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The total number of victims is now estimated at thirty-three,

and the list includes a Peer, Lord Farnham ; a Baronet, Sir Nicholas Chinnery ; and a Judge, Mr. Justice Berwick. It seems certain that no one in the three carriages struck by the fire screamed, or made an effort to get out, and there is strong ground for hoping that they died instantaneously, suffocated, as it were, by the flame. A woman named Dickens tells a wild story of her hav- ing asked one of the passengers to throw her child out, and this woman was certainly on the spot; but the statement is considered wholly imaginary. It is certainly excessively improbable, as the collision itself would have startled all passengers into exertion, had time been given for any.

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