The Press.
London, England, 1858-11-20 00:00:00

THE PRESS, NOVEMBER 20, 1858.

man ran on to the Newcastle station, carrying a
portion of the smashed carriage on the end of the
engine. The only accident that °centred to the fast
train was that the engine broke one of its buffer ends,
and smashed the glass in the plate protecting the
engineman trum the weather. A shipwright, who
was deaf and did not escape with the other passengers
from the Shields train, had one or two of his ribs
fractured by the goods train running into it, and
another man was cut about the head. These were
the only injuries done to the passengers, whose
escape was one of the most remarkable in the history
of railway travelling.

A SHOCKING ACCIDENT occurred at Preston on
Saturday, to Mrs. Sarah Shaw, a widow, which has
resulted in her death. As she was reaching some-
thing from a shelf, a loaded pistol fell down, which
on striking the ground exploded, and the contents
were discharged into her leg. They entered at the
lower pert of the calf, and, passing upwards, shat-
tered both bones of the limb into innumerable
splinters. The unfortunate woman, with great pre-
sence of mind, bound a handkerchief round the
wound to check the effusion of the blood, and de-
spatched a messenger to Preston for surgical assist-
ance. Amputation was performed, but Mrs. Shaw
never recovered the shock her system had sustained,
and gradually sank and expired. She was to have
been married on the very day on which the inquest
was held upon her remains. The pistol which caused
this deplorable calamity was placed in the cupboard,
loaded and capped, by one of the farm servants. He
had previously been firing it. The verdict was
" Accidental death."

A DISGRACEFUL OUTRAGE was committed last week
in the church of All Souls', Langham. place, the fine
picture of "Jesus Crowned with Thorns," which
was valued at 8001., having been completely
destroyed, and the letters " 1.H.5." cut out from the
front of the cloth covering the communion table.
The outrage is supposed to have been the act of a
fanatic.

LORD REDESDALE met with a serious accident
while out with the Heythrop Hounds on Monday.
The horse ridden by the noble lord, in taking a low
fence, stumbled and fell, throwing his lordship to
the ground with great violence, and falling upon him.
Medical assistance was at hand, when it was found
that Lord Redesdale had been rendered insensible
by the fall, but fortunately no bones were broken,
and, having soon rallied, he was removed in a fly to
his seat, Batsford park. The noble lord is progress-
ing as favourably as can be expected.
AN ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE of a mo3t frightful and
determined character has been made by a girl named
Hannah King, aged thirteen years, by placing her-
self on the rails of the North London Railway, near
Dalston-lane Bridge, at the time a train was ap-
proaching. She is the daughter of respectable
parents, living at N 0.6, Frederick place, Kingsland-
road, and was in the service of Mr. Johnson, of 47,

Stanley-road, Dalston. On Saturday last she was
requested by her master to take back some candles
to a shop in the Kingsland-road to be exchanged
for better. She proceeded first, however, to her
parents' house, and when there began to weep most
bitterly. On being asked the cause, she said she
was not satisfied with her situation, and should come
home. Her mother said that she could not afford
to have her at home. The unfortunate girl in an
excited manner then replied, " Very well, I shall go
away, and you will not see me any more," and left
the house. At the shop to which she was sent, she
told the man to send the candles to Mr. Johnson's,
as she was not going back any more. Nothing tur.
the' was heard of her until about a quarter after six
o'clock in the evening, when a man named Finch,
who was pas'ing over the Dalston-lane Bridge, heard
violent screams for help proceeding from the rail-
way, and on getting on the line found the girl lying
on the ground, with the blood pouring from some
frightful wounds on her legs, which had been caused
by the wheels of a train which had a few moments
before gone past. Without delay she was conveyed
to the German Hospital, where it was found she
bad received most serious injuries, one of her feet
having been completely severed from her leg. Both
her legs had to be amputated, and she lies in a very
precarious state.

Two WOMEN WERE KILLED, and several persons
were scalded, at the Independent Calvinist Chapel
in Ryecroft, Ashton.under•Lyne, on the 13th inst.,
by the explosion of a boiler placed in a cellar under
the chapel, which was used to heat water for the
purpose of warming_the chapel by pipes running
round the building.

A GLASGOW COTTON FACTORY, the property of
Messrs. Grant and Sons, was totally destroyed by
fire on the 12th inst. In less than half an hour the
roof fell in with a tremendous crash, and the walls
soon began to follow, toppling outwards and inwards
in all directions. The value of the property lost is
estimated at 60,0001. to 70,0001. This unfortunate
occurrence will throw five or si; hundred hands out
of work.