The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-14 00:00:00

South Eastern &Dover 33/ 2s 4d... 39
Do., No. 1 8
Do., No. 2.
D0., No. 3
South Wales ..... .. 21/2 SSA
Trent Valley and Holy--
head Junction
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ...... 3%...
\Vest Yorkshire
Wilts, Somerset, & Wey-
mouth
York and North Midland 50
Ditto 1/2 Shares
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25
Do. Extension
FRENCH. RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 4
Bordeaux - and Toulouse 2
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and
Cette
Dijon and Mulhouse ... 2
Great North. of France.. 4
Do. do. (Rosamers) 2
Jamaica Junction ll/2
Louvain and Jemeppe... 2 ... . 4%
Lyons and Avignon 2 —
Namur and Liege
Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 ......
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2 ...... 10
Over Yssel 413 s 4d Ol/2
..,

Paris & Lyons, Latlitte's 2, - 3/8
Paris and Lyons, Gan-
neron's,
Paris & Lyons, (Calon's) 2
Paris and Orleans 2O
Paris and Rotten .. 2O
Rouen and Havre
Royal North of Spam ... 2 - •••.•••• .....
Sambre and Meuse ..... 4
Tours and Nantes, Mac-
kenzie's
JOINT STOCK BANKS
British North American 50 .....
London and Westminster 20 ...... 263/4
National of Ireland l7l/2 2ll/2

RAILWAY COMMITTEE.

(THIS DAY.)

Group V.
The other clauses proposed by the promoters were agreed
to seriatim.
Mr. lIu.L then, for the Corporation of Nottingham, pro-
posed the insertion of certain clauses to protect their interests,
which were all, with some verbal alterations, also agreed to.
Mr. HILL said that he had also, on the part of the Navi-
gation Company, to propose the insertion of several clauses,
but first he should call several witnesses to show the injury
which would be done to the interests of those persons who
used the canal by the narrowing of the water-way and
towing path, and the lowering of the headway of the bridges.
Four or five witnesses were then called to support this
view, and
Mr. Thu. then proposed a clause retaining the present
width of the canal and towing-path, and the height of head-
way, 11 feet 6 inches, instead of 10 feet 6 inches, as proposed
by the Rail way Company.

Mr. AUSTIN replied.
The CHAIRMAN said that the Committee were of opinion
that 11 feet should be the headway of the bridges, and that
the span proposed by the Railway Company should be
adopted.
The Committee then adjourned till twelve to-morrow.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, MAY 14.—Wind Northerly, fresh breeze and fine.
GRAVESEND, MAY 13.—The Anna Magdalena, Candy, has
been picked up in the Maplin Sand a derelict, and brought
up here.
DEAL, MAY 13, r. M.—Wind N. by E., fresh breeze and
squally.—Sid. Caroline, Lima; Mandingo, Jamaica ; Hymen,
St. Andrew's, New Brunswick ; Ellen Gillman, Nassau.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 13.—Wind N.—Sld. Hendrick Hud-
son, New York. Off, Owen Glendower, Toiler, Calcutta.
COWES, MAY 13. —Wind N.—Arrd. Ellen Margaretta,
Gothenberg for Algiers, loss of foretop and maintop gallant
masts, Sc., and part of bulwarks, having been run into yes-
terday. Sid. Mercury, Cape of Good Hope ; St. Andre,
St. Croix.
PLYMOUTH, MAY 13.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. Sovereign,
Parett, Monte Video.
JERSEY, MAY 11.—Sld. St. Anne, Gaspe.
OFF PORTSMOUTH—SeaguII, Langley, Mauritius (sailed
Feb. 18.
OFF THE EDDYSTONE, MAY 9.—Nashville, New Orleans
for Havre.
CLYDE, ➢iAY 11.—Arrd. Marquis Douglas, Henderson,
Ichaboe. 12. Wind N.—Jupiter, Charleston, sld. 10; John
Kere, Boston ; Ann Rankin, Quebec. 11. Cape Horn, Val-
paraiso ; Europa, Demerara ; Mecca, Montreal. 12. Ann
Martin, Bombay.
SCILLY, MAY 12.—The Herald, from Lisbon to Liverpool
bore up for these islands with a strong N.N.E. gale, when off
the Land's-end, 9th instant, and in working up St. Mary's
Sound missed stays, and ran on a rock, but got off with loss
of anchors, and ran to St. Mary's Pool without much damage,
and will proceed.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 13.—Wind N.N.W., fresh.—Arrd. Ca-
tharine, Wilson, Ichaboe; Anne Armstrong and Ellerslie,
New Orleans. Off, Wallace, Mobile ; Caledonia steamer,
Boston. A large island of ice was seen on the 2d instant,
lat. 43, lon. 43, by the New York, arrived here.
Conic, MAY 11.—Arrd. Ann Sophia, Leith for Smyrna,
leaky. Sid. Tyne, St. John's, New Brunswick; George,
Quebec.
PArA WESTRAY, MAY s.—The Salus, Wood, of and from
Shields for Quebec, was stranded yesterday on the Island of
NVestray ; crew saved.
YARMOUTH, MAY 13. The Edward, Redhead, from
Hartlepool to London, was abandoned this morning on the
Scroby Sand, and is expected to become a wreck; crew
saved.

BURGLARY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER.—COTl-
iderable sensation has been caused during the last few days,
in the neighbourhood of Finsbury-square, by the fact of a
burglary having been committed early on Sunday morning
last, on the premises in the occupation of Mr. Foot, a green-
grocer and pleasure-car proprietor, residing in Windmill-
street, Finsbury, which was attended with circumstances of
great violence to Mrs. Foot, the wife of the occupier. From
inquiries since the occurrence, it appears that after the shop
was closed on Saturday night last, and shortly after Mrs.
Foot had counted pp the proceeds of the day, and was pro-
ceeding with the till across the back yard, she was suddenly
struck a blow upon the head, which felled her to the earth,
and instantly
.rendered her insensible. In her stupor, she
moaned most piteously, and her cries alarming her husband,
who has been for some time apparently near death, he sum-
Mooed up all his energies, and attempted to gain the landing
on ihe top of the stairs. From excessive weakness, however,
the sufferer fell in the passage in a state of so much ex-
haustion that the circumstance has much retarded his reco-
very. Meantime the poor woman was writhing with pain ;
copious streams of blood flowing from an extensive wound in
the front of the head. A neighbouring cheesemoeger hav-
ing heard the cries of the injured female, instantly hastened
to the spot whence the sound proceeded, and having pro-
cured the assistance of the police, Mr. T. W. Walls, surgeon,
of 9, Windmill-street, Finsbury-square, was called up, and
the premises, as well as the wounds of the poor creature, ex •
amined. Close by the spot where she fell a large piece of
wood was found, with which there is little doubt that the
blow was struck. The unfortunate woman's body was
covered with blood. The wound presented a most frightful
appearance, extending for some length to the cranium. The
main artery connected with the temple was divided, and a
number of the minor vessels were severed. For some time
after the occurrence, it was feared that a fracture of the skull
had taken place, nor is it now quite evident that such is not
the case, as the sufferer is in a most deplorable condition from
the consequence of the outrage, nor is it expected that she
will be able to rise from her bed for some time to come.
When found, the poor woman still grasped the till, the con-
tents of which were safe.
ROBBERIES AT A RAILWAY TERMlNUS.—Yester-
day information was received by the police of the following
robberies having been committed on the previous day (Whit-
Monday) at the terminus of the Greenwich Railway:—
From the person of Mr. Ernest Lantz, a gentleman residing
in Lime-street, City, a small Geneva gold watch, also a blue
silk purse, containing a sovereign and seine silver; from Mr.
Jeremiah Marton, of No. 22, Woodbridge-street, Clerken-
well, a silver watch ; from Mr. JameS Fitzgerald, No. F, Kirk-
ham-street, Tottenham-court-road, a silver watch ; from Mr.
Penton, of Kent Cottage, Old Kent-road, a plain double-
cased gold watch, a gold chain, with two gold seals and a
key attached; from Mr. James Stone, of Croome-hall, Green-
wich, a red and black netted purse, containing about 10/. in
sovereigns and half-sovereigns, and three Bank post bills,
dated on that day (12th), one for 20/. and the other two for
101. each ; from Mr. Grant, of No. 14, Green-street, Leicester-
square. a silver watch, a gold seal, ring, and key, attached by
a black ribbon ; also drab silk purse, with steel slides, con-
taining two sovereigns and a half-sovereign.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT BRIGHTON.—BRIGHTON,
TUESDAY EVENING.—The Whitsun holidays and the cheap
fares of the London and Brighton Railway Company brought
a verylarge influx of visitors into this town, a great majority
of whom availed themselves of the numerous pleasure-boats
for taking trips to sea. The offing on Monday was studded
with small boats, and we did not hear of any accident; but
we are sorry to say that a boat was upset this afternoon, and
one young man has lost his life. The deceased, whose body
has not been recovered, is named Richard Swinburne ; he
was the son of Mr. Henry Swinburne, a wholesale chemist in
Bush-lane, City; his companion, who was saved, is Henry
Stewart, of 21, James-street, Limes-fields; he is in the em-
ploy of Messrs. Miller, Ravenfield, and Company, the
eminent engineers in Glasshouse-fields, Shadwell, where the
deceased, who is only 18 years of age, was an apprentice.
From what we have been able to collect, it appears that the
unfortunate young man and his companion, both of whom
were in liquor, engaged a small boat called the Pheasant, and
it unfortunately happened that the boatman who accompa-
nied them was also in liquor. The boat was capsized within
a stone's throw of the beach, and the moment the accident
was observed several boats hastened to their assistance, and
the result was that two out of the three were saved. The
fishermen were dragging for the body of young Mr. Swin-
burne when this account was dispatched.
FRIGHTFUL FALL FROM A SWING --Yesterday
morning, between five and six o'clock, the following dis-
tressing accident occurred in the New Cross-road, Deptford,
to a young female, named Elizabeth Cooper, residing at King',
street, Southwark-bridge-road. Several young men and
their" sweethearts" were on the road home from a ball-room
near the fair, when they unfastened the ropes of a swing
which the owner had left unprotected. They had amused
themselves about ten minutes, when one of the females was
taken suddenly ill and fell out of the car, which was then
at its greatest height. She was picked up in a dreadful
state, and conveyed home. No hopes are entertained of her
recovery.
DEATH OF R. B. COOPER, ESQ., LATE M.P. FOR
GLOUCESTER.—We much regret to record the decease of
Robert Bransby Cooper, Esq., who expired on the 10th inst.,
at the residence of his son, near Gloucester. In the exercise
of an extensive sphere of Christian beneficence, the first ob-
ject of his existence was to relieve the necessities, and to mi-
tigate the distressee of suffering humanity. In this respect
it may be truly said, " When the eye saw, it blessed him."
In his walk as a Christian, while he evinced a due regard for
conscientious differences in opinion, he was a consistent sup-
porter and bright exemplar of that form of religious belief
which he deemed best calculated to promote the temporal
advancement and spiritual felicity of his fellow-men. His
end was, as his life, one of peace. Mr. Cooperrepresented the
city of Gloucester for twelve years, and in three successive
Parliaments. The consistency of his character as a politician,
and as a steady defender of the Protestant constitution of
these realms, is well known. He was the author of some re -
ligious and political works, which have passed through many
editions. Mr. Cooper was senior magistrate for the county
of Gloucester, a brother of the late Sir Astley Cooper, Bart.,
and an uncle of the present Baronet. He was in his 84th
yeah—St. James's Chronicle.