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The Late Collision ox the London and Noe th-Western RA iLWAy . -The niquiryinto the collision that occurred to the £ train , at the Camden station , last week , has resulted in the sus ^ en sion ofthe driver of the goods en gmeand the pointsman , and it isT ro " bable they will not only be suspended but discharged . It appear ! ? W the collision arose from two causes , first , from inattention to the points b connection mth the main ine ; and secondly , from the neXfof the dnverof the goods engine to sound his whistle on crossing , in com nliance with the regulations of the comnanv . &
Distressing Accident . —A most distressing accident occurred on Saturday last , Oct . 30 , in the Dean of Wmdsorfwoods at BuS Z Somersetshire . A party of gentlemen were shooting there on that day withMr IS eville , among whom were Mr . Hungerford Colston of Ly dford and Mr . Tudway , of Wells . A woodcock had just fallen in a thicket , tor which these two gentlemen were searching , when the gun of the latter , from some unknown cause , went off , and lodged its contents in Mr . Colston ' s knee . He was carriedhome to Lyford with as little delay as possible , and , upon examination , it was found that the bone had been so badly shattered that the three medical gentlemen Messrs . Miller , Malton and Valentine , who had been summoned decided unanimously that no time should be lost in takin * off the leg ' This operation was all hut completed , when , we regret to say Mr Colston sank under it from exhaustion at half-past 12 o ' clock the same nig ht .
Fatal Sewer Accident . —On Monday afternoon , two of the men employedin connectmg the new drain in the street with the premises of Messrs . Williams , soap-makers , of Compton-street , Goswell-road , met then- death by the breaking in of the drain . Two others of the men had a narrow escape . Collision on the London and Brighton Railway . —On Monday morning an accident of a serious nature occurred at the Old Brighton Bailway Station at Redhffl , occasioned by the ten o ' clock express train from Brighton running transversely into a " pick up" train . 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 and 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 lie had given no orders to the driver to move his engine . In fact he ( Clarke ) was sitting eating bread and cheese at the tune 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 had 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 Correction , adding that the bench had gone to the full limit allowed by the act of parliament . Had they been invested with a greater discretionary power it certainly would have been exercised . Narrow Escape . —The " Gazette deMons" states that one evening
last week , at the coal pit 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 if he saw them . He answered in the affirmative , but told them to make haste as his strength was failing him . It appears that in his fall 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 round itat about 120 metres from the top , and having 290 metres still
, below him . There he held firmly on by the strength of liis arms and legs , but Ms strength was rapidly declining . According as the basket decended Lechien was drawn up , and for a moment , in consequence of the difficulty of getting him into the basket , a delay took place . At last Lechien cried out to the man above to haul him up , which was done as speedily as possible . Lechien , on his arrival at the surface , was firmly seized by an engineer . named Deschaps , and hauled safely on land by the mouth of the well . This was the more difficult , as Deschamps has only one arm . Lechien , with the exception of his hands beina badly cut by the rope running through them , has not
received any injury . ^ . Another Sli p on the Great Northern RAiLWAY .--Larly on Monday morning , another slip of earth occurred in the Spittal-gate cutting , on the main line of the Great Northern Railway , within a short distance of the place where a similar accident happened on the 13 th ult . , 1 OAl u A fearful accident happened at Gibraltar on the 18 th ult . on the saluting battery . A long 32-pounder gun burst with a charge oi 101 b . of powder , while carrying on gunnery practice with red-hot shot . A large number of troops and spectators being present , several persons were seriously injured with splinters from the gun and carriage-amongtt others , Colonel Darcy , C . B ., commanding the brigade , and Lieut . Taylor . One of the artillerymen , William Hitchen , has
since died from the injuries received . . c , Fatal Rope Dancing . —A dreadful accident occurred on bunclay afternoon , at the Arenes Nationales . A rope on which two ropedancers were performing , at a height of thirty yards , suddenly broke , and they were both precipitated to the ground ; one was killed , on me spot , and the other was so dreadfully injured that he died an iioux after . The performances were stopped , and the public , wiio seemea greatly moved , left the place . Fire and Loss ofLife at Phillips ' s Fire Annihilator Works .-Ou Sunday the premises of the " Annihilator Company , in Battersea-fieldswere ravaged for two hours by a destructive nre .
, Mr . Braidwood drew up the following official report of the . occurrence - " Oct . 31 , 1852 , 11 a . m ., called to a fire in Battersea-fields , near the Waterworks . On arriving found the premises known as tne
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SHIPWRECKS AND FRIGHTFUL LOSS OF LIFE . THE GALE op LAST WEEK . -SHIELDS , SATURJ ) AY NI ( JHT > TXSrf ; essels ^ ^ at Hartlepool , all hands saved :-0 « } J T the Sch 00 ner Naida ' of London ; the 5 maw ItTt' T Tf \ Yolantof Bl > -fchthe s ^ S Vi o t i f S ' ° . T derland ' Smiderland ' ' brig , nam fshe ^ hUL + ? I 1 " 1 " 11 ' ^ ' from Quebec t 0 Sfcockt ™ £ , 7 ^ - ^ ™ ck ; she lost one man , the carpenter , over-Zlth n ^ ^ TIJ' ° Hartle P ° - Most of these vessels , it is expected , will get off if the weather moderates . The Victoria
Queen . of Sunderland , foundered off the entrance to Hartlepool docks , but al hands were saved . The bri g Fenwick , of Sunderland , struck upon the Martlepool 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 Landscar 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 aliveand
, 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 be 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 night . 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 four 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 yesterday as having come ashore south of Shields Harbour , belongs to Mr . Gulbranson of that place . The master does not know 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 state 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 despite the exertions of the police and preventive officers , plunder and destruction went on until daylight in the morning . _ Some of the 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 eaol by the magistrates .
Newcastle-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 on board . The light vessels which left London on Saturday and reached here this morning , report passing a vessel dismasted in 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 iecesand intelligence has reached here of the crew of a little
p , 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 Elizabeth , wrecked on Shields Sands , as is left . Thousands of persons from the towns in the interior ofthe country were on the coast yesterday , witnessing the effects of the gale . 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 , ofFalmouth , Captain William Allen , bound from Newcastle to Plymouth , laden
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P tentt ; sSf dBMter ^ °° place immediateIy ° ff the Cornhill bVoSu ? taS ° n ' T , ° , on Tuesday lasL The sch °° ner inTfvlt ^ Q Do / , ? ^ o * Monday evening , the wind then blowtoL 5 Z tl ™ S : v ? Tuesday mom ™ & however , ** sudde % to ** temptso ) tT S ^ *?» & ; and after several in ^ ualatdiSv nl !? + i anchor ' vessel drifted till she arrived imme-SeTM * 80 " 1 ! 0 ' the unfortunate catastrophe , where she tl ^ c ^ a t iT r ! i ! w ° d 0 VD ' but in a very P erilous situatio *> ^ Jim ^ ThlftSr ? * hats P ° and a heavy swell was running at the l ? Ji ! f \? ? seons ^ reSmuch excited thlt about mmu eiwwju Wiai
: . ^ o rniP nVWlr in + T , r * - ^ u ; . auoUG her and « LZ £ af ^ °° a DeaI hovellin g b oat went off to refused b ^ t ^^ ^ ^ ' This ' ll 0 wever ' we understand , «** Set ht rU L ? fll ' ' / ^ Were so ' he soon had rea * on to redLtress wrl Z fl ^ Ff * * ' half an hour later signals distress were seen nvinp in ni « ri / v »»; Ti » . ^ ,. a j . i , t . i ¦ , ° far drifted in shnr . / S . l , llM . ! n the , . hooner had W *« distress were seen flying in his ri < mi ™ wTi , i . T "s " """ far dvif + pd in cw // iT ^ Tx . tv ?§ 2 ' but the schooner had now S 9 tar dnltedm shorethat the Deal boatmen Unt le at
_ , found it impracticable to SKES ^ S Z ? 11 rocks - This ™ nVd ^ STtwo diately afterwards struck upon the rocks . The position of the crew hat it was deemed impossible for any small boat to live in it , in ofder to get to her assistance ; and even if a boat could have been got out , S 8 ^ L 11 ^ 6 ^ oa 5 madeit highly probable that it would be dashed to pieces . A life-buoy was thrown from the vessel to th *
shore , but the Ime to which it was attached broke , and thus severed he 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
. lne boatmen having stripped their clothing , with the exception of flannel gurnseys and drawers , then pulled away through a mountainous waste oi toam , 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 ot the little craft were held in suspense ; the next she righted , 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 utterlylost , ine names ot the men whose heroism was so highly laudable on the Present occasion , were Barker and M'Cormaek ( coast-guardmen ) , and William Gatehouse , William Day , and George decent , manners , ot Dover .
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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 S- iT e court ' for the P P ° se of being admitted to bail . MM . Barronet and Allah , it will be recollected , acted as seconds to t . Cournet , who unfortunatel y was killed at the duel which took place at i , gham a few weeks since . Mr . Justice Crompton had been applied to , but that learned judge had expressed a wish not to act UpOn L ° ^ n J lldgment > and hence the present application to the court Mr . Chambers went through the facts of the case , developed by the depositions before the coronerwhich are alreadknown to the
, y public . He then addressed himself to the point which had given so tear ful 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 pistols , 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 ofthe parties . Upon the
examination before the magistrate the party lending the pistols was called as a witness , and stated that , on fche evening after the duel , a foreigner , with whom he was unacquainted , brought back the two pistols , paid for the hire of them , and received the deposit money . The foreigner also stated to him that one ofthe pistols was still loaded . This witness ( having endeavoured unsuccessfully to tire the pistol ) 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 gentlemen 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 with the crime of murder , under the circumstances of this case , would be admitted to bail . The court had to consider tae seriousness of the charge—it was that of murder ; it had also to consider the evidence to support that charge—it was confession . Iuto the question of the fairness of the duel
they could not enter . The case of the Eev . Mr . Allen was too loosel y reported for them to place any reliance upon it . 111 th . oix-mile -Bridge affair it was true the prisoners were admitted to bail , but there the verdict was manifestly against evidence . These gentlemen must therefore remain in custsdy , and he believed that this decision would not detract from the glory of this country , long regarded as the refuge for the persecuted of the world . Mr . Justice Coleridge , Mr . Justice Widitnian , and Mr . Justice Erie concurred . Application refused .
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The Electric Telegraph . —The laying down of the new line of electric wires from the branch office in the Strund , opposite Hungerford market , ( where are also the electric time-ball and clock , which correspond with the Royal Observatory at Greenwich ) to the Telegraph-office at the General Post-office , St . Martin ' s-le-Grand , which has been under operation for the last six weeks , was completed qji 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/vm2-ncseproduct1703/page/5/
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