implicated in the late Fatal Duel at Windsor, to be
admitted to bail. It will be remembered that they had
been committed to prison on the coroner's inquisition,
and also by the magistrates, upon the charge of murder,
committed in the late fatal duel near Egham. Lord
Campbell delivered the judgment. Having carefully
looked at the depositions taken before the magistrates
and the coroner, the Court were of opinion that they
would not be justified in yielding to the application. It
appeared there was an inquisition finding the parties
guilty of wilful murder. On looking at the depositions,
it appeared that the death took place in a duel, and the
Court were of opinion that there was evidence to
support the finding of the coroner's jury. The Court
would not say that the evidence was conclusive; on the
contrary, as they said in the previous case, "God grant
them a good deliverance." The parties were in the
situation of persons against whom a grand jury had
found a verdict of wilful murder. It was unnecessary
to consider what course the Court would pursue if there
had been no evidence, for in this case there was evidence,
and the Court could not say that the grand jury was
wrong. It would therefore be contrary to all the
principles upon which the Court had uniformly acted if
it were to grant the habeas corpus. There was no
distinction between the case where murder took place
in a duel or in any other transaction, and it would be
inexpedient that there should be. Time was when
public opinion was contrary to the law of the land, but
it had now taken a turn, and was in accordance with it,
and he trusted that the time would soon arrive when
duelling would be considered not only illegal but
absurd. There was in this decision no clashing with
the decision which had been come to by the Court of
Queen's Bench in Dublin, who had refused to interfere
with the inquisition taken upon the Sixmile-bridge case,
upon the ground that it was contrary to the weight of
the evidence. If there had been evidence to show a
want of jurisdiction, the case might have been different:
but here, as there was jurisdiction, and there was
evidence to go to the jury, the Court could not interfere.
The application was refused.

     NARRATIVE OF ACCIDENT AND
                      DISASTER.

A POOR old widow, named Withers, was accidentally
Killed on the 29th ult, on the Reading and Basingstoke
branch line of the Great Western Railway. The old
woman, who was very deaf and partially blind, lived
close by the line, over which there is a crossway. She
got on the line with the intention of going to her
daughter's who lived near, and while crossing it, the
train from Reading was passing on the down line, and,
coming up at the moment, struck her. About half an
hour afterwards, the wife of a labourer, perceiving
something lying on the line, went up to it, and was
horror-stricken at beholding the old woman quite dead,
her brains being scattered about, her legs both broken,
and her body mutilated. On being struck on the head
by the engine, she must have been carried some little
distance, as the body was found more than a dozen
yards' distant from the crossing. She had repeatedly
been warned of her danger in going across the railway
without an attendant, which caution appears to have
been but little heeded by her. Formerly, however,
gates were placed on either side of this crossway, and a
policeman was stationed at the spot on the approach of
the trains; but both had been removed—it is said on
the score of economy.

A Railway Accident has occurred from running
an express train into a goods train. The express train
from Brighton to London, on the morning of the 1st
inst., as it approached the Redhill goods station, near
the Reigate junction, ran into part of a goods train
which was in the very process of being shunted from a
siding on to the up-line—that is on to the line upon
which it must have been known the express train was
approaching. The shock was great, though the speed
of the express had been slackened, as the train stops at
Reigate junction. Some trucks were destroyed, and
both engines were damaged. There were twelve or
fourteen passenger-carriages, full of people, and very
few escaped unhurt. Many were cut and bruised, and
a lady had her leg broken. Fortunately, two medical
men were in the train; they were slightly hurt
themselves, but they immediately rendered assistance to
their fellow-sufferers. Other surgeons having arrived
from Reigate, splints and bandages were applied to the
lady's leg, and she was conveyed back to Brighton
without being removed from the carriage. The Earl of
Chichester and Lord Foley were in the train; the
former was wounded on the head. The driver of the
goods train, the guard, and the pointsman, (Lambe,
Clarke, and Brewer,) were taken into custody. Next
day they were charged before the Reigate magistrates
with endangering the lives of passengers by their
neglect. The evidence showed that the collision was
produced by their acting contrary to the rules laid down
for them. If either of the main lines at Redhill are
obstructed, prominent danger-signals are ordered to be
exhibited; and these can be seen by approaching trains
at a great distance. The driver, guard, and pointsman,
ought to have taken care that the up-line was not in any
way obstructed at a time when an express train was due;
and if any unavoidable occupation of the rails had
occurred, the danger-signals should have been exhibited.
Three minutes before the collision, the station-master
saw that the line was clear, and that the signals denoted
it, and he then went into the station; directly after,
the engine and some trucks were moved out of a siding
on to the up-line: all the prisoners should have looked
to the signal, and seeing it denoted a clear line, they
knew that that was a prohibition against encumbering
the up-rails. The prisoners attempted to justify
themselves by alleging that there was an insufficiency of
hands at the station. The magistrates appeared to
think that this allegation was not without foundation;
but this did not affect the question as to the negligence
of the accused, and they convicted all three, inflicting
on each the highest punishment in their power—two
months' imprisonment, with hard labour.

A similar Accident occurred on the Midland Railway,
at the King's Norton station; and Thomas Clark, the
station-master, was charged before the magistrates with
having caused the accident by neglect. He allowed a
goods train to remain on the line when an express train
was due, and used defective signal-lamps: the express
train ran into the other, and there were disastrous
consequences, though no loss of life. It appeared that
Clark had altered the burners of the lamps, so that they
gave hardly any light; and the driver of the express
could not see them in time. But it also appeared that
the goods train was despatched from Birmingham two
hours after its time, with a passenger train to follow in
half an hour; to allow this to pass, Clark put the goods
train on the other line, but forgot to apprise the people
in charge of it that the express was due. The
magistrates said, there was no excuse for the defendant
neglecting the signal-lamps; but in consideration of the
undue responsibility thrown upon him by the company,
by despatching the goods train from Birmingham two
hours after its customary lime, and which was the main
cause of the accident, they should mitigate the penalty
below the sum to which he would otherwise be liable.
They fined him 50s.

Three men were Killed on the Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire Railway, near Sheffield, by a fall of
earth, on Friday, the 5th instant. A large engine-shed
was to be constructed on the side of the railway, at the
foot of an embankment. A deep excavation had been
made beneath the embankment for the foundation of
the walls; the soil was very loose and the sides of the
trench were supported by timber and planks. A piece
of timber slipped from the workmen's hands, struck a
support, and caused some of the planks to give way.
Fresh supports were introduced, but these proved
insufficient and while four men were in the trench,
about four in the afternoon, the earth began to fall in.
One man escaped, but the others were overwhelmed by
an immense mass of soil and timber.

Mr. Hamintt, wine-merchant in Liverpool, an infirm
old gentleman, and his niece were Killed at the Seaforth
station on the Liverpool and Southport Railway on the
7th inst. At the inquest on their bodies, a passenger