The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-21 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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FOREIGN.
Louis Philippe returned to Paris from En on Friday night.
The King and Queen of the Belgians were expected at Paris
on occasion of his fete, the Ist of May.
The Duke de Montpensier on arriving at Marseilles
alighted at the Hotel d'Orient, where he gave a greed
dinner to the public functionaries, &c., and embarked on
Wednesday for Algiers in the Asmodee.
Intelligence from Bourges states that the health of the wife
of Don Carlos is gravely affected. Physicians have been
sent for from Paris.
" We are positively informed," says the Courrier de la
Gironde," that the King is to proceed in September next to
the Chateau of Pau, which he has had repaired. It is even
affirmed that the young Queen of Spain will, at the same
period, pay a visit to the King of the French at Pau."
The Moniteur publishes two royal ordinances, dated Eu,
the 15th instant. The first regulates the promotions in the
Civil service in French Africa ; the second divides Algeria into
three provinces (Algiers, Constantina, and Oron), and in-
stitutes a superior Council of Administration, a Director-
General of Civil Affairs, and other functionaries, in addition
o the Governor-General.
The Presse states that the number of Peers to be created
by the Ministry will, added to the nominations which have
already taken place, make a total of forty-five.
M. de Mouchy, Honorary President of the Royal Court of
Amiens, died on the 15th instant, in the eighty- fifth year
of his age. He was the last member of the Parliament of
Paris.
The committee of the Strasburg and Basle railroad sub-
mitted on Friday to the shareholders a report on the opera-
tions of the company during the year 1844. The whole of
the receipts was 2,486,868 f., or 340,116 f. more than in 1843 ;
and the expenditure, 1,578,118 f., showing an increase of
3'117C, as compared with the preceding year. Taking the
interest of the loan and 10 per cent. for the reserve fund,
there was only a dividend of Bf. 25c. per share.
We learn from Lucerne, April 15, that Dr. Muller, one of
the leaders of the insurgents, and who was taken prisoner,
has erected his escape.
COURT—FASHIONABLE.
The Duke de Broglie and Prince Albert de Broglie will
have the honour of dining with her Majesty and the Prince
c
°,lkrkdrt this evening, at Buckingham Palace.
IA Duke and Duchess of Beaufort and the Ladies So.
Menet have arrived at Beaufort House for the season, from
Badminton.
at Me
Duke of Somerset, who has been suffering from an
tack of influenza, is recovered.
Earl Fitzwilliam and the Ladies Fitzwilliam intend leaving
tlilton Park, near Peterborough, in a few days for Mortimer
41°nne, for the season.
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ne Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry and the
'rem Alexandrine Vane have returned to Holderness House
'rem Paris.
, The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn and family have
left town for the Priory, where they purpose to make a stay
of some few weeks' duration.
The Marchioness of Douglas, who has been slightly indis-
posed from the effects of a cold, is, we are happy to say, con-
valescent. 'The precise period of the christening of the infant
Earl of Angus is not yet definitively settled, but it is under-
Stood that the ceremony will take place previous to the de-
parture of the Marchioness's mother, the Grand Duchess
Stephanie of Baden, on her return to Manheim.
The Duke and Duchess of Bedford arrived in Belgrave-
square on Friday evening, from Newmarket.
The Duke of Rutland left town on Saturday for Bel-
voir Castle. His Grace is expected to return to London on
Thursday next.
The French Ambassador's grand entertainment, in celebra-
tion of the birthday of his Majesty the King of the French,
will take place on Wednesday, the 30th instant, instead
of May Ist, Holy Thursday falling this year upon the
latter day.
Viscount and 'Viscountess Palmerston entertained at
dinner, on Saturday, the Prussian Minister and Madame
Bunsen, the Baron and Baroness Arnim, the Belgian Mi-
nister, Lord William Russell, Lord and Lady Ashley, &c. ; a
select circle joined the party in the evening.
The Earl of Ellenborough had a grand dinner party on
Saturday, at his mansion, in Charles-street, Grosvenor-
Square. The following formed the circle :—The Earl and
Countess Delawarr, Earl of St. Germans, the Earl of Devon,
Earl Nelson, Viscount and Viscountess Mahon, Viscount
and Lady Sarah Ingestre, Lord Redesdale, Lord and Lady
Ernest Bruce, Lord and Lady Colchester, Hon. G. R. Rice
Trevor, SIX., and Colonel Love.
XVIISCEI.I.ANEOUS.
The followins return " of the number of apprentices who
have attended at each of the schools established in her Ma-
jesty's dockyards. during the year ending the 31st of De-
cember, 1844," has been issued by order of the House
of Commons :—Dockyard at DepttOrd, nil (no school
has as yet been opened at Deptford, which was not re-esta-
blished as a building-yard until the Ist of April, 1844);
dockyard at Woolwich, 94 ; dockyard at Sheerness, 110 ;
dockyard at Chatham, 136 ; dockyard at Portsmouth, 219 ;
dockyard,: at Devonpert, 232 ; dockyard at Pembroke, 76.
Saturday, at the weekly meeting of the Marylebone
Vestry, the annual election took place for the churchwardens
and
sidesmen, &c. for the year ensuing,the Rev. Dr. Spry,
-the rector, in the C r
hair ; a letter was received
from Lord. Lin
adn, stating that her Majesty had been pleasedto re-appeals;
the Hon. George Lord Kenyon as churchwarden on the part
of the Crown, and George Spencer Smith, Esq., as his sides-
man for the ensuing year. The nominations dother church-
wardens for the parish were made, and the auditors' report
Was brought up and read. It was stated by.SirPeter Laurie
that there was every probability of the affairs of this parish
becoming an object of inquiry before a Committee of te
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Rouse of Commons. After some other business of trifling
importance the vestry separated.
The Society for teaching the blind to read are to have a
Public dinner in aid of the funds of this philanthropic society
tal the 29th instant, and with a view of raising the amount
necessary for the purchase of a building more suitable to the
'Wants of the institution. It is to be hoped that it will be
well attended for the sake of the benevolent objects proposed.
We learn that the statement that the requisition for the
,condemnation of Tract 90 had been either presented to the
hebdomadal Board at Oxford, or was under their considera-
tiono •
s not correct.
, In the small colliery village of Philadelphia, near Sunder-
land, the typhus fever is prevailing to a serious extent. In
tkhe street alone, Wellington-row, it is said seventy-two in-
dividuals are now lying dangerously ill.
Messrs. Lee and Co., chemical manufacturers, at the Fel-
ling, near Gateshead, with a laudable desire to promote the
comfort and welfare of their workmen, have laid out a field
in garden allotments for occupation by their workmen, and
to encourage these bumble amateur gardeners in the cul-
tivation of their plots of ground they have offered a number
of Prizes for the best specimens of produce, and also for good
e`utivation.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.
wre'N-UNDER-LYNE, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 19.-
It
•-s our painful duty to record one of the most distressing,
ZIIIII we fear exteasively fatal. accidents that ever occurred in
neighbourhood. At present all is speculation as to the
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iznlit of the mischief and the amount of human life sacri-
e'‘l. We are, however, enabled to say that at least from
ten to twelve persons have been sacrificed, and a great many
more severely injured.
About twelve months ago the contractors for the Ashton-
under-Lyne branch railway commenced: operations, and pro-
`:eeded with the works to the entire satisfaction of the Com-
pany The line, which is only about two miles long, was
i,„—rtlY completed, and was expected to have been opened
• summer. It was a double branch line, connecting the
Important towns of Ashton and Staleybridge with Man-
.eilesler, and passing over a portion of Ashton upon twenty
arches, crossing the Ashton and Huddersfield Canal, and
the river Tame on its way. The arches were built with
atone, and appeared to be very substantial and well con-
ItMeted, every one of which have been finished for some
Pc, and the workmen were levelling the line, with a view
of having the rails laid down almost immediately. About
thirty men were engaged in this work, and their labours
a cre fast drawing to ag a
close. This afternoon, however,
lont three o'clock, nine the arches gave way with a most
lutremendous crash, carrying with them the whole of the men
,mployed upon the line, and some buildings contiguous. The
arat arch which gave way was the one over the river Tame,
lel Which several men were employed. The shrieks of the
kufortunate men were painful in the extreme, and in another
Pao_ raent it was followed by eight other arches, every one
Which became a mass of ruins, burying beneath the
labourers
materials a large number of navigators and other
employed. The scene at this moment was most
listressingalsonoonly on account of the sacrifice of human
life,
but also on account of the perilous situation of those
WllO were precipitated into the river, over which the arch
rafted. The fal?en materials having gorged up the river,
It shortly began w roll over the stones, &c., which had
fallen, and threatened final destruction to those unfortunate
_creatures who were partially buried in the ruins. The news
the accident spread rapidly in all directions, and nu-
Mere"
rted
exaggerated reports were circulated. It was cur-
rently reP°
that from foftY to fifty persons bad been
Port "d that others were seriOusly wounded. This re-
an • B°°ll brought together a large concourse of persons,
xleusly
inquiring the particulars, amongst whom were the
friends and relations of those persons employed on the works.
t e seene at this moment was, indeed, laaintable and dis-
ressing beyond description—women looking for their hus-
bands,children for their parents, and parents for their chil-
dren, of whom no tidings could be obtained, and whose cries
rendered the already melancholy scene distressing in the ex-
treme. In the present state of confusion it is quite impossible
to give any accurate details of the accident, of the number of
persons killed or wounded, and still more difficult to say what
is the cause of the catastrophe. Those, however, who are
best acquainted with the works, say that the arches were
very substantially built. Oa inquiring we find that close
o
the arch which first gave way, there is an "eye" of an
4.,1d coal mine which has long since been abandoned by the
miners. It is also stated that some time ago (ten or
twelve days) the earth near this coal-pit " eye" was seen
to Link, and that it was then stated that the foundation of
the arches were unsound. Hew true these statements may
be, we cannot at present say, but we shall make
every possible inquiry into the whole of the circumstances
as soon as the confusion subsides, and send them in our
next account. It is right to state that at the time of the
accident, Mr. Joseph Fowler, one of the principal con-
tractors, was on the centre arch, and was precipitated into
the river, a distance of eighteen feet, and had a very narrow
*scape of being killed.
SUNDAY MORNING, NINE O'CLOCK.—During the whole of
the night large numbers of men have been employed in re-
moving the whole of the fallen materials, and extricating
from the ruins the bodies of the unfortunate sufferers, under
the direction of the engineers of the works and the con-
tractors, who hare been unremitting in their exertions to re-
cover the bodies of their workmen and in administering to
the wants of those who have been taken out of the ruins
alive. Large numliers of persons remained on the spot,
Pressing so closely on the workmen, that it was found neces-
sary to call in the aid of the military, the police force being
totally inadequate to keep order. Up to this time eight
bodies have been taken from the ruins.

ACCELERATION OF THE MAIL FROM LONDON TO
I<TivcAsTLE.—Arrangerilents are nearly completed by the
Right Hon. the Postmaster,General, at the instance of J. H.
nuade, Esq., the Member for 3C,lwcastle-upon-Tyne, by which
newspapers and letters from London to Newcastle will be
conveyed the whole distance (303 miles) iu 13 hours. The
night mail train leaving the General post-office at the ordi-
nary period of dispatch (eight o'clock) will arrive in New-
castle by nine next morning, from which town it will return
at three in the afternoon, leaving plenty of time for a reply
to letters received by the morning post. After the Ist of
May it is intended to accelerate the day mail from London,
Which then will reach Newcastle at eight in the evening.
TELEGRAPH Disrvrcu..—The division which took
place on the Maynooth grant, in the House of Commons, at
three o'clockwithin on 'Saturday morning, was known and in print
one half hour at 6outtanapton, by means of the elec-
-1444 telegraph.