Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-14 00:00:00

BY TELEGRAPH.

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 27. Cotton slow of sale, and prices
without noticeable alteration, but if any change in favour
of the buyer. Sales to day 1,500 bales ; sales of the week
43,000 bales; receipts of the week 04,000 bales. Beccipts
at this port up to the present time as compared with those
of last year fall short 159,000 bales ; ditto at all Southern
ports 327,500. Sugar firm at sto sic. Molasses dull at
231 c. Flour steady at 5 dole 10c to 5 dole 20c per brl.
New White Corn 50c and Yellow 05e, Pork firm at 17
dole 50c. Lard in barrels 12 c. Rio Coffee, 9c to 10c ;
sales of the week 11 500 bags ; stock 95 500. Sterling
Exchange 1031 to 1041. Exchange on New York 972.
to 98.

COLLISION IN THE STOUR VALLEY TUNNEL.

On Thur. day, the 12.41 Liverpool third class train left the New-
street station, Birmingham, at the usual time. Five cr six rcenutes
afterwards the driver of an engine which had just been detached
from an in-comin; train, wishing to proceed to the Crescent engine
shed for a supply of coke, asked the signalman at the station end of
the tannel whether he might proceed. Receiving an answer in the
affirmative, he drove his engine and tender np the tunnel at the
usual speed. Within sixty or seventy yards of the other end, he
suddenly came in collision with a train on the same line of rails, and
this, it turned out, was the one which had shortly before left the
station for Liverpool. The concussion was a very severe one,
though much lels than if the train had beets stationary.
Occuring within the tunnel, thel;alarm felt was, of
course, greatly increased. As soon as the train emerged into
daylight, it was found that a good deal of damage had been
done both to person and property. The passengers were greatly
terrified, and this was heightened by the bruises and wounds which
it was seen many of thorn had sustained. The sufferers were speedily
taken from the carriages, and surgeons being sent for, the injuries
of all were attended to on the spot as far as possible, while a man
and. woman, who seemed the most seriously hurt, were sent to the
General Hospital. As we have said, the train was a third-class one,
and as is usual in accidents where this is the case, injuries were sus-
Wined by a large number. At least sixteen cr eighteen persons
were more or less injured. Mr. J. Brown, connected with
the store department at Euston-scriare station, had his nose
split and knee contuse I ; a woman named Goldstraw, from
Glamorganehire, who was goiog with her husband and
family to Stoke—on—Trent, received a compound fracture of
the leg; a gentleman from Liverpool was badly bruised ou
the head; five or six others had bruises about the head aed
upper part of the body, which Mr. Hoskyns, one of the surgeons
called is, deacribas as somewhat serions ; and the remainder had
contusions and wounds of a trifling character. Fortunately there was
attached to the guard's van a carriage full of railway officers' cloth-
ing, and this helped to break the concussion. The guard was badly
shaken, and the driver of the engine {Charles Ward) had his lip cat.
None of the carriages were thrown off, and but little delay was caused;
for as soon as the van and empty carriages could be detached, and
the excitement somewhat allayed, those of the passengers who were
uninjured, and all who were not hurt badly, once more took their
seats, and the train proceeded to Liverpool.