general Sir George Steel, K.C.B., was on board the
Lady Nugent, but it turns out that he reached Rangoon
subsequently in one of the Peninsular and Oriental
Company's steamers. The ship was insured at Lloyds,
and the insurances have been claimed.

A fatal Explosion of Fire Damp took place on the
31st ult., at the colliery of Messrs. Knowles and Sons,
Clifton, near Manchester. Orders had been given,
that none of the workmen should visit the workings, or
remain in them without a safety lamp, yet a collier
named Edward Crofts is reported to have taken a naked
candle, and gone into a place where there was a considerable
quantity of foul air. The consequence was an
explosion, in which two colliers named Samuel Harding
and Edward Shorrocks, were killed, and four others
were badly burnt. It is a curious fact, showing the
indifference of these colliers to their own danger and
the safety of their fellow-workmen, that at the time this
explosion occurred one of the Messrs. Knowles and Sons'
workmen was in custody for the offence of using a naked
light in the mines on a previous day, in a part of the
mine which had been reported foul. This man was
brought up at the New Bailey Court-house, Salford,
and committed to seven days' imprisonment for the
offence.

A Fatal Accident on the Great North of Scotland
Railway occurred on the 16th inst. The train which
usually starts from the Aberdeen station at 8.45 a.m.,
and which consisted of seven carriages with about 100
passengers, was in readiness; but the Great North
having only a single line of rails, it had to wait the
arrival of the engine and down train from Huntly,
which was late. At 9 o'clock the train was in sight,
but, instead of pulling up at the danger signal, about
half-a-mile from the terminus, where the engine was to
be detached, it ran right into the train which was
waiting, smashed the first carriage, and threw the
second off the line. Fortunately the rails at the
terminus are yet unfinished, and the south end of the
station being open, the carriages from the third to the
last were forced up an incline by the concussion, and
thus further damage was prevented. The passengers in
the third-class carriage into which the engine ran were
to some extent warned of their danger, and most of
them had time to spring out. A woman who was sitting
by the side of her husband was killed; but, though the
carriage was broken to pieces, he escaped with a slight
bruise of his arms. The engine was greatly damaged,
and forced off the line. The Procurator Fiscal of the
county has instituted an inquiry into the case.

Mr. W. Stroud, of Swansea, the manager of the
Glamorganshire bank, has been Accidentally Drowned
while Bathing, He entered one of the bathing-
machines on the sands, and, having undressed, swam
out a distance of about 30 or 40 yards; and he was seen
by some bystanders to turn on his back, as if floating on
his back. Having continued in that position for rather
a lengthened period, some persons went to his assistance,
suspecting there was something the matter, when he
was found to be quite dead.

A frightful Accident has occurred on the Leeds
Northern Railway, with a surprising escape from a
wholesale sacrifice of life. The Bramhope tunnel, more
than two miles long, is pierced through a hill abounding
in water, and trains coming south, to Leeds, are
provided with an additional engine. On Tuesday morning
the 19th inst., a train passed through the tunnel for Leeds
at half-past eight; and the man at the south end
signalled to the north end, "All clear." An hour after
this a train entered from the north. It consisted of
two engines and tenders and eleven carriages, the centre
one being an open one, filled with Irish reapers;
altogether there were about two hundred passengers.
When the train had proceeded half-way through the
tunnel, the first engine dashed into a large mass of
stones and rubbish lying across the rails; and so powerful
were the engines that both of them and one
of the tenders ran over a considerable quantity of this
rubbish, and the fore-wheels of the second tender
were dragged over so much of it that the tender
afterwards stood at an inclination nearly equal to that of
the roof of an ordinary building. The shock of the
concussion drove the passengers against the sides and
ends of the carriages and against each other with great
violence, inflicting cuts and bruises, and more serious
injuries upon many. The driver of the first engine,
John Graham, was severely crushed in the back and
loins, but the other driver and both the stokers escaped
comparatively unhurt. Thomas Porritt, the guard,
sustained such wounds as to place his life in danger.
The shock caused the coupling chains of the fifth and
sixth carriages to break; and the five hindmost carriages,
with the guard's van, began to descend the decline
to Arthington station, near the tunnel with great speed.
Porritt, however, notwithstanding his dreadful hurts,
managed to put on the brakes, and the carriages were
brought up at Arthington station. Scarcely,
however, had the carriages begun to slacken their pace,
and before a single passenger could alight, when the
truck filled with Irish reapers, which had also become
detached, was seen descending the decline with frightful
velocity; and it dashed into the five carriages with a
force so great that the truck was shivered to pieces,
and the Irishmen were flung in all directions—
fortunately not far enough to be thrown over the embankment
which is very high at that point. Several of the
Irishmen were a good deal hurt, but none fatally;
while the passengers in the five carriages suffered more
from this second concussion than they had done from the
first one inside the tunnel. Immediately after the
collision in the tunnel, the drivers and stokers hurried
from their engines and tenders: and most fortunate it
was they did so; for scarcely were they clear of them
when a large mass of the roofing and superincumbent
earth and loose rock fell in with a terrific crash, burying
engines and tenders beneath. The passengers in
the carriages in the tunnel were removed as quickly as
possible. No one was killed on the spot, but thirty or
forty passengers were more or less hurt. On examining
the tunnel, it appeared that the stone arch had given
way, for fifteen feet of its length by eleven feet in
width; and that an immense mass of earth and stones
had poured down, nearly filling part of the large
tunnel. Much more of the arch of the tunnel is
cracked and depressed, and will have to be removed.
The reinstatement of the tunnel will occupy weeks, if
not months.

An Accident has happened on the Shrewsbury and
Chester Railway, the first since its opening seven years
ago. It arose from a gross disobedience of orders by
two men, not in the Company's service. They were
unloading at Chirk station four trucks of wheat belonging
to their master; the wagons were in a siding; a
pointsman told them not to move any of the wagons till
the goods train had passed; but while he was attending
to the signals, the men unhooked one of the wagons,
and it ran on to the main line. At that moment the
goods train came up, and ran into the wagon. Blackburn,
the driver, was dreadfully scalded, and he soon
died. The two men who caused the mischief have been
committed on a charge of manslaughter.

A fatal Boiler Explosion took place on the morning
of the 20th inst., at the cotton mill of Messrs. Tomlins
and Bradbury, near Ashton-under-Lyne. The boiler
was a large cylinder, with flat ends, and stood between
the spinning-mill and the warping-shed. It was used
for working a thirty-horse condensing engine, and a
ten-horse high pressure engine, and stood with its front
towards Old-road, and its back (westward) towards
Crescent-road. The plates at the west end, or back,
gave way, and the force of the explosion appears to have
lifted the huge vessel from its seat, and carried it across
a small field, to a distance of thirty yards, knocking
down two stone walls in its way. William Taylor, the
engine-driver, was found at the east-end, near the boiler
hole, with an iron cistern against him. He had his
head fractured in two places, and both legs and one of
his thighs also were fractured. He only survived the
accident half-an-hour. All the other workpeople escaped
injury, though it is somewhat extraordinary that those
employed in the warping-mill should have got out of
the ruins without injury. On the opposite side of the
Old-road is the Moravian chapel, and the residence of
the minister, the Rev. Charles Edward Sutcliffe. All
the front and side windows of the chapel and the five
front windows of the house were driven in by bricks and