As a lu gg a g e-train of fifty wa gg ons was crossin g Chat Moss,
from Man- chester, early yesterday morning, an axle broke; the shock snapt the coupling, and more than half the waggons were left behind. Unconscious of the accident, the driver went on with the diminished train. It was very foggy and dark. The wrecked waggons had leaped one on the other, and made a pile across the line forty feet high. Trains were coming both ways. A breaksman, left behind, ran towards Manchester to stop one train, and meeting an engine, sent that on, while he ran back to stop another from Liverpool. lie was only in time to signal an engine and two carriages to slacken speed. The driver did so, but nevertheless ran into the wreck. Fortunately, no person was hurt.
The Marshall, a screw-steamer from Hamburg, with 150 emigrants and a crew of 18 on board, due at Hull on Monday, had not arrived on Thursday. On Wednesday- some of her boats were picked up by a fishing-smack in the North Sea. The barque Woodhouse came into collision with a steamer, sup- posed to be the Marshall, on Monday, off the mouth of the Humber; and a Silesian vessel heard cries of distress.
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