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

The finials wee linable to pay the floe, sad the prisanen
were all locked up together.

Dian= TELEGRAPIL—From a valuable little
volume just published, entitled " Electric Telegraph Mani-
pulation : being the Theory and Plain Instructions in the
Art of Transmitting Signals to Distant Places. as Practised
In England, through the combined agency of Electricity and
Magnetism," by C. V. Walker, we learn that the length of the
electric teleeraph line. already erected in Great Britain
assounte to 2,?/.6 miles. The map in " Bradshaw 'seu i de" shows
their direction and extent. The most turprieing feet percep-
tible on its examination is the absence of the telegraph on
the Great Western and its tributaries, from Slough to Glou-
cester and Exeter. Looking at the various considerations of
public sad private utility illustrated in Mr. Walker's volume,
and palpable to all who give a moment's thought
to the subject, we think we are justified in calling on
the shareholders of the Great Western to look to it. As a
mere measure of socesomy, the erection of the wires would be
desirable. But even if there were no advantages of that
seri derivable from it, the safety of passengers, the interests
of government and of the public, imperatively demand
that the same facilities should be provided for the in-
staetaneosis transmission of news from the south-west of
England which already exist on all the other great
lines. No earthly reason can be assigned why the merchants,
hankers, brokers, lawyers, and the other professional men of
Bristol, with their clients, shouldfbasaitirived of advantages
enjoyea by nine-teethe of the 'Wiwi towns in England ;
or why Exeter should have thefacility of transmitting an
inetastaneous message to Plymouth, and Oloumster to
Birmingham, and be cut off from the like cotimonication
with the metropolis.
ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTII-EABTZEN RAILWAY.—
Yettarday arming an inquest wee taken by Ur. Payne, at
Sc. Bartholomew's Hospital, on view of the body of Merles
Huetley, aged_ a boiler maker, wile was killed ea *e
South- Railway. Several witnesses were .maimed,
frau wham 'Adams it appeared that the deceased was
enamelling to Greenwich In a third-else. onitge Is the tsar
e'cle* Weis on Tuesday afternoon, whoa, i. easequesee of
the searded state of the vale, he sat as • her attached to
the test d the carriage. He wee streak by the roof of the
ape-read statics and thrown on to the line, receiving
injuries Mike mamma Immediate death. William Jones,
tithe* sotto:tor at the Bpa-road station said that he
had got time to signal the enlineAriver. He saw
the MUD passing wader the roof the station when
ite observed deceased la • third-slams carriage about
the middle of the train, which was going at a speed
of about tourism tulles an boar. Dateased's bead struck
the roof, end be wasdragged about thirty cedeby the car-
riages, btake up ••••••sively by the seep et each, till
he wee left the Ws. He was inasilsegy pined is as
up taste, east to the London statism. The wedeln.
dist of the compaay laid that the *inkiness*** ere it
the Mw of the settle trucks. The ter deemed eat epos le
ahead eight hot and a hell from the bar of the earritec
No use WaShil be allowed to sit then. Had deceased been
seewsubsethegsurde he would have beeordered dr,ws. Yr.
Bezwe biome surge* at Thomas's Hosettal, said that
d weeded when admitted. There wen a large wound
over the lerehead, sad the skull wet free.ared. Ma right
area wee bedew la several please, and h'. toegee weebinas
In two. The beams et the skull was the cease of death.
Verdict. C llaigeatal death."