In the districts of Halifax, Bradford, and Huddersfield, the friends
of equal rights to the whole commueity ore in 0 state of' activity. The report of the delegates from the London Working Metes Association is highly encouraging, and shows what may be done if men would but put their shoulders to the wheel. In every town, village, and hamlet of the West Riding, Associations are either forming or formed, not only for the purpose of organizing the popular force on the ere a question of triiversal suffrage, but likewise fur circulating tracts and cheap publicus (Li Lire's.
la the North of England, the state of the manufasturing interest is still improving. The accounts of the harvest continue to be generally farourable throughout the country.
On Saturday evening, a sad accident occurred on the 13i1 mingham and Liverpool railway. The ti sin for Lirminghain left Manchester at six o'clock ; and proceeded, at the rate of tweoty.tive miles an hour, as far as the Keityon junction. Here, unfortunr,ssly, was in waiting a train, consisting of two coaches, from Belton. 'They lean waiting for the Manchester train, and were on the line on eil;,• '1 s iminehion
train wit, :omroael'ing. The (ass:I:leer, from s, ..• s. lint %- plained, did ii t slacken his ,pees: and the re rut v . : e • al
into the t'so Bolton voted . s 'lit cost-Jo ice ass et
of the coach next the c was ca.uud away ; me,at i'I the inside was killed on the instant. `010 knees, in her alarm, 1:11(1 in order to save the inflow, a of 1.
the coach. Unfortunately it too wiLi, killed. Tinoo . 1., were
the only deaths which the eacident ,CCI.V,i0110d. Sr We. re,
by the shock, precipitated on t be road, and some were moose to' in- jured; but not so seriously as to prevent their being cello( where every attention has been paid to them. This is ts: -t time since the opening of either the Liverpool and iirmiton::,,o, or the Liverpool und Alanalestet Railways, that one train has 1 on into ano- ther. The hour being early, and it being clear daylialit at the time, a suspicion has arisen that the engineer was not only iu.g.igm ot, but some- thing wore. lie disappeared immediately after the :monism, and has not since been heard of. A Coroner's Jury has retureed a verdict of "manslaughter " against the engineer and fireman of the Birmingham train.
Early on the morning of Tuesday week, the stacks in the yard of Mr. Harvey, of the Waterditch farm, near Christchurch, Hampshire, were discovered to he on fire. The flames soon reached the farm- house and buildings of Mr. Brinston, adjoining 11r. Harvey's premises ; and the whole of the property, worth upwards of 3,000L, was destroyed. It is believed that the fire was the work of an incendiary. The pro- perty was insured.
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