The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-04 00:00:00

WORSHIP STREET.

RCITIANLT AVM:LT trox A FIKALE. W E Dodd,
a Chelsea pinstootr, was changed with assaulting Ann
Dunn, a single woman, who was so weak from loss of blood
as scarcely to be ab • to give her evidence.
The complainant, whose head and tees exhibited severe
masks of violence, said that she met the prisoner, with
whom eke was slightly atqoainted the previous eveniac,
in Church-stet et, 13 atoll-gr. en. lie was intoxicated, and
amid seeing her gave her • violent blow upon her face,
which knocked her down, and made the blood tl tw peofusely.
Wtils on the ground he kicked her in the balk, and then
hammered ter head rpm the pavement. The prisoner had
no provocation from her.
Policeman Loiter, 182, said that he took the prisoner into
custody, and that, while the complainant was by Lis side, he
stenik her twin: in the mouth. Witness was obliged to havo
the swats/ate of YI/Orlir enst-blr, and it require! eventoslly
six policemen to take him to the station-house. He was
obliged to b• stripted to • stretcher.
The 'prisoner admitted that he struck the complainant,
but said that it was with his open hand.
The prisoner was finel 51 , or, in default, two months'
imprisonment.

ACCIDENT BY GONPOWDZa.—The neighbourhood
of:Oulltord-street was much elavred vesteroey afteroncn
by a tremendous explosion at N... 33, the residence of Mr.
T. Weide'', surgeon It appears t..at the valet and an under-
emairn were amusing theensilv m in • yard by firing off
powder. A quantity in a canister, not less than a pound in
weight, caught fire, and exploded, seriously injuring one of
the venom eon:Anted, shattering the lower windows, and
much alarming the r.eighlocurhood. Mr. Wakley was nu-
m. diately sent for, and on ascertaining the nature or the
aceilent he had the man removed to the hatpin]. The
wh of the muscles of the thumb were torn away from the
bone, and required removal, and the principal tnrese and
vessels were much Mattered and hurt. The other man
11 marvellously escaped without injury.
I ACCIDENT AT TUC RAILWAY STATION, LIM E-
STISET, LlTERPOOL.—Yesttrary morning an accident oc-
curred at the railway station, in Lim—street, of • very
serious character. It appears that an excursion train left the
U atmeter static°, on the North Staffordshire Railway, at an
early hour that atomise, for Liverpool. The train took up
passengers at the vat feu; stations till it reached Leek, and
then proceeded rapidly on its,journey to the summit of Edge-
lull tunnel. The train consisted of twenty-two carriagni
and would contain, we should suppose, about five hundred
people. When it arrived at Edge hill the supine was dr
tacked, and the train was despatched down the tunnel, in
charge of two et the breakainen of the London and North-
Western Rai.wsy Company, end the guards who came with
it. The tunnel, as is well known, is on an incline, and tho
duty of the three men would have been to have used their
1 breaks, so as to keep the :train under control end stop it
when it emerged from the tunnel. Wa are informed, how-
ever, by the officers at theatation,:that the guards of the train
were unacquainted with the incline, and that the two men
already alluded to had not sufficient power to control the ve-
locity of the carriages. The consequence was, that the
train could not be completely brought up till it came into
collision with the stone wall which fare Lime-street.
The carriages were very little damaged. Front 20 to 30
passengers were more or tan bruised by the concuwiun ; some
of them ore rat about the head and face, and otherwise
shaken and contused. The whole of the passengers were
much alarmed, and as soon as possible were removed from
their unpleasant position. The injured panics were taken
over to the Queen's Hovel; by direction of Henry Bath,
Em., who happened to be on the spot, and who directed that
every attention should be paid to them at the charge of the
company. Dr. Walton was immediately called in, and though
several parties are confined to their beds, we are happy to
toy that he is satisfied of favourable results to his patients.
Dr. lien Con, Pe company's medical officer, with Mr.
Palmer, the a-distant mansfer, have carefully investigated,
as far as possible, the [nurses which have occurred, and re-
port favourably. The only case reported as dangerous is that
of Daniel Pride, aged 30, who is indicting front concussion of
the brain.
ROBBERY BY A SEEVANY.—The following depre-
dations have been recently discovered in the establishment
of Mosses. Mender, W , and Co., wholesale druggists,
of Wolverhampton. Front certain suspicions entertained by
Dr. Frederick W that Rivard Hooch Hone, one of
the assistants in his employ, wag in the habit of taking
mone7 from the shop till, • pound in silver was marked on
Thursday last, and Mr. Weaver communicated his suspi.
close to the chef constable. Colonel Hogg then made ar-
rangements for Disputer nuttier and S frgeant Maddock
to be in waiting in the evening to ultra Hone, as he was
about to leave the premises, at 8 o'clock. Hone war ac-
cordiegly searched, when four of the marked pieces of coin
were band in his possemion, and he was immediately taken
into custody. Mr. Weaves's suspicions having been thus
*manned, a search was made at lione's lodgings in St.
' John's-square, where a largo amount of property of 13013'1-
derable value was found in his rooms, neatly packed up in
a trunk and several boxes. The greater portion of the
property has sines been identified by Mr. Weaver. It con-
sists of all kinds of patent medicines, together with a quan-
tity of quinine, Turkey opium, sulphate of beeberine, citrate
of iron and quinine, nitrate of silver, Rowland's Macassar
oil, anchovy sauce, essence of anchovies, perfumes, and other
valsabls aril- les, forming portions of the stock of a whole-
sale druggist. A woman who lad been living with the,
prisoner, and who reprecnted herself to be hie wife, but is
believed to be the wife of another man, was also taken into
custody the ume night at Hone's lodgings; some articles
identified by Mr. Weaver having been found in her work-
box. Hone has been in Mr. W 's employ for about
six months, and it is believed he has been in the habit of
robbing his miner daily during the whole of then period.
FATAL FIGHT AT ToNtwittpoft.—On Wednesday
last a fight took place at the Odd FeUows' festival, that was
held at Tunbridge on Tuesday, one of the combatants being
killed in the fray. An Inquest was held at the Bull Inn,
ow Thursday. Ahem% 12 o'clock on Tuesday night them
wee dancing is the booth that had been tweeted for holding
the Odd Fellows' meeting in, when some dispute arose re-
sonating some deal planks. A young man named Frederick
&laden became rub excited, and wished to fight, end at
Ivaatla be fought with another young man named Allred
Walklln. The ground when they fought was very bard
and wanes, and after some 10 or 12 rounds, during which
both pordes frequently fell, Erkeden fell without being
streak, and never afterwards spoke. The jury returned a
verdict of "Accidentally killed by a fall to the ground la
the an of giving a blow, but there is no evidence to show
that it was caused by blows given in the fight." AVM
Walklia and the emends were then brought into the roes,
sad suitably npaletemdett by the ormsem