The Express.
London, England, 1856-11-13 00:00:00

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN

CO Oil TIES RAILW4T.

THETFORD, WIJNZIDAY.
Yesterday afternoon Mr. Pries, coroner for Nor.
folk, held an inquest at the Harling-road Station of the
Easton Counties Railway, ea the body of Willies' Sibley,
an oughts-driver, who met his death on Sunday evening.
The deceased wm driver of No. N pueenger engine, and
left Norwich with his fireman on Sunday morning, for the
purpose of width', the up parliaments'," train to Can.
bridge. In the evening tim deceased left Cambridge again
with the same softie, for the purpose of working the down
parituseatery tram to Nerwieb. Everything proceeded well
as far as Thetford, sad tee train kft that station at
the time stated In the time tables, 646 p.m. Whew it
reached the Bridgham-catting, about four miles Irons That

ford, as sauna" kaacking;Voise was heard, end the de
awed shut off the steam, applied his break, and told the
amnia, whose name is Csninety's, to go round the engine
sod see what was the matter. Celli:wt.-a obeyed the order,
bat was almost immediately thrown off to the ground, with
retch violence that he wee rendered seamless for a few
minutes. A terrible some followed. The tire of the left
leading wheel of the engine had broken, and the immense
machine, which wee being propelled et the rate of 26 or 30
miles as hour, left the rolls, and ran aloe( the bask of the
Gutting foe some yards, when It fell over, carrying the tra-
der with It, sad throwing it partly scram the up lime. The
eerriagee attached in the meantime continued their mune,
and the engine, being suddenly brought to a stand, a
frightful creek took place, two of four horse boxes which
were providentially placed neat the tender being smashed
to MAIM The shark beteg thus happily broken, the psi •
singers escaped without injury.
The disaster, however, did not end here. A goods treks,
which was ploceediag en the up line, came up elmoet insure.
distely afterwards, and attack the treader of the fallen
eagles, which was lying as her hoes already stated, partly
WOW the rails. The 'login* of the goods train and the first
two trucks Feud the tender eattly, hat a slight alterstion
having probe* teem plass in the position of the obstruc-
tion, the Mid lonit mearly eapsieed, and became separated
from those TM& hadln4roesded It. Another of the tracks
was thrown of the sad both lines became completely
blocked. The first mot o the firemite, Celliagtam, ea rrisin.
lag coownotassees, was to see after hie unfortunate " mate,"
and after some little time he found him jammed in the
debris, between the fallen eagles end tender, and dead.
Notwithstandiag the most strenuous ezertioas the corpse
WWI not @aniseed for Bernd hours. Toe pueengen is the
patliameatary train were conveyed back to Thetford as soon
as possible, sad wore accommodated for the night. By
great exertitais ese lime of rails was eollideatly eleartd to
arable the intik to be resumed the seat morning, sad all
the trains were worked under Mr. Steveneoa'a ',pertness.
demo between Hulling sad Thetford with a pilot eosin".
In the mares of Monday the other line of rule wee elected,
and the usual arreagemeate were resumed. The breaking
of the tire, the owe of all the 'mischief, seems to have been
windows' ; the iron of which it was made wee of the
beet possible quelity,aad we flew could be with certainty
detested is it whew it wee ezamined after the widest The
wheel to which it wee attached was supplied to No. 91
engine la January of the inesout year. It wee afterwards
shifted to No 92, which has been in constant work for the last
four moaths, sad was considered to be in very good repair.
All the wheels of the engine were examined by the dereaire
before the journey from Cambridge wee sommented. The
deceased, who wee a very steady driver, had been for some
time in the mercies of the company, and sporran to have been
mush respeette by his einipanierme. He wee married nine
arreths ago, and his wife is sow tear her confinement.
The jury at the Monett, after hearing the evidence of
several prisms, ',termed a verdiet to the effete that he met
his death accideatelly.

COPYRIGHT lit BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.— A
Toronto correspondent of the Guardian sta.., that the Ca-
nadian warts of law are ghost to be resorted to, to try this
goalies of the validity of the copyright of " Dred," which
Mrs. H. B. Stowe sold to her Eefilhh publishers, and which
has been reprinted without leave or license by two publish-
ers in Culotta, who have mold largo editions of it. Mrs.
Stows, It appears, is of oolitic' that the copyright *stands
M the British colonies, sad hastborsfore appointed an adept
to proceed edgiest the Canadian publish. s. " Inflamed, it
ei said, by a deeition of the Horn of Lords a few years since
respecting as opera of Seniors, Mrs. Stow. went to Eng
laird, and erotic the last diapers of her work thee., with a
special preface for the English Witless. Deed,' however,
was famed almost .insult ly in England and the
States, but the protases are quite different, and it was fro.
the Antoriean edition our Vanities publishers copied. rho
question, thrret re, ariem,h medley intrioged os tit. &Ilia
eityright or not f It has Wee decdod hers that an English
potent of invention does not exited to Cosec's, bemuse we
have a putout law of our own, sanctioned and resognisod by
Imperial authority. Beasosieg by analogy, it might be
said that the sane principle applied to our copyright low.
It does not do so, however, tot the Imperial statute at m-
ast esistirg with respect to c pyright intends to every
part of the British dominions, sod this statute has been re-
cognised by our own legislators. The impression here
Rea to be that Mrs. Stowe accost interfere with oar pub-
lishers, since they copied from the American edition, and
that the English publishers will probably mulct her for not
postponing the keno of the American edition, so that it
should not tototfore with their sole of the book in the Ann-
pinta British pommies. The New York edifice is same-
dm. about 7.. media,. while tbe Canadian is 2.. sterling?'
CASUALTIES TO LIVERPOOL SHIPS.—LIVERPOOL,
WZDNISDLT..—Ii blew • moderato gale from math to
north-north east lost night and to-lay. Throe flee ships,
which sailed for Asterism pees this foregoes, got &droned
ea the Barba Beak, atm p.m —Ma.. the Busse' M. Los,
Captain Aerowemith, and Us Silas Wright, Captain Fre.-
man, fee New York, and the Louisiana, Captain —, far
New Orleans. At Aro :p.m the Silas Wright hoisted
signals of distrelio„ and the Moe tap United &stet, Fury,
Rattler, sad Seagate, at cam pomaded to her amistasee,
followed soca after by the Liver/calm& the liagaaki. life-
beets. The Panaby lifeboat aid the Feint of Air life-
boat also put to ma toe the purpose of Maktiag. We have
net board of say Isis of WS omaerttod with any of the
Orton.

?ribbed bad pubtlehed by WILLIAM WIMI Hats& el 14.11, Looped
threat la the Cit Leedos. Philter. at the ()twee, to Lornbat4
thrift. la the Mdaalof Wltherlaia—Tavitha I 1,• as lab 13. lOC