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

BRITISH.

,7% Belfast and Ballymena •• •• •• •• •• •• ••
7 Belfast and County Down.. • • • • ••
13 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire
x6:4 Bolton, Blackburn, and West York .• • •
Bristol and Exeter
• ••••••••••••

19% Caledonian.— .........
1414 Chester and Ilolyhead. ••.. • • .... • •
6% Cork, B lackrock, and Passage ••• • • •
,9 Dublin and Belfast Junction ........
13 Dublin and Drogheda.... • • .•••• • • • •
6 Dublin and Kingstown • • • • • • • • • • • • ••
6 Dundee and Arbroath .. • • • • • • • • .. • •
11 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction
,9 Dundalk and Enniskillen • • • • • • • • •
/9 East
'9 East Lancashire • • • ..... .. • . • • • •
!2 Eastern Counties and Norfolk .. • .....
15 Eastern Union ..

914 I Edinburgh and Glasgow .• • • .. •• ••
'8 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee•• .• • •
6 Exeter and Creditors...... ....
L 9 Furness Railway .• .
Tl Glasgow, and South-Western•.
111,E Great Northern and E.
38 Great Southern and Western (Ireland)
54 Great Western •••• • • • •

;5 Irish South Eastern ••••• • • • •• •
10 Lancaster and Carlisle • • • • • • • •
10 Lancashire and Yorkshire.. • • • • • • • . • •
19 Leeds and Thirsk • • .. ••••• • • • • • •• • •
2% Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport. •• •
39% London and North Western .• • ••• • •
5% London and Blackwall ••••••. • • • • • • •
731.4 Londcn, Brighton, and South Coast
London and South Western. • • . • • • • •
15 Londonderry and Enniskillen • • • • • • • •
11% Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c.
67% Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
9% Manchester and South Junction.. •• • •
28 Maryport and Carlisle ..
96MMidland ••• • • •
26 Midland Great Western (Irish) •• • •
37 Monklands • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

;0 Newcastle and Carlisle.. •• •• •• •• .
l 9 North British • • .. • • •• • • • • •• • • •• •• •
12 North Staffordshire •• • •

North-Western .... •• •• ..

,5 Scottish Central • • • • •• • • .• • • •
Scottish Midland •••••• • • • • .
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29% Shrewsbury and Birmingham ....
47 Shrewsbury and Chester • .........
29 Shropshire Union ............ • • • •
58 South Devon— . • .. . • • • • •• • • • • • •
261

South Eastem— ...........
)3% South Wales .. ••..•••• • • • • • •
i 7 South York., Doncaster, and Goole
40 Taff Vale •• • .... ..... .... ~......

Waterford and Limerick •• ........
[3 West Cornwall • • ...........

Whitehaven Junction ... • • • • • • • • • •
)4 York and Newcastle, and Berwick
r 9 York and North Midland . • • •• •• • •

FOREIGN.

i 2 Central of France
'7li Dutch Rhenish •• .. .
•-
:1% Maria Antonia .. • ... •.......
53 Montereau and Troyes
1216 Northern of France ••• • • .
14% Orleans and 80rdeaux............
10 Paris and Lyons ....
32 Paris and Orleans .... • • •• .• •• • • • •
;4 Paris and Rouen. • •
)4 Paris and Strasburgh • •
59 Rouen and Havre .. • • • • •• • • •• •• ••
21 Tours and Nantes .• • • • • • •• • • •• • •

41,12 S

253
1,277

053
4,105
7,b27
2,364

484
877
(.99
XO5
604

619
3,883
15,246

3,423
.A,u;7

216
3,330
8,3 45
3,678
14,6 4 4

128
4,165
13,456

231
41,553

1851.

£1,315
562
273

4,150
15,556

3,279
2,121

1,645
10,513
t,78
1,203
2,C01
b 37
336

301
3,766
11,b33
3,(j53
15,620

201
13,855
6,899

153
3,854
15,997
1,075

284
41,680

b4f,
8,291
9,05

3,142

149
106

215
14,867
7,766

2,845
928

COLLISION ON THE YORK, NEWCASTLE,
AND BER WICK RAIL WAY.
ALNWICB, Dec. 31.—An inquiry of much 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 Christen, 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-
ton) 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. He 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-
ceeded, 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.
Besides deceased, several of the passengers of the train
were grievously injured. All the witnesses:agreed that
it was a dark night and the rails were very slippery.
The cattle train 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.
After a most searching investigation the jury returned
the following special verdict:—
" That the deceased, Patrick Moreton, met his death
by a collision of two trains on 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
first 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 Christon bank when the passenger train was
within one minute of being due.
" Secondly—ln appointing an unqualified guard to such
a train.
" Thirdly—ln appointing only one guard to a double
train (250 yards long).
" Alao 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
are provided with proper signals."
The jury then separted. The other parties who
were injured by the collision are said to be going on
favourably.

RAWMARSII COLLIERY EXPLOSION.
TWO MORE DEATHS—CONCLUSION OF THE
INQUEST.
RAWMARSIZ, FRIDAY.—This melancholy investigation
was brought to a close this afternoon. The coroner and
jury. on their assembling at the Star Inn, 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 the number to 52. Tho 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). Ou the return of the coroner and
jury to the inquest room,
The fallowing was the verdict of the jury:—" We find
that the 52 men and boys, whose bodies we have viewed,
were accidentally killed by an explosion of fire damp in
the Warren Vale Colliery, in the parish of Rawrearsb,
in the county of York, in the occupation of Messrs.
Charlcsworth."
Tho verdict was accompanied by the following re-
Tarks:—" The jury, after a long and painful investiga-
tion en 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 far us to return
a verdict of manslaughter against any particular party,
we should ill discharge cur 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 qutte
inadequate to the proper supervision and safe working
them; and it certainly does appear to us that it is very
desirable that there should be some stringent rules arid
regulations at every colliery, for the better and safer
working of the coal mines; and further, that the pro-
prietors of every mine ought to be held by the Legisla:
ture responsible for the efficiency of their egep? and
superintendents. We express our thanks to Mr. Morto.n,
d other V6l
the Government inspector, Mr. Biram,
nesses, for their valuable evidence, which has so meter;
ally assisted us in this painful inquiry.
.alia 1

THE Ray. MR. BENNETT AGAIN. "We understand
that the parishioners of Frome Lave already adopted the
course we suggested yesterday, namely, that of memorialising
the Marchioness of Bath, against the settlement oftheßev.
Mr. Bennett as rector of their church. They have addressed
a most vigorous remonstrance to her Ladyship
against
appointment which has not only caused them inexpressible
Thethe
two
churchwardens also, have hinted their determination n
assist, as is the invariable practice on such occasions,
induction of Mr. Bennett. It is feared, however, that all
Relit
that has been said and done by the parishioners, will
no avail, as thenarc is a Puseyite of the most inve-
terate kind,—eve exceeding, as some people think, Mr.
Bennett himself.—. Advertiser.
THE REV. H. WILDERFORCE.—The ex-vicar of
East Farleigh, who seceded to the Church of Rome, being a
married man, cannot enter the priesthood of the Church of
ed a dispensation from
Rome, but it is said that he has receiv
the Pope which will permit him to perilleaech, though not to
perform any other of the priest's
glieAhneleorrg3demr
clergymen
preachers. to meet the cases of those English
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 taken with a view to
the erection of a Sailors' Home in Devonport, for the sea-
men of her Majesty's navy ; and another in Plymouth for
those of the merchant
i
the management of one committee, and erected out of one
fund. This fund ahead marine. The homes will be under
Y alllollllt* to upwards vi 1,0091.