The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-14 00:00:00

ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND

"°l7ll-ETBAMES YACHT CLUB.
Ouraquatic sports have one advantage over the pursuits
of the turf---no amount of rain can spoil the course or
ruin the hopes of the betting world. The smooth sward
of Epsom or Ascot may be converted into a" slough of
despond" by the amiable caprices of our English atmos-
phere, but Old Father Thames receives his sewage with
ampler arms, and rejoices all the more in the spring
showers which, aggregated in one, fall in such abundance
now, and have never ceased to fall since this leafy month
of June came upon us in the guise of drear December.
Wind, of course, is always parsimonious of its favours
when a Yachting match comes on, and if a man wishes
to go to sea in calm weather he should always wait till
he sees the announcement that the Thames Club sails on
such a day. Surely the Halcyon must be their crest.
Were it not that a good strong tide helps them now and
then, we should have a fleet of Flying Dutchmen without
wings tacking off the Nore for ever. On Saturday, indeed,
there was some wind, but it was fickle and uncertain ;
never coming when required, and blowing feebly at
times, then puffing out vigorously, and at last dying
away into a calm, as if Boreas—for, he it was who
managed the proceedings—was suffering from an inter-
mittent fever. As for the day itself, it was an interpo-
lation from the worst part of a bad November. A leaden
atmosphere, tinned here and there with fleecy white
clouds, stretching out their damp fibrous arms over the
horizon or japanned with masses of black vapour marked
the whole sky—if sky, indeed, it could be called, except
in the sense of its Greek derivative—and a clammy cold
fog oecwiionally revolving itself into a bitter tell of
rain, or playfully mitigated into a Scotch mist by the
efforts of the wind " to come out strong," settled down
upon the river and obscured the lines where mud and
water disputed the rights of boundary. The British
sailor, amateur or protessed, is not to be deterred, how-
ever, from his sport by more unfavourable circumstances
even than these. Indeed we are not sure that many a
man on Saturday felt ought but satisfaction at the oppor-
tunity of displaying the wonders of art in caoutchone
and gutta pereha with which they were provided in the
eyes of the hard-weather ladies who honour such ex-
cursions with their presence—some from patriotic and
nautical feelings, others from motives more closely
allied to a regard for champagne lunches or tea and
testacea of the shrimp species than they would be will-
ing to allow.

-Soon after nine o'clock the Ruby steamed from the
Adelaide wharf with a comiclerable company on board,
well provided with the modern inventions for defying
the elements which adroit manufacturers have devised
to meet the severities of our summers, and aftersteaming
down tho reaches through files of colliers, amplified by
the fog to the size of line-of-battle ships, whisking past
dingy fists with their huge brown sails shining sleekly
in the wet, she pulled up at Blaekwall to receive the
commodore, Lord A. Paget, the vice-commodore, Mr.
Green, and a number of those interested in the race.
About 11.30 she arrived at Erich, where the yachts were
lying in the following order, divided into three classes
for tonuage:—

FIRST CLASS.
Exceeding 30 Tons.
Pauline, 35 tons—Mr. C. Brandeth.
Musquito, 50 tons—Lord Londesbcrough.
Volante, 48 tons—Mr. J. L Craigie.
Cygnet, 35 tons—Mr. 11. Lambton.
SECOND CLSSS.
Exceeding 15 Tons and not exceeding 30.
Secret, 25 tons
—Mr. K. 134.
Whisper, 19 tons—Mr. T. Eveleigh.
Zuleika, 20 tons—Mr. M. King.
Phantom, 20 tons—Mr. S. Lane.

THIRD ---CZss.
Vampire,
1510
nTsonsmand not exc,eding 15.
Vesper, 15 tons—Mr.
P.
WRoberts.
h e el er.
Kitten, 10 tons—Mr. T. Harvey.
Mouse, 15 tons—Mr. G. E. Brown.
For the first class there was a model of the Eddystone
lighthouse in silver, vane 1001.; for the second. an
Etruscan vase in silver, chased and embogaed with repro•
sentations of yachting sports, value 50/.; and for the
third class, a tankard and cover, of
‘r :eh alti
little
ecaZ
vt,:
Tudor style, value 301.• all three manufactured by
Messrs. Hunt and Rooked. Bali a minute per ton was
allowed for difference of tonnage•
moored in three divisions, with gall,s flapping idly to
they
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tandart stay,started
like but
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hiolansthfreosmigtnhael slipw as
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given,
with the tide
ebbing
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ward. It was q
ebbing and a fat faint
theme love "th
prefer poetry to effect. They anabtuiildlne:ahswtsomile,n.n will
sail" that has been the erne of so man e bellying
and the marring of so many races. „Y verse writers
gaff topsails there were in -153lionn jibe and
their utmost and about
paunch of tua alderman would ! sQrvicoablo as the
One looked in vain for
Deer or the Paddington be to the American
the results of the lesson taught
Le% in a running match.
us by the Amerie,a 'set year at Cowes. Nowhere could
bidding defiance to braced close to boom and mast and
be seen a fiat bail
the e wind, which iu despite blew it as
fast as the wind
could go; on the contrary, there Were

SORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.
AYLESISIIIir, SATuRDAY EVENING.--An accident of
a most serious character took place on the Aylesbury
branch, near the Chi-ddington junction, on Friday after-
noon. The train which met with the disaster was the
1.45 P.M. passenger train from Aylesbury. It left at
its proper time, and consisted of the engine, two breaks,
and four carriages. On its arrival at that portion of the
road where it is almost on a level, and about one mire
and a half from the junction, the engine-driver was
alarmed by a sudden shock, as if the engine had come in
contact with some heavy substance on the rails. In an
instant it mounted the metals, and, taking the permanent
way, shot iu a slanting direction some 40 or 50 yards,
when it passed down a slight embankment, and, forcing
its way throu4h a hedge, rolled over into a ditch. At
the moment of its leaving the road, the coupling which
held one break van to the tender broke, and the train of
passenger carriages, having considerable way, went on,
but eventually left the rails and ran down the opposite
aide of the embankment, where the carriages were
thrown in great confusion. The engine-driver, by
some extraordinary presence of mind, kept to his en-
gine to the last, even until it was overturned, and as
soon as he had contrived to escape, he rushed to the
assistance of the passengers' Although fortunately
t were but few in number, with the exception or a
some few
lady and child, all were found apparently unhurt except
searched for bruises. The guard of the train was then
vered lying on
and close to the break van he was disco.
his back to all appearance'dead. With all
dispatch he was removed; life, however, was found not
quite extinct. Ere, however, medical assistance could
be procured he breathed his last. An examination of his
body showed that he had sustained essential injury in
the lower part of the abdomen. It is thought the unfor-
tunate man, finding the train leaving the rails, got on
the top of the break van to throw himself off, and in
attempting to escape in that manner fell to the ground,
and some portion of the train went over him. His name
is George Allen, and he is described to have been a most
steady and careful officer. He had been some time in
the service of the company, and has left a widow and
four children. The stoker was also found to be injured,
but not to any considerable extent.
The next step on the
part of the officers was to ascer-
tain the cause of the train going off. The end of the
rail near the spot where the engine is represented to
have left the line was found partly split, as if the flange
of the leading wheel had struck it. This led to an in-
ference that it must have been removed from the joint,
whether from accident or otherwise, however, remains
to be proved.
It is much doubted whether the speed at which the
train was travelling at the moment would in itself have
led to the engine jumping over the rails, as by the time-
piece found with the body of the guard it would seem
that it had " stopped" precisely at two o'clock from the
shock it received, proving distinctly that the run from
Aylesbury, not six miles, had occupied 14 minutes.
This afternoon, at two o'clock, Mr. Parrott, the co-
roner for Aylesbury, opened an inquiry at the Railway
Arms Tavern, Cheddington, respecting the death of the
unfortunate guard.
Captain Bruyeres, the superintendent of the London
and North-Western Railway, and Mr. Beresford, the
superintendent of the company's police, were present to
watch the proceedings.
The jury having viewed the body, and evidence being
taken as to its identity,
The Coroner suggested an adjournment, in order to
obtain the opinion of the government inspector of rail-
ways, as the accident was one, as far as had come to bis
knowledge, which demanded the most searching invest'
gation.
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