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Otago Daily Times, Issue 201, 31 July 1862, Page 5

Fatal "Railway Accident.—On Friday week a fearful accident took place on the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, close to Ospringe, by which two passe ngers were killed, au _ three others dangerously injured. The train to which the accident happened was the mail express, which left the Victoria-station at 7-10 in the morning, and was due at Dover at 9.20. It consisted of an engine and tender, four first-class and second class carriagesl, and a brake van. Fortunately there -were not more than six or seven passengers travelling, or the result must have been a fearful loss of life. Nothing particular appears to have occurred until the train approached Ospringe. The line here is slightly on the incline, and there is a slight curve. Otherwise there is no impediment to the free progress of the traffic. At this spot the two centre carriages were seen to bulge out, as it were, from the rest of the train, and a tremendous noise was heard, In a moment after these carriages were rolling down the.embankment, which is 25 feet high, dragging the guard's van and the tender after them. Tiie engine, however, did not go off the line, the coupling irons giving way. The disconnected carriages Vere dashed into an allotment garden by the side of the line, forcing down a high wall in their progress, and presenting, when subsequently viewed, a complete wreck, every particle of two of them being; crumbled up as though they were so much paper, and the wonder is how any ot their occupants eseapod with their lives. The brake van and one of the carriages were comparatively uninjured. The guard jumped off the train just as the carriages were going doing down the embankment, and thus escaped uninjured. The rails were torn up for upwaHs of POO yards, and several of them bent nearly double, while broken chairs were lying in all directions. A ssistance was promptly obtained, and it was then found that two of the passengers were dead, and three others very severely injured. The unfortunate sufferers v.-ere removed to the inns in the neighborhood, and some halfdozen medical gentlemen were quickly in attendance. The two killed on the spot are Mr. Plumb, a commercial traveller representing M'George and Co., of Friday-street, London; and'Wm. Harris, a storekeeper, in the employ of the company. Mr. Crocklord, who had his leg amputated on Saturday, and who, it was hoped, would recover, " sank gradually after the operation, and expired on Monday. This makes three deaths arising out of this sad afiair. The rest of the wounded aie said to ba going on favorably.—English paper.

" According to information whi<sh has reached us from most parts of the empire," says the Paris correspondent of the Post, "the majority of the prelacy of the Ro»an Church have already left for Rome, in order to assist at the canonisation fete of the Japanese martyrs. No one in France doubts the political meaning of this vast immigration of ecclesiastics to SL Peter's. Spain and Austria have contributed nearly all their prelates. The Italian Government has v.isely not permitted the High Churchmen of that kingdom to attend this great Church conspiracy."—Enclish paper