The Sun. — 1852-05-26 (London, England)

DEA.TH OF J. TALBOT, ESQ,, Q.C.—On the re-assembling of the Metropolitan Water Bills Committee this morning, Mr. Beckett, chairman, Mr. Sergeant Wrangham said it was his painful task to have to communicate to the Cornmitten the melancholy event of the death of his learned and distinguished friend, Mr. a a, :a'unt, who had breathed his last on the previous night at Brighton. (Here the Learned painfully Counsel became so sume his seat, and for some minutes himself and some twenty members of the bar present were observed to shed tears.) ' The Chairman said that the Committee deeply sympathised With the Learned Counsel, and, to save him further pain, by adjourning the proceedings to the next day. The committee accordingly adjourned. It is feared that the disease of the heart, of which it is said Mr. Talbot died, was materially accelerated by professional over-exertion. About twenty aristocratic families will be thrown into mourning by Parli the damentaieath of y ba thisr. iversally acknowledgednu leader of the ARTIFICIAL AlEmon, mr. N. F. Zaba delivered a lecture at W.ll '----• . Saturday last, explainingiis a Rooms on the principles of his especially as Mnemonic system, applied to the stud f Modern History. The y o Ancient and comprehensive grasp of thereby attainable is truly ast ' _ .Universal chronology ' stem has been onisbing. . Zaba ssy . the lecture adopted in severalchief En lish seminaries. lecture yielded much interest to largeg audience, who were presided over by Lord Robert a Grosvenor. RAILWAY' ASaturday the usual reccinEnTs _On turn relating to railwa*for the half-year, ending the 31st of December lYa,t accidents printed. The number of pas- ' sengers was 47,509 332 b 'was of persona killed was ' • The number 113, and 264 injured, and 213 injhere were eig ht tired, from causes beyond their own control; nine passengers were killed and 14 injured owing to their own misconduct or want of caution • 30 servants of companies or of contractors were killed and 17 injured from causes beyond their own control ; 32 servants of companies or of contractors were killed and 11 injured owing to their own misconduct or want of caution; 33 trespassers and other persons, neither passengers nor servants of the companies, were killed and nine injured by crossing or walking on railways. There was one suicide. The length of railways open on the Both of June, 1851, was 6,69Bmiles,and the Ist of December on last 6,890 miles, being• • , an increase during the half-year of 192 miles,  A Dublin paper reportq the failure of Messrs. Sin-clair and Boyd, of Belfast, "one of the most extensive mercantile firms in Ireland," and adds that their liabilities have been set down at sums front 300,0001. to 700,000/., but that they probably do not exceed 100,0001. Other failures, it is also said, are likely to fellow in consequance. The whole statement, however, is a most extraordinary exaggeration All the acceptances of the firm will be duly paid, and they moreover, an; believed not to reach a have merely reouired some delay on their general obligations, which has been rsadily gtanted. Their entire engagements, smallest Sums allegcd.—Tintes. FALL Dowx A