The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-21 00:00:00

A SECOND COLLISION ON TUE MIDLAND
LINE.

DERBY, TrI',DAV Amaxoox.

To-day a second collision took place on the Midlands
line, at the Long Eaton junction. A passenger train from
Nottingham to Coditur Park came into collision with a coal
train at the junction, owing to inattention to the signals.
The engines were doubled up, but fortunately the 'wren-
ger, escaped with a few bruises only.

MEMBERS PIat:SENT WIZEN TIIC HOUSE WAS
Cot .'rn Oct,TtE4DAV, NIAv 20.—Joseph llume, Wm.
Williams, Sir J. Walincley, C. Anstey, Sir W. Molesworth,
G. Duncan, Aglionby, Thicknesse, Milner Gibson, W. J.
For, Thos. Thoniely, Cul. Thompson, Chas. Villien, Col.
Dunne, C. Leach, Col. Salwey, Sir W. Somerville, M. Bass,
D. Pugh, Ben. Hawes, Sir G. Grey, Wm. Ewart, Sir J.
Cockburn, Frewen, Nichol], Adderley, Armstrong, Mar-
quis of Blandfurd, Marcus Hill, S. Child, E. Denison.

ROYAL SOCVENIR.—A package has arrived at
Dover by the packet Chemin de Fer, front Ostend, and
been forwarded to Buckingham Palace, cantaining a por-
trait of her late Majesty the Queen of the Belgians, and
which it is understood has been sent by King Leopold to
her AlAjecty the Queen,

A (501.7ie of DIRECTORS was held yesterday at the
East India Ilona, when Lieut.-General *Sir Richard Arm-
strong, C.D. the new Commander-in-Chief of the Forces
on the Madras establishment, was appointed second mem-
ber of council at the presidency of Fort St. George.

ADDITIONAL POsT-OFFICEs.—It appears from a
return just printed by order of the House of Lords, that
since the year 1830 there have been 4.800 additional post-
offices-4,358 in Great Britain and 302 in Ireland. Since.

the same period there are 1,283 places where there are more
deliveries than one in the day—Lon being in Great
Britain and 221 in Ireland.

PARLIAMENTARY AND FINANCIAL REFORM—A
large and influential public meeting was held on Tuesday
evening, in the Town-hall, Sheffield, for the purpose of con •
sidering the questions of a large extension of the franchise,
and the operation of the fiscal regulations by which the
press is restricted, and its efficiency as a public instructor
marred ; and also to petition the legislature for an altera-
tion of the existing laws on these questions. The chair was
occupied by Alderman T. Dirks. The resolutions, wldels
were all unanimously passed, affirmed the repetemem-
tion of the people in parliament to be partial tad
unjust ; urged the necessity for a large extensive
of the franchise, in order to secure a due wag*
to public opinion in the House of Commons, declaring Ms
adherence to the shortening of the duration of parliament
and vote by ballot. The meeting also expressed its desire
to promote the progress of financial reform, to &aide the
taxation of the country, and introduce just primate!:
our financial system ; it also viewed, with great
the efforts to procure the repeal of the paper, advalimmnent,
and newspaper stamp duties, which tended to cheek the
intellectual advancement of the community. A petition,
embodying these sentiments, was ordered to be prepared
and sent to each bleach of the legislature ; that to the Lords
being mermaid he presentation is Earl Fitzwilliam, and
that to the Comm= to Joha Parker, Esq. Councillor Al-
i ask Mr. Doak Mr. Orley, Kr. 11. Leader, joa., cad Mr.
Swam were at principal speakers.