object. The upper part of the head was completely cut
away below the eyes, and his cap, which lay close by,
was filled with bone, brains, and blood. Between the
time of his entering the tunnel and the approach of the
trains there was ample opportunity for passing through,
yet he had not proceeded more than half-way when the
calamity overtook him. The conjecture is that he
loitered on the way, and when the trains approached
was unable to escape.—An inquest being held, the jury
returned a verdict of "Accidental death," adding to it
their unanimous opinion that lights ought to be forthwith
placed in the tunnel for the prevention of future
accidents.

Mr. Joseph Russell, a bookseller of Chard, has Died
from eating Monk's-hood Root. He was on a visit to
his brother William, a coachmaker in Bristol. The
servant was directed to dig a root of horse-radish in the
garden: she took the wrong plant. The brothers
remarked that it was "very bad horse-radish," and
William ate of it sparingly, while his wife, who dislikes
horse-radish, did not touch it. After a time, both
brothers became unwell, and Joseph soon expired;
William had not taken a fatal quantity. A Coroner's
Jury, ascribed the death of Joseph Russell to the eating
of "aconitum napellus" in mistake. This is supposed to
be only the second case of the kind.

Lady Langford, the sister of Mr. Conolly, M.P., was
accidentally Drowned in the sea near Balbriggan, on
the 4th inst. She was on a visit to Colonel Taylor, at
Ardgillan Castle; accompanied by a maid she went to
bathe in the sea—her usual practice, no matter what the
state of the weather—the tide was high, the sea very
rough, and Lady Langford was carried away from the
shore, and perished. The maid-servant, Charlotte
Bates, made a courageous effort to aid her mistress,
wading into the sea up to her neck, but she could not
get near enough. She then called some men, but no
one could swim, and a long time elapsed before the
corpse was recovered. At the time of this lamentable
occurrence. Lord Langford and Colonel Taylor were
both absent on a shooting excursion in Scotland.

The famous picture gallery of Mr. Thomas Baring, in
Grosvenor Street, has narrowly Escaped Entire Destruction,
owing to the carelessness of a servant, who
having entered one of the drawing-rooms to close the
shutters, placed his candle in such a position, near one
of the couches, as to cause its ignition after he left the
apartment. The fire was not discovered until some time
subsequently, when the room in which it originated, as
well as two others of the same suite, had attained the
heat of a furnace, all the pictures on the walls had
become blistered, and almost every article of furniture
had been destroyed. The pictures which have suffered
most are, happily, the works of living artists, whose
services may be obtained in their restoration. Sir
Edwin Landseer's "Travelled Monkey" is among the
few modern pictures that have escaped.

A frightful and Fatal Accident was the subject of an
inquiry before the county coroner at Torquay on the
14th inst. Two men, named Robert Richards and James
Brown, were employed blasting rocks on the Braddons,
at Tor, for the erection of some houses in the neighbourhood.
They bored two holes in the rock, about two yards
apart, which they charged in the usual way with
gunpowder. Instead of providing the necessary apparatus
for firing the train, Richards had recourse to an invention
of his own, which was the substitution of a common
reed, one end of which he inserted in the hole he had
bored in the stone, having previously put in a heavy
charge of powder; and, as he was in the act of attaching
a lighted fusee to the other end of the reed, by some
means the powder exploded, and the unfortunate man
was blown some distance into the air, and then fell over
the cliff, a depth of upwards of 100 feet. He was taken
up frightfully mutilated, and conveyed to the infirmary,
where he died soon after his admission. His companion,
Brown, had a most miraculous escape, having only left
the spot a minute before the explosion took place.

A Fatal Collision has occurred on the Thames.
Late at night on the 1st instant, a boat, containing
eight persons, was run down off Deptford Dock-yard, by
the screw steam-ship Alarm, from Dunkirk. Seven
mechanics, in the employ of Messrs. Russell, had taken
a boat in order to cross over to their homes; and by
the imprudence of a waterman, whose name is Hamilton,
they came right in the way of the steamer. The
pilot endeavoured to avoid the accident, but as the tide
was running in the collision was unavoidable. The
boat was cut in two. Five of the men managed to
support themselves until they were rescued, but the
remaining three were drowned. Their bodies have not
been found.

A fearful Collision on the Midland Railway at the
Walton Station, took place on the evening of the 7th
instant. A short time after a South Staffordshire train
had left the Burton Station, a heavy luggage engine and
tender followed. On the passenger train arriving at
the Walton Station, it pulled up to take passengers, and
immediately this luggage engine ran with great velocity
into it. The guard, seeing the engine coming at a
great rate, jumped into the hedge bottom, otherwise he
would have been killed. The break van was doubled,
and, strange as it may appear, flew into the air, and
rested on the funnel of the engine. The body of the
carriage next the break, a second class, and containing
several passengers, was completely severed from the
wheels and axles, and the next carriage was much
shattered at the end. All the passengers were greatly
shaken, and several were much cut and bruised, but no
limbs were broken or any other very serious injury
sustained. So great was the collision, that the materials
of the break-van and carriages were so widely scattered,
that it took until nearly two o'clock in the morning,
sufficiently to clear the line for the traffic to be
proceeded with. The driver and stoker of the luggage
engine ran away, and have not been discovered.

On the Manchester, Sheffield and Lancashire Railway,
Three Accidents have occurred in the space of Four
Days, and all of them nearly at one part of the line.
The first occurred about two miles from Retford to the
mail train from Hull to Manchester, on the evening of
the 6th instant, by the breaking of the tire of one of the
engine wheels, in consequence of which the fore part of
the train got off the line and ploughed up the rails for
about half a mile. On the evening of the 8th, a second
accident occurred within a few miles distant from the
scene of the first disaster, and the line was blocked up
for some time. On the evening of the 9th, the third
accident occurred near the Sturton station to a goods
train from Lincoln, by the breaking of the tire of one
of the wheels of the engine when the train was going
full speed. The engine and several carriages were
thrown off the line, and the permanent way was
considerably damaged. In all three cases considerable
inconvenience was experienced by the disorganisation of
the ordinary system of traffic, and it is fortunate that
no person was injured.

A Fatal Accident occurred on the London and South
Western Railway on the 12th instant, to William
Wallace, a plate-layer in the employment of the
Company. Wallace was engaged with other men at his
vocation, between the Waterloo-road and Vauxhall
terminus, when the train was approaching, from
Windsor. The driver of the engine blew his whistle
and shut off the steam, and his mates called to him, but
it is believed he became confused. He was knocked
down and the train passed over him, cutting his body
in half, and severing his legs from his body. He was
conveyed to the vault of St. John's Church to await an
inquest.

Another Accident occurred at Wandsworth to a
passenger named Bumby, who lived in the High-street.
The down train from Waterloo-road had arrived at
Wandsworth, and, whilst it was still in motion, Mr.
Bumby imprudently jumped out. He slipped between
the carriage and the platform, and the last carriage
passed over his left thigh, causing a compound fracture
of the limb and frightfully lacerating it. Medical aid
was promptly procured, but the sufferer lies in a very
precarious state.

A Fatal Accident took place on the 14th inst. at the
breakwater of the harbour of refuge now forming off
Portland, by the giving way of the timber viaduct
supporting the railway. A train consisting of a locomotive,
tender, and four waggons, the latter filled with
stone, was proceeding along at a moderate pace, when