ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.-The mailtrain from Bristol, which was due at the Paddington terminus at five o'clock, A. M., did not make its appearance until a few minutes before eight o'clock. The cause of delay was ascertained to be as follows:-Nothing whatever happened to impede the progress of the engine and train until its arrival at the eighty-seventh milestone from London, about four miles on this side of Wootton Basset. At this spot, owing to an extensive slip in the newly-formed embankment, one of the rails got displaced and shifted outward. On the arrival of the engine and train, the joint of the rail flew up, and caused the former to go off the line at full speed into the embankment, in which it became embedded to a considerable extent. The sudden stoppage of the train caused a tremendous collision between the carriages, two of which were literally smashed, and the guards and engineers were thrown off with considerable violence. Two gentlemen had their ancles dislocated, and were otherwise seriously injured; a third had met with several bruises about the body; and a fourth was severely cut by the glass of the windows in the face, as were also other passengers more or less. The guards were cut and scratched about the face and hands,but the engineers escaped without any injury. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH UNION RAILWAY.A coroner's jury, met at the Railway Hotel, Euxton Station, to inquire touching the death of the Rev. Robert Ivy, an Independent Minister. Robert Sarjeant, labourer, of Euxton, deposed, that he was employed on the railway. On Tuesday, a little before one o'clock, he was going to his work. He was about 200 yards from the station at Euxton, on the Preston side, when an engine drawing a number of empty waggons, passed by towards the station, and directly after he heard a tremendous smash. He did not hear any whistle before he heard the smash. Witness turned back to the station-house, and when he got there he saw Thomas Nixon, the keeper of the station, lying close by the side of the wall. He was lying down partly on his side, and his foot was almost off. There was an old man named John Arnold lying upon a piece of the station door. Witness also saw two more people four or five yards from him, and a woman much hurt near to them. Witness also saw a gentleman lying dead some distance further on. Witness saw the pieces of a coach, it was all smashed to bits. He had not seen the coach before. Some of the fragments were in the middle of the road and part upon the pavement along side. One horse was in the middle of the road dead, above ten yards from the station, and another horse was lying considerably further down the line, towards Wigan. The engine stopped opposite to where the last horse lay. When the engine passed witness it was going at about the usual speed, about thirty miles an hour. One of the horses was betwixt the two lines of rails, the other was fast upon a break on the Euxton side of the railway. Mr. James Johnson.I am agent to Mr. Pearson, of the colliery at Ince. On Tuesday, at a little before one o'clock, I was upon the tender of the Asa engine. There were several empty waggons attached to the engine. They with the engine are the property of Thomas Pearson and Co. I was acting as breaksman to the engine. We were travelling on the North Union line towards Wigan. When we were within thirty or forty yards from the Euxton station gates witness observed a gray horse with his fore feet in about the middle of the two lines of rails. It appeared to witness that the horse was floundering; it could not go on. Witness could not see the coach on account of the excavation. The engineer called out, "My God! Johnson, here's the coach." Witness put on the break, and the engineer reversed the motion of the engine instantly. When the engine stopped the engineer and witness got off and ran towards the station to give assistance. The first person he saw was the deceased. He was about forty yards from the station, between the two rails on which the waggons had travelled. He was lying on his face. Witness got hold of him; he was not quite dead, but senseless. His foot appeared dreadfully mangled. Witness thought he had chance to survive, and left him to attend to the others. When witness returned to the station, he found the fragments of a coach in front of the building. There was also a seat of the coach in one of the waggons, and a coachwheel on the buffer on the hinder end of no the engine. The seat of the coach was in the third waggon from the engine. The wheel was on the buffer on the station-house side. Mr. Charles Edward Paton deposed, that on Tuesday he came by the coach from the Rawlinson station. He sat on the box by the side of the coachman. Just as they got on the railway line, the coachman said, "Who the devil has left the gate open." Witness turned round and saw a train advancing. Witness said, "We are all dashed to pieces," and in an instant he felt the shock. He remembered nothing more. Mary Nixon deposed, that she was the wife of Thomas Nixon, who keeps the gates at the Euxton station, and was in the employ of the North Union Railway Company. On Tuesday, between twelve and one o'clock, her husband had just been out to see if any engine was coming, and had sat down in the kitchen to take his dinner. When he heard the coach come down the lane he went out. Witness saw the engine and the coach coming, and knew what was going to happen. The gates were open, but they are shut when an engine comes down the line, to prevent carts or other vehicles coming across the line. It was her husband's duty to close the gates when he saw a cart and an engine coming. Witness heard the crash, but did not go out until all was over. Her husband has since had his leg taken off. told her he had been thrown down by the horse. He The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death." CAST-IRON CHURCH. St. George's Church, Everton, Liverpool, is an object of considerable interest as having been nearly the first iron church erected in Great Britain. The whole of the framework of the windows, doors, groins, roofs, pulpit, ornamental enrichments, are of cast-iron. The length is 119 feet, the breadth is 47. It is ornamented by a splendid cast-iron window filled with stained glass. CHINESE CANNONS.-In the Parrock-hall, which recently arrived in St. Katherine's Docks from China, were two splendid cannons, which were taken from the Chinese at the Bogue Forts. They have been sent to this country as a present to her Majesty's Government. They are of Spanish manufacture, about eleven feet in length; the touchholes have been spiked, which renders them quite useless; they weigh about two tons each. One of them bears the following inscription:"Por vida do Capitao-Geral de Macao, Manoel y Tavares Bocarao, Afez, 1651." On the other is the Spanish crown, and "Don Felipe I., Rey d'Espana." "Don Miguel Tavares Rocaeroze y San Geral y Mor, ecaptiad de Ari Aean Macao, A. 1652." A large bullet, of Chinese manufacture, was also sent by the same ship; it was exceedingly rough and ill-shaped, and seems to have been cast in two pieces, and rivetted together afterwards. 9. AN INQUISITION was taken before Mr. Wakley, M.P., at the Blue Posts, Tottenham-court-road, on the body of George Veitch, aged thirty-five: Mrs. Mary Brown deposed that the deceased lodged inher house. At a few minutes after two o'clock on the previous Wednesday witness was called to by deceased's wife, saying, "For God's sake, Mrs. Brown, come up stairs; my husband has woke up in a fright, and I think is going out of his mind." Witness accordingly went, and on entering the bedroom saw deceased sitting on the side of the bed, throwing himself in all manner of postures, and exclaiming, "Oh, my tooth." On seeing witness he asked her if the left side of his face was swelled, and there appearing nothing the matter with it, she said, "No;" when he replied, "I have got the toothache; fetch somebody to me, or I shall die," adding, "give me a razor or a knife, and I'll kill myself, for any death is preferable to this agony." Witness endeavoured to calm him, but his conduet becoming violent in the extreme, and fearful that he would do himself some mischief, she called her husband, who was just entering the room when the deceased was in the act of throwing himself on the floor, which witness perceiving, prevented by pushing him back on to the bed, when his eyes immediately became glazed and fixed; he appeared senseless, and spoke no more. Mr. Odding, surgeon, was sent for, and bled him. Deceased, however, was quite dead. Mary Veitch, wife of deceased, stated, that to her knowledge her husband, up to the time of his death, had never had a day's illness. On Monday last, while opening a window, he ran a rusty nail very deeply into the palm of his left hand, which immediately swelled to a great size, nothing however was applied, and on the following day the fingers were so stiff, as to render him unable to move them; still no notice was taken, and he subsequently complained of sore throat. On returning home on Wednesday morning at ten o'clock, he went to bed, and at two woke up in a frantic state, telling her he had got ley said, that the evidence certainly tended to shew that the deceased lost his life through the injury accidentally sustained in his hand by the rusty nail; and it was extraordinary that, when symptoms of lock-jaw were evinced, by the terrific and violent action of the nerves, causing the fingers to be rigid and stiff, medical aid was not procured, although, perhaps, it would not have been of any benefit; for to counteract such symptoms the whole Materia Medica had been searched, and all kinds of means adopted, but in vain-all had failed. Verdict "Accidental Death." 11. STRIKE AT THE NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.-The masons employed on these buildings numbered 222, and the whole of them belonged to the "Birmingham Union of Masons," Some of these men conceiving they had grounds of complaint against the foreman of the works, sent a deputation to Messrs. Grissell and Peto, alleging their grievances, which were, that he had refused to allow a man leave of absence to bury his mother, that he confined them to two houses for purchasing refreshments, and that he refused to discharge a man for doing his work in less time than it pleased the Union to set for it. The first charge was disproved, the second rectified, and the third highly approved of. But the Unionists refused to return to work unless the foreman, Mr. Allen, was discharged; this being decidedly refused, the whole of the masons in the employ of Messrs. Grissell and Peto "struck." Thus three great national undertakingsVOL. LXXXIII. the Houses of Parliament, the Nelson pillar, and the new dock at Woolwich, were brought completely to a stand. The Government, however, readily extended the time of contract, and by great exertions sufficient men were collected to proceed with these works, and these misguided men not only failed in their attempt, but were reduced to great want. -NEW LIGHTHOUSE.-A new lighthouse intended to be placed ultimately on Morant Point, in the island of Jamaica, has been erected in the yard of Messrs. Bramah and Robinson, Pimlico. Its height is 105 feet, 15 feet of which will be sunk into the solid rock, and loaded in and out with rubble and concrete. The whole tower is formed of iron plates, one inch in thickness, and of these plates there are nine tiers, eleven plates at the bottom, and nine at the top; the whole are strongly bolted together with iron flanges, and when permanently fixed will also be cemented with iron cement, and thus, in effect, become one entire whole. To reduce the heat in the interior which the strength of a tropical sun acting on a building of metal only one inch in thickness would render unbearable, the whole will have an interior lining of slate, with an interval of one inch and a half between it and the iron, by which contrivance a current of air will constantly be in circulation over the whole. The diameter of the tower is eighteen feet six inches at the base, and decreases at the top to eleven feet six. The entire weight of the whole fabric is exactly 100 tons. The whole expense, including the plan, the building, the passage over the Atlantic, and the erecting it on the promontory of Morant, will not exceed 7,000l. G 11. ACCIDENT ON THE BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILROAD.-At the Bridgewater terminus, on Saturday last, an engine was employed to transfer some carriages from the down to the up line, and was returning with its tender in front, when, on arriving at the crossing, the Exquisite stage coach, with passengers for Exeter, was in the act of passing over the rails. The tender struck the fore part of the coach, which it shivered to pieces. The hind wheels, with a part of the body of the coach, were forced off the line by the violence of the shock, and fell over, while the passengers were scattered about in every direction. The horses, from the complete smash of the coach, were liberated, and escaped with but little injury. Six persons were more or less injured. LYNCHING GAMBLERS FROM FIFTY TO SEVENTY-FIVE PERSONS MURDERED.-The following horrible transaction has been related in the American papers, and has not been contradicted:-The section of country above and below the mouth of White River on the Mississippi, has been for years infested with gangs of gamblers and counterfeiters. Islands 67, 68, and 69 were notorious resorts for them. The people of Coahoma county, Mississippi, and from the opposite side of the river, determined to rid themselves of such pests; and our information is, that they succeeded in capturing from fifty to seventy-five of them. On the 3d of August they placed them on board a trading-boat, took her to an unfrequented place, so that there might be no witnesses, and shot and drowned them all. ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE DUKE OF ORLEANS.-The following is the express received in London announcing this wicked attempt, (see History), and hints darkly at other transactions, showing the dissatisfied state of the interior of France:-" PARIS, SEPTEMBER 13. An attempt to assassinate the Duke of Orleans was made this forenoon near to the Rue Faubourg St. Antoine. His royal Highness and his brothers, the Dukes de Nemours and d' Aumale, preceded by a brilliant staff, were riding at the head of the 17th Light Infantry, which was about to make its triumphant entry into Paris, coming from Algiers, and had reached the spot just mentioned, when a man presented himself before them with a brace of pistols, which he attempted to fire at the Duke of Orleans: only one of these went off, the ball from it missed the Duke, but severely wounded the horse of Colonel Levaillant. The assassin, a jour neyman sawyer, was arrested, and the column moved forward under the escort of several hundred Municipal Guards and Cuirassiers, and of as many of the secret society men (Republicans) in blouses. No further incident occurred. This atrocious attempt is connected with émeutes which took place in Paris on Friday and Saturday nights, but which had not attracted much attention. "At Clermont Farraud rebellious movements occurred on Thursday and Friday last, in which several soldiers were killed and wounded. A large number of the rebels fell in defence of the barricades they had erected. The pretext for this insurrection was that which was used at Toulouse-the census. "Notwithstanding these unplea sant occurrences, the Paris Bourse was affected only in a trifling degree on Monday. |