The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-20 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

Commanders—Richard Moorman, to the Hecate ;
Reynell C. Mitchell, to the Devastation, vice Crouch,
invalided, since deceased.
Lieutenants—Hon. R. E. Boyle, to command the
Dolphin ; Samuel Morrish, to the Asia ; E. G. B.
Clarke, and Spencer Sterling, to the Coast Guard ; N.
B. Bedingfield, to the Hecate ; Richard Lloyd, to be
a Contract Mail Agent.
Masters—Henry Webber, to the Coast Guard
Service ; John F. Loney, to the Trincomalee.
Paymaster and Purser—E. B. Robins, to the
Hecate.

Surgeon—William Roberts, to the Hecate.
Second Masters—William H. Mallard, to be
Acting Master of the Hecate ; Cornelius Fox, to the
Victory ; Charles Burney, to the Kite ; W. J. Tre-
digo, to the Dolphin; IV. H. Osmond, to the Trin-
comalee.

Naval Instructor—Richard C. Saunders, to the
Aga.

Assistant-Surgeons--Robert P. R. Sparrow, to
the Dolphin ; James Davidson, to the Kite ; T. J.
Green, to the Hecate.

Clerks—John Williams, in charge, to the Griffon ;
S. E. L. Wright, to the Hecate ; J. H. Towell and
W. F. Lapidge, secretary's clerks, James M. Lowcay,
H. S. C. Mitchell, to Asia.
Midshipman—J. H. Bushnell, to the Hibernia.
Masters' Assistants—John Butler, to the Asia; W.
S. Furze, to the Hecate ; Thomas S. Hayward and
Charles F. Puckett, to the Kite ; Davis, to the
Spider ; J. R. Corke, to the Oberon.
Naval Cadets—Henry E. Stephens, to the Cam-
brian; E. G. Horne, to the Asia; Percy Augustine
Mackesey, to the Trafalgar.
Coast Guard Appointments—Lieutenant Andrew
Barely, to the Patrington District ; Lieutenant R. L.
Stephens, to the Barton District; Lieutenant Jona-
than Butcher, to the Wrangle District; Lieutenant
Henry Batt, to the Holbeach District ; Lieutenant
J. R. Benson, to the Lynn District; Lieutenant
J. S. Grandy, from the Active, to command the
'Wellington revenue cutter ; Lieutenant Robert Poole,
'to command the Active ; Lieutenant W. E. Amiel, to
the South Jurmo Station ' • Lieutenant E. H. Kennet
and Mr. Henry Webb (Master R.N.), to be in com-
mand of stations.

Removal—Lieutenant Robert Amyett, from 24
Tower to Shorne-cliff.

PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 17.—Nothing further has trans-
pired at this port regarding the fate of the brig which
came in contact on Wednesday night with her Ma-
jesty's steam-frigate Birkenhead. There is a possi-
bility that she may have borne up for Falmouth.
It appears that the frigate between Scilly and the
Land's-end, was on her passage surrounded by a great
number of lights exhibited by the Mount's Bay fishing
boats, which were so numerous that it was with diffi-
culty the frigate could clear them. Three leagues off
the Lizard they saw another light, which they first
took for a fishing-boat, but which proved to be the
brig. The weather had been very thick, but it
cleared up just as they approached each other. The
frigate was at two-thirds speed. The brig was on the
larboard tack, with the wind blowing strong from the
south-west, reaching towards the land, and not as
stated in the first account, reaching off the land.
Some one on board the brig, supposed to be the
master, cried out for the frigate's helm to be put hard
astarboard, and the brig's helm was at the same time
put hard a-port, or the steamer would have gone
right over her. The brig struck the frigate on the
*aboard bow, carrying away three of the after
shrouds of the forerigging, glanced to the sponson
and paddle-box, breaking the paddle wheel and iron-
work, and then, with loss of jib-boom, sheered off.
The frigate saw her from half-past nine o'clock, when
the collision occurred, until one o'clock in the morning
at which hour she was last seen to windward. She
had
lay to until daylight, when the brig disappeared.
The frigate is uninjured on the foreside of the fore-
rigging, but her starboard paddle-wheel was so
much damaged that it was disconnected, and she
worked to Plymouth with the larboard paddle-
wheel only.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—On Saturday evening Mr.
Higgs held an inquest at the Essex Head, Essex-street,
Strand, on Wilson Emery, aged 42, one of her Majesty's
watermen, and waterman to the officers of the Guards.
Charles Hill, waterman at the Temple-stairs, found the
body floating close to the pier, early in the morning. He
litd it brought ashore, when ho identified it, deceased
Laving been his fellow apprentice. J. Emery, brother
of the deceased, deposed that he and his brother rowed
up the river two parties, in different boats, that day week.
W tness rowed up a four-oared cutter which belonged to
the Fusilier Guards. At Battersea they exchanged
boats, about eight o'clock, P.M., his brother taking the
cutter, which he steered, and in which were Sergeant
Paton and Corporals Smith, Hopkins, and Blythe, who
rowed. For landsmen they rowed well. They left the
Red House, Battersea, about eight o'clock, witness and
the other party remaining' behind. I about seven
minutes afterwards the accident, by which his brother
and Sergeant Paton 'test their lives, occurred. He did
not see it, but understoew_dtht at it took place from the
boat coming in collision with steamer. The bow, rud-
der, linings, first
knees, shoulders, on the
starboard side of the cutter, were l'lld forced in. His brother
was a steady and practical waterman,he
but he could not
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swim. Mr. Baker, the constable, re
melancholy occurrence was the result f
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Avreen a steamer and the cutter, but that he
c'eui°lCll u be-
ttdduce further evidence that evening, He therefore
t
prtyed for an adjournment of the inquest. The inquest
was accordingly adjourned.
DRSTRITTIVB FIRE IN ST. PANcßAS.—yesterday
morning, shortly after two o'clock, the inhabitants of
King's-roul, St. Pancras, were aroused from their slum-
bers by the springing of policemen's rattles and a ge-
neral cry of " Fire t In the course of a few minutes
smoke in dense bodies was perceived issuing from the
'flows of the house numbered 5, in the beforemen-
riour)d thoroughfare. The engines of the parish, Lon-
don Brigade, and West of England Company were
speedily at the scene; but such had been the ravages of
the .ire, that the building, from the bottom to the top,
was 1,7 that period blazing away with such vehemence
as to threaten with destruction the adjoining buildings.
The supply of water was fortunately most abundant,
and no time being lost in setting the engines to work, a
powerful stream was thrown into the midst of the
flames,. notwithstanding which they continued to travel,
seizing
upon floor after floor until the place was com-
pletely The damage done, it is understood, will
reach to _nearly 5001.; and, unfortunately, Mr. Want,
the owner rot the house, was not insured. How the fire
origißateLl
is wrapped in mystery; but from the fact of
theihouso b eing unoccupied, strong suspicions are enter-
tained was ozca iu sioued by tva .
tha* the OUtbre
eezdary.

THE ACCIDENT ON THE LAN-
CASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.
HALIFAX, SATURDAY MORNING.—Many
rumours
were afloat throughout Friday, not only
inMan-
chester and Leeds, but also in London, that the
number of passengers killed and wounded had b
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led to the melancholy catastrophe :
The first intimation of an accident having happened
reached the Victoria station of the Lancashire and
Yorkshire Railway by electric telegraph from Roch-
dale, about a quarter before four on Thursday after-
noon, and immediately on the receipt of the informa-
tion Messrs. Entwisle and Harper, two of the direc-
tors, together with Mr. Heron, the secretary, and
Mr. Eckersley, proceeded by special engine to the
Sowerby-bridge station, which is situate 28 miles
from Manchester, and 5 from Halifax, for the pur-
pose of assisting the sufferers, and instituting an
inquiry into the circumstances connected with the
occurrence.
The first object which attracted the attention of the
railway authorities, and which there is not the
slightest doubt was the primary cause of the acci-
dent, was that on approaching the Luddenden Foot
station, twenty-six miles from Manchester, and two
miles from Sowerby-bridge station, they observed one
of the rails broken. This circumstance, it is believed,
threw the last carriage off the rails ; and although the
driver of the engine remembers a slight jerk to the
train about the spot in question, still nothing particu-
lar occurred to attract his attention until his arrival
at the Sowerby-bridge station, when the results of
the sad calamity became apparant.
The train to which the accident happened was the
express mail train, which leaves Manchester at one
o'clock for Leeds, and on this occasion it consisted of
the engine and tender and five first-class carriages.
It started from Manchester at its proper time, and
passed the Luddenden Foot station about ten minutes
before two o'clock at its usual speed. Nothing par-
ticular was observed at the station, although it is
quite clear that at this time the last carriage must
have been off the rails. The wind was very high
at the time, and the rain poured in torrents, so that
it was impossible for either guard or engine-driver
to hear an alarm had it been given. The down
line, on which the train was proceeding, was on
the left or northern side of the railway, and the
first indication of an accident having happened was
the leaning outward of the last carriage on the
same side as the platform at the Sowerby station,
which was observed by the officials as the train ap-
proached the station. The circumstances induced the
station master at the Sowerby-bridge station to hoist
the red signal. This caused the engine driver to
slacken his speed, but not in sufficient time to bring
up at the station. The last carriage as it passed, was
then observed to be off the line, and the wheels on
the right side within the rails. About thirty or forty
yards on the Leeds
.side of the station is an ash-pit,
used for the purpose of enabling the firemen to rake
out the fires of their engines. The last carriage being
off the line plunged into the pit with great violence,
but the coupling irons connecting it with the carriage
immediately preceding resisted the shock, and the
carriage was dragged up again by the impetus still
upon the train, and carried further along the line.
The cross bar of the pit was completely doubled, and
the effect of the concussion was such as to wrench
from the body of the carriage the wheels, which were
found lying OR the line forty or fifty yards
beyond the ash-pit, and a little further down
the line the axle of one 'pair of wheels
was also discovered lying across the rails. About
forty yards beyond this was also discovered the
door of the front coupe torn off and lying on the
ground (the carriage had a coupe, at each end). The
train was not stopped until it reached the Sowerby-
bridge viaduct, which is distant about 180 yards from
the station. On the officers reaching the centre of
the viaduct they discovered the bodies of three gentle-
men, all of whom had occupied the front coupe, lying
close together on the right side, between the up and
the down line of rails. The train was standing about
fifty yards beyond this point. The last carriage being
entirely divested of its wheels, had been dragged
from the ash-pit of the Sowerby-bridge station like a
sledge oves the rails, and it was still tightly affixed
to the preceding ,:carriage by its coupling chains.
The "glass of the carriage was entirely crushed, as
also were the panels of the carriage on the right side,
but its body had not suffered any material injury.
As soon as the train was stopped, and the nature
of the accident ascertained, every possible assistance
was rendered to the sufferers. On reaching the spot
where the three persons above alluded to lay, one of
the bodies was found frightfully mutilated. It proved
to be that of Mr. Louis Gillard, assistant instrumen-
tal inspector to the Commercial Electric Telegraph
Company, residing at Wakefield. The next body
was that of Mr. Edward Roper Weston, a surveyor-
general te: the Board of Customs, and Mr. Moon,
secretary to the last-named gentleman. With the
least possible delay the unfortunate sufferers were
conveyed to the Royel Hotel at Sowerby station, but
Mr. Gillard had ceased to exist before his arrival. On
the arrival of Mr. Weston and Mr. Moon at the hotel
they were promptly attended by Messrs. Elliott, Scott,
and Aked, medical gentlemen resident in the neigh-
bourhood. Mr. Weston laboured under concussion
of the brain, the toes of his left foot were cut off, his
right leg was broken, and he had also sustained con-
siderable laceration of the righ thigh and arm. He
rallied for a short time, but gradually sunk, and died
at eight o'clock yesterday (Friday) morning. Mr.
Weston was also attended by Messrs. W. J. Wilson,
J. A. Ransome, and Bowring, of the Manchester In-
firmary, who were dispatched by a special train to
the Royal Hotel, Sowerby-bridge station, the same
night. Mr.. Moon was severely bruised, but we are
happy to state that his injuries are not of a serious
character.
Mr. Moon made the following statement to Captain
Binstead, the superintendent of the railway :—He
says, immediately after passing the Luddenden Foot
station, the oscillation and uneasy motion of the
carriage convinced us that we were off the line. The
rapid motion, the noise of the wind, and pattering of
the rain, added to the fact that ours was the last
carriage, convinced us also that we were too re-
moved from the guard to enable us to draw attention
to our position, and we therefore sat still, waiting
tremulously the result. After the lapse of about
three minutes, during which time the carriage was
tossing to and fro in a frightful manner, and dragged
along at a rate of full 30 miles an hour, we found
we were entering the Sowerby-bridge tunnel, which
is about a quarter of a mile in length, and which ter-
minates just before reaching the station. In the
tunnel, lights appeared to be dancing about, and 1
fancied I could perceive the faces of men whom I took
to be porters holding up lights, and our hopes were
that they had seen the predicament our carriage
was in. The train, however, proceeded, and on
approaching the Sowerby-bridge station, the de-
ceased, Mr. Gillard, remarked that he thought
the carriage had righted itself upon the rails again ;
they became conscious that the oscillation was con- ,
siderably less. I sought this opportunity to seize the
straps which passed along the roof of the coupe, and,
raising my feet out of the window, I thought it the
most secure way to escape danger. I advised Mr-
Weston and Mr. Gillard to do the same, but whether
they did so or not I cannot say, as immediately after
a terrible shock entirely rendered me insensible to
what was passing around me. I remembered nothing
oy
werefurther until after I was picked up and conveyed to
the
Royal Hotel.
Thereß two
gentlemen in the hinder coupe of
the same carriage,viz., Captain Government Ellis, of the Board of
escalpnescf.ewctiotri: andf his assistant.
They miraculously
and bruises. They were on their
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y to Normanton,
and soon after the accident proceeded on their
journey.
The most extraordinary circumstance connected
with the sad affair is the manner in which the de-
ceased gentlemen and Mr. Moon came to be thrown
upon the line. They must have been ejected from
the carriage at the same moment through the aper-
ture created by the right-hand door of the carriage
when it was torn off. The general belief is, that they
were endeavouring to make their escape from the door
in question, when a sudden jerk of the carriage preci-
pitated them on to the line.
On minute examination of the rail found broken
near the Luddenden Foot station, a fracture was
found about 18 inches from the end nearest Man-
chester. The short portion remained fast in the chair
at that end, and its broken end in the soil of the road,
about an inch and a half below the proper level of the
rails.

Mr. Weston was on a tour of inspection, and on his
way to Newcastle, to visit the:Customs' department of
that port, Mr. Gillard was on his way to Leeds, on
business connected with the working of the telegraph.
He was 30 years of age, and has left a widow and one
child to lament his loss.
The inquest on the bodies was to be formally
opened at the Royal llotel, Sowerhy Bridge, this
morning ; but it was understood that it would be
merely confined to the identity of the bodies, and that
the jury would then be adjourned for the insctionof
the line and broken carriage by the Government au-
thorities.

The paragraph which hasround of the
gone
the
papers respecting the appointment of three new bishops
in
allthea
Lincolnshire,p p Cornwall,earaneeof
circumstantial accuracy, is and Harts, although given
wholly incorrect. In fact, it is impossible to take any
steps in the matter without a specific Act of Parliament.
The consideration of the creation of any new sees, in
addition to that of Manchester, was postponed in the
last session, and nothing further can be decided upon till
the pleasure of Parliament is known upon the subject.-
06servcr.