The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-15 00:00:00

ISSUE DEPARTXENT.

X. X.
Notes issued ...... 28,447,835 Government debt 11,015,100
Other securities 2,984,900
Gold coin and bul-
-1 lion 12,552,401
I Silver bullion 1,895,434

£28,447,835
'Sr.
Dated the 13th day of Febr

£28,447,835
RSHALL, Chief Cashier.
r, 1845.

BANKING D:

;PARTNENT.

Proprietors' capita 114,553,000
Rest
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings-
banks, Commis-
sioners of National

abnernment secu-
rities (including
Dead Weight
Annuity)
Other securities 10,065,958
Notes 8,128,350
Gold and silver
coin 700,748

Debt, and divi-
dend accounts) 3,715,171
Other deposits 9,732,193
Seven day and other
bills

£32,371,216

.1:32,371,814
RSHALL, Chief Cashier.
tary, 1845.

M. MA
Dated the lath day of Febru,

PROMISSORY NOTES.

(From Last Night's Gazette.)
An account of the Average Aggregate Amount of Promis-
sory Notes payable to bearer on demand, which have been
in circulation by the Banks in Scotland, by the Bank of Ire-
land, and by all other Banks in Ireland, during the four
weeks ending the Ist day of February, 1845, pursuant to
the Act of 4th and sth Victoria, cap. 50 :

SCOTLAND.

Chartered, Private, and Joint-Stock Banks £3,070,058
IRELAND. _ --- _

Bank of Ireland 3,983,050
PriTate and Joint-Stock Banks

Total
H. L. WICKIIAM.

Stamps and Taxes, Feb. 14, 1845.

RAILWAY COLLISION.

Nxwcarri.x.ors-Trtss, Fan. 12.—A collision of trains took
place last night on the Brandling Junction Railway, the report of
Which excited considerable alarm in this town, until it was satis.
factorily ascertained that no lives were lost. It appears that the
eight o'clock train from Gateshead to Sunderland was approaching
Felling station, when the speed of the train was slackened to stop
at the station; but before the train reached the sta.
Lion a smart shock was felt by the passengers, who were
thrown from their seats, and a general rush was made to
get out of the carriages, the women screaming, and the melt
in a state of bewilderment. The line, it seems, is undergoing
repair at this part, so that there is only one line in operation for
a short distance. A long luggage train was coming in the' op..
posite direction from Brockley Whins, and was in the act of
leaving the one line and crossing on to the other line, where• The
repairs are finished. The engine of the luggage train had just got
on the other line, when the passenger train ran plump into the
waggons next it, which were thrown off the line, piled one above
another, and scattered on all sides by the shock. The engine of
the passenger train was much broken, there being a large rent
through which the fire tumbled on to the ground, and a general
cry arose that the engine would burst, which added greatly to the
prevailing consternation, every one endeavouring to get as far
from it as possible. Had the Sunderland train from Gateshead
been half a minute earlier, the two engines would have met, and
frightful would havi been the consequences.

The engine of the luggage train, which has sustained no injury,
was immediately sent off to Gateshead to stop all trains leaving, and
bring men to assist in clearing the line, the passengers being in the
meantime accommodated in the station.

In about half an hour afterwards the train from Sunderland an.
rived, and as it could not proceed for the ruins, it was emptied of •
its passengers, and those from Gateshead get in. This train, with
the Gateshead passengers, left the Felling-station at ten minutes to
ten o'clock, having been detained upwards of an hour and a half,
and then it proceeded at a very slow pace, as it had to pass the
York train, and there was also danger of meeting any other train
from Brock's), Whins. After reaching Brockley 'Whims, the
speed of the train was increased, as there was then no danger of
meeting any other engine between that place and Sunderland,
where the passengers were landed in safety, at eleven o'clock. The
men were a long time in clearing away the wreck of carriages, and
the line was interrupted for several hours. Happily, a few slight
bruises comprised the extent of injury sustained by any of the pas.
sengers. Much blame is attached to the engineman of the
head train, who says he did not see the red light attached te*.frhe
luggage-train. However that may be, it was a fortunate demi- ..
stance that he had slackened speed .s.t.the station, for otherwise the
collision would doubtless have been fatal.

• COURT CIRCULAR.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited
their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the
Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz yes-
terday at Cambridge House.
A deputation in support of the Irish Great Western Bail-
way from Dublin to Galway, consisting of the following
noblemen and gentlemen .--the Earl of Devon, Lord Oran-
more, Lord Claud Hamilton, M.P., Hon. Col. Butler, M.P ,
Mr. J. B. Martin, Mr. M. J. Blake, M.P., Mrh.laWianr..lGim..C,Giaeuebfiol.ryanl_,d.,.
..
M.P., Mr. F. French, M.P., the O'Conor Don, M.P., Dir. B',
Baker, M.P., Sir J. Burke, Mr. A. 11. Lynch,
Lae
Mr. Denis Kirwan, High Sheriff county of Galway, Mr. G. 0:
RMerv.. J. D'Arcy, Mr. J. U.
Moore, High Sheriff Roscommon,
on, had an interview with ~
RoMro.ttbAn.
andJo y e
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W.
S.
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the Earl of
_. Dalhousie yesterday at the office of the Board of'':
Trade.

Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, had an interview
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his
official residence in Downing. street.
The Chief Commissioner of the Woods and Forests had an
interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday.
The Committee of Canal Proprietors, the representatives
of Canal Companies, had an interview with the Earl of Dal-
housie, at the Board of Trade, yesterday. The deputation
was headed by Mr. William Beckett, M.P., and Mr. Edmund
Buckley, M.P.
Dispatches from the Governor-General of Canada, and also
from the Governors of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia,
were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.
The Postmaster-General had an interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer yesterday.
Lieutenant-Colonel the Ron. G. D. Pennant had an inter.
view with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday.
Mr. Hedworth Lambton, M.P., arrived at Farranee's. Hotel.
on Thursday evening, from Paris.

Lord and Lady Rayleigh and the Rev. Robert and
the Hon. Mrs. Drummond, have been placed in mourning
by the demise.of the venerable Col. Strutt, who expired
at Bath on-Tuesday last.
We learn by a letter from Berne of the 6th,
that the Grand t
Council of Zurich has come to a series of resolutions fur tho ex.
thc Cur of
pultion of the Jesuits, similar to those pa 140.1 bY
Berne and Soleure.