Nobody's Business

The oxtrernes to whieh men and corporations will go in rnnning risks when the responsibility is or appears to be divided is sbown very clearly by a singular accident which recently oocurred to a railway tunnel in tVales. On a branch of the Great Western Eailway there is a tunnel about two miles in length between Merthyr Tydvil and Abeldare. It passes through many coal measures, there being coal on all sides of it. Several years ago the colliers had gone under the roadway, " so that they could the trains rolling over their heads," and they have continued working the minos ever since, although the excavation had interfered with the bed of the tunnel. Still, it was " nobody's business," and nobody attended to it, the miners showed no alarm, and the raildroad company was not to be outdone in bravado. Within the last six inonths there have been several slight accidents to freight-trains, owing to the settling of the roadway ; but as no passengers have been hurt, nothing has been done to repair the damage. A few weeks ago, however, a freight train, following a passenger train, ran into a great mass of drift, and stones, and coal in the tunnel, and it was found that the sides of the tunnel had finally fallen into the colliery bentyith. Men wero set to work, and by noon the noxt day " all cloar " was signaled along the line. A passenger train was just on the point of starting through the tunnel when the news came that nearly a hundred yards of the roadway had again fallen in ! PniLADELraiA, Peb. 17. - The autopsy on the bodies of the Siamese twins took placo yesterday. The examinatiou of the ligature joining the twins was made, and the question whether the severance could havo boen made safely in life was decidad in the negativo with almost certainty. The liniug inembrance of the abdomen in each was found to enter the band, and pouohes overlapping ench. other at the center of the band, so that a knife passing through its center would sever the pouches and open the abdominal cavity of each of the twins. It was also proved that there was a blood circulation through the band. The steamer Melbourne brings particulars of the death of the Hawaiian King, Lunalilo, on tho 3d inst, aged thirty-nine years. His deraise has been expected several days. The members of the Oabinet were called together at onco, and ordored a meeting of the Legislative Assembly on the 12th of February the peopeo at Karvahias deolared in favor of David Kalakua ás the king's successor. Queen Emma, widow of Kamchameha, is also named as successor, and there will probably be a severe contest in the Legislature over the succession.