The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-14 00:00:00

Candle, 42s for second sort, and 41s 3d to 41s 6d per
cwt from Odessa. For delivery in the last three
months of the year, there has been a larger
business transacted, and 42s 6d to 42a 9d per
cwt are the rates given, duty paid, for fine Petersburgh
yellow Candle. Town Tallow is plentiful, but the
quality inferior, and 41s to 41s 6d per cwt are the rates
taken, nett cash. The accounts come to band from St.
Petersburgh state that the supply of Tallow for this sea-
son was not likely to exceed 100,000 casks. Prices were
firm, and equal to 42s 9d per cwt for yellow Candle of
first quality laid down here.

FEARFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT
SOUTH SHIELDS, SUNDAY.—A serious accident oc-
curred on the Brandling Junction Railway, near this
town, by which several persons have been injured, some
of whom, it is thought, cannot survive. The ten o'clock
train from Gateshead was proceeding at a rapid rate.
from Brockley Whins to Shields, when, on taking a
curve near the Jarrow Alkali Works, the engine got off
the line, dragging the tender with it, and having become
disconnected from the passenger carriages by the break-
ing of the coupling chain, dashed over the embankment,
and through the roof of a row of dwelling-houses, on
the ground floor of one of which it finally stopped, rest-
ing on its end, with the tender above it, poised in a most
fearful position. The only inmates of the house which
has thus been completely demolished were two women
and a child, all of whom are most seriously injured, one
of the women by the engine having fallen upon her leg,
which was literally crushed to atoms; and she, as well
as the others, by the escape of steam and boiling water
which rushed from the boiler. The force of the engine
and its great weight seem to have cut through the build-
ing almost like a razor, which accounts for the inmates
of neighbouring houses having sustained but little in-
jury; in fact, none at all worth mentioning. The en-
gine-man and stoker were thrown from the engine, and
alighted on that portion of the roof which remained, re•
ceiving serious contusions from the fall. One passenger,
who was riding outside the train, had both his legs
broken. Fortunately, none of the passenger carriages
were dragged from the line, and the extent of injury
received by the passengers is not so great as might have
been expected under the circumstances. Several dan-
gerous wounds and contusions were received.
MONDAY MORNING.—The women and child; are still
alive, and are said to have passed an easy night. It is
now hoped the child and one of the women will recover,
but the other is so fearfully scalded as to preclude the
remotest chance of her surviving. Her hair was com-
pletely scalded from her head, and her face and other
parts of her body present a most shocking sight.
Workmen have been engaged all night in preparing a
temporary way, and in other preparations to get the
engine up. Hundreds visited the spot during yesterday
evening and this morning, but a strong body of police
are stationed to keep off the crowd.

THE ACCIDENT on the EASTERN
COUNTIES RAILWAY.
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.
Of the many railway accidents that we have had occa-
sion to notice, probably that which occurred on the
Eastern Counties (Cambridge) line on Sunday afternoon
was the most extraordinary.
The directors, in order to meet the convenience of the
subscribers to the Newmarket Craven Meeting, deter-
mined to run a 81)(0121 train from Shoreditch en Sunday
afternoon at half-past one o'clock, to Chesterford, and
undertook to do the distance to Newmarket within four
hours. At the appointed time on Sunday the train
started, conveying Lord and Lady Chesterfield, Lord E.
Russell, and the elite of the sporting world, amounting
to near 100. In advance, drawing the train, were two
of the finest engines the company possess, both of the
same construction, with the exception of the foremost
one having inside cylinders, and the second outside ones.
The train was rather heavy. Next to the tender of the
second engine were five horse-boxes, containing cattle ;
then a second-class carriage, three first-class carriages,
three second-class, and two trucks at the rear. The
officials, being anxious to promote the best arrange-
ment and promptitude in the passage of the train, pro-
ceeded with it ; their head locomotive superintendent,
Mr. Scott, on the first engine ; Mr. Roney, the
secretary, on the second, and Mr. Waddington, the
deputy-chairman of the company, in a first-class car-
riage, accompanied by some of his co -directors.
The train stopped at Lea-bridge station to take up
passengers, up to which period everything worked
favourably. It appears that here Mr. Roney joined
Mr. Scott on the foremost engine, and in a few
seconds the train resumed its journey. The special
express speed, it seems, must at this juncture have been
got up, and by the time that it had passed Edmonton
station it was travelling at the rate of 43 miles an hour.
That speed was satisfactorily
.ascertained by Mr. Roney
and Mr.. Scott comparing their watches. These gentle-
men, we are informed, had scarcely noted the time,
however, before they were considerably alarmed by a
peculiar dragging movement on the engine they were
on, and, on looking towards the train, saw sufficient to
convince them that an accident bad occurred. The
train was then midway between Edmonton and Pon-
der's-end station, a distance of nine tied a half miles
from the metropolis. The second engine they saw had
left the rails, and was tearing up the road fearfully,
dragging with it the train, and almost instantaneously
the steam of both engines was shut off. For the mo-
ment nothing short of the second engine dragging the
traiu into a large ditch was expected. Such was the
momentum of the foremost one, that it still held the
second one, and eventually forced it on to the rails un-
injured, the fireman and stokers still maintaining
their position. The fate •of the carriage portion of
the train, however, was more unfortunate. As before
stated, it followed the course of the second engine
on the permanent way for about twenty- five yards,
when the coupling which held it snapped asunder, and
as the engine retook the rails the train shot down the
embankment into a ditch filled with water. The crash
of the carriages was terrific, and the alarm amongst the
passengers was of the most painful character. The fore-
most part of the train, comprising the horse-boxes,
were partly buried in the ditch, and almost crushed
to pieces by the weight of the carriages. The next
carriage, a second-class one, containing a number of
porters, who were going down to assist at the Ches-
terford station during the races, was thrown on its side.
Such was the concussion, that every portion of it, except
the side uppermost and the flooring, was knocked away,
and yet not a soul inside was hurt. The second guard,
George Gordon, was on the roof of the carriage, and
his escape from immediate destruction is surprising, as
the next carriage, a first-class one, mounted the roof.
He was found amongst the fragments bleeding from the
head, and at first it was thought he was mortally injured;
we can state, however, that he was so far recovered as to
come up to town yesterday afternoon. The remaining
carriages were more or less damaged, and the chief guard,
it appears, was saved by being hurled on to the wire of
the electric telegraph, and tilted over into the ditch,
luckily escaping with a ducking. The officials travelling
with the train promptly released the passengers, who,
with the exception of the fright they bad sustained,
were uninjured. Conveyances were procured as soon as
possible from Edmonton, and they were taken on to
Ponder's-end and Waltham, where another special train
was provided for them, and was more fortunate in reach-
ing Chesterford.
The greater part of yesterday Mr. Waddington, the
deputy chairman of the Company ; Mr. Kennard, one
of the directors ; Mr. Roney, the secretary ; Mr. Dune
can, the solicitor ; and Mr. Phipps, the engineer, were
engaged in instituting an inquiry into the cause of the
accident. By some it is supposed that the oscillation of
the second engine caused it to rise and leave the rails,
and by others that a rail at a joint had shifted and shot
out after the first one had passed over and thrown the
second one off.
The loss to the Company will amount to between
3,000/. and 4,0001.