The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-12 00:00:00

RAILWAY AND PUBLIC COMPANIES IN
PARLIAMENT.

Yesterda the bills of the following companies
were deatared to have complied with the standing orders of
both homes of parliament
Enumnsot aim 014.860 A, aim CALE:IONIAN min Dun-
ammonium JUNCTION RAILWAY.—For the amalgamation
of these two companies, and for amendment or repeal of
seat ; also for the amalgamation of the Edinburgh and
Gimagow Railway, and the 0/ mow, Dumbarton, and
Relsosbargh Railways into one system.
Mrannearnamme Renmar.—For new lines In Mario-

UM! Tarzaw.—For power to raise an additional
capital of 40,0001. by new shares, and to borrow 13,3004

-11 re came of the • Station and South Jusetion
10/1:11:2, sad Dalai* V Mineral Railway were &d-
-na standing orders were declared not to have been
ocenplisd with b the Newcastle (county Down) Railway
for the of a hoe in the county of Down, cora-
mewing at Wahine, by a junction with the Downpatelok
and Newry, to Newmethe and to raise for the purpose
98.0001.
The bill of the North Metropolitan Railway, for lines to
I connect the Rodent Counties, Great Northern, and Hamp-
stead Junction Railways was withdrawn, together with
the Dublin Metropolitan Railway and the Mid Wicklow
Railway. Amongst miseellaneona undertakings also with-
draws were : the Waterloo Palace (by which it was
to make aa ornamental structure over the carriege=a;ad
pathways of Waterloo-bridge, of iris's, iron, and slate, with
winter gardens, museums, and shops, at an estimated cost
of 250,0001.) ; the No:tidiest Doak' bill ; and that for the
Witham and Welland Drainage and Improvement.
The bill of the Cheat Northern Railway (No. 3) was
also declared to be withdrawn.

The CretilFila re Dieliiel Improvement bill, Pulteney
Harbour ill (for now works there by the British Fisheries
Society), and a hie for a new Deaf and Dumb Poor Asylum
wire also pawed.

CITY Swing ColmanMr.—The Commissioners
of Sewers met yesterday at Guildhall, for the impose of
opening the new commisom. _and Mr. De Jerry was unani-
mously elected to 611 the sh• for the ensuing year. Dr.
Abraham said that varicose complaints had been made in
nerd
etto the adulteration of food and drink, sad that
the oommission had goat to great &penes in
fitting up a laboratory, and had larked the public to avail
themselves of the act, yet, Aesop to say, than was not
out ease of the SETIC4II of Dr. Let/ashy, the medical offiosr,
having been called into requisition, and he thought that it
wormed be worthy of their consideration to ascertain in what
way they could give force to the act. He then moved
"That it be referred to the general purposes committee to
consider and report to the communion whether it is- expe-
dited to adopt any and what meesares to give effect to the
'Adultaratiou of Food Act.'" Mr. Deputy Elliott ascended
the modes which was then carried nsaninionsly.
Two 1111118 1w HATTON•GAIDEN.—Laist night,
between the home of eight and Moe o'clock, the ‘ll, of
Hationpuden, Holborn, and its district, was the souse of
unusual excitoment, coosaquent on the breaking out almost
ainsultsosously of two alarming Lee. The first was disco-
vered a few minutes after_ eight o'clock, at • private house
situate at the bottom of Back-hill, two doors from &mere-
street, occupied by a hunch polisher • but before the flames
had pined any very grog hold upon ilmpreouses the power-
ful private fir* engine of !degas field and Co., the
brewers, was upon the spot, and succeeded in ma-
terially subduing the outbreak before any or the fire-
brigade engineer had arrived. Singularly enough, however.
in the midst of the operations an outcry we. raised of
"another fire" in Hatton-garden, to which the brigade
engines immediately drove off, leaving the fire at Back-hill
in the hands of Reid's engine and its men, who succeeded
In extinguishing it by about nine o'clock. The fire in
Hatton-garden broke out upon the premises No. 21, in the
joint occupation of Mears. Bosuns sad Lewd, Goners
watch manufacturers, and Meese. Berger, watch glass
manufacturers, but before the arrival of the engines so
powerful was the hold gained by the flames that it was
evident the premises were doomed to destruction, and
within half au hour of the outbreak. shortly before nine
o'clock, the hones wee completely gutted, and the fire would
have {Devito* spread to the adjoining hones% occu-
pied by Messrs. Rowland, the noted I oil firm, and
Messrs. Ponnini, carvers and gilder, and Messrs. Casella,
wholesale opticians, on either side, but for the timely play
of the steam fire and Farringdoo-street engines. It is
understood that Mesas. Houma rescued some of their
valuable stock of watches from the dunes, but whether they
were insured is not yet known. Both fires were com-
pletely out by ten o'clock.
A WHOLE FAMILY SIIPTOCATED.—A most dis-
tressing occurrence took place at Cardiff on Monday
morninf,airtranuetliei. deistlinsoifn for.ckpeirisons.
A man
nameEllen-
street, New-town, Cardiff, toptharawith hie wife and two
children,vere found dead in Bair beds It appears that on
Sunday night, the weather being exceedingly cold, and there
being no fireplace in their sleeping apartment, they kindled
a quantity °oat in • tin pitcher, which they placed in the
roan before of
they went to bed. Oa Monday morning they
were discovered dead in their bed by someof the neighbours
and medical aid was procured, but no sign of life was el)-
parent in either ere. The man was forty years old, and
kis wife twenty-live years, the daughter two end • half
years, sod an infant boy only ten days old. An inquest
was held on Monday evening, before Mr. R. L Reece. the
coroner of the county, and • verdict ci " Died by suffoca-
tion by inhaling carbonic acid gas" was returned.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO A 'ADM—Yesterday, at
noon, as Mrs. Arbuthnot, of ihester-trace, wee in the
act of alighting from her carriage at the King's-cross termi-
nus of the Great Northern Railway, in order to take the
train to ;mowed to Hertford, she stepped on some frag-
niento of orange peel, with which the pavement was
strewed, and fell with great violence to the ground. On
receiving mimic:a avoidance, it wee ascertained that the un-
fortunate lady .bad sustained a fractured leg, in addition to
severe contusion, from coming in contact with the kerb-
stone. She was conveyed to her residence in the Regent's-
park in a state of extreme suffering. Surely the police
should be seated with authority to take into custody any
parson detected in throwing orange peel on the publii foot.
paths.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT • SHOOTING PARTY.—
On Monday, an accident of a most distressing nature oc-
' mend to a party of gentlemen while out rabbit shooting in
the game preserves of Mr. Walter Long, M.P., at Rood
Ashton, North Wilts. It appears that Mr. Theobsid, =H-
ider, of Semingtoo, had obtained permission of Mr. Long to
have a day's shooting on the preserves, and had invited
several friends to join the party. Mr. Alonzo Badham,
principal of Shaw House Academy, Yelkeham ; Mr. W.
, Ryler clerk to Mr. Theobald ; sod Mr. Blanchard, of
Steeple Ashton, three of the party, bad separated them-
selves from the met, arid were beating the cover, and had
all three emerged into the open, when Ryles' gun, which he
was carrying in a horizontal position, suddenly exploded,
and the whole charge, consisting of No. 6 shot, lodged in
Mr. Bedham's neck, causing instantaneous death. The de-
ceased was removed toGreen-lane Farm, where an inquest
was held on the body yesterday, before the coroner for
North Wilts, when the jury returned a verdict of "
dental death."
FATAL MINE ALTIDUT NEAR TAVIETOCK.-011
Monday morning, about 9 o'clock, an accident, attended
I with fatal coosequenose, occurred at the Wheal Friendship
Mine, *ear this Plops. It appears that four miners, John
I
Crocker, his two eons, and another man, were working in
. the 170 fathom level, when a portion of the ground gave
way, burying the poor fellows beneath a ponderous mass of
wide and rock. The elder Crocker, when extricated, was
fond to be dead. The remaining three are so much injured
as to render their recovery hopeless. A report was current
in Tavlstock last evening that Crockee's two sons have also
hese released from their sufferings by death. The accident
hasfilledthewmtev Moons,
inhabitant, in the
ern.neivighburhood of the mine
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ltarsorourAw Fara HOSPITAL, Dsvowszrue
swum, CITT.—The swept' number of patients relieved
during the week ending February S was :
11,670; surgical, 638--total, 2,1b6, of which 735 were new
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