The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-07 00:00:00

CORRECTION IN A BANKRUPTCY

REPORT.

TO TIM IDITOK Or THZ nxraeme.
Bo,—ln your impression of hue evening,
yes have inserted under the head " Law Intelligence'
au lecerreet etatmeent, and one which, if not costradieted,
any teed to injure my present and future prospects. I
Mg to inform you that I have never figured in the Chancery
Court or the Queues Bench, and that I have never vio-
lated the laws of my country to entitle me to be plated in
prime. My recent visit to Busieghall Cloisters was at my
mew request, and not pressure from without ; my assign.
meet of property and offer of ammunition being accepted
b all my creditors, save and except one, which led ine to
Basingball Court for a settlement of my affairs, and which
I em happy has been achieved without requiring the aid of
the worthy Commissioner—indeed 1 have not had a single
interview with him on the matter. I have no connexion
whatever with " Freston " of the Chancery Court and
queen's Bench. I am, with respect, yours faithfully,
Winton, March 6. E. W. FRED \E

RAILWAY COLLISION. Yesterday afternoon,
about half.paet Awe' an alarming though fortunately not
fatal accident occurredred at the Bluepita junction of the
Leacashire and Yorkshire Railway. Approaching Blue.
pita from Heywood, and about 09Ni-distant from the
two places, there is a point from which fork two linen,
am got g towards I&nchester, and the other towards
Leeds The 4.58 train from Bolton reaches the poiat at
therm* time, hot owing to some mismanagement it passed
en the Hue towards Manchester. 11n the line an engine was
standing, and into it the train dashed at slightly diminished
speed. Both engines were smashed so completely that at
dusk the woodwork was piled up and lighted to act as a
habeas. This wreck of the engines makes it almost minies
low that none of the carnage* were damaged, and that
the injury to passengers was confined to bleeding noses and
*lightly contused heads. With the conductors of the train,
however, the case was far different. The stoker we, very
much hurt, having switained a compound fracture of the leg
and fractured nose, besides being scalded by the nice ping steam.
The driver was also much scalded, sod has some ribs frac-
tured. The two were carried into a hoe*e near at hand, and
moused men were telogriphed for to Rochdale anti He -
wood. Mr. Crompton and Mr. Lawton. of Rochdale, were
as soon as possible at the spot, a special engine conveying
them, but were preceded by gentlemen from Heywood.
They were, however, in time to render Nome aid to the in-
jured men, and to dress the wounds of the passengers, who
at once resumed their journey. The guard. Evans, had his
now rather seriously cut. Most of the passengeni escaped
without personal injury. Amongst them were Mr. James
Simpson, Mr. John Butterworth, Mr. Arthur Brierley, and
other gentlemen of Rochdale.
THE AMERICAN TAJO?? AND TOR IRON TRADE.—•A
feeling akin to consternistion pervaded a lortinn of the
iron code on 'Change in Wolverhampton vesterday, at the
intelligence that the Morrill tariff would in all probability
become law. If the bill should receive the signature of the
President, its effect will be most disastrous to the iron
trade in Great Britain, inasmuch an scarcely any hen of
British make can, with such a duty as that proposed, find
any sale in the American markets. On bars, the prin-
cipal description seat out, the increase duty would be
wire than a guinea • too ; on hoops, chiedy used by
the Southern States for baling their cotton. 21. 6s. ; on
boiler plates, If. 14s. ; and on all kinds of sheet iron,
11. 17a 11d. The increase on hardwares will be in the
same proportion. On beet and shear steel the
_proposed
increase would be 92 per cent.; second quality, 115; extra
lama temper), SI ; table blade, Lilo ; common hoe and fork,
1117 ; round machinery. 154 • beet German, 216 ; sec
quality, 241 ; hest sheet (cast). 64 ; hoe and shovel (ort), 142 :
best quality blister,Url; second ditto, 211; gin and law steel
(hest), e 74 ; and second quality, 123 per cent. It k evident
that no Dritiab manufacture can bear up against this.
Manciksiertzassiner.