The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-24 00:00:00

THE PATAL RAILWAY COLLISION NEAR
BOLTON.

The cause of this aeeidont has been investigated
by Mr. Nana, the Leedom sod North Western Biology
enpetinteodest of the &Moe, and Mr. Potter, the manager
of the Masa Laash. Their duet duty memo to have been
to elapsed sot way Boardman, the signalman and points.
man al Deab-Idll--se was stated In yeatenlay's report—but
alto the painteman at Deane Moor, Matthew Lloyd. We
learn that, sooxdisg to the MUM' report sent to the board
of directors to London, the mum of the accident was a
roleuederstandlug on the part of Boardman end Lloyd, who
had charge of the block telegraph between Daub-bill siding
and Deane Moor. _ _ .

Tb foilowieg Is a correct list of the sufferers by the rt
accident :—Killed : 1. Richard Rigby, driver of the goods 01
kale ; 2. Herbert Hoyle, stoker of ditto ; 3. John Russ- 110..
dale, coalheaver, Chequerbent. lejured : 1, Mr. W. F. g
Hellos, colliery proprietor, Helton Park ; 2, Mr. R. gi
Fletcher, ditto, Atherton ;3, Mr. Jams' /UK commercial 11
traveller, Derbyotrest, Bolton; 4, MIL WilliaMe, wife of
Mr. Williams, tee dealer, Market-street, Boltos ; 5, Mrs.
Marklaad, Beech Hill Farm, 011sonerbent ; 6, Mr. Jobs
Hall, of Apploetreet, Bohai ; 7, Mr. William Wood, /LA-
MB-Ism, Ballot ; 8,9, and 10, the driver, stoker, end
Wt he passenger traits, whose names are respectively
Shepherd, and Gerrard; and 11, the brakesmea of
this goods train, named Thomas Welsh. As le frequently
the cue with moons who receive a violent sheklug from
railway collisions, several of those who were in the treis fat
worse yesterday than for some time after the accident. The
driver and stoker of the poeapr tilde are drier as well as
can be expected, bat they will probably be disebled for
some weeks. The leggiest ore the Mlllll killed will be opened I
this morning by Mr. ROW, at the Stag and Grimm
Chequerbent. 1

At Bacup, yesterday, a new church was ooase-

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canted by the Bishop of Manchester. Tta coo of the rs
chureb, settools, ►nd parsonap holm', it is stated, will be ..34
30,0001., the whole of which has been defrayed by the multi. 11
&sem of one resideat geadsman—Mr. James Haden Holt. 111
The Andover and Redbridge Railway will, it is
expected, be opened for trail° about the in proximo.
FOOT BALL. —A watch has been arranged between al

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20 (preicipally old) members of Rugby sod —Marlborough
Schools. It will take plus at Rebound oe Saturday after-
awn out, the 28th inst. Some trouble has scousarily been
uporieooed in getting this men together, sepecially on the
ed. of Marlborough, but unless the weather turns out un- '
favourable some good play may be looked for on both sided.
The game will commence punctually at 3.15, and continuo
till 4.45.
THE SPECIAL SERVICES AT ST. PAUL'S.—The
fourth of the special service*, in the specious area under
the dome of St. Paul's, was performed on Sundae evesiog—
the preacher being the Mar. Henry Parry Liddoe, M.A. of
Quist Church, Oxford, eternising chaplain to the Bishop
of Salisbury. The sermon next Suede, evening will he
preached by the Rev. Wm. Charles Lake. LA. of Ballot
College, Otford, rector of Huntabill, near Bridgwater.
THE BLACILREATH TUNNEL ACCIDENT. —ooe of
the principal sufferers by the late accident io the Black-
heath Tuusei, on the North Boot Railway, Mr. Edward
Mayen, of the Warofitoe, whose isjories, coosistiog in a
fracture of the loft leg and severe contusions of the ankle,
he., have oulined him for five weeks to a bed in Cherie&
Noes Hospital, ham so far advanced towards recovery? wider
the are of the skilful surpass attached to that instatation,
uto have ben removed on Saturday last to his residues
at Barnes.
Vglariter OT MANSLAUGHTER AGAINST A SURGEON'S
ASSISTANT AND A MIDWIFE. —Yesterday, in the Crown 1
Court, Tows Hall, Leeds, Mr. Blackburn held an inquest I
on the body of Elizabeth Leary, wife of John Leary, •
hawker, reeidiud in Ivoryotreet, Pottery-field, Hunalst.
Deceased gave berth to • child on Monday, the 26th ult., •
and died on Friday last. The case wan treated by Mrs. •
Blackburn, • midwife, and Mr. Eilmuod Miller, assistant •
to Meese. Pultao sad Brameld, surgeons, Harslet. The
investigation continued during the whole day. The jury.
after an absence of about two hours, returned • verdict of t
" Manslaughter against E Imund Miller and Mary Black-
burn.
THE DISPUTE IN THE BUILDING Titansi.—The
withdrawal of the discharge note has not yet led to • re-
suroptioa of work by the moo. It is in their opinion sectie
easy that some regthitiou se to the future should be agreed
mare both by the masters and themselves before they return
to their employment. In anticipation of the ONSOHSR
to be held to-night, several deputations from the car-
To-day, at DOOD, the first annual meeting of the pentare and joiners waited upon the Birmingham Central
am" company took Pia" at the company'. offices, PA Committee yesterday oa the subject. The deputations
Isechlathetrest ; Mr. G. LATHAM BROWNE in the chair. way, Mr. W. Hirloog, from Nottingham ; Mr. Samuel
The report and account% which have already been pub. Cranmore, from Coventry ; and 11r. John Wright,
Breed, having been taken as read by Mr. GEORGE Oneyr, from Walsall. The men, as we understand, express
• pests' willingness to meet the masters in • liberal
llinge' moms rue to move the first resolution. He au conciliatory spirit ; and they desire that the
raid he frond himself in that position io consequence of the mutual conference shall be se early as possible.
temporary °mem of Mr. Margate', the chairman of They are unanimous in the wia:ir=the new trade regale.
the company, whom, however, the shareholders would Lions to he adopted should be of a character that will pro-
le sled to see sufficiently recovered to be present vide for the interests of all concsraed, and will be framed in
at that their first annual mortise. He (Mr. Browne) was
• spirit of mutual coufidence and good will. It is also to be
wet glad to undertake the duty,
because he looked upon_, obscenity hoped that they will prevent the Neurones of any
their company as a sound commercial undortshiogi hoeing future serious misunderstanding. —Binning/lan Gazette.
In it every element of prosperity. The company had been in
working order only done the end of March het ,• sod in the Fax IN OLLSGOW.—About 11 o'clock yesterday
isterim their ships had made 14 direct and 3 by voyages,forenoon • fire broke out in the premises of Messrs. Mur-
doch and Doddrell, sugar refiners, Port Dead's, Glasgow.
the latter having been undertaken because the directors had
be Weil that their ships should lie idle. As an example of The metre budding of live storeys was burst to the puma
OM lie might mention that the Italia, which had Budding ,;od stock insured.
and the other portions much damaged. No lives lost.
arrived Ise evening, w
ee'.)ready chartered to start toe Cadiz
se Sunday next. (Che The working up to the prune S
BEGGARS es THE ,STREETS OF LONDON.—Tile
date had realised a profit of 5,406/. Ile. id and the set squalid aad importunate beggars who infest every thorough-
Miaow to the campsay's credit, iecludinn which fen have become the most tolerable of nuisances. It is •
had boss received oe forfeited eharea, amounted to diegraos to the admioistratiou of the metropolitan police
F. 6e. sd. Of this sum the director' proposed to appro. that they should be allowed to follow their calling un-
-1,1011. 14e. in payment of interest toikeNliddere at molested. Walk aloof the heat a"sete of L°°d°°—Pmt.
ruts of five per rent., and to terry the Wawa 9,968 f. dilly or Regent-street kabinet—and you will be followed
Us. sd. to the reserve fund. Nothing bad been written off by raped sod filthy figures of all ages. from the toothlue
fee depreciation, as the ships were new ; but for the future and di sod
beldame to children not more the°
the accounts would have to bear • charge on that six or seven years old, begging you in a piteous
lement. Oa the other hand, the cur.:kin. by whine, and for the love of God, to give them the pries
insuring their ships only to four-fifths, had been of • Piece of bread. Foreigners stead aghast; so do ho.
able to put 2,4221. 7.. 7d. to the credit of Oest country PeoPle• Even Lendmiern themselves are
the humus account. (Rear, heir.) They had now six not proof merest such signs of misery, and hasten to re-
aew steamers built expressly for the trade, and which had lieu the supposed sufferers. But there is not a policeman
hitherto perf armed their voyages with undeviating regularity, is the district who does out know that nineteen out of
The &sienna sect referred to the economic.) management twenty of these wretches ere mere professional beggar&
of the mourn and pointed out that the ergs amount of The same faces may be recognised month eller mouth and
the interest on paid-up capital arose from the fact year after year. Some of these impostors make their tour
that the Mediterranean Company, whose Interest they bad of the metropolis, taking one district after another ; others
Porthaud, had elected to take paid-up shares for the —more audacious—beg night after sight at the same spot
whole of their claims. Their trade would have been much without fear of the police, and their pies are known
better, but the delay arising front which had lowered to be °hoe far greater than could be obtained by
the freights' from 50a, per too to 30.., loping than, holiest labour. The last few weeks the plague has
ships accumulated in the harbour, and begged for freight en hewworse than ever. No wooer does • frosty day
an terms. Be expected that means of nee mon emu than Wong-limbed sod loud-voiced fellows
mR of 71. 10s., and the issue of 40.0001. In do- are about under the pretext that they are out of work.
beldame the capital account might be finally closed. Vairmone.looklag trams, male and female, pretending to
Those debentures he folly expected would all be lame something to lounge through the streets, go
taken up at par, seeing that the eseurity_the dews the wen, sell to t servants, sod eves knock at the
hypothecation of the whole of their ships to trustees, each I done,- Little children, met out of course by their parents.
hypocuration to be recited on the face of each debut= , wbeing edocated in every kind of iniquity all day end all
as w undeniable. (Hear, hear.) The chairman cocci I might in the streets. For this, as we all know, there
by marine the adoption of the report mid eremite. eosin not to be the smallestmurky. Such • person as •
Mr. Joanna reprieved hie satisfaction at observing Mr. I begW eight never in be gees in any Part of London. As
Margetmoo's renovation to health. (Cheery.) The spealore lug se there are places where the starving may receive
then ;mended to argue, from calculations which he mad M• leaded the weary get • resting place, no human being
the meetiog, that, looking at the amount of profit, there Auld be permitted to solicit alms in the streets
should have been a dividend declared of 7) per net. is. on any pretence whatever. If the misery be mai,
stead of the mere continuance of interest is paid-up capital lot it be relieved ; if it be feigned• let the Mi-
ni
(Hear, hear.) pastor be punished. Ludas meodirity has grown Into
The CHAIIIMAN thought it unadvieshle to declare a divl- • system under the defective administration of the poor
dad until they had some further experience of the working law and the culpable negligence of the Police. It is time to
of the trade. The directors would bs happy to deal as seed, and as the atreste have beers purified in other ways
interim dividend is the course of out year should the they mat well be swept clear of the nuissnoe width sow
Profits justify it. 'Ghee them. It is of no um appealing to the gudgeon of
Mr. NEWARK. who announced himself an a 'henhouse the publics, and beseeching them sot to encourage b
who had gradually iiiareweg his stain, from 25 Am" to um, by indiscriminate abossivisg. We know well thatassitarrisg
took a smiler view. The shares were at presset at • die- asthsre are tolerable objects to be moo hiod-hlarted People '
suet, sod the deolaratioa of a 7) dividend wookl have • will give thous inemy. only by calling on the Polies
elauend dhoti, the market. As tothaloan, all he artah.d to do their duty that the inhabitants of London &We
nle that he had 40.000j.lend the caraysay, N the this nuimusce. and put an sod to the scandal and the evil
esetirity was first rats. (Hear. hear.) He expromod him- "Tort to which it gives sir. If the law he
asroeirly
self being entirely with the etataroast of the inineterea, aesthetics mei oweadittity may both be put cos
cbairmaa sad to is Leaden within • few =octet—Times.
Mr. Joon% hariag dadinad to prop me ewers is an Soong Haosimorox Mussum.—During the week
"mod meet, the °copse resolution was put and agreed to, endisgJes. 21, the vision have ban as follows:—On Men-
em a resolute. pen the shareholders 5 per mot. Interest day, Tuesday. sad Saturday (free days), open from 10 Lou
es their paid-up capital ; sod also further resolutions re- to 10 p.m., 10.706 ;on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday,
reeling the out-pile directors sod auditor. The pressed- stodesse days (adminies to the puldio. 6d.), open from 10
the am. 'terminated with • unanimous vote of thanks to
e till 4 p.m.. 1.847 ; total, 12.552. Prom the opening of
th moonso, 5,1175,688.

TnotheTharatHouna suggested that the directors should
be thawing allowed to select from the general body
el the shareholders each permits as they thought
it desirable to associate with them. He bad
=tire confidence is the board, after the deer and satis-
factory *Weakest which had been laid before the mintier
that day. (Chews.)
Hewn) other shareholders haying also expressed coo-
kies' is the board, the motion for the adoption of the report
vas pat and adopted without a diesinitent.
Os the motion of Mr. CONIITBEARE a vote of thanks was
peed to the Chahrzeia.

LONDON. ITALIAN, AND ADRIATIC STEAM
NAVIGATION COMPANY.-(THIS DAL)