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

FURIOUS DRIVING.—On Thursday night, at eleven o'clock, whilst the carriage of Lord Charles Beauclerk was passing through Halkin-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 One blood horse of great value._ . -  An 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.. emit 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 (tuneful 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 tittle is consult upon the propriety of lighting those roads. A STEAMER FOUNDERED IN THE RlTElR.—Yesterday morning, the Waterman steamer, No. 3, which hadlust takes In several passengers at the Westrainster.bridge floating pier, was rounding from the landing-place, and had just arrived opposite the Duke of Buccieuch's mansion, about 200 yards distant, when she struck violently upon a sunken barge laden with 50 tens of gravel, belonging to Mr. Mailett, 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 ofthe shock, and the water rushed into the fore cabin and soon filled it ; but the vessel being divided into compartments by water. tight bulk.heads, it could not penetrate farther, and the vessel kept afloat, and after some difficulty brought up to the Waterman's Abelphi Pier, at the termination of George-street, Adelphi, where the passengers were landed, and they proceeded on their voyage by the next vessel, Waterman No. I. The Waterman No. 3 was brought up below the Adelphi Pier, and the leak having been stopped when the tide receded, she was afterwards towed down to Woolwich for repairs. The accident was entirely owing 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.