The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, JULY 27, 1846.-

cautions taken at all openinis briailways, and the company
will continue them as long as they may appear to be ef,einl,
and even for a longer period. To augment the safety of
the service, and although a far greater speed presents no
danger, the company has fixed provisionally the speed of the
trains at from 2S to 32 kilometres (7 to 8 leagues) an hour.
The railed way on which the accident of Fampoux took
place had been disarranged to a small extent by the effect of
the accident; it was immediately repaired with the greatest
care, and the public service has been re-established. Thus
the mistake which was committed in departing from Arras,
and which some journals comment upon with a marked ex-
aggeration, was without peril. The following were the
facts :—The train had passed over this line of rails for a dis-
tance of from 600 to 800 metres only, when the engineer per •
ceived the mistake, and put back. The head of the Arras
station had set off at the same moment on the other line of
rails, with a reserve locomotive, to inform him of it. At all
events, the first superintendent would have stopped the train
before it could have passed the first kilometre.'
The Courrier Francais of Thursday republishes
this official defence, and appends to it the following
observations:—
"We insert this letter without comment. To whom is it
necessary for us to demonstrate that it proves absolutly no-
thing against :the precise and positive assertion which we
have made respecting the bad construction of the road, the
bad organisation of the service, and the numerous accidents
by which the public has been thrown into a state of conster-
nation ? The Ministry and company are at issue, and
their respective agents and engineers affirm that neither
have anything to reproach themselves with ! Who can they
hope to convince by such testimony? For ourselves,we have
said much, we have said all that could be said, on both the
company and the Ministry ;—it is useless for us to add that
we maintain our assertions. We give little importance to
the denegations of the Cabinet or to those of M. de Roths-
child? We wait with confidence the result of the in-
quest, being but too certain that our convictions will be
confirmed.'

Since the terrific catastrophe of the Bth of
July on the Northern Railroad, there has been
scarcely a single French line on which accidents
have not occurred. On Wednesday night one on
the trains on the Paris and Rouen line was nearly
burned. A lamp which lighted the mail-waggon
e
havingwine w
hgioeht
iotuteenotefineodrdefll on the table,r, the spirits of
and set fire to some papers laid upon
it. The clerk of the post-office, after vainly endea-
vouring to extinguish the fire, opened the window
and called for aid, but his voice not being heard and
the flames increasing, he leaped out of the waggon
and broke his leg. The train, however, soon after-
wards stopped, and the fire easily extinguished.

A letter from Port-au-Prince, of the 17th June,
announces the settlement of the differences between
France and Hayti, and the return of the French
Consul to Port-au-Prince on the 16th of June, where
he was received with a salute from the fortifications, and
with enthusiasm by the people. The following is an
extract from the letter :

" This great and difficult question is now terminated. The
negotiators, who have at length settled the affair, have been
engaged in it for a long time, and have found it exceedingly
difficult. The propositions made on the part of the Govern-
ment by the President were twice rejecter'. The English
Consul, Mr. Usher, and the Vice-Consul, have been very
active in settling the question, and the final settlement
is in a great measure owing to them. The conditions
upon which the affair is arranged are, first, an indemnity of
5,000 gourdes for the injury done to M. Dubrac ; second, in-
demnity for damages done to other French subjects; third,
the Government of Hayti to write a letter, asking the French
Consul to resume his functions; and, fourth, a salute of
twenty-one guns to the Consul on entering the port, and the
French frigate Thetis to return the salute."

The Algiers papers of the 17th represent the
country as completely tranquillised. M. SALVANDY,
accompanied by Marshal BUGEAUD, had returned to
Algiers highly delighted by the reception he had met
with in the Provinces.

The Paris Bourse was much firmer on Thursday
than it had been for some days previously. This may
be in some measure referred to the circumstance that
rumours, which had been in circulation on Tuesday
respecting a respectable banking-house, were ascer-
tained on Thursday to be totally devoid of foundation.

The Three per Cents. closed at 83f. 20c. ; the Five per Cents.,
121 f. 70c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,268 f. 65c. ; Rouen,
968 f. 75c. ; Havre, 6751. ; Great Northern, 697 f. 50c. ; Avignon,
8721. 50c. ; Vierzon, 6101. ; Bordeaux, 532 f. 50c. ; Troyes and
Montereau, 365 f. ; Basle, 215 f. ; Fampoux, 410 f. ; Paris and
Strasburg, 4821. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes, 495 f. ; Paris and
Lyons, 503 f 75c.; Spanish New Deferred, 14; ditto Domes-
tic Debt, 321/8 ; ditto Passives, 5.
The following are the qubtatiiiiis for the new lines :
Lyons and Avignon Definitives, 475 f. ; Bordeaux and
Cette ditto, 472 f. 50c.

MARSEILLES, JULY 18.--Warseilles and Avignon, 866 f.
25c.; Northern, 705 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 525 f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 24.
Boulogne and Amiens, 1214—Bordeaux and Mediterranean, I
—Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Espeleta), % —Dutch Rhenish.
6% —East Indian, %—Northern of France Constituted, 12%—Or-
leans and Bordeaux, 7%—Paris and Lyons Constituted. 5%
Paris and Strasbourg Constituted, 4 —Rouen and Havre, 26%.

REVOLUTIO. IN- MEXICO.

TWO DAYS LATER FROM AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.—The Joshua Bates packet
ship, Captain Turley, which left Boston on the 6th inst.,
arrived here this morning. She brings papers from New
York to the 6th instant, being two days later than those
previously received. The Britannia steam-ship arrived
at Boston on Saturday, the,4th of July, at eight o'clock
in the morning.
By late advices • from the' 'HaVanhah, the Mexican
steamers were to proceed to England, and were making
preparations for that purpose. The news by this arrival
confirms that previously received as.to the revolution in
the south of Mexico.. A revolution had broken out in,
the department of Jahsco, on the Pacific, in which are
situated the towns of Guadalaxara and Tepic. The re-
volution commenced on the morning of the 20th May,
in the city of Guadalaxara. The battalion of Loges,
followed by other bodies of military and by the popu-
lace, attacked the palace of the Governor. The assault
of the insurgents was so prompt that the guard had only
time to make one discharge.

WESTMINSTER-BRIDGE.—We understand that this
bridge sank on Wednesday considerably. Sir Howard
Douglas predicted that it would sink, in a pamphlet which
appeared some time ago, but the piers have subsided further
than he anticipated. The Committee have resolved unani-
mously on pulling it down.
BURN'S COMMERCIAL GLANCE FOR THE FIRST SIX
MoNyns or 1846.—We have here) in
,a simgle sheet the
whole statistics of ' the cotton Miihufadture of Great Britain
during the first six months of 1846, arranged in such a
manner that a glance will aft)rd any information on the sub-
ject that may be required. McGladstorte, during the time that
he presided over the Board of Trade, gave orders that " this
very useful publication," as he' justly termed it, should be
regularly taken in for the use of the Board; and every mer-
chant should follow this example. A counting-house can
no more be said to be completely furnished without Burn's
Commercial Glance, than an attorney's would be without the
Law Almanac. Sir Robert Peel, Lord John Russell, and Mr.
Goulburn, have each borne testimony to the merits of this
very " useful," " excellent," and " valuable" document.
HOCHELAGA ; or England in the New World.
Edited by Eliot Warburton, Esq., author of "The Crescent
and the Cross," 2 vols., small Bvo.—The above work is
published this day by Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough-
street, and may now be had of all booksellers. The follow-
ing are also now ready :-2. Horace Walpole's Memoirs of
the Reign of George the Second, edited by the late Lord
Holland, now printed for the first time in the Bvo form, in 3
vols. with portraits, 365. bound. 3. The Modern Orlando, in
seven cantos, 6s: 4. Echoes froin the Back Woods, by Capt.
Levinge, 2 vols., 21s. 5. Second Series of the Stanhope
Memoirs, comprising the Seven Years' Travels of Lady
Hester Stanhope, 3 vols., 31s. 6d. 6. Lord Brougham's
Lives of Men of Letters and Science, volume the second. 7.
The Poetical Works of Horace Smith, one of the authors of
Rejected Addresses," 2 vole:, 12s. 8. Viscount Fielding
and Captain Kennedy's Travels in Algeria in 1845, 2
vols., Tia

MIDLAND COUNTIES, NOTTINGHAM, JULY 23.
During the last week or two, the weather in the Midland
counties has been all that is desirable for forwarding the
ripening crops, and harvesting operations are progressing; a
large breadth of fine white and red wheat has already been
cut and stacked in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and Notts,
and the remark is general that finer and heavier crops have
not been gathered for some years; generally the wheat is
light in straw, vet plump and full in ear, and perfectly free
from blight. The recent light rains and misty scudding
showers have contributed much benefit to the ripening crops ;
here and there, it is true, the ill effects of partial storms are
shown in patches of beaten down corn, and though the ripen-
ing of plots will thus be retarded, no substantial injury will
result if the weather continues warm and dry for the next
three or four weeks. The good influence of the weather and
the prospects of an abundant harvest, are foreshadowed in
the great reduction that has been and is taking place in the
market price of corn in the present week. At the weekly
market at Newark, held yesterday, the 22d instant, a reduc-
tion of ss. per quarter on the figure of last week was sub-
mitted to on wheat, and the tendency of prices of agricultural
produce is decidedly downward.
THE ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES
RAILWAY.—DEATH OP ONE OF THE SuFFictEßs._lt is
our painful duty to announce the death of one of the suf-
ferers through the frightful accident which occurred on the
Eastern Counties Railway on Saturday last. Our readers
will remember that in the list of injured passengers was men-
tioned, not by name, a gentleman living at Victoria Villas,
Dalston, who was said to have sustained a concussion of the
brain. This gentleman died on Friday morning about half-
past nine o'clock, at his residence in one of the
named villas. villas. His name was Mr. Hind, principal in the firm
of Hind and Son, silk fringe manufacturers, in pal
Cheapside, and well known and highly respected throughout
the London and Coventry silk trade. Mr. Hind's principal
injuries were in the abdominal region, where, through the
r. Aston
position in which the fragments of the broken carriages fell
upon him, he was dreadfully crushed. He was attended by-
lr.
Bransby Cooper and M
Key, in addition to Mr.
Toulmin, of Hackney, who paid him the most unremitting
attention to the last. But the injuries he had received were
beyond the reach of medical science and surgical skill, and
nothing being
practicable but to alleviate his sufferings with
anodynes, he lingered in great pain till on Frilay morning,
when he was released by death.
THE Moons AND RlVERS.—lnverness already begins
to wear the aspect of preparation for the 12th of August, by
numbers of sportsmen arriving and departing daily, en route
to shooting quarters. Those especially who add to moorland
sport the more solitary, but no less exciting, sport of angling,
are all fast on their way to the rivers, which are now in
prime order, and with weather of alternate clouds and sun-
shine, such as tempts the salmon to dash at the feathered
and barbed hook. On the Beauly, Mr. Perceval has taken a
number of salmon of late. Mr. Jones, at Rosehall, has been
very successful. Dr. Cumming and A. Houblon, Esq., have
landed a number from the Ewe ; and on the Findborn, the
other day, Lord A. Churchill and P. G. Cumming, Esq., took
six. Moors are still in great request, and the following have
been taken lately :—Glenlivat, C. Goring, Esq., M.P.—Glen..
evis, C. T. Master, Esq.—Stittenham, J. T. Tisdall, Esq., and
Colonel Moore—Torridon, W. Berwick, Esq.—Strathaird, J.
W. Eyton, Esq.—Harris, Mr. Lloyd, and R. M. Leeke, Esq.
—Migavie, Captain Downes.—/Averness Courier. '