The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-18 00:00:00

THE CORONER'S INQUEST.

Coroner Geer was called to hold an inquest on the
dead bodies of those alreadp taken from the ruins
machine
Jersey,
and conveyed to the Fourth Ward Station House.
The following is the testimony taken. Six of the
vodies have been recognised, and the other three,
making nine dead, have not been identified :
being VilslwiaonirnDsoadyds—
,relsiadmingforaetinNanewoafrtkh,e
New
hat-
body establishment, in the building 5 and 7 Hague-
street ; the building was occupied by A. 13. Taylor
and Co., machinists, and H. A. Burr, hat-body manu-
facturer. The engine and boiler was situated in the
basement of the said building. I know nothing of the
occurrence.
__ . __

Francis McNelly, resideng at No. 4, Hague-street,
being sworn, said—That about half-past seven o'clock
this morning he heard the explosion of the boiler at-
tached to the engine in the basement of Nos. 5 and 7
Hague-street; I immediately jumped from my bed
and saw the smoke; I saw the house falling and
covered with smoke and fire immediately after; the
boiler went into Nos. 5 and 7, I think it was on Sat-
urday two weeks ago.
Albert Putnam, residing in Brooklyn, being sworn,
says :—I am one of the firm of A. B. Taylor and
Co. I think the boiler attached to the engine in the
basement, was brought in about two weeks since ; it
was bought of Peese and Murphy ; I think it was a
second-hand boiler, and also, that it had been used on
board a saeam-boat, but a few times ; it was found too
small for the purpose, and purchased by Pees, and
Murphy, and afterwards bought by A. B. Taylor
and Co.

beAlva B. Taylor, residing in Newark New Jersey,ing sworn,
says—He is one of the firm of A. B.
Taylor and C®., and that they got the steam on
their boiler a week ago to-day ; I purchased it
of Reeve and Murphy ; it was built
i for me
about two years since, and, as I was informed,
wes sold for a boat at the South ; it was found
to be too small for the engine,
and was exchanged
with Peese and Murphy for a large boiler i I after-
wards purchased it of Peese and Murphy ; Mr. Mur-
oby told me it had only been fired up five times ; I
do not know it it had been inspected by theinspec-
tor of boilers, nor did I know a certificate was neces-
sary at the purchase of said boiler.
Dr. Thomas Holmes being sworn,
says—He exa-
mined the bodies now lying dead in the Fourth Ward
Station-house, and find that the deceased, Peter Hyde,
came to his death by cold and exposure to water oc-
casioned by the bursting of a steam-boiler at Nos.
5, and 7, Hague-street. Also the bodies of George
Hyde, Isaiah Marks (a coloured boy), John Rogers, i

and Eli Hull. The other four bodies were not iden-
tified by name, but the doctor found that they all
came to their death by injuries received by fire and
otherwisP, in consequence of the explosion of the
boiler as above stated.
THE VERDICT.

The jury rendered the following verdict :—" That
the deceased persons came to their death by injuries
received by the bursting of a steam boiler, which
caused the falling and burning of the building, Nos.
5 and 7, Hague-street,"

RAILWA Y INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, WORCESTER,

AND WOLVER-

HAMPTON.

A committee having been appointed in Leeds some-
time ago by the shareholders of this company, for the
purpose of endeavouring to induce the directors to
convene a special general meeting, to consider the
affairs of the company, their report has just been
issued. The attempts of the committee to procure a
special general meeting failing, they tried to induce
the present directors to carry out the suggestions of
the committee of investigation, appointed last summer,
for a partial completion of the line. With this view,
the directors were requested to convene a special
board ; but the proposal having been declined, the
committee drew up the following and other proposals,
to be submitted to the directors at a special meeting
of the board.

" That immediate measures be taken for completing so
much of the works as are involved in the efficient work-
ing on the narrow gauge of that portion of the line
between Abbott's Wood and Tipton. That arrangements
be made with the directors of the Stour Valley Railway
Company, for liberty to work the engines, &c., of this
company over that line from Tipton to Wolverhamp-
ton for a limited period, reserving in the mean time
the question as to the policy of hereafter carrying the
line of this company from Tipton to Wolverhampton.
That arrangements be made with the London and North-
Weitern and Midland Companies, or one of them, for
working the above portion of this company's line in con-
nexion with their own traffic on proper terms, as respects
this company. That for the purpose of raising funds
for the necessary works to carry out the first proposi-
tion, the directors proceed at once to ascertain from the
contractors how far they are willing to receive payment
in the debentures of the company now remaining un-
issued to the extent of (say 365,0000—0 r to offer such
debentures for sale to the public on the best terms that
can be had—or to offer the debentures to the preset
shareholders of the company, in such amounts as they
may severally be willing to take up."
At a meeting of the Board of Directors, held at the
Queen's Hotel, Birmingham, on the 6th of February,
the objects contained in the above proposals relative
to the London and North-Western and the Midland
Railway Companies, were not recognised or adopted.
On this account the committee are reluctantly com-
pelled to conclude that there is no real intention
whatever of any change of policy by the present di-
rectors, and that if the suggestions of the committee
of investigation, embodied in the proposals above set
forth, are to be carried out at all, it must be by a new
Board of Directors. They therefore called upon the
shareholders, by a united effort at the forthcoming
general meeting, to be held on the 22d inst. in Lon-
don, to rid themselves of a board, all of whose sympa-
thies were with those whose interests were opposed
to theirs. Nothing short, however, of a unanimous
determination to sink minor differences of opinion,
and to act together for this simple object, could effect
anything, and failing this, the committee were con-
vinced that it was perfectly hopeless to look for any
improvement in the condition of their property.

FEBRUARY lB, 1850