The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-01 00:00:00

AARROW ESCAPE OF A RAILIVAY TRAIN.

In the Daily News of Monday appeared an account
of an accident at the Patricroft Station, on the Liverpool
sad Manchester Railway, in which an ennuis train ran into
two carriages, aiid dashed them to pieces, but moped
without injury. The accident appears to have been of a
NON serious character, although not *Mailed with fatal
multi. The accident was caused by some hitch in
the points of • aiding at the Patricroft station,
iMe which it is customary to shunt from the
MY 'Aso the trains from Manchester to Petri-
melt ally. The driver of ono of these trains, which left
thalbanalt at 9 o'clock as Saturday morning, on arriving
breeperseloall that it was going into the Clifton Junction,
bemsomethig being wrong with the points. He therefore
aim put me his Mem% and mowed towards the up line, in
arise that the pines might be adjusted. At the moment
wile the teals toga amiss both lines the ezpnes train,
which leaves Measelemem at 9.16, and does not stop at
Patricroft, came up at a speed of about twenty miles an
bow, although the driver had aleakened oa
some fog slogs, which had been plastid on fiat
es $3Oll as the statics" officials bettameawar• of the danger.
The collision was fortunately rendered leas Mideast than it
otherwhe would have been, .1, the driver of the Patricroft
train getting into atones, and pastas through the station
at the rate of five or six miles an hour. As it was, the last
carmine of the Patrimoft train, • break van, was knocked
limn bodily off its wheels and thrown violently spots a
second elan carriage. Both of these carriages were wholly
destroyed, sad two others very much damaged, while the
eagine, with two carriages attached, shot forward for half a
▪ o.e before it could be stopped. The fast train seems to have
tone to a deed stand immediately after the collision,
and sustained no damage, except • slight bulging of the
engine chimmy. Of the passenger', one lady had her
forehead severely cut and bruised, and a gentlemen also
bad a rather severe gash in the foes, but the others escaped
with • few slight scratches or coutusions. An hour elapsed
before the musk of the carriages was sufficiently removed
to claw the ewer to proceed to Liverpool. It has not
been ascertained what was wrens with the points, but an
investigation 14 being said&

UNPE.:TED MURDER IN SCOTLAND.

On the evening of Monday the 21st inst., a ms
in the prime of life, name' WDonald, holding a small
farm ic the parish of St. Fergus. near Peterhead, left his
httne to proceed nn some business to the blacksmith's
shop, situated at some little distance. and as he
did not teturn the same night, his friends naturally
became. alarmed about him. The lest morning
he was found lying dead in a held, with a discharged pistol
by his side, by a bullet from which, it was evident, he bad
COM. by his death. It was fiat conjectured that he had
committed suicide. but when tidings of the event reached
Peterhead the agent of the Northern Insurance Company
there —in which office M•Donald's life had been in-
sand for -5001. was led to suspect, from the cis-
"assume that the insurance had not been effected
by M•Dociald himself, but by another person, a Dr.
Staitt,. residing in St. Fergus, that there had bee.
some foul play in the matter. Ibis suspicion was
very much; strengthened when it was ascertained that the
life of the unfortunate men was insured by the wane ;wean
is a second office fur 6001, and in a third—the Caledonian
—for 1,00 W., and, further, that the term insured for ia
this Litter Ohre was only one year, and that the period of
the policy would expire in the course of a few days from
the present date. sod, consequently, if Iff'Donald survived
the twelve months the premium paid on the 1,0001. would
be lest money. Moreover, the parties miss discovered the
dead man begaa to esprees an opinion that, from the posi-
tion io which the bed; was lying, and the way that the
shot bad taken effort, it was nest to impossible that the
pistol could have been fired by 111. Donald himself. The
resu;t was that Dr. Smith has bun apprehended, and now
hes in the gaol of Peterhead, nu the charge of having been
entice 'red in the death tit the deremeil.—Edinhurpt
Obwrani.

MRS- CAROLINE CIIIAIIoLM has arrived in Edin. '
bereh,,wbera she will remain for two or three days, while
making some arrangements for the re-union of families
divided by emigration. We understand she IA the guest of
Mr. K. Qambers.—lithn6nisg4 Witness.