The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-15 00:00:00

when the prosecutor wee brought in charged with robbing
the prisoner of 41. 4a. After hearing his st►tement he
declined to Mks the charge. As soon as he told the prisoner
so he said he would have his revenge. He would do some-
thing to make them startled. Witness asked him what be
means, when he replied, " Ob. never mind ; you'll soon see
all about that," and be left the statiou•house.
The mammy here said that the prosecutor must have
robbed him, sa no one else could have got into the room.
He denied using the knife.
Mr. Woolrych remanded Lim for further evidence.

THE PRIGHTPUL ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON.
CHATHAM AND DOVER RAILWAY, AT
BECKENHAM.

LATEST PARTICULABIi.--(THIS DAY.)
BECKENHAM, MONDAY, 12 o'oLocx.
Upon visiting the scene of this catastrophe this
morning large numbers of men were found to be at work
endeavouring to remove the fallen bridge and train, and to
extricate the remains of the unfortunate stoker who was
creaked to death between the engine and tender. So great
is the mass of ruin under which the poor fellow lies buried,
that his body caneot be recovered before night.
The stream into which the bridge and train fell 11 named
the Chaffinger, and is the boundary between the counties of
Surrey and Kest. It runs into the Ravensbourne, the over-
flow of which river at Lewisham on Saturday caused such
alarm and destruction of property in that locality. At the
point where the railway crossed Chaffinger the stream is
about 40 feet in width. The remains of the broken girders
of the bridge and the debris of the train form a dam across
the stream, and are piled to a height greater than that of
the level of the bridge before its fall. At the bottom of
all lies the engine Taciter—a machine of unusual sine
and great power. It if on its side, and is a
complete wreck. It is considered a fortunate chance
that it did not explode, and that it did not do so
is accounted for by the supposition that as it was pre-
cipitated through the air the boiler was emptied. Tae
fire in the furnace, however, continued alight until it
burnt itself out, and so destroyed the iron of the boiler.
The trucks were smashed up into planks for the most
part, but those which ran on to the heap of ruins after the
bed of the stream had become filled, were not so much
damaged.
When the bridge gave way, and the train fell over, the
engine caught the telegraph wires and dragged than down
into the stream, completely cutting off telegraphic commit-
nioation between Beckenham and the neighbouring station.
This accident nearly involved serial. consequeeces, as the
train next due after the goods train was the mail train, and
owing to the destruction of the telegraph it was only with
the utmost difficulty that by means of measenpre and
danger signals the mail was warned of the danger in its
path.
Sir Morton Peto, the contractor, Mr. Martin, locomotive
superintendent, and Mr. Bishop, one of the engineers of the
company visited the scene of the accident this morning,
end made a careful examination of the pins, bc., of the
fallen bridge.
Large crowds of persons have been attracted to the spot
by a natural curiosity, and Inspector Unroll and a large
body of pollee are on the ground to keep order and to pre-
vent interference with the proceedings of the workmen.
The name of the fireman has been ascertained to be John
Masted. He entered the employ of the cowpony on
Monday last. His father and sister have come up from
Whitstable to be present at the recovery of his body from
underneath the ruins.
The passengers by the up and down trains have to get out
of their carriages and walk past the scene of the occurrence
to the trains in waiting beyond. During the whole of the
night large fires were burning for the convenience of the
men and police engaged in watching the luggage and other
property which lies scattered in every direction about the
fields.

GREAT INUNDATION AT WINDSOR.
(THIS DAY.)

WINDSOR. MONDAY.

This morning, for the lest few hours, the Thames
has been rising very rapidly, and an immense body of water,
vastly increased by the floods from the westward, is now
pouring over the land in the vicinity of Windsor and Eton,
submerging in its irresistible course many hundred Sere'
of the adiacent land, meadows, and fields. At the
time of writing this despatch the floods had inundated tke
north-western suburbs of Windsor. The whole of the
fields crossed by the Great Western Railway viaduct, and
known as the Goswells, being laid under water, which latter
reached to the backs of the houses nearly as far ea Glower.
The long beck gardens in the rear of the houses and
shops on the west aide of Thamessteet, the principal
thoroughfare in the royal borough, were completely covered.
Opposite on the Eton side, or north bank of the river, matters
are even worse, the whole of the "Braces" and land between
the hanky of the horses on the west side of Eton and the Great
Western Railway being submerged,and converted into& large
lake which extends from Windsor to the Rev. S. Hawtrey's
Mathematical Schools at Eton College. At the latter place
the water is rushing through Banispool-bridge in torrents,
and meeting over the grounds at the rear of tho outbuild-
ings, has, in its onward progress back to the Thames,
swamped the land mann the river's bank at the Piei;na
Fields," and then nearly inundated the Home-park, be-
tween the South Western Railway-bridge and that at the
Datchet-road.
Standing on the North-terrace of Windsor Castle the
meandering course of the Thames from Maidenhead to
Staines presents the aspect of a succession of inland lakes in
consequence of the greet quantity of land submerged in this
district. At Wraysbury, Egham Meads, and Staines, the
inundation is very extensive, and should the water still rise
the damage to property upon the banks of the river at
Windsor and elsewhere moat be great. Punts are being
used in the western suburbs of Windsor and Eton, the flood
having partly cut off communication. It is years since such
an inundation was witnessed here.

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 15, 1866.

SHAM; LISTS.-(THIS DAY 4

ONE o'Cton.

The railway market is firm to-day, and an im-
provement has occurred in prices. Midland stock
has risen per cent. ; London and North Western
and Lancashire and Yorkshire ; and Metropolitan,
Great Western, and South Eastern }. Attention
is partly directed to the settlement.
London and North Western stock is now
quoted 125} to f ; Great Western, 581 to ;
Midland, 1221 to 123} ; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
122} to I ; South Eastern, 734 to 74 ; Great
Eastern, 41 to f ; Caledonian, 1264 to 1274 ;
Great Northern, 1264 to 1274 ; ditto A, 145 to
; and Metropolitan, 1334 to 134.
Grand Trunk of Canada railway stock is in de-
mand, and has improved to 35 to 4, being } per
cent. better than on Saturday. Great Western of
ICanada shares are rather firmer, at 164 to f.