the goods train was signalled as having passed off the
Water-lane junction, he directed the driver of the
passenger train to proceed. From some cause unknown
the goods train had been unable to ascend the incline so
as to get out of danger, and the passenger train ran into
it with great force. The driver of the passenger train was
flung off the engine and sadly cut and bruised; and
several of the passengers were seriously hurt. On the
same day, a goods train consisting of engine, tender, and
forty-five wagons, arived in Sheffield without any one
in charge of it. The engine by which the train was
drawn was a new one of very large size. It had come
from Manchester, and was on the way to Lincoln. When
the train was a mile or two off Sheffield, one of the tubes
of the boiler burst, and the engine-driver, after
endeavouring to remedy the accident, in the course of which
he sustained a severe scalding, was fain to retreat to the
opposite end of the engine. He was still within the
range of the hissing steam, and, after a desperate effort
to endure till the scalding vapour should be exhausted,
he dropped off the engine in a state of insensibility. The
fireman and guard saved themselves by leaping off, and
the train was thus left to proceed by itself. Though the
steam had been turned off, the declivity of the line
towards Sheffield, made the train move rapidly along,
till it reached the goods station at Bridgehouses, when
its speed being diminished, a boy in the service of the
company took charge of it and brought it to the
Sheffield station. Fortunately the line happened to be clear,
otherwise great mischief would have been done. On
the 13th, a Fatal accident happened on the Gloucester
and Dean Forest Railway. A fortnight before, a young
man named Hanbury, entered the service of the
company as signal-man, and for two days an experienced
officer of the company remained with him to give him
instructions in his duty, and he was then left to himself,
with certain printed instructions as his guide. He
continued in the performance of his duties until Monday,
when he was signalling a down goods train, and this
train having passed, he stepped upon the up line to cross
it at the moment when an up train, which he had
not seen or heard, came up, and killed him on the spot.
At the inquest it was shown that in the book of instructions
given to the deceased he was desired, when signalling
a train, not to stand between the metals. The jury
returned a verdict of "Accidental death." On the
same day a Fatal accident took place during the progress
of the three o'clock down train on the South-Western
Railway. As the train was proceeding at its usual pace,
between Basingstoke and Andover-road stations, when
it had reached near Oakley-park bridge, a man was
observed by the engine-driver and stoker walking
downwards on the up line. The engine-driver instantly blew
the whistle, and made every effort to shut off the steam;
but it was too late. The engine and train passed over
the body of the unfortunate man, which was cut to
pieces. His name is Thompson, and he was in the
employment of the Telegraph Company, and resided at
Basingstoke.—A double accident occurred on the Railway
near Harrow, on the night of the 22nd. When
some little distance to the South of the station, the tire
of the near leading wheel of the engine became detached,
and left the rails. The speed at which the train was
travelling had the effect of keeping the carriages on the
line, and the engine ran along the ballast in a parallel
line with and about six inches from the rails, for nearly
a quarter of a mile. At this point the line suddenly
curves, and there being no flange to keep the engine on
the rails, it ran down the embankment, a distance of six
or seven feet, and buried itself deeply in the earth. At
the same instant, the coupling-chain between the tender
and the guard's break snapped, and the carriages, taking
an opposite direction from the engine, ran across the
down line of rails. The guard's break caught the end
of the tender as it left the line, and, after turning
completely over, was literally crushed by the carriages which
followed. Bartholomew, the guard, was frightfully
mutilated, and killed on the spot. This disaster had
scarcely taken place when the down goods-train, leaving
Camden at eleven p. m., arrived at the spot, and in the
absence of any warning signal, ran directly into the
débris; striking a composite carriage with such force as
to cut it completely in half, throwing the engine and
several trucks off the rails, and creating a frightful
scene of destruction and confusion. The driver of the
express was thrown completely over the hedge into an
adjoining field, where the wet soil protected him from
serious injury. The fireman fell between the rails, and
escaped most miraculously—several of the carriages
having passed over him without inflicting any personal
injury. The driver and stoker of the goods-train were
much shaken, but not otherwise hurt.—Lastly, a very
Serious accident took place on the 24th, to one of the up
trains on the Bristol and Exeter Railway. Until very
recently the communication between the Yatton station
and Clevedon, was accomplished by means of coaches
and omnibuses, but some time since the company laid
down a branch-line to that place, worked by means of a
small steam-engine. On the above morning, the man
who has the charge of the switches having neglected to
properly turn the points, the train was diverted from its
proper course, and ran directly onwards, coming into
violent collision with the engine-house, knocking away
the ends of the walls and a portion of the roof, and then
running away into a field adjacent. The train was very
full, as it carried third-class passengers, and a great
number of holiday-seekers were availing themselves of
the convenience it afforded to visit their friends in
Bristol, and the utmost consternation prevailed among
them. Many of them received contusions, and one
lady had her front teeth knocked out. The engine-
driver, a very steady man, named Oxford, was literally
buried beneath the débris of the fallen building, and
upon his being got out it was discovered that he had
received a severe injury of the leg, and other hurts,
which rendered it advisable to remove him to his home.
The engine was also disabled.

On Sunday morning, the 12th instant, T. Martin,
aged twenty-four, H. Burton, aged seventeen, and W.
Sheen aged twenty, assistants in the employ of Mr.
Elliot, a cheesemonger, of Portman-place, lost their lives
from Suffocation by Carbonic Acid. They had retired
to rest at an early hour on Sunday morning, in a
room where a tripod charged with candent charcoal was
standing under an opening in the skylight, there
being no chimney in the apartment. Their non-appearance
on Sunday at breakfast time led to a search, when
two of them were found dead in their beds, while
the third, Burton, was unconscious, and died in the
evening. A verdict has been returned of "Accidental
death."

SOCIAL, SANITARY, AND MUNICIPAL
PROGRESS.

THE second Report of the Great Exhibition
Commissioners respecting the disposal of the Surplus has been
published. The Commissioners have purchased the
Gore-house estate at Kensington, facing Hyde Park,
containing 211/2 acres, for which they have given £60,000.
They have also passed a resolution authorising the
outlay of a sum not exceeding £150,000 of the surplus
in the purchase of land, on the condition that the
government would engage to recommend to parliament
the contribution of a sum of like amount towards carrying
out the views of the commission as to the establishment
of certain institutions of an educational and
national character on the ground so purchased. Ministers
having given this assurance, the commissioners purchased
eight acres of land adjoining Gore-house estate for
the sum of £153,500. Of this amount £15,000 has
been paid already as a deposit.

A claim is made on behalf of the University of
London, to be represented in parliament like Oxford
and Cambridge. A meeting has been held with this
view, at which a committee was appointed for preparing
the necessary details, and subscriptions were entered
into for defraying the requisite expenditure.

A meeting of ladies was held at Stafford House on
the 26th ult., to consider the expediency of addressing
A Memorial from the Women of England to the
Women of the United States on the subject of Slavery.
The Duchess of Sutherland explained the object of