The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-24 00:00:00

TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1850.

previous terms are well supported. Sales privately of
Trinidad made at 45s to 50s for common to fine; and
Grenada at 423 to 48s. Of Foreign several parcels have
been sold; Bahia at 293, Para 30s, and Gus) squill at
31s to 325.

RlCE.—East India is offered at lower rates, as there
has been much dulness in the market since last Tuesday.
There is only a limited quantity On offer. The value of
broken white Bengal is 9s to 9s 6d, mid lOs to 103 61,
better sort lls to 12e, cargo 8s 3d to 83 6d, Madras
pinkey white 8s 63 to 9s 6d, and war' barley 8s 6J.
Cleaned Rice continues in large demand for home use
and exportation; the rates paid are 12a to 18s for ord to
fine. Town drersed Carolina 22s to 263, but there are
few buyers.
SPICES.—For Pimento prices are higher, and rule at
6id to 64cl for mid and good quality. Jamaica Ginger
is wanted, and former rates are well supported, the sup-
ply also continues to diminish. At auction 133 barrels
were sold at 51 lOs to 81 103 for good to fine, and at
31 13, to Si for ord to mid. Export sorts are m.)re in re-
quest, and stiffir rates are paid. '[he value of African
and Barbadoes of sound quality is 32i to 37J. In black
Pepper large sales have been made privately, and prices
are on the advance with a diminished supply. Sumatra
clean black realised 30 to 34d, low and interior 20 to
3d, and Malabar at 3id to 31(1. White sells more ft eely
at from 5d to 9d for common and Rae. Mace is wanted
and rates are on the advance, ruling at 2s 6d to 2s 10d
for mid and fine.

SALTPETRE.—TO-day at public sale 507 bags Calcutta
were taken in at 27s 6d to 28s for 61 to 51 per cent. re-
fraction, these are stiffer rates,

INDsCo.—The quantity of East India declared for sale
on the 8 h of next month is now 15,745 chests, still
there is much firmness in the market, and demand is good
at an advance on last quarterly sales of 4d to 6d for
Bengal, and 3d for Madras.
Fnusr.—New currants have arrived, but the price is
not yet opened. In old a good deal is doing at 37s to 435.
For new Valencia Raisins the demand has become active
at 40s, but the market is well supplied. The value of
Muscatels in layers is from 603 to 70, fine 75s to 85s,
bunch 57s to 60s, but there are not many buyers. Sul-
tanas move off slowly at 65s to 70a fur new.
TALLow.—The demand has been active since our last
report, and there is a further advance for Russian on
the spot. Fine new yellow Candle having been cur-
rently disposed of at 39s to 39s 3d, old 38s 6d
to 38s 93, and on the part of merchants there is
firmness. For delivery up to the close of the year
a good busineiss has been concluded at 393 3d to
39a 63, and there are not free sellers. Of town melted
large parcels have been sold, 38s 6d to 32s is tho value
nett cash. There is au aeliance for other sorts of
Tallow, at auction 640 aka Sydney were nearly nil sold
at 34s to 38s 9d for common and fine, and 300 pkgs Syd-
ney at 33s 3d to 38s per cwt. Tho stock of Foreign and
Colonial is 3,003 casks less than last year, whereas deli-
veries are nearly 2,000 casks larger.
Wm.—Southern is wanted, and the parcels disposed
of privately were at from 331 to 351 for common and fine
quality; the supply is limited, and there are yet several
buyers in the market. Cod is 341 lOs to 351, and sales
arc upon a small scale. Seal met with little attention.
Holders appear more disposed to sell pale at 371 to 37/
10s—straw, yellow and brown 33/ to 361. Sperm is
more plentiful, and rates are not so firm, still a good
demand exists, and :at auction 55 tuns of Colo-
nial were sold at 831 to 831 153 for good. There
are sellers of Linseed Oil at a further ;reduction,
but shipers and home dealers operated with: caution,
and 32s 3d to 32s 6i per cwt is the value
the supply is also more plentifal than for some time past.
Operations are Wiling IT delivery, and 31s 3d to 31s 6d
is the value, but there is a fair consumption. Rape
Seed Oil has been in good request, and rates rule
firm; pale at 37s 6d to 38s 61, and brown at
36s to 375. Previous rates aro well supported
for Cocoa Nut, and operations are upon a large
scale. At auction 502 packages were disposed off; Cey-
lon at 29/ 153 to 311 and; Cochin 30/ to 3215. Palm
met with greater attention, and there is au advance, fine
quality selling at 29s to 29s 63. On the part of holders
of Olive there is confidence, and a good demand prevails;
Gallipoli has realised 421 to 421 10s, and other descrip-
tions 301 to 41/per tun.

the price of the sugar, refused to take the things,. and
got the sovereign back. Then they changed their
minds again, and offered to take the goods upon the
tradesmen returning the change with the goods.
They then asked for some other small articles to di-
vert the attention of the shopkeeper, and having paid
fur the latter they carried away the goods, the change,
and also the sovereign ; and since their commitment
for re-examination several communications have
reached the magistrate to prove that they carried this
system of imposition to a vast extent.

- One of the witnesses, Mr. Gannon, a grocer in
Duke-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, deposed, that about
two years ago the prisoners, with a third woman in
their company, entered his shop, and Jones having
given her usual order, and getting the change for a
sovereign, played off the usual trick of returning the
goods and ultimately taking them, and when asked
for the sovereign all three women ussd the most so-
lemn asseverations that he had taken it up. He
(Mr. Gannon) felt morally certain he had been
" done" at the time, but he still submitted to it, and
on counting his cash at night he was satisfied that he
had been swindled. In about six months after the
prisoners again called at his house, and having gone
over precisely the same course as respected a small
order, attempted by the same means to defraud him
of another sovereign. He toll them, however, that
once was quite enough to be done by them, and
desired his servant to go to Bow-street and
fetch a constable. The prisoners assured him
he was much mistaken in their character,
and begged he would not give them into
custody. He, however, declared he should ; upon
which Stone stooped down, and exclaiming, " Why,
here it is," took the sovereign from the floor, and
gave it to him. He did not then wish to have any
trouble with them. Having subsequently seen by
the newspapers that two persons answering their de-
scription had been committed by one of the city ma-
gistrates to Bridewell for a similar offence, he went
to that prison for the purpose of seeing and recognis-
ing them, but they had been discharged a few minutes
before he got there.
John Spittle, a City officer, deposed to having had
the prisoner twice in custody on charges of de-
frauding tradespeople by the means above de-
scribed, but upon both occasions they had been dis-
charged.

The defence set up was that the prisoners were the
wives of two young men, journeymen carpenters, who
had always borne good characters, and were in ex-
cellent employment ; but the present inquiry has dis-
closed the fact that the prisoners had been married
from a house of ill fame, where they had re'sided for
some years before.

The prisoners were fully committed for trial at the
Central Criminal Court on four charges.
THAMES.

William Robinson, a coal whipper, aged 28, was
brought before Mr Ingham, charged with attempt-
ing to murder Lydia Short, a woman about 30 years
of age, who was led into the court with her head
bandaged, and in a very weak state from loss of
blood.

The prisoner, a malicious, savage fellow, has been
frequently in custody for assaults and outrages, and
came out of prison last Saturday. He was suspected
of murdering a woman named Caroline Willis, who
died under suspicious circumstances, and on whom a
coroner's inquest was held two years ago.
The prosecutrix, in a low tone of voice, said that
she lived at 10, Taverner's-walk, Shadwell, and had
cohabited with the prisoner for some time. On Sa-
turday night they quarrelled in consequence of a
friend of hers, a young man, coming to see her. The
prisoner asked her if she was going to sleep with him?
and she said she was not, and there was a sailor up-
stairs, and she was going to stay with him. The
prisoner asked her to turn him out, and she said she
would not. The prisoner forced her into another
bedroom, and threatened and commenced beating
her. She struck him twice, and he took up a knife
and drew it across her head, and inflicted a dreadful
wound. line blood gushed forth in torrents, and she
fell down from weakness and swooned away. (The
woman, who looked very ghastly and was very faint,
was then conducted to a seat near the witness-box.)
The prisoner, who was much excited, said he gave
" his wife" (the prosecutrix) 4s. out of ss. which he
had received on Saturday, and she got what she
wanted for housekeeping with the money. When he
came home late on Satarday night, and not seeing her
down stairs, he asked where Lydia was, and the wo-
man below refused to tell him. Hearing a noise in a
room above he went upstairs, where there were two
men—a white sailor and a black sailor, whom she in-
tended to rob. He made her come down stairs, and
asked her if she was going to sleep with the white
man upstairs, and she said that the " darky " was
right for ss. if he (the prisoner) had not spoiled it.
He told her to go into her own room, and she said
she would not, and threw a plate at him, and in the
scuffle which took place some images and a teapot
were broken, and she fell against the edging of a
wainscot and cut her head open. She was very drunk
at the time.

The prosecutrix was recalled, and said she was
was not quite sober, but she was certain that the pri-
soner cut her head with a knife. She had cohabited
with him at different times for eight years.
Two women of questionable character -and appear-
ance gave evidence of the quarrel, which arose in con-
sequence of the prosecutrix expressing her intention
of sleeping with the sailor, and said they found the
prisoner holding up Lydia Short, who was bleeding
profusely, and he said she had done it herself with a
teapot.

Mr. Daniel Ross, a surgeon of High-street, Shad-
well, was called into the station-house on Sunday
morning at one o'clock, and found the woman in a
state of syncope. There was a wound on the right
temple above two inches in length, completely divid-
ing the temporal artery. The woman lost a large
quantity of blood, and all her clothes were completely
saturated with it.

In answer to questions by Mr. INGUAM, the witness
said the wound was an incised one, a clean cut. The
sharp edge of a broken plate or teapot might have in-
flicted such a wound.

Stockley and Button, police constables, said they
found a large clasp knife on the prisoner, and disco-
vered the remains of a broken image aril a broken
teapot in the room where the woman received the
wound. There was no blood on any portion of them.
They saw nothing of a broken plate.
Mr. Ross examined the knife very closely, and
said there was no blood upon it at all. The wound
might have been inflicted with it.

Mr. INGHAM said, the edges of the broken pieces of
teapot were jagged, and he should not think it likely
the wound was inflicted with any of them.
Mr. Ross said he could not at present say what
would be the consequence of the Wound.. Erysipelas
might ensue.

Mr. INGHAM—Then I shall remand the prisoner
for a week.

THE DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON

TUE EASTERN. COUNTIES RAILWAY.
BRENTWOOD, MONDAY EVENING.—This afternoon,
at one o'clock, Mr, Lewis, the coroner for the western
division of Essex, resumed the inquiry into the cir-
cumstances connected with the death of the nine un-
fortunate persons who were on the Eastern
Counties Railway on Thursday morning last.
Mr. Glynn and Mr. Ellis, two of the directors of
the company, Mr. P. Ashcroft, superintendent of
works ; Mr. G. Richardson, the coaching. supe.rinten.
-dent; Mr. Gooch, locomotive superintendent; and
Mr. Roney,, the secretary, were present, for the pur-
pose of giving evidence if required.
Mr. Maynard, Of the firm of Crowder and May-
nard, attended OD behalf of the company.
The first witness examined was,
George Kirby, who said hp .was a foreman in
the employ of the Eastern Counties. Company,
and was on the engine at the time of the acci-
dent on Thursday last. He was at the break.
A man named John Snowdon was driNing., lie
had the entire control of the engine. The guard was on
the foot-plate, but-he had nothing to' do with the en-
gine ; nor as far as he (witness) was aware, had he
anything to do with the speed of the engine. The
morning was very foggy, and they could not sep more
than 40 yards before them. He recollected passing.
Shenfield station, when the usual' sound was given.
The whistle was also sounded between the • two
bridges, and again at the time of the accident, as soon
as they saw the men before them, and at the Seven-
arch-bridge. We were not going more than-eight or
ten miles per hour. We heard nothing of the men
being on the line till we saw them. All three men on
the engine were on the look-out. When I saw- the
men they were aborit twenty yards before us; The
break was on what we call easy," and we directly
put it hard on. I saw Snowdon.pull his lever over in
order to reverse his engine. The men at that time al)•
peared to be standing in a group. Witness had been
on the line only three weeks. He had observed men
on the line before the accident occurred, but he did
not notice what they were about. He (witness) had
worked on the Bristol, Birmingham, and Gloucester
line. He had not been previously employed as a fire-
man. He was a fitter. When the accident occurred
Snowdon was standing at his engine and the guard
and witness were keeping a look-out. There was no
talking.
John Jasson, the second guard,.was next called.
He was on the train on Thursday morning last. He
was on the fourth carriage from the engine. The
train consisted of two second-class, two third-clasF,
one first-class, and one break carriage. It left Ingate-
stone at 11 minutes before 8 o'clock. He knew tln,t
was, the time because he looked at his watch. That
was a minute behind their proper time. It was very
foggy, and the fog increased by the time they reached
Shenfield station. Between Ingatestone and Shenfield
the_engine travelled at the, rate of 25 or 36 miles per
hour.: After they passed Sheffield they put the breaks
on,_and.slackened the pace of the train. As the train
proceeded between allenfiel9l And 'tho, .pape-gd-.

bridge, the driver whistled two or three times. After
the train passed the Three-arch-bridge the driver shut
off his steam and the whistle was sounded. He saw
nothing of the accident, nor did he know of it until
they reached Brentwood. The train was brought to a
standstill before they reached Brentwood. The in..
cline commences about half a mile beyond the Three-
arch-bridge. He was not aware that there was any-
thing to indicate where the incline commenced. When
the accident happened the train was proceeding 10 or
12 miles per hour. He was aware that men were
engaged in ballasting the line, but be did not know
that they were ballasting that morning. There could
be no certainty as to the place where they would be
found on any particular day.
A Juror—lf you had had a telegraphic notice to
Ingatestone that men were at work under or near the
Seven-arch-bridge, would the pace of the train have
been slackened, or would it have made any difference
in your arrangements ? Witness—The driver would
have continued cautiously. I cannot say what else
would have been done.
Edward Muirhead, the engine-driver of the ballast-
train, said—He was on .the root-plate of the ballast-
engine on Thursday morning, he was on the left hand
side of the engine. He was waiting until the ballast
trucks were empty. The signal-man gave him a
signal, and he then sounded his whistle. He saw
two men on the ballast-truck which was not unloaded.
He heard a whistle from the passenger_, train engine,
and he called out to the men to clear the road, for the
train was coming. He did not think the men heard
him. He looked round, and saw the passenger. engine
knock down one of the men against the step of his
(witness's) engine. At the same moment the train
went over the others. When it had passed he saw
the men were dead. The passenger-train was not
coming "hard." The "steam" was off. When the
whistle was sounded the train was 30 or 40 yards away.
If the whistle had been sounded at the Three. arch-
bridge, the noise of his engine would have prevented him
from hearing it. He thought the noise of his engine
would havo prevented any one from hearing the
whistle of the passenger-train. He (witness) bad
been on the Eastern Counties Railway about a month,
during which time he had been working a ballast-
engine. He had been bringing ballast down the line'
from Clare-street factory. He did not think the
driver of a passenger-train could form any idea as to
the spot on which a ballast-engine might be. Per-
haps on that Thursday morning a driver might have
expected to find the men ballasting at Brentwood
station, as they were at Brentwood the night before.
He did not know that any notice was given on the
Eastern Counties Railway as to the place where men
would be employed. He had been fur seven and-a-
half years on the Edinburgh and Glasgow line. It
was customary to give such notice there.
Edward Drury, of Brentwood, said he was a fire-
man in the employ of the Eastern Counties Railway,
and was on the ballast-engine on Thurday morning.
He confirmed the evidence of the previous witness,
and added that he did not hear the passenger-train
until he saw it within five yards of the men who were
struck down. The steam blowing offfrom his engine
would prevent him hearing a whistle. The train was
going at the rate of eleven or twelve miles per hour.
John Patience said he was employed ballasting
on Thursday morning, and had assisted to unload the
trucks. As soon as they had unloaded, the ballast-
engine was directed to come back to the station-yard.
He saw the first man struck down. He (witness)
jumped away when something caught him on his side
and took his senses away. When he recovered, at the
lapse of about five minutes', he saw all the men lying
there. It was very foggy indeed, and he could see a
very little way before him. He could see the Seven-
arch-bridge, but not the other. He did not hear the
whistle of the passenger-train, on account of the
great noise from the ballast-engine. He had no no-
tice of the rate at which the passenger-train was run-
ning. He did not hear any one say that the train
was due.

CORONER- .Why did you go upon the up-line ?
Witness—Because it was safer we thought than
standing on the ballast, from which we might slip.
James Hurrell said he had been up with a message
to the men who were killed on Thursday morning*,
and was just returning when the accident occurred.
It was a message to three of the unfortunate men to
come away with him. He had delivered his message
when the accident occurred. Directly he delivered
his message he turned back, and had got about sixty
yards out of the road when he heard something. On
turning round, he saw one man knocked down, and
another under the firebox of the engine. Some of the
men were knocked one way, and some another. He
saw the driver reversing his engine as he passed over
the bodies. The steam from the ballasting-engine
was blowing off at the time, and that would probably
prevent any one from hearing the whistle of the ap-
proaching train.

Thomas Chalk said, he was employed with the de-
ceased men on Thursday morning. When he had
unloaded the trucks, the gangsman said, " The
train is coming ; get out of the road chaps." He got
out of the way, and immediately afterwards he saw
the train coming. It knocked a man down. He
heard a whistle just as the gangsman made his re-
mark, but he did not know from whom it proceeded.
John Snowdon, of Braintree, the guard of the train
by which the men were killed, was next called, and
cautioned by the Coroner in the usual manner. Hit
evidence was as follows :—I had charge of the engine
on the morning the accident occurred. The engine was
entirely under my direction. The guard was put upon
the engine to show the driver the gradients upon the
line. Before the accident I shut off the steam. I
did this at the Three-arch-bridge. That was on
account of its being too foggy to come along the
curve. It was a little on the other side of the Three-
arch bridge. The fireman put on his break as soon
as I shut off the steam. I whistled likewise, and a
little after that I saw a group of men. on the line. I
whistled again and reversed my engine, and brought
it to a standstill. That was about 150 yards after first
seeing the men. When I went over the men *I was
travelling at the rate of eight or ten miles per hour.
The gradient there, I think, is about lin 100. (Itis
1 in 90) I have:no particular direction given to me as
to the gradients, but I generally inquire about them
of the guard. I had no knowledge that they were
ballasting near Brentwood. If I had known that the
men were ballasting there I should have come by the
spot at the same speed. I have read the company's
rules, and I don't know of any regulations to drivers
with respect to ballasting. I have been on the
Eastern Counties Rail Way for five weeks. I came
from the Mary port and Carlisle line, on which I
worked nine years. I was never discharged
from any line. I am not aware that it is usual
on any line of railway to give notice of ballasting- or
any other works that may be proceeding. Consi-
dering the state of the incline, and a speed of ten or
twelve miles per hour, I do not think I could pull up
under 300 yards. If I had seen an engine on the
spot I should have stopped.
Several questions were put to the witnesses, but
nothing of material importance was elicited.
The CORONER said a notice had been sent to him
that a form was always given to the drivers on the
Great Western Railway Company of any works that
were proceeding, and he thought it was a very excel-
lent precaution.

AI r. Ellis (a director) said that the company would
be very glad to adopt the same course if necessary,
and directed Mr. Ashcroft to apply to the Great
Western for a copy of the form. .
Mr. Ashcroft said there was nothing in the form
used by. the , Great Western: Company that was not
strictly attended to. on the Eastern Counties Com-
pany, and that the notes on the bottom of the rules
did not apply to ballasting, but to repairs where it
-was necessary to break up or interfere.with .the main
line, when notice was posted at the . engine-houses
two days before.
The CQRONERi in summing.up the evidence, said
they had examined a great many witnesses, and he
believed very! properly so ; but at .the same time, ho
.might observe that the facts of the case_ were in a
very narrow compass. It appeared that the poor
men were at work between the two bridges on the
morning of Thursday dast,,that they had unloaded
three trucks of ballast, had closed the doors, and that
it having become necessary to put back their ballast-
trucks, the menstepped on the line in order to get
cut, of the way. At that moment the, up-passenger
train came up, and killed them on the spot. All the
evidence went to, prove that: the morning was ex-
tremely foggy, that the train was not behind its time,
and that there was no negligence on ,the part of the
driver. Those men who had escaped had been enabled
to giie very little account of it, but they agreed that
intimation of their danger, was' given to them to a
certain extent thht Ahe train was due, and that the
steam going off froni the ballast-engine prevented
them from hearing the noise of the approaching pas.
sebger-train. It was very probable that the gentlemen
of the jury knew what Was the law with regard to the
common highway or road. If a person driving care-
lassly ran over a child, having previously seen it and
not stopping, that person was guilty .of murder.
If he did not see the child, but at the same time was
driving carelessly, he was guilty of manslaughter ;
but, if he were driving with care, and a child ran
suddenly before him, and was killed, the person so
driving would be acquitted on the ground of wised,.
venture. That law was applicable to railways as
well as common roads. Such was the state of. the
case, and he left it to the jury to form. their own
judgment.
_ _

After a consultation of about an hour and a half,
The jury returned as their verdict, " That the
death cf nine men has been caused by misadventure,
and .at the same time express their regret that more
caution has not been exercised for the protection of
the men employed on the line."

Since the beginning of last year, thirteen" new
Congregational 'Chapels, in London, have been PrOjected or
bUilt. Besides- thes'er foilr lifters may be expected'Vo be
gndertaktn soon.