The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-03 00:00:00

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEEK.

Iles
;ned

NAME OF RAILWAY.

Receipts.

BBITISH.

'2 I Aberdeen

37 Belfast and Bally mega'. • • • • • •• •• • •
17 Belfast and County Down•..• ••
33 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire
26% Bolton, Blackburn, and West York .• • •
85% Bristol and Exeter • • ..• •••• • • •
[BB% Ca1ed0nian............. .......... •
9414 Chester and Holyhead. ••..••.. • . • • ..
6% Cork, B lackrock, and Passage ••• • • •
49 Dublin and Belfast Junction • .....
53 Dublin and Dro4lieda •.• • • • ••••• • • • •
6 Dublin and Kingstown . ..... • •
16% Dundee and Arbroath ••••••• • • • .. • •
31 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction
19 Dundalk and Enniskillen.... •
68 East Ang1ian........ • ...............

'9 East Laneashire • ..
12 Eastern Counties and Norfolk .. •
15 • Eastern Union • • ........

9% Edinburgh and Glasgow .•• • ......
r 8 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee ......
6 Exeter and Crediton.• •• ............
L 9 Furness Railway ... ..............

71% Glasgow, and South• Western........
41 Great Northern and E. L.........
88 Great Southern and Westei a (Ireland)
64 Great Western
25 Irish South Eastern .....

90 Lancaster and Carlisle • • • • • •
60 Lancashire and Yorkshire.. • • • • • • • • • •
39 Leeds and Thirsk • • ...... • •.....
12% Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport • •
39% London and North Western .....
5 London and Blackwall.• • •• • • •• . •
73U London, Brighton, and South Coast..
144 U London and South We5tern.........
15 Londonderry and Enriskillen • • . • • • • •
11% Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c.
,67% Manchester, Sheffield, endLincolushire
9% Manchester and South Junction......
28 Maryport and Carlisle • • ....
126 Midland Great Western (Irish) ......
37 Monkland s • • • • • • • • • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • •

0 Newcastle and
L 9 North British •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •••• •

12 North Staffordshire •• • .... •• • •
17 North-Western ....•• •• ..

5 Scottish Central • • . • • • .. • .
12 Scottish Midland •••••••• • • ..

19% Shrewsbury and Birmingham ••• • .
17 Shrewsbury.and Chester • • .........
19 Shropshire Union .. •• • • ...........

8 . 1 SouthDevort— •• •• ... •............
ii South Easfern.• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •
a% South Wales ••• • • •
1 South York.,..Doneaster, and Goole .
LO Taff Vale ..•............. .....

Ulster .
Waterford and Limerick • • ........
West Cornwall ••• • • • ...........
Whitehaven Junction ..... • • • • • • • •
York and Newcastle, and Berwick .
York and North Midland.

FOREIGN.
i 2 Central of France ................
)7 Dutch Rhenish
11 Maria Antonia . • • • .. ............
i 3 Monter= and Troyes
1214 Northern of France
14% Orleans and Bordeaux..
10 Paris and Lyons
12 Paris and Orleans .... • • . .
i 4 Paris and Rouen. •• •• •• •• •• •,.••• ••
14 Paris and Strasburgh .... •••• • • ..
59 Rouen and Havre .. •• •••••• • • • •
21 Tours and Nantes • • • • • • • • • •• • • • •

18bu.

41,128

253
1,277

(.53
4,105
7,527
2,304

619
3,883
15.246

3,423
2,077

J 6
3,33%)
b,3'J5
3,G18
14,8i4

128
4,165
13,436

251
41,553

74:5
8,073
9,0 so
Lll
114'
6,398
398

686
23,809
1,003

LOS
2,171
3,064
4,623
b3S
1,537
445
619
1,222
499

1,645
10,510

£1,315
562
2i3

4,224
7,981
2,542

978
1,203
2,607
837
336

1,002
712
424
633
221

4,150
15,556

3,279
20 21

201
13,856
6,899

301
3,786
11,833
3,953
15,820

153
3,854
15,V97
1,075

3,142

264
41,680

45
8,21#4
9,05
149
106
7,527

566
24,51`.:
1,762

e 7,)
2,401
3,293
4,735
1,655
516
661
1,441
574

1,593
11,)18
1,469
1,435
2,100
947
266

963
18,535
3,133
5,248
7,798
5,4i27
4,399
2,267
930

215
14.867
7,166

2,845
928

657
18,766
3,698
9,979
7,094
5,542
7,388
2,134
1,810

COLLISION ON THE YORK, NEWCASTLE,
Al VD BERWICK RAILWAY.
ALNWICK, DEC. 31.—An inquiry of milch interest,
arising out of a serious collision on the York, Newcastle,
and Berwick Railway, by which a clerk in the service of
the Electric Telegraph Company lost his life, was
brought to a conclusion yesterday. It took place before
Mr. T. A. Russel, the district coroner, at Christon, a
few miles distant.
The circumstances of the accident are simply as fol-
low :—On the evening of the 22d inst. a cattle train, con-
sisting of forty trucks and drawn by two engines, was
on its way from Tweedmouth to Newcastle. The break
van was in the rear of the train, and in it, with the
guard, were the unfortunate deceased (Patrick More-
ten) and another person of the name of Graham, an
inspector of the line. The train passed Chathill sta-
tion—the one preceding Christon —at five minutes past
six o'clock, and on getting about a mile or more
past Christen, where it did not stop, it was found, as
alleged, that the effect of the fog and frost on the
rails impeded the progress of the engines. It managed
to reach the Stamford cutting, some two miles from
Christon, and its rate of speed did not appear to be
more than five or six miles an hour. Some anxiety
was then entertained lest a passenger train, which
was following them in its ordinary course, should run
into them, and about a minute or two before the colli-
sion the guard of the cattle train left his position for the
purpose of stopping it. Ho had not gone more than
twenty yards before he saw the passenger train coming
up. He exhibited his red signal lamp, but the distance
was too short to prevent a collision, which immediately
followed. The van was shivered to pieces, and Moreton
was killed on the spot. The guard stated that he was
only occasional guard, and that he was not provided
with fog signals. The passenger train stopped at Chris-
ton-bank station, at 34 minutes past 6, being twelve mi-
nutes behind its time, and then the driver was not in-
formed that the cattle train was just ahead. After a
stay of some ten minutes at Christon, the train pro-
c,eded, and on reaching Stamford cutting, where there
is a considerable curve, the red tail-lights of the cattle
train were observed some 60 or 70 yards off; but the
train could not be stopped in time to avert the accident.
Besias deceased, several of the passengers of the train
were grievously injured. All the witnesses:egreed that
it was a dark night and the rails were very slippery.
The cattle Slain was 250 yards in length, and it would
appear that it only left Tweedmouth some three-quar-
ters of an hour before the passenger train was dis-
patched.
Atter a most searching investigation the jury returned
the folios% ing speciul verdict:—
That the deceased, Patrick Moreton, met his death
by a collision of two trains en the York, Newcastle, and
Berwick Railway, and that the collision was owing to
the neglect of the company's officers in charge of the
first train to send back a fog or lamp signal to the train
following; and, further, to the neglect of certain officers
of the company to supply fog signals to the guard of the
fiat train.
" We find the directors and managers of the York,
Newcastle, and Berwick Railway guilty of great blame
and culpable neglect—
" First—in forwarding an enormous cattle train imme-
diately preceding a passenger train, which cattle train
passed Christen bank when the passenger train 'was
within one minute of being due.
Secendly—e appointing an unqualified guard to sie.h
a train.

" Thirdly—in appointing only one guard to a double
train (250 yards long).
"Also we find that the production of the printed
instructions by the superintendent, as a proof of the
general carefulness of the company's management,
appears to us only
an attempt on the part of the com-
pany's managers to get rid of the responsibility resting
on them, and to throw the blame on an unfortunate
guard, whilst at the price of a few paltry tracts they get
rid of the expense of providing a competent individual,
whose sole duty ought to be to see at least once daily, at
some central station, that all parties in charge of a train
aro provided with proper signals."
The jury then separted. The other parties who
were injured by the collision are said to be going on
favourably.

RAWMARSH NOLLIERY EXPLOSION.
TWO MORE DEATHS—CONCLUSION OF THE
INQUEST.
RAWMA.RSEt, FAIDA.Y.—This melancholy investigation
was brought to a close this afternoon. The coroner and
jury, on their assembling at the Star lon, proceeded in
the first instance.to view the bodies of two other victims
of this calamitous catastrophe. This addition to the
list of killed swells au" number to 52. The individuals
recently dead are Timothy Tinsley, jun., of Rawmarsh,
aged 19, who expired on Wednesday night, and George
Lindley, of Upper Haugh, aged 28, who expired yes-
terday (Thursday). On the return of the coroner and
jury to the inquest room,
The following was the verdict of the jury:—" We find
that the 52 men and boys, whose bodies we have viewed,
were accidentally kilted-by au explosion of fire damp in
the Warren Vale Colliery, in the parish of Rawmarsb,
iu the county of York, in the occupation of Messrs.
Charlesworth."
The verdict was accompanied by the following re-
marks:—" The jury, after a long and painful investiga-
tion on the unfortunate individuals who lost their lives
in the Warren Vale Pit on the 20th of December, have
agreed to a,verdict of Accidental Death; and feel that,
although there is not sufficient evidence for us to return
a verdict of manslaughter against any particular party,
we should ill discharge our duty if we did not accompany
our verdict with an expression of our strong disapproba-
tion of the loose manner in which the works appear te
have been conducted at the above pits. We further re-
gard the instructions hitherto given to the men as quite
inadequate to the proper supervision and safe working of
them; and it certainly does appear to us that it is very
desirable that there should be some stringent rules and
regulations at every colliery, for the better and refer
working of the coal mines; and further, that the prola-
prietors of every mine ought to be held by the Legi -
turn responsible for the efficiency of their egent and
s
superintendents. We express eur thanks to Mr. Morto.n,
the Government inspector, Mr. Biram, and other
nesses, for their valuable evidence, which has so materi-
ally assisted us in this painfulinquiry.

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opted
the
Tn
E REV. Ma. BENNETT AGAIN. --W0 understand 4
that the parishioners' of Frome have already ad
course we suggested yesterday, namely, that emorialisng
the Marchioness Of Bath, against the settlement of the Re.i
against an Mr. Bennett as rector of thrir church. They have addressed
her Ladyship
a most vigorous remonstrance to
appointment which has not only caused them inexpressible
pain, but given a positive shock to their feelings. The two
churchwardens alto, haVe hinted their determination not
assist, as is the invariable practice on such occasions, in to
the
induction of Mr. Bennett. It is feared, however, that all
that has been said and done by the parishioners, will Le of
no avail, as the Marchioness is a Puseyite of the in ost inve-
terate kind,—even e7C ceeding, as some people think, Mr.
Bennett himself.-44dratiser.
Din Ray. 11. WILEERPORCE.—The
Rome,
ex-vicar of
East Farleigh, who, seceded to the Church of being a
married man, collet enter the priesthood of the Church of
Rome, but it is said that he has received a dispensation
from
the Pope which will permit him to preach, though not to
perform any other of the priest's offices. An order of
preachers. to meet the cases of those English cl-rgymen
who, being married, cannot be admitted
into the priesthood,
is talked of as about to be established
by his Holiness.—
Oxford Herald.
Efficient steps have been takes
the erection of a Sailors' Home in Devonport,with aviewto
for the sea-
men of her Majesty's navy;
and another in Plymouth for
those of the merchant marine. The homes will be under
the management of one e.
committee, and erected 'out of one
fund. This fund already amounts to upwards of 1,0001.