The Sun. — London, England, 1861-09-03 00:00:00

ANOTHER FEARFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. COLLISION ON THE NORTH LONDON LINE. Last evening a terrible catastrophe occurred on the Hampstead Junction line, owing to a colli sion between an excursion train and a train com posed of an engine and tender, 19 ballast trucks, and a break van. The Hampstead Junction is a line which has been opened within the last two years. It joins the North London at Cam den-road station, and passes thence through Cam den-town and Kentish-town, by Hampstead, and so on to Kew, where it runs close to the South-Wes tern line, over which passengers wishing to proceed to Richmond are conveyed without a change of car riages. The Hampstead Junction line is much used by persons going from the city to Kew, Rich mond, and Twickenham ; and on Sundays and Mon days throughout the summer season not only do the ordinary trains fill well, but there are excur sions constantly. Yesterday there were two or more special trains to Kew ; and it was to one of these the dreadful accident occurred, the details of which, as far as they have yet transpired, we now subjoin. In its course from the Camden-road station of the North London Railway the Hamp stead Junction line is curved in several places, and passes close to the rear of the houses till it crosses the Carlton-road, in Kentish-town, It then enters fields, and for about a quarter of a mile runs at the back of the houses on the east side of Carlton-road, and between them and the main road through Ken tish-town, which leads to Highgate-rise. A few hundred yards farther en in the Hampstead direc tion is the Kentish-town station, the first on the line after it leaves Camden-road. The Hampstead station is about half a mile beyond the Kentish town. From Hampstead to the point at which the line crosses Carlton-road it forms an arc of consi derable bend. The collision took place at some dozen yards nearer to the Kentish-town station than a bridge over what is at present a path from Carlton-road to the Kentish-town-road. Down to this bridge from the town end the rails are laid on a road supported by brickwork arches, which are about 35 feet high. From the bridge to the Ken tish-town station there is an embankment of about the same height, and from the Kentish-town station to Hampstead a deep cutting. The com pany is at present erecting an extensive coal depot adjoining the Kentish-town station, and a train of trucks is engaged daily in bringing up ballast from Bushey for making the siding which is to lead from the main line into the coal shed. When these trucks deliver their ballast they proceed up the line to the bridge over the pathway before referred to. At this point there is the usual apparatus for shunting them in on the down line, and they return to the Kentish-town station and so on to Bushey. Last evening at about 20 minutes past 7 o'clock the men in charge of the ballast train had delivered their loads, and proceeded to the bridge, on which they were being shunted, when a passenger train was seen to be coming up at a rapid pace along the line from which the ballast train was moving slowly. The driver of the latter had lighted his lamps, and when he saw the other train approaching he waved a red light and shouted. The driver pf the former in his turn blew his whistle, but the precaution was too late. It was not yet dark. There were many people in the windows of the houses in Carlton-road and a great number walking in the fields; and from several of them shrieks were heard before the trains _met ; for it was but too evident to any one who saw their respective positions that in a few seconds after the red light was waved and the up engine blew a a succession of awfully shrill screeches a violent concussion was inevitable. It has been before ob served that attached to the engine of the ballast train were 19 trucks. About half these had crossed to the down line, and about mid-way it was struck by the passenger train. The scene, as witnessed from the fields below, was terrific. Immediately the engine had struck the trucks, and shivered them into atoms, it leaped from the rails with a sort of half-puff, half-bellow, which was heard to a distance of fully half a mile, and rolled down the embank ment on its own side of the line with a hideous dull sound and one or two frightful screeches. The carriages which followed ran on a few feet ; but just at the spring of the arch of the bridge the break bounded right over, and was followed by four car riages, in which were a number of passengers. The first two carriages jumped clean into the field, where they lay on their sides, one over the other. The next came with its end upon the second of the two carriages which had broken off from the train in their bound ; and when the train came to a standstill this third car riage remained poised in the position in which it had fallen upon the others. Its coupling irons not having broken, it dragged the fourth carriage half over the side wall of the bridge, in which position it remained half suspended, but with its hind wheels stuck in the embankment. The inhabitants of the neighbourhood instantly ran to the spot. The moans of the dying, the cries of the wounded, and the lamentations of those who missed their relatives, were to be heard on every side. The ends of the first two carriages had been broken by the fall, and several of the passengers were at once pulled out. They were lacerated and bleeding to a frightful extent. In some instances it was impossible to recognise a single feature, and the unfortunate vic tims were unable to utter a word. There were a great many young children and babies in the train, and the screams of several of them were heartrend in the extreme. Father ! Mother ! My child !My God, my infant ! were cries that assailed the ears from every direction. Many women, on being released from the carriages, dropped down in an apparently lifeless swoon. All this time the pas sengers who had escaped altogether, or escaped with slight injuries, were rushing frantically down the embankment; and terrified women and men were throwing themselves over the fencing and into the fields, regardless of what might occur to them so that they got out of reach of the ill-fated train. The engine lay on its side, still puffing, and with steam rushing forth at all points. Near it was stretched the poor fireman, who had fallen with it. He seemed much injured, and was carried off to an hospital. By this time it was getting quite dark, and necessarily there was the additional element of confusion added to those others that contributed to make up a scene such as has been rarely wit nessed even after railway collisions. The families residing in the neighbourhood sent for doctors and conveyances for the wounded. Many of the latter were at once carried off to the residences of medi cal men, but others requested to be allowed to lie in the fields, if only a drop of water could be pro cured for them. Within about twenty minutes after the accident a strong body of men from the Kentish-town and Camden-town police stations ar rived, and a number of cabs and waggons were on the ground ; but at 8 o'clock it was dark and no gas near. Light was all important, and the remains of the break which had fallen over were set fire to. There was no need to chop it up small, for it had been shivered into a thousand fragments. When the pieces were in a blaze the spectacle was still more awful than it had hitherto been. The glare discovered the wounded men, women, and children that lay about, surrounded by little groups, who rendered them such assistance as could be procured on the instant. There was the engine on its side Puffing out its hot steam ; carriages were hanging in a position that made them appear as if they were just about to fall to the earth; and, most melan choly of all, from under the first carriage that had come over the bridge were visible the head of one man and the legs and arms of another. The police and others at once set about attempting to extricate those who remained inside; but it is almost unne cessary to add that only lifeless bodies were taken out. They had alassady been half an hour in a car riage that had fallen some 35 or 40 feet, and over which My another flat had come down with its full Weight from the same height. Much anxiety was expressed about the fate of the driver of the pas senger train, of whom up to this there had been heard nothing. A search was made for him up and down the embankment, and in a few minutes after it was commenced a man in ,he employment of the company stated th at his dead body had been found near the engine. T 'he stoker was much scalded and otherwise injured. File engine of the ballast trucks remained on the line uninjured after the collision, and none of the men in charge of it appeared to have been injured. Trains coming from Kew usually stop at the Kentish-town station, it being the next to Camden-road, and at the latter passengers have to change carriages for the North London line. In this instance the excursion train did not do so. That the men on the ballast train distinctly state ; and it seems impossible it could have stopped there, for had it done so, the driver must have seen the bal last trucks. Indeed, at the scene of the accident the matter was not disputed ; for, on some one remarking that it was a wonder why the passenger train had not pulled up at Kentish-town, one of the officials remarked " It was an excursion, and had no right to stop there." In reply to an inquiry as to whether he was right in shunting at that particular moment, one of the men in charge said there was nothing to tell them the up train was coming, and added, " There are no papers for those excursions." If it be a fact that there are no time-tables for ex cursion trains at a point where shunting has been going on several times in the day for some weeks past, there must have been gross negligence on some one's part, more especially if the passenger train was to pass the Kentish-town station without pulling up. Under such circumstances, and considering that the line is so much curved from Hampstead to Camden-town, the only wonder is that such an un ,pardenably faulty arrangement had not sooner re sulted in a catastrophe like the present. The train the return journey of which has brought desolation and sorrow to so many homes consisted of 13 or 14 carriages besides the breakvan which followed the engine. It is stated that the excursionists were officers and friends of officials in the employment of the North London Company; but such was the con sternation to which the fearful occurrence gave rise that it was with considerable difficulty any particu lars were gathered more than those which the ground itself presented to the spectators' view. At about a quarter past 8 a down train arrived from London. The engine came to a stand, of course, and the look of terrified amazement with which its occu pants viewed the scene was indescribable. At that hour there were some thousands of people collected in the fields and up the embankment at each side of the bridge. Two or three of the smashed carriages formed one monster fire that shot up its flames to an immense height. The wounded lay here and there, writhing in agony. Men were engaged in dragging corpses from under wheels and axle-trees, and out of carriages that had been crushed like pasteboard. Gentlemen and ladies carried water-cans, bottles, and other vessels, and were constantly giving those drinks which the mangled so greedily asked for. Many ladies ran about with linen for the :doctors to bandage the wounded; and them selves assisted in the kind office. The policeman with their lanterns kept a path for those who were carrying the injured to the cabs, vans, and carts, which were now drawn up in a line to the byroad leading out of Kentish-town ; and from all sides men, women, and children were running with lamps and lighted candles to what, without the slightest exaggeration, may be termed a field of slaughter. The driver of the ballast train said that the excur sion train appeared to him to have been coming at a rate of about 60 miles an hour ; but the probabi lity is that he was deceived in this. To those who saw it from the windows of the houses and from the field it did not appear to be coming at such speed, though its pace was rapid. Any list of killed and wounded which was pro cured last night must necessarily be imperfect, but on inquiry at the hospitals the following list was obtained of the persons who had been admitted : To the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's-inn-lane, Mrs. Emma English, aged 40, wife of James English, re siding at 24, John-street, Clerkenwell, dead. The injuries which this lady had received were fracture of the spine, laceration of the left foot, and several severe scalp wounds. She died in three-quarters of an hour after her admission to the hospital. James English, aged 41, her husband, has received scalp wounds and several contusions, which are not likely to prove fatal. Sarah Cox, aged 43, No. 1, Iceland road, Old Ford, has received fracture of the ribs, scalp wounds, and general contusions. A child, six months old, with bruises on the head, name not known. The patients taken to the hospital were promptly attended to by Mr. Alexander Marsden, the house surgeon. Tr, +U. MirlAchasa, Mu:llNi.. I.n r o Greenwood, one 12, the other eight years, and a lad aged about 18, name unknown, brought in dead. A man named Terry, living in the Liverpool-road, collar-bone fractured. A woman named Philpott, nasal bone fractured, and other injuries. In University College Hospital, Gower-street, Miss Stacey, West India-yard, Bow; and Mary Sellis (addresses not known), dead. Three others dead, not yet identified. Elizabeth Ward, 91, Upper street, Islington ; George Hewitt, Cornhill-road, Bow ; Olive Hewitt; Sarah Essex, the Point, Stratford; Mary Ann Mathews, 3, Colt-street, Old Ford ; John Parley, Catholic Chapel, Moorfields; Joseph Cocks, 7, John-street-north, Shacklewell ; Mrs. Drake, Mrs. Hemmings, Annie Ward, Mrs. Jane Green wood, wife of a station master ; Mrs. Holt, Henry Stacey, John Stacey, George Henry Bolton, the stoker, Old Ford, Bow; W. Woodley, Iceland-road ; George Woodley, father of the above; Edward Essex, Stratford New Town ; Isaac Coxall, Old Ford, Essex; Mr. Cox, Bow; William Stewart, Leighton Buzzard; Joseph Bridges, 2, Richmond-terrace, Campbell-road, Bow; Mr. Rush brook, Hawkscourt ; two men and a boy unknown, one woman unknown, and an infant unknown, all more or less injured. In St. Pancras workhouse, an old woman, name unknown, dead. It was generally stated that several of the wounded had been conveyed to the Great Northern Hospital, but on inquiry at that institution we ascertained that such was not the fact. The above list gives a total of 10 dead and 33 wounded in the hospitals ; but it was stated that there were at least three dead who had not been taken to any public institution. These, with the 10 in hospital, would give 13 dead. It is impossible yet to say how many were wounded. The driver of the excursion was named Scott, and, judging from the anxiety ex pressed about him, he must have been a favourite with the servants of the company. Miss Stacey, who is among the dead, died after amputation of the left leg. Her right leg was frac tured in addition to the other injuries which she had received. At a late hour last night it was stated that Scott, the driver of the excursion, was not dead, although the injuries which he had sustained were very se vere. We were unable to sscertain which of the accounts in reference to this man was the correct one. Long after midnight thous Inds of people were still on the ground, and the various hospitals and the stations on the line were surrounded by anxious crowds inquiring after relatives and friends. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. Another most fatal railway accident has occurred under peculiarly distressing circumstances. The scene of the calamity was that portion of the Hamp stead Junction Railway which passes through the Kentish-town fields close to the well-known water cress beds. It appears that the servants of the North London Railway have formed themselves into a society for the purpose of raising a fund for the benefit of any of its members and their families who may suffer from accidents occurring on the railway. With a view to increase the fund it was arranged that an excursion should be taken to Kew, and yesterday was the day agreed upon for that purpose. Accordingly, two excursion trains started from Bow as early as 9 o'clock in the morning, taking up excursionists at every station. Great numbers, however, were unable to obtain places in those trains ; but the company not wishing to throw any obstacle in the way of the day's pleasure, espe cially considering its meritorious object, afforded accommodation to all who were desirous of attend ing the festivity by the ordinary trains. Many hundred persons were by these means traversing the line during the day. On arriving at Kew the people entered into all the enjoyments of a rural revelling, the zest of their pleasures being height ened by the brilliancy of the day, and the deep con trast the scenes around them presented to their everyday life in the metropolis. After several hours bent in this joyous and innocent mode of recrea tion the hour approached for them to return to town. The first train that left Kew was an excur sion train, and it arrived at Camden-town station about a quarter past 7 o'clock without any impedi ment having been experienced. Soon after a second train started on its return to town, consisting of 13 or 14 carriages, the first three being what are termed " saloon carriages," and of considerable length. Every carriage was crowded with excursionists, and the speed at which it was going somewhat exceeded the ordinary rate, but was not, as it has been reported, so great as 60 miles an hour. Nothing occurred to threaten danger until the train reached the end of the embankment and the begin ning of the viaduct on which the railway is con stricted across the Kentish-town fields, when, just as it approached the arch under which a road is intended to pass from Hampstead-road to Kentish town, a train laden with ballast was being shunted off the rails, but before it had entirely cleared the rail the engine of the excursion train came into collision with it, and in an instant the engine was tumbled down the embankment, dragging after it the three long saloon carriages and an ordinary second-class carriage to a depth of upwards of 35 feet into the fields. The first carriage fell on its side, the wheels towards the fields and the head close to the wall - of the embankment, and was utterly smashed. The next two carriages fell sideways on to the first carriage, and the fourth carriage fell on its side on the bank. The engine was separated from the train, thrown a great distance into the fields, and broken almost literally to pieces. The scene that ensued was heartrending. The groans and shrieks of the wounded and of the dying were most appalling. But not an instant was lost in rendering assistance to the sufferers, and the car riages being broken means were thus afforded to rescue those who had been the least injured, and to remove those whose injuries were such as scarcely admitted of relief of any kind. The rumours as to the number of the dead were, as in all occurrences of this dreadful nature, conflicting. Sorae stated five, and others seven, while there were persons who alleged that no less than eleven bodies had been removed from the wreck of the carriages. On visiting the London University Hospital at half past ten o'clock we saw two women and one man lying dead, and we, found that there were upwards of twenty persons in the wards who were more or less injured by the accident. The consequences of this calamitous event, however, were not confined to those passengers and excur sionists who were in the four carriages that were precipitated down the bank ; many persons who were in the other portion of the train were very seriously injured, and a considerable time elapsed before the railway was cleared. With regard to the cause of this most fatal occurrence there can be no difficulty whatever in arriving at it. The daily work of carrying ballast is suffered to proceed on the rail whether one train or 20 trains may be passing in a given space of time. Persons living in the neigh bourhood and who witness the operations that are going on often express their astonishment that acci dents do not happen ; but habit deadens the sense of danger, and until some such awful calamity as that we have now to report occurs the most ordi nary precaution which circumstances call for is neglected. Had those who direct these matters re membered that when several excursion trains were running on the line in excess of the usual number of ordinary trains it was their bounden duty to take care that the line was made clear of every moveable impediment, no ballast truck would have been in the way of the second excursion train, and no deaths and sufferings from a most calamitous event would now have to be recorded. THE TERRIBLE COLLISION ON TILE LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAIL WAY. BRIGHTON, MONDAY. The adjourned inquest on the bodies of the 23 unfortunate passengers on the above railway, who were killed by a collision in the Clayton tunnel on Sunday, the 25th of August, was resumed this day at the Town-hall, at 2 o'clock, before Mr. David Black, Coroner, Captain Tyler, the Government Inspector of Railways, was again in attendance, as were Mr. Slight, secretary ; Mr. Faithful], solicitor; and Mr. Hawking, traffic manager to the London and Brighton Railway. Captain J. C. Fitzraanrice, auditor to the company, was also present. The legal gentlemen who watched the case on behalf of the friends of the deceased were again in attendance. The first witness examined was— Archibald Perry, inspector of permanent way of the London and Brighton Company, who said,—l have measured the distance from the south end of the Clayton tunnel to where the engine lay. The distance was 225 yards. You can see tha distance signal 986 yards before reaching it from Brighton. From the distance signal to the signalman's plat form is 300 yards, and to the mouth of the tunnel 305 yards. From the entrance of the tunnel to the first sign of the collision is 220 yards. At this point there are marks on the brickwork and dis placement of the ballast. From the south end of the tunnel to the first shaft is 169 yards ; to the second shaft, 368 yards. The entire length of the tunnel is one mile 22 chains, of 22 yards to a chain. The length of the tunnel in yards is one mile 484 yards. The distance of the north end of the tun nel to Hassock's-gate is 79 chains, one chain less than a-mile. The distance from Brighton to the entrance of Patcham tunnel is two miles 38 chains. The length of Patcham tunnel is 22 chains. The distance from the north end of Patcham tunnel to the south end of Clayton tunnel is one mile 79 chains. It is seven miles from Brighton terminus to Hassock's-gate. At the south end of Clayton tunnel there is a gradient post, which states that the gradient south of the tunnel is 1 in 264, the fall being four miles and 50 chains. The same gradient post describes the gradient north 1 in 264 north wards for three miles and five chains. Looking south from the signalman's box at the south end of the tunnel, the straight line is 871 yards; but 200 yards of slight curve intervene before the straight line commences. By Captain Tyler—lt is 220 yards from the mouth of the tunnel to the mark left by the loco motive chimney on the top of the tunnel, where it mounted the third-class carriage of the excursion train. The collision may have been a few yards south of that point. By the Jury—l never heard of a driver running past the distance signal at safety and being pulled up by a signalman with a red flag. The Coroner (to Mr. Faithfull)—Will you pro duce the guard's time-book now ? Mr. Faithfull—Yes, sir. Mr. G. Hawkins, traffic manager of the London and Brighton Railway (after the usual caution from the Coroner), was then sworn and examined. He said,—l have been in the company's service 19 years. I have held my present office about 12 or 13 years. My general duties are to superintend and supervise all the arrangements connected with the traffic on the railway—porters, policemen, guards, signalmen and stationmasters. The clerks in the goods' department are also under my control. I am responsible for the hours fixed for the starting a the trains. The time-tables for the regular trains are submitted to the directors; for the ex cursion and irregular trains I am solely responsible. The times of the starting of the three trains had been settled by me. The trains called excursion trains, although running at lower fares, are really regular trains, and run at stated hours. The Brighton excursion train is one running every week, and is therefore put in the time-table. (A time-table was here put in by the witness.) A train starts from Brighton on Sunday at 8 15, calling at the Norwood junction. That is in the time-table as a regular train. The Portsmouth train runs only once a fortnight, and is therefore classed among the special train service. It is not mentioned in the time-table. A special paper is circulated among the company's service every Sa turday morning relative to the special trains of the week. (This paper was handed in.) The Ports mcuth train leaves Portsmouth at six a.m. on Sun day morning. This special paper is issued to stationmasters, enginedrivers, signalmen, plate layers, and all others concerned. The Portsmouth train has to make 16 stoppages before or including its arrival at Brighton. It has to be shunted off from the Portsmouth line to the Brighton departure line. It has to make several "shunts," an opera tion which cannot be well performed under 10 or 12 'Minutes. It arrived, I believe, at Brighton at 8.16, and left Brighton at 8.28. That would be twelve minutes, and would not be an unreasonable time. I was not in Brighton when the accident happened. The time of the three trains leaving was 8.5, 8.15, and 8.30 a.m., one train, the first, being in the spe cial notice, and the other two in the general time table. It is one of the rules of the company that no train shall be started (except at London.bridge) at a less interval than five minutes from the despatch I of the previous. That is in force at all the stations except London-bridge. Rule 35 applies to trains passing stations on the main line rather than to trains starting from a terminus. The common prac tice is, that no trains should start within five minutes, but there is no printed rule to that effect. I never remember a time when that practice did not prevail. I am still speaking of the stations and not of London-bridge, where we start at intervals of less than five minutes. There we have signals for a long distance within view of each other, and we sometimes start trains at intervals of three minutes. If the trains are equal and engines equal I think they may be started with perfect safety within five minutes of each other between Brighton and Has sock's-gate. That is the shortest interval I should recognise in starting from Brighton. The progress of each train is made out by the station clerks at various stations on the line, and sent to me. Those stations arc Hayward's-heath, Three Bridges, Croy don station, Victoria station, and London-bridge sta tion, includinc , the time of starting fr om B r i g h ton. (Returns of S unday, Aug. 18—the Sunday before the accident—handed in, also guard's report from Sunday, Aug. 18, to the Saturday following.) I have not the returns of Sunday, the 25th (the day of the accident). The whole ser vice of that day was completely disorganised, and several trains did not run. I will produce them if you wish, but we must have time to prepare them. The guards make the entries of the time of leaving the stations. I will have a return made out of two or three of the Sundays on which the Portsmouth excursion trains ran, with the time at which these three trains started from Brighton, including the Sunday of the accident, and including also the time of arrival of the Portsmouth excursion train at Brighton. I will also have a return prepared of the actual time of starting every train going up on the Brighton main line during each Sunday in August. lam not aware as a matter of fact that trains are started from Brighton at shorter inter vals than five minutes. No such circumstance has ever come to my knowledge. The most frequent cause of delay from any terminal station is the late arrival of passengers. It is utterly impossible to start a train at the precise time at which it is ad vertised. The doors of the station are kept open until the exact hour. If a fly comes up when the hand of the clock is on the hour it is admitted ; the luggage has to be taken to the end of the platform. The passengers won't be hurried, and they will choose a carriage they like. There may be a large family, and it is, in fact, impossible to start a train at the precise minute advertised. The Portsmouth excursion is advertised to start from Brighton at 8 5 a.m., but it does not take up passengers there. If it kept correct time that would allow 8 minutes for shunting. If the Portsmouth train arrived 20 minutes after time it would be sent off before the Brighton excursion. The Coroner—l have it in evidence that the Portsmouth train arrived at 8 16, and left at 8 28. Witness—ln that case it would be the duty of the station-master at Brighton to start the Brighton train first, because a considerable time must be allowed for shunting the Portsmouth train, and the interval would allow the Brighton train to get well away. Express trains and excur sion trains can be got away nearer to their time than ordinary trains, because people do not bring luggage, and are more punctual in arriving. The increase in passenger traffic on the line has been very great. In 1848, the number of passengers conveyed by the company was 2,485,000 ; in 1860, it had increased to 9,545,000. That was exclusive of the season-ticket-holders, who have increased in a larger proportion. The number of trains, I should say, has increased in a larger ratio than the number of passengers. My object has always been to keep the trains within a reasonable limit in point of length, and I attribute our increase of pas sengers in a great measure to the increase of the number of trains. A signalman who had two trains passing him nine years ago, when Killick became signalman, would have, I doubt not, four times as many now. We have more relieving men than we had then, but we have also more places to relieve. When there is a large number of trains we get the signalman's attention, which we cannot insure when he has very little to do, The safest part of the line is where it is most crowded. When trains follow rapidly after each other,fif a signalman neglects his duty we hear of it from the enginedrivers and guards and travelling inspectors. 1f the trains, on the other hand, have a long interval between them, a man is far more likely to leave his post, or go to sleep than if he has trains passing continually be fore him. The Coroner—lf it should appear that three trains ran within six or seven minutes of each other, under the existing arrangements would that be safe? Witness—l think it ought not to be. It ought not to be unsafe, bat it is imprudent. But I have heard no evidence that the three trains ran within an interval of six or seven minutes. The shortest time mentioned was three within 10 minutes, which gives an interval of five minutes between each train. At 30 miles an hour they would be two miles and a-half apart, and there would be no danger. The Coroner—Then three trains might pass through the tunnel within a space of 10 minutes with safety. Witness—Perfectly so. The Coroner—Taking one day with another, and under existing arrangements? Witness—Yes, they might do so for ever. It happens, no doubt, that one train leaving Brighton and passing through Clayton tunnel might and would gain on another. A short adjournment here took place. Mr. Hawkins then continued—l heard for the first time at this inquiry that these signalmen have 24 hours' duty. I find that to get the whole of the Sunday and Sunday night with their wives and families they arrange with each other to work the 24 hours off at a stretch. Had I known it I should not have sanctioned it, for I don't think a man ought to work 24 hours at a stretch. A man may on such duty read a book or newspaper. It is not work—it is only duty that requires attention. On the busier parts of the line a man has not time to read. The signalmen are expected always to have their atten tion on the stretch to see a coming train, and because I knew that it was not in human nature to keep the attention directed always to one point where a train was not expected I had the self-acting apparat us fitted up to ring a bell when a train approached. I never employ two signalmen at the busiest parts of the line. If I did that I should get a divided re sponsibility, which lam always afraid of. I have known but few accidents occur through the mis takes of signalmen. Where the signalman is also a pointsman he sometimes makes a signal one way and moves the points another. Accidents sometimes arise from that source. A driver having seen a red flag at the mouth of a tunnel ought not to have backed his train without he had first sent his guard back to see the obstruction, and without being told by his guard to come back. The Coroner—Was there any ground for Scott's backing the train ? What could lead him to back his train ? Witness—There are many circumstances that would make it excusable. He did not like to keep a number of passengers within the tunnel. If he could see that the line was perfectly clear the wisest course would have been that stated by Jackson the other day, to creep slowly on through the tunnel. However, it would be against the rules, and there might be reasons why one line only in the tunnel should be worked. It was as much against the rules to gn back, however, as it would have been to go forward. It was the duty of the hinder guard to run back directly the train stopped. He should have gone back to the first fixed signal, to see it put to danger. He ought then to have gone to the driver and told him to back the train to the mouth of the tunnel. The Coroner now asked th e pro f ess i onal men whether they wished him to make an order for the production of the docurnenti which were refused by the solicitor to the company, or whether they would be satisfied with the documents being pla ce d i n hi s hands and those of the Jury, with liberty to examine the witnesses upon any discrepancies. lle was ready to make the order if they wished it ; but it might cause some delay. Mr. Read said he should be content if the Coroner d the jury discrepancies, at the document s an d as k any questions any might look occur to them if th e y ob served Mr. Fryer said he differed f rom M r . R ea d, an d a n t wouldhat thought it desirable that the public and the jury should have these reports. The Coroner—What docume n ts do yo u requ i re ? fryer —l wish t o h ave t h e report of, the journeymade by Sc o tt , eng i ne-dr i ver of the ir. Brighton Fry excursion (the second train), and also his daily return. Also the statement made by Boynett, the guard, to Mr. Turner, the travelling inspector. Also a statement made by Butcher, which was taken down. Some difficulty having arisen as to the custody of these documents. Mr. Slight said he believed the whole of these documents were in his custody. Mr. Faithful] having repeated that he declined to produce the docume n t s , The Coroner said,--I shall have to ask you to morrow, Mr. Slight, whether the se d ocumen t s are in your possession, beca use I s h a ll h ave to ma k e an order Production. Tyler —I consider the s t a ti onmas t er at 3rh tn for at. wrongly if he sta r t e d one t ra i n at Bi g yeuCapt. their ct Te ya 8.28 and another at 8-31. I think he was acting not only against the rules of the company, but also against his practice I think there was, in fact, an interval of five minutes between the trains. Capt. Tyler—The gaards and drivers a ll agree with one anoth er w i t hi n a minute ? Witness—l believe that the variance is not more than that, according to their statement, but guards and drivers always have a tendency to put the time later rather than earlier—to take the minute rather than give it. I believe it almost impossible for Mr. Legg to have done what he did and started one train three minutes after the other. I think the interval must have been greater than the guards and drivers put it at. We have never thought it desirable that a book should be kept of the starting of the trains at Brighton. Distance between trains is a greater safeguard by far than time. I have never yet been able to satisfy myself that the elec tric telegraph is a certain means of preventing acci dents. I find that the drivers come to have more confidence in the working of the telegraph, which they cannot see, than in the signals, which they can see and ought to observe. The most perfect electric telegraph is so liable to mistakes on the part of those who work it that I am not satisfied of its safety by itself. If I had been asked the day before the occurrence I should have said that an accident at the Clayton tunnel was impossible. It would, perhaps, be better to have two needles and two instruments for the up and down line, but where you have two instruments in a box a man would be more liable to make mistakes than if he had only one. The operation is so simple that it can hardly be said to tax the signalman's memory. We use the telegraph in the tunnels in case of a train coming to a standstill, and not because a tun nel is more dangerous. I think the tunnel is safer than the rest of the line. I don't think you are so likely to have a break down in a tunnel as on other parts of the line. Obstructions, for example, are frequently placed on other parts of the line, but the tunnels are free from this source of danger. Captain Tyler—Perhaps it would be as well not to draw attention to it. (A laugh.) By the Foreman—lt was the duty of the head guard to prevent the engine -driver (Scott) from backing his train (the second) to the mouth of the tunnel, if it were possible. He might not be able to prevent it, but if he did not do what he could to prevent the driver backing to the mouth of the tunnel he was decidedly wrong. He would be acting against the rules in backing the train to the mouth of the tunnel without orders from the guard. I am entirely responsible for the adoptien of this particular distance signal used at the Clayton tunnel. It is an invention of Mr. Whitworth's, and puts the signal on by the traia passing over it, leaving the signalman to take it off. - By Mr. Merry, a juryman —I think it probable that if the distance signal had acted as it should have done in the first instance, or failing, if the signalman had put it on, the accident would not have happened. The witness was also examined by Mr. Stuckey, Mr. Read, Mr. Pook, and Mr. Fryer, but his evi dence was in no respect shaken. By Mr. Faithfull—This is the first accident in a tunnel that has happened on the Brighton line. I believe our system of signals is the best that can be devised, but we are quite willing to consider any improvements that could be made in it. We and other railway companies used to close our doors five minutes before the departure of the trains. The outcry of the public was, however, so great that we were obliged to abandon it, and if we were to re vert to that practice the daily papers would be full of letters against it. (A laugh.) The increase in the number of p assengers on th e line from 2,500,00 u to 9,500,000, or thereabouts, is principally in our suburban traffic. There has been no great increase in our Brighton traffic proper for several years. The number of trains on the main line running into Brighton in August, 1852, was 16; the number in the corresponding month of 1861 was 21 trains. By Captain Tyler—l do not say that trains do not gain on each other, but we have it in evidence that they do net run faster than the rates mentioned in the time-table. As a rule our Brighton trains do not get into speed until they get into the Clay ton tunnel. lam still of opinion that a longer in terval elapsed between the departure of the second and third trains than three or four minutes. The witness explained, in correction of a former part of his evidence, that the numb er o f t ra i ns pass i ng Kil lick's station would only be one-third greater than it was four years ago. The inquiry, after occupying eight hours, was then again adjourned. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1861 CHARGE OF MURDER. Yesterday, at the Westminster police-court, Win. Maloney, a bricklayer's labourer, was charged before Mr. Arnold with the wilful murder of his wife. The age of the accused is 40, and that of the deceased 28 or • 30. The court was densely crowded. Arthur Mason, 15 B, being sworn, said—At about a quarter to 1 to-day I received information that a woman had been murdered in Leg-court, Peter street, Westminster. I proceeded thither, and in the front room on the . ground floor I found the pri soner sitting on a cha ir, and the body of a woman lying on the bed quite dead. I spoke to the pri soner ; but before I did so I gave him the usual caution that he was not obliged to say anything. He said, " I know nothing about it ; she did it her self. I had a few words with her because she was upon the drink yesterday ; I sent my little girl out for some oats for the rabbit, and I was sitting eat ing bacon and potatoes with my knife, and when I was done I laid it down on the table, and my wife took it up and stabb e d h erse lf and then threw the knife away." After this I asked him who lifted her on the bed, when he replied " I don't know." I asked whether he assisted, when he replied he did not. Mr. Arnold—Did you examine his hands and clothing ? Witness—l did, and both hands were covered with blood, more particularly the right one. There was blood on his sleeve and on his trousers, and also some on his shirt. I took him to the station, when the sergeant asked him how it was. Mr. Arnold—What did you say to him when you took him into custody ? Witness—l told him I should take him for the murder of his wife. Mr. Arnold—When did you tell him that Witness—Before I took him out of his house. Mr. Arnold—l want to know exactly when you told him. Was it before or after you had put the questions to him you have mentioned? - Witness—lt was after that that I took him into custody, and told him what for. When we arrived at the station the sergeant said, "He has got blood upon his trousers ;" to which the prisoner replied, " If ye had been there ye would hare had the same." Mr. Arnold—Was there any blood about the room ? Witness—a great deal in the middle, and some all about the floor. Mr. Arnold—Was there any blood about the body of the woman ? Witness—Yes, all down her dress. Mr. Arnold—Did you observe any wound ? Witness—l did; it was on the left side of the neck or shoulder, near the collarbone. Mr. Arnold (to prisoner)—Do you wish to ask this witness any questions ? Prisoner—l have got no question to ask hire. Samuel Gordon, 241 B, said—l was called at 20 minutes past 12 to Leg-court, Peter-street. I went to No. 2 there, and in the front room on the ground floor found a large pool of blood. It is a two-roomed cottage. Prisoner was sitting in a chair, the woman was lying on the bed, dead. I examined her, and found a wound in her neck, just above the collar bone. I cleared the room of persons that were in it, and having searched found this knife behind a teaboard with blood upon it. A sharp-pointed long clasp knife was here pro duced, such as is ordinarily carried by working men to cut their food. Witness—l did not ask him how the woman be came wounded; he told me she did it herself. I found the knife behind a teaboard sticking up in the boards of the room. The teaboard stood up on its side. The knife was close to the edge of the teaboard, and was wet with blood when I first found it. Eliza Ducklow, aged 17—I live at 2, Leg-court, but not in the same house as the prisoner. I live with my father, who works at the gas works. At 10 minutes or a quarter to 12 this morning I was coming up the court, when I saw Mrs. Maloney (the deceased) with a quart of beer in a can. We went up the court after she had spoken to me. She went into her house. I went into mine. I had been out for some milk, and was putting it down when my little brother said to me," Mr. Maloney's smock is all over blood ; he has been fighting." I ran out and I saw him standing between the window and door, looking at the blood upon his smock. He was outside the house in the court. I looked in his pas sage andsaw a lot of blood, and a little girl crying. Mrs. Maloney was half sitting upon the ground, halt lying, resting on her elbow. Prisoner was then outside at that time. He never attempted to move. Mr. Arnold—After you saw her resting upon her elbow, did she fall ? Witness—No; she sank down gradually, and while on the ground she lifted up her head once again. Mr. Arnold—And the prisoner remained outside? Witness—Yes, all the time, and did not attempt to go away. I said to him, " Mr. Maloney, your wife is dead. How was it done ?" He said, " I put the knife down by the side of me, and she took it up and stabbed herself." I saw Mr. Payne, the surgeon, afterwards pick her up and put her on the bed. Mr. Arnold—Could you tell whether she had been drinking ? Witness—She was quite sober. Mr. Arnold—How near is your house to the prisoner's ? Witness—lt is the fourth door from us. Mr. Arnold—And you say it was directly you got into your house, after parting with N. loney, that your brother made the remark about his smock-frock having blood upon it ? Witness—l had hardly put my milk down. Mr. Arnold—Did you hear any quarrelling be tween the prisoner and his wife ? Witness—l did not. Mr. Arnold—Were they in the habit of quar relling ? Witness—l can't say. Mr. Arnold—What time do you think it was from when you last saw Mrs. Maloney alive till your brother made the remark ? Witness—Two or three minutes. In answer to inquiries as to what the brother said, witness informed the magistrate that he was only a child, scarcely more than three years old. The prisoner's daughter, Mary, a child only seven years of age, attending a Catholic school in Peter street, was called next, and having undergone an examination to test her knowledge of right and wrong she was considered competent to be sworn. She said—l was out when my mother went out this morning. I went home about a quarter past 12. Father and mother were both at home. Father was against the door and window; mother was on the floor. Mr. George Burton Payne, of 58, Denbigh-street, Pimlico, doctor of medicine and surgeon—l was called to Leg-court, and found the poor woman lying on the floor in a pool of blood. She was quite dead. She had a clean incised wound about an inch long near the apex of the shoulder, from which a little blood was still issuing. I assisted to lift her from the floor. I asked the prisoner to assist, which he refused. I inquired how it occurred, and he said she stabbed herself. I asked him how she did it, and he said with his penknife. I said, " Had you been quarrelling ?" and he replied "No." He said there was no one present, they were alone, and she had thrown the knife somewhere about the room. I only made a cursory examination, but have no doubt that the subclavian artery was divided by the wound, and that death was almost immediate. A woman there told me she had been speaking only three minutes before, and bacon that she had cooked was still smoking on the table. Mr. Arnold—Could the wound have been inflicted with a penknife ? Witness—No, it would not have made it so clean. Prisoner stood by the window while I was there, and never spoke. Mr. Arnold Could you form any opinion whether the blow was inflicted by deceased herself? Witness—lt might have been ; there is no reason why it should not. Witness explained that when prisoner refused to assist in placing the body on the bed it was not doggedly. Prisoner—l 'could not have done it, if I got all the world for it. Mr. Arnold—ls there anybody here who can give me any information about the habits of these people ? The police said there were plenty present who could speak, but there was not a word to be got out of them. The deceased's father was in attendance. The poor man was put into the witness-box, but he was so overpowered by emotion that he could not speak. M. Arnold said he should remand the prisoner until to-morrow (this day), and should like to have some account of the habits of the prisoner and the deceased. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Sept. 2. The general sessions for September commenced this morning at Clerkenwell before Mr. Whateley, Q.C., presiding for the Assistant-Judge, Mr. Payne, deputy, and the following magistrate s :—Mr. Par bury, Mr. Adams, Mr. Swift, Sir James Tyler, Mr. Warner, Mr. Faulconer, Mr. Bashford, Dr. Bate man, Mr. H. White, and Mr. Armstrong. The calendar contains the names of 61 prisoners for trial-15 charged with misdemeanour and 46 with felony. The learned Judge delivered the charge to the grand jury. Wm. Baines, 23, journeyman baker, was indicted on several charges of embezzling money received by him on account of James Jones, his master. He pleaded guilty, and the Court sentenced him to 18 months' hard labour. Alexander Elliott, musician, pleaded guilty of having obtained by false pretences from Thomas Richard Willis a cornet and six flutes, his property. He was sentenced to six months' hard labour. SECOND COURT. (Before Mr. Payne.) John Wilson, 35, was indicted for unlawfully and maliciously assaulting Robert Mackay, a police constable, in the execution of his duty, and inflict ing upon him actual bodily harm, Mr. Cooper prosecuted for the Treasury; Mr. Sleigh was for the defendant. The prosecutor, who wore two medals, stated that the prisoner's wife complained to him that the de fendant had stabbed her in the face, and seeing her bleeding he went to the defendant's dwelling, Pond place, Chelsea, to apprehend him. The defendant attacked him with a poker, used frightful language, and cut his head open. The wife then said she did not want him to be taken, but the officer persisted, and with the assistance of another officer, Smith, 141 B, took him for the assault. For the defence it was admitted that an assault had been committed, but the learned counsel urged that the police officer was not at the time in the execution of his duty, and that a verdict on the third count would be sufficient to meet the justice of the case. The learned Judge thought the evidence would justify the jury in finding on the first count, if they believed it, and it was for them to decide. The jury found the defendant guilty on the first two counts, and The learned Judge sentenced him to hard labour for one year. Thomas Montague, convicted last session, was brought up for judgment and sentenced to 15 months' hard labour, and George Anderson, also convicted at the last session of fraud, was brought up and sentenced to 6 months. James M'Namara, 28, labourer, was found guilty of wounding Dennis Shay in the thigh in a quarrel, and sentenced to 3 months' hard labour. Thomas Ludgate, 24, was indicted for stealing a tablecover and other articles, the property of James Baldwin. The prisoner was stopped be tween Hornsey and Highgate with a bundle, which on being asked bow he had came by it he said he had bought it of a man he did not know for half-a crown. It contained a quantity of things which had been stolen from the residence of the prosecu tor, Oakfield Lodge, Crouch-end, and which were safe shortly before. He found guilty, and sen tenced to nine months' hard labour. A number of cases in which the prisoner s pl ea d e d guilty were disposed of. POLICE INTEL LIGENCE--Sept. 2. WORSHIP-STREET.—Yesterday James Col lins, a tall, powerful fellow of 30, was charged be fore Mr. Leigh with the following shocking bruta lity : The complainant was a young woman named Ellen Welsh, who had a severe wound in the fore head, stitched together by a surgeon and covered with surgical dressing ; her face bore marks of se veral contusions; her right breast was bruised and discoloured in several places; her arms had a suc cession of contusions from the wrists to the shoul ders; and, beside other injuries, one of her shoul ders was almost beaten into a pulp. She stated that she had lived with the prisoner as his wife for between eight and nine years, and had numerous times been illused by him with such severity that she had been three times taken to the London Hos pital with her head cut open, and the prisoner h a d been several times in custody for his violence to wards her, but escaped without punishment because she refused to appear against him. On Sunday night, between 10 a nd 11, she was standing i n Wentworth-street, talking to a neighbour, when the prisoner came up drunk, and without uttering a word, or the slightest provocation on her part, he deliberately struck her a heavy blow on the face with a thick stick that her forehead was laid open, and she fell to the pavement, " knocked down like a bullock." Some of her injuries were caused by another attack he had made upon her only on the preceding night (Saturday) because she had asked him for some money, when he again came home at 12 o'clock drunk. She was suffering great pain from the wounds the prisoner had inflicted upon her. The case was put back for the attendance of Dr. Edmunds, the surgeon, of Spital-square, who had examined the complainant, and who said he had not often seen a woman more severely bruised than she was, A month at least would elapse before the contusions could disappear, even if her health con tinued good the whole time. Mr. Leigh said it was quite horrible to contem plate such atrocious violence being inflicted upon one of the other sex. For the last assault the pri soner must be committed to the House of Correc tion for six months, and for the first one for a further term of three months, both teims with hard labour. Notwithstanding her own pitiable state, the woman burst into tears on hearing the sentence, and on being asked by Mr. Leigh whether she went in fear of the prisoner, that he might be also held to bail, she quickly replied twice that she did not, and said the man's punishment " was quite enough." CLERKENWELL.—WiIIiam Jones, alias Bum ble, a sickly, dissipated man, and Marga re t J ones, who stated th a t s h e was his wife, were pl aced at the bar before Mr. D'Eyncourt, charged with being in the possession of a Urge quantity of counterfeit coin with intent to utter it. The male prisoner has been several times in cus tody at this court on charges of uttering counter feit coin, but although he has been remanded he has managed to get discharged. For months he has been under the surveillance of Mr. Brennan, the Mint agent, he being suspected of making the coin. On Saturday Mr. Brennan, in company with In spectors Bryant and Fyfe, of the G division, and Sergeants Brennan, 21 G, Leather, 6 G, and Elliott, 13 G, proceeded to 1, Fisher-court, Eagle-street, Holborn, and, having by stratagem gai ne d admis sion to ;he house, proceeded to the second floor. They knocked for admission, but finding they could not get in, the door, which was strongly barricaded, was broken open, and the prisoners were found in bed, and pretending to be asleep. Mr. Brennan told the prisoners that he had received instructions from the Mint to apprehend them, as they were known to have been dealing largely in counterfeit coin. The male prisoner denied the charge, One of the constables called Mr. Brennan's attention to a parcel on the table, which on being opened was found to contain 10 counterfeit florins. The male prisoner was observed to be very uneasy, and to be trying to hide something under the bolster. A par cel was taken from him, and this was found to con tain eight counterfeit shillings. Inspector Bryant and the other officers searched the house through, and in the ash-hole of the copper found a parcel containing 40 shilling pieces, 15 florin pieces, and two five-shilling pieces, all counterfeit. The pri soners were then conveyed to the station. Mr. D'Eyncourt remanded them. LAMBETH,—Yesterday Mr. Myers, jun., of the firm of Messrs. George Myers and Son, the extensive builders and contractors in the York-road, Lambeth, appeared before Mr. Elliott to answer a summons taken out by Duncan Cramb, a journeyman mason, charging him with refusing to pay a balance of wages of 18s. ld., and also to deliver him his work ing tools. Mr. Myers said the complainant had got mixed up with the unionists, an d through their influence or persuasion he got drunk and demanded his wages and tools. On becoming sober and returning to his senses, however, he expressed much sorrow for his conduct, and requested that he might be allowed to return to his work, and also begged that in the event of his getting drunk again and demanding his wages and tools, they might as a matter of favour be refused. The complainant was under the influ ence of drink when he made the demand on the pre sent occasion, and Mr. Myers considered it was only doing him a kindness to refuse. Had he applied for them while sober both would have been given up at once. Mr. Buchanan, the complainant's solicitor, re quested the magistrate to make an order for the payment of the 18s. ld. and the delivery of the tools ; but Mr. Myers said that whenever Cramb thought proper to come sober to the office he should have both. COUNTRY MARKETS. ER—AuG. 31. new wheat, which was taken Malting barley quite as dear. COLCHEST We had a small supply of readily at is to 2s advance. New beans and peas scarce. Wheat, white s2s to 62s Beans, Mazagan..36 4 to 42s red 44s to 60s Middle & small 38s to 44s Barley —s to —s White peas Oats 24 s t o 30 s Grey, ..... . .. 36s to 40e CHELMSFORD)--AUG. 30. A fair supply of wheat at market. Old wheats advanced is to 2s per qr on last week's prices; trade rather brisk. Spring corn of all descriptions about the same, with & limited sale. Wheat, white 28s to 60s Peas, Partridge .. 36s to 40s red 29s to 45s White 38s to 44s Barley 29s to 40s Boiling 4os to 46s Chevalier ....30s to 41s Dun 34s to 38s Grinding 26s to 35s Beans, Tick ...,36s to 42s Malt 61s to 67s Harrow Ticks 38s to 44s Chevalier 64s to 69s Mazagan 34s to 36s Oats 23s to 30s NOTTINGHAM—AuG. 31. The show of wheat to-day from the growers was pretty good, many new samples being offered in fine condition. Trade firm at is per u advance on the best sorts. Barley a small show, and sales slow. Osts cheaper. Beans very dull, but late prices maintained. Wheat .. ..38s to 60s Oats.. 26s to 32s White do 47s to 65s Beans Barley 29s to 31s Ditto, old ........409 to 519 KIRKALDY—Aro. 31. A small supply to-day of old wheat and oats, and no barley. Wheat met with a slow sale, at barely last week's currencies. Wheat I Barley O ats First.... 36s ad 27s 6d 26s Od Second .. 500 Od 34s 6d , 29 s 6d I Third .. 54s Od —s Od. —s Od COAL MARK (Prices of Coal per Ton at ET—SEPT. 2. the elowe of the market Wails End. a. d. Bower's West Hartley.l6 6 Hartlepool West Hart ley ..... 15 6 Carway and Duffryn Malting Do. Anthracite 21 6 Tanfield Moor Butes l2 9 North Pelton l3 0 Hastings Hartley 16 6 Lambert's West Hart ley 16 0 Carr's Original Hartley 16 0 Holywell ..15 6 Walker Primrose .....12 0 Wylam ....15 6 Bate's West Hartley..ls 0 Howard's West Hart ley 16 6 Thornley H So a u r t t h ieti ll o a o rt i. l . e . poo ... l : :. ..... .. 1 1 1 7 6 5 9 9 0 Sheriff Hill .......... 14 6 Who.rnelift e l6 0 Harswell ... lB 0 Srnth Hetton 18 0 Hetton ........ Russel's Hetton 16 .9 1 Thorpe l6 0 1 Tunstall Durham 16 0 Eden 16 6 Acorn Close 16 6 South Kelloe 17 0 BrsddyU's Hetton l6 9 Gosforth.. l5 6 Framwellgate 16 6 Heugh Pall 16 6 Trimclon Hartlepool ~17 6 I A, 98 ; sold, 64. Walls End. Trimdon Thornley....ls 6 Woodhouse C105e.....14 9 Ships at market T 31,4 IL S. MAILS . A ustralia, Ceylon, and Maurit DUE ius (via South ampton) _.. • . - - Set. 18. (via Marseille ®) Sept. 12. .. Sept. 3. Do. Brazil and Cape Verde Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, &o. Cuba and Mexico .. Canada, &c. (via L'derry •) 4. Cape of . • • . • • • Sept. 28. Good Hope, ezo. • . .. Sept. .. • • .. Oct. 1. Do China, Penang, and Singapore (via • S'ampton) Sept. 1. (via Mar se ill es ) S ept. 12. Gibraltar (via Southampton) .. , Sept. 1. Do ndia (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampt on ) S ep t . 1 . . lndia (Bombs (via Mars e ill es ) S ep t. 12. y), (via Southampton) .. Sept. 10. Do. (via Marseilles) .. .. Sept. 4. Lisbon .. • • • .. .. Sept. 1. Malta, Egypt, and Aden (via South amp t on ) .. Sept. 1. Do. (via Mars e ill es ) Sept. 4. Vigo, and Oporto .. • Sept. 1. United States, Calif orn i a , & c. Sept. 4. Western Coast of At r i ca , M a d e i ra, Teneriffe Sept. 10. West Indies and Pacific, Carthagena, Cuba, &c. Sept. 13. ME NEW GAS ACT.—Colonel Wilson has under- taken the supervision of the arrangements in connection with the working and carrying out of the New Gas Regu lation Act for the City, assisted by Mr. Youall and Mr. Sporno, the latter having just been appointed superinten• dent of the meter and testing department. The Metropoli tan Board of Works are about to appoint three inspectors for the districts over which the) have jurisdiction ; but out of the 40 parishes in the metropolis only some nine or ten have as yet taken any preliminary steps in pursuance of the act. [A — d p o 1 l d o a w t e a d y disordered ' c s o n " P s t i l t s u t inorne undeniably s , liver, bile and indigestion. The wonderful efficacy of this thefi n ne V sT l L lS d E io M in E e N fO l r salutary medicine, and the good effects produc e d on patients suffering from the above complaints would appear incredible, if not confirmed by daily proofs of the cures effected by them, and the permanent benefit derived from their use. Those invaluable Pills soothe and strengthen the nervous system, purify the blood, regulate the secre• tions and invigorate the constitution. Disease flies before them. They are composed of vegetable extracts, unmixed with a grain of any mineral or noxious substance. They may, therefore, be given with the utmost confidence, and with perfect safety, to delicate females and young cliildren. BIRTHS. ALLAN.—On the 31st ult., at Charles-street, Eastbourne.. terrace, Hyde-park, the wif e o f L ieu t.-C o l . Allan, of a daughter. Moums.a y M On orres, th 31st a son at at Englemere, near Ascot, Mrs. Mowbri of . MONTErTORE.--On the Ist inst., at Ro u ._ p ii park, Strea. tham-hill, Mrs. John Montefiore, of a daughter. MARRIA GES. GILES—HOOPER.-0n the 31 s t ult. at St. James's, Hol. loway, Frederick Giles, Esq., of Lowther Cottages, Hob. loway, to Fanny, only daughter of James Hooper, Esq., of Tollington-park. Cambers, London, WEBB —PHILLIPS.—On the 31st ult., at Southampton, to Lizzie, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Phil. lips, of Wmeanton Somerset. • monfiC,sh„....epostnowthpelace,DATHS. CLEOBURY.—On the Ist inst., Mrs. Frances Cleobnry, late Mrs. Wm. Mills, aged 7 6 . Camberwell New-road, aged 78. Ist inst., at the Mitre Tavern, Temple, PINDER.—On the 31st ult., at the Rectory, Go s f or th , C um . berland, the R e v. Francis Ford Pinder, 26 years rector of that parish, aged 58. SEELEY.—.O n the 31st ult., John Seeley, Esq., solicitor, of Lower Streatham, aged 55. SEWELL. On the 31st ult., at Bedford-place, Hampstead road, Thomas Haywood Sewell, Esq., late of her Majes ty's Customs. Wasorr.—On the 29th ult., at the Lion Mansion, Brigh ton, Francis Wilson, Esq., aged 71. LONDON : Printed and Published by UT JRDO YOUNG, at No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Of ace, No. 112. Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the (.7 ounty of Middlesex, WUeOclity, eptei er 3, Ism