The Press.
London, England, 1855-09-22 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

Manchester approached the Hadfield station, which
is at the end of the viaduct, but in consequence of a
Liverpool excursion-train being in advance, and
having to discharge passengers at the station, the
Manchester train was brought to a stand on the viaduct.
This was at 9.35 p.m. The night was very dark, and
it appears that some of the passengers in the
Manchester train, who had to get out at Hadfield,
imagined that the train was already at the station.
Three of these persons, two young men and a young
woman, succeeded in opening the door of the car-
riage and got out. The parapet of the viaduct on
that side was within a very short space, of the car-
riages, and it is supposed that owing to the darkness
or the night, instead of getting down in the narrow
space between the train and the parapet of the via-
duct, they stepped upon the top of the parapet. Im-
mediately afterwards an alarm was given that they
had fallen over, and the shocking fact was soon after-
wards confirmed by the discovery of their bodies in
the valley below. They had fallen from a height of
seventy-five feet. Two of them, John Healy, aged
twenty-three years, and sane Hadfield, who were
lovers, and had been to Bellevue-gardens, Manches-
ter, were quite dead when found. The other man,
Thomas Priestnall, a weaver, aged twenty-nine years,
residing at Freetown, was taken up in a state of in-
sensibility, and died in about an hour afterwards.
A YOUNG Pout, named Julius Ciclecki, who was
attached to the office of the Intendant in-Chief of
the army of the South, was sent from the Crimea,
intrusted with 150,000 silver roubles (about
24,0001.), to pay for a large purchase of horses
which had been made in the Government of Kieft.
Instead, however, of proceeding to Kieff, he took the
road to Warsaw, where he was well known, and, by
the aid of a person named Jatterand, he obtained
bills of exchange on London and Paris. The police
having no suspicion of him, he was not arrested.
lie obtained a false passport, under the name of De
Wysocki or De Podwysocki, and up to the present
time no trace of him has been discovered. It is sup-
posed that he left for France or England.
AN INQUEST has been held into the cause of the
late deplorable accident on the South-Eastern Rail-
way, resulting in a verdict of manslaughter against
Joseph Crossley, the driver of the pilot engine which
occasioned the catastrophe. As this man also
perished in the collision, the jury find that he
" killed and slayed himself." They add a recommen-
dation to have a man kept constantly to attend solely
to the signals and points at the Reading station.
Another sufferer, Mrs. Norton, died on Saturday
evening. In the course of that day the Government
inspector of railways, accompanied by several of the
officers of the company, visited Reading, and insti.
tuted an inquiry into the unfortunate event, prepara-
tory to making his report of the occurrence to the
Board of Trade. It is computed that, at the time of
the collision, the engines were approaching each
other at a speed of from twenty to thirty miles an
hour, and it is a matter of astonishment to those
acquainted with railway misfortunes, that the re-
mainder of the passenger-train was not, by the force
of the concussion, hurled over the embankment and
destroyed. The two engines were completely demo-
lished, entailing a loss to the company's stock of
between 3,0001. and 4,0001., independent of the de-
struction of the two passenger-carriages.

A GREAT SENSATION was produced on Wednesday
throughout Bristol by a report that a man named
John Hale, a seaman engaged on board a coasting
vessel called the Cardiff Trader, had been murdered
by a seaman named George Newman, also engaged
on board the same vessel. At the inquest Jane Hale,
the widow of the deceased, deposed that she and her
husband, and Newman and his wife, were with some
other persons at the Prince's Head Tavern, Welsh
Back, when witness bad a noggin of gin and pepper-
mint given to her at the bar. A quarrel arose, when
Newman raised his hand and struck Hale with it on
the forehead, and made his nose bleed a good deal.
Deceased hung forward his head, and did not speak ;
indeed, she never heard him speak afterwards. De-
ceased left the house and the others went after him,
but witness was afraid to go until a woman called
her and said her husband was being killed, when she
went and found him on a doorstep bleeding from his
head, tnd a policeman in the act of cutting his hair
off. She went to Dr. Davis, in Queen.square, and
asked him to como to him, but, as she had not live
shillings to give him, he refused to do so. Her husband
was then carried home by four men, and she washed
his head with brandy, and stayed up with him till
three o'clock, when she lay down by his side and fell
asleep. At half-past six o'clock she awoke, and found
him dead and cold by her side. This evidence was
contradicted by William Jones and James Lenkin,
and two women named Griffiths and Bryant, who
stated that after the dispute about the gin and
peppermint Newman was sitting on a table talking
to Mrs. Hale, when Hale, took the kitchen poker,
which he concealed behind him, and then going up
behind Newman struck him with it a heavy blow
across the head which cut it open, and staggered
hiUt Off the table, Halo then ;au awl knocking

down and kicking a young woman in his progress,
and was running, pursued by the other, into King-
street, when he struck his head against some rail►ngs
and fell backwards into the middle of the street, his
head striking against the pitching. The coroner
adjourned the inquest.
ON Sunday evening, during a calm, the schooner
Alert, of Belfast,from Liverpool to Memel, with salt,
was overtaken by the tide, and, becoming un-
manageable, was driven ashore on the Pentland
Skerries, near the lighthouse. The crew managed
to walk ashore at low water. The mate and one of
the lightkeepera returned at daylight, and succeeded
in saving all the clothes of the crew, going back to
breakfast at the lighthouse, where they were most
kindly treated. When at breakfast one of the men
stated that there were boats boarding the vessel, on
which the mato proceeded to her, and inquired what
the crews were wanting. To this they gave very
curt replies, proceeding, meanwhile, with removing
the hawsers and running rigging, which they took
away with them in spite of the representations of the
crew.

FOR some days past the acceptances of the large
ship-building firm of Messrs. C. J. Mare and Co., of
Blackwell, have been lying over unpaid, but it was
hoped from hour to hour that an arrangement might
be made to honour them. This anticipation, how-
ever, has been disappointed, and a balance-sheet will,
it is said, he submitted to the creditors, together with
such proposals as may seem best to secure their im-
portant works from being interrupted. Notwith-
standing the great extent of the business of Messrs.
Mare and Co., an impression is entertained that their
liabilities, apart from their debts to private connec-
tions for advances, which are understood to be very
heavy, are not much beyond 70,0001. The establish-
ment is still going on, the workmen having up to the
present time been regularly paid.
Amos° numerous visitors who have inspected lately
the factory departments of the Royal Arsenal at
Woolwich, the Times states, as a remarkable fact,
that no one has appeared to take an interest in
viewing and thoroughly understanding the mecha-
nical routine of the department to the degree evinced
on Wednesday by Lord Palmerston. The officers
who accompanied him were fearful at the com-
mencement that the circuit of the whole establish-
ment must be too fatiguing ; but his lordship
expressed his desire to go through the whole, in
all of which he evinced an interest seldom or
never witnessed there, and displayed an ex-
traordinary amount of judgment in many matters
connected with the foundries, which astonished his
attendants. In witnessing the casting of some seg-
ments for traversing platforms, he remained with his
watch in hand to denote the time required in their
oonstruction. On being shown the split mortars
from the Baltic, his lordship was sensibly struck
with what be was convinced was a very inferior metal.
From the Arsenal they repaired to the Marshes, to
witness the firing off of six of Captain Boxer's para•
chute shells. Evening had already set in, and the
little fairy-like lights hovering iu the air were beauti.
fully displayed and seen to great advantage, in which
there was not a single failure.
SOME LENGTHENED ExrEEDIENTS took rlaCe at Wool-
wich on Monday, in the presence of the Select Com-
mittee, with three different kinds of lights for war
and other purposes. The first was the electric light,
which was exhibited by Mr. Inglis; the second, the
"Drummond Light," exhibited by Sergeant R. P.
Jones, of the Royal Sappers and Miners ; and the
third the " Buds Light," invented by a Mr. Gurney,
residing in the county of Cornwall, who also intrusted
it to the care of Sergeant Jones. The night was not
a favorable one for the trial. The electric light
appeared to have the power of penetrating the
farthest into the darkness, and was the must bril-
liant; but the Drummond also possessed some ad-
vantages. It was more portable, and could be
carried by two or three men, each taking a portion
of the apparatus, whereas the electric light was so
cumbersome as to require a waggon drawn by two
horses to convey it from place to place.
ON Saturday last Mr. Caulfield, governor of the
Four Courts, Marshalsea, regaled all the poor debtors
confined in the prison with a substantial dinner of
roast beef, &c., in honour of the fall of Sebastopol,
and the safe arrival in England of his son, Captain
Caulfield, of the Coldstream Guards, from active ser-
vice in the Crimea. In the evening the windows of
the prison were brilliantly illuminated by the debtors.
IMMEDIATE orders have been received by every
cavalry regiment at home to detail a captain and a
subaltern to proceed, by the first week in October,
to Scutari, where a large cavalry reserve is to be
formed. Another reserve will be formed in the
Mediterranean, most probably at Genoa ; and a cap.
tain and a subaltern from the cavalry at home will
proceed there at Christmas.
THURSDAY was the anniversary of the victory of
the Alma, and was celebrated by bell-ringing and
other tokens of rejoicing in a great number of place)
throughout the uottutry,