The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-15 00:00:00

THE LATE RAILWAY A CCIDENT. ; NEW CUSTOMS REGULATIONS'
SWINDON, SATURDAY.—The case of Mr. Arthur INDIA.
Augustus Lea has unfortunately terminated fatally.
be In our last publication we alluded to an Act which had
The injuries Mr. Lea sustained were very serious,
'The
passed for regulation of the Customs Laws in India.
'The India Board has mince politely favoured us with a
one of his thighs being fractured, and the other leg,
copy“ of the document, which we subjoin:—
broken below the knee. His dissolution, however,
An Act for equalising the duties on goods imported
did not arise from either of these fractures, but from and exported on Foreign and British Bottoms, and
an attack of apoplexy, with which he was stricken a for abolishing the duties on goods carried from port
few hours previous to death. Several of the unfortu- to port in the territories subject to the Government
nate gentleman's friends were present at his demise,of the East India Company.
and, among them, his cousin, who is a student in the ol.lt is hereby enacted, that from and after the eetli.
same college. The deceased was a young man of day of March, 1848, all goods imported on For tr
great promise ; he took a double degree at the last Bottoms by sea into any port of the Presidenciesb of
boll
classical examination, and, it is saisl, was only deprived Wiclhliaarm,eidnoßalenwg7tlitFtertSt. George, or Bombay, 7
of the highest honours by a long and serious illness, be same rates. dutyf msucah'good_r:
would nowg bylaw be charged with, such goods were
which interrupted his studies for some months.
imported into any of the said ports on British Bottoms,
This afternoon, at three o'clock, Mr. W. B. Whit-
anything ix any Act of the Council of India contained
marsh empannelled a jury for the purpose of investi-
to the contrary notwithstanding.
gating the circumstances attending the death of the 2. And it is hereby enacted, that from and after the
deceased. said day all goods exported on Foreign Bottoms by sae
The identity of the deceased having been proved, from any port of the said Presidencies, shall be charged
the several witnesses examined at the inquest only with the same rates of duty as such goods would
held at Shrivenham on Thursday, were called. now by law be charged with, if such goods were expr.nea_
Their testimony differed in no material point from from any of the said ports on British Bottoms, any king
that which they had before given. in any Act of the Council of India contained so the
Mr. Michael Lane, resident engineer of the rail- contrary notwithstanding. he
" 3. And it is hereby enacted, that from and after the
way deposed to having accompanied Captain Symonds
said day no duty shall be charged on any goods lawful);
to Shrivenham for the purpose of making an experi-
carried from an y port in the territories, subject to
ment as to how much time would be occupied in to any oche.
Government ot the East India Company,
placing the horse-box and trucks in the position they port in the said territories, anything in any Act of tie
.
occupied on the railway when the accident occurred. Council of India contained to the contrary notwith
From the experiment made it had been found that to standing.
move the horse-box and cattle-truck to the position "4. Provided always that nothing in this Act
COII.
in which they were placed, and to bring the loaded tained shall apply to the articles of salt or opium.
truck on to the turntable occupied five men nearly (Signed) " G. A. BUSIIBof T,lndis.
seven minutes. On the occasion of the accident four " Secretary to the Government
men only were employed, so that a greater time —Liverpool European Times.
might be reasonably supposed to have been occupied.
The policeman on duty, Pargetter, was stationed
about four hundred feet from the siding where the
horse-box and cattle-truck entered upon the line,
and he could not, as witness believed, have helped
seeing the obstruction had he looked in the proper
direction.
At this stage of the proceedings the inquest was
adjourned until Wednesday next.
SHRIVENIIAM, SATURDAY.—This morning, at half-
past ten o'clock, Mr. Wasborough, Coroner for
Berks, and the jury empannelled on Thursday last,
re-assembled at the Victoria Tavern, near the railway
station, for the purpose of further prosecuting their
investigation, on view of the bodies of Edwin Wilt-
shire and Michael Mahony, whose remains were not
identified when the jury previously met.
Mr. John Leahy, of Shamskiel House, in the
county of Cork, said he was travelling in the express.
train from Bristol to London, on Wednesday last.
He rode in a first class carriage, with his child, add
her female attendant. His man-servant, Michael
Mahoney, rode in a second class carriage. After the
collision, witness saw his servant lying on the plat-.
form quite dead.
Richard Wiltshire, of Bath-place, Islington, said
he had seen the bodies now lying dead at the Victoria
Tavern, and recognised one of them as that of his
brother, Edwin Wiltshire, who was travelling with
his master, General Sir Alexander Mackenzie, on
Wednesday last, from Bath to London, when the
accident occurred.
The testimony of the different witnesses examined
on the last occasion having been repeated,
The CORONER, after referring to a copy of the
instructions issued to the servants of the company,
said he could find no rule forbidding the servants of
the company to place any obstruction on the main
line, while the signal showed the line to be clear.
From the evidence of Mr. Hudson, the station clerk,
he had been led to believe there was such a rule.
Mr. Clarke, the superintendent, said although not
referred to in the rules, this was a thoroughly under-
stood matter by all persons in the employ of the com-
pany. It was in fact the fundamental principle on
which all the instructions were based.
The foreman of the jury said he did not think that
men who were half their time stupified with drink and
tobacco, as all those who knew Willoughby knew him
to be, were proper persons to have the lives of the
public placed at their mercy.
Mr. Clarke expressed his surprise at the statement
of the foreman, and reminded the jury that Wil-
loughby had received a very good character from the
station clerk.
The Foreman said, from his personal knowledge of
the man he considered him most unfit to fill the duties
of the responsible situation in which he had been
placed. He had been surprised to find, on walking
down to the inn where they were then assembled,
after the inquest had been held, about ten o'clock on
Thursday night the porter Copley, who was repre-
sented to have been ill so long, with his pipe and his
glass before him, carousing with a number of pot
companions. Considering that the house was full of
invalids who were suffering from the effects of the re-
cent accident, he thought if Copley had been able to
come there at all, he should have been one of the first
to assist in closing the house, and endeavouring to se-
cure quiet for its inmates.
Mr. Clarke—l quite agree with you, sir, and beg
to assure you that the sobriety and general good con-
duct of all our servants is invariably watched with
great jealousy.
One of the jury thought the duty imposed upon the
policeman of attending to both signal posts, as well as
the gates at the level crossing over the railway, was
too much for any one man, and recommended that a
second policeman should be appointed.
Mr. Clarke—On behalf of the directors of the
company I promise that the matter shall be fully
considered, with a view to put on another policeman,
if necessary, or even if thought desirable.
The CORONER said he thought it very desirable
that an instruction not to place any truck on the
main line before having turned on the danger signal
should be inserted in the printed rules.
Mr. Clarke said, a new set of rules were in prepa-
ration, in which it had been embodied.
The jury immediately agreed to a verdict of man-
slaughter against the two porters, Weybury and
Willoughby, as in the other cases. The policeman
Pargetter has been suspended. Weybury and Wil-
loughby are both under confinement in Reading gaol.
Captain Blair, to the great surprise of his medical
attendants, has rallied considerably, and a slight
degree of sensibility has returned to his extremities.
His wife, as well as his father and brother, have
arrived at Shrivenhatn, and remain with their un-
fortunate relative. The gallant sufferer retains per-
fect consciousness; indeed his faculties do not appear
to be in the least degree impaired.
An instance of heartless villainy occurred shortly
after the accident, which, but that it is given on the
very highest authority, would appear altogether in-
credible. An employee of the company was about
removing the body of one of the deceased clergymen,
when a person, to all appearance a passenger in the
train, volunteered his assistance. His aid having
been accepted, the individual placed his hand on the
deceased's waistcoat pocket, and took therefrom a
gold watch and appendages. This circumstance
awakened some suspicions of his honesty, and on
being questioned, his reply to the effect that he was
a servant of the deceased was not considered at all
satisfactory. A demand was made that he should
immediately return the watch. The scoundrel, how-
ever, obstinately refused to do so, and it was not
until some violence was used that he was compelled
to relinquish possession. It need hardly be added
that the story of his being a servant of the deceased
proved a pure fabrication.
It is a very remarkable circumstance in connexion
with this accident, that although the engine by which
the express train was propelled has been greatly
shattered, and rendered wholly unfit for use, the
driver and stoker are not conscious of having felt any
shock when the concussion took place ; and Roscoe,
whose intelligence and respectability afford a very fa-
vourable specimen of the servants of the company,
informed our reporter that of the quantity of
coke he was carrying in his tender at the
time, not a pound weight was thrown on to
the engine-plate where he was standing, by :the
collision. Roscoe also states, that from the first
moment when the obstruction on the main line
broke upon him, he felt perfectly conscious that the
speed at which he was going would overcome
any opposing force. There is very little doubt his
impression would have proved perfectly correct,
and comparatively small damage arisen had it not
been for the unfortunate position of the cattle truck
on the siding. The rails where the collision took
place are altogether uninjured except a slight abra-
sion on the iron, about three-quarters of an inch long,
where the first blow seems to have struck. The axle
of the cattle truck, which is nearly four inches in
diameter, and composed of wrought iron welded by
the Patent Shaft Company, was bent completely
double, without exhibiting the slightest sign of frac-
ture, a proof of the extraordinary quality of the metal
of which it was formed.
It is supposed that the effect of the experiment
made by Captain Symonds and Mr. Lane to-day will
be to criminate in a greater degree than has at pre-
sent been done, the policeman Pargetter.

BANK OF FRANCE.
The following was the situation of the Bank on Vow
day evening, May 11:

ASSETS.

f.
c.
• 57,594,353 95
▪ 34,437,97 0°
55

Cash and ingots
Cash at branch banks

Overdue bills

18,403,6

Bills becoming due in Paris, of which

30,n639,699f. 99c. are from the branch KS 14
baks 743 0,- -
••• 15e• , 2l
Bills in the branch banks , 82,968,940 00
Advances on coin and ingots 6,091,250
Ditto on public securities of France . . 10,344,98"
Due from the branch banks on their
notes in circulation ...
Rentes of the reserve fund

- 14,470,000 00
- 000 °C7
10,000,
•q 7 SO

Rentes of disposable funds ... 11,660,197 "00
Hotel and furniture of the bank 4,000,000
Interest in branch bank at Algiers 1,0000 vOO
Interest in National Discount Bank •••• 20002 is
Bills protested ... 25,747,65' 31
Expenses of administration . ••
505" is
***
3191 "
Sundries .. "
Advance to the State on Bons du Trisor 00
of the Republic
486,416,206 59

000
Capital ... 67 950, 00
Reserve fund ... . .
Reserve immobiliiire 14°,000°°°;01„„°° 00o°
Notes to bearer, circulation ... 297,426,t;
Ditto of the branch bank . 14,470,0;',"t 50
Ditto to order (Post. bills) 1,423,1`,7, 0
Account current with Treasury ... 13,290:,'s 03
Various accounts current ... 69,926,0-'m 00
Bills payable at sight. 1,65,5,
2 31
Re discounts of the last. half-year 723,'„0 13
Dividends unpaid ... 209,3,15 57
Discounts, interest, and expenses 3,451,21'
Branch Bank of Algiers, sum not yet 6955 61
employed in Treasury Bonds 1,10 a 6
•••
Branch Bank drafts to be paid . 1,571,7 83
293
Sundries . .
••• ..•
6 55
487,416,2-
0

RAILWAY SHARE MARS-11S.
LIVERPOOL, MAT 13.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market is lower to-din bbutts
do not find any great amount of stock offerin
is the last day for the current account.
Bolton, Blackburn, &c., Preference, 2 dis.---Eat
shire, 18%—Ditto, 251. Shares, 6% dis.--Edinburg
Glasgow, 46—Edinburgh and Northern, Prefererlaioo
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths (late West RidinCto,
31. 16s. 3d. p.—London ad North-Western, 134—)'.
Quarters, 2/. 131. 9d. c. p.—Midland Stock, 1051/4 Ac*--ctiet'i,
New Quarters, 4% dis.—Shrewsbury, Oswestry,4%lTrn ;c,,'
Tphseltshirogpoo,r
714 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, 241A—Pit'brir
Thirds, 2% dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick
N. and B.), 30—Ditte, G. N. E. Purchase, PA P.
MANCHESTER, MA/ 13. Vtic"
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are--Birkenbead,
shire, and Cheshire Junction, 6% dia.—East LairsicDP:r,
New Quarters, 4%—Lancashire and Yorkshire (Wes' (11!
Union), 3 13-16 dis.—London and North-Westca2, 011°
and Bir.), Quarters, A and B, p.—North stao
23/4 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 3 dis.
HULL, MAT 13. 01:1
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STOCK ExcHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate,iull,
ham, and Boston, %—Great Northern, 31. Bs. 6d.—"'"
Selby, Halves, 494—North British, Thirds, 235.
,s• CO' NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, MAY pl,„/
STOCK EXCHANGI.—The sales are—Nawcastie dg); o
lisle, 110—Ditto, Scrip, 94 p.—Ditto, ditto (
North British, Thirds, 355. dis.—North Statlordsior

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from the original manuscript, in 3 vole., Wee 1:1 bebbi°
1 on Saturday last, by Mr. Colburn, and rosYrlff;gelet
lat all the libraries. Also just published-2. 're' 3,4'
the author of " Emilia Wyndham," &C., 3 ime';'s /3':ei
Father's Curse; a Daughter's Sacrifice, by '''c ',WO,
3 vols. 4. Leonora, a Love Story, 3 vols. -' tr,„el
the Second, an Historical Romance, edited bqielSio,
Ainsworth, Esq.. 3 vols. 6. Adventures of 3 Obi
Student, by the late R. Douglas, surgeon, It*I';'oolt eis
7. Town and Country; or the Days of the iteg reel of
Mrs. Trollope, 3 vols. 8. Mrs. Armytagel °„r'olatie3,
Domination, by Mrs. Gore, forming the ne,w,t,' ortr[ll
" Colburn's Standard Novels," ss. bound, wit bred red
[ADVERTISEMENT.] 11V0 Bad Leg No ,Seffl:
Holloway's Ointment and Pills, after more t' a Jee'r
Years' suffering.—Mrs. Elizabeth Huraphreia fore e,,
street, Hull, had been most painfully affiretheeth 1,61
wards of seven years with ulcerated sores She 1,01 'OOl
her sufferings at times were dreadful. She of eliffec‘
almost every remedy, and received the adfil'a to e ,f 1;
of the first surgeons in Yorkshire, yet all f,111%,`e ointi:aii,
a cure until she used Holloway's invalusurh sou"; of
and pills, the astonishing powers of whenlotitieteelioo::
healed every wound. She is now in the
the best of health, and enabled to walk aboato etirl
with ease and comfort. Sold by all druggie sod. of
Professor Holloway's establishment, 244, 51/001.jop
EXTRAORDINARY ADVANCE IN Tlll4 Bil'i 'OW
MARYLEBONE.—At the Marylebone vestrY ue l'be 'toe
the rates were figured for the ear ensuing' a the Got,
mated average poor's-rates were 117,98°4' .113itt 4/;-telp
for repairing and cleansing were estireaterighilliuefelei
to meet which and the church-rate a four "other Oe
was agreed upon; in addition'to which tweehovreein
were figured to meet the Regent's-park ell) viol" V"
Glazier, who highly approved of a large rate f tlieh,leog
said that it pained him to the soul to heg4ra, f: l'ee
~' the
having been taken front the mother 0' std wire,
children, for rates which should have been P,,t tyro!'
wealthy. Mr. Standford attributed the gre7 tile to
of the parish rates to the cruel conduct e igrstetoti;
landlords, who compelled their tenants to Oro; hot ola
this country, and quarter themselves 11P°13,0 scot their
The parish is indebted 20,000/. to Sir C'" der] of 01
Co. Mr. Nicolay moved a resolution laacilind 11.,ereft/,
two representatives, Lord Dudley Stuart, "toe ie' 00
jamin Hall, Bart., for their watchfulness or lestri:jecliii
of the borough, and also expressive of the who slope
titude to the other Members of Parliaraetbe reli°
lessening the taxation of the country- ' -ortewCoo6
was seconded and most enthusiastically suPpect d, to
mittee oa the New Houses of Parliament reet (jut el
their first report printed on Saturday, °Bode 1,,,,0PJ
Whitsuntide recess some alterations he
..hirli oeos
kitchen and dining-room, the expense her "recourocei
be about 1601. The Committee furt,, dee 010
" That the patronage of the housekeePerht.at'`"4;
should vest, as it now does, in the Serge a 09
but a Sessional Committee should be nerueorstlie
mencement of each session, to control the ijitiir
" It ' '
of the kitchen and eating departments- v 5...-- ti
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR C. NArlZGetieloir,,e
expected that the gallant Lieutenanb 0 a tP..,
Charles Napier, G.C.8., would shorti).„Pr'oo,e„sue'd
Portsmouth, a meeting was called by °id die l'oooo7
mayor, on a requisition, signed by well „nose elareffee,
tial inhabitants of Portsmouth, for the P. 11,101 Au 000 hi
into consideration the presenting him ITl‘l'ilely 0'001"
congratulation. The meeting was DUll3er°. "0001
and a committee nominated to prepare it,
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presented when the opportunity IlltY c'cctin if'
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the Hon John Arbuthnot Scene, CaliPttiseile'ttlie_t!
Brigade, to Mary Jane, youngest.daufars Bar
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Bliddloats, Mond y, UV 158 1848.

EXECUTION Or MICHAEL STOLE/.—YORK, SATUR-
DAY AFTEANOON.—The wretched culprit, Michael
Stokes, a private in the 47th Regiment of Foot, who has
been awaiting death in the castle of this city since the
assizes in March, underwent his awful sentence on the
at noon. It will be recollected that
public drop this day
on the evening of the 20th of last January, Stokes fired
a loaded musket at Mary Garrad, the wife of one of his
comrades, in Leeds barracks. The unfortunate woman
died immediately, and Stokes was tried before Mr. Baron
Rolfe, at the York March assizes, and sentenced to die.
A point of law, however, was reserved for the considera-
tion of the fifteen judges, and the execution was ac-
cordingly stayed. The question came before the judges
on the Ist instant, and they decided that the conviction
was good.
Mr. Pattison paired off with Mr. W. Miles in
favour of Mr. Wood's motion for a Committee of in-
quiry respecting the borough of Stamford.