The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-20 00:00:00

THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT CLAPHAM
JUNCTION.

LATEST PARTICULARS.--(THIS DAY.)
Another examination of the line where tho engine
fat left the rois to the spot where it rolled over the
iolonktnent was made this morainic, and addi-
tional proof wxs afforded of the damage which
was done. The bridge, which carries the lines
of the li ighton COMP-USj and those of the West London
Extension and the London, Chatham, and Dover, has been
Could to be eensidetahly damaged. • large portion of its
tenhor work was Woken to pieces by the wheels of the
en4ine and earrieges immediately after they left the rails.
The ironwork, however, is apparently uninjured. The
exact cause of the accident has nut yet been ascertained ;
but the prec.tihng opinion seems to be that it is attri-
butable to Isom, fadlt in the rail' on the permanent way.
The driver of the train, Harrison, is stated to
be better this morning. His injuries are chiefly
in the hack and legs, hut with the ezoepUon of
causing him great pain, it in believed they will not
rove merlons. His escape from what appeared to
1. certain d. nth is attributed to his remaining at his post
hd the vagine lull over the clishankment, and then be
h• 61 ..n firmly till, on being knocked from the footpl►te by
concussion, he was pitched to within a yard of where
II.• sniAine lxy. The fireman, Green, and the guard, Witt-
nm, both of whom were severely injured and greatly
.i,Aen, arc also said to be improving.

FATAL Erstar OF A FREAK AT THE
BRITANNIA THEATRE.

Mr. W. J. Payne, the deputy-coroner, held an
in ,mry I Ist evening at fit. Bartholomew's Hospital, touch•
i~.. the death of Charles Elton Martin, apd nineteen
. . . . . . .

/ I....kuritsea w•aa book•edge gilder, living
. Flu+Cory, and on Lint !intoning night be went to
.1%,.it:0.11i114 Theatre, Heston. He had been drinking,

unl whit, 1... w o, leaning over owe of the slips at the inde
of the the ,it. :as hat fell into the pit. lie got on the
brilustr.e!es of a staircase leading from the slips
to th.. 1.. t and attempted to slide down, sad
orlith• ti.ong 140 he fell down the balusters
•il rolled .I..wn the staircase until he reached the bottom,
co...i..iniets found him lying in an insensible
lt lle was conveyed to the hospital ; and the surgeon
deceased died on Monday from the effects of a
!: rture the skull caused by the fall.
The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death."

PION OF MR. DOULTON, M. P. , OF Nis
At THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORIR.—Last
night Mr. John Pollard, alert to tho Metropolitan Board
04 works, received a conumnicatioa from Mr. Doalton,
in P. swiping his seat at this board as ono of the mom.
rt for Lambeth.

Paris is expected to contribute 150,000 men to
the National Mobile Guard.

Marshal Niel, tho French Secretary of State for
11'.‘r, has devoted the spare room at the favalidee into a
trArthouse containing all tho immediate/aro—field ovens,
Lt.top kettles, tents, ambulances, &e.—repaired for en
army of 200.000 men. Everything could be lamed at a
ateute's notice.

THE DANGER-1 OF THE STEN= AND THE
Thiguilltat OF THE OCEAN.—In 1851, an old-fashioned,
op ,n, sit-ton mackerel boat was decked in Mount's Bay,
04 sailed for Melbourne. She was manned by some
body fishermen of Newlyn who, attracted by the MVO of
old discoveries, thought they might ash off the Lustre-
non coast and supply the gold-diggen with food from the
The little craft arrived safe at the Caps of
~sal Hpe, was there entrusted witth mails, and
v•vit on to Melbourne. Richard Nicholsl was her
c.meain. Mime then he has been a muter in the merchant

4vioe, and of late commanded the Jane Seymour, whom
.test work was to load in the St Katherine's &ski for
Luenos Ayres. On Wednesday be left his broken in the
51inories, about half.past 5, and in a few minutes be was
°vied to the L,ndon RospitaL At a street arming he
wis knocked down by a cart, laden with live pigs, and
ver spoke again. He leaves a widow and six children. A
few days before he had insured his life at Pentanes.—
C rizisl, Telegraph.

MILTON AND CARLYLII.—I have compared Mil-
ton to one watching the sunrise. It is equally true that
the glow en Carlyle's face is that of sunset. In other
words. Milton belongs to the beginning of an age, Carlyle
to tie erol of an age. Carlyle's despair was produced in
bin by his failure to find in the society around him the
forces necessary to supply the place of those that were
dying. Everywhere he thought he saw institutions in
decay, a languid society lining upon conventionalisms,
and, instead of convictions, having only opinions, which
they held because they had never beard the other side.
Efforts there were at reformation, coariderable improve-
nts here and there, but not the mighty and nnireral
enpulse that be believed to be needed. He saw no pro-
Icrtion between the work to be done and the forces that
sere at hand to do it. But Milton lived in a golden age of
Lys and energy. There was throughout the nation • coa-
t 4enee of strength, a readiness few great and stirring deeds.
rebind them lay two great ages, the age of reformation
and the Elizabethan ago. Nearly a century of epiritnal
freedom, many years of glory and prosperity, and • newly-
acquired treasure of literature, bad enlarged their minds
and filled them with confidence. They intended to add •
third great age to the two greet ages that had passed, They I
Pressed on, as Milton_ says, to reform reformation. And
succeeded, not indeed in all that they attempted, but
,o opening • new age. The reaction did not completely
no to their work ; the impulse they had given never died
!cit completely. They let in • flood of new rigour, both
thtu government and Guitars ; they inaugurated •
limo of responsible government, free literature, religions
'Aeration. Bet in time these new forces too were oat,
cod this period In its tam drew to an end. Carlyle hes
hi% life been watching its decay. It has not fallen to
1... s lot to use the language of hope or exulting expectation.
The gladness of Milton's style would not nit bins. me
ttierenee is not so much in the men as in their position.—
trof essor Seeley. In A eratillaa's .0116,4*