The Express.
London, England, 1868-10-28 00:00:00

HAMMItS3IITH.

nowt, Ireland, an elderly man, was chargevl on a war-
tent with running away and leaving his wife and one child
cl.srgt able to the parish of Hammersmith.
The rriioner did not deny the °lent*, but said he
thought hi. sen would take care of his wife. Ilia (laughter
was in service at the time. All Lis things were taken away
on the day he left.
Mr. Halsey, the relieving officer, said that when he was
cal:f d in lie found not a %Obi ige of furniture in the roues,
aid be was obligid to rind the wife into the infiru.ary, as
the was guile dertitule and helpless.
In soccer to questions the officer raid the oat of the
relit f green was ill. The wife became chargeable ou the
11th of Mar.
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the Frit oncr had no cleans of paying the money, and
as Mr. Dayrran had no alternative but to send hint t
r 4( n, to was committed for three months, with hard
lal r.
tiolscquently it was ascertained that the warrant was
entiil the 14th of April, and as the magistrate had no
jurit diction bcyond six months. the prisoner was brought
lack and informed that he could not be convicted for
that cfk nee. He was then called upon to answer the
minor charge of neglecting to maintain, and as the reliev-
ing officer dated that he was able to support his wife
and did not, Mr. Hayman ordered him to be imprisoned
for cue month, with hard labour.

FTIOCKING ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON, CHAT-
NAY, AND DOVER RAlLWAY.—Yosterday, at about •
quartet to 1 o'cluck, a shocking accident happened on
tire Mehopolitan Extension of the London, Chatliam, au l
Dover Railway, near the Hattenea-park Station, whereby
a man named Henry Pope, a platelayer in the company's
eei vice, received injuries of such • ieritnui nature that it
is statrd he cannot possibly waive. It appears that
Pope went to work yesterday morning on the line for the
flirt time, and when the accident happened he wr.s en-
gaged with fevers' others on the tron bridge which
carries the High Level of the London, Chatham, and
Dover Railway over the engine-yanl awl oliedt of
the London, Brighton, and South Cirtat Railway.
Shortly before one o'clock a Victoria train for
Ludgate-hill was °likened cueing round the curve
towards the itatterea- park Station, and all the
tarn, including Pope, stepped back to the .ice of the
idge toallow it to pars. new It is mtatrsl, b.. slightly
thified his notation, and in doing so was caught by the
engine, which Ineektd him • distance of about 12 or 13
f. et. 'I ke train at the time the acrident happened had
the breaks applied so as to admit of its mtoppimr at the
rtutian, aced was of cow r. soon brought up. The pour
fellow was then r. covered from the hue, and surglc'd assist_
sauce leaving bet n hr nt for, Dr. Suteliffe, of A.ohville-plarte,
Patter -ea-I ark, attend...l, and roll+ ed hit instant removal
to St. Germ ge's Hoepltal. Ile.idet having the hark of hit
head knocked is, be it fearfully cat about in all parts of
Lie testy. &vend of the men engaged with Pope en-
ds I% timid to rind out his retallenee, so that h.s re:atioai
and frk aide might know of his precarious couditiou, but
wire unable to do foe

tiING FLAK AitIDENT TO A RAILWAY GUAR O. -
An accident of a serious nature has happened to William
Corinth, of 24, Wolfu-sticet, Doekhiait, a breaksinam nu
the Metropolitan Railway. who was acting ma guard. It
tarots that the unfortunate man war looking out for the
*goals at King's-erree when the door flew open and hu
"fell out upon the •1:-foot way. Ile was piekod up insoit.
• table, end conveyed to the Royal Free Hospital, Only's-
isneruad, whew it was ascertained that three of his ribs
were broken, and that be had sustained other serious
injuries.
All/lIIIATION OF STREET NAXElt.—Thu Metro-
"minim retard of Works lac orderod the following alters-
Jim* to ha made in the IMMO, of public streets in thu
tnettolinlia Pitt-street end Salisbury-street, NuwiAgtolt
tube re-named Darwin-street • Chapel-atreet, Walburgh-
shout, 444.. Cleerge'e-in-the-Emit, to bo re-named Tait-
street ; Asechor-aßeet, Bethnal-green, to ho ineurprindisl
with Solider-4mM ; Bodford-row, Southwark, tu lie incor-
porated with Zuor-street ; Lontou-strout, Southwark to
be incorporated with Lounin-itreet, Mari.tl.l4l-terrain ;
and LoweeMmodltdd-placc, to lairs witted with Mims-
field-place. Thu solionlinry names iu .y-rond, liuu-
Idllgßik and Quilin's-road, l'teLheus, to ho abidisbod.
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