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

THE GENERAL ELECTION

STATE OF POLLS.
(!;T. MAIL-THIS DAY.)
CORRECTIONS OF PREVIOUS RETURNS.

LEITRIII COUNTY.
Montgomery ••• •. • •4
Brady ••• ••• •
Clements • *" • •
CLARE COUNTY.
Pit zgera,id •
O'Brien
•••
Vaadcleur •-•
CARLOW COUNTY.
Ball
Bruen
••• •••
Buribury ••
WATERFORD COUNTY.
Power • • ••• ... 1,404
EsumEcie ••• 1,261
Ilwchinson 1,228
WEXFORD COUNTY.
LT' Mahon 2,289
George
. 1,535
Morgan 1,550
Ce.:E. VT
Nunn
KING'S COUNTY.
••• ... 1,264
—. 1,191
... 697

617
550
540

O'Brien
Bland
Bernard

1,152
1,141
1,139
895
893
880
877

ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH-EASTERN
RAIL WA Y. —OFFICIAL REPORT.
On Monday night, shortly after 10 o'clock, a serious
collision occurred on the South-Eastern Railway, at the
Headcurn station, by which several passengers were
much hurt and bruised, bat happily no lives were lost.
The following details will show how the accident oc-
curred : —The mail train, which leaves London at 8.30
P.m , passes the kleadcorn station at 10.10 P.X. At 9.54
r.m. the down pick-up train (a train of empty carriages
and trucks) arrived at Lleadcorn, and was shunted on to
the up lice of rails, in the usual manner, to allow the
mail to pass, the danger signals being exhibited and
proper precautions taken to stop all trains on the up '
line. While the pick-up train was thus waiting on the
up lino, the Paris tidal train from Folkestone came on
et its ordinary speed, the driver either not seeing or
disregarding the signals
until within too short a dis-
tance to prevent a collision with the stationary train,
into which it ran with such force as to knock two of the
empty trucks over on to the dcwn line, just in front of
the mail train, which came by at the moment, thus
causing a scoond collision. The electric telegraph was
employed to obtain assistance. The passengers by the
8.30 P.lll' train proceeded to Dover, where the mail
packets waited their arrival;
those in the Paris express reached town between 3 and 4 o'clock.
—....____

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.
GLASGOW
.AND SOUTII-VVESTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic for
the week ending July 24, 1i152 :
passengers k29,G21), goods and
parcels, horses and carriages.. £4,340 16 4
Correspond!ng week in last year 4,320 12 4
Glasgow' July 26.
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onger,
BANDON RAILWAY.— (20 miles open)—Return
of Tra is
for the week ending July 24, 1852 :
£222 0 0
Merchandise,fparcels, &c.
cattle ,&c. w.... 20 17 9
vass

Total £242 17 9
Corresponding week in 1851 (10 miles open) :
passengers, parcels, &c. 32 13 10
Alerchandise, cattle, &c.... ... 0 0 6

Total

...
... £32 14 4

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M.:wog-D.—An extensive are, involving a loss of AT
16,000/e occurred upwards
warehouse belonging to the South-Eastern Railway ere
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learned, and, before the officials were aware of its exi t e
rtUCTION
: 8 'ince
the flames had spread throughout the interior of the
as building. A number of engines were brought to the Sn--
as quick
• ly as was practicable after the alarm had been gig e-ne
from the town and neighbourhood adjacent to Ashford.
These These prevented the lire e
at Ashford.xtending to the remainder of the
company's works
.__.As regards the storehouse
' of the building was saved; every article a —,
no portion .
ed was consumed. The loss i .. h....
party it contatn s a total on€7t.
the company ; of th •
none their works, we are inform ° ed, are
insured.
SUBMARINE TELEGRAPHS BETWEEN ENGLAND Au
CoNTINxNr.—The arrangements for increasing theb
of telographis communication with the ,-,
existing means
submarine routes, in rid• • Con_
tinent of Europe,
by
Cal • addition to the
route between Dover and Calais, are progressing. The
electric wires for this purpose are now being daily covered
with their insulation coats of gutta percha, at the manefac's
tory of the Gutta Percha Company in the City-road, ether;
they are packed up in capacious boxes, and either shiPPerl or
sent by railway to the wire rope-works. of Messrs. isiewo
at Gateshead, and there covered with galvanized iron wife at:
rapidly
as the resources of the establishment will permit, BO
submerged next
as to allow of the cables being _ month, wheal
it is intended to sink ono line of telegraph between Harwich
and Holland, and another between Dover and Ostend.
DEATH or BARON DE LANG2DORFF.—Prom prie.
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.—Our 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 sure will be hailed with pleasure and gratification
by those 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 curacy, under
peculiarly trying circumstances, a most influential depu-
tation was selected to wait upon the Bishop of
Ripon, and this ready response to the prayer of the
inhabitants, made by.his Lordship on the first vaeancy,
is as honourable to him as it is gratifying to those who
have SD long appreciated the ministerial usefulness of one
whose absence will be generally regretted, whilst his pre.
f-rment will be as generally 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-
crease of patronage, still farther to reward Mr. Jones's zeal,
ability, and attachment, to the Church of England.— wake_ 1
fie'd Journal.

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3001. each, and the head boat has raised 37Q1.