The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-19 00:00:00

LAILWAIY.

This was an action to recover damages for injuries re-
ceived in a collision which took place during February,
1854, upon this line of railway.
Mr. Serjeant Bytes was for the defendant, and Mr.
Serjeant Wilkins appeared for the company.

The company had paid 500/. into court as satisfaction
for the inktries done.

It appeared that the plaintiff was traveller to lressrs.
Foster, of Wood-street, Cheapside, at a salary, including
his expenses, of somewhat over 5001. yearly. He resided
at Birmingham. Upon the 22d of February in the past
year he was passenger between Birmingham and Man-
chester, and when in or near the tunnel by Crewe the ear-
riage in which the plaintiff was ran into a luggage train,
and the result was that plaintiff was thrown forward with
such violence as to cause such serious injuries to his chest
that up to the present time he had been unable to attend
to business, and was still seriously invalided. He had,
since that period, been compelled by his medical ad-
visers to travel by short stages to various watering
places, besides having undergone, a number of times,
the painful operation of being cupped upon the chest to
relieve the injuries caused by the pressure created there.
Ho had also paid above 1501. for nursing and medical
attendance alone.

The jury had not assessed the damages when this ed
tion went to press.

THE EMPEROR'S VISIT TO SEBASTOPOL,

A letter received from Paris this morning con-
tains the following : •
General Niel will have an interview with the Em-
peror Napoleon immediately on his arrival in Paris, and
that interview may have much influence on the Empe-
ror's determination. If it be clear that the works are
so far advanced as to enable the Generals to fix the day
fur the as6uult, nothing is more likely than that the
Emperor would desire to witness it. in the meantime
every preparation is made. An officer of the Palace has
left for Marseilles, and may it is thought extend his jour-
ney still further, perhaps to the Crimea. The Cents-
Gardes are all equipped and ready, and it is said that
3,500 of the Imperial Guard are to proceed thither to
augment the force already before the walls of Sebas-
topol. With all this, no one can . positively affirm
either the date of the departure, or even the fact itself ;
and this ignorance, real or affected, only stops short
with the Emperor. The affirmative was maintained last
night in the saloons of a lady of very high rank, who is,
or ought to be, in a position to know how matters really
are, and again by another person known to have been
high in the favour and confidence of the Emperor, but
who deplores such a resolution, and has tried to dissuade
him from it ; and, last though not least, a distin-
guished and successful patriot, occupying a high
official position, is said on the strength of it to have
sold largely on the Bourse for two or three days
past in the anticipation of a fall in public securities.
All this, however, does not prevent a slight remnant
of incredulity on the subject, particularly with reference
to the Crimea ; and the generality of people would not
be taken by surprise if after all it should be towards a
northern direction that the Imperial eagle meant to take
his flight. Should the Emperor change his mind there
would be nothing strange in the fact of a paragraph in
sonic of the Ministerial pipers stating that there never
was any truth in it. It will not have been the less true
for all that.

THE TREATY BET WEEN FRANCE AND
PRUSSIA.

We extract the following from a letter received
from Paris this morning, dated Sunday :
" Colo.nel de Oiberg, Aide-de-Camp of General
Baron de Wedell, who bad been sent to Berlin to
take the King's orders, returned to Paris yesterday,
and there is now but little doubt that the result of
the negotiation will be satisfactory to all parties.
I mentioned in a previous letter the assurance
given me, on the authority of persons generally well in-
formed, that the Treaty of France with Prussia was to
be signed last night. I cannot, at this moment, state
positively whether it was so signed, but I have reason
to believe that matters are so far advanced that it may
be considered as quite arranged ; and that, if the
signatures have not as yet been affixed, they will
shortly be se. Yesterday, M. Drouyn de Lhuys and
General do Wedell came to a full, and, I am assured, a
final agreement on every point of the treaty, subject to
the approval of the King of Prussia, and in official
quarters' Itle considered as an affair concluded, as there
is no probability that the King will disavow- the negoti-
ator to whom full powers were given. M. Drouyn de
Lhuys informed the Prussian Envoy that he spokein the
name ofEngland and France, as the two Governments had
come to a perfect understanding with each other as to
the line of conduct to Le observed with respect to
Prussia. I also learn this morning that M. de Hate-
felt', M. de Wedell, and M. Huhnar had an audienoo
with the Emperor, and from this it is inferred that the
treaty is actually signed ; but though considering the
fact to lea very probable, I have no positive as-uranco
on the point. I have to add to, or rather correct,
a passage in my letter of yesterday respecting the treaty
itself. From what
.I now learn it is far more favourable
than was supposed. Indeed, if I may believe my inform-
ants, it is very nearly the same as the treaty of the 2d De-
cember with Austria ; the second clause relative to the
Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia being alone
omitted. Prussia undertakes, in case the re-establishment of
general peace should not be secured within a determined
period, to deliberate immediately with her Allies upon
effectual means for attaining the object of their alliance.
" It appears that M d'Usedom, whoeo mission was
so unsuccessful in England, has been in Paris for
some days past. Though not exactly incognito, he
yet has abstained from showing himself in public.
He has not been either at the Minister's or at the
Tuileries. If he has had any mission it is surmised
that it was principally for the purpose of prompting
General de Wedell, who, however, has had no need
of such aid. M. de Wedell is now lather a favourite.
There is al military frankness of manner about him
with which it seems those who had to transact busi-
ness with him have been much taken. There was
certainly small disposition on the part of the Govern.
tnent to treat with him in the beginning, and, as
you may remember, but little expectation of any-
thing being done through his agency. He has, however,
grown upon their esteem, and unless some new caprice
on the part of the King undo what has been done, the
negotiation with the Prussian Envoy may, I think, be
considered as brought to a successful termination."