The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-29 00:00:00

NAME OF RAILWAY.

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20
20
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Arbroath .end Furth; • v
Bristols.nd Birmingham ••• .....
Chester and Birkenhead . • •
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 Rochester— • .
Great North of England • . • • • . • • • ...
Great Western . ...... ........
Hartlepool ............. ............
London and Birmingham, &c. - .
London and Blackwall— ........
London and Brighton . • • ............
London and Croydon ... • • • .......
London and Greenwich . ............
London and South Western . ........
Manehester, Bolton, and Bury ......
Manchester and Birmingham........
Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc..
Midland Counties . • • • • • • . • . • . • • • . • • •
Newcastle and Darlington
Newcastle and Car1i51e........ • ... • •
Newcastle and North Shields.. • .....
N0rf01k......
North Union and Bolton and Preston
Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans • • • •
Paris and Rouen . •• •• •• •• •• •• ••
Preston and Wyre •••• • • • • • • •• • •• • •
Sheffield and Manchester.. ••••••
• •••
South Ea5tern...............
Ulster .
• • •• ••
Yarmouth and N0rwich.........
York and North Midland

876
1,200
312

465
3,194
9,026
2,103
1,150

398

20,803

40,122
1,4b0
6,237
1,751

8,466
1,067
4,138
6,058
17,457
2,913
1,978
529
1,644

670

7,212
6,386
950
1,886
8,594
1,206

997
1,478
299
400
2,702
5,489
1,902
1,102

19,740

38,469
1,423
5,903
1,816

6,068

1,122

THE LAUNCH OF THE TEAZEL—CHATHAM, JUNE 25.
—This vessel was launched this day, from the lower slip in
the dock-yard, in the presence of a number of spectators. At
the head of the vessel was a platform erected for the purpose
of performing the ceremony of christening, &c., on which
were several officers of the army and their ladies. Shortly
before the hour appointed for launching, one o'clock, the
Captain-superintendent of the yard, Captain W. H. Shirreff,
led the amiable daughter of Colonel J. B. Parker, of the
Royal Artillery, to that part of the platform where she was
to officiate, who having dashed the suspended bottle of
wine against the bows of the vessel, named it the Teazer.
The work of splitting out the blocks from under her
keel then commenced, and the iron ballast descending,
knocked away the dog-shores, and in a second she "rushed
sublimely to the floating deep." She is a beautifully con-
structed boat, and is to be fitted with two engines of fifty
horse power, with a screw propeller. She is built upon a
new principle, with three thicknesses of oak plank, two di* •
gonally, and one fore and aft; she is to carry one long
River
Gambia. 85 cwt. It is stated that she is destined for the River
Gambia. Her draught of water in launching is 2 feet 11
inches fore, and 3 feet 7 inches aft. The following are her
dimem.ion :—Length between perpendiculars, 130 feet ;
length of keel for tonnage, 118 feet 10'ys inches; breadth,
extreme, 21 feet 91/2 inches ; breadth for tonnage, 21 feet 71,4
inches; breadth, moulded, 20 feet 113/ inches; depth in
hold, 9 feet 2 inches; burthen in tons, 295 72-94. New
rule, 194 tons ; engine-room, 84 ; and registered tonnage,
110. Mr. Laird, the master-builder, Mr. Laing, assistant,
and other principal officers of the yard, were present; also
Mrs. Shirreff and daughter, and friends. The launch was
beautiful.
JEWISH FREEMASONS—IMPORTANT DECISION OF THE
GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND. —The Grand Lodge ofEngland
has, after a correspondence and remonstrance, conducted by
the Earl of Zetland and the Grand Secretary, resolved to
withdraw their representative from the Grand Lodge at
Berlin, in consequence of the refusal of the Russian Lodges
to admit Jews to their meetings, though such Jews have di-
plomas of the Grand Lodge of England. The representatives
of the Grand Lodge of Berlin in this country, is to be in-
formed that he can no longer be acknowledgede or take his
seat in the Grand Lodge of England in his official character
of representative.
FIRE AT THE GEORGE AND BLUE BOAR, HOLBORN.
—Friday night, between ten and el yen, a fire that at one time
threatened very serious consequences, broke out in the
upper part of the booking-office, attached to the George and
Blue Boar, Holborn. The flames commenced, from same
unknown cause, in one of the top rooms, and extended from
thence through the, roof. Several engines of the London
Fire Establishment, with the West of England one, and two
escapes of the Royal Society for the Protection of Life from
Fire, quickly attended. The flames having obtained such a
strong hold of the building, it was found impossible to sub-
due the fire without the aid of an engine. The one from
Holborn station was therefore instantly set to work, and by
carrying the hose up the staircase the firemen were enabled
to discharge the water in the right quarter, and in a short
period the flames were entirely extinguished. The damage
done is, considering the magnitude of the premises, not very
considerable. The property, we understand, is fully insured.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—A very alarming and destruc-
tive fire broke out, shortly before twelve o'clock on Friday,
on the premises of Messrs. Miles and Edwards, upholsterers,
of Oxford-street. The rear of the house, in the main street,
is flanked by extensive workshops, which run back into Red
Lion-yard, a narrow turning, leading out of Vere-street. In
the upper story of these workshops the fire broke out. From
the inflammable nature of the contents the flames spread
with surprising rapidity, and in the course of a few minutes
burst through the roof, illumining the whole western dis-
tricts of the metropolis. The engine belonging to the parish
of Marylebone was early on the spot ; but owing to the
great height of the warehouses, it was utterly ineffectual in
keeping down the fire, and great fears were some time enter.
tained that the flames would extend to the adjoining pre-
mises, right and left. On the arrival of the brigade firemen,
the
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however, two or three active officers ascended to the roofs of
the adjoining houses, and dragged up the hose of their re-
spectiveroef
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warehouses
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more than half an hour after the outbreak. Among the
spectators at the fire were a great number of the nobility,
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who were just about taking their departure from Lady Lynd-
hurst's assembly, in George-street.
FIRE AT EDMONTON.—Late on Thursday evening _a
most destructive fire happened at the homestead of Mr.
Board, at Edmonton, within a few yards of the line of the
Eastern Counties Railway. It was discovered in a barn, well
stocked with agricultural implements and corn ; and ere
assistance could arrive to check its progress at so early a
stage, the flames extended over the whole building. The
first object of those drawn to the spot was to rescue the
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parishes were promptly brought to the spot, and a good
supply of water being procured from a ditch, they were got
into effectual operation. By cutting off the communication
between the barn and stabling, the latter
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though considerably injured, 4 °
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was stopped in that direction.the engines prevented coati-
torrents of water
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destroyed, and by midnight the fire
gious buildings being
althoughthe wreck of the barn and stacks
was repressed, throughout the night, and even up to a late
up
kept blazing afternoon' The less is very heavy ; the pro-
hour yesterday .
understood to be insured. The origin is
tor, however, is
pine
unknown.
DEATII BY DROWNING.—On Friday morning, shortly
before noon, five individuals were perceived in a four-oared
cutter proceeding up the River Thames, near Blackfriara..
bridge. Just, however, as they had arrived opposite the
Temple Gardens, the swell caused by a steamer passing,
upset the little craft, and the five persons were instantly im-
mersed in the water. Boats were immediately put off to
their assistance, and four of them were happily rescued, but
the fifth, who was a clerk in the General Post-office, named
Handell, we are sorry to say, met with a watery grave. Up-
wards of an hour elapsed ere the body was recovered.
SUICIDE.—On Friday Mr. Baker held an inquest at
the London Hospital on Mary Ann White, aged 54, who
committed suicide, by throwing herself from a window of a
house of ill-fame, in Wentworth-street, Whitechapel, on
Wednesday evening. A witness, named Ann Ingot, who.
lodged in the house said, on that morning Radstock, the
proprietor of the house, sent out his wife to get some-
thing for dinner ; she returned sooner than was expected,
and on going up stairs a violent altercation ensued, the wife
declaring she had detected deceased (who was her own sister)
in the act of adultery with her husband. Blows ensued, and
the three continued quarrelling throughout the afternoon
About six o'clock in the evening deceased threw herself out
of the window. She was taken to the Hospital, where she
died shortly after.—Dr. Davies, resident surgeon, said, from
an extensive fracture of the skull. The jury, after comment-
ing on the depravity exhibited, returned a verdict of " Tem-
porary insanity."
FATAL EFFECTS OF THE LATE HOT WEATHER.—
Friday evening Mr. Payne held an inquest at the Black Horse,.
Barbican, on the body of Mary Appleby-, aged sixty-five, a.
strawbonnet maker, of No. 7, Garter-court. The deceased,
was a very corpulent woman, and was subject to spasmodic;
affection of the stomach and indigestion, which were in,
creased by her habit of eating hearty suppers. It was stated
that on Tuesday night she ate a large quantity of cabba•ge,
and early next morning she was taken suddenly ill. ;nee
called to some of her fellow-lodgers and bade them send for
a doctor. They did so, and Mr. Ponder, a surgeon, eaten,
but found her dead. It was his opinion that she had died
from disease of the stomach brought on by having -partaken
of too much solids, and fatally aggravated by the )teat, of the
• weather. Verdict, " Natural death."