The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-12 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXPRESS.

Sill,—The committee formed for the above
fund beg to tender their grateful thanks to a generous
public who have so liberally responded to the appeal made
on behalf of the sufferers by the late calamitous fire, and
at the same time to state that the amount subscribed has
been sufficient to pay all engaged a fortnight's salary and
incidental expenses ; and Mr. Douglas having taken the
City of London Theatre, they are again employed ; yet
there still remains one object—namely, a sum sufficient to
reimburse them for the loss sustained in properties,
dresses, sc. The committee feel confident they need not
appeal in vain to the sympathies of the public in further-
ance of this lendable purpose.On behalf of the com-
mittee, I am, Lc.,
CHARLES STEVENS, Treasurer.
17, King/stand-crescent.

NARROW ESCAPE OF A MAIL. TRAIN. —On Friday
night the London and North-Western mail train from
Manchester to London met with a vei y perilous encounter
at Heaton Norris. The train left Manchester as usual
shortly before eleven at night. When it readied Heston
Norris, six miles distant, it was going at great speed. A
heavy goods train was there crossing the up-line to get
up a the Yorkshire hue of the same company. and had
nearly passed, but the mail train shot through it at full
speed, dashing the tail-end carriages into myriads of frag-
ments. Singular as it may appear, the only portion of the
mail train that sustained (Linkage was the engine. The
fore part of the engine was much shattered, but none of
the passengers or carriages were injured. It is supposed
that the great weight of the engine enabled it to bear the
shock and protect the rest of the train from injury. The
trainbad to be detained for another engine. The York-
shire train went forward, minus the carriages smashed.
AeCLDENT AT THE GREAT WESTEKN RAILWAY
STATION AT MEltTllllt.—On Saturday morning an accident
of an alarming and somewhat serious character occurred
at the station at Merthyr Tydvil, into which tbe trains
from Quakers'-yard are run by the Ureat Western Railway
Company. It would Peen' that it is the custom in working
the line at this point to run the trains into the station by
the momentum the, have acquired up to a certain spot,
at which the engine-drivers are directed to "shut off
steam." Tee progressive force acquired by the first train
on Saturday being, owing to some cause or another, greater
than usual, the train ran past the station, and before
it could be pulled up by the breaks it ran
i violently into a warehouse, one wall of which it carried
away. The shock was an exceedingly violent one, and
many of the passengers were bruised and otherwise in-
jured. A Mrs. Roberta, of Blackwood, received a very
extensive wound across her forehead, which laid bare the
' skulL Mr. Beddoe, of Llancarch, received injuries of the
face, as also did Mr. Baylis, of Pentnewydd. Mr. Evan
Davies, relieving officer of Hengoed, was also removed in a
state of great weakness and suffering, and it was feared
that be had unstained some serious internal injuries.
Other persons were bruised and shaken, and the accident,
as may be supposed, caused no small amount of alarm and

PR= 0.0.1•Mosia•••
THE WESTERN FISHERIES.—During the past
week about 20,000 bads. of pilchards and 12,000 hbda. of
mackerel were caniht on the coasts of Devon and Corn-
wall. One Cornish family earned more they SW. in one
night by a catch of pilchards. The mackerel sold at from
DM. to 2s. per 100.