The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-15 00:00:00

JANUARY 15,

N 7

AMEETING, most respectably attended, of
landowners and occupiers of land, was held at the Bear Inn.
Wantage, this 12th day of January, for the purpose of taking into
consideration the propriety of opposing the Oxford and Salisbury
Direct Railway Company foi at. Act of Parliament to form their line.
PHILIP SMITH COXE, P.sq„ hi the chair.
The following resolutions were proposed, seconded, and carried
unanimously
That, in the opinion of this meeting, the suggested line of railway
from Oxford to Salisbury Direct is quite uncalled for, inasmuch as
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That as the line throughout presents one unbroken agriculitiral
district, possessing within easy distances markets and fairs amply
sufficient to absorb all the produce thereof, the scheme in question
appears to this meeting a mere wanton speculation of the day,
possessing neither merit in itself, or a reasonable prospect of a re •
turn for capital required lbr the undertaking.
That, with these impressions, the members of this meeting do use
their best endeavours, individually and collecively, to defeat time
propose( 1 measure in Parliament, alai that for such purpose a sub-
scription be entered into, and placed in the Bank of Messrs. Barnes
and Medley, Wantaie Bank, to thecredit of
PHILIP SbIITH COXE,
WILLIAM STONE,
CHARLES ROBET,
as trustees of a fund for carrying on and defraying the necessary ex-
penses attending a petition against the Rill, and the support thereof
in P4rliament.
That Messrs. Bischoff and Coxe )3e requested to undertake the
. conduct of such proceedings, and the following gentlemen do form a
. Committee for 'the general 'direction and conduct of the business
I generally, viz.:—

P. S. CoxE, Esq., Chairman.
Mr. CHARLES ROUX,
Mr. WILLIAM STONE,
Mr. RICHARD BARN ARD,
Mr. THOMAS DEARLOVE,
MR. THOMAS GOOD WIN.
That all cheques be signed by the Secretary and two of the
Committee of Management, and countersigned by the Chairman.
That all other landowners and .occupiers on the line, who may
dissent from the proposed measure, be communicated with, and
requested to join and co-operate in the proposed opposition, and to
forward their subscriptions accordingly as soon as possible.
That Mr. J. be appointed Secretary.
That this meeting feels called upon to notice, in strong terms,
the use made of the names of several respectable individuals, who
were placed on the list of the Provisional Committee, without pre-
vious consent being obtained, or their knowledge of the matter.
That these resolutions be printed in some of the leading journals
and local papers, for the information of all concerned.
That the thanks or this meeting be presented to P. S. Coxe, Esq.,
for his kind interest in this undertaking. and for his impartial con-
duct in the chair..
Subscriptions immediately entered Into-1051. collected.

TEA.—The finest flavoured, most eco
AS;ikM omical (on account of its great strength), and the most
difficult Tea to procure in London in a genuine state, can be ob-
tained at the warehouse of the AS AM TEA. COMPANY, No. 11,
Crooked-lane, King William-street, City, or of the authorised agents:
—Wilmott, Italian warehouseman, Gracechnrch-street, City; Wat-
son, confectioner, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square; John
William Burrows, confectioner, 38, Upper Albany street, Regent's
Perk; Gill, Italian warehouseman, 149, Regent-street; Cox, jun.,
confectioner, Camberwell ; Bleckley and Co., confectioners, Rye-
lane, Peckham; Giles, Italian warehouseman, Stockwell-street,
Greenwich.

CAUTION..—The Asam Tea is packed in coloured wrappers, from
two ounces to one pound, with the arms and aCdress of the
Company on the face of the wrapper. Their seal is also affixed at
eaeh end, without which none is genuine. Fine Black, ss. ; Best
Ditto, 6s. ; Fine Green, 6s. ; Best Ditto, 75.; ➢sized Tea, ss. 4d. per lb.
N.B. A few Country Agents Wanted.

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Pa icy; s'.

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TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZLTTE. -
DIVIDENDS DECLARED..
W. H. Rawe, leather seller, Portsea—first div. of 10s. 4-id.
in the pound, any Wednesday, at the office of 11r. Whit-
more, Basinghall-street.
- T. Shaw, wine merchant, Southampton—second div. of 3d.
in the pound,-Jan. 14, and two following Wednesdays, at the
office,of Mr. Turquand, Old Jewry.
J. Luray, stationer, Old Fish-street-hill, Utper Thames-
street—tirst div. cf 10. in the pound, any 11, ednesday, at
the office .of Mr. Whitmore, Basinghall-street.
E. Barry, viettmller, Bristol—a div. of 6s. 10.1. in the
pound, any 'Wednesday, at the office of Mr. K.) naston,
Bristol.

DIVIDENDS
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
J. Chamberlain, glass merchant, Lisson-grove North; Pad
dington, Feb. 5, at half-past twelve—J. W. Collyer, vic-
tualler, .NeWgate.street, Feb. 5, at twelve—B.. 11. Cross,
glover, Woodstock, Feb. 5—W. H. She'drake, bootmaker,
Ipswich, :Feb. 4, at • half-past two—G. Hardy, innkeeper,
St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, Feb. 6, at eleven—J. C. Mott,
w:ne merchant, Loughborough, Jan. 30, at one.
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et eleven,
In the Country.
E. Meredith, linendraper, Liverpool, Feb. 5, at eleven, at
the Liverpool District Court—J. Breakenridge, tailor, Liver-
pool, Feb., W, at eleven, at the. Liverpool District Can't—J.
Adamson, grocer, Stockport, Feb. 5, at twelve, at the Man-
chester District Court—W: Doxford, shipbuilder, Bishop-
e :seen:
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District Court—J. B. Bucklee, mercer, Kidderminster, Feb.
10, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court.
the contrary, on the day herein mentioned.
D. Davis, clothes dealer, Jermyn-street, St. James's, Feb.
5_4, Savage, victualler. Old Compton-street, Soho, Feb.
5—W. G. Taylor and E. Guy, hosiers, Liverpool, Feb. 3
T. Benson, stationer, North-place, Gray's Inn-road, Feb.. 3
—.W. L. Hall, victualler, Liverpool, Feb. 3—T. Hodgson,
brickmaker, Greta-bank, Yorkshire, Feb. 3—L. Wailing,
butcher, Gilbert-street, Hanover-square, Feb. 3.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
T. Morris and J. M'Rae—C. Wilkins and J. C. Daniell,
cloth manufacturers, Bath—C. George, J. Williams, J. Dix,
and R. R. Dix, lead merchants, Bristol—R. Fulferd, son.,
and R. Fulford, jun., corn dealers, Aston, Warwickshire—R.
Rigg, J. Grice; and T. Grice, dealers in grain, White-
haven, Cumberland—W. Roffey, G. Roffey, and S. Bowyer,
corn merchants, Mark-lane—G. Hattersley and G. Rat-
cliffe. metal-spoon manufacturers, Sheffield—J. lmray,
W. Fitch, and H. limey, stationers, Old Fish-street-
hill (so far as regarrh H. Imray)—H. Denne, W. Dense,
and J. Hicks, cabinet makers, Sandwich, Kent—N.
Temperley and J. Temp?ley, coal merchants, Ratcliff—J.
Wardrop and P. Ewart, wine merchants, Clement's-lane, City
—J. Standish and L. F. Blackett. stockbrokers, Leeds—W.
Norton, E. Norton, and F. W. Norton, cloth manufacturers,
Kirkheaton, Yorkshire—W. Rounding and T. Rounding, inn-
keepers, Woodford, Essex —P. Cotterall and T. S. Vallet,
cotton manufacturers, Preston—L. J. Hodgson and W. W.
Benson, plumbers, Preston—T. Hill, W. Hill, and A. Baird,
merchants, Liverpool—W. Evans and A. Lillyman, plumbers,
Liverpool—W. Branscomb and R. M. Benson, solicitors,
Aylesbury—H. Wilson and P. Roberts, scum boilers, Old
Montague street, Whitechapel—.W. Boycot, jun, and H.
Lucy, solicitors, Kidderminster—J. Baker and D. Baker,
linendrapers, Thirsk—J. Baker and J. Baker, linendrapers,
York—S. H. Morley and H. Coles, surgeons, Cheltenham
—W. Kimberley and R. L. Baker, surgeons, Birmingham—
C. W. Mayne and R. Laycock, tobacco manufacturers, Leeds
—M. A. Taylor, R. Taylor, and H. B. Holland, umbrella
manufacturers, Manchester (so far as regards H. B. Holland)
—W. Hitchcock, F. M. Hitchcock, W. M. Hitchcock, arid
R. Maunder, woollen manufacturers, South Molton, Devon-
shire—,V. Clare and W. Wardle, chemists, Stalybridge,
Chester—S. Lea and H. A. Merrick, white-lead merchants,
Bristol—R. Clayton and R. Shuttlewortb, commission agents,
Manchester—G. Mallinson, T. Mallinson, and W. Mallinson,
woollen manufacturers, Huddersfield-1. Pace and L. Ru-
dolph', shipbrokers, Sunderland—J. Harris and H. M. Harris,
house painters, Plymouth—J. Waldlogel, G. Waldfogel, S.
Hermann, and J. Hummel, watchmakers, King's Lynn,
Norfolk—H.lll. Rimmel and E. Rimmel, perfumers, Gerrard
street, Soho—J. Ci agg and T. Musgrove, stockbrokers, Settle,
Yorkshire—A. B. Cook and E. Hayward, chemists, Ipswich—
F. C. Cope and C. Eales, architects, Cork-street, Bond-street
—T. Cross and T. W. Powell, stockbrokers.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION.
Richard Hall, sharebroker, Glasgow, Jan. 19 and Feb. 9,
at twelve, at the chambers of Messrs. Knox and Findlay,
Glasgow. •

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS
CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
POST.—The foreign exchanges were higher to-day. Three
months' bills on Paris were negotiated at the favourable rate
of 25 85 to 90, and short bills at 2b 60 to 65. On Amsterdam,
Haniburgh, and other leading places, the quotations were
Oepiallyupoti the rise. It is not to be believed, therefore, that
the arrangements of the Bank of England with regard to dis-
counts will need any altaratien, unless it be, as before sug-
gested, on the side of relaxation. With the dividends coming
into the money market, the produce market in a state of
calm, and the continental exchanges becemiog, from post
day to post day, more and more in favour of this country,
any present advance in the charge of the corporation seems to
us to be out of the question. We areinformed, nevertheless,
that, however readily bills at short date may be placed with
the discount houses and private bankers, there is little par-
tiality for paper having several months to run.
The Funds have not recovered from the depression under
which they laboured yesterday. An uncertainty with re-
spect to the mode of dealing the Bank may be empowered
by Government to adopt in the ease of railway deposits paid
into the establishment by the Accountant-General, and the
sales making of stock by Provisional Committees in advance,
at the high prices now current, are still the causes assigned
for the feebleness of the markets. The broker for the Com-
missioner made purchases to the extent of 30,0001. in the
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities, and the Three-and a-
Quarter per Cent. Stock, which served in the first instance
to sustain prices. Consols, for the opening, realised 94-%,
ex div., and might have gone higher, but for the sales effected
on railway and other accounts, particularly as the Govern-
ment broker made a purchase, after the business transacted
for account of the sinking fund had been completed, in behalf
of the savings banks; but the sales, on balance, preponde-
rating, the bear party had eventually the advantage, and, in
the course of the day, Consols receded to 941. The fall was
assisted by the operations of a leading firm, which, in-
stead of paying its differences on the time business of the last
six weeks, made arrangements for carrying over its account.
The rate of continuation given was 3-16 per cent. In this
rate there was nothing excessive, but the determination of a
wealthy house to go on to the next settling day was looked
upon as symptomatic of a weak position founded upon a false
or imperfect information.
The Share Market continues extremely languid. The
pressure of sales on country account seems to be the princi-
pal cause. The on'is of the Liverpool and Manchester business,
so far as the realisation of railway scrip is concerned, is under-
stood to be thrown almost exclusively on the London market.
It will be worth the while of the London operators to recollect
this on a future occasion when speculation runs high. The,
people of Lancashire and Scotland were the most riotous in
their purchases, while premiums were the order of the day,
but it is seen that they are no less active now in the promo-
tion of a panic. Were it not for this want of nerve on the
part of the provincial dealers, things would progressively
right themselves with us.

THE NORFOL.. RAILWAY.
THETFORD, TUESDAY NIGHT.—The Coroner's investio-
Awl respecting the death of William Pickering, engine-
driver, and Richard Hedger, stoker, who were killed by the
recent accident on the Norfolk Railway, was resumed thu
morning, for the fourth time, at the Guildhall, before Mr.
Robert Eagle Clarke, the Borough Coroner, and the jury pre-
.
viouslyketnpan el led.
The CORONER, in opening the Court and resuming theme
evidence, briefly alluded to the main facts that had been--
adduced at the adjourned meitirgs of the-jur3ciiiid thea
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Major-General Charles William Pasley, who, iliEfilworn,
said I ant Inspector-General of Railways, and reside at I`2,
Norfolkereseent, Hyde-park.
Conoxan—The jury have been informed, Sir, that the
accident, the subject of the inquiry, was caused by the ex-
cessive speed of the train, and the sudden shutting off of the
steam. Will you have the goodness to give us your opinion ?
General Pas-ley—My opinion is that the shutting elf of the
steam suddenly, cannot possibly cause an accident to an
engine.
Couoarart—Then to what do yon attribute the accident ?
General.Pasley—To the engine driver proceeding at an im-
prudent and excessive speed on a descending gradient.
ConoNan—Did you examine the engine ? General Pas-
ley—l did, and I could not find any apparent injury that
could have canned the accident. Front what I saw of it it
appeared to be of the best workmanship, and in a perfect
state of repair at the time of running off the line.
CORONER—I am told that these large engines are not ge-
nerally adapted to the narrow ;rave. General Pasley—My
opinion is, that owing to the peculiar construction (.f the
engines—like the one that met with the accident on the
Norfolk line—are not ti a ones suitable to the narrow
auge, as they do not admit of any great speed without
danger. •
ComrarEn—Can you eccount for the broken chair, which
was 22 feet from the sleeper, that was cut apparently whet e
it got off tke rail? G,.i.eral Pasley—l rhotdd say that the
chair was broken by the motion of the engine. If it was
defective before, the motion might contribute to its breaking
entirely.
CoaoarErt—What description of engine was it? General
Pasley—One of most extraordinary length—of such a length
as was never used on the narrow or any other gauge before.
If you will allow me, I will mention a circumstance respect-
ing this peculiar class of engines. Some months ago there
existed doubts as to the safety of express trains to travel by,
and knowing that oscillation of carriages was no pro( f of
danger, or that their steadiness ensured perfect safety, I de-
termined to ride upon the engines, with a view of more easily
detecting their unsteadiness—their oscillating indicating
danger. I travelled on lines in different parts of the country,
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have remarked that opinion to the Gauge Commissioners.
CORONER—What is the difference between the engine you
have alluded to, as manufactured by Mr. Robert Stephen-
son, and those employed on the Great Western? General
Pasley—The narrow gauge not offering so great a diameter
of boiler as those on the broad, Mr. Stephenson, to! eat )va
the obstacle, constructed the long boiler engines to equai
them in power, and which have failed in the urpose for
which they were intended. The long boiler engine, which
Mr. Stephenson persevered in, is four or five feet longer than
those of original construction. The smoke-box overhangs
the fore wheels, and the fire-box and dome the hind wheels,
which will cause them to oscillate. rail.
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-CORONER—Do you think it safe for such an engine to
travel at 30 or 35 miles an hour? General Pasley—l think
such an engine as the one in question can go at 30 or 35
miles an hour, and I think 1 have gone at 45 miles upon
them ; but when they approach 50 I think they are unsafe,
and that is an opinion not hastily formed.
CORONER—Then you think these long-boiler engines, if
they are going at a rate exceeding 40 miles per hour. are li-
able to oscillate and run over the line? General Pasley—
Yes.
CORONER—Did you ever anticipate an engine of this de-
scription meeting with such an accident? General Pasley7--
The fact is, that I did not expect such an accident could have
taken place. I did not think that such an engine could have
gone at the speed it did in running off the line. It is a rule
with engine-drivers to shut off the steam on a descending
gradient, and in all my journeys in railway travelling I never
found them neglect doing so. I have frequently informed
the engine-drivers of these engines of the danger they were
incurring when driving them a rate verging upon 50 miles
per hour. In the north of England, however, I remember
being in one of Mr. Stephenson's long boiler engines, and two
pair of the wheels were coupled together, and in riding upon
it I felt more secure than I would upon the other ones as
the coupling produced steadiness, and consequently safety.
CORONER—Then you perfectly attribute the accident to
the speed of the engine ? General Pasley—Yes.
There being no other witness to examine,
The Learned CORONER. proceeded to sum up the evidence,
and after commenting upon the principal facts as related to
the unfortunate occurrence, remarked upon the wide con-
trast of opinion entertained by Major-General Pasley and
Mr. Bidder. It was for the jury to determine, knowing well
that they would so decide as m ould ensure the public every
safety.
The court was then cleared of strangers, and the jury, after
some time in consultation, sent for the Coroner, when the
foreman informed him that they had not unanimously arrived
at a verdict, and he feared there was little hopes of their
agreeing.
The CORONER then inquired how many of the jury were
unanimous ?
The foreman replied twelve.
The CORONER said if the twelve jurors were unanimous he
would receive their verdict, and asked the foreman what was
their return?
The foreman observed that their verdict was—Accidental
Death, caused by the imprudent conduct of the engine driver
in going at an exces,ive speed.
The dissenting jurymen (three in number) remarked that
the verdict they were desirous of agreeing to was accidental
death, caused by the misconduct of the engine-Cri-er, and
the defective construction of the engine, and inflicted a deo-
dand of 5001 on the engine.
The Coroner accordingly took the verdict of the twelve.
The foreman said that the jury earnestly recommend the
Board of Trade to adopt immediate steps for disuntinuing
the running of engines similar to the one the subject of the
inquiry on the Norfolk Railway, until such measures were
adopted as would render them safe for the conveyance of
passenger trains.—The Court was then dissolved.

ATTEMPTED MURDER at BRENT-
FORD— SUICIDE OF THE FATHER.
On Tuesday Brentford was thrown into a state of con-
siderable excitement and alarm, in consequence of the
circulation of a report that a man named John Lowe
had been stabbed by his own father, who had immediately
afterwards attempted self-destruction, by cutting his
throat with a razor.
Abot:t twenty minutes to eleven o'clock on Tuesday
forenoon, as Mr. Bowles, butcher, at Isleworth, was
passing along the Great Western road, a short distance
from Brentford-bridge, he saw John Lowe run out of
his own shop, holding his hand to his right side, and
exclaiming that he was stabbed and was a dead man,
and hastening into the house of Mr. Millard,
the George and Dragon public-house, a door or
two off, into which he entered. Mr. Bowles instantly
hastened into Lowe's house for the purpose of securing
the supposed murderer, when in a back room be-
hind the shop he discovered Thomas Lowe, the father,
sitting in a chair with his throatcut, from which the blood
was flowing profusely, the wounded man having still
a razor in his right hand, which was covered with blood.
Mr. Bowles instantly dispatched the first parson he taw
for Mr. Cooper, surgeon, of Brentford-butts, and in -the
meantime endeavoured to wrest the razor from the grasp
of Thomas Lowe, in effecting which Mr. Rowles's own
hand was much cut by the weapon. At the moment of
the discovery the Rev. H. S. Trimmer, vicar of Heston,
and one of the magistrates acting in the Brentfurd dis-
trict, passed the house on his way to the meeting of the
Local Commissioners of Assessed Taxes, at New Brent-
ford, and instantly hastened to give information to the
s
llr. Cooper's
police. In New Brentford he met policeman Smith,
92, whom he sent with all speed to the spot. Inspector
Scotney, T 5,
assistants, that gentleman being absent
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bone of the right shoulder, and its
surgeons has injured the right lung ; while the father's
wound is also on the right side of the neck, the razor
having just missed the principal arteries and vessels.
About an hour after the occurrence, the house was
visited by Mr. H. Pownall, of Spring-grove, Hounslow,
the chairman of the Middlesex Quarter Sessions, and
the Rev. Mr. Trimmer, accompanied by Mr. G. Clark,
of New Brentford, clerk to the magistrates, who, after a
consultation with the surgeons, determined on the re-
moval of Thomas Lowe, the father, to St. George's
Hospital. A fly was immediately procured from the
Castle Inn, New Brentford, in which he was conveyed
by Sergeant Scotney and policeman Smith to that
hospital.
From the latest inquiries last evening, both at 'Brant-
ford End and at St. George's Hospital, as to the state of
both father and son, it was ascertained that the latter
was lying at his own house in a most dangerous state,
the surgeon being unable at present to give any opinion
as to the probable result ; and the surgeons at the hos-
pital state, from the father's advanced age (seventy-
three years) there is not much probability of his re-
covery.

Pam COUNCIL.—Her Majesty will hold It Privy
Council on Monday next at Windsor Castle; the, summonses
were issued yesterday.
DIABOLICAL ACT.—A most diabolial and wicked
attempt to murder a highly respectable, family residing in
the City of Oxford was made on tie night of Friday last,
between the hours of 10 and 11 o'clock, but most providen-
tially frustrated. It appears that the policeman on ditty on
the above evening observed at a distance something attached
to the front sitting-room window of Mr. Samuel Quarter-
maine, who resides in Alfred street,',lligh-street. He imme-
diately went to the window shutter and took it down, when
he discovered that it was of a combustible nature. lie then
took it into the house, and to the horror and consternation of
Mr. Quartermaine and family it proved to be a petard, con-
tainingtightly round with paper 40 folds thick, and
ncovered At:lth
three and a half ounces of gunpowder, bound very
string which had the appearance
turpentine, the whole weighing,eleven ounces and a ilia. It
b
was attached to the shutter by an awl, .
of having
similar to thosii used
by harness-makers and shoemakers, having the mark of wax-
thread round the handle; and, upon further investigation, it
all his family
was discovered thaitttdhiedfnuoseteehxapdlohdeee.n llifgliittehdada,ndthheadeopnasre.:
tially burnt the shutter, but fortunately, owing to the mate-
daTave been dreadful in the extreme, as Mr.
and a friend at his house
that evening, who were sitting in the front parlour. Him-
self and daughter were occupying seats close to thewindow,
and had the explosion taken place, they could)tot have
possibly; escaped with their lives. A reivard..of .10Ct4 has
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been offered fur the discovery of the miscreant, and we hope
1 1 ere-long that he will be brought to condign punishment.
Mr, Quartermaine isa highlyreTectable livery-stable-keel:et
and is well known iu the of orting world. .