The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-12 00:00:00

I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
CHARLES NAPIFE•

Alerchistoun, Oct. 1.

FATAL ACCIDENT TO A CLERGYMAN.
It is with deep regret we record this week the death
of the Rev. J. C. Egizinton, H hich occurred at his re-
sidence Wellington Villa, on Saturday last. The
circumstances which led to the death of the deceased
gentleman were of a very painful character. On Sa-
turday fortnight, September 21, Mr. Egginton, in
company with his daughter, twelve years of age, and
a young gentleman named Robeson, a pupil of Chel-
tenham College, was taking horse exercise in the
neighbourhood of Andoversford. In the course of
their ride deceased put his horse at a fence, which he
was unable to clear, and the consequence was that his
foot caught in the top of the wall, and he was thrown
with his rider several yards into the field. The com-
panions of the deceased could not see whether or not
the horse fell on him, but on getting round into the
field where he was, they found him lying on the
ground and groaning heavily. He lay for about five
minutes insensible, and then became sufficiently con-
scious to ask where he was and what had happened, and
whether medical assistance had been sent for. His
daughter, with admirable presence of mind, had dis-
patched Master Robeson to the nearest house at An-
doversford for a spring cart and other assistance, and in
the mean time had sent a country lad on her own
pony to Cheltenham with a note for the first medical
man he could meet with. The accident occurred
about three o'clock, but it was nearly six before medi-
cal assistance arrived at the spot, and during that
time Miss Eggington continued bathing the sufferer's
temples, and on his complaining of chilliness, covered
him with articles of dress from her own person. On
the arrival of Dr. Fortman deceased was removed
home in a fly, and on his arrival was well enough to
walk with assistance into the house and up to his bed-
room. He was sufferingintense pain, but it was dis-
covered that no bones had been broken, nor was any
serious injury inflicted on the brain. The chief seat
of the mischief was in the back and spine, and the
unfavourable symptoms continued with occasional
fluctuations up to the time of his death, which oc-
curred in the presence of all his family, and in the
full possession of his mental faculties. Deceased was
a clergymon of the Church of Fngland but living on
his private property, and was 44 years of age. An
inquest was held last Tuesday evening betore Mr.
Pruen, when the above facts being proved in evidence
thejury returned a verdict of " Accidental death."
Cheltenham Examiner.

A PROTECTIONIST LANDLORD.—It will be re-
membered that, in our publication following the Marquis of
Exeter's rent-audit in July last, we announced that, instead
of a reduction of rents being offered, as a few had anticipated,
the feelings of the tenantry were uncomfortably excited by
the exhibition of a paper intimating that all who felt dis-
satisfied with existing rentals might, upon application have
their farms re-valued! not a word, however, being said about
the condition of the farms when the tenants entered, or the
money they had invested in the permanent improvement of
the land. It seems that some of the tenantry, experiencing
the difficulty of '• making both ends meet" at the present
value of farm produce, and believing that, as his Lordship
has made great professions of devotion to the agricultural
interest, he would not wish to benefit by low prices at the
expense of the yeomanry, have applied in the proper quarter
for new valuations of their holdings. The request has been
in every instance acceded to ; but has been followed with a
document of a portentous character—a formal notice to quit.
As niay be expected, the tenants thus situated feel them-
selves in a very critical position, the understanding being that
if his Lordship's valuer adds to the rental, the tenants, in ad-
dition to labouring under the suspicion (if they remain) of
being rebellious, must either consent to pay the increased
demand, or quit at the expiration of the term mentioned in
the notice.— Stamfbrd Mercury.

THE LATE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT BRENTWOOD.—
A liberal subscription has been commenced amongst the in-
habitants of Brentwocd and its neighbourhood, on behalf of
the widows and chidren of the poor fellows recently killed in
the cutting near Shenfield ; and, although strictly speaking,
the men were not in the employ of the company, the board
has handsomely contributed 201., in addition to defraying
the funeral experaes of each.—,Essex Standard,

FE3I.ALE DOCTORS.
(From Eliza Cook's Journal.)
A college for e to medical education of wornon has
I I just been founded by the Legislature of Pennsvlva-
nia—the Act by v ;hieli it is founded, conferring upon
it all the privileges enjoyed by any other medical
, school in the Star( . We perceive that a Miss Eliza-
beth Black vrell, who received the degree of Doctur of
Medicine at the *Geneva College, and has since pur-
sued her medical studies at Paris, is a candidate for
the professorship of surgery, and other ladies offer
themselves to fill the other chairs. At first sight this
seems an extraordinary proceeding, and quite a start-
ling novelty. But: there are really sufficient grounds
for the movement, and we hope it will succeed. For
one thing it opens: up a new field for the employment
of women profitably and usefully ; and any enlarge-
ment of the field of honourable occupation for the sex
tends to her own social advancement, as well as that
of human kind. Then, looking at the profession of
" Female Doctor," there is nothing unreasonable in
it, but the contrary, however much it may be at
variance with existing usages. In many of the diseases
to which women are subject, the care of their own
sex seems perfectly consistent with all notions of deli-
cacy and modesty. Not half a century ago, women
were very extensively, indeed almost exclusively em-
ployed to attend the sex under certain circumstances;
and we remember well, that William Cobbet indig-
nantly inveighed against the substitution of medical
men in such cases, as a mark of our declining manners
and morals. But the women were displaced because
of their want of,scientific culture, and the men took
their place. Give to women the same degree of culture,
and they would be equally competent to officiate in
such cases as our surgeons are. There are now in
Paris several ladies in extensive practice, who are, even
in difficult cases, called in by medical men themselves,
in consultations. These ladies command a high de-
gree of respect, and maintain a high social status.
We observe that M. Legouve, in his excellent new
work on "The Moral History of Women," contends
for a wider sphere of operations for women in France.
He asks—" Why should not certain specialities of the
medical art be accessible to women ? Operative sur-
gery, a science positive and material, requires a bold-
ness of execution, a firmness of hand, a certain force
of insensibility, which naturally excludes women
from it ; but medicine is a theoretical science, de-
pending on observation ; and who will contest the
superiority of women as observers ? As a practical
science it depends upon the knowledge of individuals,
and who understands so well as a woman the pecu-
liarities of individual character? An illustrious
physician said—' There are no diseases—there are dis-
eased people;' and this expression explains the claim of
women to the rank of doctor. If, in fact, as expe-
rience demonstrates every day, the same malady as-
sumes with different people forms so different, that
the remedy that cures the one would kill the other;
if one of the duties of the physician be to study the
temperament of his patient, his age, and his character,
women, with their marvellous perceptions of indi-
viduality would bring to the treatment of the sick a
subtle divination—a tact in management of the pa-
tient's mind, to which we could never attain.
Nervous disorders especially, those scourges so diffi-
cult to seize, which civilisation multiplies from day to
day, would find in feminine genius the adversary
most fit to cope with them." These remarks are
worthy of attention, and we are not without hope
that some practical results may proceed from them.

THE COLLIERY ACCIDENT AT

OLDHAM.

We regret to state that the loss of life occasioned
by the late colliery explosion at Oldham is even
greater than we stated yesterday. It has been ascer-
tained that at least fifteen have been killed and six
injured. The following is a list of the sufferers :
KILLED.-1. Bartholomew B ambling, aged 13,
kilitd by a fall.

2. Edmund Butterworth, aged 48, leaving a wife
and five children. (This man's body has not yet been
recovered.) _

3. John Scott, 47 years old, leaving a wife and six
children. Burnt about the back, but death is sup-
pesed to have been caused by his being what the
colliers term " blown," that is, destroyed by being
thrown violently against the sides or projections of
the workings by the force of the explosion, or fire-
blast.

4. Daniel Dunkerley, aged 31, leasing a wife and
child. Burnt to death.

5. James Jackson, aged 55, leaving a widow.
Blown.

6. Robert Fidiagm, aged 25, leaving a wife and
two children. Burnt to death. This unfortunate
youth was a posthumous child, his father being killed
three months before his birth by a similar accident at
the Dryclough Colliery.
7. Ralph Mytton, 42 years of age, a man from
Wigan, who had only been employed here a month.
Blown.

8. Edward Gr'eary, aged 30, leaving a wife and
three children. This man was got out alive, but was
so badly burnt that he died soon afterwards.
• 9. John Newton, aged 20, burns and suffocation.

10. Benjamin Fox, aged )4, lenving a widow. Got
out at 12 o'clock on the night of the accident. Suf-
focated.

11. George Newton, tingle man, aged 20. Burnt
;o death.

12. James Butterworth, aged 21, a singl man.
Blown.

13. William Lees, aged 30, leaving a widow and
children. Blown.

14. James Fox (brother to Benjamin), aged 16.
Suffocated.

15. Thomas Bramwell, aged 20, a single man
Blown.

IsJURED.-1. John Lane, slightly hurt.
2 Robert Lane, burnt, but not badly.
3. George Clough, aged 25, slightly hurt. This
man was rescued many hours after he had been
given up for dead; he says he heard the men in
search of him calling his name, but was too exhausted
to reply.
4. W. Greenhalgh, aged 22, back slightly burned.
5. James Holker, aged 22, burnt, but likely to re-
cover.

6. Juhn Jones, aged 23, not much burnt.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
CALEDONIAN HUN AND PERTH RACES.

T ti 1711SUA Y.

Th Caledonicin Cup or 105 sal s., for three yrs old. Tst;
four, 21b; five, Sst, 91n; six sod aged, Bst 12ib;
moreF, &e., siloyed 31b. Three miles.
Mr. J. Brown's Ilniiec:t, 3 yrs... ... (G. ()Ales) 1
Mr. Currie's Eglantine,nged ... 2

W. it pfoiy.
The Members' .I.);ate of so!. Twice round.

Mr Jolly's Swaledale, 4 rs
Mr. P. Brown na Luxury, 3 yrs
Mr. Romane's Aspusia,
Won by a length.
the Perth Hunt Plate of 50/.; three yrs old, 7st 71b;
four, B,t 7th; five, 9st I.b; six anti aged, 9st 61b;
mares and geldings ailtmc'd 31b. L eats, one mile and
a half.
Mr. Thrift's John Dory. 4 yrs ... (Owner) 2 1 1
Mr. Anderson's Sir Astlry Cooper, 3 yrs ... 1 0 2
Captain Lkldan's Woodland, 4 yrs ... ... 3 2 3
Won cleverly.

(G. Ose) 1

RANGE OF THE HUMAN VOICE —ln answer to a
correspondent, the editor of the illedical Times says—There
are about nine perfect tones, but 17,592,188,041,415 different
sounds; thus 1-1 direct muscles, alone or together, produce
16,383; 30 indirect muscles, ditto, 173,741,823; and all in
co-operation produce the number we have maned; and these
independently of different degrees of intensity.

The Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord President of
the Council, arrived in town yesterday, from Brighton.

The Judge-Advocatt-General had an interview
with the Chancellor of the achequer yesterday, at his
official residence in Downing-street.
Dispatches from the Governor of Malta were re-
ceived yesterday at the Colonial-office.

Dispatches were sent off last evening for the Go-
vernor of Canada, from the Colonial-office.

FIRE AT ISLlNGTON.—Yesterday morning, between
four and five o'clock, considerable alarm was excited in the
neighbourhood of Gibson-square, Islington, by the discovery
of a fire on the premises of a gentleman named Lee, residing
at No. 10, Milner-street. Mr. Lee was aroused by the smoke
and crackling of burning timber. He hastened up stairs
and alarmed the family, and they fortunately, but with
great difficulty, escaped over the roof of the house. The
brigade engines from Watling-street and Jeffrey-square
were promptly on the spot, under the direction of Mr. Braid-
wood. Although there was a good supply of water obtained,
the fire could not be extinguished until the premises were
burnt out, and considerable damage was done to the adjoining
houses,

The screw• steamer Astrologer, John Milburn
master, has arrived from Smyrna in fifteen days, bringing
the first direct importation of Dane figs.

ROBBERY AT MANSFIED.—On Sunday evening
last, the residence of the Rev. Robert Weaver, West Hill,
Mansfield, was ei,tered by thieves and plundered.

BRITANNIA BRIDGE.—The opening of the second
line ot tubes is to take place on the 19th inst., when the
Government inspector is expected to come down and review
the works. The men have been working night and day
during the eek, and with the exception of one, the entire
number of rivets necessary were clenched yesterday (Fri-
day ). The last rivet will not be secured until the grand
opening ot this gig intic viaduct. The scaffolding that sup-
ported the tubes on the Anglesey side during their erection
is now being taken to pieces, but although great care is used
in separating the different portions of these immense stages,
several acculents have occurred, one of which terminated
tatall V. Curnarvon Herald.
atm HONEY.—The present arrivals from Ireland
include some very large supplies of honey. One vessel just
arrived from Cork has brought ;Opackages of honey as part
of her cargo, and sev‘rsl other arrivals of upwards ot 50
fpraoculicapheast ecdoitihnitsryes,tie,le,inicieldhaavr,teicnloet hbaeLererebceeennt
stuaakiento place
from that country which have not before been usual to tiny-
thing approaching this extent.
ScuLLER's Weumt.—Two young men named Du•
val and Edwards rowed a sculler's wager for 101. a side, the
first-named in an outrigged funny, and the latter in a wherry,
trom Putney-bridge to Hammersmith, on Thursday after-
noon. Edwards took the lead and held it two-thirds of the
distance, or nearly so, but was then paned, DO% 1
a 1Y CU na by
tine pr six lengths,