The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-08 00:00:00

NAME OF RAILWAY.

Feb. 1
Jan. 31

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Jan. 31
30
Feb. 4

Arbroath and Forfar ••• . • •..• ••• • • •
Birmingham and Gloucester.. • • • • ....
Brandling Junction . ..... . .....

Bristol and Gloucester
Chester and Birkenhead . ..........
Dublin and Drogheda.. ............
Dublin and Kingstown

2 Dundee and Arbroath
1 Durham and Sunderland
1 Edinburgh and Glasgow .• • • • .
2 Eastern Counties and North Eastern
1 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr •• ..
1. Glasgow and Greenock. • •• • ••• • • •
1 Grand Junction •••• • • . • •••••• • • • • •

Jan. 31
Feb. 1

Jan. 31
Feb. 1
1
1
2
2
Jan. 31
Feb.

Great North of England •• •••• •• ••
Great Western

Liverpool and Manchester •••.
London and Birmingham . •• •• •• •.• •
London and Blackwall•• •• •• •• •• ••••
London and Brighton. •• •• ...... .• ••
London and Croydon . ..... • •• •• ••••
London and Greenwich. • . •• •• •• •• .•
London and South Western. •• •• •• ••
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury
Manchester and Birmingham..
Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc.
Midland Counties... •• •• •••• •• •

Newcastle and Darlington •• •• •. •—•
Newcastle and Carlisle.... •• ........
Newcastle and North 5hie1d5........
North Union and Bolton and Preston
Paris, Corbell, and 0r1ean5..........
Paris and Rouen . •••.
Preston and Wyre•... ....

Sheffield and Manchester....•.
South Eastern..
Ulster

118
2,120

1,095

303
1,311

742
232
646
1,742
3,517
1,187

648
6,914
11,309
1,801
3,965
14,585

63(1
2,788

368
4,665

700
2,773
5,402
7,726

1,083

289
1,141
3,152
2,566

348
577
3,799
1136
580
260
2,085

207
447
2,281
482
551

Yarmouth and Norwich
York and North Midland

1,371

icADVERTISEDIENT.
SHIPWREC OF THE EDWARD
ROBINSON EAST INDIAMAN.
, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.,
SlR,—When we opened the extensive premises, No. 1, St.
Paul's. churchyard, we pledged ourselves to keep none but
pure teas ; to sell none but good teas ; and, after exposing
the average amount of trash annually foisted on the people of
this kingdom, bound ourselves to protect them from this
long-hidden grievance. We therefore feel called upon to
bring under their notice a sale of rubbish, misnamed tea, that
took place to day at the Commercial Sale-rooms, Mincing-
'lane; and to make known their pernicious properties, it is
only necessary to state, that the teas were salved from the
wreck of the vessel Edward Robinson (which perished off
Sheerness, with 2,500 packages of tea on board), and that all,
having been saturated by the sea water, are a fermenting
mass of leaves. Nevertheless, in the face of this fact, every
ounce of this decomposing trash passed the public auction,
and was sold at the following prices :-171,360 lbs. sold from
ld. to 24d. per lb.; 45,000 lbs. sold from 3d. to 40 per lb.
The incalculable injury to health that must result from the
consumption. of the above must be apparent to all ; and they
will therefore see it their interest to support those who, se-
lecting only good and pure teas, supply them at an un-
paralleled smallness of profit.—We are, sir, pour obedient
servants,

DAKIN and CO., Tea-merchants,
Feb. 7,184'5. No. I, St. Paul's-churchyard.

DESTRUCTION OF A NEW MILL AND Two
THOUSAND POUNDS DAMAGE AT BLACKBURN.—At
about a quarter• past nine o'clock on Sunday morning,
when the wind was howling with great force, a noise
was heard throughout the town, as of the sudden dis-
charge of distant artillery, which was speedily discovered
to have proceeded from the falling down of an entirely
new and unfinished mill at Bank--top, the property of
Mr. William Dickinson, iron-founder, &c. The mill
was what is called an " eight bay" mill ; the area of the
spinning part of the premises being 60 feet by 80 feet
in extent ; and the mill four stories high. Attached to
the spinning m:11 was an engine-house ; next to that, a
large boiler-room ; and then came an extensive foundry-
shed. The first floor of the mill was completed, the
boards of the other floors were not down, all the windows
were _in, and the mill roofed over. The engine-house
was arched over, and the boiler-room covered in. In
these two latter places the buildings were partly iron ;
great iron beams, from 15 to 18 inches across, were
erected in the engine-house ; the roof, &c., of the boiler
room was supported by iron pillars, stout iron bars, &c.
It appears that at about a quarter-past nine o'clock,
some men employed upon the premises, and living close
by, observed one of the walls of the mill to bulge out ;
and they were discussing the readiest means of propping
it up, when the gable end of the mill, against which the
full force of the wind bore, was seen to bend inwards ;
and becoming thus loosened from the roof, the latter was
lifted up by the wind, and falling back again with great
violence, went to pieces, and carried down to the founda-
tion every thing with it. The destruction was instanta-
neous and complete ; part only of some of the wails re-
maining. The roof, first floor, beams, supporters, and
the walls that fell with the roof were all smashed to
pieces. The roofs of the engine house and boiler room
were destroyed, the thick iron beam ends being broken
like glass. Part of the roof of the foundry shed was de-
stroyed; as also some premises adjoining another side o
the mill, and belonging to Messrs. Livesey and Rodgett.
The damage done to Mr. Dickinson's property cannot be
calculated at less than 2,000/. Upwards of 300/. worth
of glass was deatroyed. It is said that the whole building
was not to be surpassed for strength and compactness in
Blackburn. In a short time the three upper floors
v,,:1111 have been pnt ; end then :his 6iastrous accident
could not have happened. In about two months the
mill would have been at work.—Blackburn Standard.
STATE OF THINGS.—When the confounding and
stupid additional Poor-law Act was passed, at the close
of last session of Parliament, Mr. Lumley, one of the
Assistant Secretaries to the Poor-law Commissioners,
and a barrister, framed a set of forms to be used by
justices' clerks under the bastardy clauses, and those
forms were copyright. Last Thursday, in the Bail
Court, before Judge Wigbtman, the form of orders in
bastard' was declared, in several respects, bad. If
justices' clerks prepared forms of their own, and had
them printed (for Messrs. Shaw and Sons are the mono-
polist printers here again), the printer became liable—
one was actually proceeded against! Is not this " a nice
state of things?"
Loss OF VESSELS IN THE NORTH CHANNEL.—
On Saturday evening, and all day on Sunday last, a tre-
mendous gale of wind, commencing about south-west,
and suddenly veering round to the north-west, swept,
with fearful violence, along the north coast of Ireland.
During the hurricane, two vessels went down, near
Larne Lough, one laden with coals, and the other with
lime. The crews of both are supposed to have perished.
A large sloop, laden with iron, for Belfast.
went down at Garron Point, near Cushendall, the
crew of which escaped in the boat, and, after enduring
much hardship were driven into Cushendun. A
schooner was observed to go down between Ballintoy j
and the Giant's Causeway ; and on Sunday, about three
in the afternoon, a large 'brig, bound from Sligo to Liver-
pool,t laden with corn, was dashed on the rock , at
the Bull, on the west end of Rathlin Island. Threes
of the crew were drowned, the captain had Ins!k thigh
broken, and was otherwise dreadfully injured
lies on the island, with little hope of recovery ;
for, unfortunately, there is not aßamteadeiecnalßmac
casuptioenanitd,
to render him any assistancel
Portrush, feather-beds,
Baltic
in ted green ; topmast,in
• s;aacests, ship's round-house,
pa tedetherhit we ;
man planks,
with other
twenty-one feet in length, tog y
articles, have been cast on shore, which leads to the con-
clusion, that much more damage than has been witnessed
has been done by this gale.—Correspondent o f t44e
Northern TVhig.
BARNBTAYLE.—A melancholy accident occurred on
Friday last, the 31st nit., at Mr. Puddicombe's limekiln,
situate at Fremington Pill, about three miles from this town,
which has spread a gloom over the whole of that parish.
John Fairchild, one of the men employed at the kiln, having
incautiously descended without the ladder, soon found that
the sulphureus effluvia from the culm affected his respiration,
and called to his brother-in-law, Richard Gayton, for help,
who instantly lowered a rope, which, in drawing him from
his perilous situation, unfortunately broke. Gayton then
immediately descended to the poor fellow's assistance, but
the exhalations proving too strong for him also, another man,
named Shaddock, jumped down, and Taylor, a fourth man,
stood ready to render immediate aid, should it be necessary,
who, soon perceiving that Shaddock was overpowered, put a
board and slid down. He happily succeeded in getting him
up, and he ultimately recovered. By this time the neigh-
bourhood became alarmed, and Gayton and Fairchild being
got out, medical assistance was procured, but life was extinct.
They were men of sober and industrious habits, and have
each left a wife with a very large family. We are
_informcc!
.
that eight of Gayton's children are under 13 years age, ...a
; the number of children thus suddenly bereaved is afy 20.