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

FLAN DERS MAIL.

Bittisszts, uG. 3.—A beautiful English vessel, the Juliana
of 200 tons burden. has arrived at Antwerp in ballast. It
cornea from London to tae in a e•trgo of goods, which it sill
convey to Calcutta. The English derive great advantages
from their tr. Ale with Calcutta. Let the Belgians endeavour to
have a sli,re, which •h. 7 may do, for they cal, for.,ish many
articles at a cheap rare. is to be ooserved, thit the Juliana,
as an English vessel. will enjoy at Calcutta an ext-mpti .n item
import and export dot). s, wtiieh exemption will extend to the
carp, as it is cm. red 13) the flag
We tope thai the exiwdition will succeed. We owe this idea
to Mr S,rigiers. _ .

BIiUSSEL;, A LIG 4. Queen Victoria will only piss through
on her approacning visit to Germany. Her Majesty will .and
at Antwerp, hut the hour of her arrival will be chosen so that
she tray be aLle to set out immediately and sleep a,. Cologne.
Amon°. the pas:er gers who have lately laroled at Ostend were
Lord Shifield and Lady Brousiffam. Madame Van de Weyer
arrived from Loudon at Antwerp yesterday, and some hours
later at Brussels.
'lwo English enxineers, Mr. J. C. Rattersby and Mr. W.
Vanderkiste, have arrived -o-day from London. '1 hey are com-
missioned to go and terminate on tt e spot the anal surveys f r
the canal from Mons to the Sambre on account of the Anglo-
liuseian Company of Bisschnsshien, Kennard, Mackenzie, &c.
There is every itutication that the Company is resolved that
,the works should be prosecuted with the urmo-t activity.
Alessr. Taite ar.d Sherman, undertakers of the railway from
Jaw epee to Louvain. have arrived at the latter place, and have
had ~rig conferences wish some of the magistrates respecting
the choice of a plan for the termini. &c.

ACHE LA Ti FA I'AL itA IL WA.Y

ACCIDEN T.

• CHESTZRFORD, A uo. 6.—The place where the late fearfu
accident occurred is situated half way between Wendon and
Chesterford, about a mile from Littlebury, forty-three miles
from London, and fourteen from Cambridge. The line is here
at an inclination of about one foot in les, and there is a slight
curve where the accident took place. There is also an em-
bankment, a temporary e, we beLve, on either side of the
,road, to a very slight event; and most providentially. had it
teeu thrown up (the excavation of the neighbouring tun-
erel), or the train must have tumbled off the line into the
field beneath, a tall of from ten to twelve feet, in which case
many of the passengers must have lost their lives, and none es-
caped without serious bodily injury.
General Pasley arrived between eleven and twelve o'clock
to-day at Chestertord, in the train which left London at half-
past nine, accompanied by Mr. Phelps. the engineer of the
line. In a few minutes after the General's arrival at Chester-
ford an engine and tender were in rer"dine•s at the nation, and
be prom ded 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 oe-
-easiest); rime or two other offieial, of the Company ; and the re-
por ers of the London and local journals, who, with Mr. An-
so.i's consent, joined the parry.
The first object which struck us, on alighting, was one of
the second-class carriages—there had been two on the train—
lyinr, disabled co the right-hand side of the rod front London.
.It had a couple of wheels off, and was slightly damaged in
eother respects. About torty 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
-event with 'four of ita wheels off, and the roof burned through
in various directions. A few yards onwards, and on the right-
band side also, lay the roof of the horse-box mentioned in the
report of yesterday, which was slightly shattered. On the other
side, nearly opposite, lay the tender, turned right over, in the
very position in which it had been upset ; and onward, on the
lett-hand side, was the body of the horse-box, with the pannels
slightly injured on the sides, the back part burned, arid the front
briirken completely away. The engine was fernlved, it appears,
.from the spot to the Cambridge side of the Chesterford station.
_En passant one may be permitted to ob-erve, without attach-
ing the Aadow of blame to any ene concerned, that it would
apitear just and reasonable to leave the component parts of the
wreck as near to the place of accident, and as they lay re -
'pretty, ly as the c•nvenit"nce of the public traffic admits of, for
it is seat-evident that such an observance would facilitate the
üb-equrnt investigation.
After General Pasley had minutely examined the state of
the carriage,, &c., he proceeded to view the spot of the acci-
dent. On mea-urement, it appeared that it was 103 yardh
from where the first jump was telt and the spot where the car-
riages were forced off the rail. The point. then, of considera-
tion wad, whether the accident was occasioned by excessive
peed causing such a violent oscillation as eventually to throw
the carriages off the line, or a turning up of one of the rails,
caused by the iminedi ‘tely-precedieg train. On this General
Pasley offered no opinion. The general feeling in the neigh-
bourhood is, that the train was going at considerably upward-
of thirty miles an hour, to make up a few minutes of lost time.
The engineer declares, on ihe other hand, that the -peed was
"cot more than twenty-eight miles an hour. General Pasley
*aye no opinion as to the cause of the accid, at.
It appears almost miraculous how the passengers in the
second-class carriage, so dreadfully injured, as already described,
could hive escaped not only without loss of life, or limb, in a
single instance, but absolutely without a wound or a bruise
worth speaking of--yet such is the fact. Some of this resulted
from the calmness and presence of mind displayed by Mr.
Jackson, the contractor of the line from Brandon to Cambridge.
Tins gentleman was in the crepe in front of the first-class car-
ri..ges, such a lady, Mrs. Balfour, of Norwich. In the very
first ins ante of the shock he held her bick in her seat
by , mein twee, arid prevented her Irom b'ing sent through
abe window in front. When the upset no k place he got in-
antiv out, and having extricated lila coon anion, he proceeded
to assist the ether passengers, and each, who hail anything
like prt soiree of mind, as they got free lent a hand in emanci-
pating their companions. As might be expected, a great
many, especially of the female passengers, were dreadoely
prostrated, and it took some time to bring them to a serve
of the tact that they were far more hightened than hurt.
It was a singular fact, that amongst the first to escape, and
beh're :iir• Jackson.could get from the carriage in which he sat,
were t eree children, who went through the window of one of
the :cried-c►ass carriages, one after another, as if they were
*het Out, and landed on the bank, perfectly unhurt.
' When it via, perceived that the horse-box was on fire in Cie
rear, the front Ives judiciously broken in, and the animals
yteepeo otit, and were thus saved, without hurt or bl-mish.
The poor stoker, Richard Peat, had taken this his first trip
on the :north-Eastern line as an experimental one, being a
ie,ver on the ;Midland. Counties.
." He was a fine you-g man.
;eel, melancholy to relate, had only been married Six motithe
His body now ties. at the Falcon Inn, Littlebury; awaiting the
t.yi.-.r, which v;ill be held to-morrow ( this day), by Mr.
d-oner for Essex, at eleven o'elock.

is worthy e.f I,articiilar remark, and challenges the atten-
],o of the direciori of the various lit:es thrett4h England,
(.3onerl l'a,,ky observed to-day to Mr. Anson. and the
officers of the company present, that if there had been
an , engine behind as well a 5 before, " the whsle tra,n would
have been settled." These were bin emph:.tie
which, :0 tune redo may not see their force, I^,e in..aut that the
earricoes would have been, with every human being in them,

to atonis•
General Pa!iley ansl Mr. Pbepps (the engineer of the line),
!,1\ 'er about an hour and three-quarters invet!gation; left for
to, I,ln in the two o'clock fa,t train, and arrived shortly before
forage o'clock at t,hereditch

•19001.0•••••1•1.
1.7 tF;LATE, COLLlqrair OS THE LONDON .VI ND Bin-
' miNG,FIAM RAILWAY.—Wednesday night, at eight, an in-
que,t was owned iu the board-room of the Univorsity Col-
14.wpitzl, Gower-street, before Mr. Thomas Waklcy.
ojr, the body of Mr. Charles Dean, civil engineer,
Gaudy —street, Exeter, who died in that inslitution on
Tuesday. 1,•0111 inji,ries received in a I olision which occurred
oo the ktig,.‘e I;re teetwewn the up mail train and It. gage
trait.; ::,o(ntng of the •,..9th ult. Air. Stro' per fkocum
Slitth, a Fell.iw of Catherine-hall, Cambridge, 7ci,fitified- the
'flcceaied, wi,,rn be knew very well, and who, when the ace:dent
happened, was on his return fr, m lierioneihr, North Wales.
• wh,ttwr he had liven to survey amine of which he (Mr. Smith)

~t y s't was not was a sharehold.,e. Mr. I.V;lct . -Id it his intention
wo proce.,d lumber with the it.quiry then, a; the jury had only
14?,. en
tearlay.,neelnledoptlow,viietw the body of the cb-ci a‘ett, to give
it away for inter-
-1 Pent The ii,questr,witit:beof a:takaiit:.:grieti till a bore day,
whet: it would ti, at an earl Er,ur, at it would
be highly important that the
f1a.1..:t. !pot where the accident
ocev.,..cred should be vi.ited nate
-ay, at he intended
inqi.w of would no doubt ta-t ,he whor 7,':, b: the the jury The
watt. rs of that. kaid
in o the details
; for 'n a le
to en'Or itillY
..arching inve,tigation ouginitrnteodtiaate.:py'aloaene thetahse ad adjourning
3uch a s
~,,,„„s f the case demanded.
the coffin containing the body of &eel', d
• of the jurr,
moved to tl.,e Paddington terminus of the railway:wheat:Li;
~was conveiroclby the fast train to Exeter.
.., 13 ,riKR:, Pi KAP twAY't• II"' B. ,n7/"."4' Magazine
Iftg
g ,umm Ilr (from the recent Parliamentary
• fives the f011,.v ;
refuet.) of the number of bankers who have subscribed for
2. -, 0/. apl upwerd: in railway cowpaoles, and the total amount
'of tiwir.nb.ariptiot.s :-
8 Baiik of England Directors have subscribed for £151,500
36 Lor.4on Baoker.„ ditto
2
.*V Country Bank,rs ditto ,761,235
..../21 k:ankets in Scotland, ditto
7 Bankers in Ireland. ditto ..... . ..... . ......
• 1 Banko in Paris, ditto
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la 5 i„ll, wh‘-, have sebteribed for

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT TOULON

(From a Supplement of the Semaphore of Marseilles.)
MARSEILLES, AUGUST 2, 1845.—We have just received,
from our correspondent at Toulon, the news of a disaster
which will plunge the country in consternation. The Mouril-
lon of Toulon, the rich and immense :depot of stores for our
military and navy, has become a prey to the flames. It is with
an unspeakable feeling of grief that we lay the following ac-
count of the catastrophe before our readers :
_

" TOULON, AUGUST 1, 1845.-1 write these lines in pre-
sence of an immense disaster. Our magnificent establish-
ment of the Mourillon is on fire since this morning. At
half-past eleven the alarm-gun was heard, and the alarm-
bell of the arsenal sounded the tocsin. The whole
town was immediately in a state of commotion, and
every one was seen hurrying to the arsenal to inquire
the occasion of the unusual summons, but it soon became evi-
dent of itstlf. Columns of smoke were seen to proceed from
the Mourillon, and with the least possible delay the fire en-
gines of the Arsenal were brought to that spot, and the greater
portion of the labourers of the Arsenal, and all the disposable
troops of the garrison were sent to work them. The Marine
Prefect, the general commanding the department, the Mayor
of the town, and the other authorities, were also in a very
short time at the scene of the disaster. But, alas, all their
efforts were nearly useless. The fire was hardly discovered,
when it seiz-d upon the principal sheds, under which were
piled almost all the timber for the use of the dockyard. The
flames ro-e to an immense height. Up to the present moment
the firemen have been able to save the saw mills, an establish-
ment which cost immense sums, and the ships on the stocks.
The lo.s, however, is calculated at 25 millions of francs. It is
verb difficult to explain flow the fire in the daytime could have
gained so much head before it was discovered. When the first.
alarm was given, it had already created frightful ravages.
Some attribute the fire to the convicts, many of whom contrived
to escape in the midst of the onfusion."
The Semaphore adds that travellers who left Toulon at
eight o'clock at night, say that the fire was still raging, and that
a great number of lives had been lost. There was some alarm
for the parts of the town in the neighbourhood of the fire.
( From the Seel de Marseilles.)
Toutose, AUGUST I.—A terrible fire broke out at
half-past eleven o'clock this morning, in the marine
Arsenal at the Mourillon. 'fhe tocsin and the alarm-gun
of the admiral's guard-ship immediately announced this
misfortune, and means were adopted to extinguish the fire, but
in vain. The fire broke out simultaneously in several parts 'of
the great covered wood-yard. Every part soon became a prey
to the flames, which also destroyed all the neighbouring piles of
wood. The offices were also burnt to the ground. Fortunately
the wind, which was from the east-south-east, and blew hard,
though it excited and extended the fire of the wood-yard, pre-
vented it from communicating with the ships on the stock.
Nevertheless; the loss is immense.
The fire still continues at the moment I write (seven o'clock
in the evening ; but with much less ititensene4, and owee-can now
say that it will not extend further. About. tifteen wounded per-
sons have been carried to the hospital. The fire can be attri-
' buted to nothing but maliciousness. It is attributed to the con-
victs, several of whom have escaped.

THE LONDON tail 1) YORK SELECT
COMNIITTE E.

At eleven on Wednesday morning the Committee to which
Mr. Bruce's petition was referred by the House assembled in
Committee-room No. 2, Mr. Hawes in the chair.
The lobby and passages were crowded by the gentlemen
interested in the proceedings, many of whom were m a state
of the highest po•sible eac tement at being, as they termed it,
dragged before the public in such a shameful way." Indeed,
it would seem from their appearance that many of them had
been annoyers by the allegations of the petitions, and loud and
deep were the threats uttered and oaths sworn that " actions
would be brought. against those rascals for defamation." As
Mr. Parkes, Mr. Croucher, Mr. Bruce and other parties in-
terested tor the petition passed to and fro, they were greeted
with sardonic •• Ha ! has 1" and derisive laughter, and even
less pleasant manifestations, by the gentlemen whose character
and position they had assailed. Many of those who knew each
other indulged themselves in bitter mirth,—" Pooh, Sir, don't
speak to me, you're only a man of straw !" and " You've a fic-
titious residence, according to Mr. Bruce." In fact, the out-
of-door proceedings were anything but pleasant; It was under-
stood, for only the parties were admitted inside, that
Mr. PARKES, agent for the petitioner, at the sitting of the
Committee, requestea leave to postpone the case, owing to the
sitting of the House of Lords' Committee, before which be
would be required to attend.
Mr. CoATas, of the firm of Dyson, Hall, and Coates, Par-
liamentary agents, resisted this application, on the wound that
it would nor be lair to yield to it when it had been stated that
the petitioner was ready to prove the allegations reflecting on
the character of so many gentlemen.
The Committee cleared the room to deliberate, and even-
tually decided that the case should go on.
Mr. Bruce was then called, and stated that he drew up his
petition on the information of Mr. Parkes and Mr. Humphrey,
solicitors to the Cambridge and Lincoln and Tottenham Rail-
ways, and knew nothing of the facts personally. He ex-
pressed his regret to find that his petition contained some mis-
statements, which he intended to abandon.

Mr. PA RYES then applfrd for leave: to select some cases from
the list, 17 out of 66, to which

Air. CoATas objected with suttee=, as
The Committee decided that the cases were to be taken
seriatim.

Mr. ince was then called, and stated' that he directed his
application from Coombs-hid, the residence of his mother, but
that he really resided in Canonbury•street.
The COMMITTEE decided that the address was good.
Major Griffiths, who expressed himself very warmly at the
reflection and mt.-statement in the petition, was also called,
and a.ked a few questions pro forme, as it at once appeared
that he was a most respectable gentleman, and had given
his address from his mother's residence.

In this case, and in those of Mr. Dart, of Mr. Clarke, and
of Mr. Elliot (to whom the Chairman expressed his regret at
the necessity for appearing before them, as he (the Chairman)
would be most ready to give him a character), the decision of
the CJmmatee was, that the allegations in the petition were
untrue.

The case of two brothers named Guernsey, who were proved
to be the sons of a person in a very humble rank of life, was
next brought forward. It appeared that one of them was a
cle.k to a sharebroker named Mortimer, and the other in a
wine-merchant's office, and that they had been induced to
apply far and had procured shares to a large amount in the
line, the deposits on which had been paid for them.
The Committee at seven o'clock adjourned to twelve o'clock
to•morrow.

The Official Gazette of Stockholm announces that
the King of Sweden has nominated the Duke do Glncksberg
and M. de Nion, Commanders, and M.-Mauboussin, Knight of
the Order of the Polar Star, and presented each of them with
the decoration in diamond., as a reward for the diplomatic as-
sistance rendered by them in his negotiations with the Em-
peror of Morocco for the suppression of the tribute which he
had previously paid to that power.
The Wonder steam-packet, on the Southampton
station, since her return from the exyerimental squadron down
the Channel (where she eclipsed every other vessel in speed)
has become a great favourite with the public both on the Havre
and Channel islands station, and has tarried, notwithstanding
the unfavourable state of the weather during the past week, in
one voyage on the Havre station, 132 passengers ; and ono on
the Channel 'islands station, 191 ; making a total of 323 pas-
sengers, among whom were several families of distinction.
l'he average passage of the Wunder has been seven hours and
a half, being only six hours of sea voyage.
ANEW ZEALAND.—LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.—An
important petition with regard to the affairs of New Zealand
has been numerously signed in this town to-day, and it will be
immediately dispatched to the House of Commons. It refers
with expressions of dismay to the peril of our fellow-subjects in
that distant land, and prays that as the amernment are taking
o measures to remove or alleviate the causes of disorder, the
House will nut separate without taking steps to ensure a change
in the policy hitherto pursued towards the colony. This pe-
tition will be forwarded fur presentation to Mr. C. Buller.
CHANGE RINGING EXTRAWIDI:...IitY.—The London
3ociety of Collage Youths had their annual excursion in Kent
last week, and after ringing in the most scientific methods at
several places arrived at H)the, noar Folkstone, and succeeded
in accomplishing a true and complete peal of the Kent varia-
tion of treble-bob-major. consisting of 5,024 changes, in three
hours and ten minutes. The peal was conducted by Mr. John
Friend. And on Monday last, the same society met at St.
James's, Bermondsey, and rang a true and complete peal of
Kent treble-bob-royal, containing 5,040 changes, in three hours
and thirty-one minutes, it teing the fist peal rnng in London
in that method on ten bells. The peal was conducted by Mr.
John Cox.

FlRE.—Between one and two o'clock yesterday
(Wednesday) morning, a fire broke out in the large colour-
factory of the Messrs. Berger, at Homerton, Hackney, which
at its commencement, from the inflammable nature of an ex-
,ensive portion of the stock on the premises, threatened the
most disastrous consequences. The building in which the fire
was discovered was filled with colours undergoing the process of
drying by means of a furnace, which maintains a temperature
of the place not lower generally than 150 degrees. This build-
ing was speedily one mass of flame, and the whole of its valua-
ble contents totally destroyed. The parish engine was speedily
on the spot, and was soon afterwards followed by several en-
gines from London. Fortunately the burning building was de-
tached from the long range of warehouses connected with the
manufactory, which the exertions of the fire brigade, aided by
a plentiful' supply of water, preserved from any serious damage.
Tree precise cause of the fire is unknown, but it is supposed to
have been occasioned by the over-heated state of the furnace.
The loss, which is considerable, will, it is understood, fall upon
the Messrs. Berger; the hazardous nature of their business
having prevented"them from effecting an insurance. A large
number of police were on the spot, and rendered efficient
service. _ _ _

I.ovE AlsiD SUICIDE.—Mr. Gell held au inquest
on Wednesday, at t he Prince's Head, Buckingham -street, Strand,
on the bod, of Phoebe Lawrence, aged 26, servant to Mrs.
Eivens. of James..treet, Haymarket. From the evi-
.denee of the witnesses, it appeared that for the: last two
yeers deceased had been attached to a young man, named
Philip Juttell, and, from his promises, expected him to
marry her. On Tuesday last, hearing that be had been mar-
ried, she went to the stables where he was employed, and
asked him whether what she had heard was true. He told her
that it was, and at the same time gave her a piece of the
wedding-cake, which she threw on the ground and, trampled
on. Jutiell's broken promises, and the manner in which she
herhad mbei,entret.rseauid, deranged her intellects, and from that day
d she had been in a state of frenzy. ' On the
following Sunday she went to a surgeon's in the neighbour-
hood, and bought two pennyworth of arsenic, saving that it
was for her master to destroy rats, and on the next afternoon
intoxicated herself with spitits, and swalloWed it. Her mistress
iearning what she had taken, bail tier conveyed to Ch. ring •
cross 11(N:will, but therevewansli c thent_.n, 'temporary
joir,farhyerinrseaenoivteyr."y, and
on Tuesday she died.
Sir Georg:- Hayter, who has tken suffning from
concussion of the brain arid wounds in the liead.ard legs, occa-
sioned by the accident on the Dover Railroad, on Monday, the
28th ult., is so far recovered that it is hoped he will shortly be
enabled to leave his bedroom, although it must be many days
before he will be enabled to walk, or even stand with ease.
GREAT VVESTERN RAILWAY.—Troffir! fir th,- week
ending Aug. 3, 1845 :—Par,,,engers, 60,187. 16,1791. Bs. 10d.;
6dise, 3,2711. 16s. 121d0.1—.Total,
2.0;,5.e3x4pr.i55.5e65d,
411.6-.;4it,Aaomt4;;:;feih7A4s3ll; SLING —Such is the desperate ezger-
t
ness for gambling in shares at Lo keep ,ethathtethcooe eitpagatittractivesarairne
compelled to employ she
the street where the Stock Exchange situated.—Manchester
Guardian.
UNDERI Ht
Lucas, on ret retiring, n -(48, Eh Ca
31 E
beenT A R YS I l
madel r
a MemberrOitlß
IRELAND.—
Council. Mr. Peunefather, son of the Baron, advances to the
EPlVrilvr.
Privy
Under-Secretaryship ; but the place of Chief Clerk in the
Seeretary'. office, held by that gentleman, has not yet been
disposed of.
Ex-riy...sivv ROBBERY C A PAROCHIAL-OFFICER.
—On Wednesday Mr. Kerslake, relieving officer of the popilous
parish of St. George the Martyr. Southwark,
while engaged in
parochial business, was robbed in notes to a very enormous
amount. It appears that Mr. Kersl,,ke had with him a pocket-
book, containing several notes of 201. and 51 each, and also
many papers of importance, which were safe in his pocket when
near the Victoria Theatre but a few seconds afterwards, on
proceeding up a street towards Stamford-street, he, to his utter
astonishment, on calling to pay a bill, found that his pocket had
been picked. Notice was given at Tower-street station'-house,
And, fortnn*teiy, the numbers of the notes are known.