The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING. JANUARY 3, 180.

CRIMINAL COURT.—(Tlirs DAY)

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(THIS DAY,)

OLD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
CUTTING AND WOUNDING

The half-yearly meeting of the London Dock Company
was held to-day—JOHN CATTLE; Esq., in the chair.
The report was very satisfactory as to the increase of
shipping and goods warehoused, but the revenue had not
improved in proportion. This was accounted for by the
great reduction made in the charges with a view to meet the
competition.now existing. The directors proposed a divi-
dend of £1 10s. per cent. fur the half-year, which would
leave a balance in favour of the company of £143,609
16s. Bd. Some discussion is now (two o'clock) taking
place, on the report, the question of appointing auditors of
the accounts occupying the attention of the proprietors.

William Jones, 19, was charged with feloniously cutting
and wounding a man named Williams, one of the warders
of the House of Correction, with intent to murder him.
The prisoner pleaded guilty to the indictment.
The Recorder—Do you know you are charged with
murder ? _ _ _

Prisoner—l know that very well, and I intended to do it.
Sentence of death was recorded.

Michael Key.; also pleaded guilty to an indictment
charging him with unlawfully \ oundiug a warder in the
Rouse of Correction, named Hughes.
The Recorder sentenced him to six years' penal ser-
vitude.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-(TBIS DAY.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A WORTHLESS WrrE.—Johannah Hannah 801 l was
charged before Mr. Beadon with creating a disturbance at
the house of her husband, Mr. Ebenezer 8011, of Grafton-
street, Fitzroy-square.

The husband, a respectable-looking young man, said the
prisoner was his wife, and that she was separated from him
in consequence of her dissipated habits. Ou the previous
night she came to his house drunk, so drunk, indeed, that
she could scarcely speak. He requested her to leave, but
she refused to do so, and on his return with a constable
she made an attack on him, and he gave her into custody.
He allowed her 10s. a week for a maintenance, and paid her
rent, as., which he considered a very liberal allowance; but
he thought it very hard that that which he allowed her, and
which would keep her comfortably, should all be spent in
drink. She was always drunk, and had been charged at
Bow-street.

Mr. Beadon said the allowance was very handsome.
The husband said he had set her up in business, had to
pay for property she had destroyed, and he thought she
was mad.

Mr. Beadon said no doubt she was when she had the
drink in her. She accepted the alternative her husband
made her—a very handsome one-15s. a week, and then
went and kicked up a row and annoyed her husband. He
should order her to find one security in £lO to keep the
peace for three mouths.
SHOPLIFTING.—Ann Taylor was charged with shoplift-
ing at the shop of Mr. Charles Shute, stay-maker, &c ,
9, Tottonham-court-road.

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Mrs. Jane Elliott, assistant to the prosecutor, said that
at a quarter bofpre ten the prisoner came in and asked the
price of a skirt. She told her it was 145., and the prisoner
remarking that it was too dear, left, and as she was
doing so she thought she saw the skirt produced .move
from the door, where it was hanging ; and on
going to the door, a man, pointing to the pri-
soner, said, " That's the woman." Shs then followed
the prisoner, who went into a public-house at the corner of
Hanway-street, and taxed her with stealing one of their
shirts. The prisoner, after denying it, threw the shirt on
the ground, and then made her escape out of the other
door, there being one in Hallway-street and another in
Tottenham-court-road, but she was stopped by the conduc-
tor of one of the Highgate omnibuses, and secured till Mr.
Shute, the prosecutor, gave her into custody.
Mr. Beadon said it was a determined case of shoplifting,
and committed her fur four months with hard labour.

0,1, BOCK COMPANY MEETING. TREATY BETWEEN MEXICO AND MEI FEARFUL COLLISION ON TBE

UNITED STATES

The treaty between the Juarez Government of
Mexico and the United btates has been at length
concluded. A great step has thus been made by the
Government of the United States. Mexico becomes
the highway for Oriental and North American trade.
Both the contracting parties will derive political
and commercial interest, either present or prospec-
tive, from the bargain they have struck. In truth,
Juarez appears to have catered for himself at least
as well as Mr. Buchanan. The United States
claimed a right of transit through the 114texican ter-
ritory; Mexico has conceded this right; and tholgh
this show of territorial abnegation on the part ,of
Mexico in reality consults the interests of the Juarez
party as much as of the Americans, Juarez con-
trives to demand and obtain the sum of 4,000,000
dollars in exchange. Of this one-half is told off in
liquidation of old American claims, while the other
half is . paid down by America to Mexico in hai d
cash. By the pecuniary part alone of this proceed-
ing, therefore, Juarez at once fills his pockets with
2,000,000 dollars, and pays off importunate bond-
holders in a similar sum. But the fact is, that
while the treaty is thus one of territorial surrender
on the part of Mexico, and thus elicits a pecuniary
compensation from the United States, the Juarez
Government gains certain political advantages in-
dependently of the monetary equivalent for the sur-
render of the right of transit to America. These poli-
tical advantages arc of two kisds—first, as affecting
foreign intervention, which appears to be required
for tie final termination of the civil war ; secondly
in regard to the position of Mexico as the highway
of Atlantic and Pacific trade. In the first place,
then, by the terms of this treaty two lines of transit
across the Tehuantepec isthmus are marked out for
the United States. The one route runs from Rio
Grande. to Mazatlan, while the other, at a slight
difference of latitude, runs in a parallel direction.
Either of these routes, of course, commands the At-
lantic at one extremity, and the Pacific at the other.
Both are equally established as neutral ground—
neither exclusively Mexican nor exclusively Ame-
rican—and are to be protected by both Govern-
ments alike. Now America, having elicited this
privilege from Mexico, obtains also the right of
enforcing freedom of passage against all obstacles
and by her own military troops. While the
Government of the United States has done this it
has also provided in distinct terms for the right of
transporting not only commerce, " but troops,
stores, and munitions of war." In the present
distracted state of Mexico we must acknowledge
that without such a stipulation the present treaty
would never have worked. But the advantage to
the Juarez Government of Mexico is that they
in reality introduce the United States as their
allies against the Miramon party; in any passage
of arms in which that, rival party may contest the
possession of the south of Mexico. According to
recent intelligence, Miramon had found it neces-
sary to project an attack on the quarters of the
Juarez party between Vera Cruz and Tehuantepec,
and thus to carry the war southward. All this, it
will be seen at a glance, is rendered more difficult if
not immediately arrested by the new arrangement.
Two parallel lines are now drawn, which Miramon
cannot cross without putting, himself to the ban of
the Government of the United States. That Go-
vernment, so far as this double line is concerned,
henceforth is practically joint sovereign of the soil
with the Vera Cruz Government of Mexico, led by
Juarez. If, therefore, Mirarnon's forces cross either
line in order to assail Juarez, they lay themselves
open to immediate hostilities with the United
States. This latter contingency is what of all
things the Juarez party would desire, for the civil
war would then be terminated in six weeks, and
the Juarez Government would probably be left by
America uncontested masters of the territory. But
supposing, on the other hand, that Miramon does
not make this perilous attempt, it seems probable
that the Juarez Government will still be fortified in

EABTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.

A very serious collision, involving injury to a
large number of passengers and the loss of con-
siderable property, took place on Sunday evening
near the Tilbury Junction of the Colchester section
of the Eastern Counties Railway. The junction is
about half a mile on the Ilford side of the Forest-
gate station, and connects the Tilbury branch with
the Colchester line of the Eastern Counties. It is
protected by the usual semaphore and disc signals.
Since the opening of the Bow and Barking
branch the passengers from Tilbury for Bishops-
gate have to alight at Barking and take a fresh
train. This was the case with the train which left
Tilbury at 6 30 on Sunday evening and was due
at Barking at 7 10. It was rather behind its time,
which necessarily made the train for Bishopsgste
late in leaving. It proceed( d at its usual
rate on to the junction, when a train wilieh
proved to be the Norwich and Colchester, sled
due in London at 7f50, was heard coming up.
The Tilbury train kept on its course round the junc-
tion, and the foremost carriages had passed On to
the main Colchester line when the engine attached
to the Norwich train struck in a slanting direction
the side of the last of the Tilbury carriages. 'rho t
shock is described to have been of a most frightful
character. Most providentially there was not a soul
in the last carriage. It was literally shivered to
atoms. The next carriage, which was full of pas-
sengers, was thrown off the metals and dragged
sideways along the permanent way until it came in
contact with a telegraph post, which snapped the
coupling, and it turned over on to the embankment.
The remainder of the Tilbury train escaped injury.
It had acquired considerable speed, but for which
it is almost impossible to conjecture the extent of
mischief that would have followed. The engine of
the Norwich train, after coming into collision with
the Tilbury carriage, sprung round and shot across
the permanent way over the down line of rails,
and partly buried itself in the opposite embank-
ment, the driver and stoker holding on. The tender
got disconnected from the engine, and was thrown
across the permanent way, and the break van,
which was next to the tender, was thrown off the
rails, and was hurled along to the abutment of the
bridge, where it was turned up on its end and.
crashed in a second-class carriage, which was next
to it. The passengers in this train describe the con-
cussion to have been most severe. Many of them
were much bruised and shaken ; indeed, the whole
of them, we were informed, were more or less hurt.
The crash was heard a mile from the spot, and the
scene was alarming. It was a considerable period
before the full extent of the mischief could be
gleaned. After a brief examination of the wreck
and the injured passengers, the guards took im-
mediate steps to prevent the approach or the up
and down trains, and to obtain all the medical aid
the neighbourhood could afford. The whole of the
passengers alighted, and took up a position on the
embankment, the darkness and severity of the
night and the wind blowing hard with rain adding
much to their discomfort and alarm. It is stated
that direct means were taken to communi-
cate with the officials at the Stratford Station,
in order to obtain the speedy removal of the pas-
sengers from the scene of the accident. The autho-
rities assert that a special train was despatched to
the spot in three-quarters of an hour after being
apprised of the collision, but the passengers declared
that, after waiting a much longer period than that,
and not obtaining any satisfactory information from
the guard as to when assistance would be afforded
them, a large portion made their way over ploughed
fields and hedges on to Stratford, where they got
medical relief. Owing to the state of the road the
Norwich train could not be sent through. The
passengers w ere subsequently transferred to a special
train and brought on to town.
On inquiring at the Bishopsgate station we were
informed that the directors intend to investigate
the circumstances attending the accident in the
course of the day, when it will be decided as to
what steps shall be taken. From what has trans-
pired it would appear that the accident resulted
from some omission on the part of the company's
servants. There are signals at the junction, and
we understand that the signalman put on the danger
signal to stop the Tilbury train coming through the
junction, and signalled the Norwich and Colchester
to come on. It is but just to remark that the
banks of the cuttings precluded the drivers seeing
the approach of each other's trains until they had
arrived within a few yards of the points. Both
trains were travelling at the allowed speed, and
the driver of the Tilbury asserts, it is said, that the
danger signal was not put on until he was close on
to the points, and perceiving his danger, the Nor-
wich train being close up to him, he put on full
speed in the hope of getting his train clear of the
junction before the Norwich train came up. The
latter, also, seeing the Tilbury train crossing on to
the up-line, immediately shut off the steam and
applied the breaks, but the next moment or so the
collision took place. The company have been
applied to for a list of the injured passengers, bat
it appears as yet no returns have been mae. The
usual information of the accident has been forwarded.
to the Railway Department of the Board of Trade,
preparatory to a Government inspector being ap-
pointed to investigate the matter.

its present possessions to the south of the lines of
transit, and that it will really; be established as a
permanent and stable government, inasmuch as its
rival will be unable to attack it.
The commercial effect of this treaty will, we
trust, be to effect in some degree what Humboldt
long ago expected to see accomplished by a mas-
ter-work of engineering. The bisection of the
Isthmus of Panama is a project now pretty well
abandoned. But America may thus in a measure
hold the keys of two oceans. The visionary North-
west Passage has now finally been abandoned,
though it had been the dream of England since the
days of Elizabeth ; and the passage from Boston
or New York to the Pacific, by way of Cape Horn,
involves :an immense detour. The Southern
States of the Union from the fertile bank 3 of the
Mississippi may send their produco across
the Gulf of Mexico to the harbours of the
isthmus of Tehuantepec in a couple of days ; and a
land journey of 100 miles will bring them to the
coast of the Pacific. From this common centre Ame-
rican trade will branch out in three directions. To

the north it will be contiguous to California and
Vancouver's Island ; to the south it will communi-
cate with Lima and Peru ; and farther to the west,
across the Pacific, it will talcs a direct route to
Chins, India, Java, and the Eastern Archipelago.
Nor can Southern Mexico fail to participate in these
advantages, as being the axis, as it were, on which
all this commerce must turn.—Daily News.

REWARDS FOR SAYING LIFE AT SEA.