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at the Coach and Horses, Mount-street, Berkeley-square,
on the body of Major Charles De Haviland, a general
officer of the army. Mr. Stevenson, of 37, Upper Gros-
venor-street, surgeon, stated that the deceased came to
town on Saturday week from Guernsey, in order to place
himself under his care, who at the period was suffering
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freely of wine, and taking little or no nutriment. De
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sey, described the state of the deceased, whom he said
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on Wednesday last, he found him considerably better.
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he was with him in the evening. The deceased had a
violent attack of spasms, which lasted the greatest part
of the evening, but towards half-past nine o'clock he
seemed relieved, and witness left, sot apprehending the
slightest danger. Deceased had refused to have any me-
dical aid, Mr. Stevenson, his own medical attendant,
being out of town. The jury returned a verdict—" Died
by the visitation of God."
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last, at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, an inquest was
held before Mr. Chapman, on the body of Gideon Has-
lam, plasterer and painter, of Burnden, near Bolton. It
appeared that about half-past seven o'clock on Sunday
morning, the 10th instant, the deceased was discovered
lying in the gig-house on the premises of Mr. Harrison
Blair, vitriol manufacturer, of Kearsley Moss ; the de-
ceased was bleeding from the nose, and had a bruise on
the top of his head, which appeared to cause him much
pain. A dead turkey, and an oaken truncheon with
which it appeared to have been killed, were found lying
near him, and two doors were found to have been forced
open, which left no doubt that the object of the deceased
in entering the premises had been to commit a felony.
It was also ascertained that the dead turkey was one of
36 which had been roosting in a loft in the gig-house,
above the place where the deceased was lying. He was
not capable of giving any rational account of himself at
the time, and by the advice of Mr. Moulden, surgeon to
the county constabulary force at Bolton, he was conveyed
to the Manch. ster Royal Infirmary, where he died on
the 15th inst. from the effects of fracture of t'se skull.
While in the infirmary he stated, that be and another
msn went to Mr. Blair's premises about two o'clock in
the morning of the 10th instant, witk the intention of
having two turkeys each for their dinners ; that be was
intoxicate I at the time, and slipped from the loft, and that
he thought it was cowardly in Ins companion to leave him
in the state in which he was found. The jury returned a
verdict to the effect that the death was occasioned by frac-
ture of the skull, received though accidentally falling
from the loft. The deceased has left a widow and two
children, and was 26 years of age.—Manchester Guardian.
ANOTHER FIRE AT SAXIIA3L—On Tuesday night
between nine and ten o'clock, a' barn, full of barley, be-
h aging to Mr. Cockerill, ofSaxham, was discovered to be
on tire. The barn and its contents were destroyed, together
with a cottage which stood within a few yards of it. A
row of cottages (the residences of ten families) was con-
sidered to be so much in danger as to cause the inmates
to quit them and remove their furniture, &c., which, in
the hurry and confusion caused by the alarm, became
so much broken, that the strewed about fragments, and
trampled down gardens, rendered the scene truly dis-
tressing.--Ipswich Express.

N
OTTINGIIAM, MONDAY, NOON.—After dispatch
ing my letter to town yesterday, I proceeded over to
Beeston, for the purpose of personally examining that
portion of the railway where the accident occurred.
Passing through the village of Lenton I met the
funeral procession of one of the sufferers, Mr. Var-
nails, on its way to the burial-ground attached to the
handsome new church recently erected in this ancient
village. The body was conveyed in a hearse from the
residence of Mr. Lee, which is only a short distance
from the church—the mourners, nine in number,
chiefly consisting of personal friends of deceased, fol-
lowing on foot. The coffin was borne into the church
by six respectable inhabitants of the village—the
whole population of which, indeed, followed the pro-
cession at a respectful distance, and by their demea-
nour expressed the sympathy they felt at the melan-
choly occurrence. The service was performed by the
Rev. George Brown, the incumbent of the parish,
and when the coffin was lowered into the grave there
was scarcely one among the bystanders who did not
evince the sincerity of his feeling by shedding a tear
to the memory of deceased. No person connected
with the railway was present.
And here I may as well correct an error in my last
report. When referring to Mr. Varnalls, I repre-
sented him to have formerly held the situation of con-
fidential servant to Mr. Ichabod Wright, of Colwick
Mapperly is the name of Mr. Wright's seat,
and the substitution of Colwick Hall, the celebrated
mansion belonging to Mr. Musters, was an error
which I hasten to rectify.
Inquiring into the circumstances attending the
refusal on the part of Godfrey, the landlord of the
White Hart, Lenton, to admit poor Varnalls, when
brought to his door in a cart from the railway, has
satisfied me that the inhumanity complained of was
practised to a degree which will be scarcely credited
when detailed in the columns of a newspaper. The
evidence of those witnesses examined before Mr.
Swann, the effect of whose depositions was compressed
into a single sentence in my last report, read at
length, leaves no doubt, however, of the fact, that
when Varnalls was brought to the door of Godfrey's
house, and Implored those about him to remove him
from the cart; as he felt that he was dying, Godfrey
positively refused to allow him to enter his house.
The only excuse that Godfrey offers for such inhuman
conduct is, that Thursday was the half-yearly rent
day of the Lord of the Manor (Mr. Gregory), and
that he had a large party of that gentleman's tenants
in the house at the time. On the other hand, it
should be mentioned that Mr. Gregory's steward,
who was in the house, avows that he would have suf-
fered any inconvenience rather than that the deceased
should have been sent away, had he known anything
of the occurrence.
On reaching the spot where the accident took
place, I found a group of individuals congregated in
tbe vicinity. The catastrophe occurred on that por-
tion of the line which crosses the valley of the Leen
by a gentle embankment, about three quarters of a
mile from the Beeston station, and exactly three miles
from the Nottingham terminus. The railway is per-
fectly straight at this point for a distance of nearly
two miles, and upon any other than a very misty day
nothing could prevent a train being observed at that
distance from the Beeston station. There was little
in the appearance of the spot yesterday to indicate its
having been the scene of so direful an accident so re-
cently. Workmen were employed during the whole
night succeeding the accident in removing all trace
of the same, so far as it was possible, but quite enough
remained even yesterday to give some idea of the
fearful character of the collision. The exact position
of the two locomotives at the moment they struck
each other was clearly marked by the discolouration
of the ground by the furnaces of the two engines,
and on the north side of the line, where the quickset
hedge had been broken and trampled down in every
direction, the bank was strewed with cinders and
small portions of the shattered carriages.
I inclose you a small piece of the wood picked up on
the spot. It was broken from a much larger piece,
which had evidently formed the bed or bottom of one
of the carriages. Ido not of course assert that the
carriages to which the accident occurred were wholly
built of wood of this description, but that any such
should be contained in them does appear extraordi-
nary.
You will at once observe that the portion inclosed
is perfectly rotten, and crumbles with a very sligh
touch.

The embankment for a distance of about 150 yards
has been repaired, and, beyond the appearances above
described, there is little worthy of remark. Only one
rail appears to have been broken by the collision, and
that is replaced.
When the accident occurred, some labourers in the
employ of Mr. Chatham, an agriculturist, who farms
the land on either side the line, were at work in a
ploughed field close at hand with their carts spread-
ing manure. In these vehicles the unfortunate suf-
ferers were conveyed to Lenton (two miles distant)
and Nottingham, as previously described; those who
were not too much injured to walk a few paces taking
shelter in the farm-houses near the spot, and some
proceeding to Beeston.
I was a little surprised, while making observations
yesterday, to find that the officialis had not taken the
precaution to place an officer near the fatal spot. A
group of at least thirty persons were at one period
upon the line, at the very time that a train passed
towards Nottingham. lam informed, however, that
since the amalgamation of the Midland lines, in July
last, policemen and all other officers are somewhat
scarce on each, and certainly my own observation in
traversing the line from Leicester to this place, on
Saturday, leads me to believe this a correct state-
ment. At two stations, before reaching Loughbo-
rough, at each of which no less than from twenty to
thirty passengers alighted, a single officer had charge
of the station, and performed the treble duty of an-
nouncing the name of the place, opening the carriage
doors, and receiving the tickets from the passengers.
It is worthy of remark and animadversion also, that
this latter duty was not performed in either case until
the train had departed—the other duties to which the
officer had to attend entirely precluding him from en-
tering upon this most essential one at an earlier
period. I must not forget to mention that, so far as
I could judge, there was a sort of locomotive porter
to attend to the passengers' luggage. This individual
travelled with the train, and was industriously em-
ployedat each station.

Without imputing the prssent melancholy catas-
trophe to causes arising from a system so evidently
bad as that above described, it is not too much to say
that, when the non-ability to remove a tender which
had accidentally slipped off the rail within a few
yards of a principal station, is the only assignable
reason for adopting a proceeding which did result in
so shocking an accident, the public mind will refer to
other circumstances in some degree coincident, and
imperatively demand that an improved system of
management should take place.
Thesprobable result of the inquiry before thr Coro-
ners is, as I stated on Saturday, a subject of extreme
anxiety among all parties here. A great deal of per-
sonal feeling is, I fear, mixed up in the affair, and,
from what I can gather, I should not be surprised if
two verdicts, at total variance with each other, are
returned by the respective juries.
The evidence of Howitt and Cooper tells forcibly
against Mr. Lightfoot, and there has been nothing
brought forward up to the present time calculated to
rebut their testimony. It is reported to me, that
when Mr. Lightfoot insisted upon returning to Not-
tingham, the driver of the Derby train threw his cap
upon the ground, and positively refused to direct the
engine. Unfortunately, however, he ultimately
yielded to the request of his superior officer, and thus
the collision took place. On all hands it is admitted
as somewhat extraordinary, that if Mr. Lightfoot felt
SO confident he was incurring no risk, the train on
which he travelled should be proceeding at so slow a
rate, as sworn to in evidence.

Had it, however, been otherwise, and both trains
had met when at full speed, the consequences which
necessarily must have ensued are too awful to con-
template.

I am not aware that any accident similar to the
present has previously occurred on any of the English
railways. There can be no doubt that the circum-
stances require the fullest and most complete investi-
gation, and some satisfaction has been felt here at the
presence of the Government inspector, Major-General
l'a%ley. I regret to add, that this feeling has been
changed to one of disappointment, -on learning that
the General left Nottingham this morning by an early
traim, and therefore cannot attend any inquiry before
either of the Coroners. Had the cause of the Ge-
neral's absence been publicly known, the case might
have been different ; but as it is, all is left to conjecture.
The mutilated sufferers by the accident remain in
much the same state as at the date of my last report.
Some, however, are lying at places so far distant from
hence, that I do not get ready information concern-
ing them.
Mr. Roberts was slightly better last night. The