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

THE MILITIA.

The following commissions have been signed :
The Hen. Edward Richard Littleton, to be colonel, in tbl
King's Own Second Regiment of Staffordshire Militia.
The Hon. limy-William-George Paget, comrade/
called Lord Paget, to be lieutenant-colonel, in ditto.
Richard Hyatt, Esq., late captain in her Majesty's aid
Regiment of Foot, to be major, an ditto.
Francis Blake, Eeq., late captain in her Majesty, 7l
Regiment of Dragoon Guards, to be major, in ditto.
Benjamin Miller, Esq.. to be surgeon, in ditto.
Cecil Aneon Harries, Esq., to be first lieutenant, 1.16 • the
Royal P•mbroke Rifle Corps.
James James, Esq., to be second lieutenant. in ditto.

BILLINGSGATR INPRoVItIIENTS.—The street front.
age of the new Billingsgate market is proceeding rapiall
towards completion, and when tho whole is finished Inig
present a handsome appearance, and remarkably different
to the ugly and shattered shed-like look of the former pin'
mins of this renowned fish market.
TfIE Oe'F.AN PENNY PusrtcE.—A public meet'
ing was held at Ike's Hotel, Dirminghatn, on Mondry
evening, at which the Mayor presided, when Twin:jag
were paswd unanimously in favour of the proposed Oats
Penny Postage. Mr. Oahu Burritt the principal
speaker.
A Ucicu PassAGE.--Ttiessrit. Gibbs, Bright, and
Co., the owners of the Eagle, are about to present Captain
Boyce, the commander, with a handsome tiller saw,
appropriately inscribed, in commemoration of his bringing
the vessel from Melbourne to London in the shortest titan
the voyage has yet been accomplished, namely, 76 darn'"'
Liocrpeel Courier.
DEMERARA RAILWAY. Return of
traffic for November last, 6211. 17s. 44.; gosh rtrall,...
6s. 91.; total, 1,2931. 4s. Id. Corresponding
year, 1,1701. 12s. 6d.

HE ELECTIONS.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY.
OXFORD, Trzsosy.
result of the seventh day's polling has added
two mere to Mr. Gladstone's majority, making it 113.
It tls bun decided that the Twit cm be kept open
woes day.. The friends of Mr. l'ereeval (for committee
a appears he has none) have stated, in a handbill issued this
alma?, that " the poll wul be kept open for another
week.
ELEVEN O'CLOCI.

G:s !O no 756
643
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i;nrity far Gladstone
ALLIEIt TO TWELVE O'CLOCK.
GlEagan° 761
l'aceval
Majority for G!ad.tone
WILVE O'CLOCK.

....
Gladstone - _
773
6i4.1
!'nasal

Majority for Gladatono lll
UCAlf,Tric-FA,t oNS O'CLOCK.
Vcrceral
Majority for dimlitone
(4.:ALTISK.PAST TWO OCLOt K.
iladstone SO3
l'erceral

143;nrity for (I:vlstune ll2
4t {;;(Elll'AliT THREE o'cLucii
6;adstoat Bl7
l'orceval
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Majority for Gladstone ll2
HALF -PAiT THILEE O'CLOCK.
61adstone S29
Ferrer:a

Mojotity for Gladstone llO
FUIB V. CLOCK.

C.,tr,no 839

730
Pireeval

Xa;ority for Glnestono lO9
rive U.CLOCK.

Glio.*.tocc
739
rercetal

Majority for Gladstone
Amongst the friends of Mr. Gladstone who recorded
ths.r votes to-day were—The Begins Professor of Modern
Illitory, the Lord Bishop of Brechin, the Right Hon. S.
Lushinkon, Rev. 0. Howard, Rev. L. E Begot, Mr. F.
Utyrick, M.A., the tier. the Dean of Carlisle, W. E. Jelf,
8.0., Mr. E. Vernon Harcourt, W. N. Darnell, 8.D., Rev.
W. J. Copleston.
Amongst those of Mr. Perceval were Viscount Lewisham,
the priecipal of St. Mary Hall, J. Burrows, 11. D., Rev.
Van. 11. L. Menet, 8.D., J. C. Brower°, D.C.L
Join V. Hayes, Rev. Harry Les, W. D.C.L.,
Itev. N. W. Stowert.
SOUTH WILTSHIRE.
SALISBURY, TVZSDAY.
The appointment of the Right Hon. Sidney Her-
btrt to the office of Secretary at War having rendered
vacant the representation o: the southern division of the
county of Wilts, the High Sheriff fixed this morning for the
election consequently rendered necessary. For some days
wt it had been currently reported that the lion. Grentley
Berkeley would clime forward in opposition to the Secretary
at War; bat last night it was definitively announced that
no opposition would be offered to Mr. Herbert's re-elec-
tion. All the preliminaries were conducted at the Town
Hall, and at a few minutes past eleven o'clock Mr. Herbert,
accompanied by a numerous body of friends, proceeded to
the hustings.
Mt. ALLIANDER rowm.t. proposed the Right lion.
Sidney Herbert. It would be uo slight gratification to that
division of the county. to know that it had returned a man
of talent and integrity, who had been appointed to a high
office in the government of the country.
Mr. J. H. Jxcons seconded the nomination.
The Urr nan-S neuter having declared the hon. gentleman
duly elected,
Mr. S. litaßtliT proceeded to address the persons
assembled in explanation of the course which he had
pursued since his previous election. He then reviewed the
sets of the Derby-Disraeli administration. and stated that
knowing the high character of the Earl of Aberdeen, who
has been called upon to form the new government,
when he (Mr. Herbert) was called upon to join that ad-
ministration he felt little difficulty, for he had little
faith in the principle of the nub episcopari. At the
same time be must say, that although he was not unac-
quainted with the sweets of office, he knew that he had
many eujeyments of private life to give up, and many
personal comforts to sacrifice. Such sacrifices he was per-
fectly ready to make, if be could be of any service to his
country. (Hear.) The party to which he was attached
had long held an isolated position, but they thought that the
time woman when, by collecting their forces, they might
coalesce with those with whose political opinions they were
to • certain extent identified. The government was now
formed, and the gentlemen around him coned as well judge
as him elf what it was competent to achieve. They had,
in soma respects, a difficult task to perform. The founda-
tion that was laid for the material prosperity of this country
in I°S6 was now rendered fixed and permanent, despite of
the exertions of the 53 cr 56 members of the House of
Commons who still held on to protection. Such a thing as
aprotectionist was now hardly to be seen out of the House of
Commons. They bad this advantage over their predecessors
In office—that they had not appealed to the country to find •
policy for them; they had found a policy settled for them
and they should call upon the country to assist them in
supporting it. They would continuo to adhere to free-
trade principles, and not unly to, but they were determined
to extend them, because they knew that they were wise,
just, and beneficial. (Hear.) -Talk about their not being en
united adminiitration! \Vhy, all the ministerial addresses
that had been issued showed their deep attachment to the
institutions of the country, while they were determined to
promote sound reforms. They did not hold various creeds
—those who represented counties holding one creed, while
those who presented themselves before borough consti-
tuencies professed another; they were decided upon prin-
ciples which they themselves originated, and which they
believed to be true. (Hear, hear.) He might be allowed
to say that with respect to the question of reform, they
should seek from the country time to give it a patient and
deliberate conaideration. He was not one of those who
wished to abolish our ancient institutions, but still he
thought they ought to be so modified as to adapt them to
the circumstances of the times. (Hear.) He wished to see
education extensively spread amongst the people. He
thought that to the prevalence of education was to be attri-
bated much of the peaceful spirit which had of late years
prevailed amongst the people, and of that increased moral
feeling which was perceptible in every direction. The
people of England were generous and liberal, and
must be governed in a generous and liberal spirit.
Governments have spoken in fear of the people,
and when governments spoke in fear of the people it
was not unnatural that the people should fear the
government. Fear was not the right principle to pre-
vail between the people and the government. He hoped
that whatever reforms they might have to make they would
be guided by a firm attachment to the constitution of the
country. In promoting education there were many did.
tellies to encounter on account of the religious conviction
of England. There were countries in which education
had been earned further than in England, hut with
less success, because religion was not connected with
it, and he wee convinced that without religion edu-
cation could have no tasting foundation. (Hear, hear.)
He wished to see the Chards of England predominant in
this country, for he had a deep attachment to
that church. Be wished to see its usefulness extended, its
dicieney ineremed, and all Its abases removed. At the
same time that be professed his deep attachment to the
Church of Ending—which was his church and his creed—
he wished is give fell toleration and liberty to all other
fel=cseele, flee he wee not one of three who thought that
the of deb penalties ever tended to the advance-
ment of religious tenth. (Hear, bear.) Religion flourished
most where peeeseatios was unknown. For himself, he
wield make se peenisse, and would not bid for popularity.
Be wadi esdesteeer le do his duty in the situation he
het tees gelled spa le SU, and wen at last he sheathed
Ms mud le treated be sight have the satisfaction of re-
that, to sems =tent, he had been humbly instru-
nsiellntin pressetlig the benefit of his country. Tho right
hon. gentleman sandalled by proposing vote of thanks to
the ender-sheriff foe the manner in which he conducted the
election.
The t:suru Sumner acknowledged the compliment, and
the proceedings terminated.

CHRONOLOGICAL OR ARITHMETICAL COINCIDES-
Frenchman lately communicated the following
tatter curious calculations to an English friend
Fall of 'lobo/duce
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Fan of Duke of Orleans
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Fall of -? 1847
It is considered that the death of the Duke of Orleans by
a fall sealed the fate of the Orleans dynasty even before the
flight of Louis Philippe; because the duke was so much
beloved, that bad he been alive ho would have been ac-
cepted as iing on the abdication of his father, Louis Phi-
The Builder.

THE ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND

NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.

THE ADJOURNED INQUEST.
OXFORD, TCZCDAT.
This morning the adjourned inquest upon the
bodies of the unfertunate persons whose deaths were occa-
sioned by the late calamitous occurrence near this city, was
resumed at the Star Hotel, before Mr. Brunner, the cam-
Per. Mr. Thompson, solicitor, attended to watch the pro-
ceedings on behalf of Joseph Kirsch, the guard of the 5.30
passenger train from Oxford.
Captain Bruyares, the superintendent of the company,
was recalled, and in answer to the foreman and other mem-
bers of the jury, raid—l consider that it was a safer and
better plan to use one line for the regular traffic between
Islip and Oxford, and the other for the coal and ballast
train•, than to have hail points on this side the tunnel, and
to have transferred both descriptions of train from one line
to the other. Pilot engines are used when there is no tele-
graph, but not where the telegraph is at work. There is a
telegraph between Bicester and Winslow, as well as be-
tween Islip and Oxford. Mr. Blott, the stationmaster, has
been in the employ of the company thirteen or fourteen
years. He was stationmaster at Wolverton during the
Exhibition, and no accident occurred under his manage-
ment. Indeed he was proapited to Oxfcrd on account of
his steadiness and efficiency, and the confidence of the
company in him has iu nowise been shaken by what has
occurred. (Witness then put in a plan of the line beta et n
Islip and Oxford, and described what was the practice
wick regard to working the traffic over that potion of the

line.] -
A Juror—What is the average time a coal train occupies
in travelling between Islip and Oxfard ?
Witness--Thirty minutes. The table shows tkat they
arrived at Islip at 4.50, and at Oaf.rd at 5.20.
The Coroner—We shall require evidence ea to the cause
of the delay of the coal train. It has teen given in evi-
dence that the coal train arrived i 0 minutes too late at

=etchley.
111 r. 11lott—The time occupied by the coal train in pass-
ing between Islip and Osford is as follows :—Deeemeer
17m, 23 minuet.; thib, 27 min. ; 20th, 20 min.; 21► t, 29
min.; 22nd, 25 min.; 23rd, 2. min.; 27th, 25 min.; 30;h,
21 min.; 31st, 19 min,. ; January lot, 20 min. The ave-
rage of the whole is 23 minutes. I wish to explain a per
lion of the evidence I gave on Thursday. After I go.
up to the scene of the collision, I returned to Oxtonl, and
took a fly to procure medical assistance. In the meanwhile
I sent my cluk, Robinson, to the Oxford-road to stop the
down train, and then I followed him myself to the Oxford-

road.
John Lee, engine-driver, recalled.—l brought the coal-
train from Bletchley. I cannot exactly say what was tale
cause of the delay tram Bletchley. I have a printed thee-
table for the coal train. It was light when we started from
Bletchley. Our orders arc to light the lamps at sunset.
They were all lighted at Bicester. My own lights on the
engine were lighted. My lights were a green one in front,
and on the side of the tender ; a white one and a red one
en the other side. I can't speak a! to the brake lights. I
gut off my engine at the Oxford-road, and I saw the title
lights on the tender of the first engine, and my own lights,
but I can't speak to the iights on the brak,..
I did not go in front of the tint engine,
and can't say what lights it had. Watts was the
brakeaman. When I saw the brake first alter the accident
there were no lights upon it. I saw a blue light on the left
hand side of the brake, as the train was ;using between the
Weenie-cite tunnel and the spot where the accident oc
cured. lam quite sure it was not a policeman's light, but
the light of the brake. The guard has a hiuid lamp, but it
was not that I saw, because, if it had been, it would have
been tither a white, • red, or a green light, and the light I
saw was a blue one. A sudden collision will put out the
lights. When we started from Bletchley we had three
engines. There is a very steep incline towards Winslow,
and we generally have an extra engine there. I was well
acquainted with John Tarry, the engine driver. His home
is at Bletchley, whore I have also lived for a twelvemonth.
I never saw Tarry " fresh," and I have never known him
reported for any irregularity.
By Mr. Small (who appeared on behalf of the friends of
Tarry)—l saw Kinch the same evening after the accident.
I asked him if he knew where Watts the guard was ? He
told me that he was gone up the line to stop the
" through " train. I asked him how they came to start
the train before we arrived. He said, " We were deceived;
we thought that when the ballast train arrived it *ILA the
coal train, and I said, ' All right, Jack ; let us go.' " He
said no more. The guard gives us the order to stop a train,
and he can explain the mum of any delay.
Richard Brooks—l am employed as a supernumerary po-
liceman on the Great Western Railway. I have been la
the employ of that company far two years. On Monday
week I was stationed on the level crossing called the She-
riffs-bridge, where the two railways arc clues to each other.
My duty was to keep people off the line. I was sitting is
my box when the 5.30 p.m. train on the Loudon and North
Western Railway started out of the station. I heard the
beat of the engine anal thus knew that it had started. I
was looking,towaris Wolvereote at the time, but as the
train approached (as I thought) very fast, I got up out of
my box to look at it. I saw it coming at very considerable
speed, end the engine was beating very hard at the time.
After the train had passed on, looking up the North Westere
line 1 sow the coal train coming in the opposite direction
from Wolvereote. I saw the light from the fire-box, bat
did not observe any lamps in front of the engine. I beard
a whistle directly after from the coal train. I heard nue
from the passenger train. I was stationed not a quarter of
a mile from where the collision took place. I saw only the
light frames. engine, and I ran to the spot the moment
the accident happened. I also walked up our line as far as
the coal train to see that our rails were clear. The lamps
en the brake were burning properly at that time. There
was no green lamp on the front of the first coal train en-
gine, or I should have seen it, and held up my lamp to the
passenger train—that is, if the passenger train had not
already passed. I saw the ballast engine come into the
Oxford station. I have been stationed at Sheriffs-bridge
crossing for the last three months, and have seen the 6.30
p.m. train leave Oxford, and the coal train come in on the
London and North Western Railway. The 5.30 p.m.
train from Oxford has been very regular, but the
coal train has not been so much so. Sometimes
it would come in before the 5.30 train went out, and some-
times after it. Had there been • green light on the coal-
train, I should have seen it, and should have stopped the
Passenger train, as I knew that the coal-train had am come
in. It I had shown a red light, 1 believe they would have
paid attention to it, because I should have gone on the
other (the London and North-Western) line to show my
light. I have no instructions to act for both lines. I saw
the ballast-train conic in before the 6.30 passenger-train
went out. The level crossing at Sheriff's-bridge extends
over both the Great Western and the London and North-
Western lines.
Wm. Rainey, policeman on the North-Western Railway
—My box is between the station and the Swing-bridge;
and from it I can see the trains started from the platform.
I can also see them past the Swing-bridge, and until they
get to the engine-shed, which is about 40 yards further.
The line then carves to the right, and then the engine-
shed intervenes. I can see the trains from my
box when they stop at the ticket platform,
to which every train coming to Oxford must
go. On Monday night I saw the ballast engine come in at
about half-past five. It came on the down line. I cannot
say whether it stopped at the ticket platform. It was on
the bridge when I saw it, and it then turned off as if to go
on the siding. It had • white light. I saw it go towards
the engine-house, but I cannot tell whether it went en the
siding. When I saw it I was sure it was not the coal train.
Liter this Pargett, the porter, came and asked me if the
coal train had come in, and I said no. He then went back
towards the ticket platform. He had come from the station.
He did Rot go moo than six or seven yards past my box
before he returned, and went towards the station. I knew
then that the 5.30 train had not started. I have a red
signal lamp which I can an in case of danger. I had that
lamp with me on Monday night, trimmed and lighted. I
am aware that it has been usual to detain the 6.30 train
until the arrival of the coal train. Ido not communicate
with the ofilos clerks or the telegraph clerk as to the
starting of trains from Islip and Oxford-road. The
only means I have of knowing of the arrival
of the cud train is by seeing it at the ticket platform.
When the coal train adorer on the down line, the up line
is free for traffic. I saw the 6.30 train start on Monday
sight week. I was then at my box ; and I knew that the
seal train had not arrived. 1 showed my red lamp, but I
was not aware that there was any danger ; for I did net
know that the coal train was on its way. 1 exhibited my
light as the 5.30 train passed, because the red signal was
ep
at the bridge. I always show my red light when the
red light is on the bridge. I have been at my box seven
month,. I never knew • train start before while a red
right was on the bridge. It was the practice for the treias
to whistle before starting ; and if all was clear, a green
light was turned on at the bridge, and the trains then left.
The green light remained until the train had passed the
bridge, and then the red light was turned on again. The
first time I saw Hayes, the foreman porter, was after the
train had left. He told me to turn on the red light and to
stop the train if I possibly could ; but the train had already
gone over the bridge. Hayes then told me that the coal
train had not come in. The train as it passed me was going
much faster than usual. I showed my red light again, and
Balled out, but it was then of no use. My duty is to see the
train out and in, to see that all is right between the bridge
and the station ; and to shunt coals. I went on up the hue
to the place where the accident occurred. One er two or
the porters were there before me. Hayes ran up with me.
By a Juror—The red light was on the bridge, and I
showed my red light. The engine whistled and then it
paned me ; and alter it had gone six or eight yards beyond
me, the engine whistled again, and then the green light
was shown. The engine left the station in the face of my
red light and the danger light at the bridge—a thing I had
o.ollot known it do before.
By Mr. Thompson—Whea I showed my light the driver
was blowing off his steam. I can't say whether he saw my
light, for the train was enveloped in • cloud of steam. If
they saw my light it was the duty of the driver to have
stopped, and of the guard to have put on his brake.
Francis Cooper, of Summertown—l am in the employ of
Mr. Ilyton, the contractor for the weeks on the London
and North Western Railway. On Monday evening week,
between five and six o'clock, I was is the lane between
Hayfield's Hut and the Portmeadow Bridge. Just as I
bad reached Rackham's Corner I heard a train coming out
from the station. It was going very fast, and I caught a
glance of its lights through the trees. It had white lights
In front. I also saw the coal-train approaching ; and it
had a green light in front of the buffer of the first engine,
and a white light on the side of its tender. I don't recol-
lect seeing any lights to the second engine. I was first
asked to come here and state what I have said about these
lights on Saturday last, by Mr. Smith, the foreman of the