The accounts from Dundrum Bay are disastrous. The Great Britain
is a wreck: Captain Claxton has stated that the rivets in the ship's bottom started on Monday ; and the continued heavy weather precludes all hope, Two accidents are reported, today, on the Eastern Counties Railway. Between the stations of Stanstead and Bishop's Stortford, at two o'clock this morning, a coal-train was stopped to adjust the machinery, which was out of.order; and a man was sent back to the nearest station to stop an expected up-train, laden with fish. That train, however, did not stop, but ran into the coal-train. The engine of the fish-train was broken to pieces, several trucks were destroyed, and both lines of the railway were strewed with fragments; which it took some hours to clear away. No one was hurt. On the same railway, last night, a man was killed. He got off a train at Brick Lane; but descending on the wrong side, he tried to cross the couplings which fastened two carriages together, slipped, and was killed by the train, which passed over his body.
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