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language. On arriving at Stafford the passengers
mplained, and the man was removed and thrust
into Colonel Gordon's compartment. The colonel
!remonstrated, offered his card, protested against the
!indignity, and undertook to bear all the responsibility
of refusing the fellow admission. The inspector
persisted, however, in forcing the drunken man into
Colonel Gordon's company, and, on the colonel still
persevering in his opposition to such intrusion, the
inspector rushed into the compartment where the
colonel was sitting, seized him by the shoulders, and
said that he must go out, at the same time pushing
him towards cur. door. The colonel abandoned the
contest—the man was forced into the carriage; but
the excitement was too much for the gallant soldier,
and he died a few minutes afterwards. The jury re-
turned a verdict of " Manslaughter" against the in-
spector, who awaits his trial at the assizes.
A FATAL ACCIDENT occurred on Saturday at the
Manchester station of the Lancashire and Yorkshire
Railway. John Lee, a wheelwright of the city, wish-
ing to go to Oldham, and finding a train on the
point of departure, endeavoured to force his way
into a carriage, though unprovided with a ticket, and
while the convoy was actually on the move. Two
officers of the company attempted to prevent him ;
and, in the struggle, one of them, Reid, the station-
master, fell under the train and was crushed to death.
The other two men were thrown down also, and had
a narrow escape of their lives. An inquest was held,
ac which a verdict of " Accidental death" was returned.
But Lee did not escape quite unpunished, being fined
forty shillings by the local magistrates for breach of
the company's rules.
A FELLOW OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, Edward
Brenton Vance, died suddenly on Sunday morning
last. He parted with a friend, with whom he had
been spending the evening, about two o'clock, and a
few minutes afterwards expired, while lying on a bed.
At an inquest afterwards held the verdict returned
was, " Died by the visitation of God."
By A FIRE which broke out on Wednesday night a
house and shop belonging to a tailor, No. 257,
Blackfriars-road, were totally destroyed. The pre-
mises were numerously inhabited, and several of the
occupants escaped with much difficulty. The damage
is considerable; and several families of lodgers lost
all their furniture and effects.
THE EXECUTION OF WILLIAM THOMPSON, for the
murder of Lorenz Beha, has been fixed by the High
Sheriff to take place this day (Saturday) at Norwich
Castle. Ho has fully admitted his crime, and con-
fessed that no other person save himself had any
share in the transaction. The execution of James
Hohman, for the murder of his wife at Crowan, in
Cornwall, will take place on Monday next at Bodmin.
James Bailey, who was found guilty of the murder of
Emily Coles, at Taunton, will be hanged at Wilton
on the 15th. The High Sheriff of Shropshire has
fixed the execution of Lloyd, who was convicted of
the murder of Samuel Gittens, for Friday next at
Shrewsbury.
THE Westminster, from Honduras to Queenstown,
sprung a leak in the gale of the 12th of March, when
she became waterlogged and capsized. Eight of
the crew, with the captain, were taken off by the
Acton, but nine were left on the wreck.
THE MUTILATED REMAINS OF A MALE INFANT were
found in the sewer opposite Berkeley-street, Con-
naught-square, by a man who was rat-catching in
that subterranean channel. The body being re-
moved and examined, it was pronounced to have been
dissevered by some sharp instrument, and apparently
during life. The natural inference is that the child
was murdered, and investigations are making to dis-
cover some traces of the perpetrator.
Two SEAMEN were suffocated on Monday on
board the Dezciwyn coasting-vessel lying off Rother-
hithe. Their names are John Williams and William
Davis, aged eighteen years, cook. They retired to
rest in their usual health, leaving a coal fire burning
below, but neglected to open the ventilators. On
the captain going below he endeavoured to arouse
them, but to no purpose, Williams being quite dead,
and Davis dying a short time afterwards, in spite of
all the attempts made for his resuscitation.
THE SAILING BARGE Uncle Tom was run into on
Saturday by an American ship, while making for the
East India Dock, Blackwall, heavily freighted with
crates of earthenware and glass. Such was the
force of the enllision that she instantly went down,
and the men in charge were immersed. Boats put
off, and the poor fellows were rescued, terribly ex-
hausted. When the tide fell the Essex shore, as far
as Woolwich, was strewn with the fragments of the
wreck and broken crockery.

A CURIOUS BRANCH or COMMERCE is every year ac-
quiring an increased importance in Paris. It is the trade
in white snails, tits consumption of which amounts now to
some hundreds of thousands of these animals in the year.
The principal Waives of supply are Champagne and Bur-
gundy, in both of which provinces there are several exten-
sive snaileries, admirably arranged.
TIIE Jewish Chronicle states that Lord Clarendon has in-
timated that the privileges to be obtained for the Christians
in Turkey will be extended to the Jewish subjects of the
Porte.

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