The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-31 00:00:00

COLOMBIAN BONDS.

The following is an official copy of an agreement which
has been concluded at Bogota, subject to the approval of
the bondholders in England:—
" We, the undersigned—viz., Juan Climaco Ordonez,
Secretary of Finance of the Government of New Gra-
nada, in the name of the said Government, and Fowles,
Illingworth, Wilson, and Co., as agents of the bond-
holders of the Colombian debt—have agreed to the fol-
lowing proposals:—
" 1. New Granada acknowledges as her debt 50 per
cent. of the loans that Colombia contracted in 1822 and
1824, and will issue in London bonds for the half of each
Colombian bond that may be presented, half of its value
being consequently cancelled, and New. Granada being
free from the united responsibility which, as part of Co-
lombia it incurred with respect to the said bonds.
" 2, The bonds which New Granada may issue in con-
formity with the foregoing article shall bear one per
cent. yearly interest during the first four years, which
interest shall be increased a quarter per cent. in each of
the succeeding years, until it shall reach the six per cent.
assigned to the original bonds.
" 3. In payment of the interest due and not paid, and
of that which shall not be paid until the aforesaid bonds
shall bear 6 per cent., bonds shall be issued at the rate of
100 for 100 of capital, so that with the said bonds a new
capital equal to the original shall be formed, which
New Granada acknowledges.
" 4. These bonds shall bear no interest for the first 16
years after their issue. In the 17th they shall bear 1 per
cent., which shall be increased an eighth part in each of
the succeeding years, till it shall reach 3 per cent., which
is the maximum of interest assigned to them.
" 5. The interest on the New Grenadian bonds that
may be issued in accordance with the stipulation in
article 1 shall be paid in London each half-year as it be-
comes due, the payment of the first half-year to take
place from the Ist of June, 1845, and this account to be
credited 47,875 hard dollars 53 reels, received by the
house of Powles Brothers and Co., of London.
_ _

" 6. The bonds of both debts. shall be admitted at
par in payment of the national property that may be
sold, which is destined by law for the extinction of the
exterior debt.

" 7. The next proceeds of the revenue from tobacco,
and half of the proceeds of that from Custom-houses,
stand charged with the fulfilment of this contract.
"8. These proposals shall bind the Government of
New Granada as soon as they shall be accepted by the
bondholders, and accordingly the Grenadian Government
shall immcdiately give its orders for the bonds to be
delivered to those bondholders who accept the terms, and
the payments shall be made them at the proper time, as
has been agreed. If the creditors should not accede to
the terms, all this agreement shall be null and void, as
regards both parties.
" In faith whereof, we sign the present in Bogota, on
the 15th of January, 1845.
"JUAN CLIMACO ORDONEZ.
"TOWLES, ILLINGWORTII, WILSON, and CO."

DREADFUL ACCIDENT AND LOSS

OF LIFE AT BLACKWALL.

On Saturday evening, and just at the hour when the
men engaged in the extensive works of Messrs. Ditch-
burn and Mare, iron steamboat builders, Orchard-yard,
Blaekwall, were assembled to be paid, a report was cir-
culated that a frightful loss of life had ensued from a
portion of their massive buildings having given way,
baring in its ruins a number of workmen. As might be
expected, the premises were instantly surrounded, not
only by the itnmidiate inhabitants, but also by the wives
and children of the men employed in the varied depart-
ments of the works, whose horror-stricken countenances
added greatly to the terror that prevailed. The spec-
tacle that presented itself upon their arrival at the spot
where the awful catastrophe took place was aught but
calculated to allay their alarms. On all sides were to be
seen immense piles of iron scattered about in the most
frightful confusion, w bile great crowds of men were en-
gaged removing them for the purpose of " disengaging,"
as they said, the mangled bcdies that were buried under-
neath. Some idea may be formed of the powerful ex-
ertions made by the men to remove this heap of iron
ruins, from the fact that they actually, in their
struggle, bent the iron into a thousand forms, as if
it were only so many pieces of soft wood. We are, how-
ever, happy in being enabled to state that the loss of life
and the injury of limb were not of the frightful extent
that was at first anticipated. Eight bodies—two lifeless,
and six more or less mangled, were found under the
ponderous weight that crushed them. Upon examining
them it was found that Thomas Bates, aged twenty-
seven, and John Payne, aged twenty-five, having a wife
and two children, were unfortunately killed, and that
one of the wounded
.men named Hayes had his ankle
fractured, and another his thigh broken. The injuries
of the other sufferers could not be precisely ascertained,
although they were severe, in consequence of an order—
and very properly so—having been issued for their in-
stant rem )val to the Dreadnought. Messrs. Ditchburn
and Mare, with their clerks and foremen, were imme-
diately upon the spot, and rivalled each other in afford-
ing assistance. Mr. Bayne, a surgeon, residing at
Poplar, was also present, and was to be seen hurrying to
and fro, seeing where his aid was required. In less than
a quarter of au hour after the melancholy occurrence it
was calculated that there were not less than a thousand
gersons present, amongst whom there was a large body
of police, whose conduct was the theme of general
praise...
Within the large gateway there was a great quantity
of inch iron rods, raised ten feet high, which, with the
exception of two-thirds that rested on the ground, were
supported by nine-inch thick wooden sleepers, and were
further strengthen( d by a strut extending from the gate
wall to the iron rods. About half-past five o'clock on
Saturday evening, without any assignable cause, the iron
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its full an iron ch,tern, having plates of three sixteenths
thickness, and capable of holding ninety gallons of water;
and also the large gates leading to the yard, which were
swung from their hinges, and their immense holdings in
the massive stone wail. At that moment there were
close to the iron rods the two deceased. and the six
wounded individuals, but by an interference of Provi-
dence, the great bulls of the men (upwards of sixty in
number) were outside of the gate, and thus escaped a
frightful and a sudden death. had the accident occurred
at an earlier hour in the day, the loss of life must have
been dreadful, as there were constantly passing to and
fro, and close to it, between 500 and 600 men. Payne
was crushed to atoms, and was a complete mummy, his
body being, doubled up. Bates's skull was fractured,
and both his thighs were so smashed that they could be
turned into any form. It appears that not the slightest
blame is attachable to any party, as the sleepers upon
which the iron rested had, until recently, 40 tons weight
to support. The general impression is that the late
variety of season had an effect upon the wooden sleepers,
and caused a giving way that led to the appalling
occurrence.

The ship-carpenters of Whitehaven have turned
out for an advance of wages, which, however, they are
not likely to obtain.—Carlisle Journal.
TIIE CONDEMNED CONVICT AT STAFFORD.— STAF-
FORD, FRIDAY NIGIIT.—The execution of the wretched
criminal, John Brough, for the murder of his brother
Thomas, at the village of Biddulph, in this county, and who
is at present lying in the gaol of this town, awaiting his
dreadful sentence, has been appointed to take place on Satur-
day morning at eight o'clock. The doomed man has made a
lengthened confession of his sin, and has said that he per-
petrated the dreadful act with a small hammer used for
breaking stones, but that he was exasperated to do it from
the unmanly and unfeeling conduct of his deceased relative ;
he, however, denies most positively meditating his destruc-
tion, even up to ten minutes previous to his death, and that
when he struck him he had not the slightest idea of mur-
dering him. The unhappy criminal pays the most devout
attention to the religious instructions of the chaplain of the
gaol, and appears perfectly resigned to the awful fate which
awaits him.

TRAVELS IN SEARCH OF A JOHN SMITIL—SODIe
twelve months since Mr. Turner, a solicitor, of Maitland,
posted a letter which he intended fur Mr. John Smith,
solicitor, O'Connell-street, Sydney, but which he acci-
dentally directed " London.' Now, Smiths are exceed-
ingly plentiful in London, and John is by no means an
uncommon prefix. O'Connell-streets, however, are not
very plentiful, but it appears there are some ; and there
are three John Smiths residing in O'Connell-streets,
each of whom opened it, and finding it was not intended
fur them, returned it. In Dublin there are several
O'Connell-streets, and lets of John Smiths, and to
Dublin it was sent ; but after all the Smiths in the law-
list had been " tried," to use the technical expression,
without the right one being found, it was determined to
send the letter back to the writer, endorsed with the
certificate of seventeen different postmen, that they had
all searched in vain for the person for whom it was in-
tended. Last week it arrived in Sydney, and was sent
to Maitland, when the mistake was discovered, and Mr.
John Smith, O'Connell-street, received his letter, together
with four one-pound notes enclosed in it.—SydreyMorn-
ing Herald, Nov. 13.
A STOLEN BANK NOTE FOUND.—A workman, on
Tuesday last, whilst engaged in repairing an old tene-
ment at Highgate, in taking up some damaged boards
forming the flooring of the kitchen, among a quantity
of pieces of cloth, shavings and other rubbish, pulled out
a piece of paper, which upon examination proved to be a
one-pound Bank of England note, dated so far back as
the year 1810. About thirty-five years ago an old man,
named York, a whitesmith, occupied the premises in
question, who was much addicted to drinking, and who,
although possessed of some little property, lived in a state
of dirt and filth, so much so that the place literally
swarmed with rats, and there can be no doubt but that
one of these vermin had upon some occasion carried off
the recently-found treasure, among other relics, where-
with to construct a bed or nest for its young.
GUERNSEY.—ACCIDENT.----011 Tuesday last, Mr.
John Moore Napier, son of his Excellency Major• Gen-
eral Napier, was thrown from a one-horse carriage
which lie was driving, and dislocated his shoulder.
Mr. Napier, we understand, was, at the time of
the accident, turning into the gate of the Rev. Daniel
Dobree's residence at the Forest, when the horse took fright
at the report of a gun which was discharged at a short dis-
tance, and overturned the carriage. We have much pleasure
in being able to state, from the reports which we have heard,
that no serious consequences are apprehended from the acci-
dent.—Guernsey Star.
ACCIDENT IN REGENT-STREET.-011 Saturday
afternoon, between four and five o'clock,_ a gentleman's
carriage, with two ladies in it, was standing at a shop-door
in Regent-street, near Maddox-street, when a horse in a cab
came galloping up the street, at a furious rate, without a
driver on the box. The cab horse dashed with great:violence
against the carriage horses, and the shaft of the cab entered
one of the horse's chests to a considerable depth. The poor
animal fell on the ground, and instantly expired. The ladies
escaped unhurt
On Saturday her Royal Highness the Grand
Duchess Stephanie of Baden, attended by the Baroness de
Strumfeder, Baron de Schreckenstein, and the Duke of Ha-
milton, visited the electro-telegraph, at the Paddington ter-
minus of the Great Western Railway, where they remained
nearly an hour. Her Royal Highness expressed herself
highly gratified with the working of this extraordinary
apparatus.