The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-05 00:00:00

LON DON, MONDAY -''VENING

QTANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY. •
(Constiteted by Act of Parliaraeut, 1825.)
GOVERNOR.
His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEI:CII and QUEENSBERRY.
DEPUTY-GOVERNOR.
. The Right Hon. the Earl of ELGIN and KINCARDINE.
ORDINARY DIRECTORS.
'George Moir, Esq. John Robert Tod, Esq.
.T. M. Melville, Esq. John S. Newbigging, Esq,
Humphrey Graham, Esq. George Tattoo, Esq.
Joint Sligo, Alexander Clapperton, Esq.
Alex. Jaines'llussell, Esq. Charles Pearson, Esq.
William Wood, Esq. David Smith, !Cad •
William Keith, Esq. Eagle Renders _ n,, Esq.
James Contile, Esq.
fames Eyre. M.D. Edward Tito. Whitaker, Esq.
iamei Gadestlen. Esq. George Frederick Young, Esq.
.I(hit Lindsay, Esq.
NVi!ilani Haigh, Esq.
year l
!'regress of the Standard Life Assurance Company during the
ye
fromonipThe new I'plichs issued filye.Blsbtiliimo:ife. Ns oyveea. mrbrn,..lmB4tesd, tow
15th of dew ohr. 1x146, the Company's
592, the number of proposals made to the Company during the same
period being 769. •
The t55u3ra6417679,1c covered e
!do bd y. the(an 5.9,2, Nriwe ley Policiesof6 25 l
during the
.3.,,,Te:rv,
for each Policy); are amount of Assurances applied for during the
year being 476,135/. 9d.
The claims were moderate, both in number and amount, and
considerably le.s than shown by the mortality tables on which the
Company's calculations are founded. The results in other branches
of the business were tiwourable.
The business of the o.anntercial Life Assurance Company of Scot-,
land was transferred to the Standa,d Company during the year
1846, being 398 Policies, covering about 200,0001. of asc;rance, and
being in aidition to the new business of the year above reported.
The business of the York and London Assurance Company, which
was transferred to the Standard Company in 1844, continued to exhi-
bit satisfactory results in its progressive development.
The revenue of the Company exceeded 120,000/. per annum.
The Standard Life Assurance Company is so constituted as to afford
the lit nefits of Life Assurance to all woo may seek its protection iu
that form which is best suited to attain their object ; while to those
who look to the advantage to be derived by way of bonus to their
Policies from the favourable results of the business, there is every
inducement to connect themselves with the Company.
Bonus additions to Policies have been declared on . three OCCA-- -
alone—in 1835: In 180, and In 1845.
The following are the examples of the additions made :
Policy of 1825 for £l.OOll increased to £1,600 0
Do. 1830 do. do. 1,412 10 0
Do. 1835 do. do. 1,225 0 0
Do. 1840 do. do. 1,087 10 0
An Investigation of the Company's affairs, and a division of pro-
fits, are made every five years, the next being in 1850.
Forms of proposal and every information may be obtained at the
Company's Offices _ _ _

3, George-street, Edinburgh ;
82, King , London;
66, Upper Sackville-street, Dublin ;
:t5, St. Vlneent-place, 0 asgow ;
or at any of the Agencies which are established In the principal
toWII6 of &AL:lld, .E:,gland. and Ireland.
By order 4if the Directors.
WEL. . TILOS. THOMSON', Manager.
PETER ,V Alt r, Resident Secretary,
82, King William-street.

GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE COMPANY.
%;o. 11, LOMBAItD-STREET, at the Entrance of the Old Post

office, London.
DIRECTORS.
JOHN LABOUCIIEItE, Esq., Chairman.
JOHN DIXON, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
henry Hulse Berens, Esq. George Lyall, Esq., M.P.
Vrancis Hart Dyke, Esq. Stewart Marjorlbanks, Esq., M.P.
Sir Walter It. Farquhar, Bart. John Martin, Esq., M.P.
thomson Haukey,jun., Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
John Harvey, Esq. Robert Mitford, Esq.
John Gellibrand Hubbard, Esq. James Morris, Esq.
George Johnstone, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, Jan., Esq.
Joha Loch, Esq. John Thornton, Esq.
Lewis Loyd, jun., Esq. James Tulloch, Esq.
AUDITORS.
A. W. Roberts, Esq Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq.
Samuel Jones Loyd, Esq. I 11,nry Norman, Esq.
ACTUARY—Griffith Davies, Esq., I.R.S.
In the LIFE DEPARTMENT, Assurances may be effected at
:ow Rates without participation in the Profits ;. or at moderate Rates
with participation in one moiety of the Profits every seven years. At
each of the three Septennial divisions which this Company has made,
the Bonuses amounted to about I per cent. per annum on the sum
assured, or about 27 per cent. on the amount of premium received ;
and the whole amount of Reversionary Bonus allotted by the Com-
pany exceeded 530,000/.
Loans grantod on Life Policies to the extent of their values, pro-
vided such Policies s all have been effected a sufficient time to have
attained in each case a value not under SQI. _

In the FIRE DEPARTMENT, a Return of profit was declared
on the 3th of June, upon the premiums received on all Policies
which had been In force seven years at Christmas 1845, and the same
s now in course of payment daily (Friday and Saturday excepted),
between the hours of ten and three o'clock, at the Head (Mice; and
also by the Agents in the Country Districts.
Notice Is hereby given, that Assurances which expire at Lady-
day must be renewed within fifteen days at this ()Mee, or with
Mr. Sams, No. 1, St. Janses's-street, corner of Poll-mall, or with
the Company's Agents throughout the Kingdom, otherwise they be-
come void.

GEORGE KEYS, Secretary.

sTBAhI TO INDIA, VIA EGYPT.
Regular Monthly Mall Steam Conveyance for Passengers and
Light Goods to Ceylon. Madras, and Calcutta.
The PENINSULA, and ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION
COMP tNY book Passengers and receive Goods and Parcels for the
above Ports by their Steamers, starting from Southampton the 20th,
and front Suez on or aleout the 10th of every month.
For Rat os of Passage-moncy, Plans of the Steamers, and to se-
cure -Passages, apply, at the Company's offices, 51, St. Mary Axe,
London.

ITALY VIA BELGIUM, TIIF RHINE, SWITZEitLINO, AND
TIIE ALI'S.

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Frtmily of the highest respectability, going to
I ALY by the above pieture.rine route, would hay; no oljec-
tifill to talc• charfe a kill, YOUNG LA ~Y cr GENTLEMAN ia-
e;Med ;Or the tour. As they Intend to :cside permanently in the
salubrious and ,aistecratie capita! of the tout whe e they
h Ye ain'esi to the society ;,1 the court and nobdity, arrange-
ment, mhzlit be male to secure to a i-Vet:table young person these
rote and most deiirAble advantages, No apAcations attend:d to,
wireh do not bekr the natna and ~ddr..ss.

AddreslO.P,Q., Betel, 173, Heet-street, Lon#.en

EASTER IIOLIDAYS.

lOY POI, YTECH NIC IN sTrru rioN.
A, p LECTURES In illustration or ANIMAL MEEHASISM, by
I'. Rymer Jones, Esq., F.R.S.. Professor of Comparative Anatomy at
King's Codcge, Mornings And Evenings during' the week. The
GYMNOT,S• ELECTiIICUS, or ELECTRICAL EELS, exhibited
in aTR ~:%isvAiV.NT vE,-;sr,r,. LEE I'URES on ARMSrRO•O'S
I" DRO-EL ETHIC MACHIIXE, by Dr. Bachhoffner. The WORK-
ING
MODELS and MAGIHNERX clearly explained. The varied
Op teal Effects inciude a New Series of DISSOLVING VIEWS.
F.:xperit4enta with the DIVE NO-RELL and DIVER, &c., &e.

Admission Is. Schools, hs.tilirice.

ELECTRO-CIIEMICAL PRINTING.
CAUTION.
.I.:eciric Telegraph Companies and the public generally ar. hereby
CAUTIOSED against PURCHASING or USING any INVF:NTION
wherein the above pr cess is in any way employed, the same being
the invention and property of Mr. Isham Baggy, the sole patentee.
All pc; sott3 who, after this notice, shall sell, use, or in any manner
interfere with the said patent invention of the said Ishatn Baggy
without his license anLarthority, will he proceeded against accorditg
to.law, - •
Dated this 3d day of April, 1847.
CHARLES JAMES VTNER, Ironmonger Hall,
Solicitor to the Patentee.

ON THE CONTCEALED CAUSE TIIAT ritF:ys OS THE
HEILTa AND SHORTENS I'HE DURATION OF HUMAN
LIFE.

ILLI7STRATRO WITH COLOURED ENGRAVINGS,

Just Published, in a Sealed Envelope, price 2s. 6d., or free
by post, 3s. 6d.

CIONTROUL OF. 't PASSIONS: a Popular
Inquiry into the Concealsta Cause of its premature Decline,
_ .

with Instructions for its Ccmplete Restoration. Addressed to those
suffering Irons the destructive consequonces of excessive indulgence,
terminating in Mental and Nervous Debility, Local or Constilutional
Weaki,ess, Iniligest on, an.! Consumption. Including a comprehen-
sive Dissertation on M. RRIAGE, Incontinence, and Celibacy.
Illustrated with Coloured Engravings, explanatory et the various
Caves, &c.

,Y C. J. LUCAS and Ce.. Consulting surgeons, N•. GO, Newman.

street, Oxford-street, London.
Member of the London College of Medieifte, &o. &e,
CONTENTS OF TIIE WORK,
Chap. I. —Bodily and Mental Exhaustion induced by inordinate
1 indulgence of the Passion', illustrated with Coloured lingraviags.
Chap. 2.—Baneful Results of a Secret Vice on the Mind and Body,
evidenced In the production of Consumption, Epilepsy, and other
convulsive diseases, Insanity, Idioey, moping Melancholy, Indiges-
tion, Stricture, Impotence, and Sterility, with Observations us the
Duties of Married Life, and on the unhappiness caused by Unfruitful
Unions. Chap. 2.—Debility and Exhaustion of the principal Vital
Functions, the nature and treatment of Impotence and Sterility, and
the imperfect performance of the Marital act, caused by the practice
of self-Indulgence. Chap. 4.—Gonorrhcea, its symptoms, complica-
tions and treatment, Gleet, Stricture, and disease of the Prastato.
Chap. 6.—syphilis; and its attendant maladies and treatment. Cases,
and concluding observations, Plates, &c.
Sold by Brittain, 11, Paternoster-row ; Gord in, 116, Leadenhall-
street ; Hannay and co., 63, Oxford-street; Noble, 114, Chancery-
lane; Mansell, 115, Fleet-street; Winhal, 78, High-street, Bir-
mingham; Whitmore, 119, Market-street, Manchester ;
54, Church-street, Liverpool; Robinson, 11, Greenside street,
Edinburgh ; Powell, 10, Westt*oreland•atreet, Dublin ; and • all
Booksellers. 1

Persons desirous •f obtaining the above work, and not wishing to
apply to a bookseller for the same, may, to insure secrecy, hays it
direct from the Authors, by enclosing 3s: 6d., or Postage Stamps.

Messrs. Lucas and Co are to be consulted from Tenet ll rwo, and
from Five till Eight in the evening, at their residence, No. GO,
Newman-street, Oxforl-street, London, and country patients may
be successfully treated, on minutely describing their case, and enclos-
ing the usual fee of 11. for advice.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
NEWCASTLE-UP-)N-TYNE, Ann. 3.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.-The sales are-Midland, New, 2% p.-New-
castle and Berwick, New, 3% p.-North , Staffordshire, 3 p.
EDINBURGH, Ann, 1.
STOCK ExertsNok.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 281.-Airdrie and
Ilathxate, 3/. 186.- Arbroath and Forfar, 271. 155.-Ditto, Half
Shares, 15L-Ayr and Galloway, 2/. le. kl.-Caledonian, 271. 10s.-
Ditto, New, 21. 9s. -Caledonian and Dumbarton, 2/. 75.--Clydesdale
Junction, 39/. 55.-Deeside, 31. 55.-Direct Northern, 2/. 10s.-
Dunblane. Donne, and Callender, 11. 12s. 64.-Dundee and Ar-'
broath, 42/. 10s.-I/Pto, New, No. 1, 301.-Ditto. New, No. 2, 301.-
Ditto, New, No. 3, 41. 155.-Dundee and Northern Junction, 2/.
Bs.-Dundee and Perth, 371. 10s.-Ditto, New Shares, 191. 7s. 6d.
-East of Fife, 21. 165.-East Lothian Central, 21. 195.--Edinburgh
and Batligate, 61. 10s.--Edinburgh Did •ilaigow, 71/. 10s. ex div.
-Ditto, Half Shares, 19!. 15s. ex div.- Ditto, Quarter Shares, 17/.
17s. 6d. cx div. -Edinburgh, Leith. and Gran,al, 20/. 2s. 6d.-Idtto,
Preference, 21/.--Ditto, New, 21. 17s. 64.-Ditto, Quarters, 155.-
Edinburgh and Nortd ern, 161 75. 6d.-Ditto, New Shares, 41. 2s. 6d.
-Ditto, Newport, 71. 12s. 64.-Ditto, ditto, New, B. 128.-Edln-
burgh and Perth (New), 21. 175.-Ditto, Halves. 11.-Glasgow and
Ayrshire, 621.-Ditto, New Stunt. 38/.-Ditto, Halves, No. I, 5/. ss.
-Ditto, ditto, No. 2, 81.-Ditto, Quarter Shares, 16/. 10s.-Glas-
gow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 51. 155.--Glasgow and Garnkirk, 39/.
-Glasgow General Terminus, 12/. 51.-Glasgow and Greenock, 181.
-Ditto, Halves, 91.-Ditto, Preference, 8/. ss. - Glasgow, Kilmar-
nock, and Ardrossan, 5!. 18s.- Great North of England, 232/. 10s.-
Great I•lqrtli of Scotland, 21..1 I s.-Great Northern (late Direct North-
(36
42.:8:71.:,).5.0:Lba3,iti511.rtT.0-etahr:ll:r.B-Idtv.stp:ou.6dist(l3lht.l.9al.4t..e3.3saos964ll:,..ott.et 158.-Manchester
enths, 81. ss.
-k,
-Ditto,
rters
,e Neish Grand w
iult
Junction,za (scrip),
rssi c
(,) S c Ott.
ut %h.
Midland, 211.-Shrewsbury and Hereford, IL Iss.6d.--Shrewsbury.
Owestry, a d Chester, 81. -Ditto, New. It. 28. 6d.-Stirling and
Dunfermline, 41. 2s. 6d. --Stirling and Midland, 21. 75.-Wishaw and
Coltness, 481. 15s. ex div.-York and Newcastle, 341. 155.-Ditto,
New, 151. 7s. 6d.- Ditto, Preference, 81.-Direct Bombay and Ma-
dras, 3s. 6d.-East Indian, So.-Great North of India, 35.-Great
Southern of Madras 38.-Madras, Nellore, and Arcot, is. 9d.
GLASGOW, Await. 2.
STOGY Exc at4oE. -The sales are-Caledonian, New, 475. 6d.-
Direct Bombay and Madras, 3s. 64.-Dunblane, Donne, and Cal-
lender, 295.-East Lothian Central, 585.-Edinburgh and Glasgow,
Quarters, l 7 -Edinburgh Leith, and Granton, Quarters, 159.-
Edinburgh and Northern, 1612-Edinburgh and Perth (Now Co.),
li6s. CA-Ditto, Halves, 205.-Glasgow General Ten-ainus, 131.-
Glasgow, Itarrliead, and Neilstou Direct, New, 7%-Glasgow, Kil-
marnock, and Ayr, Halves, No. 2,7 N Ditto, Quarters (5 percent.
guar.), 15%-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 534-Kilmar-
nock and Ayr Direct, 38s. 64.-Manchester and Southampton, 28s.
-Midland, Ilalves, 51.- Stirling and Dunfermline, 80s. 6d.

THE WEA VIBE IN MANC LIESTYR.—MANCHEST ER,
SATURDAY.—The snow which fell so heavily on Thurs-
day continued during the night and Good Friday. On
Friday the sun was powerful enough to melt it nearly
as quickly as it fell, and during the night we were visited
by a severe frost, with a strong northern breeze, by
which the fruit trees have been much injured. To-day
the wind is not so high. but still very cold.
A case, in which Mr. Thomson, an English resi-
dent in Paris, was plaintiff; and the prop; ietors of the
Messneries Royales defendant, was decided a few days
ago, by the Judge de Paix of the third arrondissement
'':)f Paris. The diligence establishment agreed with Mr.
Thomson to rec,ive from him in London, and deliver in
Paris, a considerable amount in 11-Igian bonds, at the
rate of 3f. for every I,ooof. value. But, when the packet
arrived, Mr. Thomson was charged, in addition to the 3f.
for I,ooof, three several sums under the following
items :—Disbursements at Dover, commission at Calais,
and porterage in Paris. Against this extra charge Mr.
Thomson remonstrated, but ineffectually. Requiring
another remittsnco of Belgian bonds, he desired his
bankers in London to pay the carriage of the second
parcel in full, in order to avoid all question with the
diligence office here. But still additional charges were
laid on, and Mr. Thomson was obliged to apply for re-
dress to the magistrate, who decided in his favour, by
granting the Messageries Royales the terms agreed upon
and no more.

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BREATH, COUGHS, AND COLDS.--A. TRULY SURTRMIN6 .'ASS.
The 11ev. David Williams, the resident Wesleyan minister at Beau-
maris, 1.. the island of Anglosea, states, in a letter dated the 14th
of January, 1845, that he " recommended Holloway's Pills to a poor
man or the name of Hugh Davies, who at the time was unable
to walk tor want of breath, that he had only taken them for a few days
when he app:ared quite another man; his breath was easy and pa-
tural, and ho was increasing daisy in strength." These wonderful
Pills cure any cough, cold, or asthma.—Sold by all druggists, anti at
Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, Loudon.

HULL AND SELBY RAILWAY.
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR'S REPORT ON
THE LATE ACCIDENT.
The following is the report of Captain Coddington,
the Government railway inspector, on the late accident
on this line, near Hessle. Though the report is not very
clear on the specific cause to which the accident is trace-
able, it discloses quite enough to show that there is, so
far as the public safety is concerned, room for ameliora-
toiloonnairuci,s dominiontlhemanag i
em,enntmoafttetrhsismsoercetiopnartoifeutilairelyrarilewlaaty.
in to the coupling of engines, intermixture of goods
waggons with passenger trains, and the general inade-
quacy of the permanent way and rails, which were laid
down, it seems, seven years ago, without at all partaking
since of those modern improvements in structural strength
which would have been calculated to carry with security
engines of a site and weight at present apparently dis•
proportioned to the stain ina of the line's permanent way:—
" Railway Department, 29, Great George-street,
" have to
Westinster
report,
Commissioners of Railways, that, according to my in.
information of the
structions, I proceeded to Hull, and on the 15th and
16th instant made an inquiry into the circumstances
relating to an -accident which occurred on the 21st of
err, Marcht hein 19,1 o
February to the mail train, on the Hull and Selby
Railway : the inquiry having reference to the applies-
tien of the mayor and council of Hull, requesting an
investigation, as the cause of the accident did not ap-
pear to have been traced at the coroner's inquest which
was held upon—the bodies of two persons who were killed
by it.
"On my 4irrival at Hull, I waited on the mayor, and
arranged a .I,ing at the offices of the railway company,
at which t ".10engers by the train, who had not an
opportunii.4,...*4l. • t pearing before the coroner, might come
ferVillf , • lus an '`ether Pieties who considered that
they had information to impart.
" I also made an inspection of the line at the spot
where the accident happened, and examined the engines,
carriages, and whggons, their mode of construction and
connexion.
" The meeting was attended by the mayor and seve-
ral magistrates and gentlemen. The coroner was also
present, the gentlemen of the press, and several of the
public. The evidence occupied that day and part of the
following. The minutes which I took are annexed to
this report.
" They did not supply any information explanatory
of the cause of the accident, but detailed its effects.
" But from the inspection I made both of the line and
the carriages, &cr., I feel confident that the following
account will be as near the truth as the circumstances
afford means to arrive at.
" The train was drawn by two engines in front; then
followed—a passengers' luggagevan; three fish waggons;
eight passengers' carriages, of different classes; one fish
waggon.
" The leading engine, the ' Kingston,' is a single en-
gine, having .5 feet 6 driving wheels, 13 inch inside
cylinders, 18 inch stroke, weighing, according to Mr.
Cabrey's judgment, about 14 tons, of which eight tons
were on the driving wheels. It is connected to its
tender by shackle bolt, without springs. The tender
has spring buffers in rear, and a draw-chain and hook,
feet four inches long, the projection of the buffers being
1 foot 8 inches.
" The second engine, No. 63, is one of Mr. Stephen-
son's long boiler patent, made by Wilson, of Let ds.
It has six feet driving wheels (four coupled together),
15 inch outside cylinders, 22 inch stroke, weight 22
tons.
" The whole length of this engine is 22 feet 6 inches,
an I the distance from front to hind axle is 11 feet 8
inches. The cylinders overhang in front of the leading
wheels, and the fire• box overhangs in rear of the trailing
wheeli.. It is connected to its tower by shackle with
tapered holt, and India-rubber buffers kept in contact.
The tender has spring buffers behind, and draw-chain
and hook, length 2 feet 6 inches, projection of the buffers
1 foot 1 inch.
"The middle wheels of the engine are without flanges.
" The passengers' luggage van is a covered carriage,
on four- wheels, and it provided with spring buffers and
screw couplings.
" The three waggons used for fish are the ordinary
goods waggon pattern, with solid framing, the cheeks
projecting about a foot, hooped with iron, being without
stuffing, springs, or any mode of deadening concussion,
when they come in contact ; they have no screw
coupling, but are connected together by draw-chains,
which, when hooked up as closely as the links admit,
leave an interval between of 91 inches.
" The carriages are all provided with spring buffers,
and screw couplings of a proper description.
"As I observed from the evidence of Mr. Glennan,
the station-master, given before the Coroner, that 'The
carriages were all properly coupled in the usual way'
when the train started, I attended in the station the
arrival of four trains, and examined the manner in
which they were coupled.
" The first was a market train, having four waggons
next the engine, followed by ten carriages. The wag-
gons had chain couplings only; when in draught the in-
tervals between them were as follows:—Engine and first
waggon, four inches; first and second waggon, seven
inches; second and third waggon, eighteen inches; third
and tburth waggon, seven inches; in every case being
connected by the full length of the chain. The three
other trains had each a covered waggon without buffers,
next the tender, and before the carriages. The inter-
vals varied between seven and ten b:ches. The carriages
were all properly screwed up, and the spring buffers i.
contact.

" The permanent way is laid on longitudinal timbers,
the rail being of the old Croydon pattern, in fifteen
feet lengths, fastened by a joint-chair at each end, and
spikes at the centre of the rail driven into the timber,
not through the rail, but closely touching it, one on the
inside and one on the outside; in addition a spiko is
driven on the outside, one foot from each end.
"It appears from the evidence that the train started
nearly to its time, being between two and four minutes
late; that its calculated time for arriving at Castleford,
forty-two miles, is one hour and three-quarters, leaving
ten minutes more to adjust its meeting the mail from the
north. It had eight intermediate stations at which it
was liable to call if there were passerwers to take up or
set down. To do this the train must' travel, while in
motion, at a considerable, but not at an unusual speed.
"CAUSES OF THE ACCIDENT.
"The accident appears to mo to have arisen in this
manner. The two engines were not coupled closely to-
gether,
as is proved by the fact that after they stopped
they remained coupled, the second engine beidg twelve
inches off the line. The second engine, therefore, had
sufficient room to acquire considerable lateral oscillation,
and it is known that engines of that peculiar construc-
tion, owing to the leverage of the heavy overhanging
extremities, are more subject to acquire oscillation at
considerable speed than any other kinds. This oscilla-
tion may have been increased by the fact that the driv•
ing wheels of both engines were not of the same diameter,
so that they could not beat together, and might at certain
moments be oscillating in' opposite directions, the pull
then aggravating such tendency.
" The permanent way, which has been laid down seven
years, is laid according to what at that time was con-
swidaesrendotofefounitletnstrpelnagtetdh,twoitcharary engines of the size and
of 511b5., but which
weight now constructed, as No. 63 ; it has therefore
proved insufficient to resist its oscillations. The mode
of fastening also, which leaves six feet six inches of rail
without lateral support, is against its power of resistance.
"In my opinion, these oscillations having acquired suf-
ficient violence to bend the rail at A, in the rebound
towards B (see Mr. Cabrcy's drawing), the engine bent
that rail so suddenly, that it formed an angle, over
whish it mounted, its weight cutting off the inside web,
and breaking the chair at the joint ; it then rolled
along the longitudinal timbers, being restrained by the
coupling of the leading engine, which did not give up,
from going completely off the line.
The waggons following, not being fastened closely,
did not happen to fall in to the spot where the bent rail
was, and so passed on in safety ; but in the waving
motion which a train assumes, a carriage further back
was the first to enter the bend, when it immediately went
on as the engine did ; but its coupling having broken,
it came to a sudden stop upon the ballast, when all the
remainder of the train was dashed against it with suffi-
cientu to produce the
have,
by an un-
fortunate
force to destroy and throw them all off, except the
two last.
" I think, therefore, that a variety of causes, each
perhaps
insufficientproducecotr
bdanger,ted
disaster. It is difficult to define to what extent the com-
pany are to blame under the circumstances. The em-
ployment of two and even more engines is of daily occur-
rence on almost every line, and is not considered unsafe;
and, in this case, had not the engine
to
concurrence,
which went off been
restrained by the leading engine, the consequences would
in all probability have been more serious. On the other
hand, had tbe waggons which escaped been of proper
construction, and tightly connected together, they would
have been the first to go off, and having to bear the
brunt of the collision, the passengers in the carriages
behind might have escaped better than they did. The
rails are certainly, in my opinion, too light, with their
present system of fastening, to bear very heavy engines
at high velocities; and although I do not trace this acci-
dent to the presence of common goods waggons in a
passenger train, yet I think the attention of the company
should be called to the subject, and its discontinuance
pressed upon them.
" It is not that the sending of fish by the passenger
trains. is
objectionable ; but that in the same way as car-
riages, trucks, horse- boxes,luggage-vans, guards' breaks,
&c., are all made with the same care, and provided with
the same springs and fastenings as the passenger car-
riages are made with. So, if the company require to
transport fish with passenger trains, they should be bound
to provide proper carriages for their conveyance. These
fish waggons may not have tended to produce the acci-
dent, and yet the looseness or want of solidity they gave
the train may possibly have enabled the engine (No. 63)
to acquire greater oscillation than it otherwise would.—
I am, Sir, your very obedient servant,
(Signed) "J. CODDINGTON, Capt. R.E.,
" Inspector of Railways.
" The Hon. Fred. W. A. Bruce, Secretary, &c., &c."

The members of the Royal Yacht Club of Russia
have lately purchased the schooner. yacht Georgia, 173
tons, from W. Lyon, Esq. ; the Syren, 161 tons, from
Lord Keane ; and the Reindeer cutter, 107 tons, from J.
White, Esq.