The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-21 00:00:00

SCOTLAND.

DEATII OF PROFESSOR TENNANT.—Mr. \Valiant
Tennant, profaner of oriental languages in the College of St.
Mary, Bt. A.n hew's, but more extensively and enduringly
known os the author of " Aunty V.dr," and v..rious other
works in general literature, died at his house, Devo.i-grove,
Dollar, on Sunday last.—Scotsman
ACCIDENT TO A MAIL TRAIN.—We (Perthshire
Courier) hear that an accident happened to the mail train to
Aberdeen, on the earning of Tnes.my last, on the line from
Friockheim to Montrose, by which the engineer and stoker
were hurt, and a considerable delay caused in the transmis-
sion of the mail. It is under tood to have originated in
some part of the engine machinery getting Wore and falling
down on the rails, threw the engine off, which, after tun.
sing a short distance, was thrown over with the workmen
on it. None of the carriages, we hear, were upset, the
steam baring been turned off as soon as the engineman was
aware that something was wrong.

PROVINCIAL
_ LANCASHIRE„

MIRACULOUS ESCAVE4O7AI{AILWAY.-011 Mon-
day law., Mrs. Edward Statham, who mid. aat the lodge of
M tars Marshall's factors in this town, w.t,. c •ming up
from List rpool by the half-past 12 o'clock trtin with her
daughter, a little girl about live years old, sitting upon her
knee. Soon after passing the St. lid. Ws station, the child
stood cep un her m.ther's lap, and wea about to look out of
the window, but the door, being unfastened,
suddenly opened, and the child fell out while the
train was going at full speed. The distressed
mother would have jumped tut after the child,
but was held down by her fellow pusengen. The
screams of Mrs. Statham and the other persona in the car-
riage alarmed the guard, who gave the signal to the engine-
driver, and the train was stopprd about a mile from the
place where the child was su:mosed to have fallen out. A
search was immediately wide, a general impression prevail.
log that the little girl must have been t-asked to picetea ; but,
to the surprise of all, the child was found to have fallen in
the softmud in the ditch, and to be unii.jured. The train,
however, was put back, and the child to,in deposited rife and
sound in her mother's arms. The little eirl is remarkably
intelligent, and detailed to us the circumstances of the Call
with great accuracy.—Stockport Mercury.

A DELICATE CASE.—The adjonTEed case of affilia-
tion, in width Commander Lord F. Becurl.rk, R.N ,
brother of the, Duke of St. Alban, was defeLdait, wax
re-
tnmed on Thursday before the Hull magistrates. Ellen
Oaskill Chapman (the comp :ablaut) de,icec,l that she
was a single woman, residing in Hull. In o,:tobcr,
1816, she met the defendant in Hull, and in con-
sequence of a short intimacy a chid was born
on the 29th of April last. Derndant was the fatht r. On
cross examination she said she knew a man mimed
Hopkinson, and she had lived with him as his
wife from October until the beginning of the year.
When she found herself in the family way she wrote
to Lord F. Brand. rk, and told him she was in dis-
crete. He amt her a 61. note.—J. Lazenby was called by
the defendant'. solicitor, and stated he bad seen the com-
plainant a great many times with a man named Hopkinton.
Had also frequently seen her with a person named (See. She
lived with Ilopkimson as his wife. Ile had also seen her
with a man named Barnaby in a field at 10 o'e:ork at night.
—The complainant's solicitor told he had not any further
evidence to bring forward, but he had brought letters, all of
which proved that the Iltilkalfalt made by lesenhy was false.
Alter bearing u itnesses for the defence, the magistrate. de-
cided that the defendant must pay 2s. 6d. per week to the
oemplainent. Application was made for the ordinary costs
and allowed.