and the jury, in returning a verdict of accidental death,
added, "We consider that the company is not free
from blame in sending out an engine with a fast train
when any doubt of its efficiency existed."

During the night of the 28th ult., a Train on the
South Wales Railway was partially overturned in a
cutting near Newnham, by a quantity of earth which
fell from a bank, and forced the engine from the rails
The driver was found dead under the tender; the
passengers escaped with bruises.

On the same day, a scaffold at the tower of the new
church of St. Matthew, Bedford New-town, St. Pancras,
now in the course of erection, Suddenly gave way, and
five of the men upon it were thrown to the ground from
a height of sixty or seventy feet. One of the poor
fellows, named Donnes, about twenty-five years of age,
lived only a short time afterwards, but the rest escaped
with trifling injuries. A sixth caught a rope in his
descent, and hung by it till he was rescued.

Two men, Culyer, an engineer, and Hall, a labourer,
have been Killed at Chatham by an explosion of gas.
At new gas-works erected to supply Gillingham, a
gasometer was filled for the first time; in testing the
condition of the gasometer, the two men, who were on
the top of it, applied a light to an orifice; the gas took
fire, with a tremendous explosion, which rent the
gasometer; and Culyer and Hall fell into the water
beneath. When taken out they were dead. The
coroner's jury, who pronounced the deaths to be
accidental, were unable to say whether the victims died by
suffocation by gas or from drowning in the tank.

The Marshall, a screw steam-ship of 300 tons, trading
between Hull and Hamburg, has been Lost, with a large
number of persons on board. The Marshall left the
Elbe with a large and valuable cargo, and about thirty-
eight emigrants, besides her crew, eighteen in number.
One of her boats was picked up in the North Sea by a
fishing smack, and brought to Hull by the barque
Woodhouse, from Stockholm, the master of which vessel
has given the following narrative:—" I sailed from
Stockholm on the 4th of November last for Hull.
Monday, the 28th, about ten o'clock at night, when off
the Newsand floating light at the mouth of the Humber,
we were run into by a steamer, name unknown. We
were all upon deck at the time, having a light at our
bowsprit, and showing two flash lights over the
starboard side. The moment we saw the steamer approaching
we hailed her, and said she would be into us, but
we received no answer. In spite of every precaution,
the steamer ported her helm, and ran into us on the
starboard side, striking between the breast hooks,
thereby starting the ship's stern, breaking several
planks in the bow and the forecastle floor, besides starting
the bows on both sides, and otherwise shaking her very
much. Her jibboom, jibs, foretopgallant mast, and all
the rigging belonging thereto, were all carried away,
and the vessel was quite unmanageable. Immediately
after the accident, I hailed the steamer, and begged of
them to stay by us, as I was apprehensive the ship
would go down, as she was heavily laden. I received a
reply from the steamer, asserting they would do so. The
steamer, on getting clear from our wreck, got round
into our starboard quarter, and in a very short period
again came into collision with us by running into the
starboard side of our stern, carrying away the rudder,
starting the stern post, breaking the wheel standard,
and otherwise cutting the ship nearly down to the
water's edge. Before this .second collision I hailed the
persons on board the steamer to reverse her engines, but
I received no answer. It was almost immediately
afterwards that the accident followed. I again begged
they would not leave us, as I expected nothing but that
our vessel must go down. I received, however, no
answer, and the instant the steamer got clear, she bore
away in a southerly direction. One of my apprentices,
named Robert Burns, fell through the aperture made by
the steamer in our stern, and was unfortunately drowned,
altliough every attempt was made to save him. The
night was extremely dark and hazy, and the wind
increasing from south-west to south to a gale. The
steamer remained in sight but a very few minutes—I
was unable to get a sight of her afterwards. On both
occasions, when she ran into us, I inquired several
times for her name, but received no answer. She was a
screw-steamer, with painted ports, and a bust-head
figure-head"—a description which exactly answers to
that of the Marshall. Hopes were entertained that
some of the passengers of the Marshall might have been
picked up by the coasters which almost hourly pass the
spot where the steamer went down, but the time that
has intervened since her loss without any such intelligence
being received, leaves little doubt but that the
whole must have perished.

Four persons have been Suffocated by a furnace, at
Elscar, in Yorkshire. At that place there are some
extensive smelting furnaces, at the back of which stands
a row of cottages occupied by the workmen. In the
cottage next to the furnace lived a woman named
Phoebe Sadler, whose husband absconded about three
months ago. Her family consisted of two sons, of the
ages of fifteen and seventeen, a daughter aged eighteen,
and a lodger who had only gone to reside there on the
previous Sunday night. Soon after ten o'clock the
family retired, the mother, son, and daughter sleeping
together in the front bedroom, and the lodger in a room
at the back, into which the stairs opened. In the
morning the eldest youth returned from work, and after
repeatedly knocking without obtaining any reply, he
entered through the kitchen window. A strong
sulphurous smell pervaded the house. Having opened the
house door, he hastened up-stairs, and came in contact
with the lodger, who lay dead on the room floor. In the
front chamber lay his sister, brother, and mother, all
dead. His mother and his brother lay on the floor, at
the foot of the bed, clasped in each other's arms, whilst
his sister was stretched upon the bed, having died to all
appearance unconscious of danger. Not so the mother.
She had evidently been fully roused to the sense of her
position, and was endeavouring to escape with her boy,
a poor cripple, when she was overcome by the poisonous
exhalations which filled the house. The lodger, too,
had evidently tried to escape. The rooms were filled
with white vapour, which was exuding in copious
volumes from the wall next to the furnace; and such
was its deleterious influence that it was found
impossible to remain in the house for many minutes
together, even with the doors and windows open. At
the inquest on the bodies, it appeared tliat there was a
large crack in the wall of the adjoining furnace, through
which vapours of cyanide of potassium, a deleterious
gas, were discharged, and found their way into the
dwelling-house.

The alarming frequency of Railway Accidents of late,
arising out of the breaking of axle-trees—generally
those of goods wagons—suggests the necessity of
instituting some rigid inquiry, both as to their construction
and as to the manner of loading them. On the
morning of the 17th inst., as a goods train from York
and Leeds, on the Great Northern line, was proceeding
to London, one of the axletrees of the fourth truck broke
soon after the train had passed Bawtrey; but the coupling
chain connecting the truck with the next wagon
held up the hinder part of it, and thus prevented an
immediate stoppage of the train. The detached axle and
wheels, however, worked their way under the other
carriages, and in a short time threw off the line the
wagon next the break-van, as well as that vehicle, and
broke them both almost to pieces. The iron chairs of
the line and the plates were also torn up for some
distance. The guard, Graham, was slightly bruised. The
up-line was quite blockaded, but fortunately the down-
line was comparatively clear, otherwise the consequences
might have been very serious, for in a few minutes after
the break down, the night mail train from London came
up at full speed. The truck which broke down was
laden with potatoes, and belonged to the North British
Railway Company. On the same evening, about eight
o'clock, the workmen were engaged in repairing the
line, and they inadvertently left the heavy lifting
apparatus of the crane they were using suspended over the
up-line. A goods train came in contact with this, and
the concussion threw two trucks off the line. Both lines
were now blocked up, and the passenger trains both
ways were delayed ujiwards of an hour and a half. The
same evening, a goods train also got off the line near
Newark, obstructing the traffic at that point also for