The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-22 00:00:00

said he had been all day at the house No. 6, Brunswick-
place, with-the' exception of having ran across the street to
the Lamb to get a drop of beer. When he returned he saw t
-Williams on the ground, bleeding at the mouth, and Halstead I
over him. Witness said, " Come : we've had quite enough
of that ; let us have no more of it."
Mr. Rose, surgeon, of High-street, Shadwell, saw Williams
at ten o'clock on Sunday night, when he was quite insensible,
witness believed from some external injury. The left
eye was black and the lower lip cut and swollen. Witness
could not swear positively whether the injured man was re-
duced to his present state by drunkenness or external violence,
until after a post mortem examination. Mrs. Williams could
testify as to his state before the injury ; but she was at present
at his bed side. Witness endeavoured to rouse him, but in
vain ; and there was no likelihood of his surviving two hours
longer; neither was it probable that his depositions could be
taken. _ _

The constable, Wiseman, said that the witness Bragger was
brother to the man not yet in custody, and who was sup-
posed to have inflicted the blow alluded to by the surgeon.
He had thrown every Possible obstacl, in the way of the
inquiries instituted by the police.
Mr. BALLANTYNE—Then why is not he in custody? By
his own showing he was amongst the people implicated in
a transaction likely to end in a man's death.
Bragger was immediately transferred to the dock amongst
the other prisoners. -
Mr. BALLA/m-1:E remanded the prisoners until Wednes-
day, and directed that immediate notice should be given if
Williams so far recovered as to be able to make depositions.
We have since learned that the unfortunate man died in
the course of the evening.
The deceased was fifty-eight years of age, and was formerly
a courier in the service of her Majesty's Government. lie
was superannuated a few years ago on a pension of M. per
annum.

THE RECENT MELANCHOLY
ACCIDENT.
(FURTHER PARTICULARS.)
A correspondent sends us the following particulars .of the
melancholy accident at London-bridge Wharf, from an in-
quiry instituted on Monday at the peilice stations in the
city and at Wapping. The boat into which the children
ventured belongs to a waterman named Williamson, and at
the time of the accident it was rowed by his son, a youth
nineteen years of age, who had been duly indentured to
his father, and was, consequently, so far qualified to ply for
hire upon the river. The'boat, however, was not licensed,
as it had been purchased only a few days, and the necessary
instructions furnished in the 2d and 4th by-laws of the
Master and Wardens of the Watermen's and Lightermen's
Company had not been complied with. From the number of
those already known to be lost, and those rescued, it ..is evi-
dent that more were taken on board the skiff than the law
allows, as the proviso distinctly states that if more than
eight persons are carried, the party is liable to a fine of 5/.
By an Act passed in 1742, such an offender would be liable
not only to the amercement,but to a disqualification, amount-
ing to a prohibition from plying at all for twelve months.
This statute, however, is rendered obsolete by the above by-
law, passed during the mayoralty of Alderman Lucas. The
following is a correct list of the personsknown to be missing,
and of those subsequently restored to their friends:--Lost,
Julia Lane, aged twelve years, resident at Brin's-court,
Southwark ; Robert Thurlow, eight-and-a-half, 12, ShUftes-
bury-place, Aldersgate-street ; W. Newton,. thirty-eight,
Allen-street, Goswell-road. Up to this' afternoon (Monday),
other inquiries have, been made, but it is not quite clear that
the parties inquired for were on board the boat when she was
uliset. Restored, George Field, William Bird, Charles New-
ton (brother to the above, who went down); Joseph New-
som, and Henry ThUrlow. A lad of the name of Leicester,
who was supposed to be dead when taken into the Castle
public-house, in St. Mary-at-hill, recovered after consider-
able ',attention, and was eventually removed to home.
Another boy was restored at the Steam-packet Hotel, and
furnished with a change of clothing by the landlord.. kis
to be hoped that the authorities will take immediate steps to
stay the nuisance of these overcrowded boats, in so danger-
ous a part of the river. None of the bodies have at present
been found.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE
BRUSSELS AND ANTWERP RAILWAY.
ANTWERP, MAY 18.—A dreadful aciident has occurred on
the railroad from. Brussels to Antwerp, at a station four miles
from the latter town, named Bad Goed. The train which
arrived at this station about five o'clock was, while in full
progress, thrown off the line, and brought in contact with a
luggage train. The concussion was fearful in the extreme ;
three- persons were brought in dead last night, fifteen
grievously wounded, and about forty with contusions more
,or less serious. The accident is said to have been occasioned
by the carelessness of the railway servants in attending to the
points, so that at the junction with the Ostend line the car-
riages were thrown off the line, and came into collision with
the baggage-train. Strange to say the engine, the tender
and one carriage continued upon the proper line, but were
violently separated by' the concussion from the remain-
ing carriages. Another account states that the rail was
under repair, and that one rail, which had been replaced,
was imperfectly bolted and fastened at the extremity to-
wards Brussels. -As the train passed over it the fastening
was loosened, and after the passage of the first carriage the
end tilted up, caught the wheel of the next carriage, which
was thrown eff the line,' and thus occasioned the accident.
The carriages were crowded with passengers, and among
them several English people. One Englishman was carried
to the hospital of St. Elizabeth, but after having his wounds
`dressed was able to be removed to a private residence. I
could not learn his name at the hospital, as his stay was
short, and no record made. Another had his face severely
cut and contused, so that his features could not be recognised ;
and a third, who had left 'his own carriage .and was tra-
velling-with his courier, was severely wounded in the legs,
brit riot, it is to be hoped, to require amputation. An Eng-
lish lady is also named as baying been killed, but I will not
repeat the name, as it ia a common one, until I can ascertain
if the report is correct. Four German bakers who had been
in England, and were returning to their employment, got
into a carriage Whicl'had been recently painted, but left it
for another in consequence of the strong smell of the paint.
, It was a providential removal, for the newly painted car-
riage was literally crushed to -atoms. A Belgian advocate
had both his legs so frightfully jammed, that amputation
appears inevitable.
Some accounts say that there are already ten persons dead,
bat I hope it is exaggerated. The numbers I have reported
were given me at the hospital.

THE PRINCE OF WALES.—We have great pleasure
in announcing that, the first presentation to Christ's Hospi-
tal of the Prince of Wales, recently become a Governor of
that Royal foundation, has been conferred on a son of Mr.
Hunt, .the indefatigable . Secretary of the Royal Cornwall '
Polytechnic Institution. We believe Mr. Hunt owes the se-
lection of his son entirely to his well-.deserved reputation as a '
philosophic investigator, whose .00.440 Vere made .known at
the palace by, Sir John Herschell; 'on fCtiyarding a copy of
Mr. Hunt's recent publicati4u, - entitled Researches on
Light." Her Majesty and the Prince expressed, through
Colonel Anson, theit pleaSdreArk:liitvitig the bpportunity of
proMoting the interests of seiencele.Cornwall by the Use, of
the Prince of Wales's influence) West Briton. ,
LORD THANET'S Fox.,:-The late Earl of, Thnnet
. ,
was in the habit of removing every ..year, with his hunters
and hounds, from Hothfield, near. Ashford, in Kent, to an-
other seat he had in Westmoreland. • 'A short time, previous
to one of these removals, a, fox bad been run to earth near
Hothfield ;, and, upon being .dug, out, .he pr?i,ved t(*;, be, se ex-
traordinary large and fine a, one; ihat_LordTli*et,itirected
it to be conveyed to Westmoreland: the course, Of the
next season a fox was rust to earth' again at Hothfiegi und,
upon being dug Out, the huntSman, whippets-in, and' the
earth-stoppers, all declared that it was the same fox which
had been taken into Westmoreland, as it had an unusually
large white blaze on its forehead. Lord Thalia, was exceed-
ingly energetic in his expressions of diShelief of the state-
ment of his people, but they persisted in their assertions;
and, having ear-marked the fox, he was again taken into
Westmoreland, and turned loose in the neighbourhood of
Appleby Castle. In hunting the next season at Hothfield
a fox was killed at that place, which proved to be the one in
question, and which had thus twice found its way from West-
moreland into Kent. By what instinct or exertions of its
faculties the animal was enabled to do this (the distance friom
one place to the other being about 320 miles), it is not easy
to form an idea. Its well-known cunning would, one might
suppose, be of little avail' in such an emergency, except in
enablingAiA o
nElAtosptoc.
~IN
. Hull re food.—Chesterli
Chronicle.
LlFE.—Yesterday
was
married, at. St. George's.Church,..Hanover-square, by the
Rev. Gilbert Elliot,. :Viscount ,Melgund, eldest son of the
Earl of Minto, to mina Eleanor Elizabeth Hislop, daughter
of the late Sir Thomas and the *Lady. Emma Hislop. There'
were present on the interesting occasion the Eirl ' and Lady
Minto, and Lady *John Russell, Lord and Lady Auck-
land, Hoii. ItObert`Ederl, and several other noblemen and
gentlemen' of distinction.' At the conclusion 'of the ceremony,
the happy.pair, together with their friends, proceeded to the
residence of the bride's mother, in Wilton-crescent, where a
splendid dejeuner was given by her Ladyship. •
THE-NEW-ROYAL EXCHANGE AND THE WRI:
UNGTON. STATUR:—For some days past several men .have
been employed, in laying a foundation and basement, in
which 'great progress has .been. made, in front. of the,New
Royal Exchange, ter, the reception of the Wellington statue.
The Appt, selected for the erection of it is. about the extreme
end westward of the Bank-buildings, and opposite the Globe
Assnrance-offiee. A very strong foundation of concrete has
beim laid down to depth of above twelve feet, and on that
will be raised ASOlid block of brickwork, which, it is expected,
will be finished in it few.days. Opposite the western front of
the New Royal •Exchange a lofty seafiblding is now raised, on
a level with the- pediment, for the purpose of having placed
there the figures,from the designs and execution of Mr. West-
macott and his assistants.

BARRINGTON:-...INCENDIARY FIRE.—On Thursday
evening last, about .11 o'clock, a haulm stack, the produce of
eight acres, standing on a field in the occupation of Mr.
Woollard, was destroyed by fire ; there is no doubt it was in-
tentionally fired. A few nights previous a quantity of win-
dows were broken in the dwelling-house of Mr. Woollard.
There is a sharp look out kept for the perpetrators of these
outrages (no doubt committed by the same party), and if
caught, they will no doubt meet with that punishment they
so richly deserve. The fire was-plainly seen from Cambridge.
—lpswich Express.
FIRE AT BRATIFIELD..—OR Sunday afternoon, be-
tween four and five o'clock, afire broke out in some straw
on the preMises of Mr. Joseph Everson, of Bradfield,
the same farm (the property of the Rev. Robert
Davers) on which a fire took. place last year ; but by
the very commendable exertions of the labourers, the
Suffolk and Norwich engines being also promptly on the
spot, though their services were scarcely needed, the
damage was confined to the destruction of a harve,t-
waggon and about six loads of straw. Mr. Everson is
insured..-Ipswich Express.
INCENDIARY FIRE AT BOOKING.—The inhabitants
of Braintree and Docking were again alarmed on Thursday
night, about half-past nine o'clock, by the cry of fire, flames
having burst out' in a shed at the back of a barn situate
in Panfield-lane, -in the latter parish, close to the town of
Braintree, in the occupation of the Rev. A. Fletcher, of Fins-
bury, London. The raging element rapidly extended to
the barn and other farming buildings,. a haulm stack and
hay-stack, all which were in a blaze before the Brain-
tree and Bocking engines (four in number) arrived,
and were in a short time destroyed. The buildings (late the
property of John English, Esq., deceased) were insured in
the Essex Equitable Fire-office, and we are informed 'Mr.
Fletcher is protected by insurance for all that is destroyed
belonging to him, his carriage excepted. The looker states
that he went round the premises about a quarter of an hour
before the fire, and all appeared to be right; he has, there-
fore, no doubt that it was wilfully occasioned.—Essex Herald.
The dry weather and cold winds have caused some
alarm 'for the growing crops, especially for the spring
corn and grass; and we hear that the beans and peas
are, in some places, very much injured. The wheat,
within the last fewdays, has given way considerably on
some dry soils ; but on the whole it is looking well, and
if we should be favoured within a week with rain, we are
told we may have an abundant crop of both hay and
straw. The stock is doing welly but the fat markets are
hoary,—BrOton Gautte.