The Express. — London, England, 1851-11-29 00:00:00

gut erpreos. TO CORRESPONIIENTB. • Wamood Uima -I" Pa Emprtwo ° maotaislag bo maw moires lt .6martso."l. pobliabod tory Toady mai rnay meott. tome lir pow. B•Porumommtutmlolmalid 1.. r "Ilw Limes; Lawton treater paper, art Imm W tbm taste. 10. Bammoriamatel, 'my Two o'cltat ow time diy of paMoioadaa. MGR WATER .4T LONDON BRIDGE Tom Dv—Nminz 5%. s*, Attemsen. ifimm. Ter:maw" —Morays. es. 414... alfi MOON 71. lia. LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29. one was caused by the breaking . of the tyre of a leading wheel; another by a tram running off the line; a third by luggage taking fire in a train at Wolverton. All of these accidents imply deficient superintendence; want of proper inspection of the state of rails and carriages; and proper precaution to prevent the exposure of goods to sparks. The Wccdon catastrophe is owing to negligence which the other accidents prove to be systematic. All these facts go to prove the want there is of a more sharp enforcement of responsibility to the law, and to public opinion, against the management of one of the greatest, and certainly not the most carelessly or unskilfully conducted railway establishments. It is vain for railway directors to institute comparisons I between the number of accidents that happen on ! railways and the number that used to happ en on ' common roads. They only prove that railway travelling can be made more safe than the old, mode of travelling, thereby aggravating their own culpability in all cases when accidents can be traced to their neglect of proper precautions. TIMMY we give, in another column, the result o the inquiry into the causes of the fatal railway collision at Wiedon. Sydney smith was of opinion that railway travel ling would never be safe till it bishop had been burnt, locked up in a train. Possibly some dangerous in jury to a general-manager front a collision might nerve the same purpose as an episcopal incremation. On this point the public is likely to be soon en- Is . times lik e these, when the papal power abroad lightened. The narrow escape which Mr. Bar vEar.s, had is united . offensively and defensively with monarehi the chief superintendent of the North Western, cal despot ism;—when, tit home, it has revived all from being crushed in the late fatal collision at those aggressive pretensions, the strength and viru- Weedon, and the severe shock which both that knee and danger of which i t is the glory of the gentleman and Captain WI-11, the general manager greatest of our Tudors to have almost driven from this of the line, received on the occasion,—preventing realini—w . hen, in Ireland, its acts assume the form their attend/moat the inquest—may have the effect of disobedience to the law of the land, and in Eng of producing for the future inure care and attention land are encourai;ed by the delusions and the trea to the safety of passengers on that railway. the of of men reared in our favoured uni- It as ms quite clear that a considerable proportion veriaties, and well placed in . our wealthy church of the casualties that take place on railways are ex- I —at such a time, and in the presence of elusively to be attributed to the negligence of the such a state of things, a PROTE,TANT ALLIANCE re management. Trains will occasionally be behind or ham their time; rails w i ll wear out ; boiler.; will min ds us of that mighty and successful Bond which, under circumstances far more immedi ately . dangerous get. uut of order; drivers, stokers, and guards will he I but of a cognate character, the nobility and gentry rash at times; signal-men and other servants will andeommona . lty of EnglandlOrmed. for the protection occasionally be negligent ; but each and all of these Queen I. Lama:ill's person and their country's things are so entin:lv within the range of avoidable of freedom . . They ought, then, to be encouraging and contingencies, that it is the duty of railway arms- exciting words; an Alliance of this sort, under a germ to be continually on the alert to prevent their ' I broad and comprehensive conduct, and a wise and generous policy, might he of national, and more than national —of European utility. Such a confederation rightly based might, under the inspiration of true statesmanship, act as a counterpoise to that Roman ist conspiracy against European liberties, which Lord Jon,: ltessEtt has avowed to parliament his conscientious and deep belief in. Will, thee, the Protestaiit.%lliance, over which Lord SIIAI:TIAIrla presided yesterday, vise to the height of this great argument, or meet the emergencies of threatened Europe? This is a question that time and events alone can fully answer. Meanwhile, it is entitled to fair play and generous treatment. It is only by men of deep and earnest religious feelings, of enthusiastic conduct, and of pure and huts lives, that organisations, such as that proposed, can be called into life; or, when formed, can be adequately directed. At the bottom of that heroic resistance which the people of England made, in the days of our great Tudor Queen, to Rome andSpain,and to their plots and confederacies, lay Puritanism; the daring religious freedom, and the even more audacious political teaching, of CALA.N and fientva. It was on these that our constitutional liberties, which at the Reformation received a new development, were at last broadly and securely laid. Let us not , then, he afraid of encouraging a simi lar spirit and the like agencies in the reign of this our seco nd ; for there are tendencies and causes in operation to correct and modify any ex ecs -es of Puritanism, should they be exhi bited in the nineteenth, as there also were in the seventeenth , century. The danger of ' this generation and age dues nut lie in that, but in a very opposite.directioa. Let us not, then, shrink either from joining or encouraging Lord tiIIAYEE3- IWItA . 4 lingue because of its varied composition, its peculiar impress, its iniperfeet aims, or of its sectional origin. Rather, let us listen to it attentively and respectfully; encourage it in its generous regard for the sufferings of continental protemtantism promote the association at home in harmony and peace of protestants of all sects and forms ; warmly exhort it to unite to free our church from Romanising error; correct its mistake's where they exist; and try to supply (if possible) its leader with that hi g h courage which hitherto has sometimes failed him when most needed. . . ." -4 ,4•4 41... It is difficult to get at the truth of railway acci dents. It is catty, on must occasions, by veil ing forward some witnesses, and overlooking (Oars, t o display ostentatimsly the rashness or negligence of the iumnt diute culprit, and to throw a veil over the systematic slovenliness which placed and kept him in a position to do harm. Then it is such a cheap piece of nrignanimity to throw overboard an °lli:wr ing domt slit., by cashiering or prosecuting him. It is an diffieu t to catch a board of directors tripping as to drop salt on the tail of a sparrow. Ilulf arly returns of railway accidents arc, it is true. dilly made to parliament, and printed for public inform:dim' and cifilication. But these re turns are made by the railway officials, who are naturally disinclined to implicate thenuitives. In fact, the tabular arrangement adopted in these re turns has converted them into a piece of special pleading a 'binding apology or explanation file the liehirof of railway managers. In the column de. voted to a staltment of the "nature and cause of accident," every cireutastanee that can tell tbr the managersis carefully inserted ; every one that in likely to tell against them 1 , 4 carefully excluded. If Jolts MOORE is ran over while trespassing, or 3ssnr twat - rime; k n ocked down by an engine while attempting to cu t s a line on a level cruessing, be sure the fis.l-hardihood, both of Jou,: uud JANFT is (My chronicled hir public wonder and reprehension. Or if a collision takes place at Boxmoor station, in eonsequenec of an engine driver neglei ling signals, the Met is recorded. But when six passengers are killed and seventy-nine in jured in a tunnel on the Birkenhead and Cheshire Junetion, Ind a word is said of the gross and culpable neglect or proper precaution 011 the part of the ma nagement, 'skit a view to keep down their cgismses, which occusiwit II as dephmlLle n catastrophe. And when an etigine-shiver is killed and a fireman in jured, through the tweaking of the tyre of the leading wheel Of an engine, not a word is said about defective inspection of the lueomutives and carrs. Analwould that this were the worst feature of these returns, &swami" us they systematically are, to screen I the short -comings,—the sins of omission,—of railway ' managers. A summary is regularly appended to each 1 , half.yearly return humanity extruding the small ratio which the numlier of persons hilted or injured by rail way neeidents hears to the total number of passengers travelling by railway. In the returns for the first half of the current year it is shown by this summary that, out of 37,5A1,/il3 isissengerie, ody 105 have twill killed, send we/y 173 injured. Care is also taken to impress upon the public mind the fact that of the ! killed ew g I I passengers, nod roily 31 servants of commits and enntractors, have owed their deaths to eircumstantss heyond their own control. Now, this very anxiety to shift responsibility from the 1 , shoulders of the mating, men( betrays an uneasy MI 011'IMPLIICss 1114 they me liable to reproach; and the effort made to divert attention from the large number of casualties to the small ratio they bear to the whole body of travellers, be trays a startling callousness to human suffering. We care not what fraction of the aggregate passen gers the 1 !red and five killed, or the hundred and seventy-three injured may form; and we du think it a very grave and lamentable fact, that one hun dred mid five human beings have been hurried into eternity. and one hundred and seventy-three made to sultjr pain and mutilation in the course of one half-year. IN, our railway managers imagine that the public will tolerate neglect leading to such ter rible tonsequentss, simply bemuse they contrive to keep the number of fatal casualties on their railways at u eomparatively. not a positively, low figure' Now. though it is in most eases no easy matter to obtain distinct legal evidence of culpable neglect on the part of railwuy tanagers, it is at times possible to convict them. The accident in the tunnel ou the Birkenhead and Cheshire Junction was clearly owing to tire semis cable desire of saving on the part of the managers which led them to keep too few watchmen on the line. and tour insufficient engines. And the late fatal net itlent at Weedon is LIS clearly tractable to a neglect on the port of the management that can only be attributed to anxiety to keep down their expenses at the risk of the limbs and lives of their passengers. Thirty passenger trains pass Weedon daily, of which twenty-two atop ut the station. Fifteen lug gage trains puss it during the day and night, some of which stop there. .'t number of special trains also puss it. Su many trains it is obvious must fol low close upon each other. The utmost care of drivers and other servants cannot prevent occasional irregularities iu their rate of travelling and occasional detentions ut the station. When the accident oc curred on Saturday, there were no less than three trains waiting at the station. This can be no un common oes urreatee there; the station master in his evidence at the inquest said that it is .• a thing that frequently occurs;" and yet there is no siding fur trains at %%realm. When a quick train has to . paw a slow tune, the latter is transferred to the other line, and thereby both lines are blocked up, inereas- . ing the risk of accident. Were the management actu ated by any other motive than a desire to increase the excess of receipt over expenditure ; had they the slightest regard for the limbs and lives of their passengers, they would have a siding at Weldon. To the want of one may be attributed the fatal accident of Saturday. Turning to the return of railway accidents for the first half of the present year, we find the North Western set down fur seven. Two of these were col lisions, in consequence of trains running into other trains. Now, let it be kept in mind, that the whole traffic between London and the manufacturing dis tricts, which to the north of Rugby is spread over a number of western and midland lines, comes, to the south of that station, to be confined within the narrow channel of the North Western. Years ago strong representations were made that one double line of rail had become insutficieut for the enormous number of luggage and passenger trains that pass and repass on this railway. And vet the managers, to keep down their expenses• will not adopt the obvious and indispensable precaution of hat tug sidings at all their stations. This Alhance met yesterday in Viremason's Hall for a t wofold purls ase—first, to consider papal persecu bons on the continent, and next to adopt means for the repent of the Ilaynooth Endowment Act in Ireland. In the harmer we can offer them most cordial assist ance ; in the hitter we cannot so heartily coincide. Indeed, we nnast decline joining in any loud denun ciation of a grant which is of an educational charac ter, and which. however used, cannot be withdrawn in the present state of affairs. and of state grants, without giving to the parties from whom it is pro posed to be taken the sympathy which ever results from persecution. 'Whilst some millions of our fel low-countrymen in Ireland require the services of Homish priests, and whilst the protestant church enjoys the rich revenues she holds in that country, it would be equally unfair and impolitic to deny—at present, at any rate—the means of education for the priesthood of a faith on which our fellow-subjects rely. A protestant alliance may find n host of high ana important ditties claiming its notice more ur gently than the Maynouth grant can do. At a moment when the head of the once great pro tcstant Prussian monarchy has deserted the old • policy of his dynasty and become in his dreamy sensuousness a Honiara catholic, in feeling and sen timent and policy at least—when, taking advan tage of his incredible folly and weakness, the Poet: and his crowned allies are re-covering Germany with a network of Popish propagandism which they will not tolerate the use of by others in their own territories; and when the "luxuries of religion" are there captivating the tastes, and perverting the heads, of courtiers, aristocrats, litterateurs, and phis losophers—at moment such as this is a fitting time for the protestant people of England to express sym pathy fur foreign protestuntran so depressed. And happy will it bo it this community of feeling for that which distance enables us thus to group and sec so distinctly, should assuage our own denominational differences; should abate the ecclesiastical pride and hauteur of churchmen; should eject Itontanism from our own establishment ; and mitigate a little the stiffiless of dissentem—should render us conscious that our real dangers are corn ' mon. and our actual safety identical ; should make the sufferings of others act as bonds of our own brotherhood. lor this reason we arc entitled to attribute to the culpable neglect of the management, the collision at the 13oxmour station in January; the collision at the Limi -street station in April ; and now the colli sion at Wetslou lust Saturday. They undertake a greater amount of traffic than can safely find room ou their ,its. Of the remaining accidents which occurred on this Lue between January and June of the current year, For what is it that we obiscriT most plainly and distinctly abroad, but the weakness, the impoliec, and the ruin consequent on such miserable minor differences and sectarian separations? What lesson can we learn thence, if it be nut union and common action where the great objects of all are religious and political freedom—on this earth quite inseparable from I each other? It is in vain to talk large at the politic-al tlrants and the religious persecutors of Continental Europe, if we cannot sink the pretensions of church and the suspicions of dissent at home. It is idle to overcrowd and make Exeter Hall resound with do queues, and applause, if out of Exeter Hall we cannot I walk arm and aria along the Strand. It is dangerous to declare war against a common enemy, if we will not meet him with a common phalanx. I What was the practical wisdom Lord PALMERSTON drew the other day from the liosstrrit ex . atement ? That backed b y the opinion and sup port of an united people, the government in this country would be predominant in the affairs of Europe. And in what, may we inquire of our Secretary. would that predominance be so useful as in one, and the worthiest, of the objects of to-day's meeting—the protection and security of foreign prote,dunt istn ? Henceforth the foreign policy of England must spring from svinpathy for the constitutional liberty and the religious freedom of our fellow beings on the continent of Europe. It is at least Lord PALI/ rusroN's merit to have disassociated that policy tram the support of this particular tyranny or regard for that stags Quo of injustice and I oppression. Except in this new character, England has no place, and ran have no hearing. in the European system. But that character depends en tircic on public opinion ; and is the formation or it the thoughts and feelings of each individual, of every single unit. are of importance. NEW SIIIPPING•OFFICE.—The Local Marine Board ha, made Nnul arcangetneal. for opening an additi,nal shipping-office in Ebenezer-plrce, West India Dock Itu.d. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 29. 11451. FRANCE. PARIS, FIIIDAY EVENING. To-day the Assembly proceeded with and finished the tallier des charges of the Avignon Railway Bill. Nothing of interest occurred. The house agreed to adjourn voting on the articles of the bill until to morrow, in order to deliberate on the way in which they should deal with the former shareholders of the Avignon Cotnpany, whose caution-money was con fiscated in consequence of the non-execution of their engagements. M. de Vatismesnil took advantage of a pause in the debate to move that the third reading of the Communal Electoral Bill should be brought on the order of the day for to-morrow. After some obser vations from MM. Lacrosse and Posey, the Assembly rejected this motion by a small majority, and de cided that the bill should not come until after the law on the levy of 80,000. The report on the latter bill by General Cludinot concludes in favour of its adoption. Ney de la Moskowa presented to-day 75 petitions for the revision of the constitution with a mew to the renewal of the powers of Louis Napoleon. The sitting broke up without further result. In future the Assembly means to go to work an i hour earlier in the day, that is at one o'clock instead , I of two, in compliance with the proposition of General ' Lamoriciere. M. de Tinguy has presented the following proposi -1 tion to the Assembly : , I If the National Assembly shoxil d be obstructed in the ezerecseof its mandate by ;revolutionary event, the mem bers of the Councils General will meet immediately, and oft pain of dismi•sal, at the capitals of their departments, in , order to form with the civil and military authorities, which are required under the same penalty to lend their concur ; rence, a council of public safety, the duty of which shall be ' to organise and maintain legal resistance until the ristora ; tion of the parliamentary power. - - - - - - The reluctance of either side of the Assembly to take the initiative in proposing urgency tor the Council of State's Bill is a striking symptom of the irresolution of the parliament, in face of the increasing audacity . of Louis Napoleon. In fact, the bill was quite as important as a demonstration as in the shape of an instrument, revolutions Hashing generally to their end with a too sudden vehemence to admit the application of elaborate legal processes. While a meeting at M. Mole's agreed to wait and see what i the Left would do about proposing . urgency, the Mountain came to a similar conclusion at Leman delay's, and decided to wait for a move on the 'Right. Thus, both sides of the Assembly, spy ! ing mischief in the mien of the executive, and feeling `they have to deal with an awkward cust , mer, strain courtesy which shall cope him first. M. Michel de Bourges says to M. Berryer, " If you choose to bring ' forward urgency we of this side will support you. M. Berryer and his friends affect to regard such pro posals of alliance as gifts of the Greeks, but in reality are afraid of pulling down the whole parliamentary fabric on their heads. I invite your attention, by the way, to the cool style in which the proprietor of the Pa . trie (in the article given below) talks of the suppression of representative institutions altogether as a measure quite easy for Louis Napoleon to carry into ettbet, and one which would cant the gratitude of the nation. To such a pitch has faction crippled the utility of parliamentary mechanism, nay made it even abominable in the eyes of at, immense mass of the people. The Musitettr contains several changes in the pre fectures. Eight new prefects are created and several I transposed. M. Madicr-Monjau, and other members of the Mountain, have presented a motion for suppressing the tax on drinks, and supplying the deficit by re. duetions in the Budgets of the Ministries of Worship, Wur, and the Interior. In the Paris elections, which open on Sunday, the whole democratic and Bonapartist putties will ab stain from voting. The elections use expected to pa s s in complete calm. 131,000 electors are in scribed upon the lists. M. Devinek, therefore, in order to succeed, must obtain 33,000. In the prepa ratory ballot of the Electoral Union this candidate obtained less than half that number. The Reodution hos been seized for an attack upon the President. An important political dinner has been given by Baron Pasquier, formerly president of the Chamber of Peens. Upwards of 10 leading members of the Assembly, of all fractions, incl uding Mole, de Fal loux, anti Broglie, were present at this banquet. It was generally agreed that hit the mom ;it the )'re sident had got the upper-hand, although the dupli city of his policy was bloused severely. It was also admitted that the mediocrity as well us audacity of the Elyscan ministers was a necessary result of the critical period ; and that Louis Napoleon, it' he car ried the day, as there was every appearance of pro bability that he would, would not find any lack of able counsellors after the difficulties of his enterprise were once removed. Not the least singular anomaly of the moment is the buoyancy of the Bourse, notwithstanding the admission on all hands that the financial outlook is of the gloomiest. It was observed in the debate on the Lyous Railway that the speech of M. Pasty, as well as the reply of M. Vintry, the commissioner appointed to speak on the financial part of the ques tion, both confirmed the reported imminence of a loan of :JO millions. In fact M. Vintry admitted that the ministry adhered to the views of the com mittee on the budget, who thought it would be better to authorise the government to contract a loan. The .Issembh , c opposes urgency on the Council of States' Bill, on the ground that the latter measure ought not to wear the appearance of a revenge for the defeat of the Questore' Bill. 'rho Opiaion Toblipte argues in favour of voting 'the Communal Electoral Bill, the rejection of which would greatly damage the Assembly. This failure is more probable, as M. Leon Faucher has set the ex ample of voting against the new bill as too liberal, while the Elyseans and Mountain reject it fur not going far enough. M. Thiers and a few of his immediate disciples, although they voted against the transportation to Noukaliiva of the three Lyons conspirators, were the foremost, when the law of transportation was under discussion, to declare in favour of its retroactive ap plication. A letter of the Count de Chambord has been re cently received at Paris, which is much talked of as • sort of manifesto. M. Delamarre's article in the Pattie has made as great a sensation as Cussagnac's in the Coostitutionnel. The abortive attempt of M. Creton to drag Casssag- I nac to the bar of the Assembly has naturally en couraged a further manifestation of contempt fur that body. The Pattie article is headed " Repre sentative Government." It begins by a long historical review of the fate of the various National Assemblies of France, since the repreven- I tative system was "imported from England" sixty years ago, with the object of showing that they all came to a had end. The moral of the story, according to M. Delamarre, is that then• is no one phase of the representative system which has not fatally resulteci in a revolution. Ile accounts for this by asserting that the essential nature of every assembly or corporation is to become aggressive. He refers, as an instance in support of his argument, to the society of the Jesuits, humble in it, origin, but led on by thrt necessary tendency of its organisation to aspire to the secret govern. mint of the world. Having with on appearance of philo sophic impartiality, devoted four columns to the develop sn nt of the general doctrine, he proceeds to apply it prac tically in the following significant strain : "The country is now asking itself whether upon the whole the good or the evil of representative government is predominant? When the boor for legally revising the coma:autism nt 181$ shall arrive, sill France stop at the idea of simple modifying the legislative power, or will she go on to ...at the suppression of the National Assembly ? This is a questiou now debating in the minds of many. It is not so idle or so puerile a question as might be suppoeed; on the contrary, it is a very serious one." After establishing his own character as an impartial wit -111/M by the remark that his interest as a journalist would lead him to wish for parliamentary government, he says: "If this government were to perish by a violent death, owing to one of those events of which history turoishes mote than one example, its fall would excite no surprise, and p-rhaps no regret." A lade turtlier on, he indicates, in plain terms, the .pe cies of annihilation which threaten. the Assembly. " If the legislative power were to disappear and bs ab sorbed in the executive power, people would only say that it had been punished in the matter in which it had sinned ; and that for wishing to be everything it bad become nothing." The above nrticle has drawn forth a violent reply from the (7,/..n, and will certainly be a fertile theme fur all the an.l-Elysean journals to-morrow. A report has just been made to the Chamber of, Commerce of Nfulhausen, by MM. Schlumberger and Co., of Gaebwiller. on a sample of cotton sent by the prefect of Algiers for examination. They speak in high terms of the articles thus sent, declaring it to THE STATE OF FA T aTIES IN FRANCE. b e superior to the ordinary Egyptian kinds found at I Marseilles. The Chamber of Commerce has ordered the new cotton to be woven, in order to send back Meer. the Doily News.) to the prefect of Algiers the produce of what he had The quarrel between Louis NAPOLEON and the forwarded. great folk of 'ale...National Assembly becomes each day The committee of parliamentary initiative has re- more ilag'.ant. Hitherto it was the parliamentary commended the taking into consideration of the pro- I chiefs, 'who volunteered the attack, and who kept up position of M. Richard (du Centel), on the means of a ccrAstant fire of accusations against the Elyske of . . preserving agricultural produce from the ravages of midditating coups d , public and the national representation, of ingratiating The Motsiteur Rays: tat, of conspiring against the re insects ' himself with the soldiery, and of corrupting officers The Ambassador of her British Majesty at Pari; has and transmitted to the Minister of Foreign Affaus • 1 . A t r i t e l P RESIDENT was carried on week after week , w hilst scope and gold medal, offerd by the English g oe .crnment to functionaries. This pitiless pelting o f the I his ministers bowed before the storm, and made of Havre, for having saved andconveyed to f ranc , w i thout . humble excuses, whilst LOUIS NAPOLEON opposed consenting to receive say pecuniary reccnapense, ?OUT En- little save silence to such attacks. Captain Pierre Bernard, commander of the F,....n0s et Breo,l glish sailors who had sought refuge tru the desert island the The respective parts are now, however, altered. It Trinity . , off the coast of Brasil. ?.. Five silver medals des tined, independently of a gratuity of 5/. sterling, which has attacks . is LOUIS NAPOLEON who assumes the offensive, who been paid to each A them, to the sailors of the three-masted ship, the France et Brest', composing xfimPirag , and coups (. 1 the ere M of the boat of that vessel charged to worries them daily and weekly by some new motion I receive the English sailors. etat, and who alarms and A sum of thirty shillings per in the Assembly, and some fresh appeal to the public. I head has, moreover, been paid to the rest of the crew of tho ! vessel for the services rendered on the occa•ion. 3. A by t he press, whilst the parliamentary chiefs and Hitherto Louts NAPOLEON was but feebly supported sword of honour and a gold medal, also given by the Erg - . the legitimists, the Orleanists, M. GUIZOT, lish government, to Captain Pierre Edouard Pottier, of the ship the Louise Marie, of llavre, who received in open sea 1 .1. 'NIERS, M. BERRYER, each with his journal, . the crew and twenty-seven ra , sengers of the English vessel made daily incisions into the PRESIDENT'S reputation Lady 'Alford, and conveyed them to Velparaise—refusing to parties, and prospects. In this respect, too, LOUIS NAPOLEON accept any compensation for the maintenance of those per- has turned the tables on his adversaries. Arm ed sons during the thirty-nine days they passed on board his • with two of the most powerful organs of vessel. the Constitutiontiel and tho Presw, The metallic reserve of the Bank of France has the P ress ' increased lof a million in Paris, and about the mine he has beaten the monarchists out of the field, their insinuations and diatribes paha.... before t a i m m o k u i n a t s in t he provinces. The discount ace - has fal len off about l of a million in Paris, and the powerful insolence of Dr. VsitoN, the inex increased about that extent in branch banks ; the haustible logic and acuteness of M. Dr; GIRARDIN. I amount of the former being 3i,863,439fr., and of the Ihe events of last week's camr e ign n betwee n his latter 65,550,-171er. On the side of the liabilities, the friends and his adversaries ha • camper before re notes in circulation have fallen off about '3 millions in counted, the rejection of the government proposal to Paris, and increased 11 million in the branch banks. repeal the law of May, the substitution of the Muni- The account current of the treasury has increased cipal 11111, the proposal of the qui:stens to endow the somewhat more than I million, the present amount Assembl y wit h military power and command. On being 53 039 100 fr Private accounts current have Sunday morning the C./est/Wen/net came faith with 1, , . I declined somewhat more than lof a million in Paris, a fierce attack on the parliamentary chiefs, whom it I and increased about I million in the provinces; the formally accused of a conspiracy to make away amount of the former being 115,207,035 fr., and of i with rho PRESIDENT ; to put General CHAN the latter :1:3,6 4 1,nt5. The whole amount of the me- ; GARNIER as military dictator in his plaoo ; tallic reserve is now 598 j millions, to 5571 millions and to prolong the duration of the Assembly, as the of notes in circulation. members of the convention had done in the days of the first revolution. Such an accusation—for the truth of which the testimony of an Orleunist general who had been one of CIIANOARNIER's supporters, was invoked,—so formal a charge, that of a conspiracy i undertaken long since and long since evaporated, . , alarmed the parliatneutary chiefs. They interrogated ministers in the Assembly, who confined their expla nations to the present, and refused to be answerable for the views or opinions of the o»Witritionnel. This was all well, when lo! the PRE...fun:NT himself steps forward, and in an address to a large body of the public, the recipients of prizes at the London Exhibition, reiterates the very charges of the Cm : difittiwwei, accuses the Assembly, or certain members ' of it, of seeking to form themselves into a convention in order to play the RontisrtnattE, the men of order, I , ' by their maneeuvres, as well as the legitimists by their intrigues fur restoring their princes, being in fact the genuine conspirators, the trite pertur ' bators, that interrupted the resumption of trade, the . I confidence of credit, and the prosperity of the inches. trious classes. • It would be more easy to imagine than to depict the fury of the "orderlies" upon finding themselves thus accused of being jacobins and conventionalists, and of disturbing time tranquillity and trade of the country by their plots. They will no doubt takC revenge in the ensuing discus sion of the law fixing the nature of the Presi dent's responsibilities. M. DE Seer, in the Journal des Wllatg, seeing this new storm arise, exerts his pen to allay it, and entreats the majority to adjourn tho couoideration and discussion of such a law. They are not in a fit frame of mind, he de clams, to legislate. Their temper is irritated to a degree, that necessitates rash words and acts. And he entreats the Tititatsh.s and MOLES to avoid pre cipitating an open collision between the Assembly and the PnEstuENT. Such arguments would not be publicly employed was there nut assurance of their being welcomed and listened to. Nor does it ill bespeak the relative po sition of parties, when the organs of the Elysist rush forward to tire as tirailkurs, whilst those of the As sembly are employed in dissuading the main body of the army from advancing, or fighting, or undergoing any risk whatever fur the present. Meantime Louts NAPOLEON, in his denouncement of monarchist plots, has taken republican ground. After more than three years' hesitation, he sees that it is only as chief of the French republic that he can really be strung • that with an attitude of imperial preten sions, ha bits of imperial profligacy, and political community with the Fortin s and TALLEYRANDS ' of the present day, he has no chance of main taining even his place of President, much less enc,rchirs his brows with an imperial crown ; he has, • therefore, taken his stand where he should have I `taken it at first, on that great neutral ground between monarchic reaction and democratic insanity, where it is evident the middle and industrious classes are 'I ready to rally around him. The misfortune is, that Louis .ti.tivt.Eux is personally estranged from the leaders of the moderate and constitutional republi cans. CAVAIGNAC has indeed joined his vote to CHAN- ' 1 GARNIER on one or two important occasions, such as that of the motion of the questors ; but such men as DUFAURE remain suspicious and implacable. a the po l l a it t i tLr i , u ( n iu ri e b s l t e io t r o l, w t a h l e a a n dti n nfst t ra o ti o o i r o n n e tur l i t i take advantage of a railroad debate to thwart it. On the grant of the Lyons railroad, DU FAURE spoke a full hour and ° a half in opposition Ito the present and the late Minister of Public Works, thus expending his talents and energies ' mainly to spite political rivals, and deprive the country of what it stands much in need of—fm•eign capital, to be expended in some of time most discontented provinces of France. To trip up and kick the minima one another, seems, however, the sole motive that actuates French politicians for the present. SI'AIN. The Duke and Dmless of Monpensier arrived on the 2nd Madrid, and were received affectionately by the Quecu and royal family. ITALY. LOMBARDY. The Milan Gazlite announces that Count Tedesehi, aged forty, has been condemned to death for having circulated revolutionary pamphlets ; but that Mar shut itadetzky has commutill the punishment to ten years imprisonment in irons. TILE ACTIONS AGAINST MR— ALDERMAN SALO moss.—The record in the action of Chubh v. Salomon, has been withdrawn, the object of the plaintiff being simply to obtain a fair decision of the real question at issue. Another action of Miller v. Salomons is pending, profe-sedly for the same object; and, as it stands first for trial, the plaintiff in this action has thought it only fair and proper to withdraw for the present, to give the plaintiff in the other action every opportunity of trying the question, which, if his action is not collusive, there is nothing now to prevent him from doing. The following letter has been written by the attor neys for the plaintiffs in this action to the attorneys for the defendant, and a similar letter has also been addressed by them to Mr. James Jenkyn, the attorney for the plaintiff Miller. Notwithstanding repeated applications, the attor neys for the defendant and the plaintiff in the other action have not afforded any information as to who and what Mr. Miller is up to the present time. Mr. Alderman Salomon* has now an opportunity, should he be sincere in his desire to do so, to try the great constitutional question now at issue : " 13, Gray 's inn-square, Nov. 26, 1831.-011:1113 v. SALO cross.—Gentlemen : The object of this action was to obtain a fair and bottafrir judicial decision upon the right of the de fendant to vote as a member of the House of Commons without hissing taken the prescribed oaths. The other action of Miller v. Salomons, commenced after ours, we, fir the present, presume was for the same object ; and whether such a decision be obtained fairly iu the one action or the other, is of secondary importanee to our client, who brought his action, according to an invitation of the defendant him self, to try a great constitutional question. We find that the action of Miller v. Salomon, stands first for trial ; and, in lull reliance and expectation that such action will be fairly tried upon its merits, we beg to inform you that we have withdrawn the record in than action, fully intending that if the other action be not so conducted to trial at the present sittings as to satisfy us that there has been no collusion or unfair management, we shall renew the notice for the next sitting., and then assuredly proceed to trial. We have not been able to ascertain who and what the plaintiff ' Miller,' is, and you will oblige us by furnishing us with his place of alio& and quality.—We are, gentlemen, your obedient ser i saints, Clitlin and DEA:sr..—Messrs. Hodgson, Concanen, and Cu., Lincoln's-inn-fields." TIIE PEEL PENNY SUBSCRIPTION.—To the Editor of the Times.—Sir,—l see a letter in your paper of yester. day, asking "What has become of the Peel's working men's penny subscription." I have the satisfaction to in form the inquirer that the subscription has been closed, and all the accounts audited and settled by the committee, the amount being about 1,7001. sterling, which is in the Bank, and that on my return to London measures will be adopted by the committee and trustees fur the application of the funds in the manner that shall appear to them the best cal culated to carry out the resolutions agreed to at the public meeting at the Whittington Club.—l remain, your obedient servant, JOSECII HUME, Chairman of the Committee.— Burnley-hall, Norfolk, Nov. 26. BARNET AND NORTH METROPOLITAN RAILWAY.— A long argument from Mr. Roxburgh was yesterday held in this matter, with the view of making the provisional com mittee liable to a pro rata payment, in respect of certain debts incurred after the period of their acceptance of ►hares. PIEDMONT. The Piedmontese luidgct for 1M 2, presented to the Chambers of Turin a few days ago, shows a diminu tion of 19,514i,:cil fr. in the chapter of extraordinary expenditure, resulting from the extinction of the debt due to Austria in consequence of the late treaty of :peace. On the other hand, the general expendi ture is increased by a sum of 6,733,1i1Kfr., resulting from the loan lately contracted in England. and cer tain military and naval pensions, which have been transferred to that chapter from the budget of war. NIODENA. The .Irestagerc of Nlodena announces that the in ternational committee for the execution of the rail way of Central Italy commeaced its labours o:t the 11th. ROMAN STATES. Our Roman correspondent, writing on the 20th Nov., states that the police authorities were in great hopes of discovering the secret press which had an noyed them so much. Extensive arrests were going on with that view. ecveral officers of dragoons were imprisoned, and 17 non-commissioned officers of the Line dismissed. General °entente* speech to his staff was considered by the priests as indicative of his devotion to the papal cause. Inquisitors and Jesuit; had been making depositions before the British consul against I )r. Aelii The Roman ecclesiastics had made public efforts to convert English visitors to their churches, and more British subjects had been subjected to the out rages of the Aim'. General Gemeau had apologized in the handsomest manner to Mr. Pemberton, for the affront that gen tleman had undergone at the theatre, and had im prisoned the offi•nding French officers. TIVO SIMMS. A letter from Naples, of the lath, in the Corriere Mercantile of Genoa states that the King of Naples is forming a camp of observation at Capua. It is to be composed of 50,th00 men. A letter from l'alermo, of the 12th, in the German Journal of For aktini, states that an attempt at in surrection in Sicily had been made by Baron Rise, and other noblemen, with a view to proclaim the in dependence of Sicily, and compel the King to abdi cate as King of Sicily, in favour of his son Francis. A portion of the inhabitants of Palermo declared themselves in favour of this project, and the 13th regiment fraternised with them, but by the energy of the authorities the movement was soon checked, and several arrests, including some officers of the 13th regiment, were made. LATEST FOREIGN F-XCIIANGES. PARIS BOURSE. PA111.4, Nov. Z. pr im. Di pprnleg EDON! Lowest Cloidei. 14 41 44 30 14 30 36 in 91 if 91 90 31 30 91 30 fa, 23 inieo &yr. 24 93. S par (7.4474. ..„ / S 8 30 1 ' T S oer 431,44. : 91 SO , 4 per Cent.. II do. N 4.4 Lon 4 81 27 II 3 per Pats. _ . . L?01 . 11!/%011 OM Lrmoiron :it -_... Belgian, 5, IN Money. Napho Itentol Do. 'looms Loa, .. 751 ... Do. 46 Do. 26 Ptedosoot 20. C00t... a :0 2 1 ,2 3 21 ::. - . ...... _ Pants, Nov. N.—V e rsaines (left bank), 210 ; Paris and Orleans, 376 73, rat• and Rum!, 577 30; Rouen and !Isere, 313 :3; Marseille* and Avitnon, 20a 75; Strasbourg and lidle, 153 75; 436 If ; houlogre and (miens, 26 75 ; Origins an 4 Bordeaux, 377 30 ; Northern, 407 50; Part. 401 I , rovoonre. MA 73, Tours and Naktes, 237 56; Yontereatt and Troyes, 06 ; bur -1 emu sad Taste, id 23. (By Ekerio Teleraph.) ANTWERP, NOV. 28.—Five per Cont. 721; do. Ardoins, 13 - 2. Three per Cent. Interior, 3;# Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., —. Exchange on London, 23.19. BRUSSEL4, Nov. 28.—Belgian Fire per Cents., 99; Four-snd-a-Half per Cents., 90; ; Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 49:. Exchange on London, 25.19. HAMBURG, Nov. VS.—Three per Cents. Interior, 33; ; Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Russian, 98 Exchange on London, three months, ; at sight, 13.7. VIENNA, Nov. 28.—Fire per Cent. Mitalliques, 913. Exchange on London, 12.38 ; on Paris, 151. BERLIN, Nov. 28.—Voluntarr Loan, 1024; Na tional Debt, 89. Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 11414. FitiNKFURT. Nov. 27.—Five per Cent. Metal liques, nt. Three per Cent. Interior 33 9-16. Ex change on London, 119 k. AMATEEDVI t Nov. 27.—Five per Cent. Metal ' liques, 69; ; Five per Cent. Ardoins, 1313-16 ; Three per Cents. Interior, 35 3-16 ; ltiusian Four-and-a- Half per Cents., —; Two-and-a-Half per Cent. In tegrals, 38 1-18. Exchange on London, 11.83. FaEmelt RAILWAY TRAFFIC. —The following are the last More• of tee rsceists •d the p•tooiysl trench r.alw.qs : V.Aystr..—Frsts Nov. 19 to N0v.29 t Itassostgere, 191,2201.; goods 11.1.790 f. ; total, 1:0,014. . _ , -- ri;elase. —Prom No; 16 to Nov. 21 : ousearora, 33,719 f. ; good., 73,111111., total. 3;43f. uavara—v..en Nov. 16 to Nov. :2: Parvengare, 21,086 f.; foals, $1,1111.; total, 32.904 f. Ilarvora —From Nov. 17 to Nov. 21: PAreerpre, 19.7111.; 'poi; 101,4131: tots', 116.223 f. VirsuM—Frorn N0v.17 to Nov. 21: Paeronger; 37.8111; Ronda 44,913;.; t0ta1..12,1741! 130KIKACIL.—From , 7 ov. U to Nov. 11: Pas:arkerv, 20,01 Y. ; go,th, 21,114 0 1.; 101 . 1 , 2 2. 8 4 it NAVT.-16-1 , t.10t Nov. 12 to Nov. rj.?l U,Soif.; go , vlv, 21 1 044. ; 62,11421. - 14maaaci.;. 1 1 7 1;;;;:liov. 111 to ST .• 23: Pamengera, ;19,4131 ; good'. WSW.; total. 3!14.1611. to Nov. A : Passengere, 26,0:1t.; good% IOW.; tot.d, 4',9 9L MO%TtItILV:.- From Nov. 12 to Nov. 18: 8,679 L; goods, 11.1.171.; total, 19,2113 L 111.1.1.111LLI%—rrom N0v.12 to Nov. 18: Pancogers, 11,118 f. good , 28,7413 L; total, 7.1 26.1. Ivosa—Prom Nov. 9to Nov. : Passengers, 10+,679(; goods, 91,2711 L; total, 306,1 AL tete Court OSBORNE, Fume, r. The Queen and Prince took their usual early walk yesterday morning. The ltev. Mr. Birch had the honour of dining with l o Majesty in the evening. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Ana Dawson, arrived in town yesterday from le regmor,, and visited the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucesterllou,e, and in the afternoon returned to Frogmore. A deputation on the County Rates and Expenditure hill, headed by the Right lion. T. Milner Gibs ,n, M.P., had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Mr. John Moore Airey had an interview with Earl,,Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Despatches were received at the Colonial-office, yester- day, from the Governor of the Gambia. Despatches were sent off to the Governor of Canada and the Governors of the other North American prosiness. (Pram tent night'. la:We.) FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 26.—the Queen hat; been graciously pleased to appoint the lion. Sir Ralph Iher cromby, K.C.8., now her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Sardinia, to la, her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo tentiary to the King of the Netherlands. Ct)MMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE 14)141)-LIEUTENANT OF DVCKINGIIAUSIIILIE.—WaIter John Bryant, wilt., srel John Richard Damll, gent., to he cornets is the 2nd moat of Royal Bucks Yeomanry CLlN'alry. NATIONAL FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY. The second annual general meeting of the National Freehold Land Society was held last night at the Louden Tavern, Sir J. Wai.maisx, president of the asso ciation, in the chair. There was ave y numerous muster of members on the occasion. Mr. WHIT f INGII.OI, the secretary, read the report awl statement of accounts. The report, which was of a very satisfactory character, stated that there remained on hand some lots which had been offered to members entitled to choose, and which on the Ist of January neat would be offered to members who were desirous of taking them, though not yet entitled. That branch 4,1 the society's business which constituted the ordinary business of a building society had been much developed during the past year. Throughout the last registration, but one claim to be registered on a lot procured through the society MAs dis ' allowed on the merits, and that by mistake. The drawing of shares would in future take place every Saturday at 11 o'clock insteadmf monthly, as heretofore. Oi 230,000/. stated to have been received during the past year by free hold land societies, this society received 90,137/., and out of 15,000 new members, this society Mit: 41 4,231, and out of 25,000 new shares, 9,831 were issued by it. The nen balance up to the end of last year was 3,077/. 135., out of which a dividend of 3/. Bs. Id. per cent. wou:d be placid to the credit of such members as had not received their shares, and the balance would be carried to the reserve fund. The CHAIRMAN, in rising to move the adoption of the report, said though personally labouring in connection with another great rause for the enfranchixment by legisla tive enactment of the great mass of the wealth-producing classes, he was not on that account the less happy to find himself identified with the interests of thc Free hold Land Society. (Cheers.) And most heartily did he congratulate the members of this association on the rapid progress nod high prosperity of their utfairs, a. indicated in the report which had just been read. That the society had advanced to so prosperous u condition was a proof of the soundness of the principles on whirls it was founded, and of the intrinsic excellence of the objects it had in view. He thought they would all agree that without those features it would have tailed to carry with it the confidence and support of prudential and rctlec : tire men. The result, so far, had exceeded their most rian guine expectations. and it was not fortitude that they now needed to sustain them under difficulties, but wisdom to • guide them in the midst of their success. There might bi those who deemed it an inconsistency iu the person who might be labouring for the abolition of u property qualification and for the attainment of a freehold vote. To him, at least, the two movements appeared per fectly in harmony, as tending to the same great cud. The artisan was now shown that if the franchise was not made easy of attainment, it was at least made pne,tical, and if the government would not allow him a vote as a tax-payer he could win it for himself by associated efforts. Those efibrts were resulting in the introduction of a sturdy and incorruptible body of men to the franchise, and could not fail to haven most important hearing on the future representa tion of the counties. All might aid in the good work. Fathers might counsel their sons, each man might stimulate and encourage his neighbour, and, that mighty engine the press carrying their peaceful plans to every corner of the empire, they might fairly and reasonably hope fur the time when the toiling millions of this country might stand erect as free men, and each Min might be able to place his Mot upon a moil of earth, the rightful purchase of his honour able toil. Mr. COBDEN, M I'., wished to dispel certain misrepre• sentations which prevailed with reference to this movement. One of their critics had expressed a wish to tt see the interior of a freehold land society." (Laughter.) Ile could tell that individual there was one to be seen which would pro bably inspire hisconfidence. Ile meant the Church of England Provident Freehold Land Sucicty,one of the trustees of which was the Rev. Thos. P. Dale ' Residentiary Rouse, St. Paul's. Every objection that could be urged to this society might be with equal propriety urged against hundreds of benevolent building societies throughout the country. All those attacks on the freehold land societies were just a repetition of those that had been made against every movement which hod for its object to give to a body of industriouSpeople importuiti ties of indulging in that which was once thought to be a luxury only to he enjoyed by their superiors. Again, those critics had said that this movement was t.guing to make land the common attribute of the community.' Ito dared say they expected next that the people wanted to be shout• ing partridge*, hares, and phe;usants. It was also said that a poor man would only get into debt on a bit of land. Well, if he did that, he would only be following the example of his betters ; and if that was to be made the reason why people should nut possess land, they would wnut an encumbered estates court in this country next year, which would dispossess half the landowners of their acres, and a great deal more. The hon. gentleman concluded amidst loud cheers by seconding the adoption of the report. Mr. HOLDER said that he did not wish to move the rejection of the report, but he would move as an amend ment, that for the future the report set forth the outlay in the purchase of estates, the oxpenso of management, the repayments under each estate, and that Rhy balance-sheet of the allotments be submitted to the metaben without delay. Mr. RUSSELL, the solicitor of the society, said it would be illegal to set forth these things in the report. After some mli , cussion on the aubjuct, the CHAU/VAN put the amendment, fur which but n few hands were held up. The niution fur the adoption of time report was then put and carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN then proposed that the ten retiring directors be re-appointed, which was also carried after some objections had been urged against the mode of appointing the directors in a body, and without givin4 the members an opportunity of deciding on the merits of each, and an inti mation from Mr. Cobden that the objection would be consi dered. Mr. Cullenford and Mr. Howard were re-elected auditors; after which a vote of thanks was passed to the chairman and directors, and the meeting then separated. DISASTROUS COLLISION ON THE SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. A collision, attended by very melancholy circum stances, took place on the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, at about a quarter past 10 o'clock on Thurs day night at a place named Ford, two miles from the town of Arundel. At the Ford station the above line of railway crosses the river Arun by means of a wwalen bridge, which, for the convenience of vessels passing up and down the river, is constructed so as to open in the centre. In order to make it as light as possible, only a single line of rails is laid down, signalmen mid pointonen being properly sta tioned to prevent accident. Ou Thursday night the 7 p.m. down train from London, leaving Brighton at 9.30, having called at 10.4 at the Arundel station, was proceeding ;towards the Ford visa duct, it appearing that the signal was up in dicating that another train was passing over the single line of rails, and which signal would seem to have been observed by the engine driver of the down train, but who, supposing the other train would be off in time, did not stop his own. The consequence was, that he came into violent collision with the up luggage train before the whole of it had. got off the bridge, only the engine, tender, and two trucks having done so. Tho shock of the collision, as described by a passenger in the down train, was of the most frightful character; goods trucks and their contents were in many instances wholly destroyed, and in others partially, as were also the passenger train carriages. The guard's van of the latter was overturned and crushed to atoms, the guard himself, named Burgess, escaping, extraordinary to say, without the least injury. The down train had but few passengers in it, and of these, although nearly all of them were more or less bruised, none were seriously wounded. The persons in charge of the goods train also escaped unhurt, but the stoker of the down train, named Martin, was so dangerously wounded that there is no hope of his recovery. his injuries are chThey iefl about the head. 1 engine-driver of the down train, John Pemberton, I I from whose subsequent conduct th e re i s reason t o b e li e ve that the accident was attributable to his negligence of the signals, is also not expected to live. He entirely escaped in jury from the collision, but after it he made two desperate attempts on his life. In the line instance, he attempted directly after the collision to cut his throat, but was pre ! vented by Burgess, the guard of his train. Pemberton. Ihowever, succeeded in an wounding himself that no hope is entertained of his surviving. BUM'S, then put him in charge of a person on the spot, but from this person Pem berton soon made his escape, and again attempted to de stroy his life by pbinging into the river Arun. Burgess, who had been assiduously attending to the wants of the unfortunate stoker Mart= and the wounded passengers,