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THE GREAT_
TYRELLA, WEDNESDAY NIGHT; 11.36 1-. M.
Since my last the weather has moderated, and this
noble vessel now lies in comparative safety upon the
sand, resisting both wind and wave in admirable style.
She has an almost imperceptible inclination to port.
Strange rumours are constantly coming out about her.
One is, and that from one of the crew, that her captain
contemplates using tanks to float her off. I will not-
offer any remarks on this subject so as to prejudice the .
public mind either one way or the other ; but there will
be almost insurmountable difficulties in applying such
humble aid in a case of such emergency as the present..

PRICE SD.

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much doubt a sufficient buoyancy being got from tanks,
let their floating power be applied ever so forcibly.
It is also confidently asserted that Lloyti's agent has
given up all hope of doing good from the siniple fact of
the captain declining ;o give up the ship, as he was a
shareholder to the amount of 30,0001., and was therefore
entitled to her sole management.
The dangerous and destructive measures resorted to,
to free her of the water she has made, are likely, in the
event of her being got off, to prove verylinjurious to the
ship, viz., that of driving the rivets, whose bends ha-ve
been started by the straining of the ship. All steam
ships, more especially those of large dimensions, can,
connect their engines with a pump or pumps of sufficient
force to throw off a considerable quantity of water per
minute, but in the case of the Great Britain no such ex-
pedient appears to have deen resorted to.
The following letter has, been posted in the under-
writers' rooms at Liverpool ;
‘ "TO THOMAS COURT, ESQ.
" By letter received this morning from Tyrelia, the
Great Britain steam-ship has altered her position. She
now lies east and west on the shore, and making much
water ; it was above the deck of the saloon. Vssel is
higher up on the beach, and labouring qn the tide.
"I am, &c., " LEONARD. WATSON.
" Nairn Point, Oct. 8, 1846." •
The Warder publishes the following letter relative to
this unfortunate ship :

" Dundrum, Oct. B._Firry.x,

" Sir,—Since I last addressed you upon the subject of
this ill-fated vessel, some futile attempts have been made
to get her off, and the result has been just as I antici-
pated, that instead of benefiting her situation it has been
made considerably worse. The spring tides, upon which
so much reliance was placed, came and went, as is almost
invariably the case, accompanied by a strong wind and
heavy sea, and left the Great Britain clinging to her
sandy bed more firmly than ever, from which nothing
will ever remove her but the application of simple scien-
tific means, and which can be applied without waiting
for the treacherous springs.

"On my arrival on the beach at Tyrella, on Tuesday
last, at 11h. 30m., A.m., the ship was evidently in motion,
many persons on the beach remarked it ; she had her
jib foresail and fore trysail set, but no visible effort: was
made to get her off. On visiting her after the tide had
receded, I found her lying with an inclination of about
a degree and a half to starboard, her forefoot was en-
tirely out of the sand for about eight or teat feet ; she has
not sunk so much as was anticipated abaft, I think not
more than two feet and a half ; her screw is safe and
can be worked. A quantity of sand has accumulated
under her bilge, but not to any considerable amount,
Upon the whole, I do not consider the Great Britain's
danger at present is so great as is generally supposod.
She is encumbered with a great deal of superincumbent
weight, such as her quarter-boats, masts, yards, spars,
some bent sails, and an anchor hanging at her starboard
bow. It is not to be wondered at, if she strains, with
these top weights exposed to and offering the resistance
they do to the wind. I visited her yesterday after the
tide had fallen, and found her stern had shifted in shore
about 40 or 50 feet, and she was lying with a very slight
inclination to port, and with her port broadside exposed
to the sea. Water was running in considerable quan-
tities from her rivet boles. She was said to have had
ten feet in her hold. Are her pumps choked ? I was
informed yesterday, on good authority, that the com-
mander of the Great Britain contemplates floating her
with tanks. I mentioned in my last letter that I esti-
mated her weight at 1,000 tons; but, upon closer calcu-
lation, I should think 1,500 would be nearer the mark;
to float which weight of fixed metal by tanks would far
exceed any notion of efficient buoyancy • and, in my
opinion, such an attempt will prove As useless as the late
ones that were made on what were to be eventful spring
tides.

There is at least a rise and fall of six or eight feet
where the Great Britain now lies, which, in' moderate
weather, would be quite sufficient to get her off; anti I
am still prepared, if I meet with due support and aesist-
anee from the parties most closely concerned in the Great
Britain's salvation, to carry her off the sands of Dundrtim
in safety.—Your most obedient servant,
THOMAS S. GABRIEL, R.N.,
Her Majesty's ship Queen

COLLISION ON THE EASTERN
COUNTIES RAILWAY.
BISHOP' STORTYORD, SATURDAY,—A collision of an
exceedingly frightful character took place this (Satur-
day) morning on the Eastern Counties (Cambridge line),
about a mile and a half on the Cambridge side of Bishop
Stortford, and midway between that place and the Stan-
stead station—a collision which, although, fortunately,
it has not resulted in the loss of life, has involved the
destruction of a vast amount of property.
Frdm the particulars collected on the spot where the
collision took place, it appears that on Friday evenirkg,
immediately after the departure of the up fast train,
which leaves Cambridge at nine o'clock P.M, an engine..
with a train consisting of thirty-fire trucks, partially
filled with coal and corn sacks, and partially empty,
started from the same- place, en route for Stratford.
About
,half-past nine another train, consisting of thirty-
three carriages, laden with grain,,also started from Cam-
bridge on the up line, and on its way to London drawn
by engine
.No. 97, and driven by a man nameirasher-
On the arrival of the truck train within a mile and it half
Of Bishop Stortford station, and a few hundred yarda of
the New-road bridge, the feeding-pipe of the engine at-
tached to the truck train became out of order, and ren-
dered it unable to proceed. The driver and stoker set to
work repairing the engine, and about haliepast twelve
-o'clock, having completed their object, the train was set
in motion, but had scarcely done so, when the train laden
with grain was heard coming up. Pestal, the guard of
the truck train, with all possible speed ran down the line,
and exhibited the red signal; but too late to'stop the,
grain train, at that moment approaching the New-road
bridge at the rate of twenty miles an hour, on the 'same
line as the truck train had been standing. Every exertion
was used by Parker to prevent the occurrence, but with-
out avail. In an instant after the collision took place,
the engine of the grain train dashing with fearful vio-
lence into the tail of the truck train. The crash is
described as fearful in the extreme—a fact to which the
appearance of the line bore ample testimony throughout
the whole of that morning. Eight carriages of the grain
train, and eight or nine of the truck train were smashed.
At an early hour yesterday morning the line was
completely blocked, and the rails of the up line torn up for
a considerable distance. Oa either side lay scattered
carriages in a ditch, whilst the engine No. 97 lay on
the side of the embankment nearest the up line, with
goods waggons on either side, completely over it. 12. he
line itself was covered with wheels, springs, and other
fragments of the carriages, and sacks upon sacks of
loose grain were apparently mixed in with the soil.
The escape of the engine-driver and stoker of the engine
of the grain train was truly miraculous. The stoker
was thrown into the field adjoining the line:for a con-
siderable distance, and as the engine turned over, Parker,
the driver, who had shut off his steam, and was at the
time holding on by the break, turhed over with it down
the embankment, and was shortly after got out from
under it, in at first an apparently insensible condition,
from which, however, he speedily rallied, after being
extricated from his perilous situation.
The instant the news of the collision reached the
Bishop Stortford station, at which it is stated the crash
was distinctly heard, Mr. Nicholson, the station-master,
dispatched a special engine to London for aid, and Mr.
Kitson, the chief of the locomotive department at the
Stratford station, with two or three hundred labourers,
proceeded to the spot, and were set to work in removing
the wreck of the two trains from the line. They com-
menced their labours about three o'clock in the morning,
and some idea may be formed of the magnitude of the
accident, when it is stated that, notwithstanding the im-
mense number of men employed, the down line was nut
cleared in sufficient time to allow the 15 minutes after
seven o'clock train, due at Bishop Stortford at 18 mi-
nutes after eight, to pass. The consequence was that this
train was detained until nine o'clock, before it got into
the Bishop Stortford station. Throughout the whole of
this day (Saturday) all the trains between London and
Cambridge were detained:a considerable time, and it was
not until a late hour last evening that the up line was
thoroughly cleared, and the rails relaid, so as to allow
trains to come up with safety.
It appeared from the statement of George Flahall, the
guard of the grain train, who was also thrown out of
the break carriage, that Festal, the guard of the truck
train, had been for some time down the line, holding the
red signal, but the signal being given for his train to
start he ran towards it, and had nearly reached it, when
hearing the grain train coming up, he ran back to show
the signal, but too late to be of service.
Several of the directors, accompanied by Mr. Roney,
the secretary, visited the spot during the day, and it is
understood a rigid investigation will be instituted by the
board, to ascertain who are the culpable parties. The
engine of the grain train is completely destroyed, and
the loss altogether is calculated at not less than 3,000/.

a returnit EREVENUE.—CHARGES
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livered, it appears that—The total amount of deductions
by revenue departments from the gross receipts, not paid
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Exchequer, is 909,6101. 12s. 2d. Consequeatly the sum
Excise, 968,382/. 6s. Bd.; Stamps, 165,3461. 17s. Id.;
Taxes, 348,7281. Os. 10d.; Post-office, 1,114,8491. 2s. 6J,;
Crown lands, 41,886/. 11 s. 3d.
A paragraph appeared in the Times of Thursday
in reference to a court-martial to be held on a naval
officer, for having ordered a seaman who had committed
some offence to be placed in one of the "coal bunkers,"
by way of punishment. The paragraph asserts that
this mode of punishment is common in the navy, and
is inflicted on board the royal yacht, as well as other
hips. Now, we are enabled to state, most positively,
that such a punishment has never once been resorted to
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