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A vacancy in the representation of the Western Division of Suffolk has been aimed by the decease of Colonel Rushbrooke; who died on Tuesday evening. The late Member was a Conservative.
The South Derbyshire Agricultural Society met in Derby, on Friday,—twelve members present,—and resolved, that as the society could not go on for want of funds, it be forthwith dissolved.
The fifteenth annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science commenced on Wednesday, at Cambridge. The weather was very in- auspicious on the opening-day, for the rain fell heavily. The attendance of mem- bers was very fair, but the programme of business is said to be meagre. The General Committee have recommended the dissolution of the Medical section. Many new members were admitted on Thursday; but the sittings of the several sections were not well attended, except the Geological, which was held in the Se- nate House; where Professor Sedgwick lectured on the geology of the vicinity of Cambridge. From an abstract of the account read by Mr. Taylor, the Treasurer, it appeared that the expenditure had been 2,2401., and there was a:balance against the Association of 3641; being about 1101. less than on the preceding year. On Thursday, Sir John Herschell assumed the Presidency.
Gould, a Superintendent of County Police at Durham, has killed his wife, in a fit of insane unfounded jealousy. On the evening of the 10th instant he was harping on this theme when the man whom he suspected, a Mr. Scruton, passed through the street; dra. Gould said she would call him in to prove her innocence; Gould refusing to allow her to do this, a struggle took place in the passage; and in the heat of the moment he took from his pocket a pistol, (which he had obtained as he intended to seize some smugglers,) and shot the woman through the arm. He then assaulted Mr. Scruton. On being committed to prison, he tried to destroy himself by cutting his throat with a penknife, but did not succeed. Some days after, Mrs. Gould died from lock-jaw. A verdict was returned, that Mrs. Gould " came to her death by a pistol-shot fired by Louis Henry Gould whilst in a state of great mental excitement."
The inquest on the body of Mr. Seton was resumed at Portsmouth on Tuesday. Mr. Payne, who appeared for Lieutenant Hawkey, called Mrs. Hawkey; and she was examined at great length. She declared that Mr. Seton had frequently paid her attentions contrary to her wishes; used many contrivances to see her alone, and hinted at her meeting him on various occasions; and his conduct was such as was calculated to make a husband jealous if it came to his ears. On one occasion, when Mr. Hawkey was at drill, Mr. Seton called and said, "It is no use humbugging me any longer," and asked her if she intended to give him an opportunity or not? He said he knew Mr. Hawkey to be a quarrelsome fellow, and he knew he should have to go out with him in the end. He said he should not go out on the Common for nothing. If he gained his point, he said he would not mind it. She forgot the date. There was a knock at the door, and Mr. Seton said, " Good God, here is Mr. Hawkey ! " He ran to the table for his hat, and said, " Can't you let me out? " It was not Mr. Hawkey who came at that time, but Mr. Pym. Nearly the last time she saw Mr. Seton, he offered her something in his hand; but she did not see what it was. He said that if she did not accept what he offered, he would not have any tie over her. He said, perhaps she did not think it of sufficient value. She told him not to insult her any more by such offers. He said, " Place yourself in the position (of some one whose name she did not know) with the Colonel of our regiment." He named that Lord Cardigan had given that person a thousand pounds of jewellery. He said " Would that be an inducement to her?" She sand, " No"• and he replied, " If those are your ideas, a man has no chance." She remonstrated with him about his wife; and he replied, " That he did not care about her, nor she about him; they both pleased themselves." She did not recollect whether Mr. Hawkey came in then. She did not mention this to her husband; she told Mr. Pym, [an intimate friend of Mr. ilawkey's,] but not all. Her only motive for not telling her husband was fear of the consequences. Mr. Pym informed Lieutenant Hawkey of what Mrs. Hawkey had told him; and, on the Sunday previous to the duel, Mr. Hawkey insisted on his wife's repeating all to him: if she did so, he said, he would not take any notice of it. Mrs. Hawkey then related several things respecting Mr. Seton's conduct to her; and her husband became very angry. At the soirée, Mr. Seton asked her to dance; she refused, and referred Mr. Seton to her husband for an explanation of her refusal. Her husband tried to sit down by her several times, but Mr. Seton would not move. This appears to have brought on the altercation which ended in the dueL Mr. Ellis, a Master in the Royal Navy, stated that Messrs. Hawkey and Pym passed the night succeeding the duel at his house, near Portsmouth; they left it the next morning, and he had not seen them since. Other evidence VMS given, but nothing new came out. The Coroner then summed up; and, after deliberating for half-an-hour, the Jury returned the following verdict- " We find, that the immediate cause of Mr. Seton's death was the result of a surgical operation, rendered imperatively necessary by the imminent danger in which he was placed by the Infliction of a gun-shot wound, which he received on the 20th May last, in a duel with Lieutenant Henry Charles Moorehead Hawkey, of the Royal Marines : we therefore find the said Lieutenant Hawkey and Edward Laws Pym, of the Royal Marines, as well as all the parties concerned in the said duel, guilty of wilful murder.
"The Jury would further express their unanimous conviction, that everything which the best professional skill, the greatest attention, and the utmost kindness could suggest, was rendered to Mr. Seton by his respective medical attendants."
A most alarming accident occurred on Tuesday morning on the Great Western Railway, about two miles and a half on the London side of the Slough station. The express-train left Paddington for Exeter at a quarter to ten o'clock : it con- sisted of an engine and tender, a four-wheeled luggage-van, two first-class car- riages, and two of the second-class, containing altogether about one hundred and eighty passengers. When the train had arnved at a place called Dog-kennel Bridge, near Langley, the passengers experienced an extraordinary undulatory sort of motion, clouds of dust arose, and before more than a few seconds had elapsed the two first-class and one of the second-class carriages were thrown with fearful violence off the line, down an embankment twelve or fifteen feet in depth, with a dreadful crash. The first of the second-class carriages was dragged across both lines of rail, but was not upset. On the engineer's perceiving that something was wrong, he disconnected the engine from the train, and hastened to Slough for assistance. One of the second-class carriages, and the hindermost first-class carriage, were thrown upon their sides at the bottom of the embank- ment; while the other first-class carriage, which had turned twice over in the course of its descent, was lying upon its roof, with its wheels in the air; the pas- sengers, thirty in number, more dead than alive with fright. As soon as the pas- sengers could be extricated from the carriages, it was found that not one had been killed—a wonderful escape, considering the nature of the accident. Upwards of forty persons, however, were more or less hurt. Sir Richard Vyvyan, the Mem- ber for Helston, was much cut about the face; Dr. Strong, of Hereford, had his knee dislocated; Mr. Bristow, of Haverfordwest, had a dislocation of the shoulder; Mr. W. C. Boodle, of Connaught Square, injured his spine very seriously; Mr. Holmes had a severe scalp-wound; and many others received internal injuries, or bruises on various parts of their bodies; but none appear to have suffered so that their lives were endangered.
Mr. Seymour Clarke, Chief Superintendent of the locomotive department, states, that " the cause of the accident appears to have been, from what we have been enabled to learn, that the luggage-van, which was a four-wheeled vehicle and the Tightest in the erain, was, from sonic cause which cannot at present be ascertained, thrown off the line; the engine and the other carriages remaining in their proper positions on the rails. It proceeded thus until it came to the cast-iron girders or
troughs of a bridge thrown over a road leading from Langley to Iver; when it seems that it struck one of these girders, which threw it oft the timbers into the ballast of the line, pulling with it, and against these iron girders, the remainder of the train." The train proceeded for half a mile with the van running off the rail before the catastrophe occurred. Great damage was done to the rails and sleepers, slices of iron being taken off the former by the wheels of the carriages: four of the upright posts of the galvanic telegraph were knocked down by the up- setting of the carriages, and the wires severed • so that all communication by means of the telegraph between Slough and Paddington was cut off. This unfor- tunately caused considerable time to elapse before any intimation of the accident reached the Paddington terminus.
Major-General Pasley, the Government Inspector of Railways, proceeded' to Slough on Wednesday, to inquire into the causes of the accident.
It is said that the train was going at the rate of seventy miles an hour when the accident occurred. The great strength of the carriages appears to have been the salvation of the passengers: if they had been more fragile, they would most probably have been completely crushed to pieces when dashed down the embankment.
A fatal boiler-explosion occurred on Saturday morning, at the foundry of Messrs. Nasmyth and Company, at Eccles, near Manchester. The boiler was torn asunder with tremendous force, and all the contiguous buildings were con- verted into a heap of ruins. Two men were buried in the rubbish: Rogers, the engi- neer, was taken out quite dead; and Hurst, a blast-man, was dreadfully burnt, but was alive when found. Another man was injured by apiece of metal striking him. An inquest was held on the body of Rogers, on Monday. The cause of the accident was supposed by the witnesses to have been a deficiency of water in the boiler, which was in good condition. The engineer had quarrelled with a boy on the morning of the explosion, and had been hit on the head by a large stone, which seemed to have stupified him. A verdict of "Accidental Death" was returned.
It has now been ascertained that the total number of lives lost by the fall of the suspension-bridge at Great Yarmouth was seventy-nine: the bodies of seventy- seven have been recovered. Only eight or ten of the sufferers were above twenty- one years of age, and none had any persons dependent on them for support.
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