The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-05 00:00:00

SELLING BTIIIPLIDDHASE. Two goUww.

Hawk&
sad Piasters, dial* Damp Yak Reenueretra, Betsy Baker,
Beer al & ere ham

TALLY-HO STAVES. Two mass.
Mods Ha, Lalstboo, Moscow, Solose Pork" sad Lioness
ars hors.

SINGULAR AND rArAL ACCIDENT.

INQUIST.--(THIS DAY.)
This morning an inquiry was held by Mr. Payne,
orwooar for the Oily and Southwark, impeding the death
of James Oa; aged 45 yeah, • guard on the London, Chat.
hark and Dover-Railway.
Lt
lazeared that the deceased was on Saturday at the
R ill Maio. of the Loudon, Chatham, and Dover
Railway. Replaced • leaded glue, with which he was in
the habit of shooting small birds when off duty in • min-
eenutory belonglag to the Company. He had occasion
soon after to erase the line, sad be hurriedly pared through
the coeservatory for the purpose. Directly afterwards
• ticket eolleotor earned Austell Brewer heard • cry, and
he saw Out !yip( on the melds of the line suffering from
a severe wound which prevented kim from ride'. The gm
was lying three yards off. A train was then due, and had
sot Brewer heard the cry, deceased most inevitably have
been out to plasm Deceased said, " I am a
raised man. I hare shot myself. I was coming out
of the rioaservatary when the gun by some meow went
oil. Deal take me to the hospital ; take me to the house."
Brewer stated that it MY evident that deceased in peaty'
through the oomervatory had brushed against the gun, and
without perceiving it had dragged it after him on to the
line by his cost tails.
Mr. Posy, surgeon, said that deceased had received •
lacerated gunshot wound in the right thigh. Tetanus sum-
med, and be died on Wednesday morning.
The jury returned a verdiel of " Accidental death."

The surplus income ot the Liverpool Corporation
hat year was 53,077/.. Hs °Winery Macaw 145,7291. la the
astraordisary Meanie was Wailed a sum of 200,00 W. as
oompsmation for town dam.

Last year there was a marked decrease in the ri
number of mnigtenle who left Liverpool for various park :
of the world--the falling off, ea compared with 1863, being a
no ler than 12,637. ll
111

Tas Foitrianown BILLItY TRY.—Yesterday
the list of arrears in the seam= kw warts for the ea-
sub. term, commenang oa Wednesday next, the 11th Met.,
were published. The buieni is in a eatiefnotory canditioa
in the ammo, law con and is the Omni of Mammy
the armors are Imoosideeable Ia AseQuesn's Bea& them,

bme new trial for judgment and 18 for t ; is the
special piper 3 ram for judgment and 35 for
whilst of 'Waged rules there are 17. In the
Pia/ there are 5 enlarged rules ; 12 ruler in the new trial
paper, 7in the remote" lint, 3 matters for decision, 2 post-
poned mot ors, 19 demurrer' entered for hearing, and 4 ere.
situation appeal' to be heard. In the matters for the de-
cades of the court there are two appends from the decision
of the barristers In the late revision of the lists of voter'.
I. the Court of Exchequer there are 3 errors and appeals
to the Exchequer Chamber, 6 roles in the peremptory
paper, 3in the special paper for judgment, and 2 for asp
-
meat. whilst of new trials there are 2 for judgment and 5
for argument. Besides the list of arrears there an 184 sew
applications for admission as attorneys, and some 70 appli-
cations for readmission and renewed applications.
DZATH or MR. CHARLTA SHAW, or BIRMING•
HAIL—We regret to announce the death of Mr. Chalice
!thaw, for so many years °minuted with the commercial
life of this town. The sad event took plate yesterday
=at brighten, in the pressure of the family of the
Mr. Shaw had for some time been latocriag
under as attack of genlyele, sad hie death was therefore
not unanticipated. He was in the 73rd year of his ago.
He was senior partner in the Arm of Charles and James
Shaw, secession to the old dam established upwards of half
• century ago by his father and node, under the style of
0. J. sad C. Shaw. The deceased gentleman wan well
known for the interest he took in the trade and commerce
of the town. He was meet active is founding the
Birmingham Banking Company, and until the last
six or seven years he wee the guiding 'perk
in its most important arrangements. He also took a very
prominent part is the formation of the London and North
Western and other railizis companies. He was one of our
earliest paid great attention to the
regular L=iB.• oi his duties. His commercial me-
am ions were very extemive, including almost all
our foreign markets. He was also very largely
maanfacture• From his peculiar anti-
=L. brain's, and his large experience, be was
often consulted by his fellow-townsmen, and bie advice
was always gonad. By his death the General Hospital hie
lord a loos tried triad, and other institutions a liberal
supporter. In politica Mr. Shaw was a conservative ;
but Wide and and not politics, wont the sub-
jects to which y devoted hie energy and his
talents.—BtrmiligAnse Gazette.
BIRTH AT • RAILWAY STATION....-50D143 excite-
meet was created anampt the Ramage,' by the Northern
narrow page parfiainentary tram, leaving Paddingtoe at
8.5. on Tuesday morning, through a so
me
Dora elr-
cumitasas A onag [smile
sh pasireeper, having the appear-
ance of •• sup domestic servant, owed symptoms of
illness, ad while the train was awaiting the arrival at the
Didoot Junction of the express from Paddington, to which
the cheap train is there attached, the young prom fell into
moth • weak, fainting condition, that the railway officials
deemed it expedient to carry bar from the train to the
nearest apartment, which was the porter's room, whore she
soon gave birth to a fine child. The necessary assistance
was procured without delay, and mother and child were
subsequently removed to an hotel near the station, where
both are doing well.
RAILWAY RERPONSIBILITY.—Last week a widow
named Morrie, wham husband was killed on the 18th of
Demoniac, 1863, by a railway accident near Forteviot sta-
tion, on the Scottish Central Railway, prosecuted that
company for 1,0001. dumps for lose of her husband's life.
The case wsa tried before Lord Bale in the Court of
Solon Jury Court, and the effect e evidence was to
show that the accident war occasioned by the carelearneee of
a felloweervant. His lordship directed the jury in poiat of
law that if the collision was mum& as alleged, by the fault
of James Bream, as eogine-driver of the goods train when
it ran into the ballast treia, of which the demand William
Morris was acting as guard, these two trains then proceed-
iag oa their separate journeys along the defenders' railwsy,
then Brown and Morris ware felloweermate of the de-
fenders in • common employment, and the defenders were
not liable to the pursuer, as the widow of Morris, for his
death, tamed b the fault of Brown. The jury, alter three.
quiuten of an bones comultation, returned a verdict on
Saturday seriatim for the defenders, finding that Brown's
carelessness had ban the canoe of the accident.
birricopocrrAzi MEAT AND POULTRY MARKET.—

On Tuesday, by order of the Corporation of the City of
Londe°, the several designs for the pro meat and
poultry market at Smithfield were for inspection,
Um public being admitted by tickets from the members of
the Markets' Improvement Committee, at the Controllia's-
°Mee, Guildhall. A short time since it was decided by the
Court of Common Council that advertisements for demises
and elevations for the new market should be inserted in the
daily journals ; prime of 2001. and 1001. respectively being
offered for the two best plans, which should eventually
become the property of the Corporation. In consequence
of this notification, seven design, were sent in, with accom-
mnying drawing, and estimates, which varied from about
10,0041. to 150.0001. lo the comae of the day, from the
hour of 11 till 4 p.m. many members of the corporation
and their friends visited the rooms where the plans, to., are
exhibited. The object of the corporation is to obtain, if
pomade, the best Om ; and it has therefore been deter-
mined to seek the opinion of first-rate architects, builders,
and other practical jai yes, with a view to • rigid scrutiny
of the various details in connexioo with the ornamental and
structural portions of the proposed market. The whole of
the trades icterested in its erection will eh* be invited to
make stiggethioas se to the internal arrsegements, so as best
to meet their own and the public eonvenietice.
DREADFUL CAOZ OF Dares FROM BUR:UNCL—
AD inquest wee held at Portsmouth on the 28th alt., on
the body of Emily Barnett, an idiot child, three yaws old,
whose death was caused by burning on the previous Mon-
day. The cue presented some very painful facts. As
Potable Erie was on duty in Fast-street, at about
12 o'clock on the Monday night, he beard a woman scream
out for a light, saying that her child was burning to
death. He went to Buroett's house and there
saw the woman, who was the won, for drink,
with the dead child in her arms. The father
was standing spinet the fire-piece. and was so
drunk that be was amble to speak. The constable observed
that a table had been overturoed, and near the child was •
modlettick, the metal of which had been blackened by the
candle burning down. It appeared that the candle bad
fallen on the child, which me so aM kited that it could not
get ant of the way, and the father being unable to help it
the poor erestare bed burned to death. The mother
stated that a sheet time before she had takes her
husband home drunk from a public-house. He wee then
in a *skied state of intoxication, and she set him
in • chair, and kid the child, which had no nes of its
limbs, cm the hearth-rug, leaving the candle burning on the
table, after whisk she went out for a pint ofbeer. She kit the
hoses at about 11 o'clock, and when she came back en hoar
afterwards the mane wee out, and she went upstairs to get
maim sad ea gesedng downstairs again she found the ohaa
lying ea the heerth-rs& burst to death. The jury returned
• verdict to the offset that " The demand had bees burnt to
death while its father and mother were in a state of helpleas
intoxication ; but bow it became so burnt there was no evl-
dams to abow."— West Sussex Gazdae.