The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-09 00:00:00

NAME OF RAILWAY.

Week
euding

Bray 2

April3o
May 5

Last
week.

Arbroath and Forfar •• • •• •- •••• • • • •
Bristol and Birmingham . • • • • . • • • • • • •
Chester and Birkenhead . • • • • • • • • • • • • '
Dublin and Drogheda• • • • • • • • . • • • • • • •
Dublin and Kingstown • • • • • • ..
Dundee and Arbroath . •• •
Durham and Sunderland .......
Edinburgh and G1a5g0w.........•••
Eastern Counties and North Eastern..
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ......
Glas.;ow and Greenock..
Grand Junction ....................
Gravesend and R0che5ter............
Great North of England
Great Western .......
Hartlepool ......
London and Birmingham, &c........
London and Blackwall• • .. • • • • . • • • • •
London and 8right0n..•............
London and Croydon ...............
London and Greenwich. ........
London and South Western . ........
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury
Manchester and Birmingham......
Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc..
Midland Counties ...... ....... ......
Newcastle and Darlington ..........
Newcastle and Car1i51e..............
Newcastle and North 5hie1d5........
Norfolk.. • • • • • ...............
North Union and Bolton and Preston
Paris, Corbel], and Orleans • • •
Paris and Rouen
Preston and Wyre . ...... .
Sheffield and Manchester
South Eastern
Taff Yale ....
Ulster . ....... .......
Yarmouth and Norwich
York and North Midland . ..........

625
74G
1,731
311
567
3,270
8,333
2,024
899

19,275

850
36,401
1,029
4,292
1,481

7,155
1,087
4,466
6,129
15,801
2,395
1,843
427
1,206

kt,4
g.g4
e

6,022

539
709
1,749
293

573
1,589
6,851
1,176
623

785
2,631
5,093
1,692
878

4,801

16,485

THE LATE ACCIDENT

33,0G9
1,217
4,322
1,222

ON THE

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. ---
There was on Tuesday issued, by order of the House
of Lords, a copy of Major-General Pasley's report of
his inquiry into an accident which occurred on the
Eastern Counties Railway on the 12th of April, in con-
quence of one of two engines, attached to a special
train getting off the rails. The report was presented
to Parliament by command of her Majesty ; and the
following extracts give the more material portions of the
document

" Railway Department, Board of Trade,
Whitehall, April 14, 1846.
" My Lord—l this day inquired into en accident
which occurred to a special train on the Cambridge
branch of the Eastern Counties Itailwav, on the 12th
instant, in consequence of an engine running off the
rails; and having sent Mr. Roney, the secretary, ald Mr.
Scott, the locomotive engineer of the company, both of
whom were present at the time, I proceeded with them,
also accompanied by Mr. Waddington, deputy chairman,
and Mr. Phipps, resident engineer of the company, from
Stratford station, where I saw the engine alluded to,
and the injured carriages, to the spot where the accident
took place, near the 10+ mile post from London.
" This train, intended to accommodate persons going
to Newmarket to attend the races next morning, left
London for Chesterford about 1.30 R.M., drawn by two
locomotive engines, made by Messrs. Stothert and
Slaughter, the foremost of which had inside, and the
latter outside, cylinders ; in other respects nearly
similar, with their respective tenders behind each, after
which followed one luggage van, five horse boxes, said
to contain thirteen horses, one second-class carriage,' one
first-class carriage, one second-class carriage, three first-
carriages, and one carriage truck, with a gig upon it.
Mr. Scott travelled on the first engine and Mr.
Roney on the second, till they
wentea together
to Lea-bridge sta-
tion, after which they both on the fore-
most engine, and were noting
about thesrd with their
watches, which had increased to miles an hour,
when the second engine was observed tod
ran t o
oselateoer
jump, and soon after quitted the rails,
an
ballast, which it threw up with a crashing noise.n the
ballast,As
soon as it went off the rails, the engine-man shut off
his steam all at once ; but the driver of leading en-
gine slacked his steam gradually in shutting it off,
and this engine still continued to draw the other
after it ; but, as a natural consequence of the en-
gines slackening their speed whilst one of them
was off the rails, the train, still being on the proper
rails, and of course' moving for some time with
nearly the original velocity above-mentioned, struck the
tender of the second engine with such force that the
couplings broke, and the train ran off the rails to the
left of the line, and the goods van and all the horse
boxes ran down an embankment, and were overturned
in a wet ditch below the foot of the slope, the height of
the rails above the bank of this ditch being about
live feet, and their total height above the bottom of it
being about ten feet ; but the depth of water fortunately
was moderate, or the horses must all have been drowned.
Two of them were, however, killed upon the spot, one
was obliged to be killed afterwards, and another was
seriously injured, but with hopes of recovery ; the re-
mainder are said to have been very little hurt.
The second-class carriage next to the last horse-
box fell upon one side, and had some of its
side pannels broken, and the steps broken or injured;
but, with the exception of their steps, none of the
other passenger carriages were damaged. The body of
the luggage van was knocked entirely to pieces, and
those of the horse boxes were nearly in the same state ;
but their lower frames were less damaged. In being
forced against each other, the horse boxes and carriages
were partly doubled up, as it is termed, and some of the
former are said to have been violently turned round
before they fell, which has frequently been the case in
former accidontei occasioned by a break down in front,

None of the passengers were hurt, but the guard sta•
timed on the second carriage, which, in oversetting
knocked down a post of the electric telegraph, was
thrown off, and at first supposed to be dangerously
Burt, but I am happy to learn that he is in a fair way of
speedy recovery, as his injuries proved to be by no means
severe.

" Two engines made by Messrs.Stothert and Slaughter,
nearly of the same construction as the second one on
this occasion, having long boilers and outside cylinders,
according to the last patent of Mr. Robert Stephenson.
but differing from it inasmuch as they had flanges on the
driving wheels and the hind axles, net before, but
under the centre of the fire box, which had an unfavour-
able effect by raising the centre of gravity, ran off the
rails on the same company's line„one on the 4th and the
other on the 19th of August last, 1845, upon which[
reported officially on the 6th and 25th days of the same
month. At that time the engines alluded to had their
tires constructed with too sharp an angle, the flanges
being set nearly at right angles to the tread of the wheel.
which no doubt must have been unfavourable to stability;
but they were soon after fitted with new tires,
perfectly rounded at the angles ; and having been other-
wise improved, I agreed with Mr. Scott in opinion, that
these improvements would render them sufficiently safe
for passenger trains at the speed of about forty-five
miles an hour. This third acccident, however, occurring
to one of the very same engines, notwithstanding it bad
been thus altered, appears to me to prove that this con •
struction should not be used for passenger trains, except
at a very moderate speed, say not exceeding thirty
miles an hour ; and when the company shall be provided
with a greater stock of locomotive engines, which they
have ordered, their present supply being inadequate to
their increasing traffic, I would recommend that these
engines be changed into good engines, by putting on
coupled wheels, which will prevent oscillation.
" Having myself formed an opinion that outside cylin-
ders were not the cause of oscillation, but that long
boilers, and wheels too close together, with over-hang-
ing weights in front and rear, like those of Mr. Stephen-
son's last patent, had that tendency, unless two pairs of
the wheels were coupled, I did not agree with Mr.
Slaughter in supposing that these new inside cylinder
engines could prove better than the former, especially as
the crank axles of inside cylinders tend to raise the
ecyerliitlrde of
era. gravityAio higher etrh
et hanis
circumstancenecessary
of a lop p. b outsideoile r
withgh v
°linnet:
wc.itlhindaersligrhutn
aetngaznehi
of England Railway on
and the whole oversttting enai-npge r iomffe nttha! train,rails
the
holislt,r of Jaguar
last, on the Great North
last, through a similar lone
outside cylinders, drawing a'n experimeentillanle Train
the day before, in presence o the gauge commissioners,
had been more fortunate, tended to confirm me in my'
first opinion. The circumstance, however, of Mr.
Slaughter's inside cylinder engine having, in the acci-
dent now under consideration,
moved so very steadily,
whilst his outside cylinder engine ran off, is an offset to
the former accident, and seems to leave the matter
doubtful ; but yet it is reasonable to admit that his last
engines are better and sa'er for passenger trains than
the former. Some persons have supposed that the
system of using two engines in front is dangerous,
though less so, as every one now admits, than having an
auxiliary engine to propel from behind. Of this I con-
ceive that as yet we have had no proof, for the second
engine in this accident now under consideration was
undoubtedly saved by the first ; and if the leading en-
gine itself had gone off the rails, in which case the other
must have followed it, it would not have caused greater
danger to the passengers than actually occurred, though
it would to the persons on the engines and tenders. In
the Brighton accident on the 2d of October, IS4I,
which was ascribed to the same cause, namely, the use of
two engines in front, the foremost of the two, which was
a small four-wheeled one, followed by a more powerful
six-wheeled engine, ran off the rails first, in descending
an incline at an imprudent rate of speed, on a new por-
tion of line, not being opened, and at the time not pro-
perly drained.

" C. W. PASLEY, Major-General."

COURT CIRCULAR,

The Queen gave a concert yesterday evening at
Buckingham Palace.

The company began to arrive soon after nine o'clock,
and were ushered to the Green Drawing-room and the
Picture Gallery.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived,
attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, Sir George Couper,
Bart., and Captain the lion. James P. Murray. Their
Royal Highnesses the Duke awl Duchess of Cambridge
were attended by Baroness Ahlefeldt, and Baron
Knesebeck.

His Royal Highness Prince George and his Serene
Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimer arrived at
half-past nine o'clock.
The Royal Family were conducted to the Yellow
Drawing-room, where her Majesty and her Royal Con-
sort received their illustrious guests.
The Queen and Prince Albert, preceded by the Lord
Chamberlain and the Lord Steward, entered the Grand
Saloon, accompanied by the Royal Family, and followed
by the rest of the company. After the entrance of the
august party in the Saloon the concert commenced.
The following was the programme :

PA RTE
Trio—" Addio delizia"—Mesdames Grisi e Castellon, e Signor
Alario—Cursehman.

Duo—"Mentre Francesco"—Signori Lab'ache e Fornasari—
(Carlotta o Werter)—Coecia.
Romanza—" Pendant la Fete"—Signor Mario—(Guido e
GinQvra)—Halevy.
Duo—" Di con Porto un raggio solo"—Mesdames Grisi e Cas-
, tellan—(Vestale)—Mercadante.
Meditation Peetique—" Ainsi, toujours pousses"—Madame
Castellan—(l.e Lac)—Niedermayer.
Coro con Suli—"..4.rmonia au queste sponde"—Me.3,clames
Grisi e Castellan, Signori Mario e Lablaehe (Ll„rivoca2;ioue
all' Armonia)—His Royal Highness Prince Albert.
PARTE SECONDA. •
Quartetto—" Sento ohime "—Mesdames Grisi e Castellan,
Signori Mario e Fornakari—(Nina)—Paisiello.
Aria—" Ah rammento " Madame Grisi —(Eleanora)
Mercadante.
Duo—" tin briccone senza core "—Madame Castellan e Sig.
Lablache—(La Cosa rara)—Martini.
Romanza—" Ange si pur "—Sig. Mario—(La Favorite)—
Donizetti.

Duo—" Pamira to piangi "—Madame Grisi e Sig Foraasan
—(Assedio di Corinto)—Rossini.
. _ _ _

Quintetto—" Ah m' illuse "—Mesdames Grisi e Castellan,
Signori Mario, Fornasari, e Lablache—(Zelmira)—Ros-

sin'.

Air. Costa presided at the Piano Forte.

Supper was served at half-past ten o'clock in the State
dining-room.
The following had the honour of receiving invitations:
His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar,
the French Ambassador, and the Countess de St. Aulaire,
the Austrian Ambassador, and the Countess Dietrich-
stein, the Belgian Minister, and Madame Van de Weyer,
the Portuguese Minister, and the Baroness de Moncorvo,
the Spanish Minister, and the Duchess de Sotomayor,
Prince and Princess Nicholas Esterhazy, Baron Knese.
beck, Baroness de Speth, Baroness Ahlefeldt.

DUKES—Roxburgh, Bumleach, Wellington, Norfolk,
Sutherland, Northumberland.

D lICHESES—Roxburgh, Buccleuch, Northumberland,
Norfolk, Sutherland.

MARQUISES Ailesbury, Abercorn, BreiLailad:hsavtoleibmnsaocrsaxnnse,
.
Lansdowne, Northampton, Douro.
MARCHIONESSES Abercorn, Breadalbane, Lans-
downe, Ailesbury, Douro.
EA RLS —Aberdeen, Devon, Granville, Wilton, Howe,
Delawarr, Jersey, Clare, Hardwicke, Bruce, Clarendon,
Cowper, Jermyn Liverpool, Rosslyn, Lincoln.
CO UNTESSES—RoAyn, Howe, Clarendon, Granville,
Hardwieke, Cowper, Delawarr, Wilton.
COUNTESSES—Jersey, Bruce, Lincoln.
VISCOUNTS—ViIIiers, M.P., Canning, Cantilupe, Tern-
pletown, Morpeth, M.P.
VISCOUNTESSES—ViIIiers, Bishops, Oxford, Norwich.
t 0
iiti Ernest
2 Loxes—Alfredrue
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eSaatil -.
LADIES—Ernest Brae", Prudhoe, Dowager Lyttelton,
Mary Howard, Clementine
c a Villiers,
oEtauite .rly: :GlG(1 Bathurst,
allvr
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tlbi
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ienmn t
eeh. ,
Augusta
vale,peel AKatherine
Gardiner,Jcrm y,
GMe
oarrgyi
Gower,CandiooguT;
CatherineAH ou
Nuo sutßa
VernonßurLuEcse
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rah
re.
Russell, Frances Hope, Anne Charteris, George Lenno
Pemberton Leigh.
HoNouraßLEs—Rer. C. Leslie Courtenay, Mrs. An-
son, Miss Lyttelton, William Cowper, M.P., Captain
James P. Murray, Mrs. Dawson Darner, Mr. Lyttelton,
Francis Charteris, John Talbot, Mrs. J. Talbot.
SIRS-11c nry Wheatley, Robert Peel, Andrew F.
Barnard, Robert Gardiner, James Graham, George
Cooper, James Kempt.
MEssinuns—William Russell, Robert Peel, Frederick
Peel, George Edward Anson, George Byng, M.P,
Hastings Russell.
MISTRESSES—GIadstone, Gcorge Byng, Malcolm, W.
Russell, Stanley.
MlSSES—Wheatley (2), Dawson Darner, Percy (2),
Stanley, Cooper, Gardiner, Emily
GENERAL—Hon. Arthur Upton.
COLONELS—Vernon Harcourt, Bowles, Hon. George'
Dawson Darner.
MAJOR—Ma Ic ol m. Gardiner.
CAPTAlN—Francis Seymour.
Sir Robert Peel had an audience of the Queen yet
terda.y.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse
back yesterday, attended by the Equerry in Waitiog,tha
Hon. Captain Gordon. .
The royal children took their usual exercise yester•
day, in the garden of the Palace.
terHdaeyr
iAniaajnesotypetnhebaQroutelechneDaonwdapocurr.toilecrann_
oa3i.railn gu. yie,:gehs:
afternoon,ness the Duchessatt r i ofbo r 0
uKgehn Kent
House.N•isit d her Majesty in tie'
The Commission fur promoting and encouraging the
s ae
tn
t weres Gwydyre liousc,
Fine Arts in the rebuilding the Palace of Westminster
was in at—
,thaendM:tre..
qWuihsitoefhLalls.nsdowne, Viscount Mahon, the Right Hor„,
had a CommiTttheee-cniocemtiyanEsyloesnteerrsdapyr,e,
H.T.alßi
a.
niM; ilea anual atyh,e Ssireeßreobtaerrlt.,lnAllri.s,Etlsrt.lalVey,
tendance.
.. _

—he Metropolitan Railway Termini Commission hart
a meeting yesterday. The (lommissioners present were
Viscount Canning, the Earl of Dalhousie, the Lorl
Mayor, and Sir Frederiek Smith.
Dispatches were received yesterday et the Colonial-,
office from the Governor of South Australis.
• The Countess of Lichfield, with the Ladies Harrie
and Gwindolene Anson left town yesterday to join thei
Earl of Lichfield at Brussels.

LADY RESTER STANIIOPE'S TRAVELS, FORMING TUE
COMPLETION OF HER MEMOIRS. —We are requested be
state that the above work will be published on Tuesday next
by Mr. Colbourn, of Great Marlborough-street; of whom.
may also now be had the second volume of Lord Brougham
" Lives of Men of Letters and Science," who flourished dure
ing the reign of George 111. (with original 1et4;.)," TO*
syQ, with portraits, 21s, bound.