The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-27 00:00:00

'THE FATAL COLLISION ON TUE MIDLAND

RAILWAY.
CHESTERFIELD, MON wet-.
All the individual* who were injured by the colli-
sion on the Midland Railway at ('hay-crow la.t Monday
night are approaching to convaleccence, except Mr. James
'l,,,lhunter, of Dublin, the gentleman who had the mil
fortune to bustain a fracture of both legs.

THE INQUERT.
James Marsden, the fireman in the company's engine
shop at Leeds, proved that enstine No. 23 (that which drove':
the t0m...) was under his can•. She had been at work
about three years and a half, and underwent a general re-
, pair about 10 month, ago. She wa, calculated to keep in
good repair 18 months or two years from that time, and ha,
been in gogal working order up to the time of the accident.
Had seen her •into the accident. The injuries she sustained
wen a broken pump-rod and a bruk.•n pump. The portion
of the pump-rod injured was a hidden part of the ma-
chinery. Half of the rod was lost at the time of the acci-
dent: the other I put stud -r repair a. soon as I rec..ived it.
It is repaired, and the engine is now in working order.
The piece that was lost was about an inch long and two
inches wide.

Mr. M. kairtley.—l am auperintendtwt of the Midland
Comities locomotie c. department, and have had considerable
exp. rieace with ►ocomotive.. I remember the lust ,eriaus
occident six years ago on the Midland near Normttnton,
when Mr. Commissioner Bottler 111, killed. That was the
last occasion pr: sinus to this of a pasw niter toeing his life
from an accident with the locomotives of this companv. Be-
ta et n tour and five million miles a year are travelhil
the coroyany's locomotive.. There It.. not been a life lost
during those six years 0.1 :he 140le length of th• eampany's
lino lam aware that there is an interval of five minutes
between the starting of a passenger train and goods train
that folk,ws it. That interval is adopted on railways
througlosat the kingemni. I have never known an accident
occur on this line in consequence of the interval being su
short. We depend for the safety of the line toa the code of
signals Iv ing properly carried out. Whin we send out a
special train we depend entirely upon signals. 1 think
there would be a great difficulty us having a longer interval.
I think the service would suffer greatly and the plash,. as
well. 1 did un this, as on all measions, satisfy taps:lint the
eompstt• my of the driver loefere appointing him. The en-
gin.: of the express was of the most apt roved coonetruction
uud in good working order up to the tune of the accidents.
By Mr. }erbium—Metall heard the whole of the cri-
tic:me—basing seen the spot, and examined sour servants—
to what do you attribua the strident ? The t agineman of
the goosl• train not In., lug a signal in sullicient time to
stop his engine. I would rather not express :.r, oui ii i,, n
to a hvther any out or who is to blame. I think it is
hardly a fair question fur me to answer. (The question
was pin ese d.) Wcll, if I mint give my opinion I conceive
it was the duty of th,• passenger train to have given the
signal to the fallowing train.
Joseph Morton, watelunau at the Ilelper station, said—
The passenger train on Monday night left 'Miler at 20
minutes to 19. The luggage train arrived la tweet, three
mid four minutes after. I stopped it use mi..ute a, kraus',
it was too soon after the other train. I told the drive rto
run witheaution, and look out at Amberaate station, in
rare• the passenger train ehuuld not le gone. 1 .pepped
the goods train at 17 minutes to 10. It is due at our sta.
lion at one minute to 10. It was ►S minutes before
its time. The passenger train was behind tint: at our
station.

Mr. 31m-inlay pointed mat that the witnes4 Wlll% mis-
taken. The good. train, tierordin7, to the table, 11,18 due at
:rj mjallit4f pn't 9, and not at a 9 minnt,.., pan. That
would make the pow!, train I minutes behind its time. _

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Geo. 11. Rickman. -1 have been station-master at Derby
since Mel. On Monday evening the train from Rugby was
1;1 minutes late. It was 15 minute. hehintl tine on leaving
Derby. There was a Ixt.eng,r for Drink Id, and our fur
Winalield, and 1 gas order. for the train to stop there.
It Mr. Fretson— t'rnin many years' prim tiee it is pretty
will und, stood that that train will .top at they. stations. '
Ma- have never given notice to the public. of the fret, but
any passenger “TriTill:t by (1w London train would have
burn honked forward to any of those stations.
Mr. Macauley-1 ant not aware that any further evidence
earl bs Oven in this mutter; but if the jury a Soh it, a, far av
the "Meer, of the company are roncerned, they are entirely
at your service. It tors not occur to m% mind, however,
that any further light Coll lee thrown on the subject, but, of
course, I am entirely in the bands of the jars.
Mr.'Eretson mid h. pould certainly evatst an adjourn-
ma at. The only witless examined in ad,htion r, the
own servants %OA Mr. Mills, and he thought it w
only fair that gestrternen who wen• in the train, and ht. I
-uttered serious Militias, should have an opportunity of
rivitrg evidence. So far. they had hail only the evidence of
that a -wont', anal that es idenee gem rally kull 4,01 girt!'
with a slight hit, towards thenewlv aa. Eva re nor of them
had hewn anxious to screen himself. Ile thought it only
fair to those pwaseiager, who were in the train that th.y
should hate an opportunity of being examined.
Mr. Macauley Nepal Mr. Frovon did n.d intend any
imputation 141.411 the rompany, fur in the very nature of the
thing there wt re no parties MP able to give information as the
company's *Merry.
Mr. Pndson—lt is no imputation. I simply 'late a fact.
The Coroner—As un adjournment is asked lay Mr. Fret-
sou, I *hall taTtainly feel at my dote to allow it.
Mr. Fretson said he wanted to call the pa...ewers to give
evidence ai to tha tiaw which clamed between the stony:tire
of the train anal the rollis;no, respecting which the evident c
was ut present conflicting. Ile ehonlil be able to 'how that
' the guard of the passenger train And ti nu to get to the
station, and abo to tie- semaphore light it he hod tried.
The ingui,t ma' the, n adjourn, d to Friday at 11 o'clock.

SAILING OF TIIF. ALM- in now
fully expected that the scowl will leave ither this afternoon
or early tomorrow (Thursda)y). The design i- to proceed
direst to Granite:. Wand, :which is the appointed 11.110eX
fatal, and the place where Captain Austin 6 likely to have
deposited any important information of widish le• may be
possessed: 'Should no such intetligence he found, the Prince
Albert will proceed to winter ground. as far doe a Prince
ltegent's islet as can Ir. reachisi for ice, pok-itoty to Brent-
ford, or Creswell nay, from which the louat parti si will be
dispatched. It is es pected then a pats:me fora %cry mind-
, doable distance• will be obtained Mr the boat.. in the
chapati, along the ahore, formed be the Bart
tido, and ninth admits of boat. thouph net of
ship navigation. Very much mar be t sported from the
...nice. of the boa parties ; inde, th it may he .clody
aflirtned that by this swans alone eau -lrva attained,
if it is attainable. So far aa human 1a1,114 ran aecomplish
that result, we In lieyr that, from tin. !forts of Mr. Ken-
nedy and his m, n, there is much to hula in the way of, at
lea-t, relit sing the deep and universal anxiety that prevails
to the fate of the missing exptslition. What add-s to the
reasonableness of this view is, that Sir John Franklin is
most likely to have. if ouch a course lied bet n practicable,
p treated in the direction of Fury batch, which Captain
Forsyth nearly approsehed last year, but without lauding,
a. the only spot where be knew provisions were to be kit
by Roo, and he a ould also naturdly judge that thither
would anxious eves be turned to sod, to effect his discovery.
If the Prince Albert should not accomplieh the object of
her wart It in the course of this year, it is the it. tentioa to
remain two years. or tin the autumn of 11502. It i, of tour*:
a possible contingtney that, though row measure of *ammo
be attained, the select may be prey. uted by the ice front
returning this season, to that in either of theft eases,
name!), detention in the ice, or want of sneers. the tire
year, we shall bate to wait for the return of the Kennedy
eztshrt.tilu
aitinlloythilroa:itjulninofthnees,2.,,ye,a.;:..toTberes till'ritzet
period. It is a somewhat remarkable cohtedenet that it is
precisely six yews, on Monday hot since the departure of
Sir J. } ranklin. Mr. Leask, ice master of the North Star,
who piloted that vessel in Pi in-40 through hadn't Bay and
Barrow Straits, is in conunand of the ver,el.

Knight of the Legion of honour, and a distingux •,--4,--
claisier of the French naval PUTTIC... accompanies the expe-
dition. Lady Franklin, air ompanied by her hill': and
aever-failine friend, Miss Craerort, attired in Alpo.* en en
Thursday lust, to witness the counilt thin ot the arrange -
smuts and the departure of the Prince .klbert.—..46,dsot
J.Nraal of 11 , dn, sday.
THE liCtil DI AT TBE SARAcEN's 11EAD. —Yester-
day Mr. Payne held an inquest at the Saraccu's-bc ad Inn,
Bouw-hill. on the bode of Mr. J. James Bristow, gentli-
man well known on the turf as an wen, r of rue...)lol,es.
Deceased arrived at the above mentioned hinil on 'Wednes-
day i veniug from Eleom. On Friday rout be retired to
hi. bed-room us issue/. About four o'l lock ou Faturilay
morning the landlonl was informed by his ostler that he
bud Men blood running from under the door ol' de-
ceased'. led room. Ott entering the body of the unfortu-
nate gentlerutin was found undefined, and on the door.
di- left hand 1.. y over a six. barrel revolver, and from the
general position of the body it appeared as though de ceased
had dud himself in bed, and then tell to the door. A police-
man was called in by the landlord, :end an inspoefion of
' the room was made. Deceased's room was flaulti il by two
other MOW, the doors of both of which wen fad, to 1. On
the table lay a powder disk, a .roll yiantitv •f f bullets,
' and some percussion caps. Flom paper- bound if „rivaled
that deceased was a gentlenum of hub:pent:. ut ptoperty,
lived at Hendon. Middlesex, and had been a Ifri ~ f r of
horses. but within these last nine months Ite h. 1 - .1,1 off
Ihis stuck. 1 memorandum was trim! in his yoraet, of
which the following is a copy , " No one vs o 4:1 :]iink I
hero been toad for a long time, but LOW I know i:. I have
' tricd to hide it from my dear wife, and I hare soceeeded,
hut icy race is run. Back Fernhill for St. la c, r, and
Cancrou for the Denby.—J. B.—Friday." ADOektr memo-
I random was as follows : " The great error of my life has
I been that I have never made my darling wile acquainted
with my affairs. I have been dries n to do many ra•ti things.
Who will love and cherish my dear wife, who., aim ha,
always been to conduce to my happitefss. My scniu is on
tire. My poor relations ! Alas, Was, what Lto &came of
my darliuo wife !" Verdict—" I', ,uperary insanity."
KINKEL', LECTCRE.—The fifth lecture of l'rofrs-
oor Kinkel, of Bonn, on &ornate literature, was delivered
Isar night. Being the second of the Shakspeare hectare.,
Willis s Rooms were rally
,attenclesl. lhe satinet was the
great dramatist's life, polities, and moral op.iiinus--ona
which it may be anticipated woad prrsent many diflieul-
ties, but which, in thehands of Profewir Kinkel. vic.... mat
satisfactorily developed. Without overstraining details,
the broad principles of the poet's character ....iv fitly
established, fend what WWI perueularly meting was the
practical nature of the treatment as conztalietifiguisbed
from the transcendent view generally &ohm. 1 by the
German trines. la his introduction the yeah...or autos rd
that rostanlay (tie Mb of May) was So aaniversory of
tile Matbiay at Midorsares eitere child. Anweag die
auditors were amend madame Hoyt scholars, awl some
at Oa leading eczaia ramitisals.