The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-12 00:00:00

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RAILWAY INTELLI

THE BROAD GAUG.
On Saturday morning two experim,
mace on the broad gauge (the Western
presence Oi Ihe Gauge Commissioners ;
rather unfavourahlo, the morning being dull and damp,
and very little wind stirring until the afternoon. The
Hercules was again selected for the purpose ; it is a
powerful engine, hating connected wheels 5 feet in dia-
meter, cylinder 16 inches, stroke 18 inches, and weighs
22 tons. At 7h. 52m. 245, she started from the one
mile post, Paddington, with a train of 13 trucks, coal-
laden, an additional tender, and s. first-class carriage,
which was occupied by Sir F. Smith, Professor Barlow,
Mr, Watson, Mr. Saunders, Secretary to the company ;
Mr. Harmer, and Mr. Gibson ; on the engine vere Mr.
Brunel, engineer of the line, and Mr.• Gooch, superin-
tendent of the locomotive department. This experi-
mental train was driven from Paddington to Pidcot.,. a
distance of 52:1miles, when, it arrived at 10h. 19m. 235.,,
having made stoppages at Ealing, Southall, West Dray.--
ton, Slough, Maideashead, Twyford, and Goring. For
the exact time of arrival and departure from the several
stations the reporter has been indebted to Mr. Seymour
Clarke, the principal superintendent of the line, and
it is as follows

Miles from •
Padding- Arrh,;al. Departure. Stoppage.
ton.
h. in. s. i:• m. s. 11. in. b.
Paddington - - 7 52 24
5% Ealing 8 4 53 8 7 42 0 2 49
7 h Hanwell -- - 8 12 36
9 Southall -- - - 8 16 52 8 20 41 0 3 49
13 West Drayton - 8 35 25 8 40 33 0 5 8
18 Slough -- - - 8 51 38 8 55 43 0 4 5
22% Maidenhead
30% Twyford- -- - 9 28 33 9 33 44 0' 5 11
35% Reading -- - - 9 44 42 --•
414 Pangbourne - - 9 54 8 --
4444 Goring lO 0 8 10 2 0 0 1 52
4ili Wallingford-road 10 9 30
52A Didcot lO 19 38
i Total stoppage 026 5

The distance was accomplished in 2h. 27m. 145., or at a
rate of 26.75 miles an hour. Ile weight of train pro-
pelled, exclusive of the engine, was .204. tons 18ewt. lqr.
31b. Soon after the arrival of this ti at Didcot, the
Ixion, a powerful passenger engine, Laving driving
wheels 7 feet in diameter, came up with a train on 15
trucks, laden with coal, to be attached to the train of the
Hercules, making in all 28 trucks and one first ciao
carriage. After all matters were arranged this levia-0
thian train proceeded on its journey ; its weight, length,
and the time it passed the different stations, are givers
from the same authority as that of the down trip :
eight, tons 3 cwt. lqr.lolb. ; length of train, 232
yards.

From
Paddington

Started from Dideot
Wallingford-road - - -
- Goring
Pangbeurne - -
- Reading
Twyford
Maidenhead -
- Slough - - -
- West Drayton - - -
- Southall
Ilanwell

Miles,
53
47
44
41 4
35,4
30%
22

11. m. B.
1 22 15
1 38 0
1 49 0
1 57 0
2 8 30
2 22 15
2 41 0
2 51 0,
3 7 0
3 23 0
3 25 0
3 29 0
3 39 0

Ealing
Arriving at the 1 4 mile-poi-5f from}
Paddington

Pertbrming the journey in 2h. 16m. 455., at a.n average
rate of speed of 23 miles an hour. The rate of the
gauges now stand thus :
Bread gauge train of 400 tons.. 23 miles per hour.
Narrow gauge ditto
Excess of speed for broad gauge 4 miles per hour.

IRELAND.
RESIGNATION OF CHIEF JUSTICE
PENNEFATHER.

The Mercantile Advertiser published the following
yesterday afternoon:—`• We are now enabled to an-
nounce that Chief Justice Pennefather has resigned.
The appointments consequent on the retirement of Mr.
Pennefather have not yet been fully arranged. If Mr
Blackburne should be transferred to the Queen's Bench,
Mr. T. B. Smith, the Attorney-General, will go to the
Rolls Court. If this arrangement should not be adopted
the Attorney-General will get the Chief Justiceship.
In any event Mr. Greene advances to the Attorney-
Generalship ; and it is said Mr. Sergeant Warren will
be the new Solicitor. a9neral, For that office other
names are mentioned ; but on point all at present is
mere speculation."
The most contradictory rumours are afloat as to some
of the changes rendered necessary by the resigna:..2ol: of
Mr. Pennefather. The latest version is that Mr. Smite.
the Attorney-General, will get the Chief Justices hip of
the Queen's Bench, the scene of his extraordinary en-
counter with Mr. Fitzgibbon during the state trials ;
that Mr. Wilson Greene advances to the Attorney-
Generalship, to be succeeded as Solicitor by Mr. Brews-
ter ; and that Mr. Corballis, a Roman Catholic Queen's
Counsel, is to take the place of Mr. Brewster as advising
counsel to the Irish Government.

The Attorney-General being made a Judge must
vacate the pocket borough if Ripon ; and if Lord de
Grey be consenting party, Mr. Gladstone can thus find
another opening into the House of Commons. Perhaps,
after all, this was one of the causes of the well-timed
resignation of Chief Justice Pennefather.

PROSECUTION AGAINST THE " NATION "
NEWSPAPER.

The Freeman's Journal says, " Notwithstanding all
the counsel learned in the law whose services the Crown
have an official right to command, the Attorney-Ge-
neral did not deem himself secure in entering upon his
presecution against the Nation, without retaining Mr.
Henn, Q.C., one of the principal defenders of the state
traverscrs in the memorable trials of 1844. Mr. Duffy
having been served with notice that informations had
been received against him, on the same day on which
they were sworn wrote by that night's post, through
his solicitor, to retain Mr. Henn, who was then at
Lifford, in Donegal, presiding at Quarter Sessions. Mr.
Henn's reply was, that he had been already retained by
the Crown ! This was sharp practice on Mr. Duffy, for
the retainer to that gentleman must have been given be-
fore informations had been sworn.

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