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

BRITISII.

Belfast and Ballymena •• • • .. ••• • ••
Belfast and County Down. • • • • • • • • • • •
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Ches hire
Bolton, Blackbarn, and W est York . • • •
Bristol and Exc•er • • • • • • • •
Caledonian
Chester and Holyhead. • • .. • • • • • • • • • •
Dublin and Behest Junction .• .. •• • •
Dublin and Droglieda• • •• •• •• • •• • • • •
Dublin and Kingstown • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Dundee and Arbroath .• •. ........
Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction
Dundalk and Enniskillen. • .. • • • • • • • •
East Anglian
East Lancashire • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • •
Eastern Counties and Norfolk.. • • .. • •
Eastern Union
Edinburgh and Glasgow .•• • ...... • •
Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee • • • • • •
Furness Railway •• • ••••••• • • • • • • •
Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr •• •• • • •• • •
Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock •• ••
Great Northern and E. L ..... • • • . ••
Great Southern and Western (Ireland)
Great Western •••••••••• • • • • •• • • •-
Lancaster and Carlisle• • • •
Lancashire and Yorkshire.. • • • • • • • • ••
Leeds and Thirsk ••..•••••• • • • • •• • •
Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport
London and North Western .....
London and Blackwall.• • • • • • • •• • • ••
London, Brighton, and South Coast
London and South Western. •
Datclonderry and Enniskillen . .
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c.
Manchester, Sheffield, andiLincolnsbire
Manchester and South Junction •
Maryport and Carlisle • • • • •• .. • •
Midland Great Western (Irish) •• •• • •
Newcastle and Carlisle.. • ..... • • • •
North British • • • • • • •• • • • • • • • • • • •• • •
North Staffordshire • •
North-Western •• •
Scottish Central • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Scottish Midland ••
Shrewsbury and Chester •••• • • •• • •
Shropshire Union .. • • .....
South Dev0n.......................
South Eastern • • •• • • •• • .......
South Wales .. •••••••••• • • • • • • • • • •
South York., Doncaster, and Goole • •
Waterford and Limerick • • ... • • • • • • •
West Cornwall .•• • • • • ............
Whitehaven Junction .. • • •
York and Newcastle, and Berwick .• •
York end North Midland. •. ••

22%
219
188 4
257

£572
492

928
438
4,238
6,659
1,916
237
740
676

686
3,051
14,906
1,653
3,88 S
2,237

3,006

971
2,743
3,362
15,864
3,789
10,995

40,018

.677
11,677
10,302

167
4,525

sri 1
24,186
1,189
2,269
3,346
4,530

1850.

X 1,393

1,616
391
1,4C9
443
1,458
12,356

1,195

2,055
767

702
4,952
7,057
3,282
469
1,068
786
384
670

759
3,617
14,399
2,317
3,961
2,574

373
3,022
1,081
6,813
4,452
17,720
4,584
14,487
1,150
564
48,127

953
13,71
11,683

197
12,996
6,521

I GG
6,161

FOREIGN.
Amiens and 13oulog, ^..............•
Dieppe .. • • • • • • • • • • .• ea •...
Montereau r•nd Troycs • • •• • •
Northern of France .• .• ••• • • • ••• • • •
Orleans to Bourges (Cent.) . .
Orleans to Bordeaux
Paris and Orleans .... • • . .
Paris and Rouen . • • ................
Rouen and llavre .. • • •• •...........

1,460

532
24,698
1,260
2,063
3,714
5,085

-601
1,563

503
1,672

991
18,141
2,996
3,842
9,000
7,592
3,000

525
2,001
15,362
1,044
1,219
2,217
916
339

199
16,504
9,317

1,868
665
1,346
23,444
2,900
3,894
8,760
7,988
3,0;8

THE LATE ACCIDENT ON BOARD THE ERIN'S
QUEEN STEAm-Sitir. Yesterday Mr. W. Payne held an
inquest at the Vestry-hall, Horselydown, on the bodfiof:Mr.
John Ferguson, aged 38, the head engineer of the above
vessel, who lost his life in the manner described in this jour-
nal yesterday. Tile only additional facts connected with this
melancholy event elicited from the several witnesses were the
following :—The unfortunate deceased, on finding the water
issuing from the door of the slutch-hole, to ,k a spanner
which had considerable leverage to screw up the bolt.
The door was only about five or six inches in diameter,
but, instead of being inside the front of the boiler, it was
placed outside, which was described by several scientific men
to he exceedingly unsafe. The vessel was worked from Belfast
to London without the water escaping, and it was not until
the steam was got up for the vessel to return that the least
leakage was perceptible. Captain Silly, who bad charge of
the ship, was of opinion that the accident was owing solely
to the deceased screwing the bolt up whilst it was hot, and
with too much leverage. Had the door been inside it would
have been safer, but the force deceased used in screwing the
bolt would no doubt have wrenched it off. The worm of flee
screw was not broken, but the solid iron. A juror said that
it the door had been inside the deceased would not have lost
his life. The captain and several of the crew explained that
in the present instance the door could not be made inside
without weakening the iron-work of the boiler. The jury
returned a verdict "That the deceased was accidentally
killed through using a spanner to turn the screw of the
clutch-hole door," and recommended that the doors, whenever
practicable, should be placed inside, to prevent a similar
casualty from occurring.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT BY MACHINERY.—A shock-
ing accident by machinery has been received at the General
Hospital, Bristol. Some men were engaged in taking down
an engine at the Great Western steam-ship yard, when the
shaft fell upon a poor fellow, named Maggs, and mutilated
him in a shocking manner, placing his life in the most im-
minent peril. When received at the hospital he was in a
state of collapse. His right arm was torn away, and only
hung by a piece of flesh ; his ribs and several of his other
bones were fractured, and he had received extensive injuries
of the head and other parts of his person. His arm was im-
mediately amputated above the injury, and his other ail-
ments promptly attended to, but he lies in a precarious state.
THE MAILS.—It is matter of surprise that the
public of the northern and eastern counties interested in
business, and consequently in the rapid transit of the mails,
do not memorialise the Post-office on the subject of the pre-
sent arrangement of the mails between the east and north
shores of the Moray Firth. The mail from the south, rid
Perth, is dispatched northward from! Inverness at a quarter
past six o'clock in the morning. The mail from Aberdeen
arrives here about a quarter before seven, and to sort it re-
quires less than half an hour. By delaying the departure of
the mail for the north three-quarters of an hour, a delay
of more than twenty-three hours of all the correspondence
betwixt the east and the north would be saved. We do
not see that much inconvenience would be suffered. It
would make no change in Dingwall, where letters could
be answered on the same day ; and at present the mail
arrives at Tain too late to permit the merchants of
that burgh to answer their letters. But if the incon-
venience should be considered material, it would be no great
matter to accelerate the speed of the Aberdeen mail-coach a
mile an hour. This would perhaps be the best, as by delay-
ing its departure eastwards from Inverness from 44 min. past
five, as at present, to 44 min. past six, it could carry on the
letters received from the north. Ihe Aberdeen mail now
actually leaves the Inverness Post-office only a quarter of an
hour before that from the north arrives—the whole east cor-
respondence from Caithness, Sutherland, and Ross, thus lying
in the Post-office here for twenty-three hours and three-
quarters. We have no rea,on to believe that the authorities
of the Post-office ale disposed to disoblige the lieges, and we
can see no way in which they could accommodate the public
better than by making this slight acceleration of the Aber-
deen mail—especially if the long-talked of change of the
Perth mail into a day mail, giving a double
mail from Lon-
don to luvernes daily—the north mail running in connexion
with the Aberdeen mail at the former's present hours—can-
, not be carried into effect.- Rye) ness Courier.
P ENRIa N AGRICULTURAL Snow.--The annual ex-
hibition of live stock and eneral produce of the tenantry' of
the lion. Colonel Pennant took
lace on Wednesday last.
There Iva!' a much larger exhibition of horned cattle than
p
has been exhibited in former years, end the show was in
other respects very satisfactory. Among the visitors on, the
ground in the course of the day were the Duchess of Cam-
bridge, the Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and the Prin-
cess Mary of Cambridge.
A. TOUGH- UN.--Sophia Quibbs, an elderly Woman,
while crossing the railway in South Shields, a short time
since, was struck by an engine, and thrown upon her back
b. between the rails, when 33 waggons passed over her without
inflicting the slightest injury !
WATERFORD AND LIMERICK RAILWAY.—The
Lords of the Treasury have advanced 130,0001. to carry on
this company's works during the winter, and the number of
workmen, now Amounting to 300, will be greatly increased.