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

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAI EVENING, AI7GUST 6,11145.

written to every Member of that House, requesting to
know when he would be able to attend Committees.
The Marquis of CLANIUCARDE then presented two
petitions against the London and York Railway Bill, and
concluded a lengthened statement of alleged f,% uds by
moving that the petitions be referred to a Select Com-
mittee.

This motion led to a discussion, in the course of which
the House was addressed by several Noble Lords, and
ultimately the motion was adopted.
the Small Debts Bill, and several other measures
were then forwarded a stage ; after which their Lord-
ships adjourned till Thursday.
The Commons met at Four.
Mr. B. DENISON presented a petition from the
Directors of the London and York Railway Company,
denying the allegations of the petition presented yes-
terday, which imputed fraud to the promoters of that
Bill. He moved that the petition be printed, and gave
notice that on Friday he would found a motion on the

subject.
After a short discussion, Sir R. PEEL suggested that
a Committee should be appointed, to inquire into the
allegations of fraud, made in the petition presented
yesterday by Mr. HAWES, and ultimately the following
Gentlemen were appointed as a Committee of Inquiry—
Mr. HAWES, Mr. E. B. DENISON, Mr. BARING, Mr.
WARBURTON. Mr. B. Escort', Mr. HUTT and Lord
CLIVE.
Col. DAMER stated, in answer to the address of the
House, that her MAJESTY had ordered 20,060/. tobe paid
to the sufferers by the fire at Quebec.
In answer to Lord PALMERSTON, it was stated by Sir
G. CLERK that the Board of Trade disapproved of the
practice of attaching two engines to railway trains for
the purpose of propelling them.
Mr. WADDINGTON having alluded to the accident on
the Eastern Counties Railway,
Mr. WARD said that he believed it was owing to one
of the wedges having got loose, and that no human fore-
sight ceuld have provided against it.
Colonel SIBTHORP thought the Government ought to
take measures to prevent such accidents, and that the
Company should make ample compensation to the ouf-
ferers.

Mr. GREGORY complained of the incivility of the offi-
cials on the Eastern-Counties Railway, and thought the
Board of Trade ought to have more power.
Colonel WooD thought one of the Directors ought to
reside at the station.
Mr. WARD said the Company had agreed, that morn-
ing, to pay all the expenses of every sufferer by the
accident.

Mr. HUME gave notice of a motion on the subject of
Irish workhouses.
A discussion then ensued, on the order of the day
being read for the consideration of the Silk Works Bill,
which, after several Hon. Members had addressed the
House, was adjourned till Friday next.
Lord Joni,' Russxl then rose, and after a few brief
preliminary observations took a clear and compre-
hensive review of the business of the session, adverting
in the course of it to the various measures that
have been passed affecting our domestic condi-
tion and foreign pollicy, and concluding by ex-
pressing a hope that on the commencement of the next
session Ministers would be prepared to introduce mea-
sures more in consonance with the principles of free-
trade.

Sir J. G RARAN briefly replied, and, after a few ob-
servations from several other Honourable Members, the
House adjourned.

To the long catalogue of terrible catastrophes which
from time to time desolate our coal districts, and sweep
off human victims by whole hecatombs, but under cir-
cumstances of aggravated horror unknown to the wor-
ship even of the ancient Moloch himself—a new
calamity has just been added. It occurred on the morn-
ing of Saturday last at a colliery situate in Crombach,
between Aberdare and Merthyr Tydvil. We have to
direct attention to it, not, alas ! as some rare phe-
nomenon the impression of whose very terrors is almost
effaced by the absorbing astonishment and wonder with
which we contemplate the novelty of their aspects.
These explosions of fire-damp have become, unhappily,
rather the anticipated per-tentage casualties to be allowed
for on the aggregate "lives" of a given district. They
have assumed their regular place and number among
the long array of columns and divisions and tables that
are marshalled forth in the economic " returns" and
" reports" annually printed by order of Parliament.
They are a branch of the statistics of " premature mor-
tality," all the elements of which are calculatei with de-
liberation and certainty—save one : the specific periods
of their recurrence. Were the fact otherwise, were
these appalling visitations so " few and far between',
that they could be properly regarded only as violent and
convulsive throes of nature, like devastating earthquakes,
or inundations, we should not marvel that the last event
of the kind had been no better prepared for by such
means as human sagacity and prudence could devise,
than its predecessor. Where the subterranean opera-
tions of nature that are to be most dreaded from their
destructive influence on human life are elaboratsd on the
vast scale of volcanic eruptions or widely-spread-
ing earthquakes, they cannot be guarded against.
For example—all that was known of the symp-
toms which preceded the destruction of Quito, in
1755, could not have enabled the inhabitants of the once
devoted city to escape from the second and more terrible
destruction of 1797, nor had the fierce eruption of Etna,
in 1830, enabled the inhabitants of its most peopled region
to guard against the hideous combustion that rolled its
lava flood over Bronte in 1832. But it is certain that the
inflammation of that noxious gas which is so largely
generated in coal mines, although the gas itself be in a
process of perpetual elaboration, may be to a very great
extent prevented by precautionary means which prac-
tical science has long since applied to that salutary pur-
pose. The same labours which explore these mines
extract their mineral fuel, construct the galleries, and
maintain the shafts, edits, and drains necessary for their
profitable working, have necessarily given to those en-
gaged in such occupations that which no man will ever
be permitted to acquire with respect to earthquakes or
volcanoes—that is to say, no inconsiderable insight into the
manner in which the gas is developed, and the indica-
tions by which the fact of its development is to be ascer
tained. The " Davy" lamp (which never seems to have
had a perfectly fair trial, owing in part to the avarice
of mine owners and the carelessness of managers, and in
part to the reckless apathy and obstinacy of the working
miners), is one of these means, and a most salutary and
remarkable one. But that system of ventilation—of
clearing away rubbish and slate—of drainage, on a
larger, more simplified, and economical scale than has
hitherto been in practice—of bricking up the final aper-
tures that have been left marking the site of exhausted
works and demolished passages—with the several other
plans adapted to the attainment of similar objects that
were submitted to, and favourably reported on, by the
Select Committee on " Accidents in Mines," which sate
some two or three sessions ago ; that system and those
plans, honestly and vigorously carried out into prac-
tical adoption, would reduce the number of these fearful
disasters in the proportion of at least three-fourths of their
Present amount. It is very certain that that dismal
fate which, is a moment, entombed alive or blasted to
death upwards of one hundred of our fellow-creatures,
in the pits of tha Haswell Colliery, little more (if we
remember rightly) than twelve months ago, might have
been averted, had the parties charged with inspecting
the condition of the works at stated intervals, previously
to setting on the men, properly discharged that duty.
There can be no reasonable doubt that if the recommen-
dations of the Committee we have just alluded to had
been previously enforced by Government, this last coal-
mine explosion at Crombach, that has hurried nine-and-
twenty poor labourers in that colliery into eternity,
might have been avoided, that the desolation which
has overtaken the widows and the orphans, and
the childless ones who are at this moment vainly
wailing over their awful bereavements, might
have been escaped. By an account we else-
where publish, it appears " that this pit has
always been in bad repute on account of its deficient
ventilation." It really seems to us that a very onerous
responsibility attaches to her MAJESTY'S Government—
to that part of the Executive especially which is more
immediately connected with the Home Department--
for these and similar disasters. It seems to be the re-
proach of Sir ROBERT PEBL'S Government to grant
" commissions" and to slumber over their reports. Thus
a commission has pointedly reported on the expediency
of surrounding all machinery in the interior of factories
and mills in such a manner as to sceure those who
must pass by it while in action from being caught
up and entangled in its evolutions. Penalties, we
believe, are attached to the neglect of these pre-
cautions. With so much laxity, however, are they
enforced, that the provincial newspapers teem with
narratives of the most hideous accidents resulting from
unprotected shaft-wheels, &c. In like manner, the
report on coal-mine accidents seems to have become
utterly a dead letter. We doubt whether the casualties
have not become m ,re frequent since that report was
made than they were previously ; and, in nine cases out
of ten, they are palpably the result of the neglect of
such precautionary measures as were recommended
by the report in question. We have ourselvss a strong
impression that the Government has done no more
to carry out those recommendations than it has
done, in fact, uotwithstrnding the vague and slippery
assurances of Sir ROBERT PEEL the other night to

the contrary, in answer di Lord PALMERSTON, in
giving effect to the earnest relimmendations of the Corn - I
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 ail 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 sailors continue to be cast
away upon the coasts of their native land for want of har-
bours of refuge to run to in 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 disease. 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 tire-
damp in unknown numbers through catastrophes of dread-
ful 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 effect 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's pa-
tronage, or Sir J. GRAHAM'S centralisation of official
power. Parliament must instantly discharge those duties
to humanity which the Government persist in neglecting.

A letter from Tripoli, 11th July, says:—
" A caravan, which left this place for Gadaines, was at-
tacked and robbed a few days after its departure, when crossing
the mountain of Gebel, where fresh disturbances have broken
out. There is a talk of an expedition to be fitted out against
that part. The quantity of grain in the. country has given a
degree of activity to the corn trade ; but the only one who be-
nefits by it is his Excellency .Mehemet Pacha, 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.
News has been received from Tunis to the 18th July.
The Tunisians feel no alarm from the presence of the
Turkish troops in Tripoli. No attack is meditated
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.

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 dangers as if a
college of Jesuits were established within our canton."

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 refaced by General SANZ, who says his orders are
positive. He probably has the fate of General ORIBE
b;•fore his e 3 ea, who was dismissed, for waiting for in-
structions before shooting the son of ZURBINO.

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-
tt)ria, Burgos, and Valladolid, and return to Madrid
by La Gran,ja, towards the middle of September
The QUEEN'S departure from Saragossa has been de-
layed a day by the illness of the Infanta Dona LUISA.
Ministers have taken due precautions against the conse-
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. Mores 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 SOTOMA.YOR 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 the 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 Soma and Fr •
CUERAS were to be named members of the Royal
Council ; and Generals CONCHA, the Duke of Antl-
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 301/4 at 60
days ; 32,800,000 done. Fives 213/4 at 60 days ; amount,
1,t,00,000. Passives, 7 7-16 for the 19th of August ; amount,
2,000,000.

We have received the Paris papers 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 Debuts complains that the British re-
presentative 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 &Lie 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 Mon iteur

" 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,cand 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 20,000,000
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 we purchase scarcely any for ourselves fro.n abroad,
and the quantities imported 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
1844 amounted to a little more than 71,000,000 f., has in the
same period of the present year very nearly reached
76,000,000 f."

The ICING 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. Amand. 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
Algeria than all the romancers and talkers of Paris, and
that he appeared to have completely forgotten the principles

of military discipline and of administrative hierarchy, the
Council resolved that Marshal Soult should write to him in
their name. The letter, wnich 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 ,c-
-cepted office, from the highest to the lowest functionary, that
they should submit to the same rules of subordination tower&
the central Government. That letter was forwarded to M.
Bugeaud by one of the last packets for Algeria. We have not
heard 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 he 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 Plum, Count of Reuss, arrived on the 30th
ult. at Ilarseiils s, where he was to embark in the next
packet for Barcelona. The Duke D'AUaIALE has left
Paris for Bordeaux, where the troops which are to form

the camp are already assembling. The Duke and
Duchess DE NEMOURS are still continuing their progress

through the aouth of France, where they are received
with every distinction.
The King of WiaTEmnEnc, left Stutgard on the 30th
ult. for the Tyrol. The QUEEN and Royal Family left
the same day for Weisbaden, and will probably meet the
Queen of ENGLAND on the Rhine.
_ _

" The St. Peter sburgh Journal of the 22d July publ6hes a
second bulletin from General Woronzoff, detailing his further
operations 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.vn of Kisliar, bas penetrated, by the north of
the Daghestan, into the mountains which bound that country
to the west. His object is to secure the communications between
the capital Derbent and the line of the Terek by penetrating to
the Alussulman 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 his army into two detachments,
one at Kistler and the other at Derbent, the combined move.
ments of which have compelled the enemy to evacuate his posi-

Lions."

Public Securities improved considerably in the Paris
Money Market on Monday, owing to the fact that the
house of ROTIISCHILD Brothers had placed itself at the
head of the principal parties Rho have announced their

DREADFUL COLLIERY EXPLO-

SION.-INQUEST ON THE BODIES.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

ABERDARE, NEAR MERTHYR TYDVIL, 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 tespectable 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 ap-
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. Many of the bodies
presented a shocking 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 had
been recovered 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 a'con-
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 burial
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-
tracted 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 ; Howel 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 7S; 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.

DREADFUL RAILWAY
ACCIDENT.
LATEST PARTICULARS.

It appears that on Monday last the express, or morning
mail train, left 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
for a time to discern what had really happened}4n account
of a complete torrent of fire, intermingled with du.,at and dirt,
while at the same time the steam literalloped the
train, and even when it had subsided, the roaring of the en-
gine was of so frightful a character as to terrifY-414 unfortu-
nate passengers. On, however, a few of the passengers, bolder
than the remainder, alighting, a most frightful sight pre-
sented itself. The engine had crossed—after breaking away
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 were sadly
broken, the bodies being taken completely off,,, and flames
issuing from the roof of one of them. Many pais4gers were
carried out apparently dead, and others -_were much
bruised. In another part of the train the Genetal Post-
office guard, in charge of the mails, was found 4-51:6g on his
back, having seemingly been thrown from his Seacon to the
line, and the wheels having passed over hiiny.Kke of his
legs was found to be shockingly crushed. eiasibody 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 adequate 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 litt,* 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 wgs,reihatter of
impossibility, and it was evident to all from the'sVeight that
rested upon the body, and the violent action oftlA 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 beeupartially
accomplished, men were enabled to get at the engine, and in
the course of two or three hours succeeded, by mesas 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 afrightful ex-
tent, and being placed on a litter, it was removed tOtlie 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 he now lies in a most deplorable state of
suffering. 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
IVendon, Saffron Waldon, &c., and late in the dab' posted to
their respective homes.
Mr. Farnctiough, 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 he was thrown from the engine,
_and found
himself but a few yards from the ponderous inaSS. 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 against
the drum of the boiler, and the succeeding shock sent Lim
" 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
any 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
6,000/.
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 Wendon, 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
accident,ere sedulouslyN vhich
at engagedpresent pai n p as-
certaining
r appears
e a
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
au
the company
of theompany were
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, 1790; Lieutenant, April
19, 1794; Captain, June ', 1795; Major, April 25, 1808;
Lietrt -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 Hol-
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 1809; commanded a
field force at the reduction of Palampore, Deesa, Kirjah, and
Virampore, in 1817, and a brigade during the I'indarre 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 inland of St. Vincent in July, 1796.

MARKET DikiirS.-(TMS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY.
The supply of English Wheat offering here, by far the
largest portion of which was left over from Monday, was, the
time of year consilered, moderately extensive, on account of
which, and the comparative fineness in the weather, the de-
mand for that article was somewhat heavy, at barely sta-
tionary prices. Free Foreign Wheat was in fair request, but
no further improvement was noticed in the quotations.
Bonded Grain was held at the late advances. The supply of
Barley was very small. Grinding sorts were quite as dear;
but other parcels were a ',mere drug. Malt, Oats, and Beans
were the turn lower. In other articles, in which very little
business was transacted, no alteration was noticed.

English ..
Foreign .. • • • •

ARRIVALS.

Wheat.
670 qrs.

1,470

Barley.
-4r.

Oats. I Flour.
20qrs I I,loosks.
810 -
400 I ----

Milt. 100 qrs.
WHIIMCI34I.PIer.
We had only a moderate supply of each kind of Meat on
sale, yet the general demand was inactive at barely stationary
prices.—Beef; from 2s 10d to 3s 8d; Mutton, 3s 8d to ss;
Lamb, 4s 10d to 6s ; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s Sd ; and York, 2s 8d
to 4s 2d per 81bs by the carcase.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, (.2 UA RTE R 7'o THREE.
The. sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 4,000
bales, including 1,000 on speculation. Prices were without
alteration. There was not much alteration in Shares.
The Funds are very well supporten to•day, and there is a
further rise of 1% per cent. The more settled appearance of
the weather has a very favourable cflect. Consuls are 98%
to 9914 for present transfer, and 99 to 99% for the account.
Exchequer-bills have been 525. to 495., being lower, on ac-
count of a sale or two made, and, as may be concluded, on
account of money being rather dearer. Bank Stock has been
done at 211, but India Stock is rather lower, being 271%.
New Three-and-a•-Quarter per Cents. have been 102% to
102%, and. the Three per Cents. 99% to 99%.
The Foreign Securities, though firm, are not at all ani-
mated. Spanish Five per Cents. have been 27 to 1/8, and
the Three per Cents. 38 to 1%. Mexican Bonds have been
36 to %, and Peruvian 37. Belgian Four and-a-Half per
Cents. are 101, and Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents. 62%
7i3. Russian Stock is at 11814.
The Railway Share Market has been very buoyant.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(Front the Official List.)
Bank Stock 211
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 99%%%
3 per Cent. Consols Anus 9BA 99% 99
New 31/t per Cent. Annutiea
Long Annuities Expire sth Jan. 1860... 11%14
Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859... 1114
India Stock 271%
andia Bonds 1,0001 —
Ditto under 1.0001 69
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. I%d. 11/ d.
1,0001.
5001. ... ... .. 53 50 pm.
Ditto Small — .. .. 54 51 pm.
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account.
Ditto Deferred
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent 37
Russian Bonds. 1822, 5 per Cent llBl/4
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,lB4o
Ditto for the Account.
Ditto 3 per Cent 3Bl
Belgian 41/2 per Cent
Dutch 2% per Cents
Ditto for the Account
PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Aberdeen
Armagh, Coleraine, Portrush 1% 2l/2 to
Birmingham and Gloucester 100 134
Brighton, Lewes, Hastings ... 20
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto New 2 ...... 121 A...... to 12
Bristol and Gloucester
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln ...... 114 3%1/2... to
Chester and Holyhead
Cornwall ... .. 3
l'irect Northern ..
Dublin and Belfast Junction 2% Bl4 to 7%
Dublin and Galway 2% 21% to
Eastern Counties
Do. New 41. 16s 7 p to
Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 6/.13s 4d . to
Ditto, ditto, No. 2. ... 13s. 4d Ol% to
Eastern Union
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Ditto Quarters
Ditto New 14 Shares 2l/. 10%...... to
Ely and Bedford ll4 3% 4... to 3%
Great South and W. (Irish)... 10
Great North of England 100 920
Harwich
Hull and Selby 5O lO 5
Ditto lit Shares
Leicester and Bedford 22s. 1%%3/4 p to
London and Birmingham lOO 246
Ditto Thirds
Ditto 1./1 Shares
London and Blackwell 16%...... 111 A %... to
London and Brighton
London and Croydon... 131. 15s. 9d.... 24/2 to
Do. New l3s 4d l% p... to
London and Greenwich... 121. 15s. 4d —
Ditto Preference
London and South Western.. 41% B2l/2 to
Ditto New 2% 15% to 14%
London and York. ... .
Londonderry and Coleraine... 2% 37i to
Londonderry and Enniskillen 214 254 to
Lynn and Derehani
Slanelieii et and Leeds 76 .....204
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Quarters
Manchester and Birmingham 40
Midland
Ditto New 2 271/2 29 to 28%
Newcastle & Darlington .;unc. 25 —
Ditto New Brandling
Newcastle and Berwick
i North British

Ditto New .. age to 9
Northern and Eastern 45

Ditto Quarter Shares
North Staffordshire
Norwich and Brandon l4 ...... 23% 23 to 24
Ditto, New 1
Oxford and Worcester 2% 6% 7% to 634
Portsmouth Direct
Richmond and West EndJunc. 1
Rugby. Worcester. and Tnng 1
Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 2% 4% to
Shrews., Herefrd &N. Wales 2% 2,,1, to
South Devon
South Midland
South Eastern and Dover ... 33% 46%..... to
Ditto New, No. 3 2% 81A%% to
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ... .. 2% to
Waterford, Wexford,Wicklw,
and Dublin
York and North Midland ... 50
Ditto Half Shares 25 .. 55 :to
Ditto Scarboro'Branch
Ditto Selby
Ditto, Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens 6 ...... 11 .. to
Dutch Rhenish 3 --.. 8%%... to --
Great Northern of France
(Laffitte's)
Do. Do. (Rosamel's) ... 2
Jamaica Junction
Namr.r and Liege...
Orleans and Vierzon
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 4 ...... 11%
Paris and Lyons( Laffitte) ... 2
Parisand Lyons(Ganneron's) 2 ...
Paris and Lyons (Calon's)... 2 . - to
Pans and Orleans...
Paris and Rouen
Paris& Strasburg( Gannern's) 2
Paris and St. Quentin
Royal North of Spain
Sambre and Meuse
Strasburg and Bale

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, AUGUST 6.--Wind this day at noon W. by S.
to S.W. by W., pleasant breeze and fine weather.
DEAL, AUGUST s.—Wind S.S.W. by W., moderate.—
Arrd. Poodle Raser, for Malaga. Sld for, Winchester Mil-
ligan, Launceston ; Aberton, Purchase, Port Philip ; Dublin,
Wakefield, Sydney; Martin Luther, Hutton, Calcutta;
London, Shuttleworth, Calcutta ; Lord W. Beniinck, Allen,
Madras; Owen Glendower, Robertson, ilombay ; Mary Ann,
Allan, Bombay; Claudine, Norris, Bombay; Bolton, David-
son, Bombay ; Durham, Davidson, Valparaiso ; Portland,
M`Allister, 'Trinidad; Jamaica, Huggins, Jamaica.
PORTSMOUTH, AUG. s.—Wind S.S.W.—SId. Rajasthar
Stewart, Sir John Stewart, Quebec.

PLYMOUTH, AUG. s.—Wind N.W.—Sld. 4th, Gentoo,
Lakeman, Quebec; sth, James, Tyne, Bermuda; Florence,
Brumage, Prince Edward's Island ; John Brougham, Barrett,
Quebec. Off port, 2d, Salertia,__Peterson,.for Belfast.
FALMOUTH, AUG. s.—Wind .N.N.W.—Arrd. off, 3d, John,
Quebec; 4th, Vixen, Douglas, Port Philip, sld. sth April ;
Alfred, New Orleans.

lavi:nroor, Auo. s.—Wind N.N.E., moderate.—Arrd.
Acadia, Joss, Quebec. Ski. Chatham, Nasor, New Orleans ;
George Collins, New York; Hibernia steamer, Halifax ;
Scotland, Thompson, Quebec ; Hero of Acre, Jones, ditto.
The Acadia, Younger, from Quebec to Glasson Dock, ashore
near Walney Island, has beat over the Bar and anchored
inside, with damage and loss of rudder, and floats with
the tide.

BRIDroRT, AUG. s.—Sld. Hannah, Bartlett, Miramichi.
CARDIFF, AUG. s.—Wind E.—Arrd. 4th, Elizabeth and
Catherine, Ranker, Quebec.
LYNN, AUG. s.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Ouse, Quebec.
CORK, AUG. s.—Wind N. W.—Arrd. off 3d, Plutus, Mark,
St. Andrew's.

BEAUMARIS, AUG. 4.—Sld. Roman, Doane, Boston.
FLEETWOOD, AUG. 4.—Arrd. Amity, Borrodaile, Quebec;
Nautilus, APKinnon, Dalhousie.
OFF TILE DEE, AUG. s.—Micmac, Quebec ; Russell, ditto,
both for Flint.

CLYDE, AUG. 3. Arrd. Catherine, Wallace, Saldanha
Bay ; Vestal, M'Coag, Trinidad ; 4th, New England, Louet,
New Orleans; Dundonald, APNicol, St. John's, New Bruns-
wick; Kate Robertson, Burley, Pictou ; Onyx, Quebec. Sld.
3d, Christian, M'Kellar, Demerara; Cordelia, Newfoundland.
BELFAST, AUG. 3.—Arrd. Sir H. Pottinger, Law, Quebec
Sld. Great Britain, Wilson, Quebec. _ _

LONDONDERRY, JULY 28.—Sld. Londonderry, Hatrick,
Quebec. 29. Fanny, Quebec. Aug. 1. Harvey, —.
ABERDEEN, AUG. 3.—Sld. Lord Seaton, Talbot, Quebec.
LEITH, AUG. 4.—Wind W.—Arrd. 3, Pomona, Quebec.
SHIELDS, AUG. 4.—Wind S.W. to N. W.—Arrd. 2, Wil-
liam Hannington, Stone, Quebec.
SCARBOROUGH, AUG. s.—Arrd. Lord Brougham, Quebec.
HULL, AUG. s.—Wind S.W., fresh.—Arrd. 4, Gamma,
Leekby, Miramichi ; Gem, Crozier, Miramichi ; Pekin,
Esson, Quebec; Llan Rumney, Willoughby, Quebec. Sld. 4,
Forager, Sleightholm, Quebec.

DEPARTURE OF TROOPS BY THE BIRMINGHAM
RAlLWAY.—Yesterday the ti9th regiment, recently stationed
at Sheerness, arrived in London from that place, and thence
proceeded to the terminus of the London and Birmingham
Railway, where a special train was provided to convey the regi-
ment to Weedon Barracks, the place of their destination.
We understand that native silver ore of a very
rich quality has recently been discovered in the East Coombe
Silver and Lead mine, in the parish of Swymbringe, and that
the prospects generally are very ilattering.—North Devon
Advertiser,