The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-26 00:00:00

THE ACCIDENT TO THE IRISH MAIL.

The inquest on the bodies of the three persons who
were killed in this accident was resumed on Saturday
at the Town•hall, Tamworth, before Mr. Dewes,
coroner. The same legal gentlemen appeared as on
the last occasion. Edwin Smith, second guard to the
train said the distance and stop signals chewed that the
station was cleat. lie did not see that the main signal
was against them until about a hundred and fifty yards
from it. He heard the alarm whistle, and saw
by the sparks that the breaks were on the engine,
and oil the foremost guard's van. He then put on his
break, but the train had passed into the platform siding.
The train consisted of the guard's van, a composition
carriage post-office, a tender post luggage van, three other
composition carriages, two first class carriages, and a rear
guard's break. All passed through the siding into the river.
except the two first-class carriages and the break. The
two last carriages were fitted up with continuous breaks,
which he worked from his van. He was not injured, and
assisted in getting the passengers from the debris.
They travelled generally about forty-two miles per hour ;
and at the time of the accident about thirty. A train
travelling at that speed could be stopped in about
six hundred yards. Higgins, pointsman, and Stafford,
station-manager, were recalled, but nothing material was
elicited. Josiah Baker, telegraph clerk, :aid that the
Irish mail was signalled on leaving Stafford at 3.35, and
the luggage train at 3.40. John Orpen, inspector of
policemen and pointsmen, deposed to the efficiency of the
signals and points. Mr. Evans said that the mail was
coming before the luggage train on the night of the acci-
dent, but the line ought to have been blocked for the main
line.

GREAT REPUBLICAN DEMONSTRATION IN

HYDE PARK.

A great Republican demonstration took place yesterday
in Hyde Park, when it was estimated that between forty
and fifty thousand persons were present. A procession
was formed at Finsbury, which proceeded to Clerkenwell
Green, and thenoe to the appointed place of meeting.
Processions of French, Germans, Americans, Italians,
and others arrived on the ground shortly afterwards,
when the immense crowd was divided into sections,
the principal of which, Nos. 1 and 2, were pre.
sided over by Mr. M'Swiney and Mr. Weston. Bands
and banners, representing the various nationalities, were
n profusion, and mock litanies and speeches divided the
interest of those assembled. Various resolutions were
proposed and carried, the most important being the fol-
lowing :—On the motion of Mr. Moniham, seconded by
Mr. Edginton, and supported by Mr. Riddell,
" that in the opinion of the Republicans of
London the people of France have done them-
selves honour in declaring the Republic, that being
the only form of Government by which liberty and jus-
tice are secured to the people, and we hereby tender our
thanks for their patriotic efforts." On the motion of Mr.
Weston, seconded by Mr. Owen, and supported by Mr.
Johnson, " That we, the Republicans of London, demand
of the English Government the immediate recognition of
the French Republic, and that we are determined to use
every effort to compel them to do their duty." The
meeting was as orderly as from the vast mass of paymons
might have been expected