The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-17 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Dvistax. th.m. 15.

Tar .nquvst on those who los- their "Lye, :a the
late osister:: on the Great southern en 1 %Vs:even
Itailvbay wa, :r.unied yesterday at Natl.. %%ben Mr.
Millar, the 10-motive superintendent of the line, was
spin under examination for a consideraUe time. In
the course of the evidence, the f,,reman, on the part
of the jury. and also the coroner, frequent') t spressed
their opinion that the railway company had done its
duty. and, so her as exonerating the company from
blame, the verdict would appear to be anticipated.
The guard of the goods train was liberated from
cust)dy, and exsimined ; and from his evidence it
appeared that the stationary train had been seen
trAns the good* train for a few momenta before the
eoilision . • that the whistle was then blown by the
driser of the goods train, and that the witness applied
the freak, but that it was too late, and they could
not slacken the speed. Mr. Nicholas Connor, a pas-
acnger by the express train, was examined. but there
was nothing new in his evidence, except that he
appeared to have been the person who, while
standing ou the bank, was led into tl.e error
of suppwing that the approaching train was
coming at a slow rate, and that he expressed his
opinion to that effect to his fellow-pasiseugera.
O'Leary, the station-master at Kildare, deposed that
he had lighted the tail lamps on the express train at
his station. hut as they were not sewn at the time of
the collision the inference would be tha: they had
gone out in the mean time. Several other witnesses
were examined, but their evidence was not material,
and the inquiry was adjourned to this morning,
When it was resumed, and an adjournment to the
railway took place, according to previous arrange.
anent. for the purpose of basing some experiments
made to ascertain within what time and space a
goods train similar to that which caused the cake-
mi'y could be stopped. The following accAint of
this day's proceedings is from a fourth edition of the
lrerkly Telegraph :
Capdsia Tyter, IL E , Inspector of Railway, was present to
ate those eapetments conducted; anal the arrangements
we re ander the immediate superintendence of Mr. Millar,
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engineer in rhoet elf the company.
Several of the &revers came down from llutlin to witness
this that anima power and skill over locomotives in
motion. . . . . .

The first experiment was commeoc.d at 12 o'clock, when
• train consistiag of engine and tender. li w.ggons and
three carriages, making in all 20 conveyances, was put on
the line at sillies. The waggons were laden with
!allot: and the weight of the train, exclusive of elegies
and tender, was 14S tons, 12 cwt., and 2 qrs.; the
weight of the engine was t 2 tons, and that of the
tender 10—the whole weight being the same as
that of the pods' train which committed the damage
on the 6th October, and the break van now awl
li-ine the identical one ons:.loyed with the goods' train on
tt e occasion of that melancholy accident. Oasa (the driver
of the good.' train) in .custody of the governor of Kildare
gaol, drove the engine; Mr. Millar, Captain Tyler, and the
4, ironer being also on the locomotive, when, by direction,
Gess •liest of steam. He did not sound the whi.tle suf.
I‘.iod to be heard by the 'wird of the break van,
who did not put on hi. break till it was signalled to him
that that of the tender was being applied. Still the train
cam ta • deed stand is about a ruinous and a half, and in
• spate of 916 yard., or IS yards more than belt a mile from
where steam was first shut off. The speed, when steam was
Ant off was rather over twenty miles as Ivan'. The second
expetimeat was made under similar circumstances, as re-
gards weight. Ike. The signal to shut off steam was ON
given uatil after the train had considerably passed the
second bridge is the Sallies side of Straffen, and still
the signal came to a dead stop a few yards be-
yond the spot when the collision took {thee, and
within a space of 04 yards from the place where steam
wee sbet off. The whistle was on this occasion cis.
tioetly heart by the man in the break van, and the break
applied with, we should suppose, greater accuracy than 111
tic first instance. The rate of speed, when steam was shut
on in this rape. iment, was under 26 miles an hour. Duriag
this trial fog signals were laid on the rails, and exploded
with • loud report. A third trial was then made, and the
trait polled up in 904 yards, the speed being rather more
than /2 mils an hour. From a minute and a quarter to a
minute sal a hell was the time occupied in pulling up oti
each of these two tiecasiasis.

This eouluded the imperilment', and the coroner and
jury were proceeding to Nus, to resume the inquiry, when
ear reporter left by special engine to return to town.
TM sufferers at Malmo 8t 's Hospital are ail going
a (amicably. A dressing-cm belonging to Mr. Beau
Jones, taletsining property to the amount of 40W., which
has been missing since the occasion of the lamentable acci-
dent, has been lately recovered by the police, and by them
Muted to the Great Southern and Western Railway Com-
pany. It was found concealed in a furze bush Lear the
mete of the accidrdr.

TOE SUPPLY OF PROYISIONS TO THE
TROOPS.
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The court martial in reference to alleged en-
deavours on the part of certain son,ommissioned
officers of the Itoyal Marine Agtillery stationed at Ports-
mouth to obtain gratuities of rotator money for the neglect
by thoto officers of their duties in the examination of the
meat, dtc., supplied by the contractors, was held at the Bar.
racks of that corps, on Friday, and thence by adjournment
to the following day. The business of the court was to try
Colour Sergeant Joseph MiW on the following charge:
a For haying endeanture4 to obtain meat gratuitously
from the agint ta the contractor, Mr. J. Dennison,
for the supply of meat to the Marine Artillery;
such conduct being subversive of good order and
military discipline." The court consisted of the Vl-
lowing aims of the above-named corps:—Captain T.
Holloway, President. First Lieutenants W. K. Ireland,
A. C. Steele, G. Brydges, and Second Lieuteaant F. W.
rest'aig. Lieutenant Steele acted as Deputy Jutge Ad-
vocate. In accordance with the etiquette of military
courts' martial we cannot publish the evidence taken at
the trial until the finding of the court shall be confirmed
by the War-office and promulgated. The witnesses exa-
mined for the prlsecution were the contractor and James
Fletcher, who at the time of the alleged offence was in the
employ of the former.
Mr. Dennison made a statement of circumstances that
had been related to him by his servant in reference to this
charge. Re had no personal knowledge of the circum-
stances himself, but the persons in his employ having stated
various facts to him, he had felt it his duty to soaks • re•
presentation of those facts in the proper quartet.
James Fletcher deposed to giving Sergeant Mills, about
the 15th of September, • bill for meat tuppiied for his
private use, when he expressed his surprise at its being
done, saying that ho had never since he had beea at
Fort Cumberland been in the habit of paying the
contracor for any meat he had drawn. He had
drawn a much larger quantity from other contractor,,
hut had 'veer been required to pay for it, and that if he
bad to pay now he should feel very dissatisfied," mention-
ing the name of another contractor, Mr. Pharoali, who did
not require him to pay for his private consumption. la
erase-examination by Sergeant Mills, witness admitted that
the sergeant had never asked for any money or meat, and
also that he had n refused to pay the bill after it was
presented to him. There was no one present when Mills
spoke as above to witness, as he (Mills) called him aside to
speak privately. Did not recollect Mills saying that if he
did not get the meat gratis his word would have great
weight in passing the meat, but did recollect his raying
You kuow I can cause a good deal of trouble if I like."
Mills hut thrown obitacles in the way by refusing meat
that was quite up to the contract. The president reminded
witness that meat could only be condemned by a board of
officers, on which he replied that the nun-commissioned
officer had an opportunity of saying certain things to the
officers and 'vont!? influencing them
The above being the case for the prosecution, in reference
to the particular day in question,
In his defence Sergeant Mills urged his long service of 29
year*, and declared that he had asked any contractor
for meat or money, but had always paid for what meat he
bad had. flat he have pawed bad meat this charge would
never have been made against him. Mr. Kennard Knott,
formerly • sub-contractor for the same corps, deposed that
Mills had not been in the habit of receiving meat or money
from him; he hail never hinted at anything of the sort.
Settees% Horner deposed to going with Mills to pay the
biU seat in by prosecutor's clerk, when Os. or Is. were taken
off, there having bests made some mistake in It. This wit.
nee knew that Mills had received any money or meat
from the contractor. Collins, a bombardier, devised
he had he ird Mills ask the contractor for his bill, and
Corporal Dore said he had never heard Mills speak in
disparagement of the meat. This witness raid Mr.
Dennison had offered him at Fort Cumberland Is. or
Is. 6d., which he had refused. This was explained a.
having been offered for his (Doris) looking after prioe-
cutor's horse. After some meat on the same day haying
been condemned Dare said Mr. Dennison had declared
that he would get Mills reshmed is a month's time. After
• toting of six hours the court adjourned It the follow.
Ind lay.
On S iturday morning the court met again at ten o'clock,
when Serireant Waterman and Corporal Worth both de-
posed ti the effect that Sergeant Mille had attempted
to prejudice them against the meat *applied by the con-
tractor ; they had never heard him find any fault without
sufficient cease. The fiat-named witness added that the
eostreetor's man had, on the sth October, Mitred him •
steak fir his breakfast. On the sth, 6th, and 7th the same
man had offered this witness beer, but he had refused to
accept each offer.
Corporal Dore recalled—Deposed that he had never
knowa Mills find unneesesary fault with the meat. Wit-
ness had served four years as • butcher, and was • judge of
meat. On the day on which Mr. Denote= offered witness
some m iney the latter did not hold his hone ; it was held
by his own man.
Second Lieutenant ranter, as the officer on duty at Fort
Cash.rland, deposed that Sergeant Mills had never, to his
knowledge, thrown obstacles in the way of the contractor, Or
compassed of the meat without cause. Witness had last
joined Fort Cumberland the 16th August.
Fine Lieutenant Digby deposed that he had been sta-
tioned at Fort Cumberland at dAlentat times foe the last
Uwe years, and from the nature of his duties had bees La