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

CONTINENTAL LINES.

MONTPELIER AND CETTE. —At the annual meeting of
this Company, just held, a brief report was read on the finan-
cial condition of the Company, which set nut the receipts for
1844 at about 458,00 (18,3201. ), and the expenses at
316,000 f. After setting aside 45,000 f. for the loan account,
the net profit would have been 97,000 f. (3,880/. ), but some
extraordinary expenses had been incurred for renewing the
rails and increasing the plant, which left a deficit of 130,000 f.
(5,2001.) The report concluded by requiring power to raise
10 ,000 f. (4,0001.), by loan. There was a short discussion,
and ultimately the report Vi as adopted, the accounts approved,
and the loan authorised.

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHS —Telegraphs are to be established
on all the lines throughout. France that are finished, viz., from
Paris to Versailles, and St. Germains to Rouen, Havre Dieppe,
and Orleans. His Majesty Louis Philippe is said to be'a great
patron of the intention, and it is expected that contracts will
be made by Government for carrying out a continuous string
of wires fron► one e'.;d of France to the other, as the various
lines are finished, viz., from Calais, Boulogne, Amiens to
Paris, Havre, Bordeaux, and the south to Montpellier, Nismes,
Marseilles, Avignon, Lyons, Strasbourg, and the east, thereby
having the facility of communicating with the interior and
the frontiers of Spain, Switzerland, Germany, and Belgium,
and all the important seaports and royal arsenals of Brest,
Cherbourg, Roch tort, La Rochelle, Bayonne, and Toulon.
GREAT NORTHERN.—The Minister of Public Works
visited, a few days since, the works of this line from the Paris
station as far as Oise, and found it ready to be 'opened for
traffic. if the Company was consituted. Beyond the Oise there
is only one line of rails placed, as the rails and sleepers of the
second will not be opened until the first week in September.
PARIS AND LVoNS.—At Blaizy there are 530 workmen en-
gaged in the tunnel, principally masons and bricklayers.
Orders have been given to increase the number of workmen,
but this will prove a difficult matter, on account of the number
of works occupying men on all sides. M. D'Arcy, chief
engineer, has just arrived at Dijon, with an official order for
commencing immediately the tunnel of Velars and the prin-
cipal viaducts. In the section of M. Paraudier, chief en-
gineer, from Dijon to Chalons-sur-Saone, the works are pro-
gressing quickly.
The works on the Jamaica Railway are proceeding rapidly,
and the sable sons of the island recently witnessed with wonder
the debut of the first locomotive.
No fewer than six different improvements on the principle of
atmospheric traction are being propounded in France. They
are entitled respectively the Halletti system, the Hedrard
system, the Dembruksky system, the Andraud system, the
Pecqueur system, and the Chameroy system.

THE LATE FATAL RAILWAY
ACCIDENT.
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General Pasley arrived between eleven and twelve o'clock
today at Chesterford, in the train which left London at half-
past nine, accompanied by Mr. Phepps, the engineer of the
line. In a few minutes after the General's arrival at Chester-
ford an engine and tender were in readiness at the station, and
he proceeded to the scene of the accident, accompanied by Mr.
Phepps, engineer of the line ; Mr. Anson, manager of the
traffic ; Mr. Joseph Jackson, contractor of the line from Bran-
don to Cambridge ; Young, the driver on the unfortunate oc-
casion ; one or two other officials of the Company ; and the re-
porters of the London and local journals, who, with Mr. An-
son's consent, joined the party.
The first object which struck us, on alighting, was one of
the second-class carriages—there had been two on the train—
lying disabled on the right-hand side of the road from London.
It had a couple of wheels off, end was slightly damaged in
other respects. About forty or fifty yards onward in the same
direction, and on the same side of the road, lay the other
second-class carriage, smashed and shattered to a frightful
extent with four of its wheels off, and the roof burned through
in various directions. A few yards onwards, and on the right-
hand side also, lay the roof of the hOrse-box mentioned in the
report olyesterday, which was slightly shattered. On the other
side, nearly opposite, lay The 'tender, turned right over, in the