The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-11 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE

SHOW.
On Saturday this exhibition was again opened to the
public, and finally cl9v4 osiae o'clock, in the evening,
In the morning; sliortY after el ten o'clo6k, considerable
interest was created by the arrival at the bazaar of Prince
Edward of Saxe Weimar, in company with the ex-King
of the French, Louis Philippe, and his three sons, the
Prince de Joinville, the Duke de Nemours, and the Duke
d'Aumale. His Royal Highness and the members of the
ex-Royal Family of France, were received by Mr. B. T.
Brandreth Gibbs, the secretary of the club, Mr. Boul-
nois, and Mr. Collins, the manager of the bazaar, and
conducted through the spacious area. The French
Princes examined the beautiful Hereford ox, belonging
to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, which obtained in
the first class the first prize of 30/, and silver medal to
the breeder. They also expressed their interest in other
departments of the show, especially the specimens of
South-down ship and pigs, the latter appearing to afford
the party, particularly Louis Philippe, considerable
amusement.

The royal party having examined the various improve-
ments in the agricultural implements, and expressed
their astonishment at the extraordinary specimens of
agrcultural produce exhibited by Messrs. Gibbs, of Pic-
cadilly, Mr. Skirving of Liverpool, and other seedsmen,
proceeded to view the great cattle-piece painted by Mr.
Ward, R.A. It was explained to the party that this
work (the animals all being of the full size of life) had
been executed in competition with the renowned bull, by
Paul Potter, at the Hague, at the desire of the late Pre-
sident of the Royal Academy, Benjamin West. The
distinguished visitors expressed their admiration of the
work, and of the exhibition generally.
Amongst the other visitors noticed yesterday, were
observed the Duke of Richmond, Lord William Lennox
and the Ladies Lennox, the Marquis of Westminster,
the Duke of Bedford, the Marquis of Sligo, Earl of Lei-
cester, the Marquis of Exeter, Lord Portman, Sir Francis
Lawley, Major-General Wemyss, the Earl of Yarbo-
rough, the Earl of Chichester, the Earl of Aylesford, the
Earl of Hardwicke, Sir Thomas Wichcote, Sir Peter
Laurie, Colonel Sibthorp, M.P., the Hon. Colonel
Pennant, M.P., Colonel Challoners, &c. &c.

THE LATE ACCIDENT AT HULL.--AII inquest on
the persons drowned at Hull, by the upsetting of a ferry-
boat, was held on Friday. One of the witnesses, when
describing the accident, said—After I had got into the
, boat a great many parties came to cross over after me. I
wat the third in the boa*, The boat before we started
' was quite full, more so than the boatman wanted. The
boatman frequently said he could not carry any more,
and desired no one else to get in. All who were in the
boat worked at the Kingston Cotton Mills. I heard one
or two people say, if they did not go by that boat they
would lose a " quarter," by being too late. (The bell
of the factory to which they were going was ringing.)
The boatman got the boat off as soon as he could.
There were twenty-six or twenty-seven persons in, as
near as I can tall. There was no rope used in getting the
boat across on this occasion. The water was running
down very rapidly. I did not see a sloop next the
quay. The persons in the boat were very quarrelsome
when they got into the boat, and the boatman told them
frequently to be quiet. I don't think he is to blame at
all. He pushed her off, and when we got into the middle
of the stream the boat " heeled" over in consequence of
the pushing and quarrelling of the persons who were in.
If they had been quiet it would not have happened.
There were several people left on the shore who could
not get into the boat. It was very dark at the time. I
do not think any damage arose from the want of lights,
for we have crossed the ferry when it had been darker
than yesterday morning. I have also gone over with
more people in the boat than we had. lam sure if the
people had behaved themselves and kept quiet it would
not have happened. Sarah Wood had hold of my leg,
but I was obliged to push her off, or she would have
drowned me also. It is a good boat. Verdict—" Acci-
dentally drowned.",
DREADFUL MURDER NEAR EXETER.—During the
last few days Mr. Frederick Leigh, one of the coroners
for Devonshire, has been engaged in investigating the
circumstances connected with the death of Mrs. Grace
Holman, an old lady, aged eighty years, who was mur-
dered in her bed on the morning of Sunday last. The
deceased resided in a cottage, at a place called West-
water, Tedburn, St. Mary, near the town of Collumpton.
She resided by herself, but there is another cottage ad-
joining that in which the deceased lived, occupied by a
man and his wife, named Collons, and those are the only
two tenements for some distance. The deceased was seen
alive and in good health on Saturday evening last, but
on the following morning was found dead in her bed from
suffocation, the house having been stripped of every
moveable valuable article. There appears to be no
doubt that there were two persons engaged in the atro-
cious deed, Collon's door having been secured during the
night by the murderers, to prevent him from coming out
in case the old lady should have raised an alarm; this
was effected by inserting a gimblet in the door-post,
and running a rope through the latch, which rope was
securely fastened so as to prevent persons from coming
out. Ose of the persons then, by breaking a square of
glass, succeeded in opening a window, after which, it is
supposed, he came down and let his accomplice in. After
committing the murder, the assassins helped themselves
to all the plate, money, and wearing apparel which they
could find, and up to the present time no clue has been
obtained as to who the persons were. After some unim-
portant evidence the inquiry was adjourned.
A PRISONER SHOT IN AN ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE.
—ln the course of Friday afternoon, the court at the
Surrey Sessions received information that one of the pri-
soners confined in Brixton House of Correction had
attempted to escape, and in so doing was shot by the
governor. It appeared from what our reporter could
glean, that the prisoner had succeeded in climbing the
wall, when the governor was apprised of it. The latter
instantly proceeded to the place and discovered the pri-
soner creeping along the top of the wall. On his ap-
proach he threw down a heavy stone, which struck the
governor on the left hand, dislocating one of his fingers.
The latter was armed with a loaded blunderbuss,which
he fired at the man and shot him in the thigh, when he
was immediately captured, Two of the magistrates in-
stantly proceeded to the House of Correction to inves-
tigate the affair, the result of which is not yet known.
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STORM IN THE CHANNEL. The weather in the
Channel has been most tempestuous, and has nearly
stopped all intercourse with the Channel Islands. The
difficulty of getting in or out of Jersey, owing
to the
surrounding shoals and rocks, during the present bois-
terous weather, is very great. The Express mail
steamer, which ought to have arrived last Monday, did
not arrive at Southampton until Thursday. The
Courier, which left Southampton with the mail on
Monday, was obliged to put into Studland Bay until
Wednesday morning. She was met between Jersey and
Guernsey on Wednesday. There are now two mails due
from Jersey and Guernsey.