The Express.
London, England, 1860-01-23 00:00:00

PRIORTITIL PIT AVOIDENZ-REFEN PERSONS
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About six o'clock on Saturday morning last a
frightful occident took plain at No. 16 pit of the New Cross
Wednesfield Heath, near Wolverhampton, the pro-
perty of Mr. B. B. Whitehead*, of Sedgiey, in which soma
E, to sea sad three boys, last their lives. The pit
: %Nmammoth, sad twit swims ere connected with it,
OM of which is Myth's. night sad day in the drainage of
the field, and Alastair k bringing up and Wends* the men •
sad hoisting adamals. During the night both are
Med In the drabs., thedrum of the Wawa!
thrown oat at row kr that purpose, and mplaadli=
looming by the sightenatheer on giving up his thew hi
the maa who worth the =glass on the day shin, On
Bahr-
drzwet.wanti I the algth engineer bad just bath '
the first lot or bootie" of mime ,
were bolasth lowered, the cage containing geer tom
—esamly, in Cheese, Emmanuel Giles, Themes Kelly,
and limy Peory—smil becilia Jellies, George
Jams, sad thannel Tay ‘reetifiel the first 10 or
12 yards ad*, when dm dram soddenly without of g
sad the age, thus hand from check of the machinery,
to the tetras of the "snoop" or well in whke the &Maw
of the shalt is salmi* Matilda( through the stout planking
which forms file Ina( of the swop. /1a immediate alarm
was raised, sad the mime wore collected from all parts of
the works ; but it was fully four boors Wort the bodies could
be recovered, on account of the difficulty that was experiecoed
in Moth, the cage and the wins rope to which it was attached.
All the bodies were found in the sump, in which there wee a
coasidsrable depth of wafer. The night engineer, Thomas
Fernley, end the day engineer, William Johnson, have been
mesa Mao custody, sad will be demised until atter the M-
ount. The caws of this leratatable accident is not tho-
roughly emerieined, bat It is believed that It orleinateo In
the dram of the mineral mew sot having been properly
secured otter being plead Ina proper position for the day.

CABS AT RAlLWAYS.—Magisterial decision, do
not help us at all; they me so contradictory, and must can-
tinas to he so, while the law is indistinct, and manifestly on-
jest. We remember that the Bluchers summoned some
privileged teas to Southwark Police-office for plying for hire
elsewhere then at pleas appointed by the Commissioners of
Polk*, end there they got a conviction. The privileged
drivers than took out friendly summonses to try the act,
sad weal at ones to micas polies-courts. At Worship-
start, the &deka was the same as at Southwark, namely
illainst the privileged men. At ffiarylehooe, the decision
was, that If the cobs wen fit for the public nee they ought
all to he admitted to railway stations. But there is no court
of appeal ea mese of disputed cab law, and they were unable
to by the question betore a high tribunal. So an action
wee encomeneed for recovery 0/damages by lose of trade by
the unprivileged against the railway companies, het the com-
panies paid the damages claimed rather then allow the are
to come to trial. thus provlng they were afraid of the day-
light. And hers the last point as which we shall infest, toe
the present, oomes before tut, that the privileged cabs defy the
law as it stands by the help of the railway oompeniee, and
that ones within their own birtog grounds at the railway
stations to which they are attached, " they are out of the
jnrisdiction "of the Commissioners of Police, which should
be a eafficient argument for at once remodelling the law, and
compelling railway corporation. to open their gates to all
comers, leaving the whole detail of order to the police, as is
already the case in the public streets. As railway. will oar-
tainly take up some of the time of the Howe of Commons
sell session, we hops to me at least one more attempt made
to institute a fair ground of contract between the public and
the drivers dabs.—Oily Avec
FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE MIDLAND RAILWAY
STATION, BianitioNAN.-00 Friday, a fatal accident
occurred at the Midland gouda station. Lowley-atteet, which
reselled ie the death of a MS wwwd Robert Coe, a Ode-
-llt appears that die deemed was eagapd at his
ption upon one of the *nags, at the station, when an
fogies .0 ut a number of truths were " shunted" on the line
where be sem standing. The mahrumate mem, it is 'apposed,
was sot aware of the approach et the trade, and although
the guard of a goods train on set adjoining line, sad several
other menu was saw the insmisent danger in which he was
pissed, celled eat to him, he paid no attention. lie was
immediately knocked down by the engine, the wheels of
which and the tender sad eight trucks peeved over him,
megrim both lie legs from kW body. Though so frightful]
Wand, the poor mime wee perfatly emaciate, and did
not complain of mach pain, lte was immediately conveyed
to the geeing besegetal, hut expired in a few infanta after his
snivel. Netwithatending the dreadful Wales he received,
there wee very little hastoordage, death being attributed to
the shock to the venom system. The deceased was shod
fifty yews of see, sod leaves a widow sod five &Wren. .
The body of Captain Conninghem, of the ship
Telerrapa, was, on Saturday, famed floating in the bean of
the Kirices-deett, Liverpool. Ths deese is seppoesd to
give *Uncoil end faller fate the water while going on bawd
**previous wising.

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