The Sun.
London, England, 1834-08-08 00:00:00

TRADES' UNIONS.

It is known to the licensed victuallers of London, that for
some time past members of the Trades' Unions, and more
especially of•the Builders' Unions, have circulated reports cal-
culated to injure the trade of those victuallers who deal with
us, by asserting that we are the partners of Mesirs. Cubitts,
the builders, of Gray's Inn-lane-road ; and that we are the
supporters of those builders in their present contention with
their workmen. _ _

We have hitherto abstained from any public notice of these
reports ; but our silence having been construed into an ac-
knowledgment of their truth, and resolutions of some of the
Unions having been published, denouncing our presumed con-
duct as tyrannical and unjust, and calling upon all members of
the Unions to abstain from drinking our beer, and from deal-
ing with victuallers supplied by us, we are at length induced,
by the representations of those who have been injured, to
declare that these reports are, in every possible sense, utterly
false.

We are not, nor ever were, either as a firm or individually,
partners with Messrs. Cubitts. We have never had any other
connection with them than that of employers ; and we have
never, either directly or indirectly, interfered in the disputes
between them and their workmen.
COMBE, DELAFIELD, and CO.
Castle-street; Long-acre, London,
6th August, 1834.

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT
BASINGHALL-STREET, TO-MORROW.

(From the London Gazette) M. B.
J. and J. Kesteven, mercers, Strand 1 at 11
W. Vaughan, dealer, Covington-lerrace, Bermondsey

DISTRESSING AND FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE
aivEn.—Yesterday afternoon about half-past four o'clock, the
family of Mr. Whiltshire, the proprietor of the Steam-packet
Coffee-house, Lower Thames-street, was plunged. into the
deepest affliction by the occurrence of the following melan-
choly and lamentable accident :—lt appears that Mr. Whilt-
shire's premises open into the wharf of the Margate Steam
Company's Packet Office, and just as the Royal George
Margate steamer had come alongside the quay, Mr. Whilt-
shire's two sons, one eight years of age and the other three and
a half, slipped out unknown to their parents to see the passen-
gers land. Mrs. Whiltshire missed them in the space of a
minute or two, and feeling a presentiment of evil come over
her, immediately went to see after their safety,; she had
scarcely left her own house when she heard the cry a boy
overboard," and on rushing forward received the distressing
and afflicting intelligence that her youngest son had fallen
over the side of a barge and instantly disappeared. Mr.
Whiltshire was on the spot in a second or two, and greatly
exerted himself in endeavouring to get up the body of the
child : but all efforts were unavailing, as the tide was then
running down very strongly, and in the course of ten minutes
the body of the child must have been carried by the force of
the current at least a mile. Mrs. Whiltshire was in a state
of frantic distraction, and she was obliged to be restrained by
force faom throwing herself into the water after her child.
Several persons who witnessed the accident were affected even
to tears.