The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-05 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

•/orrnca coral/1H PARSINGSR BY HAIL.
J..ha Cunina, of 112, Port-road, ltermondsey,was
h
on a summons, with an infringement of one of therleyl
law* of the Great Eastern Railway, by alighting from •
carriage while in transit.
Inspector Twist, attached to the line in question, de-
pored—On the 111th ultimo I was at the Mile-end station
when the 9.41; train from Loughton came to London. On
nearing the station I speak of, the door of • carriage
was opened, and I tinctly observed the defer-
.hint in the act of alighting. I shouted " keep
back," and ran up the platform repeating the
words. I also sent the porters along to do the
same, but, notwithstanding, this gentleman did get out,
even while the men were shouting, and a precious whack
he went down, head and all ; indeed he was nearly under
the train. His daughter screamed, and the alarm evinced
was very great. A gentleman afterwards complained at
the office of the practice, as calculated to make others
jump out from fear of something having happened.
Defendant did not deny the statement in any par-
ticular, and paid a fine of 205., with costs.

THE CHARGE OF EMBEZZLING L 7,500.

MANSION-HOUSE.-(THIS DAY.)

James Pownce,late confidential clerk to Messrs. Fletcher
and Co., merchants of Cape Testa, Cape of Good Hope,
and Great St. Helens, was this morning brought before
Alderman Carden for further examination upon the charge
of embezzling a large sum of money, the property of hie
employers.
The prisoner, it will be remembered, was apprehended
at Truro, in Cornwall, by Superintendent Miller, of the
Cornwall constabulary, who recognised him from a
photograph that had been sent by Mr. Hamilton, the su-
perintendent of the City Detective police. The prisoner
had taken a passage for Baltimore, and when ho was ap•
prehended securities and money to the amount of over
5,000/. were found in his possession.
Mr. C. Lewis, who was iustrue,ml to prosecute, said that
all the witnesses whose evidence would be necessary to
prove the charge were in the colony of Cape Town, and he
asked that the prisoner should be remitted to that place to
undergo examination upon the charge, under the warrant
that had been granted by the Secretary of State.
The prisoner was accordingly committed to Newgate to
be taken to Cape Town eventually in charge of Foulger,
the detective officer, who held the Secretary of State's war.
rant for his apprehension.

THE SHOCKING RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR
WARRINGTON.

ANOTHER DEATH.—(TBLS DAY.)
(13T ELPRTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
WARRINGTON, FRIDAY.
The investigation into the cause of the accident
has commenced. The body hitherto unidentified is now
recognised as that of Mrs. Cockin, of Liverpool.
Wm. Jones, Bath, died this morning ; making a total of
eight deaths'.

FATAL EXPLOSION OF A PARAFFIN LAMP.

INQUEST.-(THIS DAY.)

•
This morning, Mr. William Carter, the Surrey
coroner, held an inquiry at the Duke of Clarence Tavern,
Penton-place, Walworth, touching the death of Mrs.
Sarah Weaver, aged 49 yeani.
Sarah Elizabeth Ladder, daughter of the deceased, Bahl
that her mother was the wife of a leather ware-
houseman. She lived at No. .17, New Kent-road,
On Sunday evening, at 8 o'clock, witness and her younger
sister, aged 12 years, were seated at the table. The
deceased took a lighted candle and went to light a
paraffin lamp. All at once a body of flame flew up and
the room was filled with smoke. There was a sheet
of flame and it set everything on fire that was in the
room. Something appeared to be thrown up from
thE lamp towards the ceiling, and it then
descended upon the head of the deceased, and
she at once became a mass of flame. There was a loud
explosion like the report of a gun. The deceased rushed
from the room, and ran out into the area, all on fire. The
little girl wasalso sat on fire, too, and she ran upstairs.
Her bat was blazing on her head, and her dress
was in flames. The deceased came back into the
room, and witness got some water and threw it over her.
Assistance came, and the deceased fell on the floor, and
gime articles of clothing were thrown over her, and the
tire was put out. She waa carried to the hospital, where
she expired on Monday.
By the Coroner—The lamp was one that had a porcelain
shade globe. The oil was inflammable, and it threw off
vapour. It was very volatile. When the explosion took
place the deceased was holding a candle while the little
girl poured the oil into the lamp. They told the girl that
the lamp was full of oil, but she did not believe them, and
kept on pouring in the oil. The deceased was a very ex-
citable person, and witness believed that in her irritation
she let the lighted candle fall into the oil. The girl had
the oil can in her hand at the time. The explosion
was instantaneous, and the deceased was riveloped in a
sheet of flame from head to foot. The girl was not
seriously hurt, for she dragged her burning clothes off her-
self. Mr. Weaver was burnt in trying to put the tire out.
He ran to the assistance of bis wife.

Mr. J. Weaver, husband of the deceased, corroborated
the above statement, and while he was giving his evidence
he burst into teen. The oil was purchased at Mr.
Harding's in the Walworth-road.
The coroner said that another case, showing the necessity
of using great prudence when burning explosive
oils had come under his notice. A woman at Battersea
had filled a hand-basin with naphtha and oil, and then she
slipped a piece of cotton wick through a piece of cork and
tin, and while the cork was floating about she lit the
wick, and the oil instantly exploded. The house
was burnt down, and the young woman lost
her life. Paraffin oil was now very generally used, and it
was very desirable that the public should take additional
care when they were using it.
Mr. Salon, surgeon, proved that the deceased died in St.
Thomas's Hospital from the effects of extensive burns all
over the body.
The jury returned a verdict, " That the deceased lost
her life through the accidental explosion of paraffin."

On the second reading of the Increase of the
Episcopate Bill, Mr. Gilpin will move "that it be read a
second time upon that day three months."

Mr. Pim, on Monday, will ask the Secre-
tary of State for the Colonies if he is aware of
the extraordinary mortality caused by fever in the
Island of Mauritius during the present year ; can he say
whether it is true that the deaths have exceeded 30,000
out of a population of about 340,000 persons; and that
the deaths in the city of Port Louis in the month of April
last exceeded 6,000 out of a population estimated at 80,000;
has be any information whether the virulence of the
fever has abated or not; and, does he not think that some-
thing is due by way of assistance to the large number of
persons who have been left destitute by this extraordinary
and almost unprecedented calamity.
A bill brought into parliament by the Home
Secretary and Mr. Sclater-Booth to extend the " Trades
Union Commission Act, 1867," provides that " One of her
Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, upon the applica-
tion in writing of the chairman of the commissioners
acting under the commission relating to trades' unions,
mentioned in the said act, may from time to
time, by order under his band, direct that the
said act shall extend to any place in respect of
which such application has been made, and the said act
shall be deemed to extend to such place accordingly ; and
the said commissioners, or such one or more of them as
they may appoint, or any person appointed in pursuance
of the said act, may conduct at any such place as afore-
said an inquiry of the same description as is now by law
authorised in the case of Sheffield, and in relation to any
such place the said act shall be construed as if throughout
the same the name of such place were substituted for
Sheffield."

A full-blooded neg,ro clergyman, the Rev. R.
Gordon, preached • sermon in Holyrood Church lust
Sunday. He is • good Hebrew, Greek, and Latin echoLir,
and spe►ks the Italian and French languages. He is on •
visit to E. Palk, Esq., J.P., in the ►bon-named town.
The vicar of Holyrood Church is the Rev. Dr. Wilson, a
very learned divine, and the brother-in-law of the Bishop
of Winchester.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY.—The following aro the
preachers appointed for the Special Sunday Evening Ser-
vices during the present month :—July 7, the Rev. Robert
Maguire, M.A., Incumbent of Clerkenwell ; July 14, the
Very Rev. Dr. Alexander, Dean of Emly; July 21, the
Rev. Dr. Temple, Head Master of Rugby ; and July 28,
the Ven. Archdeacon Wordsworth,Canon of Westminster.
TYNE SALMON.—Within the past ten days there
have been large takes of salmon on the Tyne, and fish of
prune quality is selling at la. per lb. Great number,of
fish are seen leaping at the month of the Tyne
nightly, and within the past two or three years, since they
have been betteLcleted, this river has been largely re-
plenished with