The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-05 00:00:00

Vll S C., it v2a

,

eVtator'•

Who runs may rend.

POZZICiaII.

Actounta from Paris announce a great amount of business la
railroad shares on Monday, with an advance of prices on most lines.
The rage for this speculation is by no means confined to England.
Most favourable intelligence has been lately received
at PAM
from Algeria. Tranquillity reigns throughout the French Pee'
se sions, and the Arab tribes continue to frequent all the markets.
The procession of the Bceuf Gras took place at Paris on Sunda'',
in the order announced, but, owing to the coldness of the day, the
crowd was not so great as usual, and there were very few Mega;
We learn from Venice that the Duke de Bordeaux is aow thee
and in perfect health.
The Municipal Council of Paris has, it is said, come to a resolu-
tion to re-number all the houses in the capital, and render them a
ll
s
nearly as possible regular. The figures are all to be uniforia
painted in white on a blue ground.
The New Zurich Gazette of the 30th ult. states that a meeting
of the Conservative party has been held at Zurich, at which a peti.
tion to the Grand Council against the admission of the Jesuite wag
agreed upon.

7.101/7 21.13130 IFOXACZ.
At the Central Criminal Court one of the jurors beanie
seriously ill, and he would have fallen from his seat if be had not
been caught and supported by one of his fellow. Jurors. lle was
immediately removed from the box. A discussion ensued as to the
proper course for the Court to adopt, and ultimately a fresh Pt"
was called, the whole panel re-sworn, and the trial recommened.
William Onley, a letter-carrier, was fully committed from Itntc.
street, for stealing a money letter.
At Clerkenwell Henry Webster, a young man,
himself as the son of Sir Godfrey Webster, of Battle Abbey',
Sussex, was charged with having been drunk, and atsaultiog
police.constable 426 N. He was fined ten shillings, and in default
of payment locked up. teel-
George Gardner and Robert Brown, two shabby-gen
who described
looking fellows, were committed from Queen-square, charg-„
with stealing seven billiard-balls and some articles of wearing Br-
parel, from the house of Mr. Evans, the Royal Clarence, Wei"
bourne-plaCe, Pimlico.
Mr. John Morgan, a town traveller, of highly respectable::
nexions, was placed at the bar at Warylebone, charged with ---
lifting, and fully committed for trial.
A lengthened
.investigation took place at Lambeth WWl' 141.‘
Henry nn a charge of rape. Benjamin John Beams, MU Prt
man, of fashionable appearance, who was described Miss: 3°llCit
clerk, was charged with violating the person of ittnett:e
F. Shepheard, who is not quite 15 years of age. it"r on
prosecutrix had given her evidence, Mr. Henry observed thetthis
the showing of the prosecutrix herself the charge did not, in that
opinion, amount to one of rape. There could be no 40°4 filt,
the conduct of the prisoner was most scandalous and 00064
and that he had by the most cunning artifice succeeded in was,
the unfortunate young woman. Still, however, her condor,. -6.
to say the least of it, most incautious and indiscreet. 11$ P
soner was discharged, and
-,..1.81311175.A.A.M6407111. enabert
On Tuesday evening the 6th annual nteeting of then]
bran the
friends of the Deverill-street ,Chapel, Dover.road, ch
pet ;
Wesleyan Missionary Society, was held at the above chapel
Thomas Gurney, Esq., in the chair. From the report vest,
that the subscriptions to the parent Society, during the Pa' _„"
exceeded those of the preceding by 1,0001., and that the su
1216 u'ill
tions from the branch, for the past year, amounted to 1284 iety,
The meeting was addressed by a deputation from the Went:coati
the Rev. Messrs. .J. Methel, S. R. Hale, J. Freeumnv
from Fomah Bay, &c., and resolutions to uphold the W.':snarl
cause were adopted. strbin
The scaffolding and hoarding surrounding the colostalf--:
open
figure of William the Fourth, recently erected iremoved on
space of King William-street, London-bridge, wa° of the
Tuesday, and the whole work thrown open to the Mb v""
public.

MARKET NEWS.—( THIS P. 1"")
on
CORN-EXCHANGE—WEDNES:"coreg
was
nintohree whole, the supply of Wheat of home Produce,,;tod tbe
than an average, owing to which, and W poet
millers being well in stock, the dcmand was extremely was
barely Monday's reduced figures. In Foreign Wheat 0130010
doing that the rates were almost nominal. We had a largL4e, were
of Barley offering, while the sale for it was heavy, andei . par'
not supported. Malt was a mere drug, and might have b
slow '1".i.0
t
chases t
on easier terms. Oats, Beans, and Peas met
a
previous figures.

Oats. 2,71°
pur'
ARRIVALS. o
Barley. 3,500
3,380 qrs.
2,950
320

Wheat.
1,890 qrs.

English .... • •
Irish . • • • • • • •
Foreign • • • • • •

- 1,130
Malt, 5,160 qrs.
W11XTEC11.1173131.• ices Were
For each kind of Meat we had a steady demand, and rt. .84 g°
mostly supported. Beef, from 2s 8d to 35 6d ; mutton.r I',
3s 8d ; Veal, 48 4cl to is 8d ; and Pork, 3s 4d to 41 dd Pe
the carcase.

SPORTING IN TELLIGE-Ntil'.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)„ i'•
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.-----IU--,s 91
CHESTER CUP.
10 to 1 agst Semiseria
4205
ttoo
il
aaggssttFZoaiglifailibc,-I..?osgh (t)
15 to 1 agst Obscurity
18 to 1 agst Cataract (t) 40 to 1 agst E%teille',,t (t)
ceppo.- 0
22 to 1 agst Pug (t) 1000 to 20 agst P _ goer
25 to 1 agst The Era t) 1000 to 15 agst 00,-
25 to 1 agst Celeste the Rolls Oil OP
DEBBY.
M Ot°l It (0
30 to 1 agst —e ‘ifbio co
30 to 1 agst gisbrisebit
33 to 1 agst Wetasyd
t
e
35 to 1 agst Old 'ea ol
F 1 glrl
40 to 1 agst NT- ter
1,,10 to 1 agst 1110313355 -
OARS.
7 to 1 agst Lancashire Witch (t).

11 to I agst Alarm
13 to 1 agst Cobweb colt
18 to 1 agst Pam
18 to 1 agst Idas
30 to 1 agst Newsmonger (t)
30 to 1 agst Annandale

FAIL. 0
BRUSSELS, L2.—The KingANDERS presidedM to-dal in the cliget)001" /
FED
Ministers. His Majesty attended Divine service in
the Palace. v-;ne Of Pt°
The King has received the letter, by which the D-0 Cow-gott
aonfnounced that her Royal Highness the Princess, b,l4degverini
his Royal Highness Prince Leopold, has been safe 4 - th d
a Prince. the on
The receipts of te Custom-house at Antwer
January, amountedh to the sum of 320,395 francp in
s* the
601
The quantity of snow which fell on the 31st ult. in -. oeuser--
of Liege, was so considerable, that the last train for
fu
rtber
which sets out at a quarter past three, could Prenne.leit 01j ...el—.
than Fexhe, and was obliged to return to Liege, ic.
~''' each LI" '
at eight o'clock. The last train from Brusselsdld indreur
but it was eight hours on the way.

---------
FRIGHTFUL co.A.L.pil-
of_tbhloSsßeUreßrrYidc(
ACCIDENT. „„goor.
TY
in One acosionet%loo en.
SptclEeßnsti'srosflliwßaEte'r TwilbEics:AV 4 rr---11
till"
gs upon the workmen employed in the coal-pits ebited r AO°
(ongeedofin the mines (Hayeswood) of AIL Williain Caietheis
pop
the magistrates of the county of Somerseteadd boys, 0
ners, at
the
number of nearly 100, descended the pit between four Of
After engaging in their usual vocations forty or,' the pit
an hour,
(a an alarm was given by those at the extrernt; stte(
wasdistance of more than a mile from the mouth) tbst,„,.o of t°
poor rushing; in.
As may readily be imagined, the A.:".." - tbe in"'
chows was great in the extreme, for no sooner V..- upy
hill
mation been given than the dread entrap itself came re_Peparstee
them. The greatest terror now seized upon th bibs`th`Less
for
raisingwould not the coal (the only means of escape while We
w. 0
succeeded in reaching the mouth of the pit had t°,,,a. °there
ches, As many as possibly could entered the w" ~.dont
ret to .-
• Bto the sides and by the ropes ; this was reo este'
seven or eight times, and by the time the last a- -1 shold-
rt. es Weir ati
cated from their perilous condition the water reecho! the°
and in a few minutes more would have drowned there. A. the P''''
_ When all who had succeeded in gaining them
xciternent 000
had been safely landed on the surface,
and the e ~so 0
quent upon
the occurrence of an accident fraught vntu ir or PA
danger had subsided, inquiry was instituted as to whethke 0 four,
ten• 0 f the party were missing, when it was ascertained ts, that
hwere not forthcoming, and the conclusion cowl
_oa 610
t ey had perished. This, however, to a certain cowl
W`sa isee'
vto say, was not the case, for on search being mode
oe. Ir.
outh o
eerie_
cred that four had made their escape through{ it air cyild twat t....
remaining ten have not yet (12 o'clock) been und, en_ saeldeet
position which they occupied in the pit at the time of th7ntertsine.
being more than a mile from the mouth, no doubt ft
ferorsee'
by those who know the pit that they have met vritli A
.hle at thig
In the confusion which prevails it is
of
bodies be
time to collect more minute details. Should any of the
~e pllowil
found the inquest will be held either toanorrow or ti0..4 that 1.
day. We learn that the pit Is about 50 fathoms deelh nee tb°
adjoins an old one, from which there is every reams
men to r-- t
water has burst. ho Wen-
THREE ' 0 CLOCK.-- We have Just seen one of five DLen litioes if
down an hour or two ago to ascertain if there were s'l_.or• wow"
their missing companions; they went so far as the iell!,oa
;.,,, Of 'the e''. .bcpoS
permit them, and report that they can see Ooth.-. ii ofisso
Thesepits are in the parish of Tirasbury, II One" -
eight or nine miles south of Bath.

„,,,ficr•
LATE RAILWAY CAT.A.STu'I
tode"t°
of wain ,_,.,.,„0
MANcIIEsTEB, TUESDAY.—Mr. Feritoll, 011 e the
.ci foi ttsto
of the engine department, said, that it Was usual ortioei .„,,
tni,--c.” Vie
was brought into the shed at night for the engineer ~ be el.
valves so as to let out all the steam, and that all inighiton
t of the itie...,
Only way in which he could give a probable explat.,Aneer a ''''
dent, was, that on the morning of the accident the "bp-
-,4 Doe#
unknowingly have screwed down the valve too tight. on
that had
of the jury said this was the best explanation
given yet. .-i'ct "115 re-
__,.,... .vei..l 0011
Alter the Coroner had summed up, the followoils we boa re tii
turned :—" That from the evidence brought befor:stel
to facilitatco,_,
to suppose that the ordinary valve had been cl _ ose tpc /niosii
pressure of the steam, and that from some -1.
"1".--Irat ite is 1110 °PuPper
up safety valve was impeded in its working.
I late in tlie .r. of
of the jury that there was a flaw in the copper 1),_,,d eNpanslitted
part of the fire-box, arising from the contraction ai.
--1 oder accuniii*,olo,
the metal in its ordinary working, which lee,
.ao_ , °gorge 'fl.tua
pressure, to the catastrophe, by which Williaiu St. !Lifccurota.aces
and William Alcock met their death. Front these ea
jury lay a deodand on the engine of 5001."

MoTTux
workmeni
ndHa-----•••••"'""..........""..---
..0.--00
TAINS IN TRAFALGAR- sQll'..iosonf)f
commenced the erection a the laying
dinovitmbe:fbatshinespiopfes'r. ref.& aLsgraer,v porferveidous to. the Is
pleted in about two months. te, and elle
weighs several tons. The works are ex ed
pecgtrAnito be cool.'
John Gladstone, Ebq., of Fasque, has be
otnact tlh':
proprietor of the estate of Yhesdo and Fitnatnoon, .
prize of 32,000/.
to Fasque, and • s ea
one of thee
-n • ,will constitute Mr. Uladstona 4bodals
Tbi b utiful property lies nearly
principal heritors of the parish of Fourdoun---A
WIGN
are as EYS
.enarato estate
43 3d., follows :—Joint estate M., I. N'. WigneY's '-'-'1 pound.
ESTATE.—The dividends just declared
Brighton Guardian.
and C. Wigney's separate estate ss. 3d. in t 1
following
The Eastern Counties Railway CornpallY, scowl-
etliiiethexampie of some other lines, are 110 W 111111111 g enclose
.it preSellt
0100
it only
carriages from Hertford to London. The alteratton,... „op,
ily partial, but it is to be hoped that its adoption von pr
cop
on the line.

j