The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-12 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S DRAWING_
ROOM.

LATE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
(LATEST PARTICULARS )J
The following will be found to be an accurate list of
the killed and wounded :

DEAD.
The Rev. Mr. Phillips, of Penzance—skull fractured.
The Rev. Mr. Sandys, of Woolwich—skull fractured,
and comminuted fracture of the left leg.
Wilshere, valet to Sir Alexander Mackenaie—frac-
tured skull.
A. male person (unknown), apparently a gentleman's
servant.

Captain Blair INJURED.
, R.N., of the Coast-guard service, Pen-
zance—injury- of spine. (This case will be fatal.)
Mr. Carlton—dislocated ankle. (A bad case.)
Mr. Conway, of the Temple—lacerated legs, and much
cat in the knee.
Mr. Lea, of \Vadham College, Oxford—leg severely
broken, and simple fracture of the left thigh.
Mr. Lindsay, of Cork._. severely bruised.
Nicholas Seymour, of Cork—broken thigh and con-
tusions.

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knees, but not very severe.
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the circumstances connected with the deatls
unfortunate persons above mentioned, whose bodiesthe four
but not to such an extent as would be supposed by the
secretary of the Great Western Railway Company,,
present at the inquiry, as also Mr. Gooch, the engieweas
and Mr. Seymour Clark, the managing superintendenrt,
horriblein an adj
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character bu
i
The painful ceremony of viewing the bodies having been
gone through, the evidence was gone into.
Mr. Charles Coulson, of Penzance,. merchant, was the
first witness called. He identified one of the bodies as
that of the Rev. Mr. Phillips, of Chacewater, in Corn-
wall, and said—l came with Mr. Phillips on board the
Cornwall steamer to Bristol on Tuesday, and we were
both passengers in the express train from the latter
place. I was not in the same carriage with him when
the accident occurred. The carriage in which I was
riding was next but one to that in which Mr. Phillips
met his death—he was further removed from the engine
than I was. I cannot describe the accident. I heard
the guard's whistle blown by the driver, and kept my
place till the train stopped. I went to search for Mr.
Phillips at the request of his wife, who was in the train,
and I identified him amongst the four bodies lying in
the Railway Tavern, where he had been removed on the
stretcher. Immediately the guard's whistle was blown
I saw the guard, who was sitting in a compartment where
I was, put on the brake.
Mr. Russell, chairman of the Great Western Com-
pany, here observed that he attended as representing
that corporation, for the purpose of giving the coroner
and jury every possible assistance in the inquiry.
Stephen Carter, sworn—l live at Shrivenham. lam
in the service of Mr. Rowland Brotherhood, a contractor
on the line, and am employed in packing the permanent
way. I was at the station at the time the accident took
place, and saw a horse-box on the main up-line before
the express train was in sight. It was not quite out on
the main line, but on the crossing, where the sidiug
runs into the main line. Behind the horse-box—that
is, on the siding, and coming close upon the main line—
was a cattle-truck. It was the cattle truck that the ex-
press train first struck. As the express train approached
the station, :Weybury, one of the porters, now in cus-
tody, came from between the trucks that were on the
siding, holding up his hands in the direction of the
driver, but the engine struck the cattle-truck the mo-
ment afterwards. He came out from between two trucks
that he and Willoughby (another porter, also in custody)
were pushing on the siding. Another person was help-
ing, but Ido not know his name. I did not see them
more the horse-box or the cattle-truck at the time of the
accident. When I first saw the train it was about 200
yards from the station.
A juror—You say that the horse-box was not wholly
on the main line ?
Witness—lt was not entirely on the main line, but
it was nearly so. The cattle-truck was on the siding,
but not so far back but that the engine could strike it
in passing.
The Rev. Joseph Mansfield, perpetual curate of New
Swindon, identified the body of the Rev. George Wil-
liam Sandys, of Woolwich.
Thomas Higgins examined—l am in the employ of
Mr. John Kemp, and every day drive his van to the
statio❑ at Highworth. I was standing by the side of
the loading shed when the accident took place, and was
helping Weybury and Willoughby, at their request, to
push the trucks off the side line. Weybury and Wil-
loughby did not say anything about the express train
until it was heard approaching. A third person, named
Richard Cowley, was helping us. We were going back
on the siding to move some empty waggons when we
heard the train approach.
Weybury and Willoughby were then brought into the
room, and the coroner read over to them the evidence
given by Higgins.
Weybury said he had done all he could to stop the
train directly he heard it, and that in his endeavour to
do so he was nearly smashed by the engine. He was
not cautioned is the slightest degtee that the express
train had not passed. There were at the station two
porters and a policeman, whose duty it was to acquaint
him of the fact.
Mr. C. Hudson examined—l am station clerk at
Shrivenham, and was at the station when the accident
took place. I had not given the porters any orders to
move the trucks, and was not aware they were doing so.
I have been station clerk for three years. I had been at
the station about a quarter of an hour when the accident
happened. The porters are in the habit of moving
carriages and tracks about the line without my orders.
It is their duty to do so. It is not my duty, at least I
do not consider it is, to direct these men in moving the
carriages in every case. They are under my superin-
tendence, and I am supposed to be attending to my
duties as station-clerk, in the office, and to be looking
after the men. Ido not make it a point at all times, as
lam occasionally in the office issuing tickets. lam the
only station-clerk. I cannot tell whether the policeman
turned the signal on for the'driver to run through the
station. It appears that the signal was on, though Ido
not know this of my own knowledge. It may be sup-
posed that the signal was put on at its proper time,
namely, three o'clock. When I went to attend to the
seventeen minutes after three down train, the signal
that all was clear upon the line was on for the express
train. It was not absolutely necessary for the parties
to remove the horse-box and cattle-truck from the
siding on the main line.

A juror—But you did not know whether the express
train had passed or not? Witness—Not of my own know-
ledge; but I took it for granted, seeing the signal that the
line was clear was still on, that it had not passed, and,
therefore, did not make any inquiry about it. The
signal would remain till the express train had passed,
and then it would be immediately turned against any
train going in the same direction. The porters at the
station are aware that the " all right" signal remains
turned on till the expected train had passed it.
Robert Roscoe-1 am an engine-driver, and have been
in the employ of the Great Western Company for the
last three years. Before that I was a driver on the Mid-
land line for the same period. I have driven the express
trains for the last three years. I brought the express
train yesterday from Swindon. The train was twenty-
one minutes late at starting. Shrivenham is six miles
from Swindon. I was not driving faster than usual when
I passed the station. I was running my regular speed.
I did not attempt to make up lost time. We have had
orders during the last fortnight, that if we are behind
time, we are not to increase our speed. The usual speed
in passing this station will be from 55 to 60 miles an
hour. If I saw the signal was against me, I could easily
bring up before I came to the station, but the signal was
on for me to run through, and it remained so until after
I had stopped my train. I saw the obstruction on the
line when I was 150 yards from the station. I saw
Weybury put up his hands, but that was after I blew the
guard's whistle. There is not the slightest doubt about
the signal having been on for me to run through the
station. It was left on for ten minutes after I had passed
the station. I directed the attention of several persons
to the fact.

Mr. Hudson was recalled to:speak to the character of
Willoughby. Willoughby had up to the present time
performed his duties very well indeed, and he believed
that the same character would be given by the preceding
station-clerk who had employed him. •
The CORONER then very briefly summed up the evi-
dence.

The jury remained in deliberation about an hour. At
the expiration of that time the court was re-opened,
when the foreman announced that himself and brother
jurors had agreed to an unanimous vervict of " Man-
slaughter against James Weybnry and William Wil-
loughby," the porter and assistant-porter atShrivenham
station.
The CORONER thereupon made out his warrant for the
committal of the two prisoners to Bedford Gaol, to wait
their trial at the next assizes.

THE YORKSHIRE SociETT.—The usual annual
dinner took place on Wednesday night, at the London
Tavern, and was very well attended. The Hon. 0. Bun-
combe presided, supported by Mr. Hudson, M.P., Lord
Peversham, and other gentlemen connected with York-
shire. The society was founded in 1812, for the purpose
of boarding, clothing, and educating the children of re-
spectable Yorkshire parents, reduced by misfortune and
resident within five miles of the Royal Exchange. At
present there are thirty-one boys and twenty-one girls
in the school, and the general condition of the charity
deserves all praise, for its objects appear to be ve.ryss:-..
tisfactory. The finances have, through the exertions of
Mr. Hudson, who performed the duties of chairman last
year, increased to the extent of 5001, and theof
d great thus been been carried safely through a e
mercial distress, which must otherwiseps at the festival,
upon its resources. The proceedlng
riohave borne hard
from the number of friends assembled, partook more of
than of the for-
the social character of a private partyaltogether, the evening
mality of a public dinner,a
The subscriptions, an-
passed away very pleasantly.anteci to 5004
soused by tin recrotal, v

The Queen held a Drawing-room (the first this season)
yesterday afternoon, at St. James's Palace. The recep-
tion was very fully attended.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the royal
suite, arrived from Buckingham Palace at two o'clock,
escorted by a party of the Life Guards. The Lord
Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse,
and the Groom of the Stole to the Prince, received her
Majesty and his Royal Highness on their arrival at St.
James's, and condUcted them to the Royal Closet.
The royal suite consisted of the Mistress of the Robes;
the Countess of Charlemont (in waiting) the Duchess of
Norfolk, the Marchioness of Douro, the Viscountess
Jocelyn, the Countess of Gainsborough and the Vis-
countess Canning, Ladies of the' Bedchamber; Lady
Caroline Cocks (in waiting), Hon. Matilda Paget (in
waiting), Hon. Miss Stanley, Hon. Miss Kerr, Hon. Miss
Cavendish, and the Hon. Miss Macdonald, Maids of
Honour; Lady C. Barrington, Lady T. Digby, Lady
Gardiner, Hon. Mrs. George Campbell, and Mrs. Brand,
Bedchamber Women; Lord Byron, Lord in Waiting;
Viscount Clifden, Lord in Waiting to Prince Albert;
Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Private Secretary to
Prince Albert; Mr. R. Ormsby Gore, Groom in Waiting;
Captain Francis Seymour, Groom in Waiting to Prince
Albert; Colonel the Hon. C. Grey, Equerry is Waiting;
and Captain the Hon. A. H Gordon, Equerry in Wait-
ing to Prince Albert; Messrs. Gordon and Crofton,
Pages of Honour in Waiting.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent was present
at the Drawing-room, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce,
Baroness de Speth, Colonel Sir George Couper, and
Lord James Murray.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia was at-
tended by Count Portalis and Major Von Oehrlich.
His Royal Highness the Count of Syracuse was at-
' tended by his Aide-de-Camp, the Chevalier Colon,.
His Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse
was attended by Mr. Edmond Mildmay.
The Queen wore a petticoat of black crape of British
manufacture, trimmed with crape flounces and bugles.
The train was of black silk, also of British manufacture,
and was trimmed with black crape and bugles.
Her Majesty's headdress was of black feathers and
bugles.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent wore a black
lace dress, over a petticoat of the richest black satin
trimmed with black satin ribbands. The train was of
black satin, trimmed with ribband and tulle.
Her Royal Highness's headdress was of blacket velvet
with feathers and diamonds. The body of the dress was
also ornamented with diamonds. The dress, trains, and
petticoat were all of British manufacture.
Before the Drawing-room, her ;Majesty, according to
Hannual custom, received a deputation from Christ's
Hospital in the Throne-room. The deputation, which
as ushered to the Royal presence by Sir William
Martins, Gentleman Usher in Waiting, consisted of Mr.
Alderman Thompson,
Hotham Pigeon, M.P., the President; Mr. Richard
Mr. James Morist Treasurer, Mr. Richard Gilbert;
and Mr. Samuel ehaorrernor of the Bank of England,
vernors of the institr;3osnWhitbread, three of the Go-
William Webster, Af. , accompanied by the Rev.
Mathematical Master, Mr.
W. H. Back, the Drawl' theM aster, and the forty boys of
the Royal MathematiensFl School, founded by King
received.
Charles 11., most ga
and was
The Queen condeseendteci,°9Bl•Y
, and to inti
irunsupt:cthethreapehparurtbsataiunud
drawings of the boys
of their performances.
Her Majesty was also pleased to express the lively
interest she felt in the continued pros
Hospital, of which ancient instution hePreMtZ of Christ's
ei:etTraitid his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, and also r
Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfredoayrael
Governors.
The deputation having retired, the illustrious visitors
and the members of the royal household took their usual
stations near the Sovereign and Prince Albert, and the
Drawing-room commenced by the introduction of the
diplomatic corps. The following foreign ladies and
gentlemen had the honour of being presented to the
Queen in the diplomatic circle:—
By Madame Van de Weyer—Mademoiselle la Mar-
quise Brancaleone (niece of Sir J. C. Hobhouse).
By Madame Bunsen—La Baron de Delmar (nic Rum-
bold).
By the Viscountess Palmerston—Mademoiselle Schim-
melpenninck, daughter of the Netherlands Minister at
her Majesty's Court; the Baroness de Rehausen, wife
of the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten-
tiary from the King of Sweden.
By the Countess de Reventlow—Madame la Baronne
de Bortouch (nic Gage).
By Count Dietrichstein—Lieutenant Redo, of the
Austrian Artillery.
By the Baron Brunnow—Le Prince Dondonkoff Kor-
sakoff, Conseillar Prisi de Sa Majeste l'Empereur de
Russie; Le Prince N. Dondonkoff Korsakoff, Officier des
Chevaliers Guardes de Sa Alajest6 Imperiale.
By the Prince Castelcicala—Le Marquis de Salvo, a
Sicilian nobleman; Le Comte Troili; and the Chevalier
Colona, aide de-camp to his Royal Highness the Count
de Syracuse.
By the Chevalier Bunsen—Mr. Banks, Syndicus of
Hamburgh, on a special mission to London.
By the Cammandeur Marques Lisboa—Captain Mar-
ques Lisboa (Imperial Brazilian Navy), brother of the
Brazilian Minister.
By the Count de Reventlow—Le Baron de Bertouch,
Secretaire de la Legation Danoise pros la Cour de sa
Majest 6.
By Mr. Bancroft—Mr. J. L. Martin, Charge d'Affaires
of the United States to the Papal States.
By Senor Isturitz—Mr. J. L. de Urbiztondo, attached
to her Catholic Majesty's Legation to this Court.
By the Baron Rehausen—Le Comte do Bark, officier
au service de sa Majesty le Roi de Suede et do Norrege.
The diplomatic circle was attended by Count Dietrich-
stein, the Austrian Ambassador, and Baron Koller, First
Secretary to the Embassy; the Belgian Minister and
Madame Van de Weyer; Mr. Charles Drouet, First
Secretary of Legation; and M. Eugene de Gtrlache,
Attache to the Legation; the Portuguese Minister and
Baroness de Moncorvo; the Chevalier de Ribeiro, Secre•
tary of Legation, and M. de Moraes Sarmento, Attache
to the Legation; the Russian Minister and Baroness de
Brunnow, M. Alexandre de Berg, First Secretary, and
Le Baron de Nicolay, Secretary of Legation; General
Prince Castelcicala, the Sicilian Minister, and M.
Carnofari, Secretary of Legation; Count de Kielman-
segge, the Hanoverian Minister; the Baron de Hugel,
the Wirtemberg Minister; the Prussian Minister and
Madame Bunsen, and Prince Lowenstein, Secretary of
Legation; the Brazilian Minister and Madame Marques
Lisboa, and the Chevalier Pinto Peixto, Attach 6 to the
Legation; the Danish Minister and Countess de Revent-
low, and M. de Bielke, First Secretary of Legation; the
Ottoman Porto Minister and Princess Callimaki; the
American Minister and Mrs. Bancroft, and Mr. Brod-
head, Secretary of Legation; Senor X. Isturitz, Spanish
Minister, and the Chevalier Diaz, Second Secretary of
Legation; the Swedish Minister and the Baroness de
Rehausen; Count Adrien de Revel, the Sardinian Minis-
ter; Baron do Beust, the Saxon Minister; Le Baron
Stratenus, Charge de Affaires of the Netherlands; Vis-
count Palmerston, G.C.8., her Majesty's principal
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and Viscountess
Palmerston, and Colonel the Hon. Sir Edward Cust,
K.C.H., her Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies.
The Baron de Cetto, Bavarian Minister, and the
Baroness, were absent from the Drawing-room in con-
sequence of the hopeless state and hourly expected
death of the Baron's sister at Paris.
After the reception of the foreign diplomatic circle,
the general company were introduced. There were pre-
sent—the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the
Lord Chancellor, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the
Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the
Horse, the Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert, the
Captain of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, the
Captain of the Yeomen Guard, the Marquis of London-
derry, Gold Stick in Waiting, the Bishop of Oxford,
Lord High Almoner, the Treasurer of the Household,
the Vice-Chamberlain, the Comptroller of the House-
hold, the Lord Mayor, Mr. Matthew Wyatt,
Lieutenant of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-
at-Arms, Sir George Philip Lee, Lieutenant of
the Yeoman Guard, the Attorney-General, Colonel
Sir George Couper, First Equerry and Comptroller
of the Household of her Royal Highness the Duchess
Equerry
of Kent ; Lord James P. Murray,
M.Vii-Mrt.oSthhee-
Duchess of Kent ; Mr. Sheriff Cubitt,
riff Hill, the Master of the Temple, the een's Re-
gistrar, Lieutenant-Colonel Williams, Silve
Waiting; Mr. David James Harmar‘, StandarrdStßicekareinr
of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms; the Dean of
Hereford, Deputy Clerk of the Closet in Waiting; Rev.
Ordinary in Waiting ;
Cholmelev Daring, Chaplain in
the Rev. ilichard Hooper, Chaplain to the Lord Mayor;
Hon. Spencer Lyttelton, her ajes,t) 's Marshal of the
Ceremonies; Captain Sir George Sartorius, Lord John
Hay, Captain Provo Wallis,
Colonel James HS., Colonel Oldfield,
Sch°eddes Colonel Le Couteur, Col.
Weave, and Colonel hi. Bentinek, Aide-de-Camp to the
Queen; Colonel Cornw 11, Equerry to her Majesty the
Queen-Dowager, Mr Eadmond Mildmay (Equerry to the
DHeuskiee;of_Cram_ Cambridge) in waiting on Prince Frederick of
John Henry Pell, Deputy Master of the Tri-
nity Ilousie; Mr. James Bunco Curlin Adjutant of the
Hon. Corps of
II • Gentlemen-at-Arms; Colonelg, Fj itzmaurice,
R. Adjutant of the Yeomen Guard; Captain Bellairs,
and Mr. Charles Hamilton Broadwood, Exons of the
Yeomen Guard; Sir Benjamin Smith, C.S.; Mr. Freda
rick Peel Round, Gentleman Usher of the Green Rod'
Colonel Sir Frederic Smith, Mr. Charles Heneage, :Sir
John Strachan, Mr. Arthur Blackwood, Mr. Edward
Hobhouse, Captain the Hon. Mortimer Sackville West,
and Captain Green, Gentlemen Ushers to the Queen;
Captain G. C. Blake, R N., Gentleman Usher to Prince
Albert, &c.
The Queen and Prince Albert roturnecltobyßusepkaiurgt;
ham Palace after the Drawing-room, escorted
of Life Guards.
The Mess of her Majesty's Hon. CorpesreonfinGgentaletmtehne-
at-Arms dined together yesterday
Thatched-house.

LADIES' DRESSES.
HER MAJESTY.--Dress of black crape, trimmed with
P
over a black silk slip; train
of la tthe '
lined with black silk,
trimmed with crape and bugles ; body and sleeves
trunme
• dto correspond. Head-dress, black feathers,
ii'g
richest b craps
black and
bugles,
udgulce asp, e,
crape lappets, and Jet ornaments. The whole of Spital:
fields manufacture.
HE, RoyAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS OF KENT.
A court costume composed of an embroidered black tulle
dress, over a black satin slip, trimmed with ruches of
blonde--
of
ribbon ; train and body of black satin, trimmed
tulle, bows of ribbon and satin trimming, iun.,l,.ith
andt.dress,
lined with blue
feathers, ornamented with diamonds
lappet', &.c. The whole of British manufacture.
DUCHESS OF BEDFORD.—.A. rich
court pearls,'
com-
prising a robe of splendid turquoise sal
lutestring and trimmed with tulle the same colour, and
centre
rosetteso foefabelhueroasnedtte ;petticoatsilverribbon
of the same material as
ribbon,
with diamonds in the
train, trimmed to correspond with bouillonnes of tulle
ad silver ribbon. The whole of Spitalfielde mode"