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The Directors of the London and Birmingham Railway have come to an arrangement with the two noblemen whose opposition led to the failure of the bill last session in the Lords, and this important under-
taking is now likely to obtain the sanction of the Legislature.—North- anipton Mercury. Have they bribed them ? or is the line of the rail- way turned aside, lest by any chance "a slovenly unhandsome car should pass between the wind and their nobility?"] A penny subscription has been commenced by the Reformers in the county of Devon, for the purpose of purchasing a piece of plate to be presented to Lord V. Ebrington.
Sir Roger Greisley was attacked by the mob at Derby, on his en- tering that town on Monday last week, and several of his friends were very severely handled. Sir Roger himself was cut by a stone in the upper lip; and had be not been covered by a part of the procession that accompanied him, he must have been seriously hurt.
On Friday morning, a very serious accident took place at Rainhill, one of the stopping-places for the second-class coaches, about ten miles from Liverpool. The train which left Manchester at a quarter past seven, owing to different causes of delay, was nearly half an hour out of time when it arrived at Rainhill gates. It was, when there, de- tained longer than the ordinary period by passengers' luggage, which had to be taken up. There was at that time (about ten minutes past nine) a very dense fog, when the engine and train which leaves Man- chester at eight came up ; and the enginemen not being able to see but a very short distance before them, and expecting that the previous coaches would be nearly at Liverpool, the two trains came into violent contact before the eight o'clock engine could be stopped. The gate- man, hearing the coming engine, ran to meet it,. in order as soon as possible to stop it. The steam was shut off, and the breaks applied; but the time was too short ; and the rails being greasy, the shock to the last carriage of the first train was very great. The carriage was broken up ; one young man (a recruit, about to join his regiment in Ireland) received so severe a contusion on the head that he died shortly after the accident ; another young man, also a recruit, had his arm broken ; a third had his foot much injured. Strict orders have been issued that, in similar circumstances to those in which this unfortunate accident occurred, the gatemen at the different stopping-places shall give up all other business, such as collecting tickets andarranging luggage, and run behind three hundred yards, to stop any trains that may be coming in the same direction in time to obviate all danger of such a concussion.
The Guardian, Captain Holland, which was upset on Wednesday last, on Whitton Sands, with a cargo of barley, from Yarmouth, has been raised from her very perilous situation by the prompt assistance rendered to her by Mr. Henry Smith's steam-vessels, under the direc- tion of his foreman, Mr. John Arnold. By his energetic application of those powerful engines, Arnold succeeded in raising the wreck, when sunk in a dock fourteen feet deep, and from three to four feet below the level of the sands, from whence nothing short of the power applied in this case could have possibly saved the vessel and her valuable cargo. This is, we believe, the very first vessel that has been saved from these destructive sands under similar circumstances. The greater part of the barley, which was under water at Whitton on Friday morning, was in the afternoon of the same day on the drying floors at Gainsburgh.— Nottingham Journal.
The sentences on the five privates lately tried by a court-martial at Norwich, are as follow—John Martin, found guilty of the whole of the charge; to be transported as a felon fur life. Thomas Almond, acquitted of having joined the meeting on parade, but guilty of every other part of the charge ; to he transported as a felon for the space of seven years. Henry Bone, guilty of the whole charge brought against him ; to be transported as a felon for the term of seven years. Charles Edwards, not guilty of joining in the mutiny on parade, but guilty of every other part of the charge produced against him ; to be imprisoned, with hard labour, in the county gaol at Maidstone, for twelve calendar months. John Clayton, guilty of the whole charge; to be transported as a felon for fourteen years.
The two men named Meredith, who were imprisoned at Tewksbury on suspicion of robbery, and on whose persons nearly 6001. was found, have been set free from the charge of robbery; but they have been seized by their creditors, and conveyed to Glasgow, to answer the charge against them in that quarter. There is another brother who is still at large. The entire sum carried off by the three was about 1,000/.
Late on Saturday night or early on Sunday morning last, a cottage on the side of the turnpike road between Evesham and the village of Norton, lately inhabited by James Tarrant, was maliciously set on fire and destroyed.a.- Worcester Journal.
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