The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-12 00:00:00

TRAFFIC RETURNS.

Miles Pas- Mee- Total, Total,
ItaIIWITS open *engem Oland's@ 1862 1861
Week ending Oct. 24. L L L A
Buffalo and Lake Huron 1614 2,040 2,651
ti eek eliding Oct. 26.
London, Tilbury, & South
end Extension
Ottoman
Week ending Nor. 7.
Cork and Youghal and
Queenstown Direct
Week ending Nor. 8.
London, Brighton, and 8
Coast 2414 13,692 4,025 17,617 16,619
South Eastern — 14,0i0 6,277 21,267 19,390
Cork and BLOOM
Week ending Nov. 9.
Ossrestry and Newtown
tiJantillocs& Newtown 42 339 512 899 646

MtP.DER AT °OBELI:T.—Ott Monday morning
man named Henry Swinnertou, • puddler, residing in
Cawley, aged 33, died in consequence of injuries received
in an assault on him on the 4th instant. On that day
Sedgeley wake was being held, and at night the deceased
left hie wife and family to go drinking. On return-
ing home quite drunk be was waylaid and fright-
fully used by some ruffians. They attacked him on the Blue
Button-bridge on his way to Ledymoor, first of all throwiog
him into • hedge ; they then fetched hint out, " battered"
his head with life-preservers and sticks, kicking him, and
grasping his throat to strangle him at the tame time. They
abstracted some coins amountin; to We. from his pockets,
and threatened to throw him into the canal, and were in the
act of doing so when a voice was heard, and they ran away.
On Saturday, when told that he could not live, deceased stated
that he had been at • brothel at the wake, and on Saturday
evening be recognised two men whom the police had appre-
hended as his assailants, viz. :—Jesse Watt., 28, and Wm.
Henshaw, a brothel-house keeper, both of Bilston. He
related, as best he could, by articulation' and sites, what
they did, and the ruffians did not answer a word. Swinner-
ton, after passing au awful time of it, during which time
ministers and others prayed by him, died about 3 o'clock
on Monday in such • dreadful frenzy that it took • number
of men to hold him down.
THE DUBLIN WATERWORKS. —The ceremony of
laying -the foundation stone of a reservoir at Stillman, in
connexion with the Dublin Waterworks, was performed on
Monday by hie Excellency the Lord.Lieuteuant, in the nui-
sance of the corporation and • numerous assemblage of the
inhabitants of the city. The water supply of the city has
been a subject of much discussion add oontest for many
years, and the present whams of taking the supply from
Vartry River, county of Wicklow, was the reoommeeidation
of a royal commission appointed at the request of the oor-
potation, in which great disagreements existed as to the
best source from which • pure supply of water weld be
obtained.
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DAV, NOV. 11. —Adnindone on payment, 563 ; ditto by
season tickets, 620 ; total. 1,173.
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