The Express.
London, England, 1853-08-24 00:00:00

SHOCKING RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

On Monday, the 22nd inst., a fatal accident oc-
mind to one of the guards of the York, Newcastle, and
Reswiek Railway Company. At the time the accident
bellganed the deceased, whose name was William Wright,
we♦ as the government trait from Newcastle to York,
which leaves the former place between Eve and six o'clock
in the moraing. She was dm at the Pilmoor Janeiro, for
floreagibridge, at 8.40 bat we, in the present instance
shoat twenty urinates late, a circumstance, however, which,
as far as an be judged, had nothing to do with the cause
of the anfortanate man's death. Among other persons
who were awaiting the arrival of t►e train at Pilmoor was
Mr. W. Gray, jun., the secretary of the York and North
Midland Railway Company. He was watching the train as it
approached the station, and when it was eta distance of from
06 to 600 yards. he observed something fall outwards from
it, which he supposed, at the moment, were some seeks or
Aber ardides which were required on the siding close by.
Whoa the Mein was " brought up" at the junction, the
guard was missing, and it being then said that he had fallen
of the train, Mr. Gray jumped ea to a Biroughbridge
engine, which was standing at the junction, went back
along the main line, and on arriving about 600 yards from
the statics, be saw the feet of the diseased, who was laid
with kis bind downwards, in a shallow dry ditch, by the
aid* at W lie*. The poor fellow had evidently been
dinwa with great violence from the train, having gone
head foremost sad pitched spas eke back part of his head,
whisk was dreadfully fractured. Two years ago he met
with an saddest as the Hartlepool line, when his head
was emmiderably injured, he having slipped and fallen
from the train ; and on another eseation he was Wand at
the York station. In the latter ease be bad been cautions('
by the

jab before the accident
*paned ; sad it is to be hazed that in the other la-
=tbe lobbies he easlalaul Were attributable to the
N Staidease be bad la himself, and hie ecasneent

NM ACT TO PIATINT TEE DEFACING OF MONET.
—Ye/abaft, the saw A* to Preveat the Defacing of the
Covent Coin of the lads was head. It declares that a
practise has arise if de=asthe seta of the teals by
stamping the seam *a ad sad
the sass. It is now meal, tiiis pea=
deface any of the Quest% semee Nye liven, or
coin, by stamping llama seLearbytes=whetMz
salt coin shall or wok MI or light-
esed. es shall ear -wallas ineleeneset la tie pee-
ret beading die 11•116. every ~add ellsalw shell le
ineelgee reeked le geNa et a ameasra. eel
dtlaad of a erase ace, sad ban sanfisted
thereof, shall be liable le either Hee se lepeher neat,
at the discretion et dbe wart. The sessad provi-
sion is of .. posed toratames, that it is lean at
length. "No ender of legases is messy made in any
sold, silver, se ewer sea se Isibeed es stamped as afore-
aid shall he allowed to be a !wafted's.. sad if ay paws
shall tender, agar, at pal of may ads se defaced, stamped,
or beat is etalemid, he ebell, is eamary conviction
thereto( before twojingine, islisii. to hash sad pay any
sum not exceeding delo provided always that it shall not
M lawful for any peens to pressed for any such penalty u
last aforesaid, without the cosiest (au England or Ireland)
of her Majesty's Attorney-General for England or Ireland
respectively, or (in Scotland) of the Lord Advocate." The
act took edict on the 20th instant.

COMPULSORY VACCINATION. Yesterday the new
act further to extend and make compulsory the practice of
vaccination, was published. By this new law parishes or
unions, if need be, are, within six weeks of the planing of
the set, on the 20th instant, to be divided into districts for
the purpoes of vaccination, and places are to be appointed
for the performance of the IMO, and notice is to be given,
the object being, as described, of affording increased facili-
ties for the vaccination of the poor. The parents and guar-
dians of children, born after the let of August, 1853,
Sr. to have such children vaccinated within three or four
months after the birth, and the children are to be taken for
the inspection of the medical officer, on the eighth day after
the operation, to ascertain the result of the same. A certi-
ficate is to begiven of successful vaccination. In case a
child should not be in a fit state for vaccination, the medical
officer is to deliver • certificate to that effect, to be in force
two mouths. The compulsory part of the new law is con-
tained in the ninth section, which enacts that the registrar
of births and deaths in every sub-district shall on or within
seven ds after the registration of the birth of any child
not already vaccinated, give a notice in writing, is the form
prescribed, to the father or mother, or to the person having
the care of the same, that the child it to be vaccinated, with
• notice when it can be done, and if the father or mother,
or p-zson having the care of it, shall not attend to have it
pods:weed, or shall not on the eighth day alter the vaccine-
tion, take the child for inspection, such father or mother,
or person, shall forfeit • sum not exceeding 20s. The
penaltieg impoeed by the act see to be recovered in s
eam-
mary manner.

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 24, 1853.

attend) in say school attended by children whose parents or
gurdiaas object to their being and by their children.
'lce such came the oommiasionen prohibit the use of these
books, except at times set apart for the purpose, and under
certain conditions which the commissioners hero specify.
At the close of the year 1852, the number of schools in
' operation was 4,876, and of pupils 644,604, averaging 111 to
each school. The average attendance was one half. These
figures show an increase in the schools sines last year of 171,
end in the attendance for the year 1862, as compared with
the year 1861, of 24,263 children.
There are 75 schools not yet in operation, towards which
we made building grants, which, completed, will afford ac-
cemmodstion to 7,457 additional pupils.
The following summary shows the number of national
schools in each province on the 31st of December, 1852, and
the naMber of children on the rolls :—Ulster, number of ,
schools, 1,892; attendance, 151,349. Munster, number of
schools, 1,187; stiendance, 173,020. Leicester, number of',
schools, 1,176; attendance, 141442. Connaught, number
of schools, 648; attendance, 73,954. Total annther of
schools, 4,875; attendance, 540,310.
Return of new schools in 1852, arranged in provinces :
Ulster, 48 ; Munster, 76 ; Leinster, 56 ; Connaught, 58 ;
total, 237.
The following statistics show the proportion in which
protestants and catholics avail themselves of the system :
Of the managers one-third are protest Ants ; of the schools,
one-fourth are under protestant management ; of the chil-
dren in attendance, one-seventh are protestant; of the
teachers, one-fifth are protestant ' • of the applications for
grants for new schools in 1851, one fourth were protestant.