The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-03 00:00:00

THIS .DAI'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, Nov. 3.—Wind this day at noon, N ;
strong breeze, and cloudy.
CROOKHAVEN, Nov. 2.—Arrived—Fifth of May, from
Moulmein.
FALMOUTH, Nov. 2.—Arrived—Charles Jackson, from
Callao.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 2.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Queen
of the East, from Callao ; Amanda, from St. Domingo for
Antwerp.
SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 2.—Wind
Plata (steamer), for St. Thomas.
CARDIFF, Nov. 2.—Wind .E.—Sailed—Constitution,
for Singapore.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, WOdlleSday Morning.
Wind E.
Arrived—Balaklava, steamer, from Sheerness ; Valetta,
steamer, from Gibraltar ; Havre, steamer, from Havre ;
New Harmony, from Cardiff; Foyle, steamer, from Dub-
lin.
Sailed—La Plata, steamer, for St. Thomas ; Foyle,
steamer, for London ; Alliance, steamer, for Havre.
Wind, N.N.E. LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, Nov. 2.—Fanny Gann, from Denia; Sarah, from
Rotterdam.
Off.—Angelo B. Coutts, from Calcutta.

(w SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.

Calm ; tide three hours' flood, weather fine.
Arrived, Nov. 2.—Express, Hero, Welcome, and Moselle,
from Rotterdam Elizabeth, from Guernsey ; Inventor,
from Risa; Dorothea, from Cronstadt ; Union, from Ant-
werp ; Excelsior, from Bahia ; Antagonist, from Jersey ;
Hermorder, from Aarhuus ; Lord Rollo, from Stockholm ;
m Kingswarren, from Nakopg ; Hawk, from Cron stadt.
DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Wind E. by S., moderate.
Passed.—Mayards, and British Queen, from' Algoa Bay ;
Nida, from Alexandria—all for London.
Sailed,—Lincoln, for Montevideo; Frederick Maria, for

As may be supposed, the dreadful occurrence re-
corded in our columns yesterday, has thrown a
gloom over the whole town of Bradford and its
neigbourhood. It is the whole engrossing topic of
discourse, and the most anxious inquiries are ad-
dressed from one person to the other in all direc-
tions. Unfortunately, the facts we have already
given are not exaggerated. Indeed we have to
record the death of two more persons who have
been the victims of this melancholy accident, there
being in some cases three or four persons lying
dead in one house Hardaker, the vendor of the
fatal lozenges, is himself so ill, that his life is
despaired of, he having partaken of them. It is
stated that Neale, the confectioner, and Hodgson,
the druggist, are particular friends, and that God-
dard, the young man who has been the cause of
the calamity, has only been in the employ of the
latter a few weeks, having recently left school. On
information being conveyed to the police station on
Sunday morning of the sudden and unaccountable
deaths of two children, the chief constable, Mr.
Leveratt, caused the inquiries to be made which
led to the discovery of poison being contained in
the lozenges, as already detailed. In the mean-
time repert upon report of other deaths and increas-
ing sickness was given at the police-office, and
surgeons were everywhere in request, some of whom
at first felt inclined to think that the illness was
cholera, but soon it was ascertained, especially by Mr.
J. N. Terry, surgeon, who partook of a lozenge,
that it was full of arsenic, and that loz.of themwas
sufficient to cause the death of 12 persons. What
antidotes could then be applied were in all such
cases, where known in time, administered, and the
deaths of many persons averted. At the same
time, Mr. Leveratt ordered the night police, who
were going on duty at nine o'clock, to give warning
to all persons, in every street in their various beats,
who might havel purchased any of the poisonous
sweets, to give them to the police, or deliver them
up at the police station. Thirty-six pounds of them
were also found on the premises of the retail dealer,
Hardaker. Mr. Levcratt also took the judicious
precaution of sending two bellmen through all the
strezts sf the town, from eleven till five o'clock,
warning the inhabitants. A printer was also
aroused at midnight, in order to print a placard
cautioning the public, who might still possess such
lozenges, against using them, and pointing out
their already fatal effects. Thus every possible
precaution to check the progress of the poison-
plague was put in operation. Among those already
dead are two children of Mark Burrans, Jowett-
street, Buck-lane, aged two and six years; Joseph
Scott, Railway-street, aged 14 ; Elizabeth Wright,
Queen-street, aged 93 ; Joseph Crabtree, Jacob-
street, Manchester-road; three children, not named,
at Heaton Syke ; Mark Green, Low Mark, aged
18 ; Isaac Shackleton, East Ardsley ; Jonathan
Lupton Constantine, Tyersall, aged 69; Ann
Schutt, Leeds-road, &e. _

Later accounts state that two persons have died
at Cleckheaton, and that some from Halifax, who

purchased the poisoned materials, are also ill ; and
further accounts affirm that Mr. Henry Clarke,
of Bradford, when going to Queenhow, near
Thirsk, to see his parents, purchased a small
quantity which he gave to them, and, after his
return, he was immediately jammed that they had
been taken dangerously ill. Besides the number
now announced as dead, there are about eighty laid
up ill, many of them dangerously so, but the names
of whom we find it at present impossible to give
with accuracy, scattered as they are through the
borough and the surrounding district, as well as at
a greater distance.

ATTEMPTS TO UPSErRAILIFAY

TRAINS.

A returned convict, named William Ripley, a
labourer, living, at Brightside, was charged at the
Rotheram Court-house on Monday with attempting
to overturn a railway train. On the 13th of
October some of the rails near the junction of the
Blackburn Valley line with the Rotherham line
were taken up for repair. The prisoner was em-
ployed on the line, and his duty was simply to look
out for trains coming that way and exhibit a green
caution signal. At half-past five o'clock on that
day the work was completed, and the prisoner was
therefore no longer required to give the caution
signals. The guager, who had the management of
the plate-layers, sent the prisoner word that he
need not attend at night to give the signals, but
that he must be ready to resume his work as a
labourer on. the following morning. It was sup-
posed that, in order to provide himself with some
more watching, which was easy work, he had gone
up the line and laid an iron crowbar across it. The
prisoner went to the pointsman's box, which was
near the junction, about 20 minutes past six o'clock
on thenight of the 13th, and was then told that he
would not be required to give the signals any longer,
and that he must resume his ordinary work on
the following morning. He asked his informant
(the pointsman) who had given that order, and on
being told, he said he would light his lamp and go
to look at the place where the repairs had beebeenmade. He lighted his lamp and wont out immedi-
ately towards the place. At 6.26 a train from Shef-
field to Hasbro', and at 6.30 a train from Sheffield
to Rotterdam passed over the place. On a future
day it would be shown that ()they trains went over
the place without the slightest impediment. An-
other train, shortly afterwards, from Sheffield to
Dorchester, met with a severe impediment. The
train was shaken violently, and on an examination
it was found that a stout iron crow-bar had been
laid across the line. The bar had been cut in two,
and bent, and a piece of rail itself was broken.
When he got back to the box, the pointsman asked
him what he thought of the place, and he said,
" Oh, it's worse than it Ras last night." It would.
be proved before the case was completed that the
driver of one of the trains alluded to as having gone
over the place without impediment said to his com-
rade on passing the place, "How nicely the train
runs over this place." On being told of the affair
afterwards, the prisoner denied having been near
the place, and subsequently got out of the way to
avoid apprehension. The case was adjourned.
At the Uttoxeter petty sessions, on Thursday,
before Lord Waterpark, Joseph Capewell, of Frods-
well, was charged with feloniously putting an iron
railway chair on the rails of the North Stafford-
shire Railway, between Bromshall and Leigh sta-
tions, on the 22d ult., with intent to endanger the
safety. of persons travelling thereon. It was proved
by the driver of the express, which arrived at Ut-
toxeter at 8 p.m., that an obstruction was on the
line, and he gave information at Bromshall station,
which caused it to be removed before any damage
was done, although a train was then due. The
principal evidence against the prisoner was that he
was seen near the line about the time the obstruc-
tion wa's discovered, and the boots he wore exactly
correspontled with footmarks on the hill. He also
admitted to Inspector Crisp, when taken into cus-
tody, and he did it to try if the engine would throw
it off, as he had been told a man once put a piece of
iron on the line, and the engine threw it four or
five yards. Ho was 'committed for trial at the
next assizes. But for the timely and fortunate
discovery of the formidable obstacle, the conse-
quences might have been fearful. There is an em-
bankment and bridge at this part of the line several
eet high. The iron chair weighs 2511 g.