The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-12 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,-It is impossible to read your account of the
terrible accident upon the Bud and Selby Railway
without feelings of the most acute and painful character.
The loss of five lives, with so many circumstances to
aggravate the terrors of sudden death, the serious inju-
ries which many others are now suff,:ring from, and the
alarm and shock which the rest of the passengers must
have then sustained (an effect, by the way, which many
will carry in their constitutions to the grave), ought to
render it a very serious question with the Directors of
every railway how such calamitous accidents can in
future be prevented.
Is it not obvious that if the truck containing the iron
which occasioned the accident had been placed in the
rear rf the whole train, the accident could not have
occurred, with such an arrangement ? If the iron had
.fallen upon the rail it might have impeded the luggage
train, but the carriages containing passengers would have
sustained no icjury beyond a sudden check.
Let it then be imperative that all luggage shall be
placed upon trucks in the rear, and thus the public
obtain another security in a mode of travelling that,
with all its swiftness, has less of danger than any other
kind whatever.

There is now a Bill,* I believe, before Parliament,
affecting railways. Would it not be as well to intro-
duce a clause requiring that all luggage and heavy goods
shall be placed in the rear, excepting such as may be
stowed in the boots of carriages.
I am, Sir, your very obedient servant,

* The Bill has received the Royal Assent ; but we
have no doubt the Directors of railways will themselves
see the propriety of taking all due precautions in future.—
ED. Sun,

EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS

FROM PARIS.

( From a Second Edition of the Morning Post of yesterday.)
PARIS, MONDAY.—The Moniteur of Monday con-
tains the annexed Royal Ordonnance :
" Louis Philippe, &c. &c.
" On the report of our Keeper of the Seals, and by
virtue of article 28 of the Charter, and articles 87, 88.
91, 92, 96, 97, 98, and 99 of the Penal Code, and see-
ing that on August 6th an attempt against the safet
of the State was made in the City of Boulogne, we have
ordered and ordained as follows :
Art, 1. The Court of Peers is invoked. The
Peers absent from Paris will be expected to return im-
mediately, unless good cause can be shown for their
absence.

" Art. 2. This Court will proceed without delay o
the trial of the individuals who have been or shall be ar•
rested as principalsor accomplius ofthe above attempt.
" Art. 3,4, 5, and 6 provide the usual forms to be
observed, the nomination of M M. Franck Carre, Bomby,
Nonguier, and Glandez to conduct the prosecution, and
the Keeper of the Seals is charged with the execution
of the Ordonnance.

v.
" Signed at the Tuileries, Sunday, August 9, by
Louis Philippe, and countersigned by M. Vivien, Minis-
ter of Justice."
The Moniteur states that Louis Philippe arrived at
half-past nine A.M. at the Tuileries. He presided at a
Cabinet Council, and returned the same evening to Eu.
Louis Bonaparte arrived at Ham at half-past twelve
on Saturday night.
The Paris Papers of Monday are more pacific. M.
Latrome of the Institute, succeeds the late M. Dawnon
as Keeper of the Archives.