The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1861-01-11 00:00:00

RAILWAY COLLISION NEAR VICTORIA
STATION, MANCHESTER.

Ofil7ledifes(ti-,*:-.Tfei2neon, an ae2ident of a r ety unusual
character oeentred *der the Nreie Midge,' close to the
Victoria Station, which rf:slittedt..:toititlidely, in no fur-
ther mischief than the'damag'e oea:tict, 4,.'iit'riages. lit Ds
customary for each train on leaving llanelester tn. 'fork-
-o.re to ;lie followed by a pilot. engine, to assist in pro-
, pelling it iliAinevi end the pilot engine usually
leaves the station fro'ni:.:7^ Pee of rails on the opposite
side of the platform, whilst the starts from the near
side. Before the train gets under tile' 'jiidre, It com-
mences to cross the rails to the extreme left, *lna then
the pilot engine moves forward, and joins up to it. On
Wecittettlay afternoon the 3-50 London and North-
Western &alit for 10A4.2 left the station at the usual
time; and\ PiVobectedi to efogs' tf; the opposite side. Be-
fore it 110 #to; atross,- hortever, the pilot
engine came up, and tar; tYib centre. of It. The
engine struck three of the cartidg4i'i ti re were
passengers, and.the force of the concussion iased it to'
rebound, and threw it off the rails. This was it tiaf
fortunate circumstance, after all, for, had not the engine
been thrown off the rails, it would have proceeded on its
Way Clean through the train, instead of running to the
itre, alit did; wordy tearing up the road. It was thought
at
,fitist that dome Of the passengers might have been
injUred,'lntt tiVtrrblVeorf It was found that the sides
of three of the Carriages tee giiigfrfl/ broken, and that
the passengers bad received no ftirtherlatn,age than the
fright WhiCh the collision caused. The train' Wat.ltrovsirt
ba.el to. the station, new carriages were substituted fat-
those broken, at.il in twenty-five minutes afterwards the
passengers again proceeded on their journey.

DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT TO BIM! UP A

HOUSE.

One of those diabolical attempts, too often connected
With turn-outs, and more especially chargeable against
riaiagtr,
ittade at Clayton on Tuesday morning,
to biovi heti* oecirpied by a master brickmaker,
employing men tid /oseph Barlow,
who lives at Clayton, and biis a bfiCkyatd 11-ollstlen,
was awoke about two o'clock oil Tileddq 'Waning, by
hearing a great noise as if something tad eiptatied neat
his house, and immediately afterwards he heard, befit
then fully awake, another explosion. Being nearly
certain as to the character of the explosions, and appre-
hensive of what might follow, as he was employing men
not in the union, he at once got up and fired his gun
through his bedroom window, and he heard nothing
afterwards. He arose at daylight, and on going round
the premises be found two glass ginger-beer bottles
shattered to ...pieces, and another filled with blasting
powder, such as colliers use, with a fusee in it, partly
burnt. One of the bottles which had exploded had been
thrown with an intention of going Into the house through
the window, and the window was broken, but most
fortnnately the bottle had caught the top of the window,
add was thtis throwrT back into the shed, where it harm-
lessly exploded. 'the police are waking attire exertions
in this case, and it is to be hoped the miscreants con-
nected with this diabolical attenipt nray be brought to
justice.

DISTRESS IN NOTTINGHAM. The operative lace
makers and framework knitters in Nottingham are
suffering great distress. Both the staple trades of the
town are exceedingly depressed, there not having been
such a dearth of employment for a number of years
past. At the weekly meeting of the hoard of guardians
on Tuesday, the vice chairman (Mr. Turner) stated that
the number of in-door poor exceeded by 416 those in
the house at the corresponding period last year, whilst
the out-door recipients amounted to 2,016 more than
last year. In comparison with last week, there were
mare than a thousand applicants for out-door relief.
Sony kitchens ere opened rn the town for the poor, and
other means ate being adapted to alleviate their wants.
THE FOG IN LONVON, TESTERDA Y . --EXTRAORDI-
NARY SCENES ON THE ICE.—During yesterday London
and its environs were enveloped in a dense fog. All
kinds of vehicles proceeding along the busy and throng-
ing thoroughfares had to proceed at a very slow pace,
and it was with very great difficulty that passengers
could cross such places as Regent's-circus, Tottenham-
court-road, Fleet-street, Strand, &c., the slippery roads
making the crossings more dangerous. In the parks
the scene was strange and exciting in the extreme. On
the Serpentine there were the skaters gliding about by
torchlight, and the fires on the shore and the ice loomed
through the dense fog, and to the lookers-on the sight
had quite a supernatural appearance. Collisions amongst
the skaters were constantly occurring, causing conside-
rable merriment to the on-lookers. All places of busi-
ness of any kind had to be lighted up.

ANOTHER DEATH FROM FIRE THROUGH CRINOLINE.
An inquest was held on Wednesday eveninc, by Mr.
Bedford, at the Westminster Hospital, upon the body of
Mary Baker, aged eleven. It appeared from the evidence
that the deceased was the daughter of poor parents,
residing in Pear-street, Westminster. On Thursday last
a girl living in the same house heard loud screams, and
on going to the deceased girl's room saw a little baby
on the bed with its clothes on fire. She then saw the
deceased in the street with her clothes on fire also. A
horse cloth was wrapped round her, and she!was conveyed
to the hospital. On removing the horse cloth what re-
mained of her clothes was found to be still burning. It
was stated that the poor girl had been dusting the
chimney-piece, having a child in her arms at the time,
when her clothes, which stood nut from her persons
caught fire; and the medical evidence was to the effect
that she was burned from bead to foot, and died from
the shock of the system. Verdict, Acedental Death.

DARING ESCAPE OF A CONVICT PROM PORTLAND
PRISON.—On Saturday last a convict sentenced to seven
years' penal servitude succeeded in escaping from the Verne
works by the following means. In his last occupation
he was employed with other convicts in filling waggons
with stone for the Breakwater, and when the warder's
back was turned the convict stepped into a pointsman's
hut which was close at hand, where he put on some
clothes corresponding to a mason's dress, and a pair of
false whiskers and hair which were made out of the
hair of his mattress. He then walked through part of
the works, passed the civil guard, who asked him who
he was, to whom he replied " One of Mr. Jay'sinen."
Passed likewise a soldier at Fortune's Well, the ferry
bridge, and on to Weymouth. A baker's boy, driving a
cart, noticed a man dressed as above pass him by the
Weymouth Union about a quarter past four o'clock.
He was afterwards seen in Dorchester. Since then he
has not been seen or heard of. Portland was in a com-
motion, soldiers and civil guards being posted in all
parts and stopping any one that resembled the convict.
—Poole and South Western Herald.

Two COLLIERIES ON FIRE.—On Monday, about
seven o'clock in the morning, the colliery of Messrs.
Knowles and Co., known by the name of Cockey Moor
Pit, Radcliffe, was discovered to be on fire. Mark
Todd, the manager, immediately exerted himself to save
the lives of the workpeople. It was supposed that there
were about sixty in the pit, and they all succeeded in
making their escape, some of them with great difficulty.
The manager dragged one person to the eye of the pit
when he was in a very exhausted condition. It was
ascertained that all the workpeople were safe, but the
manager, contrary to the wishes of the rest, was deter-
mined to save the life of a pony. In making the
attempt he was suffocated, and last evening the body
had not been recovered. The coal at the bottom of the
pit was still on fire. The unfortunate man had been
seen several times, but it was not considered possible to
reach him with safety. He was lying on his back, and
appeared to be much disfigured. He was 36 years of
age, and has left a widow and one child. On Tuesday
morning it was discovered that one of Earl Fitzwilliam's
collieries at Rawmarsh, near Sheffield, was on fire.
Information of the catastrophe was at once forwarded to
Rotherham, from whence aid was immediately dis-
patched. The air shafts were stopped, and engine,
poured large quantities of water into the pit, in order
to check the progress of the destructive elemant, but
without material success.

A SAD MESSAGE FROM THE SEA. A bottle, con-
taining the following, has liven picked up OR South
Shields sands :—" North Sea, Feb. 2, 1860 Dear
Friends,—When you find this, the crew of the- illfated
ship Horatio, Captain Jackson, of Norwich, is no more.
We left Archangel on the Bth of January, all well; on
the 2nd of February we hove to under close reefed
topsails, after scudding before the gale for ten days ; we
have not been below for six days. A Norwegian brig
hove to for our assistance. Four men got into the jolly
boat, but after leaving a sea struck her, and sank her,
and the four men were lost. Our crew consisted of
eight men, master and mate, second mate, and two boys.
When I am writing this, I have just left the pumps.
We are not able to keep her up—eight feet of water in
the hold, and the sea making breach clear over her.
Our hatches are all stove in, and we are worn out. Om'
master made an observation to-day. We are in 60
north lat.; wind, N.E. I write these few lines, and
commit them to the foaming deep, in hopes that they
may reach some kind-hearted friend who will be so
good as to find out the friends of these poor suffering
mortals. I am a native of London, from the orphan
school—John Laing, apprentice. We are called aft to
prayers, to make our peace with that great God, before
we commit our living bodies to that foam and surf.
Dear friends, you may think me very cool, but, thank
God, death is welcome. We are so benumbed and
fatigued that we care not whether we live or die. John
Ross, John Thompson, James Lee, Joseph Brig took
the boat on the 21st of January.---William ham, Peter
Young, Sam Jones, James Bruce. William Hain, chief
mate; Thomas Wilson, second mate; John Laing and
Frederic Maff, apprentices.
EXTRAORDINARY AND AUDACIOUS ROBBERY IN
N EIVCASTLE. —On Monday morning a robbery, under
circumstances of a most audacious and extraordinary
character, was perpetrated in Newcastle. The scene of
the villanous act is a small provision shop, 38, Elswick
East-terrace, kept by Mary Ann Potts, a widow.
Residing with her are a son and a daughter,
named respectively John Thomas and Margaret
Isabella Potts, the former being ten and the latter
about 13 years of age. On Sunday evening, about 10
o'clock, the children went to bed, and about an hour
afterwards, having previously made the premises secure,
the mother also retired to rest. Between twelve and
one o'clock in the morning, she was awakened from her
sle_ep by a knock at the shop door ; and she asked,
"Who was thew?" A voice answered, "I want an
ounce of castor oil for my mistress." Mrs. Potts, sus-
pecting nothing wrong, opened' the door, and imme-
diately on her turning round there rushed into the shop
two men apparently disguised, accompanied by a woman
wearing a green plaided shawl and a course straw bon-
net. Still dreading nothing, Mrs. Potts was about to
proceed to the window for the required article, when in
au instant one seized hold of her arm, the other one hold-
ing up to her face a pistol, and threateningly demanded
her to deliver. The pocr woman moved towards a
chiffonier at the back side of the counter, in which,
with the exception of a few shillings which she had iii
her pocket, all the money was deposited. This. sum,
amounting to £33 10s., she deliberately banded over-to
the heartless fellows. With that, however, they were
not to be satisfied. Taking from the person of Mrs.
Potts a coloured silk handkerchief, which was lnoselv
thrown around her neck, one of the men tightly pinioned
her arms behind her back, and dashed her on the floor.
The woman, thus in her bondage, and charged not to
speak above her breath, the robbers proceeded further
with their predatory object, and rifled the house.