The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-04 00:00:00

FALL OF A RAMO AY TU.NIVEL.

A dreadful accident occurred on Tuesday evening
last on a new line of railway which is being formed
between the Rowsley terminus of the Manchester,
Buxton, Matlock, and Midland Junction Railway
and the fashionable watering town of Buxton, by
which five men and a horse were killed, and several
others received serious injuries. The facts of the
case, as they were gathered from a visit to the spot
yesterday, are as follows :—A tunnel is being formed
about 200 yards below the ancient Hall of Haddon,
in Derbyshire, and between 3 and 4 o'clock on Tues-
day afternoon about 17 men were at work in it,
when the centres, upon which the stone arch had
been formed, gave way, causing the massive stone-
work to fall down into the tunnel, and burying under
it several of the workmen. The greatest conster-
nation prevailed, but a goodly number of men being
at work on the line, immediate and active steps
were taken to extricate the poor fellows who were
under the debris. This work was accomplished by
6 o'clock the same evening, but we regret
to state that four of the men were dead when taken
out, and the fifth lingered until 1 o'clock yesterday
morning, when death put an end to his sufferings,
both his legs having been dreadfully mangled and
broken, and his head fearfully bruis, d. The names
of the men whose lives were sacrificed are James
Bird, aged 36, married, leaving a widow and five
children ; John Millington, aged 40, married and a
family ; James Clarke, aged 21, single ; Alfred
Plank, aged, 17, single ; and George Buckley, aged
36, married and a large family. A sixth man,
named Evans, had his leg broken, but he is pro-
pressing favourably. Two surgeons--Messrs. Knex
anti Evans, of Bakewell—were speedily in attend-
ance, and rendered valuable assistance. The four
men were dead when extricated were fearfully mu- l
tilated, their limbs beini, broken in numerous parts.
The contractors had only just completed about 12
yards of the tunnel, about nine yards of which had
fallen. The bodies of the deceased men were con-
veyed to the Royal Oak, Bakewell, to await the
coroner's inquest, which was to commence to-day.
Mr. Rust, superintendent of police of the Bakewell
division, and several of the neighbouring gentry,
materially tided the workmen by their assistance
and advice.

A CONVERT To ROME.—The Rev. J. T. White,
8.A., formerly of Magdalene College, Cambridge, Et clergy.
man of the Church of Ungland, has joined the eerfltnanton
of the Church of Rome. He was " received" on Sunday at
the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm street,
Berkeley-square.

Sir C. Cresswell maid that this cas: was in rather
a singular position. The wife was entitled to a
decree for dissolution of marriage, which had been
pronounced, but when the time came for making it
absolute the husband applied to the Court to have
the petition dismissed, setting forth that he and his
wife had arranged their matrimonial differences,
and were then cohabiting, and that she did not
desire that there should be any further proceedings
in the suit. He doubted very much, if after a de-
cree nisi had been pronounced he had the power to
dismiss the petition. However, if the petitioner,
through her attorney, or in person, applied to the
Court, and it was proved that both parties concur-
red in the application made on behalf of the hus-
band, he would make an order that further pro-
ceedings in the case should be stayed.