The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-09 00:00:00

COMMUNICATION between LONDON
AN!) DUBLIN IN TWELVE lIOURs.

At the instance of sereral•3niluential parties connected with rail-
ways in this country and Ireland, a meeting was held on the
26th tilt., at the residence of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, for
the purpose of promoting a line of communication between London
and Dublin via Porthdynllaen and Worcester, whereby the
journey from capital to capital might Ise made within
twelve hours. The meeting was attended by the
Mayor of Worcester, the Town.elerk of Worcester, the
Vice-President of the Chamber of Comn;terce, the Chairman and
tho Directors of the Great Western Railway, the Chairman and
Directors of the Oxford, Wor ester, and Wolverhampton Railway,
the Chairman of the South Staffordshire iron district, Mr. Brunel,
the engineer of the Companies ; Mr. Saunders, Secretary of the
Great Western Railway ; Mr. Smith, Secretary of the Oxford and
Worcester Company ; Mr. James Pim, Mr. Perry, and Mr. Kin.
caide, members of the Dublin Committee.

The importance of the project in a national point of view having
been explained to the meeting, it was resolved that immediate
steps should be taken in bringing the measure before the public,
under the auspices of the several parties and interests represented
at the meeting, and the principal landed proprietors connected with
the counties through which the line of railway is intended to pass.
The Lord Mayor, at the request of the meeting, subsequently
waited on the Earl of Powis, to solicit his Lordship's patronage
and support, his Lordship having hitherto cooperated with the
citizens of Dublin in promoting, upon national grounds, the line now
proposed. After the Lord Mayor had explained to his Lordship the
object of his vi►it, and satisfied him that the project was about to
be brought forward with the certainty of being carried into effect,
his Lordship assured the Lord Mayor, that as he was still of
opinion that the most direct and eligible line of communication
between London and Dublin, was the one proposed, the eitisens
of Dublin, and the other influential parties acting in concert with
them, might depend upon the continuance of his cordial co-opera.
tion and support.

ALLEGED ILL-TREATLqr NT OF A

LIVERPOOL CREW IN THE BONNY RIVER.

An extraordinary case of this description, which ex
cited great iaterest, was brought before Mr. Rushton, at
the Police-court. James ILenry Black, the mate, and
Thomas Lyon, the supercargo, of the ship Charlotte, ap-
peared to answer a charge of assaulrt preferred against
them by Robert Brown, Isaac Ryan, John Neville, John
Bowler, and Charles Fisher, five of the hands belonging
to that vessel.

Mr. Owen conducted the case for the complainants,
and Mr. Radcliff, the defence.
Robert Brown was the first witness called. He said,
on the 10th of September, the Charlotte was lying in
the Bonny River. The men were at hard work all day,
and at night were enjoying themselves in the forecastle
singing. The captain (Campbell), the mate (Black), and
the boatswain came and said they wi-re kicking up A
row, and called them all aft. When the hands went up
it was said Johnson was drunk, and he was put in the
chains and fastened to the wheel. The next morning till
hands were called aft to witness the punishment of John-
son. After it was over the mate ma=le a speech, and
said he would flog any man that Jared even to frown,
and that his commanding voice should be heard in the
ship. I said, "You flogged a man for being groggy
but when he was off his duty, and did his hard day',
work, if he chose to buy grog on his own account, it was
his own look out, and he would: be ready for his work
the next morning.'' rhe mate staked what I had got to
say. I replied, that if he chose to fl ~g me he might.
Ile said he would flog me on his own responsibility, and
he then ordered me to be seized up. The boatswain
obeyed the order, and gave me four dr;zen lashes. Lyon
auksequently came on board and struck me a blow on
the face, and said, ." You -- nigger, you have been
trying to make a disturbance in the ship; I shall have
you chained up and flogged." I entreated of him not to
punish me any more, as I was very ill, my legs and feet
being in a dreadful state from the small-pox. Lyon,
however, had me put in irons and chained to the mizen-
roast, where I was kept for four or five hours.
Isaac Ryan deposed as follows:—On the 29th of Au-
gust I was painting the ship. When I got on deck, at
dinner-time, I saw Porter, one of the hands, chained to
the wizen-mast; and, being surprised at his remaining
there in so steady and submissive a manner, I asked,
tt What's the matter, Bill?" He laughed, and said, "It
was all right." Immediately upon this to ing said, I was
turning round to go forward, and got a blow under the
ear from the chief mate (Black). I asked him what was
that for ? Ile said, " You villain, it would
serve you right if you were alongside of him." I
said, " If it ia your wish to see me there, you
can put me there, but don't strike me ; keep your
hands off, for it you don't, I shall be obliged to
lift you into tke lee scuppers." I then went for-
ward to go to dinner, and had not got to the
gangway, before I was struck by Black, and Lyon, and
some Kroo boys. I made no resistance. The Kroo boys
were called. I was put in irons, and chained to the
wheel, hands and feet. Lyon then came up, and called
me " a Newgate reared -- villain," and struck me se-
veral times whilst I was so chained. I was kept in
chains for seventeen hours and three-quarters. I was
then tied to the mizen-rigging, and received seventeen
lashes. Then I was cut down and ordered to duty,
which I obeyed. Lyon admitted before all the African
captains that I was a manly seaman, and able to show
his officers their duty.
John Neville was next called. lie said :—On the sth
of November, after we had done our work, we had some
grog. I turned in. Fisher began either talking or sing-
ing. The mate and boatswain came to the forecastle
with a cutlass and pistols, and fetched Fisher up. They
then called out for Neville. I got out of bed and went
up in my shirt. They said I was drunk. I had only
had a glass or two of grog of my own. They then put
me in irons, by Lyon's orders. My hands and feet were
ironed, and I was chained to the wizen-mast in my
shirt. A chain was fastened round my body, and they
gagged me with an iron bolt. When I was fast the
mate struck me repeatedly in the face. I was unable
to eat hard food for three weeks. They kept me for ten
hours in that state although it was raining very hard at
intervals during the night. The next morning I got my
clothes and they kept me chained unfit the 7th, when
they gave me thirty lashes, by Lyon's orders, and
cut me down, and sent me over-the ship's side to scrub
the painting.
John Bowker was the next witness. He said, on the
2d of November I fell off the barricade by accident.
When the sailing master, Captain Campbell, came to
pick me up, he dragged me aft, said I was drunk, put
my hands and feet in irons, lashed me to the wheel, and
left me in that situation until Lyon Caine on board at ten
o'clock, P.m. Captain Campbell told him ho had a man
in irons, to which Lyon replied that he was delighted to
hear it, and told Campbell to make him well fast. I re-
mained in irons all night, and was wet through with the
rain. On the 3d of November I was tied to the wizen
rigging, and received ourteett lashes from the Kroemen
I aats then let down, and Lyon told the captain to rake
me for ward, anti scrub my back with a piece of sand. I
begged of the captain to allow me to wash it with water,
to which the captain consented, and my back was not
scrubbed.
Khales Fisher deposed as follows :—On the sth or
November I had finished my work for the day, and had
got a little grog. I was in the ferecaatle talking, when
tha mate and boatswain came down, and the mate
without saying a ward struck me with a cutlass. They
then dragged me on (lack, and put me in irons, and
kept me there till the 7th. On that day Lyon orderd
me to be flagged, and I received tisen ea lashes, and
wiis then sent to scrub the outside of tie ship. The
laser was always soaked in pickle before use.
Ali the witnesses were closely ero,s-examined by Mr.
Radcliffe, who, in some material points, matie it appear
that Black and Lyon were more " sinned against than
sinning." The defence was that the crew had been
guilty of gross insubordination, that they were con-
stantly in a state iS intoxication, that they had stolen
the rum belonging ta the ship's cargo, and that they
only received such a degree of punishment as their mis-
conduct merited,

Mr. RUSEITON, alter hearing the whole of the case

and def•,nce, which lasted altog4-ther about three hours,
said there was manifestly a laxity of discipline on
board the ship, which to some extant was attributable
to the fact, that the sailing captain arid the super.
cargo assumed the mastery at intervals, and that
the men were acting under divided auth:)rity. He
then ordered Black and Lyon to pay a fine of 51. each
for the assault on Ryan, and Black to pay 50s. in addi-
tion for the assault on Neville. The other three eases
brought against them by Brown, Bowker, and Fisher,
he dismissed.—Liverpool paper.

KING'S COLLEGE HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday morning
a sermon was preached at the parish church of St.
Dunstan's in the;West, Fleet street, by the Right Rev.
the Lord Bishop of Chester. In the course of a very
impressive and eloquent appead it was stated that " the
Committee being most unwilling to deprive the poor of
any portion of the benefits which they have hitherto de-
rived from the King's College Hospital, have resolved
that no efforts on their part shall be wanting to preclude
the necessity of a measure so much to be deprecated.
They have considered that the object to be kept in view
is not merely to provide for the immediate deficiency,
but to raise such a sum as, when vested in Government
securities, may be drawn upon from time to time-, to
meet the necessities of each year, until the annual in-
come of the Hospital shall have reached an amount equal
to its expenditure. For this purpose the Committee
conceive that n-t less than 15,Q01. will be necessary ;
and ahen they recollect the ample funds origir.atly sub-
scribed for the establishment and fitting up of tha Hos-
pital, they cannot but entertain a sanguine hope that
their present appeal will he liberally respot,ded to." The
collie ion, at the crmclusion of Divine service, amounted
to a very satisfactory sum.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, JUNE 6.—The offices
have again been cleared this week of everything on show, and im-
porters have now very little to bring forward ; the sales of the
week reach 750 hdds. West India, 3,560 mats Mauritics, at very
full prices. Three vessels from the West Indies are now discharging
and their chrgoes are badly wanted.—Bristol Mercury.
FURIOUS DRIVING.—On Tnursday night, at eleven
o'clock, whilst the carriage of Lord Charles Beauclerk was passing
through Halktn-street, it was met by a cab, the shaft of which
entered the chest of one of Lord Charles's horses, and killed it on
the spot. This accident was owing to the too common abuse of
hard driving. The cab was proceeding at a furious pace, and came
suddenly on Lord Charles's carriage on turning a corner. The
animal was, we regret to learn, a very fine blood horse of great
value.
An accident, which had nearly proved of serious
consequence to Mr. Rodwell, the composer, occurred on Thursday
night. He was returning home, about twelve o'clock, to his house
in Thurloe-place, Old Brom', on, when, in consequence of the
darkness of the road, immediately beyond the Bell and Horns, the
cab in which he was came is violent collision with a carriage
which was standing at the side of the road, the coachman was
thrown off', and at first believed his leg to have been broken Sir.
Rodvrell was dashed forward against the glass front, and in an in.
stant was covered with blood from severe cuss on the forehead and
face ; had the glass penetrated but an inch higher up the cheek, he
would have inevitably lost his right eye. We think it right to call
attention to the shameful neglect which has been shown in this
district to the lighting of the public roads. For upwards of two
years every lamp has been removed, thus offeraig a temptation on
dark nights to every species of vice and immorality, if not robbery
—setting aside the almost en4ess dangerous collisions which are
constantly taking place for want of light. When a daring rob-
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