On Saturday evening, the Duke of Newcastle, accompanied by his
two sons, Lords William and Robert Clinton, met with an accident on their return from Aberystwith. His Grace was driving his favourite fast ponies ; the night was excessively dark and foggy, and being without lights, he diverged a little out of the road, and was upset near the Devil's Bridge, where prompt assistance was at hand, and we are happy to say that a bruise on his Grace's knee and side was the extent of the injury. Their Lordships escaped unhurt. After raising the phaeten and reattaching the ponies, his Grace drove off to Hafod, accompanied by his family ; and intelligence has reached us that the accident is not of a serious nature, but may confine the noble Duke for some days.— A/gays/with Mirror.
A coachman named Burnett, who drove the "New Company's" Bristol and London coach, was killed on Tuesday, owing to the repre- hensible practice of leaving the horses when he went to get refreshment. Whilst he was standing at the door of the inn at Speenham, five miles
from Thateham, the opposition coach galloped past. The horses of the "New Company's" coach started off after them, and Burnett, in run- ning to seize the reins, was thrown down and the coach passed over his head. The horses ran on with the coach for two miles before they were stopped.
On Thursday evening, an accident occurred to one of the men em- ployed on the Eastern Counties Railway. On detaching the engine front the carriages of the last down train for the night, the man whose duty it was to do so unfortunately slipped down between the engine and the carriages, and before he could recover himself, the engine passed over his body, and injured him so severely that lie expired in about a quarter of an hour afterwards.
The Hull Observer of Tuesday mentions another accident on the Hull and Selby Railway, which occurred on Monday, within the depot in that
town, on the arrival of the Leeds and York train. The engine had been detached from the carriages, as is usual before they stop, but the impetus previously given to them having been too great, the carriages were propelled against the wall at the end of the depot. The first carriage passed completely through the wall. The guard was in one of the carriages, and had no power to stop the train. The only serious
injuries by the concussion were sustained by the guard, a fireman, and a passenger named Morgan. The guard had his knees much bruised; the fireman's thigh was broken, and three fingers were taken off the right hand of Morgan. Some other passengers were also slightly bruised; the first carriage was broken to pieces, and the others were damaged, but not so much as to be unserviceable. The Hull Observer
adds, that there were no "breaks" to the carriages by which the guard could cheek their speed, therefore they were impelled along without any regulating power.
On Sunday morning a train arrived from Leeds, on the North Midland Railway, containing sixty. three carriages and five engines : there were upwards of 2,500 passengers. In the evening, at half-past six o'clo:k, the train started from Sheffield back to Leeds, having ten more carriages, making the extraordinary number of seventy.three carriages, besides engines, and containing 3,000 people.—Shaffield Patriot.
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