described the accident:—"When the train arrived at
Seaforth, a gentleman and lady were upon the platform.
As the train was about to move, the gentleman opened
the door of the carriage in which I was seated, and
appeared as if about to get in, but the lady urged him
not to do so. He seemed undecided what to do, and
replied 'No, no!' but continued to walk down the
platform, holding by the handle of the carriage-door.
He then let go, and I shut the door. On looking out of
the window, I perceived the gentleman lay hold of the
handle of a door lower down the train, and by a sudden
jerk of the carriage he was thrown down sideways. The
lady had hold of his coat, and they were both gradually
pulled in between the carriages and the platform. In
this way they were drawn along with the train for
about ten seconds, the wheels pulling them gradually in.
I shouted out, and the train was ultimately stopped,
and in about five minutes the bodies were extricated;
life was found to be extinct. In my opinion, the gentleman
had sufficient time to get into the carriage, had he
not been so nervous and undecided." A verdict of
Accidental death was returned, coupled with the
following presentment:—"The jury cannot separate
without remonstrating with the Lancashire and
Yorkshire Railway Company against the removal from duty
on Sundays, from roadside stations, of the porters
generally employed when extra traffic generally occurs."

The Melbourne, screw-steamer, belonging to the
Australian Mail Packet Company, after a Series of
Disasters in the Channel, at Plymouth, and in the open
sea, put into Lisbon on the 24th of last month, dismasted
and in a leaky state.

The Fire-Annihilator works in Battersea Fields were
Destroyed by Fire on Sunday the 31st ult., with loss of
life. The building, a detached one, belonged to a
company which manufactures Phillips's fire-annihilators;
the composition employed was made there and baked in
ovens, and then deposited in the machines. On Sundays,
a watchman named Garrard had charge of the premises
and fires, and his wife was in the habit of coming to him
in the morning and cooking their dinner in the factory.
In the morning her husband left her in the house while
he went into a field to gather herbs; when he returned
a few minutes afterwards, he found the place in flames.
He shouted to his wife, but obtained no answer. The
people who were proceeding to a church in the
neighbourhood did what they could to assist Garrard, and
engines were quickly obtained from town; but the fire
burnt so fiercely that the premises were soon gutted,
the chemical agents employed in the manufacture
feeding the flames. As soon as the firemen could enter
the building they searched for Mrs. Garrard's body: it
was found in a cupboard, with some portions consumed.
The disaster is surmised to have originated from an
over-heated flue; the poor woman had either been in
the cupboard when the flames broke forth and
overpowered her, or she had run there thinking it a refuge.
An inquest was held on the following day. The evidence
was not decisive as to the cause of the fire, but the jury
coupled with their verdict of Accidental death an
opinion that "the fire occurred from the ignition of
wood in the oven or drying- room, by reason of a too
near approximation thereof to the flues."

A shock of Earthquake, which appears to have
commenced on the shores of Dublin and Wicklow, and taking
nearly a circular direction, extended in England as far as
Gloucester, occurred on the 9th inst. about half past four
in the morning. The disturbances, upon a comparison
of time, were as nearly as possible simultaneous; at
least there is no appreciable difference in the times they
are reported to have been perceived in different places.
The course taken was across the Irish Channel—where,
however, the passengers in the ordinary packets, running
between Kingstown and Liverpool and Kingstown and
Holyhead, did not perceive any indications of the
phenomenon—along the coast of North Wales, through the
principal districts of South Lancashire, and along the
edges of Cheshire and Shropshire into Gloucestershire.
The weather for several days previously had been wet
and sultry, with a warm and unseasonable atmosphere.
No actual damage was done anywhere, though the
motion was considerable.

In consequence of the continuous rain, the metropolis
and various parts of the country have been subjected to
severe Inundations. On the 12th an unusually high tide
swept both banks of the Thames, as far as Putney;
doing considerable damage. As usual the Surrey side
suffered the most. Some of the lower streets were four
feet under water; the inhabitants escaping in wagons
and boats. At Lambeth, the gardens of the palace were
flooded, and a boat was carried into the burial-ground of
Lambeth Old Church. Fore-street, High-street, and
Lambeth Butts, were several feet under water. The
Lammas lands as far as Putney were all under water.
The towing-path on the Surrey side of the Thames was
covered with water to the depth of six feet. At
Bermondsey and Rotherhithe, and all along, the river-side
as far as Bankside was covered some feet deep; and it
required the most prompt measures to prevent the tide
from rushing into the furnaces of the various gas-works,
iron-foundries, and breweries. Great devastation has
taken place in Herefordshire. The Wye, the Lagg, and
the Frome overflowed. The London mail-coach was
swallowed up in the wreck of a bridge over the Frome; one
passenger and one horse were drowned; boats saved the
rest of the passengers. The mail-bags were partially
rescued. Hereford was then surrounded by water. The
property destroyed on the river-banks is considerable.
Floods are also reported at Market Harborough and
Leicester, and at Newton Abbotts in Devon; at the former
places, the Soar expanded into a lake; at the latter,
the Teign burst its banks, and carried off much property.
Birmingham was visited with a disastrous flood on the
night of the 11th. The river Rea, which is fed by the
water flowing from the Licky Hills, in consequence of
the continued and heavy rains, rose many feet above its
usual level. The streets, houses, and manufactories,
were flooded, and great damage was done, while
communication on foot was stopped. One house was partly
washed down. The carcases of animals that were borne
on the stream showed that the agricultural districts of
Worcestershire had suffered from the flood. Traffic was
stopped on the Bristol and Birmingham Railway. Loss
of life has taken place in several parts of the country.
A melancholy case occurred at Walton-upon-Thames, a
village near Chertsey, upon the South Western Railway.
On Saturday evening, the 20th, about five o'clock, Sarah,
the wife of James Lilley, together with her son, a boy
about twelve years old, and her daughter, aged fourteen,
together with their father, had been employed on App's
Court farm, in the occupation of Mr. William Careless,
and were returning home from their work at the above
hour to their cottage which is at present, in consequence
of the floods, completely surrounded by water. The
farm of Mr. Careless is surrounded by a deep moat,
which separates the cottage of the deceased and another
from the farm where they had been at work, and their
ordinary mode of getting to this cottage was by means
of a path running along the side of the moat, and then
over a high embankment at the end of it. This
embankment was three feet under water, and therefore to
get to their cottage they had recourse to a beer-cooler,
about seven feet long, four feet wide, and only seven
inches in depth, for the purpose of being punted across
the moat, which was thirty yards wide. On the above
evening, Mrs. Lilley, with her son and daughter,
attempting to cross in this way, without waiting for her
husband's assistance, when they fell into the water, and
all the three perished.

Information has been received from Gottenburg of
the total Wreck of the Victoria Steam-ship, from Hull
for St. Petersburg, by which five of the crew and three
passengers lost their lives. She sailed from Hull on the
24th ult., but encountered a terrific gale, with a heavy
sea, in the Sleeve, on the 28th, by which, among other
damage sustained, she had her wheel and paddleboxes
broken, and two cases of machinery which were on deck
washed overboard. She consequently put back to Hull,
where she arrived on the 1st inst., and from the
advanced state of the season it was not anticipated that
she would sail during the winter; however, having
repaired damages, she left Hull for her original destination
on Saturday, the 6th inst , and encountered another
fearful gale on the 8th and 9th inst., during which she
was totally lost on the rocks off Wingo Beacon, near
Gottenburg. Three passengers and five of the crew