The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-06 00:00:00

ACCIDENT.

A most,fearful accident occurred on the Blyth
and Tyne Railway at Flatworth, about two miles
and a half from Shields, shortly afte 1.2 o'clock on
in consequence of the wet morning the
Saturday.-
farmers m the neighbourhood had knocked off the
reapers at noon, and a party of women who had
been so employed
were returnin down the side of
the Blyth and
named Frances ThalYlliso el Railwayhad h
to their i r
grandson,e
sat
. homes
Percy Main. Among them was an old woman
Matthew Hails, a little paralysed boy 7 years of
age, with her. As they were coming down an in-
cline towards Flatworth, and when near to the
Dun Cow publichouse, the little boy suddenly ran
on to the line between the rails, and the poor old
grandmotherimmediately, observing the train from
Blyth and the pit districts of Hartley, with miners
and their wives proceeding to Newcastle market,
approaching, rushed to his rescue. She could not
lay hold of him in time, but she jumped before the
engine and pushed him from between the rails.
She sacrificed her own life in doing so. She was
immediately knocked down, and, the wheels of the
engine and carriage passing over her abdomen, she
was literally severed in two, the lower part of her
body being carried about 20 yards from where the
other was left. The train was speedily stopped,
and two medical men being in it they immediately
got out and assisted. The remains of the old woman
were gathered together, and inquiry was made for
the child, when it was found that she had sacrificed
her life in vain. The poor boy had been struck on
the head by the engine and was lying unconscious.
He was immediately removed to the Dun Cow and
attended to by Mr. Davidson and Mr. Wheldon,
surgeons, but those gentlemen entertain no hopes
of his recovery as he is suffering from a severe con-
cussion of the brain. The body of the old woman
has been taken to Percy Main to await a coroner's
inquest, but it cannot be alleged that the engine-
driver or the guard of the train were to blame,
as the occurrence was momentary, and they
had no time to stop the engine besides,
the train was running down an incline at
the time. Considering the immense coal traffic
on the Blyth and Tyne line, it is but poorly pro-
tected from trespass, and at the present time the
company is liable to penalties of £lO a day for neg-
lecting' to make bridges at the Percy Main and
Prospect-hill crossings within the proper time,
which the corporation of Tynemouth, as the Gene-
ral Board of Health have given notice they will
enforce.

[A.DVERTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.—
I, William Cole, of 12, IVood-street, Cheapside, hereby de-
clare that I have used Holloway's Ointment and Pills for
about a month for most violent pains in the chest and sto-
mach. These pains were supposed by the medical men of
Liverpool to indicate consumption. I was told that nothing
could be done for me, and that my case was hopeless. At
last I was obliged to quit the police force at Liverpool, and
come to London. I was admitted into St. Bartholomew's
Hospital. Even there I obtained no relief whatever, and
was ultimately persuaded by a friend to try Holloway's me-
dicines. These effected a perfect cure in four weeks.—Lon-
don, 31st July,
_lB5B, Such testimony as this needs no
comment,

IRELAND,

On Wednesday a special meeting of the General
Assembly was held in Belfast, to take into conside-
ration the refusal of General Peel to appoint the
two ministers nominated by the Assembly in Derry
to the post of chaplains to the army. The pro-
ceedings, which commenced at an early hour, did
not close until one o'clock a.m., and were then ad-
journed to the following morning. The delibera-
tions of the reverend body were not conducted with
the strictest decorum, and occasionally the flights
of language reminded one of the scenes enacted in
Conciliation-hall, when that memorable arena was
about to close its doors for ever. At the evening
sederunt of the Assembly, and when the speakers
might be fairly supposed to have been worn out by
the length of the sitting—.
" Dr. Cooke thought they should adjourn. He
could sit as late, and rise as early, as the whole
of the assembly put together—(laughter)--but he
thought they should look after their bodily and
mental health. He therefore moved the adjourn-
ment.

" Dr. Goudy said that this was virtually an
attempt to crush the question. He regretted
that there was occasion for his occupying
the invidious position which he was com-
pelled to stand in on this subject. He felt it to be

his duty to stand up for the honour, the indepen-
dence, and the liberty of the Church. (Applause.)
" Dr. Cooke said he would not allow Dr. Goudy
to stand up and say that he was the only person
prepared to assert the independence of the Church.
" Dr. Goudy—l stated that I would stand up for
the independence of the Church. Dr. Cooke has
already spoken a dozen times on this subject, and'
I'll not permit him to misrepresent me. (Confu-
sion.)
" Dr. Cooke—l'll not allow Dr. Goudy to Goudy
me here till morning. (Renewed confusion.)
"Dr. Goudy—l'll not allow Dr. Cooke to Cooke
me here day after day. (Laughter.) I stated that
I will stand up for theindependence and dignity of
the Church, but I did not say I stood up alone. I
am glad to hear, however, that Dr. Cooke is pre-
pared to stand up for the rights of the Presby-
terian Church. (Confusion.)
" Mr. Rogers insisted that the question should
be put to the vote, and that the roll should be
called.

" The roll was then called, when there appeared
—79 for going on with the business, and 69 for
adjournment.
" The Assembly then proceeded with the business.
" Dr. Cooke thought they should have a time
fixed for adjournment.
" Mr. Dill considered that Dr. Cooke should not
waste the time of the Assembly by this trifling.
" Dr. Wilson proposed that the Secretary-at-War
should have a copy of all the resolutions passed by
the Assembly on this question, for he believed the
private statements which the Secretary-at-War had
received led to the misrepresentations which had
taken place. The other resolution which he would
move was that the Government be informed that
the Derry resolution, appointing Dr. Goudy and
Mr. Rogers, was unanimously passed by the As-
sembly,
" Dr. Cooke—l say it was not passedunanimously.
" Dr. Wilson—l say, yes. (Confusion.)

" Dr. Cooke—l sat, no.
" Dr. Wilson—l say there was no member who
made any objection to that resolution. (" Hear,
hear." and cries of " No, no.")

",Dr. Cooke—l did.
" •
Dr. Wilson—l say no member attempted to
negative that resolUtion.
"Dr. Cooke—l did.
" Dr. Wilson—l deny it. (Renewed confusion.)
" Dr. Cooke---I assert it in your face that I did,
and I can prove it.
" Dr. Wilson—l appeal to the Assembly as evi-
dence that you did not.
" Dr. Cooke—l can produce living men to prove
in any court of law that I did.
" Dr. Wilson—Let the clerk produce the record,
and let us see if you did.

" The Clerk —1 am prepared to state, before this
house and before the world, that the resolution at
Derry was passed without the slightest opposition
—(applause)---and I was never before cognizant of
there being any opposition to it. (Applause.)
" Dr. Cooke—l can prove by ten living witnesses
that I objected to it. (Uproar.) I will not be put
down by. this. I would not depend upon my own
recollection ; but I can prove by ten living wit-
nesses that I most decidedly objected to the resolu-
tion, for upon no consideration could I ever approve
of it."

Dr. Wilson's resolution having been seconded,
another tempestuous discussion followed, e.g. :
" Mr. Richard Dill next addressed the assembly,
and mentioned that Dr. Cooke. had consented to
allow Mr. Rogers' name to be put on the list of
candidates at Derry.
" Dr. Cooke—l consented to no such thing.
" Several Members—You did.
" Dr. Cooke—l never did.
" Mr. Rogers—lt is very unpleasant for me to
interfere here ; but Dr. Cooke stated in the school-
room at Derry that he would permit my name to
be put at the top or bottom of the list, by way of
ornamentation ; and the assertion which he has

now made is worthy of the man who does not know

the difference betweenV memory and imagination.
(Applause.)
" Dr. Cooke—l am above the insult as I am above
the man who uttered it—(applause)—but if I am
to stand here to receive these insults I will remain
no longer a member of this meeting. (Hear, hear.)
" Mr. Rogers—l will never retract the truth. I
am prepared to stand over it. (Confusion.)
Finally, the motion of Dr. Wilson, informing
Gen. Peel that the nomination of Dr. Goudy and
Mr. Rogers was the unanimous nomination of the
Assembly, was then put to the vote. The motion of
Dr. Wilson was carried by a majority of 74
against 16. Dr. Cooke gave notice of protest for
himself and for all who would join him.

THE CARDINAL IN IRELAND.
Cardinal Wiseman continues to monopolise Irish
attention, and, according to the Freeman's Journal,
he has succeeded in one particular to the position
of the late Daniel O'Connell. "He is," says the
organ, " that unenviable individual on whom the
largest amount of vituperation is heaped, without
provoking in his acts the penalties with which he
is visited."
His Eminence left Dublin yesterday for Dun-
dalk, his movements being closely watched all
along by vigilant reporters, who duly chronicle
everything that occurs in his progress.
The article in the Times in reference to the
omission of the Queen's name at the Ballinasloe
Clerical Reunion has elicited the following apolo-
getic remarks by way of explanation, from the
Freeman's Journal of this morning :
" It was a meeting of ecclesiastics to honour a
distinguished member of their church. A few lay-
men were present, but that trifling ingredient did
not alter the nature of the meeting, or invest it
with a public character. At private meetings it is
not usual to propose the Queen's health, nor is
such a mark of respect ever expected. Nothing was
done to exalt any personage or potentate above the
Queen or the Government of England. But if the
hosts of the Cardinal at Ballinasloe erred, much
more did the Cardinal himself ! He spoke, it
seems, of the Catholics of England and Ireland as
subjects of the same Sovereign, but still more
closely allied' as members of the same church. Why,
what is there objectionable in such a statement ?
Which is the closer bond of union, the temporal or
the spiritual ? The world knows there are such
bonds, and, if they once clashed in Ireland, the
time of conflict has long passed into the twi-
light of tradition."
THE DUBLIN POLICE FORCE.

- -
Saunders' of this day says :—" A paragraph
having appeared in this paper, which has been
copied into others, that Colonel Browne, Commis-
sioner of the Metropolitan Police, had resigned,
without any explanation, we are authorised to state
that Colonel Browne applied to Government to
recommend him to the Treasury to be allowed to
retire upon his full salary, on the grounds of length
of service, and his having arrived at the age of 68
years. The Treasury having acceded to this,
Colonel Browne will retire as soon as the necessary
forms are gone through, and will be succeeded by
Colonel Lake, C. 8., aide-de-camp to the Queen, an
officer of great experience, and highly distinguished
at the defence of Kars against the Russians, and on
other occasions. Colonel Attwell Lake, C. 8., aide-
de-camp to the Queen, who has been appointed to
succeed Colonel Browne as Commissioner of the
Dublin Metropolitan Police, is associated with one
of the most heroic and gallant events of the late
war—the defence of Kars. Colonel Lake's appoint-
ment is deservedly popular, and is as creditable to
the Government as it is likely to prove satisfactory
to the public ; he brings with him the reputation
of being a high-minded and courteous gentleman
as well as a tried and skilful soldier, and is reported
to be in every way qualified for the important
office which, in just appreciation of past services,
has been worthily conferred on him."
To. COR3IACKS.
The just strictures of nearly the whole of the
London press upon the recent disgraceful exhibi-
tion at Nenagh have found an echo in a respectable
Roman Catholic journal. Honestly ashamed of the
whole proceedings' tHe Cork Reporter writes :
" A meeting has been held at Nenagh, for which
we are ashamed. The sentiments enunciated were
violent, extreme, and unwarranted to the extent of
being actionable. We do not at all mean to enter
into a discussiini *of the trial, which was managed
in the usual fashion. There was, as usual, a pre-
liminary investigation before magistratds. A grand
jury found the bills. A Crown prosecutor, without

any earthly object, performed the case. A jury of
12 men found that the facts were proved. A judge,
who had nothing to say to the finding of the facts,
directed the law. A conviction being announced,
he sentenced the prisoners, who had seven weeks
to refer to the Court of Criminal Appeal if
they had any cause of complaint. The mode of
pressing their claims upon the reprieving preroga-
tive of the Crown was open to them. Probably
the ablest advocate of the bar in such cases, Mr.
Rollestone, was retained, and pleaded for them.
Now, a public meeting of some 10,000 of Tipperary
men has been held to express sentiments of the
rankest dissent from this result of an open trial.
We regret to say that in that county where, even
by the evidence adduced upon the trial, it was
apparent that the murder-of landlords was reduced
to a faultless idiosyncrasy in popular belief, many
priests sanctioned the assemblage, not alone with
their presence, but with their spoken assent. Un-
doubtedly, paid assassins can be procured there to
work the will of any person murderously inclined.
A long series of outrages can attest it, and one of
the Crown witnesses avowed it. In the face of
such incontestible truths we refrain from publish-
ing what some of the speakers were not ashamed
to advocate—the moral rectitude of taking the law
into their own murderous hands. It is with deep
regret that we advert to such a matter even inci-
dentally, but it is impossible to pass that which
has been so carefully emblazoned. We coincide
with the expression of the Dublin Evening Mail,
with which we seldom agree, that the Government
r should not pass over this case, but visit it with
punishment both exemplary and decisive, both, in
the case of the speakers and the chairman, who,
holding an official position, still warranted with
his presence the rabid abuse which was heaped
upon the administration of criminal law in
this country without a shadow of reason. The
notion of placing blame at the door of the judge
who tried the case .when, if any objection could be
raised, it could only be attributable to the learned
counsel who was retained for the defence, is quite
absurd. If Mr Justice Keogh were faulty in his
rendering of the law the Court of Appeal was open,
and he left abundant time that such correction
might be availed of. If the jury were so depraved
as to murder two men by a perjured verdict, yet
the right of applying to the Lord-Lieutenant re-
mained. It seems to us most unjust, unconscien-
tious, and cruel that such an occasion should be
used to satisfy party feeling against a judge em-
ployed in a case where life or death was in the
issue. As we have said, we turned to this subject
with much and serious dislike, and we now leave it
with a hope that such a lunatic exhibition of
popular rancour will never again appear in Ire-
land."