The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-11 00:00:00

THE RAILWAY COLLISION AT MARKET

HARBOROUGH.

ANOTHER INQUIRY.

According to latest accounts it would seem that
the railway collision at Market Narborough is not likely to
terminate so favourably for the London and North-Western
Railway Company as might be supposed from the verdict
given by the Jury. On Tuesday, Colonel Yolland, the
government inspector, was at Market Ilsrlxirough in
company with Mr. Allport, general manager ; Mr. Needham,
superintendent ; and Mr. Markham, of the locomotive
department of the Midland Railway. making experiments
with the signals (which were by the Midland Railway Com-
Pui9 to be the cause of the accidsot), with a view of
testing their accuracy. The teats were onotinued through-
out the whole of Tuesday, and until about noon yesterday
(Wednesday), when Colonel Yolland expressed the opinion
that the signals in question were nut in cite working order.
A train, consisting of T 2 carriages, from Leicester, in the
charge of the driver and guard of the second train to
which the accident was attributed, was taken up the line,
and the signals sighted from various distances. The is-
specter expressed himself quite satisfied that the breaks of
the train were put on in time to prevent the accident, as
was evidenced from the experiments ; but of course the ex-
cursion train came down the incline much more rapidly in
consequence of the weight of the train-200 tons. The
coroner went up to Flarborough yesterday, it is said to make
further inquiries. -Leeds Mercury.

THE NEW CUSTOMS AND INLAND REVENUE ACT.
Under this act on Tuesday next. the 16th inst., the cos.
toms duty cm hops will cease and determine. The excise
duty on British hops was repealed on the 7th June last.
British hops reimported are to be charged with duty for
six months after the 16th September instant. An allowance
of 7s. per cwt. for hops on hand, not less than ball a too. is
to be made on the 15th September; notice is to be given of
all snub claims, and the excise officer to attend and to give
a certificate for the allowance. .

817ira1.77--on Friday last, Mr. James I
Reeve, of Freckenham, near Mildenhall, arrived at Peter-
borough (on his way to Durham), when a gentleman stepped
up to him and said, " How do you do. sir!" " Very well.
thank you, sir," laid Mr. Reeve, who seemed very pleased
with such civility from a stranger. After a little conversa-
tion, the gentleman informed Mr. Reeve that be too was
going to Durham in the morning. They thereupon agreed
to sleep together. When Mr. Reeve awoke in the morning,
be discovered that his newly-formed acquaintance had fled,
and that he was eased of his money, 171. Mr. Reeve being
quite destitute of cash, was obliged to come back as far as
Ely, to make a friend to supply him with the " needful" to
reach Durham.—Bury Post.
EXTENSIVE JEWEL, ROBBERY.—At the Bucks
Petty Sessions, held at Slough, on Tuesday, Philip Hamp-
shire and Elisabeth Scott were charged with having oorn-
mitted a burglary at Stoke Farm, the house of Lady Moly-
neux, and stolen a large amount of jewellery. The robbery
was effected on Friday last, and Scott was appreheuded on
Monday last at Mr. Attenhorougli's shop in London, where
she offered a bracelet in pledge for 10/. At her residence
been upper housemaid
at 4001. was afterwards found. She had
housemaid to Lady Molyneux for five years, but
bad left three yews ago. She was engaged to be married to
Hampshire, on whom some articles of jewellery were also
found. The case was adjourned for further evidence.
A YOUNG LADY BURNT TO DTLATR.—Mies Wil-
helmina Fitzherhert, the second daughter of Sir W. Fitz-
herbert, Bart., of Tissington- hall, Derbyshire, died on
Friday last from the effects of serious burns which she had
receivcd on the 19th of August. The young lady, haring
retired to her room on the evening of the day in question,
was heard to scream by a servant maid, who, hastening to
the spot, found that the unfortunate lady's clothes had
taken fire. Prompt means were used to extinguish the
flames, but this was not done until they had caused severe
injury. An inquest has been held, resulting in a verdict of
" Accidental death from burning."
IMMENSE DESTRUCTION OF FARM PRODUCE.—
Yesterday afternoon a fire broke out on Blackburn's farm,
near Margate. sued after a short time the rick-yards and
farm buildings were completely enveloped in flames. Ex-
presses were sent oft in every direction for engines, but
before they could arrive the fire bad obtained too firm a hold
to he easily dispossessed of its prey, and it was burning at
a late hour last night. The total loss is expected to amount
to several thousands of pounds. The calamity in supposed
to have arisen from some stacks overheating themselves.
EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT.—One evening last
week the inhabitants of Maisons Laffitte, neer Paris, were
alarmed by a tremendous explosion, which was heard from
One end to the other of the extensive forest in which that
pleasant rural colony is situated, Mr. F. Sykes, en English
gentleman, who has s country-house at Mayans baying
found a wasp's nest in his garden, had laid a train of gun-
powder for the purpose of destroying it. Hie wife, chil-
dren. and servants, all came out of the house to look on
while the groom set fire to the train. But the ground
being wet, the powder, which had been laid down some
minutes, would not barn, and the groom, taking from his
pocket a large, quite new, and very strong bronze powder
bore containing nearly a pound of powder, stooped down to
shake a little fresh powder upon that which was damp. In
some way or other • spark of fire got into the powder
born, and it blew up in the man's band like a bomb.
shell, cutting into thousands of shivers the leaves and
branches of a tree at the foot of which was the wimp's
nest, but happily doing no injury to the five children and
bystanders who were crowding all round, and who were in
as great danger of being killed or wounded as a regiment of
soldiers in the hottest battle. Less than a third of the
powder born remained in the groom's hand, the remaining
two-thirds being blown into innumerable fragments, and
yet, wonderful to relate, the man had no other hurt then a
slight scratch on the palm of his hand, which did not pre-
vent him from going about his work as usual.