek,osfand. the Valais having declared that they
ederal
acceded in principle to the revision of the compact, Dr.
Steiger, of Lucerne, Professor Bussard, of Friburg, and
M. Barmann, of the Valais, were added to the Come
mittee of, Revision. Two Members were added to the
Committee of Seven in the persons of Dr. Steiger, of
Lucerne, and Dr. Sang, of Uri. It was then proposed
to charge the Committee of Seven to draw up a procla-
mation to the army; and a letter of thanks to General
Dufour in the name of the country in remitting to
him a sum of 40,000 f. Swiss. This proposition was
adopted,
The PRESSURE OF TIIE TIMES.-It iS il fact that
Ithere have been already opened at the Bankruptcy
Court, in Paul-street, Exeter, one half as many fiats in
bankruptcy during the first fourteen days of the present
Meath of January, as during the whole of the year 1844:
—Western Times.