The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-26 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE
NEW CARBIAGE.—Mr. Booth, the carriage builder to
the Nurth-Westorn, has lately constructed a first-cl.iss
carriage upon a new aad improved principle. The car-
riage is adapted foir the ac,iiiintoo,latiou of four-and-
twenty passengers, with guards and luggage, and mea-
sures twenty-seven feet in length, by the usual width.
It is divided int,l four bodies or compartinnts in one
length, containing six divisloi;s each, and runs upon
eight wheels. The frame work is constructed in the
usual manner, with springs, &c., but is divided into two
parts, which, being separate, move on their own centres.
The superiority of Mr. Booth's invention over the usual
carriage consists in the increased accommodation afforded
to passengers, the absence of any oscillation, the light-
ness of the draught., and the great facility and safety in
rounding curves. The carriage has lately made several
journeys to London. The cost of construction amounts

to about six hundred pounds.
FALL OF A BUILDING ON THE FRENCH NORTHERN
LINE.—On Friday last, the large wooden building at
Lisle, in which the company gave the banquet to the
Princes and the company invited to the inauguration of
the line, and which was recently being prepared for a
waiting-room for passengers, fell with a frightful crash.
Not one of the supporting timbers res steel. Fortunately
the nowt-rims wolkinen etaployed within 11.111 just gone
to breakfast. llad they r eta:tined a few minutes longer,
the consequences would have been most calamitous. The
excavation of the earth around the supporting beams was
the cruse of the accident.
The Jamaica journals describe a singular detention on
the line between Spanish-town and Kingston. It appears
that the train did not arrive at Spanish• town on Tues-
day evening until six. o'clock, much to the alarm and
anxiety of those alto expected the arrival of their rela-
tives or friends. The account of the delay, given by
one of the passengers, states that the train started from
Kingston at the usual hour, and proceeded at a brisk
rate to Gregory Park, where it stopped. On making off
again, however, the engine was immovable, and after a
considerable
off by crowbars, &c., the engineer was obliged to back
time expended in endeavouring to move her
the train for about a mile and then return. It then
proceeded to Grange-lane, where having stopped, the
same inconvenience again arose. After a great deal of
trouble the engine was again got off, and the train pro-
ceeded as far as Batty's-pen, near Spanish-town, where
it stopped to take in water. On attempting to move off
from there it was found to be a matter of impossibility,
Some persons attribute this untoward circumstance to a
part of the machinery in the engine having been disar-
ranged, while others impute it to an insufficiency of
steam, the train being excessively heavy, having no less
than five loaded waggons besides the usual carriages.
When in this last disagreeable situation the major part
of the passengers quitted the train, and proceeded to
Spanish-town, whilst the engine was detached from the
train and proceeded to Spanish-town, where the deficiency
having been remedied, it returned for the train, which
eventually arrived safe and sound.