FATAL. ACCIDENT ON THE LIVERPOOL AND

fMANCHESTER RAI LWA Y.

- - '-N n-NEWTON, WEDNESDAY.-

It-is vwith deep regiet that -I have to forward to you the particulars of another fatal railway accident resulting froin that long-acknowvledged - evt the permitting of railways to cross thoroughfares long ago dedicated to the convenience and accommodation of the public. The Newton Junction, which talkes i's name from the janction there formed between the Grand Junction and the Liverpool anid Manchester RAR7. waV, is confetsedLy one of the moat dangerous spots connected with railway traffic- i the kingdom. In addition to the two curved lines branching from Liverpool and lIanchester to;the Grand Janction line there- is the main line leading between Liverpool and Manchester, another line commutiitating with Messrs. Tnrner and Evans's coUiery at Haydock, and a ifth, line leadink to the chymical works of Messrs. Muspratt and Co., as also innumerable branches connecting the whole together, and effecting a nnion between the seve railw ays The Grand Junction and-the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Compinies nse every effort for securing a degree of safety to the public4 A large number of policemen and pointmen are on daty day and night; bell, signal lamps, and other means of giving notice of the approach of the trains have been adopted; hut noteithatand-

ing these arrangements, and the generas vigilance displayed by the company's officers w which 1 have had frequent opportunities of witnessing), acdrdents are a matter of much too frequent occurrence. This has, in' some delee, ari en from the. circumstance of tw e roads croesing the railway within a distance of 200 yards of each other,- one leading from the VnlcKan Foanda,and the other from Messrs. liusprati and Co's. wforks (eatablishmzeats employing a vast number of labourers), to the towin of Newton. Shortly after 5 o'clock yesterday evening James Taylor, a fine lad between 12 and lS years of age- the son of the lockkeeper at Wa^rwvick-locks, on the Sankey-canal, w as sent for somne milk to a shop, or provision store, on the Newton side of the railway; he was accompanied bv another lad of about his own age. Their road lay on the line leading from Messrs. Muspratt's works' across the Liverpool and Manchester Eirtay. On reaching the gateopeing'on to the railway a very long luggage train from l%ranclester to Liverpovl was passing along the line on the aide of the road on which they were standing. -They quietly waited until the last waggon had passed them, and then, fearing that the passenger-train from Manchester would be upon them, they rushed across the line, thipldnghby so doing to-avoid the possibility of an accident. At this moment John Dawson, a pointman, stationed on the side of the line to which they were running,saw the Liverpool and Manchester 5 e'clock passenger-train approachriig at it5 usual rate of travelling, somewhere about SU miles an houn, and he and another of the companY's...