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      1 The Late Collision Ox The London And N...

      1 the Late Collision ox the London and North-Western ^ . . \ -R .. u ^ y . -The inquiryinto the collision that occurred to the mail i & n , at the Camden station , last week , has resulted in the suspension ofthe driver of the goods engmeand the pointsman , and it isnro-Jialia ble they will not only be suspended but chscharged . It appears that ^ ftdie collision arose from two causes , first , from inattention to the points i m jn connection with the mam line ; and secondly , from the neglect of ¦ the the drive r of the goods engine to sound his whistle on crossingin com

      , . pli pliance with the regulations of the company . P P Distressing Accident .---A most distressing accident occurred on Sa Sa turday last , Oct . 30 , in the Dean of Windsor ' s woods at Butleigh in Sc Somersetshire . A party of gentlemen were shooting there on that tla dav with Mr . Seville , among whom were Mr . ' Hungerford Colston , of i : Ivdford , and Mr . Tudway , of Wells . A woodcock had just fallen in a ' a thicket , for which these two gentlemen were searching , when the latterfrom unknown

      < n < mn of the , some cause , went off , and lodged its S contents in Mr . Colston ' s knee . He was carried home to L yfprd with as as little delay as possible , and , upon examination , it was found that tl the bone had been so badly shattered that the three medical gentlemen 3 Jf essis . Miller , Malton and Valentine , who had been summoned d < decided unanimously that no time should be lost in taking off the leg ! f Ihis operation was all but completed , when , we regret to say , Mr . C Colston sank under it from exhaustion at half-past 12 o ' clock the same

      iari $ ti . " Fatal Sewer Accident . —On Monday afternoon , two of the men e emp loyed in conneeting the new drain in the street with the premises of 3 Messrs . Williams , soap-makers , of Compton-street , Goswell-road , met t their death by the breaking in of the drain . Two others of the men 1 had a narrow escape . Collision on the London and Brighton Railway . —On Monday 3 morning an accident of a serious nature occurred at the Old Brighton

      ; Eailway Station at Eedhill , occasioned by the ten o ' clock express i train from Brighton running transversely into a " pick up" train . 1 The pick up was being shunted from the down line to the " up " prior to its being run into the siding , and by some strange neglect at the : time when the express train was due . The engine and tender of the latter were crippled , the tender being torn from its bed and twisted round , and the solid timber on which it rested rent into small particles . Four of the carriages attached to the express train were much shattered

      on the side which came into collision . The first carriage , which was loaded with luggage , was greatly broken up , and looked as if a battery of grape shot had been poured into it . The debris of the pick-up was scattered about on all sides , and the ground between the rails of the up line was torn up for several hundred yards . One of the carriages of the pick-up was turned over and thrown off the line , no lives were lost , but cuts and contusions were numerous . Four of the officials were taken into custody and remanded upon bail .

      A lengthened investigation took place before the magistrates on Tuesday . The following persons were placed at the bar , viz ., William Lamb , engine driver of the goods train ; James Clarke , chief guard ; Thomas Hallowes , fireman ofthe same ; and James Brewer , pointsman mid porter ; and charged respectively with endangering the lives of her Majesty ' s subjects by reason of neglect of duty , they at the time being servants of the Railway Company . Mr . Smith addressed the bench for the prisoner Lamb . He contended generally that the accident had arisen from the want of sufficient hands at the station to perform the

      -work . The prisoner Clarke in his defence asserted that he had given no orders to the driver to move his engine . In fact he ( Clarke ) was sitting eating bread and cheese at the time on the platform . — The prisoner Brewer placed his defence under three heads—First , that the siding of the station was not long enough ; secondly , that there -were not men enough on the station to do the work , the men there having to attend to both the junction and the station , and thirdly , to the fact of there being no person at the signal , asserting that if any one had been there the accident would not have occurred . The magistrates

      then retired for a short time , and on their return . The Chairman ( Mr . Freshfield ) said , after due consideration they had been unable , to make any distinction between the cases of the three defendants . Under the circumstances the magistrates bad no doubt that the prisoners were guilty under the act of parliament ofthe offence charged against them . The worthy chairman then sentenced each of the prisoners to two months imprisonment , with hard labour , in the county House of Cor-Tection , adding that the bench had gone to the full limit allowed by the act of parliament . Had they been invested with a greater discretionary Dower it certainly would have been exercised .

      Harrow Escape . —The " Gazette deMons" states that one evening last week , at the coal p it of the Grand Hornu , a" workman named Lechien , being deceived by a shadow cast on the mouth of the pit , fell in head foremost . The other men thought he must have been dashed

      to pieces , when they heard him cry from below for help . Two men at once decended in the basket with lights , and after having gone down some distance cried out to him to say it he saw them . He answered in the affirmative , but told them to make haste as his strength was failing him . It appears that m hisfal he had seized the rope , but , being unable to stop himself in his headlong decent , had glided down by it until he luckily came to a piece of straw ' tied ^ roimd it , at about 120 metres from the top , and having 290 metres still th of his and

      below him . There he held firmly on by the streng arm legs , but bis strength was rapidly declining . According as the baske , defended Lechien was drawn up , and for a moment , mc ^ uenee ot the difficulty of getting him into the basket , a delay took place At l ^ tlSn ^ ried o u / to the man above K ™^ ***™ done as speedily as possible . ^ O ^ m ^ B ^^ was firmly seized by an engineer named Deschaps , and hauled sately on land by the mouth of the well . This was the more difficul , as Deschamps has only one arm . Lechien , with the except oi h hands being badly cut by the rope running through them , has not

      "SbS ^ on the Great Northern ^ J ** « Monday morning , another slip of earth occurrrf ^^^ cutting ; on the main line of the Great Norton Eai way , mta a short distance of the place where a similar accident happened on th A " l accident happened at ^*^™ J £ Z the saluting battery . A long 32-pounder gun *^^^ 2 101 b . of powder , while carrying on gunnery J « £ f J ™ . ^ ° shot . A large number of troops and spectators bemg F ^ f ^ persons were \ eriously injured with splinters ^^ Sth f ^ l , riage—amongst others , Colonel Darcy , C . B ., commainmuj s ^ and Lieut . Taylor- One of the artillerymen , W illiam Hitchen ,

      since died from the injuries received s d Fatal Rope Dancing .-A dreadful accident occurred on , afternoon , at the Arenes Nationales A rope * *^ * J bX , dancers were performing , at a height of thirty yards ^ udden Y , and they were both precipitated to the ground ; <™ J *^ 7 ^ spot , and the other was so dreadfully injured that ho ^ J ™ after . The performances were stopped , and the public , who seen greatly moved , left the p lace . p _ _ TTTPS . 9 FlRB Axnihilatou hlSe ^^ Mr . Braidwooddrew r ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^ Zi —" Oct < U 1859 11 a . m ., called to a fire m Battersea-f teias , near the . Wate ^ ori ? 6 n giving found the premises known as the

      1 The Late Collision Ox The London And N...

      ml ? Z \ ™* ° f PhmipSS P f tentFi Annihilate * Company attended ? L T ™ 7 ®* * T 1 Shed J * firemen ' % ines «» t £ ' nt Br $ ade > one of the parish , and that of the West of ¦ rmgianu Umce . The premises and their contents destroyed . Cause WllTffT be fr ° m a deteCtive flue ' " Unfortunatel y it is to be added that a poor woman , named Garrard , aged 54 , the wife of hewachman , lost her life in the flames . She had gone toInboard tor some domestic purpose , when she was overtaken by the names , the outbreak of which probably were accompanied by the generation of some suffocating gas , which disabled her from retreating m time to save her life . When found after the extinction of the fire the body was shockingly disfigured . A large number of « annihilators were on the premises , which were not long ago the scene of a number ot experiments designed to exhibit the efficiency of the

      invention in' cases of fire . On Tuesday , Mr . Carter held an inquest at the Duchess of York , Battersea-fields , on the body of Sarah Garrard . The jury , after a long investigation , found that deceased ' s death was accidental .

      Shipwrecks And Frightful Loss Of Life. T...

      SHIPWRECKS AND FRIGHTFUL LOSS OF LIFE . THE GALE OF LAST WEEK . —SHIELDS , SATURDAY NIGHT . The following vessels are ashore at Hartlepool , all hands saved : —

      The Cherub , of Yarmouth ; the schooner Naida , of Loudon ; the Rifleman , of Newcastle , iron vessel ; the Volant , of Blyth ; the Sarah , of Whitby ; the Hardwicke , of Sunderland ; a Sunderland brig , name not given ; the bark Brilliant , timber laden , from Quebec to Stockton ( she will become a total wreck ; she lost one man , the carpenter , overboard ) , and the Britannia , of Hartlepool . Most of these vessels , it is expected , will get off if the weather moderates . The Queen Victoria , of Sunderland , foundered off the entrance to Hartlepool docks , but all hands were saved . The brig Fenwick , of Sunderland , struck upon the

      Hartlepool bar on Thursday morning . The crew were taken off by the old Hartlepool lifeboat , and the vessel was subsequently got into the harbour by the fishermen . The coal laden brig the Wensley-dale , of and from Shields , to London , with a crew of 10 men and boys , struck on the Laudscar rocks on Thursday afternoon . She soon went to pieces . The Seaton lifeboat , commanded by Mr . William Hood , and manned by 16 fishermen , made a gallant effort to save the crew . After a hard struggle , they were able to take two men off alive , and the bodies of three others who had died of exhaustion ; the master , and carpenter , and cabin-boy of the ill-fated vessel had been washed

      from the rigging and drowned previous to the lifeboat reaching her ; two more of the crew also perished . The Amulet , of Rochester , foundered about a mile off Seaton on Thursday afternoon—all hands lost . A galliot , supposed to belong to France , was observed to founder off the same place , about three o ' clock on Thursday afternoon—all hands perished . A vessel , supposed to he the St . Hilda , of South Shields , foundered off Hartlepool rocks on Thursday evening—all hands are gone . A vessel was observed to founder off Huntcliffe Fort on the same evening—all hands lost . The brig Northam , of Newcastle , coal laden , struck on the Landscar rocks the same night , and

      went to pieces ; seven of her crew were saved by the Seaton lifeboattwo drowned . A schooner struck on the rocks off Hartlepool Heaugh on Thursday morning—all hands perished . A foreign brig , laden with corn , in taking the Tees on Friday afternoon , struck on the North Garr—the crew were saved by the Redcar lifeboat and the Contrator steam-tug , and taken into Middlesbro . The Acorn , of Newcastle , a small schooner , went down with all hands on the Yorkshire coast during Wednesday nig ht . The Merchant , of Hartlepool , and the Success , of Whitby , are in shore at Bridlington—crew saved . The Sisters , of Harwich , has been picked up off the same place—deserted .

      Vessels that come into the Tyne report witnessing three or lour vessels founder with all hands , and altogether it is computed that not far short of 100 seamen have perished by this dreadful gale . During this afternoon the collector of customs at North Shields has received information of the following wrecks on the Northumberland coast . The Victoria , from Oldenburg , laden with tar and deals , from Riga , is on shore at Blyth—all hands saved . The schooner , Carl Gustal , Captain Stenburg , which left the Tyne coal laden , on Monday for Stockholm , came on shore upon Hartley-hill this morning dismasted . She had not a soul on board , and there is every reason to fear the master

      and crew have perished . A Russian vessel , from Riga , with a cargo of wood , is on shore at Amble—crew saved . A foreign vessel was off Shields-bar this morning , with a ship ' s boat towing behind . It is hoped she has picked up a shipwrecked crew . The vessel reported yesterday as lying off Ryhope dismasted was the Tagus , of Sunderland . She was riding with two anchors out . This morning a powerful steam-boat belonging to the Tyne pilots went out to her assistance . She slipped her anchors and was towed into the Weir in safety . Her crew are all saved . The Marie Elizabeth , of Christiana , reported vesterdav as having come ashore south of Shields Harbour , belongs to

      Mr . Gulbranson of that place . The master does not law if she is insured . She was laden with a valuable general cargo , estimated to be worth nearly £ 100 , 000 . It consisted of boxes of machinery , bales of cotton , casks of wine , sugar , tea , coffee , palm oil , & c . A good deal of the more bulky portion of the cargo will be saved , though damaged ; the lighter and more perishable articles will realize but little . The conduct of a mob of the lower orders of Shields , upon the wreck of this unfortunate vessel becoming known , was vile beyond description , and for atrocity equal to anything that has been said about wreckers at other places . Intelligence spread through the town that

      ^ an East Indiaman had come ashore , and while the brave pilots were risking their lives to save the unfortunate crew , a mob of ruffians rushed down to the shore , and as the casks of wine and spirits were washed up hauled them in from the breakers , and with hatchets knocked in their heads , taking out the liquors with boots , sou westers , & c with which they regaled themselves . Some were in a beastly stat o of intoxication , and a scene ensued that for lawlessness baffles all description . Bales of cotton were torn open and their contents scattered about ; tea and coffee chests and bags of sugar were robbed , and desoite the exertions of the police and preventive officers , plunder liht in the mornin of the

      and destruction went on until dayg g . Some fellows became so powerless through drink that they fell into the sea , and had to be dragged out ; others were found lying in a state of stupor and had to be taken in carts to the workhouse ; others , we are happy to state , got into the hands of the police , and have been sent to gaol by the magistrates . Newc vstle-on-Tyne , Monday . —A barque , the Recovery , of London timber-laden , has been towed in here dismasted , by the Jane , brig ' which fell in with her twenty miles from land . Her crew were onboard . The li g ht vessels which left London on Saturday and reached here this morningreport passing a vessel dismasted m tow of

      , smacks and a vessel with her stern frames out also in tow of smacks . Some of the vessels ashore along the coast are reported to have gone to pieces , and intelligence has reached here of the crew ot a little vessel being : drowned off Holy-Island . Some vessels belonging to this port are still missing . Men are still engaged picking up the stores and such remaining cargo of the Marie Elizabe h , wrecked on Shields Sands , as is left . Thousands of persons from the towns m the inter ior of the country were on the coast yesterday , witnessing the effects of the o-ale . There is information here of some vessels being wrecked the east coast of Scotlandbut no lives were lost .

      on , < Wreck op a ScHOONER .-It is our duty ( says the Dover Chronicle ) to record the total destruction of the schooner Brandon , of Falmouth , Captain William Allen , bound from Newcastle to Plymouth , laden

      Shipwrecks And Frightful Loss Of Life. T...

      with coals . This disaster took place immediately off the Cornhttl Preventive Station , near Dover , on Tuesday last . The schooner brought up in Dover Roads , on Monday evening , the wind then blowing from the west . On Tuesday morning , however , it suddenly veered round to the south , blowing strongly ; and after several ineffectual attempts to regain her anchor , the vessel drifted till she arrived immediately opposite the scene of the unfortunate catastrophe , where she remained with three anchors down , but in a very perilous situation , as the coast is rocky at that spot and a heavy swell was running at the time . ^ The fears of those on shore were so much excited that about one o clock m the afternoon a Deal hovelling boat went off to her , and offered her assistance . Thishoweverwe understandwas

      , , , refused by the captain ; and if this were so , he soon had reason to regret his rejection of the proffered aid , for half an hour later signals of distress were seen flymg in his rigging ; but the schooner had now so far drifted m shore , that the Deal boatmen found it impracticable to approach her , on account of the rocks . This was at half-past two , and about ten minutes past three her cables snapped , and she immediately afterwards struck upon the rocks . The position of the crew now became exceedingly critical , the sea running with such violence that it was deemed impossible for any small boat to live in it , in order to get to her assistance ; and even if a boat could have been got out , the rocky nature of the coast made it hi ghly probable that it would be dashed to pieces . A life-buoy was thrown from the vessel to the

      shore , but the line to which it was attached broke , and thus severed the crew from what was apparently their only chance of escape . In this dilemma five brave fellows offered to man the galley belonging to the Cornhill coastguard station , and this gallant act was so far appreciated by B . E . Winthrop , Esq ., who was present , in company with Captain Wollaston , watching the scene with great interest , that he at once promised the men £ 5 as a reward for their heroic conduct . The boatmen having stripped their clothing , with the exception of flannel gurnseys and drawers , then pulled away through a mountainous waste of foam , and succeeded in reaching the unfortunate vessel . They returned in safety with the crew , consisting of the captain , three men , and a boy , although not without a narrow escape from being capsized . An immense wave struck the boat broadside , and drove its larboard

      gunwale under water . For a moment all who saw the perilous situation of the little craft were held in suspense ; the next she ri ghted , and with a few strokes of their oars the gallant men and the crew they had been instrumental in saving were landed . From this time the schooner continued to break up , and on Wednesday morning only a small portion of her hull was left . Her cargo , of course , was utterly lost . The names of the men whose heroism was so highly laudable on the present occasion , were Barker and M'Cormack ( coast-guardmen ) , and William Gatehouse , William Day , and George Decent , mariners , of Dover .

      The Late Fatal Duel. In The Court Of Que...

      THE LATE FATAL DUEL . In the Court of Queen ' s Bench on Wednesday , Mr . Chambers , Q . C ., applied for a writ of habeas corpus to bring MM . Barronet and Allain before the court , for the purpose of being admitted to bail . MM . Barronet and Allain , it will be recollected , acted as seconds to F . Cournet , who unfortunately was killed at the duel which took place at Egham a few weeks since . Mr . Justice Crompton had been applied to , but that learned judge had expressed a wish not to act upon his own judgment , and hence the present application to the court Mr . Chambers went through the facts of the case , developed by the depositions before the coroner , which are already known to the

      public . He then addressed himself to the point which had given so fearful a colour to the affair , the discovery of a piece of rag in one of the pistols . After Allain , who was accompanied to the shooting gallery in Liecester-square , by two other foreigners , had hired the pistols , he and his friends discovered them to have been lately used , and still to be very foul . No ramrod was furnished with the p istols , and they therefore cleaned them out with pieces of rag and a whalebone walking-cane . After cleaning they blew through them , and as the air issued from the touch-hole , concluded that all the rags had been withdrawn . The pistols were then sealed up by Allain , and delivered to M . Brissot , another of the parties . Upon the

      examination before the magistrate the party lending the pistols was called as a witness , and stated that , on the evening after the duel , a foreigner , with whom he was unacquainted , brought back the two pistols , paid for the hire of them , aad received the deposit money . The foreigner also stated to him that one of the vistols was still loaded / This witness ( having endeavoured unsuccessfully to fire the p & tol ) withdrew the charge , and then discovered that a piece of ' rag in the barrel blocked up the touch-hole . This , being unexplained , led to a most grave inferencef tending to tnrow a doubt on the fairness of the duel ; but when explained , as the learned gentleman had before mentioned , he contended no such doubt could reasonably exist .

      Lord Campbell—Then you ask that these gentlemen may be admitted to bail , because this was a fair duel ? It is the first time the court has been asked to interfere in such a case . Do you mean to say a fair duel is not an attempt to commit murder ? The learned counsel did not attempt to go so far ; but he called the attention of the court to the very different feelings with which foreigners regarded duelling , as compared with those of an Englishman on the same subject . He then read extracts from the affidavits of M .

      Barronet and M . Allain , from which it appeared that they had occupied respectable stations in France ; that they had left that country solely on political reasons connected with the coup d' etat of the 2 nd of December ; that the friendship they bore the deceased would not permit them to do otherwise than accompany him to the duel ; that they were engaged in commercial pursuits in London ; that their detention in prison would ruin them ; and that previous to the duel they were ignorant of the law of England on the subject .

      Lord Campbell was of opinion that no ground had been shown sufficient to justify the court in granting the application . These gen- ¦ tlemen were placed precisely in the same position as if they were ) native born subjects of the land , and would have equal justice done to ) them . He firmly believed that no person , in any station , charged 1 with the crime of murder , under the circumstances of this case , would 1 be admitted to bail . The court had to consider tae seriousness of the e charge—it was that of murder ; it had also to consider the evidence to o

      support that charge—it was confession . Into the question of the ie fairness of the duel they could not enter . The case of the Rev . Mr . r . Allen was too loosely reported for them to place any reliance upon it . t . In the Six-mile Bridge affair it was true the prisoners were admitted d to bail , but there the verdict was manifestly against evidence . These se gentlemen must therefore remain in custsdy , and he believed that this is decision would not detract from the glory of this country , long regarded cd as the refuge for the persecuted of the world .

      Mr . Justice Coleridge , Mr . Justice Wightman , and Mr . Justice ce Erie concurred . Application refused .

      The Electric Telegraph. —The Laying Down...

      The Electric Telegraph . —The laying down of the new line of off electric wires from the branch office in the Strtmd , opposite Hunger-erford market , ( where are also the electric time-ball and dock , whichichi correspond with the Royal Observatory at Greenwich ) to the Tele-elegraph-oftice at the General Post-office , St . Martin ' s-le-Grand , whichichi has been under operation for the last six weeks , was completed on on Wednesday .

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 6, 1852, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_06111852/page/5/