The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-23 00:00:00

DEATH OF

TAKING SAVINE.

On Saturday an inquest was held by Mr. Baker, at
the Crown, Mary-street, Kingsland-road, upon the
body of a married woman, named Harret Cole, aged
34, who had been deserted by her husband, and had
died from the effects of a medicine called savine,
which she had taken for the purpose of procuring
abortion. Mr. John Nicholls, surgeon, Queen's-road,
Dalaton, stated that the deceased, during the last three
weeks, had daily called upon him with one of her
children who was unwell. Deceased hersolf made no
complaint. On Wednesday night last his attention was
called to her. He found her in bed at her lodgings. She
was suffering severely from internal pains. He heard
from a female in the house that she was in the family way,
and that it was supposed she had taken a decoction of
savine to procure an abortion. She was fast sinking.
He gave her some medicine, and she rallied a little.
She died the following morning. He made a post
mortem examination of the body, and found the sto •
mach in a state of inflammation, which was suf-
ficient to cause death. The uterus contained a
fretus about three months old. The inflamma-
tion of the stomach might have been caused by
a decoction of savine. In many cases life has
been sacrificed by a person taking it to procure
abortion. Mr. Finer, parish surgeon cf Shore.
ditch, stated that a few weeks ago the deceased
called upon him to request that he would give her
something to destroy the child with which she was
pregnant. She offered him any money if he would,
but he refused. Eliza Cleverly, a single young wo-
man, stated that on Tuesday last she accompanied
deceased to a herbalist's at the corher of William-
street, Shoreditch, where she bought twopenny worth
of savine. She boiled it in some water, and on Wed-
nesday afternoon she drank it. Soon after she was
taken very ill, when witness went for a dcctor.
Verdict—" That the deceased died from an inflam-
mation of the bowels, caused by taking a decoction of
savine, and the jury cannot separate without express-
ing a strong opinion that great blame is attached to
herbalists and others indiscriminately vending such
articles."

TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING.
Six O'CLOCK.

CESAREIVITCH.
8 to 1 agst Russborough
9 to 1 agst Landgrave—taken
10 to 1 asst Bolingbroke
10 to 1 apt Backbiter

CABIBRIDGESEIIRE STAKES.
7 to 1 agst The Italian
10 to 1 agst Mu!grave
11 to 1 agst Turnus

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

Jane Truman was again brought up, charged wiAl
stealing two 1001. Bank of Enilsnd notes, one 2cl.
ditto, one 101. ditto, one 51. ditto, 71. 103. in gold, and
a cheque for M., from the person of Mr. John Win-
penny, a woollendraper, lately residing at the Castle
and Falcon, in Aldasgate-street.

This case was remanded from Saturday week last,
in order to obtain information with regard to the
note:, no difficulty in that respect being anticipated,
as the numbers of all the notes were known, and in-
formation forwarded to the Bank to stop payment of
them when presented.
Mr. Wontner, who attended on behalf of the pri-
soner, said that the prosecutor was not in attendance,
and he believed that he had no intention of prosecut-
ing the case any further, considering the great doubt
he felt with regard to the prisoner's identity. He
knew prosecutor was anxious to return to America,
and that this affair had alone detained him. Ile
would, therefore, apply for the prisoner's discharge,
as in all probability the prosecutor was already on his
way to the far West.

Sir G. CARRoLL said the charge was too serious to
allow him to discharge the prisoner until he had
more satisfactory information regarding the prose-
cutor's intention of proceeding with the case. Ile
would remand it till Thursday next, and if the pro-
secutor did not appear then, he would at once dis-
charge the prisoner.
BOW-STREET.

Antonio Moltini, the foreigner who was las Satur-
day charged with having in his possession a number
of forged notes in imitation of the notes of tha Vene-
tian Lombardy Bank of the Austrian empire, was
brought before Mr. Henry for re-examination. The
prisoner is a native of Como, and has been employed
in this country for some time as a glass and china
dealer.

Mr. Bush, solicitor to the Bankers' Protection
Society, conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Ballan-
tine, assistel by Mr. Humphries, appeared for the
prisoner.

- Vincent Bayerd and Rodolph de Felsenthal, the
Commissioners of Police from Vienna, who gave evi-
dence at the former examination respecting the value
of the notes, were present to watch the case.
Mr. Lawrence Lee, who is in partnership with his
father as an ornamental lithographic printer, and
carries on business at No. 245, high Holborn,
proved that on Monday, the 2d inst., the prisoner en-
tered his shop and inquired the expense of engraving
3,000 tickets similar to the one he produced. Wit-
ness informed him they would cost about 2/. 15s. The
ticket was printed in Italian, and witness did not
understand the purport of it. On looking closely
and obsk.ving a water-mark, he inquired whether
the prisoner desired to have that imitated ; to
which the latter rtplied, " Yes, as near as pos-
sible to the copy." Witness then informed him that
the watermark would cause an increase of 10s. in the
expense, and the prisoner assented to pay the extra
charge, as he desired to have the engraving well exe-
cuted. His next inquiry was as to the price of two
steel dies for the stamps at the corners of the tickets,
but witness could give bim no estimate, and requested
him to call again on the following day.
Mr. Hi nay having here inquired the purport of the
words on the tickets, one of which the witness pro-
duced, was informed by Mr. Bush that the translation
was as follows :

"April 1, 1849.
Lombard-Venetian Kingdom. Note sof the
Treasure, Austrian Lire Five.
"The present note of five lire shall be accepted in
payment as hard coin at the central offices,tat all the
public offices, and at all the public offices of the Lam-
bard-tienctian Kingdom.
" The Imperial Commissary Plenipotentiary,
" MON TEC IIOLI."
Mr. Bush added that each lire was worth about
3s. 4d. English.
The examination of Mr. Lee was then proceeded
with. He stated that he requested a deposit from
the prisoner, who promised to call and bring one the
next day. Witness was informed by the prisoner
that the tickets were used on the continent by the
labourers to obtain provisions before receiving their
wages, and that then they paid them back to their
employers. In fact the process he described was si-
milar to the truck system in this country. The pri-
soner called on the following morning and left a
sovereign as a deposit, requesting witness to proceed
with the work as quickly as possible. Witness then
told him he could not make the dies for less than
one sovereign each, upon which the prisoner said he
would try to get them cheaper elsewhere, and wit-
ness gave him the address of several diesinkers who,
he thought, would be able to make them at less ex-
pense than he could get them done. The prisoner
then lefr, but called inverel times after wards to sae
how the work proceeded, and in the mean time witness
had communicated (through his father) with a foreigner,
who translated the ticket for him. At length a nearly
perfect proof was shown to prisoner, who expressed
himself well satisfied, and then produced a note for
the sum of GO lire, which he desired to have imitated,
and to have 1,000 copies struck off immediately.
Witness consented to do these for 51. 103. On the
10th inst. the prisoner called and ordered 3,000 of the
first tickets to be struck off immediately, as he con-
sideied the proof shown him was quite perfect. He
paid a deposit upon the second job, and examined an
and promised to call for
the 3,
imperfect proof of the plate for the same, in which he
or
d ereodoO some
impressions few
of the first job on the following
Friday. He did not come, however, until Saturday,
when witness (in the presence of John Forrester, the
officer, who was in private clothes, and with whom
he and his father had been in communication all
along) handed the notes to him, and received the sum
agreed to be paid for them, and gave the prisoner an
acknowledgment for the same. Witness was in the
act of showing the prisoner a proof of the second
job when Forrester took him into custody on the
charge.
John Forrester, the Mansion-house officer, repeated
his former evidence as to apprehending the prisoner,
and proved having found a bundle of papers at his
lodgings at the George public-house, Brook-street.
Mr. Herm, reminded Mr. Bush that the evidence
of some persons in the Austrian service would be ne
cessary to show that the tickets were fac similes of
the Austrian notes of a like value at present in cir-
culation in that country. The evidence of the Com-
missioners of Police he did not consider was sufficient
for that purpose.
Mr. Ballantine said the question would ultimately
be, whether the prisoner acted with a guilty know-
ledge' or whether he was, in fact, only the agent of
another. He (Mr. Ballantine) felt bound, from the
instructions he hand received, to state, that the prie
soner's defence was, that he had no guilty knowledge
whatever, and was acting as agent for another, whose
Dame, of course, it would be unwise at present to
divulge.
Mr. Bush intimated that he wee in communication
with the Austrian authorities, and he trusted at the
end of another week to be in a position to satisfy the
Court upon the point hinted at by Mr. Henry.
The prisoner was -accordingly remanded for an-
other week; and the witnesses who hive already been
examined were bound over to prosecute.
CLERICEN WELL.

Three well-dressed young wome—n., who give the
names Sophia Emmett,, Mary Ann Wicks., and Sophia
Burton, were put at the bar before Mr. Tyrwhitt
charged with robbing Mr. John Smith, a naval
officer, of 18 sovereigns and some other money,
whilst he was under the influence of some deleterious
matter administered to him when in their company.
The prosecutor said that between ten and eleven
o'clock at night he mat the prisoners in Gas well-
street, and being asked by them to "stand treat," he
accompanied them to a public-house called the
Maidenhead, and gave each a glass of gin and some
pork pie. He afterwards went with them to another
tavern, the Golden Lieu, where they were supplied
with a pot of ale only, and after partaking of one
glass he became so very ill that he was incapable of
making any exertion, and in a helpless and almost
unconscious state they pulled him outside the house,
and took him under a gateway adjoining, and there
he was pushed, or fell down when utterly insensible.
He revived some few hours afterwards, and found
himself in a most wretched state, with his pockets in-
side out, and deprived of his cash as stated.
By Mr. COMBE—He could not tell how they got
him down. Was not in the company of the prisoners
half-an-hour. Had not been drinking. Saw his cash
safe five minutes before he kst his reason. When he
was led from the public-house he was right to a cer-
tain extent, but too helpless to resist. Was satisfied
that something of a narcotic nature was administered
to him. There was a fourth woman in their company.
John Reeve, 424, A division, said he received in-
formation of the robbery, and first apprehended Bur-
ton. She said, when told what she was wanted for,
" Don't make me suffer for all, for I only had a part
of it, and am not the worst." On telling her that the
others would be taken, she observed, " Oh, very well ;
Ist us all share fate alike." After locking her up be
took Wicks into custody at her house, No. 25, Baltic-
street, St. Luke's. Tne moment he had made known
his errand she began crying, and asserted that all she
had of the stolen money was 25., adding that " Jenny"
(a woman well known to the police), who seas the
worst, was out of the way. In company of Haw-
kins, ]9l G, witness subsequently sought after and
secured Elliott, Who, being informed ths.t the other
prisoners were locked up, expressed her eatisfection,.
hoping that all would suffer alike, and trusted that
" Squinting Jenny,"
who wabsconded, would he taken.
as with them, and had
Mrs. Elizabeth Isaacs, wife of Charles Isaacs, of 21,
Attfield-street, St. Luke's, saw the prisoners and the
woman at present at large lead the prosecutor from
the Golden Lion to the archway. She knew the
women well, and listened at the entrance, when she
distinctly heard Burton exclaim, " Come along, I've
got it," and the three prisoners and " Jenny " thou
ran away, leaving the prosecutor behind. She did not

MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1850.

interfere further. " Squinting Jenny" lived in the
same house as witness_ She had disappeared from
her lodgings.

Af,ec some faraier evithLnce the prigcners, who
declined saying anything to the charge, were re-
manded.

Mr. TYRWBITT inquired if any money belonging
to the prosecutor had been recovered.
Constable Keene answered in the negative, giving
it as his opinion that the bulk of it was with " Squint-
ing Jenny.

'The magistrate congratulated the prosecutor on his
lucky Escape with his life, and desired the officers to
look after the other woman.

THAMES.
Henry George Rushbrook, a well dressed, intelli-
gent lad, about fifteen years of age, apprenticed to
Mr. Edward E. Child, pawnbroker, Nos. 216 and 217,
High street, Shadwell, was charged • before Mr.
Ingham with robbing his master.
It appeared in evidence that for some time past
money had been frequently missed from the tills in
the prosecutor's shops, and two valuable watches and
other valuable property had disappeared. A strict
look-out had in consequence been kept, and on Mon-
day Mr. Child adopted the precaution of marking a
quantity of silver, and put some in the tills every
day. On Friday afternoon, Mr. Golding (Mr. Child's
foreman) put marked silver to the amount of 3/. 3s.
in one till, and to the amount of Ti. 17s. in the other
shop, and while he wafts at his tea, the prisoner, who
was generally employed in the warehouse up-stairs,
was left in care of the shop. When Mr. Golding re-
turned to the shop he missed a marked half-crown out
of the till in the pawn-shop, and immediately sent for
Potter 212 K, and on his arrival the prisoner was told
that a half-crown was missing from the till, and he
was asked if he had any money about him. .He de-
manded why he was suspected more than the other
boy, and declared he had only a few halfpence, which
he took from his pocket. While doing so, he was in
the act of raising his left hand towards a shelf, when
Potter seized it. and said, " What have you got
there ?" and at the same moment found it to be the
marked half-crown, which was identified by Mr.
Golding.
The prisoner afterwards admitted to Potter that he
had taken the half-crown, but denied having stolen
the two watches.

Mr. INGIiAM said he had no doubt the prisoner had
robbed his master to a great extent, and fully com-
mitted him for trial.

C1?11111NAL COURT SENTENCES.

The following is a list of the sentences passed at
the late sittings of this court :
TRANSPORTATION. .••• Life Howard Augustus
Styles.
Twenty Years—Joseph Braznell, John Wren.
Fifteen Years—Robert Archer, Francis Davis.
Ten Years—William Perry, Steven Sly, Jesse
John Westerby.
Seven Years George Gabriel Leeky, John
Taylor, William Bowser, James Cole, William Kip-
ping, John Moram, Ellen Williams, Daniel Dowd,
William Brown, William Clayton, James Wren,
Thomas Green, Charles Bentley, Hannah 'Poser,
William Edward Pike, Geore Chapman, James Paris,
John Thompson, William Fall.
IMPRISONMENT.--Eighteen Months—John Simp-
son, Henry Davies.

Twelve-Months—Thomas Crawford, Thomas Hall,
George, alias Mousy Madden, Joseph Morrison,
Frederick Ford, George Wren, William Brace, Wil-
liam Cowley, James Buckthorpe, Joseph Ride, Henry
Brown, Martin St. Leger, John St. Leger, William
' Leggett, John Alexander, James Darvill, Jeremiah
Driscoll, baac Bandon, John Gregg, James Pyefinch,
Rueboi Randall.
Ten Months—Michael Macdonald.
Nine Months—John Crosby, James Fairman,
Sarah Lowe, William Christy.
Six Months—Peter Hughes, Edward Barker
Simpson, James Kealey, John Richard Marks, Mary
Ann Church, Robert Ekins, James Thompson, Wil-
liam Britton, James White, Thomas Haywood, James
Mercer, Sarah Hassard, Ellen Hoar, James Brock-
man, Thomas Palmer, Joseph Elderfield, George
Steevens, George James Pocock, Michael Welch,
Mary Ann Duncan, Mary Law, Edward Rooke,
Elizabeth Williams, George Sheldrick, Thomas Hay-
wood, John Sullivan, James Mercer, Edward Short,
William Chick, John Petrie, the younger, John Pe •
trig, the elder, George Bentley, John Dee, Richard
Marshall.

Four Months—William Derbyshire, George Der-
byshire, David Doland, Fanny Deashander, Rachel
Haynes, Henry Smith, Cornelius Merritt, Mary
Ann Leary, John Manley, Mary Crawley, John
Cronan, Thomas Domanget, Thomas Cooper.
Three Months—Lewis IVoiff (one month solitary),
Henry Knapper, James Millard, Richard ;Weston,
Mary -Vaughan, James Patrick, John Thornton, Ann
Field, Robert Shepherd.
Two Months—James He zell, Margaret M‘Swiney,
Edward Harrington, Thomas Doyle, Mary Wilson.
Ooe Month and Under—Edward Shehea Robert
ILye3, Thomas Kelly, Lucretia O'Connor, Catherine
Hill, John Pealing-, Elizabeth Dyer.
Acquittals—Ann Macarthy, Jane Miles, Abraham
Harris, Jane Neaves, George Steevens, Catherine
Steevens, William O'Brian, William Turner, Edward
Mansfield, John Chester, Mary Ann Allen, John
Gould, Robert Petrie, Thomas Deman, William
Carter, John Munday, Catherine Watson, James
Drage, Frederick Luscombe, Thomas Baldock, Wil-
liam Hill, John West, John Smith, John Forrester,
Charles Israel Dixon, William Saunders, William
Taylor, Richard Collins.

Remands until next Sessions—John Gregory,
Thomas Banks, Augustus Robinson, John Wakeman
Edwards.

Ms Not Pound—Horatio Nelson Branch.
Judgment Respited—Edward George Barrington,
Mary Ann Archer.

ALARMING ACCIDENT ON THE
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
BRISTOL, SATURDAY.—This morning, at twenty
minutes to five o'clock, the mail train, which was
then over due nearly four hours, arrived in this city,
bringing intelligence of an alarming accident which
had occurred the previous evening to a cheap excur-
sion train near Wootton-Bassett station. The acci-
dent was of a most extraordinary, and, as the affair
at present stands, of a somewhat suspicious character.
The policeman on duty at the station at the time has
been given into custody, and a thorough investiga-
tion will be made by the officers of the company into
the matter. A number of persons were more or less
injured ' • but, miraculous as it will appear when the
details of this distressing accident come to be read,
fortunately no lives were lost. The news soon spread
throughout the city, and the doors of the station were
oompletely besieged by anxious inquirers after rela-
tives and friends.
The following particulars, which have been obtained
partly from official sources and partly from personal
inquiry, may be relied on as authentic :
It appears that one of the cheap excursion trains
which have latterly become so popular on the Great
Western and other lines was announced to leave this
city on Friday morning for Paddington and back. It
was completely thronged with parties from the West
of England anxious to avail thernself of such a fa-
vourable opportunity of visiting the metropolis at
a cheap rate. So great was the throng, indeed, that
for the convenience of dispatch the excursion party
was divided into two separate trains, one leaving
the Bath and the other the Bristol station. Similar
arrangements were intended by the officers of the
company to have been made for the return journey in
the evening; but, as is usually the case, most of the
passengers, anxious to see as much as they possibly
could of the lions of the metropolis, delayed their arri-
val again at the Paddington station till almost the
last minute allowed them, so that when the time ap-
proached for leaving, such was the rapidity and the
promiscuous nature of the arrivals of the passengers
that it was found absolutely impossible to separate the
Bristol from the Bath excursion train, and it was ac-
cordingly resolved to send on two mingled trains.
The first of these return trains accomplished its pas-
saga with great punctuality, arriving at the Bristol
station shortly before twelve o'clock last (Friday)
night. It was stated by the passengers that when
they left Swindon the other excursion train was just
signalled as being in sight, and it seems it also arrived
as far as Swindon in safety. It left Swindon at a
quarter past eleven o'clock, and just after passinethe
Wootton-Bassett station, at the junction of the siding
with the down line, the passengers felt a tremendots
concussion, and immediately there was an awful
crash; it•seems that the train had come into collision
with a horse-box, which somehow or other in the
short space of a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes
which had elapsed since the passing of the first ex-
cursion train, had been placed on the line. The en-
gine and the first four carriages were precipitated
down the embankment into a field of mangold-
wurtzel. The first carriage was turned on its side,
so that there were no means of escape, but although
the top of it had to be removed by forcibly breaking
it in with a sledge-hammer before the inmates could be
rescued from their perilous position, none of them
sustained any injuries that were of a serious or dan-
gerous character. The engineer and stoker were
flung violently to the ground, but apparently without
much injury, as they shortly afterwards busied them-
selves in endeavouring to assist the passengers.
Mr. Burton,.the superintendent of the company's
police at the Bristol station, happened to be in one of
the first-class carriages, the inmates of which were
precipitated over one another. As soon as he managed
to extricate himself he was most unremitting in his
exertions. The scene is described as having been for
some time one of the utmost consternation and con-
fusion ; the screams of the female passengers were
heartrending; two persons had their collar-bones dis-
located, the heads and faces of several others were cut
and bruised, and some had their arms and legs in-
jured. A lady named Lewis, wife of the high-bailiff

THE COUNT!
LivEnrooL, SEPT. 21.-2
s. d. s. dl

Wheat, per 701 b :
English, white • 6 6 to 6 9
Do. rod: .. 6 2 6 4,
Irish, best red • • 5 8 5 1113.
Do, lower quality 5 6 6 0,
Manx, red and wh. 5 10 6 0
Dantsic, high mixed 6 10 7 3
Do., mixed .. .. 6 4 6 6
Rostock, &c.. .. 6 7 6 8
Ilainburgh and

Lower Baltic .. 6 0— 6 21
American & r white 6 3 6 4
Canadian, red 5 8— 6 0
Antwerp & Louvain 6 0 6 2
french, red.. • . 6 0— 6 1
Hungarian and

Mariaropoli .. 5 8— 5 9
Odessa, Polish .. 5 10 6 0

of Bath, was considered to be most seriously and dan-
gerously injured, suffering from concussion. Dr. W.
Bird Ilerapath, of this city, received injuris about
!,),, awl fre:?.. Pjeherd
city, laid iiis knee cut open, and there were many
minor injuri,is inflicted. Fortunately the coupling-
chain of the fourth carriage broke, otherwise the
whole of the remaining carriages, would in all proba-
bility have been precipitated over the embankment,
and the consequences have been serious in the ex-
treme. Restoratives were immediately procured from
Wootton-Bassett, and Dr. Herapath, with other
medical gentlemen, rendered valuable assistance.
The mail train reached Wootton-Bassett at a
quarter-past 12 o'clock, and fortunately Mr.
Brunel was one of the passengers, and he, with the
Rev. H. L. Walters, of Aust Parsonage; General
Jervei3e, and other gentlemen, assisted in aiding the
sufferers. As the down line was disarranged, the
mail train could not proceed, and wus detained up-
wards of three hours. Some of the carriages belong-
ing to the excursion train which were uninjured were
then attached to it, and the train proceeded, a bed
having been prccured for the accommodation of Mrs.
Lewis, of Bath. Tire accident had broken up a per-.
tion of the down rails, and the train accordingly had
to run over a portion of the up-line. It arrived in
Bristol in safety at twenty minutes to five o'clock.
The other passengers were brought on by the engine
belonging to the up-goods train, and arrived in safety
soon after the mail train.

The cause of this alarming accident is at present
enveloped in mystery, and various have been the con-
jectures hazarded as to how the horse-box got on the
line. Originally it was supposed that the coupling-
chain of the last carriage of the preceding train having
by some mischance got broken, it must have been left
on the line. This, however, subsequent inquiries have
shown to be incorrect, as no horse-box was attached
to the preceding train, and if it had been the last
carriage on the train, there would have been a red
light attached to it, which in all probability
would have prevented the accident. This is fur-
ther shown from its position, as in such a
case it would have been on the rails up and
down the line, and not partially across it as the horse-
box which caused the accident is described to have
been. Mr. Brunel states that he heard it asserted at
Wootton-Thisset station that the horse- box had been
purposely placed on the rail. Inquiries were imme-
diately made, and the result was that the policeman
who was on duty at the spot was given into custody.
For the snore complete elucidation of the circum-
stances of the case, we may mention that near the
Wootton-Bassett station there is a bridge with a sig-
nal post, on the other side of the station is the siding,
and about 150 or 200 yards from the station a foot-
path crosses the line and the siding, at which there is
another signal post. The whole distance from the
bridge to the point of junction of the siding with the
down rails is somewhat less than a quarter of a mile.
and is under the surveillance of the policeman on duty.
It is affirmed that in this siding, during the whole of
Friday, there was a luggage van and a horse-box—
the identical one which caused the accident. They
were a short distance from the footpath and near to the
junction of the siding when the collision occurred ; and
as about twenty minutes elapsed bete een the passage
of the first and the second excursion train, it was quite
practicable, had any evil-disposed person been wicked
enough to do so, to have wheeled it up the siding on
to the main line ; but if so, it is hard to explain how
it could be done without he policeman's witnessing
it, more especially as the night was a bright moon-
light one. Some persons have supposed that as there
were some severe gusts of wind, the horse-box might
have been blown from the siding on to the line. The
porter, however, in self-defence, alleges positively
that in the morning he "scotched" (placed wedges
under) ell the v. heels of both the horse-box and the
luggage-van. The line at this spot, too, lies due east
and west, whilst the direction of the wind was south-

east, or obliquely acrcss the line, nor can the police-
man state that the wedges had been removed from thr.
wheels. The most searching investigation is required
into this affair, as the escape from a frightful loss of
life seems to have been almost miraculous, and it is
certainly most unaccountable how the horse-box go
on the line.

SUNDAY EVENING.
It is with much pleasure we can state that Mrs.
Lewis has been pronounced out of danger, and all
the injured persons are progressing as favourably as
can he expected. Another cheap excursion train
left this city for Paddington yesterday, and three days
are allowed in London.

ROBBERY AND ATTEMPT TO MURDER.
We doubt whether the
,annals of crime present a
case more atrocious, more ingeniously planned and
coolly executed, than a robbery and attempt at murder
perpetrated in Aldersgite-street on Friday afternoon.
For a considerable time a gentleman, named Cureton,
has lodged in the house of Mr. Wilson. a
tailor, 81, Aldersgate-strect. Mr . Cureton is
connected with the British Museum, and buys
coins and medals for that establishment. He has been
in the habit of keeping a quantity of easily-conver-
tible property at his lodgings, and this fact appears
from the event to have become known to some of the
higher class of London thieves. On Friday after-
noon three men, dressed in the first-rate style, en-
tered Mr. Wilson's shop, and inquired for Mr. Cure-
ton. Mr. Wilson admitted them, and directed
them to the second floor. In about a quarter of
an hour after wards they came down stairs,
without showing the least sign of hurry,
and left the house. Shortly after their departure Mrs.
Wilson had occasion to go up to Mr. Cureton's
rooms, and she found him lying on the floor, insen-
sible, his face black, and blood running from a wound
in his forehead. She thought he had fsllen in an apo-
plectic fit, and sent+, at once for a surgeon. It was
many hours before Mr. Cureton was restored to con-
sciousness, and, as soon as his strength permitted, he
gave the following account of the attack made upon
him :—The three supposed gentlemen pretended that
they had called to inquire whether he had a crown
of William and Mary. He replied in the affirmative,
and asked them to be seated. As he was in the act of
handing a chair to one of the men, the other two got
behind him and quickly placed some instrument round
his neck, which squeezed him like a vice. Almost at
the same moment one of them struck him a blow over
the right eye, and he remembered nothing more. Mr.
Careton saw the movement of the instrument towards
his neck, and attempted to throw a small box at the
window, hoping in that way to give an alarm. The
thieves probably thought they had murdered Mr.
Careton. They removed the instrument from his
neck, and carried off coins and medals valued at 3001.
The surgeon who was called in is of opinion that if
Mrs. Wilson had not providentially gone up to Mr.
Cureton so soon, he would have died, as re-action had
just commenced.
Upon making inquiries at the residence of Mr.
Careton, last night, we learned that he was much
better, and more collected than he was on Saturday
morning. He is now able to give a more clear
account of the manner in which he was treated, and
the amount of property taken away by the thieves.
He states that two or three men appeared deeply
engaged together, and after minutely examining the
coin which they bad inquired about, they desired to
be shown a half-crown of the same reign. At that
moment Mr. Cureton noticed that one of the men
did not enter beyond the step of the door. There is
now no doubt that that party was watching to see
whether any one came up or went down the stairs.
Mr. Cureton, thinking that probably he was a friend
of the others, and not interested in the purchase of
antiquities, asked him to be seated, and at the same time
he turned round to hand him the chair he bad been
sitting ou a few minutes previously. The instrument
was at that juncture passed round his neck. It was
formed by lashing two life-preservers together. The
property taken away was deposited in sundry cabi-
nets, and consisted of crown and half-crown pieces of
Oliver Cromwell, King Alfred, and numerous Anglo-
Saxon coins, as well as a diamond pin, a silver
capped and jewelled watch, and a box of cigars. A
reward of .20/. was yesterday (Sunday) offered for the
apprehension of the villains. Should the parties offer
the coins for sale there is no doubt that they will be
apprehended ; and although the property is worth
from 300/. to 4001. to Mr. Cureton, yet, should it be
transferred to the melting pot, it will probably not
realise as many shillings for old silver. The police,
up to last night, had been unable to obtain any tidings
of the guilty parties.

1Y MARKETS.
[Nothing passing to-day.

S. d. s. d
perl96lb 14 oto 14 6
Barley, English, pr
imperial quarter 26 0 —27 0
Irish, S cotch, and
Manx,per 601 b .. 3 2 3 3
Foreign, grinding 3 2 3 6
14ye, per 4801 b .. 22 0 24 0
Beans, English, pr
imperial quartr 28 0 29 0
Irish and Scotch,

per 4801 b.. .: 25 0— 26 0
Dutch .. .. 26 0— 27 0
Egyptian .. .. 24 6 25 0

Peas, English, per
imperial quartr 30 0 —32 0
Foreign 29 0 30 0
'Oats, per 45Ib:—
English,
Scotch,

and Welsh, old 2lo— 2 11
Irish, new, best
mealing .. -. 2 5 2 6
Do., mid and inf. 0 0 0 0
Old • . • • 0 G— 0 0
Oatmeal, English,

Do., common .. 5 6 b 8
Egyptian .. 4 0— 4 6
Flour, English &
Irish,-per 2801 b 31 0— 32 0
Do., extra line 31 0 35 6
United States, per
barrel .. 23 0— 24 6
Canadian .. .. 22 0— 22 6
Indian corn, per
4801 b, white .. 28 0 —2B 6
COLCHESTER, SEPT. 21.
continue, but prices are well
ley, which, in consequence 1
to hand being rather cot
Bast white whe2t is at 495; _Ala 465.
On Friday, at Chelmsford, there was a large supply
of most kinds of grain, which sold firmly at late rates;
white wheats being 44s to 50s; red 40s to 448; bar:ey
24s 6d to 28s; oats 204 to 245,

& Scotekpr24olb 23 0 24 0
Irish, new .. 23 0 23 6
Do., olcl .. 21 o—2l 6

-The supplies in this market
sustained, except for bar-
)f the new samples brought
.rse, has slightly declined.
best red, 46-

In the markets of Suffolk this week there has been a
tendency to advance.

At Miry wheat realizA 13 per quarter more.
At Vic!oribridq,c) ,NIIS Utlaltf red in price; /JO
bc;_;ns Wel6 fi I
Oa Thursday, at Stowinarket, fine qualities of wheat
advanced Is.

READING, SEPT. 21.—Wheat, old 40s to 51s; new ditto,
42s to 600; barley, 23s to 30s ; oats, 15s to 20s ; beans, 285
to ails ; peas, 27s to 32s per quarter. Fat hogs, gs (Id 10
Os 01; porkers, Os Od to Os Od per score. Poultry—Fool,
per couple, 33 Od to 3s Gd ; ducks, ditto, 3s Od to 35 61
Butter, 10d to Is per lb. Eggs, 12 to 14 for Is.
ABERDEEN, SEPT. 20. G rain—For eign oats 16s 6d to 16s 9d,
40;1,9 per bushel; oats, 163 Od to 17s:0d, 401bs per bushel;
barley, 18s to 19s Od, 521bs per bushel ; hear, 18s Cd to 190
0d,521bs per bushel; wheat 42s to 445; oatmeal, 13s Od to 14s Od
per boll ; flour, 30s to 32s per sack. Provisions—Beef,
41 to 6.1 per lb ; mutton, ditto, 4d to 6;1; veal, ditto, 43
to 6d ; pork, per stone, 3s 0:1 to 3s 6d; lamb, per Ib, 5d to 6.1;
tallow, per stone, 4s to 4s 6d ; potatoes, new, per peck, Gd to Sdi
hay, per cwt, Os to Os ; rabbits, each, 6d to 7d; hares, each, 14
Cd to 2s ; grouse, per brace, Os to Os ; butter, per lb, Bil to 103;
eggs, per doz, 7d to 9,1 ; cheese, per cwt, ISs to 23s 8d; hens,Per
pair, 3s Cd to 3361 ; chickens, ditto, 23 lid to 2s 6d ; ducks, ditto,
Os Od to Os Od; ducklings, ditto, is 6d to 23; turkeys, each, 7s"`"
to 83 (Al; geese, ditto, 3s 6d to 4s; butter for exportation (presT;
cure), per cwt, 70s to 00s; eggs, wholesale price, per dozen,"
to 5,1. d ; 41b loaf, cash, sd; credit, 6d ; pork, per stone of 14lb°,
3s 6d to Os Od; pork fine, small, 5s 6d to Os Od ; pork large'
3s 6d to 4s 3d ; ship pork per barrel of 204 lbs, Os to 0.:4.
Meal—Oatmeal, Is 4d to is sd; barley dust, sd to 9a
peaserneal, Is 8d to Is 10d; lids, 7d to 8d ; bearnseal, Is 30
to Is 4d ; flour, is 81 to is 10d; barley, per lb, Id to 2d; barley
flour, ls 4d to is sd.
DALKEITH, SEPT. 19.—The relative weight per four bus-:
of the three prices of wheat were ISst 51b, list 101 b, and last
81b. Oats, 12st 71b, 12st 51b, and lOst 71b. Barley, 16st 41b,
15st 131 b, and 14st 81b. Peas and beans, 18st 131 b, Ost 0114
and IBst 2lbs.

Qrs. Best. Current. •Inferior.
2e4 Wheat R4 6 0 £1 19 0 £1 12 4
0
725 Oats
6
656
14 Peas and Beans 111 9 01 30
0 0
0 1 187 0

Average of wheat 398 aid.
cattle
GLASGOW CATTLE M.UtKET, SEPT. se.—Our ,
market was again largely supplied as to numbers,b9i;
only one or two fine lots were shown, and these wore id
good demand; coarse and inferior, however, dull Ol
difficult to sell. Best ox beef from 45s to 474 sectd
.
42$ to 445, third 38s to 41s, cows, bulls, and inferior
beasts, 30s to 36s per cwt., sralting offal. We had t:-
largest and best supply of black-facsd wethers Ra Peed,
had this season. The better sorts in good deeasu,
Best aged wethers 5d to Sid, second do. 41c1 to 51'
ewes and inferior sheep 311 to 4d per lb, sinking °fld:
Calves were more plentiful this week. Demand goo
.
and last week's rates fully maintained-50s for best
Good pigs from 32s to 40s per cwt. on
DUBLIN, SEPT. 20.—Our market to-day was `-" „t b
liberally supplied with new grain, and we have, ":
material altsration to report in currencies of Tuesuesi
Inferior wheat might be noted a shade lower, Ile
the hest rapeseed about is hi her. ll-
her. For tor
best descriptions of Indian corn rather more ropey
was obtained, tut the sales continue tail
White wheat, old, 23s to 25$ 6d; red ditto, old; 221 d;
245; wheat, new, 22s to 25s 6d; red ditto, 19s to 235 v
barley, lls to 13s 61; bore, 8s 6d to 9s 6d; oats, old, Per
as
barrel, 103 63 to 12s Od; oats, new, per barrel, Ss
61; rapeseed, 18s to 21s; oatmeal, 9s 6d to lOs 6d; deee6o,
second, per cwt, 13s to 16s; Indian corn, per 480110,
to 29s Od.
CORK, SEPT. 20.—Our supplies of home grain, that!:
lessened a little during the last day or two by the we
continue very large, the receipts for the week being
Wheat, 3,018 brls, at 17s 6d t, 22s 6d per brit WIT
3092 brls, at Ils to Ils 6d ditto; oats, 14,327 br15,00
7s to 9s 2d ditto. Nothwithstanding the lergeeare
of the supply, prices of every description of grain ken
firmly maintained, and the parcels offering are
is We
readily at full rates. In pree,ared and foreign vvh, ersiing
have but little business passing. Holders are 03,°
for an advance on the currency of last 'wok, sou ,py
has had the effect of checking sales. In prepared barr'",
we know of no transactions. Very few parcels a Pula
pared cats have changed hands, and we believe it wilast
be difficult to obtain for the article our quotations 0 .re
week. Large shipments of this grain, however, by
being made in the green state, the facilities afforde°.,b's
steam coramunicatiot', and the) very low rate of ilrel
curb eat, cotuLining to induce parties to send forrof
consignments. The flour market continues without
change, and the trade in the article is, as last reP"—ease
quiet consumptive one. Ia the face of the jorarivg
arrivals of Indian corn, holders have been endeaveD ,er,
to establish an advance in price. The demand, 120efelder
is so limited, and of such a retail character as to reolien
nugatory any efforts cf this kind, especially with bresS
large supplies coming in, which must decidedly defied,
the market for this article. Indian meal is quite negle ce;
Flour—First 12s 6d to 13s Od ; extra 140
to
seconds, 12s Od to 12s 6d; households 9$ to lOs 6d; thirds, 6,tots
per cwt. Oatmeal les to lOs 6d; Indian meal6s 9d to 70°61;1 Oyer
meal, lOs terlOs 6 I per cwt. Indian corn 6110 s Od to 6115' age;
ton. Bran 41 to 4/2s per ton. Hay—Farmers 20s to 366,r`nors
30s; dealers 32s to 40s Od; average 36s per ton. Straw---Lars tel;
13s Od to 2;s Od; average 225; dealers 258 Od to '7'6o;
average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d too to
household loaf bd to sid per 41b. Fresh butter) ,sars
98 per lb. Eggs-4s 10.1 to 5s Od per hundred. '"cales
Newport 14s; Lydney 15s Od; Smiths' 14s 08 ; css^-
13s Od per ton. Tallow 385 Od to els Per blest
Whisky, 25 o. p., 5s 68 per imperial gallon. 48 to
—Beef 4d to 4d; mutton 4id to 6d; v 01.1,1 oarlb•
51 ; pork 4d to Od ; bacon 6d to 7d ; sausages ou„,rfo per
Hops 71 Os to 0/ Os per cwt. Bangor slates 3/ 2s 6d to 5611 per
ton. Bark—Barbary 715 s to 815 s; Valonia 15/ to 01; '',020.
1; Spanish 9/ to 10/ per ton. Fleece Wool 15s to 000 Per 1:: red
Hemp 32/ to 311 per ton. Fish—Scotch herrings 13s to , per
ditto 15s to 20s per barrel ; Newfoundland 81 10$ to 9. 00
ton. Timber—elemel, 80s per ton; red pine, 31 108;10-'
ditto, 2/ 15s per ton; deals, 13/ to 181 per 100. Aid
Market 20s to 325; salted 21s to 32s per cwt ; esiijaioc°
3d to 31d per lb. Potatoes, white bd to 91; toil;
Od to Od ; Guanc Peruvian, 111; Ichaboe,
Tar—Archangel, 195 per barrel. 8110 s per