The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-14 00:00:00

TRAFFIC RETURNS.

Miles Pes. lder- Toes; Total,
11.1.1111171 L apes. wagers. casuals& 1816. 1846.
Week ending Oct. & A A
Great Southern of India .. 79 335 491 826 712
Week ending Oct. 7.
Last Indian
Ditto Oct. 15
Week ending Oct. 13
Madras—. South West Line. 492
North West Line. 153
Week ending Oct. 27.
Bahia and San Francisco .. 761
Week ending Nov. 11.
Ottoman BOl
Ditto Nov. 1,1
Week ending Nov. 80.
Dublin and Meath 35
Week ending Dec. 7.
Deltoid and N. Counties
Londonderry & Coleraine . sok 200 134
Week ending Dec. 8.
North Eastern

.1129}
13 9,815 25,325 35,140 31,803
- ,053 25,830 38,883 35,670

6,720 7,470
1,143 1,434

911
1,017

2,237
8.14

_12201 18,873 53,480

70,153 07,7 rt

..Week eliding Dec 9.
Belfast and County Down 441 406 389
Bristol and Ezeter 1341 3,005 2,041
Great Eastern
Great Western 1311 29,210 38,326
/A anellester,tiouthJunction,l
and Attends=
North British

675 564
6,046 6.073
34,148 33,177
67,536 67,940

. -- 839 at 1.241 1.634
. 73/ 7,88/ 18,498 24,383 23,705

THE SCUTTLING OT THE SEVERN.—This case
was again heard at the Mansion-house Police-court, yes-
terday, and after some fresh evidence had been given was
adjourned for a week.
COMPENSATION FOR A RAILWAY ACClDENT.—Yes-
terday an action in one of the superior courts was tried
before Mr. Under Sheriff Harebell, " Gibson v. The South
};astern Railway Company," in which judgment was
allowed by default. The action was brought for personal
injuries to a young woman named Jane Gibson, the school-
mistress of Deptford Government School. The damages
were laid at 600/. Mr. Willis was counsel for the plain-
tiff ; and Mr. J. 0. Griffith for the company. On the
10th September the young woman, who lived with her
father, employed in Messrs. Barclay and Perkins' establish-
ment, went to Deptford to attend the school, and when
near the New-cross junction the train in which she was
travelling came into collision with a pilot engine, and she
had received a shock which had laid her up, and she
had resigned her situation, for which she was paid 401. a
year, and half the government grant. She had been edu-
'cated at the British and Foreign School in the Borough-
road, and had been at the College at Stockwell. She re-
ceived an excellent character from her mistresses. The
medical evidence was that she was suffering from spinal
irritatiou, and had been nervous from a shock from a con-
cussion of the spine. She would be of age in a few months.
Mr. Hall, the surgeon who attended her, said the young
woman was thoroughly out of health. The medical ex-
penses were %bout 301. Mr. Willis summed up the evi-
dence, and Mr. J. 0. Griffith addressed the jury in miti-
gation of damages, and called no witnesses. The only
question was the amount of compensation to be awarded.
The jury assessed the damages at 1801.
FEES PARDON TO A CONVICT. —At the last
summer wises at Derby, a man named Barnabas Sum-
mers was charged before Mr. Justice Montague Smith
with having committed a rape upon a servant girl named
Ann Parker, living at rnpiiiiire's public-house, at
Quarndon, on the 27th June. Mr. Leech was retained to
defend the prisoner by several gentlemen in the neighbour-
hood of Allestree, who doubted the truthfulness of the
charge, but after a patient investigation the jury returned
a verdict of guilty, and the judge sentenced the prisoner
to five years penal servitude. Mr. Leech memorialised
the Home Secretary for a free pardon, and forwarded vari-
ous documents to the Home-office in support of the
memorial. After a lengthened investigation and
communication with the judge the Home Secretary
has determined to advise her Majesty to grant
a free pardon, and we have been favoured with the
following letter for publication, as it gives the reasons
which have actuated the Home Secretary in the coarse
which he has thought fit to adopt, and also tends to re-
move imputations which the pardon itself might other-
wise have cast upon the utrix.—" Whitehall, Bth
Dec. Sir,—l am directed by Mr. Secretary Walpole to
acquaint you that he has carefully considered the memo-
rial which you forwarded to him in behalf of Barnabas
Summers, and has received a report on the case from Mr.
Justice Montague Smith, who presided on the trial. The
learned judge having expressed a strong opinion that the
conviction was an unsafe one, Mr. Walpole has felt it to
be his duty to advise her Majesty to grant the convict a
free pardon ; but he has adopted this course solely in de-
ference to the views taken by the learned judge, and in
consequence of the doubt and uncertainty so thrown upon
the case. Though he could not under such circumstances
advise her Majesty to permit the sentence to be carried
out, he is far from intending that any imputation should
thereby be cast upon the promoutnx,-1 am, Sir, your
obedient servant, IL WADDINGTON. Mr. B. lamb, soli.
atm, Derby."