The Express.
London, England, 1856-11-03 00:00:00

if UNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.—Much excitement pre-
raii.4 in the contested wards today, vis. Limestreet and
Everson and Eirkdale, in both of whirl; the liberal candi-
dates were elected, Mr. J. B. Lloyd giving place in the
former to Mr. J. R. Jeffrey, sad Mr. Still Issieg elected
by a majority of 16 over Mr. Longtoa in the latter. The
liberal party are In high sprite at the result, as it gives
them two additional votes. Both gentlemen are thoroughly
conversant with municipal Resits, are very Scent speakers,
and will, no doubt, prove a benefit to the council. Oppo-
sitioa was made to the return of Mr. June' Alpine! Tobin,
es-mayor, in Rodsey.street ward, by the liberals, who put
forward Mr. George Holt, and by the evaservatives to
Mr. J. Mellor, in St. Anne's ward, who brought oat Mr.
H. Mall , bat in each came it was evidently &pretence
to kirep back any doable vote going to the candidates in the
hotly contested wards.
dtaxcaxerm—Thers were contests in only five
est of the fifteen wards, only one of which resulted in the
election of a new member. This was in fit. Michael's ward,
foe whisk Mr. Pratt, auctioneer, was elected, in place of
Mr. Warburton, by a majority of five. There are four other
mew councillors through voluntary retirements, and these
consist of Mr. Hobert Romney, manufacturing chemist ;
Mr. James Ryder, gentleman; Mr. Gordon M'Connell,
gentleman; and Mr. James King, jun- cotton spinner.
NEWCASTLH-ON•TYNIS, SATURDAY NlOHT.—Noarly
all the municipal wards have been hotly °untested. The
old whig party have got in*. great distavour ttrsugh sp.
pointing the Vicar to a ginettore office, the Mastership of St.
Thomas, with 10011 4001. or 5034. a year. The cry has been
" Turn them oat," and the Ratepayers' Reform Association
have done some effectual service to day. The following are
the results at the clam of the p;ll:—St. Nicholas Ward—
Mr. Andirons (11.), 307; Mr. Bradley (K.), 239; Mr.
Yew,/ (W.), 227. Two first elected. All Sainte Best—
Mr. Walters and Mr. Medley, reformers, elected, Mr. I. L.
Bell, whip, refiring. South St. Andrew's—Mr. Benson
(R.) end Mr. Brown (K.) elected, Mr. Joblion (W.) re-
tiring. Mr. Pidgeon (W.), 395; Mr. Plummier (It ). 362;
Mr. Chula. (11. ), 342. Two first eleeteJ. Ail Saints
Weet—Mr. Berkley (It ). 355; Mr. Lambert (W.), 260;
Mr. S. Charlton (R ), 533. Two Stat elected. The other
two wards were not coossted. .

OXFORD.—Of the ten couocillore elected four
am radicals, fear liberal contervatives, and two tories.
The Town Conned now consists of twenty-lour liberals and
'lateen conservativ.s.
NEW MAYORS—For Manchester it is expected
that Mr. Jamas Watt•, and f u &Word Mr. Stenhan Haarlem,
the pressat mayors, will consent to telt' Ales a second
year, and as this compliment hoe been seal is most greet-
, oas eases, their re election may be regarded as almost certain

We read in the Journal de Franrfort—" The
'analog tables of Wiesbadea and Ems, which were closed
on the 2711 ult., ben pissed from the bead, of MM. Smola
and Chabert lato those of a comp toy, coalueted by MM.
de Reber, who reside at Berlin sad Catherine. The eon-
sidintioa for the transfer le 1,200,000 florins, while the
state will receive from the comer any 250,000 ft urine in addi-
tion to the price of the I lease, which is 105,000 Bvia/.
The society will moreover give annually to the theatre
of Wiesbaden the nu of 10,000 &riot, end will pay &boat
60,000 fbrine towards the support of the chip!. Although
ibis, espouses soll taorm.as. MM. de Ilehrr have sot been
able to obtain from the Nassau governmeat permiseion to
eontiane play during the wiata ; the oel f advantage which
has been gnaw' them is permiseion to open the Beak of
Wiesbaden es the let of April instead of the let of May.
The contract entered into w.th the company will espial is
1872." _

---A
gnat somber of foreiga students, among whore
ere same Russians, have arrived dewing the lett few days
la Parish) follow the esteem sad attarr coarse of public
lootsroo.

TEE ACCIDENT ON TEE LONDON AND
NORTH IrEsTERN RAILWAY.

On Friday Mr. Worley, coroner for the county of
Buckingham, opened an inquiry at the Globe Inn, Hailstone,
mewling the death of Benjamin Pike, sped 22, lately a
fireman in the service of the London end Ncrth -Western
Railway Company, who died from injuries received in the
collision which took place on Wednesday last.
Jonathan Oscar, never of the engine which broke away
from the luggage train, stated that when he found his en-
gine had become detached, he ran on about a mile and a
quarter, believing the train would follow him about that
distance. He then stopped, In order that deceased, who
was his fireman, might go back and signal the gaud or
breakeman. The f, g at that time was very dense, and he
could neither ass nor hear the advancing train, which struck
his tender immediately he stopped the engine. He
opened the regulator, to set has engine in motion, the MO-
meat he saw the tram. He had intended to have gone en alter
letting Pike, down. The violence of the concussion Yang
hint completely over the boiler, and to could not say what
occurred afterwards. The train must hive separated by the
rumpling' breaking, as he had not slackened his speed since
leaving Blisworth.
John Davis, the breeksman to the train, said that a
shirt time before the collision he found that the troth had
slackened speed, but tte fog prevented him from dis•
covering the clue. He -leapt expecting a signal
from the engine. He had no means of signalling
the driver, and be did not aiply the break, fearing
that if the engine pot on more power, the couplings
would give way. The collision was the Bret intim'
thin that he had that anything was wrong. Taking into
coosideration the weight of the train, with the two " dead "
engines in front, be believed that if the driver had warned
him by his whistle to apply his break, it would have taken
him more then a mile to stop his train after the engine bad
become detached. Immediately upon the collision occurring
be d the telegraph wire, and went back to stop the
next coming train, which be met about a quarter of a mile
behind them.
The jury desired to be informed what the witneu meant
by severing the telegraph wire ?
Mr. !Manua explained that among the moth racont fm-
prooossoctu adopted by toe London and North Western
Company fur securing perfect safety of travelling over their
line bed been the establishment of a "special train tele-
graph," with signal stations every two miles. At each
station a policemen was on duty night and day, in whose
watch-boa there was a telegraph dial with a single needle.
By inclining the needle to the lett hand, the Freon in
charge gave notice to the next station that a train had
passed on to the two miles of road entrusted to his special
care ; while inclining it to the right hand would show that
the train had passed off that portion of the line. There
were in fact but two signals, " train on" and " train off,"
but as it might happen, u in this cue, that an accident
occurred upon the two miles of road between the telegraph
station', the guard and breakemen were instructed instantly
to sever the "special train wire," which had the effect of
placing the needle at each adjacent station in an upright
position. The policemen on duty at once became aware by
this movement that something was wrong, end could act

according to circumstance,. -
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Several of the jury remarked that the system appeared
to be well calculated to prevent accidents.
Mr. M'Connell said if the signals were properly attended
to a collision, in the ordinary sense of the term, was impos-
sible. The system, however, induced a rigidity of practice
which, though euentially productive of safety to travellers,
doubtless, almost necessarily occasioned delays when any
derangement occurred. The " train telegraph " had only
me code, and the policemen in charge were not able to
carry on a conversation by it. The wire was placed about
halt way up the ordinary. .telegraph poets, and in this in-
stance had not been injured by the accident, though the
ordinary intelligence wires had been dean 'yet This train
telegraph at present existed from London to Hereby, and was
In process of extension over the whole system of toe London
and North Western lines.
The witness proceeded to describe the step' he took to
prevent accidents to other trains. His belief was that the
driver had not time to have reversed his engine, and there-
fore could not have been meeting the train when the colli-
don occurred.
Thomu Bostick, a platelayer, and Richard Bolter, 'neat
policemen at the Ashton Bank telegraph station, having
been examined, portions of a coupling iron, which had been
found near the sosne of collision, were preduted. The book
had been snapped molder, but there seemed to be no flaw
nor indication of weakness in the metal.
Medical evidence was given showing that a rupture in the
region of the kidney was the cause of deceased's death.
The Coroner, in summing up, said the only question was,
had the driver, Oacar, by any proceeding on his part, occa-
sioned the c Allston ? He had himself declared that his
engine had not been reversed, and this statement was corro-
borated by other witnesses. It might be unfortunate that
he had not sounded his whistle to give warning to the
breaksman to use his endeavours to stop the train, bat the
breaksman had deposed that, had he applied the break, he
did not believe he could have brought his train up in the
distance ruo. There could be no doubt that the accident
was, in the first instance, attributable to the hoary fog
whisk prevailed ; and the only question was, did the jury
consider any individual responsible in a criminal degree for
what had occurred t
The jury retired, end, after about nroars {111.1.4. Genoa-
ration, they returned into court; noon which the foreman
announced that they bad unsamouly agreed upon ,verdict
of " atuidental death."

ANOTHER RAILWAY ACCIDENT untouon DEr
PIGMY' CooPturos.—A singular and dangerous accident
to.ak place on Friday on the Dundalk and Enniskillen Rail-
way. The Fromm gives the following particulars :—Tbs
down mail train from Dundalk to Ballybsy, which left at
9.35 p.m. on Thursday night, consisted of twocarriagee and
two goods waggons. Through some cause, which we were
not able to ascertain, the two waggons became diseestspd
from the carriages, and were left babied on the railway (a
single line) for the estire night; and what is stranger still,
they were not missed by the guard of the train on its arrival
at Ballybay, or by the driver, who ee duty it was to shunt
them cff the line. The up mail train for Dublin, consisting
of two carriages and a break-van, ran into the too waggons
which were left on the line, the train going at the time folly
thirty miles en hour. The shock was terrific, but fortunately
there were no passengers in the carriages, or serious loss of life
mighthave been the consequence, as waggons were dashed
over the embankment, closely f:lowed by the engine and
I the carriages attached. The train guard, driver, and stoker,
escaped nohurt ; but Russell, the mail guard, sustained
Severe Injuries.
TAMPERING WITH RAILWAY POINTS AT PRESTON.
—At the Preston Town Hall, on Friday, a lad named John
Partingtoa was charged with having, on the 20th October,
fastened beck some self acting points on the Preston and
Longridge Railway, by which considerable mischief was
done, and life endangered. About ore o'clock in the after-
noon of the day named, a paw wooer train went over the
points, and soon afters ands a stoic. laden train of six waggons
came down the line from Longridge to Preston. Instead of
running on to the Preston Station, pert of the train wee
Corned off towards the tunnel of the Fleetwood, Preston,
and Longridge Railway (cow leased by the Preston and
Longridge Company), and the other waggons remained no
the line leading to Preston. The coasequeace was that two
of the waggons were smarhei to pieces, the wheels broken,
' and the rabble stone with which they were laden scattered
about the line. It was thee found that the points had been
fastened back, and a lad named Amos Higoimeon gave in-
formation at the Motion that it was Punt:won who had
fastened them. Oa the hearing of the case nn Friday, how-
ever, James Nelson, soother lad, stated that he heard Hig-
gloom ray to Partiogton, "Jack, go and pull the Bhutto,
and I'll stand all the loss and damage ;" and after directing
him to kitten them back with a stick from the hedge, he
said, "Now I'll go and tell at the station, and get the re-
ward." Higgicion was then placed in the dock ; and, after
the evidence had been again gone through, both the lads
were committed for trial at the next Earkdale assizes.
Bail was refused.
SINGULAR DISCOVERY OP A CHILD AT WEST
Dinar.—On Saturday, the lelth 0 sober, a carter, whom,
name at present we have not, was prrc•edirg with his tart
and horses along a lane in the township of West Derby. la
an adjacent field he °Waived two ladies dressed in the first
style of deep mourning, and highly respectable looking, en-
gaged in some opersti( n which mcch attracted his attention,
and his curiosity was excited, the more PO as he sow the
ladies retire in a hasty manner scree the field', and were
soots het to his view. He went to the place where he
marked the ladies had been, and there saw a heap of fallen
leans.. He was about t a depart, whey, to b.s astoniahment,
he imagined that the I became animated, and, on •
sudden, he saw the hood of a child pushed through them.
The per carter hastily removed the c)vering, and there
discovered a fine plump mod teolthy boy, able five days old,
drawled in a very superior style—such style only as could
be procured by tie we ilthy. He at once tool the little
wronger to hie manly b nom. and warmed it. He then
proceeded in search of areistance, end honing met police
officer Pumas, No. 317, los at once transferred the babe to
his kuoirg. The officer It r hwith conv.led the child to
ta• West Derby Workhouse, whose the most prompt mea-
were resorted to, and it tropioveit wonderfully. The
carter, as soon as he ease the child up to the constaele, re-
turned and made diligent search for the ladies, who were
beyond doubt the persons who had left the child where be
found it. Sufficient time had, however, attained to allow
of their escape, and etc ilia be, did, err they could rot be
found. The child was baptised at the workhouse, with the
name of Tbomss Boudery, it being just ar the hounds of the
borough and the county where it was found. The child was
taken every are of at the Institution, but on Wedrciaay it
died of convulsions, mid Dr. Nevins solve it as his opinion
that the convulsions were superinduced by exposure to cold.
In consequence of this the coroner has deemed it proper to
hold an inquest on the body this day (Saturdas ), and pro-
bably something may tratop're so as to teed to the discovery
of the " tidiest " alladed to. The clothes of the child will
probably be traced, as they have the eppearance of being
tarnished by mine first.rete establishment, and in this way
the moven of the infant may be known.—Lteerpool
Citron.cle. _ _

liflS FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE ART TREASURES
BUILDING, MANCH FAITEK —the inquest on the tan tortunate
man killed by the fall of p trt of the Art Treasure, Yahoo
oa Friday, terminated the same evening, the jery finding
verdict of aseident►l de►th.
CHILBLAINS AND CLIAP6.—The following applielh
Ws is strongly recommended : —lt le to be applied by means
of a pencil, and is to he renewed as often as required. 80 la
to protest the puts from tt s sir, ant -1 the cora, which is
speedy, Is completed 30. Venire turpentine 12,
nester oil 6, ais.—Natical Tulles and Gazette.

IRELAND.

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DUBLIN, Nov. 1.

The magnetic telegraph announces the death of the
ul of Bandon, who was attacked with apo?lezy
yesterday morning at his seat, Castlebernard, In the
county of Cork, the attack having proved fatal in the
coarse of the forenoon. The deceased nobleman, who
was 71 years of ego, wan the second earl, and was an
Irish representative peer. His politics were cower-
TatiM lie is succeeded in his title and estates by
his eldest son, Viscount Bernard, M.P. for Bandon,
the representation of which borough thus becomes
savant.
Ice Athlone Seritinei mentions a rumour that the
lion. Henry Handcock, 1.P., is about to accept a
cowgirl sppointmeot, and to vacate his seat for the
borough of Athlone.
The Ereniny Post announces that the Royal
Patriotic Food Commissioners have consented to
make a separate allowance out of the fond for the
education of orphan children of Irish Roman catholic,'
in schools belonging to their own church ; this boon,
it is added, having been conceded on the representa-
tion of Mr. John Ball, M.P., who is one of the °on:-
mimiouere.

MUSIC.