The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-13 00:00:00

NAME OF RAILWAY.

Week
ending

June 6

Last
week.

Arbroath and Forfar . • • •••• •• • •
Bristol and Birmingham .• • • • • •
Chester andßirkeiihead .............
Dublin and Drogheda• • • • •
Dublin and Kingstown • ..... • • •• •• "
Dundee and Arbroath . • • • • •• •• •• •• ••
Durham and Sunderland .• • • • • .......
Edinburgh and Glasgow . •• • ••••• • ••
Eastern Counties and North Eastern..
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr • • • • ••
Glasgow and Greenock.• ..... • • •• ••
Grand Junction ............
Gravesend and R0che5ter............
Great North of England
Great Western . •• ..
Hartlepool .....
London and Birmingham, &c.....• • •
London and 81ackwa11..............*
London and Brighton ..... • • •• •• .• ••
London and Croydon •••• •• •• ••
London and Greenwich ..... •• ••
London and South Western .........
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury .. • ...
Manchester and Birmingham........
Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc..
Midland C0untie5......... ••
Newcastle and Darlington
Newcastle and Car1i51e•.............
Newcastle and North 5hie1d5........
North Union and Bolton and Preston
Paris, Corbeil, and 0r1ean5..........
Paris and Rouen . •• •• •••• ••
Preston and Wyre.... .• •• • .........
Sheffield and Manchester......
South Ea5tern............
Ulster . ..
Yarmouth and Norwich ............
York and North Midland. ..........

585
3,515
10,006
2,309

429

21,793

24
43,57 0
1,658
6,493
1,739

8,609
1,811
6,322
7,608
19,747
2,975
1,830
681
1,603

7,234
6,522
1,244
3,509
10,483
1,422

5,617

ALARMING FIRE.—BRISTOL, JUNE 11.—A fire of the
most alarming kind, and which has led to the destruction of property
to the value of between 35,000/. and 40,0001., occurred here this
nmrnieg, and, as might he expected, spread the utmost consternation
throughout the city. The conflagration originated in some extensive
premises at Counterslip, which run back to the wall of the floating
harbour, and are occupied lsy Messrs. Finzell and Son as a sugar re-
finery. The fir was first discovered at about a quarter-past two
o'clock. As soon as the flames were observed an alarm was given,
and the city engine and those of the West of England, Norwich
Union, Crown, and other public companies, as well as several from
privet.: warehouses and manufactories, were speedily brought to the
spot, and began playing upon the flames. The combustible nature of
the materials, however, imparted such fury to the conflagration that
all efforts to extinguish it proved unavailing, and the entire premises,
with the valuable machinery and immense stock of sugars, were de-
stroyed. In the immediate neighbourhood of the refinery are sere' al
warehouses, as also Counterslip Chapel and newly-built day and
Sabbath schools, and on the opposite side of the water is the exten-
sive city poor-house known as St. Peter's Hospital; and for these
buildings ennui. erable alarm was at times felt. The books of the
firm were eirtunately secured, and one small store of sugar was not
entirely destroyed, but it is expected that the loss will not tall short
of 3TeOOO/., a part only of which is Insured. What makes the matter
more distressing is, that about eighty persons will be deprived of
their means of livelihood.
MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE AT GREENOCK.—On Sa-
turday evening, about ten o'clock, one of the most dt•tressing acci-
dents we have h ,d to record for a long time occurred on tile river,
about half way between the red lamp at the foot of Mararet-street
and the powder-h.muses, by whilh two highly respectable gentle-
men have lost their lives. Mr. Edward G. Ilbery, the superin-
tendent of locomotives on the Greenock Railway, and his cousin, Mr.
Henry Howell, the treasurer and secretary to Messrs. Stephenson,
Mackenzie, and Brassy, the contractors for the new lljbours now
constructing here, went in a small pleasure-boat in their slippers to
smoke their cigars and to enjoy the cool breeze on the river. They
had not been long out when a steamer upon a trial trip, having
been recently built by Messrs. Bar and M`Nab, at their establish-
ment at Renfrew, came up the river at a rapid pace, and notwith-
standing the loud arid piercing shrieks of the unfortunate gentle-
men to those on board to keep her off, she came right on the
boat, cutting her as with a kniie down to the keel, and killing
both those in her. Mr. Howell was taken immediately out of the
water by the people in the steamer, and though then alive, yet, from
the violence of the blow he had received ou his breast, he died almost
Instantly. Mr. llbeiy was not seen after the collision, but it was
evident he must have been also struck at the same instant with Mr.
Howell, as in all likelihood he would, if ueinjureA, have saved him-
self, as he was au excellent swimmer. His body was not recovered
till twelve o'clock on Sunday, when it was found that he hal also
been struck on the side of his head. Both gentlemen were English-
men, and unmarried.--Greenock Adrerliser.
AN ANTIQUATED EXCAVATOR.— A few days since.
as some labourers were digging trenches for the purpose of laying
down the gas-light mains in Church-street, All Saints, an old woman
named Chambers, who has attained the 106th year of her age,
stepped out of her apartment, and facetiously hinted to the men that
they did not appear to her sufficiently to understand the use of' the
pick-axe with which they were labouring, and by their leave she
would just show them how it ought to be done. Upon being handed
into the trench, the venerable dame dexterously gave sundry blows
with the instrument, and sovigorously withal, that she was at length
unable to remove it from the earth into which she had
so strenuously forced it, without assistance. She after-
wards returned to her domicile, well pleased with the
instruction she had practically given to the workmen, anal
betook herself to her knitting, an occupation In whichehoil _
usually beguiles away the day, when not employed in tier household
s.d_
affairs, which she performs with her own hands and with:Di:it., iwre
: f
considerable some
mopicharitable
i:ideerids. .
ance This truly wonderful remnant of antiquity is al74o:L'd it
rwryithofgt,, . extra-
understand, of Brecon, in Wales, was born in thehicr yearong me is full
consequently 106 years of.
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heTtrelahties
of interesting incidents, ts Lich s
which sense has i
ordinary degree, with the exception
E.AGLEorsthS::: oonfderfal woman is very com-
municative,to date and circumstance. She retains liteer.fileixu,lties in on
..,,tiperspieuityas
almost entirely forsaken her. This wonderful
She frequently .
than her
individuals of this town.
with no other assistancewalking.
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tame from her habitation wi
and is supported by the enetvro,ilvenelcse
stick.— Ipswich ifrpress.
elevatedday
N shire, and
, the birds eP
J. T. Tryon was walking in his grounds sui rounding
—On the evening
considerabbelewlaiesi
into tl '
tt birds ascending from a field where a flock ofshe
d Having gained a
were pasture .
eßpl acoisims!Ti7itticießkit,hllieeoEcv Rectory,a
jaiedsineg an extensive view,
de-
by a dog) tor nearly a quarter of an hour, soaring Up
scended and hovered rou i id the Rev. Gentleman
then suddenly dropping down, after the manner Of the 'e
or and
kit... The dog (which was a most courageous a • hawk or time
bull breed) was evidently alarmed, and skulked nunal of the Spanish
is very probable that the eagles would off to the hedge. It
Rev, etentleman or the dog, had they d have attacked either the
for-
midable appearance of nice large beasts
not been deterred by the the same field. The birds took which were near them in
towards Farming Woods. There is, an easterly direction, afid flew
the grounds of Stafford O'Brien, we understand, a tame eagle on
was visited some years u Esq., of Blatiterwycke Park, which
ago by a wild bird of the same secies. It is
not improbable that the a I
tter may have thought properp, along with
some of its majestic
fellows, to repeat this " royal visit."—Leicester- I
shire Chronicv.
PRINCE ALBERT'S VISIT.—The rumour is again cur-
rent that her Majesty will accompany the P • rince en his intended
visit to Liverpool on the 30th and 31st days of July; and it is also
said that the royal pair will
be invited to sojourn at Worsley-hall,
the seat of Lord .Francis Egerton, during their short stay,—Liverpool
paper

STATE OF TRADE.—The demand is slack for the
home trade. Some orders have been received for the Continent, and
the stocks on band of useful goods are not very heavy. English
wool yarns are more difficult to buy, anti NIWIT tendency toAd-
vauce.7.Leicestcreiire
Mercury.