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Edward Harris broke his collar-bone and was otherwise injured by a fall of earth which pressed him against a waggon-wheel. In the same week the coachman to Miss Mossip, of 9 Maze Hill, fractured a leg while riding a horse slowly past the Colonnade, where was a baker’s cart, at which the horse took fright and threw his rider. — On the 7th of February an inquest was held at the Warriors’ Gate Inn on Richard Gwyatt, aged 19, who had been fatally jammed between two waggons in the railway tunnel. The result of the enquiry was “Accidental Death”. — On the second of February there was a slip of earth in the St. Leonards tunnel just before the workmen commenced operations, consequently no one was hurt; but, in the same tunnel, three days later, a labourer had one leg broken by being run over by a waggon. — On the 22nd of March a pair-horse fly, owned by Mr. Emary, of the Castle Hotel, having been left a few minutes at the Bopeep station, the horses started off, and collided with a train of trucks that was being run across the ​road​ with earth from the tunnel to the beach. The horses were knocked down, the fly turned over and the harness broken. — On the 14th of May, a man was seriously injured in the tunnel by a collision of the contractor’s trucks. — On the 10th of June, Walter Friend, age 16 years, whilst driving Mr. How’s horse with a cart of coals, applied the whip, which caused the animal to start forward, when a wheel of the cart caught the lad’s leg, threw him down & broke a thigh-bone. — On the following day, two railway labourers, while passing a pond at the foot of the ​road​ west of the Catholic establishment, observed a child rise to the surface, to rescue which, one of the men plunged in and brought it out. It was all but suffocated, but by prompt exertions, was restored to life and to its mother. — Also, on the succeeding day, (the third day in succession) a railway man, while dozing by the side of a brick-kiln, fell into the fire, and was seriously burnt. — An inquest was held at the Warrior’s Gate Inn by J. G. Shorter, Esq., on June 15th, in consequence of a suspicion that the death of Rebecca, wife of James Hyland, of the “Black Horse” beer house, had been caused by blows from the husband while in a soberless condition. But, as the deceased had been attended by surgeon Gardiner, and the evidence was conflicting, “Death by natural means” was the verdict. — On the 30th July, a horse belonging to Mr. Bodkin, a sub-contractor of the railway, fell over the cliff, near the Fountain Inn at the West Marina, and was so badly injured that he had to be killed. — On the 1st of September, as Mr. Lindridge, organist at St. Mary’s, was returning in a chaise from Bexhill, with his mother, wife and child, he had to drive through a crowd of quarrelling and fighting navies, consequent upon which his horse took fright and dashed off at great speed. Getting into contact with a column at the Colonnade, the whole party was thrown out, and Mr. Lindridge -