The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-03 00:00:00

COURT OF ALDERMEN.

At two o'clock yesterday afternoon a court was held
for the dispatch of the remainder of the business upon
the notice-paper, prior to the usual vacation.
The Sheriffs having notified to the Court that G. E.
Hodgkinson, Esq., citizen and spectacle-maker, had been
returned by the Livery as sheriff for the ensuing year, by
a majority of 420 over Charles S. Butler, Esq., that gen-
tleman was subsequently called forward to take the oath
usually administered upon such occasions, and to give
the requisite securities. Some other business, of no
public importance, was then transacted, and the Court
adjourned sine die.

THE COLLISION ON THE EDIN-

BURGH AND GLASGOW RAIL WAY. -
(From the Glasgow Daily Mail of Thursday.)
We regret to announce the occurrence this morning
of a deplorable casualty on the Edinburgh and Glasgow
line of railway, by which a serious loss of life has been
caused, and many parties have sustained severe, if not
irrevocable injuries. The disaster took place shortly
before eleven o'clock, about a quarter of a mile beyond
the Cowlairs station. The particulars, so far as we
have been able to collect them from the accounts of
passengers and other sources, are as follows:
A pleasure train left Perth in the morning. From its
length it was deemed advisable to divide it into several
parts. Tile first portion arrived at the Cowlairs station
almost immediately after the Edinburgh train, which was
then stationed there, and getting ready for entering the
tunnel. The Edinburgh train contained forty-one car-
riages, and there were twenty.seven in the Perth one.
Following close after was the Scottish Central ordinary
train.

Such was the number of passengers carried by the in-
termediate train, that several cattle trucks had been at-
tached to it; and in them a good many found accommo-
dation. They brought up the rear. They had not been
at Cowlairs—where, as is well known, a stoppage inva-
riably takes place—more than five minutes, when the
succeeding train came up, and a fearful collision ensued.

Neither the guard nor firemen had taken the precau-
tion to send back signals that they were in the way.
On the other hand, the parties in charge of the ap-
proaching train, though there does exist a curve
in the line a little beyond Cowlairs, which would neces-
sarily prevent them from observing that the passage was
not clear till they were almost close on the obstruction,
must have been aware that they were but a little dia-
tance behind, as the two trains had left Greenhill Juno-
_ _

Lion nearly together, and they had kept sight of the pre-
ceding one the whole way onward,.
The collision was a most violent one. Scarcely any of
the hundreds of passengers have escaped unhurt, though,
fortunately, the bruises of most are comcaratively slight.
It is not so, however, we regret, with all. Three per-
sons were killed on the spot. They had places in the
cattle truck, which, as already mentioned, was the last
of the train; and such had been the force of the concus-
sion, that the tender of the one by which it was run into
was tilted up so as to be half into it—the wheels resting
upon it with their full weight. Beneath them one man
was crushed to death. Two females also lay dead beside
hire. Had there been regular carriages at the rear of
the train, the accident would have been very trifling, as
the buffers would have effectually repelled the concus-
sion. As it is, however, it is fortunate that the tender
was lifted up in the manner described, as it acted in the
manner of a wedge, and contributed thereby to break
the force of the collision.

Two of the directors happened to be in the Edinburgh
train. They immediately got out and took the direction
of the plans suggested for the relief of the sufferers. Mr.
Thomson, from the office of the company, also repaired
to the spot so soon as news of the occurrence reached
town, and medical aid was forthwith procured.

The parties most injured were conveyed to the cot-
tages adjoining, where the nature of their injuries were
examined. They were sent to the Infirmary as soon
after as possible.
Sheriff Bell, and other official parties, also visited the
spot; and, after investigating the circamstances,directed
that the drivers of both trains should be apprehended.
We append a list of the parties killed, and of those
who have been most seriously injured. The number is
greatly less than was originally reported.

Report by the medical gentlemen employed by the Edin-
burgh and Glasgow Railway Company of the persona
injured on their line, 115 n the morning of Thursday,
Ist August, liiso.
William Whitehead, farmer, near Dunblane—severe
but not serious bruise from right shoulder to thigh.
Mrs. Miienzie, from Methven, aunt of Mr. M'Ars,
of Glasgow—severe bruises on head and face, and inter-
nal injuries.
Matthew Lennox, from Cullen, brother to the deceased
Jean Lennox—fractured rib and other bruises.
Mrs. Kinross, Hungry-hill, Dunblane—Right hand
bruised, and several teeth knocked out.
Mrs. M'E wen, from Comrie—Eye cut and hand bruised.
Catherine Drummond or Macgregor, from Comrie—
Concussion of brain.
Mrs. Jessie Middleton, Kenbuck—Bruises on face and
limbs. Also her infant child—Severe bruises on head;
since dead.
William Aitken, baker, Bannockburn—Cats in face,
and dislocation of right hip joint.
Peter Campbell, labourer, Aucharn, near Kinmore—
Severe cut in right leg, and other injuries.
Dead—Janet M'Arthur, Dunblane ; Jean Lennox,
Culiens, near Dunblane ; John Morrison, overseer at
Kippen-cross.
Another account states that the number of persons
killed on the spot was six.