The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-02 00:00:00

THE ENGLISH ELEVEN FOR AMERICA.

The team pelerted by Mr. V. E. Walker. under the eertteluee of
&Igor Willober, to playa Perim of niatehro in Amer e*, left town
fo,rday afternoon for Liverpool, from which port they mall We
dal in thy lnmaa packet City of tlogimore.

Exerruca Rio CPU/M.—The D'von and
Somerset Stag Hounds, with the master, Mr. Fenwick
Bialett, accompanied by Mr. Fronde Bellew, met on Fri.
day, at Trisciatibe Stone. A more numerous field has
rarely been seen, there being between 700 and 000 persons
present, and of these upwards of 400 were on horseback.
The pack were kennelled at Quantocks Farm. The tatter',
having been sent into Lord Taunton's cover at Cooker.
oonmbe, soon roused two fine stags. One, a noble fellow
of fire years, with a truly royal bead, made for the open,
and beaded off towards Bagborough covers„well followed
by the totters. Ho then doubled back to Cockeroombe,
but was soon again roused from his lair, and made off
straw the hills. The pack. bring now laid on, followed the
stag from OHO to another of the comber in which the
Quantocks abound. Then away between Sir Alexander
Boi.d's deer-parks at St. Audrie a, and turning sharp to
the left he kept on his course along the sea sbore for about
a mile, when he deliberately took to the water. After
swimming about a mile into the Channel—there being a
good swell on at the time—the stag was drowned. and his
carcase, lashed to the stern of a smack, was towed into
Ratchet.

FRACAS TN A Owl:ult.—The Sonlli Etat, re
Gazrite, in its Rochester and C'hathain column'', tells the
following story ;—•' Just before the cenuneneement of
divine seniee at St. Margaret's church nil Sunday morn-
ing, some surprise was caused among the congregation
who witnesed the 0.'11170U:0 at a tracab between the
clerk and sexton of the pari•h and the pew-opener at the
Lurch. It would appear that a lengthened coney of
legal pmeenlinga have been for some time past in pr. gresa
between Kingsford. who now holds the offices of clerk and
sexton of the parish, against P. Weller. the former clerk
and sext,ii, to deprive him of those offices, which ho had
held for a great number of years. Thu• result of the
proceedings has terminated in Kingsford taking the
clerkship and seetonship of the parish. while Weller, the
former holder, has been deprived not only of his means
of livelihood, but has been actually drivels to baukrnptcy.
A considerable amount of symputhy and indignation
against Kingsford is unsettlingly ielt in the parish. the
clmreh c„nonitter still employing the late clerk and sexton
as pew-opener and for other purposes connected with the
church, and refusing to recognise his successor. Ou
Sunday Willer was in the act of escorting the officiating
clergyman to the reading desk, when Kingsfordattempted
to prevent his doing so, on which Weller either struck or
pushed him down the steps leading to the reading-desk.
The occurrence. just before the commencement of divine
service, has given much pain to those who witnessed it.
One of the congregation has, we are informed, since laid
the circumstances before the bishop of the diocese, in
order that he might interfere to prevent such an unseemly
occurrence again."
FATAL Ext.r.oslnx.—Between eleven and twelve
o'clock on Monday night a fatal explosion occurred at
the works of the Foxhill Bank Printing Company. near
Accrington. A kier—an iron vessel lOft. or 12ft. high,
and Sgt. or Oft. in diameter—in which between 700 and
Beo pieces of bleach cloth were in process of steaming, ex-
ploded with a loud report, killing a bleacher named James
Eddlestone, and causing great deatruction of property.
At the time of the explosion there wore but two men in
the bleaching-room, deceased and a fireman. Deceased,
who had been employed on or near the top of the kier
when the explosion occurred, was blown upwards through
the roof and hurled into a field sense twenty or thirty
yards away. Death appears to have been instantaneous.
The firunan, who was minding about three yards from the
kier, escaped miraculously.

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s.liotas fire happened last
night about 8 o'clock at Bet moutbey-wall, and ut mid-
night the flames were far from being entirely extin-
guished. The premi-es were the well-known granary and
corn stores belonging to Messrs. Darnell. The ware-
houses stretched beck to the waternitle, and at one time
the numerous vessels lying at the side of the wall of the
Thames were exposed to imminent danger. Tho river
floating engines', by Shand, Mason, and Co., were at own'
dratted alongside the burning property, as well as
numerous engines of the metropolitan brigade and an-
other powerful land steamer from Hewett's brewery.
The grnnary and contents have been destroyed, and the
damage is roughly estimated at 50.000/.
ACCIDENT ON TEE GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY.
Yesterday morning an alarming accident MA plane on
the Great Eastern Railway, within three Mika of the
Brentwood station. An express train which leaver there
at about 10.16 bad proceeded on its way some distance
toward' Rosahrd when the arletret of the luggage van
broke down. The result was a series of most violent con-
emanate and bumps, the peal/engem in the train being
further alarmed by the quantities of gravel and Maass
cast up against the windows of the carnage,' by the wheels
ploughing their way through the ballast of the line. Just
at the spot where the breakdown occurred the line runs
on the fop of a steep embankment, and the danger of the
train going bodily over was tto all. Numbers of
the passengers opened the of the carriages and
jumped out. A happy accident prevented a
for junt as the most dangerous point was catastrophe
a
coupling chile of the luggage van became, by a violent
bump, entangled ta the buffer, and thus the van was sus-
tained in an upright position until the train had been
brought to a stied-eM The officials of the train and the
passengers stood appalled as they contemplated the nar-
rowness of the meapa. Immediate steps were taken he
preventing the breakdown resulting In any collision with
another train. A down train took the passengers back to
Brentwood, whence they were forwarded as soon as poe-
alble to their destinations.

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