The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBEIi 8, 1855.

and that treaties were not worth the paper of parchment
on which they were written. Mr. Edward
who on Wednesday evening addressed his constituents
at Rochdale, is now convinced that a prolongation of
hostilities with Russia will not conduce to the interests
of this country. We may compel Russia to evacuate the
Crimea, we may destroy Nicholaieff and Cherson, we
may capture Cronstadt ; but Europe will receive no
benefit from the humiliation of Russia. This is a ques-
tion of opinion. What reason have we for supposing
that Russia will not be as fully prepared in 1863 to com-
mence an attack upon any weaker neighbour as she was
in 1853 ? Simply because she will not have recovered
from her losses. Mr. Miall himself supplies us with the
answer. He numbers up the telling blows which have
been inflicted upon the Czar, not without a certain com-
placency, man of peace though he is. The Sea of Azoff has
been swept ; the seaboard of Circassia has been purged ;
the Turks have saved Kars, and in the next campaign se-
riously threaten Georgia ; the mouths of the Boug and
Dnieper are blockaded and Kinbourn taken; Sebastopol
has fallen ; and, last, not least, "from the beginning of the
war Russia, even by the calculation of her best friends,
has lost 300,000 choice soldiers ; in order to make good
this tremendous loss she has had eight conscriptions in
two years ; already half her army is said to consist of
raw and undisciplined levies, and already the drain
upon her fighting men has very nearly reached the ex-
tent of its capacity." Does all this constitute a reason
for making peace upon any terms, save such as will in-
disputably insure the peace of Europe against Ressian
aggression at least for the lifetime of this generation ?
We cannot, of course, refuse to enter into negotiations
for peace if the terms offered by the enemy are such as
given evidence of real sincerity of purpose. The time,
however, for diplomatic feints and the chicane of inter-
cessors has completely gone by. What account could
the Emperor Napoleon give to the French nation ?
With what hope could the English Governnment face
the Parliament and the English people if they were to
,give us no other return for the blood of our
friends and our children, and for the vast amount of
treasure which we have lavished on this war, than a
peace which would leave us to begin our work again
when another human crop was ripe for the sickle of the
Czar? We admit the full force of Mr. Miall's facts, but
we dissent entirely from his conclusion. France and
England are but beginning to feel their strength, while
Russia is staggering, and already faint with conflict.
More especially is this true of England. She was quite
unprepared for war when the conflict broke out. Her
gigantic strength has been grossly misdirected and mis-
managed, and now that we are loose from the leading-
strings of our blind guides are we not to obtain security
at least as a return for our many sacrifices ? We could
have wished that this had been a little more clearly ex-
pressed by Mr. Cardwell in the speech which he deli-
vered on Thursday evening at the Town-hall at Ox-
ford. It is a pity in a case like this to indulge
in the Delphic vein. It is clear that Mr. Card-
well thinks the guilt of this war lies at the door
of Russia. He declares it also to be our duty to shrink
from no sacrifice and to spare no exertion for the success-
ful prosecution of the cause ; but when he comes to dis-
cuss the question of making peace, he tells us that—
" Whenever it shall be possible, whenever terms shall be
offered which return us that satisfaction for which we
entered into the fight, it will be the duty of every man,
whatever be his station, without reference to any other
object, to let all the ends he aims at be his country's, his
God's, and truth's, and with a single purpose for the
foundation of European liberty," &c. We trust Mr.
Cardwell thinks aright upon this point, than which a
more momentous one has never occupied the attention of
European statesmen ; but it is difficult
Io extract mean-
ing from such grandioquent phrases. fwe are to have
peace, it must not be a nominal one, but such a peace as
will satisfy all the objects of the war and leave our
swcrds in their scabbards for many a year.

(From the Manchester Guardian.)
We fear an impression is entertained among the nu-
merous and worthy members of the Roman Catholic
body in this country, which, for more than one reason,
is to be deprecated. It is thought by some, at least,
that the severe animadversions which the Austrian con-
cordat has called forth are utterances of nothing more
than an uncharitable prejudice against the doctrine and

ritual of an unpopular communion. Now for the justi-
fication of many who, like ourselves would not willingly
lie under the imputation of heing actuated by bigotry, it
is highly desirable that this misapprehension should be
corrected, and, if possible, removed. We have not the
slightest wish to meddle, other wise than argumentatively,
with the extension of the Roman Catholic faith ; nor

should we think of interfering with any arrangements
which its adherents, acting simply as members of a Chris
tian church, may be pleased to make among them-
selves for the preser►ation of their unity, and the pro-
pagation of their opinions. But that which we fear and
detest, almost beyond expression, is the growth of eccle-
siastical influence in the direction of civil affairs. To say
that we have no right to deplore and denounce a huge
stride taken in this direction by an absolute government
because that government does not happen to claim our
own allegiance, is tantamount to shutting us out from
all interest in the political development of foreign na-
tions. Our pretension to this degree of liberty does not
require, in the present day to be defended. The adminis-
tration of Austria already presses more heavily on the
springs of human dignity, and worth, and happiness,
that that of any other civilised country in the world. The
introduction of the catholic priesthood to extended in-
dependent power is calculated to make it infinitely worm-,
not on account of their doctrines, but because the domi-
nation of their order is opposed to every sound theory of
civil government. \Ve spy, as it was said by our own
Cromwell on precisely a similar question, that this is a
matter which touches us nearly.

Can any man, who is a thoughtful politician as well
as a pious Catholic, regard with approval or indifference
the future condition of the Austrian states, as sketched
in the Allocution of Pius IX. read in the Secret Consis-
tory of the 31 of November t We will not strain words
to their utmost meaning, or insist on a literal interpre-
tatim of the brad that, henceforth, the Catholic religion
is to enjoy in Austria all the prerogatives which belong
to it by virtue of the canonical constitutions. A distin-
guished seceder from the English establishment has
shown, with admirable ingenuity and wit, that it is
possible, by rigid reasoning on formal expressions, to
convict the British constitution of upholding its own
share of atrocities and abstudities. But tLere is no
ambiguity about the fact, that the concordat repudiates '
and banidies "the opinion,—false, perverse, fatal,
and entirely contrary to the Divine priority of rights
—according to which the placate or the esequa
trtr of the civil Government should bo obtained
for what concerns spiritual things and ecclesiastical
"affairs." Now what are included among "spiritual
things" and " ecclesiastical affairs ?" There are such
trifles as the validity of betrothals, marriages, and bap-
tisms among the faithful, the administration of all church
property and patronage, the creation of new dioceses,
parishes, and benefices, the imposition of punishments on
all who transgress the ecclesiastical law and canonical
prescriptions, the taking cognisance of the offences of
clerics against the civil and criminal law, and the con-
trol, to a huge extent, of everything pertaining to public
education. We will take this opportunity of filing up a
statement which was inadvertently left it complete in some
remarks which we male last week. When we said that
in the gymnasia, or middle-class schools, none but cath,,-
lie professcrs were to instruct in any department, it
should have been added that this was spoken only
of those institutions which were intended for the
catholic youth. We willingly supply the omission,
and hope the apologists of the wilful act of abdica-
tion committed by Francis Joseph will find their
case reinstated in all the advantage of which we have
unintentionally deprived' them. It is equally true, how-
ever, that all private as well as public schools for catho-
lics are to be compulsory under the superintendence of
the bishop. It is still tree that in all public and priva.e
schools—and in this case there is no qualifying condi
tion with reference to the faith of the pupils the teach-
ing of theology is interdicted to everyone who has not
received from the bishop a license which may be with-
drawn at pleasure. It is still true that the Government
engages itself to prevent the spread of all books which
archbishops, bishops, and ordinaries may point out to it
as calling for suppression. On the whole, we do not find
that our argument is sensibly affected.
But no greater mistake could be committed than to sup-

pose that this monstrous clerical ururpation is only ob-
u opinions.
jetted to so far enjoymentof pro-
testantl t the
is on acocfon protestant
of the catholic
o n the liberty
contrary,and
population themselves that we protest agai •
nst the sub-
jection of the country to the very worst kind of rule that
malicious ingenuity could devise. If we are told that
Y
they are not conscious of requiring our sympath vi
shall believe it when we hear it from some one haswhc;
e
a right to speak on their behalf. If it is said that aver-
sion to the Romish creed or form of worship is the real
motive of our professed uneasiness, we will meet the im-
putation by two questions. In the first place, did not
this nation resist, and have not many others at all stages
of their power resisted, ecclesiastical pretensions of this
very kind, at a time when their hearts were still devoted
to the ancient faith ? In the next place, can any one
pretend to believe that we should tolerate fur a moment
the concession of similar prerogatives to the Church of
England, even if its adherents constituted as large a ma-
jority in the United Kingdom as the Catholics form in
all but the Hungarian provinces of Austria ? The ques-
tion does not admit of an uncertain or confused reply.
Englishmen have always been able to distinguish be-
tween attachment to a church and the transference of
civil authority to its ministers. 'We must rather wonder
that any are now to be found who will contend that dif-
ferences ences of opinion
on the merits of priestly government
ar
simply referable t 3 inequalities of religious earnest•
ness and zeal.
It is worthy of notice that tbo imperial patent accom•
PanYing the
voi concordat in the "Viennese official hi'
pLI IC3 -
1 i suspends for •
lating to Catholic schools and matrimonial causes. We
well know that fain receives this as a proof that the Government
the
imposed on them';
are not indifferent to the fet-
tersindifferent when the galling
rather, that they will not be
begins to be felt. Thatinif pressure of the spiritual chain
arrogant demands of the iider these circumstances the
ceded in full, with the hopeChurchef should have been con-
, when they may be put in practicaaltime hereafter arising
proof of the miserable necessitiestoution, is a striking
Austrian Emperor is reduced. Weo whichho the you n g
offend no honest Catholic by saying that hope
ee
wei ies,h,ali
profoundly false impression to be conveyed by el
- - -a
the state-
ment of the Pope, this " religious prince" voluntarily "
solicited" the heavy blow which has fallen ep3hl.
Crown and dignity. We doubt not that the forfeit was
--
grudgingly and sadly rendered. The treacherous sacrifice
of his civil rights is the price paid by a failing ruler for
1.1 vast instrument of political surveillance and control.
Bad government must be propped by bad means ; and
theo concordat of the sth of November is the natural
crn
Pigment of the Orlinances of Schoenbrunn.

Naval and Military Intelligence,

The new mortar-raft which was towed down from
Woolwich on Friday week by the steam-vessel Monkey,
Second-Master George Syndercomb, commander, and
moored off Shoeburyness Sand, commenced her experi-
ments on Monday last with orders to fire at certain in-
tervals 300 rounds from a 13-inch mortar with a charge
of 201 b. of powder, the dead shell weighing 2001 b. Cap-
tain James C. Caffin, C. 8., RN., and Mr. James P.
Peake, Assistant-Master Shipwright, with several other
scientific gentlemen of the Royal Navy and Artillery,
superintended the experiments. In consequence of the
state of the weather, up to Friday last only 96 rounds
had been fired, the average range of which exceeded
4,000 yards, without any visible action taking place on
the platform framing of the raft, exoept a few of the
planks forming the deck or platform butts starting with
the concussion. Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, C. 8.,
arrived there on Friday last, at noon. He had under
his command five seamen and the gunner of the Sinbad,
Mr. Henry Wallace. Four rounds were fired by them,
when it was discovered that there was a leak in one of
the pontoon magazines foe powder. Fortunately, the
magazine had only a few charges in it. There were three
feet of water in the magazine in a very short time, and
in another of the pontoon magazines there was one foot
of water. The raft has three pontoon magazines for
powder and five pontoon shell rooms. It was found
necessary to warp the raft in on the ebb, dry, which
was shortly effected, assisted by the Monkey. The Mon-
key was sent to Sheerness to procure pumps, which were
supplied to her from the yard, and she proceeded again
the same night. The concussion felt on the raft is con-
siderably less than that felt on beard the mortar-vessels
when the mortar is fired, and her displacement by dip is
scarcely perceivable. There is little doubt that the de-
scription of raft now under trial will fully realise the
most sanguine expectation of the Government as well as
the inventor of them.
An interesting experiment has taken place off Shoe-
buryne,s, by setting fire to a large launch moored off
for that purpose, by firing carcasses at her as she lay.
The first that struck her burned her to the water's edge.
The order for the Royal George, 102, to proceed to
Spithead on her arrival at Sheerness has been counter-
manded, and she is to remain at Sheerness. Had she
arrived, as was anticipated, within this last day or two,
Mr. Brockman, master in the service, was in readiness
here to have piloted her round to Portsmouthl to join
the grand naval review there in honour of the !King of
Sardinia's visit to this country. Now, being too late
for the above, the report is she will proceed to Gilling-
ham (Telly Point), a few miles below Chatham.
The new screw steam-ship Mars, 80 guns, has been
placed under the new factory shears at Sheerness, and
is receiving her new boilers, which were sunk with the
Water witch.
The Brandon steam-transport, Captain Jenkins, the
Sydney steam-transport, Captain Macnamara, the Ger-
mania steam-transport, and the Durham steam-transport,
Captain Starks, all arrived at Portsmouth on Saturday
from the East. The Brandon brought Ensign Bur-
goyne, of the 93d, Assistant-Surgeon Grant, Staff-Sur-
geon Williams, Quartermaster Carney, 3 sergeants, 10
orderlies, 98 military invalids, Lieutenant Still, 8.A..,
Lieutenant Roe, 12th Lancers, and a Greek spy. These
she landed at Portsmouth Dockyard yesterday after-
noon, and the invalids were taken to Forehouse Bar-
racks. The Durham left on Saturday night for the
Thames. The Sydney brought 54 invalids, 2 women,
Major and Mrs. Haokett, Mrs. Turner, 3 children, 1
servant, Dr. Barrett, in medical charge, and Mr. Swann,
his assistant ; proceeded to Smyrna, and took in 63 in-
valids, Mrs. Bowler, nurse, 2 civil orderlies, and 1 sol-
dier's wife. She spoke her Maje4y's ship Albion going
into Gibraltar on the 24th ult. Mr. Crealock, Paymas-
ter, R.N., and Mrs. Potter joined at Malta. She spoke
the Edendale transport going into Malta on the 18th
Nov.' and the Bombay and True Briton transports on the
same day ; and the Belmont, of Plymouth, on the 30th ;
she was in company with the Australian transport
three days—the 18th, 19th, and 20th. The Germania
brought Capt. Wilson, Lieutenants Knox, Hamilton,
Wyllie, and Johnstone, of the Royal Artillery ; Ensign
Hickman, of the 60th Rifles ; Dr. Marchi, surgeon, in
charge of invalided troops • 114 men, 20 women, 36
children, of the Royal Artillery ; 2 men, 2 women, and
1 child of the Royal Sappers and Miners ; 1 man of the
let Royal Regiment, 1 of the 7th, 3 of the 31st, and 20
of the 82d ; 2 women and 6 children of the Royal Berks
Militia ; 9 men, 2 women, and 1 child of the Royal Wilt-
shire Militia ; 22 men, 2 women, and 1 child of the Lan-
cashire Militia—total, 118 men, 31 women, and 45 chil-
dren from the lonian Islands ; 4 men and 1 woman died
on the passage. The Germania spoke off Cani Rock the
English bark Syria, steering east, Nov. 21 ; on the 28th,
in lat. 44 32 W., long. 8 48, passed the English yacht
Wave Queen, steering nerth ; on the 30th, about 25
miles S.W. of the Start Point, passed a schooner bat-
tened up, appeared to be an English vessel laden with
fruit, ar.d afterwards a boat bottom up, supposed to be-
long to the schooner.
Vice-Admiral Sir G. F. Seymour, K.C.8., G.C.H.,
the Commander-in-Chief elect of Portsmouth, visited
that port on Saturday.
The Mary freight-ship sailed from Portsmouth on Fri-
day night.
Her Majesty's screw 'steam-ship Exmouth, 90, Capt.
W. K. Hall, and the sailing frigate Meander, 44, Capt.
T. Baillie, towed by the steam-sloop Hecla, 6, Comman-
der Aplin, left Plymouth Sound at 8 o'clock yesterday
morning to join the fleet assembled at Spithead in honour
of the visit of his Majesty the King of Sardinia. Great
activity has been observed at Dovonport in preparing
these ships for sea, in compliance with the unexpected
instructions of the Lords of the Admiralty. The crew
of the Exmouth, recency returned from the Baltic,
housed lower yards and topmasts on Tuesday, •ai d
on Wednesday morning, at eight o'clock, she went into
d ek and had her copper examined and repaired. The
en itleers were at work on her machinery nearly all
night. On Thurs4ay morning she was taken out of dock
and placed at her sailing moorings. While her crew
were busily employed shifting over from the Vigo hulk,
which ',hey entered only on Wednesday, they received
sudden orders to get ready for sea. Notwithetanding
that many were absent on leave, topmasts were swayed
up and fitted, topgallantmasts pointed, and sails bent
the same night. On Friday she t, ok in provisions, a new
sheet cable, and 233 tons of coal —a quantity of fuel
said to be greater than ever taken on board any man-of-
war in one day. On Saturday morning the ship was
clean and in every respect ready for service. She left
Hamoaze with topgallantyards across at 9 o'clock for
Plymouth Sound, where she received her powder and
shell, and waited orders. It is satisfactory to add that
Captain Hall is greatly esteemed by all his officers and
crew.
Rear-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour shifted his flag on
Friday morning from the Exmouth, 90, to La Hogue,
60, Captain Ramsay. In the evening the Admiral in-
spected the Exmouth prior to her leaving the harbour.
Shipwrights will commence to-day laying blocks in
slips Nos. 2 and 4, in the Devonport dockyard, for
construction of two steam gunboats. The order was
received on Saturday, and the boats are to be built with
extraordinary despatch.
The hospital ship Bslleisle, having been repaired, was
taken out out of dock at Devonport, on Saturday.
The barque Alfred, with provisions for Jamaica, sailed
from Plymouth on Saturday. The transport Castle Eden,
with convicts for Bermuda, and the Sir G. Pollock are
expected there shortly. The latter embarks 240 soldiers
for the West Indies—viz., a detachment of the 36th
Foot for Jamaica ; 67th, for Trinidad ; and 69th, for
Barbadoes.
The Brigade of Royal Marines which, as already
stated, arrived at Portsmouth by the. Jura, were landed
from the Black Sea fleet towards the close of Septem-
ber, 1854, and were immediately encamped before
Balaklava to protect that important position, which
we then seized and have since then made the basis of
our operations in the Crimea. Soon after the land-
ing of this force at the request of Lord Raglan, a
detachment of about 300 men were sent to the
front, where they did duty with the Light Division,
and were employed during the winter in the trenches.
Early in March this detachment was withdrawn from
the camp of the Light Division, and rejoined the main
body on the heights of Balaklava. While in this posi-
tion the Marines were employed with the rest of the
troops under Sir Colin Campbell, and marched in the
different reconnaisancesmade during the winter by that
general to examine the enemy's position. They wells
also frequently under arms, when the enemy threatened
the lines of Balaklava, especially on the 25th of October,
and during the action of the Tchernaya on the 16th of
August. All the officers and men of the present force
are fresh from the recent expedition to the estuary of the
Dneiper, where the capture of the fortress of Kinbourn
by the allied arms has opened the gates of Nicolaieff
and Cherson. Col. Hurdle, who was recalled to Eng-
land after the conclusion of the operations against- Kin-
bourn, has arrived as a passenger in this ship, accom-
panied by his aide-de-camp Captain Ellice. The batta-
lion under the orders of Lieut.-Col. Holloway embarked
on board the Jura at Kamiesh, on the 11th ult., left
Balaklava on the 13th, and arrived at Constantinop'e
on the 14th, after a passage of about 24 hours. Left
iaAtiaerhifnpesatbceolonnstaginntginteoplteh,eaQudueecna
Constantinople on the evening of the 15th, and reached
of
falta on Sunday evening, the 18th. The detachment
pGutwyonnneboaanrdd
that ship
pwtaaisn
Lieutenants Rose and Johns. The men belonging to
the London and Rodney •
in Malta were sent on board those ships
Harbour, with Captain Hadfield and Li ut e e-
nantsHawkey and Evans to the former,
Critchell and latter. and Lieutenants
Lloyd to the The Jura passed
through Gibraltar on Saturday morning
week. The fol-
lowing officers have arrived with the battalion :—Lieut.-
Colonel Holloway, commanding, Lieutenant-Colonel
Campbell, Lieutenant Colonel Mitchell, Lieut.-Colonel
e Alexander, Royal Marine Artillery (this officer, with
his detachment, did duty with the Royal Artillery in
'the trenches during the latter part of the siege of Se-
bastopol), Majors Astlett and Radney, Captains Simp-
son and Casey, Lieutenant Pritchard (these three offices
were of the number who did duty in the front—the first,
Capt. Simpson, was present at the battle of Inkerman),
Captain Spratt, Lieutenants Tayler, Shute, Carrington,
Joliffe, Royal Marine Artillery, Thomas Spry, Elliott,
adjutant, and Cooper, quartermaster. The following
medical officers have arrived with the battalion :---Dr.
Walsh, who was landed with the corps, first at Eupatoria,
subsequently served in the front, and afterwards on the
heights of Balaklava ; Dr. Cockin was employed through.
out the campaign on the heights of Balaklava, Dr.
Brown did duty at the brigade hospital on the heights,
Dr. Duigan served during the siege with the Royal
Naval Brigade in the trenches before Sebastopol, and
was subsequently attached to the brigade of Royal Ma-
rines ; Evane, who was promoted for the operations
in the Crimea, did duty during the whole period on the
heights of Balaklava. The following officers were dis-
embarked at the Victualling yard, Plymouth :—Lieut.-
Colonels Campbell and Mitchell, Captains Simpson and
Spratt, Lieutenants Thomas and Elliott, who marched
thence. to barracks with their men, headed by the band

from head-quarters. The Jura left Portsmouth for the
Thames yesterday afternoon.
A detachment of Royal Sappers and Miners from
Wool wish arrived on Saturday evening for the purpose
of completing two companies of the same corps at
Brompton Barracks.
167 young men have joined the Medical Staff Corps,
in command of Captain Bunbury, within the last month.
Second Class Wm. Braybrooke has joined the medical
staff at Fort Pitt, on his return from the reserve battalion
at Malta.
Second Class Surgeons George William Powell and
Wellington Poole and Acting Assistant-Surgeons J. H.
Newsman and H. Beresford are ordered forthwith to
proceed by overland route to Scutari Hospital.

AN AMERICAN RAILROAD ACCIDENT.

(From the St. Louis Evening News, Nov. 6.)
It is before us now—that terrible scene ! The moment
before the long train with its load of life approached the
fatal spot. Many were intently observing from the win-
dows the well-marked line which separates the thick tur-
bid waves of the Missouri from the pellucid waters of
the Gasconade ; others looked out on the long bridge we
were approaching, and remarked on its strength or its
frailty ; an old gentleman, whom we thought unduly
cautious and nervous, wished he was out, " for," said
he, " I believe that bridge will break down." We
glanced out of the window near us in a careless way to
see the structure, and turned round again without the
shadow of a fear that we were doomed not to cross it.
At that moment came the destruction. We could see no-
thing, but we heard everything. A sharp piercing sound,
as of shattered timbers, came from the front. We knew
its meaning. The bridge bad broken down. Then followed
four separate well-defined crashes, and our car took
the inevitable plunge. At the first sound we sprang
to our feet and started to run backward. It seemed as
though the ruin was approaching us instead of our near-
ing it. Every man in the crowded car in which we were
seated jumped up. as the shiver in front told of the
coming danger. During those terrible moments, in which
we approached the precipice, the intensest silence pre-
vailed. Not a word was spoken. We had made but
two steps backward in the involuntary effort to avoid
danger, when our time came to follow those who had
gone before. Down, down, down, endlessly we seemed
to go. We were not long falling, yet it seemed ages. The
memory of railway accidents we had read of, and the re•
flection that we were in the midst of one of frightful cha-
racter—the question soon to besolved whether weshould
escape or be killed—the reflection that we might be
killed the next moment, and the inward belief that we
should not be killed at all ; a chilling thought at the idea
of being crushed by a beam, or transfixed by a rod, or
torn asunder by adverse forces—all these thoughts flashed
across our mind while falling. Then there was a tre-
mendous concussion, and we found that we were on the
ground, under a mass of leaning timber, which, however,
did not touch us. Though in the midst of a crowd when
the car commenced falling we saw no one near us on the
ground. We crawled out from under the wreck, and
thanked God we were safe. We sat down on a stone to
recover from the shock. There was not a sound to be
heard. Not a shriek, nor groan, nor cry came from the
wreck. All was silent as death. After a moment we
looked and listened again. Men were creeping, crawl-
ing, and hobbling from the shattered cars, some holding
a leg, some pressing an arm, and some clasping the
bead. Several eat down near us and breathed heavily,
but spoke not. A man staggered by and said quietly,
"My coller-bone is broken" Captain Couzens went
past with a man swinging to his neck. His feet did not
touch the ground, for his legs were broken. A wooden
skanty was standing at a short distance off, and we got
up and walked to it. Major King, with the blood stream-
ing over his face from a gash on his forehead, was trying
to tear down the door. He finally succeeded, and we then,
assisted by others who had come up, tore off the sides,
so as easily to admit of the wounded being brought in.
The floor was soon covered with the prostrate forms of
men marked by every description of injury. One had a
leg lying unnaturally bent, or an arm doubled back-
ward ; here was one bending his head forward, to let the
1 Hood drip from a gaping gash in his face, and there an-
' other with his bowels protruding from a hideous wound
in his body. No one complained except when those
who brought in the wounded in their haste stepped on
a fractured arm or disturbed a broken leg. Those suf-
fering victims showed no weak timidity nor selfishness.
Even through their agony shone the traits of a generous
manhood. No one desired to engross the attention of
his friends, but all submitted without a murmur to the
wretched comforts that alone could be provided. A.
little boy was delirious with a wound on the head.
Now he would lie moaning in the shanty, then jump
up, and run into the rain with shrieks that would have
made the hardest heart shudder. A considerable time
elapsed after the accident before men spoke about it.
They were stunned, shocked, bewildered and unstrung
by the concussion, and overpowered by the overwhelm.
ing consciousness of the destruction they looked on. As
they recovered their senses they began to talk. One
knew that the man who sat next to him was killed, for
a wheel had fallen on him ; another saw the man before
him pierced by a huge splinter ; and another still saw
the roof of a car as it crushed the life out of this or that
citizen.
At one part of the wreck several wounded persons
could be seen directing the labours of those engaged in
extricating them. One by one, as the timbers which
pressed them down were cut away, they were dragged
out and borne away. Under the roof of one car could
be seen the protruding limbs of seven lifeless bodies,
crushed to instant death as they fell. The dead were
neglected, and the living sufferers alone thought of.
A body which moved was brought out and placed on
a log. Then it ceased to move, and a mein placed his
ear over the heart, but it was pulseless. The face,
chest, and neck of the dead man were discoloured,
so that it could scarcely be recognised. Passers-by
looked on the face and asked who it was, but could
not learn. It was Mr. Chouteau. Men ran wildly about
seeking friends of whose fate they were uncertain, till a
motionless corpse, visible through a crevice in the wreck,
told the worst ; or till those looked for were met, when
a momentary gleam of joy at the meeting would light up
the universal gloom. IMr. O'Sullivan stood on the plat-
form of the engine to note the effect of the passage of
the bridge. His quick eye saw the yielding of the tim-
bers and a consciousness of the impending horror seized
his mind. "My God, boys, we are all killed," had
hardly escaped his mouth, when he went down never to
rise or speak again. Several countrymen, on the oppo-
site shore of the river, 200 yards distant, witnessed the
awful spectacle. They,
gazed with curious delight as they
saw that magnificent train sweep along the high embank-
ment towards the fatal spot ; they were still staring
with pleased wonder when a shudder came over them
and rooted them to the spot, as the locomotive went
down, and each whirling car, as it came to the abut-
ment, stopped not, but leaped down with its precious
load of life. It was a terrible picture.
het ... -------e----.

Sporting Inteltgence.
HUNTING AP F OINTMENTS.
STAGROIINDS.

Her Majesty's--To•morrow, Salt-hill ; Friday, Stoke-
common—eleven.
Cheltenham (Captain D. West's)—To-morrow; North-
leach ; Friday, Brockworth—twelve.
Kent (Mr. Roberts's) —Friday, Penshnrst—twelve.
Petre's (Hon. F.)—Tomorrow, Waples-mill—half-
past eleven.
Rothschild's, Baron—Thursday, Aston Abbotts—
eleven.

FOXHOUNDS.
Atberstone—Wednesday, Cricket's Inn ; Friday,
Carswell-gate ; Saturday, Coombe—eleven.
Badsworth Thun4day, Scawbby - bar ; Saturday,
Hiendly-common—half-past ten.
Bsaufort's (Duke of)—Wednesday, Kelloway-mill ;
Friday, Foss Lodge ; Saturday, Siston—half-past ten.
Bedale—Wednesday, Pepper Hall; Friday, Newton
House—half-past ten.
Belle N's (Mr. F.)—To-morrow, Northmolton; Thurs-
day, Cuzzicombe Post ; Saturday, Dulverton—half-past

ten.
Berkshire Old (Mr. Morrel's)—To-morrow, Black-
bourton ; Thursday, the Kennel ; Friday, Coleshill—
half-past 10.
Berkshire (South Mr. Wheble's)—Wednesday, Tid-
marsh—eleven.
Backmoor Vale—To-morrow, Henstridge Ash ; Thurs-
day, Cogley Wood ; Friday, Stock House—half-past

ten.
Bramham Moor —Wednesday, Spofforth ; Friday, the
Wild Man ; Saturday, Cross Roads, Bramharn Moor—
half-past ten.
Burton Hunt (Lord Henry Bentinck's)—To-morrow,
Linwood by Rasen ; Wednesday, Potter Hill Bar ;
Thursday, Blankney ' • Friday, Lea Station (half-past
eleven) ; Saturday, Magin Moor—eleven.
Cambridgeshire—Friday, Hartlon Wheat Sheaf—half-
past ten.
Cheshire—Wednesday, Tabley Hall; Thursday, Tar-
porley ; Saturday, Oulton Park—half-past ten.
Cuttesmore (Sir J. Trollope's)—To-morrow, Ayston ;
Thursday, Burley ; Saturday, Tilton Wood— eleven.
Craven (Mr. H. P. Best's)—Wednesday, the Ken-
nels ; Saturday, Langley Gate—quarter to eleven.
Crawley and Horsham Wednesday, Kingsfold ;
Friday, Slough Green—quarter to eleven.
Decree, Lord—Wednesday, No Man's Land ;
day, Hawne's Park—half-past ten.
Durham County—To-morrow, High Woolley ; Fri-
day, Dalton-le-Dale—half-past ten.
Essex, The (Mr. H. Greaves's)—Thursday, Passing-
ford Bribe ; Saturday, Skreens—eleven.
Essex, -East—To-morrow Yeldham White Hart;
Saturday, Moor Gardens—eleven.
Essex, South—To-morrow, Dunton Blacksmiths ;
Saturday, Tilbury Mill— eleven.
Essex, Union—Wednesday, Woodham Hall ; Satur-
day, Barton Hall—half-past ten.
Essex and Suffolk—To-morrow, Boated Hall (eleven) ;
Friday, Flowton Brook—half-past ten.
Farquharson's, Mr.—To-morrow, Melbury ; Thurs-
day, Bradford Plantation ; Saturday, Clifton Wood.
Earl—Wednesday, Abbot's Ripton ;
Friday, the Kennel—ten.
Garth's' Mr.—Wednesday, West Green ; Friday,
Sou thhillPark—half-past ten.
Halsdon— Friday, Forde Cleave, Iddesleigh —half-
past ten.
Hambledon (Mr. Wall's)—Wednesday, the Old Vine ;
Friday, Preshaw House—quarter to eleven.
H. H.—Tuesday, Four Lanes, Beauworth ; Thurs-
day, Illisfield Church ; Saturday, Cross Lanes, Holly-
bourne—quarter to eleven.
Herefordshire (Mr. Stubbs's)—To-morrow, Dorming-
ton ; Friday, the Bacho Hill—half-past ten.
Heythrop—Wednesday, Gawcombe ; Friday, Farm-
Grove ; Saturday, Ditchley—half-past ten.
Holderness To-morrow, Arras House ; Thursday,
Burton Agnes ; Saturday, Middleton—quarter to eleven.
Hurworth---To•morra Welberry ; Saturday, Low
Middleton—half-past ten.
Ingram's (Mr. Meynell)—To-morrow, Keddleston Inn ;
Thursday, Radbourn ; Saturday, Elvaston Castle—quar-
ter to eleven.
Kent, East—To-morrow, Sovingfield Park ; Friday,
Sweech Gate—half-past ten.
Ledbury—Friday, Acton Green—half-past ten.
Ludlow (Mr. Sitwell's)—To-morrow, Little Hereford
Toll Gate ; Thursday, Hopton Waters ; Saturday, Whit-
batch Lodge—half past ten.
Lumley s, Mr. To-morrow, Osberton ; Thursday,
Finningley Park ; Friday, Grove—half-past ten.
Monmouthshire—Thursday, Dingestow Bridge—half-
past ten.
Morpeth—Thursday, Angerton—quarter to eleven.
Oakley—Thursday, Chicheley Hall ; Saturday, White
Lioe, Ravensden—quarter to eleven.
Oxfordshire, South (Mr. J. S. Phillips's)—To-morrow,
Stow Wood ; Friday, Theme-11.
Pembrokeshire (Mr. Lort Phillips's)—Thursday, Sle-
beck Outer Lodge Gate—ten.
Portsmouth's, Earl of—To-morrow, Sandleford Priory ;
Friday, Inkpen Common ; Saturday, West Sherborne—
at eles en.
Puckeridge—Wednesday, Woodside Green ; Satur-
day, Chipping—half-past ten.
Pytchley—To-morrow, Boughton Park, Kettering ;
Wednesday, Lamport Inn ; Friday, Swiuford ; Satur-
day, Sibbertoft—quarter to eleven.
Raby (Duke of Cleveland's)—Wednesday, Kininvy
Friday, Caldwell—half-past ten.
Rufford—To-morrow, Thurgurton Priory ; Thursday,
Winkburn ; Saturday, Hazle Gap Bar— quarter to
eleven.
Rutland's, Duke of—To-morrow, AswarLy Park ;
Wednesday, Ropsley Rice Wood ; Friday, Weaver's
Lodge—half-past ten.
Seale's, Sir Henry—Thursday, Peep Inn Turnpike,
near Newton—half-past ten.
Selby's, Mr.—Friday, Ditchburn—half-past ten.
Shropshire—Friday, Edgebolton Gate—half-past ten.
Sinnington—To-morrow, Oswaldkirk ; Friday, Kirby-
mooreide—half-past ten.
Smith's, Mr. A.—To-morrow, Manningford ' • Wed-
nesday, Faccombe Wood ; Thursday, Conholt ; Friday,
Stratford-sub-Castle ; Saturday, Clarendon Park.—
eleven.
Somerset Subscription—To-morrow, Bagborough
Plantation ; Friday, Leigh Barton—half-past ten.
Southampton's, Lord —Wednesday, Creslow ; Friday,
Whitefield ; Saturday, Hanslope Park—eleven
Southdown—Wednesday, Exceat Bridge (East side) ;
Friday, Firle—quarter to eleven.
Southwold (Mr. G. Cook's)—To-morrow, Holbeck ;
Thursday, Gireby; Saturday, Burwell Park—eleven.
Staffordshire, North—Wednesday, Bettey; Saturday,
Seighford—half-past ten.
Stamford's, Earl of--To-morrow, Leynton; Thursday,
Belibroughton ; Saturiliy, Walsall Top—half-past ten.
Suffolk—To-morrow, Honinghton Fox ; Thursday,
Kb thing Tower ; Saturday, Walsam Hall—quarter to
eleven.
Surrey Union—Thursday, Baynard's ; Saturday,
Rookery—half-past ten.
Sussex. East—To-morrow, White Hart, Catefield ;
Friday, Tivoli—balf past ten.
Sutton's, Mr. Richard—Thursday, Kilby Wharf—
eleven.
Thomson's, Mr. Anstruther—Tn-morrow, Bletchin gly ;
Thursday, Waddasden Cross Roads; Saturday, Far-
thiughoe—eleven.
Tickham—Thursday, Key-street ; Saturday, Sharsted
—half-past ten.
Tivert.m—Thursday, Fairby Lodge—half-past ten.
Trelawny's, Mr.—To-morrow, Leather Tor ; Saturday,
Lineham Lodge, on the Ivybridge Road—half-past ten.
Tynedale —Wednesday, Ninth Mile Stone, Betsey
Road ; Friday, Cucklaw Tower—quarter to eleven.
Ut.ited Pack—To-morrow,Hookleton Bridge ; Friday,
Stapleton Castle—ten.
V. W. H. (Lord Gifford's) To-morrow, Burdrop
(eleven) ; Friday, the Kennels ; Saturday, outhrop—
a quarter to eleven.
Warwickshire—To-morrow, Mitford Bridge ; Thurs-
day, Wimpston Bridge ; Friday, Edge Hill Tower—
quarter to eleven.
Warwickshire, North—To-morrow, Stoneleigh Ab-
bey ; Thursday, Dunehurch ; Friday, Henley-in-Arden
—quarter to eleven.
Wheatland (Mr. Lloyd's)—Friday, Buildwas Bridge
—half-past ten.
Willoughby's, Mr. —Wednesday, Wilberfoss Mill ;
Friday, Foxholes Mill ; Saturday, Wiganthorpe—half-
past ten. -
Worcestershire —To-morrow, Goosehill ; Friday, Crop-
thorne—Lhalf-past ten.
Wyndham's, Colonel—Wednesday, Adsdean-house ;
Friday, Pulborough Mount—half-past eleven.
Wynn's, Sir W. W.—To-morrow, Carden ; Thursday,
Cloverley ; Friday, Hawketone—half-past ten.
Yarborough's, Earl of Wednesday, Normanby
Clump ; Saturday, Riby Cross Roads—eleven.
York and Ainsty—To-morrow; Nun Monckton ;
Thursday, Scetton Turnpike ; Saturday, Stillingfieet—
half-past ten.

HARRIERS.

B. V.—To-morrow, Mappowder Common ; Saturday,
Pulharn Cross Roads—quarter to twelve.
Brighton—Wednesday, Race Course ; Saturday, Dyke
—quarter to eleven.
Brookside—Thursday, Telscombe Tye—quarter past
ten. _

Dulverton—Tuesday, Court Down ; Friday, Badlake
Gate—half-past ten.
Eastbourne—Thursday, Charlston—eleven.
H. H. (Rochester)—Wednesday,Hoo Street ; Friday,
the Dog, Ha'stow- —eleven'
High Peak—Tuesday, Tanaley Moor ; Thursday,
Waterloo Inn ; Saturday, Elton—eleven.
Lonsdale's, Lord—Friday, Aston Clinton—twelve.
Newcastle and Gateshead—Friday, Ovingham—half-
past ten.
Norfolk, West—Friday, Intm re Farm, Snettisham—
eleven.
Ruffwell—Thursday, Hopkins's New Inn, Silverton—
half-past ten.
Tait's, Mr. A. D.—Wednesday, Rosemont Gate ;
Saturday, Kilmair's Mains—at eleven.
rthing—To-morrow, Bramber Castle; Saturday
Durrington—eleven.
SCOTCH FOXHOUNDS.

Buccleucles, Duke of—Tomorrow, Wells ; Thursday,
Hirsell ; Saturday, Drygrange—half-past ten.
Forfar and Kincardine—To-morrow, Javereighty ;
Saturday, the Burn—half-past ten.
Linlithgow and Stirlingshire—To-tnoirow, Houston-
House ; Thursday, Carnock House ; Saturday, Wall-
hou.e—quarter to eleven.

Wfmy,s'e, Earl of— Wednesday, Kyloe Cottage
Friday, Broom Dykes ; Saturday, Duddiugton—ha-
past ten.

IRISH STAGHOUNDS,
Ward Union—Wednesday, Black Bull; Saturday
Eight Mile Stone, Ashbourne Road—one.

FOXHOUNDS.
Carlow and Island--Thursday, Hollyfort ; Saturdayi
Brown's Hill-eleven,