The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-18 00:00:00

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

BLISWORTII, OCT. IG.—An inquest was held this
morning at the Railway Hotel, Blisworth, before
Mr. Hick, one of the coroners for the county of
Northampton, on view of the body of Richard
James.

Mr. Bedford attended to watch the proceedings on
the part of the company.
The deceased was a porter in the employ of the com-
pany, and at the time the accident happened he, with
three other porters, inamed Mellish, Goodman, and
Leper, had been turning a carriage-truck on to a
siding, after which deceased proceeded to cross the
line, on the London side, at the time the five P.M.
train was coming in. The driver and fireman
were keeping a good look out, but the police-
man's hut and the signal-post intervening, they
could not see the deceased in sufficient time
to avoid coming in contact with him, and
the consequence was that the off buffer struck
the deceased on the hip, and drove him about six-
teen yards, throwing him across the rails, when one
of the waggons caught his foot, and dragged de-
ceased under the other waggons, separating his right
foot, and severing his head from his body, besides
otherwise mangling him in a frightful manner.
The deceased was about twenty-six years of age,
and he had been at the station only about five
weeks. His mother and sisters and a brother
were standing on the platform at the time, having
come to visit the unfortunate man, and thus
witnessed the accident. The obstruction caused
no fewer than nine waggons and the tender
to be thrown off the line, blocking it up to such an
extent that it was not cleared till after ten o'clock,
whilst deceased was so dreadfully mangled that his
remains were not cleared from the waggons
and road for nearly an hour and a quarter.
This is the first fatal accident that has
occurred at this station since the
.opening
of the lin2, and the jury were of opinion that
the present might have been avoided had signals been
given by the driver. Mr. Bedford stated that such
was the regulation of the company, the engine-drivers
being instructed to sound the whistle a quarter of
a mile before entering a station, but, unfortunately
it was a common practice amongst many of the
porters, &c., to disregard this, and thus the majority
of the accidents that occurred were caused, not by
the engine•drivers neglecting their duties, but by the
carelessness or recklessness of the servants employed
on the lines.

The jury, after a lengthened consultation, returned
a verdict that deceased came to his death by accident;
but, at the same time they thought that more caution
ought to be used by the drivers in approaching to or
passing by a station, particularly one of such an extent
as that at Blisworth.

The Lords of the Admiralty have placed her
Majesty's steamer Lightning at the disposal of his Ex-
cellency Count Recentlow, who will proceed in her on
Thursday morning to Copenhagen. We believe that
this visit of the Danish Minister has been rendered
necessary by the negotiations still pending for the settle-
ment of the Schleswig-Holstein question.
ARRITALS AT Ihmr..—Recent arrivals at this im-
portant northern port from foreign parts have com-
prised the large number of 117 vessels in the space
of a week, being the largest number we remember
to have taken place in the time at the port alluded
to. They were laden with various articles, the
products of foreign, countries, and comprised among
other supplies of different articles of food, the fol-
lowing large importation of corn from perts in Europe,
viz., 10,820 quarters and 2,304 bags of wheat, 849 bags
and 2,961 quarters of peas, 12,218 quarters and 3,411
bags of barley, 1,906 quarters and 824 bags of beans,
443 bags and 6,248 quarters of oats, 52 bags and 156
quarters of rye, 30 quarters of tares, 390 bags of bran,
and 400 bags of pollard. The whole of this large num-
ber of vessels, with but one or two exceptions, arrived
from the northern and central states of Europe, with the
usual imports from those several countries.
SUSPECTED MURDBII,—PrOLTI circumstances which
have transpired, there is reason to fear that the young
womm whose body we stated last week had been found
in a ditch, had been murdered. It appears that her
name was Abbott. She was a widow, and a
n itive of .11awkhurst. She had been in ser-
vice at Gravesend, and was about to go thence to
Maiditone, and stopped at the Silver Oar on her way.
She left that house on Friday morning with very re-
spectable apparel, and had just receive change for a
sovereign. When found in the ditch, in which there
was barely water enough to cover her, her bonnet was
off, some of her clothing and her money gone, and a
piece of carpet covered over her head, which she
tightly clenched with one hand, and it seemed evident
that the poor creature was suffocated in the mud. The
police are using every means to unravel the mystery.—
Maids€onc Journal.

Love AND Sum-Dz.—Last night, an inquest was
held on the body of James Hierns, aged twenty, late
potman at the Horse Shoe, Goswell-road. Deceased
was a very steady young man, and bore an excellent
character, but he had formed some connexion with a
female living at Highgate, to whom he appeared
much devoted. Latterly it seemed that there
had been some dispute between them, which
weighed heavily upon his nsind. He became exceed-
ingly despondent, and sometimes spoke of destroying
himself, but would immediately afterwards exhibit such
conscioussess of his folly, that it was not thought that
he would have committed so rash an act. On Friday
morning ho awoke rather strange in his manner, and in
the evening, having procured some arsenic, for the pur-
pose of killing rats, as he said, he swallowed the poison,
and died from its effects on Sunday morning. Verdict
—" Temporary insanity."
At the meeting on Monday last of the West-end
Joint Tenant Association, Edgeware-road, Mr. George
Wiggall in the chair, a letter from Lord John Russell
was read, declining to (rive any explanation as to whe-
ther lodgers were entitled to vote under the "Joint
Ratepaying Clauses" of the Reform Act,