The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-06 00:00:00

THE NEW FOREST TIMBER ROBBERIES.
Yeaterdey, the exiatiastiose easegeette epost the
govereeteat tma(ry goiag on ia the New Parest, were
rammed at the Quota's Henn Lyadharet. Tee pa
@lda( usghtratee were Mr. H. 0. Ceaultos, /I P., Mr. W.
H. Mame Staley, Clen. Sabah's, Mr. gyre, sad Mr.
Smith. Mr. Gewalt, solicitor, of Saatheisplea, appeared
he the eraa to promente ; Mr. Brows, of Lpaiagten, Mr.
Gorge Pees*. .1 liontheasptow, sad Kr. Moue, of With
beiZiearred for the defendants.
Pane, a woodman employed by** wows la
the haretun Bast 'barged with stealing 24 trees sad 8 tops
of bee* *lbw tram Fumy-lawn. The owner and outer of
• than eurrfaeo proved hating removed timber for the
phew, whisk was delivered at one of the Shag timber
yank from the part of the farms in question. The Mar of
the dater la Fara-laws to mast maudlin( vitals') deposed
that he had hews the' weed Awe by prissaat's thstrucions.
It was sot timber ho had biwa—it was fad Treed ; it was
ass the ends of beech. He did not know whether It was
oak or beech. He had lowa beak taus sad tops. He did
net know the Raub* of t 0... hews. Mr. Puree paid him
for hewing the wood. He was paid by ramiare. Did sot
know how sank he had remind. Did net knew who he
gave his 'mean to. The keeper of the walk sad a young
ma mascot Mohan, wk., had worked la the vicinity, de-
posed also to the bowing of the 011110 and to their loin
carted sway is depend by the Dater of the timber waggon.
—The prisoner was oommittad.
The some primmer was the °barged withigetliog 18 bush
trees and 16 tops from Celan'ogstter Is Cattle Malmo&
walk.—Charles Hewn deposed to there Nola been beech
timber cat fast tool weed in this walk last winter. AU of it
was not lotted ler teal wood. He had seen math of
trees whisk were not lotted lying in Bartley-lath at a sab-
email ported.—Mark Donning, a fanner at Bartley, de.
rood to laving taken the timber from Calmer gutter to
Butlry-lane by the primaer's instrutione. He ball-Ted some
of It was lylag there now. Prisoner told him the timber he
was to take was lying at Colmar gutter ; so he went there
and took all he could Bad. He was to have delivered the
timber at 'Hg, but ho had not done so. It lay at Bartley-
lase to mdt hie (woaesee) sonvenienos.—Canunitted. Toe
private: was admitted to bail,
Joke Leen, • timber surehant at Sling, Oro. Starnes
sad Bliss Hurls, labium', wile neat charged with stag
Is 14 oak true from Lamb'sartter, in the Castle Md.
Weigkrallt, dada the meth of May last —Charles Hol-
den deposed that about 12 months ago he had out 14 oaks
▪ Letab'uszraer. Saw of it had both carried NoTiarl
teat an the 19th April lam. Starnes and
were with the team. He had sines seen the Habig
lying at Bartlerleas. "J. L." waa marked es the
tram Witness I,tenti6ed the trees by marks spot them.
The trees were about a mile from Light's hawse. He did
sat see Light in the wood.—Harriet Hillard depend that
she lived at dartley. Remembers Starnes and Harris es
lag with Light's team past her father's has", to fresh away
the timber out by last witsma. Saw Light also pass the
hew.—John Osman more that he had hews timber
by Mr. Light's orders, and that ha bad identified a part of
toe timber so hewn =Dog that !yin at Dartley-lame.—Ed
ward Meant, superintendent of police, proved that the
true sow is Bertlerlane had been pointed oat by Osman
and Heiman as the tree, they had been engaged in hewing,
and that Starnes sad Hams, when premed ea to their an-
oint in the troasiotioo, bad rause to giro soy eseeent, re-
frains the OW to their motor Mr. Light.—no settrimeto
committed but the use us spina
sad Harris.

TWO COLLISIONS ON THE NORTH WESTER/47
RAILWAY.

We stated yesterday that a collision had taken
plies in the morning, at Leighton station, by which not
less than 60 persons have sustained injuries or a more or
lees melees character. The following are fuller &teas.
Upon the Rugby train reaching Leighton there stood
on the line a number of ballast-tracks, beaded by a power-
ful enßiae. From some canes or other, at present ea.:-
phased, this train was not moved out of the way,
and the coesequenc• was that the engine of the Rugby
train struck the hindermost truck, by which it was smashed,
the carriages being at the time to completely acmes the
line, sad several of them broken to ph cos. Many of the
paieangere have been much injured, some of them being
wedged is the carriages, and others lying underneath them..
The driver of the mail train was theown• to a considerable
dimities from the line, sad seriously shaken. Just at this
millealjuestan (shortly after 3 o'clock, a.m.) the Manches-
ter and Linepool trek earns up, and, from some came or
ether, it was net stopped, and somestaently the striae m
lets tha hada lying across the line. The sewn of this second
coolliskm was to throw the engine and teaks of the mail train
aerate the down line, and to crash several of the succeeding
earrfssm The driver and stoker bad a narrow escape.
The 6smse car ewe* injured, and is now lying at Leigh-
ton; bat the shaker appears to have been thrown by the forte
of the eawassion rem pletsly ewe the rake of the broken
Meliaggeeas sad waggems—ammitael by an eye-witnees to have
been bewea 90 and 30 het 1114
—on to the embankment
ea the down line, where healighted comparatively =-
hart. The fret carriage behind the tender in the
York train wen a Miami Comprel:ll break or
pared van, which Ina ennised to and Tucker,
the under-guard, remained burled in ruins foe
more than two boars, in spits of every effort made to extri-
cate Mk His head sad chest were at liberty, and, there-
fore, although @offering gloat pain, Isleshk was kept up
by the administratioa of stimulants until his extrication was
at length aseemplimed. The first eampartasent of the,
second-class carriage which followed the parcels van was
entirely destroyed, but a man and woman with two
children, who were is it, were preserved. The passenese
in the train all roared more or less, but no injuries bayoad
a few cuts an • bruises appear to have been sustained.
As soon as the horrid extent of the catastrophe was
meerteined, Cole proceeded with the ballast engine, the only
one uninjured, to Woke:toe, to procure mistake, and be-
fore 5 o'clock Mt ICCosnell, the chief of the locomotive de-
pennant, Mr. Bedford, the chid of the polies of the Wol-
verton division, sad several other officers of the company,
returned to the spot with engines, carriages, and labourets,
to mein in cleari_ag the line. Asthma., had peevionaly ar-
rived hem ledghton, and all them persons most
shaken had resolved the best attention which
meld be afforded them at the station. The
necessary promatiaes were takes be step bads the up and
down traks, and the tnfilo ea the Ike we, alkseker sas-
Fended he ward hours. No sempleto was the wreak that
the most /sties exertions of the multitude of Mem= em-
ployed bad filled to dear the line when the 6.11$ ass. train
from 'Auden strived at the spot, and as the may means at
keeping up the communication, the palominos's that train
were conducted over the mks of the *mask be the York
mail ; those who travelled by the latter maks ea to town
by the 6.15 cm., which returned le the Hasten Metiers.
6111.42 p, the surd pesterlast trek, raheinse to the
mil le tbas r, "We Weak.
where we bed been staked mum kik, about I a.m.,and
win lat WOW about 40 ssientes pasta as. At this
stades we seemed over, in wren to laad a' kip of ballast'
he Bieldermansed relaying. Oa arriving at the Lindade
ballastrkiz driver hem it ustaisary te sample his en.
eat some waggons whisk steed is our road.
raft ga
we pond the pearlier en duty at the meth end of
the mead I saw kin premed beck with the danger signal,
with a view of protesting Oar Wit. Not feeling that confi-
des's k another, however, that I do in myself, and thinking
that mow time was beteg men pied than en other similar se-
maisna, I went back and found the policeman with the red
Awl en, at a distance of about 300 yards in the rear of
our train. On reaching him, he itamdlately observed that
he heard a goods train approaching in the &Amos. He
then directed me to go back to within sight of my own
trek, sad give him the " all-right " signal when the line
was dear, wlila he mended forward to meet end stop the
owning task I did so ; but before the line was clear the
12.30 a.m. down goods train came at at speel through
the tunnel, ran into our train, smashed the breka and one
waggon, threw their own engine off the rails, and obstructed
the up line; while at the same moment the up York mail
came upintaad ran Into the goods train with a tremendous
crash. I mediaterly ran to Leighton, stopped the approach-1
log coal train, got her waggons shunted, and sent her back to
T rbtg cat to give taphic information to Wolverton
and
It appems that the driver of the luggage train passed the
station at fan speed, and had entered the tunnel before he
observed the danger signal of the second policeman, whose
met of is at its northern extremity. He immediately
sweseeed his engine ; but the train consisting of 40 loaded
weggsms, ter speed was not perceptibly diminished before be
(grassed fries the tunnel, when he immediately maw the red
lamp at the rear of the empty ballast waggoas. At this mo•
meet he had great hope dking able to avoid the oolliiion,
when, mast unfortunately, the engine, already reversed, flew
hate forward gear, sad carried the train directly into the
witisessLmail train into London was detained upwards of
five hears, the letters arriving at the Post-office about .11
o'clock instead old am.

THI ACCIDINT ON SATURDAY RION!.

Col. Baird, the gallant officer who was injored by the
accident at Newtoa-brldgs, expired yesterday morning
Mont threechlosa, at the Quiesn's II Ael. Birmingham. At
the time et Me decease he was surrounded by a numerous
body of Meads. The inquest will be held to-day (Wednes-
day) Mr. Bltnazd is apparently progressing towards rem.
Ky.