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London, England, 1846-11-02 00:00:00

NAME OF RAILWAY.

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Arbroath and Forfar ••• • • •• .• •• ••
Chester and Birkenhead . •• ..........
Dublin and Drogheda...—. .........
Dublin and Kingstown .... • . • • • • . • • •
Dundee and Arbroath ........• ... • • •
Durham and Sunderland • • • •
Edinburgh and Glasgow ...•
Eastern Counties and North Eastern..
East Lancasihre .. • ..... • • • •
Eastern Union
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr • • .. • •
Glasgow and Greenock.... • • ....
Gravesend and Rochester.... • . • • .•
Great Southern and Western • • ......
Great Wester'', &c • • .. • ....• • • • • ....
Hartlepool .....
London and North Western, &c.
London and 81ackwa11..............
London and 8right0n.•.....•..•.•.•
London and Croydon . • ..... ••• • • •
Loudon and South Western.
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury ......
Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc..
Maryport and Carlisle
Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham..
Newcastle and Carlisle.. ••
and North Shields.. • .....
Newcastle and Berw.ck ............
Norfolk. •• ..
North British .. .• •••••• • • • • .• •..•
Paris, Corbel, and Orleans• • .. • • ....
Paris and Rouen ...................
Preston and Wyre•.....
Sheffield and Manche5ter............
South Eastern and Branches ........
South Devon... ..... . • • ........
Ulster . • •
York and Newcastle . ...•
York and North Midland . ..........

Last
week,

652
3,769
9,551

2,114
1,006

951
18,560

39,349

885
8,032

6,557

9,152

18,231
2,325

491
1,478

143
760
716
672
249
733
3,157
6,148

6,940

2,105
964
226

18,983
1,150
:39,064

575
6,278

661
1,694
8,46

7,354
1,0 0
7,221

17,519
1,613

849
1,326

433
1,277

6,540
6,446

767
5,791
6,524

574
1,122
7,930

1,183

702
4,930
5,169

STEAM-BOILER EXPLOSION.

THREE LIVES LOST.

ASHTON-UNDER-LINE, OCT. 29.—0 n Thursday morn-
ing, a few minutes before six o'clock, this town was
thrown into the greatest alarm, in consequence of the
explosion of a steam-boiler at the cotton-mill of Messrs.
Bayley and Dewhurst, Charlestown, which destroyed the
whole of the adjoining perty, and caused the loss of
three lives. So far as we have been able to ascertain,
amidst the general confusion which this melancholy
event has created, the following appears to be the facts :
—The mill where this sad catastrophe has occurred,
has, for a considerable length of time, been unoccupied,
but was taken some months ago by Messrs. Bayley and
Dewhurst, when considerable alterations were mace.
and the mill was put into thorough repair. In addition
to this was erected a strong fire-proof building, three
stories high, which had been filled by machinery.
and under which was the boiler which has caused
such devastation. It seems that about five minutes
to six o'clock, just as the engineer was on his way
to start the engine, the boiler collapsed in that part
which is over the fire, and caused an explosion which
knocked down the entire building before referred to,
and also partially destroyed several cottages both at the
back and front of the factory. Such was the fore°, that
the boiler, which is 26 feet long, and about 7 feet in dia-
meter, was completely capsized, being turned upon- its
end, and falling the contrary way to its previous posi-
tion. Across the street opposite
,to where the boiler
originally was, where a number of cottages which had
been made into warehousing, for the purpose of storing
the 'cotton, &c.; the windows in front of these buildings
were forced in, and the embers from the fire-place being
blown through, ignited the cotton and set fire to the
buildings. The two fire-engines belonging to the town
were quickly on the spot, and by dint of great exertion
the fire was extinguished. In the mean time a number
of men commenced to remove the fallen materials out of
the street, when they found, opposite to where the boiler-
house stood, the dead bodies of a man named Abraham
Fitton, a spinner, 42 years of age, and his daughter Emi-
line Fitton, a piecer, 13 years of age. These unfertunate
creatures were passing in front of the boiler at the time
the explosion took place, and were going to their work,
being employed at the mill of Messrs. Knotts, which is
in another part of the town. The bodies were dread-
fully crushed and scorched, the skin from the hands
and arms hanging in tatters. They were taken Le the
Nelson tavern, a public-house close by. On further
search being made, the body of a female, named Islar-
garet Fitzgerald, eighteen years of age, who was tear
ried three months ago, was found in the same woful
plight, being quite dead. This woman was empiosed at
the mill where the accident took place, and was about to
enter the staircase when she was so suddenly deprived
of life. The whole of the bodies presented a most
shocking spectacle when taken out of the ruins. A re-
port was prevalent that there were several other persons
missing, but after a careful search during the whole of
the day, no other bodies were found. The hair-breadth
escapes are innumerable. We may, however, mention one
or two cases. The'first is that of a married woman, milled
Milki Truin ; she had just got into the second room,
over the boier, and when about to pull off her clothing
to make ready for commencing work, the whole of tfico
building was lifted by the boiler and fell in with a'tre-
mendous crash, the report being heard at the extreme
ends of the town. Notwithstanding that this female fell
along with the ponderous mass, and was buried for
near an hour in the ruins, she was got out, having merely
received a few bruises on her left side. The engineer,
who was on his way to the engine-house at the tione-ot
the occurrence, was partially screened from the failing
materials by a portion of one of the floors having fell in
a slanting direction under which he was. The cottages
which surround this portion of the mill, to the number
of four, were knocked down, and although in two of
them the inmates were in bed, they escaped with but a
few bruises, while the whole of their furniture, &c., was
completely destroyed. In reference to the cause of this
accident there are many opinions, but in the absence of
any scientific investigation we forbear giving any defi-
nite statement. Such waswthe feeling created when the
report became known through the town that thousands
of persons congregated, and it was found necessary to
send for the military to guard the approaches to the
place. The inquiry is fixed for Monday next, in order
to give time for a scientific investigation of the whole
affair.

DEATH OF MR. J. F. WILLIAMS, R.S.A. We
regret to announce the death of this distinguished land-
scape painter, which took place on the morning of Sa-
turday last, at the residence of a friend in Glasgow,
where he had been on a casual visit. This event will 1.
very generally regretted, both professionally and pri-
vately, especially among the literarycircles of the Scottish
metropolis, where the deceased artist was well known
and respected. Mr. Williams's reputation as a landscape
painter rested chiefly on the beauty and truthfulness of
his sea pieces, and his excellence in this respect was of
so individual a character, and so generally acknow-
ledged, that we believe his death will leave a gap in
Scottish art which it will nut be easy to supply.
Ever since the establishment of the Royal Scottish
Academy, his.' pictures formed a conspicuous and at-
tractive feature in all its exhibitions at Edin-
burgh; and the fact of more than one of his productions
having been purchased by the association no later than
last year, showed that advancing age had not impaired
his powers. Mr. Williams was, we believe, in early life,
connected with the drama, both as an actor and a painter,
and was contemporary with some distinguished orna-
ments of the stage. He was not more esteemed for his
professional ability than for his private worth, and will
long be remembered by an extensive and enlightened
circle of friends, to whom his amiable manners and
anecdotal powers rendered his society peculiarly inter-
estine and agreeable. Mr. Williams wa., we believe, in
his 62d year.—Glasgow Herald.
THOROUGHFARES.—THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAIL-
WAY TERMINUS —The residents in the vicinity of this
station (Nine Elms) are drawing up a remonstrance
against the great number of waggons, carriages, &c.,
which accumulate to such an extent every night as to
form a complete blockade, and parties are obstructed
from free ingress and egress to their houses. A great
number of signatures have been attached,