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

None of the passengers were hurt, but the guard sta.
tioned on the second carriafre, which, in oversetting
knocked down a post of the electric telegraph, was
thrown off, and at first supposed to be dangerously
hurt, 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 th 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.= the
driving wheels and the hind axles, not 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 19Lh of August last, 1845, upon whichi
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 au 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 traits at the speed of ab Jut forty-five
miles an hour. This third acczident, however, occurring
to one of the very same engines, notwithstanding it had
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
nave 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
centre of gravity higher than is necessary with outside
cylinders. Moreover, the circumstance of a long boiler
oaefnngdinthetngewlaintwo
hdhihaneside cylinders running off the rails
at a high velocity, with a light experimental train,
lowvaeyr s tot
ni n g t
hoen thel:t of j
Great a
nNuoarrtyh.
last, through a similar long boiler engine with.
outside cylinders, drawing an experimental train
the day before, in presence of the gauge
c confirm om mn:
es s
ionn enir s ,
had been more fortunate, tended to
first opinion. The circumstance, however, of Mry
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 serer for passenger trains than
the former. Some parsons 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 ease 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. 111.
the Brighton accident on the 2d of October, 1841..
which was ascribed to the same cause, namely, the use of
two engines in front, the fore'most 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 pore
tion of line, not being opened, and at the time not pro•
perly drained.

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

COURT CIRCULAR,

The
Buckingham ee n ga
ve concert yesterday v a evening
Palac
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 'Cent arrived,
attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, Sir George Couper.
Bart., and Captain the Hon. James P. Murray. Their
Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
were attended by Baroness Ablefeldt, 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 :

I'ARTE PRIMA,
Trio—" Addia delizia"—MesdamN Grisi e Castellan, e Signee
M ario—Curschm an .
Duo—"Mentre France;,;•,o"—Signori Lablache e Fornasari—.
(Carlotta e Werttr)—Coccia.
Romanza—" Pendant la Pete"—Signor Mario—(Guido
Ginevraj—llalevy.
Duo—"Di conforto un raggio solo"—Mesdames Grisi e Cas.
tellan—(Vestale)—Mercadante.
Meditation roaique--" Ainsi, toujours poussZts"—Madame
Castellan—(Le Lac)—Niedermayer.
Coro pan Soli—" Armonia su queste sponde"—Mesdame*
Grisi e Castellan, Signori Mario e Lablache (L'lnvocaziones
all' Armonia) —llia Royal Highness Prince Albert.
PARTE SECONDA.
Quartetto--" Sento obime "—Mesdames Grisi o Castellon,
Signori Mario e Fornasari—(Nina)—Paisiello.
Aria—" Ah rammento " Madame Grisi —(Eleanora)—.
Mercadante.
Duo—" Un briccone senza core "—Madame Castellan a Sig.
Lablache—(La Cosa rara)—Martini.
Romanza—" Ange si pur "—Sig. Mario—(La Favorite)...
Donizetti.
Duo—" Pamira to piangi "—Madame Grisi e Sig Fortuna%
—(Assedio di Cormto)—Rossini.
Quintetto—" Ah m' illuse "—Mesdames Grisi e Castellan,
Signori Mario, Fornasarit e Lablache—(Zelmira)—Ros.
sini.

Mr. 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. Aulake,
the Austrian Ambassador, and the Countess Dietrich—
stein, the Belgian Minister, and Madame Van de Weyer.
the Portuguese Minister, and the Baroness de Moncorvc,..
the Spanish Minister, and the Duchess de Sotomayor.
Prince and Princess Nicholas Esterhazy, Baron Knese.
beck, Baroness de Speth, Baroness Ahlefeldt.
DuKEs —Roxburgh, Buccleuch, Wellington, Norfolk,
Sutherland, Northumberland.

DUCHES As —Roxburgh, Buccleuch, Northumberland,
Norfolk, Sutherland.

•MA RQUISES Ailesbury, Abercorn, Breadalbane,
Lansdowne, Northampton, Douro.
MARCHIONESSES Abercorn, Breadalbane, Lans.
downe, Ailesbury, Douro.
EARLS—Aberdeen, Devon, Granville, Wilton, Howe,
Delawarr, Jersey, Clare, Hardwicke, Bruce, Clarendon,
Cowper, Jermyn, Liverpool, Rosslyn, Lincoln.
COUNTESsEs —Rosalyn, Howe, Clarendon, Granville,
Hardwicke, Cowper, Delawarr, Wilton.
COUNTESSES—Jersey, Bruce, Lincoln.
Vxsconwrs—Villiers, M.P., Canning, Cantilupe, Tem-,
pletown, Morpeth, M.P.
Voz sßcuosuli
AT El
ied
srszs
r—aVge A.Fo. Beau
vale, crfs,
ooer,wsi cat
L
town, Ernest Bruce, Ashley, George Lennox.
n Clementinee st B rue, Prvuidilliieores,
Villiers, Graham,
Lyttelton,
Mary. Sackville West, Beau.
Georgians Bathurst, August.%
vale,rMeaeLrl Mary
ADlsEsy Howard,E,Katheriner
Gardiner,
Jermyn,
Cadogan, Augusta Bruce, Wheatley, Caroline Leveson
Gower, Catherine Vernon Harcourt, Elizabeth Hastings
Russell, Frances Hope, Anne Charteris, George Lennox.
RIGHT HONoURABLES.—W. E. Gladstone, Thomas
Pemberton Leigh.
HONOURABLES—Rev. 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.
Sins—Henry Wheatley, Robert Peel, Andrew F.
Barnard, Robert Gardiner, James Graham, Georga
Couper, James Kempt.
MESSIEURS—William Russell, Robert Peel, Frecierielt
Peel, George Edward Anson, George Byng, M.P,
Hastings Russell.
MISTRESSES—GIadstone, George Byng, Malcolm,
Russell, Stanley.
Mans—Wheatley (2), Dawson Darner, Percy (2),
Stanley, Couper, Gardiner, Emily Gardiner.
GENERAL—Hon. Arthur Upton.
COLONELS—Vernon Harcourt, Bowles, Hon. George
Dawson Darner.
MAJOR—Malcolm.
CAPTAlN—Francis Seymour.
Sir Robert Peel bad an audience of the Queen yeti
terday.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse.'
back yesterday, attended by the Equerry in Waiting, tha
Hon. Captain Gordon.
The royal children took their usual exercise yestero
terday Her
in Majestyaat
open day, in the garden of the Palace.
tour. Her Royal High..
nets the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty in tha
heba grotlueecnhepo andw t
afternoon, at Marlborough House.
Dowager took an airing yes.
The Commission for promoting andencouraging
f Westminster
Fine Arts in the rebuilding the Palace o
bad a Committee-meeting yesterday, at Gwydyr Houses,
ig
Whitehall. The Commissioners present were the Mar
quis of Lansdowne, ViscountMahon, the Rht
T. B. Macaulay, Sir Robert Inglis, Mr. Wyse, and Me,
Hallam; and the Secretary, Mr. Eastlake, was in at.,
tendance.
The Metropolitan Railway Termini Commission ked
a meeting yesterday. The Commissioners present were
Viscount Canning, the Earl of Dalhousie, the Lord
Mayor, and Sir Frederick Smith.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial•
office from the Governor of South Australia.
The Countess of Lichfield, with the Ladies Harriet
and Gwindolene Anson left town yesterday to join thee
Earl of Lichfield at Brussels.

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COMPLETION OP HER MEMOIRS. We are requested:7
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by Mr. Colbourn, of Great Marlborough-street; of whore—
:ord Brougham s
may also now be had the second volume of L
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