The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-08 00:00:00

FEARFUL ACCIDENT AT NIAGARA.

A correspondent, writing from the Niagara Falls on the
24th ult., to the 3fanchc.Ytcr• Examiner, says :—A most
melancholy accident occurred on the Canada shore of
the Niagara river, in the vicinity of the Falls, at
about noon to-day. A party consisting of one
gentlemen and four ladies all belonging to
Providence, R. 1., stopped over hero while on their way
home from Buffalo, and after viewing the sights on this
side crossed over on the Canada side. While their
carriage was passing the curve opposite the precipice in
front of the Clifton House the horses became unmanage-
able, and, as it was evident they would go over the
bank, the driver and Mr. Tillinghast, the Provi-
dence gentleman, jumped off the seat and escaped with
Might injury, the horses and carriage, together with the
four ladies, went down the bank, however—a distance of
some fifty feet. Mrs. Mahala Smith, one of the party, was
horribly mangled and instantly killed, and Miss Mary Ann
Dalian waa so dangerously injured that she cannot possibly
recover. Mrs. Tillinghast and a Mrs. Fisher were badly
bruised, but their wounds are not dangerous.

The Leeds Mercury hears that the Morning Star
is about to be merged In the Daily Nors. The first num-
ber of the amalgamated journals will appear on Saturday
next.

Th© Liverpool Town Council on Wednesday decided
to go to Parliament to borrow £75,000, in order to complete
Stanley and Sefton Parke. It was stated that upwards of
£585,720 had been already expended upon them by the
Corporation.

The forty-seventh report of the Commissioners of
her Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues was
issued on Thursday. The total receipts in the year ending
March 81st, 1869, were .£541,026, and the payments
£510,430. The cash balance in hand is £124,686; balance
in stocks and Exchequer bills, £88,767.
At the Leeds Town Council, on Wednesday, a com-
munication was read from a company having its headquar-
ters in the metropolis, stating that they contemplate apply-
ing to ParliAment for power to construct tramways in Leeds
Manchester, and other towns, on tho same principle as is in
operation at Copenhagen and Brussels. The letter was re-
ferred to the Parliamentary committee.

A serious collision oceurred on Tuesday night in
the North Sea between the brig Agriculteur, of Nantes, and
the screw :steamer Black Diamond. Three men were in-
jured, and the Agriculteur received such damage that she
was obliged to make for Yarmouth. The Black Diamond
was able to resume her voyage.

John Brown, the farmer who was charged with
the murder of George Ashton at Skelmeredale, has been
'committed for trial. It will be rememLered that the farmer
was returning from the ceremonial of laying a chapel foun-
dation stone, and having taken too much drink declared he
would murder every one he found in the house on his re-
turn home. lie did in effect assail George Ashton and beat
Lim to death.

At a meeting of the committee of th e Liverpool policy-
holders in the Albert Insurance Company on Wednesday it
was resolved that, as no scheme could be devised binding=
non-assenting policyholders, and as no policyholder can
accept any compromise without the consent of the company
whose policy he bolds, it was advisable that all the com-
panies should bo wound up in one court and under one
liquidator.
At the meeting of the Manchester City Council
on Wednesday, attention was drawn to the complaints which
have been made respecting the alleged removal of boA
after burial, the burying of as many as sixty bodies in one
large hole at the cemetery, &c. ; and, while it was admittr d
that irregularities had taken \place, the complaints, it was
said, wore very much exaggerated. In order to prevent a
recurrence of the objectionable practices, the committee
have appointed a weekly visiting sub-committee.
The New York papers give full details of the
great gold fever in Wall-street, which they declared to be
unexampled in their monetary history. The excitement spread
to Washington, but in New York itself it is described as
Bedlam in the gold rcom. The amount of gold bought and
sold on Sept. 24 exceeded $500,C00,000, and Wall-street was
open all night from the conEequent trees of business. A
Government order to sell gold put a sudden stop to tho
speculation fever on the 25th.
A return was issued on Thursday showing, with
respect to each of the Parliamentary cities and boroughs in
England and Wales, the population in 1861; tho total num
her of electors ou the register now in force, distingu.o.l:ng
those entitled to vote as Louseholdors under the Represen-
-tation of the People Act, 1867, from those entitled to vote ae
£lO occupiers; and the number of electors who voted M the
last general election. 'no total number of electors on the
wegtotar wa1r.1,01170. Aucl %Ito AULUbOr Rho Tglog eMOLO,