The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-21 00:00:00

SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT REAR

DRIIPPIIii:

Yesterday morning, about 10 o'clock, intelligence
reached Hull that a serious and frightful accident had
occurred on the Hull and Scarborough lino, near Driffleld.
At Bret • rumour spread with peat rapidity to the effect
that at least three persons had been instentaneonaly
killed. On the arrive,of the first train from Scarborough,
however, the real extent of the disaster was made known.
Fortunately matters were not so bed as had been npre-
seated, although several of the peamiegers had austeuxi
notions injury. The train to which the accident marred
was the government train, which leaves Hull at at minutes
past 6 o'clock in the morning for Bridlington and Scar-
borough. The train was somewhat longer than usual, and
owing to the Driffield cattle fair being held yesterday, •
large somber of butchers, cattle dealers, and drover. from
Hull were amongst the passeogen. The carriage next to the
engine was a third-class one, and it was to this carriage that
the scrident occurred. The train proceeded as usual until it
passed Lockington. Soon after leaving this station the car-
riage began to jolt in a manner anything but agreeable to the
passengers. This was thought nothing of at first, and was
believed to be owed by the lies being scarcely level. This
was found out to be the ease, as the jolting got worse, and
before long became almost unbearable. There were about
forty passengers in the carriage, and for a time they were
fully convinced that the carriage had got off the line. The
train was going at a considerable speed, and they every
moment expected that the carriage would be overthrown,
so violent was the shaking. The ersginedriver and
guard , were made aware that something was wrong,
and both applied their breaks to stop the train. Betas
the train could be stopped many of the passengers became
so alarmed that at one time it appeared highly probable
that several of them would jump out before the speed had
been much reduced. Some of the men prudent of
their fellow-travellers, however, dissuaded them from
rushing on what appeared to be almost certain death. So
great was the panic in the carriage that some of the female
passengers would have jumped out bad they not been
forcibly restrained. Notwithstanding every persuasion
Mr. Ledger, butcher, Regent-street, Hull, amine out of the
carriage, and fell very heavily to the ground. By this time
the alarm had spread to several of the other carriages, and Mr.
Sliesrsmitb, butcher, Cumberland-street, Hull, and Hr.
Straker, of Beverley, jumped from one of the other carriages,
both receiving very minions injuriee. Before the train could
be brought to a stand, the floor of the fiat compartment of
the first carriage was soddenly split in two, and the pawns-
gers with great difficult 7 climbed into the next compart-
ment, thus escaping serious injury. The train was stopped
a shortdistance from Hutto° Cranswick, when it was found
that the broken carriage was off the line, and that the tire
of one of the wheels was broken. The passengers, having
satisfied themselves as to the cause of the accident, started
in great numbers bark along the line in search of those who
bad jumped out of the carriages, and whom they fully
expected to find either horribly mangled or killed. Mr.
Ledger was found lying on his back .s • state of imolai-
bdity. He was much braised about the heed, and on one
eye there was a frightful gash from which the blood was
oozing. Mr. Shearsmith was found in • state of great
suffering, having broken case of his legs in the fall.
Mr. Straker bad also received serious injury, and had by
the leap from the train put oat one of his ankles. A Mr.
Straker, jun., and Mr. S. Edmonds, Hull, also jumped from
the train, but escaped ushurt. The sufferers received
every attention, and were brought to Hall by the train front
Scarborough, which arrived at the scene of the disinter a
short time 'Aar its occurrence. The shattered carriage
having been got out of the way, the peassogere were con-
veyed to their destination.—Eastern Counties Herald.

Mr. Maguire on Monday will ask the Attorney-
General for Ireland whether it is the intention of the go-
vernment to propose any measure to the hove, during the
present 11111111i011, with a view to establish more equitable re-
lations between landlord and tenant thaa exist at present
in Ireland. and to luau°s increased exertion on the part of
the tenant, by securing to him the results of his outlay and
industry.

Lord Robert Montague will move for his select
committee to inquire into any plans for &maw with the
sewage of the metropolis and other large towns, with a view
to its ntilisatiou to agricultural purposes, on Tuesday next.

C 1
NiONI:11 ENT TO THE LATE ‘...oUNTRI4B CANNING
A handsome and maulers rociounient to the late Countess
Canning has just bees completed by Ur. J. B. Phillips, of
the Pavilion, Hans-place, Sloane street. The whole of the
monument is of Sicilian marble, and is about 15ft. loog.
¶SIL wide. sad 1 lft. from the ground to the top of the cross.
The destination of this work is Calcutta, to which place it
will shortly be despatched.
THE LATE BISHOP OF PETERBOROUOIL—In ac-
cordsoce with the written instroctious of the domed
prelate the funeral arrangement& will be of the simplest
character. The bishop will be buried by the side of his
late wife, io the graveyard of the catheded, and the inter-
ment is heed to take place at half-put b o'clock ou Satur-
day eveming. Her Majesty his telegraphed a menage of
coodolence with the family, and his also iatialabod bar in.
teotios of writing shortl_r.
WATER-COLOUR DRAWING .—A collection was
disposed of by Messrs, Foster yesterday, at their gallery in
Pall-mall, which brought high prices. The following were
among the more coospicuous :—Lot 66. " Milking Time."
by .T. Lionel!, 200 plow ; lot 77, " Chula of the Holy
Sepulchre, Jerusalem," by Carl Werner, 106 gaissee ;
lot 126, "Some in the Highlands," by Frederick Taylor,
lei guineas ; lot 127, "The Return of the Rightful Reir,"
by George eatterniole, 135 guineas; lot 128, Ibe Temple
of Vesta," by Carl Haag, 206 guinea, ; a pair of landscapes,
vignette nize, by Birkett Foster, 121 guinea. The amount
of the ale was over 5. SOW._

WORKINo MEN'. SHAKESPLAILI Clint/CATION.
—The Working Men's Shakespeare Committee have issued
their programme of arrasgements for their festival on
Saturday sort, commemorative of the terceetenary birthday
of Shakespeare. At one o'clock a procession will be
formed as Ruasellsquare, beaded by Mr. George Cruikahank,
and a guard of honour of the Havelock corps of volunteers,
the Ancient Order of Foresters, de., and proceed in the
following order through Bedford-square, ITotteehara-court.
road, Hampstead-road, High.street, Camden-town, to Prim-
rose-hill, where, having taken op the various statics, re-
spectively usigsed to them, and an isaugural musksl per-
formance having been gam through, • memorial oak, the
gift of her Majesty, will be planted by Mr. Simnel Phelps,
in the name of the workurg men of lleghied. A
terceetenary ode, written for the mania by Elise Cook, will
thee be spoken, and • variety of musical selections gives.
In the evening there will be • musical end dramatic
fa( at the Royal Agricultural Hall, Wastes, in connectios
with which a number of well brown woes are earacemeed.
At ten o'clock the calomel temegniszwi=4 bust (mays the
programme) will be crowned by the at the hands of
tragedy and comedy, and the chorale, " llnglaud's
Minstrel King," rung by • monster choir. The hall will be
lavishly decorated with appropriate insignia and surly one
headrest Shakespearian banners ; and in order to give doe
effect to tb• some the tearoom hostelries of Shakespeare's
iitilo, including the Boer's Had, Heat Chap (immortalized
as the reodeMoom of Sir Jobs Falstaff, de., in the play of
Henry /V.); the Falcon, the Messmer, the Devil, and lb.
Tabard is Southwark, will be revived, to apply, in adds.
goo to the ordinary refreshments, seek, canary,
venison pantie', and other dishes and liquors of tbr
bethan era. the attendants tasseled in the costume of the
period. There will be • band and chorus of 2,000, on-
ducted by Mr. Benedict.