The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, St MEMBER, 11, 1867.

NOTICE.

Great Indian Peninsular Railway Company in December
is at the rate of 6 percent. per annum, which, with the
guaranteed interest of 5 per cent. in the first half, will
make 51 per cent. for the year. _

C. F. HANCOCK, SON, & CO.,

JEWELLERS AND SILVERSMITHS TO THE QUEEN ArD

The Board of trade returns for Juno indicate the con-
tinuance of a steady export business, the declared value of
our shipments having been .£15,562,430 or 4 per cent., in
excess of those of the corresponding month of last year,
and 10 per cent. above those of July, 1865. The total
value of our exportations during the first seven months of
the present year has been .C 103,175,914, being a decrease
of 4} per cent. compared with the first seven months of
1866, and an increase of 17 per cent. on the corresponding
period of 1865.—Westminstcr Gazette.

PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES,

And by Special Appointment to the principal Sovereigns

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and Courts of Europe,
Beg respectfully to state that their only Address is
33 & 39, BRUTON-STREET,
CORNER OF BOND-STREET.

AWARDED TO C. F. HANCOCK :
Great Exhibition, 1851—Council Medal for Originality and
Taste. Paris Exhibition,lBss—Gold Medaille d'Honneur.
International Exhibition, 1862—Prize Medal, for great
Excellence of Design and Manufacture.

RAILWAY IN7ELLIGENCE.

OTTOMAN (SMYRNA TO AIDIN).

The report of the directors of this company states
that on the 28th of September, 1866, they announced
to the shareholders the completion of the railway
from Smyrna to Aidin. On the 29th of March last
they reported a final convention with the Govern-
ment for a guarantee of £112,000 a year, commenc-
ing on the Ist of July, 1866, when the railway was
opened throughout for traffic. A few shareholders
having some time in March last addressed a
memorial to the Ottoman Government, a copy of
which had never been furnished to the directors,
they regretted to state that in consequence the
examination of the several accounts sent in was
suspended by order of the Government. The direc-
tors considered that they ought to express their
strong disapproval of proceedings so unusual and
prejudicial; and in that they hoped they would
meet with-the full concurrence of the shareholders
generally, whose interests had thereby been jeo-
pardised. The directors also remarked that the ap-
pointment of the committee of inquiry in March
having delayed the passing of the half- year's ac-
counts to Dec. 31, 1866, until July 15, at which
dat the report and accounts were unanimously
adopted, no receipts under the guarantee above
stated could be reported on the present occasion.
Since the failure of the company to meet the prin-
cipal of the first debentures, due in May, 1866, the
directors had given unceasing attention to the best
means of providing for the same, and the interest
accruing as well as for the interest and sinking fund
of the second issue and for the general liabilities,
which had resulted in certain heads of agreement
adopted unanimously by a general meeting of share
and debenture holders on the 15th July last. The
traffic for the past half-year showed an increase in
the receipts of £2,575 over the corresponding half
of 1866, but owing to the heavy cost of maintenance
and to £2,950 brought forward, there was a loss of
£5,011 on the working. From. the Ist July last the
£697 in 1866, and every
returnsil263 per hadw e
ek
againstconsiderably improved, averaging
effort wax directed to develope to the utmost the
carrying resources of the railway. To render the
arrangements effective, it was of importance that
the arrears of the guarantee should be paid without
further delay, and the directors had deputed Mr.
Cooke to proceed to Constantinople and Smyrna
payment, and to the
adoption with avi eowf t
son
oonb
us ur
se h
to secure the punctual
discharge of future claims on this account, and the
directors hoped for a successful result to those ne-
gotiations. The capital account showed that
£1,801,901 had been expended, including £175,201
for interest on shares to the 31st December, 1865,
£160,947 for discount, &c., on shares, £199,920 dis-
count on debentures for £588,000, £6,179 loss on
realisation of securities, £9,827 interest on £250,000
debentures, and £11,714 interest on £588,000 de-
bentures, leaving a balance against the company of
£57,824. The revenue account to the 30th of June
showed that £17,296 had been received and £22,307
expended, leaving a balance against the company of
£5,011.

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THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD.—The Govern-
ment Commissioners have submitted to the Secre-
tary of the Interior a favourable report on the ninth
section of 24 miles of the road and telegraph of the
Union Pacific Railroad Company, Eastern Divi-
sion. The same was laid before the President, with a
recommendation that the bonds and patents for
lands be issued to the company upon said section of
the road, and the President has issued his order to
that effect. The road is now completed as required
by law for 234 miles west of the state of Kansas,
and use.2s locomotives, 16passenger coaches,
8 baggage, mail, and express cars, 118 box cars, 222
b hasgage in ,
flat cars, and 7 boarding cars.
The lowest prices of the leading speculative rail-
ways in the years 1863 to 1866, inclusive, were as
follows :

1863. 1864. 1865. 1866
New York Central lO7 109 80 86f
Erie
Hudson River
Reading 77} 111 88 9
Michigan Southern 4s- 57 491- 65i
Cleveland and Pittsburg 561 90 47 75i
Rock Island B2} 85t 81 90
Fort Wayne 56 821- 77 88
Alton and Terre Haute
Do. Preferred
Chicago and Alton
Do. Preferred

We learn that at a meeting of the Second Preferred
and Income Bondlaolders and the Preferred Stock-
holders in the St. Louis, Alton, and Terre Haute
Railroad Company, held on August 15th, pursuant
to notice, a vote was adopted by each class voting
in separate meetings to authorise the company to
increase its Preferred Stock, so as to enable the
company to pay 20 per cent. in said stock for the
two years' interest in arrears on said Preferred Stock
on the Ist of January, 1867, thus removing this
liability from the company and the common stock,
so that the net earnings under the lease may the
sooner reach the common stock for a dividend, and
which its friends claim will occur the first year under
said claim.—Wall-street Journal.

Nitro-glycerine is cutting the Pacific Railroad
through the summit of the Sierra Nevada at the
rate of fifty feet per week, and by midsummer fifty
miles of road will be added to the ninety-four
already in operation at the California end.
Mr. M. Disney, of San Francisco, has invented
an ingenious device, by which railway carriages may
be made self-coupling at all times, while they may
be uncoupled by the mere moving of a lever which
adjusts itself as soon as the cars uncouple. Another
important advantage is that the instant the advance
car moves, or is thrown from the track, it instantly
uncouples. It is impossible for this coupling to drag
a car off from the track ; neither is there any
possibility of its becoming disengaged while the
cars are in direct motion, except by design or break-
age of the link. The contrivance is simple and
cheap—not more costly than the ordinary couplings
—while its advantages of economy, convenience,
and safety are not excelled by any other plan in use.
A practical trial was to be given on the San Jose
Railroad, when it cannot fail to be generally
adopted, if it fulfils all that it professes.
A cargo of railroad iron for the Western Railroad
arrived at Hudson, New York, in the British ship
William Yco, direct from Biddeford, England.
The heavy rains during the second week in
August damaged the unfinished work on the Troy
and Greenfield Railroad to the extent of $5,000 or
$6,000. A land slide at Athol on Friday, the 16th,
compelled the passengers on the Vermont and Mas-
sachusetts road to change cars there for that day.
Ground will soon be broken for the new railroad
from Montpelier to Portland, Me., and the work
will be pushed forward with energy. West Con-
cord, N. H., has subscribed $lOO,OOO to secure the
road through that town, and Lunenburg is engaged
in raising $50,000 for the same purpose.
The distance from New York to San Francisco,
by way of Chicago, is three thousand three hun-
dred miles. If a train should run at the rate of
twenty miles per hour, the average rate, it would
require about seven days to accomplish the
distance.

The stockholders of the Newhaven and North-
ampton Railroad held their annual meeting at the
former place on Wednesday, Aug. 21, and elected

H. N. Welch, W. W. Phelps, and Charles N.
Yeamans to succeed John Bradley, Wells South-
worth, and Charles Dickerman on the board of
directors. At a meeting of the board Joseph E.
Sheffield was re-elected president and treasurer,
Andrew L. Kidstou, secretary, and Charles N.
Yeamans, vice-president and superintendent.
A NEW PATENT STEAM CAR BRAKE.---A public
trial of the brake lately invented by Wil-
liam Loughridge, of Paterson, New Jersey, took
place on the Ist instant, on the New Jersey
Central Railroad, in the presence of the
representatives of the leading roads of the country,
and resulted in a complete success. The new
steam brake is operated by a steam cylinder
ticith 34-inch throw of piston. This cylin-
der is placed under the " foot board " of the
engine. Nothing is seen on the engineer's stand
but a small lever that opens and shuts a valve,
and a 1-inch pipe, through which the steam
passes into the cylinder. A chain passes around,
pulling on the piston head. This chain goes
through the train, ronnected by sections of
rods and chains, and the brakes arc applied
through the agency of small standards in the centre
of the car. By means of the safety-valve in the
brake cylinder the steam escapes when the pressure
becomes greater than required for the best braking.
By this means the great evil to railroad economy—
of sliding wheels—is obviated. At the trial the
brake showed a power of 3,500 pounds, more than
double that of seven brakesmen exexting their
full strength with the old windlass brake. With
the new brake a train of cars running at a speed of
56 miles per hour can be stopped in 16 seconds, and
in a distance of 624 feet. When running at a speed of
24 miles per hour, the usual rate, it can be stopped
in a distance of 250 feet, and the engineer on the
New Jersey Central Railroad says that he can stop
his train within two (2) feet of any designated
point. At the close of the experiments a resolution
was adopted by the Railroad managers present
strongly recommending the adoption of the new
brake on the railroads of the country, both on the
score of economy and for the safety of the travel-
ling public. The Patent is owned by a Company
whose general agent is T. B. Oakley, 33, Wall-
street, New York, who is now prepared to make
arrangements on advantageous terms with railroad
companies for the right to use the brake.—Wall-
Street Journal.

CAPTURE OF A GANG OF BURGLARS

Yesterday the last, or those who are believed to
be the last, of the notorious gang of burglars who
perpetrated on Mr. Walker, Mr. Johnson, and
others, about a year or two ago, a number of rob-
beries in the city, unparalleled for daring and ex-
tent, were brought before Sir Robert Carden at the
justice-room of the Mansion-house. The prisoners
were three in number—namely, James Evans, a
man of powerful build, who described himself as a
general dealer, of 21, Bushby-street, Mile-end New-
town ; John Robinson, also a general dealer, but
who refused his address ; and John Davis, a gla-
zier, living at 4, Temperance-place, Stepney-green.
These men were charged with loitering in Wood-
street and other places in the city, and with having
unlawfully in their possession a number of skeleton
keys. . _ .

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matter of the city burglaries in hand for a long
time past, he had had a great deal to do with per-
sons of the prisoners' class. Robinson, who went
by the name of John Benfield, "Dark Charley,"
and " Charley Guiring," was also engaged in the
burglary at Mr. Johnson's. He was tried at the
Criminal Court in April, 1858, fora burglary in the
Hackney-mai, and sentenced to nine months' im-
prisonment. Witness believed that Evans and
Robinson were the only two now remaining of the
notorious gang of city burglars. He knew nothing
of the prisoner Davis. There was a burglary com-
mitted at Houndsditch in January last, and seve-
ral housebreaking implements were left behind
by the thieves. He now believed that Robinson
and Evans had been both engaged in that burglary.
A bag of the instruments there found was now in
court. (Witness here opened the bag and took out
several most formidable weapons, the construction
of which he explained.) The first of these was the
one which, he said, Caseley had spoken of as " the
alderman." This was capable of being screwed on
and off in the centre ; it was altogether novel of its
kind, and, along with the other instruments con-
tained in the bag, there was not a door in London
which it would not open. A very peculiar sort of
knife, evidently designed for opening windows, and
also a rope ladder, had been left behind by the bur-
glars at Houndsditch.
Sir Robert Carden observed that the rope ladder
seemed long enough to reach from the top to the
bottom of any house in London. He asked whether
the robbers had been disturbed in their operations,
seeing that they had left all their implements
behind them.

The witness replied in the negative. They had
secreted themselves in a stable yard, opened the
back door of a jeweller's shop with skeleton keys,
and stolen a great quantity of jewellery.

The Alderman said that as far as the evidence
now went the prisoner Davis appeared to be a
new hand.

The witness said he had certainly heard of Davis
being engaged in a burglary in the Commercial-
road, but that he could not bring the charge home
to him. Evans, however, had been an outside man
for many years, and also a buyer.
Sir R. Carden asked Evans what he had to say to
the charge.
The prisoner replied that all the last witness had
said was false.

Robinson denied three-fourths of Sergeant Moss's
evidence, and asked him if he was sure that he was
at the Houndsditch burglary.
The sergeant said that he was positive about it.
He was also tolerably sure that Robinson knew
something of a burglary committed in Upper
Thames-street, where a safe had been opened and
£9 abstracted, and where the prisoner was seen on
the evening of the burglary.
Robinson asked the officer if he was not indebted
for his information to a man named Soper.
Sir R. Carden said it made no matter who gave
the information, provided the officer acted on cor-
rect advice.

Sergeant Moss thought it might be as well to
state at once that Soper was not his informant, and
that a great deat deal of his knowledge of the pri-
soners was derived from the watch he had set upon
their movements. He had gone to the address of
Robinson that morning at 4, London-street, North-
street, Mile-end New Town, and on searching the
drawers a new and costly " lady's companion " and
two combs were found. These apparently belonged
to a class of good.q, a large quantity of which had
been stolen from the shop of Mr. Halle, in Hounds-
ditch. Mr. Halle's premises had been forcibly en-
tered twice—once on the 4th of June, and again on
the 31st of August, 1866. Ile had now to ask that
the prisoner might be remanded for a week, in order
that further inquiries might be made.
Sir R. Carden, in remanding them until Wed-
nesday, the 18th inst., said the city would indeed be
glad to get rid at last of the remainder of the most
dangerous class of burglars by which it had been
infested for many years.

Samuel Obee, a city detective officer, said that
about half-past 10 o'clock on Monday night he saw
the prisoners at the corner of Love-lane, Wood-

street. lie had previously been instructed by Ser-
geant Moss to;watch their movements. They went

to• Silver-street and then to Noble-street. Iu the
latter street Evans left the two others and went up

to a door by the side of a hoarding. He stood in
the doorway for some time, while Robinson and
Davis placed themselves in another doorway on the
opposite side. They could sec each other distinctly
from these positions. Having remained there two
or three minutes, Robinson and Davis left and went
to Falcon-square, and there they were joined by
Evans, who went after them very quickly. After-
wards they walked through several by-streets, until

at last they came to Beech-street, Barbican, where
Evans and Davis stood for a while looking at a
house on fire. The whole three then went along

EXTRAORDINARY RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

the Barbican and Sun-street to a publichouse at the I The Midland Railway, which has hitherto, so far
corner of Earl-street, Finsbury, which Evans and as its recently opened extensions through the roman-
Davis entered, Robinson remaining outside. After tic portions of the Peak district are concerned, been
a while Robinson went in, and they all sat down and notably free from disastrous accidents, has just been
had some beer. While drinking they seemed to be the scene of one of the most extraordinary colli-
showing one another something like a key, but wit- sions which have ever occurred. Indeed the dis-
ness could not exactly say what it was. They came aster which has now to be reported was a double
out together and went along Sun-street and into one, and has resulted already in the deaths of five
Bishopsgate-street, where they remained for about men, besides the slaughter of a considerable number
three minutes in conversation. Passing along of cattle and sheep.
Bishopsgate-street, they proceeded up Houndsditch It appears that a cattle train, consisting of 27
into Aldgate, where Evans and Robinson turned carriages and trucks, drawn by two locomotives,
down Church-row, Davis standing at the top of the passed through the New Mills Station, en route from
passage. There Evans passed something to Robin- Liverpool to Birmingham, about 5.10 p.m. on Mon-
son, who put it in his right hand pocket. Evans day, and after a run of between seven and eight
then left, and Robinson joined Davis in the passage. miles reached the Peak Forest tunnel, situated on
The next movement was that Evans went into the one of the highest points of the Derbyshire hills,
Turk's Head publichouse, and that Robinson and about 530 p.m. Having penetrated some distance
Davis, and another man who came up and spoke to into the tunnel, the train was suddenly brought into
I
them, went in and joined him. Witness then got collision with a ballast train which had been drawn
the assistance of two other constables in plain up in the tunnel while certain repairs were being
clothes, and also that of Inspector White, who hap- made. The shock of the collision was so severe that
pened to come up at the time, and they entered the a break van at the hinder end of the ballast train
publichouse and arrested the prisoners. Witness
was completely shattered, and a little girl named
told them he should charge them with loitering and Vanes, the daughter of a blacksmith, named
attempting to enter warehouses in Noble-street, Samuel Vanes, residing at Doveboles, a village near
upon which Robinson replied that he did not know the southern end of the tunnel, was instantaneously
what witness meant. Witness repeated the charge killed. Fortunantly she was the only occupant of
and took Robinson into custody. The prisoners the van, in which, it is stated, she was allowed to
Evans and Davis were taken into custody by the ride in consequence of having missed a previous
other officers. On the way to the police-station train from Bugsworth to Doveholes. As the
witness put his hand into Robinson's right hand labourers who had been brought into the tunnel
trousers pocket, into which he had seen him put were out of the vans In which they had been con-
something passed to him by Evans in Church-row, veyed and busy at their work upon the line they
and found three skeleton keys. Nothing was said also escaped. The effect of the concussion upon the
then, but when they reached the police-station two engines was to detach them from the cattle
Robinson put his hand in his pocket, and, taking out train, and the gradient of the line being at this point
four more skeleton keys, said, " Here are four more, to which they had ascended as much as lin 90, the
you may as well have them all." Another skeleton detached trucks at once commenced a retrogressive
key was afterwards found upon him, making eight movement. As the train began its backward mo-
altogether. On being asked how ho accounted for tion, three of the occupants of what is termed the
the possession of them, he replied that they were given drovers' van, a third class carriage in which the
to him. He refused his address. Witness knew persons in charge of the cattle and sheep in the
him as an associate of persons who had been con- different trucks were being conveyed, jumped out
victed of burglary, and Evans was one of the same upon the line as the train emerged from the tunnel,
gang. He had followed both Evans and Robinson on and two of them, named Charles Jenkins,
the 26th of last month into the Mile-end-road, and cattle dealer, of Sneinton, near Nottingham, and
he had overheard their conversation with another George Holl, cattle dealer,cofsid2heOrisa,blfAyacuedinemjrutuorncedh
broken, -
man whom they met upon the way, and to whom street, Birmingham,
one of them said, "I suppose we shall soon begin by their fall, the formweerrehavionng
to do some little business again." The prisoner bruised and one instep while the latter
Davis gave a false address. Upon Evans was found was a good deal injured about the face and
£26 16s. 6id. chest. The third man was not hurt, neither
In reply to Sir R. Carden, Evans said he had no was the guard of the train, who also leaped from
his van when he found it impossible to check the
questions to ask the witness.
Robinson acknowledged that he had the skeleton downward course of the train. Thus, freed from all
keys in his possession, but denied that he had been control, the cattle train, with its load of frightened
animals, dashed along the incline at a speed increas-
in the doorway in Noble-street.
The witness repeated he was positive that Evans
ing every instant until a frightful velocity had been
was in the doorway in that street, while Davis and obtained, and when it had gained apointwithin a
Robinson were in another on the opposite side. few hundred yards of the New Mills Station it ran
The doorway in which Evans stood was that of with a fearful crash into an express train which had
No. 13. been drawn up near the Beart Bridge signal-box,
Sir R. Carden (after carefully inspecting the awaiting the expected signal from Bugsworth of
skeleton keys) said he supposed they would open " line clear." The express train had left Manches-
any door in London. ter at 20 minutes past 5 o'clock, and in the ordinary
The witness replied that they would certainly course would not have stopped at New Mills ; but as
open any warehouse door. what is called the block system was being worked
Sir R. Carden observed that they had been most between the New Mills signal-box and Bugsworth,
ingeniously contrived. Two of them in particular and as the line was not signalled as clear when the
were most remarkable specimens of clever work- express reached the Beart Bridge signal-box, it was
manship. brought to a stand-still. As the train was standing
Detective Sergeant Moss said he knew the pri- near the bridge, the driver of the express, hearing
Boners Evans and Robinson, the former by the name the noise of the run-away cattle trucks, and pre-
of " Old Dan Donovan." Evans was what the neatly seeing the train bearing down upon him on
police called a " watcher" or outside man, and there the same line of rails at the rate of something
was very little doubt that he had been engaged at like fifty miles an hour, at once reversed his en-
the burglary at Mr. Johnston's, in Hercules-pas- gine, with a view of running backwards and lessen-
sage, Threadneedle-street. Witness knew that from ing the force of the impending collision. While
. ` ingllirieli he had made, because, having had thelhe was doing this, the stoker, seeing the ila'

7icnilience of the danger, sa
from the engine and get clear aw
driver, whose name was Edward ,
engine in motion, and was preparing
the crash came, and the poorfellow was
buried amid a heap of broken timber and shattered
ironwork, which, but a second before, had formed
portions of some of the trucks belonging to the
cattle train. It is by no means an easy task to
describe the scene which instantly presented itself.
Of the 27 trucks and carriages, nearly one-half of
them were smashed into fragments, and in some
cases two or three of the carriages were so splin-
tered and blended that it was impossible to distin-
guish one from the other. Huge pieces of wood
were shivered into minute pieces, the wheels and
axles of the trucks were broken and twisted, the
springs were torn away, and bolts, screws, lamps,
and other portions of the fittings of the train were
scattered about in confused heaps. From the frag-
ments of the carriage in which five persons had been
brought back from the tunnel to New Mills two men
were brought out dead, and a third was so seriously
injured that he died the same evening. The names of
these persons are—B,obert Ileums, butcher and
cattle dealer, Birmingham ; Edward Chambers,
drover, Birmingham ; and a man who had the
appearance of a tramp, and who, from some
printed appeals to the benevolent found upon him,
with the name of Joseph Jones upon them, is sup-
posed to have borne that name. Two other per-
sons were brought out alive, one of them named
John Baker, a drover of Birmingham, who, though
seriously hurt, it is hoped may recover. The express
train, set in motion by the collision, ran back-
ward, but although there was no time for any one
to get to the engine and stop it, the points were
turned so as to put it on the down line and prevent
further collisions, and telegrams were sent to all
the stations between New Mills and Manchester.
The train was, however, brought to a standstill in
running up an incline near Romney, and was after-
wards put on a siding. The . n the ex-
press, though inual shaken, were none of them
seriously hurt. During the night, by great exertion
the line was so far cleared that one line could be
worked through the Peak Forest tunnel, and both
lines atNewMills cleared. Two signalmen who were
in the signal box at New Mills had a narrow escape,
several of the cattle trucks being hurled against the
box, which was partially destroyed, but fortunately
neither of the signalmen were injured. Yesterday
morning a fifth man, named Wheeler, of Birming-
ham, died from the effects of the injuries he sus-
tained. The bodies await an inquest.