The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-13 00:00:00

SERIOUS ACCIDENT f 0 AN EXCURSION

TRAIN.

Last night a serious accident happened to an
excursion train at Oughty-bridge station, on the Manches-
ter, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire line. An excursion train was
run into by a luggage trsin owing to the signal not being
up, and about 20 persons were injured. The driver of the
luggage train and a passenger were so much hurt that they
are not expected to recover. The line was blocked up for
three hours. The luggage train ran into some empty car-
riages, otherwise the consequences would have been much
more serious.

SAD DEATH THROUGH CAHELEASSESS. —An
inquest was held yesterday at the University College Hoe-
pital on the body of a young woman named Margaret
Driscoll, about 20 years of age, who lost her life under the
following distressing circumstances. It appears that the
young woman was standing at the bar of Mr.Marchant, the
Carpenters' Artus, corner of Howland-street, Fitzroy eyuare,
when a person after lighting his pipe carelessly threw down
VII, lighted splint. The young woman's dress taking fire,
was instantly in flames and rushed out of the house.
he was pulled back into the house, and Mr. Short, a
greengrocer in the street, succeeded in extinguishing the
flames. The young woman was at once taken to the Uni-
versity College Hospital, where she expired in four hours
afterwards, having been sadly burnt. An inquest was
held yesterday by Mr. Hardwick, the deputy coroner,
when a verdict of "Accidental death" was recorded.

MR. Sem/g0...5.—0n Monday last this untiring
preacher delivered two sermons in the open air at the
little hamlet of Peppard, about six miles from Reading.
Upwards of 3,000 persons assembled from surrounding
towns and villages, and when Mr. Spurgeon appeared on
the spot fixed for holding the service they greeted him
with a hearty round of cheers. Ascending a waggon which
commanded a view of the multitude clustering together in
the fields and roadway, Mr. Spurgeon at once commenced
a service similar to that which he usually conducts in the
Metropolitan Tabernacle, save that the beauty of the scene,
the haymakers in the fields, the beech woods in full glory,
and the corn waving in the summer air, inspired some of
his happiest extemporaneous expressions. In the course
of the day be alluded to the many reports which had been
spread concerning himself and the "gout." It war true,
he said, that he had had the gout, and a very horrible
pain it was; but he had the gout in his left leg, and he
had preached standing on the other. He bad not had the
gout in his tongue, and be was not aware that people
preached with their legs. He supposed that he should
have the gout pretty often, for he was his father's eldest
DOD, and inherited his good qualities. He was thankful to
say that the gout had not caused hint to relinquish a single
ministerial duty.—A drertiaer.
A Titintotiou CATHOLII.7.—We have the sincerest
pleasure is announcing that the Rev. George Williams.
8.D., Senior Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, a
thorough catholic—in fact, the leader of the present re-
vival in that university—will be the new vicar of Rich-
mond. A better appointment could not possibly be made.
He will carry on and develop the good work of his respect-
able predecessor.—CAurea News.
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OUT AT JAVA.—Nowadays, any Dutchman (or,
in fact, any European) who goes out to Java with a good
constitution, clear brain, and due amount of energy, is
sure to prosper in the course of time. He is not likely to
make a fortune in two, but pretty safe to secure a oom-
petency in ten years ; and to grow a millionnaire if he will
only remain where he is and take what is offered him.
But, somehow or other, few people remain in Java longer
than they absolutely must, in order to secure the means of
living at home in comfort. The climate is in most parts
of the country enervating ; there is a dearth of intellec-
tual food, and an excess of dainty dishes ; children moat
be sent to Europe for education; liver complaints and long-
ing for home increase day by day ; and thus, though every
facility be now granted to the Dutch emigrant, the num-
ber of residents on the island is but increasing at a slow
ratio. Latterly, measures have been framed to improve
the schools, to offer many inducements, formerly wanting,
to every one who will remain a resident, but with little
result, as was to be expected from half-measures in which
the settler finds but few guarantees for his permanent lul-
-1 vantage and seaurity.—Nora Braid& Review, new Imam..