The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-12 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

Master Frederick J. Gruzelier (1840), to the
Grecian, 12, sloop, at Devonport.
A ssistant- Surgeons —Ed wardW. Pritchard (1840),
to the Dido, 18, at Sheerness, under orders for the
Pacific station ; and Edward Pearce (1847), to the
Modeste, 18, sloop, at Sheerness.
Acting Assistant-Surgeon—Owen J. Llewellyn
(1851), to the Rattler steam-sloop, at Woolwich.

FLAX CULTIVATION.—Mr. Warnes, of Triming-
ham and Bolwich Hall, has this year grown a much larger
quantity of flax than upon any previous year, the quantity
sown being fifty acres. The crop is the finest that he has
yet succeeded in producing ; and the whole of it was pulled,
stooked, ricked, and stacked in fourteen days. Upon the
occasion of the flax harvest-home one hundred and fifty of
the poor people employed partook of a substantial dinner of
old English fare, in ono of the large barns. A large number
of hands are already employed in threshing the seed, and in
steeping and preparing the stalks for scutching in the winter
and Mr. Warnes calculates that in a short time, populous as
is the district in which his new property is situated, it will
be as comparatively free from pauperism as Trimingham,
the small village in which his first laudable and praiseworthy
efforts to afford extended employment by the cultivation and
preparation of flax were made. It may be remembered that
about this time last year we dispatched a special correspon-
dent to Trimingham, to furnish us with accounts of the pro-
cess and mode of managing the flax adopted by Mr. Warnes,
and of the social condition of the inhabitants of the village.
These accounts were in the highest degree satisfactory, and
we are exceedingly glad to find that the good example set
by Mr. Warnes, and our endeavours to draw attention to it,
have had the effect of leading to a much larger quantity
of flax being grown in this country than in any preceding
year.—Ch onicle.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES
RAILWAY.—B ROXBO URN le HE RTS, TII URSDAY. —A lamen-
table accident, terminating fatally, happened last night at the
Broxbourne station of the Eastern Counties Railway, to a
passenger named James Grass, stated to be a tavern keeper
at Brandon, in Suffolk. The facts, as furnished us, would
show that the unfortunate occurrence was entirely owing to
the imprudence of tfie deceased. It scenic that he was a pas-
senger by the Norwich up-train, which reaches here at 9.20,
and wishing to alight at Lea-bridge, where that train did
not stop, he got out for the purpose of taking his seat in
the last up Hertford train, which called at the station at
which he desired to stop, and which, as usual, had been
shunted into a siding, in order to allow the Norwich train to
pass on. On leaving the train, he suddenly.stepped behind
the screen of the up-platform, unperceived apparently by the
officers, for a certain purpose, although the ordinary place
was in full vie% only a few paces distant. On the Norwich
train leaving, the Hertford train proceeded to shunt out of
the side, and in doing so caught the unfortunate man and
squeezed him fearfully against the platform. He was extri-
cated with all despatch, and proving to be alive he was con-
veyed by the train to Lea-bridge, and then removed to the
were too
frightful ai
medical
house of souse friends at IN.althanistov.Early
was rendered him, but his internal injuries
for him to recover, and in an hour or so lie expired. His
body awaits an inquest. There does not seem to be any
blame attributable to the company.
Lieutenant Pritchard, It.N., is appointed to the
Coast-guard Service in Sligo district, vacant by the death of
Lieutenant Hamilton, R.N., killed by a fall from his horse.
The eldest son of Lieutenant Hamilton is appointed to a
Lieltitelaairy the Rtyeaut