The Express.
London, England, 1853-08-25 00:00:00

RAILWAY COLLISION AT EVX TON.

An excursion train from Leeds, by the Lincoln-
shire and Yorkshire line, to one of the watering places on
the coast near Fleetwood, met with an arcident at the
junction of the Lancashire and Yorkshire line with the
London and North Western, at Euxten, near Preston, yes-
terday morning, and a smash ensued, which had the effect
of blocking up both lines of railway for some hours, but we
are informed that no serious injury was sustained by any
of the passeugers. The passenger train is said to have run
into a London and North Western luggage train.

SERIOUS STEAMBOAT COLLISION IN TUB

TYNE.

SHIELDS, TUESDAY NIGHT.—Some particulars
transpired yesterday of a collision caused by the Sir John
Euthope, screw collier, running into the William, pas-
senger steamer from Newcastle, in Shields harbour, that
afternoon, and sinking her ; but from the fearful excite-
ment that prevailed in this and the adjoining town of
Newcastle until a late hour last night, it was not until this
morning that any positive information was received of the
real circumstances of this unfortunate occurrence. It up-

pears yesterday afternoon, about quarter flood, the
Sir John Easthope came in from sea, light, and
was proceeding amongst a fleet of keels and
other light:craft to the Spirits to load, when the pilot en-
countered the William in the middle of the harban, lyiug-
to to deliver passengers into • boat. The Sir Julia
Eaetbope is a heavy vessel, and was propelled with her
screw, and it seems was hugging the south shore for the
least water. The steersman of the William tried to get out
of her way by running in to the south, but fearing a jamb,
he had changed his mind, and had put his vessel with
her bow to the north, and was running across the
collier's hawser, when his vessel was struck a most tremen-
dous blow abaft her funnel by that vessel. She was borne
on the bow of the collier a few yards, and then on falling
offsunk, and all her passengen, men, women, and children,
wen thrown into the water. A most frightful scene en-
sued, and, bat for the cool intrepidity of the seamen be-
longing to the vessels, near te, who put off to their assist-
ance, and the police boats, and steamers which ran to the
aid of the drowning people, a most fearful tragedy
might have taken place. As it is, after a meet
Careful inquiry by the authorities to-day, no one
seems to be missing, and the:only persona seriously injured
is the steersman Renwick, when thigh is broken, and •
passenger of the name of Forsyth, whose arm is also brokers.
The passengers, more especially the females and children,
were in a moot exhausted condition when brought ashore,
end some of them were found to have received severe cute,
but with care they were all brought about last night. The
passenger vessel lies sunk in mid-channel. She has •
quantity of ship's beef on board of her.

CAUTION TO TRADESMEN.—FORGED 61. NOTES.—
Information has been received by the police of an extensive
lure of forged M. notes. The engraving of the note is very
good, and would deceive the most experienced judges, espe-
cially the Britannia in the corner ; but the water-mark Is
badly executed, and appears to have been impressed after
the paper was made, and the note has not that crispness of
feel and whiteness of colour peculiar to Bank of England
notes. Tit, three edges of the notes are cut, the other ap-
pears to have been torn, and different to the usual fray
edges of the genuine Bank of England W. notes.
MAGDALENA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.--
The first of this company's fleet of ships, for the navigatione
' of the River Magdalena and the coasts adjusts% bas in
been launched. She is a fine vessel of 600 tone, and 120-
horse power, called the Estrella, of light draught of wafer
when loaded, a feature of great necessity in the navigation
in which she is to be employed. As soon as her equipment
is complete she will be despatched to her destination.
DEVONPORT.--THE SHOEMAKER.' STRIME.—On
Tuesday the men in the employ of Mr. Wm. Reed, of
Market•street, struck fur an advance of wages—it having
i been previously represented to them that all the other em-
ployers concurred in the reasonableness of the dem mil and
are prepared to meet it if Mr. Reed will do so likewise.
There is no doubt but that this usefid class of men have
been, in some degree, underpaid hitherto, and, we hope.
so far as their demands are just and reasonable, they will
succeed in their efforts to secure • higher scale of wager.
There are about 100 men in the employ of Mr. Reed-79 of
whom have struck—the present higk price of provisions,
together with the previously ill-paid labour, being the cause
of the strike.
A MOUNTAIN BORER.—An invention which pro-
mises to be one of the greatest utility, is described in the
Hartford (Connecticut) Times. It is a machine for boring
tunnels, the work of a Mr. E. Talbot, a practical mechanie,
1 who states •hat in the rapidity and completeness vf its exe-
cution it will surpass every instrument of the kind yet con-
-1 ceived. Worked into its own machinery, is en engine of
sixty horse power, which drives four piston rods, horison-
tally, and these turn four half-circle plates, of stout propor-
tions, furnished with circular revolving blades. These four
plates are turned with exactness about one-fourth of a cir-
cle and back, and are . all set upon a revolving plate, of
about ten feet in diameter, and as thus set. cut a circle of
I seventeen feet in diameter. The machine weighs about
eighty tons. The motion obtained by this invention is novel
—entirely new. By it the revolving knives, wen retuning
its quarter circle, cut completely from theirentrettilbe eir- .
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cumference, and they do their work steadily amieuray,
cutting a round hole with astonishing celerity. Thia ma. ,
chine, which, if it duns half the work thitis expected at it,
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will be of incalculable benefit in the constriction of Taa-
lroads and canals, as well as in other industrial enterprises,
is to be brought to this city soon, to make a trial of its ca-
pacities on the rocks near Harlem.

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