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      . ¦ . BH . ADFOBD . . Uase I . 'A woolromber- ^ without work for six weeks —has four children earning 5 s . < 5 &i per week—rent Is . li —is . laid out for oatmeal and water , potitoes , aaa salt When the visitor entered , a child was crying for food ; there was none in the house , and a trifle given . them was quietly spent for meal ; . the poor « hIM -was highly pleased with her meal and water , without mittr . 2- A woelccpi > er from Ireland , enfc of work seven weeks—baa f ' . ur children , the eldest eight years—has trtwetl « d in sctth of work in Tain . They haTe not a penr-y to depend upon ; their furniture was Bold op a fortnight since ; an old pack sheet and a little straw formed their bed ; hare applied twice to overseers , " -Sat were refused unless they -would return to Ireland where they supposed they should be no better off The mother would die in the house rather than beg .

      STATE OF" THE COUNTRY . "This is-the only country in the world in which every labouring man can by industry obtain a competency . "—Duke of Wellington . STOCKPOET . -The cries of tha ' starrtngtlreuBaods in this'unfortunate Boroagh bare at length reached the hearts . of the more opulent , and"a public meeting was held in" the Court House , on Wednesdayweek , to devise some immediate means of relief , a requisition , signed by 186 individuals ; having feeea . presented to the ^ Mayor . Before -they separated , upwards of £ . 1 , 400 was subscribed , including a- grant of £ 500 from the Manufacturers Relief Committee , in London , established some years ago . Of all the- Whig : members of the corpor » tiaa ~ the " Liberals , " as they . are c&Qed—M > nly the" Mayor and the Town Cierk * B names are announced .- "Where are the . ii > ends ot . the'poor now the municipal elections are over ? . -

      3- A stoufgood-looking man of 40—son 23 years of age : three young children , with mother , make six in fn . jr . uj without any income but Is .- per head from their .-township { Silsdenj . This is expended on brown bread , oatmeal , and potatoes—drink herb tsa , ^ without sugar or- milk—they are just alive , and that ' s alL Mother and' son "were found weeping . in the house , utterly unable to discover sufficient means of subsistence , though willing to do anything . ¦* . A healthy single man , twenty-four years of agesix months out of work—hasTiot had a change of linen , or lain on a bed for two weeks ; is now lining on food usually given to piga . 5 . A woolcomber in work—ax children ; income for last-three months , - 10 s . -6 tL -per week , out-of which 2 s . 2 d . for rent is paid ; live on coarse food , and not having sufficient of that , disease is evidently advancing on them- . _ -

      Trie last case is a fair sample of two-thirds of the working families" of Bradford , reduced , not by sickness , but by inadequate employment In several cases of sickness , the medical gentlemen called in have said it waa not physic , but food tiiat was required . One half of the * working meu of . . Bradford appear to be sinking nnder privation or exhaustion . One sixth © f the operative families of Bradford are unemployed . Twothirds are suffering from deficient employment . Xot above- one-third are in full work and comfortable circumstances . _" . - -

      An able-bodied comber , in full work , fifteen hours per day , earns 9 s . to 10 s ., but a eonsidet&blG majority of those who have work can only earn Ts . or 7 s . 6 < L on account of delay in obtaining . renewal of work on carrying it in . The above cases and report are furnished ( the cases merely as specimens ) of general suffering ' , and not extreme cases , hj two" gentlemen who have for-sc-me time visited the working population of Bradford for societies of a religious and moral nature . o " . A widow and seven children receive -is . from the township and 3 s . Gd » wages—pay for rent Is . 2 & . ' , leaving , 6 a . 4 d . for food , coal , candles , clothing , &c . —can purchase nothing but flour and sharps for brown bread , potatoes , oatmeal—very rarely ; getmiLk to their meal and'water . '

      7 . Woolcomber , wife , and four children—out of work nine months ; had only had one meal of oatmeal and water from Thursday afternoon" to Saturday morning ; yesterday bad borrowed a shovel full of coals , now consumed , and did not know where to get more ; have subsisted by charitable aid and sale of their-furniture ; clothing , nothing but rags . 8 ~ WooJcember , nine in family—income , 2 s . Tper head ; every one of them could eat half a stone of flour weekly , could they get it ; cannot obtain more than half supply . . ¦ ¦¦ - - 9 . Woolcomber and weaveroutof work—four children earn 7 s ., " which is the only source of income . 10 . Wooleoraber—family , . six in number ; income , Is . Si . each ; some of them sick , and reduced to great distress . 11 . ¦ Woolcomber—Beven in firmly ; income , 9 s .

      The above cases are a fair sample of woolcombers ' families throughout the town . -,. theix houses are almost destitute of furniture , and they are strangers to the comforts of Ufa Much sickness prevails , and the miserable , care-worn appearance of the parents is appalling . Rags , coarse food , ignorance and degradation are their portion . .. 12 . Heehaaic , usual wage 22 s ., out of work eighteen months ; now breaking stones at Sd . per day . This is the case-with many . 13 . Mechanic , 56 years of age ; former wage 22 s . to 2 is . ; out of work nine months ; now breaking stonesfor da highway ; cannot at his age turn to a new trade ? ftn-

      3 , 5 . Mechanic out of work a long time ; clothing worn ouf ; wife , mother , and two children in eonsequenee obtain a living by preparing aad hawking whiteriiDg for cleaning floors ; obliged to labour almost night and day to procure a miserable subsistence . Such cases as tke above are now of common occurrence in Bradford . - 16 . Mechanic has travelled nine months unsuccessfully in search of employment ; . has at last found full work at Bristol on machinery for exportation ; his employer is aware fiia * he is tuus destroying the ultimate prospects of himself and workmen , but has no alternative . -- -. ¦¦ " ' 17 . 'Woolcomber , could earn i n 1836 , 14 s . or 15 s . on the same nominal soit of wool , which now occupies him more closely to earn 9 s . .. z . IS . Tnree years ago another comber earned 16 s . or 17 s , with less labour than he now can earn 10 s .

      19 . Comber of fine wool , eould earn Sis . three years sgo , "vrhere he can now only earn 10 s . ! 20 . Cabinet -maker , a jious and respectable man , out of work eighteen months , has been obliged to leave h £ s family in destitution to seek work elsewhere . Cases 6 to 28 are furnished by a Society of Operatives .

      MASSFIETD . [• Never , we believe , waa the condition of the poor at \ 1 Mansfield s » bad as at present . Starvation is doing its j work , and , as it was naturally to be expected , is fast j : reducing tie middle classes to the verge of ruin . How t harrowing is it to the feelings of intelligent , nonet t , industrious , and onee-respectable parishioiiers , to be obliged to submit to the embarrassing alternative , of either applying to the Union House for relief , or actually perish in a land of plenty . But , is it not still -more distressing to be told by the minions in office , that they have no right to relief while . their homes j possess a remnant of furniture , by which they could |

      supply their exigences . We know men , whose lives i are in every respect irreproachable , living in such a state of destitution , as to express , in the intensity of their sufferings , a wish that death might at once put an end to their struggles . We could enumerate instances of the most appalling destitution , in Mansfield—where fathers are traversing the streets in mental agony , unable to bear the sight of their unhappy homes—whilst the mothers , surrounded by their famianvng offspring , have scarcely a morsel in the world , to appease their craving appetites—with scarcely any ether covering to shield them from the inclemency of a winter ' s night , than the scanty and tattered apparel which they have worn in the day .

      KIRKALPT . . State op Trade . —The general distress is only beginning to be felt here . In the town and district there are about 2 , 000 looms , and till within these two months past they have been all well employed , and ' yet oar trade has been long in a languishing state—two J facts which can only be reconciled by supposing , what ) we believe to be the ease , that our manufacturers manage ! their affairs with more prudence than happens else- ~ j where . But a sad change is now taking place ; we ! see many of the weavers geing about seeking work , and I cannot find it ; and it will still be worse with them , as ! the manufacturers , unable to go on any longer , are daily drawing in . —Scotsman .

      DISTRESS IN THE ISLE 0 ? MAN . , I In our immediate locality , though hitherto not a subject of much public remark , distress , deep and widespread distress , exists , and that , too , we regret to say , amongst a class hitherto occupying a respectable station In society . As a direct issue of the recent mismanage " -1 ment of our circulating medinm , and in a great mea- ¦ sure m consequence of the rain which that mismanage' I ment so exteaBvrely entailed , we- have at the present i time absolutely no trade ; artisans of every description , '< joiners , masons , painters , andthose belonging to every

      other occupation , have been many weeks out of employment ; the result we need not repeat It is far from being the pauper population alone who are bow ia a state of misery and destitution ; we have the names of scores of individuals , the head * of helpless families , Who , if they could find work , could easily earn from 12 u to 20 a . p « r week , in actual starvation , willing , irideed , to work , but I" ashamed to beg . " As an illustration w » may here record the fact , that one day last weak the wife of a respectable artiBan wait to a brewery , in this town and purchased twopenny worth

      - i ; . < frte » yifaM « im * lty sold for the purpose of feeding > - jMm jLtpSPBhfc secretly creeping away without-paying ,- th » twKB £ « nn . The person in charge of the brewery - ' flcrtjyfojfti of the workmen to ran after Mrs .- —— , > ¦ -.- . ^ piSsr . ^ Jberjbad forgot to pay for the grains . " The ' , : ^ fDjts ^ ijJdV& a ^ Vtd evertook her whan she had reached ^^¦ ' - ¦ ¦ X'Z ^ :. - ' - " ^^ - - ^ ^ -. : r i" £ -, - ' . i . '; - -- -.:- ^ % jj ?^ £ i"W"J _ ii- - - -

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      home . Having entered the house , to his astonishment he there beheld the poor woman , having an infant at her breast , with her husband and four children , eagerly devouring the grains—not having tasted food for four days ! And we are daily informed of labourers and tradesmen similarly circumstanced—themselves actually in a state of physical exhaustion for want of food , and the cries of their helpless children for bread continually , piercing their hearts . —Jfcma ' s Herald . - ' . -.. .. ' . '¦' .,. ¦' . .. '

      . . CARLISLE ( Received too toft for our last . ) Public Meeting to relieve the present EXIstikg Distress . —A requisition having been sent tj the MaybTj ( G . G . Monnsey , Esq . ) requesting him to call a public meeting , for the above objeet He * eadily complied , and appointed Tuesday ; jDec-Slst , 'ft * holding themesttng . At twelve o ' clock , the hour sppobtod , about thbty gentlemen assembled in the Town-Hall , when the Mayor was ealkd to tbe chair , be ebserved that the present meeting was called , fox the purpose of devising means to relieve the public distress , -which he was sorry to say prevailed to a very great extent He was glad to find there was * disposition on the part

      of those who were able to relieve the great snfferinga of the poor and destitute ; there are probably some genHemea present , who sreprepared to- ~ bring forward resolutions on the subject The Her . John Faweett t ^ en esme forward to move the first resolution , which was to the following effect : — "That it is the opinion of this meeting , that " the distress be ing at present so great , a public subscription should be immediately entered into for . the purpose of affording immediate relief . " Q . H . Head , Esq , banker , then came forward-to second the resolution ; he said , I cannot but express my sincere regret , that those who were the means of calling the present meeting , had not come prepared with facts to prove to what a frightful extent

      the present distress prevailed . I know there are nearly one thousand persons in Carlisle at present , who have no means of support There are about two hundred labourers out of * ork . Those Ja employment are receiving very low wages . Nine ¦ hundred were at present not earning more than from four to five shillings a week , and two hundred not more than from three to four shillings a week . "Under these circumstances , is it not painfnl to see bo lew persons present ? I know many who ought to have been here . I hope that those gentlemen whe have agitated the town , for these last twelve months , wQl now come forward liberally with subscriptions , and convince the town that they are serious ,- and that the poor and distressed are not to be

      fed upon words any longer . I hope the subscription will be sufficient to relieve the-distressed , not for weeks only , but for months to come . I beg leave most cordially to second the resolution which has been moved by the Bsv . Mr . Faweett . The resolution was then put and carried . Major Wild then moved , and the Rev . Mr . Thwaites seconded tbe following resolution : — "That a committee be now formed for the purpose of ascertaining the amount of distress for tbe purpose of-relieving the same . " This resolution was also carried . - The Mayor and some other gentlemen then spoke of the propriety of forming a Mendicity Society , and a Committee was formed for the purpose of considering the subjest , and reporting to a public meeting to be held next week . A Committee of thirty persons was then formed to inquire into the present prevailing distress . A subscription ¦ was then entered

      into , headed by th 6 Mayor , who very , liberally subscribed £ 10 , Mr . Head following it up with the still more liberal donation of £ 100 , reserving to himself tbe right of its appropriation . Upwards of £ 16 $ would be subscribed in the meeting , although the numbers present were sm&lL Where were our Members-, for the borough on this laudable occasion ? Where were the Messrs . Dixon's , the leading manufacturers of the town , and who have been constantly professing to have a great feeling for the poor , from whose hard earnings they have amassed princely fortunes , and whe are erecting formidable castles , the walls of which may be said to be cemented with the blood of the hand-loom weaver , commingled with the tears of the emaciated factory child ? Aye , where were they ? Doubtless these were the men to whom the benevolent gentleman , Mr . Head , alluded . . .

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      FRIGHTPUL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY . CFrom the Reading Mercury . ) It is with feelinga of deep regret tha ^ we have to record one of the most lamentable railway accidents that , we believe , has ever ocounred in this country , and which took place this morning on that part of the Great Western line , caljed * the flnUeti' ? the deepest part of the Sunning-hill cutting , rather more than two miles from Reading . It appears that daring the interim that elapsed between tbe passing down of the goods train aboat midnight , and the arrival of a similar train at half-past six this morning , the embankment of the south side of the gullet , and about one hundred yards east of the wooden

      bridge £ ave way ; completely covering about forty yards of the south or down line of raila . ThisTinfortunate occurrence being unobserved by the policeman at this district , no intimation could possibly be conveyed to the driver of the approaching train , consequently , en the arrival of > the luggage train , at about half-past six o ' clock , a most terrific scene occurred . , The train ,, which was progressing at its accustomed pace , and consisted of twelve or fourteen . waggons , two trucks , and , ' the engine : and tender , was suddenly , thrown ojf the rails , and partially shattered to atoms .. The engine , whiph . yr ^ s called the" Hecla , " ran into the mass of earth , in which it was more than half buried , while the tender and paaseaeer trucks were turned over , and

      jammed against the v ^ aggons immediately behind . The consternation at this moment , amid the expiring jells of some of the paesengers , and the shrieks of others less injuTed , may pe more easily , conceived than detailed . One of the most distressing features perhaps of this awful scene , was the lamentable ones of an aged father , who saw bis son , -who had accompanied him in this unhappy journey , literally crushed between the tender and the truck , and instantaneously killed . Another of the sufferers , apparently an aged man , was so shockingly mutilated , that his countenance was entirely indiscernible . Information of the dreadful catastrophe was conveyed to Reading as speedily as possible , and several medical gentlemen were shortly on the spot . There were

      about thirty passengers , including some females , nearly the whole of whom were more or less injured ; about twenty vcere brought on to Reading , in a oar-, riage sent up for that purpose , and their appearance on their arrival at the station , was of the most depressing character . It is a remarkable fact , that neither the driver of the engine nor his assistant sustained any injury ; the conductor and-the guard also escaped-unhurt , although the former , we believe , was thrown from his seat over to the bank , upon which he fell with great force . The guard was thrown upon the opposite embankment , and the other officers were saved by leaping frointheir places . By about half-past eight o ' clock a great number of persons had reached the spot , and the most active exertions were made to extricate the poor fellows who were lying dead beneath the wheels and among

      the shattered fragments of the- trucks . This , however , was a work of difficulty as well as hazard ; and several hours elapsed before the trucks were raised . The removal of each presented a dreadful spectacle ; five of the unhappy men were extricated without much delay , bnt the three remaining were so entangled with the wheels , and shattered trucka that they were for along time unapproachable . One of these , a decently dressed mechanic , was taken in the waist by the tender and the truck , in an upright position , his back being nearly severed by the crash . They were all at length removed to a small hut in the London-road , where the eight bodies , were depo sited and covered with straw . One of them , appeared about eighteen years old , -white the others ; , so far as weconld judge , were from about twehty to thirty years of age , except one man , who appeared to be somewhat older .

      The number conveyed to the hospital is 17 , being twelve men and five women ; thirteen were immediately placed in bed , more or less seriously injured , combining fractures and dislocations ; but , with one exception , no amputation will be necessary ; the most serious are two or three spinal cases , the injuries being so severe , that there is little hope of their recovery . The other four , although much hurt and bruised , will be shortly enabled to proceed on their route to the city of Bristol . ' Fortunately , there were fewer patients in the hospital than has been known for some weeks past , from which circumstance every accommodation and assistance was

      readily afforded to all the unfortunate sufferers , We would submit , with deference , that the passenger trucks should be placed in a less dangerous situation than that in which they are generally ( being attached to the engine ); had they beeu placed behind the luggage waggons , this afflicting joss of life would , in all probability , have been avoided , as several of the last waggons retained their positions on the rails witbont receiving the slightest injury . The names of the deceased we lave not yet learned ; but , from their appearance , they are principally mechanics and labourers , and were journeying towards Cirencester and Bristol . .

      Sattsday Night . —Throughout this day a vast number of the relations and friends of the ' -. 'passengers who left London by the ill-fated train on Friday moruing , called at the Paddington terminus to Inquire as to the fate of their respective friends . General inqqines were also made' by a great number of disinterested persons ; indeed , the superintendent and ' other officers were nearly besieged with applicants for information respecting this sad affair ' ; " but , with very few exceptions , so intelligence could be gained . There were several persons , however , who were believed to'be intimately connected with the unfortunate sufferers , Who were permitted to proceed to Reading and return to town free of expense . In the morning , Sir Fred .

      Smith , the surveyor of railways , repaired to the spot where the accident happened , and after remaining tor Borne time , returned to the terminus , and examined the engine driver , stoker , and some . others , in the board- , room '; they were each examined separately , but no other person was allowed to be present , nor was a single syllable of their evidence allowed to transpire . It was very currently reported , up to two o'clock , that four of the unfortunate individuals expired in the Reading hospital in the morning . Mr . Ssymoui Glaik , the superintendent , left town by the two o'clock train for the purpose ( as . it was understood ) of making further inquiries , and also to procure a list of the names of the sufferers . ¦

      Mbs . Cabpbntkb ' s Statf-mekt , one oi ? xhb Pasben g ebs . — " The train left London at half-past four o ' clock . There were three trucks containing passengers , about forty or fifty in number . There was only one truck-load of goods , and those were packed between the passengers . The night was very clear , and we were going at about the usual speed . All of a moment we felt a shock , and were tossed against each other , and up into the aiT and down again , and then the carriage was broken all to pieces , and then we found ourselves on the ground among the luggage . I cannot say how my husband got out ; but after he got out he dragged me out , and also my sister-in-law , both of whom were insensible , but afterwards recovered . The persons who sat on the

      right and left of me were killed . We were assisted out by our friends , who were not too muoh injured , and laid upon the bank side , but I saw no policemen at all . Al the time the accident occurred we were going at a fast rate . I and my three relatives were the only persons who were so little injured as to be enabled to come to Bristol . After the accident , a messenger was dispatched and brought persons . In about an hour afterwards some policemen and several surgeons arrived , and afterwards a train came and took us to the hospital at Reading . They took all the persons to Reading . I saw myself ten dead bodies , and I heard that was the number killed . I believe that every one of the passengers had limbs

      broken , or were otherwise ' seriously injured , excepting I and my friends . When we came away there was a young woman expected to die every minute . I heard that she was a servant girl . I do not know how many were taken into the hospital ; but I heard the matron say that eighteen were taken besides those dead . I heard the surgeon say . that he was just going to take off one person ' s foot . I believe most of them were greatly injured ; The engine was driven into the fallen earthwork to a considerable depth . There was one baby there belonging to a woman , which after the accident she was unable to find for a long while , a *> length she found it unhurt and asleep between two dead men . "

      PUBTHEB PAHTICDLABS . Reading , Saturday Evening , Deo . 26 . As may naturally be supposed , the utmost excitement and consternation still prevail in this town and its neighbourhood in consequence of the truly lamentable and fatal accident , some of the details of which are given above . Those details , as published , are admitted to he tolerably correct by the railway authorities here . We hear in numerous quarters that the state of the SunniDg-hill cutting , the scene of the accident , has for some time past engaged the attention of the railway engineer , and that its repair had long been contemplated , but had been postponed in consequence of the railway labourers being

      engaged upon works which were supposed to be of a more pressing nature . This procrastination is held by many acquainted with tbesature of tbesoil which constitutes the cutting , and with the degree of angle of which that cutting is formed , as being reprehensible , and last of all the company are condemned for the continuance of their system of affixuig the passengertrucks next the tender—a system which experience has proved to be fraught with danger to the lives of the passengers . In the present instance it appears clear that if the passenger-trucks had been the last in the train , no lives would have been lost , because not one of the luggage carriagea were off the line .

      It has already been stated that « ight individuals were killed upon the spot . The following are their nameB in the numerical order in which they were identified : — No . 1 . John Pook , of Stoke Canon , near Exeter , aged thirty , was identified by a letter which was found in his pocket , and snbseqn inilj was recogniBed by his father .

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      No . 2 . _ Charles Williams , aged 32 , a stonemason , residing in Cheltenham , but in the employ of Messrs . Grissell and Peto , upon the New Houses of Parliament . This corpse was identified by Mr . Alien , the foreman of Messrs . Grissell and Peto . ; :, iNo . 3 , C . Sweetlandi of Gloucester , stone-mason , aged 30 , identified by his father , but not known to Allen ;; -V . : .. / :- ' : ¦ " - v - •"* - r ;; ' : ¦ ; " :: ¦ ¦; ' / - ' " * - . ¦ " " : ' v '" . "' T ^ !?« . 4 . - ^ r— ^ ahb pttj ; also of Gloucester , stone maeon , aged 34 , also in the employ of Messrs . GrieseU aha Peto ,-andidentified by Allen . No . 5 ; Richard Ralph ; ' of HarWellv iie ^ r / 'Stereb-. ton , Berks , aged 25 , reoognised and identified by hiBfe , ther ^ -- ; f ' :. y vv : u ; a : 1- ^ -- - : ^ ' . '¦ - ^ ¦'¦¦ ^ ¦ y - ¦ ¦' ; . ¦ ; ... No . 6 . The remains of a labouring man apparently , arid dressed like a waggoner . Not yet identified .

      No . 7 . i Joaeph Hands , of Clarence-gardens , Regent ' s-park , aged 26 . The name of this unfortui nate young man was first ascertained by a quarterly ticke ^ vdatt ed ^ Decembey , ' 184 V ffijhe : : ; Jw < BaleJ 8 Methodist Society , _ being found in his possession . His mutilated remains have Bincobeen recognised by his father , who also identified those of his companion an < itfinend , ; No . 8 ,, ; Jabez Cieave , v ( errpneouBly s . ujposed t ' ohave been a preacher ) , on whose person a , similar ticket of the same date was found , out who was | dentifiea as a stonermason by Mr . Allen , the foremaiVat the Houses , of Parliajnenj for Messrs Griss ^ U and Peto , ^ . ' . ' p ,- \; i - ' ' . ' . , . vV ' ¦' ¦^ i ' . ri - The pirpdess of identificailori of the mutilated rq-. mains of the Sufferers / in the ' miserablei shed or hut

      in which tbjey were , depOBitedi'led to i » des 6 ^ bable scen « jl pf , " aj ; qnised dUBtress . ' . Tj ^ e public have also been inforn ; ed that eighteen other individuals were convijyed id ' . 'the Royal Berkshire Hospital ^ and they werei promptly ja . tt ( 5 t ( ded by M' « Tv Bles ^ ett Maurice , the Surgeon of the week , assisted hy IHr . G . May , Mr . : J $ y A . Bulley , and the resident surgeon , Mr . James Dunn . The wounds and ^ juries of som e were dressed , and they . were speedily enabled to proceed to their jrespective ; homes . Twelve of the unhappy sufferers were so materially ' injured , that their father removal was deemed to be dangerous , and they were , by the medical offioers of the institution , admitted iri-pat tents . The names and addresses of these individuals , together with the nature of the injuries , ' as detailed in the books of the hospital , we nowsubjoin : —^ " : i : : -- ¦' , ¦ - : . ^ .. ; - ¦¦' . / , ¦ John atainsbury , age 30 , b y trade a navigator , r ^ d 6 nt-: 'in : ' : LambeiH ^

      Thomas M ; Wheeler , age 30 , of / MiU's-bail'dibgs ; Knifthtsbridge , newspaper reporter . Contusion of the face . Since discharged at his ov ? n request . Ann Wheeler , age 3 U wife of the : aboye-named Thomas M . Wheeler . fVaeture ' of the fore . arm , and contusion of the head and back . . TWs . Hughes ;' ' age /] . <^ - ; of ~ 'Hammersmiu l .. ^ B 4 nten Concussion of the Brain and o ^ ntusipn of tnp face . Thomas Hawkins , age 24 , of Freshford , near Bath , stonemason . Compound dislocation of the greattpe ; the metatarsal bone protruding , which has since been removed by an operation . ; Anthony 'Batten , age 43 , of Manchester Mews , Manchester : Btrea . ; Contusiott of the back and loins ; : James Stapleton , age 30 , of Cheltenham , stonemason . Dislocation of the shoulder , since reduced . William Baldwin , age 52 , of Cheltenham , stpnemasorj . Fracture of the ribs . : ' '

      Eliza Barnes , age 20 , of Addle-streetj Cjity , eeryant . Severe laceration of the scalp . . ..- . '" -. ¦ " ¦ . . , ; . Elizabeth Carpenter , aged 29 , of Cha ^ les-stree ^ Blackfriars . Contusion of the leg . " ' // . . Hannah&Cpoper , aged 40 , of Thomas-street , Kennington-common . Fracture of the metatarsal bones and dislocation of the right foot . ,, In addition to the ^ above-named sufferers , there was also admitted as an in-patient at the same time , a man who still remains in a state of insensibility , and whose name still remains unknown . He has the appearance of & stone mason , is apparently about forty years of , age , and : the / injuries he ' has received consist ; of a compound fracture of , the ekull . The unfortunate man has undergope the operation of trepanning , and Rtill lies in a most dangerous state ; indeed , his recovery is aUapst hopelesB .

      • •' . ¦ ; . THE INQUEST . ;; . : ;';; : ; ..,.::: " An inquest was opened at Reading , © n Friday evening , but no . new fact was elicited . ' : sp- far as . the proceedings went that day . The inquest was adjourned to Monday . On the latter day a number of witnesses were examined , and the dead bodies Were all identified . Mr . Saundeira , the Secretary of the Great Western Railway ^ Company , ; "was in attertdance , as well as Mr . Brunei , the chief engineer . After all , the Witnesses had been examined , Mr . Saunders called Mr . Brunei to give evidence as to the actual state of tho embankment where the accident occurred .- The publio are aware of . the nature of the accident from the facts detailed above , and we only give therefore Mr . Biunel ' s examination .

      Isambfrt Kingdom Brunei—I am chief engineer on die Great Western R a ilway . With respect . to the ^ ystem of watching along the line , six different assistants have instructions to appoint night watchman whenever there is any appearance of danger . In case of slips in the cuttings , when they are superficial , it \ s found better to drain them well , and to remove the loose earth , and leave the slips open to dry . These are , watched for a time , and if : it be found that no further movement takes place within a short time , experience has shown that this draining is sufficient . In this particular oase of the Sunning cutting : I saw a small slip about three weeks ago . I inquired of Mr . Berkham what had been done , and I found it had been drained , and as I

      observed that it was only a superficial one , I did not consider that there was any daujger . X passed many times since , and have not observed any change . On Friday morning , 1 arrived oil the spot , a few hours after the accident , and I examined the slip that had then , taken ; place ., It was , a totally distinct slip , and I pinted out to Mr . Berkham the drain that had been cut ; round , the former slip , and which was quite difctinct from the new one . The disturbed ground of the . new slip touched the old slip , but the slips themselves had begun in different parts of the slope and in different strata . There were some questions the ForemaR wished me to answer , which 1 shall : now state . The width of the cutting at bottom is forty feet , the depth is

      fiftyseven feet , the width of the top of the cuuing is two hundred and sixty-eight feet . The width of the spoil bank on the south side is a hundred feet , from the north side about sixty-sevan ; but of course it varies . From the bottom of the spoil bank to the edge of the slope ia about fifteen feet . It varies , however , because in some places it is twenty and twenty-tett from the edge . The spoil bank , ia not twenty feet high , and thirty feet from the edge of the slope . That soil would not stand at such a slope ; it would not even stand at t / o to one . From the railway to the edge of the slope ia about twelve or thirteen feet . It would require forty feet distance to have the spoil bank twenty feet high . I heard something of the spoil bank having moved , but I

      examined it carefully , and I find it has not moved . There is plenty of room to walk between the spoil bank and the top of the slope . I am not afraid of the weight of the spoil bank haying any effect on its slopes . There is no part of the spoil bank so close to the top of the slope as ten feet . 1 examined the line immediately after the accident , and can speak with , certainty . Thirty feet from the edge of the Blope there is not more than six or eight feet in height of spoil- bank . There have been discussions here and elsewhere as to the best place for the passenger trutks , and the reason for putting them next to the engine has been , that the dangers to which a luggage train is considered most liable , are its being overtaken by another train

      in consequence of its being unavoidably less punctual than the other trains , and the danger arising from breaking of axles ia the luggage train , ia either of which cases the front of the train is the best . -The reason why the passenger trucks were put in the middle of the train next day was by my directions , morely as a concession to an opinion which I knew was frequently expressed , ^ n the evening in question we discussed the question with Mr . Saunders and Mr . Clarke , and we had some doubts about the propriety of taking any passengers ; but being Christmas-eye , we knew there would be many applications , and although we retained our previous opinion as to the front being the safest part , we made the alteration in deference to publio opinion .

      By a Juror . —There have been instances of luggage waggons haying been overtaken ; by other trains . Our feelings and interests are of course involved in providing the best place for the passeugers . The axles of iaggage trains are much more liable to break than the passenger-trains ^ Placing the carriages for passengers : behind would ba a very dangerous thing . ; ; / Mr . Saunders said , 1 can assure the Jury that many accidents have been avoided by placing the passengers in the luggage-trains in front . There are some trains which go at eighteen miles an hour , and others which go at forty miles , and there are cuttings and curves in the line in which it is almost impossible , notwithstanding every precaution that ib taken , to prevent a quick train running into a slow one . We can have no motive but that of the public safety and convenience , and it is not later than yesterday that the Government Railway Inspector distinctly told me that he fully concurred in our views The luggage-train should start at half-past four

      o'clock ra the meraing , but it seldom gets away before five o ' cleck , ana it pots aside generally at Slough , to allow the six o ' clock quick train to pasait . Every precaution that could possibly he thought of to ensure safety and punctuality has been adopted by the Directors . if it was to be continued on my responsibility , I would agafn have the passengers in the luggage-ttain placed in front . ^ -: The Coroner then read over the whole of the evidence whioh had been addnced on both days , and called upon the jury to dismisi from their jninde all they had heard on the subject elsewhere , and calmly and dispassionately attend only to the evidence which had been submitted to them . Th * y would take the whole facts into their serious consideration , giving such weight to the statements of Mr . Saunders and Mr . Brunei as their importance deserved . He now left the case in their hands . They- must consider their verdicti

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      The jury retired at three O ' clock . : At a few minutes before five the Coroner , who had left the apartment where the inquest was held , returned and announced that the jury had agreed to their verdict , which was " Accidental death in all the cases , and a deodand of £ 1 , 000 on the engine , tender , and carriages / ' i ; ; ¦/ ; -f Mr . C . Russell , M .:-R - , inquired ^ whether ^^ the Jury had stated . any and what grounds for their verdict . '¦ . " The Coroner said they had assigned two reasons ; but he was not bound to state them , and he would rather not ' ' ^ -vh •' ¦ : ¦ : ;; ' . ¦ ¦'•" ¦ ¦¦'¦;¦ . y ]' - - r ! ¦ ' [¦ - . - . ' ¦ ¦ ' "¦ ' < - : The following , we have the best reason to know , were tbereasons assigned by the jory for the above verdict ; :- ^ - ¦' . ;/ . ' , ] ' . ' - . . ;¦ : ¦' .. ) : , : .. :, ¦ ' . :: ' ; . •; , ^ '¦" :-C >;[ -i-:, , "ThevJury are of opinion that ' great blame , attached to the company in placing the passenger trucks so near the engine . : '

      " 2 . That great neglect had occurred in not employing a sufficient watch when it ^^ was most necessarily required . ; ; i . "; : / - ¦/¦ ; . : ¦ '¦ - '•";" " . ¦ " ¦¦ : ¦

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      ATROCIOUS MURDER AT WHJXALE , NEAR ^ VEM , SHROPSHIRE ^ ( From a Second Edition of the Shrewsbury-News . ) Another murder has been perpetrated in this county during the present weeV , under circumstances of greater atrocity even than the one at Bronvgarth , near Oswestry . A wife , with the assistance of her husband , has administered poison to . both her parents , and the mother has fallen a . victim to toe diabolical deed , the father escaping by . a mere accident , and an innocent person ( according to the last report ) has since , died in extreme agony from the feffects Of-the deadly food of which he had been a partaker . ; - v ~ ¦ ¦

      ¦ Tba name of tl ? e old man is Arthur Williams , who resided at Whixa'e , yirithin three miles of Wem , m this county , and the perpetrators of this horrid crime , Thoeu Harries and kis wife Mary , lived in the- same cottage with the father and his deceased Wife Eliza Williams . The prisoner , Themas Harries , had been previously married , his former wife having died four years ago , leaving two children , who resided in tbe same cottage with the " prisoners . It appears that the deceased victim had been in the habit of correcting these children , and Harriea had ^ sftid that he w ould remember her for it / . and this is the only motive that c&u at present be assigned for the deed , which has caused such general horror in the neighbourhood ,

      On Sunday , the 19 th , the deceased partook of an apple-dumpUnf at dinner , and was instantly taken ill , the symptoms inoreasing so rapidly that by nine o ' clock the same evening sb , e waa a corpse . Her husband did not eat any of the dumpling , being too ill from having taken a small portion of the poisonous mineral on the previous night ; and the third party , was the son of a neighbour to whom the feraale prisoner had given the remainder of the poisoned food . ¦ ¦ ¦ .. .. ' ¦¦ -, Ah Inquest was held on the body of the deceased , Eliza Williams , on Friday , before Joseph Dietrim , Esq . coroner ( who had only returned home on Wednesday from holding an inquest on the murdered woman near Oswestryi , . wheflathe foliowJng ftvidence was adduced : —

      Arthur Williams , husband of the deceased , lives in a cottage at VVhixale ,: and the prisoners , Tbomae and Mary Harries , with two children of the former , resided with him . On Saturday last witness had a pig ' s fry for bis supper , which was , pooked by the deceased , who took some , flour from a bag hanging in the kiteben to thicken the gtayy . Witness ate heartily and felt very sick'afterwards , going to bed ill , and remaining so all night- ( Gtot up the next morning veryunwell , ; and eat in tho bouse till eleven o ' clock , when he went out , leaving , the deceased , ; the prisoners , the children , and a neighbour , ' naraed 'J ' ohri EdWards , there . Witness returned to dinner , but was too unwell to eat The first dish was an apple-dumpling , of which the deceased ate heartily , but witness was too ; poorly to taste it .

      Within ^ flve minutes after eating , it , the deceased ran towards ' the door , and , ' throwing it open , said , " Ob . debi , ^^ how'ilt Iami" aridretchedviolently . The deceased then went into the ' garden , supported by the fem » le ppaoner , and being a long time away , witness went out , and finding her too ill to walk , carried her into the house , and placed ajr . in a chair . Sho continued getting worse till four o ' clock , when witness carried her up to bed , and ^ went to bed hintself ; feeling very imweUsHeigot up about nine o ' clock , as his wife became : much worse , and . she died / shortly after ; Witness had occasion to go out afterwards , leaving the prisoners together in the kitchen , and , ' oil returning , heard Harries say to ; hi » wife , " There ' s Something in that flour . " Tub two prisoners lived in the same house

      with witness , , but ate at' a separate table , and fouud their own victuals . They had their dinner at the same time as the deceased , but not at the same table ., The female prisoner assisted deceased to bed , but neither of the prisoners made any remark at her sudden death to witness .. Mary Jones , a neighbour , was in the room at the time deceased expired . The female prisoner ; made a dumpling at the same time as deceased , but did not take the flour from the same bag . The deceased" did not eat- all the dumpling , and the following morning witness ; said to the female prisoner , " There ' s some nice dumpling , give it the children , " and she answered , " No , I may not do that . " He again requested her to give it them , and she replied , "No , no , I munna give it them . " A neighbour , * named Betty Miuahull , had been washing at the heuse on Monday morning , and , went on an errand tbe same day . f On . Wednesday witness asked the female prisoner , where the remainder of the dumpling was , and ahe replfedi " ; I have feiven it

      the children , and they have eaten it" Tbe male prisoner had frequently words with the deceased about the children , but nothing of any consequence . When the female prisoner was taken into custody ahe said , "I am innocent , and I believe I can swear for him . " Witness kDew there was poison kept in the house , having some sugar of lead in b paper which he used for dressing cows , bat it was not kept near the bag which contained the flour .. The male prisoner had some powdexed arsenic in a bottle which he used for destroying rats , and kept it in the pantry . The flour was bought frem Mr . Povey ' s , of Whixale , In a large bag , and a small quantity was put in another bag , and hung in the kitchen for trifling purposes ; but the bread was always made from the large bag . After deceased was dead , witness saw the male prisoner go Into the pantry , arid while he wasthere his wife said , "What areyou plundering at , is there anything I can reach you ? " To which he anawered , " No , you know nothing about it . " ;

      John Edwards was at the house of Arthur Williams , on Sunday-last , and saw deceased take some flour , out of a striped bag and make an apple dnmpYwg . The female prisoner likewise made an apple dumpling , but took the flour from another bag , and made it at the same time and at the same table as the ! deceased . Tbe female prisoner put the dumpling ahe had made into Uie pot first , and they were both tied up in cloths . - 'A . . '¦ ¦ ¦ -. -V' .- '¦ ' ¦ - ¦ ¦ '¦ : ¦' ' ¦ . ¦ : ' ; ; : - Thoiaas Norway Arthur , surgeon , redding at Whitchurch , was in the neighbourhood of Whixale , on ^ Wednesday , and met with Arthur Williams . Witness asked him if it wa « not true that his wife died suddenly . The old man said " ifes ; and I fear there has been foul play , " , and requested witness to go into the

      house , which he did , and saw the female prisoner and another woman . Witness asked the eld man if he suspected any one of tbe foul play , and he said he -was afraid it was his son-in-law , for he had been frequently cross with the old woman . Witness then went up stairs with Mary Jones to look at the deceased , and at the same time to ask Mary Jones some questions . The female prisoner endeavoured to follow them up stairs , which witness prevented . He examined the deceased , but found no' outward marks of violence . He had also made a post mortem : examination of the body , in company with Mr . Groom , surgeon , of Whitchurch , and found the heart , Jungs , and liver in a healthy state ,

      With the exception of some little congestion of the left lung . : They found the stomach Very much' distended . They then cut into it , and fonnd larger patches of inflammation extending over the htomacb , and appearances extending over it like the white of an egg , The internal or bilious coat was entirely destroyed , and it was the opinion of witness that deceased ' s death was occasioned by some corrosive poison . Witness thought arsenic would produce tee exact effect in which he found deceased ' s stomach . Witness likewise took some flour from the bag and examined it with Mr . Groom , and a chemist , and was positive it contained arBenic . 1 '¦ '¦ ¦> - . ' ¦ ¦'¦ . ' - - ¦ ' ' ¦ ¦ ' : ' . ; ¦ • ¦ ¦; -. ' ; . ¦ ¦' . ¦/ ' ¦'¦ ¦ ''¦ . '¦ ' . ' ¦ ¦

      Mr . Thomas Groom , surgeon of Whitchurch , corroborated the testimony of Mr . Arthur , and was positive that arsenic was the poison whioh occasioned deceased ' s death . . - , ¦ ' . ' . ' . ' .- . ' - - : : : " / V ¦ •'¦ ¦ " ; . ' ; ¦ . '"'¦ -. " ¦ - ¦ ^^ ' : ¦' . ¦ ; .: ' ; ; Mary Jones , a neighbour , saw the deceased when she was ill , and was with her when she died . Witness bad frequently heard the - ¦ male prisoner aay he would knock her brains out , if she interfered with his children ; and . about three weeks ago , on a Friday , there was a snow , and the deceased bad walked to Whltohurch . Witnesa said to him , ' The peor old woman will be lost in the isnow ; ^ and he fcald " her , I should like to hear of her being found In the road , Btiffi "; . ¦ : "; - :: ' v - ¦ ' y-s < : \ ¦" ¦ ¦ •/; .. - ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . '¦ " . " •¦ .. . ;¦ -: ¦

      Elizabeth MinshuU was washing at the house of Arthur Williams on Monday , and afterwards went to Whitchurch to a sister of the deceased , to tell her of her death , and Invite her to the fanernl . When she uame back and delivered the message the female prisoner gave her a piece ef dumpling , which she took home . Witness ' s son ( John Haycock , by a former husband , ) was in the house , and she gave it him for his sapper . He eat it and went to bis boat on the canal , and she saw no more of him . . '• ; \ ; ; Thomas Minshull , captain of t canal boat , was in bis boat on th « canal near Whixale , and saw John Haycock In another boat very ill , and vomiting . Witnesa accompanied the boat some distance , and Haycock told him to tell his mother that the dumpling had nearly killed him , and she would never aee him again :

      , Richard Jones , constable , searched the bouse , and when searching for the arsenie In the house , waa told by tbe female prisoner tiiat the had thrown it away three months before ; She afterwardi aaid that she had emptied the : poison out , and washed the bottle clean . Witnen , however / found I ^ lwttle ^ hlehliad coaWaed arsenieina basket among other bottlea ,. He likewiae ^^ th S «™ 8 ^; ° ^ ^ fe % ^ aw « in toe kitchen . ; -v Tbia concluded the evidence , ' " ., Tho maleprisoner asked . ftW ' obronerif the examinatlon would finish that evenir ig , and being answered in the affinoatWe , said ha juight , «» well tell all . He tten made > , statement | o , the effect that he had told nla "wife on Saturday nfght that sbmt tbing was the

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      matter with the meal to make the old man so ill He said he had purchased the arsenic from Mr . Gough , ' G ^' en ^ , - '' br ' 'Wem / . Tortto puipo ^ ' of . de ^< q ^ g ; nt |^ ' and hinted that his wife must have administered It , if the deceased really was poisoned . The female said if any one knew about it , it was her : hu » b ^^ . ^^ ' - ' ; "ViVV . ;^^ - :: -v . ' -: ' - 'V- ' . ^\ :: ' .. /" - ' ' "' -. ^ ~ - :-. --, the Jury returned a verdict that the deceased ' s death was ; occasioned by poisbri , administered by Thomas Harries , ; and that his wife aisfsted him ; and they were both fully committed for our next asBJzea . :: ¦ . The male prisener is ' a brickmikerby trade , and has borite but an indifferent { character . The Camale is very far advanced in pregnancy , and on Thursday , feigned that she was In labour , bnt on txaminination by a surgeon the attempt to postpone , the investigation failed . ¦ . ¦ . ¦; . ¦' . O ^' ' ::-i : .- ' - : " •¦" . : ¦¦ r ; ' ^ ' h ^ - ' / .: ; - ¦ . ' > -. ¦ - ;^ - ' John Haycock was taken into Cheshire by the boat ; and a report ^ reached ~ tbi town that he has expibf ^ a , making' a second victim of tiaia' unparalleled atrodt » : ' - >^ v - ^ - ' - ; - ' : '' :- ' : - ;' : ' --- - :: / A' : -- ; . N ' - ' - ' - - ¦ ' " - "• - <

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      DREADFUL ACKJtDENTrBr THE FALL OP A - BtTILDlNG / IN MANCHESTER . ' v . : ( ... : .- , ; v -- ; i :: o . .: ¦ :: ¦ ] - ; ¦ ¦ .-- ¦ ,: yi . ^ -r ^ . yV :- \ - ; -: r fXVE ^^ PEBSONS , KIILED AND . TBN SJ ^ BIOUSLY MVS . X , On Friday evening the site of the ; late fire , in Man . cheater , (^ he particuJUurr of wh ich we gave last weekj ) was rendered the scene " of , a most appalling accident by the '' faOmg 6 t one of ^ tne walls of the building ^ ^ inwhica the late fire occurred upon some workmen employed to take it do wo The Ore occoiredidnMon ^ y week , whea 2000 . bags of cotton were ; destroyed ,, worth abpnt £ 1 ^ , 000 ' , and a , quantity ^ of ^^^ corn , ' floury g « Hi ^ es , and tallow . The whole damage was estimated at upwards

      of £ 30 , 000 . Though ; ther ^ wareho us e had been co m pletely gutted by the flre , twoof the entiro walls were left standing , and that at the back of the building , to thfriBputh of PicadiHy , about 19 feet high by 100 feet in length , was carried by means of two stone archea over the . Rochdale , canal . This wall was about to be removed at four o ' clock on Friday afternoon , when the stone of one of the arches , which had become rotten , giving wayyttoarch collBpsed * and the wall dividing into two portions fell a heap of ruins upon the men who were below . . , 1 ; - < . \ ; :- ' .- >; ¦¦¦¦ ¦ - ' ¦;¦ : ¦ ; " ^ --

      The whole accident was the work of bnt a moment * The men ' had no chance of escape ; they ' "had barely time to perceive their awful situation and ¦ raise one loud shriek of terror ere they were silenced and bidden from ; view beneath the fallingjoaass . V . ¦ Fortunately ; SIr Cbarles-Sraw , ' the chief commissioner of police , having heard of the accident within a few minutes of its occurrence , sent a body of police to tbe spot . Sir Charles himself superintended the execution of the ' 6 rd ' erK and barriers were then thrown across to prevent the access of the publio . ; The number of men employed about the building when . the acoident occured was one hundred and three , and had the wall come do wn id an unbroken mass , instead of falling as described above , the ; probability , is that the whole « f them would have been ; eacrificed . - > - ' ^ :. ¦ : . ' ¦ ¦ ¦ : ' " ..- ' ¦ :- ' . ¦ ¦ - ¦ ' ,,. < : ¦ ¦ ¦¦ -. ' ¦ v . .- ; ¦;

      ; As the following did not answer to their names they were supposed to be in the ruins .- —James Perkins , Thomas , Finhi ^ ajj , Patrick ''^^ Conlan , ( dteor ^ ge frowdH ^ iq , Peter Radical ; Mfchael Mabbn , Thomas Garland , John Donally , Patrick Finnlgan , William Harrison , Michael DoIan , Pa . tiicbTully , William Hurly , John Locke , and Thomas Silcox—in all fifteen persons . . Brides-these however , a great . number had received injuriea from falling ; ' bricks and other materials , but were not seriously hurt . The four men whose names are placed first on the list were rescued from the ruins almost directly the search began , and though , so . mqch hurt . ; that it was deemed necessary ; to takethem to the infirmary it is not supposed ¦ iihat their ' lives , are endangered by their wQiirids . : The search for the remainder of the sufferers

      was . a work- of greater time , and they have suffered much , more severely .. ¦} Peter . Radical ., was discovered abou ^ slx o'clock , with his sJkull fiactured , and suffering froni internal injuries ' ' ' he * was conveyed toi the iriSrmary , but there are slight hopes of : his ^ recovery . Michael Mahon was also . taken out of the ruins about the same . time , and thouglt not , much brudsed extemally he had eyidentiy received ' suco internal injuries as leave but feint no ^ eI of fAa ^ cbyeryv ' ' ^ fjbut balf-pasl six , Thomas Garland , another 6 t th ' e sufferers , was found , and though stilL alive his body was frightfully mangled and crushed , whilst his bead ,: waa , co » pjttely Bcalped . Patrick Finnjgan and William Harrison were taken

      from thei rums ; about' . tbia . 'time -vi the infirmary . Both of them were much hurt , the former having one shoulder dislocated and being otherwise injured , and the other having two of his ribs broken .:, Hurly was feund with severalol ' hisjidp ribs broken . The left leg of one of the sufferers , supposed to be Sllcox's , was found about this time . John Donally was next taken but dead ; and two hours afterwards ! Dblan , also dead . Near him , also dead , 'Were : found the remains of Tully . The latter was found standing upright amongst a heap of brickfl , in which hb body was so firmly imbedded , that nearly an hbnr elapsed after his head aud shoulders had been Wed before it could be extricated . <;• ^ '

      A more painful and heart-rending scene thaa was presented at " the Infirmary about nine o ' clock on Friday evening was never witnessed / . Upwards of one hundred men were employed in the building at the time of the accident , and the : most exaggerated report as to the extent o £ the fatality got abroad . The wives , cnilAren , and'frienda of many of these men had been at work during ' the day in the different factories , and ' on returning- horde , and bearing- ' the ; prevailing reports , they naturally rushed to the scene of the accident to learn the fate of those near and dear to them . '

      • Though tbe bodi « o 9 f twoof the men , namedSUcox and Roche , have not yet been found , there is now no doubt as to their being amongst the killed . ' Tne former was some years ago a master builder at Leeds , but had been ; . reduced in circumstances , and of late employed on the works of the Manchester and Birmingham Jlailway . It is said that he has a wife and family resident in Leeasr ;^ Hurly , brie of -the wounded men , has a wife and two children . Harrison , who lives in : Faucett street , Ancoats , has a Wife and six children dependent

      upon ' him . for support . PatrickTully and John Donally , both killed , were young men , the latter a : native of Stockport , and unmarried ; but the former is married , and has left a wife and three chfldren . He was a resident at Oir Mill Brow , Great Ancoats . " , The other sufferers were mostly married men . Garland has a wife and four children , living in Buxton-street Patrick Pinnigaji baa a wife : and three children , resident in ^ Mason-street , Manchester ; arid Thomas Finnigan has a wife and three children , resident at Ashton-under-Lyrie . ¦ " : ' :.. ; /;¦; " " .. ' . ' ¦ \> y ¦; . -.: ' . ¦; ¦ . . . -: . ; . : ; - . ¦ : ¦ "¦ ¦ \ ;¦ ¦ ¦ --- ; '¦ = ' . ' ; '

      . ' rXhough the ruvna of the warehouse had been played upon all the week by the fire-enginea they still smouldered ;; and , during the time occupied in searching for the bodies on Friday night , they again broke put into flames , ft great quantity of unconsamed cotton being amongst the rutris , and considerable exertions bad to be used during the night by the firemen to subdue them .

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      REMARKABtE Storm op Hail and IiiGHXsiNo . ^ --An esteemed correspondent wishes us to put on record some particulars of a storm of thunder and lightning , accompanied by hail , that passed over the peninsula , of Lleyu , on the morning of the 17 th inst . In its passage over the park at Madryri . 'it was of a most awful and alarming character , and did immense damage to a long range of glass-houses , pita , and 'frames ^ that are usedfor forcin / f , besides putting in imminent danger . a large collection of valuable plants . Some of the hailstones , we are assured , measured no less than three inches and bneeighth round the base—all of them being of a conical shape . Hail of the same magnitude and quantity has not fallen in that part of thecountry within ¦ the memory of thepresenti && . —Carnarvon Herald .

      A Babbabous Thick . —An eastern shoreman stepped into a barber ' K shop in our city and requested the barber to take off 12 J cents worth of his hair . The barber trimmed his looks very neatly , and then combed and brushed them in the most particular style . "Are you done 1 " asked the Easternshoreman » , as the barber removed the napkin from his neck , r Yes , tir , ' ? returned the man of the razor with a bowi Are you certain you took off elevenpence , worth ? ? Yes , sir , " returned the barber , hereja aclass you can see for yourself ; " "Well , " saidjhe Eastern man , if yoii thkk you have got a leven pence worth off , I don ' t know as I have any Vise for it , and I haven't got no change so you may just keep the hair for your trouble . " —Baltimore Argui , ¦¦ / . ¦ . . .. ¦• ¦• . : ; - ' ; ... - ' ,.- . - •• : ; . - ; ¦ : . ¦¦ ¦ : ¦" . . ¦ ' ¦ . ¦ - ¦"•'¦ ¦

      Daring BoBGLAHVjN Wimshiee . —Some thfeves entered the aouse of Mr . AWdrey , at South Wraxj % on Tues < Jay nighti They proceeded up stairs and tapped at the bed-room door of one of the young iadies-who , supposing that it was a maid-servant , desired her to come fri . Three of the fellows then entered with bludgeons , and bearing a candle . Two fellows were . left below M out-door and in-door watch . The former demanded the surrender of . her money from Miss Awdrey , who gave them all she had , which they said was not snfficient . She then went to her sister in an adjoining room , who gave up ber parse arid its contents . Still they demanded more , and the young ladies , apprehensive , from the flign and determined spirit of their father , that he would resist and be murdered by the mfoaM , repaired to his bed-room , apprised him of what was going on , and besought him to giro np his money * Having obtained this , they next demanded the

      surrender of . the silver piate , jewellery , watches , and all the other portable valuables , which they took to the extent of half a sack full , carefully selecting the solid silver articles , and leaving the plated bejiind . They next demanded wine , of which they drank a bottle , besides a quantity of brandy ; * nd finally decamped between three and four o ' clock , having remained in the house between four and five hours without any signs of alarm or apprehenaion . Tha plunder , in addition to £ 30 in money , waa prodigioaa , in pMefwatches , jewellery , linen , pistole , &c The daring character of the outrage has greatly alarmed alltheneighbouthood about Bradford , more especially those inhabiting solitary houses , whose inmates dread a Bimilarmidnight visit from a gang whose nnmbers are sufficient to overpower a whole family Twenty-five pounds ia offered as a reward for the detection of the villains , who are thought to be London thiaTes . —Bath Journal .

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      STOPPAGE OF PAYMENTS BY THE TOWN OF PAISLEY . ( From the Glasgow Chronicle . ) Partly on account of tho great depression of trade , aud partly on aoeonat of a run raised by the circulation of malicious and falsa statements regarding the affairs of the community of Paisley , the town council , at a meeting on Wednesday evening , ordered the chamber lain to suspend receipt or payment of deposits in the meantime , but to proceed with all possible despatch in realising the outstanding debts due to the community for the regular payment of the interest on the money borrowed , and other , current engagements of the burgh . It is pretty generally known that a small portion of the

      would-be political leader * of the town who have not the influence to get themselves placed In municipal authority , pave for a good number of years endeavoured to embarrass the party in power , by attacking the credit of the community . The unfavourable state of trade and the leniency if the council in not enforcing during the last year the exactions on the owners of property , for entries , fee ., falling one , caused a deficiency of nearly £ 300 in the usual amount of revenue . This simple circumstance was taken advantage of , thongh nothing was lost thereby , and statement * prejudicial to the town ' s credit , were placed in the hands of every creditor that eould be found by the individuals referred to , and thus uncalled-for alarm raised . In addition to this , the adherents of the same party in the council during the last five days , gave xurreney to another itafcement which they knew to be quite untrue , about the late provost-having commenced to secure

      himself by drawing a thousand pounds , when the fact was he had not drawn out a penny . From the position to which the affairs of the town are now driven , a full and public exposure of these matters will soon be submitted to the creditora . The council have been negotiating for such a loan of money as will pay off those wbe are dissatisfied , which in the ordinary state of the money market they would long since have obtained , though at present that is difficult . As regard * risk to the creditors , fram tbe best informed quarters we are assured there is none . More than one-third ef the whole debts of tbe town are due to the bank , and the members of council , oi their immediate friends , and fully a half of the debt against the river Is due to the same parties . This we should conceive the strongest proof that eould be adduced of the confidence of those who should be&t know the state of the town ' s affairs . ¦¦ .

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      BANKRUPTCY OF THE INCORPORATION OF PAISLEY . ( From ihe Scotch Reformers' Gazette . ) Misfortunes , it 1 b Baid , seldom come singly . The The bankruptcies , one after another , in Paisley , within these few months past were alarming enough , and added greatly to the misery existing in Paisley . But we bad no idea that the corporation of Paisley itself wonld go to the wall—would be found to be in an utter and absolute state of insolvency . Yet sneb is tbe fact , which we publish on the authority of a most respectable patty connected officially with the town ef Paisley , and who writes to ubas follows : — " ¦; .- .,. " Paisley , D 9 & 23 , 1841 .

      " Dear Sir , —At last meeting of our council , the public and reporters were ordered to withdrrw , and all the important business was transacted afterwards . Last night , there was another meeting ( private ) , at which it was resolved unanimously that the chamberlain should be instructed to stop paying or receiving any money , thus virtually suspending payments in the meantime ; and to-day our unfortunate town is in a perfect ferment on the subject—and no wonder , when there are moneys lodged in the Town and River Cart Savings Banks to

      the amount of £ 19 , 000 . These banks were set agoing by the influence of the present Provost , who is connected with the Saturday Post and Renfrewshire Reformer , and who , in style similar to other puffers , lauded the security to the skies—and at tbe same time did all Out was possible to prevent money being lodged in the Government Savings Banks , by endeavouring to call in question the security of tbe Government!—which was rated as nothing , when compared with that of the River Cart or Corporation of Paisley .

      " The true state of our corporation finances is , that there is a deficiency of income to meet the expenditure by at leut £ 700 annually , and no prospect whatever of matters mending in this respect ; the income is about £ 3 , 300 , and the unavoidable expenditure not under £ 4 . , so that to continue is just to make bad worse . Bnt of course these matters will have to be inquired into by proper and legal authority now . —Yours , &c . "

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      Cheapness of Railways in Amebica . —The extent of communication by railways in America is truly surprising . They cover the United States like tie meshes of a net . About 7 , 000 miles of railing have already been made , or are in actual progress . This would be incredible in a country where capital is so valuable , were the railways laid out oa the same expensive scale with ours . British railways have cost from £ 20 , 000 to £ 50 , 000 a mile . Those of America have not cost , on the average , including buildings and all requisite investment , more than £ 4 , 500 per mile , being from one-fourth to onetenth of the expence of British railways ; that is to say , a given sum of money expended in America has provided the benefit of railway communication to an

      extent of from fire to ten times as great as an equal one in Great Britain . Although these lines were not originally laid out on a pre-arranged plan , yet the detached lines have gradually been connected , so as to form continuous routes of great extent—some of the companies owning different portions of connected lines have found it convenient to amalgamate—tbe route between Baltimore and Philadelphia consisted of four companies on four parts of ihe line , which are now incorporated in one company , under a single board of management . One £ reat chain of railroad , commencing at Portsmonth , in New Hampshire , extends across the United States to Pensacola , in Florida , a distance of 1 , 600 miles . —Athenaeum .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 1, 1842, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct580/page/6/