The Express.
London, England, 1861-11-06 00:00:00

LORD ELGIN AND THE FIFESHIRE
VOLUNTEERS.

Oa Saturday last, the Fifeshire Rifles met for re-
view by the Earl of Elgin, lord-lieutenant of the county,
atDunfermline. It had been expected that most of the corps
in the western district of Fife would have assembled ; but
when the hour of review arrived, the following were the
only corps present :—Dunfermline or Ist Fifeshire (two
' companies), the Colinaburgh and Elie, and the Kinross-shire
VAunteers. Thee corps mustered at the armoury of the
Dunfermline corps at half-past two o'clock, and, under the
command of Sir Thomas Erskine, proceeded to a field
on the estate of Brucefield, granted for the occasion by
Mr. Erskine Beveridge. The volunteers lied scarcely
accomplished the usual preliminary movements
when the Earl of Elgin entered the field in
his uniform es lord-Lieutenant of the county. The noble
earl was received with the general salute, the band playing
" God save the Queen." His lordship, accompanied by Sir
Thomas Erskine, Adjutant Forrest, end Csiptain Mathis-
son, of the Ist Titania*, then inspected the men.

INSPECTION OF THE 10TH LANCASHIRE (MAN-
CHESTER) ARTILLERY VOLUNTEERS.—Thin brigade was in-
spected on Saturday by Colonel Marriott, R. A. The
batteries were under the isomntand of Lieutenants Warbur-
ton, Bowler, and Hall ; sod at the close of the inspection,
the brigade marched back to the Queen's Hotel, preceded
by their excellent band, sad the men were there dismissed.

A GAMEKEEPER SHOT BY A POAcHER, NEAR
BRADFORD.—Abunt seven o'clock yesterday morning Wm.
lisnith, alias Davies, a gamekeeper in the service of Timothy
Borstal, of Hawksworth, war shot. by a poacher nomed
James Waller, in flawksworth Springwood, between Brad-
ford and Otley. Davies encountered Waller in the wood ;
Waller ran and Davies followed bits towards his own house,
and when be bed reached about 100 yards of it, Waller
turned round and discharged the contents cf • double-
barrelled gun into the chest and abdomen of Davies, who
lived till about hell-peat eleven and then expired. As soon
as be had shot the man Waller ran to his own house, depo-
sited his gun there, and then returned to where be had left
Devise. tlevaml pram bad got up to him. Waller went
up and said, " Who has done it r Davies said, "It is thee,
Jem." Waller then ran off, and has not been seen since.
The police are in pursuit of him. The dying man made •
statement to Mr. Horafall, the ulagistrate, substantially
like the above.

COLLISION ON THE GREEN Rel I.WAY.—OH
Monday night a collision of en alarming charactif' though
fortunately unattended with fatal results, oceurreal on the
above line of railway betweeu a passenger train and a
cattle train. It appeal. that on Monday evenings it Minna
to despatch a ottls train from the Bricklayer. Anna sta-
tion, to proceed from thence by the North Kent line to
Woolwich. The down line of rails is used both for this and
the Greenwich traffic as far utile junction, about het( a mile
from New-cross. The cattle train had reached this
part of the main line, when, from some unex-
plained reams, the 8.5 p.m. train was allowed to follow
so closely woo it that, although but a few hun-
dred yards had to be traversed before the cattle train would
have been shunted on to the North Kent line, the former
ran into the latter with considerable violence, causing the
traffic to be stopped for about two hours. The utmost alarm
naturally prevailed amoug the affrighted passengers, several
of whom, owing to the violates of the shock, were thrown
from their :mita and sustained more or less personal injuries.
At the spot where the collision occurred signal boxes are
placed within a few hundred yards of each other, and how
such an accident could have occurred, supposing the 00411-
pso_y's regulations to have been carried out, is inexplicable.THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION NEAR WIGAN.—We
have to record an addition to the number of deaths caused
by the explosion at the Prince Albert Pit, Sbevington, on
}rids, last. Robert Holcroft, one of the men injured,
died on Saturday night. Riding, the under fireman,
whose uncovered lamp is said to have caused the fatality,
is not doing very well • but the reports as to Ellison, his
second companion, are 'rather more favourable. Reed, the
shocking death of whose wife we have already recorded,
is said to he in a dangerous state ; but Thompson, the
filth man injured, is recovering. The inquest was openedi
on Saturday evening, at Shevington ; but no evidence
was taken beyond that necessary for the identifica-
tion of the bodies. After this had been obtained an
adjournment took place. The inquest on the body of Ann
Reed, who died from fright on Friday afternoon, has also
Semi held. The evideoce of deceased's daughter was that
she and her mother were at Wigan on the day of the explo-
sion, and were at the railway station, waiting to return
borne, when deceased was informed that Ler husband had
been injured. The news seemed to affect her greatly, and
she became worse when, on approaching home, she saw the
surgeon's horse at the door. Witness went to look at her
father, sod on Ler return deceased asked if be was badly
hurt. She replied he was not ;on which deceased exclaimed
that she knew he was, and that be would never recover,
Her mother then fell down, and died in • few minutes. The
' jury returned a verdict of "Died from fright."