The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-15 00:00:00

SINGULAR ACCIDENT IN A ?BENCH
MIAMI

The Flare de la Loire of Nantes gives the follow-
ing atiateint of • singular aocklent and lucky escape :—" An
iseoldent of • Moguls, nature, the oonsegnaoee of wheels
might have hen deplorable, has sensibly ed the nume-
rous spectators attracted to the &die Geeslin by the third per.
formable of an nopuhlisbed play entitled the Chdtthe is
elision. About the end of the wooed act, a youth of seven-
teem, dressed in • blouse and tresses, by trade a carrier,
Ram; Tessier by name, living at Nantes, Plate du Port-
Connanasan, with his father, having gobs out, returned, and
wanted to resume his former lest in the front row of the
fourth gallery on the right olds and facing the stage. But
instead of placing his leg cautiously over the upper bench he
leant abruptly forwards towards the railing, which he thought
be should lay hold of. Thu support he aniseed, his hands
slipped along the valuta the rim, sad the poor fellow found
himself pitched forward by his own impetus. The reader knows
the usual construction of • theatre ; the projections of the
galleries recede from the lime to the inuneitt, so that any
heavy object in falling from the fourth could hardly
reach the pit. The best chance for Tiasier would have
been, owing to this arrangement' to make • m-
penidicular fall and alight on some Ridded rim below,
so se to remit* within the enclosed tier. This perhaps
would have happened if there had been more empty seats in
the salle than was tha case. In his fall Tessier did in fact
hit against the soldier, Alphonse Bethel, shoemaker to the
supernumerary company of the 76th, who was seated ia the
third gallery ; thee he fell against the head of a woman in the
second, the wife of N Ration, carpenter; then be brushed
past the o6lcer on duty, who was seated beneath in
the last arm.chaired bench to the right of the front
boxer, and in this way the youth was precipitated a
demure of several metres. By an extraordinary chance
Teethe, whole arms and legs were stretched out,
and who, as pawns who saw him during his frightful fall
say, looked like • man swimming horizontally through space,
found himself quickly netted on one of the frost benches of
the pit sear ihe orolimi et, exactly on a spot which had been
vacated between the acts, and in which he made hie appear-
mice like • meesentror from the sky, having merely grimed
the foot of the pert oi sitting next to him. The ascent satis-
faction may be easily imagined; It beoame yet greater when it
was ascertained that the young workman had sustained
no fracture. Being carried out to the mite of the
theatre. Tessier was able to sit upon a stool, hie arms crowed
its • table, and his head resting upon his mar. Doctors
Moreau and Hignard came and examined him ; they only
found • braise about the rues of • florin. Being utast how
he was, Tessier raid that all the pain he felt was In his thighs.
When they talked of removing him to the hoapimi, he had
the strength to the by bironelf, but noon 611 beck again, and
he had to be placed on a stretcher. The soldier Bretel
was in the meantime brought into the este ; he
with still quite stunned by the shock he had
received, and was very pale and haggard. As he at first spit
a little blood, It was thought there was some internal rotary.
Such was, however, net the case. He had merely bitten his
own tongue. and hie state wee not of a nature to cause
anxiety. Madame Hotline escaped with • contusion on the
heck of hat neck and • bump open her head."

ANOMIE* FINN IN TUE ClTY.—Yesterday MOM-
tan • ate broke out, betatron 12 end I o'clock, M Mr.
Cease's, Latter, No. 20, Bactee-row, Watlinet.etreot. AL
slam pea rebid, met the engines were a-o• on the spot,
but an ar• pea not eztionoiebed until oomeideroble &Woe
was done. The lboneekeepee was mach burnt in endeevenring
M alleged& the bap&