The Sun. — 1854-01-02 (London, England)

OCTOBER. - • - 1. Intelligence of the escape of John Mitchell, the Irish convict. 2. The manning clause. Riots of foreign sailors at Sunderland. 3. Gaming house. The Cocoa Tree, capture of 21 persons charged with having been found in ; case dismisavd. Burglar; the gallant capture of one, by Mrs. Elliott, of Liverpool. Turkey and Russia; great meeting in favour of Turkey at Hanley Potteries. Preston, dreadful accident at; fall of 200 or 300 through the floor of a room ; one person killed. 4. Eastern question, great meeting at Leicester on the. -- Railway Accidents. Ambergate Railway; collision of two engines; one life lost, many dangerously;wouncied. 5, Declaration of war by Turkey against Russia ; intelligence from Vienna. Railway accidents (Ireland). Great Southern and Western Railway ; collision caused from the breaking of engine ; 14 persons killed, several dreadfully wounded. 7. Eastern question, great meeting in the City respectin the.  8. Intelligence received of the discovery of the Northwest passage by Commander M'Clure. Death from chloroform in the University College Hospital. 10. Miss Cunninghame compelled to leave the prison at Lucca, after having been unjustly imprisoned for a month. New penny receipts first used. 11. Horrible disclosures of treatment of prisoners in Winchester Gaol at an inquest held on a man who had been removed hence to the Queen's Prison, Southwark:. 12. Proposed monument to the late devoted French officer, Lieut. Bellot.  Inauguration of Sir Robert Peel's statue at Man chester. Railway accidents. station knocked to pieces. 15. Preston cotton mills closed ; 25,000 persons out of employment. 17. Death from cholera in the Millbank Prison. Mr. Bowlby's Arctic expedition ; intelligence of the Wellington. 18. Great meeting in Finsbury respecting the Eastern question. 19. Shipwrecks. Loss of the Dalhousie, with all on board, with one exception, off Beachy Head, with cargo valued at 100,0001., bound for Sydney. 20. Fatal termination of the use of chloroforms at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Medway River. Thirty-one lives lost by sinking of Harslake Bridge, over which a waggon containing 40 persons was passing. 21. Deputation to Earl Clarendon on the Eastern question from Finsbury. 22. Gift of 5,0481. to John Bright; expended in books. Russia and Turkey ' • first encounter between the Russian steamers and gunboats and batteries off Isactcha. 23. Russian Royal family : Arrival of Grand Duchess Marie of Russia at Dover, and embarkation for Ostend. 25. 120 gentlemen dined in a new gasometer at Paisley Gasworks.  Great Western ; the Reading  26. Great meeting in the Tower Hamlets respecting the Eastern question. Sir W. Knight Bethune, Ulster King at Arms, died. Visit of Louis Napoleon with the Empress to the fortress of Ham.  North- west passage; testimonial to Lieut. Samuel Gurney Cresswell, R.N., at Lynn. Blackburn ; Great Eagle Factory blown up, many lives lost. 27. Deputation to Lord Clarendon respecting religious persecution in Tuscany and Sweden. Preston strike, meeting of power-loom weavers at the Temperance-hall. Bishop of Derry (Dr. Ponsonby) died. 28. Intelligence of the murder of General Count De Neuilly by his aide-de-camp. ... Lord Cloncurry died. Riots at Wigan. 29. Turkey and Russia, armistice between the contend• ing powers reported in Paris.  - Opening of the Shrwsbury and Hereford Railway. Preston wages movement, meeting of 6,000 unemployed operatives. 31. Strikes general in Lancashire. Great meeting at Nottingham respecting the Eastern question. Riots at Wigan, several persons shot. The Earl of Kenmare died.  ; •