The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-23 00:00:00

SERIOUS AND FATAL ACCIDENT AT

MANCHESTER

A shocking accident occurred at the London-
road
station, Manchester, yesterday afternoon. By the at.
fall of two arches of the lofty roof in the course of cos- 60
'traction, 31 men were thrown down or buried beneath the to
ruins. IR.
The total number of the injured received at the infirmary re
wee 20, two of whom subsequently died. Eleven others
IMO taken from the station to their own homes.
At the moment of the widest, • train which had a
abort time before arrived from Staleybridge, end another di.
which was about to start for Sheffield, were standing in Bk.,
the station, under that part of the roof which has fallen. 67:
The fireman of the former became aware of the threatened as,
danger while stepping off the footplate, and as.
he took refuge under a van, and so escaped harm;
the driver of the Sheffield train was lightly muck Bt.
on the bead by • pima of falling timber. The frame of U.
the Sheffield engine, and also the valve of its dome were It
broken, and the engine's steam escaped, fortunately with- at.
out muds* any damage. Am far as can be asoertained at as.
present, the occident occurred through the
the longitudinal blood girder reaching from the et.
7th to the Bth column of the antral row of 04
teillars.teraThis girder, Os well as that in the Bth bay, ,a 1
ten feet longer than the others, bad been made st,.
considerably stronger, and it is omesquently very difficult ss.
to account for the fracture. One of the sufferers, a brick- at.
layer, named Mark Russell, died at 5 dclook yesterday at.
afternoon; and Thomas Sherwood. Mears. Neill's foreman Stp
who was much respected by him employers, died a couple of to
hours later. The damage to the roof and walls of the tE,
station will not be less than 6,0001. ; and that to the corn- too
ponies' plant, i.e., to engines, carriage*, dro., is estimated at St.
2,0001. 9
Ililt s said that at the time the arches fell • body of brick-
layers' labourer, engaged upon the wall had gone to the Si
mortar bank with their hod', and so escaped. Si.
For some time the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln. at.
shire Railway Company were unable to run their trains,
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and their passengers were despatched by cabs and omnibuses St.
to Ardwick station, where the railway journey was corn- at
minced. By five o'clock, however, much of the &brie had 1:t
been removed, and the trains ran as usual.

IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CREDIT COMPANY. la

(THIS DAY.)

The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors was 8,
held at 1 o'clock at the London Tavern ; Mr. JOHN St.

CHAPMAN in the chair.
The report, which had been previously issued and pub-
'Jibed, was taken as read.
The CHAIRMAN moved its adoption. He observed that 7
the number of shareholder@ had increased 50 per cent. since
the company was established—an increase which showed to
that the public had confidence in the undertaking. Consi. St.
dodos that only 18 mouths had elapsed since the company
was established, the amount of deposits, 2,581,0001., was
extremely satisfactory. Every day the amount of deposits
was augmenting, and they were thus enabled to gaud els.-
spinet any sadden emergency. The entire amount of irra
profits for the half-year resulted, as stated in the St.
report, from transactions of a regular description.
The profits of the last half-year were derived from *id-
mate sources, from the fostering of enterprises which iij;
were conducted by men of large capital, which
were well secured, and which tended to benefit ge.
not only the parties themselves but the public
at large It would, he believed, soon be acknowledged that HO
financial associations, prudently and honestly managed, 8t•
were useful and necessary public institutions. A dividend
of 20 per cent., after applying 75,0001. to reserve and car- 100
rying 19,000/. forward, was, he thought, an adequate see
return to the shareholders. (Cheers.) 100
Alderman DARIN seconded the motion. 190
is reply to a question, 100
The Onetime"' said the expenses of the half-year We
amounted 10.0 13,0004 Lou
Mr. Kansa thought it would be an advantage if the so- IN
counts in future included the expenses of management,
and also if the 501. shares were rednoed to 251. The low SO
price of the sham arose, probably, mainly from the fact that 2°
St.
451. out of 501. remained liable to be called up. St.
The CHAIRMAN said the first suggestion would not be last st.
sight of. The diminution of the liability of the shareholders 20,
had engaged the attention of the board, and the moment tit.
they could see an opportunity of carrying out the object 100
they would call a meeting for that purpose. 00
After some discussion the report was adopted, and the
proceedings terminated in the usual manner. st

A soirje was held last night in the Town-hall, to
Manchester, to commemorate the dissolution of the Man. leto:
cheater (Ision and Emancipation Society. An address wee Bk.
delivered by Professor Goldwin Smith.
At the opening of the French Chambers yesterday eta
the Princess of Hohenzollern set at the right of the Empress, Si.
and the Princess Mathilde at the left, the Prince of Hohen-
zollern standing behind. Her Majesty was dressed with
great simplicity, in a mauve silk dress, and white lace
bonnet.

The recent anxiety with regard to the Royal
Mail steamer Rhone, which sailed for Brazil from South-
ampton on the 9th WA, and the high rates of insurance
paid upon her, appear to have solely resulted from tele-
graphic mischance or carelessness. The vessel duly touched
at Lisbon on the 14th, whence the agent of the company at
once sent a telegram to that afoot, which hes never been
received. It was only in reply to a telegram sent from
this side, inquiring the cause of the absence of news, that
the company ware informed on the 20th that the vessel
had arrived and sailed again on the 14th.

The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel has
junk addressed a letter tome of the Roman catholic mem-
bers of parliament, in which, referring to the suggested
endowment of his church, he affirms his determination to
support the voluntary system end that alone. He would,
he says, oppose any measure that would make the Roman
catholic bishops and priests in Ireland stipendiaries of the
state in any degree whatever. Dr. Leahy states his belief
that by this declaration he expresses the sentiments of the
bishops and priests of his ohnrch in Ireland.
A meeting was convoked for Sunday by a certain
number of men of letters in the large rooms of Lomardelay,
Roe Richelieu, Paris, in order to devise measures for the
establishment of a literary rents, or reeding-room. As the
roosting was to consist of more than 20 persons, the per-
&ego° of the Prefect of Police was, of course, indis-
pensable. The prefect was applied to, but peremptorily
refused his permission, so that the meeting cannot take
place. The object of the promoters was to provide a
common place of meeting for men of letters, and not for
any political object.
Letters from Antwerp announce that considerable
agitation prevails in that town. The government engineers
persist in their intention of cutting a deep trench, required
for the fortifications, right through a cemetery, which will
necessitate the removal of the persons interred there. The
inhabitants are extremely adverse to this measure, and have
declared that if the engineers persist they will repel force
. .

by force. As there are 11,000 men in garrison at Antwerp,
such resistance would have no chance of success, but it is
easy to conceive that the alternative of calling out the
military is very repugnant to the King.
The Abbe Liszt, having forwarded, as has been
stated, a sum of 20,000 fr. to the Pope as a contribution to
Peter's Pence, has just received the following letter from
Cardinal Antooelli, written by order of his Helium :
"Accorchug to the desire expressed by you, I have placed
at the feet of our Holy Father the generous offering you
have kindly addressed to us on the occasion of the unfor
tunate circumstances by which the state is at the present
moment afflicted. The Holy Father has been greatly
touched by the feelings of respect and affection you express
towards the august chief of our holy religion, and has I
deigned to accept with his ordinary kindness your generous I
offering, as a mark of your devotedness to the Holy Bee.
He accords to you his apostolic benediction on this °amnion."
MELLNCHOLY ACCIDENT. THREE PERSONS
DEOWNED.—Between 1 and 2 o'clock on Sunday last, Thos.
Dudman and his son, a hot about six or seven yean of age,
Edward Howick, Joseph Whittington, and Robert Ayling.
a lad, were in a small boat, in the Ripe, which runs into
the sea between Bognor and Felpham, and when near East-
over-bridge, they ran the boat against the bank for the pur-
pose of putting Howiek and Whittiegton ashore, some of
them standing ap at the time, when one stumbled on one
aide causing the boat to capsize, sad we are sorry to say
that Cadman and his eon and Whittington were drownet
Howick sad the lad Ayliag swan chore.—Sussex Acker.
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