The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-14 00:00:00

Yesterday afternoon, at half-past two, the train from
Brussels, which left at half-past seven, arrived without
making the usual signals at the veryi spot where the catas-
trophe of Wednesday took place. The rails over which it
had to pass were encumbered with cranes that had been used
to take the remains of the waggons out of the water. The
train being at full speed broke these cranes, and the pieces
struck the soldiers and workmen who were on the bank with
such violence, that sixteen of them were more or less
wounded. One had his thigh broken. Afriend of ours, who
came from Brussels by this train, saw him carried away."
The following has since been sent round to the journals by
the company :
" The representative of the board of directors, who arrive.]
last night by the nine o'clock train, has confirmed the details
transmitted in the morning to the company. The number of
dead is 14, and that of the wounded 10, two of whom griev-
ously. The death of an aide•de-camp of General Oudinot
was erroneously stated. (His wounds are, however, exceed-
ingly severe.) The passengers of the train which went off
the rails speak in high terms of the devotedness of the men
belonging to the company. The board of directors is
pleased to publicly render homage to the conduct of these
men. It has raised to the grade of inspector of the first
class M. Howell, sub-inspector, who after having been himself
precipitated into the water, and obliged to escape by swim-
ming, had sufficient coolness to organise all the help de-
manded by the circumstances, and did not quit his train
before all the carriages were raised up. The conductor,
Hocq, who saved eight persons, has been named chef de
convoi. M. Haillot, head of the service at Douai, and M.
tuber, in a similar situation at Arras, manifested the greatest
intelligence in these sad circumstances. Two of the engineers
of the company are on the spot to examine into, conjointly
with the engineers of the Government, the causes of the
accident."

THE GREAT INCETNDIARY FIRE

AT SOFIAM.

CAMBRIDGE, SUNDAY NIGHT.—In compliance with a
previous arrangement, the magistrates of Soham, the
Rev. Mr. Bennett and Mr. Dobede, were engaged the
whole of yesterday (Saturday), at the Crown Inn, in in-
vestigating certain charg s preferred azainst Mr. Corne-
lius Harvey-, a wealthy farmer, and his nephew, James
Harvey, as being felon;omly concerned in the origin of
the recent great fire in that village. It will he recollect,
that the prisoners underwent a brief examination on the
klav after the fire, and were romanded to the county gaol
t Cambridge until yesterday. when they were brought
up in custody of Mr. Orridge, the governor.
The elder prisoner's apprehension appeared to 'nave
',resulted from a volu'itary statement made by him.
I Having been noticed by a private watchman a few mi-
nutes before the outbreak walking from the spot where
!the flames were first seen to rise (ifr. Pachey's farm), he
iwas interrogated on the subject. He admitted being the
(individual ; that he had been watching about the neigh-
bourhood the greater part of the night ; that when he
went home he went to bed, but did not pull off his
clothes. The reason he gave why he did so was that
he was fearful something would happen, and on being
further questioned why he watched that particular spot,
:replied that he expected a fire would break out; but gave
:no satisfactory account why he entertained such a sup-
iposition. These and other suspicious circumstances
being reported to the magistrates, his arrest was
ordered; and, in addition to the watchman's statement,
other witnesses spoke positively of having seen him
walking up and down a bye lane at the back of Mr.
Pachey's farm, and every now and then peeping
through the hedge in the direction of the spot where
the fire broke out. It was attempted to be shown
that the prisoner had been watching his own property,
that it bad been his practice to be on the watch for se-
veral weeks past ; but on the night in question the wit-
nesses declared that he was watching some distance from
his farm. He was viewing the premises of Messrs. Pa-
chey and Staples. As regards the younger prisoner he
had insured his stock in trade in the Suffolk Fire Insurance
Office for 3501. The fire did not originate on his pre-
mises, but in one of the barns of Mr. Pachey, that stood
within a few feet of his stores or warehouse, which sub-
sequently caught. When broken open by the inhabi-
tants very trifling property was found in the place. The
'day after the fire he was met by an assistant agent of
the company he was insured in, who, seeing that he had
hurt his hand, asked him how it happened. He answered
that it was done during the fire, in attempting to save
his goods. The agent inquired of him if any had been
saved, to which he made answer, "Nothing whatever, that
he had lost twice as many as he was insured for." In the
latter part of the day the prisoner made his claim of the
amount of his loss to the agent, upon which he wa:
given into custody on a charge of attempting to defraud
the company, Froof having been adduced to show
that he had, prior to the fire, removed the chief bulk of
his stock, &c., to various parts of the town. With a
view of showing that the prisoners had acted in concert,
it was nroved that the elder prisoner had advanced
his nephew 300/. to set him up in business, and
attempts were made to show that the uncle urged its
payment, and had connived to obtain the amount of in-
surance on the nephew's goods, but a witness swore po-
sitively that the sum was given as a gift, to start the
nephew in business. Another one was called who had
acted to vales the salvage of the nephew's property, and
in the course of his surveys the prisoner begged that he
would do all he could for him, for it he could not get the
money for his insurance, he could net pay his uncle the
3001. he had lent him. The nephew lived in the uncle's
house. But it did not appear in evidence that he was
was seen in the neighbourhood at its outbreak, although
on the alarm being raised he was immediately on the spot
dressed.

At the close of the evidence the magistrates retired to
a private room, and, after nearly an hour's concultarion,
returned, when the chairman, addressing the prisoners,
said, they considered the evidence fully warranted them
in committing them both to take their trial at the
ensuing assizes.

RAILWAY SH. IRE MARKETS.
MANCHESTER, JULY 11.

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STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Nottingham, Bos-
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