The Express.
London, England, 1853-05-18 00:00:00

The incidents of railway transit this week on the
lines west and north-west of Sheffield are quite suggestive
of the published records of the famous manna adventures
in search of the north-west puessge. We append a few
examples. The Huddersfield passenger train lett Sheffield,
as nasal, at 7.36 p.m. an Monday evening, and having the ,1
advantage of following is the wake of a powerful goods
engine the train worked its way through the snow without
mach difficulty as far as Pakistan', a distagos of thirteen
miles. Diverging at this point from the main line of
the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire railway, and
proceeding on the Huddersfield and Penistone branch,
the further progress of the passenger train was greatly
impeded by the snow, which was very deep. When
it had travelled on the branch about a mile the train
came to a dead lock. The conductors alighted, and found
that tise snow was about a yard in depth. All efforts at
further prosier proving futile, they conducted the parson-
gers, geese fourteen or fifteen is number, back to Pent-
stone, tho guard sagincdriver, and fireman piloting the
way with *sir limps. The pumps" found solace at the
Mu, bet the three poor fellows who had led the van, act-
isg ender a sows consciousness of duty, trudged back to
the snow-bound train. The pitiless mow tame down all
the while with blinding intensity, and so it continued till
midnight. Hod it gone on, the unlucky trio would probe-
bly have been Maisel in a grave of snow. They were by
no means secure as it was, for they were wet to the
skin, benumbed with cold, and without a particle
of Mod. Manfully they stood by their colours till relief
mime to band. It seems that at daybreak on Tata-
day mornie4 the helpless position of the traits was diner
vend from the main line, and the tidings hiving been con-
veyed to Sheffield, a powerful pilot engine was sent to its
relief, and reached the spot at 5 cm. The engine belong-
ing to the train was then dug out of its white enclosure
wall., and having nearly exhausted its stock of water, took
advantage of the path opened by the pilot engine to return
to l'esistose for a fresh supply of liquid for the boiler, and
for its freight of passengers. The pilot engine, meanwhile,
w-v mgagsd in cutting open the road ahead, and having
partially cleared the line for the distance of a mile or so it
returned for the benighted train, wilt which it succeeded
in ploughing its way through the snow to its destination
at Huddersfield, the other engine following in the
wege. By the aid of stimulants and external warmth, pro-
cured as soon as they reiiched Huddersfield, the three men
who had been exposed all night to the storm were gradually
restored.

FIRE AT BROMLEY.-Yesterday morning, skint
eight o'clock, a fire broke out on the premises of Merge.
Hassell and Miller, Trovidence.row, Bromley, Middlesex,
daring the ',wows of the men engaged in the regain, et
hrealifait. Every exertion was used to stay the progress
of the dames ; but so firm a hold had they taken, that the
destruction of surrounding property wee evident. The
electric wires were, however, set to work, and in a wonder-
fully short tirae Mr. For), foreman of the A section of the
Brigade, arrived with two powerful legion and men, when
being farther wired by en engine from Meows Currie 's and
abundance of water from the Esc. London mains, the tire
was subdued, after it had totally destroyed one house.