The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-03 00:00:00

NOTTINGI[AM.

SATURDAY.—Up to the present week little was known or
done relative to the municipal elections which have taken
place to-day in this borough, and yet matters have been so
contrived as to have a contest in every ward. Last year
thousands of pounds were expended in treating, bribery,
and election hand-bills; this year very few pounds, and
yet some few have found their way into the pockets of the
electors. On Tuesday ten out of the fourteen retiring
members issued their addresses, offering themselves again
as candidates in the same wards for which they had pre-
viously sat, but on Wednesday and Thursday various
changes were announced, owing, as it was reported, to
several railway projectors having concocted a scheme to
get into the council certain parties, large shareholders,
with a view of obtaining votes from the Corporation
in particular lines of railway about to be taken to Par-
liament. How far this. is correct is not yet known ; but
certain it is that a general excitement prevailed on the
subject throughout every district in the town. There is
little doubt, had the candidates stood for the wards they had
been so long members for, that very little opposition would
have arisen, as the heavy expenses of the last and previous
years had cooled the feelings of the defeated parties.
Chopping and changing, however, to make way for new can-
didates who were known to be the friends of the parties
alluded to, raised a general opposition, and on Saturday morn-
ing it was found arrangements had been made for contesting
every ward. The elections went on in some wards with
great spirit, and in all the poll was kept open till four o'clock,
at which hour there were ten Liberals and four Tories re-
turned. Notwithstanding the opposition, the railway party,
both Whig and Tory, succeeded in getting their candidates
elected. The council now consists of 14 Whig aldermen, 20
Tory, and 22 Whig councillors.
PORTSMOUTH.

The election of town councillors, in the room of those who

out by rotation, took place to-day.
:—St. Thomas's Ward: The business in this ward was
gtii,. ty
The following was the
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,zi- ..
settled. At half-past ten. Mr. Child had polled ~...
hims,:lf for an hour, the poll was closed, and the
election declared to have
fallen on the gentlemen named. St.
14, Mr. llosh.:ns 12, and Mr. A. Heather 10. No other voter
presenting .
George's Ward: Messrb, Ellis and Smithery re-elected. St.
John's Ward : Mr. G. Pra:t 208, Mr. E. Gain 177, elected.
St. Paul's Ward : This ward was strongly contested ; the
following gentlemen were elected—Mr. Marks 391, Mr.
Hearn 387, Mr. Palmer 381. All paints' Ward: This ward
was also strongly contested, and the battle won by Messrs.
Sheppard, Galsworthy, and Smith. St. Mary's Wad.: Mr.
Goldsmith was re-elected.—Hampshire Telegraph.

ACCIDENT on the GREAT NORTH
OF ENGLAND RAILWAY.
NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, SATURDAY.—An accident occurred
to the mail train this morning on the Great North of Eng-
land Railway, which, though of an alarming character, was
fortunately unattended with serious results to the passen-
gers. The mail train from the south, due at Darlington
at.
` 20 minutes past seven o'clock, was upwards of an hour
and a- half behind its time in arriving at that station,
shortly before nine o'clock, and then consisted
which it 10., '.tender, a luggage van, two second-class car-
of the engine ant.. Post -office,and one or two carriages be-
two first-class carriage., r and five miles north of Darlin g-
hind that. When between to.- a. crossing the up line, went
ton, the engine got off the line, an, ' —ten seven and eight
over the edge of an embankment bet,. sinking into
feet in height. The wheels, however, I'ing the
the soft earth, prevented it from reant._ who
bottom, and in the meantime the engine man,

maintained his position, turnedloff the steam: The tender was
dragged across the up line, the rails of which were displaced,
and the two second-class carriages were thrown together
upon their ends, in an upright position on the line. The
coupling chain between these and the rest of the train broke,
and the ether carriages maintained their proper position,
though most of them were thrown off the rail. Fortunately,
none of the passengers sustained any serious injury, which is
probably owing to the slow rate at which the train was tra-
velling, it not going at more than fifteen miles an hour. The
second-class carriages and tender were much broken. A
messenger was sent back to Darlington for assistance, before
the arrival of which, the express train from Newcastle was
seen approaching, and intimation of danger having been
conveyed by signal it was stopped before reaching the scene
of the accident. In order to prevent delay the mail-bags and
passengers were transferred to the express train, and the pas-
sengers in that train having alighted, it returned to Newcastle,
and reached the Gateshead station at ten minutes past twelve
o'clock. A special engine from Darlington having arrived,
took up the carriages with the passengers by the express
train, and in the meantime workmen were employed in
clearing the line and relaying the rails, which was effected in
a few hours, but the engine still remains on the embankment.
The spokes of one of the wheels are broken, and the outside
connecting-rod is much bent, but otherwise the engine does
not appear to have sustained much damage. The accident is
supposed to have arisen from the sleepers not having been
sufficiently packed, it having occurred on a part of the line
which had been undergoing repair. A train which left Darling-
ton at half-past eight bad:passed:over the place'safely not half
an hour before the accident occurred. Had the mail train kept
its time it would have gone first over the line, but being behind
time the other train was dispatched from Darlington before it.
The rails are so muchitwisted and broken that it is impossible
to tell from an inspection of the place whether the engine had
gone off the line at a joint or in the middle of the bar, from
the sinking of the sleeper, though it is probable the bar
would give way at the joint, and so leave an opening which
the flange of the wheel had passed through. The passengers
speak favourably of the exertions of the company s servants
in charge of the train, to whom not the slightest blame is
attributed.

LORD HARDWICKE ON THE
POTATO DISEASE.
(From the Cambridge Chronicle.)
The Lord-Lieutenant has thought it his duty to issue
an address to the labourers of the county and isle upon
the subject of the potato disease. Comirg from such a
quarter, and upon a subject of such vital interest, we
cannot give the Noble Lord's address too prominent a
position in our columns.
TO THE LABOURERS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND THE ISLE