The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-06 00:00:00

SUN, LON DON, WEDNES D A E VENIN(, AUGUST 6, 1845.

of military discipline and of administrative hierarchy, the
Council resolved that hlarshal Soult should write to him in
their name. The letter, which was drawn up at the same
sitting, by one of the Ministers 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 M.
Bugeaud by one of the last packets for Algeria. We have not
beard 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
obeys."
The Presse has an admirable article, denouncing, in
energetic terms, the horrible cruelty of the system which
Marshal BUGEAUD is 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'AnmALE has left
Paris for Bordeaux, where the troops which are to form
the camp are already assembling. The Duke and
Duchess DE NEMOURS arc still continuing their progress
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the contrary, in answer to Lord PALMERSTON, in
giving effect to the earnest recommendations of the Com-
mittee on Harbours of Refuge, and the declared opinion
of Parliament in favour of them. The fact seems to be,
that for the protection of property, of vested rights, as
they are called, of monopolies, even of game, the pre-
sent Government is all vigilant and all powerful. Hu-
man life, as such, seems to enjoy but secondary claims
on its solicitude. Penal statutes for the punishment of
debt and the multiplication of the wretched inmates of
prisons are being re-enacted, after a short but hollow
truce of two or three years with indignant humanity and
outraged public opinion. Brave solids continue to be cast
away upon the coasts of their native land for want of har-
bours of refuge to run to iu the extremity of their peril
Able seamen are still compelled to quit the ungrateful
service of their country, which turns them off at a mo-
ment's notice, without a home or a maintenance of any
kind for their old age and its infirmities, and betake
themselves to a foreign service, which they exalt and
consolidate at the expense of our own. Children and
women wear out a benighted and dreary existence near
the surface of mines, where they perish by slow degrees
by damp, paralysis, and di: ease. Men in the
deepest recesses of those mines, where they toil
from month's end to month's end for scanty wages
with unwearied industry, perish by the fatal fire-
damp in unknown numbers through catastrophes of dre ad-
tul frequency. But in all these cases the First Lord of
the Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the
Secretary for the Home Department look on apparently
unmoved, so long as the t ffect of these accidents ope-
rates only on human life, not on property. They may
decimate a coal district, provided they do not interfere
with Sir ROBERT'S factitious surplus, or Mr. GoUL
BURN'S Ways and Means ; with the Premier': pa-
tronage, or Sir J. GRAHAM'S centralisation of official
power. Parliament must instantly discharge those duties
,o humanity which the Govere went persist in neglecting.

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 Tydvil,
having fixed yesterday for the inquest, very many of the
most respectable inhabitants of the place and its neighbour-
hood, and also a good many workmen, met at the Boot Inn,
in the village of Aberdare, where the inquest had been tip-7
pointed to take place.
The proceedings commenced by empannelling the follow-
ing persons, 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 Kirkhouse, mineral agent ; David
Llewelyn, ditto; John Smith, ditto; Rees Hopkin Rhys,
ditto ; John 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. 111 any of the bodies
presented a sl.ucking 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 bad
been recovererl 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 fur a considerable time.
Where these serious colliery accidents have happened here
before some of the bodies have been irrecoverable for ason-
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-
terday a 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 buria'
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-
tracte.l 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 ; Evan Lewis, single, aged
19 ; George Thomas, ditto, aged 33; William Williams, mar-
ried, aged 34 ; David Jones, ditto, aged 34 ; David Jones,
single, aged 32 ; James James, ditto, aged 23 ; 'Rowel 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.

through the south of France, where they are received
with every distinction.
The King of WIRTENBERG left Stutgard on the 30th
ult. for the Tyrol. The QUEEN and Royal Family left
the sr me day for Weisbaden, and will probably meet the
Queen of ENGLAND on the Rhine.
" The St. Pefersburgh Journal of the 22d July publi,hes a
second bulletin from General Woronzoff, detailing his further
Ape rations in the Caucasus. From it we find that the Russian
general, assuming as the basis of his operations the line of the
Terek and the to sn of Kisliar, has penetrated, by the north of
the Daghestan, into the mountains which bound that country
to the west. His object is to secure the cornmunicat ions between
the capital Derbent and the line of the Terek by penetrating
the Mussulman mountaineers, commanded by the Emir Chamil,
who lately invaded all the country below, and blockaded the
town of Derbent. The general has not yet pushed his opera-
tions further than towards the sources of the Soulak, a river
which falls into the Caspian Sea, at a short distance from the
mouths of the Terek. Success appears to have hitherto crowned
the Russian forces ; and Chamil appears to have adopted the
tactics of avoiding coming to a regular engagement. The
Russian general has disposed has army into two detachments,
one at Kisliar and the other at Derbent, the combined move-
inents of which have compelled the enemy to evacuate his posi-
ons."

A letter from Tripoli, 11!la July, says:—
.‘ A caravan, which left this place for Gadainer, vras at-
tacked and robbed a few days idler its departure, when crossing
the mountain ot Gebel, where fresh disturbances have broken
our. There is a talk ot an expedition to be fitted out against
that part. The quantity ot grain in the cceantry has given a
degree of activity to the corn trade ; but tt'L.only one who be-
nefits by it is his Excellency Mehemet Paella, who has already
received several cargoes from the Levant. There is a report
that Mehemet Pacha is to be recalled, and it is a change which
would be generally approved of, and particularly by European
merchants.",
Nees has been received from Tunis to the 18th July.
The Tunisians feel no alarm from the presence of thy:
'Turkish troops in Tripoli. No attack is med►tated
either in Tunis or Gerlic. The landing of the Alba-
nians has been occasioned by changes in the garrison,
for the purpose of making Tripoli more secure from the
attacks of the mountaineers of Gebal.

Public Securities improve*l cons' lerably in the Paris
Money Market on Monday, owing to the fact that the
house 0' ROTHSCHILD Brothers had placed itself at the
head of the principal parties v. ho have announc4d their
inten ion to bid fur the northern line of railroad.
The Three per Cents. closed at 83f. 95c. ; the Five per
Cents. at 1221. 25c. ; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,268 f. 75c ;
Rouen, I,OBOE ; Vierzon, 792 f. 50c ; Havre, 905 f. ; Avignon,
1,060 f. ; Basle, 275 f. ; Spanish Actives, 36;. Spanish Three
per Cents., 38 ; Spanis Passives, 63/4.
The following are the quotations ter the new lines:-
Orleans and Bordeaux, 1851. premium ; Boulogne, 1351.
ditto ; Troyes and Montereau, 35f. ; Paris and Lyons,
(Laffitte), 31f. 25c.; ditto (Calon ), par ; ditto (Ganneron),
6E 50c. ; Northern Line (Laffitte), 451. ; ditto (Rosa-
incl), 12f. 50e.; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 12f. 50c. ;
ditto (Drouillard), par ; ditto (O'Neill), 3f. 50c. ; 'ditto
(Jacques Lefevre), par ; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe),
17f. 50c.; ditto (Talabot),36l. 25; ditto (Compagnie Merl-
dionale), 51. ; Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), par;
ditto and Cette (Espeleta), 13f. ; Creil and St. Quentin,
par ; Paris and Strasbourg (Ganneron), 12f. 50c. ; Dijon and
Mulhausen, par.
MARSEILLES, JULY 31.-Marseilles and-Avignon, 1,030 f. ;
Boulogne, 635 f. ; Orleans and Bordeaux, 680 f. ; Vierzon,
7821. 50c.
LYONS, AUG. 1.- Avignon and Marseilles, 1,0271., end of
Aug. ; Paris and Orleans, 1,2301., ditto ; Paris and Rouen,
1,085 f., ditto; Orleans and Vierzon, 785 E, ditto ; Orleans
and Bordeaux, 685 f., ditto.

Swiss papers of the 30th ult. have been received. The
Diet was sitting, but its proceedings related solely to
matters of mere local interest. It was expected that a
revolution, similar to the one which was so successful at
Lausanne, six months ago, would take place at Berne,
and with similar success. A letter from Geneva,
30th ult., says:—
" Our Council of State, anticipating that the Jesuits, when
expelled from France, might be tempted to come and form
establishments on our territory, has just reminded the public of
an ordonnance which forbids any foreigner to undertake the
duty of instruction in the Canton of Geneva without a special
authorisation. It is still, however, feared that they may form
an establishment in some Sardinian commune on our borders,
which would for us be attended with the same dahgers as if a
college of Jesuits were established within our canton."

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
BANBURY RACES.—TUESDAY.
The Warden Hill Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 25 added
Heats, one mile and a quarter. (4 Subs.)
Mr. Austin's Little Johnny, aged (King) 1 1
Captain Jones's Circe, aged
Mr. Westley's Solitude, 3 yrs - 3. -3
The Banbury Stakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft, with 50 added.
Two miles.
Mr. Ongley's Fama, aged (Crouch) 1
Mr. Day's b g by Nimrod, out of Busk, 4 yrs
Sir C. Cockerell's Rochester, 6 yrs 3
Mr. J. Day's Zela, 4 yrs ... 4
Won in a canter. Two others ran.
The Tally-ho Stakes of 3 sovs. each, and 15 added, one
mile and a distance, were won in two heats by Mr. Pearce's
Miriam, aged, beating Mr. Ongley's The Mouse, 4 yrs, and
Mr. Baxter's Judy, 4 yrs.
The Neithrop Stakes of 5 soya. each, and 50 added. Heats,
one mile and a distance.
Mr. Ongley's Queen of the Gipsies, 5 yrs (Crouch) 1 1
Mr. G. Shepherd's f by Glaucus, out of March First,
3 yrs 2 2
Mr. J. Day's Zela, 4 yrs 0 3
Lord Glamis's Satyr, 4 yrs ....... 3 0
Mr. Pearce's Florine, 3 yr5........................0 0
No race for the Hurdle Stakes.
BLACKLEY (near Manchester) RACES.—MONDAY.
The Wilton Stakes of 2 soya. each, and 10 added, mile and
half, were won in three heats by Mr. Davies's Talleyrand,
4 yrs (Bond), beating Mr. J. Duckworth's Clear-the-
Kitchen, 6 yrs, Miniature, 5 yrs, Viscount, 5 yrs, Meg Mer-
rilees, 6 yrs, and Lucy, 4 yrs.
The Pony Race was won, in three heats, by Mr. Sutcliffe's
Fairy Queen, beating Yorkshire Lad, Blackley Lass, Sally,
and Gipsy Queen, in a canter.
BET LING AT MANCHESTER—TUESDAY.
THE HORWICH CUP.-4 to 1 agst Xanthus, (t)-4 to 1
Little Hampton, (0-4 to 1 agst Lara and Dog Billy, (t)-
7 to 1 agst Glossy, (t).
kty.--.10 to 1 agst Mel.o 11151iarch-41 to 1 agst OM Eng-
land-12 to 1 agst Annandale-16 to 1 agst Pantasa-20 to 1
agst Worthless, (:)-25 to 1 agst The Baron, (t).
DERBY.-10 to 1 agst Sting-20 to 1 agst Arkwright.
INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.—LICHFIELD, 1845.
Nominations for the Staffordshire Stakes.
Poor Soldier, 6 yrs—Jenny Wren, 3 yrs—Turk, 3 yrs—
Old George, 4 yrs—General Nott, 3 yrs—Lightning, 4 yrs—
Best-of-Three, 4 yrs—Aristotle, 6 yrs—Roderick, 6 yrs--
Inheritress, 5 yrs—Princess Olga, 3 yrs—Little John, 4 yrs__
M ignet, 3 yrs—David 6 yrs—lntrepid,4 yrs—Lord Saltoun,
4 yrs—Jack Sheppard, aged—The Shadow, aged—Yardley,
5 yrs—Rochester, 6 yrs—Salopian, 3 yrs—f by Sir Hercules,
out of Taglioni, 3 yre--Everton, 5 yrs—Hooton, 5 yrs—Dr.
Husband, 4 yrs--Pedometer, 4 yrs—Marian Ramsay, 3 yrs.

DREADFUL RAILWAY
-ACCIDENT.
LATEST PARTICULARS.

Madrid journals of the 29th and 30th ult. have been
received. The application on the part of the inhabitants
of Malaga for a suspension of the sentence on those
found guilty of having taken part in the late plot has
been refuted by General SANZ, who says his orders are
positive. He probably has the fate of General ORIBE
before his eyes, who was dismissed, for waiting for in-
structions before shooting the son of ZURBANO.
The Tiempo states, that at one of the Cabinet Coun-
cils held at Saragossa, it had been decided that M. CAS-
TILLO Y AYENSA should quit Rome immediately. The
Ministers were expected at Madrid on the evening of
the 29th. Letters from Saragossa mention that the
QUEEN would take nine mineral baths at Santa Aguada,
and as many sea baths. Her Majesty will repair thence
to Bilboa, and, after sojourning three or four days
in that city, she is to return to San Sebastian, to receive
the Duke and Duchess of NEMOURS, who are to
arrive there towards the end of August. It was not
known how long the Princes of the Royal Family of
France would remain at San Sebastian, but it was
believed that their stay would not exceed two or
three days. The QUEEN will afterwards visit Vit.
toria, Burgos, and Valladolid, and return to Madrid
by La Granja, towards the middle of September
The QUEEN'S departure from Saragossa has been de-
laved a day by the illness of the Infanta Dona Luisa.
quences of the -journey they so dread ; for, besides the
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 Ar-
ragon have petitioned against M. MoN's 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 SoTomAyou 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 he Heraldo 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 Ft
GUERAS wrre to be named members of the Royal
Council ; and Generals CONCHA, the Duke of Arm-
MADA, RoNCALI, and CORDOVA, 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 Catalonia.
The Three per Cents. rose on the 30th ult. more than half
per cent. They were quoted at 29% cash, and 301 m at 60
days ; 32,800,000 done. Fives 2134 at 60 days ; amount,
1,000,000. Passives, 7 7-16 for the 19th of August ; amount,
2,000,000.

BRIGHTON RACES.
TUESDAY EVENING.—The following horses are in the
neighbourhood for the ensuing races :
For the Brighton Stakes—Pineapple, 5 yrs, 7st 91b—
Subduer, 5 yrs, Est 121b—Bearding-school Miss, 4 yrs,
6st 10Ib—Mongrel, 3 yrs, 6st—The Wreck, 3 yrs,
sst 91b—Jenny Wren, 3 yrs, s_,t 91b.
Pavilion Stakes—Tug Net. Sting coming.
Sweepstakes of 25 sovs. each, for two yrs old—Ferney,
Titbit, and Trebonius.
Plutes, &c. —Lothario, Karnac, Naworth, c by Mus
out of Belvidere, Skeleton, Best Bower, Tub Thumper,
Fickle Wild Rose, Terqsa, Antonio, Beggar Girl, Sea-
kale filly, and Peter the Hermit.

WILL OF THE LATE SIR W. FOLLETT.—Probat
of the will of Sir William Webb Follett, late of the Inner
Temple, London, and of Park-street, Westminster, Knight, was
granted on the 2d inst. to his brothers, Robert Bayly Follett,
Brent Spencer Follett, and John Follett, Esqs., and to his
brother-in-law, Edward Gifford, Esq , the executors : they are
also appointed guardians to the children, The testator devises
his real estates to his executors in trust for his eldest son
George, and on failure of issue to his other sons and their issue
male. Bequeaths to Lady Follett 2,5001. a year, and a legacy of
1,0001. for immediate use. To his sister, Mrs. Synge, 2001. a
year, and alegacy of 5001. To his sister, Mrs. Bright, 3,000/.
for her own use, and to her husband, r. Bright, 5001. Be-
queaths to the four sisters of his wife 1,0001. each ; and legacies to
his nephews, and a year's wages to his servants. Leaves his
law books to his brother, Brent Spencer Follett, his brother Ro-
bert Bayly Follett first making a selection for his own use;
leaves to his brother Robert the watch he usually wore. De-
vises to his brother John the messualse, &c., at Topsham ;
and bequeaths to each of his said three brothers a legacy of
1,500/. Bequeaths to Lady Follett the carriages, horses, and
all the househould furniture, &c., for her life, but expressing a
wish that she should give to his son inheriting the real estate
such of the plate as was received by him as presents. 'f he re-
sidue of his personal estate (the whole of which was sworn un-
der 160,0001.) he leaves to be divided among all his children.
The will is dated July 11, 1844, and of some length the last
sheet in his own handwriting, containing several bequests. Sir
William died on the 28th of June, in his 47th year.
INSOLVENCIES (SCOTLAND).—It appears from a
return just issued by order of the House of Commons, that the
number of insolvencies, bankruptcies, and sequestrations in
Scotland in each year, from 1815 to the present time, has been
5,450. The highest number in any one year was in 1641-42,
when there were no fewer than 566 sequestrations awarded in
the Court of Session (and there are no records of insolveneies
and bankruptcies that do not result in sequestration) ; and the
fewest were in 1838-39, when there were only 59.
PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.—Summonses were
issued yesterday morning for holding a Privy Council at
Buckingham Palace on Friday next, at half past two o'clock,
when the royal speech on the prorogation of Parliament will
be submitted for her Majesty's sanction and approbation. The
Queen and her illustrious consort are expected in town in the
afternoon of Thursday nett. Orders have been given for
making the necessary preparations for her Majesty's pro-
roguing Parliament in person. A Cabinet Council will be
held at the Foreign-office to-morrow, when the royal speech
on proroguing Parliament will be considered and arranged.
IMPORTATION OF SPANISH CATTLE.—Another lot
of Spanish cattle (30 in number) arrived here (Plymouth) on
Monday last from Corunna, and were landed at the Commer-
. vial Wharf, ex the schooner Isabella. They were sold by
auction yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon. On the Saturday
previous a lot of 32 were landed at the Commercial Wharf, ex
the Turk, from Corunna, and were sold by public auction on
the Monday following. The butchers of Plymouth and the
adjoining towns were the chief purchasers. —Plyrnouth Journal.
In laying down the last two volumes of Horace
Walpole 's Memoirs of the reign of George 111., edited by Sir
Denis Le Merchant, and just published by Mr. Bentley, we
sigh to think we can have no more from the same fascinating
writer. This last performance of Walpole is " like musk,
sweetest at its close." Never before were the intrigues of
courts, the shifts and expedients of party, the ignoble iioings of
faction handled by such a master, by one who had such oppor-
tunities of knowing that which he records, or by one whose
disclosures can be so implicitly relied upon. Walpole himself
never dreamed of the height of literary reputation to which
these delightful volumes must raise him.
PRICE OF GOLD.—The premium on gold at
is 14 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s.
leid. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of
25 41 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being
25 55, it follows that gold i 50.55 per cent. dearer in London
than in Paris. By aslvices from Hamburgh, the price of
gold is 436 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of
3/. 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange
of 13 10i ; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at
short being 13 it follows that gold is 0.34 per cent.
dearer in London than in Hamburgh.
LORD DENMAN.—An interesting incident oc-
, cured in the progress of the procession of Sir Robert Price,
Bart., M.P., which is worthy of notice. As it passed the
judge's lodgings, Lord Denman was observed at one of the
windows, and was immediately greeted with three loud cheers,
as a mark of respect for the enlightened and consistent con-
duct by which his valuable life has been distinguished, whether
at the bar, in the senate, or on the bench. His Lordship
bowed his acknowledgments in an amiable and a dignified man-
ner.—Hereford Times.

We have received the Paris rapers of Monday. They
all contain remarks on the debates in the English Par-
liament on the affairs of Greece. The Commerce desig-
nates Lord ABERDEEN'S language as most insolent to
France, and the Debats complains that the British re-
prez:entative 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 Sieele seem delighted with the idea that it may be
possible for " France to grapple with her ancient rival
on her own soil."
The Debuts has the following observations on the late
Customs returns published in the Moniteur

" 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 n,tice, 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 observed also that
coals have reached 987,000 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 expectation 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 our 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 20,000,00 u
kilogrammes, instead of 102,000,000 kilogrammes, there is
no other article in which the fluctuations are so great; not that
our consumption has any very great effect on the annual de.
mand, for w e purchase scarcely any for ourselves fronabroad,
and the quantities importtd 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
11,44 amounted to a little more than 71,000,000 f., has in the
same period of the present year very nearly reached
76,000,0000

The KING and Royal Family left Paris for the Chateau
d'Eu, on Monday.
We should not be surprised to hear of the recal 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. Amend. 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
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It. appears that on Monday last the express, or morning
mail train, lef: 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
fora 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 ten ify the unfortu-
nate passengers. On, however, a few of the passengers, bolder
than the rem ainden4gllt&igt, 6t.,gialt_lrdeittUffraltrls:
from the tender—the up-line 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 wen sadly
broken, the bodies being taken completely 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 this
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 tdeqiiate 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 lie now lies in a most deplorable state of
suflering. 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 Weldon, &c., and late in the day posted to
their respective homes.
Mr. Farncliough, 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 lie 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 agaiast
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
ally 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 preserved; two second-class and a first-class carriage
were shattered, besides other damage, to the extent of about
6,0001.
The following official statement has been handed to us for
publication :
An accident occurred on the Eastern Counties Railway,
on Monday, to the train leaving town for Norwich, at half-
past eleven o'clock, A.M., by which the fireman on the train
lost his life and one of the guards was seriously injured. From
some cause which cannot at present be clearly ascertained the
engine was thrown off the rails when passing over the embank-
ment near IVendon, 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 company 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.B.—
This distinguished officer died on Saturday last. His commis-
sions were dated—Ensign, Dec. 4, 1799; Lieutenant, April
19, 1794; Captain, June 1, 1795; Major, April 25, 1808;
Lieut -Colonel, June 4, 1812 ; Colonel, July 22, 1830; Major-
General, Nov. 23, 1841. For some years the deceased com-
manded the 47th Foot with great honour to himself and satis-
facti,n to the regiment. Few officers have seen harder
service ; he was engaged in the arduous campaigns in Ho-
land from 1793, to Feb. 1795, including the attack on Famars
and Valenciennes ; was in the Carribean war of 1795-6 ;
at the siege and storming of Monte Video and the attack
on Buenos Ayres; assisted in the attack on and capture of
Ras-al-Kimah, in the Persian Gulf, in 1800 ; commanded a
field force at the reduction of Palampore, Deesa, Kirjah, and
Virampore, in 1817, and a brigade during the Pindarre war ;
commanded a brigade up the Persian Gulf in 1819 ; also, from
Dec.,1824, throughout the Burmese war. Was shot through
the body before Dunkirk in September, 1793, and through the
thigh at the island of St. Vincent in July, 1796.