The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-05 00:00:00

TEE POLICE COURTS.

(THDI DAT.)

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1. RIIIENWELL
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aiwwl 25, who &embed herself
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.g who ha. freproutly lidrozwl at this ...gut osi
artiskrwoe.... 1.14,..,1 at the bar Wort Mr.
t. ..r. charm.) with wi.4retly lowaultiow Kr. Oolhwo.
• .e.ah. at rkvtt.a•l.lrc/. Lower.rood. 14in:tos,
!.aitueg hi drelh.

Wakefirar appeared l'ia• the primate,.
hen the wens fee hymn very
I. et alski 11F•11141114 had cohabited with the
1.. r mm.r )t AD did sot nada with
tire Lou.. is wish be eorrissi as hie bariaaa. Br.
l•ert, three week awl .. month mom the prima wa drink •
• put 4:: house in the Learnt-IMA mad about 9 o'efis k
t... 14 the .leviewil. oho. atecedses to the eindeo,e, ins
petits tly sober. west ia. The paseser aired hi.. fis opine
8. ow,. who h he refused to ghee her, sad left the house for
Ms purl... of vine home. The priawa followed, sad
a pion. !sieve in her Mad. abowod it to a are, sad
stu •.salit burs it in the dev•eaed'e Au& Whoa
the .fiswasol was at has own 41... r sad about gulag
a. the twtanner went fiehirst Inns ..ad struck

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a ...lent blow on the sale of the heed. The blow
was ,pees with such lone that it •tuunesl the deceased,
r.ad be fell senseless in the postage The prisoner sass
ills., oral the unfortunate nun we. conveyed to bed,
whet, he remained senseless fur some time, but when
he Wheel • little he said it was the prisoner who
bad ausulb.l lens. Inform:Atom was :men to the
ioliee, eel the prisomer was spiprehendal at het
lodgings Ito South-cottager, rk.utlestreet. by poliee-eon-
•tatle Stormier's, 1;16 N. who, toll her the • barge, when she
•ael she knew nothing about it. she added,_ however.
"that if the ilece,ed was then thew he would give bins
.otnething if she war Lin; At Newpte for hint." The luor
en lingered (tom Ow I Ith nit. until Tuesday, the let
inst., when Ile
lir. Them, the .11N.013 who had attoneled the deceased.
has, in enripans with three other medical gentlemen, mode
a post.ava Via example:4nm, and ("mid 011 the brim two
ounces of Narri, and they sail that death resulted from
luflarnmatirm of the Lraii, oral that the intlanunation wan
• awed by 'nob 1211.1 r.
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the eu orr, m ausser to the sharp.. mi.( that the
.1. eeonsl was druiik and steak low, and the rebury on his
loud wits caused by the &sensed falling on the step of the
door through his inebriety.
Inspector Jbolgr, N drritino, asked fora return,' to learn
the result of the coroner's bequest. The prisoner and the
deceased were in the frwpient habit .f quarrelling.
VEyneuurt renuitsled the ;wispier until rhursbley
teat and refused to take had.
W A IiDSWORT if .
HIXQULAR ROIBEIV pr THE wAND-OTORTH HOUAt Or
CoßlircTios.

A tall young man, named Wia. re I,lllooq, was placed in
the Sock Woe* Mr. Ito man, charged with stealing a ,inan-
tices for
tall a wheat. value the property of the County Jus-
Surrey.
Jobs Sungtoo, a war.l.4L at the House of Correction,
Wanthswarah.eonmei,, dapoaal that Ferguson had been is
prisoner, and ~n the .tnl inst. he w a. employed in the wheat
etan, and when he .roe out wane.o searched him and
found a ituratit of wheat reticrethel inside his docking.
The quantity was ahout a pint and a half, and was worth
about 3.1. Th.. governor .aw him the same day, and lie
then said that hr anis very sorry he took at. He was com-
mitted to the p 1.41 fur two month+ with hard lamer for
stealing a vice, awl his tern. of imprisonment expired that
morning.
The prisoner, in defence, raid he saw other prisoner+ take
mine wheat and put it in their mouths while working, and
he thought there was no more harm in taking some to eat
in hi. cell than eating it in the store.
Mr. Daynain inquired if there was any officer present to
watch them.

Another warder mid he was present and saw the prisoners
tale mime and put in their mouths, and he checked them.
The prisoner MIMI he was very sorry for what had hap-
pened. He was destitute when he was committed, and he
misdeed never to do a dishonest act again.
Mr. 'layman seal it was strange that he should end his
imprisonment by committing another after that resolution.
Mr. Onslow, the governor of the prison, said the pri-
soner could not have taken the wheat away with him.
They were alwayastripped of the prison clothes when libe-
rated. He supposed -the wheat was taken to be parched
over the pa-light in the cell, and consumed there.
Mr. Dayman mid that whether the prisoner inteodol to
wry it off or not the offence was the same. It could not
be overlooked.

Mr. thrilow owl he did wish to press for any severe
punishment. He wished to show to others that the offence
sinmeted to stashes. and to merest those petty depreda•
Linos by the prisoners.
Hr. Hayman said that s. Mr. r kolow did not wish him to
he punished severely, he should only commit him for three
iniprisomeast with bard labour.
'l‘e prisoner was than consigned hack to the slime prison
from which he was liberated is the morning.

The Rev. William Brown Staveley has been col-
lated to the nneelloo,yry of High Ha4lem, empty Kent, and
dimes* of CuMrbory, TIMM by the death of the Rev.
Ad. Seattle. The Hee. Edward Harley Martel is to be col-
hded to the rectory of Reeking, lame meaty and die=
said by cension sad the Rev. Josathaa Henry
thmerou has hem instituted to the vicarage of Shoreham,
same meaty and diocese, void by the death of the lest is •
eambeed and Chapter of Westminster patreem
WHITEN %LI, Jut. 4. —Tbe Queen has been
pissed to appoint Jolla Hill Barton, EN., to be one of the
admen o 4 the general prim at Perth, and oleo to dis-
charge the duties .4 secretary to the cud nuutagen.-

ST. JA II fiell LAI r, J,tr. 4. —On Sunday,
Jan. 0, sod os every day heneeforwariL cm which the Holy
Osemenices is to be celebrated, the mid-day service at the
tlapel Royal, Mi. Jaime's will been with the Litaiiy.
Mamie, Prayer bevies bees said at the early service. —By
seder of the Din, Fuson °MUMS, Sub-Dean. —thszcor.
ramie/many. —lt is rumoured that hie Royal
Higbee= the Tithes of Wales will be initiated this year in
freresamery. Owing to tam death of the Martial of Dal-
housie, the tides of the deseseed onbleman (except the emu
fl
are now borne by Lord Pantnum, Deputy Dread
fleeter of Fairies& --Deere Osrv.,cle.
Tan EARL or YARBOROVON. —TIM tenantry and
naleherteee hien& of the Lord Lieutenant will be ex•
esedy, gladdeoed by the intelligence contained in
the f‘Zowieg letter addstmed to a custemporary : -" 17,
Arliagtheatrest, Leedom, I/seemlier fl, 1 seo. —Sir,—
Notice.' is your paper on the 2lst an account of my
health which is likely to convey as erroneous inipmesion
to my (rived. is Linoolnabire. shall feel gristly obliged
b roar .Wing is your next number that me medical
adelen consider my Mate of health greatly improved.
am (bashful to may my weakness mots only in the imagi-
esti°. of your correspeedmit---1 remain, sir, yours faith-
far, YARD0100011."—Hull !'acts(.
AIR PITS& FAIRRAIRN or Lamm. After a
lingering Wars air Peter Fairhaini expired, yeeterda
ander/ meniing at two o'clock p.m. The duo
gentleman caught a violent cold is October last, co
the pressoUitMe of colours and prime to the buds Voles-
tem aide Corps, which was the immediate cause of his death.
air Peter Pairbairn was twice mayor of Leeds, and was
bighted by her Majesty at the openieg of the Town-hall,
the 7th of *plumber, 1,4514. lii. lio. will he severrly
felt in Leeds, se he was a large losefacter or the public
chanties of the town, sad moat annificeet to the poor, and
every to mapped to the appeals of the needy and
d

MR- Lo •ti Aru rite Doveß TOWN CotNell—At
a tussling of the Dover town council on Tuesday last, the
ma or requested the attention of the council to a letter
he had received from Kr. Loch, who had landed at
Dover the preceding Thursday :--" Fermi's Hotel. 84.
James's-street, Dec. 9R, IMO. My dear Sir,-- You will be
adding a great favour to the honour you soil so many pm.
Hemet, io Dover have already conferred, if you will near
yourself, and convey to those who gave me such a cordial
welcome yeatenlay, my most Snore and grateful thanks,
which at the time I was unable fully to express. I feel
that the kiednese I have personally received arises from the
Sarum felt at the amps of two Englishmen from a bar-
barous enemy. I wish all my companions in captivity bad
been spared to meet with similar kindness arid sympathy.
It will be cheering to Mr. Parkes, who is still working in
China, to learn with what littered oar fete has been watched
in this onauitry. Allow me can mere to thank you. and to
amens you that the flicollsolle• of yesterday will never be
forgoer's. —Bober me to be, eraser sir, yours faithfully
" }WIRT B. LOCIL—J. Dirmisgbam, Er., mayor of
Dover. - Deer Chortle.
THE LONDON Tom 8011-FA Cam held a soir&
last evening, at the Assembly-eons, Hermon-lane, St.
Pads-churchyard. Tb. proceedings were enlivened with
some excellent mimeo( by members of the choir, that of
Mr. R. Gibbous being especially escorted, and after a very
pleasant evening the coaspany separated about 12 o'clock,
mock pleased with the entertainment
LONDON COPTIC AND EATING-HOVER KEEPERS'
BENEVoLEST Arort arioo.-711. annual ball in aid of the
funds d this institution took Ohm on Thursday evening,
at the Freemasons Tavern, Great Queemstreet, Latrobe's.
iria•nekle. The company was very numerous sad highly
impßotable. Mr. Frampton was master of the ceremonies ;
44 Adams's baud was in attendance.
FEARIVL BOILER EXPLOSION NEAR MALTON.—
A terribly fatal boiler explodes occurred at the village
Lsagioe, three miles from Melton, yesterday sftersoon.
!la the farm of Mr. Holmes, • steam dins/ling machine was
re use, and its believed that the frost had caused the feed-
Mir to class supplying water to the boiler of the engine,
erhi, h ouisequeittly exploded, amnia( multi most fearful.
*f• yugsitt, ei Leavening, in the East Riding (sou of the
'steer of the eagieel, MY killed on the spot, while soPerin-
leading the oasis' • another men ham his skull so severely
fra.-taced r to render hia life completely leveler beyond a
tee here ; gad four others are reported as greatly wounded
and eudded. The man who rode to Mahon for assistance
• ed medical Ross wee himself severely scalded in the face,
aid he deterfbee the destruction as moat dirtier.
CRYSTAL PALACE. —ONE SHILLING DAT.
V:SIDAT, JAR. I.—Admission+ on payment. 2,971; ditto
ty urea Melte* 1,046.—T0tal visituis, 4.0 W.

TERRIBLE RAILROAD DISABTER.

HEREFORD, Jas. 4.
The exprwe from Shrewsbury, due at Hereford
at 140 p.m., ran off the line iu consequence of no
axle breaking All wile% from Hereford, where the
Sae run■ on an embankment, with a deep dike on
either side, and the land for miles inundated by the
Hirer Lugg.

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Tlw carriages all rau off the line, the passenger.'
were immersed in the water, and an appalling .cone
enstwil. There vras a perfect wreck, and two
woven were drowned before they could be rescued.
The guard narrowly escaped by swimming, and a
lady and her clii:d were marvellouidy rescued. The
other passengers were providentially saved.
The engine mule to Ilereforl for medical
which was promptly rendered.
The hue was claims!, the luggage fished up, and
the passengers brought to Hereford by half-past 5.

ANOTHER FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON
AN!) NORTH WESTER.V RAILWAY.

At a late hour last night an accident, 'which
might lase Mee attended with the most disastrous come,
quencee, and which has resulted in the death of one first-
awe passenger, arid serious injury to two or three other.,
occurred on the above lion of railway. From immiries made
this morning at the Easton Ktati.m, and upon the spot, it
seems that the express train which leaves Liverpool at 5.15
p.m., and is due at Emden station at 10.50, proceeded on the
joaroey without any mishap being reported, and pulled np
rather Lite at the ticket plntfcesn at Camden-town, for the
purpose of collecting tickets. The ticket collectors at once
.romincnced their duties, and the train was on the point of
•farting to Easton when it was found that some of the
carriages were miwing, hut where they had broken
off could not be akertainel. Without delay an engine WAS
got ready sal started with all the available assistance
to search for the mimic; carriage.. They bad not, however,
to proceed far, fur on reaching a slwt, about forty yards no
the London side of the Primrosehill tunnel, the carriages
which had become disconnected were come upon
smashed to piece., and it was soon ascertained that a
very serious accident had happened. Lights were procured,
and it was found that the two haat carriages and the
break-van had broken away. The former had been thrown
over on to the line, and broken into fragments, while the
break, although it had left the rails, remained on the per-
moment way, and was uninjured. Moans and shrieks ema-
nate.' from the wreck, and the efforts of the men were
at once directed to rescue the passengers. 'Chia was a work of
great trouble. for the vehicles had turned completely over,
and the portions of the broken carriage.. had to be re-
moved before the people could be extricated. When
this was at length accomplished it was found that
a first-clam pamenger, a gentleman who was known to
belong to Birmingham or Wolverhampton, but whose
name had not up to this afternoon been ascertakusl,
had been crushed to death. His body was much
disfigured. Another passenger, a gentleman named
Appleby, belonging to Sevenoaka, in Kent, was seriously
injured about the head and face, and a few other passengers
were more or less injured, but net very seriously.
The body of the deceased and Mr. Appleby were as soon as
possible conveyod to the Eudora Hotel, and upon making
inquiry this afternoon we were informed that Mr. Appleby
was under the attendance of the surgeon of the company,
and was progressing as favourably as could be expected.
With regard to the cause of the accident nothing of
an authentic character ran be ascertained. Mr. Cawk•
well, the general manager; Captain Bruyeres, the general
superintendent of the line ; Mr. M'Oosnall, the locomotive
superintendent, and other officials of the eompany,inapected
the spot this morning in order to come to a °occlusion upon
the point, but were unable to do so. The tires of all
the wheels appeansl to be in good order, an did also
the rails where the carriage.. left the mils, and
nothing was apparent to account for the carriages breaking
away from the other portion of the train. It is presumed,
however, that the coupling-irons connecting the last two
carriages were struck by something in the twine', and be-
came disconnected at the spot indicated.
The date of the inquest has not yet bees Axed.

SHOCK/NI, ACCIDENT ON rHs LONDON,
CHATHAM, AND DOVER RAILWAY.

11171'114131OURRE, JAR. 4.
An accident Of an alarming character which un-
fortunately resulted in the death aces passenger,• warrant
officer, named Pattison, and injuries to several others, oc.
curved oe the London, Chatham, amCOnver line, near this
station, this morning, to the down espreas train, leaving the
Victoria station at 9.N.1, in ennsequence of several of the
carriages being thrown off the line. The train to which
the accident occurred left the Victoria station tive minutes
late, and on arriving to within a short distance of this sta-
tion was fully half on hour behind its proper time. It was
composed of sight carriages, namely, two first, two sewed,
and two third-class, with two break vans, one of which was
at each end of the train. Everything appeared to
Lave goes right with the train until it had arrived within •
mile of this station, when the tire of one of the leading
wheels el the first guard's break van nest the tender flew
off. This of course had the effect of throwing
the guard's van off the line, dragging with it
a third-clans and also a first-cla,m carriage, which
immediately followed, both of which were thrown over on
their side.. The vent'. van, however, does not appear to
have turned over at ell, but the head guard van so violently
bruised and shaken as to have been rendered quite unable
to do anything towards stopping the train. The unfortu.
nate deceased, who with two females occupied the
carriage, was thrown oat of the train by the •
beam( turned over, and to have been dragged f y
nee hundred yards, wiz he wee frightfully mutilated,
fragment. of the legs and ether parts of the body being
afterward. picked up on %rime parts of the line. After
the carriages had beet, dragged • considerable distance they
were brought to a riand.etill, when the deceased was found
lying beneath the wreck of the thirdelam carriage, from
which he was rescued with the greatest difficulty, and not
before en hour had elageed. The unfortunate sufferer wal
still alive, although both of his legs had been torn
off. He woe immediately removed to the Railway
Hotel adjoining the station, where be was attended by Mr.
Raj, end other surgeon., but death put an end to his ant-
fertap in about two hours afterwards. The deceased, who
belonged to Woolwich, was on his way to Sheerness. Up
to a late hour this evening his body had not been identi-
fied by say of his friends, although they had been informed
of the occurrence.

The two females who ocenpied the same carriage an de-
ceased were severely bruised and shaken, end Richardson,
the guard, who was in the van nett the engine, received
some severe contusions, and wan for a time inueneible ; he
has, however, since recovered. A gentleman who occupied
• seat in the first-class carriage which was thrown off the
line hail a narrow escape, the carriage in which he was
sowned being smashed in ; be, however escaped unhurt.
Most of the passengers were enabled to resume their
journey in a few hours afterwards. The body of the de-
ceased is Iving at the Railway Hotel to await an inquest.
With regard to the cause of the accident, it is believed that
on inquiry it will be found that the tire of the wheel which
flew off is composed of faulty- iron. The wheel has, how.
ever, been removed, and will be produced at the inquest.
In once of the aocidmit the down-line was blocked up
for several , but an silkiest staff of labourers, under
the direction°, Mr. Barnard, station-muter, were employed
the whole of the day, and this evening both lines are
clear, said the ordinary trees resumed. This is the first
fatal accident which has occurred on this line since its
opening for traffic.

THE FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT KlDDlE-
mlibirtiL—An inquest was held at the Railway Bell Inn,
Kidderminster, on Thunthay, on the body of James Smith,
who was run over by an expires train, on Mooday as already
reported. n
Mr. Roberta, the district supen tof the
West Midland Railway, was peewit during the inquiry.
Smith's age wee thirty-three ; he was a married man, but
leaves no family. The following evidence wax given :—Jobe
Bloomer, a plate-layer, maid he knew the deceased, James
Smith, who was also platelayer on the West Midland line.
He and deceased were both at work on the Hoobrook
viaduct on Monday. He was some fifty yards from deceased.
An express train was doe from Worcester about a quarter
before eleven. A coal train came up on the other line of
rails, about half a minute before the express 'hammed
looked at the coal nuts as it passed him. Witham called to
deceased as the exprar came up. It a just is the coal
train weed dece sed that the other came up. The express
train peened over him, and killed him on the spot. He did
not appear to have heard witless' calling to him, nor the ap-
poach of the train. The steam was abut off WO yards
before the train reached the man.--Benjamin Wiltaber, the
driver of the es prew. train in question, raid, when be first
noticed the men on the viaduct the train was ISO yards
from them. He applied Ida whistle, and directly he saw
deceased did not notice him he shut ff steam.—The jury
appearing 'Mistiest with the above evidence, a verdict at
'• !incidental Death" was returned.
LIFEBOAT BEEVIi.Sw.—PORTHCAWI., GLAMORGAN-
SHIRE JAN. 3.- -During a ple of wind and heavy serf, on
the morning of the lit inst., a Swedish barque from Otnliff
to St. Kitts, with coals, went ashore on the Cenflg Sends,
off Portheawl. The lifeboat of the National Lifeboat In.
Mitotion at this station immediately proceeded off to the
wreck, and took from her five n.en, five other hands having
previously come on shore in their own boat, at the risk of
their lives. The most of the lifeboat was the munificent gift
of a Staffordshire lady to the National Lifeboat Institution,
This valuable lifeboat and transporting carrLge were brought
to Porthcawl some months ago.