The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-13 00:00:00

MEETING OF THE ARCHEOLOGICAL

INSTITUTE.

BIIREWBBURY, SATORDAT.
The weather is now delightfully fine, and yesterday
was devoted to excursions to Btokesay Castle, Bromfield
Priory, and Ludlow. The first named is a castellated band-
ing, erected in the reign of Edward I. bat now in ruins,
and used as buildings to an aojoining %Ashes's. The whole
bad been put in a proper state for the inspection, through
the liberality of the owner—Earl Craven. Bromfield Priory,
about two milett from Ludlow, dates from the 14th century.
After halting there for *time, the party went on to Ludlow,
where they were entertained to luncheon at the public
rooms, by the Mayor of the borough, Mr. It. Anderson. The
objects of interest in Ludlow are the church, built in the
Iltb, with considerable additions in the 14th century, and
the castle, a fine specimen of the time of Henry 11., the scene
of many an eventful struggle during the times of the licorice
and Edwards. Here Milton wrote his Comm," and it
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was here performed for the first time.
Upon the return of the party to Shrewsbury, they dined
at the Music Hall, the Mayor of Slarewsbary, Mr. Butler
Lloyd, baying invited them at his own cost. His worship
presided, and was supported by Lord Talbot de Malahide,
Lord Dungannon, the Hon. Fox Strangsways, Hon. W. 0.
Stanley, M.P., &a.
This (Saturday) morning stational meetings were held,
whoa Mr. J. M. Kemble read a paper on " The Bronco and
Iron Age of Germany." Mr. Voillamy read an inters•tiag
paper, written by the Rev. R. W. Bran, upon " Haugh-
mond Abbey." The excursion was arranged for Albright
Hussey, Battlefield, and Haughmond Abbey. Beneath the
sweious cloister court of the last-named, Mr. A. W.
Corbet, of Tuodome, had issued a handsome and sub•
eantial entertainmeat to be prepared, and at three o'clock
about 200 sat down to table, presided over by the host,
supported by the president of the institute, and a large
number of l►dies.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE NEW RAILWAY
BRIDGE, ROCHESTER.

On Saturday morning an accident, by which three
liras were sacrificed, occurred at the works connected with
the railway bridge now erecting across the Medway in
Rochester for the East Kent Railway Company. The plan
adopted fee laying the foundation of the piers is as follows :
Large iron cylinders, Of about nine feet in diameter, and of
great weight and thickness, are sank at spots selected. They
are then breed together, forming a long upright hollow
pile. The water is then pumped out, and workmen proceed
down the inside to the bed of the river, where the unit is exca-
vated to a great deptb, the cylinders rinsing with their own
weight. Tee interior is then filled with concrete mired
with gravel, dtc., the whole forming a solid bed for laying on
the masonry.
On Saturday morning a number of workmen were em-
ployed in this description of work. The men had made the
descent in safety, and had sent up several "journeys" of soil,
when from some unexplained cense the bottoms came out of
the buckets. The whole suddenly fell down inside the
cylinders, carrying in their fall the stages inside, and also •
large diving bell, the whole maw weighing several tons.
At the time of the accident there were two men working
inside, and from the immense weight which fell on them
their deaths must have been instantaneous. Their names
are Thomas Colvin end James Carter. One man who was
working with the bell, named George Humphries, was also
killed. The escape of some other men was meet mar-
vellous. Owing to the great depth of the cylinders and the
heavy mass thrown down, only one of the bodies (Hum-
phries) bad been recovered up to Saturday evening.
The ceremony of " turning the first sod" of the Rut Kent
Railway took place on Beturdsy afternoon at a field beneath
Fort Pitt, Chatham, in the presence of Lord Sondes, Sir
W. Cubitt, and other gentlemen, and the works are to be
carried on vigorously. The accident of the morning, how-
ever, cast a gloom over the otherwise interesting ceremony.