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      message apprising him of the collision , and he immediately sent thirty men to the spot , -where they rendered assistance in clearing the up line . A train from Aylesbury arrived at the spot shortly after the collision , and to this the passengers by the express were transferred , and after a few hours' detention—unavoidable , perhaps , under the circumstances— -conveyed to London , with the exception of three—a mechanic , -who -was seriously injured , and Lord and Lady Byron , -who were travelling by the train , and who remained overnight at King ' s Langley' , at the house of Dr . Solly . By eight o ' clock the up line was in a state to admit of the resumption of the traffic , which , during the temporary interruption , was -worked on the down line for a short distance tinder the uBual precautions . " An inquiry is being made into the causes .

      Bacon , the proprietor of the Sussex Advertiser , published at Lewes . Mr . Bacon was superintending the working of a new steam printing-press , when a portion of the machinery caught one of his feet , taking off the great * toe , and completely drawing out the nails of two or three , of the other toes . Medical aid \ vas immediately called in , and Mr . Bacon is progressing as favonrably , under the circumstanc « s , as could be desired . \ Thomas Russell , a comedian , has died suddenly in the greenroom of the theatre at Great Yarmouth . It appeared that he had been in embarrassed circumstances , and had denied himself , to a great extent , the necessaries of life .

      Another railway accident has occurred through a defective coupling iron . This time the casualty happened on the Dundatk and Enniskillen Railway . Two waggons became detached from the carriages , and remained behind on the line ( which is single ) for the whole night . The consequence was that an up mail train from Dublin , travelling at the rate of thirty miles an hour , ran into the waggons . The shock was very great , but fortunately there were no passengers in the carriages , or serious loss of life might have been the consequence , as the waggons were dashed over the embankment , closely followed by the engine and the carriages attached . The train guard , driver , and stoker escaped unhurt : but the maiL guard sustained severe injuries .

      Some shocking injuries have resulted to a little boy about six years old from a foolish trick which he was playing . The child , who belongs to a coachman employed by Captain Mackinnon , R . N " ., of Ham Common , lay down in tlie roadway , and covered himself up with dead leaves . A cart ( fortunately empty ) was passing at the time ; and the driver , not conceiving that the leaves contained anything human , drove across thena ^ One of the wheels went over the child ' s face , completely smashing the nose and breaking in the teeth - The sufferer was got out in a terrible state of mutilation , and was ultimately taken to St . George ' s Hospital , where he now lies slowly recovering ; but he will be disfigured for life .

      A child has been killed at Brompton by an , accident resulting from climbing up behind a cab . While hanging on at the back , one of his feet was caught by the wheels , which drew him over and dashed him on . the ground . The left leg was torn off at the knee joint , and other injuries were sustained , which in the course of a day or two ended in death . A man named William Birchall and his wife were returning late oh Monday evening to Hoyland from Rotherham " statutes , " and had reached a part of the road near the village of Elsecar where there is a reservoir on each side of the path , when they were alarmed by some missiles being thrown at them . The night was very dark , and the woman screamed out " Murder !" while her husband made a precipitate flight , leaving his wife to take care of herself . He dashed through a hedge , and fell into one of the reservoirs , where his body was found on the following morning .

      Frederick Waters , a night policeman , about seventeen years of age , in the service of the Taff Yale Railway Company , was killed on Wednesday week by the up luggage train . He was on his way home to Stormstown ; the luggage train was approaching , and he attempted to spring into the last truck but one , but lost his hold , and fell . Both trucks passed over his body , and nearly cut him in two . The bodies of the thirteen men wholosfc their lives by the inundation at the Bryn Mally colliery on the 30 th of September , having at length been recovered , an inquest has been opened , which stands adjourned .

      Several porters at the Lime-street station of the London and North-Western Railway Company , were amusing themselves with feats of strength , when one of them , while in the act of lifting a bundle of steel bars on hia shoulder , slipped and fell . The weight struck him on the neck close to the base of the skull , crushing Mm so severely that he died in twenty minutes . An artizan at the chemical works near Carmarthen stooped over the cog-wheels of a steam engine which was in motion , to reach a hammer which had been left "beyond the wheels . He was warned of the peril in which he placed himself , but replied that there was no danger . At that moment , however , the wheel caught his jacket , dragged him in , tore off one arm , and inflicted other injuries , from which he speedilv died .

      Pike , the fireman of the London and North-Western Railway , who was injured In the collision which occured during the fog last Wednesday week ( of which an account appeared in our previous issue ) , died on the ensuing Friday morning at the farmhouse to which he was taken . An inquest was held on . the same day , and terminated in a verdict of Accidental Death . " The evidence received went to show that , as originally stated , the coupling iron had broken , and that the guard or Dreaksmah stationed on the train , not knowing what had occurred , owing to the fog , did not apply the break . He states that he perceived a slackening of speed ( which was in fact owing to the carriages proceeding simply by their own momentum down the incline ) , but that he

      attributed this to the driver doing something to his engine . The driver was first made aware of the catastrophe by noticing the increased speed of his engine , although he had not put on any extra pressure . Looking back , he saw that the carriages were unattached . Ho kept on for about a mile and a quarter , wlien he stopped , in order that Pike , the fireman , might go hack and signal the guard on the train . At that instant , the train struck the engine . The latter was not reversed . The driver called out to Pike that the train was upon them , and at the same moment he set his engine in motion ; but the mischief was done . The engine was overturned ; Oscar

      the driver , wns thrown over the boiler , and severely acalded ; and Pike was mortally injured . —In the course of the evidence , Mr . M'Connell , one of the supcrintendants on the line , explained that a recent improvement has been adopted by tho London and North-Western Company for securing safety of travelling over their line . This is the establishment of a " special train telegraph , " with sigual stations every two miles . At each station , a policeman is on duty niglit and day , in Vrhose watchbox there is a telegraph dial with a single needle . By inclining the needle to the left hand , tho person in charge gives notice to tho next station that a

      train has passed on to tho two miles of road entrusted to his special care , while inclining it to the right hand shows that the train lias passed off that portion of the lino . Thero aro in fact but two signals— " train on" and " train off ; " but as it may happen , as in this case , that an accident occurs upon tho two miles of road between the telegr aph stations , tho guards and brenksmen are intructed instantly to sever tho " special tmin wire , " which has tho effect of placing the needle at each next station in an upright position . Tho policeman on duty at onco becomes aware by this movement that something is wrong , and is immediately placed in a position to act according to circumstances . Several of tho jury remarked that tho system appears to be well calculated to prevent accident .

      A fatal accident has occurred to a Mr . William Tyror , an independent gentleman residing at Liverpool . Being troubled with solution , ho determined on having ft warm p ath ; but some timo having elapsed without his appearing again , his housekcepor went into his room , and found mm iaco downwards in tho bath , lie wag fluito dund , and " acl apparently fallen hoad foremost in an apoplectic lit . Several parts of his person wore much scalded . —Another 6 0 n tleman has since been drowned in tho samo wny . A sorioua casualty happened last Saturday to Mr .

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      STATE OF TRADE . The trade reports from . the manufacturingtown 3 for the week ending last Saturday contain nothing of importance . At Manchester , the market is without alteration . The Birmingham advices indicate a slight increase of steadiness , in the iron , trade . In the general manufactures' of the place tliere is fair employment , and the arrangements likely -to be made in connexion with the suspension of Fox , Henderson , and Co ., are expected to prevent the extension of any serious inconvenience from that event . At Nottingham , this is usually a quiet season , but the American orders for lace continue on a satisfactory scale . In the woollen districts confidence is well maintained , and tho character of the home demand givea evidence of the prosperous condition of the general population . Tho Irish linen markets have not been well supported , and prices are tending downwards . - —Times .

      In tho general business of tlic port of London during tho same week tho number of vessels reported inward was 1 G 8 , being 8 G less than in the previous week . These included 16 with cargoes of grain , rice , and flour ; 20 with fruit , 5 with sugar , and 8 with toa . The number of ships cleared outward was 108 , including 9 in ballast , showing , a decrcaso of 21 . Tho total number of ships on tho berth loading for tho Australian colonies is 50 , being 4 more than in tho last account . Of those , 7 are for Adelaide , 3 for Gcclong , 3 for Hobart-town , 6 for Launccston , 3 for Melbourne , 2 for Moreton-bay , 8 for Kew Zealand , 12 for Port Philip , 11 for Sydney , 1 for Swan ltiver , and 1 for AVarrnnmbool . —Idem . In consequence of the letter addressed by the Crystal Palace Company to tho Stock-Exchiuige , of which wo gavo the substance hist week , being considered satisfactory , the committco liavo resolved that tho name of tho company shall bo continued in tho Official List as usual .

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      AMERICA . Pkmocuaticat * election successes arc still recorded . In Florida , 11 io pro-slnrory candidate for tho Governorship has boon elected by upwards of four thousand majority . The same party iipponi ' . s also tohnvo a majority in Indiana , and it is stated that tho Con ^ rcrtsiouul oloutions , so far as they arc yet dctcrmii icd , show a gain of fifty-two members in ten states for tho Democrats . In Ohio , however , tho

      Congressional vote shows the election of twelve Republicans and only eight Democrats . The Tillmoreites in Pennsylvania have refused to Unite -with the Fremont party , thus weakening the cause of the Free-soil men . In the meanwhile , strange tricks are imputed toy the Republican party to the Government . It is stated by the Washington correspondent of the New Torh Herald that the Secretary of War has transferred nearly all , if not quite all , the troops from the ports on the Virginia coasts to other stations . " Startling aB it may appear , ' *" he writes , "I am told that this has been done for political effect . It is to enable the democracy of Virginia , by an apparent popular insurrection , to seize those ports about a week before the election , as an indication and earnest , indeed , of what Governor "Wise , Jeff I > avies , Governor Adams , of South Carolina , and their followers , intend to do if Fremoat shall be elected to the Presidency . "

      In Kansas , two hundred and fifty emigrants , men , Women , and children , had been stopped near the Nebraska line by a Deputy Marshal , disarmed , and placed under surveillance . To insure their stoppage , seven hundred men , with six pieces of cannon , -were drawn up . The property of the emigrants -was taken possession of . A session of the Episcopal Convention was held at Philadelphia on the 21 st ult ., at which Mr . Bucliatian attended . The House of Deputies was notified that the House off Bishops had erected Kansas and Nebraska into a separate missionary diocese , and had nominated the Rev . Dr . Clarke , of Waterbury ( Connecticut ) , bishop . A discussion , of rather a warm character , thereupon ensued , some being of opinion that it was unadvLsable to create the new diocese . The debate was adjourned .

      The war between Nicaragua and Costa Rica proceeds with vig-our . General Walker has made an attack on the Costa Ricans' and their allies , and after two battles has driven them back upon Massaya , where , at the last dates , he was preparing again to attack them . Walker asserts that he was completely victorious in both fights , although he had but 10 OO men engaged , and the "enemy Were 40 O 0 strong . The enemy lost 1100 men in killed and wounded . Walker ' s loss was small . The decree of the Nicaraguan Constituent Assembly abolishing slavery has been revoked . At a public dinner , Colonel Wheeler , the United States Minister , freely expressed the sympathy which his Government entertains towards Walker . Lieutenant Estelle , a native of Tennessee , has been tried by court-martial and shot for murdering a brother officer . Walker ' s force is represented as numbering 1500 Americans . The allied force is estimated at 3000 .

      The sales of church property in Mexico have realized up to the Oth ult . the sum of five million dollars . At that date , there were rumours of impending revolution under the influence of the clergy . " Brigham Young , " says the Times : "New * York correspondent , "has turned up once more in a troublesome way in TJtah . Brigham dislikes the presence of the Gentiles in his settlement . I am afraid , from all I see and hear , that these wicked barbarians find more favour in the harems of Utah than suits the sanctified notions of the Mormon leaders . They have had a grand convocation in the Temple to denounce the infidels , and have followed up their denunciations by watching the federal mails , to prevent egress or ingress of suspicious persons . "

      We read in the same letter : — " Charpentier , the principal person connected with the frauds upon the Northern Railway , of France , has been arrested in a most romantic manner . It seems that he succeeded ia eluding the vigilance of the officers and escaped to the country , where he disguised himself as d . . farm labourer , and let himself to a farmer . He was arrested by a mysterious person , melodramatically draped in a large cloalc , who fettered him and brought him to New York at midnight . An official was aroused from his bed , and , while in a state of undignified and offended semi-nudity , was required to receive and take charge of the prisoner , tho officer arresting keeping his cloak draped about bis face , and refusing to give hts name . A portion of the money has also been recovered . " The mysterious officer , after leaving his prisoner , went away , and has not been seen

      since , nor is it known who he was . It was found that Charpentier was handcuffed , and in great pain from the swelling of his wrists about tho manacles . His hands were then sot free , though with some difficulty . A portion of tho shares has been discovered under the pavement of a coal-cellar of a house in . New York , let out in separate tenements . Information that it was thero concealed was conveyed in an anonymous letter to M . Tissandier , inspector of the French Northern Railroad Company , now in Now York . The letter gave tlio most precise instructions as to how tho box containing tho property Was burled ; and M . Tissandier accordingly obtained a search-warrant , and , the coals having been removed from tho place indicated , tho pavement waB talten up , and tho box , with tho valuables inside , was found . Money is comparatively easy at New York .

      The factory girls of Lowell havo given expression to their feelings upon tho late Snmncr outrage , by sending to Mr . P . 9 . Brooks thirty pieces of silver ( three cent pieces ) , a ropo , and a winding sheet , with , a lottor frcoly expressing their sentiments .

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      IRELAND . RF-rrtrcsENTATioN op Bandon . —A vacancy has been created in tho representation of tho borough of ISandon by the death of the Earl of Bniulou nud the consequent

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      November 8 / 1856 . ] THE LEADER . 1059

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 8, 1856, page 1059, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2166/page/3/