The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-03 00:00:00

LATEST PARTICULARS THIS DAY.

In another column we give ample particulars, as they
were collected last night, of the terrible accident on the
Hampstead Junction Railway—not exactly on the North
London Railway, as stated in some of the morning papers.
From personal inquiries this morning, we are enabled to
give some further particulars, in addition to an authorised
list of dead and wounded, gathered from the hospitals to
which the sufferers were taken.

Terrible as the catastrophe has proved to be, it is provi-
dential that it is no worse. Some of the papers have stated
that the train consisted of ten or twelve carriages, others of
nineteen or twenty, others that there were as many as thirty
carriages attached to the ill-fated engine which went over
the embankment. All these estimates are much below the
mark, 10,000ipassengers having left Kew in so many car-
riages that it was necessary to divide them into six separate
trains. In the first of them were Mr. Chubb, the secretary
of the North London Railway Company and his family,
the locomotive superintendent of the line, and his family,
Mr. J. H. Bell, and Mr. Robert Bell, members of the
London newspaper press, and their families, as well as
many others who have shown an interest in the welfare of
the company's servants, for whose especial pleasure the
train was provided. It was the third portion of the train
to which the accident happened.
The nature of the accident is so fully explained in
another column that it will not be necessary to enter into
detail. It may, however, be stated that one suggestion
which will be made before the coroner and jury to-morrow
is this,—that the ballast train was protected by a signal,
and that the up-train would have been safe if the signal
had been observed, but that the signal-man on duty is
said, most unaccountably, to have reversed it. The
man is not in custody, but is under surveillance,
which, perhaps, amounts to pretty much the same
thing. It is only fair to the signalman, whose name
is net given, to say that the only conclusion that could be
come to by any person closely examining the line is, that it
must be exceedingly difficult for any man placed in such a
position to do his duty satisfactorily. The line at the point
where the accident happened is not merely a curve—it is a
zig-zag, and a train coming rapidly round upon the spot at
which the ballast waggons and engine were stationed, could
hardly fail to run into it, especially if the evening happened
to be rather dark. The driver is not dead, as represented.
He is very much scalded and maimed, but he will, it is
hoped, be sufficiently recovered to give evidence at an ad-
journment of the inquest. This inquiry will be commenced
either by Mr. Wakley or Mr. Brent, at 12 to-morrow, at
the Elephant and Castle, opposite St. Pancras Workhouse,
whence it will be immediately adjourned to the Vestry-hall
of St. Pancras.

This morning the up-line was blocked, but several excur-
sion and other trains ran down—one amonster train, which
excited much attention on account of the gaiety of its occu-
pants, sent down to Windsor by the members of the
Kentish-town Library in the Hampstead-road.

It appears that the Hampstead Junction line, on which
the accident occurred, is worked by the North London
Company, although the servants of the North Western
Company attend to the line. The ballast train which stood
in the way of the excursion train on its way to London, be-
longed to the North-Western Company, who have con•
strutted a siding for the purpose of facilitating the erection
of a new coal depot.

It may serve as a guide to those who have not travelled
by this line, if we may state that the scene of the accident
is immediately behind, what in old time was called,
"Kentish•town Chapel," but which now is just known as
the Church of St. John the Baptist, Kentish-town. It is
also close behind St. Andrew's Temporary Church, on the
ether side of the line.

The engine which fell over is still lying at the bottom of
the embankment from which it went over, a distance of
about 25 or 30 feet. At daylight this morning a large num-
ber of men were employed to remove the disjecta *umbra
of the carriages, which went down with the engine, there
being some misapprehension that more dead bodies were
hidden under them. After a minute investigation, how-
ever, none were discovered, although several persons are
said to be missing. Many thousands of persons assembled
this morning in the fields through which the line runs, and
which are situate in the valley at the bottom of Highgate-
hill.

The following are the lists from the throe hospitals to
which the sufferers were conveyed :

UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL.
DEAD.
Mary SeHis, Upper•street, Isltngton.
Mrs. Bowler, 2, Somers-street, Old Ford.
Eva Stacey, Bird-in-Hand, West India-road.
Richard Saunders.

Edward Hills, Portland House, Portland-street, Com-

mercial-road.

John Yeomans, 5, Bristow-place, Poplar.

INJURED.
Joseph Bridges, guard, Richmond-terrace, Bow.
George Henry Bolton, stoker, Old Ford.
George Woodley, 6, Iceland-road, Bow.
William Woodley, ditto.
Mary Woodley, ditto.
Barry Johnson.
Edward Essex, Stratford New Town.
Isaac Coxall, Old Ford.
Charles Cox, Bow.
J. W. Hewitt, Bow.
Alice Hewitt, ditto.
Charles Albert Hewitt, ditto,
George Hewitt, ditto.
William Stewart, Leighton Buzzard.
Benjamin Rushbrook, Hants Canal, Poplar.
Mrs. Drake, 1, Alfred-terrace, Stepney.
Miss Drake, ditto.
Mrs. Clements.
Annie Ward, 91, Upper-street, Islington.
Elizabeth Ward, ditto.
Jane Greenwood.

Henry Stacey.
John Stacey.
Mary Ann Matthews.
John Bayley.
Joseph Cocks.

Sarah Essex.
A child (unknown).

MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL.

DEAD.
Charles Standing, aged 19, Brennan-road, Old Ford.
Greenwood, aged 14.
Greenwood, aged 8.

INJU RED.
George Terry, Liverpool-street, King's-cross.
Ann Philpot, West Ham, Essex.
ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL.
DEAD.

Emma English, aged 41, 24, John-street, Clerkenwell.

INJURED.
James English, aged 40.
James English, infant.

Sarah Cox, Iceland-road, Old Ford.
AT ST. PANCRAS WORKHOUSE.
DEAD.

Elizabeth Allen, aged 68, of No. 10, Alpha-terrace,
Stratford ; identified this morning by her husband.

Should public rumour prove true, her Majesty is
not without intentions of again and often honouring Ire-
land with a visit, for that many-tongued agency has already,
assigned her a site for a royal residence in the most pic-
turesque part of Muckross demesne.
LAND IN TASMANIA.—Cheap land is obtainable in
this colony upon very easy terms. From the Land Gazette,
recently published by the Tasmanian Government, it ap-
pears that plenty of good land can be readily and cheaply
procured. There are still several million acres of such land
for disposal. An immigrant with only a small capital (say
from £l5O to £200) can easily become a landowner by avail-
ing himself of the credit afforded under the Waste Lands
Act. If, for instance, he purchases townlands amounting
to £lOO, £lO are added for credit, and one-fourth only of
the £llO is required as a deposit at the time of purchase, the
balance being received in three annual instalments of £27
10s. In the case of agricultural and pastoral kids one-
fifth is added for credit, one-fifth only paid at the time of
purchase, and the balance received in eight yearly instal-
ments, which, if the purchase money were £lOO, would only
amount to £l2. Land may also be sold by private contract
to any person at Ll per acre, provided the plot does not
exceed 320 acres.

A private letter from Bayonne of the 28th August
states that the produce of the maize crop in that neighbour-
hood will not be equal to more than the half of an ordinary
year in consequence of the continued dry weather, no rain
having fallen since the month of May. This calamity will
be the more severely felt as the peasants in that country de-
pend principally on the maize crop for food. A few days'
rain, however, would still repair the injury.