The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-30 00:00:00

NAME OF RAILWAY.

Week
ending

Mar. 2I

Arbroath and Forfar •••• • • • •••• • • • •
Bristol and Birmingham . • • • • • • • • • • • •
Chester and Birkenhead . • • • • • • • • • • • •
Dublin and Dr0gheda................
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 Rochester •• •• •• •• ••
Great North of England •• • • • • •• • • ••
Great Western . •• •

Last
week.

501
653
556
263
298
2,673
6,980
1,776
731

150

15,848
546
33,757

Hartlepool ...... •
London and Birmingham, &c. ••• --
London and Blackwall
London and Brighton. ••••••••• .
London and Croydon . •• • • •• •• • • •• ••
London and Greenwich. •• •. •• •• •• ••
London and Bolton Western. •
•• •• .
Manchester, o, and Bury
Manchester and Birmingham. ......
Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc
Midland Counties ..........
Newcastle and Darlington ......
Newcastle and Carlisle•• •• • • •
Newcastle and North Shields
Norfolk ......... .
North Union and Bolton and Preston
Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans
Paris and Rouen. •• •• ••

g.
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c...._ ..,
t -,-„
d.E

695
3,771
1,186

559
620
613
244
366
2,077
3,884
1,498
701

13,590

Preston and
Sheffield and Manche5ter............
South Eastern
Taff Vale ..... • • • • • • ............. .
Ulster .. • •
Yarmouth and Norwich •• • • •
York and North Midland. •• ••• • •

5,228
965
4,124
5,298
15,448
2,874
1,666
315
1,124

27,113

6,572
514
1,634
5,134
1,103
625

824
3,477
969

5,217

NUMERors SUDDEN DEATBS.—On Friday afternoon
three inquests were held on the bodies of persons who had died sud-
denly. The first case was taken before Mr. William Payne, at the
Duke of York Tavern, Southwark-bridge-road, on the body of
Frances Guymer, aged thirty, housemaid in the service of Mr.
Blewell, of No. 154, Southwark-bridge-road. On Tuesday morning
last, at an early hour, the deceased was suddenly seized with violent
pain, and rushing into her mistress's room she exclaimed, " Oh,
have been a wicked shiner, and God Almighty has placed his heavy
hand upon me." She was placed in bed, where she was seen by
Mr. Jones, a surgeon, under whose care she remained until elevoi
o'clock the same night, 'when she expired. In the deceased's pocket
was found a paper of tobacco, and under her bed a pipe.
The second inquiry was held before Mr. W. Carter, the
Coroner for Surrey, at the Horse and (:room Tavern, Great Guild-
ford-street, St. Saviour's, as to the death of Martha Brown, aged
two months, whose parents reside at No. 12, Zoo-street, Gravel-
lane, Holland-street. On the night of Wednesday last the deceased
was placed in bed by the side of its mother, and at an early hour the
following morning the child was found
life hadquitel beennsens xtibeleahnledt
forblaesokrnii
the face. A surgeon was called in, buti
time. The deceased had died in a fit. The third inquest was held
at the Duchess of Kent, New-street, Rotherhithe, before Mr. W.
Carter, on the body of Jane Thompson, aged two daugh-
teryears,tlnide.brigdo.
of a watermaii, residing at No. 3, Love-lane, Mill-pond-bridge.
On Thursday morning, between six and seven O'clock, the deceased
WRS discovereA io bed quite dead, a neighbouring surgeon was im.
mediately attendance, who attributed death to a fit of apoplexy.
The Jury in each case recorded a verdict of " Death from natural
causes."
WAKEFIELD CORN MARRFT, MARCH 27. The sup-
plies of all grain are pretty good. We experienced only a slow de-
nand for all descriptions of Wheat to-day, but former prices were
mite,alitilltsamineetdl.Titlh'ilalefaißrairillegyuirftydalyt
tell pdreicaers,. ootlaletrs qu,lities dull sale.
. g
6d. to Is. per load hiher. Malt firm. andL4d.per 550110, and
Shellingqu.ck sale.
ELNCTRIC TELEGRAPH ON TILE EASTERN COUNTIES
RAILWAY.—During the present week men have been employed in the
erection of an electric telegraph upon this line, which it Is intended
to extend from the terminus at Shoreiitch to Brandon—the terminus
northward of the Eastern Counties Railway. When the line is
opened between Ely and Peterborough, wires ill also be raised be-
tween the two towns. The directors have availed themselves of all
the recent improvement, in the electric telegraph, which will be put
up along the line, under the most perfect arrangement. The whole
apparatus will be comrdeted in about five weeks, and the cost will
be above 3001. per mile, the distance being 8814 miles. The re-
mainder of the distance
rat,anhciechfwrohntichßrwannilobne to
erected Yarmouthathwille
ns
ezailvso lelN of•ae
the telegraph, but
the board of directors of the Norfolk Railway Company.—Essex
Standard. •
GENERAL FALL IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.—On Fri-
day there was In all parts of London a general fall in the price of
bread to the amount of one halfpenny. ' The highest price is now 9d.
and the lowest 7d. per quartern of four pounds.
STEAM-BOAT AMALGAMATION.—It has been proposed
to amalgamate the Waterman's Steam-boat Company with the City
Steam-boat Company, under one directory, and the proposition has
been favourably received by the board of directors 01 both cont.
putt..

(From Woolmer's Exeter Gazette of Saturday.)
On Tuesday afternoon Mr. James Partridge, a solicitor,
-residing in Tiverton, and who was one of the coroners of the
county of Devor, committed suicide by throwing himself
into the Tiverton Canal, near Tidcombe bridge. Just before
fire o'clock the deceased was observed 'walking through
Gold-street, in the direction of the canal, and was accosted
by several persous, to whom he replied with affability, and
. even with blandnesS, nor was anything unusual observed in
his manner. About half-past five o'clock Mr. William
Hepper, of Tiverton, gardener, who was engaged at Tid—
combe, the seat of the Rev. W. Rapt, ou looking out of
the window of the garden-house, saw the deceased walking
on the banks of the canal towards Halberton. Near Tid-
combe-bridge he stopped and looked about him for a niinute
or two, and then walked towards an opening in the bank.
-and there went down to the water. Ile then took hisliat
froM his head and placed it upon the Surface of the water,
and immediately walked into the middle of the. canal.
His head, however,' was not entirly Itnikr water, but his
bald crown appeared alove the surf:ce and remaiucd dry.
Mr. Hepper immediately came out of the ..r.ardeii-botise, and
with a person named Stephen witiqn he called to
his assistance, proceeded to the: canal. :ere they found
they could
_do nothing', as neither of than could swim r.d
Mr. Hepper then ran back to the house to gut better
acre. Abimt twenty mitmtes after the deccasEd bad walked
into the water, William CaKw Riyer, E q., rout of the .Rev.
W. Bayer, arrived, and imutedintl V swam in and brought
the deceased to the canal bank. I.7ntier the direction, and
with the assistance of Mr. Raper, the. body was conveyed to
Tidcombe !louse, and a messenger dispatched for medical
assistance. About twenty minutes afterwards, P. Mackenzie,
Esq., surgeon, of Tiverton, arrived and applied every means
for-restoring animation, but without success. J. F. Coward,
Esq., surgeon, of Tiverton, also attended in a few minutes
afterwards. The body was sub.sequentiv brought, home to
the late residence of the deemed in liampton-street, Ti-
verton. . ,

On Wednesday afternoon the inquest on the body took
place, befort E. Mackenzie, Esq., coroner for the borough.
The jury returned a verdict of Temporary Insanity....
The immediate causes which worked. on the mind of the
deceased, and induced him to commit the rash act,-have Le en
variously stated. But it is-certain that .for some time past
his affairs have been embarrassed, and his failure in some
legal proceedings with reference to valuable landed property
in the vicinity of Tiverton, it is said, would haNe involved
bins in ruin: He has been recently disposing of various por-
tions of his property; and' on issuing the hand-bill for the
sale of some houses or land at Taunton, he is said to have
dated the bill three weeks after the day of sale, end to have
refused to Kiter it when informed that it was an error. The
determination to commit suicide has, no doubt, been present
in his mind for some time; as about a mouth ago be applied
to Mr. Frost, of Tiverton, druggist, for halfa phial of prussic
acid.

MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK OF
THE SCHOONER BALIUS.
LIVERPOOL, Karim 26.—The late severe gales have been
very destructive to the shipping from the port of Liverpool,
and many vessels have not been heard of since their em-
barkation. Among many others, 'there has been for the lust
three weeks great solicitude for the fate of the scheonzr
called the Balius, the property of Messrs. Stockdale and SonS.
It was known that she left Kingston, Jamaica, in January,
and twenty-three days having elapsed beyond the time in
which she had commonly made the voyage, she was given
over for lost. The appearance of the master, Captain Pendle-
bury, who has just arrived in the ship Clyde, from Fayal, one
of the Azores, has revealed her melancholy fate.
It appears that the Balius left Kingston on the 20th of
January, deeply laden with rice, spices, hides, and dye-woods.
She had a full crew, consisting of fourteen persons, and or.e
passenger, a young female, named Hazleden, daughter of
Mr. Ilazleden, the manager of the Woodside Ferry across
the Mersey, from Liverpool to Birkenhead.
Almost immediately after leaving port they experienced
an unceasing succession of strong westerly gales, with heavy
rains. On the sth the wind blew more southerly, and, with
such violence, that at times it was a complete hurricane,
with rain, and thnnder and lightning of the most tremend-
ous description. The continual rush of water on deck, the
labouring of the vessel, and the violence of the gale,
kept the crew constantly at work. On the 13th,
they shipped a heavy sea while lying to, which
carried away part of the bulwarks, three stancheors,
and the house used for steering. They lost at the same
time the bowsprit, shrouds., spritsail-yard, fore-staysail, and
the foresail was split. On the 14th the weather moderated,
and temporary bulwarks were fitted; and the vessel bcre up
under the fore-topsail, close reefed, It continued blowing
very hard, and in the evening the tempest returned with the
most fearful fury, accompanied by thunder and flashes of
lightning, awfully vivid; the topsail and main-staysail were
blown out of the belt-ropes, and the sea carried away the
temporary bulwarks, and made a complete breach over her. '
The next morning the wind moderated a little, and the
crew succeeded in bending a new mainsail, which, however, -
they were obliged to keep close reefed, and repaired the top-
sail. From this date to the 25th they were compelled to
run almost helpless before the gale, and on that day
the carpenter, cook, and Thomas Vale, a seaman, became
unable, from sickness, to perform any duty; and the rest of
the crew were nearly exhausted from constant labour and
watching. On the 26th, a tremendous sea struck her on the
starboard side, and swept the decks of all the bulwarks,
stancheons, boats, spars, provisions, water and galley, and
split the covering board on the larboard side, the wind at the
same time completely blowing the belly out of the mainsail.
Captain I'endlebury and four of his hands were washed over-
board. Two of the men succeeded in catching hold of some-
thing, and were hauled in by the mate and carpenter oVer the
quarter, a third was washed into the jells-boat, which was
towing astern, and was saved. The fourth, Thomas Vale, was
not seen again.. Captain I'endlebury caught hold of the main
sheet, and he was hauled on board again at the moment his
strength was failing.
Five feet of water was now discovered in the bola, and
two men were kept constantly at the lumps. They rigged
a drag to keep the ship's head on to the sea, and tried to fill
the holes on deck occasioned by the earning away. of the
stancheons. Part of the cargo was also heaved overboard.
us it had shifted. The nigbi, was aaul f.ggy ; but at
three A. 51, on the 28th February, it cleared a little, and they
discovered a piece of laud, which turned out to be Castello
Branco, a reef on the south side of the island of Fayal, the
chief of the Azores.
At the distance of about a mile, the surf broke with fear-
ful violence on the cliffs 300 feet high ; and they were then
sailing straight for them. The vessel was in the midst of a
sort of bight, one arm of which was formed by the Castello
Branco, and the other by a high ridge of rocks called Vara-
douro, a point which, it they could have weathered, they
would have driven safely into the port of Fayal. They had,
however, no sail to set except a foresail, every other rag of
canvass having been lost or carried away; and each tack
brought them nearer their destruction. The energies of the
captain and his crew, however, did not desert them ; and they
tried to get up a flying jib for a mainstaysail, in order, if
possible, to keep off till daylight; and they hove round
three times. The wind, however, with the exception of a
brief lull, which did them more harm than good, blew fast
and furious towards the dreadful cliffs, and the still morn
fearful surf, and at about five o'clock the unfortunate vessel
struck with great violence stern foremost ; she then tamed,
and her side came against the rock, beating so fearfully that
it was evident she must be broken up almost instantly.
The condition of Miss Hazleden during this violent and
long-continued hurricane was truly deplorable, but the un-
fortunate girl behaved with great fortitude and resignation.
She was very anxious to keep the deck, but as that was im-
possible in its unprotected state, she spent the dreadful hours
below. From the time the crew found they could not escape
she was frequently observed on her knees making her peace
with heaven. When the ship struck she rushed up to the
(leek, but she had hardly set a foot upon it when a tremen-
dous sea washed her overboard. The sailors, with the ex-
ception of Samuel Scott, all reached the rocks in safety, but
in a most deplorable state, the waves having stripped every
particle of clothing from several, and half denuded the others.
They then had to scramble a mile over the most precipitous
and dangerous cliffs before they reached the country. The
body of Miss Hazleden was observed in the surf and rescued
at great risk by the captain and one of his seamen. The
poor girl's head was fractured in a dreadful manner, and every
particle of clothing had been torn off her by thefury of the
waves.

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AMERICAN IcE.—A vessel called the America, arrived
in the St. Katherine's Dock, two or three days since, from Boston,
United States, having on board, with the exception of 28 boxes of
provisions, a cargo consisting entirely of ice, amounting to the im-
mense quantity of 460 tons weight.
SUPPOSED MURDER AT BIRSIINGUAM, MARCH 2i.—
At the public office this morning, three men, named Sanders, Freeth,
and Ileeley, were brought before the sitting magistrates, on suspicion
of being connected with the death of a mun named Charles Edwards,
a lock-keeper, living in Caroline-street, supposed by some to have
been murdered. Mr. Stevens, superintendent of police, addressing
the magistrates, said, on Thursday morning last the body of a man
was found near a lock in the Fazeley Canal, about a mile from Bir-
mingham with a deep gash across his face, and a number of bruises
on his body. In consequence •of information which he received he
caused the above parties tc be apprehended, they being seen in com-
pany with deceased, and quarrelling with him the night before. The
magistrates ordered the prisoners to be kept in custody until the
coroner's inquest, which, it is expected, will take place to-morrow
(saturday). The deceased has left a widow and family to mourn
his less.
The postponement of the Lord Mayor's entertainment
to her. 3Nesty's 3thilsters, which we announced yesterday, arises
from the fact, that the Ministers have been commanded to attend at
Buckingham Palace, on the night of Wednesday, the Ist proximo,
The Easter Ball at the Mansion-Rouse is put off sine die. in con-
sequence of the death of the Lord Mayor's mother, which took place
on Friday morning.
A fraud was recently attempted on a Custom House
officer by a foreigner, who represented twenty fiddles he was import-
ing to be inferior Instruments, not worth more than 11. each. On
examination by a competent judge, the instruments were found to
be genuine cremonas, worth at least 25/. each.
AN OvERSEEIt ABSCONDED.—An assistant-overseer
named John Ilill, of the parish of Kingston-upon-Thames, has
absconded with a very considerable sum of money belonging to the
parish, and yesterday a reward of
.501. was offered for his appre-
hension.
Two MEN KILLED BY LICRTNING.—On Thursday
afternoonsevere a even; thunderstorm visited the neighbourhood 0.
Nottingham. Two men who had taken shelter in a barn at Rat-
cliffe were killed on the spot by the lightning; it cow in the ad-
joining field was also killed, but there were no other marks of tile
fluid.

It is understood that a trial of considerable interest
will take place at the ensuing Somerset Sessions, arising out of an
assault committed by certain gentlemen of Bath and the neighbour-
hood, at the match of cricket, on Lansdowne, last summer, upon a
sheriff's officer and his assistants, whilst endeavourieg to arrest is
gentleman celebrated amongst cricketers as the strongest bowler of
the day. The indictment, it is said, will be for a riot.— Somerset-
shire Gazelle.
FORCIBLE ENTRY INTO. A HOUSE BY A CLERGYMAN.
—Considerable excitement prevailed at the Town-hall, Sheffield, on
Tuesday morning last, in consequence of the Rev. John George
Hounsfield, Mrs. Rosalie lionreine Hounsfichl, his wife, together with
George Hall, John Hall, and Charles Hall, being brought before the
magiatrntes on a charge of having, on Monday last, riotously as-
sembled, and forcibly entered and taken possession of Wadsley
House, the residence of George Calvert Holland, Esq., M.D. Time Them e
prisoner had been upwards of eight yearn confined in York Castto
for debt, and had refused to petition for his liberation. In cons,
queues of Ws ao doing, his petitioring creditor, Mr. Drury, had el: -
plied to the Insolvent Court and obtained a v, sther order, under
wiligh the property was sold to the father of Mr. Copelaiel, the Ize-
sent owner. Mr. hounslield appears to have laboured under the Im-
pression that as he did not take the benefit of the Insolvent Act, he
was entitled again to take possession of his prop, rty on his liberation
, from York Castle. The case was heard before William Over end,
Esq., 11. M. (=reeves, Esq., and J. Athorpe, Esq. Mr. Honnsfiel LI and
two other male defendants were held to bail to take their trial for
the offence, and Mrs. Ilounsfield was discharged.
THE ITALIAN SOCIETY.—On Friday a meeting of tEe
members of the above Society was held at the lianaver-square Rooms,
Lord Ashley in the chair, supported by the lion. W. Cowper, M.P.,
Mr. Childers, M.P., Mr. Colquhoun, M.P., Signor elect', &c. The
lion. NV. Cowper, in moving a resolution expressive of sympathy with
the distressed Italians, drew a frightful picture of their forlorn and
destitute position, secluded as they were from their native homes,
without any prospect of gaining a livelihood here. equal to that of-
forded to the poorest of our own countrymen. They were sent out In
the morning, after eating a scanty breakfast, receiving strict injunc-
tions not to return until they collected two shillings, and then they
had a miserable supper, consisting chiefly of offal. Signor Baffaelle
Clocel seconded the resolution, which was carried, as %ere others In
accordance, after which the meeting separated.
A letter from Setif announces the death of the Caid
Ben Anani, one of the native chiefs most devoted to France. Like
Ahmed El Annabi, Caid of the Seltaouas, who was assassinated a
few months ago in the environs of Coestantina, Ben Anent fell from
the fire of an ambuscade laid for him by some Kabyles who frequent
the market of Setif. Thus, in less than six months, three deals ap-
pointed by the French, and entirely devoted to their interioits, have
been Ruminated. —Galkinani.