The Sun.
London, England, 1833-07-22 00:00:00

DEPLORABLE COACH ACCIDENT.

BRIGHTON, JULY 21.—The painful duty devolves
upon us to record a most calamitous accident which hap-
pened in this town on Thursday evening. The Quick-
silver, a coach recently started, leaves Brighton for the
metropolis every day at five o'clock, and the proprietors,
Mr. Hayllar and Mr. Alexander, profess to perform the
journey in five hours, but it not unfrequently happens that
the distance is accomplished considerably within that time.
On the day i❑ question it was agreed that Mr. J. Snow,
another coach proprietor, should drive the Quicksilver,
and at five o'clock he mounted the box. There were
❑ine outside passenger, besides Mr. Hayllar and a coach-
man named Strevens, who were seated in the dickey,
and four insides. The coach had not proceeded far
when the horses broke into a gallop, and Mr. Snow,
being unable to check their speed, the passengers
evinced much uneasiness, and at length the danger
becoming apparent, they called loudly for assistance.
Between the King's stables and the Gloucester Hotel there
are one or two sharp turnings, at one of which (in Glou-
cester-place) stood a tilted cart, which the horses shyed at
and drew the coach off the road, and the vehicle at the same
time giving a heavy lurch, it went fur some distance on
two wheels, till the horses made for the centre of the road,
when it upset. Nearly all the passengers were thrown
violently against the iron pallisades t-thich enclose the
North Steyne, and dreadfully bruised or mutilated. The
affrighted animals dragged the coach, which was very
much shattered, twenty or thirty yards, with three out of
the four passengers, a child having fallen from the win-
dow at the time the vehicle was falling, whose finger was
nearly torn off, and who was otherwise dreadfully bruised.
The other passengers were more or less injured. A
young lady, named Call, had her arm broken. But
we now come to the most melancholy part of our
task. A young man named Lyons, of the Jewish per-
suasion, about twenty-two years of age, whose friends are
paper stainers in High Holborn, was seated on the box
with the coachman, and when the coach upset was thrown
with great violence against the pallisades; his face coining
i❑ contact with the projecting part of the spikes presented
such a spectacle, part of his jaw being torn away, that
the heart sickened at the sight. This unfortunate young
man had also several of his ribs broken, and his arm
dreadfully fractured. He was conveyed to the King and
Queen in a hopeless state. A gentleman named Pear-
son, a Common-councilman, who resides in the
King's-road, had two ribs broken. Captain Hunter, an
outside passenger, was much bruised about the head, and
his thigh severely lacerated. He was conveyed to the Pa-
vilion Hotel, and he now lies in dreadful agony. The
coachman was also seriously injured, and he has ever since
been a great sufferer in his mind at the disastrous results.

There is a positive split among the Tory
clique. At their last meeting, at the house of their Great
Captain, previously to the debate on the Irish Church Tem-
poralities Bill, Sir Joseph Surface and the Noble Duke
himself absolutely refused to as•ist in forming any new
Administration, from a full conviction that the country
would not endure the change, even for " one little month."
The pious pone•by ex-Chancellor, and that sagacious and
renowned statesman, the Duke of NEWCASTLE, urged by
the exemplary and devout pamphleteering Bishop, deter-
mined, at all hazards, to divide the House on the second
reading. The ex-leader, however, said he should make a
speech, and afterwards withdraw, which he did. —Morn-
jug Chronicle.
THE CHOLERA AGAIN IN LONDON.—On
Saturday Mr. FELL, the chief clerk at Marylebone-office,
gave orders to all the officers belonging to the establish-
ment, by Messrs. Hosattis and RAWLINSON'S directions,
to keep the office continually cleaned out, as two cases of
cholera had, on Friday, broken out, one in the House of
Correction, and the other at Paddington.

•
At the Newton races, on Thursday last, an
accident of a most singular nature occurred ; two fine
horses, one the property of Mr. Evaxs, of Newton, and
the other of Mr. WINSLOE, of Exeter (the latter of which
was a winner at the Buckfastleigh races), in going at full
speed in opposite directions, encountered each other with
such force, that their skulls were fractured, and they were
both killed on the spot.—Bath Herald.

A correspondent informs us, that a few weeks
since, as a little boy, five years of age, was picking one of
the small claws of a crab, he found a small bone domino
imbedded amongst the meat, and without any appearance
of there having been a previous fracture in the claw.—
Newcastle Chronicle.

An insolvent debtor, of the name of WILLIAM
LONGSTAFF, bread baker, Durham, who intends to apply
for his discharge at the next sitting of 'the Commissioner,
states, in his schedule, that the cause of his insolvency
arose from the following facts, viz.:—" in having a large
family to support, and entertaining the primitive metho-
dist or ranter preachers."—Newcastle Chronicle.
FEMALE COURAGE.—At the Lancaster As-
sizes, JOHN WILDRAKE was charged with a burglary in
the cottage of SARAH NICIIOLSON, a widow, aged 75, at
Moore End, Thorne. The widow and her two daughters
were alarmed on the night of the 27th February, by
some person bursting in the front window. The courageous
females armed themselves with a hatchet, a bill-hook, and
a poker, and threatened wounds and bruises to every leg
and arm that attemped an entrance. The fellows threat-
ened dreadful vengeance, but they were only able to
snatch away a muslin cap and a table-cloth, with which
they made off. The evidence not being very conclusive
against the prisoner, be was discharged.
At the close of the Sittings at Gray's Inn
11411, last week, Lord LYNDHURST expressed a wish that
Baron VAtic HAN should go the circuit for him, as he
was anxious to dispose of the heavy arrear of causes in
the Equity department of the Exchequer. One of the
gentlemen at the Bar thanked his Lordship for his great
con.ideration of the case of the suitors. The speech of
the credulous Barrister afforded some amusement to the
Bar, %vim suspected that another consideration might have
fully as touch weight with the Noble and Learned Lord,
as a sympathy with the suitors, namely, that he might be
iu town in order to play a part in the political game that
is now going on. His Lordship has seldom been accused
of an over anxiety for suitors, either when Chancellor, or
as head of the Equity department of the Exchequer. But
no man has a finer nose for a political intrigue, or at-
' tends4nore carefully to the signs of the times.—llloriling
Chronicle.