The Express.
London, England, 1865-09-08 00:00:00

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SERIOUS ACCIDENT IN BIRMINGHAM.

FALL OF A RAILWAY BRIDGE.
The Or Western Company yesterday sustained
weber loss by the partial destruction of ono of its bridges
pineCughees4iss accident being attended with serious
stn• to oe• man eely, though it is astneishlog that no
'we vs suffered either loss of lifeer isjury to limb.
The IMMO of the OCCUMIIO4I in lumen as Livery.strisst
pewee, the Hoed the Great Western Railway passiog on
pieced has bssssthLiverpetanet at An point. The
oaf of the bridge is fenced of large boo girder,, sup.
...eta on strong brick arches, and between it sad the
4eele worst me courses if brick sad a mass of soil.
power there
.sessos nothing to ecoiest foe the acci-
dent, a crest portion of one sod of it laving given way with
we persist whatever. From Snow•hill Station • high brick
tartreeelsy the aide of the line, proteotiog it from
the meet ; and from the direction takes by the lose at the
pct of the bridge farthest from the railway station, a pot.
ties of this wall was ever the railway. The fall of the
wee, which took plisse about ton minden to sin the
Ammon, was observed by • great many persona in the
highbouvhood, who as first thought several of the foot
eieesegme is she street most have Mee with the mass of
less, 'oil, and brickwork. The well was observed to totter,
yd ales a great patties of that side of the roadway over
the nd cf the Wifte wee seen Ps fall to, a tremendous
cosh alarming the people at a cessidesablii distance, who
were gait W 16.2111 of the cause. It was soon seen that
ems of the large and several of the mallet girders had gives
way, and hsvieg brakes in sensed pieces, had fallen on
*soils. Waving • pest gap Ia the street, sad tearing the
*wpm on each aids. Bergeant Heaverhig, of the
Bhepeiham police totes, was within • very short
&Imp, elms the fall took place, and he noticed
that we man was passing slang the footway and bad
tam with the mass of material, which there wee much
mews to km would have (numbed or Mined him. The Asst
Wag done by the police-asrgeant was to mad • messenger
to peowfull sad Healey stations, is order that the mil-
ieu Aeon there might prevent say trains coming in the
direction' of the damaged bvidge until the hoe was cleared,
apt be then sought aasielanos to extricate the unto',
woe yen, who lay almost oompietely buried amid the
pads is which be had sunk. Is was fe®d that his same
sashimi tastable, • traveller, living is Oat-street, and
yet he had sustained a fracture of the WO and a boasted
ben, These iojaries wen at tams attended to, and there is
very hinAhood that the ease will progress favourably.—
lkoniastam Port.

Tin LAND ATTEMPTED MITILDNE AND SI7ICIDZ IN
WATIONSTIR.—Thu man Shaughnesay, who attempted to
,mdse his wife sad thee to destroy hunts; was so ill yes.
Way afternoon in Westminster Hoopla' that the
=ll thorities permitted his wife, in accordance
au
his 'inane, to be carried he the incubi:lobate
mam ward in which he was lying. The mane was
d a most panful character, the husband and wife, the
Mem wed attendasts, sledding tears copiously. On the
W. bong placed by the bedside, be, se well as be was
gds. Weeded his hand towards her sad begged forgive.
sem Me responded with teen sad sobs, but
held fern her hand. He asked her if she should survive
hie would she look after the children (five, it is said), and
set to them se a mother, end pity and pardon the father.
The mower, which was that of a wife sod affec-
tionate woman, rammed the tears of all monad. Haying
attend this reply, the unhappy man threw himself back,
and was asked by cue of the hospital attendant' if he had
ray farther questions to pet or anything to say, and on
Wog answered in the negative, the poor wanes was no
moved. This maiming the man has rallied.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—OD Monday last, several
we ems driving and managiag an agricultural stem-
mata* upon some premises, OW the railway station,
Hy. During the day they clubbed together, and bad a
quantity of ale brought to them, of which one of the men
took rather too much, for cm his return to work be began
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taliioUstinsly of What be could do with the roachiarr,
wig he could with three sheaves of own atop it when mi
fall work. Whilst feeding the machine he prooseded to
pra Ls words into sfeet. and whilst attemptiog so to do
be
.6n/balanced. himself and fell for?ard, when tosams

cis treed be thrust forward his arms, which were caught in
the machinery, and were found when extrinated to bays
him crushed toe mows pulp. Ae soon u possible be was
pied is a tumbril, on a good thick bed of straw, and
comoyed to the Ueksimass. In hie transit the blood
from the poor man filtered through the straw sod the hot-
.= el thew* dripping open the rood an the way. Upon
Ile wind at the Union-house Dr. Pearson and Maori.

Nista were in etteedaine who foxed it necessary to am.
puede both arms, one above the elbow and the other just
Wow. The operatan was "tiffany performed by these
esetlemen, and wee firmly endured by the nufortunate men,
elm is pine us as well as could be expected.—Stamford
Mercury.
Ten RenwAy ACCIDENTS IN WoLvianAmrros.

—Up to yesterday over 40 claims had base made spore the
Leaden and North Western Railway Company for com-
=tas soroust of the injarke ocessioaed by the ad.
itaWolverhampton on Saturday night last. Most of
the patients have been settled with, notwithstanding that

I fa; of them ate @till iovalided.

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DRATR or MRS. MOORE. —" On September 4,
at Moperton-eotiage. Mrs. Moors, widow of the late
Thomism Moors, Esq., author of 'Lelia Rookh,' aged 6&"
This is an asnosoremeat that nee of the last tome of

boy summer has at length disappeared. Few are now
t of the brilliant company who adorned the early part of
the nineteenth century, and whom aurae are famous in our
Iterative. Among theme names note is or will be held in
more kindly remembrance than that of the lady to whom the
poet Moore gave his heart. Moon sot only loved her—be
MI proud of her, and it is delightful to see in his letters
tad in his diaries with what eagerness he sounded her
pier. He writes to his mother in 1813 :—" You cannot
unagtee what a sensation Bury excited at the ball the
other night. She was very prettily dresteil, and certainly
looked very beautiful. I never NSW 00 much admiration
anted. it strikes everybody almost that sees her how
like the form and expression of her face are to Catalani's !"
And so through all bra letters and journals, he is never
tired of referring to bar-quoting what she said, telling
what she did, describing how she looked, and recording
bow the wu admired. He married her in 1811, and bar
history is summed up in this ow Orono—that she was
the delight of his life. She does not appear to occupy •
great place in his poetry ; but it is one of the curious traits
of many • post that be is excited to sing ler by the
reel mistress of Ida heart them by some imaginers heroine,
or by some beauty that kindles a paring Same. Mrs. Moore
was not a Labia, nor a Beatrice, nor • Laura, nor a Highland
May, destined in song to live for ever ; bat as much as any
of thus, if not more, she was a poet's idol. She died at
3 o'clock on the morning of Monday last. She was sewage
to the end ; the knew that she was dying ; and she said that
she was quite happy. She was the last that remained to
as of the Moore family, and sow that she has departed we
Inns to count with some sadness, bow many links are there
Mt to minuet the present generation of letters with the
put —Tines.
IYPOUTATION OP DIREASZD SIM:P.—At a meet-

fly of the sanitary committee of the Hull board of
be Ith, held on Wednesday afteroooo, the board's cattle
fa/pc:tor reported that be had seized and destroyed several
sheep which were suffocate from a disease which was entirely
sew to him. The inspector stated that his attention was
drawn to a number of sheep which were being drives
through the streets to a alaughter-house. Oil arriving at
their destination he examined them and found that they
were peculiarly affected about the throat. He made a very
cartel examination of the whole flock, and he found that
the throat of each animal was full of lumps about the size
of a smell nut. As the disease was a new one, the inspector
sent for Mr. Lockwood, cattle inspector foe her Majesty's
Customs at Hull. Mr. Lockwood, having examined the
cheep, declared they were suffering from cold. The in•pecter
was not satisfied that this was so, and on the following day
be again west to the alsaightor-house. The sheep had in
the meantime been slaughtered and dressed. On examining
the carouses he found that the liver and longs of one of
them had been attacked by the disease, and the genital
organs of soother. In the latter use the pustules had
broken. The intestines of the sheep were found to he
covered with the same kind of lumps. Although the animals
bad only been slaughtered on the previous day, they had
begun to smell most offensively. Under the circumstances
the inspector nailed the whole of the carouses, sod had
them destroyed. Mr. Whiffles, asargeoo sod a member
of the committee, said that he had paid considerable atten-
tion In the cattle disease, sad he believed that the cinder-
pest attacked sheep as well as horned cattle. The inspector
elated that the sheep above alluded to had been brought
from Bremen, and he believed that at the time they were
Laded no trace of disease was outwardly visible.
POTATOE BLIORT.—The potato., crops, which
fortaight ago looked so luxuriant and healthy in Manta,
now Dement a brown and shrivelled appearance, whilst the
disagreeable odour omitted from the denying haulm may
be smelt at a considerable diatom. It is hoped, with a
contiottaoce of fine weather, the disease may not do en much
&total as (looking at the tops now) might be anticipated.
The retake dims. his made its appearance in the district
of Market Harhoro', and the greater part of the potatoes
dugep are bad.—Seauford Mercury. The Devisee &waft
We do art find that the film weather
which we have hid daring the last week his in any
vray ehoeked the potato disease. In the neighbour-
hood of Devizes it has not beams so bad for several years,
and instead of having potatoes at something like be. a
sash (which they would have been, bad the peewee large
and abundant crop turgid out sound) we fear that more
than double that amount will have to be paid as the season
progresses. Our own experience his shown us that at
hut half are bad, among the white sorts ; and we shall
be glad to find that it le no worse. Red potatoes, appear
to be least affected ; away of these mope upon light solia
hewing escaped altogether.
rsams.—The labours of the fishermen on the
Ayrshire wart continue to be rewarded with large draughts
of herrings. An Irvine boat entered Ayr harbour on Satur-
day with upwards of 10,000 herrings, end the Sal" boat as
Tawlay broo6t is about 7,000. Another baton Saterday
had nearly 7,000 herrings. These flee bads were obtained
in Kilbrannn Sound, week mart of Arras. !ferric. are
Ball et is, Bd. to 4e. pee hoedred.—Ar edverewer.
A gentleman near Wareham. in D mute who has
small field In which there ere crops of wrote wed man-
gold wareel with which bares and rabbits have bees making
fns, has pot a dog's house in the field which a smell pap
inhabits. The puppy is to go bg days sled he barks ill
!delft long. This offectualy scares away tat bares and
vabbits.