The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THU'RSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1863.

Fatal Accident on the Greenock Railway,

A melancholy and fatal accident took place at the
railway station at Greenock on Monday morning,
arising out of the prohibited and yet common prac-
tice of leaping on to a train when in motion, by
which Capt. Francis Harvey, shipmaster, aged about
50 years, residing at 20, West Stewart-street,
Greenock, and connected with the well-known
shipping firm of Messrs. Handyside and Henderson,
Glasgow, lost his life in a very shocking manner.
The 845 express up train is always heavy on Monday
mornings at this part of the season, and on Monday
it was unusually so. It was several minutes behind
time in starting, and Captain Harvey had arrived
among the last corners to go by it, and having a
return first-class ticket. The train was quite full,
and Capt. Harvey being anxious to go by it made
several ineffectual attempts to get a seat, and it is
said that he was twice told to desist by an official.
The train started, and the deceased. who was a stout
heavy man, made the last attempt to get in, and
while on the footboard and endeavouring to get
into a compartment, he was struck against one of
the pillars which supports the roof of the station,
causing him to lose his balance. He was thrown
down, his legs going in between the edge of the
platform and the footboard, and thus he was dragged
a dozen yards, his legs and the lower part of his
body being crushed, twisted, and mangled in a
shacking manner, part of the intestines and the
'broken bones of the legs being exposed to view.
The body in fragments was gathered up and con-
veyed into the waiting room, and the melancholy
news was conveyed to the wife and family of the
lamented deceased, whom he had quitted half an
hour before full of health and hope. Capt. Harvey,
who thus lost his life, was master of the steamship
Dom Pedro, which only arrived here on Friday last
from Palermo. He was a member of George-square
United Presbyterian Church (Rev. Wlr.
and was in church at both diets on Sabbath. He
was hurrying to his vessel, which was lying at
Glasgow, wnen cut short in his career, leaving a
widow and five of a family to mourn his lamented
and premature death. It is rather a remarkable
coincidence that Capt. Harvey's father-in-law, Mr.
Watson, accountant, lost his life nearly 20 years ago
by a fall down the stairs issuing from the railway
platform, and that father and son•in-law are the
only two passengers who have accidentally lost their
lives at the railway station here, so far as we can
remember. Deceased was a native of Alloa, in
which place his father was long known as a most
respectabie shipowner and shipmaster. His brother,
who only arrived from America on Friday, and had
passed the Sunday with him after a separation,
parted with him on the street at the Greenock sta-
tion immediately prior to the occurrence, intending
to meet him in Glasgow in the course of the day,
North British Mail.

PARISIAN VIEW OF AN ENGLISH SENSATION
DRAMA.—A recent communication from the able
Paris correspondent of our leading morning contemporary
contains the following amusing description of a sensation
drama now performing every night at the Theatre
Chatelet :—" It is founded on the novel of Aurora Floyd,'
and is called Le Secret de Miss Aurora.' For obvious
reasons, our sensation novels, however meanly they may
be thought of by persons of any refinement of taste, were
likely to be highly relished by a large class of French
readers. ' Miss Aurora Secret,' as put upon the Paris
stage, seems looked upon as a very serious and pathetic
play, but I suspect that its effect upon English spectators
will be to provoke hearty laughter. They can hardly be
otherwise than immensely deverted at the French concep-
tion of an English country gentleman eating and drinking
as hard and as fast as he can put fork and glass to his
mouth, with his face within six inches of his plate, and,
while thus devouring, incessantly and unintelligibly talk-
ing. He occasionally makes a very short break in his epi-
curean pleasures to address a hurst of sentiment to his wife,
and, when trouble comes upon him, ho sits and whimpers
helplessly. Bulatrode, the dashing cavalry officer, is got up
to resemble as nearly as possible a distressed tailor, but, as
he wears moustachios and a bit of variegated riband in the
button-hole of his black coat, it is of course impossible not
to recognise his profession. The coroner, a very bald gen-
tleman, with a wonderfully pink scalp, and a tippet to his
coat, comes in, attended by two policemen, to take Aurora
to prison, but he allows himself to be mollified and
calls in a witness, who takes upon himself the office
of counsel for the defence, reasons with the coroner,
and convinces him that Aurora is innocent and
Hargrave guilty. Whereupon Hargrave, who is represented
by a bandy-legged giant, with a diseased physiognomy, in-
timidates the policeman by tho display of acarving-knife,
and escapes to the woods, but only to be there tormented
by the ghost of James Conyers and other apparitions, got
up upon the Pepper principle, and which are the most effec-
tive things in the play. Much stress is laid in the bills
upon what is called a hop-picking festival, which takes
place in a sort of forest, amid huge trees, whereon the hops
may be supposed to have grown, but, having been gathered,
they are of course no longer seen. The festival consists of
a series of dances performed by young ladies in Scotch cos-
tume, most of the men present also having more or less of
tartan in their attire—it being apparently the conviction of
French playwrights that le Highlander' is the chief end
predominating ingredient in the population of Great Bri-
tain."

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