SCOTLAND.
An accident happened on the Paisley Road last week, caused by the breaking down of one of the wheels of the steam-carriage front Glasgow. The vehicle had gained the summit of the acclivity near the ThreeMile House, and was dashing through the loose metal which has been recently placed there, when in a moment the right-hand wheel gave way. The machine came to the ground with terrific violence ; the boiler was crushed flat ; the bottom of the carriage was blown to atoms; and all the passengers, twelve in number, were more or less injured. With suet' force did the steam rush out of the boiler, that the burping cinders in the furnaca, as well as the metal on the road, were blown to a considerable distance. Captain E. B. Gillmer, from Ireland, Mr. Morrison, merchant, Mr. Sytn, a miller, and three other persons, have since died. The Glasgow Chronicle says—" The explosion was heard at the distatece of more than two miles. It would be difficult to state accurately the immediate cause of the boiler bursting. The cause assigned by the managers, and those mimed with the coach, was, that the spokes of one of the large wheels gave way, causing the whole weight of the hinder part of the carriage and engine to rest upon the boiler. They say the weight thus pressing upon the boiler forced the water and steant through its sides, throwing at the same time the upper part against the body of the carriage. It has also been alleged that the wheel is found to be entirely rotten."
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