The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-05 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN.
Euston Station, 3d April, 1858.
The London and North-Western Board have to
acknowledge and thank the deputations for their
further minute dated 31st March, from which it
would appear that the deputations consider the
proposed agreement for equal rates proceeds on the
assumption that it is to be " permanent ;" but the
observance of such an agreement could not be en-
sured, even for a day, which is the only and sufffs
cient reason why the London and North-Western
did not contend for a longer term than three
months, when that term was proposed by the Shef4
field and Great Northern Companies.
In reference to the following observation of the
deputation as to the agreement of July, 1854
"the only question upou which there is any sub•
stantial difference between the parties," viz ;
"The deputation repasts now, that nothing which it
does is intended to interfere with the North-Western
Company's rights to use that agreement before a
parliamentary committee, in the same manner as if no.
place on the part of the North-Western
thing had taken
Company in deferents to the wishes of this deputation.
" The deputation bas throughout conceived that while
the agreement of 1854 may be ultra tires, yet, when
considered as a question not of law, but of morality and
good fai b, a committee of tt e House cf Parliament may
feel that it was a compact which neitherpartywas
questions
jus-
tified in breaking wiihout submitting any
issue to the tribunal of reference which the agreement
had itself created for their determination ; and whether
the snit be proceeded with or not to its fullest extent, the
argument will still remain unimpaired, that any oona.
pany receding from an agreement without sufficient jus.
ti6cation, is not entitled to legislative assistance toward.
forming fresh combinations which that agreement WAN
intended to prevent.
"The deputation desires to reiterate that such in its
view will be the Parliamentary position of t heNorth-Wes.
tern Company in its opposition to any of the bills which
the Sheffield Company is now promoting, or to which it
is a party, as arising out of the severance, of its connec-
tion with ail North-Western and its alliance with other
companies.'
The London and North-Western directors are ad-
vised and believe, that any agreement or engagement
on their part to limit the exercise of the company's
legal rights, would prejudice, perhaps fatally, theit
case, both in the Courts and before Parliament, where
they are compelled to appear, most unwillingly,
in defence of their property against aggressive and
wrongful acts. As evidence, however, that the
London and North Western Directors do not con-
template needless litigation, they offer, without
reservation, that, in tho event of their taking any
proceedings in ralal .n to the agreement of July,
1854, boy nd those admitted by the Deputations
to be necessary and proper ; then the other party
may at once deprive the London and North
Western Company of al ,y advantage which they
may be supposed to derive from a cessation of the
present reade.s competition.
The Directors of the London and North Western
Company are quite unable to perce.ve how the
present ruinous rates can be necessary to, or can
assist in, the judicial decision of the var ous matters
at issue between the Companies which ere all in
c eiree of determination—the continuance of those
injurious rates cannot be justified on the plea that
either Company can, by such means, extort con-
cessions greater than they can hope to obtain from
the proper tribunals.
'1 he London and North Western Directors have
or,lered the rates and fares between London and
Peterborough to be restored to the rates fixed by
the Great Northern (as the company possessing the
sho!test route), and they are willing, and offer,
without any stipulation (except that the rates shall
be the same by both routes), at once, and micon-
eitieinally, to re-tore the rates and fares at all other
points where the companies are in competition, to
those in operation prior to the present contest, or to
such other scale, and for whatever period, the depu-
tations shall consider reasonable. The continu-
ance, therefore, cr cessation, of the present reck-
less competition, ieets with the Sheffield and Great
Northern companies.

EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT ON THE MAN-
CHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE
RAILWAY.

An accident of an alarming character occurred
to the 630 p.m. train from Manchester on
Thursday evening. The train, which consisted of
seven carriages, with a he eak van in front and be-
hind, arrived at and left Penistone within a minute
of ifs usual time. Only one of the carriages was of
the first class. From an investigation made since,
it is clear that the accident arose from the breaking
of the tire of one of the hind wheels of this carriage
which was filled with passengers for Sheffield.
When the train had reached about two miles be-
yond Peuistone, and was at full speed, the passen-
gers were thrown into a state of alarm by the fear-
ful jolting of the carriages. The first-class carriage
had lest its bind wheels, which, having become
twisted under the second-class carriage behind,
threw it off the rail, but not till its fore wheels were
also detached from the body. The coupling chain
between the two carriages at the moment broke.
The second-class carriage, with the brake van behind
crossed the space between the two sets of rails, and
both were suddenly brought to a stand by being
up,et upon the opposite rails. The passengers, eight
i u number, were thrown upon one another, and se-
veral received severe contusions. The engine and
the rest of the carriages continued their course. The
first-class carriage was dragged at the tail of the
others, minus its hind wheels, for a distance of
about half a mile, the passengers in that and the ad-
joining carriages shouting and screaming, and one
of them using a dog whistle, in the hope of making
themselves heard by the engine-driver. The train
at length was brought to a stand at the entrance of
the Outhwatie teunne]. One of the pas engers,
Mr. Eadon, in his fear of being carried into the
tunnel, juwptd out of the train whilst it was in
motion, and being thrown to the ground was
rather seriously bruised and cut on the head and
one leg. The driver of the engine (Sedgwiok), it
appears had not heard the alarm made by the pas-
sengers. He states he was first aware of something
being wrong in the train by the coupling chain in
the first van and tender snapping asunder. The
line at this point is on a decline. He saw, there-
fore, that if he had checked his engine, it would
have been run into by the carriages behind, and
the collision must have resulted in the death of
some of the passengers. He, therefore, with great
discretion, kept his engine ahead, until the momen-
tum of the carriages having become exhausted by
the drag of the broken one at the tail, they were
brought to a stand. Some of the passengers then
ran back in search of Mr. Eadon, and assisted him
to the train. It was not then known how far the
other carriage and van had been dragged behind.
The engine-driver, therefore, instead of searching
for them, released himself of the broken first-class
carriage, and hastened forward with the other por-
tion of the train, to give warning at the Wortley
station of the line being obstructed. The train
then came forward to Sheffield, which place it
reached about half an hour after its proper time.
The guard left with the detached part of the train
had, in the meantime, run back to the Penistone
station, and telegraphed to Sheffield for assistance.
The line was soon cleared of the two broken car-
riages and van, and some displaced rails restored.
The passengers who had been left behind made
their way to the Penistone station, and were
brought forward to Sheffield by the next train,
which arrived at half-past 11 o'clock. Many of
the passengers in various parts of the train received
severe bruises, but none of any serious injury.

FATAL ACOIDENT IN N W SHOREHA
HARBOUR.-TWO LIVES LOST.

resulted in the death of
Shoreham harbour, which reesfu
the harbour works,
On Friday a melancholy dent occurred in New
Wm. T. King, 44, forenian ;
mariner. King, who
and Joshua H. Dinnage, 30,
attion of a boat, with
great pains in the
tcoo
compete for the prizes gives
had a strong passion fooretra aquatic sports, had taken
which lie
Shorehamintended to
regatta. Accordingly the
at the annual fortbeet
arteigoantLasiirlle provedt . lasto wc
oh
me rt.
to hi Since that time he had had her en-
tirely failure.
—parer
boat was entered
hauled ; several improvements were made
tirely trar:
°"underflis own immediate superintendence,
completed to his satisfaction, Good Fri-
was the day fixed upon for her trial trip.
day
Having secured the services of Diunage, a mariner
aunpdo riVhi eer.
of great experience, and a harbour-pilot named
Tom Matthews, all three embarked in the little
craft about a quarter past one, having previously
shipped a quantity of iron ballast and removed the
inn keel of the boat. The helm was entrusted to
Dinnage, who a-sumed the command with a firm
determination to put, the boat thoroughly through
her pace;. A stiff breeze was blowing at the mo-
ment of embarkation, and when the party had
cleared the wharf and reached the opposite point at
what is called the Saltiugs, Matthews cautioned
Dinnage against straining the boat beyond her
power,, and advised him to lull. Dint age replied,
" Oh, let her go, let her go," and in a few minutes
afterwards a squall caught her and sent both the
owner and helmsman to eternity. Matthews, who
is noted for his obesity, and for the hair-breadth
escapes he has hail in the channel, swam, or rather
r died, to a shoal place in the river, whore he o_i_s
t oned a f00tm,27, and where he remained up oli
occurred
irm-pits in the water until a boat came and
nrouglit him athote. As the
accidentwharf, a number of
close to and within sight of tltiae
b ,ats instantly put cff, and_alfo'
Diunage
wb
picked
up,
rdred dredging for about
as
ofijdie,,vered until m.re
it df-an-hour, the body
but that of King was not
tropht,
than an hour after the Ca WI