The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-27 00:00:00

TH E SUN, LONDON, TGEsnA Y, OCTOI3ER 27. 1840.

paddle-box and the paddle.box wheel of our larboard side
were knocked away. In a few moments afterwards the
Britannia succeeded in getting clear of us. Without
confusion, and with the utmost zeal, the crew immedi-
ately took to the pumps, and tried to stop the hole in
the side, but all their efforts were unavailing. Some
minutes atter we had been struck there was three feet
water in the engine-room ; the pumps worked, but the
water gained upon us very sensibly. it became neces-
sary to lower our boats, when, together with the Bri-
tannia, we succeeded in transporting all our passen-
gers on board that vessel. In the last boat I embarked
the remainder of the crew, who, up to the last moment,
conducted themselves with an intelligence, zeal, and
obedience, worthy of the highest praise. A few mo-
ments before quitting the vessel I assured myself that
no persons remained in the cabins. I was the last per-
son to embark in the boat, the fore part of the Phenix
was already immersed up to the foremast. I scarcely
had reached the Britannia when the Phenix sunk, and
nothing appeared on the water. At that time we were
not more than ten fathoms off. Neither the passengers
nor the crew could save their things, or any part of the
cargo. About twenty minutes past nine, P. M., the
Britannia struck us, and at a quarter to ten the
Phenix sunk. We were all received in the Britannia,
which also sustained some damage ; nevertheless she
continued her voyage to London, and arrived on Mon-
day, 26th Octoljer;at three-quarters past twelve o'clock."
The Passengers of the Phenix were forty in number,
and they spoke in high terms of the attention paid
them on board the Britannia, after the Phenix went
down.

(FURTHER PARTICULARS.)
The inhabitants of Dover were disturbed late on Sun-
day night by the firing of guns and the burning of blue
lights from a steam-vessel in the roads. It was soon
found the alarm proceeded from the Britannia steam-
ship, with passengers, &c., bound from Havre to Lon-
don, which had come into collision off Dungeness with
the Phenix, from London to Havre, with a similar
cargo. So severe was the shock occasioned by the col-
lision, and so great the injury received by the Phenix,
that her crew and passengers had only time to escape
aboard the Britannia before she went down, a carpet
' bag being the only article of luggage saved. The Wa-
terwitch steam-boat of this port, went out and took the
passengers of the Phenix from on board the Britannia,
and proceeded with them to Boulogne. This is the
sixth case of collision that has occurred in the Channel
within these few months, being a greater number than
has occurred before in the recollcctioa of the oldest
seaman at this port in so short a space of time. The
weather was beautifully calm, and the night starlight.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY, AT THE
FARINGDON STATION-TWO LIVES LOST.

FARINGDON-ROAD, MONDAY NIGHT.

A dreadful and fatal accident, by which the lives of
two persons have been lost, occurred at the Faringdon-
road station, 63 miles from Paddington, about five
o'clock yesterday morning.
The luggage train left the Paddington terminus, for
the Faringdon station, at 20 minutes past eleven on
Saturday night, upwards of two hours after its taw 11
time. The train consisted of the engine (" The Fire
King') and tender, a passengers' truck, a truck contain-
ing a load of timber (deals). and 15 trucks laden with
goods and luggage. In the passengers' truck there
were fortunately only four persons. The train arrived
at Steventon at 26 minutes past four on Sunday morn-
ing, and left, after leaving there a portion of the lug-
gage trains, at 27 minutes before five o'clock. The train
arrived at Faringdon about five o'clock, but from the
cause, stated by the witnesses in the subjoined ac-
count of the proceedings at the Coroner's inquest, which
was held this afternoon, an accident of a most fearful
and fatal nature occurred.

At the time the train arrived at the Farringdon sta-
tion, Mr. Brunel, the engineer in chief to the Company,
was standing on the platform, awaiting the arrival of an
up-train to proceed to London. He observed that all
the signals were correctly given by the several men em
ployed at that part of the line, and was naturally asto-
nished at perceiving the train, when within 100 yards
of the terminus, approaching at the rate of 15 miles an
hour, the ordinary speed of a luggage train in its regu-
lar progress along an unobstructed line. In a few s--
conds an accident of a most frightful nature occurred ;
the train, proceeding at this rate of speed, dashed with
tremendous velocity through the engine-house, shivering
to pieces a coke waggon which stood there, as usual,
overturning the two first waggons of the train, and shat-
tering down a great portion of the engine-house.
The engine (the line of rails not extending beyond
the engine-house) now became embedded in the earth.
From the suddenness of the stoppage the passengers'
carriage was forced so violently against the tender that it
was completely turned over. The fore pert of this
carriage tilted up, and it completely doubled itself over
upon the timber truck. Use of the passengers (I'.
Kitchener) was thrown off upon the rail, and the other
three were crushed between 'the passengers', and the
timber carriage. Mr. Brunel immediately despatelted
messengers to the several medical men residing in the
neighbourhood ; and in a short time after the accident

Mr: Mantel', of Faringdon, and Mr. Staley, of Wan-
ta e, surgeons, were in attendance upon the unfor-
runate sufferers, who had been conveyed to the
Railway Tavern, a short distance from the station.
James Marlow, the guard, and John Ross, the engine-
driver, were both dead. Marlow was found jammed
amongst the timber, under the passengers' truck ; and
Ross's head was completely flattened, a large portion
of the scalp torn away, his brains dispersed over the
boiler, between which and the tender he had been
crushed.

Kitchen was found lying insensible under the plonks,
Wellin was dreadfully bruised, and Bo!head had his
collar-bone broken and was dreadfully bruised. Ho
was buried beneath the timber. The stoker escaped.
Edwards's thigh was broken, and is otherwise in a dread-
ful state.

language which the Minister wished the King to speak. s
After having concluded, M. Remusat informed the
King that the speech which he had just read had been
unanimously approved of by the Cabinet. This decla-
ration
raised a host of objections. The principal argu-
ment of the cissentients was, that this speech engaged
futurity, and that it was not consistent with the true
policy and interests of France to engage herself so
form Illy. The conclusion of the King was, that it was
impossible for him to accept the speech which was
proposed to him.
" M. Thiers then observed to the King, that all those
objections had been anticipated and debated, and that
the opinion of the Cabinet was so firmly fixed on this
point, that the Ministers were determined unanimously
to resign if their advice was not approved of by his
Majesty. The Council had lasted three hours, and
the King proposed that it should adjourn until nine
o'clock in the evening.
All the Ministers assembled again at St. Cloud at
nine o'clock. The President of the Council opened
the consultation by repeating, in the name of the Ca-
binet, what he had already declared, and that the Mi-
nisters persisted in their resolution. Toe Kiog reca-
pitulated his objections ; the discussion was long an
animated, and at the c,inelusion the Ministers unan-
rnottsly and respectfully tendered their resignations to
the King.
" The King then with great emotion detailed the
embarrassment he felt at being i.epr.ved of the services
of his Minist,r, at the eve of the ine,tin., of Ow Chain-
be^s ; the Ministers, however, retired at miduigiit,
without having consented to retain their places.
" The following morning the King sent for Marsh.,.
Soult and M. de Broglie. As to the old Marshal, he
appears to be only a kind of label attached to a Cabinet
to give it a name. M. de Broglie, it is s
to the King that at this moment it would be impossible
for his Majesty to dispense with M. Tillers' services :
that without him both a foreign and a civil war were in-
evitable.
His Majesty then informed M. do Broglie that he
was satisfied to concede some points to M. Tillers, pro-
vided M. Thiers would Mike some concessions to "him
M. de Broglie consented to mediate with M. Thiers
but it was,impossible for him to prevail upon M. Thiers
to make any alterations in
_an address of which he (M.
de Broglie) had" alt',:ay approved. It is necessary ti
add, that whet) M. de Broglie was taking leave of his
Majesty, he assured the King, that notwithstanding his
devoted attachment to his Royal person, he must re-
spectfully decline to form part of any Administration
which Should replace that of M. Thiers, if it should be-
come necessary to replace his Administration."

M. TRIERS' APOLOGY.
(From the Cwisiitulionnel of Sunday.)
The Journal des Debats blames the withdrawal o'
the Ministry ; it accuses M. Thiers with having left
Royalty unprotected, and with having declined tht
sovereign judgment of the Chambers on his policy.
That print declares that, without liking the Cabi-
net of the Ist of March, it has often approvzd
of it ; and that even recently it approved unreservedly
of the two diplomatic notes which M. Thiers had ad-
dressed to Lord Palmerston. The Journal des Debats
is well aware, as is every one, that the difficulties which
have arisen from the drawing up of the speech from
the Throne have been the cause of the Ministerial re-
signations, and that the Cabinet withdraws because the
speech which it had prepared has not been admitted.
The point must be well established upon which the
Journal des Debats rests its blame. Is it for having
presumed to draw out the Speech of the Throne that
the Cabinet runs the risk of its censure ? It is not pos-
sible. The opening speech is a political manifesto
which is within the province of Ministerial responsibility.
The Cabinet, must either concoct it or adopt it ; it is its
sessional programme ; it is the theme which it must de-
fend, when the Chamber debates upon the Address.
Therefore the Ministry was executing its strict right by
preparing the Royal speech, and by refusing_ to substi.
Lute another speech for that which was its production.

The Journal des Debats cannot contest that right ;
but, according to the opinion of that print, the language
which was attributed to Royalty had the error to go far
beyond the diplomatic notes which it approves, and of
making the Crown decide, before the Chambers, the
quevti in of peace or war.
Our reply will be short and precise. The speech,
which was prepared by M. Remusat, and retouched b)
M. Thicrs, is a summary of the reproduction of the
notes. The same intentions, the same spirit, and even
the same language, are held forth. Since the Bth Oct.
the Ministry has not retrograded, but it has not pro-
gressed. What we advance herein we affirm. There
is not for the Journal des Debuts any other alternative ;
either it must withdraw its approbation from the notes,
or its blame from the speech.
On a single point the speech says more than the note.
It mentions the armaments that have been made ceo
are making ; the notes did not refer to them. .This is
the reason—the notes are addressed to a toreizo Ca-
binet, they expose the principles and views of Franc,.
To speak of armaments to Lord Palmerston_ wouid
have been a threat ; M. Thiers abstained therefrom.
The speech is addresied to the Deputies of France,
to the men who have the right to see and know
every thing, and to the comptrollers of public expenses,
who have a right to an account of all that has
been done, and of all that is to be done, in order to
protect the dignity of the country ; the Ministry fu!-
filled its most rigid duty by speaking of arniamants. A
very puerile objection, alter all, as if silence had dis-
sembled anything, when the documents are there, when
the Chamber will have to consider thereon, and when
it retains all its liberty either to censure the expenses
that have been incurred, or to refuse those that are
projected.
Therefore, we repeat it, the speech was in confor-
mity with the notes, with only the shade that, being
add-rested to the Deputies of the country, it mentioned
what the notes could not put forth. On the other
hard, the language which the Ministers wished to put
in the mouth of the King was noble and moderate ;
without exaggeration and emphasis, and, in a word,
worthy of the throne and of the country. The extreme
true friends of the country, those who desire peace,
without
parties would y
panting
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withhave
f eaccusedthe it ofid
ea weakness,oi.
Tsar,
a but the
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would
have given it their entire approbation.
That speech was not admitted. We ask the ./cturna/
des Debats what ought loyal and devoted Ministers to
enactw his partot th
would be
be fortheir duty to do ? Could it be expected from them that
they would present themselves to the Chambers with a
sessional programme
who The
ever unworthy of serving his King and his country. The
statesman wouldh as n
thuswhic
Debats alludes to Royalty being left unprotected. The
accusation would have some foundation if the Cabinet
had precisely done what it is reproached with not having
done ; if it had presented itself boldly at the debate of the
address, in reply to an irresponsible speech, and which
was not the expression of its sentiments. The
speech which the Ministers of the Ist of March declined
the responsibility will no doubt be approved of by
other persons, and from the present time to the open-
ing of the Session a Cabinet may be formed which will
loyally take upon itself
.the charge of defending it.
That is how a Constitutional Government is carried on.
But M. Thiers and his friends could not answer for e
production which they did not approve of. They were
obliged to withdraw, and they have done it.
We do not persist in that part of the debate. Even
perfidious attacks will not have the effect of making us
lose that reserve and moderation which we have im-
posed on ourselves, and which the gravity of circum-
stances demands. By concluding, we shall resume, in a
word our reply to the Journal des Debats. if it ap-
proves of the notes, it approves of the projected speech ;
if it approves of the speech, it approves of the resolutioa
of the Ministers and of the resignations which they have
tendered. There is no occasion to seek for en expla-
nation elsewhere than in the feeling of their duty, and
it is, after all, a popularity nobly acquired which is
gained by sacrificing power.

and Carlsruhe. The Prussian prohibition commences
likewise with the 20th, which gives these measures the
appearance of being concerted. With these precau-
tionary measures the public in general seem perfectly
satisfied, although individuals suffer temporarily by
them. In short, the feeling general throughout Ger-
many is favourable to the quadruple alliance, as every
body thinks it high time for Europe to hold a reckon-
ing with France, and to learn what is to be expected
from that Power for the future.

THE ARMY.

(From the United Service Gazette.)
CAVALRY.

4th Dragoon Guards—This fine regiment was in-
spected on the 7th by Major-General Sleigh, and, as
usual, received the highest commendations. This is,
perhaps, the only cavalry regiment in the service com-
plete in men and horses, the full establishment being
6 staff, 7 sergeant-majors, 18 sergeants, 6 trumpeters,
6 farriers, 1 lieuten.int-colonel, 1 major: 6 captains, 12
subalterns, 360 rank and file, and 325 horses. The
present stations of the regim,•nt are-2 troops and
iya:l-quarters, Leeds ; 2 troop{. Newcastle-on-Tyne ;
1 troop, Bradford ; 1 troop, C
6th Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant-Colonel Jackson
basing proceeded on lelVe of absenle, the command of
the regiment stationsd in Dublin has devolved upon
Malor Hay.