OPENING OF THE LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.—

The ceremony of opening this magnificent work took place, as had been previously arranged, on Wednesday morning. The Manchester dinner, of which so much had been said, was eaten on Monday, as a good dinner should be, with little noise and a hearty appetite. The Boroughreeve was in the chair, with the Duke of Wellington on his right. Lords Wilton, Skelmersdale, Combermere, Delawarre, Stanley, F. L. Gower, and a few -more of the Duke's friends, were present. The health of the principal guests was drunk with enthusiasm—the reports say with eighty-one cheers ! The thanks of the Duke were given with a brevity little pro- portioned to such lengthened applause. A few more toasts were drunk, and a few more speeches were spoken ; and at an early hour the com- pany separated, with deep reflections, we doubt not, on the difference between the grand and glowing picturings of hope and the petty and cold realities of fruition.

It was stated last week, that the procession at the opening of the rail- way was to set out from Manchester, to partake of a collation at Liver- pool, and return to Manchester to dinner. The necessity of consuming the haunches and ribs of red deer and fallow before they were out of season, seems to have caused an inversion of the order of eating, as well as travelling. The Liverpool dinner was fixed for Tuesday. The Manchester feast was so crowded, that the people at the other end of the line deemed it impossible to vie with it in that respect ; so they determined on making theirs select. The number was limited to two hundred ; and to prevent all complaint of partiality, the applicants for a place were admitted by ballot ! The present Mayor and the late Mayor were both excluded by the malignity of the lot. The conductors of the feast, anxious at one and the same time to record their speeches and preserve their dignity, agreed to admit one reporter of the Liverpool press, provided he would take his notes behind a screen, or among the fiddlers ; but the reporter refused, and thus the important proceedings of the meeting have perished : " Urguentur — longa Nocte carent quia rate sacro."

LAMENTABLE DEATH OF MR. HIISKISSON.

The bustle in the town of Liverpool on the night of Tuesday and the morning of Wednesday was, it may be easily conceived, very great. The hour of starting had been fixed for ten o'clock ; but long before that hour, the greater part of the travellers had assembled in the enclosed yard of the Company. At a quarter past ten, the Duke of Wellington arrived in the yard ; and at a quarter past eleven, the several parties having taken their seats, the signal-gun was fired, and the procession issued forth.

The railway consists of two roads, one for going and the other for re- turning. Had the Directors been content to use one of the roads only, all would have now been well ; but incapable of making a sufficient show of the Duke by this simple arrangement of the procession, they tetermined on occupying both roads. There were eight engines. The Northumbriati,"tvith the car whicli'arried his Grace and the other dis- tinguished visitors and the Directors, was placed on the one road ; and the cars and engines—the Phoenix, North Star, Rocket, Dart, Comet, Arrow, Meteor—in which the smaller throng were carried, were placed on the other. " The several vehicles," we quote from the Morning Chronicle, " went through the small tunnel at an easy pace, the principle of motion there being that of the inclined plane. The whole line of railway, for the first four miles out of Liverpool, was crowded with persons anxious ,So catch a glimpse of the procession, and the cheers with which the cortege rwere received were very enthusiastic. The first strikibg ob'ect we

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the cut that has been made through Ount artifi 1 c asm at this place presents an extraordinary appearance, and strongly reminded me of the rocks of Clifton, as seen when passing down the river Avon between them. The depth to whichthe cut has been effected is in some places as much as seventy feet ; and from the proportion.

ate narrowness of the width, lo still more. Some of the cleverest pieces of execution on the railway are the ' - ridges, and. that at Ranehill, in

particular, is worthy of attention : the whole of the masonry, with the exception of the outer line, is on the 'Skew, and is as fine a piece of workmanship as I ever saw. Before arriving at this bridge, we passed under a wooden bridge thrown across the railway, which, with the aid of wreaths of flowers and of ribbons, produced the effect of passing un- der a triumphal arch. Equal to the cut through Olive Mount in curi- osity, and still more picturesque in effect, is the view from the Sankey Viaduct, a bridge conveying the railway over a wide stream ; but from the amazing height which it is above the landscape beneath, a most ex- tensive prospect is laid open, and one also of first-rate rural beauty."

The procession stopped at Parkside, near Newton, to take in fuel and water for the engines ; and here occurred that most lamentable accident which has cast a deep gloom over a ceremony of no small interest, and will long render the day on which it took place a day of sorrow to the enlightened and liberal portion of the kingdom.

There are, it may be well supposed, some minute differences in the manner of describing an accident which was over in an instant, and which was necessarily accompanied by much trepidation and alarm. The following is not only the most minute, but, by comparing it with the whole of the accounts published, we are disposed to look on it as the most accurate., ' *NZ ilumbrian, with which were the Duke of Wellington, Prince iEsterhazy, ti o grt Peel, Mr. Huskisson, Mr. Holmes, and a number of other visitors, had been propelled at various rates during its journey, sometimes passing on before, sometimes falling behind the proceesion of cars on the other line. It arrived at Parkside before any of the rest, and halted. The next car that came up was the Phcenix ; it was followed close by the North Star, and at a considerable interval by the Rocket. ,This was about ten minutes before 12 o'clock. IOW been vecially requested by the Directors, that no one should alight during the journey, and even trelrciels of the party bore the same admonition. Notwith- standing these strong cautions, the Northumbrian had no sooner stopped, than twelve or fourteen of the party of the attached car got out. There were no steps by which to enter the car ; the entrance had been made at Liverpool by a ladder, which was afterwards unhooked and suss pended to the end of the vehicle./ This will sufficiently amount for the difficulty which was-expecte/101S getting again into the car, and which only one of those whom the advance of the Rocket placed in jeopardy, namely, Mr Cakraft, seems to have effected.

Mr. Huskisson had been conversing with Mr. Joseph Sanders, one of the principal promoters of the railway, and warmly congratulating him on the success which had at length crowned his plans, and as he turned away from that gentleman, he exclaimed—" Well, I must go and shake hands with the Duke of Wellington on this day at any rate." He did see the Duke, and shook hands with him very cordially, but an instant before the advance of the Rocket was announced, and the cry raised to the gentlemen on the railway to save themselves.

—The interior rails of the two ways are distant from each other about six feet ; but by the projections of the cars, the six feet are narrowed to less than three. Still there is no danger to be apprehended, pro- vided the party stand firmly in the centre of the intervening space. The greater number without difficulty reached a place of safety, some escaping before, some behind the Northumbrian. Two or three remained, either from not apprehending any danger, or from that unac- countable hesitation which is so apt to affect even the boldest and most ready-minded when placed suddenly in a position that is at once novel and hazardous.

When the alarm was given, Mr. Huskisson and Mr. Holmes, who were on the inside of the Northumbrian, and consequently between it and the advancing engine, in the hurry of the moment step- ped on the outside framework of the car. There they might have re- mained in perfect safety, and Mr. Holmes did so ; but Mr. Huskisson, fearing from the breadth of the car that his person was not safe from pressure on the passing of the Rocket, attempted to climb over the side of the car into the seats, and placed one leg over. Mr. Holmes cau- tioned him to remain as he was ; but, in the panic of the moment, he again scrambled to gain a fresh hold of the side of the carriage : and in so doing, caught the door, which gave way, and in the struggle, Mr. Huskisson fell to the ground, at the moment the Rocket engine passed. He apparently endeavoured to fall with hilbody Pais-Jet wiffiEiralri, so that be might be safe in the space between the two lines of road ; but in the fall and shock, his right leg doubled up and got across the rail. road of the Rocket. Whether the engine.wheels, or the wheels of its carriage, or both, passed over the leg and thigh in that position, does not appear certain : one of the 'attendants of the. Rocket states that three wheels of the engine and following carriage went over it. The Rocket immediately on the call of danger was stopped. Several gentle- men ran to the spot, and found Mr. Huskisson weltering in blood, and lying across the two roads. Lord Wilton, Mr. William Rathbone, of Liverpool, and Mr. Joseph Parkes, of Birmingham, were the first that came to his assistance. After some minutes' consultation as to the best mode of removing the unfortunate sufferer, the door of one of the company's adjacent hovels was procured, and brought to the spot. They then placed him upon it, carefully removing his lower limbs and shat- tered leg and thigh. The latter were dreadfully. mangled, and appa- rently separated in two parts below the knee, and far above the knee at the upper part of the thigh. Mr. Parkes, in moving the fracture to the board, expressed hope that he did not add to the pains Mr. Lluskisson

who was close to the spot, " none that heard will ever forget !" have been made the instant Mr. Huskisson arrived at Eccles.

possible, to steady him, so that he should feel the motion of the machine The Duke of Wellington left the car before it reached Liverpool, and RS little as possible. In this condition he was brought to Eccles. Mr. proceeded to Childwall, the seat of the Marquis of Salisbury, where he Huskisson, who bore up with astonishing fortitude against the torture had been previously residing. It had been arranged that a dinner should/ that was racking his whole frame, was the first to suggest that he should be given to his Grace on Thursday ; and, little to the credit either of the be removed to the house of the Rev. Mr. Blackburn, the vicar of that feelings or the understanding of the nativesof Liverpool, it was actually place. The hint was of course obeyed ; and still lying on the board, he expected that the Duke would, notwithstanding the events of the pre- was borne to Mr. Blackburn's house, which is about two hundred yards vious day, pass through the town in procession for their gratification!

ceed to Manchester in the orchestral car for that purpose. By this " Childwall, Sept. 16, 1830, half-past 7 A. It: means the attendance of Mr. Ransom was procured. Mr. Ransom " Sir,—I enclose a note received about an hour ago, front Lord Wilton, which brought amputating instruments with him ; and on his arrival a consul- will make you acquainted with the melancholy result of the misfortune of yesterday. lotion took place, at which it was unanimously determined that it was " Having all been witnesses of this misfortune, and as all must fed for the loss which the public, and the town of Liverpool in particular, have sustained in Sir. out ofthe question to attempt any operation at that time: theonlychance Huskisson, I do not think that it would be satisfactory to any, that there should be ivas to wait, in hopes of the patient rallying. 11r. Ransom, in speaking at this moment in the town any parade or festivity. of Mr. Huskisson's condition at this time, observed, " If I were to lay

him on the table and commence the o

p , he would die under it." I r" i Likewise beg leave to suggest to you the expediency of postponing to some The rallying which was so anxiously waited for, never took place ! Every future period the ceremony of your delivering to me the freedom of your corpora. moment the illustrious sufferer grew weaker. The spasms which had tion, to which you did me the honour of admitting me some time ago. first appeared in the car in which he was carried to Eccles recurred with " I have the honour to be, Sir, great violence, and at times it ssemed as if the whole frame was one iiiii- "WELLINGTON." vessel convulsion ; the intervals only served to show the havoc which his "The Worshipful the Mayor of Liverpool."

sufferings were making. A little after six, Mr. Huskisson made it The following letter from the late Mr. litiskisson's private secretary his special request to Mr. Blackburn, that he would administer the was published the same day :-

sacrament to him ; which was accordingly performed by the reverend‘: EccZes Vicarage, Wednesday, Sept. 15. gentleman. When this rite was concluded, Mr. Huskisson asked for " Sir,—With the deepest grief, I have to acquaint yuu, for the information of Mr. Wainewright, his private secretary, for the purpose of dictating to breathed his last at nine o'clock this evening. He was attended from the moment him certain alterations in his will. At that moment, his voice was as of the accident, with indefatigable assiduity, by 1)r. Brandreth, of Liverpool, Dr. s firm, and his style as clear and collected, as it ever had been in transact- Hunter, of Edinburgh, and Mr. Eansome, Mr. Whatton, Sir. Garside, and Mr. ing the most ordinary business. Mr. lirainewright received his instruc- " His last moments wen soothed by the devoted attentions of his now distracted Veils, and retired into the next room to draw them up. When they widow, and by the presence of some of his distinguished and faithful friends. were finished, he brought them back to the drawing-room, and read " I have the bun or to be, Sir, them over to him. Mr. H "'The Mayor, Liverpool." suggested some slight alterations, and signed the document ! " I have It has been proposed that the town should honour Mr. Huskisson's seen," says the Chronicle correspondent, " the signature so affixed—the

last act of the life of Mr. Huskisson. As I had an opportunity of corn- new cemetery ; but Mrs. Huskisson is understood to have declined ac-

paring it with his usual handwriting, I am competent to pronounce how near it resembled his customary way of writing. The formation of all the letters is essentially the same—particularly the capital H ; although it is easy to see how shaken the hand must have been that wrote it." It is a curious fact, and strongly indicative of the singular and habitual accuracy of the deceased, that when the letters of the signature were Huskisson never had any children. completed, Mr. Huskisson called for the paper back again, to place a point after the W. the first letter of his christian name. OLD BAILEY.—The Sessions commenced on Thursday with a heavy During the intervals of pain, or rather of spasm, Mr. Huskisson took calendar. Murder 1, burglary 2, housebreaking 8, highway robbery 7, occasionally a little wine and water and a few grapes, to quench his forgery 3, unnameable offences 2, rape 3, cutting and maiming 1, stealing dying thirst: this was the only thing administered, except a little Ian- in dwelling-houses 18, arson 1, returning from transportation 1, slave danum, with a view to relieve his sufferings. About eight o'clock he dealing (the first case at the Old Bailey for the last twelve years) 5, em- began to sink so rapidly, that all intentions of amputation were finally bezzlement 9, sending threatening letter 1, stealing from the person 01 abandoned by his medical attendants, and every hope of saving his life receiving stolen goods 91,m manslaughter 2, larcenies 250, selling counter, was given up. At five minutes past nine, his sufferings were termi- feit coin 2, bigamy 1, fraud 4.i nated by death. Mrs. Huskisson, who had never left him from the THE MURDERER OF LONG THE POLICE MAN.—Smith, the persons moment when the lamentable disaster took place, was by his side. As charged as the murderer of Long, was re-examined at Batton Garden on soon as it was ascertained that he was dead, the unhappy lady, who Tuesday. The object of the examination was to identify him with one had hitherto maintained an admirable self-control, yielded to the natural William Sapwell, formerlya journeyman baker in Charlton Street, Fitzroy influence of her feelings; and at last was separated from the body almost Square. Two witnesses named Massy and Long, the latter of whom had by force, by the Earl of Wilton and Lord Granville, who also heard the been charged as one of Smith's accomplices, but released on proving to last groans of the expiring statesman. the satisfaction of the Magistrate that he was not in Gray's Inn Road It was stated at Eccles, that Mr. Huskisson died from loss of blood; on the night of the murder, positively swore that John Smith's. real and a previous operation, combined with weakness of body from long- name was Sapwell, and he-was accordingly committed under the alias continued ill-health, were assigned as the reasons why an operation was thus established. not attempted. Both of these statements seenflo be inaccurate. The CUTTING AND MAINING.—As Captain Brown, of the ship Thames, loss of blood was by no means great; and Mr. Huskisson fell a victim and another gentleman, were passing Shadwell Church on Sunday night not to its abstraction, but to the terrible shock given to the nervous sys- about half-past six, a ruffian named Nymand, an Irish bagpiper, came be- tem in consequence of the ef tell§rile.—tf eran gent ent of tfre parts of his hind them, and without the slightest provocation given or alleged, or even 1 a7fd-Ttiighiliarn the accidents-slim -disorder, if it may be called so, the exchange of a word, drew a knife across Captain Brown's face; by of which he died, was preciaely of the same nature as that called tetanus, which the cheek vas laid open from the mouth to the ear. The wound

*which so commonly supervenes after extensive lacerated wounds, and of was a very deep and dangerous oue ; the point of the knife havingpassed

shook his head in the negative, and replied, " This is my death ;" and which the universal spasms are the true characteristic—the locked jaw in a few moments faintly said, " God forgive me." being only an isolated feature. It was the presence of the spasms, and Mrs. Huskisson was in the Northumbrian, and witnessed her hus- not the apprehension of the bleeding, that prevented the amputation. band's fall, and the crushing and tearing of the muscles and bones from With the requisite care, the most extensive amputations are now made the ankle nearly as high as the hip, as the wheel grided over the unhappy with almost no loss of blood. In France, where operators are more gentleman ; and her shriek of agony, says the reporter of the Times, bold, perhaps rash, than inEngland, we rather think an operation would No great effusion of blood took place, nor does it appear that any of An inquest was held on the body of Mr. Huskisson on Thursday the great arteries were wounded ; but the laceration and fracture are morning ; a ceremony which was necessary, not of course that there was described as terrible. The thigh and leg were in such a position as to any dispute about the cause of the death, but to clear the conductors of form with the line of the rail-road, a triar_gle, of which the angle at the the Rocket from the blame which otherwise might have been imputed apex was formed by the bend of the knee. The wheel thus passed over to them. The Jury gave no deodand ; and this finding would set the the calf of the leg and the middle of the thigh, leaving the knee itself question at rest, had there been any doubt that the fatal injury was uninjured. There was a compound fracture in the upper part of the left purely accidental, and aim not the slightest imputatiffiTol blame rests on leg just above the calf. The wheel went slantingly over the thigh up to the machines, the railway, or any individual. the middle of it, and the muscles were laid bare in one immense flap ; This most lamentable and unlooked for accident discouraged all the fur- the bone was so dreadfully crushed as to resemble a powder. ther proceedings of the day. In the first instance, the Duke of Wellington A cry for surgeons was raised., Dr. Brandreth, of Liverpool, and Dr. and Sir Robert Peel, who were both deeply affected by Mr Huskisson's Hunter, of Edinburgh, were fortunately in the procession, and every fate, refused to go on any farther; nor was it until a strong representa- appliance that medical science could suggest was thus at hand. tion was made by the Managers, of the danger to the public peace that The Earl of Wilton, who was one of the first by Mr. Huskisson's might ensue, from the people of Manchester being disappointed of the side after the accident, took also a most active part in the arrangements. sight they had promised themselves, that the Duke was induced reluc- It was his Lordship who applied a temporary tourniquet to the thigh, tantly to consent to visit that town. No entreaty, however, could in_ formed, on the urgency of the moment, with handkerchiefs and a stick duce him to join in the festivities that had been prepared for him there. taken from one of the bystanders, After a few minutes' interval, a car He and Sir Robert remained in the car, whither some refreshments in which the band had been borne, and which was speedily emptied of were brought to them; the rest of the company had recourse to the its passengers, was brought to the spot where Mr. Huskisson was, and rooms, where the collation had been laid out ; and where, it is said, they he was lifted into it ; Mrs. Huskisson hanging over him, Lord Colville showed by the best proofs, that neither their spirits nor their appetites supporting his head with his knee, and Lord Wilton sitting at the bet- had been affected by the events of the morning. The procession returned torn of the car holding his hands and arm, and endeavouring, as far as gloomy and sad to Liverpool about ten in the evening. possible, to steady him, so that he should feel the motion of the machine The Duke of Wellington left the car before it reached Liverpool, and RS little as possible. In this condition he was brought to Eccles. Mr. proceeded to Childwall, the seat of the Marquis of Salisbury, where he Huskisson, who bore up with astonishing fortitude against the torture had been previously residing. It had been arranged that a dinner should/ that was racking his whole frame, was the first to suggest that he should be given to his Grace on Thursday ; and, little to the credit either of the be removed to the house of the Rev. Mr. Blackburn, the vicar of that feelings or the understanding of the nativesof Liverpool, it was actually place. The hint was of course obeyed ; and still lying on the board, he expected that the Duke would, notwithstanding the events of the pre- was borne to Mr. Blackburn's house, which is about two hundred yards vious day, pass through the town in procession for their gratification!

" Under these circumstances, I propose not to visit the town this morning, and eration request you to excuse me for declining to dine with the corporation this day.

" Your most obedient humble servant, yourseie and of the community over which you preside, that :air. nusfasson

White, of Manchester.

Mr.Huskisson listened with the deepest attention, " Yuttr most obedient humble servant, WILLIAM WAINEWRIG1/7."

remains with a public funeral, and that they should be deposited in the

ceding to the wish of the inhabitants. Mr. Huskisson was married in 1709. By the kindness of his old friend and patron, the late Lord Melville, 3Irs. Huskisson enjoys a pension t

six hundred a year, commencing at the death of her husband. Mrs,