The Express. — 1865-11-11 (London, England)

PASSION. —Yesterday an impost was held at the Leeds Townhall, before Mr. Emile', coroner, on the body of William Nicholson Fumes; 11 years old, son of a carter of the Balm same, residing at 51, Union-street. and who is employed at the If onkbridge Ironworks. Oa Thursday, deceased wee partaking of dinner with his mother sod sister, when he demanded the 'poop with which his sister was eating. He bad a spoon of his own, but he appeared to have capriciously fancied that used by her, and upon his mother telling him be must be content with that with which she bed furnished him, he went into a violent pastioe, declared ho would have no dinner unless he could have It on his own condition, sad thee ran into the cellar. Tea minutes afterwards, his mother thought his temper might have expended itself, and went to look after him, bat to her honor she found him suspended by his soar( from the handle of the cellar-door. She gave ILL immediate alarm, but upon the assistant of Mfr. Hopkins. seireeoa. being summoned, the lad was found to he dead. His mother now stated that he was of a very violent temper, bat that his rage soon passed away. She did rot imaelos that he intended to destroy himself, but only to frighten her. Whilst engaged with the noose, his foot had accidentally slipped from the step, cod thus death bad mend The neigthours corroborated the mother's assertion sa to the lad's temper. and further declared that both parents were kind and affectionate towards him. The jury toned that the youth bad oonouitted suicide whilst in a state of temporary insanity.—Leeds Mercury. SINGULAR Cour..—A Preston correspondent writes :—" A very 'tramp care of strabismus (obliqueness of vision) has just been effected in Presto. The person afflicted was a nurse girl, living with a highly respectable family in Wineklersquare, and her irregularity of vision had got to such a Mich that her master and mistress being apprehensive that the child in her care might, by repeatedly looking at her, get a 'cant with its eyes, had made up their mods to part with her. The other evening (whilst 'serving her notion') she neat to the *tido° Exhibition, and there, along with numbers of other young personsfond of novelties end sensepatronienl the galvanic apparatus in the philosophical department,. She had two or three "meet shocks, end then sent home. Soon after she entered the house a great change was noticed in her appearance. Her optical defect was entirely removed--the could see perfectly straight— and we have it on most undisputable authority that nothing whatever ails her eyes."—Derbyshire Courier. ANOTHER FATAL RAILWAY ACClDENT.—Yesterday an iespeetor of cattle trucks on the North British Railway, named Bruce (brother of Mr. Bruce, goods superintendent, Carlisle) met with a swims accident at HU:autos, which cost hies hie life. While be was engaged in coupling some wagons, they were unexpectedly sat in motion, sod he was thrown from the buffers. on which he had been kneeling, upon the lin*. A wages passed over both the unfortunate tree's knees, breaking bosh lege. He was removed to Car. lisle by train, and taken to the Infirmary, but the injuries he bad sustained were so serious that be died in a few hours. —Carlisle Journal. iternasuwarr-