On Tuesday, an inquest was lucia at the London Hospital,
on the body of John Hill, a carpenter, who (lied on Saturday from injuries re- ceived by the breaking of the rope on the Blackwell Railway on the 8th of last month.- Deceased was in the engine-room at the Minories station, and was taking dimensions for a fence to be placed More the wheel around which revolves the rope that draws the train, to prevent the probability of accidents occurring similar to that by which he lest his life. Ile was within five or six feet of the wheel, when a swivel inserted in the rope to prevent its twisting broke, and the end of the rope recoiled and hit him on the lower part of the abdomen. Mr. Bidder, engineer, seid that the fixed velocity of the trains was twenty-five miles an hour. The weight of a single rope was twenty- five toes, and the greatest strain upon it was two tons and a Iva. The ;mei lent was reelse'l by the ewiv el breaking at the conaecting-bar, the
neaal Was d''reetiVO. A new sort of swivel had been ttbstitut- I, whieh as yet had aniwered effectually. There were tivela:
guards to us- cry train ; tend each train had a junior guard, appreetierd to the ( 'ouipany, to bncomu itert:arter a chief guard. Verdiet—" Ace!. dental Death." A geuthnuan belonging to the Company said the Dg reetors would take into their liberal consideration the case or deemiseds widow.
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