The Sun. — 1845-06-09 (London, England)

FURIOUS DRIVING.—On Thursday night, at eleven o'clock, whilst the carriage of Lord Charles Beaucleik WOO Main through Halkln-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 fiqe blood horse of. great  value. Ain 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 Brompton, when, in consequence of the darkness of the road, immediately beyond the Bell and Horns, the cab in which he was came in 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. Mr. Rodwell was dashed forward against the glass front, and in an in. scant was covered with blood from severe cuts 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 offering a temptation on dark nights to every species of vice and immorality, if not robbery —setting aside the almost endless dangerous collisions which are constantly taking place for want of light. When a daring robbery or a murder has occurred, perhaps the authorities will think it time to consult upon the propriety of lighting those roads. A STEAMER FOUNDERED IN THE RlVER.—Yesterday morning, the Waterman steamer, No. 3, which had just take* in several passengers at the Westromater.bridge floating pier, was rounding from the landing-place, and had just arrived opposite the Duke of B M uccleuch's mansion, about 200 yards arini, when she struck violently upon a sunken barge laden with 50 tons of gravel . belonging to Mr. Monett, the lighterman, in Lambeth, which had sunk during the night, and there being no buoy to mark the spot the barge was concealed from view. The iron plates on the larboard side of the Waterman were driven in by the violence of the shock, and the water rushed into the fore cabin and soon filled it • gesi Iphiho rdtoti she was unreow, ptlyr and tpwnseor.daasosTtfttcht reehheeeereeendwNt entirely afterwards drraaedkAt ol Watermaneys ndrrnote oti wpahwnihe having nei ars but the vessel being divided into compartments by water-tight i bulkheads, it could not penetrate farther, and the vessel kept mffil aicnnudalettidyo,nb and onotdfl wherea.Aliboeal afloat, ht i the enPdpi passengers eftnaegtr e rstsohmwe some rteedri bvdNeoooeyw.nan3g voyage wtoobap Woolwichsyp• broughteat he wnheexnutf for trvbhereeselsopetawli I,drtesWh. eraetAcTee drdhmeee Waterman to the neglect of the people belonging to the barge, who ought to have placed a buoy over it to denote the obstruction after it went down.