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THE HOOD MEMORIAL.
CLOSE OF THE SUBSCRIPTION.

AT a GENERAL MEETING of the SUB-
SCRIBERS to the Fund for Erecting a Monument above
the Grave of THOMAS HOOD in Keusal-green Cemetery, held Dec.
2d. at. the Whittington Club, it was resolved that the Subscription
List be CLOSED on the Ist of February, 1853, and
Miss ELIZA COOK,
Ma. MURDO YOUNG, and
Ma. JOHN WATKINS,
were appointed Trustees to the Fund.
The amounts subscribed are deposited at interest in the London
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Tic Right Hon. Lord John Russell, 3f.P. ...... 5 0 0
The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P ........ • • .... 5 0 0
The Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, M.P........• • . b 0 0
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James Harmer, Esq.,.. • ......... ..... .....• • . 5 0 0
John Macgregor, Esq., M.P •• • • • •• 5 0 0
Arnold _Rogers, Esq. .. • •• • • .•••• • • 5 5 0
Mrs. Robert Elliot .. •• • • ......... •••••••••.. 6 0 0
Richard Dawson, Esq., 3f.D..... •••• •
George Peabody, Esq.. • ...... ........ b 5 0
Edward Moorman, Esq..• ••••••• • • • • • • 0 0
David r•alomons, Esq.. ••••• • • • • ...... .•• ...• 5 5 0
Messrs. Spalding and Hodge.,... •• •• .
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Miss Cushman.... • .... , • •
Proceeds of an "Evening with Hole, at ths
Waitiington Club... .. •••. • • • ..... • • .... 8 8 0
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Samuel Rogers, Esq • • •• •.
C. W. Dilke, Esq... • ................... .... 3 3 0
Charles Lushingten, Esq.. ••..•••• • . •• .. 3 0 0
Elias Davis, Esq..— •.• • • 3 3 0
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The Right Hon. Lord John Manners, M.P., •.. 2 0 0
Sir James Duke, Bart., . .... 2 2 0
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Douglas Jerrold, Esq.
T. K. Hervey, Esq. .•
Rowland Hill, Esq., General Post-office •• .. 2 2 0
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C. W. Mike, Jun., Esq.... ...... ........ 2 2 0
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Collected by M. J. O'Conner, Esq., Morpeth,
Northumberland • ...... ............. 2 2 9
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A few Young Men at Simpkln and Marshall's.. 1 5 6
Nine half crowns from Manchester.... ..... 1 2 6
The Right Hon. the Earl of Carlisle 1 1 0
The Right Hon. the Earl of St. Germans.. 1 1 0
The Right Hon. Lord 8r0ugham......... .... 1 0 0
The Right Hon. Lord Dudley Stuart, M.P. .. 1 1 0
The Hon. and Rev. S. G. Osborne • 1 0 0
Alfred Tennyson, Esq. (Poet Laureate)....... 1 1 0
Lady Sandys .. ••••• • • • • ............ .
W. M. Thackeray, E5q.......... • ....
Charles Swain, Esq, ........ •• •••• .. • •
Alf: C. Macready, E,q... 1 1 0
J. Westland Marston, Esq . ........ 1 1 0
Mrs. S. C. Hall .... ........ ...... ....... 1 1 0
Albert Smith, Esq. .. •.•• .. •• ............•• 1 1 0
Lady 3fergan . . ... 1 l 0
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Alfred Crowquill, Esq.
William Jerdan, Esq.... •• • • ..... ........... 1 1 0
Hepwo th Dixon, E5q...... • ... •.•• • ....... • • 1 I 0
W. H. Gore Langton, Esq.. M.P. .....•
C. Bar:ng Wall, Esq., M.P.
Charles Gavan Duffy, Esq., M.P.. •• •• 1 0 0
R. Swift, Esq., M.P.... ...... ................ I 1 0
James Macgregor, Esq., M.P.. .. • 1 0 0
B. Oliveira, Esq., „
Sir John Kerle Haberfield, Knt. Bristol
Mrs Milner Gibson • . • .
Thomas CreSwick, Esq. R.A ..... • •
J. B. Buckstone, E5q.............. 1 1 0
Mrs. Fitzwilliana •,•,.•,••• 1 1
Rev. Felix Palmer, Frierning ................ 1 1 0
Horace Mayhew, Esq ................
Sydney Yendys Dobell, Esq
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J. E. Carpenter, Esq. . ........... 1 1 0
Dr. Robert Elliot, Stratford .................. 1 1 0
Elocution Class, Walworth Literary Institution.. 1 1 0
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In pence from Bideford • • ...... • •
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Miss Martineau . • •
Miss Mitford .
Geo. Dawson, Esq , M.A. ...• • • • • 0 10 6
E. L. Blanchard, Esq. ..................... ••. 010 6
W. C. Bennett. Esq. ....................
A few poor Needlewomen ........ ...... 0 10 6
11: other sums .• ••.•••••••••••• • •• •• •• •• •• •• 224 0 1

£416 3 0
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ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—
Yesterday morning, between one and two o'clock as an
engine, which had conveyed the mail train to Peterbo-
rough on the previous night, was returning to the north,
its course was suddenly arrested near Essendine station,
about twelve miles north of Peterborough, by the bed of
the rails sinking to a considerable depth, carrying along
with it, and almost burying the engine. The engine
driver and stoker were both projected a considerable dis-
tance from the latter, but it is said neither of them was
seriously hurt. The morning goods train from London
arrived at the spot shortly after the accident, and as
both lines of rails were rendered quite impassable, it
was also brought to a standstill. The parliamentary
train from London came up next ; but, information
having in the meantime been given to the various sta-
tions on the line, an engine and set of carriages were in
readiness, on the north side of the place where the rails
had given way, to convey the passengers forward. ID
transferring thou, however, by means of an omnibus
from one train to the other, the vehicle stuck fast in the
middle of some water, with which, in consequence of
the late heavy rains, the road was flooded. It was with
the utmost difficulty the omnibus was extricated, and
this was not effected before the [inside passengers were
drenched to their knees, and greatly terrified by their
unpleasant position. Up to last night the line was not
clear, and all the trains between London and York yes-
terday had to be worked by the loop. They were all
late, and the luggage train from London already men-
tioned did not arrive at its destination at all. The ac-
cident is attributed to the late continuous fall of rain,
which has loosened the embankment. The railway au-
thorities regard it as a most fortunate circumstance that
the slip did not occur during the progress of a passenger
train, as the consequences must have been most serious.
MELANCHOLY DISASTER.—SIX MEN DROWNED.—We
are sorry to record a melancholy calamity which hap-
pened last Friday forenoon at sea, about ten miles oppo-
site the fishing village of Burnmouth, in Ayton parish.
Several boaL put out about five in the morning for
fishing off the coast, when a tremendous gale began to
blow from the south-east about ten a.m., accompanied
with a heavy sea. About twelve o'clock one of the.
boats, called the Lively, suddenly shipped a sea, and
wentwolatth
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yards h er
distantc ew of,
but silcm
coulden
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assistance on account of the fierceness of the hurricane
and the
never seen' great swell. The unfortunate crew, in fact,
andffientlhtye oathnedr
wboitaitts
trheeachloesds the
theirshore
lines. This distressing event has made six widows, and
'
no fewer than thirty orphans under fourteen years of
age.
I—GHBTeLVeckOIfIVE
,arLdleloarr.lnv Go.— Last week a private
Worcester, was robbedy so, p4lla7ived ator Newport from
soldier of the Ist Royals,
" The Friars' Fields." iendatilotnot'eoauslolocallitT,
He carried
his pocket ; they formed part of 501. bequeathed to loosely in
by his deceased father.

THE LATE FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

ADJOURNED INQUEST.

OXFORD, Jan. 17.
The coroner and jury again re-assembled to-day, by
adjournment from Wednesday last, and proceeded to
conclude their protracted inquiry. Mr. Hester, solici-
tor, appeared on behalf of the London and North-Wes-
tern Company ; Mr. Thompson represented Joseph
Kinch, the guard of the 5.30 passenger train from Ox-
ford, to which the catastrophe occurred ; Mr. Mallam
attended for Mr. Blott, the Oxford station master ; and
Captain Wynne, the Government inspector, also watched
the proceedings.
Mr. Brunner, the coroner, having called over the
names of the jury, the following witnesses were then
examined :

W. Henry Johnson—l am station master of the North-
Western Railway at Bletchley. I was there during
Monday, the 3d day of January. The coal train arrived
at Bletchley from Rugby at 2.30 p.m. > It was due at
2'5. The delay was accounted for by slow travelling.
It started from Bletchley to Oxford at 3.10. It ought
to have started at 2.45. It started twenty-five minutes
after time. The cause of the delay was that the Liverpool
passenger train was late. It started with 3 engines ; and it
had 52 coal waggons, a goods waggon, and a break.
I am aware of the 18th regulation for station masters,
which says that as a general rule no coal train shall have
more than 40 waggons. The reason why we had more
waggons than 40 on the day in qufirtion;_yras because
the night coal train had been discontinued in consequence

of the accident at the Wolvercott tunnel, and it was ne•

cessary to have more waggons on, or we should have
been blocked up at our station. It would have been
very unsafe to have divided the load on a single line—it
would have created an extra train, and delayed the train
starting from Oxford. I had no order to depart from
the 18th rule, but we have a discretionary power. The
tail lamp should have been lighted at Bletchley, but I
cannot tell whether it was lighted. The Midland express
train stopped to take up passengers ; but that was no-

thing irregular. It is usual for the enginemen to put up
their lamps when they are at the station, or as they are

leaving it. I had some conversation with Kinch on the
day after the accident. I asked him if he had had the
doctor. He said that he had not, and I then sent for
the doctor. He did not appear to be unconscious of
what he was saying. Kinch said he did not know how
the driver came to start the train, but supposed that the
engineman must have mistaken the ballast train for the
coal train. Kinch also said, " I made the same mistake,
and was not aware of it until the train had started, and
1 saw the ballast engine." He did not say that he
(Kinch) had started the train, but I think he said that
the engineman started the train without his orders.

By a Juror—The guard starts the train by sounding
his whistle. Kinch never gave me to understand that
he had started the train. The only persons authorised
to start trains at Bletchley are the station master and
the foreman porter.
Mr. Blott re-called—l consider the precautions taken
by means of Cae telegraph quite sufficient to prevent the
starting of the 5.30 train before the line was clear. It
is not a regular thing for the signal man at the bridge to
know that the coal train has left Islip.
By a Juror—Have you been on the platform a suffici-
ent number of times to know whether the practice has
been for the train to start while the red signal is up at
the bridge ; or is it the custom that the green signal is
put up before the train starts ?
Mr. Blott—l believe the custom is for the red signal
at the bridge to be up, and the moment the driver blows
his whistle to show that he is in the act of starting the
red signal is lowered if the line is clear as far as the man
in charge of the bridge can see. Owing to the position
of the engine, it would have been impossible for me to
have stopped the train that night, even if I had been on
the platform. The only thing I could have done, if I
had known that the driver meant to start, would have
been to have taken him by the collar and pulled him off
the train.

Banks Ferrand—l belong to the Society of Friends.
I am employed at the book-stall of the North-Western
Railway—the Oxford station. I was there on the after-
noon of the 3d inst. I saw the 5.30 train preparing for
starting. I did not hear any directions given by any
one to the guard as to starting. I was not near enough.
I was at my stall when the 5.30 train started. It was
a short train, and the engine chimney was just outside
the station. The guard's van must have been about 100
feet or more from where I was. The usual order to start
the train is the guard's whistle : but I did not hear that
sound before the train started, Immediately before the
train started, I heard the whistle of the engine, but it
was unusually weak. Several officers of the company
were present when the train started. After the train
started, Sergeant Gwynne rushed into Mr. Blott's office,
and said to that gentleman, "Did you start the train,
sir I" I then noticed general anxiety on the part of the
officers of the company. I went up with them to the
scene of the accident. I found the break screwed down,
for I had to undo it before the carriage could be moved
nearer the wounded.

This being the whole of the evidence tendered, the
Coroner, at the request of the jury, despatched the offi-
cer of the court to the North-Western Railway station,
with orders to summon the first engine:driver he could
find, as a witness at the inquest. In the interval,
John Smith, the foreman of the engine drivers, said
he wished to state that the driver is justified in starting
before the red light is removed—he is only forbidden to
pass the bridge before the signal is changed.
Alderman Browning (a director of the Buckingham-
shire Railway Company) begged to take this public
opportunity of acknowledging the great obligations
which his company were under to the London and North-
Western Company, who had afforded them every pos-
sible assistance through the means of their servants, and
by the electric telegraph ; and he felt the more anxious
to state this on account of the mistaken evidence—as he
had no doubt it would turn out—which had been given
by one of their officers.
Mr. Thompson inquired of the Coroner whether he
might be allowed to make any observations to the jury
on behalf of Kinch, the guard ?

The Coroner—No, I cannot allow that. No one is
placed upon his trial here. This is merely a court of
inquiry.

The coroner's messenger then returned to the court,
and announced that all the engine drivers belonging to
the Oxford station were absent with trains, and could
not attend to give evidence.

The jury then adjourned for an hour and a quarter.
On their re-assembling.

William Bestell, engine driver, was examined : I have
been in the habit of driving out from the Oxford station.
I invariably start from the Oxford station before the red
signal at the bridge is lowered ; then I whistle, and if
the red signal is not lowered, I do not whistle again, but
stop. I have been in the North-Western Company's
service for thirteen years.

The Coroner at length summed up.—He said he
thought that he might now congratulate them that as
far as the taking of evidence was concerned, their labours
upon this inquest were closed ; and it now became his
duty, if they required it, to read the evidence over to
them. But he thought that the jury had, one and all,
paid so much attention to the examination of the wit-
nesses, as to render it unnecessary for him to undertake
so voluminous a task. If, however, there was any par-
ticular part which they wished to have read, he would
do it with great pleasure ; but he thought they might
at once proceed to dismiss various extraneous sub-
jects from their minds, as being the best mode of clearing
the way to a calm and dispassionate consideration
of other questions which called for more serious inves-
tigation. The jury had been summoned to inquire
into the deaths of seven individuals, arid he be-
lieved they would have no doubt as to the cause of each
death having been the collision which took place on the
afternoon of Monday, the 3d inst., or that those deaths
were all immediate, excepting in the instance of Wilcox,
who was carried to the infirmary, where he died in con-
sequence of the injuries he had received on the evening
previous. The question as to the identity of the bodies
had also been satisfactorily disposed of, as far as six of
the unfortunate deceased were concerned. The identity
of the seventh still remained in doubt, and perhaps
might remain so for ever. No claim whatever had been
made with regard to him, and no intelligence had been
received by the company, or by the jury themselves, as
to whose body it was. Another point which might also
be cleared up at once was, that there could be no doubt of
the collision having taken place, nor that it took place be-
tween a coal train from Islip and a passenger train from Ox-
ford ; and if he was not wrong in his judgment, he believed

they would concur with him that no blame whatever was
imputable to anybody connected with the coal-train,
which arrived safe at Islip, was telegraphed thence to