The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-03 00:00:00

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- MILL WaPYWIDA V.
The ballast upon the jite to the emu,: of the
eseid. wt lorher w.th. the *Arty of the a:wrings., 1.1.6 n;
elutfullY eA. s I,', the railway authorit.m. They have
found, up t,. le-day, a ',dual le themenal, !3 Im.k. (o.dy
cow •which tv 10. ki and a quantity of 11141,1114 i
it wbde will be prwaseed in wart in the roam, of the
%quo either to-day or to-mortow, and the coroner will
he :pled w amai.l au olio, for the herald of the bottr-s!
the inquest was resumed this morning before the
sooner, Dr. Henn, add his ewerwor Ethe
I yten. I onl Farnham vont:num his abet:dam* at tee
haw y. Colonel I(.rti was prevent on Issh.dl of •the Ileont
et Tiaiiie, sou ..r. Little for the London and tiwth
Weskit' Katie ay t7sinipany. The legal gentlemen Olio.'
iPP•OI4I in our repeat ut )e-dentlay attoaded to watch the
vane in the mt. re: tofth It mime: elalato. • •
la the owning ol the mount the cumin said he had
received millet It Ithas with ref...nue to the evidmee
11l n. Ineken*, and tic and the jiffy ware of the eisition
that in juthee to the your woman her hothead elioald bb
called aid seem. •
her. t'. W. Town mad. a pamenver in the mail on the
day et the aortdent, was ailed, and after ekes thing
La =pie dente Of the e0.1•••'‘41, Whieh 11.t1 not
Lr m ii me id torniei w ittic-oefi, sn d that noon gelemg
o-t to new a little girt at the window of ono
in the . .Milli:, out cur. Pelee ens to tome and vim
leg sad het net: el% who .a d, wan pexadya it. Tow
It: eon. ei t nag in the tear of the cut-oLLtc van.
Tbi Witneee feel lel the door of their carnage WWI toAc 4
anc he obtained a key on I reread then. H.: .16 1
w.th this esception, we any doors uttlocmd, hoe °Wene
tiLy of the In...Agora a:king to ho releueed. Tam%) were
in the cameo that wee looked; the hub
girl, a lady, and the elderly p tralyrsd gentle ea i. Th y
• I tie pa.ty. Sill the a Atiomi coned red w.th them
ii. eroming W Delius pubaequeutiy, but d.d wit en ite
their atonic lle could not tee beyond hot font van,
aL be) ohd was demesne-smoke. He naturally looked fa
that direction Immediately upon getting out of tin car-
nage titter the e 0111,4011. lie .1...1 not bcLeve that 'm-
om, cuuld have Liet,rl in the r.mne and smoke b kyoud
the mail out. He did not e:e tire. lhcken.
on the mese of the lire. 'lieu beadle of the d i,n of Lie
carnage trout which tie girl addromed hint, and
whoa he unlocked, had teen tunuvl. rhowit4; that an
att.. ml t Lad been made to open it. Toe wane,* weicor
occupied a mat in the third carnage trim the van, and
the maw he had unlocked was of the Ora compartment of
the tame carnage.
Mr. Wood subjected the witnem to a long nom-
examination. but nothing was elicited beyond tne frets
given in his examinatioa in chief.
by Mr. Littler—The 01.1 gentleman.whom I roleastvl had
grey. hair mid whitlierr• lie was in a secoud-claw
carnage.
Mr. Littler wii.l ,mmething had been Raid yeah. rday about
some trucks that hint. on a previous ommuca, ran away
at Llanduluv. If the government iuopeetor thought it
necereury, 1w would be able to call witnenses to prove that
tone year. ago seine truck* did start off, but were ita•
ineduitely bieught bark by the engine.
Colonel Rich raid be did not ounaidcr that what hap-
reed a year ago had am thing to do with the present
inquiry, much le-a what had occurred four years ago. As
the matter had. however. been imported into the inquiry,
Mr. Little might Like au opportunity of asking qutetions
from the *tenon-master in order to elicit the fact.. _ _

Samuel Eaton. station-master ut Llandulas, tendered
the following evidence :—The pick up goods train from
Chester armed at Llandules at 12. N on the day of the
remind. The down Huh mail was due about 12.39. Iffy
son under my instructsons worked the signals on this occa-
sion. I was present and saw they were put up correctly.
The semaphore and the distance signal were both put to
•• danger immediately upon the arrival of the goods
train. That would have the effect of blocking the down
hoe. The tail end of the train, consisting of two waggons
and a tender, was left standing on the main line whilst
the driver proceeded, under the direction of the breaks-
man, to leave some empty trucks at the siding. After the
shunting was complete I saw three waggons
• • kicked off the remainder of the train.
They were kicked off with no more or less force
thai usual. It is the practice to break the waggons
when they are thus kicked off at this incline. I have seen
waggons kicked off on this spot before. I cannot say
whether or not the breaks were put on these waggons.
From the position in which I stood I could not sue. I
saw them reach the tail end of the train which had ori-
ginally
.left the line. I did not hear the sound of the
concussion. They were shunting the goods train at the
time, and the noise was so great that I could not have
heard the blow. I did not see the waggons strike the
tail end of the train.

The Assessor (banding a written paper to witness)—
You may need this to refresh your memory. I will ask
you again if you saw the waggons strike the tail end of
the tram 'f
Witness.—l will not be certain about it.
The Assessor.—lf you saw the one section reach the
ether you must have teen it strike. you know.
Witness--I caw the tail end move off an moon as the
ether came off. I hate au previous occasions seen a por-
tion of the goods train kicked off " to join the tail mat
landing on the line. I never before Paw the tail cud
start on as the result. I don't know whether on these
fotmer occasions the kicked-off waggons were brak.ll. I
have been at thi. station for four years, mill I never knew
an instance where porti-ns of a goods train gut beyond
the breakinten's control. The last I saw of the renuuning
trucks Thanulay week the.y were disappearing round
the curve. I know the rule in thecoinpany's instruction
1 which directs that th. re be teu dear minutes
I tnteen the completion of the shunting of a g.u.sl, train
tlo arrival ,f n pa--ginger tea./1. After the arrival of
tl.- tiain on Thoir•day k there war• only five
ii..butes onler to t ../Inidete the sup-
-1,“ I 1, ti mph."' with. I had
p.mi: t oidelituf the Iron to shoot at once.
,•,1 1 old a.•./ 11. so. The ..hling was not long
h:m. the train all upon ..me line. 'Fie.!
n. Ot: tlot in his trill in two and
• te-artaire tie rn afterward,: but I tleer.:lit
•: cane is. di, ad Im I,,re the mail Came up. 1 did
I.• I . t•• •., a• to leave th,
.t. 1.-1;.11.1 the: rote; hat I
though! it 1111,.11t
thy laut a, to 41 it.. 4,1:13 to the

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\t). :-Th, r, 7nt the ?oral- train .141 not Hug-
,. -7 n• H..- that he -1.0u1.1 take the engine and try to catch
the r.inaway I so'...u.nly swear that I did not object
t.• the ...lost. r.:,.1 of the 11111: 1,1144 „•rd a, order that the
•engine might get on the oth.•t line, lie did not know how
many trucks sielinv at Llandulas would hold.
Mr. Littler—•l'he will hold. wheu empty, 54 trucks
in one line of rad.. rod 17 ou the other.
By the Jury--lt is n•.t u 1,1111M)11 thing for both breaks-
men to leave the vat. %lieu the tail end of the train is left
standing ou the line.

By the Asiessin —There is no rule or regulation upon
thispriint, but it iv generally dime. I cannot say which
hreakrman should have remained in the van. As a matter
of practice the senior break.usan stays in time tan under
thaw circumstance..

Arthur Thomism], the driver of the mail train, was
afterwards exiunined. He gave evidence in corroboration
of t►.at given by Mrs. Ili' ken. Ile auid he heard two
female voice, iL front of the post-oeice van on the aia-foot
ride after the eollision. He did not hear what one
but lie heard the other bay "Mind your own
Ife met Mrs. Indica coming from
the front of the train after that. The flames
were raging when he heard the suives. Hinton, the sur-
viving guard. wa• re-examiutsl. He raid he was at the
burning carriages before Mrs. Dicker' arrived. She could
not Lava lived it elie had been iu front of the poet-office
van at the time referred to by Thompeon.
Mr. Wnodroofe. the mail sorter, who was in the train,
gave evidence that the front of the train was in Hanwa im-
mediately after the collision, and no one could have lived
It.

The inquiry is expected to close to-mormw.
It has been clearly ascertained that some passengers by
the Irish mail who booked at Chi-ter on the morning of
the accident emeaped all injury, through having catered
tarriagia in the rear of the train. fine gentleman has
with-cacti the chairman of the railway, informing hiintliat
he had throe friends who booked at Cheger and arrived iu
Lublin w,mjur, d, two of the number having actually
embarked at Klogstrai before they became acpuituted
with the fact that any loss of ►ife had occurred.

THE VICAR OF DONCASTER'S PROPTIECY. —The
vicar of Donciuter has preached a sermon having special
and important reference to the position and prospects of
the established church. Re said :—" Church people moat
prepare themselves', I feel sure, for a speedy, a scare'dy
gradual, demolition of all that has been distinctive, all
that has been exceptionally advantageous in their pail-
tion. An eminent man and excellent bishop, who was
laid in his grave last Friday, was wont to say, If I
live ten years I shall be the last bishop of Peter-
borough.' It is more than probable that Nome of my
younger hearers this evening may live, not only to
see what we call the church of England thrown
altogether upon voluntary offerings for its maintenance,
but also to find it at lout en open, perhaps a very
doubtful question, to whom shall belong the churches
themselves and the glebe housee—whother, indeed, there
shall be left to the old church of England, as we still
fondly call it, an vestige of that legal standing, which
has made her hitherto the calla shelter of her thildren,
the admiring wonder of foreigners, and the mark of
obloquy or envy, as the *sae might be, to thousands of her
domestic enemies. lam far from regarding this prospect
—be it far off or near—with unmixed alarm or
dismay. I never believed that the ' establish-
ment, as each, was Christ's church in England,
or that the withdrawal of the favours of the
state would be the putting out in our com-
munion of the Divine lthechinah. It is not so much for
the church that I fear. I fear something for the state
when it ceases to have a religion. I feel something for
the average tone of religion in our cottages and in our
palaces, when there ir no longer one form of worship
which has upon it the stamp of pedigree and of custom—
when it has an evenly balanced question with every man
and with his family, whither shall I go this day for (dud's
worship—whither, or whether any whither ? I fear there
wi I be more and more in many howasi of a cold, in-
different seepticism—si thristless education and a tlodless
life. I fear that more and more may reach old axn
rant of a Saviour, and go to th it graves with-Nit any
soar and rerta in hope .4 a re.sineetbm to etental life.'