ENGLISH ITEMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 559, 2 October 1863, Page 5

ENGLISH ITEMS.

The inquest on the sufferers by the recent railway accident at Stre'atham came to a" close on July 1. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death," coupling therewith a recommendation that the express trains on the Brighton line should be run at a less rate'of speed. •

An accident happened on ."the London and NorthWestern Railway at Wolverhampton' on the 6th of July, which occasioned personal injuries to 23 persons. It aross from an engine running into a passenger train while it was standing at Busbury Junction, so that a large number of third-class passengers were seriously injured.

'I don't care so much about the bugs,' said Mr Wormley to the head of a genteel private boardinghouse near the railway ; 'but the fact is, madam. I hav'nt got so much blood to spare j you see that yourself.'

The virtues which, when nothing obstructs an unprejudiced decision, the world at large stamps with its approbation are just, those; which religion inculcates ; active industry, considerable prudence, .unostentatious charity, amiable temper, inflexible integrity, high honor, unaffected'purity.

The .." King. William's Town Gazette/ however, said In a recent issue :^": We have no desire to be alarmists, or, like the silly shepherd boy, to cry ' Wolf, wolf!' when there is no real cause for it. Bat we cannot shut our eyes to the fact that what have hitherto been declared infallible signs of disturbance are manifesting themselves just now in every direction. . . ; It is s,aid that the Fingoes of the old- colony, and particularly towards th-aaf-Reiriet, are in communication with the paramount chief Kreli, and that there are grounds for believing that the object of this intercourse is unfavorable to. the (■rovernraent. We give this merely as "a rumour, but at the same time have no. reason to doubt its truth."

;Mr GHaisher and M> Qoxwell h.ave made a fresh balloon ascent from Wolyerton, and we learn that it descended about eight njilea beyond Ely. The highest point reached was four mile?, and a half, the balloon at times must have travelled at/the rate of 70 miles an hour. Atan elevation of: three miles the aeronauts a snow storm, and, what has not before been experienced, they came into contact with the clouds at various intervals. They heard a train.when .they were four miles high, the; greatest, distance thai ever any sound has been perceived from the earth. This ascent is in some respects one of; the mos| extraordinary ever made. ~,,i ■*■■.;.-•"•■ ■•-.'■ i" . .

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