The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-18 00:00:00

T HAMES.

SERIOUS BURGLARY AND ROBBERY.—John Rowe, a
young man in the garb of a labourer, was brought before
Mr. Paget, charged with. feloniously and burglariously
breaking into the shop of Mr. Goorge Mutable, tailor,
draper, and outfitter, in Dock-street, Whitechapel, oppo-
site the new wing of the Sailors' Home, and stealing there-
from cloth, a suit of men's clot*, and other property
valued at £7.

Mrs. Ann Huxtable, the wife of the prosecutor, said she
went to bed at half-past 10 o'clock last night, and the house
was then fastened up and secured in the usual manner.
At half-past 2 o'clock this morning she was aroused from
her sleep by a frightful smash, and it seemed. as if the
whole house was coming down. Her husband got out of
bed and she followed him. Upon entering ,the shop
she found a shutter down, and the window', 'fl of
plate glass, smashed in, and all the clothes made up
and the cloth within react' taken away., Shs went up
stairs and saw the Trisoner in a court, the entrance of
which was by the side of the house, and he was peeping
round 'the corner. She gave information to the police
constable on the boat, and the prisoner was taken into
custody. _ •

John Burke, a police constable, No. 49 11, said he heard
the cries of "Police," and found a shutter down, and a
sheet of plate glass broken in the shop of Mr. Huxtable.
He was directed to the court behind the house, where the
prisoner was peeping round the corner. He took him into
custody. He found a pieco of board, painted of a light
blue colour, near the prisoner, and now produced it.
_ _ _ _

Mrs. Huxtable identified the board.. It was used for
propping up the cloth in the shop window. It had been
taken with a piece of cloth from the window board.
Burke produced a piece of the plate glass which the
burglars had smashed. It was of great thickness, and no-
thing but a very heavy blow could have broken it. Mr.
Iluxtable's house led to a labyrinth of courts and alleys
leading out of the place called Royal Mint-street, but
which was better known as Rosemary-lane. There was
no doubt the prisoner's confederate escaped among the
courts and alleys, which were full of thieves and other bad
characters.

The prisoner said he was innocent. He had nothing to
do with the burglary and robbery.
Mr. Paget remanded the prisoner for a week.

Fatal Collision on the North London
Railway.

Last eTening, shortly after six o'clock, a fearful collision,
involving loss of life and serious destruction of property,
took place on the North London Railway, near the new
station at Old Ford, Bow. On the west side of the line,
between the station and the Old Ford entrance to Victoria-
park, Messrs. Waring Brothers, the contractors for the
Midland Railway, now in course of construction-in St.
Pancras, have large works for brickrnaking. There is a
siding from the main line into the bricktield, where the
bricks are loaded, and it appears that about six o'clock last
evening an engine and some waggons were let into the
siding from the down main line. It would seem that
the signalman made the fatal omission of not closing the
points, and shortly afterwards a heavy goods train from
Hr.ydon-square goods depot for Camden came rattling in
at a pace of about 20 miles an hour. On reaching the points
the engine suddenly left its course on the m►in line, and
with the heavily-loaded train of waggons behind it dashed
into the sidi g, and came in fearful collision with the trucks
which were standing still and in course of being loaded
with bricks. The crash is described to Lave' been some-
thing awful, and several of the trucks were hurled on one
side and almost shivered to atoms, while others were
thrown over on each other. The goods engines left the
rails, and went on the ballast for some distance, but fortu-
nately it kept an upright position. It is what is called a tank
engine; the tank being first somewhat protected the more
sensitive part of the locomotive from the violence of the
shock. Several of the goods waggons were smashed up on
one side of the line, and, as may be supposed, there was
a serious loss of property. As soon as practicable, a
search was made, with a view of ascertaining whether any
of the work-people had perished. A labourer, named
Thomas Meade, who had been only taken on that-morning,
was known to have been engaged in loading one of the
trucks, and after a brief examination his mutilated remains
were found almost buried in the ballast, under the
goods engine. The poor creature had evidently been
dragged some distance, and his head was stated
to have been almost crushed flat. Another
workman named Frost was also found to have sustained
serious injury on the head and other parts of his body. He
was removed to the London Bospital, where he lies in a
precarious way. The driver and fireman of the goods en-
gine, who kept to their posts, were also hurt., As a por-
tion of the broken-up goods train blocked the down line,
the station master at Old Ford took the most prompt steps
to warn approaching trains, and on the first excitement
somewhat subsiding measures were immediately taken to
protect the road. Mr. Garman, the surgeon of Fairfield-
road, Bow, and Mr. Gull, of Bow-road, were soon in
attendance upon the wounded sufferers, and Mr. Kerrissey,
the inspector of the Bow (K) police, and a large body of
his force were promptly on the spot, and rendered valuable
service in keeping back the great crowd which had col-
lected.

How the signalman came to neglect the points has not
transpired. lie, however, has been suspended to await
the result of the coroner's inquest.

During the night labourers were engaged in getting the
engine on the rails, and clearing away the wreck of the
shattered trucks. Had it been a passenger train that ran
into the siding the consequences must have been awful to
contemplate.
The usual information of the occurrence has been sent
to the Board of Trade.

MARKETS.--This day.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.

The supply of beasts on sale here to-day was very mo-
derate. Nearly all breeds changed hands steadily at Mon-
day's advance iu the quotations. The top figure was 5s 4d
per 81bs. We were fairly supplied with sheep, for which
the inquiry ruled steady at extreme rates. The best
Downs and crosses sold at 58 2d per Blbs. There was a
fair sale for lambs at from 5s 8d to 6s 8d per 81bs. The
supply was tolerably good. A fair business was doing in
calves at previous rates, viz., from 4s to 5s 6d per 81bs.
The sale for pigs and mulch cows was heavy at, unaltered
quotations.