The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-10 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

The statement that Lady Sale is the daughter of
the late Vicar of Puddleworth, Dorset„ the Rev. Mr.
Wynch, has been contradicted. Lady Sale, it appears,
is the daughter of the late George Wynch, Esq., of
the Hon. East India Company's service, and a
granddaughter of the late Alexander Wynch, for-
merly Governor of Madras.
LAW AND POLICE.
Henry Stanton, alias Dr. Henry Stanhope, was
finally examined at Clerkenwell on the charge of
several robberies, and committed for trial to Newgate.
Between 20 and 30 men and lads were brought up
at Union Hall for refusing to work at the St. George's
Workhouse, creating a disturbance, and breaking the
windows. The porter was blamed for not furnishing
them with the appointed food ; they were then coin-
mitted, but ordered to be afterwards furnished with
passes to their parishes.
COURT-T.A.SBZONABLF.

The Duke and Duchess of Richmond and family
arrived in Portland-place, -on Wednesday evening,
from Gordon Castle. The family, on Tuesday next,
go to Goodwood-park, Sussex, for the winter.
The Duke of Norfolk, with the Earl of Arundel
and Lord Edward Howard, left Hyde-park-place on
Wednesday, for Arundel Castle.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Bristol, accompa-
&ed by Lord:Alfred Hervey, M.P., left town on Thar-
day afternoon, by the four o'clock train, for Brighton.
The Marquis of Northampton has left town to visit
to:the Dowager Marchioness of Northampton at Cool-
burst.
The Marquis of Normanby- arrived in town on
Wednesday, f'rom Mulgrave Castle, the Noble Mar-
quis's seat, near Whitby, Yorkshire.
The Duke of Sussex and the Duchess of Inverness
are expected to pass the holidays at Colonel Wild-
man s seat.
Major-General Sir Alexander Woodford, G.C.B.
the late Governor of Gibraltar, with Lady Woodford
and family, have arrived at Portsmouth from Spain,
and are hourly expected in town.
The Earl and Countess of Mornington arrived on
Thursday in Saville-row, from Deal Castle.
Viscount and Viscountess Villiers arrived in town
on Thursday from a visit to Middleton Park.

Earl and Lady Katherine Jermyn left IckWorila
Park on Saturday last for Belvoir Castle.
mascELLANZOUS.
Owing to the present abbreviation of the office
copies in Chancery, a defendant lately escaped a trial
on a technical objection arising from them. The words
of Lord Denman on the occasion were—" The intro-
duction into office-copies of abbreviations was a most
improper practice, and no office-copy ought to be
made without being word for word in full length.
In this Court that was the practice, and where it was
the contrary most grievous and important errors
might be committed.
The regulations just issued from the Admiralty rf-
specting the survey of all ships in future, are as they
should be, stringent. The spars of a vessel after a
couple of long voyages are most likely to be defective.
Instances frequently occur where an internal decay in
a tree had been originally unknown even to the mast-
maker himself, but which after the wear and tear of s
voyage or two had become sufficiently apparent to his
practised eye to be detected in the course of a survey
by him on board ; whilst by the commander and
ship's carpenter no serious defect could be seen.

ip .pe,_
ACCIDENT ON THE BIRMINGI-litg

RAILWAY.
A dreadful accident occurred on Thursday upon this
railway, which either has already, or in all probabi-
lity shortly will be, attended with loss of lite. One
account which we have received states that four per-
sons were killed.j. but other accounts, though they do
not agree in tltis particular, agree in stating that four
persons were seriously injured, and that the lives of
at least two •f them are despaired of. The accident
occurred about half-way between the Tring and Berk-
lsampstead stations, while the train was proceeding at
heel
the rate of thirty miles an hour, and was caused bi
the breaking of the axle of the engine. The near
turned
W,
of the engine was next broken, and the engine
completely round and shattered to pieces, no portion
of it remaining entire but the cylinder, which NY,115
p.arus._
driven by the concussion to a distance of thirty
The stoker was taken up speechless, buhe engulli"
fortunately escaped with a slight hurt to
the fool ;
three passengers in the first carriage next fire
cl ell_ ;
gine were seriously wounded, but all the t as
given
trainthe
which Company
iea
v: —e s
passengers escaped without injury
The following is the official account
of the accident
doll et
The Aylesbury fo Liar'
carriage next
eleven, A.M. consisting of a second class second
the tender, two first class carriages, and
•
another
ein.
bankment, about three-quarters of a Mile
class carriage at the end, was passiug over the
North Church Tunnel, when the near fore-wrthe
the engine was suddenly separated frolll it, /half
breaking of the fore-axle (which is four and
inches thick) between the journal and the
thrown
The engine and tender were, in consequence,. there
over the near side of the embankment, which /5 car
about 15 feet high, and the leading second class
riage over the off side. The other carriages re/lit in
on the road. The engine-driver escaped with°dlithree
jury; his assistant was considerably hurt, 11,,r1 •age,
north of,thoef
passengers, who were in the second class "'''."-h it
which was overturned, also received severe, thoug •
is hoped not fatal, injuries. ilre
The following is the official report of the 6
who attended on behalf of the Company :•--- ed by
" The names of the persons who were joi n'.
the accident at North Church, Dec. 8, 1842 --- the
" John Tomlin, of Boxmore--severe injury te
head and fracture of ribs.
~Mary Bye, of Aylesbury—severe injury to the
head. ioo
" John Pemberton, Company's stoker--aluellss
of the brain. —4 11.
" Matthew Lowe, overlooker, Berkhampatew-1
jury to back. ne
Surgeon, er' 1, teaci:'
" THOS. BROWN,B kiillor's 4
On an examination of the fractured axle, it app (,r'
that the iron, with the exception of a very
tion, is defective, although not externally aPParot
Wheel 3
and that the separation is so close to the
at first view it would seem to have been Illede br
knife. fully re
The circtUristances 'of the accident will be fo by
ported to the Board of Trade, for investigati°
small pen)
t,

wore (ANop7ollcEeltedAinCgCOEL.) a
Gen. Pasley.
As :he. train
incline"sliht ear
tion a twenty-five minutes before twelve o clock' near
other 'l„a
(I.lforthchurch, a village about a mile on the
B erkhampstead, and between the latter Place that
Tying,. some of the passengers became aware king
all was not right, by hearing the stoker r 3 ,
, le-
, out the fire from under the engine. tr,he„ •ith
tree had in fact broken, and the stoo' 101
great presence of mind, took this preealti°,e%t
step to prevent the boiler from bursting ; t'ea.-nrid
minute the fore wheel flew off, and the eng'nsipces.
tTehnder were thrown off the line and
thend to,Plied
me,
nfi r s_t carriage was hurled from road, ane r-c
ar
d. ' the embankment, and the two first-ert ell'
,r!age- forced right athwart the rails. Vie, l% ;he
two fore
received but a comparatively slight sa°c-'d Do
an
_ wheels only being thrown off the line
person within receiving any injury. • tially
soon
• , as the passengers who had provider' 0,
ienscaped without injury could recover from' the ono,
entarY
consternation into whi6 lbeY h'ad the
ihey' •iin n
thrown by the terrific occurrence,
bank.to assist those who had been in the first carriage'
ed
tAmOng those more fortunate persons luckily haPPenre
o be Mr. T. IL TT
—ill, a medical gentleman, ;vho was t
turning to London from Oxford, and v.iho promirvela
renderedl all the assistance in his power to his 'lasi-
_fe.rlow-passengers, who were found in a gate ,f.
Onein
of
the
bi ity, and, were at first supposed to be &ad. ,t car'
Company s overlookers, who had been in the dew,t' and
lriage, was, in its descent, thrown out at the wirw,,,,d to
eft upon the embankment. The stoker was found to
have received a severe concussion of the brain ; Ta,dieS
oldman and women were found lying with their tinge,
literally They
doubled together inside the ill-fated caj oity,
hey were got out with considerable direwere
and examined by Mr. Hill; the heads of b
atoll be
coveredf with blood, and on a closer ezarni°aian'
ound that they had both received severe lacer-boat
of the scalp. The woman was also much ent.,sfloral
the e.yes, and the small branches of the te":nrorra
arteries had been divided, causing profuse lice-,ed--"
hage. By this time the sufferers had been rein the
the old man and woman to Northchurch, all
. overlooker and stoker to Berkhampstead.
from Ilex.',,
An engineand
, some carriages were sent to''
ham stead to convey the other passengers t° ctioa
but a considerable time elapsed before the obstraid he
caused by the broken engine and tender e°°,, nest/
removed from the line, and when that was done, I, liaa
rail had to be laid down in place of one whe.oiorf
been cut asunder by the shock. The onlY44'; ao.
which the first-class carriages received was •"."
stilled= of the plate-glass in the windows. •i''
„rpt .
The cause of the accident, which it is onlY, ',,„%sults
ingth was not attended by still more lamentab'e ;ration'
an those which are above detailed, was angli-ratide
for,
ably a defect in the iron of which the axle Ival. t, „a.
. on examination, it was at once manifest tria,cessed
withstanding its appearance of strength, it 1)0" feat
very little, not more than one-fourth of the al: sir
substance being real. A large hollow, like centre
bubble, appeared to have formed from the
nearly to
,the edges of the metal. , , (NO
The loss which will accrue to the Company
the damage done is estimated at 2,000/. 1 after
The • - •
train, which should have arrived short y
' lock,
one, did not
reach town until near four o c
LATER PARTICULARS. ._,I st the
Intelligence
was yesterday afternoon receilire the
Euston-station of the railway, that Mrs; Ji.?l,.rel'ithila
elderly woman above alluded to ha' of 80(re,
her last. She was between 60 and '7O ye,ari: was fOO
and her constitution received a shock though it had
much for her advanced period of life,
at first been
hoedp she would recover.
A the llnil)rtti-
The other sufferers are all doing w'''• I
killed upon th 9
nate woman is the first passenger ever - bets
line; of railway, the results of the former a ,
having been confined to the Corn ser
.erc sOtt-
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WESTERN LITERARY INSTITUTION, 1-47" r;fittloll
SQUARE.—A lecture was delivered at this ins'o'n- the
on 'rhursday evening, by T. Fowndes, 'cl?' abidi,
history of chemistry, tracing the science, e eun
up to its present state as a science. B. 11_ilt°nt'ite as'
in the chair. A conversazione ensued, when them
semblage, among whom were many ladies. powpr°c--
to view the specimens of antique bronze, calot)l3
traits, microscopes, &c., displayed. A musical. stein,
attracted much notice, as also some fine carv'ngs
tended for the Earl of Orford's mansion.
WHY ENGLAND 13 NOT A MUSICAL
NATO,' 0
Having, like many others now living, entered aro,
the stully of the composer's art with all that eet. 1 _
siasm and ever shining hope which make all thir Fly
appear possible, how was my enthusiasm checked, nly
hope be-dimmed, when I found that eve doer not
shut against the English composer; or, f not (113 ea
shut, left but so little way ajar, that the merest trill .
could alone pass in. Added to this disappointmenci
came the mindless, but unceasing taunt, that &leant,
was not a musical nation; therefore it was useless_a
struggle for musical renown. Hearing this, it becil,rmi
a question—why should England not be mindsusito
nation ? Did we not possess ears, voices,
~_
comprehend, tastes to discover and appreciate the hsfat.
tiful in art, come in what shape it would ? 10°7,
otri
foreign composers made of different mould to
the
men ? If not, surely we might. Still hope that.nd
land which bore a Shakspeare, a Milton, a Byron/ Tbe
a Scott, and that wonderful revolutionizer of !en.
world, a Watt, had still some few grains of dust 1,..;
worthy of forming a musical genius, whose' stirec"ii
might one day be placed, without insult, beside ° od
that of Mozart ? Had we not already equalled,.s i
even surpassed, our foreign rivals in almost all thlattit
that had been encouraged? Encouraged !--in t.";ii,
word lay the answer. England was not ft Ingl3j
nation, because her native musical composersor
never been encouraged ?—Frosn a paper by
....
Bert Rodwellin the Dramatic and Altiocal Berirw*