The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-04 00:00:00

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COLLISiONVIITHE PORTADOWN AND
DUOANNON RAILWAY.

(Prom the Northers Whig.)
BELFAST, FIMAT.

A goods train, proceeding from Donipnnon to
Paraders, lad resired a peint ea the line between Ogee
and four miles direr tress the Warr place, about ha/f-
-ret 7 yesterday orideg, and proceeding at a acerars.
tarry moderate speed, a fat presager train running in
the same direction, to meet the Dublin erre. train at
Portadown, at tea minable to eight, came in sight. The
guard of the geode tern at once dismounted, and platted
warning simile on the rail. This precaution, however,
erne too late, as did also the effects of those conducting
the approaching train to attack Its advance by turning off
steam and epplying the break. The passenger train, a few
minutes affierraede, ran right into the hiadermost goods
waggons, amaing one or two. Two of the carriages of
the former were thrown across the rails and against each
other. Almost every person in the train was more or less
injured by the violence of the collision. A dealer in live
pigs, named Sweeney, of Yampa, suffered mote severely
than any other, and V reported to be in a precarious condi-
tion. Information of the accident was despatched to Porta.
down, and a special engine was at ere forwarded to the
scene al the accident. The injured passengers were con-
veyed to Portadown without loss of time, and were placed
in one of the waiting rooms, where efficient medical
warns* was afforded almost instantly.

ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OP A CHAIRMAN
OP QUARTER SESSIONS.

The proceedings at the Montgomeryshire quarter
sessions, at Walkout, as Thursday, were disturbed by the
ferocious wit al a primes, maid Jolts Enke, a tramp-
ing blacksmith, who was elimised with stealing
a thermometer, the pninety el Major Pugh, of
ljanerchrydel. When the deputpeimirman, R. H.
Mytton, Faq., of Guth, wee in the act of
sentence, prisoner put his hand in hie pockerniZ
pulling out a heavy stone, and exclaiming " I'll knock your
h head off !" Bung it with great format the chairman,
just missing that gentleman's head by a few inches. There
ts no doubt that the blow would ham seriouely Injured, if,
indeed, it would not have been fatal to Mr. Myttm, for the
stone wee a large one with sharp edges, and wu thrown
with such force as to rebound three or four yards. Much
excitement prevailed in court, the moue unmoved person
being the deputy-ohairman himself. The prisoner was at
once handcuffed, and Mr. Mytton addressed him, said, "Pri-
soner, you have disturbed me in the middle of my sentence ;
you are to be imprisoned, and kept to hard labour, for six
calendar mouths, and to receive twenty lashes on your bare
back. For We attempt at my life you will be committed
to take your trial at the ageism" The other prisoners were
immediately searched.

A plan has been suggested by M. Eugene Rondo,
and is now under the consideration of the Minister of Public
Instructive, for establishing four international colleges of
education at Paris, Rome, Munich, sad Orierd, where
youths from eight to sixteen are to rendre their edeastices,
remaining two years at each of these ertablislunonta This
idos has been favourably received, and its realistic's seam
to be eartain.

The Gotha Genealogical Almanac appears this
year for the ninety.ainth time. A. usual, it holds a review
over all the reigning families of Europe. The eldest sovereign
in Europe is at present Wilhelm the First, King of War.
temberg, born in September, 1781. Two first Williams are
now reigning in Germany ; Wilhelm the First of Prude,
and the Pet named Wilhelm the First of Wurtemberg.
Another table arranges the sovereigns of Europe by the
length of their reigns. In this respect, a German prince,
Duke Bernhard of Saxe-geiainpe, who has reigned since
1833, carries the field. The primes most meetly some to
hie throne is King Louis the First of Portugal. Bus every
day makes alterations in these paps ; hardly out of the
prow, we find it incorrect, owing to the death el Prises
Albert. As concerns Germany, we learn that leer wiping
families of that country have no hereditary male lesse.
The Greek journal the Arcadia mentions the
death at Tees, in the Pelopoomms, of • farmer named Jean
Bossinioils, at the age of 113. Tote last day of his life he
had the full enjoyment of his sight, hearing, and all his
intellectual faculties. Two hours before his death he told
his wife, who is 95 years of age, that he felt his end ap-
proaching. Ia the evening be aameehled all his workmen,
sod having eats. and drank with them, lay down on a sofa
is the room, where they were Einem and enjoying them.
*elves, and without a struggle expired. This venerable
patriarch bad from his eagle marriage twelve sons and two
daughters,who by their marriages pee him 132 desaindents.
Messrs. Neill Brothers, in a circular dated New
York the 19th ult., says :—"As regards the papal of
any arrangement between the North and South, it seems to
us as detect as ever. On both sides the most perfect coo-
fidence of ultimate victory exists. Neither will admit even
the possibility of a doubt upon the subject. The Washing-
ton governuient are in a pecuniary strait at this marmot,
but they will doubtless find a way of getting over it as aeon
as the question with England is settled. If not, they can at
11 any moment resort to the mode already practised in the
South, sod to which all countries have usually been reduced
during long wars—the nisaufacture of paper money, made
legal tender by the State. There is at present so large a
stock of gold in the country—estimated at 80,000,000 dol-
lars more than last year—that for some time the premium
on gold would be trilling. This system all intelligent bull-
pen men are already preparing for, as it is ocesideral in-
evitable.

M. Teouvzszes Dwsvarca.—lt is believed that
M. nonvoters despatch to the French minister at Wash.
hasten wan sent out in the steamer America. This steamer
was at Halifax, short of coal, on the day when it should
have reached New York.
EARL Roseau AND me DIRIBINTING DRPUTA-
SION. —One of the deputation writes to a contemporary
—" My own inspreesto' as of what Red Russell said to the
demoting deputations differ oonaidetably on one or two
points from the version given in the Freeman, which you
cite this morning. I have no recollection whatever of his
lordship's expressing any special concurrence in the Mati-
menu of the Baptist memorials. He expressed a general
concurrente in the wine sentiment. contained alike in all
the memorials, and assured the gentlemen present., collec-
tively, that be considered those sentiments as being
' honourable to them as man and as Christians.' Nor
do I certainly remember his lordship's stating his
' inability to agree' with the suggestion for arbitration. I
believe the expression he used was, that it required ' peat
consideration' whether the present was a case that could be
properly submitted to arbitration. He then adverted to
other points, mentioned by the Freeman, not as conclu-
sively setting aside the idea of arbitration, but as merely
suggesting certain difficulties, which made him hesitate es
to 1111 applicability. I seeped,. Wood, that the main came
of any disfavour with which arbitration may be regarded by
our oldest statesmen I. that, as Lord Claseeidon midst the
Paris conference, it is a • happy innovation'—that it is eat
found among the diplomatic . traditions delivered from the
fathers."

Itussas or Viscomer Pirmssnr. —We (Sussex
Express) regret to inform our readers that Lord Privessey
is exceedingly ill at Paris, where he has been Joined by
the Countess and Earl of Sheffield, and other siembeee
of his family. lie is suffering from a low fever with
exceeding weakness. A letter dated from Paris, December
30, and received at Sheffield-place on January 1, gives
hope of amendment of his lordship's health, but the
physicians anticipate it will be glow for the next tea
days. The news was received throughout Hatt Seem
with feelings of much regret by the constituency, espe-
cially in those circles where it had received the usual
additions and exaggerations of rumour. A letter subse-
quently received from Paris, dated December 31, gives the
following satisfactory information respecting Lord Peirense.y's
health :—" Lord Fevensey is decidedly better and is going
on favourably."
SINGULAR &CAM AT SEA. —A sailor-lad, named
Peathey, of Littlebemptoa, has, this year, in little mare than
six months, bed three very narrow eneepcs of his life by
shipwreck. After an apaeuticeship in the Era, of this
port, be shipped on board of the barque Orissa, at Shields,
which vessel was totally loot off Cape St. Vincent on 20th
Marsh. He was providentially picked up, with some Ahern
of the crew, and taken to Liverpool. He then shipped in
the brigantine Villiers, of London, and experienced ship.
wreck by the vessel being lost on the Mumbles. in Septem-
ber, and was taken from the rigging, where he had been
eight hours, in great peril, by a steamer end landed at
Swansea. He then shipped on board the barque Fanny, of
Shoreham, just after the vessel had undergone a large outlay
by considerable lengthening, he. The ship was, on the
'And of October, totally destroyed at sea by Ere, but his
life warn again rovidentially preserved. The reader will
scarcely be prepared to read that the intrepid youth has
already had the coinage again to ship himself to sea, and
encounter the rick of another casualty. This is a singular
illustration of Tenoyson's lines " The Sailor Boy :
My mother clings about my neck,
My sisters clamour "stay for shame r
My father rases el death and wreck,
They me elite lima they ere all to blame.