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

AND LIVERPOOL LINE.

A fourth accident within a fortnight, and the third
within a mile of the same spot, occurred on Friday evening
on the Manchester and Liverpool section of the London and
North Western Company's lines ; but it, like all the pre-
ceding ones, was unattended by any loss of life or serious
personal Injury, although it was of a very alarming nature.
It seems that shortly before half-put five o'clock, a
luggage train from Manchester to Liverpool stopped at the
Barton Moss station, two miles and three-quarters be-
yond Patricroft, to shunt some waggons. As a warning ,
to the driver of the 4.4,5 first and second class stopping
train for Cheater, which was known to be about due,
fog signals were put down; but they were either not
laid tar enough from the station, or the slippery state of the
rails deprived the driver of the ordinary control over his
train; for while the luggage train was lying across both
lines,the passenger trainman up at a considerable (although
reduced) speed, and dashed into it. The shock was very
severe ; but we cannot learn that, with the exception of the
guard and a few passengers who were bruised as well as
violently shaken, any person was injured. The engine of
the passenger train was so much shattered as to be quite
disabled; the tender was destroyed, and the break-van
was smashed up. The last two waggoas in the luggage
train were also demolished; and their contents, together
with the other wreck, completely blocked up both: lines of
Assistanco was, we believe, soon obtained from
Patricroft ; and the men, aided by the passengers by the
Cheshire Junction train, set to work to clear away the ob-
&traction. Shortly after the accident, the 4.30 express
train from Liverpool came up; but it was safely stopped,
and many of the passengers from it joined the make of
the workers. The chief difficulty was to get rid of the
remains of the break-van ; and as they were broken up
and removed, the wood was thrown upon a fire that had
been kindled on the moss, as well to afford light to tke
workers and warmth to the female passengers, as to
as a warning to the other trains that were expected. The
line to Manchester was cleared so as to allow the express
from Liverpool to reach the Victoria Station at five minutes
after seven, instead of at 20 minutes before six o'clock ; and
at the time it left Barton Moss, little remained to be dene
in order to clear the road for the Chester treia, for which
another engine had arrived from Manchester. A train
from Preston Junction, bringing passengers and mails from
'the north, reached Manchester soon after the express, hav-
ing being detained about an hour ; tha 5.15 first-clue train
from Manchester to Liverpool, was also detained about the
same time ; but beyond this there was no interruption to
the passenger traffic.

BERHAN'S ORE CRUSHING MACHINE. —Some
futtber experiments were made on Saturday last with Mr.
Berdan's ore crushing and amalgamating machine. The
ores experimented on were the West Wheal Jane, the
Wheal Jane, Wheal Trehene, North Dolfrwynog. In the
case of the West Wheal J roe the result gave a produce of
21 oz. to the ton of ore. In the cases of the Wheal Jane
and the Wheal Trehane, the results wore not cous.dered
satisfactory, in consequence of the impurities 01 the gold
obtained. The Dolfrwynog gave a produce of I 07. of gold
to the ton. Since Mr. Borden's arrival in this country
about 100 different Brltu.h ores have beea operated on. la
66 of these gold was found to exist varying frown the wend
Uses of the precious metal to 11 ese. to the ton.