The Express.
London, England, 1848-12-27 00:00:00

SCOT LAND.

JUMPING PROM A RAILWAY TRAIN.—The Berwick
Advertiser records the following anvil .r accident on the
North British Railway. In the corme of last week the sloop
Lucy, of Dundee, put into Byernouth harbour, water logged,
and her captain ill. The owner bring apprised, sent two sea-
men, a captain and a mate, to take charge of the vessel, ant.
bring her to Dundee. The captain's name was John Black,
and the mate's David Ramsay. They left Dundee on
Saturday morning, and at Edinburgh took out second-close
tickets the mail train to Ayton. They bad teen ac-
quainted with the locality, and were therefore aware that
Burninouth was the moot convenient place at which to leave
the train to gain Ey. mouth. They kept their mate at Ayton,
and, as the mail train does not stop at Burnmouth, they had
resolved to leap from the carriages whilst the train was in
motion. This they did at Flemington-bridge, about a mile
and a half from Alton. It was then near eight o'clock,
and consequently dark. Having thrown their bundles out,
the mate leaped first and the captain immediately after.
The former had his arm fr rctared and his shoulder seriously
brui.ed, and for some time, it would appear, he bad lain on
the ground insensible. On recovering, he managed to get
to the Ayton swims, and there communicated what had
taken plass. As he bad seen nothing of the captain, he
suggested that something serious must have happened to
him, whereupon the attendants proceeded along the line to
ascertain. They came upon the body of the captain lying in
the drain. He was quite dead. His skull was fractured,
and his fate WAS seriously bruised. The place of the mei-
dert was a shallow cutting in th.• rock, and It is supposed
that, having struck the hard ride ef the way, he had re-
bounded into the drain, where, falling on his face, he had
probably been sufforiated.
AT Ctrentoei, ea the 17th indent, a great mamba
of Irish I ,houren assembled for the purpose of attending
mane, which is administered there once a month, by a clergy-
man of the Church of Rome. After being dismissed from
the place of meeting, both men and women repaired in
crowds to the public-houses; and towards dusk the streets
prorated more the appearance of an Irish fair than
the ,quietness and decency of a Scottish village. As
the evening advanced, a number of them quarrelled
among themselves, and commenced fighting; at the same
time, one of those heroes committed • brutal assault on a
woman who was attempting to take her husband from the
affray. The poke, however, soon made their apparels*,
and took one of the most obstreperous of the rioters i .to
custody. The navvies then, to the number of thirty or
forty, made a nosebleed attack on the officets, for the pur.
p se of rescuing their comrade, and a number of the
inhabitants and special constables, perceiving their
intention, promply arrayed themselves on the side of order ;
and as the navvies continued their attack, and the con-
stables persevered in keeping their prisoner, there was about
hdf an hour of as good pulling, hauling, 'hunting, and
yelling. as any patron of Doanybcook-fair could have wished
Sir. Happily, however, the friends of order and decency
prevailed, and the affray ended in six or seven of the boldest
of the navvies getting ansoonsed in durance vile, for the
purpose of ensuring their appearance on a future day.