the English gentleman's little child, and took them to a
house convenient. Sir E. Kennedy sent for a doctor
and a priest at once. Seeing that some people were
picking up carpet-bags, I suggested the necessity of the
luggage being guarded, which was at once done. Messrs.
Kelly, Connor, Leitch, and I then walked on to Straffan,
thinking we had seen all the damage, and not knowing
about the two carriages that had been shot away. At
the station we found a Mr. Roe, who had escaped in
one of those carriages, and who was very active in
rendering assistance. In the station room eight or nine
people were lying side by side. One of them seemed
dead. I placed my hand upon his forehead, and found
that he was dead. He was a Mr. Egan, of Birr. I said,
he was dead, and his body was at once removed, and the
gentleman died soon after. A priest was hearing the
confession of another, who evidently had very few
moments left him in this world. The dead bodies were
removed from the room. Mrs. Barrington was lying in
another room in the station, very badly hurt, I heard.
One of the ladies I saw at the station had her chest
broken in. I don't think she would live till morning.
Several had their legs broken. One servant boy, who
was very badly hurt, had been sent by Sir E. Kennedy,
on his own car, to some hospital in the neighbourhood.
There was a medical gentleman present who was doing
all in his power to alleviate the sufferings of the
wounded. I believe there were several medical gentlemen,
but am not sure of more than one. The Hon. E.
Lawless was there, working very hard; and there was
one young man, a dealer, named John Rooney, who was
going down in the Kilkenny train when he heard of the
accident at the station. He at once threw up his passage,
quitted the down train, and set to work to help the
sufferers in a most extraordinary manner. Such vigour
and kindness and gentleness as he exhibited could not be
surpassed. A train was got ready about half-past ten
o'clock, and by it I came to town. We arrived at the
King's-bridge terminus about twelve o'clock. Neither
the driver nor stoker of the cattle train was injured."
The English gentleman mentioned by Captain Collis,
was found to be a Mr. Knapp. The lady who was
killed along with Mrs. Knapp, was Miss Palmer, her
cousin. It was ascertained that thirteen persons
were killed; Mr. Christopher M'Nally, solicitor, of
Gardiner-street, Dublin; Mr. Jelly, of Maryborough,
Queen's County; Mr. M'Sweeney, solicitor, Kenmare,
and his wife; Mr. Bateman, of Cork; Mr. Egan, of
Birr; Miss Kirwan, daughter of Mr. Kirwan, of
Abbey-street, Dublin, merchant; Mrs. Knapp, her cousin:
Miss Palmer, daughter of Abraham Palmer, Esq., of
the Bank of Ireland; Miss Leithley, of Eccles-street,
Dublin; Mr. Jesse Hall, Kildare; Mrs. Smith, Mallow;
and Joseph Sherwood, a servant-boy of Dr. Stokes,
Dublin. The following persons were seriously injured;
Miss Ellen Farrell, Mrs. Latham Blacker, Dublin;
Miss Emma Pack, Parsonstown; Esther Coffey,
Parsonstown; Mr. Neville, County Louth; Sarah
Shelford; a child of Mrs. Knapp's, and a child of
Mr. and Mrs. M'Swiney's. A coroner's inquest having
been held on the body of Mr. Jelly, the Jury, after a
protracted investigation, pronounced a verdict finding
that the collision was caused by the negligence of James
Gass, the engine-driver, and John O'Hara, the stoker of
the 'pick-up' train; and therefore finding James Gass
and John O'Hara guilty of manslaughter. The following
resolution was appended to the verdict: "The jury
were about to draw the attention of the directors of the
Great Southern and Western Railway to some matters
which require amendment and alteration in the working
of their line, but as they are aware that the Government
have sent over Lieutenant Tyler, the Government
Inspector of Railways, to make an inquiry on the
subject, they are exercising a wise discretion in leaving the
matter in his hands, satisfied that he will make such a
report as will effect the necessary changes. Having now
brought this important and painful investigation to a
conclusion, we feel it incumbent on us to state that we
have minutely examined the rules and regulations which
have been issued by the directors to their officials. It
appears to us that those rules and regulations reflect the
highest credit on the judgment of their authors, and
that they are well calculated to secure the lives and
property of the passengers. It is our conviction that
no culpability can attach itself to the company on
account of the late fatal collision; but, on the contrary,
we consider them fully entitled to that public confidence
which they have hitherto enjoyed."

A fatal Accident happened on the 8th inst., near the
London terminus of the Great Western Railway, at
Paddington. A new engine-house is in the course of
erection at Kensal New-town, about half a mile down
the line from the terminus. When the workmen were
employed in the building, a massive iron girder fell to
the ground, striking and crushing the men who were in
its way. The greatest consternation prevailed, and the
poor workmen were lying about in all directions. One
poor young man named John Draine, was found
immediately under a portion of the girder, quite dead,
with his scalp cut completely off, his thighs broken, and
otherwise seriously mutilated. Those sufferers found
still alive were conveyed with the least possible delay to
St. Mary's Hospital, where they received every attention.
Five men were found to be very dangerously
injured, and two or three more were hurt less severely.

An inquest was held, on the 8th inst., on the body of
Emily Richardson, a middle-aged woman, who had
died in the University College Hospital. It was
alleged that death had been caused by the Administration
of Chloroform, the patient having been submitted
to its influence a few minutes before her decease; but,
as will be seen from the evidence, she was suffering from
extensive heart disease, as well as from an inveterate
hernia. Mr. Lawrence, house surgeon at the hospital,
said when the woman was admitted, she was found to
be suffering from strangulated femoral hernia. She
was immediately placed in a warm bath, and the
witness tried for nearly an hour by that means to
reduce the hernia. But failing in his endeavours, he
considered an operation indispensable, as the only means
of saving life, and he instantly sent for Dr. Quain, who,
coinciding in witness's opinion, Mr. Hillier, resident
medical officer, was called to administer the chloroform
preparatory to the operation. Nothing peculiar was
observed until a few seconds after the administration of
the chloroform, when Dr. Quain's attention was
attracted by the strange stertorous breathing of the
patient, and on feeling the wrist, was unable to detect
any pulsation. Witness immediately dashed cold water
in the deceased's face, and sent for the galvanic battery,
in the meantime using artificial respiration. All these
remedies proving unavailing, tracheotomy was resorted
to, but without any good effect, and life was declared
extinct after upwards of an hour had been devoted to
efforts to restore animation. In answer to the coroner,
the witness said that this was the second fatal case of
the kind at the hospital, out of 2000 patients to whom
chloroform had been applied. Mr. Hillier stated that
he administered about one drachm to the patient in the
first instance, but that not having the desired effect, he
applied 40 drops more, which acted fully, and the
patient became unconscious. There was nothing
unusual in the case until in about half a second, when
the strange stertorous breathing was observed. The
witness had administered chloroform to six patients that
day in much larger quantities than he did to deceased.
Three and four drachms was the usual dose. Since the
introduction of chloroform and ether, only 30 deaths
had resulted from its application throughout the United
Kingdom. Dr. Garrod, professor of Materia Medica in
the University College Hospital, said that he had
performed the autopsy, and found extensive disease of
the heart. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental
death."

A Fatal Accident from Lightning occurred on the 8th
instant at a farm-house called Hendrefechan, near
Beddgelert. North Wales. Two children belonging to the
family were gathering wood amongst the trees surrounding
the house, when a storm came on. The boy about
14 years of age was struck by the electric fluid and killed
instantaneously. His sister who stood close beside him
escaped without the slightest injury.

A young man named Henry Steele, master of the
National School at Cottenham in Yorkshire, has met
with a Singular Death. He had been lately married,
and during the school vacation had gone with his wife