24 OCTOBER 1840, Page 3

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One day last week some person threw the stump of an oak-tree on the Taff Vale Railway, from off a lofty bank near Melin Griffith Weir, just as a train was approaching. The guard saw the timber thrown, in time to slacken the pace ; but the train was thrown off the rail, and im- pelled against the bank. No one was hurt. Twenty.one gentlemen have offered the London and Brighton Rail- way Company 100/. each per annum to pass free between London and Brighton during the first year after the railroad is opened.—Brighton Gazette.