The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-24 00:00:00

DANGEROUS WATERWORKS.

Mr. YERliaili taea ;One, in; home which soon eon-
misted only of the hoe. member, the President d the Board
of Trade, and the Deputy-Speaker, to mill attentioa to the
dangerous date of certain reservoirs ; but sodded,' broke
off, declaring that the manlier in which he was treated by
the government was offensive to him and isseltiog to those
people whose lives stood in jeopardy. He would there.
fore address the house no ler, bet move that it be
wanted.
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The bell wadi aecordingly rung, and a ooesidseable number
of members Rookie' in, the Deputy-Speaker &snow:toed
that there were more than 40 present.
Mr. DUNCOMBB was about to make some observations
la reference to the 'proem:beat Reform Bill, when
The DEPUTY-SPEAKER sailed the hon. gantleesea to
order. _ .

Mr. IL GIBBON remarked that the hon. member for
Devooport was not justified in the language he had used
at the close of his speech. Nothing wee further from his 1
(Mr. Gibson's) intuition than to show say diersepost to
the hoe. gentleman, whose speech he had listened to but
it was not to his (Mr. Gibson's) power to command the
attendance of others. With reference to the other part
of the hon. gentleman's observations, he could assure the
house that the government had been as much alive as the
bon. member for Devooport could have been to the im.
portance of the subject, but be (Mr. Gibson) must admit
that the question of providing for the safety of reservoirs
by clauses in an sot of 'parliament was not unattended
with danger. A bill bad been introduced which proposed
to give power to the Board of Trade to inspect existing
eervoirs sod to order repairs, end if the hiaw gentleman op-
posite thought fit to introduce any clauses into it when the
hones went into committee upon that bill, it was mope-
tent to him to do so.
The motion for the adjournment of the house was put and
agreed to.
An Bon. Mmmii then moved that the house be counted,
sad there being only 28 members present, the hones stood
adjourned to the Ittli of April.

TALI SHROPSHIRI MURDl3l.—Yeeterthly the in-
quest was terminated at Stottesdon or the body of the
young man Edward Edwards, wbo wee murdered is his
node's (John Meredith's) mill, at Dudlick, on Sunday morn-
ing, the 15th January last. Professor Taylor, of Gay's
Hospital, deposed to the result of certain mtamsoopic and
chemical examinations of verioux articles of clothing be-
longing to Mr. Meredith that had been forwarded to him
by Sir Richard Mayas and by the arrow respectively. He
had found that blood-stains had been removed from the
trousen either by a wet cloth or by a sponge ; and the
stains were of recent date, but whether or not the blood
was that of a human being it was impossible, in the pre- ,
sent state of soisoce, to determine, the bloxl of rabbits and
hares and the like being so much like human blond. A
journeyman miller deposed to Boding the stains of a bloody
hood on one of the steps leadieg from the bottom to the
middle-floor of the mill, at • part of the step which
he bad noticed it was the habit of Mr. Meredith sod no one
else to grasp ever, time he asossided from one floor to the
other. and a half-brother of the deceased deposed to certain
statements being made to him by Mr. Meredith on the day
after the murder, whichit was assumed by the prosecution
could have been detailed only by an eye- witoess of the
murder. The coroner (Mr. A. P. Trow), in summing up,
directed the notice of the jury to all the poists is the
i widows which traded to oast suspicion upon Me. Meredith
deecribieg them is "extraordinary." The jury, after •
brief deliberation in private, returned • verdict of " Wilful
Murder against some person or persons unknowe." The
police were assisted by Mr. J. J. Peel, solicitor of Shrews-
bury, the county treasurer ; and Mr. Heasedy, of the
I Midland circuit, duly instructed, watched the case for Mr.
j Meredith.

THZFATAL COLLISION OFF THE NORFOLK CORSE.
—Further details bare now come to hand as to the terrible
shipping osenalty off the Norfolk °oast, of which a few
hurried partioulars have been given. The accident occurred
about four miles off Palling, a small fishing village about
18 miles north-east of Norwich; and the Russian brig,
which was named the Taleti, was bound for a Spanish pars.
Sloe left Grimsby with a cargo of coal on the morning of
the 19th inst., in charge of Captain C•Y•••• and • crew
of 15. When she came into oolli-ion with the steamer the
' sea was Gam, and there was nothing to prevent the signals
of either Teasel being seep, as the lights could be distin-
guished for several miles along the gout. The brig sank
almost immediately on being struck, but the crew had jest
time to lower their smallest ho t ; they had no sooner
parted with the brig than she rank. The crew of the'
steamer signalled to the poor fellows to lay to, but
they 000ld not do so. Tte boat drifted abnut for''
three hoary, and then got into the breakers about 80 yards
from Palling beach, when she was swamped with all hands.
Six men managed to escape to the shore, but the captain,
pilot, arid eight others were lost. The mice of the poor fel-
lows attracted the coastguard to the spot, sad they sac-
ceded in rescuing our mac, who, although is an insensible
condition when dragged ashore, afterwards recovered. Re-
storatives were applied to a second Russian, but without
success. The pilot was an Englishman—a native of Grimsby
--and his body was washed ashore at a distant* of hotness
800 and 900 yards from the plat* where the boat was
swamped. The steamer which was in collision with the
brig is said to be the Lord Barringtoo. The ore wof the
brig was composed for the most pert of Russian Moe, but
a Burden youth is among the survivors. A boy named
Adam Clark, belonging; to Cardiff, who had been twosomes
with the vessel, is among the drowned. The sad hats have
been reported to the Russian °weal in London.
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