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

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NEWCASTL / AND . BIM WICX
Li
RAILWAY.
TO THE EII.I7'OR OF `THE SUN.
Sia,—Perceiving the statement just issued by the
directors of the Newcastle . and Berwick Railway
Company is not considered satisfactory by tie specu-
&tors, principally because they state they will require
6,0001. per week more than the present traflic after
having oi;encd the remaining sixty miks, to enable
them topay a dividend of 7 per cent., I bcg to ..d-
-dress -these few lines to the holders of these simeA
(not to the gambling speculators), and remind them,
io the line, when completed, takes 6,0001. per 'whir
additional, it' will leave a NET '-su7p/its- at the end of t he
year of 75,0001., after paying 7 per cent. - •Thi.s, ret
surplus is equal to 120,000 grass; or' say 2,500 ler
week, • leaving only 3,600 per week adclilional. trallic
to pay the 7 per cent.; and if the traffic increases in
.the same iratio as it his (lone these last,;few weel.s,
since the viaduct was corm idea, the present Lrr,, i'n-
dependent of any aditio::',;:l.rni-erfv, v.,,,,,1,1, "iqi 1.,e
return 'a. prosperous thui,,"-tilk-e- the Z.34;00i.. It le-
quires only an inte;lige.nt examin4tion ‘iato ki,e niliti ra
of this company to Le e,,nvineeti •tpat-a Inoto round
undertaking, or one Immure worth its present relative
value, is not in Eng;and.—l remain, Sir, your roust
obedient servant,

VINDEX

Liverpool, Nov. 18, 1848.

FATAL ACCIDENTS ON TilE
RICH MO.ND RAILWAY.
•
RICHMOND, SATURDAY AFTEIINOON.—Wec. •- • •
the fireman of the ballast engine wedeln owing to tl.e
alleged negligence of the persons in ehar,ge.hf it, eaeue d
the fatal collision last night Leer this station; was ‘hrouglit
up for examination to-day, at the Vestry-office, bate e
Sir IL Baker, Bart. (chairman), and a fell bench of me.-
gistrates. Several of the r:.;b%aj cerneany'e- eersetuts pee
evidence as to the eircurnstauces eenneated with the ne-
cident, and from their depoeitiens it appearei that about
six o'clock P.M., and shortly beCore the arrival at Zell.
mond of the 6.35 express. down
.train which was then &
few minutes behind its time, the ballast engine.lo ques-
tion, called the " Vulture,'.' left the ohl station et Rich -
mood for Vauxhall, with the driver, the fireman, and thr e
or four workmen, who were returning home after the .r
.day's labour, riding upon it. According to the rules of t 1 ;e
company, the drivrs and firemen are 'prohibited from ea...-
vying any other efarties upon the engines, the obvious
tuft ingement of this re gulattieen, in the present instance,
eluded the notice of the officials of the station, owing to
the engine being so completely enveloped with steam es
it was leaving, that the person of Wa.kins, the fireman,
was alone discernible upon it. Previous to startin
Watkins had been warned by a poi:atm:Aran, flawed
Webb/re of the danger of his proeeedieg Alp the ILO
until the express down train had passed the New Rich-
, mond points; but i, held whatever was paid by Liia
to the caution. -While the Vulture was pasiing out from
the station a few minutes subsequently, Weliber, serif., Watkins had stared, in defiance ief his advice' ae:l
knowing that should the Vulture reach 'the-Feints
New Richmond before the down train had pasec;d them,
a collision. must inevitably ensue, repeated his caution
by signalling the Vulture with a red light. The
signal, however, was once more disregarded 65- the
Vulture, which stilt proceeded on its way, aithout
all slackehing speed. •: When it had arrived within a
short dietance of the Ne.W. Itiehatexisi points, tie)
'pointsman there (Samuel Look) observing that the
down train was fast approaching • from the opposite
direction, made signals to both engines respectively.
The driver of the down train promptly rever=sed his
engine ; but'no notice whatever was taken of the alarm
by the parties on the Vulture, which- continued to coma
up as if no danger existed, and a violent collision be-
tween the two engines was the consequence ; a ganger,
named Richard Perry, in the employ of Mr. Brassy, the
contrictor, being killed on the spot; and a sweep &-
severely injured. Both of these men were riding upon
the Vulture engine surreptitiously at the time of the
accident. The driver of the Vulture, whose name is
Samuel Healey, also sustained such severe inteznal hut t
that-it is very doubtful whether he can ever receiver.
The passengers of the down train providentially all es-
caped without wounds of a serious nature. The man
Perry has left a wife and one child. The inquest on his
body is fixed to take place on Tuesday next. The
investigation before the magistrates AaSted for about
two hours ; and at its close the prisoner Watkins vets
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 inque: t
at the Red Lion Inn, Barnes, on the body of Jonathan
Sharp; tr, hawker, aged 55 years, living•in the Stespehtion
Bridge-road, Hammersmith, who was found deed en
Friday morning near the Barnes station of the Richmond
Railway. The circumstances under which- the body c f
the deceased was found near the railway were detailed in
our columns on Saturday. On his person was found a
ticket, showing that he had come by the seven o'clocic
up-train from Richmond on the Thursday eveni'nr, anti
ought to have got out at the Barnes station, which Nese
his frequent custom. On that eveningihe only passenger
who got out of the seven o'clock up-train was sworn to
be a lemale, and the deceased was not Seek thera at all
that evening. After a lengthened inquiry his jury con-
sidered that the deceased had fallen out of the carriage
on finding that he had passed the Barnes station, or
jumped out of the train and fallen under the wheel of the
last carriage of the train in which he was sitting, th!:t
.he had been injured in the manner described and Wen /0
death, and accordingly returned a verdict of Accieentel
death."

DEATH OF A WELL-KNOWN CHARACTEK.—Mr.
Payne held an inquest on Saturday- night, at tihe Sta,-,
Blackman- street, Borough, (An the body of Wm. Corti-,
aged 52, brother of Dick Curti, the pugilist. The do .
ceased was stone blind, but, he was noLwithstanding r( -
markably skilful in cutting horses, and his reputeetiere
in this respect being widely spread, he has been fre•
quently called in professionally at Prince Albert's farm.
He had for a long time past suffered from disease of the
(
heart, but having had eight operations performed on hi;
eyes without any beneficial effect; he had little faith in
doctors, and would have no medical advice. Last Thurs-
day, after drinking a glass of cold water, he wilts taken
much worse than usual, and in the afternoon, while try-
ing a glass of brandy, suddenly fell from his chair an i
died. Mr. Rendle, a surgeon, who made a post modem
1 examination of the body, attributed death to ossification
of the valves of the heart, accelerated by the cold water
the deceased had drank. Verdict, " Natural death."
DEATH FROM LAUDANUM, TAKEN TO PROCURE
SLEEP.—On Friday an inquest was helckat the (grapes,
Ger,rd-street, before Mr. Bedford, on the body of .Mary
Truman, aged forty-foun Mary Jones, wife of a lap.-
dary, ot-No. 56, King-street, Soho, said the deceased
resided in ber house, away from her husband, wh s
visited her only once a week. On Saturday she appeare 1
in very low spirits, and in the evening told witness she
hoped God would prevent her doing anything wrong to
herself. The next morning witness, heariem her breath's
very heavily in her bed-room, went it and -found htr
lying on her bed insensible. She saw a cup which bad
contained laudanum on the drawers, and vs. ithott delay
sent for a surgeon. The stomach-pump was then ap•
plied, and when the deceased was restored to conscious-
ness she said that she had taken a pennyworth of lauda-
num, but she would not state where she bought it, for
fear of getting people into trouble, nor why abe bad
taken it. In the evening she made her will, and shortly
afterwards died. Mr. Lenten, surgeon, said that in the
course of his attendance on the deceased" She said she
had taken the laudanum because she was in trouble, and
wanted to sleep, and that she had not intended to hale
taken so much. Verdict" Died from chronic bronchi-
tis, accelerated by a dose of laudanum taken to procure
sleep, and not to commit suicide."
DEATH OF A LUNATIC FROM ALLEGED ILL-T*EAT •
RENT IN MARYLEBONE WORKHOUSE.—ORSaturday after-
noon an inquest was held at the Bell Inn; Brent-street,
Hendon, before Mr. Mills, Deputy Coroner for Middle-
sex, on the body of Matthew Ginger, aged thirty-six,
who was alleged to have died from ill-treatment receivei
r while a lunatic in the workhouse ,St. Mary.lebons;
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, was said to have
become a lunatic in consequence of " disappointed lover
ArFOINTMENTS.—The Lord Chancellor has con-
ferred the living of Burstow, in the ArchdioCese Can-
terbury,ofilecl
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upon the Rev. 0. F. Owen, late incumbent of
St. Mary's, L eovi ;ace scatnehtra.
pofointhteedCtooutrhte
attache at Lisbon, proceeds, in the same rank, to the
British Embassy at Naples. Mr. F. 11, A. Forth is ap-
pointed Superintendent of Turk's Island. Lieutenant
George Bott, R.N., is appointed a stipendiary magiarat e
in' British G uiana.-o&erver. .
LLOYD'S Corksu-nousa.--,On 'Saturday naorninv,
about one o'clock, a dense volume of smoke was noticed
to issue from one of the upper rooms of Lloyd's e•
house, Royal Exchange. Not a moment was*liise]ie
arousing the fersons residing therein, and speedy info-
- was sent to the fire stations. Meanwhile several
persons had entered, and in one of the counting houses
the fire was discovered, having originated 'from some
ignited bond tinter under the fireplace. By dint of
great exertions for an hour, and caning sway by the
firemen, the alarm soon subsided, but not until some
damage to the building had resulted fromye prt igresi
of the fire.
MoNAnctr.—On the 15th i
OCEAN nstant we no-
ticed that her Majesty's Government had preiented
Captain Joaquim Marquis Lisboa; commanding the
Brazilian frigate Alfonso, with a gold chronorneter., %, a
have now the pleasure of further informing our readers
that the Lords Commissioners of the' Admiralty, wit.:
their usual promptness and zeal to reward exertions
made to rescue human life from the perils of the deer,
purchased a gold chronometer from 11. r. Dent, laid the
following is the inscription engraved on it
.by order of
their Lordships :---"Presented by the LOrdi of the Ad-
miralty to Captain Joaquim Marquis Lisboa;:etitnisand-
ing the Brazilian steam-frigate Alfonso, for thelaurnanitY
.and activity displayed by him in rescuing many Britisn
subjects from the burning wreck of the Ocean Monarch."
In' the four northern English .conntiei-r:Diirtuiro,
• Nor thug' ber,land,
_Cumberland, i, tinth,-,W.qttßrplAncl—
tiverb' ifie •ne feWer than 550 deaf and dumb, aide 600
blind persons. _ _
_,
....

CIIOLEitA.-It is satisfactory to be ritale to'state
that cholera has entirely disappeared froth' the 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 favonrahjv character.
Indeed, the diseasergerierally dot 6111Pl1mitsellif its
extent, butpuch mitigated in its severity. 'A goccePtieLl
of this& probably owing to the propitious state of the
04,ther, and the healthy condition of the atmosphere,
and Should in no degree cause precautiodary measures
to be Suspended- or neglected—for it is stillAriort re.
nuirkable that almost all the bad cases: have • .inn„,,,urred is
the dirtiest and worst provided localitiepf--06 .