The Express.
London, England, 1853-06-28 00:00:00

SEWER ACCIDENT AND LOSS OF LIFE.

Yesterday, about twenty minutes before noon, an
alarm was raised, in llolywell.street, Strand, by the report
that a portion of the tunnel for the construction of the new
sewer, which has been some weeks in construction there,
had fallen in, and that two persons were buried beneath the
superincumbent earth. The report, in a few seconds, was
found to be too true, the workmen employed at the upper
part of the shaft, which was sunk at the eastern end of
Ilolywelbstreet, hearing cries from the man below, who
was at the opening end of the tunnel, in which the other
man was boring, that the tunnel had fallen in. This man
fortunately succeeded in making good his escape, the other
poor fellow being buried in the brickwork of an old sew( r
running parallel with the tunnel, the sewer being con-
structed in a series of lateral shafts and tunnels.
The beadle of St. Clement Dance, who was parsing at
the time, promptly obtained a large body of police to
keep back the crowd, and by their exertions the curious
were kept off, so as to leave free the number of men who
were immediately set to work, on the catastrophe being
known, by the clerk of the works, to extricate the man, and
by dint of extraordinary exertions, men being placed at
different points and then boring and clearing the earth
round tho position where it was l.rown the unfortunate
man must be, they after about an hour's exertion, succeeded
in extricating the body threugh en opeiiing from a deep
cellar of Mr. Steps's house, which was formerly a public
house; from its appearance, there is no doubt that the poor
man was immediately suffocated, life being quite extinct,
and there were but very few injuries on the person.
Medical attendance was of no avail, and on the body being
got up it was placed in a shell and conveyed to the dead
house of the Duchy of Lancaster. The deceased's name
is Phillips, and unfortunately he was a married man, and
has left a wife and four children, who are thus suddenly de-
prived of their ninon. A number of workmen were en-
gaged in shoring up the several houses atljoning, to prevent
further accident. Informed= will be conveyed to the
coroner, and an inquest held on the body. •

THE ROYAL DISPENSARY FOR DISEASES OF THE
EAR, DRAB-STRRET, Stlllo-NtARZ.-A sermon was
preached to a very crowded congregation on Sunday in aid
of the funds of this die/Jemmy, by the Bishop of St. Asaph,
at St. Peter's, Pimlico. His lordship most earnestly and
powerfully entreated n liberal contribution for an institu-
tion so highly deserving public support. During the
past year 1,388 patients had been placed on its books,
and 659 had been discharged cured, besides many more
materially relieved. His lordship's pathetic and eloquent
appeal produced a very handsome collection.
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HONOUR. TO SCIENCE.—From Berlin it is stated
that the King has ordered that the portrait of Jacob Grimm,
the philologist, shall be pieced in the Gallery of Contempo-
rary Celebrities created by him in the Palace of Charlotten-
burg ; and has commissioned M. Degas, the painter of the
portraits of Humboldt and Meyerbecr is tha same collection,
with the work. One of the first acts of the King on his
accession to the throne was to recal the proscription against
the brothers Grimm, issued by his father cn political
ground'.