The Express.
London, England, 1862-08-28 00:00:00

THI RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR RUGBY.

The adjourned inquest on the bodies of Thomaa
Pittom and Thomas Percival, who were killed by the eaten-
Lropbe which occurred on the Trent Valley line, near Strat-
ton, on the 13th inst., wee held on Tuesday, at the Railway
Hotel, Stretton, before Alfred Carter. Esq., coroner for the
Coventry division of Warwickshire. Mr. Cleather, from the
office of the solicitor, of the London and North Western
Railway Company, London, wu present to watclithe ease on
behalf of the company, and was accompanied by Mr. H. R.
Bruges and the Bedford superintendent of railway police.
The families and friends of the deceased were represented by
Mr. Dainty, solicitor, Rugby. It will be recollected that
Pittom was .ogineman, and that Percival was a stoker in
the company's service. The jury returned the following
verdict : —" That the soil Thomas Pittom and Thomas Per-
cival were accidentally killed while engaged, the one as
driver and the other as fireman, on a certain engine be-
longing to the Londonand North-Western Railway Coin
pany ; and the jury complain that no notice respecting the
state of the rails near Stratton-bridge was personally
given to the deceased while at the Stafford station."

ASaAL-LTING POLICE-OPTICHILK WITH RED-HOT
laous.—Patrick Mieslan, Depots Budy, and Robert How-
ard were indicted before Mr. Liddell, at the Liverpool
arises, yesterday„for an aggravated assault upon two police-
officers at Newton-heath, near Manchester. The prisoners
were infuriated because the officers had interfered no pro-
tect certain bailiffs who were iliatraining upon Wheelan's
goods and those of a fellow-workman, and when the officers
came to arrest some of the men at the works where they
were employed, they were assailed with hammers, red-hot
irons, &c., and Shaw and Bent, a constable and sergeant,
very seriously hurt. The verdict had not been given when
oar parcel left.

THE MACK FEEL FISHERY. —There is at present
as abundance of mackerel on the south coast o: Q:ro wall.
One seine off Meragissey is said to have Leen broken with
about 40,000 mackerel. At Par there appears to he no end
to them. On Friday one seine caught about 42,000, besides
unknown quantities hy other seines. On Saturday the as-
tonishment was still greater ; fire seinm having opened in
the bay, some of which were so near that parties were stand-
ing on the quay and throwing their baskets into the boats,
buying the tish as they were being drawn on board, sod pot
into the basket *dive. rMe seine was stretched soros' the
entrance of the quay. and another spread outside for fear
the first would break. As the tide recedes the sight is
really extraordinary, there being a multitude shut within
the harbour to wait the ebb of the tide, when it is only ne-
cessary to fill the baskets and bring them on shore, without
the aid of hosts. Mackerel hate been sold from the boats
at four for one penny.—A--cetera Morning Heirs.

Souse of the Paris journals relate the following
extraordinary history :—About a dozen years ago a man,
rather shabbily dressed, but bearing an sir of distinction,
entered a cafC. of modest appearance in the Faubourg St.
Germain, and asked for a cup of coffee and a roil. This he
swallowed rapidly, as if pressed by extreme hunger, and
then slowly retired, without however seeming to avoid the
demand for payment. The waiter, stupi6ed, hastened to
inform his nastress, a widow burthened with a family, but
a kind-hearted woman, of what bad taken place. The latter,
who had observed the air of dejection of the stranger, imme-
diately replied, "It is all right, I ho-,w the gentleman." The
next day the stranger returned, asked for the same things,
and retired in the same manner without paying. This con-
tinued for about two months, after which he was seen no
more. About a mouth ago the widow was invited to call
upon a notary to receive a sum of money which had been
left to her by wilL She could not believe her good fortune,
and thought there must be nom° mistake, when the notary
afforded her an explanation by reading the followintitraot
from a will which he held in his hand :—" I moth
60,000 fr. to the widow —, proprietress of a cali 'ring
the address), to thank her for her generosity in giving me a
breakfast every day for two months, without demanding
payment, which it was then impossible for me to make. I
was then is misery, but since, fortune having smiled on Me,
it is only just that I should pay for the sixty breakfasts to
which I owed my life."

Another instance of death caused by the sting
eta earrion•9v hes occurred :—" M. Lemmatise." says the
Animal du Harre, " who farms the estate of Losignedalle,
at Gaillefontaine (9eine•lnhrieere), war so smog a few
days aaggoo. The mod alarming symptoms soon declared
IMnelvas, and in spite of every care that could be paid
to him, nothing could stop the programs of that frightful
mall► the carbuncle. M. Levassenr died two days duce at
the age of 52, leaving eleven children, the youngest only
four mouths old."