The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-14 00:00:00

THE FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT

DIXON FOLD.

Evidence of much importance was given at the
adjourned inquest at Dixon Fold, on Friday evening,
on the unfortunate persons killed, by the Lancashire and
Yorkshire train running off the rails between Bolton and
Manchester, in addition to the examination given in the'
Exprest of Saturday.
Several of the passengers in the train were examined, and
they stated their opinion to be, that the speed of the train
was extraordinary at the time of the accident.
Mr. James Nasmyth, of the Bridgewater foundry, Petri-
croft, deposed that he had examined the broken engine and
the line itself, far about half a mile above and below the scene
of the occurrence. He was of opinion that the engine waa not
in fit condition to run an express train at 30 miles an hour,
and that its employment for such a purpose must be
attended with danger. He also considered that in conse-
quence of the present deteriorated state of the line, it is not
safe, and that the danger is increased by the use of four-
wheeled engines on it.
Mr. W. Fairbairn (steam-engine manufacturer, &c.,
Manchester) thought that the line was in want of repair,
and he attributed the breaking of the axle to the crystal-
lisation of the iron of which it is composed, and which
would be hastened by running it on a line not in good
order.
The Coroner mentioned that he had received a letter
from a Mr. Gibson, who was a passenger in the train, and
who was (in Leek, Staffordshire) now in bed from the in-
juries he had received. The letter was not evidence ; but
the writer stated in it that immediately before the accident
the speed must have been 60 miles an hour. The time of
the accident, by railway time, was 558.
Captain Wynn stated that he should examine the line
on Saturday. The inquest was then adjourned till two
o'clock this day.

TIIE MINT AND TILE SUPPLY OF COlN.—Great
inconvenience has of late been experienced from the want
of a sufficient supply of coinage, and particularly of silver
and copper. The demand for gold coin, notwithstanding
the enormous amount coined last year(8,749,000/.) continues
as great as ever, and the whole strength of the Mint re-
quires to be devoted to it. Till a comparatively recent time
the largest amount of gold coinage which it :was consi-
dered could be turned out by the Mint was 250,0001. •
week; at the present moment the quantity coined has
risen to about 520,0001. a week; and yet such is the demand
that even that quantity appears insufficient to supply it. In
the month of Janua7, during a short cessation of the
pressure for gold coinage, a quantity of silver equal to
92,0001. was coined, teing equal to one half of the entire
silver coinage of 1852, and being more than the entire silver
coinage of 1851, which was 57,8681. In the midst of this
pressure for gold and silver coin, the mar.nfacture of copper':
coin seems to have been impossible at the Miut, while the
demand has been, and still continues to be, extremely
great. It is now t-dero,,,,d L rat the Min• Authorities, is
order to supply are nb.it:t to over into a contract
with private persons fur the manufacture of so large •
Quantity of this coin as will effectually meet the demand.—

MEDICAL BENEVOLI?.DIT COLLEGE.
Yesterday morning ;Le Bishop of London preached
a sermon at Trinity thutch, Marylebotie, in aid of the
funds of the proposed Medical Denesolent Col.ege. Tide
institution is intended for on cilium for 100 pensioners,
who must be duly qualified medics! men, or their widows,
who are to be yrevidea with three furnished rooms each,
and aso with additional as.istanre and sceonur,,;a.
tam, according to the 'tato of-the funds of the society ; and
it w ill also provide a school, iu which a liberal education
will be given to 100 boys, the sons pf medical men ; the ma-
jority of whom will pay 30/. per annum each for education,
board, lodgitiz. and washing, while the rest will be orphans
educated and maintained entirely at the expense of tho
i society. Tho outlay for a site riol buildings, including
fittings and furniture, is estimated at 20,c,00L, and rho
whole yearly expenditure, in providing suitable
allowances to the pensioners, the remuneration of
otheers, and other establishment charges, at 1.5001.
The amount already collected towards ra ne out
the above aliens is 12,0410!. Ills lordship selected iris
teat from the First Epistle General of St. John, chap. ill.,
%cr.: " k'r this is the 1111.4,41..;C that ye have heard tr
the beginning, that we should love one another ;" and in
the coulee of his nddress, said that neat to the minister of
the. Gospel, the medical man was the most import-tit-3S
lie not only attimiled to the bodily ailments of mankind,
but frequently sedated in reszuing theta trout a sate of
mental and moral prostration. Having such imp .rant
dueins t.i pelf:atm, it was very afftcting that he should bit
distroat el by the thou has of leaving his widow utipeovided
for, and his el.ildred unprotected. llis lords>ip hit ing
deserired the ct an educated man, from old age,
being unable to f now as honourable prof. stint, and brio:
reduced to d•atitutim and want, c included by stating that
the institution fir whieh !Leveret idly pleaded would find au
asylum for the rtduce:l tn:dicalman,where, alerr yaars of ill-
requited labour, be might end his days in peace and eunifert.
Ilia lordship's expreesircexhortation produced &collection at
the douse of Sul. _

THE MID-DAY ROBBERY OF A JEWELLER'S

SHOP AT MANCHESTER.

We described in the Lipress of Wednesday a
daring robbery committed et tt.e shop of Mr. Howard,
jeweller, Market .street, Mauchester, on Mondey kW, in the
middle ei the day, when Miss Howard, who wile en charge
of the shop, was garotted, and left i .sensible nu the tl or.
and almost every article of value carried away. Two men
were brought before t'io magistrates at Manchester on
S eturday, fur 'seminarian ou the 0113ri7C, 11111/linl Jana/
M•Mslion and J.slin It.binson. The police traced to L..n-
don a quartby of melted-down silver and geld, ineludir.g a
portion of this and otaer robberies et is feared.
It consists of a large round coke 4.f shyer read
gold weighing 161 mincer, a squire cake weighing
116 ounce., and a piece or maid weighing IS ounces. The
to M value in its preseht state is about 1501. but the arti-
cles destroyed to obtain this mass of the precious metal
were proteddy worth more than 1,0601. At vie lodgings of
the men will forwarded this gold and silver were found
the. e crucibles, oar of which Vivre is reason t t believe was
always kept on the the to receive any stolen articles
brought en FO net 3 reneve tar possibility of idontitimvion.
Several witnesses who at tits time of the .übbery hap•
pencil to be is the immediate neighbourh of Mr.
Mtwara's she ;!, identified Re'rinson as being the man who
watched outside, while hi. sauteplices were engaged Maid- in
the work of plunder. III•Molion was spoken bi as resembling
one .it the persons who entered the premix. u. It was aiso
shown that the lie roars fur some time pest have been
companions, and they were remanded to Saturday ilex:.

ATTEMPT TO MURDER A RAILWAY

SkaIVANT.

CARDIFF, SATURDAY.
A savage attempt on the life of a railway porter,
stationed at the 12 intressent Station of the South Wales
Railway, has beta made by a man named James Logan,
himselt lately a iftIJIII of the railway company. The pri-
soner has been examined u •fore the Rev. E. Morgan, itoCal
magistrate, by whom he has beeu fully committed fur trial
at the next OLnorgan.shire assizes.
The hollowing are the circumst tacos under which this
atrocious attempt was made :-0u the night of Sunday last,
Lewis, who is the night booking porter at the Llantrcasene
station, and t s whose care the station is intrusted nightly
from 8p m. to 7 a.m., was occupied in the booking-
office, when he heard a knock at the door. It
was just midnight, and on Lewis going to the
door he found Logan there, who said be had been
to Cowbridge, and was rooming to his home at Tre-
forest, severs miles distant, tvit as it was very dark be asked
to be Glowed to sit by the tire until it became lighter.
Logan, who ban been A policeman on the line but had been
discharged ablest six weeks previously fur misconduct, was
well known to Lewis, who gave the required permission,
and Logan t a:lc his seat by the fire. About three u*eo.ck
Logan went to rho platform door, Lewis being then sitting
by the fire. Ile returned almost immediately with a heavy
hammer in his hand, with Wl.iell he struck Lew i 4 a dreadful
blow on the head, which must have killed hint but for the
protection afforded by his thick cap. Ile was about to re-
peat the blew when Lewis seized him by the Irg,, threw
him down, and the two struggled together, but Lewis judg-
ing himself getting weak from loss of blood escaped and
ran to n !..icighbouring house, alarming t- e inmates, upon
which L-gaii made off, but was captured a few hours after-
wards. Lewis was in a most exhausted state when taken
up, and is nut yet pronounced out of daager. Ilia deposi-
tion, however, has been taken by the magisirate. During
the scuffle Logan snapped a pistol at Lewis's head.

EX.FLOSION AT SEA AND Loss OF LIFE.—A fright-
ful accident occurred on Friday afternoon last, near Spurn,
by which not only two psnons met with instantaneous
deetii, but two others were very severely scalded. It
would appear that the fishing vessel George, of about 30
register tons, propelled by screw steam machinery, and
manned by tcu men, including the captain, left Grimsby
for the fishing grounds near the Dutch coast on Friday
afternoon. Nothing whatever occurred to attract the at-
tention of any ne7Boo on board until just off Spurn, when a
loud noire, as of the e,:ape of attain, was heard, and im-
mediately afterwerds the boiler of the 'suet exploded. The
deck was shivered into a thousand pieces, and the mate and
one man were killed on the spot. They rolled cdrboard,
and have not since been seen. The engineer and an ap-
prentice were both very severely scalded. The vessel was
now beginning to sink, and the captain, who never lost his
presence of mind, pushed the boat off the dick into the
water, and having ;fleeced the injured men in it, ordered
the rest of tlse men to embark, and then got in himself.
Almost immediately after the men had embarked is the
boat the ill-fated steamboat went down in nine fathoms
water. On landing at Grimsby every attention was raid to
the two men who were scalded, but it is feared that the
yousiterone—the apprentice—will not survive. As yet no
aurae has been assigned for the accident.
FOREIGN REFUGEES IN ENGLAND.—A correspon-
dent of a Sunday paper states that A number of refugees
—French, Italian, Hungarian, Polish, sc.—presented to
the Earl of Clarendon, in Downing-street, on Saturday, a
memorial, which set forth that all the refugees who had
been obliged to take a refuge in England entertained the
greatest respect for her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Vic-
toria, her royal consort Prince Albert, and the laws of this
country, which they had never attempted in any way to
infringe by political intrigues; and that they hoped the
liberal and generous British nation would not comply with
the reiterated demand or France, Austria, Italy, tke., for
their extradition from this country, when death and the
most severe punishments would be their tate. The noble
lord, it is stated, assured the deputation that whatever might
be the demand on the part of any foreign powers to issue
en order for the expulsion of any foreign refugees from
this country, it would not be acceded to by the British go-
' vernment, as long as they (the refugees) should not at all
trespass upon the hospitality and laws of this country.
After expressiog their deep gratitude for the kind reception
they bad experienced from kiss lordship, and for the assu-
rance that the British government had no intention of driv-
ing them away to persecution, they retired to communicate
the cheerful intelligence to their comrades in adversity."
REFUSAL OF SAILORS TO PROCEED TO SEA.—On
Friday last the crew engaged in the Pytho, hound for
Africa, twen'y is number, were brought before Mr. Mans-
field, at the Liverpool Police Court, charged with refusiag
to proceed to sea. The defence was that there was not
sufficient eccommodation, and the case was adjourned until
Saturday, in order that Lloyd's surveyor might inspect the
vessel and report. Ou that day he reported that the accom-
modation was in every way sufficient. Seven of the crew
agreed to go in the vessel, but the remainder (13) were
committed for trial. The crew had received 51. each as
wages in advance.
THE RECENT CAPITAL CONVICTIONS.—Mary Ann
Parr, convicted at the recent assizes for Nottingham, before
Chief Justice Jervis, for the murder of her illegitimate
child, and who was, however, recommended to mercy, has
been respited during her Majesty's pleasure, with a view to
a commutation of her sentence to transportation for life.
In the case of John William., tried before the Riga Court
of Justiciary at Edinburgh, f)r the murder of the toll-gate
keeper, and sentenced tube executed to-day (March 14) the
1 tw will be permitted to tare its coarse. The case of Charles
Saunders, who has been convicted for the murder of Mr.
Toiler, on the high road near Itomforel, and whose execu-
tion is fixed for the 234 inst., is under consideration, in
consequence of some representations respecting the state of
his mind.—Oblerver.
AUSTRALIA.—The 110b7rt Town Guardian of the
16th of October last, which has just come to hand by the
ship Panama, state, that the number of emigrants who
lauilel at Melbourne the week ending the 12th of October
last wee 3,000, and that the amount of gold which the
Forest Creek diggings had yielded up to the 12th of that
month amounted to a,6,r0,e631. sterling.
SOUTHAMPTON ELECTION SCRUTINY.—Oar South-
ampton correspondent says the expense of the scrutiny into
the Seuthamptan election will, it is expected, cast the con-
.ervaiires about 4,0001. Out of about 50 witnesses sub-
pconaed by the wrier, 43 gave evidence favourable to the
liberal sitting members, and 2 of the remaining 10 will be
prosecuted by the radical party for perjury. The inquiry
into the Southampton election has shown that the power of
issuing Speaker's warr.uts may he greatly abused, for an
eminent Landon merchant and director of the Southampton
Deck Company was sublornaed by the Southampton tories
b ,fore the llouw of Commons committee because he voted
for the tir:n.; itiNnir.rs, and co.ntisel was in-trutted to insult
him by asking him if his w itc did not apply for the amount
of his expenses to and from London and Southampton,
antount!ng to a few