The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-03 00:00:00

CR E:qIIRE.

Mr.. 'M'OILL, THE VICTIM OF Tiff: RECENT TREA-
CHEROUS ATTEMPT AT MURDER, is said to be recovering,
although aluwly, from the effect; of his wounds.

WARWICKSHIRE.

ACCIDENT ON THE Bu tMIWfI.tN DERRY RAILWAY.
_lntelligence was received at 'lmmingham on Saturday, of
an accident having occurred on the above railway, near bur-
ton-on-Trent. At the spot where this casualty took place, the
line crosses a canal upon the level by means of a swing
bridge, and as the train to Birmingham approached it, a
barge was passing along. Before the bridge could be turned
to its proper position, the train was up, and the engine
dashed across the canal and embedded itself in the opposite
bank, the tender being dragged along with it. The engineer
and stoker jumped cif, and escaped unhurt ; but the guard
su,tained serious injuries. A second-class carriage next the
tender was smashed to atoms; fortunately it di,l not contain
passengers, and the other carriages escaped with a violent
concussion, which alarmed the passengers, but not one hilt-
taiuvd any injury. A messenger was sent fifty yards down
the line to warn the engine-driver of the danger; but, al-
though the engine was instantly tevcrsed, and the breaks
put on, the attempt to stop the train was ineffectual. The
other trains were delayed for several hours. Mr. Commis-
sioner Balguy was in the train in which the casualty re-
curred, on his way to the Bankruptcy Court, and the
cause of his non-arrival was communicated by means of the
electric telegraph.
T II F. MUNICIPALELECTIONA.—BiRmiscir AM.—Sixteen of
the Town-Council retired on the Ist of November, and many of
them were re-elected yesterday unopposed. The result of the
election is considerably in favour of the Liberal party; but
party politics have had little to do with the matter, in fact; in
several of the wards the mere Whigs have become unpopular,
and the new candidates most of them declared their purpose
to act independently. In three of the wards the contests
were closely fought, and for three out of five councillors re-
turned, three are professedly Tories, but men whose respec-
tability and integrity is a suffii jolt guarantee that they are
far fitter members of a municipal body than mere partisans.
In two of the wards Liberals of the most liberal and inde-
pendent school were returned without a contest. The whole
of the aldermen, sixteen in number, are Whigs.

SUPPOSED Muitnea.—The following information was
yesterday communicated to the police from the constabulary
of Leicestershire:—" Missing, supposed to be murdered,
Thomas Brooks, a pensioner, formerly a regimentalserjeant-
major in the 6th Dragoon Guards, and has been living for the
List six years in Leicester, and was last seen at the White
Lion public house, Market-place, on the 41st ult. He was
dressed in a blue pilot coat, dark-blue trousers, dark-coloured
printed waistcoat, black silk stock and wellington boots.
Has been (or the last five or six years staff-serjeant in the
Leicestershire Yeomanry Cavalry. Ile is about 00 years of
' age, 5 feet 9 and a half inches high, puck-pitted, prominent
nose, hair much inclined to be grey, and bald on the top of
the head. Had in his possession a red morocco pocket-book,
containing memorandums, silver-mounted spectacles, and
several small articles."
A TERRIBLE POSITION. • As a train was proceeding
through the tunnel on the Leicester and Swannington rail-
way, on Thursday, in the direction of the latter place, one of
'he chains which connect the carriages broke, and left a
number of the carriages behind in the tunnel. Another train
left the Leicester etation about a quarter of au hour after that
which stopped in the tunnel hod started thence, so that the
passengers in the latter expected every minute to have a col-
lision with that which was following them. Their agitation
and intense feeling of approaching danger may be in some
measure imagined ; and these were heightened by their
hearing the noise of an engine drawing near, while they were
unable to judge whether it was in the front or the rear of
them. In a few minutes their state of awful uncertainty gave
way to a sense of security ; for the engine which bad gone on
returned to take the train forwards. Had the delay existed
five minutes longer, the collision between the following train
and the carriages would have been terrible, and the sacri-
fice of life certain.
LINCOLNSUIRF— _

REPRESENTATION OF NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE.—It has at
lest been arranged at the house of Brocklesby that Sir Mon-
tague Cholmeley is to be the successor of Lord Worsley as
one of the representatives of North Lincolnshire, or, in other
words, he is to become the "political warming pan" of the
young Lord Worsley.—Lincolnshire Chronicle.
NOBTHAMPTONSIIIRE.

EXTENSIVE INcENbuaism.—The Government Police
Gazette contains the offer of a reward of 1601. for such infor-
mation as will lead to the apprehension and conviction of
the person or persons who, on the 21st ultimo, wilfully de-
stroyed by fire the farms and outhouses of Mr. Laxton and
➢ir. Spendlove, of Gretton, Northamptonshire.

Soso OP IBRAHIM PACHA AT WORKSOP .—No sooner,
says the Noltingliam Review, did this prince reach his own
dominions, than he forthwith decided on sending two of his
sons to England, to acquire a knowledge of the habits and
language of the people, with a view of infusing into Egypt
the spirit of English civilisation. These youths, who are most
intelligent, have been placed under the care of Dr. Heiden.
=der, president of the Pestalozzian school, at Worksop, in
this county.