The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-05 00:00:00

VARY Or VIM CORIAi.

HIM /tiIY)N, Witner..-Das
Tier wart n (hit. at II o'r;.K.k.
The brat witty,- No. I.•...wyut•lS liar
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wit Teaser callt law: wat. ruw.uc.l hy the ClOft.Met PO,

(rarer There erre. her .toceotentA 1 Aeheti roe to pr,..
diem tteott*. velvet of the journey, Mcute.di.dy rrtora.
Aetentrot 1;..v er•tt tekto dart: 11 Tuner. Boy.
note. errittes. AetetoeL:. eta H.. ko.aa • t :tort to taus.
hop. Have Tv 4i floe. tloc-tneutt your custody No. I
Mow 1,.4. .

Heir sou Au, ..f them in your c.,utualy No. Jr.
“Us u,lorstagol that ' you to keep then, lo
raw 0100t,41 7 I aAked you if pm Gal them 1 tukl
2,, that I 1..1 uut, but that I ba.l gut sumo of them.
...0 ro t toll mu you would 1.0 rotated with them :
Ilt I 1.44 sou I wuuklasoutteim

toe you had omit them, awl woul.l collect
Mow. I tol.l you I had Kul...a report. I that I
wu...l.l..wertuo. if Share were ...eh dxuamsta is the ...theta
wo!rrn.l to, and collect tLvot. I hate thaw so. said dehaertal
Wilt lot° th.. haud.. 01 tb. eutsipau).... adieitur.
Then at t:t. tiro. I rhotea term
is your ..we I ..tatal th.l: it Was it. ranh..a.
You mud that you want.' tire papers I tool. care to hate
Sim collected, and hoeing dour haule.l thew t, Mr.
Weithfull.

Eat at the tins• I ask.ll you yo. ha.l limit's report iu
yo•tr uetody '- -\.a.
Ilad you any other of th...e pv.irrl thee in yo
euMealy •- Ni.. no other.
What have y 011 dome with then `— I have delivered tear
to the odied,w .4 the conoluoy.
To Mr I;eor4o l'aithfull, jut
Woe ear• fur

-Yes who int watching

volt had tl eI it h., pallet% Wit 11 riritil to the ntho
lair. I aialer•tond that von wanted them valleetal. I Oat
ailhart theta.. :tad banded them to Mr. Faithful!.
Cab y.. 0 avt them lat. %our ...Wally sow if you eliuma.7
11 .6.4 g Ye. rainfall for th. u.. hot 1 &ail t 0... that
VII give nem lack to me. I Ball a..t :.• fteetwilaiwa with
kh what.

.lek him then. Mr. I..iithfull, will •..tt
W limn.. h. 31r. Slight!
Hr. Vaithlt II I Jo Y,, I have not got auch
illurtimeate a. dome whi. i. h 1....• bat I on.
4,..ta *Wm, to t.. 11 you what leper. I hn. pot at you will
A. • we,

Conon. • N ill re he good monegh to tell me'
ti r. V.iU.l all —V.. ow. I leave receive.: from M,. slight
for followie4 dea emeriti:--.t vtatotneue wnting Worn
dam■ twigs rre.wy lay Me of the roanpor) iiereanta. I
▪ so toy lawarawoo also a stat..nteet io w itiag 'ahem down
Irian Fowl I.) inn of the eolopioe'. iiervauts. I have alsits
in my r teotOdi a %miaowed to online takeu .Sown from Scott
by 140 of the pony'. servant.. I have a 1.111.110 r .fete.
mist "wil• ;6 al.. taleeeilowu by sue of tie rompaue'.
dieter& IN will are I •ni lane Living yMI my brief, hi..
lherosper.) have OA iilatoineut that iv...taken dos,
rem .4 the esntOrrs IWu rillOClser. 1 riaTO
arwilar oat in 1111.0..,u tt, all a *molar see toy %Vehl..
err all re tbe of thin novelty. awl
fee n.) uw• a. the 1.4.3 .4.lsmbet of the
"feel-Wog.. r (ro. 011iless0 Now Mr. Slight. what 'malice
lone with the five docenvent4 I rnewt.ounl to yaw as
fennel. ow oon, and wheels I ....suited you to poultice? I
will r..u.1 Age.. ITIor leatrunl goutheition repeated
the tAtr, 1.. e hall pre. witoily desersheil theta by.) Hut we
wtll nititine ouraelvrie in ill ant inMewoe to Mastro report
el the joursier. What low h. come of Nat'
Wanes. Mr. Fasthfull bas. it.
The Cones*, Mom yen. got it, Mr. Fritlifull
Mr Protlefoll - Maio, ; LINOS la OO MOS leper ae "litotes
meet of Ulla jaerwy."
Mr. Fryer—lain you please to lobe a note of that. Mr.
Cieweer?

f Comm (M *Hasa.) You bad Meet*. report el the
jaareey it yaw porreeroa •-1 dolt% know it by

Put you oriented what h. rwrint ? V. a.
Ni. hightail-We have it here, aed I ass reedy to proem
& Hem it e ihnedreg in the poor".
k TM t'wooer Mum in the daily return. not the report of
1111,e rurerr.
Hr F.utLfull There h. so report of the joursey.
',dreier- I .lo sot know whet same you tuay give to
it, but the ;opera mete were fully undentotel by Mr.ll4ht
when he undertook to collet and produce them the oth.r
by . I ...tot my that I du not thick ot Loomiug in the
moopee,), or Mime who reproraut them here, to fence with
tire ...net an the way.
o Mr. Feithfull -We are not ferrets( with the court. You
an, mitten for certain dm omen's which we hare not got.
nod I tell yoo what d.CUTIIIIII.I we have, to order that if
yes soh to make as order you may make it correctly.
The Comm. You know very well whet we want, Mr.
rdthfall. I read the other Night is your prewnce, and in
that et Mr. Slight, the het of the papers we reluired, and
he said he knew what was most, lad that they were io his
Wady.
Mr. Faithful' All Imy is that if you wish to make an
order you Lout better hare the correct deeciiption, aid I
bare wives it to you. I have in my pomeleion as aolwitor of
the company rertaia papers which 1 hare received from Mr.
blight,. lot of which I km read to you.
The CUIIMOr -ILane yes &Mee report of the Mummy,
Mr. /Usti
Willem: I ham sot.

Ito you know what it is!—\o.
Very well ; then we will tarn to Scott's evidence. The
harmed geutlemat hers rehired to the evidence, quoting the
weeds " I Amide a report of this journey, hc.“ nod " I made
a duly return of the working of the engioe." Have you
Sig report of the journey, or do you know who has!
Mr. Faillifull • Scott mode a statement to one of the
ions sf the company, winch was taken down in writing.
That 1 hams in usy pow... Mon.
Tle thmmer- - You know what paper Scott referred to
miss he said " I mods a report of this journey!"
Mr. FaittifnU— I mnigthe he means a statement made by
(lento Kr. craven's clerk, of the eirministauces of the smi-
ths", and whisk that clerk took down in writing. That
ppm I ham is my possession.
After some oonvenatiou as to the particular papers ordered
the coroner to be prninzeil, and Mr. Slight's under.
• a ►the mon past,• said that UN coroner helm the papers howled
la by Ni. F aithtel , the .mow and the third of the list
width he had dannaded.

The °eraser—Thee I will take it down that you hand in
No. aad No. b. (Tar* to the men be continued) 1
observe Ulla see is beaded " Hackman a de;ly retui a."
Mr. Faialitall—we are quite preparoil t • hand in the re-
p rimmed@ to Vanessa, which is in the ensiuman's report,
lo ok.
The rowed book was here handed in.

The ',wooer Then we have got two nut of the Bre. I
will pot that down, Mr. Slight, as your evideoen. Now as to
!cult's reiset of tbs journey, what doyou call that
Mr. Slight= -His statement that he made.
Mr. laithfill—That is in the 1.. k also.

The tircose—Wall, that annoys the question to the
other two.--13cott's daily return was here read by the
eserousr. It is on a printed form, aod shows that the
Melytitoo excursion left lEtrighton on the morning in gaie-
ties at 8.30, Iftemi minutes late, and arrived iu Loudon at
ant o'clock, Wag hoar tad 15 minutes late in arriving,
= re
to the eolbsion in Clayton tuned. Hackman's port
that the Portsmouth tat:union, which should harts
loft Might,* at t 1.5, was 2.1 minutes late. j
The Coeurser —Thee. lbws is Boy uett's statement, tabs
iovra 4 Tamar.
Mr. IfaillifnU— That in a statement taken down by mais
al the elbows of the company after the accident, and I
shallop to peedssa it.
The Cloronse—Yon lava it
—Carrisly, and I havealso a statement talon
down ben (len man by ass of the cmupany's servanta.
Cormserßut why gu into staterneuta of papers which
shish ash hi baryon know what 1 mean by the Mato.
mrst eb &Toot& takes down by Turner!
Wilosas—Thry ware all handed to Mr. Faithful].
Thu Carew —Why did you baud those &cumuate to Mr.
Ailhfon ?

Mr. Slight It is my unfailing practice whenever adled
spoet.. pn.dure any of the oonspani's documents, than and
there to hand them to the omit:limy a 'chafe*, and meet to
produce thew unison be tells me.
. . . _ .

The Coroner Hare you hands.' them to Mr. Feithlull
Am, I e•kid y o•l the other day to prodiice them!
Mr. !quilA Certainly; you naked me to collect these
decumenta and I did so, sod basing done so 1 handed
Own, to Mr. FuthloLL

The Coroner—lles* you banded Butcher's statement to
Faialsfoll? Yea

had better take it that they have all
bow haa dord tome.

Ourosser I will take it down in my own way. (To
elloneei— Du I miderstand that you decline to produce
Wm became, Mr. Yaitbfull advisee you out to do ao, ur
lessees par ammo got at them
Winnow -I roe hardly Mises? thatqueetion. I ran ask Ur. UMr. 'afia before you, if be will Siva me the papers to
deliver up to tb. court.
(Iwl•ser I meet bare au answer to my question,
wind 1 wiil repeat (The questios wee repreted.)
Wigs,. Clearly because ter. Faithful' does not sanction
wry peoducisc Mein
Menem,. - You will be Lied emus% to wait fora manieut
while I nolo out so .wier for the production of them papers,
end I su.: salons you that if you do sot product them it
Win wmy deity to mama, you to prison. is.iwir applause
Ilea the ?oily of the swat, which Wu speedily suppreemd.)
Tim Conner bent directed !Ir. Whit., the chief- Aker,
awe a aiiol, Mr. Might to leave the wort, whims. " If I am
wrong. he has his nroody."
Is mid. 1... goodies from the Coroner.
Me Fryer .tee awl W erose-esaseme des ease. until be
Ind tosl sn ..rspertusity of emanating the documents or.
owed a.
The time made out his warned, chants. soil ne-
use tt, St,alit to appear before bine at two idea on
tome them five nit lits to Meek and gm,
al mince IL. do,uroente elseed. Ile dgAmos a". taken
AM, ,e sedum (run W lißraeilt. the Pm% and Wm.
Ills,.

-11 r. 'it'd's An 11. eskrainsi lid lisle sestedy •
Owe, an mar asamistial, bul sel suitodi
Tee amok bremove, haw wen.

Mr. Blight -'day I communicate with Mr. Faithfullr
Unrouer—Ves, certaiuly.
The warraut having been served upon Mr. Slight in court
two or three minutes before two,
(:usamei It.. witnual)—Will you now produce the dams-
mutes Mr. Alight!
Mt. Slight- I have already stated that I am only acting
in a ministerial capacity. I ain a servaut of the company,
Alai I; Uat ~et ow the edvice of the solicitor. I uuderstausl
son have "Meted me to produce two documentary memo.
saada which you my are iu my custody. although before
this warrant was served I told you that they were unt
us nisi custody, and Mr. Faithful' has also bad
you that thus arc iu his custody. Of course I
leave an how' ledge that any such statements ever were
awl. IA Humber cud Boyuett, and takeu down by Tenser,
but 0 slay or two ago, utter the doom of the processliugs,
y out slated to 11:e pe irately that you wished to have them to-
gether, laid repined that they should be produced.
Inc to :assist you In the inquiry an far as I could, I pro-
udest I would endeavour to get them together, and applicd
to natio( the unieen of the company for them. That offices I
handed me certain papers which I did not read, but handed
to Mr. Faithful!, who has told me that he luta theirs still; you
am themfore askieg me for documents which you know it
is itterly out of my power to produce.
The Coroner--I must remits' you that your evidence is
ulna oath. You Lays Wild you deellUO to ISTOdUeO theist)
'.:got • because Mr. Faithful' does out sanction their pelage.
tion. cod oat because you outwit get thsm.
:dr. slight—l essousit imaluce them sinless Mr. Faithful!
i se. them to use for that purpose.
(Wooer- -I took your answer slow!, " Itecauve Mr.
Faithful! does not sauction my producing them ;" cud I read
that •111AWIR to you distinctly.
Several Jurymeu -Meer, hear.
Mr bli Ist It is not no, for you hove it on moth that I
have not gotthem.

f ,orener—lf you refuse to sign your depositions I shall
eonisait vou for refuong.
Mr. .inn what is not correct.
tlt,r some further dismission,
Mr. Stlight said he would ask Mr. Faithfull if he would
,i%e him the document+ to produce iu compliance with the
eoniorr's 41..mattd.

Mr. Faithful' -Certainly not.
Mr. :41talit--1 have no power to give ea artier to the soli.
• itor who i. eaatlucting the twee on the part of the company
40 t:eliver up ttuy papers which have been placid in bet
bandy

Th, t',unm•r—Witness, do you .wear that Issiitles the
west of Mr. I' %auction on aro unable to prodnce
the you filtiltl.t get them ..'
The I ...outer (to Mr. I. aith f ) -.1111 gb I have strong
npini,•e that upon. Mr. Slight'. es olenee I might aafely
treat the mato-sly as in him, and truant this as an obworthy
mule. I du lea inteud to run the nsk of Is ing turned round
on .1 matter of form. 1 shall therefore take other means
to ootain the production of thaw paten, and you cap easily
autlenstand what thaw memos are.
Mr raithfull-- I do not indeed.

'ILw laonnier—Well.;;;l7:ll see.
curt then ailjourneil ("r an hoar, several of the jury
11MI, iog eon, plat ined exhaustion.

.tt the s.'ao.einileling of the court the coroner took down
from Mr. Sli,Jit the names sod sildre.ses of the chairrn in,
ileptity•elinirinari, anal iiireetors of the company. Afkr
winch the followiug evi,lru, a was taken :--
4r..1. s. Ellis, acting home surgeon of the Same:
Comity Hospital, was then sworn soil examined ; the
tenor of his evidence being that the injuries received by
the dereeuel Kraus arising from the meideut we:mimed
death The tujuries were cow•ekraldc and general. empu•
tallest of the leg was performed, but deoth followed how
ealtase.tioa ea the Tuesday rifler the accident.
The I,lollol` stated that all the Ditoetww the munimoniug
...Vt.., heat .e Lis lint we,. now 4-di:Amsted, and asked if
31r. Faitlifull Mitred tooll any evideuve.
Mr. Faithful' would only mil evidence as to there being
lights at the tad of the Portsmouth line, soil celled
John Inlayer, a kintiume in the servico of the ormeny,
who proved &bet be put on Minya to the tail end of the Ports-
'hustle mice:sins when starting for !hightail on Suably
week They were red lights, and were lighted when the
trait, kft Brighton.

--
W 'llium Itl ton. the lamp porter at London-bridge station,
Lproved that when the Portamoutb excursion train arrived at
ooi;on there was lighted red lamps at the tail end.
Captain Hy. W.Tyler, the government inspector, having
been sworn, fir asked to give the jury any information he
might thinl proper :is to the Mink% of the accident or 111.12
the reek tire, which would enable then, to 00WO to a correct
conclo.ine. Ile said - The impreeion made upon me is that
the primary mum of the accident is the general want of
eflicirucy in the system by which that portion of the line
hetet. n Brighton and llareock's.eitte has been worked.
The position of the line is on which the view of an
engine-driyer is much obstructed by the curves, cuttings,
and bridges over the railway and loy two tunnels. I con-
sider that to work a line of this description with safety it
is poverty that an interval of space, instead of an
interval of time, should be preserved between the trains.
The only security that was afforded was an interval of time,
and timt interval appears in many cases, sod in the present
ii.stance, to bays deco insufficient. One tunnel on this
portion of the line was protected by a telegraph, but only
one no edle was tried, and at was, therefore, not possible to
fluidic• the system of blocking the needle over the line
blocaid wb. u a train was in the tunnel, which affords the
' best no oiis of safety under such ciretimstancie. The signal-
men irtio., therefore, obliged to trust to their memory and
to the nsunnmiratious which passed between them upon
this oee needle is regard to one or both lines of rail-
, way, as tile case might be. There appears also
to have been a want of record books kept by
the station-master at Fla ightoo, or in the huts at the
end of the- tunnel. Whilst coosidering this general
want of efficiency in the systeni of working the line between
Bright.° mat Hassock',-gate to have been the principal
reuse of the accident, it is evident that the mistake which
wail made under that system by one of the signal men at the
tunnel was u secondary cause of the accident, and that the
short interval. of time at which the trains ran use after the
other materially contributed to its production. There were
other cm idritaitieg muses in the hacking of the second train
after it was trot brought to a stand iii the tunnel, and in the
sou-working of the distance signal at the north end of the
tunnel on the passage of the first of the three trains, which
aho had their effect in leading to the accident. You have
heard the evidence given by the two signalmen. I don't
know who then it would be desirable that I should review
that evidence.

The Coroner—l think it would. You understand the
system of telegraphing. which I do not.
Tykr—As I understand that evidence, the two
sigedieen *pee as to the paring of the first train, and to
the sigmas that were given as it mitered at the one end of
the tunnel sad passed out at the other end. There are
two points in which their evidence is conflicting. The first
is that the signalman at the south end state" that he sig.
nailed to the man at the north end " train in," for the
wood train " was quick as lightning," to use his own
expreenon, after he received the signal "train out" for
the first train from the signalmau at the north end ;
whilst the signalman at the north end states that a minute
elapsed between his "Mist "Train out " for the first train
aid temente " Train in " for the second toile. But the
amend point us which they differ is a more important one.
The signalman at the north end alleges that he received no
message front Ni, signalman at the south end until the one
message was sent to him in the latter part of which the col-
lision was reported, though he admits that in the first pert
of that message he uodemtood a question to be naked as to
whether the train was out of the tunnel, which he believed
to apply to the first train, whilst the wood train was
in the tunnel, and after he had already re.
ported the first train had gone out of the tunnel.
The signalmen at the south end Attics on the other hand
that More lie admitted the third train into the tunnel he
inquired from the signalman at the north end whether the
mooed train had passed out of the tunnel, and that be
received a reply in the affineative, which induced him to
tern his distance signal to all right for the ieseage of the
third train. And I think it is important to observe that
the evidence of the signalman at the south end has been
coatirreed to some 'steal by that of the lad who saw him
waving his white flag at the mouth of the tunnel, and by
that of ono of the guards of the second train who saw his
distance signal turned to danger as lie passed him.
In reply to questions from the foresee Captain Tyler
said some tunnels were protected move efficiently
than the Clayton tunnel, but in some cases
the protection of tunnels in this manner at all had not been
observed. Some tunnels were more efficiently protected by
the system of blocking the neeilks over of " train clear" or
" train on the line," instead of trueting to the memory of
the sigualmen. As far as his experience went, the time
during which the signalmen were employed without relief
was a hstuil one cm railways. Ile was sorry to say that
frequently the rasa were worked more than 12 hours. Five
minutes was the usual minimum on all railways, five
naiades of danger and five of caution after the peeping of
the train, bet that rule hail many exeeptions. Where a lime
was so moth obstructed as this line from Brighton to
Hassock's gate, if the line was worked by intervals of time,
the five minutes was quite little enough to allow; and
perhaps he might observe that he thought, in working this
portion of the line from Brighton to Ha sock's gate, it was
very desirable that, instead of having sigu.ilmen at the
two ends of the tunnel, there should be one signalmen at
Haseock's-geth, mid one or two, according to the extent of
the traffic, between Hassock's-gate and Brighton, in order
that the line might be worked by telegraph, and an interval
of space secured between the trains. He might add
that in order to work a tunnel or a portion of rail-
way efficiently by telegraph, it was desirable that
three needles should be employed when the line was doable,
one needle to he blocked over iodopendeetly for each line
of railway, sad one Needle to enable the signalmen to cons-
amaicath with each other in regard to the descriptioa of the
Maim, or for soy other net-mean purpose.
Be the Jury-1 don't think it possible to stop straits going
at the rate of the excursioe train within the spate of
yards, as stated by one of the withering. The state of the
rails would make a material difference, hut, taking the en—
manstancee of the hoe, ad supposiog the rail to be in good
condition, it thing a fine morning, I should sot think such
• train could be stopped in less them 700 yards. I have
visited the lineal themet where themoideet happened, cad
(mad it is pretty geed working order. But there was an
amount of vertical meth= I. the horlacialal aide bar of the
signal which would aceonet fee Oa aot limiting occa-
sionally ; tad it is • demeirticiabf signal which ought to have
been oiled ocassimally, and otherwise Weeded to. instead of
beteg left m it wee, unattended to. I saw nothing about
it which would prevent a ream turning it oar with his bead.
Wheel theme three trains cams awn Kellick se rapidly. I
do nut see anything that should bare agitated him to

Inertia his perfi.rn.ii.g No doubt lie was mom.
what confused by his i.igna! not workintaa he expected.
But then was nothing to pre vest his turning it on. I can
understand if, when the mcouil toile came up, and he tried
to put on the signal, it would not then work, ho might lace
become agitated. I think it ought not to have been pee-
silde that such a thing as trains starting at such abort
internals as we have htsird in evidence they did start,
should have occurred without the traffic manager. I would
not do away with the fixed distance signals, wino I say I
would recommend the adoption of working by telegraph. I
would ;rave telegniphic stations at stated distances, but
would do e way with the telegraph at the ends of the tunnels.
I believe Whitworth's signal Lu been very successful, ex-
cept in t►is one instance. The breaks in use on the Brighton
hue are the ordinary breaks : but there is a better de-
scription of breaks, continuous breaks, by which one man
can put a break upon several carriages at awe. Ido not
think the signal box is oe the wrong side of the line.
By Mr. Faithfull—All railway accident, that ere inquired
into by the Board of Trade are reported, and returns made
to parliament. I have not bees called upon to examine into
more than one accident ou the Brighton line ledore this,
and that was IA accident which occurred Nome time ago at
the Brighton station. Ido not know of any other accident
having occurred on the lice. Ido rot know of sue excep-
tion having been taken by the railway department of the
hoard of Trude to the rule which Prescribes live minutes as
the minimum interval between train& The Birmingham tun-
nel of the London and North Western is worked upon the
system of three or four needle., which I have Te-
e..miner:Ord, and I consider that and the South
Leitern tunnels are better worked than those on
the Bright,* line. I have always looked wpm the
Brighton ass very well signalled line, and have always uu-
del...toml that great pains were taken with the signalling.
Neverthsli,e I consider the system defective as regards
these tunnels.

Mr. -Nines S.ott. deputy cheinnam having come Mtn the
room while the coroner wu reading over Captain Tyler's
eviiknce,

The Coroner, after explaining the proceedings which had
taken place during the day. relative to the documents which
had been ordered and refused. asked him his address, so that
he might be served with a subpena to attend another pin-

Mr. Stott stiiteil that Mr. Faithful] had made no report to
tbeisenl, but he had Leen instructed by the board to eon.
duet the proceediugs on the pert of the company, and the
hoard hail every confidence in that gentleman. At the same
time the director, were most anxious to give every informa-
tion in their power. (Hear, hear.) He knew- nothing of the
reports in question, and could not say whether they were of
• nature which would justify their production.
The Corooer stated that hale object was to raise the ques-
tion before u higher tribunal ; but he bad been so far de-
feated by the secretary stating that the documents were not
in his custody, but io that of Mr. Faithful]. Ilia only course
was to subpena all the parties till he could get at the right.
Mr. Scutt, haying expressed his willingness to answer
any questions without agaultpietta, wee at once sworn and
examined. I■ ausweeto the Coroner, he said—Mr. Faith-
full is the company's solicitor. The papers referred to are
not under my control, nor can I call upon Mr. Faithfull to
Produce them. I have not seen them, nor em I acquainted
in any way with their contents:. . .

Thy Corooer (to Mr. Faithfulh -Will you baud them to
Mr. Meott, that he tni. .00 what they are?
Mr. F.iithfull- 1 &alio* to do au.

The Coroner—CairWiTtrill me 4;ho nail power to direct
11r. Faithfull to produce them l--The board at large ; no
other authority. NO individual member could do so.
In reply to further queetioes, the witness added that
Mr. Faithfull would act according to his discretion.
The Corener—l hold the office of coroner, and 1 have no
funds at my disposal to try the question, and have no
means to raise it except by committing Mr. Slight, or who-
ever the prole,- parte may be--a course which lam most
reluctant to take. Will you bring the question under the
notice of the heard if I adjourn the inquiry till after the
next keel day. and let me have an intimation of their de-
tilde° If the board decline to order their production, then
I wish them to depute some ',croon who will come here
with the documents and " I have them, but decline to
produce them." so that I may take the steps necessary for
raising the question. And I hope that person will not be
Mr. Faithfull.

Mr. rioatt could give DO assurance beyond thin, that he
could hi lug the niatter before the bwtd, arid let the
coroner kuow the ?vault.

The inquiry was then adjourned accordingly.
Some amnieroent was created in the evening by the ap-
pearance of a second edition of the Globe, containing a
telegraphic message, dated Brighton, 2 o'clock, stating that
Mr. Frederick Slight had just been committed to prison for
not obeying the coroner's order to produce the papers de•
minded of him. Our report shows that the telegram wee
forwarded without sufficient foundation ; hot it seems to
have alarmed the authorities of the railway iu London, and
brought down Mr. Scott, the deputy chairman, by special
train, who entered the court some time befuic the pro-
ceeding* were adjourned.

THE ACCIDENT (N THE NORTH LONDON

RAILWAY.

The deceased, whom the jury had to view yester-
day, by the law in virtue of which the coroner's authority
exists, and which compels the ritual corpuris, were as
follows :—Elirabeth Allen, Mary Seals, Rhoda Bowler
Oliver, John Yeoman, Edward Hill, Eva Stacey, Richard
Saunders, Sarah English, two boys named Greenwood, and
Charles Standing. The jury, of whom Mr. Wiodtworth
was selected as foreman, having been sworn in,
The jury first maw the body of Mrs. Allen, which lay at
the workhouse opposite. She appeared " calm in death,"
no bruises awl no discoloration telling the cause of dissolu.
tine. But when the jury came to view tho bodies in
the hospitals, it was indeed a sickening scene.
We will not enter into details, which could not but be re-
volting, but iu the progress through those rooms where the
dead were thus for a neouarf purpose exhibited, there
was perhaps gleaned for the inexperienced Nome knowledge
of tho fearful portent of a phrase too often penned and
lightly word over -" a railway accident." There lay
the victims, gashed and horribly maimed, with features so
battered in that nous were scarcely recognisable, and limbs
and bodice so lacerated that one could not have imagined
they could have existed even for a moment, had
they not received that particular wound which medi-
cal men with a higher knowledge explained to be the
cause of death. One body at one hospital—the Royal Free,
in Gray's-inn-road ; three human beings (two of them mere
childrenl lying side by side at the Middlesex Hospital, were
all woefully disfigured. Then at the University Hospital,
which has borne the burthen, there was a ghastly sight—six
bodies so maimed and disfigured that recognition would ap-
pear to be all but impossible, lying in one room, and another
poor piece of clay outside, having, like the others, been
eased of its tortures, for from roma his legsdepended ,huge
piece of flesh expaing the shattered bone. There could but
be one feeling uppermost in the minds of those who saw these
corpses— a timakfulness that Providence bad released them
from agonies unendurable. Some lay calmly and placidly.
One boy--one of die Greet woods—although much con'
timed about the face, seemed to sleep as quietly as when he
lay on his little bed in the full vigour of him life. But
opposed to this there were contortions of the countenance
sod such a shattering of the limbs u defy description.
The jury then proceeded to the scene of the accident,
and made a most minute investigation, without, however,
eliciting arty further information than that already given to
the public. On their return the inquest was proceeded with,
at the Prince of Wales, Harmood-street.
The Coroner observed he would now simply take evidence
as to the identification of the bodies.

Mr. Charles Allen WAD the first witness called. He mid
—I live at 10, Alfred-place, Leyton-road, Stratford New
Town. lam a ship'', felt maker. I saw the body of Eliza.
beth Allen lying at St. Pancras Workhouse. She was my
wife. She was 60 years on the 10th of last May. I was
not present at the time of her death.
William Colleer emulated—l am a modeller. I have
seen the body of Emma English, who was my aunt. Her
ago was 41. She was the wife of James English, a japanner,
who is now lying in the Royal Free Hospital.
Edmund Oliver-1 live at No. 2, Somerset-street, Old
Ford. lam a bricklayeed labourer. The deceased Rhoda
Bowler Oliver was my wife. She was 37 Jean of age. I
was not a passenger by the train.
John Robert Bowen examined—l live at Brick-lane,
Spite. Melds. lam a licensed victualler. I knew Charles
Standing, who is now lying at the Middlesex Hospital. He
was 19 years of age, and a bricklayer.

Tb• airitnemes as to the identity of the other persona
lying dead nut appearing,_

The Comeer adjourned the further proceedings until
Friday (to-morrow), when the inquiry will be resumed at
12 o'clock, at the Vestry•hall, St. Pancras.

A SWITCHMAN KILLED ON THE BRIGHTON RAlL-
,,AY.—Yestonlay morning a fatal accident occurred to Wil•
ham Hustable, a switchman in the employ of the London
mid Brighton Railway Company. The deceased wu em.
played on eight duty at the Forest-hill station, and was in
the set of crossing the line of rails when the up goods train
from Brighton, due in London at 1 &to., came up, the en-
gine 44 which struck deceased, hurling him a considerable
distance. When picked up it was discovered that the unfor-
tunate man was frightfully mutilated, one of his legs having
been severed at the ankle, and a severe wound indicted on
the forehead, over the temple. Dr. Grayling was in imme-
diate attendance, and ads seed the pour fellow's removal to
Gay's Hospital, whither Ile was conveyed, but be expired
shortly after his admittance. The deceased was a married
man, and has left a Lundy to deplore their lose.