carriages for this train—more particularly on account of
their inequality in size and difference in the height above
the rails to the centre of the buffers, as given in evidence.
At the same time, the jury wish to record that they had
no opportunity of forming an opinion of their condition
and construction, as the whole were removed before
they were called upon to visit the station. In conclusion
the jury beg to submit to the directors of this railway
that in their opinion the siding into which the ordinary
arrival trains run is fraught with danger, in consequence
of being situated at the bottom of an incline, and
terminating against a strong, dead buffer." Parker,
consequently, was discharged from custody.

Alnwick town was visited on the 12th by a Thunderstorm
of extraordinary violence. For several hours the
flashes and reports followed each other without
intermission, the rain poured down in torrents, the lightning
was of a most dangerous description, and the thunder
terrible. At the new schools now building for the use
of the corporation, eight men were standing under the
shelter of the scaffolding, when the electric fluid struck
one of the poles, which it rent from top to bottom; it
then knocked down the eight men, two of whom were
killed and another hurt, and then rent part of the wall
in its passage.

The Excessive heat of the Weather has caused several
deaths both in London and the country. A nursery-
maid at Notting-hill, a cheesemonger in Tottenham
Court Road, and a labourer at Harrow, expired from
coups de soleil. At Cold Aston an old man dropped
down dead while whetting his scythe: and near Northleach
a shepherd died in the fields. Several men had to
be carried from the fields near Newport Pagnell, and
one subsequently died. Similar cases occurred at various
other places.

In Paris the effects of the heat were still more violent.
People were found in the streets in a state of insanity,
and several persons, in a delirious condition, threw
themselves into the Seine.

A frightful Railway Accident occurred on Saturday
evening, the 17th, to an engine-driver named Stanley at
Gobowen, on the Shrewsbury and Chester line. The
unfortunate man had got off the engine at a siding, and
was examining the machinery to see that it was in
proper working order and not over-heated, and at the
same time the stoker was engaged in filling the boiler
with water, when three or four waggons which were
moving down on an inclined plane towards the engine
were allowed to proceed too rapidly by the person who
had the charge of them, and who, it is supposed, did not
apply the break so vigorously as he ought to have done.
The consequence was that the waggons dashed with
great velocity against the engine which Stanley was
engaged in examining, and the unfortunate man's arm
was caught in the machinery, and he was thrown down
and the engine went over him, tearing his arm out of the
socket and mangling him so frightfully that he expired
immediately.

A melancholy accident from the Incautious use of
Firearms, occurred at Standen-house, near Hungerford,
Berks, the seat of the Rev. J.P. Michell on the 20th.
His youngest son had been rabbit shooting, and returning
home about 9 o'clock in the evening was called by his
two youngest sisters from the nursery window, and in
turning round to answer them, the gun, which happened
to be loaded, went off, and unhappily lodged the
contents in the forehead of the youngest, a fine little girl
between nine and ten years of age, who survived only a
few minutes. The children at the time of the melancholy
occurrence had their arms round each others' neck, but
strange to say, not a shot touched the other.

Mr. John Dewdney, a respectable gentleman of sixty,
Died while playing at Cricket on the 21st inst. During a
match in Copenhagen fields, he was in the act of making
a run when he suddenly fell down, and in a few minutes
expired. He had only just taken the bat, scoring one
for his first hit, so that it is quite evident that the fatal
result was not the effect of fatigue. He had complained
of ill health, and said that during the last week he had
suffered from sun-stroke, but declined standing out
of the match, though advised to do so by several
friends.

On the evening of the 21st inst. a Collision occurred
at the place where the Leeds Northern line joins the
Clarence, near Stockton. The driver of the Leeds
Northern luggage train had been down the line to the old
Stockton and Hartlepool station, at present used as a
goods warehouse, and, after leaving the Stockton goods,
was proceeding up the Clarence line, drawing the
remainder of the waggons in front of his engine, to get
on to the Leeds Northern line. Arriving at the junction
of the two railways at the moment the Ferryhill train
was coming down, one of the cattle trucks of the luggage
train caught the corner of the tender of the passenger
train, ran into the luggage van, and smashed it and the
adjoining second-class carriage literally in pieces; it
also carried away the side of a first-class carriage—
tearing away the seats, and doing fearful havoc in its
progress. About a dozen passengers were more or less
injured, among whom was Mr. Grainger, of Edinburgh,
chief engineer of the Leeds Northern line, whose leg was
broken in two places. A lady from the south of Scotland,
named Cunningham, accompanied by her niece and
nursery-maid, had, the two former, each a leg broken,
and the latter was severely bruised about the ancle. A
Mrs. Lewis, from Middlesbro', was also much bruised;
and a commercial traveller from Bradford is much hurt
about the leg and ancle. The guard received a cut above
the eye; and a man named Smiles Richardson is a good
deal hurt about the knee. Some others are slightly
injured, but these are the principal sufferers. The
engine-driver of the Leeds Northern luggage train was
taken in custody soon after the accident happened, and
remanded.

A clerk employed at the London terminus of the
Eastern Counties Railway has lost his life from Attempting
to Leave a Train before it had stopped. At Broxbourne,
he leapt from a carriage while it was yet in
motion, and fell upon the rails; some of the carriages
passed over his left leg; amputation was necessary, and
he sank from the effects of the operation.

SOCIAL, SANITARY, AND MUNICIPAL
PROGRESS.

AN English, Dutch, and Belgian company, has been
formed to Reclaim the land covered by the arm of the
sea between the island of South Beveland, and the
mainland. The extent of the area to be reclaimed is
35,000 acres. Captain Pelly, R.N., is chairman of the
company, and Sir John Rennie its engineer. A great
feature of the works will be the cutting of a ship-canal
through South Beveland, in lieu of the channel that
will be filled up. The turning of the first sod of the
cutting for the canal was performed on the 1st inst.,
by Captain Pelly, in presence of the Governor of the
Province of Zealand, and a company of Dutch and
English persons of distinction. Afterwards there was a
convivial reunion, at which the toasts of the Queen of
England and the King of Holland were interchanged.

A Parliamentary return has been printed which shows
the Population and Inhabited Houses according to the
Census of 1851, returning or not returning Members
to Parliament. There are many towns, containing
upwards of 2000 inhabitants, not returning members.
The following unrepresented metropolitan parishes
appear in the return: Chelsea, with a population of
56,238, and 7591 inhabited houses; Kensington, with
44,053, and 6136 inhabited houses; Hammersmith,
17,760, and 3115 inhabited houses; Fulham with 11,886,
and 1797 inhabited houses. In the county of Middlesex,
the population is 1,886,576, and 239,362 inhabited houses.

From a late census return, the following are the
totals of houses and inhabitants in the Metropolitan
Parliamentary boroughs. In the Tower Hamlets, there
are 75,710 inhabited houses, and the population is
539,111; in Marvlebone, 40,513 inhabited houses,
population 370,957; in Finsbury, 37,427 inhabited
houses, population 323,772; in Lambeth, 39,154
inhabited houses, population 251,345; in Westminster,
24,755 inhabited houses, population 241,711; in Southwark,
23,751 inhabited houses, population 172,863. In
the City of London there are 14,580 inhabited houses,
and the population is 127,869.

The total number of persons receiving out-door relief