The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-05 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen walked yesterday in the gardens of Buck-
ingham Palace.

The Countess do Neuilly, the Duke de Nemours, and
the Princess Augusta of Saxe Coburg, visited her Ma-
jesty yesterday at Buckingham Palace.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by the
Marquis of Abercorn, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey,
and Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Hugh Seymour, re-
turned to Buckingham Palace at twenty minutes past
six o'clock yesterday afternoon, from attending the meet-
ing at Ipswich of the British Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science.

His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, atterded by Mr.
Birch, took a drive yesterday morning in an open
carriage.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince Arthur and the Prin-
cesses Helena and Louise, took an airing in an open car-
riage and four yesterday forenoon.
The Countess de Neuilly, the Princess Augusta of
Saxe Coburg, and the Duke de Nemours, visited her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent yesterday at
Clarence Rouse, St. James's.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at
the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were Lord
John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of
Lansdowne, tho Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Vis-
count Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, Lord Broughton, the
Right Hon. Henry Labouehere, the Earl of Carlisle,
and the Marquis of Clanrioarde. The Council sat one
hour and a half.

A deputation, consisting of Mr. Aglionby, M.P., Mr.
Bruce and Mr. Ellis (directors of the East Indian Iron
Company), and Mr. C. Freshfield, solicitor to the com-
pany, had an interview yesterday with the Right Hon.
Henry Labouchere, at the Board of Trade.
Lord Belhaven had au interview with Sir George Grey
yesterday at the Home-office.
A deputation on the subject of the Irish Lands Clauses
Bill had an interview with the Railway Commissioners
yesterday, at their office in the Board of Trade. The
deputation consisted of Mr. Tyrrell, Mr. Jeffers, Mr.
Hemming, and Mr. Laylor.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland
Revenue, had an interview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence, in Down-
ing- street.
'The Westminster-bridge Commission had a meeting
yesterday, at the office of her Majesty's Commissioners
of Woods and Forests, in Whitehall-place. Present,
Lord Seymour, the Earl of Lonsdale, Lord Sudely, Lord
Robert Grosvenor, Sir R. Inglis, Alderman Humphery,
and the Right lion. C. Tennyson D'Eyncourt.
The Lord Mayor had an interview with Sir George
Grey yesterday.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday from the Colonial-
office, to the Governor of tho Canadas and the Gover-
nors of the other North American colonies.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE;
The Earl of Dundonald, G.C.8., ex-Commander•in-
Chief of the West Indies, having nominated his son for
promotion on striking his flag, the Admiralty, in con-
sideration of the services of the Noble and distinguished
Earl, have ordered the commission of Commander the
lion. A. A. Cochrane, now acting-commander of the
Sappho, 12, West Indies, to be dated back from the
12th of April last, the anniversary of the action in
Basque-roads.

Vica-Admiral the Hon. G. Elliot, C. 8., in striking his
fly as Commander-in-Chief at Sheerness, having no-
minated his flag-lieutenant, Fitzjames Stewart M•Gregor
(1833), :the Admiralty have accordingly promoted him
to the rank of commander.
Lieutenant Augustus C. May (1838), late first lieute-
nant of the Wellesley, 72, has been promoted to the
rank of commander. By his continuous services as mate
and lieutenant he has richly earned his promotion.
Avon steam-tender, Second Master Volta, left Devon-
p ort on Tuesday morning, with supernumeraries for the
Trafalgar, 120, at Sheerness.
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 4.—The Charlotte and Berkshire
freight ships arrived at Spithead yesterday morning,
from the river, to embark the 12th Lancers for the Cape
of Good Hope. This morning the Major-General com-
manding the military district went off to them and in-
spected their accommodations for the soldiers, who will
embark from the dockyard to-morrow on board the ships
which are in harbour.

The Tiger, new steam• frigate, hauled over to ssiling
moorings yesterday, and to-day hoisted the pendant and
ensign, to be commanded by Captain Henderson, CB.,
of the Blenheim, for a trial cruise.
The Sprightly steam-tender, Mr. George Allen, R.N.,
master commanding, sailed this evening with supernu-
meraries for the eastward.

The Sidon and Retribution steam-frigates were to em-
bark the 60th Rifla this day at Queenstown, and sail to-
morrow with them for the Cape.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 4.—Her Majesty's steam-sloop
Hecate, Commander Hand, which left Portsmouth on
Wednesday, at 3 r. M., arrived in the Sound on Thurs-
day, at 7 A.M., and was shortly afterwards joined by a
bout from the Belleisle. As soon as the midshipman
got on deck the Hecate went a-head, and the boat, hav-
ing been caught under her ladder, was quickly upset,
and the crow thrown overboard; they were, however, all
saved by the boat belonging to Mr. Thompson, Queen's
harbour-master. The Hecate takes spars and stores for
the fleet, and will probably sail for Lisbon to-day.
The steam-vessel Avoa sailed yesterday morning with
seamen for the Trafalgar, fitting at Sheerness.
The frigate Eagle was placed in dock on Wednesday,
to have defects made good.

APPOINTMENTS.
WOOLWICH, Jima.. 4.—Second Masters—Mark Netteu
(1850), to the Impregnable flag-ship, at Devonport; and
Thomas S. Hayward (1850), to the Trafalgar, 120, at
Sheerness.
Masters-Assistant —C. F. Puckett, to the Trafalgar.,
Gunners—John Quin, to the Tiger, 16, paddle-wile'
steam-sloop of 400-horse power, making ready for com-
mission at Portsmouth; Robert Thompson, to th©
ors°
1 Argliks'
6, steam-sloop at Portsmouth; and Henry
,),r,,3:,,c11
to the Bulldog, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop.
"'i"
Power, making ready for commission at Portsmouth.
Tiger; John
to_ the Bulldog;
Boatswains—Robert Knight, to the
Budd, to the Argus; Edward llartfull,
and John Millar (acting), to the w a,er witch, at
Chatham.
Carpenters—John Edwards, to the Argus; John Car-
mody (acting), to the Bulldog; and James 1/I'Cullain,
to the Waterwitch.
Trafalgar, 120, Captain the Hon. M. Stopford, at
Sheerness, has received about 100 blue jackets from the
London, 90, flag-014N and Monarch, 84, guard-ship in
ordinary at Sheerness, and is under orders to proceed
round to Portsmouth, to be completed at that port for
service on the Mediterranean station.
The Furious, 16, Paddle-wheel steam-sloop, is ordered
from Woolwich to Portsmouth, where she will remain
as an advanced war-steamer, or for commission.
Lieutenant. Commander Joliffe arrived at Woolwich
yesterday, and hoisted his pennant on board the Myr-
midon Steam-vessel, and it is understood she is for ser-

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vice on the coast of Africa. The gallant commander of
the Myrmidon recently brought home the Pluto after a
period of service on the coast of Africa.
Mr. Atherton, Chief Engineer at Devonport Dock-
yard, is to succeed Mr. Hunaphrys as Chief Engineer
Est Woolwich Dockyard, and it is not intended at pre-
sent to appoint a Chief Engineer to Davenport Deck-
yard.

BOILER EXPLOSION.
An tddi:ional disaster to the already dire enough
catalogue of railway catastrophes occurred this morning
at the Edgehill station of the London and North-
Western Railway, immediately above the station at the
mouth of the tunnel.
The particulars of the accident, as we have been
enabled to gather them by a visit, are as follow :
About ten minutes past seven o'clock an engine was
attached to a luggage train of goods which had come
from the Wapping station to proceed to Manchester
when, the station scarcely passed, and owing to wane
cause which we have not as yet been able to discover, the
boiler exploded, with a terrific crash, blowing the fire-
man (Griffith) and the engineer into the air, aid
spreading confusion and dismay along the line. For some
minutes nothing could be discerned, on account of the
volumes of steam which spread in all directions, but
when these had cleared away, the fireman was disco-
vered up to his armpits is the roof of a two-story
building used by Mr. Wood, the engineer, as an
office, and which is built along the line. The height
to which he was blown, and the force with which he
descended, may be thus conceived.
The line was strewed with fragments of the broken
machinery, and the fire-box was discovered in a field, at
the distance of 60 yards from the scone of the accident,
one-half being buried in the ground. Valentine and
Griffith were taken away as soon as possible to the In-
firmary, where the latter died about ten o'clock, the
base of the brain having been fractured, and the whole
body very much bruised. Valentine, the engineer, is
severely burnt about the head and chest, but is not, we
learn. in immediate danger. Griffith has left a wife and
two children• the engineer also is a married man, and
has five children. The pointsman was standing on the
line, not far from the engine, at the time of the explo-
sion,and he is somewhat injured also, but not seriously.
entirely blown away. The windows of
Mr. Wood's office
were
cabin was ea
were shivered; but the station was
any of the fragments.
it was was that the north mail train had passed
notE touchedortu
Fortunate
b
the goods train, and stopped at the station only a few
seconds before the crash occurred; for, had it passed
simultaneously with the explosion, a fearful sacrifice of
life would doubtless have been the result.
Several of the goods' waggons Were smashed, bat ne
personal injury or accident beyond what we have aheady
detailed, as far as we can learn, happened, compara-
tively few men being upon the line at the time, and
those employed on the waggons having gone into the
works.

The event, as may be supposed, caused the most in-
tense excitement in the neighbourhood, and from the
fact of its being known that the explosion happened at
the time of the arrival of the north train, the utmost
anxiety was manifested to know whether the passengers
had escaped. An inquiry into the cause of the ca-
tastrophe, which, at present, as we previouslyinti-
mated, remains undisclosed, will forthwith be made.
Foust o'cLocis,
The unfortunate fireman (or stoker), whose name was
Griffith, has just expired in the Southern Infirmary,
leaving a wile and three children; and the driver (Va-
lentine) is not expected to recover. He has a wife and
five children. The damage done to the goods in the
train is very considerable, and for a great distance along
the line fragments of the broken waggons and their
contents were to be seen fcr some time after the acci-
dent. The northern mail train barely escaped the ex-
plosion, having only left the station a few minutes be-
fore the fatal occurrence.—Liverpool Times.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, JULY 3.
STOCK EXCHANGE.— The share market has been better
today, and rather more business transacted. Great Western,
Original Shares, were done at 84%—Ditto, New 171., 14%.,
LIVERPOOL, JULY 3.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business to-day was limited,
and prices 4omewhat lower, with a considerable amount of
stock pressing for sale. The transactions were as follow :
Ambergate and East Junction, 3% dis.—Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 52 London and North-Western, New Quarters,
37,, p. —Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Quarters
(No. 1), 71N till 1853, 12,4—Midland, 451.4—Ditto, Halves,
IS:7;l—South-Eastern. and Dover, '23 c.—York and North
Midland, 19.