The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-16 00:00:00

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PARIS. WED IZSDAY EV1311210.

I find I was quite right in attributing the panic
at the Bourse yesterday, not to rows from Prussia,
but to the apprehension of a ministerial disloca-
tion in Paris. In the teeth of some matter-of-
course "enormous lying" on the part of semi-
official and officious journals, 1 now assert positively
that there has been a meet serious ministerial crisis,
and I believe it is not yet over. It is beyond all
doubt that MM. Fould, Thouvenel, and de Per-
aigny have offered their resignations. There is a
rumour this evening worth attention, that M.
Fould, who, for financial reasons, is more
important to the Emperor than any other
minister, has been persuaded to withdraw his
resignation ; but of this I am by no means sure,
and indeed I greatly mistrust the statement. I
have, at all events, good reason for thinking that
nothing was settled this morning. M. de Per-
signy may possibly be induced to remain in office
out of extreme devotedness to his old master ; but
if lie does, his political principles, supposing him
.to have any, must be sorely tried, for it is now
certain that the evacuation of Rome, which he had
brought himself to believe in, is a delusion. M.
Thouvenel will certainly go, and if he should
ultimately be the only sacrifice something will be
said about the heglth of his wife.
To show the way in which the crisis is repre-
sented—or, rather, misrepresented—to the French
public, I subjoin textually the remarks of the
Imperialist evening papers.
The Pays says :

It is difficult to follow the daily rumours spread at the
Bourse and elsewhere. Yesterday there wan a talk of bar-
ricade* at Berlin ; but this, it seems, was not all, for some
people must needs have a ministerial crisis in Paris. Let
us once more my that these stories are mere rumours and
suppositions without any serious foundation. It were to be
wished that the French money market would lend a less
uneasy ear to these Stock Exchange reports, and pay a more
exclusive attention to the rand revival in business, the
news of which crowds in upon us from all quarters. No-
thing whatever that we know of either abroad or, at fortiori,
at home has occurred to justify want of confidenoe.

The above paragraph may be dismissed as a mere
unscrupulous assertion of the thing that is not in
the simplest form.
The Petrie admits the crisis, to a certain extent,
and descants upon it as follows :

The rumour of a change of ministry, which circulated
in Paris yesterday, has given rise to very various in-
terpretations. We can announce positively that the only
question agitated between the Emperor and his ministers
is that concerning the elections, his Majesty having decided
that they shall not be had till the expiration of the legal
term fixed by the constitution.

So that, according to the Patric, there is a
question " agitated " between the Emperor and his
ministers, but one only concerning the general
elections. This statement is essentially untrue.
The real and great subject of difference is the
Roman question ; but it may well be that the
postponement of the elections to the last possible
moment is a collateral determination growing out
of the main contention.
The observations of the France are the most
worthy of attention. This journal, through a
transparent affectation of language, does in the
main admit the crisis, and looks to its solution
either from an unconditional recantation of their
principles on the part of the present liberal
ministers, or to a radical change of ministry. The
Prance says :
Yesterday sod to-day rumours of a ministerial modifica-
tion have circulated in Paris with a certain persistence. We
do not think these rumours absolutely devoid of foundation,
although nothing has yet occurred to confirm them. Various
causes are assigned for the ministerial crisis now said to be
at hand. Some pretend that difficulties have arisen in the
council of ministers about the coming elections. Our opinion
is that, although discussion may have taken place on this
subject, the entire cabinet remained ultimately agreed that
the elections should not take place this year, but that the
Corps Legielatif should finish the full term of its constitu-
tional mandate. Others affirm that certain ministers will
retire on account of serious dissensions on the Roman ques-
tion. We know not whether the report is true, bemuse
hitherto nothing in any official despatch has revealed a di-
versity of opinion between the Emperor and his ministers
on the subject of Italian affairs. If any such di-
versity has occurred recently, it may be confi-
dently believed that it is not the policy of the
head of the state, ever so firm, so straightforward, so
national, and so sincerely expressed, which has varied.
This policy has never changed for a single instant ; there
is not the least ground for supposing that will change. In
any case if, as we will yet hope—{l very despairing sentence
this for a writer who professes to have no knowledge on the
subject]—the ministerial crisis, which public rumour pre-
sages, should not take place, we shall see in that fact a proof
that the honourable ministers alluded to have never been in
opposition to the imperial policy, and that after having faith-
fully served it in the peat, they remain ready and resolved to
defend and ensure its triumph for the future. U, however,
the contrary should be the case, there can be no doubt that
the sovereign will appeal to the devotion of political men
firmly attached to those principles of prudence, justice,
national interest, and true liberalism, which he bas long
strives, to enforce in the settlement of Italian affairs. But
in this fact there would be no change in French policy,
which, on the contrary, would only receives new and signal

With reference to the supposition that M. Thouve-
nel will be immediately relieved from the ministry
of foreign affairs, I may state that M. Drouyn de
L'Huys has been at St. Cloud several times within
the last few days. _ .

The Temps, bitterly alluding to the insufficiency
of the French press, in these times, to fulfil the
office of public instructor, speaks of the reports of
change of ministry as "rumours of which every-
body is talking except the journals."
The France pretends to be informed from Turin
that a strong party is forming in Italy for aban•
doning all hope of obtaining Rome for a capital,
and choosing Florence instead. M. Rattaszi being
committed to the policy which the King has pro-
fessed hitherto, will, the Prance says, resign on
the day when he shall be compelled to announce to
parliament that France will not allow Italy to
have Rome. _ _

The Bourne has but slightly recovered from the
panic of yesterday ; and this, although the revenue
returns in the Mora/ear, showing an increase of
75 millions in the produce of the indirect taxes for
the last three months, were calculated to encourage
a rise. It is to be presumed, therefore, that the
causes for the depression still remain in full force.
There was very violent oscillation in the Rente,
which in the course of the day was quoted as low
as 70fr. 60c., and ae high as 71fr. 20c. It closed ulti-
mately at 71fr. for cash and 706. 95c. for account,
with a rise of 40c. and 15c. Mobilier rose only
sfr., and the Italian Loan sustained the further
fall cf 20c. The only material change in railway
shares was a rise of 7fr. 50c. in Orleans ; the other
lines were on the whole somewhat firmer than
yesterday.•
The Daily News is seized.

Application has been nude to the United States
mogul at Demerara for 1.000 liberated sleek sad that
fueetioeary bee forwarded the applicatem le Mr. Seward,
the Federal Secretary of State. 3,267 Chimes hastigraets
were leaded at Demerara daring the yen 1800 mad 1181,
at a eoet to the colon yof 82.00 W. For that ammo tboy
could have obteined 27,000 liberated alarm hem the tridtea
States.

The scene on the ground after the occurrence was fright-
ful, even atter the removal of the dead bodies bad with.
drawn the more harrowing element of the disaster.
Occasional pelting showers of rain had fallen during the
night, which, however was on the whole clear; and the
wind, which at times blew almost • gale, swept with a dull
heavy rush through the trees of Hopetonn Wood, which
overhang the fatal spot. The line itself being sheltered by
the high banks of the kind of ravine in which it runs, was
tolerably free from the gusts of wind ; but all through the
dreadful search, the workmen and the many kind-hearted
country-people who bad hurried to render assistance, beard
above them the deep mournful sound of the gale, • solemn
accompaniment to the more piercing sounds of human
suffering around them. Descending on the line from the
Craigtown-bridge, • gang of about one hundred surface-
men could be dimly seen by the light of the moon,
which shone brightly out at interval', and of the
fires kindled between the rails, busily striving to
remove the debris, and disencumber the engines from the
rubbish heaped about them, so as to admit of their with- '
drawal. The first object that presented itself on entering I
from this point was • third-class carriage of the Edinburgh '
train completely upset, sod lying on the north line of rails.
The strong timber framework on which the carriage rested
was almost entire, but the body of the carriage had been
smashed into small fragments, and was strewn along the
line. One pair of wheels was still attached to the
framework, and projected in the air, while the other
pair had been torn altogether from the carriage,
and lay at some distance, A little further along,
between the north rails, were the weighty wheels,
of the Edinburgh engine, still held together by their axle
and standing upright on the line. Not far from them lay
the driving-wheel of the Edinburgh engine, snapped from
its fastenings, and lying flat on the ground in the "ox
fest," with the connecting rod entire still attached. Cleft
by were the wrecks of the two engines, which had been
lowered on the rails, and which presented • terribly sumes-
ave spectacle. The massive iron-works of the platforms
and of the furnaces were all smashed in ; the machinery
twisted, broken, and mattered on the line ; and the cover-
ing-plates of the Glasgow engine, which had been greatly
scorched is the conflagration of its coal and the wreck of
the carriages, were blistered and broken up. Between
the engines and the southern wall of the cutting • confused
mass of rubbish lay, composed of what had been a strong
new third-class carriage, part of a guard's van, and igen-
merable small objects resulting from the general destruction
—such as buffers, coupling-chain; bolts, carriage-windows,
beam; and brake-gearing. Through this masa it was diffi-
cult to force a way alongside the ruins of the
engines ; and part of the timber of the demolished carriages
lay upon the grassy projections of the rock, which here
and there jut through the retaining wall. Close beside
the Glasgow engine was found • small perchment-
bound book, such as the Edinburgh and Glasgow
Railway Company ranee for the guidance of its servants,
and which had evidently belonged to one of the unfortunate
four men who were on the engines. It was all torn and
defaced ; and was charred through nearly half its pages,
probably in the fire which so terribly disfigured the body of
poor Cunningham, the Glasgow stoker. Still further west-
ward la 'part of the guard's van of the Glasgow train, with-
out the bottom, and all splintered and crushed. The whole
debris was within a space of about eighty yards ; and its
position supports the statement that the only carriage*
seriously damaged were those immediately attached to the
A telegram requesting the assistance of • strong force of
surface men reached Edinburgh about seven on Monday
night, and no time was lost in forwarding by special train a
number of men, who at once set to work to extricate the
sufferers and the dead bodies from the wreck. This having
been accomplished shortly after midnight—with one ex-
ception, that of the body of Cunningham, mentioned
above—the work of rendering the line available for
traffic was energetically proceeded with. The en-
gines having been righted on the rails—the Edin-
burgh one on the hinder wheels only, the fore
end driving wheels having been disabled—were
strongly bound together by iron chains, and dragged along
the line towards Linlithgow, about half.past six o'clock. and
the debris, with the passengers' luggage brought by the
Glasgow train. and which had been left piled on the ballast
alongside the line last night, was loaded on a train of five
waggons and removed to Winchburgh and Ratho stations.
The line, as we have said, was quite cleared for the resump-
tion of the ordinary passenger traffic at seven this morning,
although the night goods trains were not dispatched last
night. One of the first duties of the superior officials
of the line, en reaching the scene of the disaster, was
to examine the handles and breaks of the two engines ; when
it was found that both of the drivers had done all they
possibly could in the circumstances, by reversing their en-
gines at once, and putting on the breaks, which were found
quite " hard." They could mutely have had time to ae-
complish this before the crash came, in which three out of
the four men on the amines perished ; but it is a melan-
choly satisfaction to know that even in that moment
of terror they bad presence of mind to leave this
sufficient testimony that they strove hard, though
ineffectually, to avert the catastrophe. The damage to plant
by the destruction of the two engines and of the carriages
has been estimated at about 5,0001.
The pointaman Newton, to whose overnight the terrible
catastrophe is attributed, has been taker into custody by
the Linlithgow police. It is rumoured that Newton was
only appointed to the charge of the points at this part of
the lice half an hour previous to the collision.
About four o'clock on Tuesday morning the body of the
stoker of the Glasgow train, John Cunningham, was
brought to Edinburgh, tun • frightfully mutilated state, and
laid beside the eleven bodies taken to the Police-office on the
previous evening.
Of the 24 persons taken to the Infirmary, four died front
their injuries during the oight—ruaking 17 deaths in all up
to the present time, including a commercial-traveller from
Birmingham, named Bolton, whose body was conveyed on
Monday night to Linlithgow, and theme to Glasgow on
Tuesday.
The Police-office on Tuesday morning was literally
besieged by friends and relatives of missing persons,
eager to obtain a sight of the bodies remaining to
be identified, that they might, if possible, put an
end to that state of painful suspense in which they
had been placed by, the intelligence of the disaster.
In the course of the forenoon one body after another was
identified, until only two persons remained unknown.
About noou, one of these was recognised as Mr. Alexander
Hedderwick, writer, Falkirk, and the other, from his dress,
is suctioned to be a porter on the Duablane, Demme" and
Callender Railway. Among three identified early in the
mraeorn.dainygewaiivenipthge,
act
who
wwo "hreewaossnbrougt to
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as Mrs,
Gill,
oost:
husband is employed in the Custom-house, London. The de-
ceased was a native of Halifax, Yorkshire, and hadforsorne
time been living with her daughter, Mrs. Dempster, widow
of the late James Dempster, tobacco manufacturer, Stirling.
Mrs. Dempster and her daughter, a child between seven and
eight years of age. were both in the train with the greed-
mother, Mrs. Gill, and are both severely injured. The
three, it is said, bad been staying together at Portobello for
some time, and they were on their way home to Stirling
when the accident happened. Mrs. Dempster is at present
lying in the Infirmary with one leg broken, suffering from a
seversinjured, Her
ntusiodsc
daughter Mary
bead,ra7 araend. with
per ,hour, back
ly.g seriously
tiouy
iLin-
lithgow, with both legs broken.
The scene in the two rooms of the police-office where
the twelve dead bodies were laid was one of the most
solemn and impressive which could possibly be con-
ceived—a sight which could not be looked upon without
• shudder, and the feeling that many days mast elapse
before the spectacle could be banished from the mind. In
one room lay seven bodies—six men and • woman—the men
being placed side by side along the floor, and the woman an
• table opposite. The latter, who was identified as Mrs.
Gill, was above seventy years of age, dressed in black,
aid her body preemie no marks of violent*, the face
being pale and wearing • composed aspect No one from her
appearance, in short, could Maurine that death had been the
result of an accident. It was far otherwise with the bodies
of the six stout, stalwart men lying oe the door. Four of i
these—an engine-driver, a stoker, • railway clerk, sad a I
railway porter—were much injured, chiefly on the head
and limbs. Mr. Hedderwick, writer. Falkirk, who lay is
the centre of the melancholy group, had also been
severely injured on the bead and limbs, besides being
much scalded. The only remaining body in the room—
which 'was injured chiefly on the back and shoulder—was ,
that of Mr. Heide, manager of the Oakley Iron Works, •
gentleman whose sad fate is rendered more affecting by the
fact that he bas been only recently married. In the second
room, five bodies lay ranged along the floor—two women
and three men, one of the latter being the fearfully
mangled body of Cunningham, the stoker of the Glasgow
train. Next to him lay a shoemaker named Macfarlane,
whose injuries were chiefly on the head. The only
remaining male body was that of a gentleman who
bad been crashed to death, and who is supposed
to be a Mr. klaztoo, from Kirkintilloch, from the
fact that on his person were found • considerable
number of letters addressed to " Mr. G. H. Halton,
Printing Company's office, Kirklotilloch." Next the
door lay the two women clew together—the one being
Mrs. lioneyman, the railway rd's wife, and the
other a dome tic servant o Stevenson, who bad
evidently been suffocated. She and Mrs. Eloneyman,
who lay beside her, were the only two who do not appear
to have died instantaneously. Stx out of the twelve bodies
were severely scalds* ; but Dr. Littlejohn (who has been
in almost contest attendance since the occurrence of the
accident) is of "OM= that in every case, with the exception
of the servant girl, the other injuries on the bodies must
hams eared instantaneous death.
The following in a complete list of the seventeen persons
Idlied by the accident—four women and thirteen men :
Coamiyed to olsagow.—Mr. Bohol; traveller for Ham.
mood. Tenser, and Sons, button manufactarers, Birming-
ham.
List of Dead in the Infirmary.—Emlly Smith, daughter
of • joiner, residing iu Grange-plan, Ecliaburgh ; John
Wightman or Whiteman,had • railway ticket is his pos.

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TILE' A.OOIDBITT :ON TIDE ItDLNBURGH I =Won from Edinburgh to Lezbert ; Robert White,
RAILWAY. IBOOVTsup-
' AND 14 ! to bee fish dealer belonging to Falkirk ; Mr. Hardy,
oin Morningside Asylum—compound fracture of both
ed to
q'he total number of deaths which havo resulted 1 1 feet and scaldyeliee.offiee, _ Rofrom head
be foot.
In the rt mod.., engine-driver on
the collision on the! Edinburgh and Glasgow Hallway the train from Edinburgh —rojurige on right side of body
land left arm. Andrew Cochrane, stoker of the train from )Monday evening, npla' the present time, in seventeen.. Edinburgh—crushed to death. A man not yet identified,
illimamber of persons seriously injured and under medical but @opposed from his dress to be a porter on the
mac
in.
treatment is about fifty ; and, at the lowest calculation, i pma% e,,nl eoder Way. lila face was mach in.
about a hundred more have been assisted home in a more Jared ; he had also been severely scalded, and his
or less injured state. The following details are from the ; left leg was fractured. Mr. Alexander Medderwick, writer,
Soottnian of yesterday : 1 Falkirk ; he was greatly bruised about the face, much
, scalded, and had his right. thigh broken. Mr. Cowie,
. . ..

*nigh broken.
astionerlaas clerk, goods department, Scottish Central
lawny, Stirling ; very severe injuries on head, face, and
limbs ;be was in the train coming from Glasgow. Mr.
Hoek, manager of Oakley Ironworks, Dunfermline, injured
on back and @boulder, and much gadded ; he was also in the
train coming from Glasgow. Mrs. Gill, a lady of above 70
yams of age, belonging to Halifax, sod who was going from
Portobello with her denghter and granddaughter to Stirling.
Mr. G. M. Heaton, Kirkintilloeh, coming from Croy to
Edinburgh, crushed to death. William M'Earlane, shoe.
maker, with Mr. Allan, Leith-street, coming from Lintith.
gow to Edinburgh, injured on the head. John Cunningham,
stoker of Glasgow train, residing at 3, Romilly-place. awfully
scalded and crushed. Mrs. klnneyman, wife of railway
runt coming from Glaagow to Edinburgh, severely injured
on had and chest. Elizabeth Stevenson, servant girl,
coming from Glasgow to Edinburgh, suffocated.
We are still unable to give even an approximate statement
of the total number injured, so many of the passeuceni
baying been conveyed by their friends to their own flAi•
domes of the extent of whose injuries it is impossible to
give any correct account. With regard to those who were
so seriously injured that it was deemed neosseary to have
them attended to at once, twenty-four were taken to the
Royal Infirmary ; of these, four have died, whose namee
are given elsewhere in the complete list of dead.
Groat numbers of the injured were sent to Linlithgow, to
be attended to by medial gentlemen, who had been pro-
cured from Glasgow, Sic. The following is, as near Its can
be ascertained, a full list of those who arrived at Linlith-
gow, with the nature cf their injuries :
In Star and Garter Hotel.—Mr. J. Shaw, aged 21, writer,
Falkirk--cootusion over CROWD of head, right ear much
burned, left hand and right leg severely sodded—dangerously
ill. James Simpson, aged 2.3. private Scots Greys—
Three wounds on head, one on the eyebrow two
imams long, other injuries on cheek, month, and
hand, and right leg swollen. Mrs. Janet Paterson, 121,
Rose.eareet, Edinburgh—Left leg contused ; premature
birth at fiat expected,. Isabella Wood, Cornea-street,
Leith —Back, legs, and aides bruised ; large coutusione on
lumbar vertebrae. Inc. M•Farlane, Leith—Large swelling
oo left hip ; her children, Charles and Elizabeth, who were
in the same carriage, were both unhurt. Mr. Brown, Ent
Fortune— Three wounds on head, back of left hand scalded,
chest bruised. Mr. Burnett, Clerk-street, Edinburgh—
Bruised about both knees.
In house of Mr. Alex. Miller, Saddler, Linlithgow.—Mrs.
M'Lean, Main.street, Gera* Glasgow, black eye, largo
swelling on lip and knee, joint swollen. Alexander ll'Lean,
her son, eight yeas, in a state of coma, now doing well.
Christina, her daughter, bruise on left temple, half an inch
in length. Agnes, her daughter, an infant, unhurt.
In Bed Lion Hotel.—Edward Gray, house-painter, Cala.
Aisle, great pain in back, left for Stirling yesterday. Mr.
Peter Buchanan, town-clerk, PorteGlugow, contusion on
right knee, pain in left; went to Edinburgh yesterday
better.
In house of Mr. John Roberteon.—Mrs. Milne, flesh-
market-close, Edinburgh; knees bruised, pain in shoulders ;
left for Edinburgh yesterday. Mari Jane Dempster, six
years ; abrasion left temple, fracture both legs, doing well.
Mr. E. S. Bolton, commercial traveller, Birmingham, was
brought to Linlithgow station, but died on arrival. Body
taken by friends to Glasgow.
Mr. Alexander Mgrityre, Governor of Stirling Prism,
severely injured about the head. Left for Stirling on
Tuesday.
In our list of injured, published yesterday, there were, u
might have been expected, several inaccuracies, and we have
been requested to correct the following Mr. and Mrs.
Kerr, of India-place, Glasgow. were reported as severely
burned. Mr. Loraine Kerr, of 24, Isdiaatreet, Glasgow,
writes to inform us that there is no India-place in Glasgow,
and Mrs. Kerr and himself were not in either train.
Mr. Middlemess, of the Rainbow Dining-rooms, North.
bridge, was also erroneously reported to have been injured.
It turns out that Mr. Middleman was net a passenger in
tither of the trains.
A gentleman, writing to a friend in Edinburgh from the
scene of the accident yesterday afternoon, says :—" The
I skin of a man's hand was pointed out to me peeled off like a
rag with the nails attached. I also noticed the sleeve of a
lady's dress fastened to a part of the boiler. Two young
children are left in a house here, the mother being killed
and the father having boa his legs taken off."

LATEST PARTICULARS.
EDINBURGH, WZDNICSDAT Arnimoos.

The fall extent of this earful calamity as far as re-
I garde the injury to the persons in the train is nut even
yet known, although we are happy to say that there has
been np to this time no addition to the loss of seventeen
lives already announced, many of the sufferers, however,
remain in a very critical condition. The public excitement
continues to be very great on the subject here, and all day
the police station, the Infirmary, and the other buildings
to which the dead aid wounded were conveyed,
have been surrounded by crowds of people
anxiously awaiting the removal of their friends. A hap
number of the persona who were injured, and who were in
the first instance taken to the hospital, have since been re•
moved to their own homes ; but the removal of the dead
has not yet commenced. About thirty is the number of
those who are seriously injured, but almost every passenger
in the train received slight hurt. Although there will be a
• '

full investigation into the circumstances of the accident,
both by the procurator fiscal, assisted by the sheriff
substitute, and an inquiry also by the company, yet in ac-
inordance with the Scotch law, such examination will be in
the strictest degree private, and will only be published in
an official form after the conclusion of the whole inquiry.
A short private investigation took place at Linlithgow yes-
terday, which resulted in the committal of the pointeman
Newton, but the general feeling of the public here is,
that there should be an open judicial inquiry insti-
tuted by the government into the mode of managing the
railway on the part of the higher officials. It is alleged
that the line has been for months in the most
insecure state, and the wonder is that the accident did not
occur before. Very little indeed can be added to the copious
details given by the Scotch papers, either as respects the
incidents of the accident or the causes which led to it. It
is understood that steps are being taken by Mr. Dunlop, the
deputy chairman of the line, with a view to institute a
searching inquiry into the accident.
The line was opened again for passengers though not for
goods traffic last night, and today the regular trsins have
been running as if nothing had happened.
LINLITHGOW, WEDNUDAT Nicer.
This afternoon the procurator fiscal opened a
court for the investigation of the muses of the accident
which took place on Monday night, and which resulted in
the deaths of so many passengers. The proceedings before
the procurator fiscal, who acts with full magisterial powers.
were yesterday entirely confined to what is termed the
precognition of the bodies, or what would answer in Eng-
land to identification. There were a large number of
persons in attendance both as witnesses to the accident
and to prove the identity of the bodies, but they were
only admitted singly, all preliminary proceedings of I
judicial character being quite private. The whole of the
afternoon wee occupied in the business of precognition,
after which the court adjourned ; and it is understood that
it will meet daily, sifter a short adjournment, to examine
the witnesses as to the cause of the accident.
The prisoner Newton, who has been committed for hill
to answer for his share in the accident, has been two years
in the service of the company, and was reputed a very
sober aod attentive man. He had been placed in charge of
the portion of the line on which the accident took Owl
two days previously, and not, as has been stated in some of
I the newspapers, only six hours. In addition to the loss of life
incurred, the for of property to the company is very great,
and it is probable that the damages they will have to
pay will be immense, on account of the well•to•do
condition of the main body of those who were
killed or wounded. Both engines are, it is said.
so smashed as to prevent their ever being assailable
again. and the ant of the engines alone is very large. The
general opinion in Edinburgh among well-informed pm"ss
is that this accident will not cost the company much less
than from 50,0001. to 00,0001. ; but to a great extent this
of arum must be matter of conjecture.
Up to 10 o'clock to-night the reports from the mist]
hospitals end places where 'the wounded were conveyed
was that, with the exception of three very critical eaves,
all the wounded were going on favourably, but of those
throe two were not expected to survive the night No
such railway accident as this has ever before occurred is
Scotland.

Rosh Hardtops, the Jewish new year, which eoni-
mewed tel year na the 25th ult., was celebrated in Ne•
York by the 50,000 Hebrews there with unusual eolanadY•
The festivals consist of the haste of trumpets sad of 01
atonement, and last for some time. There are two Deets of
Jeers in New York—the orthodox and the reformed. .Tir
former does not allow male and female worshippers value
one enclosure in the synagogue, and the latter dom. At
the feast of the atonement the labials wore the sbroud.er
the garment of burial, and the congregation the nimo
shawl of peoitence. The priests sobbed rather than uttered
the prayers and supplication..