The Express. — London, England, 1853-01-07 00:00:00

..."....""..7.--7--..0 the ratenued dcmmstration, although in the after ,Vi i , r sucei.ion sras wined, and Adastral Berkeley's l '_ ' :, euetaioing )Ir. Price, M.P., and the admiral's 7. - i.. paraded round the city. The gallant admiral left ig;occstir in the afternoon. OXFORD UNIVERSITY. Teru .:, .y.-11c polling to-day has been much tr Air :his ..,.., tne priinies days, 2S'5 having recorded t . , f ict.s. lto follow ing is the state of the poll during :la I'l • ELLVICK O'CLOCK. 6:ade yaw's' Hats-ran LILITIN. 6:114,ne 204 Ferule ), riera.va o'cLoen. 614.1.:A1a 216 i.rcisAI KALI-T.lot TWILV2. tone 226 ittc.val ONI o'CuseM. file/it - as 243 254 r.to cal ltia:c..l:ke poll from ewe aura two o'clock. wAI.V.INIJIT TWO. '....',..nce 235 lacessl taus* u'cioat. Gledstone 267 292 rerc- 1-41 rota O:CLOCK, 6:t....teae ........ 279 Vsa.as l KALI-MEC TOC K. 6' .:eone 294 r ~-, .. 1 FIT* O'CLOCK. G'—dmene 3O t Fetal Loa Soy and Me's sore was objected to oat the ground of els lord -hip being a peer of the realm, but was alter 's:le r. :tided foe 'Mr. Gladstone. 6g .fe.• h o se t who reeadeil their votes this day in fa jalf Uri Gladstone were, Mr. Nassau William Senior, tYt I.llouta, A. J. Sutherland, D.II. ; J. D. Bligh, /Lel.; at S. IL Glynn , ; Right Hon. 11. Leboutiiere, Mr. IL l'oral M. D.C.L. je Wood:see ; 1. P. B. ; Fooks, D.C.L. ; J. lt. Bloxham, Lat ; F. Hook, • Laid Soy and Selo A. •D.C.L.; R. B. Deane, D.C.L. W. A . Hew, • J. W. D.C.L. ; tie L. Cooke, B.D. ; Rev. H. Arll Awt 121^ept those for Mr. Pereeval were, G. Pcl ; f. Silver, D.C.L. ; W. C. Frith, D.C.L. ; Hon. Ir, J. Dred.riek ; F. H. Tatman, D.C.L. • F. Wells, DN. ;W. Wits su DD. ; Mr. W. U. Vandersiegak; the Serer of Lamle 'College ; J. 11. Spry, D.D. ; U. F. W. Martimer,D.D. ; E. P. Ro bertson, D.C.L. D:t. estaratene's LETTER. The folio wing carreepoadenee will captain itself. A let =is silos Waged to be is esietence from Dr. Lempriere *the Preeid.ut of St. John's College, announcing defini tively Lied Chaudoes intention to ctfer himself as a candi date for the representation of the University. Mr. Ores wrese to the President of St. John's fur this letter. Tim Frailest of St. John's refers him to Mr. Perceval's Gourd committee, in whoa., hands he informs him that he Vs pined Dr. Lempricre's letter. Mr. Percevare Oxford cegurotie:, is reply, ten Mr. Onswell to wait ti:l they hare caseitaicated with Mr. Punnet's London commit tee. Upoo this Mr. Greswell waits till soother thy has Oen time for this communication from the London com mittee to tome dawn, and again applies for Dr. Lempriete's knee, when he is tol i that the London commit :es has mode no eemninniestien on the subject. The result is, tkit between Sir. Peeceval's Oskrd and London com mittees the letter is not forthcomin g. Carlton Club, Jan. 3, 1533. " )Iv dear Mr. Glalstone-1 received a cemmueication frogs ()Mont y eterley, while at Wotton, informing me Use my tiamelad been announced as a candidate in oppo sain to you at Osio:l. As an application to this effect MU made to me nearly a fortnight ernes when I distinctly defined to come forward, and since then I had heard no teinginOre upon the subje ct till yesterday, I beg to assure yee thot the whole of th e pro.eedings announced in the eapsr- this day are without my sanction, and that I have no Leo of opposing your return.-1 remain, yours truly, Caeosteis," " Mr. Gladstone's Committee Room, Jan. 5, 1833. ° Dear Mr. President,—l have this morning received from Mr. Gladstone a copy of the latter addressed to him eat by t'..e Magni' of Chand*, which I immediately for ward to you. You will see that it fully confirms Dr. It. Phillimure's statement that, a fornigbt ago, Lord Chandos mimed to he a candidate for the representation of the Uni versity, is opposition to Mr. Gladstone. Under these cir cumstances elr. Gladstone's committee feel that they are seising no unreasonable request in asking for the letter referred to yesterday by the Principal of Magdalen Hall, and on the authority of which the statement of Lord Chan dra being a candidate was publicly announced.—Believe me your, very faithfully, Riese:ow GRESWELL, Chair man of Mr. Uladstene's Committee. " Mr. Percevare Commit:cc Room, Jan. 5, 1863. ° Dear Mr. Greswell,—l have placed your letter, Lord Crouadoe's letter to Mr. Gladstone, and Dr. Lemprien's letter in the hauls of the chairman of the committee, in tetested in Mr. Pertevet's election; and from him you may expect to hear in the conies of the dsy.—l am, dear Mr. Creswell, yours eery faithfully, P. WY:ant." 11r. Pererral's Committee Room, Maga. Hall, Jan. 6, 1b53. " Mr. Pereevat's committee will forward to the com mittee in London e copy of Mr. Greewell's letter to the Pro. Eaeut of St. John's,together with a copy of Lord Chandos's letter to Mr. Gladstone; and when the answer from Lon don arrives, the decision of the two committees shall be communicated to Mr. Gladstone's committee.—On behalf of the committee, TROYES SHORT, Chairman." " Mr. Gladstone's Committee Room, Jan. 6, 18.53. " Sie—On tne part of Mr. Gladstone's committee, I beg to refer to the correspondence which has already passed epee the use of Lord Chandos's name in this election, and to acte that as the day mail has arrived, I trust that you are now in a condition to send us, without further delay, that communication from both of Mr. Pereeval's committees which yen promised in your note of yesterday.—l have the honor, ea., RICRARD ORTEWELL, Chairman of Mr. Glad stone's Committee." " Mr. Pereeval's Committee Room, Jan. 6, 18.53. " Sir,—On the part of Dlr. Percevai's committee, I have to inform you that we have not received from the London committee any communication on the suLjeet referred to in your note.-1 have the honour is be, sir, your obedient servant, Tuos. Snowy, Chairman of Mr. Perceval'a Com mittee. "Rev. Richard Greawell, Chairman of Mr. Glad stone's Committee." DESTRUCTION OF AN EMIGRANT SHIP BY The Orlando, Captain White, arrived at Havre Tuesday with a number of passengers belonging to the Am:rican ship St. George, Captain Bairson, which had beta destroyed by tire at eta. The St. Liaorge, it appears, left Liverpool for New York on the 24th of November with 127 passengers and 25 craw—the former chiefly Irish, aad amoeg-t them many women and children. The voyage was f.vourable among , . up to the 24th of December, when in ti deg. 12 min. latitude, and 2 i deg. 30 min. longitude, the hold of the ship was discovered to be on fire. The cap tain caused one of the hatchways to be opened, and set the fire-engine to play ; but the smoke was so thick between decks that the passengers wore obliged to leave. The dames spread to the part of the vessel between the main and misen masts, and were accompanied with such thick mike that seven or eight persons were saffocated. It was sow found that it was impossible to check the progress of the flames, and the captain assembled sU the pusengen on deck. Rain was falling, and the herilon wsei overhung with clouds, but fortunately a vessel passed satheiently near to perceive the signals of distress. This vessel turned out to be the Orlando, and she approached as near the St. George as it was safe to do. Unfortunately she had lost her sails and boats in a violent gale. The cap tain of the St. Geoego caused his two boats to be let dawn, and %ley eunveyed as many passengers u they could hold to the °elude, but the violence of the sea was such that °es of them was knocked to pieces against that vessel. The lit boat only remained to remove 130 persons, bat it could not take more than four or live at a time. Meantime the dimes continued to progress, and the wind blew furl wady. The sea, too, became so violent that the only means the psvengers had of entering the boat was to leap into the sea, and let themselves be picked up. At length, after silty-four times passing to and fro, the boat succeeded in placing it of the passengers in safety on board the Orlando. Of the remaining 51, 15 were drowned, ens already stated, were suffocated between decks, and V. principally women and children, fearing to throw them selves into the sea, refused to leave the burning vessel. Al the crew were rescued. Eventually the Orlando, fearing for its own safety from the progress of the flames and the vp,lerce of the sea and wind, was obliged to sheer off, leav en; tae 21 unfortunate creatures is their wretched fate. The rescued persons were almost without clothing, but the captain and crew of the Orlando did everything they pot 'Oily could to provide for their comfort. It was feared that a famine would arise in the ship, from the unexpected de- mand on her stores; and as the Orlando had lost her sails, there was small hope of ruching land in time. But I..irtu lamely the wind was in her favour, and after 11 day: voy age she &nivel safe at Uavre. lies provisions, by that time, were completely exhausted, and she had only a few Olions of water. Food was immediately procured fur the passengers and crews, who had already began to feel the pangs of hunger ; and they were afterwards sent to differ ent lodging-houses, where they will be taken care of. It is the intention of some shipowners of Maitre to raise a I.IL. emiption for their relief. MILITARY BALL.—The annual ball of the non toramr,sioned officers of the 2nd liagiment of Life Guards, stationed at Windsor, came off at the Town-hall (by per mu-ion of the mayor), on Tuesday evening. There were between 200 and 3tY) znt, including several of the mili tary from Hounslow and London, as well as o sprinkling of the ycomaray of the neighbourhood with their ladies. A haailfaras entertainment was provided in the council thandwr, and dancing of the first order, to the fine band of the regiment, was kept up with great spirit and harmony until a 1 rte hour. Corporal•mrjor Percy cn".ciated as master the cercraaies. TILE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7, 1853. THE FATAL COLLISION ON THE LONDON AND NORTII-WESTERN RAILWAY. THE INQUEST. This inquire was resumed yesterday at the Star Hotel, Oxford. The first witness examined was Cherie% Gwynn, sergeant of police at the Oxferd station, who stated that his duty was to attend to the banking office and platform. He was regularly present at the de parture of the trains. He had the power to regulate the starting of the trains after he had inquired at the office whether the line was cleat. lie received orders from l'lr. Blots, the station master, not from Hayes. He was on det• on Monday when the 5.30 train should have left. The cc a'. train due at a few minutes past five not having arrived, the starting of the train was de layse. He knew it hail not arrived by inquiring at the office of the telegraph clerk, whose name was Man ning. Ile had no conversation with the driver, guard, or fireman of the 330 train. He had not told them not to go on. He did not hear any other officer give them directions, but he saw Mr. Blott with the guar I, who was standing by his haliee on the platform. It was ~hint hale-past five. It was the duty of the guard to remain en the platform by the brake van tail the train started, unless he was putting lug lags co the van. The porter takes it to the guard woo loads the van. Ile saw Hayes, the foremen porter, on the platform at that time. Ile did not sea Hayes leave the platform. He was not on the platform when the traia started, but at the booking-of:i.e. The station master was at that time on the private office, adjoining the booking office. Ile knew the time the train started by hearing the witist:e of the engine ; not the guarii's. After he beard the whistle, be came on the platform, nod found the trein was gone. He was steueing at the door of the office at the time it started ; toe door of which admitted pasaenoere, and which should bo closed before the train storied. It was not closed when the train started. The front door and the ticket door were wither of them closed. Tne object of chasing the doers before the train starts is to prevent passengers going in the train after it is in motion. The doors were not closerl because the coal train was not in. The doors were kept open till he received orders that the line was clear. 'The trait started before he ived ordi re to does the doors. He was quite surprised to find it had started. When he got on the platform ke did not see any officers in authority, unless they were at the other end. The station-master had told him that the coal :rain had passed the Oxford-road Station, and as soon as it arrived at 0 eford,land all was clear, the 5.30 train could go. That information was the cause o f not closing the dour. When he went into the office to get this information Hayes and the porters were on the platform. When he saw the train gone he said to Mr. Blott, who wee in bit office," Has the coal train c in, for the train has gone ? " Mr. Beatt said to him, " Run up and tee if the coal train is in." Ile went, and could see no porters, or anyone on the plat form, they had gone after the train, and he heard tuna hallooing, and saw the red signal hind-lamps waving. From the time he went on the platform and returned and found the train was not more than a minute or so. Wnen lie saw the guard Kinch come down from the en gine towards the brake-van he believed the train was in motion. lie saw Kinch catch hold of the van. That was when ho went into the office to inquite about the coal train. lie did not call out to step the train until he had gene to inquire if the coal train had arrived er not ; and then they said it was at Oxford-road, and the train seemed iu motion. That was Mere he heard tho whistle, and when he was in the office be heard the whistle. He was in the office about a minute or two. He did not then tell the station-master that the train was in motion. He did not know but that they might have seen the coal train at the other end, as the por ters there might have given the signal. Ile always got the information as to the line being clear from the °Kee; when lie hears tact, he gives the signet to the guards, and they look to him for it. The guards look to him—he looks to the office. As soon as he waves his hued that is the signal for them to start. That is his duty. He does not give that signal till ho ascertains from the office that the line is clear. On Monday when he saw the guard coming from the engine he had not given him any signal at all. If the station master was on the platform the guard would look to him, sod lie woul.l look to witness to see if the doors were all closed. The station master would look to the telegraph clerk to certify that the line was clear. The station-master was not on the platform when the train started, but in his office. It was two or three minute.' be fore that he saw him talking to the guerd, Kinch. lie taw the red signal light at the iron bridge at the time ho went into the office. He believed the net light wee on when the train started. Ile saw the red light after thesecond whittle when the train had left, and in an instant it was changed to the green light. The station-muter was not then on the platform. It was before be went the second time into the office that he saw the signals changed, but he did not tell the stationmaster they had been changed. Ile believed that the station-master toUowed him out immediately. He could have heard the guard's whistle if he had given the signal by his whistling. The Ted light is always up before the train starts. Accerd ing to the 10th rule, that red light should have been kept up fur five minutes after the train started. It was the prac tice for the sigman at the iron bridge to change the light when he h ear d the second whistle, provided the line was clear. The guard, when he gave the signal for start ing, was sometimes on the platform and sometimes on the van. He never saw the guard give any other signal to start bet the whistle. lie might have seen him wave his head. The custom of the guard as to starting trains was by the Whistle. He had known • train started dinwthout the whistle, end be the wave of the hoorah Hs coul ot recollect any particular time that this happened. He had seen a guard, named Turner, do it. Ho bad seen Kinch do it also. I He had sometimes seen a train started by the words I " All right," and waving the hand. When lie does that the guards are sometimes en the platform, sometimes on the brake ; most noisily on the platform. At the time the train was first started the only person who had euthority to stop it on the platform were the porters. When witness I saw the train in motion, he was certain that as he had not given the signal that it was started without proper autho rity, even if the guard had known that the coal train was in. It was the duty of the station master to write a report, up to the last moment, of the trains starting, and for which it was necessary for him to be in his office. That was the invariable custom and practice. Since the single line only was in use it was usual to retain this train till the coal train came in. The report or way-bill was always given by the sta tion master to the guard. He could not tell whether on Monday night the way-bill had been given to the gaud or whether he bail it. Ho should have goon to Mr. Blatt after he had ascertained that the coal-train was in before he started the train. The Coroner here asked if any officer of the company could point out the duties of the signal-man at the bridge. Before the qqestion was answered, John Norman, of Devises, the father of the deceased young woman, Julia Norman, was examined, and stated that he had seen her body and identified it as that of his daughter. She was 23 last June. She left his house on Monday morning to proceed to Lady Louisa Harrison's, at Shearswell-park, in Oxfordshire, and wits to have left the train at Bicester. Captain Bruyeres, superintendent of the southern divi sion of the tra ffi c and the branch lines on the London and North Western Railway, then stated—The whole of the servants of the line are under his direction except those in the locomotive department. They are all subject to the p r inted rules and regulations of the company. Every ser vant except the subordinate porters are furnished with a copy. One was given to the signal man at the iron bridge. It was required that he should be able to read. The man employed there on Monday was named Bonham. There are two at the signal. He had been some time in the company's service. That signal was put up at that bridge as a protec tion of the line, as the bridge is a swing bridge crossing the river and is moved for boats to pass. NVhen so swung it is the duty of the signal man not to take the red light off on any account. The red signal was kept up at all times. When a train approached, and the bridge was not swung, and the line was clear, it was the duty of the man to lower the arm to allow the train to pass, or change the colour of the signal. This was the station signal, but the bridge signal, when the train passed the red signal, was to be removed. It is inoperative as a danger signal to the plat form except so far as regards the bridge, to show whe ther it was swung or not. The red light would not have anything to do with the starting of the train. There was also another precautionary signal lamp Oa the bridge, which could not be seen ebbs* from the platform or the line unless the bridge MU swung when its light would be shown. There was no station signal with reference to the starting the train., as the order was to be given from the platform. The way the trains were stopped was by observing rule 21, that no drivar was to start but with care, and to look back W see that all is safe. If that was done, there was no diffi culty in starting a train. The guard is responsible for the starting the train afterneeiving his enters from the station master, or some ono authorised by him. If the train as Monday was stetted very fast, it was in direct violation of the orders. The engine driver was not actiag against ! orders by starting the train when the red signal was up on the bridge ; but if it was not changed , he would have been bound to stop the train, because the bridge would then have been swung and the train would have gone into the canal. The bridge signal havino been changed, the driver was right in going on with caution. The men at the bridge could only see three quarters of a mite along the line. It was not re cubed that the station-master should see personally to the starting of each train. He might be in his office on the *Worm, and, knowing that the train was fit to start, might acpate the authority to start the train. An engine driver would be subject to punishment as for a heavy offence if he started without authority. The guards were ordered always to blow their whistles when they started trains. Extra pre cautionary measures bad been taken for working the trains from Islip to Oxford since there had been only one line, for no t ra inwas allowed to start from Oxford till a telegraph was sent to blip to ascertain if the line was clear, and the answer received stating that it was clear. The trains then left Ox ford, and it was telegraphed to Islip that they had left. No train coming to Oxford is allowed to leave blip till the train coming from Oxford had arrived. The same steps were taken at blip before trains were allowed to come from that station to Oxford. David Bonham, policeman on the London and North- W...itern Railway, stated that it was his duty to attend to the signals and points at the Oxford station, at the bridge. On Monday last he was on duty alone. lie had charge of the bridge and two signals—the one on the bridge and the auxiliary signal up the line. To work that ho had only to go . a yard or two from the bridge. Ile had the care of 1-1 paints. The nearest was about five yards from the bridge. The whole of the I I points were above the bridge. His ditty was to keep up the red danger signal at the bridge till the train started from the :Wien, and when the driver whistled he put it dews, after looking to we if the line wu clear. The danger signal remained down white the train was peeing, alter which it was put up again. Ho bad no points to attend to on tee departure of a trap from the station. Every train coming in is required to stop at the platform station, coal trains and ballast trains included. On Monday evening a ballast train came down at about 25 minutes paet ' acid was turned into the engine shed. Ile did sot alter t he bridge signal for that ballast train. The coal train due at 20 minutes past five had not then arrived. The coal train had to stop at the ticket pletform in order to be wheeled round into the siding. He was at his post when tie 5.30 train started from the station. He saw it start, and it came on very fast. The steam was beieg , blown off, en that he could hardly see the station. He ' beard the whistle once when it started, end again when it get past the text policeman, and than he changed the signal. It passed the bridge, geiug faster than ever be saw a train come out of the station before. lie had been on the line upwards of two years. When he changed the signal, as far as he could see the line was clear. Ile did not see say confusion at the station for some time titer the trein passed on account of the steam. Alter that he saw lights moving about, but he did not hear any one calling out tell Hayes, I 1 the ticket collector, came up to him and said the down coal' train had left Oxfurd-road. Ile bad nett seen Hayes for some little time before. A porter, named Webb, told him 'at twenty minutes past five that it hail been telegraphed from Lap that the coal train was to leave there at five o'clock. It was mutely a passing observation. De was not sent with any message. Ile did not say the coal train had started, nor hail witness heard it said. Several ether ya wns came to the bridge after Hayes. They went up tho line as far as the engine-shed. Hayes teen said the coal train had left Osterdiroad some time. Witness didllD: hear the collisiou. lie did not go on, but remained at his post. The coal train did not come in before the 5.30 train started on the 21:h, the teeth, mud 20:h of lest month. If he had seen told that the teal train had started from lalip he should hese kept up the danger-signal, a hich in that cese ought to have steppe the passenger train. The driver of the 5.30 train might, in his upiuiun, have sup; acrd that the ballast train was the coal train. The coal train semetimes stopped at the ticket platform to let the 5.30 train go by, end the ballast train might have been mistaken fur it. The ballast train on Monday had no light on the wader which could be seen from the station. The coal train, if it bad come in, ought to have had green lights. The driver might not have known but that the coal train was iu the siding. The Fairy engine which had hero attached to the ballast train stood at the points. There was a light on the chimney of the ballast cegiae, but there could net have been one on the chimney of the coal train. At 2 o'clock the court was adjourned tell 4, when the in , spiry was resumed. Henry C4ilingridge, policeman at the Islip station, stated that he attend d to the telegraph there. Since the Mello bad been en one line of rails, he bad special instructions that no trains should leave the station tlil he knew that the Ibis Mllll clear to Oxford, which was ascertained by tele staple Recollected the coal train from littehley awing to Islip about five on Monday last. It was .eoppcd there. He telegraphed to Oxford beret's it arrived that it was in eight, and received a message from Oxford to send it on directly. It etepped about five minutes. As soon as it left he sent word to Oxford. This would be known at Oxford-rand station. The ordinary time it seauld !cave taken to get to Oxford would have beet lb or ego minutes. The answer to the second message to Oxford was "Good." By this be knew they had received his intimation. Hz had mice or twice in the last month delayed the coal train at Islip to let the 5.30 train pave. ilc leiel no intimation hone Oxford on Monday night that tie. e. 30 train head started. He had never lumen it start any other evening without Wakening such intimation. The starting ofe very train fromo nerd was always telegraphed to i m ep, except this one, since there Mel been only a single line of rails. There Was no defect ire the telegraph that evening up to that time. It was telegraphed from Oxford after the answer of " good," to inquire if the " line would be clear for the up-train after the coal train had passed i" and he answered " Yes." Mr. Alfred Mott, the statim master at Oxford, stated that he was at the station on Monday afternoon, front about 3 o'clock till thirty-seven minute' past 5, the time when be were up the line. There was a coal train due at 0 x ford at 5.20 every atternooo, except Sundays. It bad never been exactly punctual, because it arrived at intervals from 5.20 and 5.30. A passenger train should leave at 5.30. From the 16th of December the traffic between Oxford and Islip had been only oar one line of rails. Precautionary measures had been taken that every train stetting from Oxford should be telegraphed to Islip, or rice sem. The c trail , due at 6.20 on Monday le ad arrived at 5.30. The 5.30 train was prepared for starting. He did not notice the driver. It was the duty of the foreman of engines (Smith) is notice him. lie did not know that Smite was absent from the station that afternoon. lie slid not ask the driver Tarry as to his character; it was not his duty to overlook the drivers. Ho saw this guard Kinch about 27 minutes past son the platform. He went to him to tell him the coal train had left Islip, and that his train must not start until the other had arrived. Ile wits aware that the coal train had started shortly after 5. He was satiated that Kinch understood him. tie thought he 'Geld not tell Kinch that the coal train had left Islip till a few minutes before the time of starting, in order that there might be no mistake about it lie then went back into his office to attend to some business, which it was important he should finish at a partictear time; in fact, some returns which were to be in London next morning. Ho had no way-bill or relent to make up. There were only two letters given to Kinch. They might have been given at any time. They were not way-bills, or any thing connected with the train. There are not way-bitls ter every train. The guard does not take any minute of the number of passengers. He does of parcels when there are any. If there were any parcels, the bill would be given to him by the parcel porter. It might be six minutes be fore the train started, as there was no particular time for giving them to the guard. He did not go out to, the guard again before he started. Ile gave directions to Kinch not to start; nor did he see him again before the train started, knowing he was the only person who could give the signal for starting. It was his duty to do so. Witness first heard of the train starring about two minutes after it started, from Sergeant Gwynn, who came to the office and told him. Gwynn said, to the best of his recollec tion," Did you order the train to start ?" lie did not hear Gwynn ask anything about the coal train. Gwynn might have said so, for the moment be heard of the train starting he ran out. He found the coal train had not arrived and ran and endeavoured all in his power to stop the panenger train by running with the policemen, Hayes and others, after the train. But it went off at an unusual speed. He called to the men to show their red lights. 'I he train could not be stopped. He followed it. lie did not hear the collision. Several persons were at the spot before he arrived. lie tint knew of the accident when he mitred at the spot. He found the 6.30 train and the coal train had met, as he feared they would. The engines were raised up one over another. Two passenger carriages were completely smashed, but the first-class carriage was scarcely damaged at all. He did not see any of the dead bodies. He saw several persons assisting, but a down train being due at about 6 o'clock at Oxford, tee thought it his duty to go on to Oxford-road station to stop it. He did stop it at Oxford-road station. It was a passenger train. In order that the passengers might not be delayed, he sent omnibuses to take them into Oxford. He remained at the Oxford-road station to stop any other trains corning down. If the coal train had come in, it was the duty of the guard to come in to him, and in quire if he should start the train. Hayes might have started the train without communicatingwith witness. No one else. Hayes had to go to the ticket platform to see the coal train in and all clear, then he had instructed him to start the passenger train. Sergeant Gwynn could start it without wanes; being on the platform, bat not without communi cating with him. lie knew of no one to look to the condi tion of the drivers in the absence of Smith. Smith might have gone away without giving witness notice. Smith WU in a differentdepartment, the locomotive. If he had seen a defective engine or a driver not fit to act he should have interfered and stopped the train • but it was not his duty to inspect them. lie never knew a train to start without his knowledge since he had been at that station. It any tram had started, the guard was to blame in doing so without orders, either from himself or a person ap pointed by him. There was no signal between Oxford and the place of the accident to show the driver whether he ought to stop. H platform e supto pose see if t d tleat, he coal aa usuatr l, ain h Hayes had le ft the had mane in. It would have been the duty of the guard, even ' hi fhie saw the coal train come en, to ask either Hayes or h mself whether the nem was to start. Ile would swear he did not say to Kinch " Yon must not pat yet; but as soon as the coal-train is sighted you may ~e ease After the collision bad taken place, he said to Yin eh, " How came the train to start ?" That was after be got up to the place of the collision. His answer was, "I do not know." Witness could not say whether K inch said anything, he was iii such an excited rate himself, and Kinch was in such a state as not to he capable of answer ing. Ile was of opinion that Kincb did not know what be was saying. Knoll was standing up, but in a trembling state, and appeared to have been hurt Kinch did not use the words : " I saw the train come in," and then said, " Jack, she's in ; it's all right ; go on." lie would swear Kinch did not say any words to that effect in his hearing. He sent a policeman, named Elliott, to Oxford-road. Koch was there. Kinch came up there in • carriage to meet the train to Bletchley. Ile asked Kinch if it would not be better to go to Oxford for advice ; bat he said he thought he could bear to go on, and preferred go ing home. In the presence of El liott, witness aid, " Kinch, did you not hear me say that your train was not to start till after the coal train came in ?" To which Kinch replied," Yes, I did," and I appealed to some one to bear it in mind in cue the ac:ideat proved fatal to Kinds. He be lieved it was Carrier, an engine driver, who was with Kinch. Witness could not repeat any more of the connr cation for he was not paying attention to it, but thinking of matters relating to the accident. lie did not hear any further conversation with Kinch, but he would not swear there was not any more. Witness stopped at Oxford road till Kinch went on in the train. Witness did not wish to hear Kinch say any more, as that was all that was import tat to him. Witness was in a very excitel state; there were so many arrangements to be made with regard to the trains. to did not hear Kinch say anything, putting the blame on any one elec. Ile might have said it, but witness did not hear him. Wit ness did not stay long at the scene of the accident, seeing Mr. Heed, who had much mechanical knowledge, there, besides Hayes and other experienced persons; and he thought he could do mere effectual service by going to the Oxford-road station, t i mike arrangements for the safety of the :nine which were expected. Fr..m the distance the train had get after it started, when he saw it, lie judged it must have gorse all at unusual speed. The number of persons on the phial's's mites the Man started would comprise Ha yes, Gwynn, two rem, and the car nage examiner. The porters would not hare had power to stop the train without coming to witness. In the &beetle. of Smith, the overlooker of the drivers tad engine, who left for Bicester, at 4 o'clock on that day, there was no oue to take his place. Thomas Manning, telegraph clerk at the Oxford steams —On Monday night he received a message from Islip, about 5 o'clock, to ask if the coal train could lease there. Ile sent an answer back to say " Yes, if it came directly." He sent that answer by the direction of Mr. B. gt, the station-master. A message then came from Islip, to say the coal train had ;left. He answered " Good." At 5.22 a message came from Oxford-road, to say the coal train had then left there. At 627 he scut I another message, by Mr. Blott's order, to Islip keow if the line was clear if the coal train ar rived. The answer was " Yes." That was the last Ma i sap. The poles of the telegraeh were knocked down between Oxford and Oxford-road by the collision, and he had to go to Oxford-road to telegraph. He saw the 5.30 train start, but heard no orders given about its starting. Mr. Robinson, the baking clerk, asked him if the coal train had arrived, but II,: said he could not tell. Ile was In the office sad had nomeans of lenowing. He had nothing to do with atartiug the trains, nor had Mr. Robinson that he was aware of. It was the duty of the station-mast. rto instruct kim to telegraph after the starting of the trains. Ile had no orders to telegraph the starting of the 5.30 train, as it had gone before Mr. Blott could tell him. James l'anter, engine cleaner tells company's service, stated that ho worked ueder Smith, the overlord:a of drivers and engine', and it was his duty to look to the men when Smith was absent from Oxford, and see they have plenty of water and coke to take on their journies. ltearem bered Smith's going to Blaster on Monday afternoon et 4 o'clock. Ile t.,:d witness to look after the men and eneince while he was gone, and see all was right. He did not say what time he should come back. No train came iu while Smith was away. Witness would swear it. One went sue. Having been told that Smith had sworn that he met a train at Islip, witness admitted that a train came in at half-past four. He saw that train come in. The Coroner expressed his regret that such a witness had been introduced to explain the fact of there being no one to supply Smith's place in his absence. A Jury man expressed his regret that such a person should hive such responsibility in Smith's absence. Frederick Jackson, a youth of 13, stated that ho was a secomlelasa passenger in the 5.30 train on Monday night, with his brother. The carriage was next to the third cline. Ile was in the middle compartment. There were three or four passengers iu that carriage besides his brother land himself. Ile could not see who was in the other com partments. Two of the persons with them were two young ' men, aheut nineteen or twenty, and an elderly geatierxen. He had been about five minutes in the carriage at the sta tion before the train stared. A person came round, who said " Show your tickets ;" and he then shut the deer. All the five persons were in the carriage at that time. so one got in afterwards. Ile thought the door was not locked. B. fore the train started he did not hear ..ny whistle, or any one say " all right," or " go on," or any signal for shafting. He sat nearest the platform. Ile knew the difference between tho guard's whistle and the engine whistle. He thoneht the engine whistle did make a little noise. Ile toll his brother they were going off rather fast. He did rot hear the whistle alter he get out of the station ; the window was shu'. It was about a minute between the shutting of the door and the train going off. fhe man who nseed for the tickets began at the carriage next the engine, and went• all the way down. lie did not see him pass back again. There was no luggage van between the third-class carriage ar.d the engine. He knew nothing more till the col lision. lie did net hear any hallooing. There was a jerking, as if they were quickening speed. It WaS not such a sensation, he thought, as woulei be produced by putting on the break. He looked at his watch as he started, and it was 25 minute. to ti; the collision caused it ti stop, and he afterwards found it had stopped at 20 minutes aed a half to 6, making the time that elapsed four minutes and a half. The carriage he was in was broken all to bits by the shock of the codidon, and ho was thrown into the water by the side of the line. It was when he got home that he looked at his watch. He was not much hurt lie received a blow. The glass of his watch was broken into pieces. (The watch, a doubliecesed one, was produced, and the case was deeply indented.) They were all covered with mud. Ile was up to his middle is the water. Ile could not tell whether he fell out of the window or went threugh the roof. His brother, who was sitting opposite to him, was thrown on the alley side of the line. lle was not much hurt. lie ,ad not go in the water. (this witness was still trader examination when we were ob.iged to scud off our despatch by the last train.) THE RAILWAY SLAUGHTER NEAR OXFORD. TO TILE SDITOIL OF THE EXPRESS. Stn,—Of recent railway collisions the latest is at once the most frightful and the most inexcusable ; the most frightful, because out of six servants employed on the en gints but one remains to give any account of the awful tale by which fourteen out of the twenty-one passengers were more or lea seriously injured ; the most inexcusable, be• cause the calamity—accident it is impossible to ca:l it—was caused by negligence and carelessness at every point of the line between Bletchley, whence the enormous coal train started twenty-five minutes after its time, and Oxford, which the passenger train left in spite of the shouts of the foreman of the porters, the exposure of the danger signals, and filmiest all rule and regulation. Near Oxford there is a tunnel which the recent rains have so injured as rendered it necessary to employ the down line exclusively in its reparation ; all the traffic, passenger and goods, have therefore to be conducted on the up line. Care the most vigilant, and arrangements the most superabundant in caution, were necessary to prevent the possibility of adverse trains using the same line coming into collision. Not only, however, was even usual care neg lected, and ordinary precautions disregarded, but great negligence was displayed. What the public safety, under such circumstances, first of all required, was that, over a distance so short, two trains flying in opposite directions should not, under any excuse, have been permitted to be at the same time on the line ; above all, not two traitr, one of which the public bad no notice of. In such an emergency, coals might well have given way to human beings, and the possibility of danger have beets removed, either by a tem porary cessation of the coal trade, or by its transit over the line at such • time of night as passenger trains do not travel at. But Oxford, be it observed, is one of the great points of competition and of rivalry between the North and Great Western, to the infinite loss and damage of their proprieta ries. Neither hu • direct line to that city, but both have branches, whirling people miles about the country in any and every direction but that they want to go ; and there they both struggle, and fight and con tend for • traffic that must pecuniarily be hurt ful to them ; for to suppose it can pay for the two ca pitals expended is manifestly absurd. And the consequence of this monstrous competition is, taat lives, legs, arms, and bodies are risked, that one company may not get a penny the other can by any possibility taLe awa from it ; though probably the earnings of both are insufficient to pay even working expenses. This is what lies at the bottom of the matter, and the way it works is seen in this terrible slaugh ter—greater than some battles have been won by. Rivalry like this penetrates into every nook and cranny; it enters into the soul of every one connected with them from chairmen to carriage cleaners ; and with all the great point is, how to damsge their competitors. That, sad not the public safety, convenience, or accommodation, is upper most, and must, from the constitution of men's minds, be uppermost in their thoughts. When a new chairman is to be elected, the extent and magnitude of his parliamentary influence is his best qualification. " How many members of the House of Commons can he introduce Air. Latitat, the company's solicitor, to ?" is the first question ; can he influence more peers than the rival monarch is a primary element of choice. And thus, instead of better, oar railway policy is growing worse and worse ; and will never, to all appearance, improve until one of two things happens—that shareholders themielves make a clean sweep of boards which, year after year, diminish the value of their pro perty, or that parliament take the whole subject in hand. There being only one line of rails open between Islip to Oxford, a distance of five miles, a huge coal train of 64 waggons, requiring two engines to draw it, arrived at that dation from Bletchley about the hour at which it ought to have reached Oxford ; end, instead of being detained there and placed on the siding, so as to clear the line for the train that ought to have left Oxford at 5.30, on it is permitted to rusk through Wolverine tunnel, as if between Islip and Oxford there was no danger to avoid. This was bad enough. But at Oxford where, they say, the rule is not to allow the 5.30 to start until the coal train duo at 5.20 has arrived, there, when there is • large stuff, the outgoing train is permitted to start, and at a speed unusually fast too, although the coal train approaching on the same line has net come in. This was worse. And the consequence, the natural, legitimate, and almost unavoidable consequence, is the frightful collision in question. It is in vain to talk of sober engine -drivers, of steady policemen, of good porters, or of rules and regulations: the fault here lies higher up; it is in the system of manage ment which permitted the possibility of such an occurrence, by allowing two trains to run the risk of flying towards , each other on the same line at the sa me time. Railwa y ' companies placard their stations with notices that they arc not bound to keep the time they solicit custom by announc ing. Be it so ; but then they are doubly bound to guard against the slightest chance of danger in consequi ace of I irregularities, which are cultivated and encouraged by such notices as these. In receiving passengers at Oxford, they contracted to convey them on a line which should not be obstructed by coal trains, of which the miserable victims knew nothing and could learn nothing. And to have placed them on n line so obstructed is not, when the natural cala mity has resulted therefrom, merely a matter for pecuniary compensation, it is a criminal offence. I Look, too, at the confusion at Oxford. First of all the coal train is telegraphed from Oxford to come on from Islip when it is manifest that it could not arrive at Oxford by 5.30, the time for starting the passenger train ; and then before it does arrive, the passenger train is allowed to start. It started, too, without any orders from the station-master, who was, Heaven knows where, and while one of his sub ordinates, who apparently acted fur him in starting trains, was away at some distance seeing whether the coal train had arrived. ffomething did arrive—a ball,-t train ; and, therefore, the passenger train flew away withaut directions, rushing into death sad des:ruction. " 1 felt sure there would be a collision," was the logical exclamation of Ilayes, the foreman of porters, whose only fault stems to have been that Ito undertook other people's duty Insides his own. Now to say that such a calamity could Mt have been avoided by the commonest prudence is an outrageous calumny on the management of railways on which collisions of this awful kind do not occur. A percentage of accidents in using mechanical power we must always expect under the best management. Rut this accident cannot be placed in that c.us of misfortunes. It arises not from the contingen cies of mechanical power, but from defective human ar rangements abusing mechanical power. It was not only avoidable, but by the exercise of ordinary care and common precaution, would and must have been avoided. Whet, then, is the remedy ? Ina &seem of directorial (not subordinate) management, which shall be devoted to the details, and net to that injurious delusion celled , the policy of railway companies ; which shall apply to their details those principles of supervision and imthority that merchants and traders apply to their I private businesses ; which shall cancentrato and fix the supreme tcs;xmoibility of these corporations on their do mestic concerns. Directors who, with such calamities arising out of their present system, can persevere in it, can continue to devote themselves to parliamentary contests, and can resign themselves to the excitement of competition as if it were a rubber of whist or a race at Newmarket, aro wholly unfit Lir the positicns they occupy ; and if share holders will not remove, Parliament must deprive, them of the power they abuse, to the slaughter of their servants and the loss Si life and limb to their customers. A RAILWAY TRAVELLER. PRESERVATION OF LIFE FRONI SiIIP- W RECK. 'Yesterday a meeting of the General Committee of the Satiety for 'Le Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, was held at the codices in John-street, Adelph. 3.1 r. rALMEIt. late M.P. for South Essex, in the chair, We also observed present Admiral Sir Thrimas Herbert, M.P. Colonel Colquhoun, R.A.; Captain Jerningham. , Captain l 'e rrott; Captain M'Hardy : Captain Washington, R.N. ; Mr. Edward flurry; Captain NVard, R.N.; Captain Ommanney, R.N.; Major Palmer, &c. The minutes of the previous meeting having been read by the Secretary, the following rewards were ordered to be granted : A reward of 91. was granted tt the crew of one of the Anglesea hk boats, in consideration of their laudable and persevering exertions in sating the crew, consisting of four teen persons of the brig Athena, from Alexandria to Liver pool, which was wrecked near Llaudilwyn, on the 20th ult. The /slur fellows were found to bu in a state of complete ex haustion u hen they were rescued front their perilous silna ; shortly after leaving the wreck, she went to pieces. A reward of 31. 17s. was also voted to a Shetland boat's crew, for services rendered by them to the crew of the ,chcoit r, Janet Gibson, front Atchangel to London, wrecked near Lt ruck a short time ago, during a dense fog and a strong easterly 1. well. The silver medal of the institution and tw t sovereigns were voted to Mr. Christopher Day, master of tile steam tug Contractor, of Middle,ham-on-Tees, ter his promptitude and gallantry in going off in his steamer, during a strong gale trent the eastward, to reeaue the crew of the L:uisa, of Stettin, which was wrecked near the entrance of the ' i River 'leis, on the 29th Octolxr last, and s i m afterwards went to pieces. This was stated to be a most gallant act on the part of Mr. Day. Ilia crew received also a reward oil 1101. each for their services on the occasion. A reward of 11. each was granted to Vie crew of the 1 1 Aberdeen lifeboat, in consideration of their humane, though unsuccessful, efforts to resaue tae crew el the brig Venus, wrecked oatside of the harbour of that place a Faint time since. The gallant men made s:x un ucceisful attempts to reach the wreck, but on the seventh they approached sufficiently near to rescue one poor fellow, six others having perished in the interval. A reward of at. 10r. was granted to a boat's crew of ' Thoepn-ss, Suffolk, for rescuing the master and crew of the Mary Ann of Sunderland, which was wrecked near that place on the 19th ult. To the peomptitaae and gallantry of the boatman, named Chard, and his craw, the two men who were found on pieces of the wreck owel, under Pro vidence, their lives. Chard had on a previous occasion re ceived the medal of the institution. A reward of 21. 106. was voted to a number of poor fishermen on the coast of Donegal for their services to the crews of two boats which had been capsised it. the sea. The silver medal of the institution was granted to Lieut. Parsons, R.N., chief °nicer of liourna Bottom Coast-guard Station, Dorset; and a reward of 41. to kis boat's crew of tour men, for their gallant services to some of the crew of the barque, William Glen Anderson, of , timber laden. The ship being observed, during the late hurricane, to part from her anchors, the °Cour and his min without delay hired horses and two timber trucks, to convey his boat abreast of the wreck. Havin g launched his boat, she iustantly titled with water, and ha crew wahe"d shore ' • but on the second attempt they succeeded in reach ing the wreck, and in rescuing the eight persons ma board. Another boat, belonging to the yacht of Sir Percy Shelly, had also put off to the wreck, manned by flee persons, but she immediately filled and terned bottom up, keeping two of her crew under her. The Coast-guard boat was again launched, manned by the same gallant men, and succeeded in sewing four out of five of her crew—one poor man hav ing hcen to 3 long immersed in the watr for animation to be restored. A grant of 201. was made to the widows and orphans of the tarec men who unfortunately p3risheil in their humane attempts to ao to the assistance of the crew and passengers of the emigrant ship, Heroine,which was wrecked off Lyme Regis during the late disastrous hurricane ; and the thanks or the committee, on vellum, was ordered to be presented severally to Captain Willoughby, R.N., Inspecting-Com ntauder of the Coss: Clutrd at Lyme 1L,66 ; Lieut. - Irvine, R.N., chief officer of the Bournruouth Coast Guard &talon ; and to Mr. IL Harvey, commanding IL.M.R.C. Francis, in appreciation of their meritorious and arduous exertions on I the occasion of the wrecks of the sloop* Adel and Sarah, uud the barque Heroine; and a reward of 10s. each was voted to their respective crews. It was stated that it was the intention of the institution to place a lite-haat at Lyme Regis forthwith. A reward of 51. was granted t 3 the crew of the Madill) life-boat, Angles' a, for valuable services in saving the crew of the schooner Emma, of —, wrecked near that place on the night of the 10th November last. The night was un usually dark, and the life-boat was engaged foe five hours rescuing the shipwrecked crew. This is the second service this boat has rendered to shipwrecked crews within the list few wei•ks. It was stated that several of the earlier life boats of the institution, which are en the plan of Mr. George Palmer, of :lazing Park, are now on service in An glesea, and that since their first establishment there, about 25 years ago, they have been instrumental in paving some hundreds of lives of shipwrecked persons. It was also stated that during the last:two months between 300 and 400 wrecks had taken place on various parts of the coast of the United Kingdom, and the consequent destruction to life was very great. With these facts before them, the apathy of the public respecting the institution is very extraordinary. The prin cipal object which it seeks to carry is the provision of means to lessen the annual havoc among our hardy sea men, yet it meets with less support than any other charit able society of like importance in the kingdom. METROPOLITAN TRAVELLERS' AND WARE HOUSEMEN'S ASSOCIATION. The sixth annual dinner of this association took place yesterday at the London tavern. About 100 gentle- , men sat down. Dir. Alderman WIRE presided. After the usual loyal and patriotic toasts had been duly honoured, The Cuatrossf: propelled " Success to Trade," and next " buccess to the Travelers and Warehousemen's Associa ties." Mr, LEIGH, the secretary, then read the annual report, as follows:—" The committee, in presenting their sixth annual report, have much pleasure in congratulating the members upon the prosperous state of the society. Au in crease of sickness and mortality during the past year leaves the balance less than on former years, but the society being self-supporting, it is encouraging to he able to announce the satisfactory balance is the bankers' hands of 725!. lls. 61., being an increase oval last year of 1001. 10s. 101. It is ne cessary to observe that it has been decided at a special general meeting to extend the operations of the society to parties employed in the retail drapery trade ; the committee have much confidence in recommending the society to those who have not already joined, and believe it only requires to be made known among that extensive body to induce many to avail themselves of its benefits." MOWAT proposed the " Health of the Chairman," and Mr. LEIGH, the secretary, announced several donations. Tue following toasts were also given in the course of the evening :—" fhe Trustees," " The Treasurer," " The Se cretary," " The Auditors and Committee," The retiring Chairman of the Institution," and "The Visitors." The dinner was served up in Mr. !lathe's well-known style of elegance. The musical portion of the ente.rtain , meat was under the ;direction of Mr. llohnes, and Mr. Harker discharged the duties of toast-master with his usual I a'sility. FATAL CAlf COLLISION.—Last evening, Mr. Bed ford conclude d the inquiry into the cireumstahces attending the death of Arthur Groombridge, a cabdriver, aged 411 Thomas Blakemore, a brewksman to a horsedealer, deposed that about half-past see o'clwek on Fr:day last, he was out- I side his eua,ter's premises, No. 13, /Cline:Lk-street, when ho saw the cab coming towards him and the gentleman's brougham was coming in the opposite direction, and just after the latter had passed the break with which witness had returned the collision took place. There was ample room for the vehicles to have passed each other. The cab was not so close to the kerb as it might have been, I and the brougham was in the middle of the road. Dr. Samuel Ashwell, of IG, Grafton-street, Bond.ftreet, deposed that lie was riding in his brougham at the time in question, and heard his coachman call out to a cabman who was approaching them. Ile looked out of one of the win dows, but providentially instantly withdrew his he ad, as his brougham was immediately struck by the cab. Imme diately after the colliden had taken place he jumped out of his brougham and went to the assistance of the cabman, who hail fallen off his boa into the roadway. He appear«l to have had a sufficient fall to fracture his skull; but it seemed impossible that he could have so injured himself, as en the policeman taking him in charge for being drunk and in capable of managing his cab, he walked to the station house. Some conversation here took place as to the treat ment deceased bad received at the station-house. and it appeared that Inspector llickerston had scut for Mr. Fearer, the surgeon, when it was discovered that deceased was ill, but neither that gentleman or Mr. Morgan, who had seen him preview:ly, hat the least idea his skull was fractured. The coroner haling summed up, the jury consulted, and after some Law the foreman reported that they could not c one to a unnni.nous verdict, but 12 out of 16 returned that of " Accidental Death." ADNIIS6ION OF THE PUBLIC TO VIEW APSLEY HOUSE. liberality, has thrown open the doors of the The present Duke of Welling,ton, with a wise paternal man se:pc, and announced that, for a sufficient period, all the costly plate, pictures, marbles. and relics of his:sole in terest may be inspected, subject only to such regulatioes as may be neon sorry for their protection, and for the preserva tion of good order. The whole will be open t o the public next week, but yesterday a private view was permitted, which enables us to furnish the visitors with fuller inform ation than is afforded by the very meagre catalogue. 'hum the entrance hall, whichrxhibits noti ing very remarkable either iu its proportions or decorations, the visitors pass along between strong wooden barriers into the small room wed us the waiting room, in which, in addition to a few good bronzes, are busts of the Duke himself, by Steele, of Edinburgh (an excellent likeness); of the late Lord Cas tlereagh, of Mr. Pereeval, Colonel Ourwood (the compiler of the Duke's depatches), and of the bravo Colonel Pon eonby, whose adventures on the field of Waterloo are a truth " granger than fiction." On approaching the stair case, which is by no means impesing, th.• eye is caught by the colossal statue of Napoleon, executed by Canova, and presented by Cie allied sovereigns to his Grace after the Battle of Waterloo. The majestic effect of this fis;ure is increased by the cemrerative gloom in which it stauds.The ogaro is full et' race and power, and must not be pissed hastily by the visitor, in his anxiety to get to the rooms above. The Piccadilly drawing room is a niederite sized, but cheerful, apartment, rich in valuable 'saluting., among which the portrait of another cf England's military heroes, the Great Duke of hlarlborough, has prominent place. The spectator who may have read Mr. Thackez ay's masterly summary of that remarkable man's character, will hardly be able to reconcile so many unamiablo traits with the fine presence and handsome ceuntenauce of the hero of Blenheim and Hamilies. Here arc also Wilkie's chef a' ranee, the "Cheleealetineioners," and Burnet's companion, the " til reenwich Pensioners." It were to be wished that these two pictures,so full of local interest, were placed a little more within the range of sight than they stand at present. One of the features of this room, which will, eo doubt, an ract much curiosity, is Sir E. Landseer's large picture of Van Amburgh ir, the cage with wild beasts, painted by the Duke's express order, and remarkable for its fidelity of animal portraiture. The figure of the lion tam. r will not add much to the painter's reputation, but the fierce animals which crouch at his feet ere admirably depicted. There are also some good Dutch cabinet pictures in this room, from whence the crowd win pass into the drawing-room enriched by fine portraits of Marshal Sault and Popo Pius VII., placed in rather odd companienship over the entrance. The original of the famous " Melton limit," the ornauieet of every 'sportsman's drawing-Teem, and copies by Borate tnais en of four of lleffatila's most etteiorated works, are also is this room. A reference to the catalogue, which is ven gratuitously to eeeh visitor on entering, will tell these partieslar subjects, and we shell there fre leave this room with a ;aging mention of the Sevres Vases, the gift of lames Le Desie% which, although very probably wonders of the period. will excite very little admiration In those who saw the SZ VMS vases at the Great Exhibition of 1831. We arc now entering the great centre of attraction, the Waterloo banquetting hail, or picture gallery, as it is called in the catalogue, in which the great anniversary - was celebrated, and the walls of which are enriched with same priceless gems of art. But on first entering the visit o• thinks nothing of the Mentes or the decorations ; he remembers only " The Duke" and his gallant guests, and fancy soon fills the long vista with veteran countenances an brilliant uniforms, and loots. anxiously to the large central fire-place opposite which it was the host's custom to sit, and where he stood up to give the charter toast, " The loth of June." It was curious to remark that among the visitors yesterday the first question wee not " Where is the Correggio 1" but " Where did the Duke sit ?" and • crowded circle constantly sur roended the new farnous locality. The roam itself is of fair and ample proportions, lighted of course from the top, and decorated in a rather whim sical admixture of the clerical, rennistance, Lodis Quatoize, and what the French call the Rococo ryleo. The drawings were, we understand, made in a hurry, and at a time when these things were not qnite so well under good as they are at present. The elaborate gilding, however, makes the FLocral ellect sufficiently gorgeous, and the eye is soon carried away to the fine pictures with which the walls era almost entirely cevered. Here arc some genuiae e•rtraids by Velasquez, pert, we believe, se` the 'roils of Talavera, and the unrivalled Correggio, " Christ in the gar den," of which the picture in the Nation il Gallery is only a copy. Full length portraits of Philip and Mary orna ment the mentelolleets at each end of the room, and along the welts are the rich creations of Titian, the quaint an I homely pictures of the Dutch school, and the wild fancies of &hitter Rosa. The visitor must by no means forget the marvellous Dutch village by Beekhuyeen, with its draw-bridge, canal, and " Trekschuyts" looming through the mist; nor the female portraits by Titian, all undoubted specimens of the respective masters. There are also several first-rate pictures to which the practised eye would soon appropriate a muter; but the Duke, with characteristic conscientiousness, has left them unnamed, because he had not received satisfac tory warranty for their genuineness. Front the rictur e gallery the, promenade proceeds through the small drawing room, enriched by portraits, Se:tea china, and some speci mens of porphyry and malachite, to the room known as " the striped drawing roam," remarkable as containing Sir \V. Allen's " Battle of Waterless," painted to the Duke's order. Of Chic picture his passe said, with his usual brevity, "Very good; not too much smoke." This room is also enriched with portraits, among which that of Blucher will soonest eat est the eye of the visitor. Descending to the china roam, we have the various services, the gifts of crowned heads, and the famous Portuguese platenn, the annual centre piece of the dinner table. The toast remarkable feature in this room is the Wellington Shield, the gift of the London mer chants. a masterpiece of the time, but which would hardly bear now to stand side by side with the works of Vechte or Frorneut Meurice. It is cerfenly more remarkable for the pervading nationality of its sentiment than for the chaste ness of its design. There are bronzes here which will hear looking at more than once; and then the visitor pages from the attractions of costly plate and rare pictures to those apartments whose interest is concentrated in their personal associations. The secretary's room looks plain and business like, and the duke's private room is seen precisely as when his grace last used It. It is surrounded by a librery of reference, and the table is covered with blue books, bundles of documents, and stations other indications of the mental activity of the late illustrious occupant. Over the mantel piece are medallion portraits of the present Duchess of Wellington and Jenny Lied; and a lithograph of Lieutenant Waghorn testifies, by its prominent position, the Duke's sympathy with an energy almost as great, though not so wisely or greatly directed as his own. Tlin last visit is paid to the Duke's bedroom, plain even to homeliness, with a few chairs, its modest carpet, and its little French bedstead and horsehair mattras, upon which a hard cushion covered with leather supplies the place of down pillows, and upon which the Duke invariably slept when in town. A glass door opens loom this room into the garden, and within the cast of a pebble is all the noise and bustle of Picead.lly, one of the most populous thoroughfares in London. We are requested to state that Apsley UMW will not be opened to the public before Tuesday next. Tickets of ad mission will be forwarded, in answer to written applicaticas, addressed to Mr. Mitchell, 33, Ohl Bond -greet. A STATUE TO SIR JOHN RENNIE. TO THE EDITOU OF THE EXPRESS. Sin,—Tho eulogiums recently passed on Mr. Eai:y's statue of Stephenson, about to be placed in the great room of the East m-square railway station, suggest a thought that has struck mo mare than once while ap proaching London-bridge from the great railway station situated on the Surrey side of it. At the foot cf London bridge, opposite the entrance to this station, there is a wide space, the central point of which is now occupied by lamps: here should bee statue of a man who has accomplished great works during his life, and who built the brilge which this spat commands, after the designs of his futher—l allude of course to Sir John Rennie. I feel that the sug gestion has only to be made public to command the support of a powerful committee.-1 am, &c., W. BLANCHARD JERROLD. Erechtheum Club. Jan. O. IATIONAL GALLERY. -TIM VANDALS. TO Tilt EDITOR Or THB EBPBB.IIB. Sin,—Your correrpondent G. IL, in his letter of this morning, denouncing the Vandalism' at the National Gallery, very properly dwells upon the importance of "seer - tainiug " who is to blame ;" but he is mistaken if he sup poses that this has been "overlooked." On the 99th of lat November I impeached Sir Charles Esstlake, I'.R.A., Mr. Thomas Uwins, ILA., and Mr. Wm. Russell, accountant-gccena, a trusty, and the very incar nation of maudlin sad mischievous dillettanteism, as the ringleaders in the late cutragcous acts at the National Gal lery. These are the parti•:s against whom R.G. may justly point his shafts. I remain, sir, yours obediently, 27, Soho-square, Jc.n.6. MORRIS MOOILE. MURDER MT A CoNVIcf.—A man named Singlet', formerly a soldier in the rod regiment of Marines, recently condemned to ten years' hard labour at the hulks fur hav ing attempted to murder two persons, a man maned ltatean, who afterwards died of the wounds which he received, sea a girl named Louise Laris,e, contrived to escape last week, early in the morning, treat th e military hospital of Roche fort. When once outside, ho proceeded straight to the house of the owner of a wine .t:iop where the girl Larisse was in service, and getting over ito wall into toe yard by means of a ladder which he found outside, he waited pa ,l tiently until the girl came out, and then, springing forward, ' stabbed her five times wilt a knife which he bad borrowed from a sick sailor lying in the hospital. Several persons 1 who were breakfasting in the room next the wine shop, see ing what wa s going on, got alarta , d and took to fl i g h t; but ' a soldier of the 3lta Regiment, rained Sauveton, who knew Singlet . , rushed out, and grappling with him, at last forced the knife from his hand, and mastered him. t;iitli-r was then taken back to the hospital, where he immediate") , fell into a prof/mud sleep, in which he was found by tho Cam missary of Police who came to interrogate him. Singler deelared that, having now had vengeance on the girl Lae rinse, he was perfectiy c - ... , Mice. tetil that the courts of jus tice might do what they pleas. .1 to Lan]. The girl Ims Leen gemovta to the ho , pit.i. St. Ci..nrit, where her liie is de spaired of.—Gaiipiau i. , ;(1 - isll tssa b 7 Ito Oh*. S.) IS SE 11U 11. is NI have datik hos bus r.. i the prO. rts of mid. r a Mr• r Mr oat; 'b.• r pi,-