The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-30 00:00:00

SCOTLAND.

EDINBURGH, SEPT,
A severe railway acct... °enured this morning
at the Glasgow terminus of the Edinburgh and Glas-
gow Railway. It is thus described in the Mail:—
• MEW kon Edinburgh, on daporWag her Corer sta-
rs Orris the soglisos ore detached, rd Leaf rids the trains de-
; mend a Mew rim le Er tannings). merind Fmk a velocity, while
par through tb• taarl. that the awa thatlened sit the brakes hod
not power ore runt ie ethine• The troth ina heard by
several were he Oremotrest arr. dews eles rare at such •
rapid wee es to rape alarr whir dart Immedlerigelber, • tre-
mendous crash re hood white sheet the ithebbeatheeth On
resohiug the roe of the we reed Mat the traiq with
the fearful momentum it had ahrd, bed about ally
feet into one of the nillway pop stores, store the Star
Hotel, brine down, in Its hesdkog career, • Urn stone gable and
' two goal and watering Into two of the gates of the rata.
Warmed. The sere id ruin that here presented Itself was mop
appalling three bath% with a number of treks lying plied
oboes the ream, Nth cowed with the Mora of the
gables thal partillma
atone the bomb Paler., Ind tharthAte of the
dOlllllOOO, Were trimi her is ems mangled MEM WO tindery
Meal Ur rem mese Mr or re ira ea the he et the thee;
throe ban mewed that tide hozmats waellthh two et them are se-
venth Isthand. wad two ono ail we evils= was am on
the theme* bribe Ithesettheath thin esalelea
them sale Ude death that be the Ma Ids daub wawag
One dew gawk impel elan Ws am It etherare lbws the Ithael,
▪ emesed walla two is the bad wed a taw booths; the ether
two who lath her And %me the this Illieseiew,
enema eleb a
se stheth, he la Perth 'atomly
after, se fee ab be die in v.l. ow he yaw severely
braised, bth hem the thalthaa that et the Wades we were
unable to lee the psollseime mermis think er omen of the
parties. Wellies@ dr =died sill wen en the spot, and
everything dor that mai it reser re of tae parties hurt.
Men we,, buryin exudates sad removing the rubbish, to
drover, if they the holies arose miming.
A similar • t, though, happily, attended with
less disastrous consequences, occurred about three
years since. A train of trucks, laden with stones,
dashed down the incline, and cut completely through
the booking-offices, paying an alarming visit to an
hotel immediately opposite. On that occasion we
believe no lives were lost. It is almost marvellous
that such accidents do not happen more fre-
quently, from the steepness of the incline. Nothing
but powerful brakes, in the best order, can avert
them. A new terminus was talked of—but only
talked of.

Another Edinburgh assistant inspector of the poor
has died of fever, being the second victim of a similar
grade since May. Twelve of the police are also lying
With these casualties, and a crowded infirmary,
our local distress stands in no need of foreign seg-
mentation, and yet here is an awkward instance of
the kind in a paper of to-day :
On Saturday week, an Irishman, with his wife and four children,
was sent to Edinburgh by the authontios for the poor in Berwick.
Mooney's wife had been confined in the infirmary there, with fever,
and wishing to join her husband who had been passing the time, both
day and night, abort the walls of the town, she was discharged while
f,:pe:lcoitnivitiocent.wick rornoon
eafteonr.aerdis shiel•ymewthleo a,ll4lreicartetedto,thuc,
fir " me
iage :1M them,orh iManedril;,to ourgii In
renoon
train. On their arrival in Edinburgh two of the chilarenywere Imme-
diately taken to one of the fever wards in the infirmary, and the other
two, who were also threatened with an attack, were, with their
mother, sent to the temporary convalescent how.
Water is denied to Edinburgh partly by the
clouds—to Glasgow wholly by the water company,
who threaten to cut off the supplies of the pure ele-
ment in those cases where landlords will not become
bound for the payment of the water-rate by their
tenants, a condition which the proprietors of domiciles
let by the week and month naturally refuse to accede
to. In crowded localities the service is by wells, and one
would think that the withholding of a key from di-
latory tenants would be a sufficient punishment ; but
no, the company wishes to cut off the industrious
and paying poor because they may happen to live in
the neighbourhood of some who are either not able or
not willing to pay. The supply of water to towns
should, like air, be unlimited, and the cost, like the
repairing of streets, be defrayed by those who are able,
while those who are not should have free right of pere-
grination. The municipal police board very properly
take this view of the subject, and have intimated to
the company that they are bound and restricted to
keep up fountains and wells for all individuals who
are willing to pay for them. But not only is Glasgow
pinched for water, it is also being visited by police
torpor. Besides housebreakings by the score, the sanc-
tity of the press has been violated —the brass knobs
of the Mail office have been twice carried off in one
week, catastrophes at which the Mail need not be
I surprised, seeing that a few nights after, its pages re-
cord that a policeman, not a hundred yards from its
own office, was robbed of his hat, belt, baton, and
lantern, it being but fair to add, in order to lessen the
estimate of the bravery of the thief, that the guardian
of life and property was in a state of intoxication
when so denuded of his accoutrements. More merrily
still, the Examiner avers that it is no uncommon thing
for some of the officers to be asking their way to the
police-office, so that one thing with another, knavery
in the west appears, like salmon in the north, to be
enjoying a sort of jubilee.
A slighter but more ludicrous annoyance to which
the fair inhabitants of St. Mango's are exposed, con-
sists, in such of them as are of Scandinavian appear-
ance, being mistaken for Jenny Lind. The times
have been that when a player left a town there was
' an end to him, but although Jenny's doings at Nor-
wich have been duly chronicled, so as to put her alibi
beyond doubt, a light-haired, blue-eyed maiden in
Buchanan-street, was yesterday mobbed, from her
I supposed identity with the nightingale, and had to
take refuge in a shop. And the trick of so hunting
young ladies, either as a joke or for collecting a crowd
b favour thieves, seems to have been resorted to more
than once.