The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-28 00:00:00

THE GENERAL ELECTION

STATE OF POLLS.
(BY MALL—THIS DAY.
CORRECTIONS OF PREVIOUS R)ETURNS.
LEITRIII COUNTY.
Montgomery
Brady
Clements

617
550
540

CILARE ••
couNTr.•••
Fitzgerald
O'Brien ... •••
Vazdeleur •••
CARLOW COUNTY.

1,152
1,141
1,139

895
893
880
877

Ball
Bruen
•••
Bunbury
•••
ogh
••• •• ••. •••
WATERFORD COUNTY.
Power
• • •••
1.404
••• •••
&monde ..• ..• •.. ••• 1,261
Hutchinson .
•• • ... 1;228
M‘MalionW EXFORD COUNTY.
Georg©
INlnrgun
Carew
lv;izan.

iiING'COU'IT.

O'Bricn
Bland

... 2,289
... 1,535

Bernard

1;5:0

1,383
... 1,228

... 1,264
... 1,191
... 697

ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH-EASTERN
RAIL WAY.--OFFICIAL REPORT.
On Monday night, , shortly after 10 o'clock a serious
collision occurred on tne South-Eastern Railway, at the
lleadoorn station, by which several passengers were
,
much hurt and bruised, but happily no lives were lost.
The following details will show how the accident oc-
curred:—The mail train, which leavas London at 8.30
p.ar,, passes the Headcorn oration at 10.10 P.M. At 9.54
p,x. the down pick-up train (a train of empty carriages
and trucks) arrived at Ilearicorn, and was shunted on to
up line of rails, in the usual manner, to allow the
the
proper precautions taken to stop all trains on the up
pass, the danger
• While the pick-up train was thus waiting on the
line. signals being exhibited and
•
up line, the Paris tidal train from Folkestone came on
at its ordinary speed, the driver either not seeing or
disregarding the signals until within too short a dis-
tancerevent a collision with the stationary train,
to p
into which it ran with such forts as to knock two of the
emtrucks over
.on to the down line, just in front of
mail to
themit train, which came by ---0 at the moment, thus
(''^ond
ausingcollision. The electric telegraph was
chasing a Eemployed to obtain assistance. The passengers by the
8.30 P• 351. train proceeded to Dover, whore the mail
packets waited their arrival; those in the Paris express
reached town between 3 and 4 o'clock.

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RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.
AND souTH-ur
GLASGOW RaTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic for
week ending July 21, 1552
the passengers (29,621), goods and
parcels, horses and carriages..
-04,340 16 4
corre,ponding week in
year 4,320 12 4
Glasgow' July 26.
CORK AND BANDON RAILWAT.—(2O miles open)—Return
July of Traffic for the week ending jai_
24, 1852 :
Passengers, parcels, &e.
. £222 0 0
merchandise, cattle , &c.... 20 17 9

Total
-- £242 17 9
Corresponding week in 1851 (10 miles open) :
pa,,senger!3, parcels, &c.
302 103 106
Merchandise, cattle, &c....

Total ..

... £32 14 4

DESTRUCTION OF THE RAILWAY STOREHOUSE AT
AMP:ARM_An extensive fire, involving
the station at Ashford. It broke out shortie
a loss of upwards
of 16,000/., occurred on Saturday, at the extensive store
ble after the alarm had been given'
warehouse belonging to. the South-Eastern Railway Corh:
as
was
Practicable
throughout. the interior of
afterPanY 'oandei°oi'cllncgk at noon, from what cause is yet to be
learned, and, before the officials were aware of its existence,
fire extending to
every article
of
and u neighbourhood
i.egaadrjdasc adjacent tsotAreshhofunthrt:
fatbrhsuoeiml
quicklyd
iflamesntghe t
ohawidi
A. number of were brought to the scene
Ashford. A
fuiLldrianßgAwra: saved; auvEeTdEEN remainder of the
company's ok-
nTohepsoertpiorenvoenf
se,
The
• d Was consumed. The loss is a total pro.
party it contained was
their °he to
the company ; none works, we are informed,
are
insured.
ENGLAND Axi,
of telegraphi. communication with the
existing means
routes in • • Con.
tinent of Europe, by submarine ,, addition to the
route between Dover and Calais, are progressiag. The
prevented the
electric wires for this purpose arett now being daily covered
with their insulation coats ofgu a percha, at the manufac.
tory of the Grata Percha Company in the City.saad, where
they boxes, and either • ere
they are packed up in capacious sbippeet or
sent by railway to the wire rope-works of Messrs. Newali,
at Gateshead, and there covered with galvanized iron wire as
rapidly as the resources of the establishment will permit, 80
as to allow of the cables being submerged next month, when
it is intended to sink one line of telegraph between Harwich
and Holland, and another between Dover and Ostend.
DEATH OF BARON DE LANG9DOEFF.--Pro P
in -, Tie.
burg, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, we hear of the death,
In his 78th year, of the well-known botanist and traveller,
Baron George Frederick de Langsdorff.
THE REV. HENRY JONES.—Oar readers in Wake.
field and elsewhere will be glad to hear that this reverend
gentleman has been presented by the Lord Bishop of Ripon
to the vicarage of Osmotherley, in the county and arch.
diocese of York, vacant by the death of the Rev. Warren
Metcalfe. This recognition of ministerial zeal and ability is
highly honourable to our much respected bishop; and
we
are quite Cure will be hailed with pleasure and gratification
by these who have witnessed the assiduity with which Mr.
Jones has discharged the duties of curate of the parish
church of Wakefield for above four years. It will be re-
membered that on Mr. Jones resigning the cursey, under
peculiarly trying circumstances, a most influential depu_
tation was selected to wait upon the Bishop of
Riresponse to the
pen, and this ready prayer of the
inhabitants, made by his Lordship on the first vacancy,
is as honourable to -him as it is gratifying to these who
have so long appreciated the ministerial usefulness of one
whose absence will be generally regretted, whilst his pre.
ferment will be as generallyb rejoiced in. We heartily wish
our late curate long life and happiness, and trust he will find
the parishioners of Osmotherley all he may desire, and that
before long the bishop may have it in his power, by an in_
SUBMARINE
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crease of patronage, still further to reward Mr. Jones's
ability,zeal,
and attachment, to the Church of England......Wahe.
fied :Journal.

YARMOUTH MACKEREL FISHERY.—The mackerel
voyage was brought to a conclusion at the end of last week,
and has proved the most successful one for the last twenty
years. The catch of several of the boats realized more than
3001, each, and the head boat has ra!eed 3101,