The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-12 00:00:00

SHOCKING .ACCIDENT AT WIGAN-TEN
PERSONS INJURE!►.

Shortly before noon yesterday, a street accident
of more than ordinary magnitude, and one which it is
feared will be attended with fatal results, took place in
that thickly- }abed part of Wigan known as &holm.
About -jest eleven, a man with • barrel-
organ and a monkey had taken up a position
in a narrow part of the main street, near the
point where Vauxhall-road joins the thorough-
fare. A crowd of women and children was quickly col.
lcctcd around him, from the adjacent courts and alleys„
and the little folks appeared to be heartily anjoyinglea
antics of the monkey, when their pleasure was unhappily
cut short by an accident which Wt • large number of them
prostrate and bleeding on the ground. A young man.
whose name has not yet been obtained, was about
this time driving a horse and vehicle, the property of the
Ina Hall Coal and Iron Company, up a Bcholes-hill,
and when the spot above-named was reached, the
horse, a spirited animal, took fright, either at the organ
or the crowd, and, overpowering the driver completely.
dashed forward at a fearful rate. In a street so narrow
and so thronged it was impossible for everybody
to escape injury, but the conesquenees of the excited
animal brief gallop were rendered all the more disastrous
by his swerving to the side of the road, and then,
the wheel upon the footpath, mowing down the telTrinitiZ
children, who shrank to the wall for safety. In another
yard or two the wheel caught a baker's track, and in this
momentary check a man named Hamill rushed to the
home's bead, and, at imminent risk of his own life, led it
against a dead wall, where it was brought to a slandiddl.
No lives were lost on the spot, bat several prams sus-
tained injuries of the most 'snow chawaner, and Shelia
of the wounded was counted up to kw • little fallow
named Edwards was perhaps the worst ons, as the wheel
had pained over his body. In two ether instances tha
legs of the palisade were smelt hurt ; and is two sore
shocking wounds bad bees received on the heed.—.llfens-
elate,* Examiner.

COAL AtARKET.—(IIIIB DAYiradd
Waslee. 3d. ; Walls End
17.. ad. ; Wale Bad Hawthorne, 16e. 3d. ; Heat%
.6d. ; Tenets% 16e. ; Eden Main, lei dd. •
iolywell, lie. ; West Hartle , 16e. 6d. ; Wykra, 14:
Wads End Original Hartlepool Ids. GL—ahips at market.
23; at sea, 26.

MB. OoI.DWIA fitima cot MR. GLAnnoirs.—At
the meeting held in the Town-hail, Orford, last night, to
bear an enceition of the political views of Mr. Tomo
Harooort, who intends to offer himself as a candidate for
the representation of that city in parliament, Mr. °Mul-
lein Smith referred in the following terms to Mr. Glad-
stone :—" I sin glad that Mr. Harcourt frankly avows bis
allegiance to oar great leader, Mr. Midianite. Many am
the points on which I have differed Item-XL-Gladstone,
but I re pout him as a true friend of the people end of the
working man, and as one who, more than any statism=
except Peel, has devoted his great genius to improve Ms
condition of labour. While other men have been studying
she -oily alts which manage the Moues of °Mambas, he '
la.; been di:dying thorn great prineiptes and hosts which
implore the condition of the people."
A I ouiniittee will be chosen next week to try the

Bristol election retinae.
Whent ver et' s; play of the AM' Ne
Ina dut the Vaudrrille at Paris, one would &roost
tun we 1.;1191141. WI it.. • Paris corregrandent, to Do in •
Lenden theatre, teem the large number of Beglidt who
sue pin nt.

ILe nonisetwety of the death of Mtn! Cavocar
niul nu:cleated on the Oth at Turin with groat eoletaldty.
ILe Yid . the Prince de Carignan. and TL Parini wen
present at the religion mammy.