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

RAILWAY CU SON.
NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, FEB. 12.—A collision of trains took
place last night en 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.
tion 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 men
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 get
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 naibute earlier, the two engines would have Diet, and,
frightful would have 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 ar.
rived, and as it could not proceed for the ruins, it was emptied of
its passengers, and those from Gateshead got 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 Brockley Whim. After reaching Brockley Whirrs, 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 Gates.
head train, who says he did not see the red light attached to the
luggago.train. However that may be, It was a fortunate circum.
stance that he had slackened speed at the station, for otherwise the
collision would doubtless have been fatal.
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IDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
WHITEHALL, JAN. 7.
The Right Hon. Sir Nicholas Conyngharn Tindal, Knt.,
Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas,
has appointed Thomas Tudor Trevor, of Guisborough, in the
county of York, Gent.. to be one of the Perpetual Commis-
sioners for taking the acknowledgments of deeds to be exe-
cuted by married women, under the Act passed for the abo-
lition of fines and recoveries, and for the substitution of more
simple modes of assurance, in and for the North Riding of
the county of York.

WHITEHALL, JAN'. 16, 1845.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Francis Sown's, of
Wokingham, in the county of 13erks, Gent, to be a Master
Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
DIVIDENDS DECLARED.
IL Jones, wine merchant, Canterbury—second div. of 234 d.
in the pound, any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Pennell,
Basinghall-street.
R.. 1. Craneis, butcher, Maldon—first div. of Is. 6d. in the
pound, any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Basing-
hall-street.
! J. Holland, grocer, Buxted—first div. of 2s. in the.pound,
any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Basinghall-
street.
R. Williams, butter dealer, Bristol—first div. of as. 6d. in
the pound, Feb. 17, or any subsequent Monday, at the office
of Mr. Miller, Bristol.
R. Younghusband, brick-maker, Cheltenham—first div. o
3d. in the pound, Feb. 17, or any subsequent Monday, at the
office of Mr. Miller, Bristol.
W. Law, draper, Reading—first div. of 3s. in the pound,
any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Basinghall-
street.
11. R. Harraden, printseller, Cambridge—first div. of ss. in
the pound, any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Pennell,
Basinghall• street.
G. Part, ale merchant, Upper Thames-street...first div. of
Is. 4d. in the pound, any 11 ednesday, at the office of Mr.
Pennell, Basinghall-street.
J. Bradshaw and G. Williams, woollen drapers, Maryle-
bone-street—third div. of lzrid. in the pound, any Wednes-
day, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Baainghall-street,
J. Woollam, silk throwster, St. Albans—first div. of Is. in
the pound, any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Pennell,
Basingh all- street.
J. Lark, boot-maker, Seymour-street, Euston-square—
second div. of 34d. in the pound, any Wednesday, at the
office of Mr. Pennell, Basinghall-street.
W. Chamberlain, linen draper, Peckham—first div. of
ls. 6d. in the pound, any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Pen-
! nell, Basinghall-street.
W. Yuill, taller, Comhill—first dir. of 3s. 714 d. in the
pound, any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. IVhitmore,
Basinghall-street.
M. Thompson, ironmonger, Saffron Walden—first div. of
7s. 33/0. in the pound, any Wednesday, at the office of Mr.
Whitmore, Basinghall-street.
J. Jardine, merchant, Liverpool—second div. of 23 d. in
the pound, Feb. 20, or any subsequent Thursday, at the office
of 111 r. Cazenove, Liverpool.
J. Lock, tea dealer, Northampton—second and futal div. of
2d in the pound, Feb. 15, and three following Saturdays, at
the office of Mr. Groom, Abchurch-lane. . , ,
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div. of 3s. 4d. in the pound, Feb. 15, . .
W. Morgan, senior, hardwaresian, Sant.dStwhittehienfaalimner
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jatnoe-stirrender
ghall-street eeutrt:
turdays, at the office ofß Mr. Groom, As.behbuurcryn:
A. L. Flint, warehouseman, Alderman bury,
at
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Court
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Cox, Pinner's-ball, Old Broad-street.
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e}f'eßb.an2sk'ruapt Bankruptcy. half-past one, aondclylarcasshign2Be,e:i
Boasnine,
innkeepaert,t.Nweervceastate-tshereet, Strand, Feb,
21,Wzt. MarchAtiv.-Co,hanrisdtian, . 28, .
...„ . Court of Bank-
Pennell, official assignee, Basing-hall-street • Pawn
ruptcy.
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ter and Co., Gray's Inn.
J. White, leather seller, Great St. Andrew-street, Seven-
dials, Feb. 26, at half-past two, and March 25, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basal ghall-
,aßn
and
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stone
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d March 28, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Southampton Feb.
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1139 t r,
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Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry-chambers; Paterson,
Bo
juvoerlideh-astrure,eit;olnefoeut
iron-founder,
t.
Hull, Feb. 26, and March 28, at
eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Feame, official assignee,
Leeds ; Willis and Co., Tokenho
-yard, tondon ; Colbeck
and Co., Hull ; Horsfall and Hanson, Leeds.
W. Howell, jun., bookseller, Liverpool, Feb. 25, and March
25, at eleven, Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assig-
nee, Liverpool; Cornthwaite and Co., Old Jewry-chambers;
Fisher and Stone, Liverpool.
J. Sanderson, merchant, Liverpool, Feb. 25, and March 25,
at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Caaenove, official
assignee, ; Birch and Bramah, Great Winchester-
street, London ; Stockley and Thompson, Liverpool.
F. J. Rawlings, cabinet maker, Cheltenham, Feb. 28, at
twelve, and March 28, at eleven, at the Bristol District
Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol ; Newbon and Evans,
Doctors'-commons, London.
S. Watson, stone-mason, Ilighbridge, Somersetahire, Feb.
26, at one, and April 2, at eleven, at the Bristol District
Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol ; Gray, Bristol.
R. Hill, currier, Exeter, Feb. 25, and March 25, at one, at
the Exeter District Court. Hernaman, official assifs-
London.
Exeter ; Terrell, Exeter ; Terrell, Gray's Inn-square,
and
J. 1114 William, hosier, Gloucester, Feb. 26,0:rt. Miller,2
es, .
April 3, at eleven, at the Bristol Distri,ct_ecw.
official assignee, Bristol ; Richards
one, Tam, l'Aprir ad,
at
J. Wicks, grocer, Bristol, Feb' 'I, official 'assignee, Bris.
tol ; Gray, Bristol.
PRICE OF SUGAR.
the Bristol District Court. Acre= ,
Brown
285.0 r Af
lurd:paderocwSLlTtrezdu., for
ors
payable thereon on the in..
week ending Feb. 11,
The AragFeePbrice
of
18134r°5,
rtation thereof into Great Britain.
of the Duties of Customs paid or
pe
(Dividends, .10,) in our next)

from this time forth the advocates of free ;trade need
look for no effective commercial reform from the party
now in power. In effect, it is now fairly con-
fessed to be impossible. Particular interests may be
conciliated for a time by the removal (under the
shadow of the income-tax) of imposts appearing to bear
more immediately and exclusively upon them ; but the real
incubus—that which now alone cripples the gigantic
manufacturing and commercial power of this conntry—the
protective system—which every year will Inevitably render
at once more deeply destructive and mere difficult to deal
with—will be continued. Peel and protection are now one
and indivisible, and an income-tax their neeessail, attendant.
STANDARD.—Sir Robert Peel's financial statement last
night was characterised by Members of the Opmeition as, in
its propositions, "unexpected," "unhooked for, " surprising.,"
" bold," "gigantic "—and was generally admitteckby all to be
sound in principle, and eminently promising of good to the
industrious and humbler classes of society. The state-
ment otherwise a lucid and business-like detail, which
rose into the higher order of eloquence only when the speaker
had occasion to refer to the " magnificent economy "of the
Queen—deserves all that was said of it by the Opposition
speakers; its propositions are indeed bold and gigantic, and
directed principally to the permanent benefit of the humbler
and industrious classes, amounting to the reductiop of nearly
three millions and a halfof t axes, all pressingwitb undue weight
upon the classes in question, while, concurrently with tis
relief, the defensive establishments of the empire are toh be
fully maintained, and the naval department augmented to the
extent of 4,000 men. This is a proud and encouraging por-
trait of the British empire at this day ; and if we may so
speak, the artist who had to exhibit it to the
view of-his
fellow-subjects, gave the best proof of good taste in g
his work to speak for itself. Here is a
reduction ofallowin nearly
three millions and a half of taxes, the greater part of they
very old taxes, reduced at a stroke, not in submission to
popular clamour, for there has been no clamour on the sub-
Jed; not in pursuit of 'popularity, for the Minister was
never so strong in Parliament or in the country ; not in
concession to public distress, for the country enjoys un-
exampled prosperity; but, because the Minister can make
the reduction with safety; and he can make the reduction
with :safety, because his measures have, in three years of
their operation, converted a deficit of more than three
millions annually into a clear surplus of five millions; for so
great will be the surplus on th sth of April.

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 Rail-
way from Dublin to Galway, consisting of the following
f y.
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., Mr. W. H. Gregory,
M.P., Mr. F. French, M.P., the O'Conor Don, M.P., Mr. P. S.
Baker, M.P., Sir J. Burke, Mr. A. IL Lynch, Mr. G: Caulfield,
Mr. Denis Kirwan, High Sheriff county of Galway, Mr. G. 0.
Moore, High Sheriff Roscommon, Mr. Lachlan M'Lachlan,
Mr. J. A. Joyce, Mr. R. M. Lynch, Rev. J. D'Arcy, Mr. J. B.
Boothby, and Captain W. S. Moorson, had an interview with
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 Hon. G. D. Pennant had an inter-
view with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday.