SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—An inquest was held on Wednesday, before Mr Jemmett, Coroner, on the body of James Simpson, at the Angel, Thames Ditton. The deceased was the driver of one of the Petersfield common stage waggons. On the morning of the 1st inst. about half past one o'clock, Simpson, with his team, passed through the Sandown toll-gate at Esher, and paid the gate-keeper the toll for the waggon, which was passing on-wards to London. It is customary for the proprietors of these wagons to send two persons with each waggon, who take their turns in driving, and one is then to liberty at rest himself in the waggon. It is supposed that shortly before the accident befell Simpson he had relieved his companion, who had got up into the waggon, leaving Simpson in charge of the team, and who afterwards, it is conjectured, got on the shaft of the waggon, and falling asleep, dropped from thence, and was killed by the wheels passing over his body. The man in the wagon being at the time of the accident also asleep, was not aware of what had occurred, and the horses drew the waggon along the Ditton-road, through the town of Kingston, and nearly to the George Inn, on Kingston-hill, a distance of more than three miles, without any person to conduct them, and without the slightest accident afterwards arising. They were quietly pursuing their course when they were stopped by the driver of one of the Portsmouth night coaches. Simpson's companion was soundly sleeping, and had been so during the whole time from his getting into the wagon until it was stopped.—Verdict. "Accidental Death." The deceased has left a wife and several children.—Guidlford Journal