The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-19 00:00:00

(Stamped id. Additional) [T WOPkNOpt.,

NUMEROUS AND YAYAZ RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.

As briefly Mahal in our impression of Saturday,
an accident Immured cm the Landon and North-Western
Railway on P'ddleitarizstg, Deer Wolverton, which delayed
the up and dell Webs. Fortunately no mi= na
Wok pleas_ lies
traggeme al an up coal train broks down,
and blocked up the new Wolverton. On the betaking
down of the a= *Menai Was obtained and a mee-
pepeiil ew bewearlisd blifettedint stadon, kora which playas
looomaf Rea eat to the spot, accompuded try one of the
end no the engine approach= the opal
train k ttrkr emit • pestles of the shattered trek
wither* lare to *sow the engine on the down line, by
which the locomotive meaner was killed. Signals were for-
warded t 6 Mop both the down and up trains, end assistance
being det= form Wolverton, of= a short delay the past
angles end flekse of the Goal train were removal, end the
passenger traffic resumed without any other ineonvenknoe
than =ley.
An inquest Iris held at Addeubrooks's
Cambridge, on Friday, upon the body of Chaim Baldtey
aged 30, an engine-driver on the BMW= Counties Railway,
who wee Med under the following alammstanoes :—On the
previous evening he wee driving the engine of the Bury
goods Waist, and. in stepping from the footpath on to the
tender his foot alined, ontegto the snow which bed been
falling, and be fall on to the rods, sad the wheels of the
engine pared over his legs, and nearly divided them. The
stoker dapped the train as quickly as potable, end having
laid the poor fellow on the be= by the aide of the We, which
wee covered with =ow, and pieced his greet coat over him,
he detached the engine from the train, mdwent to the users =
station to ad. Deceased was then brought Into CaaahridlMl
bat byright leg was merely hangtag by a pleas of shin. A veit
diet " Looldmital dm*" was returned. _ _

On Friday Kr. Jewirrou coroner, held an inquest
at the Durham Ox Inn, Bradford, relative to the death of
John Cole, 37 years of age, who died at the Infirmary on
Wednesday lam. The deceased was in the employment d
the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company. At the
Mitteld station on the Bth Met., when about to couple some
Weggona, he was rut over, and sustained a compound &se-
tan of the right kg. The injury caused his Math, and the
Jury found that it had been accidently received. The de-
mised has left • widow and three children living at
Bradford.

Th 7; • serious railway accidents have happened
within a few hours of each other at Wolverhampton. On
Friday night • points's= named Charles Watson. at the
Stafford-road station of the Great Western Railway, was
expediting the departurs of • goods train overdue when, upon
uncoupling the engine and tinder, his clothes became entan-
gled in the former, and he was thrown upon the line, cos at
the wheels passing over a portion of his thigh and lower part
of the abdomen, occasioning some of the intestines to pro-
trude. He died shortly after being conveyed to the South
Staffordshire Hitel, at Wolverhampton. Daring the
forenoon of Saturday Mr. Dsvenport, the station-muter and
inspector at the London and North Western station, had just
closed the dote et • train already in motion, into width late
passenger, were endeavouring to get, when he fell between
the platform and the line, and his left leg felling across the
metals a horse-box pained over it, and it Imam
nearly severed. At the above-named hospital the
'limb was taken off near to the top of the thigh,
and but faint hopes are entertained of his recovery.
On Saturday night, at 7.40, James Acton' a potations's at
the Snobbery station of the London and North Western
line at Wolverhampton, was running across the line in front
of • goods engine which it was desired to peas on to a siding,
when he is supposed to have stepped upon one of the rails,
and falling down was run over by the engine and tender.
When picked up it was found that both his legs were nearly
cut off, hanging indeed only by the fleshy connexion to keep
the parts from separating, and that his skull was fractured.
As soon as possible he was brought on an engine to Wolver-
hampton, and thence to the above named hospital, where
it seemed impossible that he could live many hours. All the
unfortunate men are married, and Acton has seven young
children. He has before Wen in the hospital at Wolverhamp-
ton twice from socidenta received cm the line.

RAVAL AND MILIZAIer.

WOOLWICH, Dm. le.
A communication man received at it
yesterdays vesiohz the east then his Royal ril=e
Doke of Cambri the General CratteandlErtn-Chist.
will visit Woolwi on Monday, for the pesposs of in-
specting the troops, and the batterks of Arsotreag guns
now in store at the Royal Arsenal, to be forwarded for the
straits of the Artillery force in China. His Boyd HIS
L expaotcd to be present to *mese • setae of
with these guns at the government practice map.

CHATHAM, Dic. 18.

As order from the Admiralty Tax been received at
this dockyard directing the Castor, 36, sailing frigate, be-
longing to the reserve in ordinary at this port, to proceed to
the River Therese, and the sailing frigate 26, siso
attached to the reserve in the MAway, to be sent to the C
Canal, London, to be used as training ships for the Naval
Coast Guard Volunteers. Both vessels are to be immediately
brought forward for the lentos for which they are intm&.4
and each will have the maln-dick 68-pounder guns put ota
board in order that the volunteers may be exercised fa the
tads- .

Th;Triaromalee, 24, belonging to the reserve to ordinary
et this ;art, is adored to be sent to the earn omit of Boor=
to be wed aa a traleing ship ter the Coast Guard Volunteers
la thee part of the kingdom.

THE VOLUNTEER RIFLE MO YEMEN!.