The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-07 00:00:00

THE S UN, LON DON, THURSDAY MORN ING. AUG UST 7 I-45

additional garrisons established at all points, an expe-
ditionary division of 12,000 men has been organised at
Vittoria. A complete revision of the officers of the
army is spoken of. The principal proprietors of At
ragon have petitioned against M. Mores new system of
taxation. The Minister replied that he would not draw
back, as he was fully determined to establish his new
system of taxation.

The correspondence between Lord 'ABERDEEN and
the Duke of SOTOMAYOR is commented on in these
papers. El Espanol,' however, says, that the Protec-
torate of France, weak and irresolute as she is, can
never compensate Spain for any estrangement on the
part of England towards the Spanish people.
According to the Hera/do Ministers had decided on
the dissolution of the Senate, and the nomination of
certain senators. The meeting of the Cortes will take
place on the 10th of October, the day her MAJESTY
Will have attained her 15th year. Malaga had been
declared under martial law. Generals SORIA and Fr-
cuErtas wrre to be named members of the Royal
Council ; and Generals CONCHA, the Duke of Any-
NADA. RONCALI, and CORD ,VA, were spoken of as
candidates for the offices of Inspectors-General of Militia
and Infantry: The expeditionary brigade was to re
turn from Cuenca to Madrid, no further fears being en-
tertained of Valencia or Catatonia.

The Three per Cents. rose on the 30th ult. more than half
per cent. They were quoted at. 29% cash, and 301/4 at 60
days ; 32,800,000 done. Fives 21% at 60 days ; amount,
1,000.000. Passives, 7 7-16 fir the 19th of August; amount,
2,000,000. •

We have received the Paris papers of Monday. They
all contain remarks on the debates in the English Par-
liament on the affairs of Greece. The Commerce desig •
Dates Lord ABERDEEN'S language as most insolent to•
France, and the Debate complains that the British re-
presentative at Athens, instead of uniting with M.
PISCATORY against Russia, sides with Russia against
France.
The Opposition papers again allude to Lord PALMER
STON'S speech-on the national defences., and the National
and &irk seem delighted with the idea that it may be
possible for *eFrance to grapple with hcr ancient rival
on her own soil."
The Debuts has the following observations on the late
Customs returns published in the Monileur :
" The Board of Customs has just published an account of
the imports for the first six months of the present year, which
shows the following variations, viz., a considerable increase in
sugars, coffees, wools, cottons, coal, and oleaginous seeds, and an
increase also, but not so great, in copper, tallow, oils, and dye-
ing materials. These results are accounted for by the general
increase in consumption, and by the activity of our several
manufactories. The introduction of cottons deserves particu-
lar nitice, as they amount to 35,000,000 kilos., while the
amount brought in during the same period of 1844 was no
greater than 27,000,000 kilos. It will be oll,erved also that
coals have reached 967,000 tons' notwithstanding the continual
increase in the quantities raised from our own mines, which
now amount to nearly 4,000,000 tons, an augmentation of cent.
per cent. in ten years. As to the oleaginous seeds and sesame,
the great object of recent Parliamentary contestation, it may
well be conceived that the expecta,ion of an increased duty
caused a forced provision to be made during the first months of
the year; this increase must necessarily find its limit. On the
other hand, silks and linens have remained stationary, and
threads, cast iron, zinc, lead, and corn, have fallen off. With
regard to silk, we may remark that oar native produce
of this article naturally tends to limit the import of foreign
silks. The diminution in the import of threads, and the
stationary amount of the introduction of linen cloths, are the
results of the increased duties imposed, which diminish those
from Belgium and England. The metals brought in last
year exceeded the demand for consumption. With regard
to coin, the arrivals of which have been only 20,000,000
kilogrammes, instead of 102,000,000 kilogrammes, there is
no other article in which the fluctuations arc so great; not that
our consumption has any very great effect on the annual de.
mand, for we purchase scarcely any for ourselves fro:n abroad,
and the quantities imported are almost exclusively destined for
re-exportation, after being ground, to supply the great dealings
in flour from Marseilles. On the aggregate, there has been an
improvement in nearly all the branches of merchandise; and
the Customs' receipts, which during the first six months of
1844 amounted to a little more than 71,000,000 f., has in the
same period of the present -year
Parisvery for
rarthlye reachedhateau
76,000,000 f."
The KING and Royal Family left
d'Eu, on Monday.
We should not he surprised to hear of the rs,cal of
Marshal BUGEAUD from Algiers. The National says :
" Marshal Bugeaud has taken such a tone in his corre-
spondence with Marshal Soult, and qualified in such harsh
terms the decisions of the Cabinet relative to Algeria—he has
manifested so firm a determination not to obey those decisions,
that the Cabinet was obliged, at one of its last meetings, to
examine the affair. It was on the eve of Marshal Soult's
departure for his estate of St. Arnaud. The Mi-
nester of War placed before his colleagues several letters
which he had received from M. Bugeaud, and written in so in-
sulting a style, that he deemed it. expedient to communicate
them to the officers of the War Department. After read-
ing those letters, which showed that M. Bugeaud consi-
dered himself more competent to decide on the affairs of
Algeria than all the romancers and talkers of Paris, and
that he appeared :o have completely forgotten the principles
of military discipline and of administrative hierarchy, the
Council resolved that Marshal Soult should write to him in
their name. The letter, which was drawn up at the same
sitting, by one of the Alioisters present, gave M. Bugeaud
to understand that the Government of the King compelled
nobody to serve it, but that it required from those who ac-
cepted office, from the highest to the lowest functionary, that
they should submit to the same rules of subordination towards
the central Government. That letter was forwarded to ill.
Bugeaud by one of the last packets for Algeria. We have not
heard what effect that letter produced on the irascible Marshal,
who fancies more the rigours of dictatorship than the prescrip-
tions of the Constitutional Government, which be reluctantly
abeys."

The Pr esse has an admirable article, denouncing, in
energetic terms, the horrible cruelty of the system which
Marshal BIIGEAUD i$ pursuing in Algeria.
General PRIM, Count of Reuss, arrived on the 30th
ult. at Marseilles, where he was to embark in the next
packet for Barcelona. The Duke D'AIDIAIrE has left

Paris for Bordeaux, where the troops which are to form
the camp are already assembling. The Duke and
Duchess DE NEMOURS are still continuing their progress
through the south of France, where they are received
with every distinction.
The King of WIATEMBERG left Stutgard on the 30th
ult. for the Tyrol. The QUEEN and Royal Family left
the same day for Weisbaden, and will probably meet the
Queen of ENGLAND on the Rhine.

DREADFUL RAILWAY
ACCIDENT.
LATEST PARTICULARS. .
It appears that on Monday last the express, or morning
mail train, left the terminus of the junction station at Shore-
ditch, at half-past eleven o'clock, the usual hour, for Nor-
wich. It was composed of two second-class and three first-
class carriages, between which and the tender and engine
were the luggage van and a horse-box,, containing two
horses, and at the rear of the train was a truck, together
with another horse- box. The train proCeeded at its usual
rate, averaging about 30 miles an hour, making two stoppages,
as far as Wendon, in Essex, a distance of 43 miles from
town. It was then about five minutes to one o'clock, and the
hinder truck and horse-box having been detached, the regu-
lar signals were given, and the train renewed its course. The
line between this station and the next, Chesterford, is slightly
on the incline, we are informed 1 foot in 150, and, according
to all accounts, the speed here maintained was greater
than during the preceding part of the journey, so much
so as to produce a violent oscillation of the carriages.
Suddenly; on the train verging into a kind of cutting, situate
near a village called Littleborough, half way between the
Wendon and Chesterford stations, the passengers sustained
a slight shock, which was immediately succeeded by one of
a most violent character, accompanied by an explosion. It
was some moments ere the passengers recovered from its
effects, and on looking out of the carriages it was impossible
for a time to discern what had really happened, on account
of a complete torrent of fire, intermingled with dust. and dirt,
while at the same time the steam literally enveloped the
train, and even when it had subsided, the roaring of the en-
gine was of so frightful a character as to terrify the unfortu-
nate passengers. On, however, a few of the passengers, bolder
than the remainder, alighting, a most frightful sight pre-
sented itself. The engine had crossed—after breaking away
from the tender—the up-libe rails, and was lying bottom up-
wards on the side of the cutting, a complete wreck. The
tender was some distance-in advance of the train, doubled
up, whilst the horse-box and van were on fire. The
first object was to extricate the pasSengers from
the carriages next to the horse-box which were sadly
broken, the bodies being taken completely off, and flames
issuing from the roof of one of them. Many passengers were
carried out apparently dead, and others were much
bruised. In another part of the 'train the General Post-
office guard, in charge of the mails, was found lying on his
back, having seemingly been thrown from his seat on to the
line, and the wheels having passed over him, for one of his
legs was found to be shockingly crushed. The dense body of
smoke and steam kept issuing from the disabled engine,
and the ground being- strewn with heated coke, the search
for a time could not be proceeded with. In the meanwhile
the guard of the train very promptly dispatched two or three
of the passengers to the neighbouring village of 'Wen-
don for medical and other assistance, and on the disastrous
occurrence being made known hundreds flocked to the spot.
It is utterly impossible to give any adequate description
of the scene--one almost unparalleled in railway accidents.
Both lines, to the extent of near 200 yards, were torn
up. The engineer was found alive, very little injured;
but his stoker was discovered to be lying under the
engine, one of his hands being just visible. Any attempt to
extricate him by the means then at hand was a matter of
impossibility, and it was evident to all from the weight that
rested upon the body, and the violent action of the fire and
steam, that the' poor fellow must have been killed instantane-
ously on the engine overturning. The fire still raging with
considerable vigour, the bystanders having procured various
vessels, 'proceeded to throw a quantity of water on the blazing
trucks and carriages, and eventually succeeded in subduing
the flames, by which time, however, the luggage-van was
partially consumed, and much damage done to the passengers'
baggage. In an hour or so afterwards a pilot engine from
Cambridge reached the scene, and was immediately set to
work in dragging away the wrecks, the line being perfectly
impassable both up and down. That having been partially
accomplished, men were enabled to get at the engine, and in
the course of two or three hours succeeded, by means of jacks,
in raising it, when the mutilated remains of the unfortunate
stoker; Richard Peake, were dragged forth ; recognition was
impossible. The body was burnt and scalded to a frightful ex-
tent, and being placed on a litter, it was removed to the Falcon
Inn, Littleborough, to await the coroner's 'inquiry. The
guard, after being attended to by the surgeons who were
brought to his aid, was afterwards taken on to the Cambridge
Hospital, where he now lies in a most deplorable state of
suffering. During these ,operations those passengers who
were injured were conveyed into the adjacent meadows and
laid down until the necessary assistance had arrived to re-
move them to the neighbouring towns. They received every
attention from a large muster of medical gentlemen from
Wendon, Saffron Waldon, &c., and late in the day posted to
their respective homes.

Mr. Farnctiough, the superintendent of the locomotive de-
partment of the line, was, as we are informed, on the engine at
the time of the accident, and providentially escaped injury.
He states that he was thrown from the engine, and found
himself but a few yards from the ponderous mass. His
escape, therefore, may be deemed almost miraculous. The
escape, also, of the engineer, was wonderful. He was stand-
ing between the engine and tender, with his face forward,
when the force of the schock drove him violently against
the drum of the boiler, and the succeeding shock sent him
" flying" over the back of the train on to the side of the
cutting.
The intelligence of the accident did not reach Shoreditch
until late in the evening, when Mr. Hanson, the manager of
the traffic department, started off in a special train, to render
any assistance that might be required, as also for the pur-
pose of ascertaining the extent of injury, in order to report
the same to Major- General Pasley, which was done yesterday.
The extent of mischief done is very great. Besides the
destruction of the engine and tender, the luggage-van was
destroyed by fire, as well as the horse- box, though the horses
were pre.,erved two second-class and a first-class carriage
were shattered, besides other damage, to the extent of about
6,000/.

The following official statement has been banded to us for
publication :

An accident occurred on the Eastern Counties Railway,
on Monday, to the train leaving town for Norwich, at halt-
past eleven o'clock, A.M., by which the fireman on the train
lost his life and one of theguards wasseriously injured. From
some cause which cannot at present be clearly ascertained the
engine was thrown off the rails when passing over the embank-
went near Wendon, about 12 miles below Cambridge. It is
thought that one of the wedges having started from its posi-
tion was the cause of the accident. The engine and tender
were thrown over upon the up-line of rails, and the trucks,
with the passengers' luggage, and some of the carriages were
very much broken. Most providentially none of the passen-
gers were injured. The fireman was thrown under the
engine and killed upon the spot. One of the guards had his
leg broken, and the engine-driver, or superintendent of the
engine department, was much shaken by the concussion.
The officers of the coinpany were sedulously engaged in as-
certaining the cause of the accident, which at present appears
involved in considerable uncertainty.

DEATH OF .MAJOR-GENERAL ELRINGTON, C. 13.—
This distinguished officer died on Saturday last. His commis-
sions were dated—Ensign, Dec. 4, 1799; Lieutenant, April
19, 1 794 ; Captain, June 1, 1795; Major, April 25, 1808;
Lieut -Colonel, June 4, 1812; Colonel, July 22 1830; Major-
General, Nov. 23, 1841. Fur r.ume years the deceased com-
manded the 47th Foot with great honour to himself and satis-
facti.m to the regiment. Few officers have seen harder
service ; he was engaged in the arduous campaigns in Hol-
land from 1793, to Feb. 1795, including the attack on Famars
and Valencienne4; was in the Carribean war of 1795-6;
at the siege and storming of Moute Video and the attack
on Buenos Ayres; assisted in the attack on and capture of
Ras-al-Kimah, in the Persian Gulf, in 1809; commanded a
field force at the reduction of Palampore, Deese, Kirjah, and
Virampere, in 1817, and a brigade during the Pindarre war ;
commanded a brigade up the Persian Gulf in 1819; also, frOin
Dec., 1824, throughout the Burmese war. Was ihot-through
the body before Dunkirk in September, 1793, and,through the
thigh at the island of St. Vincent in '7%14,1796. rt

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DREADFUL COLLIERY EXPLO-
SION.—INQUEST ON THE BODIES.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
ABERDARE, NEAR MERTHYR TYDFIL, TUESDAY MORNING.
—The Coroner for the upper division of the county of Gla-
morgan, William Davies, Esq., solicitor, Merthyr Tvdvil,
having fixed yesterday for the inquest, very many of the
most mipectable inhabitants of the place and its neighbour-
hood, and also a goad many workmen, met at the Boot Inn,
in the village of Aberdare, where the inquest had been ap-
pointed to take place.
The proceedings commenced by empannelling the follow-
ing perspns, constituting a most respectable jury :—William
Thomas, Esq., J.P., foreman; Matthew Wayne, Esq., iron-
master; Thomas Wayne, Esq.,, ditto; Philip Taylor, Gen-
tleman; Messrs. Henry Kirkhousa, mineral agent; David
Llewelyn, ditto; John Smith, ditto; Rees Hopkin Rhys,
ditto ; Juhn Nixon, coal-merchant ; David Davies, ditto;
David Williams, ditto; Joseph Priestly Evans, , innkeeper;
Thomas Nicholas Jones, victualler; Robert Beadle, shop-
keeper; William Miles, collier; David Nicholas Jones, ditto;
and Thomas Edwards, ditto.
The jury having been sworn, proceeded to execute the
melancholy task of viewing the bodies, and as the places at
which they lived embraced a circuit of some miles the in-
spection occupied a considerable time Many of the bodies
presented a shocking spectacle. Two or three seemed as if
they had been literally roasted; whilst others were but
slightly scorched, and at the same time the bruises were in-
considerable. By the time that the inspection was over the
intelligence was brought that the whole of the bodies had
been recovered from the pit; three or four had.been found in
the morning and the rest in the evening. , This, as it must
be supposed, gave great satisfaction not only to their relatives
but to all other persons, as it was feared at one time that
some of them would be irrecoverable for a considerable time.
Where these serious colliery accidents have happened here
before some of the bodies. have been irrecoverable for a con-
siderable time, arising from the foulness of the air, or the falls
of rubbish,
The little village, situated as it is so beautifully, was yes-
terdaya scene of universal lamentation. At one time six
fUnerals were to be seen proceeding towards the church in
succession, whilst several others were in the church-yard.
The concourse of people was very great; and whilst contem-
plating the sad scene, the humble church, and church-yard,
with its venerable yews, where " the rude forefathers of
the hamlet sleep," and listening to the impressive burial
service, I thought within myself; that never were words more
applicable than those of the Psalmist--"Dust thou art, and
unto dust shalt thou return."
The jury having re-assembled in the inquest room, it was
deemed advisable, from the lateness of the hour, the number
of witnesses to be examined, and in all probability the pro-
tractea nature of the inquiry, to adjourn the inquest until
eleven o'clock to-day.
The following are the names and ages of the sufferers :
David jenkins, single man, aged 37 ; Richard Morris, ditto,
aged 30; Howel William, ditto, aged 28, and Rees Williams,
ditto, aged 24, brothers; Joseph Philips, ditto, aged 15;
Thomas Evans, married, aged 35 i. Evan Lewis, single, aged
19 ; George Thoinds, ditto, aged 33; William Williams, mar-
ried, aged 34; David Jones, ditto, aged 34; David Jones,
single, aged 32 ; James James, ditto, aged 23 ; Howel David,
ditto, aged 20; John Jones, ditto, aged 19; David Morgan,
ditto, aged 21; Thomas Smith, ditto, aged 19 ; John Ed-
wards, married, aged 35, and William Edwards, aged 9,
father and son; James Thomas, widower, aged 44, and
David Thomas, aged 10, father and son; William Llewelyn,
single, aged 19; William, Evans, ditto, aged 30; .Thomas
Davies, widower, aged 78; Evan Thomas, single, .aged 14;
John Jones, ditto, aged 17 ; John Evans, married, aged 32,
and David Evans, aged 9, father and son; Nicholas Evans,
a compound fracture of the thigh, a fracture of the arm and
a portion of the jaw-bone, and several teeth broken—not
expected to live,