The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-11 00:00:00

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ificer's carriage to D,von/port, for the purpose of _
the Royal Arsenal.. The illustrious persozages , .:
.he yard about ,twelve o'clock, when the artisans ..ik_at
finer, but the doom being left open they obtaiued
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as to the mast-house, sail-loft, rope-house, &c.a e -.,
which they were conducted by the Naval
.der-in-Chief and the
principal officers of the
establiehment. Passing over the bow of the Narcissus,
now building at No. 1 eAlp, and minutely inspecting that
Ideate, they proceeded to examine the machinery in
the engine-house, and the nice operatioas of Nasmyth's
powerful tilt-hammer, which were skilfully explained
to them by Mr. Atherton. After spending about two
hours in the yard, the Dacixees and party went ,to
Mount Wise, where they were hospitably entertained by
Sir John Ommanney, and at six o'clock lett by mail train
for Torquay.
The steam-vessel Sprightly, Master-Commander G.
Allen, arrived yesterday morning from Portsmouth, and
in the afternoon sailed again for that port:
The Styx steemer, Commander Hall, sailed on Thurs-
day evening with dispatches for the Cape of Good Hope;
and the Waterwiich brig. Commander Gardiner, on Fri-
day morning with mails for the Coast of Africa.
WOOLWICH, Aua. 9.—The Cuckoo, Polyphemus, and
Phcaaix steam-vessels, were taken into the basin on
Thursday.
Tho Phoenix steam-sloop, Commander Lysaght, is
ordered to be paid off at this port on Friday next, the
15th inst.
The baggage of Captain Crawford's company, 9th bat-
taliou, was put on board the Vesuvius steam-sloop to-
day, and the company will embark on Monday for con-
veyance to Jersey.
The officers of the Woolwich divison of Royal Ma-
rines, who have been appointed to the Waterloo, 120,
at Sheerness, are Captain John Wade, First
Lieutenant Usher, and Second Lieutenants Fre-
derick George Pym and Henry Fallowfield Cooper.
So large a complement of Royal Marines is never given
to a ship to be kept only in an advanced state, the
nnmber being exactly the same, and of the same rank,
as those at present on active service on board the Queen,
110, flag-ship on the Mediterranean station ; and, there-
fore, the almost immediate employment of the Waterloo
as a seagoing ship is confirmed by the appointment of
1 captain, 3 subalterns, 5 sergeants, 7 corporals, 2
drummers, and 184 privates of the Royal Marines for
service in her. The above Royal Marines will leave
Woolwich to-morrow to join their ship.
A life-boat on a plan -by Mr. Peaks, one of the as-
sistant-shipwrights to the master shipwxight at Wool-
wich dockyard, was tried to-day, preparatory to a trial
next week in the presence of a number of the members ~
of the Duke of Northumberland's Prize Committee and
the Committee of the National Shipwreck Institution.

SHIP NEWS.
GRAVESEND, AUGUST 10.—Wind N., calm, cloudy.
Arrived—Lion, from Harlingen; Apollo, Giraffe, and
Rainbow, from Rotterdam; Siadt Dordt, from Dordt;
Fame, from Calais; City of Rotterdam, from Dunkirk;
Exchange and Citizen, from Archangel; Champetre,
from Memel; Clarinda, from Cronstadt; Blenheim,
from Gottenburg; Dauntless, from Riga; Triton, from
Ostend; Seine, trom Boulogne; Green Isle, from Nieu
Diep; Carl Wilhelm, from Riga; Lavinia, from St.
Lucia; Lady Peel, from China.
Sailed—Hirondelle and the Drover, for Archangel;
Mary Ellen, for Lima; Bosphorus, for Constantinople;
Gustave and the Minder, for the Baltic; Windermere,
for Hobart Town; Attwood, for Rotterdam;: Columbine,
for Havre; Countess of Lousdale and the Thames, for
Hamburgh; Concordia, for Rotterdam; Menai, for
Calais; City of London, for Dunkirk; Cmsarea, for
Hamburgh; Albion, for Boulogne; Baron Osy, for
Antwerp; Batavia and Earl of Auckland, for Rotter-
dam; Margaret, fjoyrii.olAranmiji,sa:nafeorardicaaNno;y;
kiLifooolor)iiglubgJi;eoyh,Rnhfoißur
eu,spaeofolrlrt,
fur Harlingen;
Ostend; Spartan,
Philip; Elizabeth, llebe, and Dimaugo, for Quebec;
Pleiades, for Odessa; Edward Bolton, for the North;
Goddess, for D,rnerara; Swea, for Hamburgh; Thor-
walden, f6r Copenhagen; Maid of Auckland, for Ade-
laide; Powhatten, for Cardiff; Zlrgo, for Luanda; Pan-
ther, for Ostend.
VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.
Lui•lo, from Sligo to New York, July 26, in lat. 23.

Entramosio, for quebec, in hit. 18.
Aurora, of Almwich, July 29, in lat. 45 N., long. 32 W.
Lady. Bulwcr, from Madeira for Newfoundland, July 30,
in lat. 47 N., long. 27 W.
John G. Coster, from Liverpool to New York, on Grand
Banks, July 3.
KAnha.a, from Philadelphia for Gloucester, July 21, in
lat. 39, long. 73.
Cgiro, irom Cardiff for New York, July 4, in lat. 43.
long. 54.
Henry, from Dublin for New York, July 8, in
lat. 44, long. 56.
William and Aun, from Carthogena for Dalhousie, July
15, in lat. 48 N., long. 43 W.
Del'endcr, from Glasgow to Montreal, July 18, in lat.
50 N., long. 37 W.
Governor, from Limerick, July 27, with passengers, in
lat. 52 N., long. 16 W.
Sea Queen, from London for Calcutta, July 22, in lat.
37 N., long. 14 W.
Eliza barque, standing to the south-east, July 25, in Ist.
41, long. 10.
Mogul btaque, from Liverpool, June 14, in lat. 4 N.,
long. 22 W.
Netherlands barque No. 5, June 15, in lat. 6 N., long.
21 W.
Strap; Sunda, from Amsterdam for Valparaiso, June 6.
English barcplo Antoinette, from Bordeaux for Lima,
June 9, in lat. 4 N., long. 23 W.
Robert Barbour, from Liverpool for Calcutta, June 12,
in lat. 23 N.
Sybil, from Hartlepool for Demerara, July 25, in Ist.
41, long. 10.
French barquo Clarissa and Emma, from Guadaloupe for
Marseilles, July 20, in lat. 38 N., long. 35 W.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT
WESTERN RAILWAY.
BRISTOL, SUNDAY AUG. 10.—About two o'clock
this morning an accident of a serious character, by
which upwards of twenty persons were more or less
injured, occurred to the return excursion train from
London, when arrived within about three miles of this
city. t appears that on the excursion train being
about to start ',from the Paddington station it was
found to be of such an enormous length
that it was deemed advisable to divide it
into two trains. The first train left Pad-
dington at about half-past six o'clock, and reached
Bristol safely. The second train did not leave Pad-
dington until nearly eight o'clock, and proceeded on
its way at a slow pace until it reached Swindon,
where-it was detained for a considerable time, in
order, as it was supposed, to allow the down mail-
train, which reaches Bristol at about one o'clock in
the morning, to pass by. They then again pro-
ceeded on their journey in safety to Bath. After
leaving Bath it was observed that they travelled very
slowly, as if the power of the engine was nearly ex-
hausted, and upon reaching the entrance to the No. 3,
Tunnel, at Dr. Fox's Wood, about three miles from
Bristol, the train came to a dead stand-still, and so
continued for upwards of a quarter of an hour, when
one of the passengers, who was looking out of the
window of the last carriage of the train, exclaimed
that there was another train coming down upon
them. Almost instantaneously they were run into
!ly an engine and tender. The concussion, as may
be supposed, was terrific, two or three of the car-
riages most in the rear of the train were broken.
The shrieks of the passengers were truly alarming.
Itninecliat; assistance was rendered, when it was
found that about twenty persons wno were in the
last carriage were injured; end, indeed, the shock of
the collision was so great, that the passengers through-
out the entire length of the train were thrown from
their seats. Among those that were injured, and some of
them seriously, though none had fractured limbs, were
Mr. J. Newcome, printer, of St. John-street, Bristol;
Mr. Gibbs, grocer end tallow chandler, and his nie.cF.:
Miss Chappell; Mr. Wade, jun., of Park-street, (211.bi_
net, tnal;•r, and his two sisters, one of whom l_s_(lhr;
front teeth' knocked out. Upon the train reaching
Bristol, where it did not arrive until between
fferers were
five o'clock in the morning, some of the
steir own re
u-
conveyed to the infirmary and others to h tour and
sidences, the utmost attention being id them by Mr.
eperintendent
Barton, the Great Western Rsii.vvell_•!'ongipany. upon
of police, and other officials
hofe
ta*ccident, it appeared
inquiring as to the cause of
that a return engine and
cursio train, and the tenderen-
t had left Bath a con-
fine a very dense fog
siderable period after the
deexd
very slowly towards
gineer stat( s be procee
t the 1
wiPabstahetikriver, so that he could not see
of the excursion train, which
Bristol. There
Fox's Wood, until h
arising from the
at th.ei
he instantly' shuet wofta'shsios
the red light
was nt a stand-still
;t that although
could not prevent
close upon
heen engine,
never
he
er
one moment sus-
pectedthe collision is
hichhighly probable) but that the ex-
cursion Or
had long stcan'and re•ve'arnsdedthtahte
train before reached Bristol. We
understand than the tpoliceman on that portion of the
line, together with the engineer and stoker of the
engine which caused the accident, have been given
into custody to await a thorough investigation of the
causes or the accident.

, FATAL ACCIDENT. AT R.AIgsGATE.IO.n
Ramsgate was thrown into as.ate of greatexcitemSenattubyr.dtahye
—Aboutgoi considerably
chi
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death of two individuals underl the following circumstances :
af-bpllas
out
nineut of ahEendt gentleman was bathing, and having
violence 'of the waves, depth,
;11-ashunable, from the ex-
treme'.',ft3 unusually rough, and the raingpollurillis footing.
d. The sea
The proprietor of the machine which be haodwn.umsttqourriettn:(7.,
who is a first-rate swimmer, plunged in, with hisj clothes on,
and
iendeavoured to save him. With great difficulty he sue-
ceeued n pushing him towards the shore, but the exertion
Wes tco much for him, and he let go his hold and was seen
no more. His wife and three of his children were on the
beach, and rent the air with their shrieks. Several indivi-
duals rushed into the water and succeeded in bringing the
unfortunate gentleman to the shore, but he expired
nd within
ist
a
few minutes. Meantime a mall lashed a rope and his wa,
and plunged in after the " machine" Amara, but he was himself
drawn in to all appearances dead. Animation was, b 9
at length restored. The boats and drags were put into re-
quisition to find the body of the unfortunate machine man,
but without success.
Don Carlos of Spain has been living of late with
his family in the environs of Vienna. He went\,asonunS.ubnldaye
last to Sehoenbrun, with his wife and son, to pay a visit to
the Emperor. In. the evening there was a grand dinner at
the Palace, at which the three visitors were prfeeis.epnrtoatisdle
i Duke of Bordeaux had been invited, but 'ohrt of,
I attend. Don Carlos left Vienna the nez.t day
to visit the Duke.

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