The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-24 00:00:00

DANTZIC.

SEPT. 8.--The richest man in Dantzic, John
Christopher Grass, has just died, in his 72d year, and
the first house in Dantzic (Lubienski and Co.), has
been obliged to call its creditors together. Before
taking this resolution, an express was sent to Warsaw
to the noble relations and to the Polish Bank, with
which the house has been closely connected ever since
its establishment ; and it was not till a refusal to
assist was received that this decisive step was taken.
It is said that the house purckased in the course of
last winter five or six thousand lasts of wheat in the
interior of Poland, at high prices, part of which is
still there, because the river Bieg is too shallow for
the corn vessels to come down, and that the recent
losses may amount to 600,000 dollars. But few
houses here are losers, and those to only a moderate
amount ; foreign houses in Hamburgh, London,
Odessa, and Warsaw, are said to be great sufferers.

GOTHENBURG, SEP. 12.—An express from Lille
Edet (on the Gota-Elf,
or Trolhatta Canal) brought
yesterday the melancholy intelligence that all the
water-works at that place were destroyed by fire on
Saturday night. The fire broke out in the mill,
which was burnt in three hours, as well as some large
saw mills, and the whole stock of deals already sawed.
Ile damage exceeds 100,000 dollars banco (not in-
cluding the stock of timber) which is mostly insured
in England. Happily the wind blew towards the
town, otherwise all the dwelling houses would have
been burnt.

______—.
ACCIDENT TO THE
MAIL TRAIN ON THE NORTH
UNION RAILWAY.—As the up London mail train,
which passes through Preston at three o'clock in the
morning' was proceeding on tts journey via Wigan,
it came, when about three or four miles from the
latter place, in Contact with some cows which had
strayed on the line up to Coppall. On examination
it was found that two of them were killed, one of the
carriages being thrown off the line, and drawn in that
state for more than 100
something wrong, stopped the train as soon as pos-
sible. It was immediately ascertained that no ma-
terial injury was yards. The engineer, finding
done to the passengers, although
some of them were much alarmed, particularly those
in the latter carriage,
which was the one thrown off
the line. Although
there
and a luggage train coming IIP many cows, and also
were
a horse, straggling on the railway, yet they all escaped
uninjured except the two before-mentioned, which were
quite dead. The morning was an extremely dark one,
in the opposite direc-
tion at the tirna of the accident, made it almost
a miracle that no further damage
was sustained. The
carriage thrown off the line was unhooked from the
others, and left behind, and the passengers occupying
it requested to take their seats in the other carriages ;
but, although they were then only about five miles
from Wigan—the place of their destination—it was
with the greatest difficulty that any of them could
obtain accommodation amongst the other passengers
in the train. To such a pitch was this incivility car-
ried, that one gentleman on soliciting admittance into
a carriage which the passengers objected to his
were
from
en-
tering, found a seat totally unoccupied. Two or
three others were allowed,
comptehe Guild,l compelled
oraidteproensttohne.
,
as a favour, to sit amongst
some ladies, and five
engine-tender the remainder of the distance. These
gentlemen werereturning
The cattle, we are informed, belonged
by which l
thengedtoAr.Vilel cows
Swift, of Standish, to whose servants the blame is at
tributed of leaving-
a gate open,
entered upon the line. Of the latter we are not cer-
tain, but we suppose he must bear the loss, which to
him will be a serious one.--..hiverpool Chronicle.

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