The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-02 00:00:00

YORKSMRP.

LerD9 AND BRADPO;; RAILWAY.-Art-Tnr.nrr. On
Friday afternoon, a very serious accident betel the 3 o'clock
train from Leeds to Bradford. Scarcely had the train ac-
quired the ordinary. speed, when, on arriving within a few
yards from the point at which the line crosses the Leeds
and Liverpool canal, and where there is a very awkward
curve, the engine ran off the embankment, which is about 30
feet high, into a field on the north-west side of the line,
dragging after it the tender, forcing away the buttress wall
of the embankment adjoining to the bridge, and finally be-
came embedded in the earth, about six feet deep, and
only being a few yards' distance from the canal, the ten-
der being thrown upon it in a perpendicular position. John
'Young, the engine driver,was thrown down the embankment
along with the engine, and received considerable injuries
about the head and other parts of his person, besides having '
his arm fractured. The stoker jumped from the engine, and
be sustained a very slight injury. The coupling chain for-
tunately snapped an two, and separated the engine and ten-
der from the rest of the train, consisting of two second and
two third-else* carriages, well filled with passengers, and to
which their safety may be attributed, else the loss of life
would have been considerable. The accident is supposed to
have been caused by a loose plate having slipped. Two of
the carriages were very much shattered.

Mr. CHRISTIE has issued the following address to the elec-
tors of Weymouth:
Gentlemen I have now closed the canvass, by which T might have
been justly charged with prematurely disturbing the pence of the
borough, if I had not been forced into it, as you are aware, in self-
defence. The result even exceeds the sanguine hopes which I en-
preased when I met you at the Royal Hotel. Old electioneerers in
this borough assure me, that no candidate within their memory, even
on the eve of an election, ever received PO many promisee as have been
given to me, while the day of the next election in uncertain, and may
be even twe.re months distant. lam proud to feel that I owe tho
sum., in a great measure,to your satisfaction with my pod conduct
but I most gratefully acknowledge that I owe much also to the
generous sympathy of political opponents, as well as friends, excited
by the base intrigue which has been carried on against me. You have
been good enough to view this intrigue principally as it
affected myself. It is indeed true, that if it had sueteeeded, It would have injured me; but It aimed aloe a deadly
blow at your good name and in lependence. There is no doubt what.
ever that a tencme had been concocted, by three or four individuals
in the borough, for bartering the seat which I hold to some gentle-
man of wealth, a member of the present government. I believe that
the individual was not flied upon. I take upon myself to say that no
member of the present government would have aided this scheme,
accept under the influence of false representations, made to him
behind my back. The new candidate would have been required to pay
down a large nun of money, which would have been distributed
among a few individuals; those who pocketed the money would alone
have known how it was distributed, while the candidate, his friends,
and the public, would have regarded you as a venal constituency. The
candidate was to be a member of the government, It was pretended,
because you required some one with large patronage. This foul
libel on my constituents was a mere pretext. The real reason
was that you might appear is the eyes of the government ea a pocket
borough, in addition to having to bear the undeserved disgrace of a cha-
racter roreorraption. In the mean time I was to be beguiled by various
false reasons into staving away from you, until you, ignorant of the '
cireumstanoto, had become offended by my absence, or the conspira-
tors had, in some other way, achieved their object. Such, gentlenlen,
is the intrigue that we have baffled. The events of the last three
weeks have furnished proof incontrovertible, to those who needed
proof, that so long as I continue to pursue the line of conduct which I
hare hitherto adopted, nothing will induce you to davvrt me—that I
shall retain your confidence so long as I continue to deserve it. It is
little for me to say in return, that no long as you wish me to continue
your member, it will be my greatest pride to serve the constituency
to which 1 owe my introduction into public life, and by which I have
been so kindly and generously supported in a moment of great pain and
difficulty.—l have the honour to be, &c., W. D. Canonic. Wry.
mouth, Oct. 31.
fiUSSEC.
REPRESENTATION OP BRIO STOIC—The Brighton Gazette
is labouring hard to expel Lord A. Hervey from his seat
for BriFhton. " The clear duty," says this worshipper of
protection, " of the constituencies is to send to parliament
protectionist representatives, and the clear duty of all sections
of the once powerful conservative party is to reunite their
now scattered forces, under the guidance of Lord Stanley and
the Duke of Richmond." Lord Hervey must feel deeply in-
debted to his former advocate.
ESSEX.
THE Cuoranr.vo POISONINOS.—The adjourned inquest
was again resumed on Saturday, to investigate the deaths of
Solomon Taylor, the illegitimate offspring of Lydia Taylor,
and Thomas Newport, farmer, of Clavering, at the Cock inn,
Maunden. It is no doubt in the recollection of our readers
that the woman, Sarah Chesham (against whom a coroner's
verdict of wilful murder was returned on Friday week, for
poisoning her own children), was in the first instance de-
tected putting salve or some other deleterious substance into
the child's mouth, and upon the charge of attempting to
poison was apprehended and committed to Chelmsford gaol,

when circumstances transpired which led to fb e discovery of
the snuseim by poison, of Sarah Chatham's ch.ldree• Tay-
lor, the re-asaenlbling of the jury the evidence of Prote.g er
chemical lecturer, of Guy's Hospital, was read as to the
tests of the contents of the stomach, and his inability to dis-
cover any traces of poison. Ilse whole of tbe other evidence
having aho been n:capitulated, the jury recorded the follow-
ing verdict :—" That the deceased, Solomon Taylnr, dit
from mesenteric disuse of the glands, but whether front
natural causes or otherwise there was nut sufficient evidenct,
to show."

lint arts.
SALE OF THE FORD ABBEY rfert/Ritg.—The pic—
tures at Ford Abbey, in Dersetakire, eighty-two in number,
were sold on Tuesday last by Hewers. English and Son_
They were not of any very great value, though a few Were'
curioua. A picture, attributed to Aldegreeer, ,4- The Life
and Passion of our Saviour, in which many portrait are in-
troduced." sold for 781. Two pictures, assiened in t he cata-
logue to Saleator Rom, sold for 2W. and 24 guinesi and a
halt A " View of the Seven Dials," said to be by H %tar*
and Scott, sold for 421. The portrait, were of greats. r con-
sequence. consisting of " family pictures" collected b v Ed-
mund Prideaux, the son of Cromweb's attorney-genenii • and
Francis Gwyn, secretary at the Treasury to Laurette. yde,
Earl of Rochester, from whom the Owens derived the 1 ord
Abbey estate. Prideaux was fined in the sum of 15,0001. ,or
his presumed adherence to the unfortunate Duke of M. tl,-
mouth; and the Duke's picture, in armour, one of the be 4
in the collection, was sold for 281. A three-quarter portra 't
of Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester (an excellent epecime
of lineller, and characteristic withal), sold for 161. ss. Gd.
A portrait of Sir Edward Seymour, Speaker of the House of
Commons in the reign of Charles 11., sold for W. ; and a
portrait of Colonel Popham, one of Cromwell's favourites
officers at sea, fee 111. 1 ls. The Popham in the eatelowue
is-
attributed to Lely, but it is more in the manner of Walker,
a holder painter at times than Sir Peter Lely, and less known„
than he deserves.

Maibetrity elsrual Orbs.
Oxman, Nov. I.—Tla Stowell Chit Lox Fellow.hdp, founded at. •
Cnicersity entletre, by the Visscounteva Sidwouth, and which is open_
to all members of the Dniveraity who have passed their examination
for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, has been awarded to-day to Mr.
noldwin Smith, 8.A., l)emy of Magdalen College. Mr. Smith hbt .
during the five years he has been at the tnivendty, disting
himself in no ordinary manner. In the early part of 1842 we find
him a cornmonet of Christ Church ; in the same year he etma attune
compete. for the Latin scholarship, and was also elected a liemy cif
Motrdslen College ; in 1f1.5, he obtained the prize for Latin verse,
" Noma Pnntptiiue," a first class, " No Literati liumanionbus,' Lind
was elected Dean Ireland scholar the same year.
Mr. Charles T. Malec and Mr. William k. B. nrisone, °mummers
of Jeans College, have lust been elected ...chairs of that Society.
C. W. Hankin has been admitted of Oriel Coll.; and 11. Temple,
of Bra:Know Call., so Johnson lialaibitioners from Uppingham
School.

CANS bRIDOE. Ocr. 31.—At n Congregation holden mytterlay, the fol-
10Wirg degn•es were conferred : —Musters of Arts—E. Corbett, Tri-
nity; V. Lush, Corpus. Bachelor of Arts—A. C. de Boinrille, Corpus.
Ore. SKATONIAN PRI/E.—The Her. Thomas Renton's Prise of
40/. for the best English Poem on n *semi subject has been awarded
to the Bev. R. Ewington, Dins . College. Subject—'• The curse upon
Linssn." -GerirnOt.

The 'ter. J. Y. Nieholron has been elected a Foundation Fellow,
and T. It. Power • deacon on Gillingham'. Foundation at
Emmanuel College—John Hell ha. been elected to one or Johnson's
Exhibition. at aare from Upphigharn &hod.
PRVII3OIENTI.—The Rev. J. Nottidge, M.A., to East Ilanningth+l,
It, and the Rev. S. Nottid(r. 1t...., to .I•hingdon, It, both varint by
the death of the late Rev. J. Nottidgr. Rev-1 74. Leir. MA., to Fin-
gringhor, V., on the erosion of thr Rec. R. 'Armin. Rev. J. S. Dod-
son, to Great I,ongetone, P.C., in the dlooe.e of Lichfield, valve 150 L
per annum. Rev. C. 1.. M. Phillip's., to Gueettiborough V., I....eenter-
Aix, PSI. Rev. G. S. Wetdemann, to Kingwood P.C., (Amender-
shirr, 91.. Rev. W. Wilson, to De.borough V.. Northampton.hire,
1491. with residence. Rev. J. T. Browne, to St. Edmund P.C., North-
ampton. Rev. J. Cotterell to be an lion.C..non of Norwich. Rec.
W Ingby, to Clongui.h and Elliot', Ireland. Rev. J. Pletcher, to .111
Saints` Cur., St. Johle.-wood, Rev. 11. Greene to the Britieb Chap.
lainer,joint) at Pisa and I.uece. Rev. A. Hndron, to the union of Kills-
dieralut Clandonnell, Ireland. Rev. C.W. Lola., to 'IMMO= V., Nor-
folk, ISO/. Per. J. M. Martin, to Ilaydan cur., Wilts. Rev. IL P.
Menw.r, to the Prior's Portion It., Tiverton, Ilevon. Rev. T. New-
berry, to Hinton St. George IL 197/. with residence, and Searing-
tan st. 11khuel It re. Dinnington C., Somerset, 290/. with readenee.
Rev. W. Gordan', to the temporary curacy of St. Stithisn'n, and not
to the vicarage w previously stated. Hey. Simpnon, In the tem.
porary curacy of Stanley, and not the incumbency w before 'dated.
Vaisse.—Bmoke V. ; 2161., with glel, ho. flt for rcakiettse.
Pat., the ford Chaneellor t—and 1 huxtun It., 2111. Pat., representa-
tive. of the Rev. W. hatell, by. %chow death they err now vacant:
both in the county of Norfolk and din. of Norwieh.—St. lern, Hann.;
railroad chaplaincy at.—Langpart school, Somenet, nutrnhipp of;
not to be ...orate, or vicar, or linman having any cure of mull,—
Ssiadon V., Wilt., dio. (ilournster and Itri.tul ; :ALI', with glebe ho.
for re.idenee. Pat., the Loral Chancellor. Vacant by the resigna-
tion of the Rev. J. Grooby.