The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-20 00:00:00

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bar - 2 N OYE_MBEit 20, 1848.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SATunDAY.—The magistrates have:received
an order to discharge all the prisoners arrested on the
night of the Bth inst., at the Wilderness, near C!onrnel,
no charge appearing against any, of them. Si) much
for "the rebettion to release the State prisoners." •
All the Balliagarry State prisoners, with the excep-
tion of those against whore bills-of indictment were pre-
ferred and found at the late Commission, were discharged
sa Tuesday, on their own recognizance.
TEE STATE PRISONERS IN DUBLIN.

The Freeman of this morning says;—" When Mr.
O'Brien and the other State prisoners, who were to
assign errors in the Court of Queeu', Bench
.yester-
day, were leaving Kilmainham for the purpose of
being conducted to the court, Mr. O'Brien observed
that a detective was placed in the car whiCh he •was
about to enter. Mr. O'Brien refused to propeed unless
the detective was removed, stating that he was willing
to go into the prison van, or any other way, but that
ho would not, except by coercion, go into tle car in
company with a man whose avowed duty was to assert
falsehoods. Upon this the detective was directed to
leave the car, into which Mr. O'Brien' then went-
Mr. Meagher, who ' was to proceed in the same car,
joined- with Mr. O'Brien in requiring the expulsion of
the detectiie.

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challenge in the case or Mr. I)iff. Many oljections had
b;!en raised to the fiirin of the Challenge, but it was not

necessaty to consider them in detail, although :some id
them were of a serious character; but, K 3 he though( the
challenge should be diiallowed on the merits, he would
not intimate any opinion on those defects inform.: The
Learned Judge thou read
.the: obseriations. of the Chief
Baron- when the-challcnge was decided, with which he
expressed his concurrence.
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Toe other grounds alleged in suripert of the writ of
error were also ()Yeti-nit d, and the other Judges tx-
pressed their concurrence in' the judgment.
At tive n'qldeit on , Saturday the following document
was loclged in the office or the Mil: of the Crown:—
WiLLIAM THE PLAINTIFF IK ERROR,

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NEWCASTLIV AN , -11EkTirtZ.
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•-• TO. THE EDITOR = :irei7t"l77.-, ‘\
' - -Sili,---,Pereeiving the stet: 4 A -.:-..:, wit,-, .: tii,
irectors -of the Newcastie ' '''''\ .1 :;f4,i'.41.1420i3t '
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Company isnot considered l'a , ~,, ••• • trYsp*.
lators,, principally because th.,-
6,0001. p;.. r. week mere aitri t .1- _-. ::.-.- r
having oened tl-,,z fet:trniug x fil.s42lo'le
them- ropy a dividend Gf- 7 per c(...nt.J.._ kg i°.-"4”
dress these few hoes to the belders of thete shales
--- (notto the gambling speculatort.);intkrti4o,the.ar,
. if ,the line, when completed, takes 6,000/. r wcok
1)71
• additional, it will leave aN ET B,2trpbtS at met of tlrt
yecr of 75,000/., alter Hieing- rptr cent. :_'his r.et
foi
-..iirpliti is equal to 120,000 gross, or tav A„rr.t_NO ier
week, leaving. only :1,500 per Week a‘le.iliona4.tiltlio
„to pay the 7 per cent.; at,d if the traffic inzr6s.2s in
,the same iratio as it has dotty thee last :few 'w&el,:gi
since the• viaduct was cornpletetl, the ple.sc•nt I•ne, in-
(lependeßt of a-nyirftiti.on7,l ad!enge, N,,c,lii:-!. witte i :lei
return of prosperous:titnes, t: lio the 3,6C(.7. 4t .le-
quires only an inteiligiNnt examinlloit lvto 0,(.4 ;11:a;r5
u this comp:illy to be e.,nvinceti that rt,nr:to.i!., so'n.rigt
undertaking, Or one niore IN (int, its 147 f s•---nt relit, ve
value, is riot ill EngiaLd-.—.1 reinain, Sir, youltz in:srt
obedient I errant;
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Liverpool, N ov. 18, 1848

VINDS X.

FATAL ACCIDEN TS ON TUE
• McHmOND RAILWAY.

RICHMOND, SATURDAY! AFTERNOON.—Mr. Wp,thius,
the firemaa Of the ballast engine which, on lel; to the
tAleged'n4igence of Me persons in -charge of;sit, on.Ucea
the fatal collision.lat4 nigh.; near this station, ‘s
_as broti-ghs
up for examination to-day, at the 'Vestry-of-nee, bi-cf..,re
Sir H. Baker, Bart: (ebairritr), and a full beech of,
its t-
gistrates. Several of the railway company's servatitsigave
evidence as, to the circumstances connected with the ac-
cident, and.from their depositions it 'appeared that abet!!
o'clock P". 351,,, and shortly before the arrival at Rich-
mond of the 6 35 expresi doWn Witieh •vnes then a
few Minutes behind its time; the ballinst engine 'in guts-
lion, called the "-Vulture," le It the old staition, at Riche
• mond tor Vauxhall, with the driver, the fireman, and three
. or four workmen, who were returning, home aftetntheir
daY'slabour, riding upon it. According to the rules of the
company, tn e drivers and firemen are prohibited from etr-•
rying any other parties upon the engines; and ill:, ebvietts
ictftingetnent of this tit gulatien, ittethe present instance,
eluded the notice. of the.offibials of tee station, owing to
the engine being.socentpletely enveloped with stea*as.
it was leaving, that the person of Watkins, the fireman,
was nilinte 'discernible upon itt Previous to seat ting,
--Watkins had been *toned by a pointsnfat= name
Webb* r, of the danger -of his proceiniing ne the Hite
until the express doVvretrain had passed the Nee, Rica-
mood pu=nts; but no heed whatever was paid by him
to the caution. White the Vulture was pasdr.g out from
the station a few minutes subsequent*, Webbet seeing
that Watkins had started, in ttetiance
of his ad4ce, and
knowing that should the Vkltusie reach the points sit
New Richmond before the down train had pressed theta,
a collision must inevitably ensue, repeated his cautien
by signalling the Vulture with a red 'igl-4 The
signal, lowever, was once more eltsregarued by the
Vulture, which still-proceeded on its way, without at
all slankening speed: • When it had arrived within a
short 'distance of
.the New Riclimemi points, the
peintsinan there (Sumull Lock) eleseervit% that the
,doen train was fast approaching Criim cite opposina
directien, made signals to both engines respectively.
The driver •of the down train promptly rei%rsed Lis
engine ; but no notice whatever was taken of he alarm
by the parties on the Vulture, which continued to come
up as it no danger existed,- and a violent collision be-
- tween the two engines was the consequence ; a gieiger,
named Richard Perry, in the employ of M. l3rassk; tie
contractor, being killed on the spot, and a sweep so-
severely injured. Both of these men were tidies uppn
the Vulture engine surreptitiously at the titne of the
accident. The driver of the Vulture, whose name is
Samuel Healey, also sustained such severe internal hurt
that it is very doubtful whether he can ever recover.
The passengers of the down train providentially all ea-
taped without wounds of a serious nature. The man
Perry has left a wife and one child. The inquest on Lis
body is fixed to take place on Tuesday next. The
investigation before the magistrates lasted for about
•two hours ; and at its close the prisoner Watlttnts was
remanded till next Thursday, with the view of enabling
the officers of the company to procure further evidence.
On Saturday afternoon Mr. W. Carter held an inquest
at the Red Lion.len, Barnes, en the body of Jonathan
Sharp, a hawker, aged 55 years, living in the'Snspension
Bridge-road, Hammersmith, who was found dead en
Friday morning near the Barnes station of the Richmond
Railway. The circumstances under which the hotly of
the deceased was found near the railway were detailed in
our columns on Saturday. Op his person was, found a
ticket, showing that he had come by the seven o'clock
up-train from Richmond on the Thursday evening, and
ought to have got out at the Barnes station which was
his frequent custoM. On that- etereileg the only passenger
who got out of tlist seven o'clocW-train was sworn to
be aninatile, and The deceased was not seen there at all
that evening. After a lengthened Inquiry-An jary con-
sidered that the deceased had fatten out of the carrinee
on finding that he had passed the Barnes station, or
jumped cut of the train and L.llien under the wheel of the
last.earriage of the train in which-he was sitting, tin,t -
tre-friiitt-beett- uno Low: to
death, and accdrding4. retirrned a verdict of " Accinental•
death."

- -DEATH__ OF ___A. WELL-KNOWN CIIATIACTEK.-31r.
Payne held an inquest on Saturday night, 'at the Star,
Blackman. street, Borough, on the body of Wm. Curds,
aged 52, brother of Dick Curtis, the pugilist. The de-
ceased was stone blind, hut lie was notes4Thstanding re-
markably-skilful in cutting horses, and his reputation
in this respect being widely spread, he has been fro-
quently culled in professionally at Prince Albert's farm.
He had for a long time past buf,red 7t eat disease of the
heart, but having had eight operations performed on his
eyes without any beneficial effect, he had little faith in
doctors, and would hare no medical advice. Last Thur -
day, after drinking a glass of cold waer, he was taken
much worse than usual, and in tht! afternooe, while try-
ing a glass of brandy, suddenly fell from his chair and
diid. Mr. Rendle, a surgeon, who nlade a post modem
examination of the body, attributed death to ossification
of the valves of the heart; accelerated bar- the =,lll water
the deceased had drank. Verdict, " Nataal deep." .
DEATH FROM :LAUDANUM, TAKEN TO, riztecuez
SLEEP.—On Friday
.an inquest was held at the Gropes,
Gerard-street, before Mr. Bedford, ou the body of Mary
Truman, aged for -fours - Mary Jones, wife of a lapi-
dary, of No. 56, King-street, Soho, said the deceased
resided• in her house, away from her husband, who
visited her only once a week. On Saturday she appeared
in very low epirits, and in the evening told witness lie
hoped God would prevent her doing anything wrong to
herself. The next morning witness, hetaring he breathe
very, heavily in her bed-room, went ib and fottud hi r
lying on her bed inseesible. She saw a cup which had
contained laudanum on the drawers, and v ithout delay
sent for a surgeon. The stomach pump was then ap-
plied, and when the deceased was restored to COEt,CiOus•
ness she said that she had taken a pennyworth of lauda-
num, but she would not state where Oe bought it, for
fear of getting people into trouble, nor why eshe hid
taken it. In the evening she made her will, lute shortly
afterwards died. Mr. Lenton, surgeon, said that in the
course of his attendance on the deceased• she said she
had taken the laudanum because she was in trouble, at.d
wanted to sleep, and that stie had not intended to hale
taken so much. Verdict—el Died 'from chronic bronchi-
tis, accelerated by a dose of • laudanum taken to precut e
sac ep, and not to commit suicide."
DEATH OF A LUNATIC FROM' ALLEGED lEL-TBEAT..
MENT IN MARYLEEONt. WORKHOUSE..-011SatUrday after-
noon an inquest Was held at the Bell Inn, Brent-street,
llendon, before Mr. Mills, Deputy Coroner for Middle-
sex, on the body of Matthew Ginger, aged thkt?y..six,
who was alleged to have died from ill-trey received
while a lunatic in the workhouse of St. Mary leborte;
but after a lengthened inquiry the jury returned a ver-
dict of " Died of disease of the brain.' Deceased, who
fancied himself the King of Australia, 13 as said. to hat e
become a lunatic in consequence of " disappointed love?'
APPOIN TMENTE.—The Lord Chancellor has cone
ferred the living of Burstow, in the Archdiocese of Can-
terbury, upon the Rev. 0. F. Owen, late Wenn:Meat of
St. Mary's, Leicester. Mr. 'Arthur Ellis has been ap-
pointed to the vacant clerkship in the Registrar's-cffica
of the Court of Chancery. The Hon. Lionel West,
attache at Lisbon, proceeds, in the same rank, to the
British Embassy at Naples. Mr. F. H. A. Forth N ap-
pointed Superintendent of Turk's Island. Licatemult
George Bott, R.N., is appointed a stipendiary magistrate
in British Guiana.-ob,server.
LLOYD'S COFFER-HOUSE.—On Saturday Morning-,
about one o'clock, a douse volume of smoke was noticed
to issue from one of the upper roonit3 of Lloyd's Coffee-
house, Royal Exchange. Not a moment was lost in
arousing the persons residing therein, and speedy infor-
mation was sent to the tire stations. Meanwhile several
persons had entered, and in one of the counting-houses
the fire was 'discovered, having originated from seine
ignited bond titnier under the fireplace. By 'dint of
untilby' soma tlt great exertions for an hour, and cuffingaway
firemen, the alarm soon subsided, but not
damage to the building had resulted from the progress
of the fire. -
OCEAN MONA.RCH.—On the 15th instant we no-
ticed that her Majesty's Government hied presented
Captain Joaquim Marquis Lisboa, commanding the
Brazilian frigate Affonso, with a gold chronometer. IN e
have now the pleasure of Willer
,informing our readte s
that the Lords Commissioners of the Atitniralty, wl,n
their usual promptness and zeal to reward exertio' a
made to rescue human life from the perffs of the deei,
purchased a gold chronometer from Mr. Dent, and U.)
following is the inscription engraved on it by order of
their Lordships :—" Presented by the Lords of the Ad-
miralty to Captain Joaquim Marquis Lisboa, oornmarie-
ing the Brazilian stt am-frigate Alfonso, for the humanity
and activity displayed by him in rescuing many Britisa
subjects from the burning wreck of the Ocean Monarch."
In the four northern English counties—Durham,
Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmprelend—
there are no fewer than 550 deaf and dumb, and 600
blind persons. _ _

CLIOLERA.--It is satisfactory to be able tp state
that the chol€ra has entirely disappeared from fhe Peni-
tentiary at Milbank. That prison is in a very healthy
condition generally. The official accounts from Wool-
wich are also of a much more favourable character.
Indeed, the disease generally is not only limited in its
extent, but much mitigated in its severity. A good del.t
of this is probably owing to the propitious state of the
weather, and the healthy condition of the atmosphere,
andahould in no degree cause precautionary measurts
to be suspended or neglected—for it is still more re.
markable that almost all the bad eases have occurred ha
the dirtiest and worst provided lomjitiesev-Ofy
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