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to assure you of this fact. I look with absolute fear to
Monday and Tuesday next, being Easter time, and en-
treat you to take the matter under your contra l.—l have
the honour to be, your Lordship's obedient servant,
" Palace-road, Lambeth." " J. F. ASTON.
The LORD MAYOR said with reference to the letter,
that he was perfectly ready, as he had frequently stated
upon other occasions, to enforce the regulations of the
Court of Allermen, whenever cases should be brought
before him in which it might be proved that any viola-
tion had taken place. He had invited the public
to look to the instances of overcrowding, and
to assist in applying the remedy by summoning the
offending parties before him. It had been stated, upon
authority, that the commanders of the steam vessels,
which so constantly took trips up and down the river,
were in no one case licensed, and it was only necessary
to summon such commander to convict and to punish
them. The penalties for each trip were very consider-
able, as were the penalties for carrying a greater
number than was allowed by the regulations to be con-
veyed, and for in other respects infringing the rules ;
but it was absurd to suppose that the Lord Mayor should
be expected to employ persons to do that which the
public ought to do for themselves.

A lad, who appeared terribly frightened, was brought
before the Lord Mayor upon the charge of having at-
tempted to pick the pockets of several ladies on board
one of the steamers, at London Bridge.
The complainant, a gentleman, who was with his wife,
on board the steamer, stated that he saw the prisoner
put his hand into the pocket of a lady, after having
followed others with apparently the same object.
The prisoner had, it appeared, gone oa board the
steamer, atter having worked hard all the week, in order
to prepare himself for a matrimoLial enterprise, in which
he had appointed to engage on that morning at 9
o'clock. He had delivered all his earnings, with the ex-
ec of the pence of the excursion to Greenwich, into
the hand of the young woman to whom he was to be
united ; and he little thought that, upon his return from
the twopenny worth of recreation, he should fall into
any other arms than those which were ready to receive
him with affection. Into the possession of a great
policeman, however, it was his unhappy destiny to be
transferred, at the moment he was looking oat for the
smiling reception he so naturally expcted on the eve of
consummation.

The LORD MAYOR desired to hear evidence as to
the character of the prisoner, for the sake of the girl to
whom it was said he was to have been married, as well
as for the sake of public justice.
The complainant declared that he was anxious to set
the prisoner, who, he was told, had never been before
accused of dishonesty, at liberty, and hoped that his
Lordship would consent to discharge the young man.
The shopmate of the prisoner stated that nobody could
work harder than the prisoner had worked for the last
two years to his knowledge, and nobody had ever heard
a tittle against his character.
The prisoner's mother said that from his infancy not
the slightest imputation had been cast upon her son.
If his Lordship wished, he could see the young woman,
who was waiting to be married to him, and who had in
her possession all his week's money, with the exception
of a shilling, ninepence halfpenny of which had been
found on his person after his Greenwich excursion, so
that his refreshments could have cost him no more than
ohe halfpenny.
The LORD MAYOR, who did not wish to put the girl
to the blush, saw no reason why he should not agree to
the suggestion of the complainant, and the young couple
started off in the hope of prevailing upon the parson zo
excuse their want of punctuality in consideration o£ the
awkward cause of it.
GUILDHALL.

John Sharp and six other inmates of the East London
Union were charged with refusing to work, because it
was Easter Monday.
Mr. Alderman GIBBS asked what work -they were
set to? Mr. Mortlock, the master of the hcuse—lt was
hair-picking. There was no objection to it. The pri-
soners were all young men, able to get their living by
labour; but they were reconciled to workhouse fare and
workhouse labour, and some of them had been in the
poorhouse four years. Sharp had WI a place where he
had 12s. a week, that he might v,ork less hard with
workhouse diet in the poorhouse. Though it was holi-
day time, he thought it was his ditty to keep such
characters to work.

The paupers said they Itr.d a holiday last Easter
Monday.
The master said be had then newly come into office.
Mr. Alderman GIBBS said, ha thought the master
acted properly in keeping then► to work, and he asked
the prisoners it, after"hearin; his opinion, they would
now do the work?—nc prisoners said they would; and
the magistrate dischtrged stem.
They were guard!•d back to the workhouse.
MA RLB OR OUGH-STREET.

Captain Crawffird, R Pall-mall, was charged with
having knocked out two of the teeth of George Long, a
solicitor's clerk.

The compl'.inant said he was walking with a friend in
Oxford-strtet about nine o'clock the previous evening,
when he ►.itippened accidentally to kick against the foot
of the d,efendant. He turned round and immediately
begged the defendant's pardon. The defendant, how-
ever, instantly struck him on the face, and followed up
the assault by twat her blow, which broke two of his
teeth. and knocked him down. As soon as the defendant
had finished this cowardly assault he ran away as
qiickly as he could. lie was, however, pursued and
gi,ren into the custody of a police-constable.
A witness corroborated the statement of the com-
flainant as to the accidental touch of the defendant's
oot in passing. The defendant, after receiving the
Apology, struck at the complainant violently, with the
remark, "- your eyes, get out of the way."
The defendant said the complainant tried to trip him
up; and, as he believed this was dune for the purpose of
picking his pocket, he certainly knocked the complainant
down. He ran away because he had no wish to find
himself involved in a police charge.
Mr. MALTBY said the evidence disproved the asser-
tion of the kick against the defendant's foot being inten-
tional. The compainant had done all that a gentleman
could require, for he made a full apology; but this had
not satisfied the defendant, who had instantly com-
mitted a violent and aggravated assault on the com-
plainaut. For this assault he should fine the defendant
in the highest amount of penalty, namely, 51.
The money was paid.
CLERKEN WELL.
Michael Brien was brought up on a charge of attempt-
ing to munkr his wife.

The prisoner is one of the most desperate characters
in Clerkenwell. He is the terror of the police, many of
whom he has seriously maimed. since he came from
Ireland, ten years ago, he has spent half his time in
prison, having been more than twenty times convicted
at this Court. The assaults for which he has been con-
victed have been committed, in most instances, without
any provocation ; like some wild beasts, his sole object
seemed to be that of spilling blood. Last night, about
twelve o'clock, he entered the wretched apartment in
Pavely. court, Islington, where his wife and children
live. Immediately upon entering it he smashed the
windows, and without receiving the slightest provoca-
tion, dragged his wife out of bed and kicked her violently
with his heavily-nailad boots on the head and breast.
The unfortunate woman bared her breast in Court, and
horrified every one present by the appearance it pre-
sented. Having kicked her until she was almost in-
sensible, he swore he would murder her, for that he
might as well han, for her now as at another time. He
then went to the cupboard and brought out the chopper.
The unfortunate woman seeing his determinati•m,
crawled into bed, went upon her knees, and beAged of
him to spare her life. He aimed a desperate blow of the
chopper at her heal, which struck the bed post ; he
aimed a second, which, raising her arm, she received on
her wrist. At length the neighbours, hearing her
screams. rushed in and the fellow was secured.
Mr. COMBE decided upon committing the prisoner
for trial.

THAMES.

Thomas Rolf, a lighterman and greengrocer, of Fre-
derick's-place, High-street, Bromley, was brought be-
tore Mr Broderip on re ,land, charged with killing and
staying James Eastman Bradley, aged 20, a toll-col-

Mr. Sorrell, an attorney, prosecuted on behalf of
the father of the deceased ; Mr. Pelham defended the
prisoner.
The prisoner was originally remanded by the magis-
trate on a charge of wilful murder. Since then an
inqutst has been hell on the body of the deceased at
the London Hospital. Great difference of opinion pre-
vailed among the coroner's jury, and 12 of them at last
returned an open verdict, that the deceased was run
over by a loaded cart arid died of the injuries he re-
ceived, but how he was thrown under the cart there was
no evidence to show. Two of the jury were for a
verdict of manslaughter.
Yesterday the whole case was reinvestigated at great
length by the magistrate. It appeared that the de-
ceased was the collector at the Mile-end turnpike-gate.
09 the morning of Saturday, the 4th of March, at 5
minutes before 5 o'clock, the prisoner and his son, who
were in a light c indrawn by one horse, drove through
the gate. The deceased asked for the toll or the ticket
of the day. The boy called out the letter " Y," which,
it appeared, was the initial of the day, commencing at
12 o'clock on the preceding night and ending at 12 on
the following night. The deceased said that would not
do, and demanded a sight of the ticket, which the pri-
soner refused to produce- The deceased immediately
rushed towards the horse's bead and snatched the reins out
of Roff's hand. The prisoner struck at him, and the
deceased, in stooping to avoid the blow, was knocked
down by the shaft of a cart laden with vegetables and
drawn by three horses which was proceeding in the
same direction. The off-wheels passed over the de
ceased and crushed him in a dreadful manner. He was
raised from the ground by the prisoner and others and
placed in Rolf's cart and taken to the London Hospi-
tal, where he died on the following morning. About
three hours before his death and after he had parted
with his relatives, and was conscious he could not sur-
vive, he informed Mrs. Morrell, the nurse in attendance
upon him, that Rolf passed through the gate and would
not produce his ticket, and that when he asked him for
it he struck him twice with the butt end of his whip,
arid knocked him down. The evidence was very con:
than- as to the degree of violence used by the pri-
soner to the deceased, and Mr. Pelham endeavoured to
show that Stevens, the driver of the loaded cart, was as
culpable as the prisoner, and that if he had stopped his
team during the altercation between the deceased and
the prisoner the fatal occurrence would not have hap-
pened. Stevens was not sworn before the coroner's
jury, but made a statement inculpating the prisoner.
Yesterday he was sworn, and after being told by the►na •istrate that he had no occasion to answer any ques-
tions which !night criminate hiinsult, he stated that he
followed Roff', c‘al through the gate. I he deceased
ii:Ated Hoff to -.llea hi, lick. t anir be sail he would not.
rho tollmin then la! aftercaught hold of the
horse's head, arid was
,
the
(tlirhe' '
animal towards thy
cart the witness was driving, whey the prisoner
,struck

him with his whip. The deceased was thrown on his
back, and the wheels of the loaded cart went over him.
Stevens then stopped his team, and helped to put the
deceased in the prisoner's cart. In cross-examination
by Mr. Pelham, it was elicited from the witness that
there was ample room for his team to pass on the off
side of the prisoner's cart without going so close to it,
and that the road was a very wide one.
The prisoner's son, a lad about 15 years of age, stated
that his father drove through the Old Globe gate on his
way to market at a quarter before 5 o'clock, and re-
ceived a credit ticket, on which was the initial " Y." It
was also endorsed "Ruff C." The ticket cleared the
Mile-end-gate. It was customary for his father to re-
ceive a credit ticket at the Old Globe-gate on his way to
market, and pay on his return. He was seated by his
father when the deceased ran up. He called out the
letter "Y," and the deceased said that would not do, at
the same time pulling the reins out of his father's hands,
and attempting to turn the horse's head in a contrary
direction to the one his father was proceeding. His
father struck at the deceased once, but did not hit him.
The deceased " bobbed " his head to avoid the blow,
and in rising came in contact with the shaft of the laden
vegetable cart, and was knocked down and run over.
The boy swore positively that his father only struck at
the deceased once.

Another ►witness, named Hunt, a pnrter, who was on
the footpath, saw the deceased close to the wheel of the
light cart, and ob,,erved the prisoner strike at him twice,
which caused him to go to the horse's head, and while
there he was knocked down by the laden cart.
Another witness, named Castle, was examined, but
his evidence was not material.

Mr. Sorrell explained, that the collector at the 01(1
Globe-gate was there a quarter-of-an hour before his
time on the morning in question, and the deceased hav-
ing his misgivings whether the prisoner had actually
received a tick(4, wished to see it.
Mr. Pelham advised his client to reserve his defence.

Mr. BRODERIP said he should commit the prisoner for
trial for manslaughter; and, in answer to an application
made by Mr. Pelham to put in bail for the prisoner, said
he must refuse it. It appeared from the evidence of Mr.
Bradley, the father of the deceased, that the prisoner had
been in the habit of striking at his son. It was the pri-
soner's duty to produce the ticket when it was demanded,
and if it were not for some doubts which had arisen out
of the fact of the prisoner's 'having the ticket in his po -
session and calling out the right letter, it would have
been most probably his duty to commit him for wilful
murder.

WESTMINSTER.
In our impression of yesterday, under this head, will
be found the particulars of a case, which, from its pecu-
liarity, appears to have excited considerable interest in
the public mind. Immediately after the disposal of the
night charges yesterday, a sergeant major of the Grena-
dier Guards, accompanied by Francis Bowen, the private
whose enlistment has occupied so much attention, ap-
peared before the magistrate. The sergeant-major
having put Mr. Bond in possession of the circumstances
which transpired, and which hare been already detailed,
said that the first enlistment of the soldier (about seven
years ago), from which he had never been discharged,
was perfectly legal. The private had alleged that it was
otherwise, upon the ground that it had taken place on
a Sunday. The authorities at the Horse Guards had
been consulted on the subject, and the commanding
officer had communicate d to the private some days ago
that his first enlistment was perfectly valid, notwith-
standing which, secreting this fact and taking advantage
of the order to re-enlist all those who were willing, and
whose original enlistment was allowed to be defective,
he again enlisted, but on coming before the magistrate
for attestation he objected, and wished to pay the smart.
The difficulty in this case had arisen from some of the
authorities at the Horse Guards having neglected to
make the return at the Wellington Barracks with refer-
ence to the legality of the private's first enlistment.
Mr. BOND wished to know the object of their appli-
cation to him, a; if the first enlistment was legal, there
could be no doubt the man was a soldier. The second
enlistment was perfectly useless.
The sergeant-major said that he had attended with
the private on his own application, he having expressed
a wish to his officers to be brought before the magis-
trate.
Mr. BOND wished to know when the sergeant-major
became acquainted with the fact, that the original en-
listment was valid? The sergeant major replied that it
was not until after he had left that court on Thursday.
Had he, or the adjutant at the Wellington Barracks,
been aware of the fact, of course tee soldier would not
_lave been re-enlisted.
The soldier wanted to know why he had been brought
to that court to be attested, if he was considered a sol-
dier. The Magistrate had told him on that occasion
that he was not.
Mr. BOND said it was easily enough accounted for, as
it was considered at that time that he had been illegally
attested on the first occasion, and it was, therefore, pre-
sumed at the time of his appearance at that court that
he was a civilian. He (Mr. Bond) was confident that
the private was perfectly safe in the hands of the officers
of his regiment, whose desire was to afford him every
justice, and who would not insist upon his remaining in
the regiment unless they thought he had a right so to do.
On the soldier', application the smart which he paid
on Saturday for the second enlistment was returned to
him, and he then left with the sergeant-major to join
his regiment.
HAMMERSMITH. _

Thomas Lee, a men 75 years Oitage, was charged with
having assaulted a'girl named Mary Ana Meades, only
nine years of age, with intent, &c.
It appeared from the evidence gone into that the pri-
soner was a pauper inmate of the workhouse of the
parish of Kensington, where he acted as gardener, of
which workhouse the girl was also an inmate. On the
evening of Thursday last, just before dusk, a woman,
named Mary E. Watson, one of the nurses attending
the ch;ldren, saw the prisoner call the girl Meades into
the garden, and watched him take her in the direction
of the Vol-house, and her suspicions having been pre-
viously excited, she called the girl back, and questioned
her as to the prisoner's object, when the girl acknow-
ledged that the prisoner had, on several occasions at-
tempted her violation, which act Watson subsequently
communicated to Mr. Blackwell, the master of the work-
house, who caused the prisoner to be taken into custody.
The girl Meades, after having been questioned by the
magistrate as to her knowledge of the obligations of an
oath, and answered satisfactorily, was sworn, and de-
posed to the prisoner having made three attempts, the
last time having been just before the nurse saw him
taking her again into the garden.
Mr. Guazzironi, the surgeon to the workhouse, de-
posed to having examined the girl Meades, and the re-
sult of the examination was confirmatory of her state-
ment, but be was not able to state whether or not the
prisoner's purpose had been fully effected.
The prisoner, who about four years since was sum-
marily convicted and imprisoned for 21 days for some
indcceat conduct to some pauper girls at Chiswick, was
remanded until Saturday next, in order to ascertain if
the parochial authorities will undertake to prosecute.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, SATURDAY.

The Ferret, 8, Commander George Sp;igg, arrived (11
Thursday manning from Sheerness. She is going to the
coast of Africa, and will take a mail to the Is'ald of As-
cension. Ferret sailed yesterday morning for Plymouth,
taking the supernumeraries for that port which were to
have gone by Emerald.
The Nautilus, 6, Lieut.-Commander John J. M`Donell,
arrived on Thursday morning from off Brighton, to re-
cruit provisions and water.
Flying Fish, 12, Corn. Harris. On the morning of
the 4th of December, a strange sail was discovered, close
under land, by this vessel, stationed off the Gold Coast.
All sail was made, as the stranger appeart-d trying to get
flag-ship;
a gii
pstt. Ocean,sur
out to seaward. At nine o'clock the wind lett; the Fly-
ing Fish then gut out sweeps, and the hard work of row-
ing the brig was kept up until one o'clock with such
trifling succt ss, that it was feared, if the wind should
spring up, the chase would escape. It was now a per-
fect calm, and in this state of affairs Lieutenant St.
Leger volunteered to take her with the two whale-boats,
the only boats on beard, as the pinnace and cutter were
out on a week's cruise with the First Lieutenant. In a
few minutes the boats were alongside, manned and
armed, and stretching out with eighteen men, under
three hearty cheers, towards the chase, now distant
about six or seven miles. When they were distant about
three-quarters of a mile, they lay on their oars to take
breath before boarding. This was an anxious moment,
and all eyes and glasses were directed towards them,
when, just as the men were giving way again, the chase
dropped her ensign and surrendered. She proved to be
the brig Eliza, only one )ear old, and fitted up for
slaves three weeks before, when she cost 8,000 dollars.
After cruisieg about fur a mouth uNder command of 1
Lieut. St. Leger, she was sent up to be condemned. 1
SHIPS AT PORTSNOUTII.—At Spithead—Superb, Ter•
rible, Cyclops, Retribution, Scourge, and Electra. In
harbour—St. Vincent, Victory, Excellent, Rodney,
Victoria and Afters yacht, Eurydice, Apollo, Wanderer,
Childers, and Rattler.
Lieutenants—
SHIPS AT DEVESPORT.—III Harbour—Queen, Cale-
donia, Albion, Bellisle, Favourite, Adventure, Confiance.
Master—J.
SHIPS AT SHEERNESS.—In Harbour—Trafalgar, 120,
egoon,saven, 3, and Wildfire and Afri-
can, steam.vessels.
Reid,
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J.
and King, to Apollo ;
J. Stephens, to Childers
superseded. W. Ring, to Vernon, vice Richardson,
J. Findley, to Excellent ; J. W.
Midshipman,H. W. Wildey, M.D., to Belleisle.
Master'sP ilan7-11. Douglas, to Excellent.
Clerk—'
r. eta:it—H. B. Hunt, to Superb.
J. Dryden, to Victory.
Naval Cadet
Royal. —T. C. Chevalier, to Childers.
MARINES. • .
to beLieutenant Edward T. P. Showers,
Quart —
Charles Milker-master, to the Portsmouth Division, vice
promoted to the rank of captain k Mr.
Edward Lower'
lie P 3 m (who was removed from the list of
utenants, and Itried, but acquitted, at the last
Winchester %to was .
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including his own to the Foreign Office, he is anxious
to smooth down difficulties that lie in the way from the hos-
tilethe events and policy, of 1840;
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FEARFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
SOUTH SHIELDS, SUNDAY.—A serious accident oc-
curred on the Brandling Junction Railway, near this
town, by which several persons have been injured, some
of whom, it is thought, cannot survive. The ten o'clock
train from Gatesht ad was proceeding at a rapid rate
from Brockley W hins to Shields, when, on taking a
curve near the Jarrow Alkali Works, the engine got off
the line, dragging the tender with it, and having become
disconnected from the passenger carriages by the break-
ing of the coupling chain, dashed over the embankment,
and through the roof of a row of dwelling•bouses, on
the ground floor of one of which it finally stopped, rest-
ing on its end, with the tender above it, poised in a most
fearful position. The only inmates of the house which
has thus been completely demolished were two women
and a child, all of whom are most seriously injured, one
of the women by the engine having fallen upon her leg,
which was literally crushed to atoms; and she, as well
as the others, by the escape of steam and boiling water
which rushed from the boiler. The force of the engine
and its great weight seem to have cut through the build-
ing almost like a razor, which accounts for the inmates
neighbouring houses having sustained but little in-
jury; in fact, none at all worth mentioning. The en-
gine-man and stoker were thrown from the engine, and
alighted on that portion of the roof which remained, re-
ceiving serious contusions from the fall. One passenger,
who was riding outside the train, had both his legs
broken. Fortunately, none of the passenger carriages
were dragged from the line, and the extent of injury
received by the passengers is not so great as might have
been expected under the circumstances. Several dan
gerous wounds and contusions were received.
MONDAY MORNING.--The women and child are still
alive, and are said to have passed an easy night. It is
now hoped the child and one of the women will recover,
but the other is so fearfully scalded as to preclude the
remotest chance of her surviving. Her hair was com-
pletely scalded from her head, and her face and other
parts of her body present a most shocking sight.
Workmen have been engaged all night in preparing a
temporary way, and in other preparations to get the
engine up. Hundreds visited the spot during yesterday
evening and this morning, but a strong body of police
are stationed to keep off the crowd.

THE ACCIDENT on the EASTERN

COUNTIES RAILWAY.
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.

Of the many railway accidents that we have had occa-
sion to notice, probably that which occurred on the
Eastern Counties (Cambridge) line on Sunday afternoon
was the most extraordinary.
The directors, in order to meet the convenience of the
subscribers to the Newmarket Craven Meeting, deter-
mined to run a spec al train from Shoreditch en Sunday
afternoon at half-past one o'clock, to Chesterford, and
undertook to do the distance to Newmarket within four
hours. At the appointed time on Sunday the train
started, conveying Lord and Lady Chesterfield, Lord E.
Russell, and the elite of the sporting world, amounting
to near 100. In advance, drawing the train, were two
of the finest engines the company possess, both of the
same construc.ion, with the exception of the foremost
one having inside cylinders, and the sccond outside ones.
The train was rather heavy. Next to the tender of the
second engine were five horse-boxes, containing cattle ;
then a second-class earriaee, three first-class carriages,
three second class, and two trucks at the rear. The
official-, being anxious to promote the best arrange-
ment and promptitude in the passage of the train, pro-
ceeded with it ; their head locomotive superintendent,
Mr. Scott, on the first engine ; Mr. Roney, the
secretary, on the second, and Mr. Waddington, the
deputy-chairman of the company, in a first-class car-
riage, accompanied by some of his co directors.
The train stopped at Lea-bridge station to take up
passengers, up to which period everything worked
favourably. It appears that here Mr. Roney joined
Mr. Scott on the foremost engine, and in a few
seconds the train resumed its journey. The special
express speed, it seems, must at this juncture have been
got up, and by the time that it had passed Edmonton
station it was travelling at the rate of 43 miles an hour.
That speed was satisfactorily ascertained by Mr. Roney
and Mr. Scott comparing their watches. These gentle-
men, we are informed, had scarcely noted the time,
however, before they were considerably alarmed by a
peculiar dragging movement on the engine they were
on. and, on looking towards the train, saw sufficient to
convince them that an accident had occurred. The
train was then midway between Edmonton and Pon-
der's-end station, a distance of nine and a half miles
from the metropolis. The second engine they saw had
left the rails, and was tearing up the road fearfully,
dragging with it the train, and almost instantaneously
the steam of both engines was shut off. For the mo-
ment nothing short of the second engine dragging the
train into a large ditch was expected. Such was the
momentum of the foremost one, that it still held the
second one, and eventually forced it on to the rails un-
injured, the fireman and stokers still maintaining
their position. The fate of the carriage portion of
the train, however, was more unfortunate. As before
stated, it followed the course of the second engine
on the permanent way fur about twenty five yards,
when the coupling which held it snapped asunder, and
as the engine retook the rails the train shot down the
embankment into a ditch filled with water. 'The crash
of the carriages was terrific, and the alarm amongst the
passengers was of the most painful character. The fore-
most part of the train, comprising the horse-boxes,
were partly buried in the ditch, and almost crushed
to pieces by the weight of the carriages. The next
carriage, a second-class one, containing a number of
porters, who were going down to assist at the Ches
terford station during the races, was thrown on its side.
Such was the concussion, that every portion of it, except
the side uppermost and the flooring, was knocked away,
and yet not a soul insiie was hurt. The second guard,
George Gordon, was on the roof of the carriage, and
his escape from immediate destruction is surprising, as
the next carriage, a first-class one, mounted the roof.
He was found amongst the fragments bleeding from the
head, and at first it was thought he was mortally injured;
we can state, however, that he was so far recovered as to
come up to town yesterday afternoon. The remaining
carriages were more or less damaged, and the chief guard,
it appears, was saved by being hurled on to the wire of
the electric telegraph, and tilted over into the ditch,
luckily escaping with a ducking. The officials travelling
with the train promptly released the passengers, who,
with the exception of the fright they had sustained,
were uninjured. Conveyances were procured as soon as
possible from Edmonton, and they were taken on to
Pondet's-end and Waltham, where another special train
was provided for them, and was more fortunate in reach-
ing Chesterford.
The greater part of yesterday Mr. Waddington, the
deputy chairman of the Company ; Mr. Kennard, one
of the directors ; Mr. Roney, the secretary ; Mr. Dun
can, the solicitor ; and Mr. Phipps, the engineer, were
engaged in instituting an inquiry into the cause of the
accident. By scree it is supposed that the oscillation of
the second engine caused it to rise and leave the rails,
and la) others that a rail at a joint had shifted and shot
out after the first one had passed over and thrown the
second one off.
The loss to the Company will amount to between
3,000/. and 4,0001.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS

HULL. APRIL 13.

STocz EXCHANGE.—A public meeting of parties interested in the
new lines was held here to-day, at which memorials to Sir R. Peel
and the Earl of Dalhousie were adopted. The memorials approved
of the interference of Parliament, but suggested that all lines should
be stopped further progress through Parliament until a petition
signed by a majority of scripholders be presented for the undertaking
to proceed, the onus of calling the scripholders together and getting
up the petition to be with the promoters of the undertaking. Scrip
commands attention at trifling improvement. The sales are—Am-
bergate, Nottingham, Boston, &c., 14—Derby and Gainsberougli,
13s. 9d.—East Coast, 225.--Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 225.
Hull and Barnsley Junction, 235. 6d.—Liverpool and Leeds, 2%—
London and Manchester (Item.), 20s.—North Staffordshire, 4/. 25.
Northumberland and Lancashire Junction, 21s.—Sheffield, Potteries,
and Crewe, 12s.— Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 35s.—West Hiding
Union, 31. 9s.—Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, 20s.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Aran. 13.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian Extension, 25 dis.
—Glasgow, Dumfries. and Carlisle, 2Ss. dis. Lancashire and North
Yorkshire, 17s. dis.—Newcastle and Berwick, 71,4 p.

l'Oltli, AntiL 13.

STOCK EXCILANGE.—The sales are—London and York, H. 3s. 9d.
—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, V-i—.Neweristle and
Berwick, 17—Newcastle and Darlington Extensions, 71. I6s. 3d.-
-North British, Half Shares, B—Ditto, Carlisle Extension, 11. 14s.
—North Staffordshire, 4—York and North Midland, New (East and
West Riding), 8%.

The Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction
Company return U. ls. per share of the 21. 12s. Gd. paid.
The scheme has failed for the present, and the directors are
at law both with their servants and shareholders. At the
meeting of the Eastern Counties Company on the subject of
branches, Mr. Hudson stated that the weekly receipts had
now reached 7,4451. The result of the negitiations of the
Chester and Holyhead Company with the Government for
the immediate formation of a harbour of refuge and railway
pier at the latter port, is that if the company agreed to con-
tribute towards the outlay a sum of 200,0001., the works
should be carried out to the full extent described on the
plans, and be immediately, commenced, and prosecuted with
the utmost expedition. 'The inner pier is to be appropriated
to the company's traffic and the use of her Majesty's Go-
vernment, and the present harbour deepened for the purposes
of the railway by giving accommodation to the larger class
of steam-packets, until such time as the new harbour and
pier can be made available. Government has undertaken to
pay 30,000/. annually for the carriage of the mails for five
years, to be subsequently increased on a scale with the in-
terest accruing to the line. The shareholders have consented
to the terms proposed. The Cornwall and Devon Central
line is to be " wound up," and the deposits returned less the
legal and necessary expenses. A committee has beeeGrael:t
pointed to carry out the resolution passed.
eAsthathreholders
Luxembourg meeting the majority
agreed to support the directors in promootifn
se to have sus-
gththe undertaking.
The opposition party on this occasion app
ea
tained a complete defeat.
SESSIONS.—These sessions
CAMBRIDGE. BOROUGH
were held on Monday last before Henryk Storks, Esq., the
I'
Recorder of the borough. he Recorder, iu his address to
the grand jury said
he been constantly in the habit of
awakeningthenttte hadr
duty of a vigilant sup rintendence
over the moral character of their dependents. Ile, however,
with such a calendar, did not see the necessity for it on
this occasion. From facts furnished to him by Mr. Edis,
the very vigilant and exemplary keeper of the gaol, he was
happy to say that the number of prisoners in his custody
showed a decrease between this and the corresponding
quarter of last year, in the proportion of 31 to 20, and on the
year a dimii.ution of from 75 to 49. This probably was
owing to an increase of employment, and it might be that
the morals of the poorer classes were improved. Education
was spreading, and it was cheering to look forward to a time
when with respect to public morals there would be a happier
state of things. There were three appeals entered by per-
sons named Ames Hawkins, William Green, and William
Butter, against convictions of them by the present Mayor
and Mr. Alderman Bishop under the Vagrant Act, as " sus-
pected persons."
The General Steam Navigation Company's Steam-
ship Wilberforce arrived at Blackwall Pier yesterday morn-
ing, after a fine passage of eighteen hours, from Antwerp.
THE NAVY.—There are to be two experimental
squadrons, each under its own admiral or commodore, one
of line-of-battle ships, the oilier of large steamers, and both
are p) be ready towards the close of this month, or the com-
menceMCat vi Ms .—United Scrvire Gazette,

THE LORD MA'o'OR &ND THE

GOVERNORS OF CHRIST'S HO:-TITAL.

Yesterday the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and other mem-
bers of the corporation, being governors of the royal
hospitals, assembled at the Mansion-house, to breakil,t,
previous to the preaching of the Spital sermon by the
Lord Bishop of St. David's, at St. Bride's Church. •

The Lord Mayor had, in consequence of the refusal
very distinctly given on a former day to recognise the
power of the Lord Mayor to nominate a preacher of the
Spital sermons at Christ Church, directed that
these sermons should be preached at the parish chtirch
of St. Bride's, and had ordered summonses to be issued
to all the members of the courts of all the hospitals to
that effect. On Saturday, however, in a Court of Alder-
men; at the Guildhall, it was intimated that the authority
of the Lord Mayor in the matter was no longer ques-
tioned by the resident authorities at Christ's Hospital,
and his Lordship immediately directed, upon being in-
formed of that fact, that the Spits! sermon of Tuesday
should be preached at Christ Church the regulation as to
the preachingof the Spital sermo❑ at St. Bride's Church,
on Monday, to remain as it had been determined upon
the announced denial of his Lordship's jurisdiction in
the former institution.
It is necessary to mention that the resident authorities
at Christ Church had resolved to express their senti-
ments as to the exercise of any power by the Lord Mayor,
in such a manner as would not be likely to be mistaken ;
for which purpose they struck out of the report prepared
for the Governors the customary words, "under the
pious care of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor and Al-
dermen." In the copies of the report handed to his
Lordship and the other members of the Corporation,
being governors, yesterday, at the Mansion-house, how-
ever, these words were restored.

The following is an abstract :
A true Report of the Number of Children and other poor
People maintained in the several Royal Hospitals of
the City of London, under the pious care of the Right
Hon. the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Governors
thereof, for the year last past.