The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-10 00:00:00

After some further conversation the committee divided—
For the amendment ..
Against
Majority
The announcement of the decision in favour of the
amendment was received with considerable cheering.
On the motion that the clause as amended should stand
part of the bill,
Mr. CLAY said he should take the sense of the commit-
tee on this question.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL hoped the committee
would eonsent to omit the clause altogether, if the amend-
ment, which was carried by so small a majority, was to be
persisted in. Such an alteration of the clause would be an
act of injustice towards the commissioners. He should take
the sense of the committee on the omission of the clause.
Sir H. CAIRNS said that as the clause now stood, no
deputy or substitute could be appointed without the con-
sent or at the request of the commissioner, and if no fur-
ther addition were proposed to the clause, he should recom-
mend the Attorney-General not to press his objection to its
retention.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL concurred in this view,
and the clause as amended was agreed to.
The house resumed, and the Chairman reported progress.
On the motion that the committee sit at 12 o'clock on
Thursday next,
Lord LOVAINE objected to the morning sitting on that
day.
The committee then divided, and there appeared—
For the motion
Against it
Majority
The Registration of Births (Scotland) Bill, as amended,
was agreed to.
The Local Government Act (1858), as amended, was
considered, and the amendments were agreed to.
COMMON LAW PROCEDURE (IRELAND) ACT

(1853.)
This bill was read a second time.
QUEEN'S PRISON BILL.
This bill was read a second time.
PAROCHIAL ASSESSMENTS BILL.

On the motion for the second reading of this bill, the
order was discharged on the motion of Sir G. C. LEWIS.
POSTAGE (A 1 MY AND NAVY) BILL.

This bill passed through committee.
REFRESHMENT HOUSES AND WINE LICENSES
(SCOTIA. D) BILL.
The second reading of this bill was postponed till Mon-

day next.
HUSBAND AND WIFE RELATION LAW AMEND-
MENT (SCOTLAND) BILL.
The order was discharged.
GAME CERTIFICATES BILL.
This bill was postponed till Friday.
COLEWOR,T BARRACKS (PORTSMOUTH) BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
POOR-LAW CONTINUANCE BILL.
This bill was postponed till Friday.
HERRING FISHERIES (SCOTLAND) BILL.
This bill passed through committee.
PRISONS (SCOTLAND) BILL.
The order was discharged.
TITLES TO LAND (SCOTLAND) ACT (1858)
AMENDMENT BILL.
The order was withdrawn.
THE MINES REGULATION AND INSPECTION
BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
MAYNOOTH COLLEGE.

The report was ordered to be received, and leave was
given to bring in a bill in conformity therewith.
LANDS CLAUSES CONSOLIDATION ACT (1845)
AMENDMENT BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
The Metropolitan Building Act (1855) Amendment Bill
was read a third time and passed ; as was also the Burial-
grounds (Ireland) Act (1856) Amendment Bill ; and the
Bleaching and Dyeing Works Bill.
On the motion for leave to bring in a bill for the amend-
ment of the Peace Preservation (Ireland) Act of 1856, by
Mr. CARD WELL,
Mr. POPE HENNESSY opposed the motion.
The house divided, when there appeared—
_

Ayes
Noes

Majority in favour of the bill —l7
The house then adjourned at half-past two o'clock.

DREADFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

On Sunday afternoon an accident of avert' melan-
choly nature occurred between Trinity aid Gran-
ton, on the line of the Edinburgh, Perth, and
Dundee Railway, by which four lives were lost and
five or six persons serioNsly injured. The ordinary
Sunday evening passenger train for the north
leaves Edinburgh at 4.30 p.m. The accident occurred
to the engine and tender while they were return-
;ng to the locomotive station in Scotland-street,
after having safely conveyed the passenger train to
Granton. There were on the engine and tender at
the time of the accident six persons, namely, David
Mathieson, the engine-driver ; John M'Kenzie
Mathieson, the engine-driver's son, a boy of about 8
years of age ; John M'Kenzie, a brother-in-law of
the engine-driver; Andrew Morgan, a pointsman
in Scotland-street station; John Bolan, the stoker,
and George Dail, a railway porter. The engine had
just left Granton about 5 o'clock, and was proceed-
ing rapidly along the line,which at that point runs
close to the sea on a high embankment, when, from
some unknown cause, the engine and tender went
off the rails at a point opposite Wardie-cottages, a
little to the westward of Wardie Hotel, and dashed_
over the embankment into the sea, a distance
.oaf
about 30 feet, carrying with them the 1.4 of d
bridge, which at that point crosses the roe
a portion of the low parapet wall skir.tin.g_
driver, his
the line.
It was found that Mathieson, the e g
e theirstoker, bodiesw ho
Morgan, the
son, his brother-in-law, and
went over
points-
man, had been all killed
being very much mutilatefdonreptehlaenepngine
jumped off immediately
a marvellous escape
with a dislocated
o the siott,h
shoulder.
with his
the embankment, escaped
Dail, the porter, had
life. He was carried over the embankment, and
fell down the stone bulwark, close to the sea, it
high water at the •
being nearly
the fall,
time. He was
severely, bruised by the fall, and cut about the head,
besides being. scalded about the face by the steam
from the engine ; he was, however, able to walk
to his own house, at Wardle-opposite the
scene
scene of the accident. The
stoker
was conveyed
to the Royal Infirmary, where he is doing well.
The accident also resulted in injury to several
persons who happened at the time to be sitting on
the stone bulwarks beneath the railway, on the
north side, some of whom narrowly escaped with
their lives. I\4l iin three-quarters of an hour after
the accident Sheriff Gordon was on the spot, as
were also Mr. List, Chief Constable of the county,
and Mr. Brown, Deputy Procurator-Fiscal. The
engine was lying bottom upwards on the beach, a
little to the eastward of the point at which it had
gone over the embankment, while the tender lay
close behind it on its side. Mathieson, the engine-
driver, was about 42 years of age, and has left, a
widow and three children, the widow 114
this sad event been deprived at once of
a husband,inlaw of
son, and brother. M'Kenzie, the brother- -
and was
ried, res gi iding un
the enne-dri
with ver, was
his mot a gar here
in ner
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