The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-25 00:00:00

Win. Wilkieson, fireman, saidhe bad been in the employ
atilt Leminajuael North-Western Railway Companyabout
14 menthe. wadi had run widi trains between Manchester and
Crews and Manchester and Maceleefield. Ile knew Jrneph
Cie.lna* the dreamed, who was an experienced
ran ful &Ivey, and was • mober man. Witness lett
Mani hedge with him on Tuesday morning last at'
meta o'clock fur Macclesfield, with engine No. 42.
Witness then went un to make the following statement ..
We went two trips to Mac clestielil (20 miles) in the morn- .
Mg with the engine, and then left Manchester with the
engine at 130 p.m. fur Crewe (30 miles;. I had perceived
no defect in the engine during any of these trips. I think
the engine is three or four years Mil, and was considered a
good mired engine. It had been under repair four or live
months ago. It was the practice to examine the engine and
wheels every day, and 1 and the driver usually examined
the engine every day. 1 cannot say whether Chadwick had
eassnined the engine that day, but I had when at Mande. !
field. 1 discovered no defect about it. We started hack '
Irons Crewe at about 17 minutes past 5, which would bit
aineot 7 minutes late, and proceeded towards Manchester. 1
it was a parliamentary, not au expense, train to which the
engine was attached. There were seven or eight carriages,
first, seemed, and third clam. I have no idea of the num-
her of immengers. There was • luggage van between the
tender sad the passenger carriages. Leeetufed and myself l
both were on the engine, and no person was with us.
We stopped at Sandhach, Holmes Chapel, and Chelford
dation,. Chelford station was the last station they stopped
at, and the wheels of the engine were 4:sambas' there both
in going down and returning, as was usual. '1 here was no
detect discovered by me ur heard of, It was not dark
when we left Chiliad, and we travelled at between 30
',nd It miles an hour. We had only seven minutes to
...ke up. We did not get up to this speed fur some
Minute* after we left Clwlford. It is not an unusual speed
fur us to travel at, nor • dangerous speed. The first thing
.1 heard at the time of the accident was when within halts
a-mile of itielerley. It was rather dark, as wet were in a
cutting, and it was past fi o'clock, end I could et nothing.
way standing on the left hand side of the engine, and
Chadwick was on the other side, near the reversing lever.
1 heard something crack, and Chadwick said " What's I
that I did not answer, for I did nut know, and be in-
steady shut off the steam. Chaise-4k said, " Oh, Bill,"
Anil lie ran behind me into the tend. r. I made an attempt
hi get hold of the break, hut missed it, and the engine
lieges to rear up. I cannot say exactly when the engine
west off the line, but 1 supple about that time. The
engine rearud up un her fore-end, swung round, and I was
thrown off The engine turned user on her aide, and I was
pitched from her as she swung round, and fed at full length
en a little drain. In a moment after 1 felt something fall
101 me, and the water rushed over me from the tank. '
Chadwick fell across my legs, and one end of the tender was
over me. I could out sue them; but the water running
liver my face and mouth caused me to struggle, and in
',are-atom myself from under the tender, which dill not
root fin me, 1 got hold of Chadwick'. hair. I afterwards
tried to extricate Chadwick, on whom part of the tender was
resting, hut 1 could nut. lie did not speak. It was not on the
side we were Unveiling the engine went over, but the tank
of the tattler fell inside!, on the upline of rails. I saw
nothing happen to the carriages; hut when I had extri-
cated myself I perceived that the luggage van had been
thrown over the engine, and it was very much shattered.
he passenger carriages were a good deal smashed, and
heaped one upon another.
ter Putts, of Nether Alacrity, said—l um a farmer,
and recollect the incident on Tuesday night. I was nut in '
my hilile near the railway, and heard the none of the
steam blowing off from the engine. I was 300 or 400 yards
from the place, and could not see the train. because it am
in a rutting, but 1 could light regatta from the
engine. 1 did not go near till I loan:lye d that the train
was longer in motion, and then I thought something had
Armenia'. When I arrived at the line the engine was
upset aerees the line, and the head of it nearly reversed.
The 'auk of the tender lay across a drain on the other Side
1/1 the railway. The luggage van had gone use r the engine,
and the diet passenger carriage, a third class, hail run upon
the eerie*. Several of the billowing carriages bad gone elf the
rails, but there were three still on the line, and a sun behind
them. I saw deceased under the water tank, and assisted to
atricate him. There was a screw-jack on his chest, and the
tank rested on that. I saw that one of the wheels was
without • tire, and that one of the rails was bent. The
tire was broken in four piece..
Mr. John Itainshottan said he was superintendent of the
locemintise department WI this section of the line, The
engines employed us the line were examined every morn-
ing, or on the previous night, before going out, by the fore-
man of the engine .find at lempiest. lie had no doubt
this engine would he in examined. He had examined the
wheel which had broken on the engine to this train, and
the nal," a the wheel were Of east iron and the tire and
all other puns wore of wrought ism. The tire. were
*lessee made of wrought iron, or wrought 'Ulm and steel,
never of cad inns. he way in which the tire was affixed
was to make the hoop rather lee, than the wheel, heat it,
and the n put the mnnsoas to allow a contraction in cooling to
make them fit tight. They were afterwards further secured
by nvets. The tine sometimes brake, bat gene-rally trans
•eraely, not across, a, in this ease. This was only the se-
rved instance of a tire 'freaking sense, that he recollected,
in slimy years. The tire of the wheel had
been ow from the time the engine was first con-
structed. The flange which keeps the engine on the
rails Is part and parcel of the tin.. Ile had exemancil the
tire, and he thought the cause of its breaking hail been an
intents' Aaw at the wail, which would not he perreptible
at any time when the ceamination enuld be made. It might
hare cleated fur several years. Ile had sedum seen better
materials than that the tire was made of.
A 1111,4 asked whether these enema were generally built
by contract.
At deem —Yes.
:arer—Cnder whose superintendence' Was there any
government inspection
Witnem—S,u government inspation. Of course they ate
built e''':ieet. to the —were lid tic
Joseph Minaret, hopes-tor of the permanent way on this
Jerboa of the line, end he had teen over the portion of the
lease where the 1113'urrvacc to plate an the sone day
( recede/f), and he could speak to the rails being of peeper
n. 10111.. Intel in good order.
lady almost immediately Conn' to a verdict that the
flied from incidental vire umstanem.

AN,, ME(, wry.-'l7x• 1.111 for the
latter ionservation. regulation. management. and improve-
ment of these riven., pr.. •a that the p.wtr. of the Cor-
poration of hoodoo shill he vested in conservators. to he
ealleil Conservators of the Rivers Thames and Medway, to
coat of the Lord Mayor, six Aldennen, and twelve Com-
missioners, with powers to improve, dredge. and eleaue,
sod widen, and deepen the l'hannel of the 'Thames. A
conservancy fund is to be established, and powers are pro-
posed to be taken far raising 100,0001.
Ftrtl. F. 11.1.0•1014 AT lANCIITUTER.
An inquest was held on Tharoday evening. before Mr. W.
S. Rutter, at the Polyteehnie Tavern, Oreengate, Salford,
no the body of Patrick Corronin, aged 17 years. Thy &-
room! wan a fireman in the employment of Mr. Charles
Hunt. timber merchant, who him a saw mill worked by a
steam-engine, in Miller's-lane. Greempte. On Thuri.day
!wonting, shortly befom 10 o'clock, the Miler of the engine
esploeled, dislodging "a quantity of brickwork, and forcing
the bricks against the Ills.r of a room above, which, how-
ever, they did not penetrate. An immense volume of
steam burst forth, by which, together with the falling bricks.
drives,' was an severely injured as to cause his death al-
most immediately. John Itoh-am, the engineer, es ho was also
roma. was very severely scalded. and now lie, at the
Manchester Royal Infirmary in a very precarious stabs
The seam penctratail to a room on the second storey,
where there was a man Hamill William Green, live boys.
and a girl, who were all more or hos scalded. The boiler
bad becu repaired about a year ago, but it was in none of
those parts that had been repaired that it burst, and nO
blame appeared to attach to the proprietor. The explosion
had apparently been caused by allowing the water to be-
come low, so that the plates became heated, and then in-
troducing fresh water. which would cause a sudden gene-
ration of steam, and so lead to the accident. The jury found
a verdict of Accidental dsath.'•
F,LECTRIC TELEGRAPH OMAR-SIC STIoN INFRANCT..
The report of the committee on the bill pry% nted on the 4th
inst. by the Minister of the interior, for opening the credits
necessary for the eaceution of the law of the 9th November,
1660. tar organising private correspondence by electric tele-
geoid., has been presented to the Assembly. The govern-',
aunt has made known to the committee the differeut
telegraphic stations where offices for the private cone-
spondcace will be established. The northern line will have
na offlee•—Ansiens, Arras. Valendenn, s. Lille, Calais, and
Dankisk. The enstre line six—Orl,aus, Tours, Augers,
Bourgiss, Nevem, and Chattourouz. The Havre hue will
have ter.. and that of Strasburg one at Chalolll.. None
are yet timed for the Lyons line. hut the government will
be prepared to organise them on the two last lines as soon
so the electric wires haw been placed. The com-
mittee recunimenels that they shall be distributed in '
the same manner as those on tha northern line, pea_
'Maine the necessary credits for it. The following is the
tariff of thereto as decided on by the government For
• despatch of 20 words, including the name of the party
sending and that of the person to whom it is addressed :
Front Paris to Amiens. 4fr. 80c. From Paris to Arras,
sfr, 64e. From Paris to Valenciennes, 6fr. 36e. From
Paris to Lille, 6fr. Mc. From Paris to Calais, 7fr. 56e.
From Varlet° Dunkirk, 7fr. 112 e. From Paris to Orleans,
4fr. 56e. From Paris to Tones, 6fr. One. From Paris to
tm
Moves, 7lr. 60e. From Paris to Boargcs, Mr. Mc. From
Paris to Nevem, 6fr. 72e. From Parts to Chateattroux. 1,
Mr. 24e. From Paris to Chalons-our-Marne, 6fr. 10e.
From Paris to Rouen, 4fr. elk. From Paris to Havre,
s(r. 76e. In order to calculate the charge of • despatch of
the above number of words from one town to another on
only nee...miry to. calculate the
no Paris to the WO Pla".• and
, from Arnim& to Arras will be
Lille, 3fr: 72e. •For despatches
• fourth is to added for every
above tariff will be double for 60

The Express, a few days since, contained L.
particulars, so far as they were then disclosed, of the droad-
ful murder at Bath, of a woman named Mary Clarice, by her
husband, a carpenter, who, on returning from his work,
found her lying upon the bed drunk, a habit which, it ap-
peared, she frequently indulged in. The coroner's inquest,
after the examination of one witness, a son of the deceased,
was adjourned in order that other evidence might be col-
lected, and a post esorfens examination of the oody made.
That examination disclosed facts pi eviously unsuspected and
of the roost revolting nature, and the sympathy which had
been expressed fur the murderer on account of his wife's
intemperate habits was converted into horror and disgust
upon the facts detailed in the evidence below becoming
known. The inquest was resumed on Monday, when the
jury-room was tilled by respectable citizens, amongst whom
were many members of the medical profession.
Mr. M. Hants, solicitor, appeared as before to watch the
case fur the prisoner, whom the magistrates had declined to
deliver out of their custody.
Mr. Oakley, chief of police, produced the certificate of the
marriage of the deceased with Joseph Clarke, at Chelten-
ham, about ten years since.
Mr. Hunt, surgeon, who had made the pose modern ex-
am ination,was then examined, and depoeed that the liver and
k idneys of deceased presented the peculiar appearance usually
seen in persons addicted to drink. The immediate cause of
death was a wound within the vagina, of about an inch in
diameter. The wound proceeded first downwards, then
outwards, and then backwards, so as to admit the
finger at least two inches. That wound he believed
to have been made by some blunt-pointed instrument. The
point of the instruineut must have been smaller than its
erresponding end, or graduating from its smaller point to
a larger diameter, and great fume must have been used. I
believe this wound to have been the cause of death by the
bermorrhage it occasioned by the rupture of vessels in the
neighbourhood.
Coroner. —Do you think it posaible such a wound as
you describe could have been inflicted by her husband fall-
ing on her with a stick ?
st'itnews.-1 do not think it possible that an injury to the
extent found could be inflicted by accident.
Mr. Skinner, surgeon, corroborated the evidence of Mr.
Hunt, and concurred with him as to the cause of death. 1
Mrs. Langley deposed that she was fetched home by her
husband on Tuesday evening the 18th of Feb. She had
seen Mrs. Clarke about .5 o'clock the same evening. She
WWI then tottering from drink. Witness returned with her
husband and Mrs. Tadil. As they entered the house a
great scuffling was heard in Clarke's room. She beard
several heavy falls but no screams. Witness ran up stairs,
and found Clarke's door open. She went in, and Mrs.
Clarke was standing against the wall with her hair hanging
about her fare. She was very pale, and appeared fainting
or dying. She was making use of her hand as though try-
ing to grasp something. Hus doer husband, who was behind
her, caught hold her hair and pulled her back suddenly.
Witness said, - If the woman is drunk she is not to be
murdered. Clarke, for God's sake, don't kill her." She
ran up stairs to call another lodger. On her return the
door was open and the deceased was sitting on the
door in the corner of the room. Witness was
frightened by her pale appearance. Clarke was lean-
ing aver her, and witness was afraid he was choking her.
Witnew immediately ran down stairs screaming. Clarke
was in a leaning position over hit -wife, whose head wee
backward, and there was great scuffling on the floor as
witness ';.assed the dour. In about two minutes Clarke
came down stairs and asked her to go up. She immediately
went up. and found the deceased still seated by the wall.
On going into the room witness exclaimed, " Oh, my 04,
then you have murdered her! she is dead." Claire MA 1
Oun't -0." Witness said, •• How did you do and
he r. p1i,,l - I only pushed her." Mr. Hunt arrived shortly
afterwards. The witness then deposed to the deceased
having been away from her home the whole of Saturday
and Sunday, and both nights. Witness. on finding Mrs.
Clarke did not come house un Saturday night, went up and
expressed her sorrow to Mr. Clarke that his wife had been
away. Ile was very reserved, but said "Unfortunate
wretch, what shall Ido with her 1" The deceased was in
the habit of drinking at public-houses as well as at home.
The inquest was then adjourned till to-morrow, when it
is espeettsl the prisoner will be brought up before the
magistrates, and remanded till after the clue: of the core-
-es inquest.

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

TCESDAY, Fzie. 25, 1851.
The State of the Weather at each of the following places at
Nine o'clock
order
morning. The stations are
arranged in order of Latitude.

Kew. ell ram

--
L. Gentle Breen.
I. Omsk lirerte
GenCs bees,.
l▪ L
OestLe Breese
LL
Fresh Mitre
LW. Calm
S. Stress Breeze
XI. Gentle erre..
LSI Grade Breese
Lt. elsztle breeds
E. Cahn
LW. Gentle Breree
ILL Strong Freeze
lbad Mind
Osetis bnese
L▪
S. OrWhlllesess
ORM
I.

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111111 °I I State ofWestLes. Westin'.
Wind.

Oa .LMRICIi .~..

6.4.1 MOM ............

Partially Cloudy
Partially Coady
Overcast
Rain
Rain
Rain
Rain
Rain
I vercast
Rain
Overcoat
Rain
Rata
Cloudleas
Overcast
Parttany Cir Any
Moiler
overve.at

THIS DAY, Noox.
Oeszst id WWI. Iltrearitt ik• WW 1& MAy d tb. w..th.r.
I. Grutla BTIPM. Fain

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The tetanno from the following ;daces did not reach this
office in time for publication lesterday; they therefore
indicate the data of the wcatinr on Saturday morning at
mine o'clock.

Ono . it IL Wit Brans iWs Iv
Ilnussaa I I Welk merge Fre*,
Fawn 10. AL I Gentle Breese royally Cloudy
Vrab /Mum I I artEally 0060
Laos 4W. (Alai ?my

STAB/MM.—On Tuesday evening a quarrel oc-
cured at Bidwell between two men. frame-work knitters,
rearm il West and Deverill. They were drinking together
at the Star, when a misunderstanding arose between thcm.
Deverill took West's cap, and poured some ale intot.
which led to a tight. The landlord, determined not to
allow such disgraceful pniceedings in his house, turned
them out. when they proceeded together into Coventry-
street. There they exchanged blows heavily, having many
ups und downs together. This sort of thing having eon-
tinned some time, West became exhausted, and fell to the
ground, but not till blood had been seen flowing from him
very copiously. On examination, it was found that he bad
received several wounds in the neck and chest. caused by
job or stabs inflicted by his antagonist with some blunt
instrument which he must have had in his hand during the
contest. His ultimate recovery is very doubtful.—Notfiny-
, awn Mercury
CAt'SE UP RARITY OF WILLIAM IV:1 COPPER
COINIAOt.—Rhea the copper coins of the last reign ap- I
Feared, a slight tinge in the colour of the metal excited the
unqicion of thaw accustomed to examine such things that
it contained gold, which proved to be the fact ; hence their
real value was greeter than that for which they passed cur-
rant, and they were speedily collected and melted down bv
imanutheturers. principally, I believe, se an alloy to gold,
whereby every particle of that metal which they Contained
was taloned to ace-mat. I hare been told that various 13ir-
*sigh= establihments had agents in different parts of
the matey, appointed to collect this coinage.—From Nan
and fatenia.

the same floe, it will be onl
doff( ronce in the charge from
add 3fr. Thus, the charge fi
3fr. tsar., and from Arms W 1
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of more than ',XI words a
ten words, so that the shots
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