The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-03 00:00:00

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DEATH OF A YOUNG M'011.14,2
FROM BURNING. Air.s4 ?-
It becomes our melanchi4 duty this-xfsek
-s4v
record another death from burning. The, tinfortis.
nate individual in this case was a young wonntri
named Elizabeth Jones, aged 1.7, who resideC "tit!) •
her sister, a married woman, .in the upper part
of Bath-road, near the Norwood Arms:, She'
was engaged on Friday evening, at half past six
o'clock, in frying pancakes for the family suplifiti''.
when her apron caught fire, and the whole of -
her garments were enveloped in flames. She
screamed loudly for assistance, and ran .into the
passage, but before aid could arrive she was Idea.
fully burnt. Mr. Askwith, surgeon, of Huntley.
lodge, Suffolk-road, was sent for, and was proteptly
in attendance. He did everything which was pos-
sible under the circumstances, but medical assist-
ance was of no avail. The poor creature lingered
in great agony until nine o'clock on Saturday
morning, when death put a period to her suf-
ferings. The lower part of her person ssas literally
Saturday burnt to a cinder, iti,d the upper part of her body
was also trost dangerously irijured An inquest was
Arms
son
Inn,the bod:
before on
Smue
Samuel at the Norwood
&q., deputy
coroner, and a respectable jury. After viewing the
body, the following evidence was taken :
Henry Nash—l. am a labourer, residing in Bath-
road, and work for Mr. Jonathan Bowles, of Leck-
hampton. I reside in the same house where deceased
lived. I was sitting in the kitchen ab. ut half-
past six o'clock, when I heard loud screaming up
stairs. I ran up, and found deceased in Homes
running about tic passage. Her clothes were
burning rapidly. I ran dos; n stairs and fetched
up a bucket of water. I threw it over her;
but the first bucket did net put out the flames,
so that I had to fetch two more bucketafell,.
She was burning all the time. Several per-
sons arrived soon after, and we sent for a medical
man. Mr. Askwith arrived in about half an hour.
He ordered some liniment to be applied to the burnt
parts. It was applied according to his orders. The
deceased lived with her brother-in-law, Mr. Bolton,
and his wife, for whom she kept house.
Anne Bolton—I;am the wife of _Henry Bolton, who
is a haulier. Our house is in the parish of Chelten-
ham. The deceased was my sister, and she has
lived regularly with me for the last ten months.
She assisted me in taking care of my children, and
in housekeeping. After the unfortunate acci-
dent which caused her death had occurred,
she told me she was frying a pancake arid that her
apron caught fire ; she said she was unable to put it
out.- I was away from the house at the time of the
accident at work. Her stays were much burnt. She
seemed to know that she would die; she lingered in
much agony until about half-past nine o'clock this
morning, when she expired.
The CORONSR here put it to the jury whether they
were satisfied as to the cause of—death, without
further evidence, and being answered in the-affirma-
tive, he closed the inquiry.
After a brief consultation, the jury came to a
verdict of " Accidental death from burning:'--,C4l-
tenham Journal.

DIAMOND DUST.
(From Eliza Cook's Journal)
The most strict and severe, and suspicious persons,
are precisely those wbo are most often deceived. Suspi-
cion is so rarely directed aright, that cunning is more
than a match for it; and oppreloion ever begets canning,
which is the dwarfed and deformed cleverness of the
slave.

The young should be spared from sorrow as muck as
possible. Never dim the sunshine of hope and joy, so as
to leave them without even the memory of its glory.
Rob charity of its name, by the delicacy of your be-
qutsts, and you give it a fair chance of proving the
divinity of its origin.
People seldom improve when they have no other
model but themselves to copy after.

FATAL CoLLIERT EXPLOSION.—An explosion of
vulphareous gas, attended with fatal consquences, oc-
curred at a coal-pit at Kingswinford,' on Thursday
morning last. The miners resumed their labours at the
ordinary hour, after testing the workings of the pit with
a safety lamp, and pronouncing it safe. About an hour
and a half afterwards, however, an explosion took place.
All the lights were put our, and the even (several of
whom are slightly injured) thrown down by the current.
A boy named Jabez Burks, about thirteen years of age,
was killed. An inquest was held on the body at the
Sampson and Lion Inn, Pensnett, before T. M. Phillips,
&q., coroner, on Saturday last, when a verdict is ac-
cordance with the evidence was returned.—Wolver-
hampton Chronicle.
BERLIN, DEC. 28 —The Court has received the
satisfactory intelligence that her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Dessau, saved, as it were, from the jaws of
death b) Dr. Wasemeyer, of Berlin. contifinevto im-
prove, and that hopes are entertained of her ultimate
recov, r). Dr. We haemeyer is understood to have re-
sorted to an ingenious mode of applying a douche to the
patient's head. Her Iti.yal Iligtice,4 was removed from
her bed into a warm bath; the dt.c or then moon-c I
ladder placed against the well!, wh, nee he pound down
Liu ket aft. r bucket upon, the Duchess's head. This
,imple and efficacious mole of applying the remedy, in
CairS of .p,plexy, or paneysiN of the brv:n, merits bt big
recottivd.

RAILWAY FErTIVITI/S IX MANCHESTER..—On
Tuesday evenit g, within one of the arches of the lion-
don and North ICrt,te•rn liailway, an e•ntertainneent was
given to the fit, ti ruopioj kfi iu ehe goods department of
the line, by Mr. ~su,ue•l Snit, the general manager.
The arch, which i. upward:. of 200 feet in length, and
proportn nobly side•, o a.ll4ht4cl Kith gad. ahtl decorated
with ere•rgreeus mot arrifie,i.l tl 'veers. The t umbe r
persona present was from 650 to 700, and nearly one-
halt of these were the wives and sweethearts of the
men. Upon the platform, erected at one cud of the
arch, the guest•' table were placed; and at these were
seat' d the principal officers in various departments of
the company's service, together with their ladies. The
usual loyal and other toasts appropriate to the occasion
were girt-n, and the entertainup nt concluded with •
dance.

THE AMERICAN PRESS —The enterprise and libe-
rality of the New York press are, we apprehend, un•
equalled in any other city in the world, except, perhaps,
the city of London. Among the late enterprises of the
press for procuring early foreign news was the establish-
ment of a weekly express between this city end St. John,
New Bruns wick,'a distance by land of nearly 300 miles,
which was ru►► from February to November at a rate of
speed, over most of the route, or nearly 20 miles per
hour. From St. John the news has been ri gularly tele-
graphed to New York, some 600 miles further, et an
additional expense of 1001., making the total weekly
expenses for a single dispatch of 3,000 cords nearly
200/. The completitm of the telegraph to this city
renders the centinutince of the horse express unneces•
sery, but the telegraph tolls are still to be paid, and they
amount, for 3,000 words, which the press contract to
receive, to a very heavy sum, say 6,000/. to 6,0001. pe•r
year. A good deal has been said, and not a little oppo-
sition exists, in this community, against granting the
exclusive use of the wire for the transmission of the
foreign news' dispatch to the New York press, and as
the merits of the case do not appear to bo fully compre-
hended by the public, we propose to give what we be-
lieve to be a correct statement of the matter. The. New
York Associated Pre,s embraces all the leading papers
in that city, and the committee appointed by the different
publishers also represent, in this fort ign hews business,
the morning papers of &Item, the principal papers of
Philadelphia, and all intermediate cities to New Orleans.
The leading object the committee of the press profess to
have in view is to place the principal commercial news
before the whole public in advance of its receipt for
speculative purposes; and their arrangements for giving
the public the benefit of their enterprise are the most
perfect that can be devised.—HaVaz Sun.

THE IIIAII,B.—SOUTHAMPTON, WEDMISDAY, JAN.
2.—The Royal Mail Steam-packet Compaq's ship
Trent, Captain W. Clarke, took her departure this after-
noon with the usual mails for the West Indies and Gulf
of Mexico, in charge of Lieutenant O'Reilly, R.N., Ad-
miralty agent. Her route is Liu Bqtuda, the Bahamas,
Havannah, and Mobile to the Gulf of Mexico. She -hat
33 passengers, amongst wh m were Paymaster Gibbs for
Jamaica, Quartermaster Macdonald for BarbadOes, M.
Sotomayor for Havannah, &c. The freight list com-
prised 8,0001. in specie, 100 bottles of quicksilver, value
about 1,600/., and the usual cargo for various parts of
the West ludies. Some alteration has been made in the
rigging of the Trent, which has had the 'effect of im-
proving her appearance considerably. She now carries
topsail and topgallantsail yards on the main as well as
the foretopmast. This addition, besides enabling the
steamer to carry a vast deal more canvass in fine and
moderate weather, makes her look mere warlike, and
has greatly augmented her " shiphap." appearance.
The Avon, with the West India and Pacific mails, may

now be daily expect( d.
A PRISON BREAKER.—Frederick Grim wood, Some
time since, when wider sentence of transportation for
walkebeteoatintfhr7ritielpswich
t°
He then in-
dulged in u plundering expedition throughout. Norfolk,
Huntingdon. and Cambridge, and ultimately found his
seventhe utter )ears,
ctiLt?runk altliyou of t
way trite the Bury Assize Court for robbery. Here he
was convicted, and was *also rt cognist d by Superin-
tendent
GStrafin%ro,
oan,lion fhisoppttianield
attof,
pet in courthi n alto the
f
f
oi:roisitti.tiradhgreorbai
,neireeudtiel
settehorntrt.
dw atho
thecthhe he ex.
Stitteni7h, wns stntet.ced to six months' ie prisonment
s
piseta"t%don convicted,
?titetat 't.te *.erns h;at,
Ipswich gaol, preliminary to
his former sentence. On Wetinesoay
afternoon, however, 1 e took a distaste to her
Maj st3's gaol at Bury art ascordiegly walked. off on
his own account, with, ni iii any measure etudyieg the
ft cling ot the governor, eho had been quite unsex-us-
tomedto lose lis prisoners. We learn tha his escape
was a ffectt d by the negligence of the plumber, in leaviug
R !Adder which be had been us'ng in the well. The
prisoner c.eild see the ladder tr,,in his yard. end he im-
tnedi,itely elernb, d over the i•on railings. seized the
ladder, mounted the wall, and dragged the:ladder over
the wall to descend by. But it appears the ladder dipped
sideways out of his reach, and he bad to drop from the
top of the wall, a distance of 20 feet, as a deep indenta-
tion was made in the sod by his feet in the talL The
officer having had occasion to have the yard for about a
minute, it appears that he took immediate advantage of
bis absence. Officers are scouring the country, but
nothing has yet been heard of the prisoner.—./psseich
Express.

t the lion. H. Fitzroy had an interview with Sit
George Grey yesterday at the Home-office.