The Press. — London, England, 1857-10-03 00:00:00

-- Carden was the next alderman on the list for the civic office. On Saturday last he applied to the sitting Lord Mayor for a summons against one Thomas Rose for an attempt to extort money under pecu liar circumstances. The election of a Lord Mayor has of late years subsided into a mere formal ceremony, that dignitary being chosen by rotation instead of election, so as to avoid the inconvenience of any contest which might occur. It appears, however, that this agreeable formality was attended by a very disagreeable imposition in the shape of a demand for a certain sum of money by a man named Thomas Rose, who professed to be the agent of and to have such influence over the lower class of liverymen that he could, if his demands were not complied with, force the Lord Mayor expectant to submit to the expensive process of a poll. This levy of black mail appears to have been submitted to for some years ; but Sir It. W. Carden determined: to resist S and to expose the whole thing. From the statement of his counsel on Saturday, Air. Rose announced to Sir R. Carden that 4,000/. had been subscribed to oppose his election, and demanded 1,500/. as the price of a compromise. On finding Sir It. Carden firm in his indignant rejection of all offers of arrangement, Mr. Rose's claims subsided gradually to 2001., and then to 150/. At that he made a stand, and the result is that Sir R. Carden is elected, while Mr. Rose will doubtless be prosecuted. MR. ALDERMAN LAWRENCE AND Mn. ALLEN have been elected and sworn in as Sheriffs for London and Middlesex for the ensuing year. The usual presentation at Westminster took place on Wednes day. Alderman Lawrence has appointed an Unitarian minister, the Rev. T. Madge, of Essex street Chapel, Strand, to be his chaplain during the yea' of his shrievalty. Mr. Sheriff Allen has ap pointed as his chaplain the Rev. Thomas Grose, Curate of St. Peter's Church, Cornhill. THE COALWHIPPERS attached to the Coalwhippers'- office of the port of London, and those employed by agents, have struck for an advance of wages to 9d. a ton. The men assert that the office had suddenly lowered the rate of whipping from 7d. to 6d., and that that is an amount of remuneration they cannot sub sist upon. It is stated that there are 1,500 men on strike. THE WOODWORK OF DR. JOHNSON'S CHAMBERS, No. 1, Inner Temple Lane, was sold by auction on Thursday. The timber floor, windows, doors, panel partition, &c., realised 10/. ss. The staircase has been preserved by the Benchers. THE METROPOLITAN MEDICAL ScHoor.s connected with the metropolitan hospitals were formally opened ou Thursday, by inaugral lectures by distinguished professors. A large number of students have be- come connected with the schools, and at the various hospitals where the lectures were delivered there was a good attendance, and the lectures excited deep interest. The lectures generally were of a very scientific and intellectual character, and replete with useful and practical suggestions for medical students. THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S RETURNS exhibit an increase of deaths last week. They rose from 946 the week previous, to 1,002. This, bowever, is con siderably below the average, which would reach 1,363. The births amounted to 1,706. THE PRESS, OCTOBER 3, 1857. broke the hook of the tender to which the first carriage was coupled, and the engine ran away fur about 200 yards before the driver could bring it up. In the meantime the two foremost carriages passed over the bridge, being already off the rails, and on arriving at the south side rolled down the embankment, turning completely over. The inquiry was resumed on Tuesday. Mr. Leith, the superintendent of the Great Northern Railway, thought the Manchester train sometimes did run at a rate of sixty miles an hour, Mr. he regarded that as "an excessive speed." On the Ist of August these express-trains, between Manchester and London, and vice versa, were run in competition with the North-Western, and the time was reduced from 5 hours and 20 minutes to 5 hours. Mr. Sturrock, the locomotive engineer of the line, was " quite at a loss to explain the cause of the acci dent." It could " not have occurred from the speed," and the rails were in good order. Mr. Brydon, the engineer-in-chief, gave the same opinion ; and Colonel Winn, the Government in spector, was "quite in the dark" on the same point, though his recommendation in favour of a limited speed for express-trains indicated the ten• dency of his opinion. The jury ultimately delivered a verdict that the five persons dead bad been acci dentally killed, The foreman then - handed in the following addendum to the verdict : The jury, in giving their fullest consideration to the de tails of this melancholy accident, cannot separate without stating that it appears that there is not sufficient caution given to the engine-drivers in working express-trains, that they are intrusted with the exezcise of a very large and dangerous amount of discretion, and that there should be a maximum speed which the drivers of them should not, under any circumstances, exceed. And we further desire the coroner to communicate the verdict to the Board of Trade, and request them to bring the subject under the consideration of the Government. The following letter has appeared in the Times : As I was a passenger and also a sufferer at the time of the late accident on the Great Northern Railway, perhaps you will permit me to say a few words on the subject. I t is not my intention to offer an opinion merely, but to state what 1 saw. It so happened that I occupied a seat in the third carriage in the train (No. 41), which was the one that first went off the rails, and which was literally smashed to pieces. Just before the accident I was looking out of the window watching the progress of the train, and I distinctly saw our carriage go off the rails as if it had been shunted, and approach the edge of the embankment. I believe no breakage could have taken place either to axletree or wheel without my per• ceiving it, and I feel convinced that the catastrophe was occasioned by the velocity at which we were going. The preservation of my life was moat providential, as I was thrown out of the window as the carriage descended. — C uanutte BIRD. Vrolintial. THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY ACCIDENT in cludes another death. Mr. Jackson, of Bowen, near Cambridge, died the night after the accident. The other passengers are slowly recovering. The inquest was opencd on Friday week. Mr. Smith, a surviving passenger, said I am used to travelling at a great speed, and did not notice that we were travelling at a more than an ordinary express speed. ➢ly impression is that we travelled at a greater speed between Sheffield and Retford than between Manchester and Sheffield. The accident was instanta neous, and the sensation 1 felt was that of the doubling up of the carriage, and finding myself upon the slope of the embankment. Another witness said that in his opinion " they were not going at more than the proper speed, consider ing that the distance between Manchester and London had to be accomplished in five hours." The enginc•driver stated:—" We were going at a regular speed ;" and explained this to mean that ho was going as fast as he possibly could. "We were work ing with a pressure of steam at I:20. We cannot get any greater speed than that, the engine being fastened. . . . I was driving at a rate of fifty to fifty•miles an hour." No satisfactory evidence was given as to the cause of the accident, but the railway report offered a clue—the tremendous speed at which the train was being driven : The break van in the tear of the train and the carriage next to it were observed by the platelayers on the line to oscillate violently for about 100 yards; after which the third carriage from the end came into violent collision with the cap of a buttress of the viaduct over the road from Newark to Telford, and all three tumbled down the embankment. The violent shock thus given to the train ptianti. THE BELFAST INQUIRY proceeds slowly. The case for the Roman Catholic party has been brought to a close. Mr. Hanna consented to forego his determination to preach last Sunday. A CROWDED MEETING to discuss the measures of relief to be adopted for the sufferers in India was held at Dublin last week. Tt►e proceedings were marked by the high patriotic tone of the speakers and the noble vindication of Ireland by Lord Clon curry from the abominable efforts of the ultra- Radicals. _ . MR. OLIVER MORIARTY has been appointed stipen diary magistrate in the room of Mr. John O'Brien, deceased. Mr. Moriarty is brother of Dr. Moriarty, the Roman Catholic bishop. MESSRS. J. F. BULL, JOHN LEAIIY, AND PIERS F. WHITE, the commissioners appointed to inquire into the existence of corruption at the last and former elections for Galway, commenced their sittings on Wednesday. It is expected that the inquiry will be protracted. Considerable interest was manifested in the proceedings. THE MARCHIONESS OF LONDONDERRY last week entertained three hundred of the tenant farmers at Cairnclough hall on her Jurron Tower estates. The marchioness delivered a very timely and eloquent address to her guests. MOORE'S STATUE was placed upon its pedestal on Saturday morning last, and will be inaugurated on an early day in the present month with cereomny. 1., ) a1u an Volta. THE CHARGE OF FRAUD brought against Lord C. P. Clinton and Mr. A. Jeffree, by a Mr. Stockwell, a sharebroker, was heard at the Mansion-house, and dismissed as utterly untenable. Proceedings, it was understood, would be taken against Mr. Stockwell. A COMMISSION MERCHANT, of Mark-lane, has been arrested on a charge of forging an endorse ment of a bill of lading far the delivery of 300 qrs. of linseed, with intent to, defraud Mr. G. Anton, of Rood lane. THE BODIES of the four men, killed by the falling in cf ajcoalpit•shaft at Bradford on the 18th ult., were recovered last Saturday. An inquest has been 967 held. There is no reason to attribute blame to any but the unfortunate sufferers, who neglected the ordinary precaution to secure the brick lining they were engaged upon. A HORRIBLE MURDER has been committed at Lees Farm, near Stockport. Mr. Henderson, the resident, has been deliberately shot in the night, and his eldest son is arrested on suspicion of having com mitted the murder. Vaal an `4nttiligente. Colonel Henry Havelock, C. 8., has by order of the Qwen been promoted to the honour of K.C.8., and raised to the rank of Major-General in the army. Brigadiers-General Wilson, Neill, Chamberlayne, Nicholson, and Van Cortbindt, receive the Companion ship of the Bath. The experimental trial of the monster mortar, constructed from a design by Lord Palmerston, has been postponed until next week, when Lord Paum tire and other distinguished visitors are expected. With the aid of Boydell's endless railway the huge mortar has been conveyed to the lower practice range, I'lumstead, and the m..st complete arrangements for the experiments have been made under the direction of the select zommittee of Royal Artillery officers. The regiments to which additional battalions are about to be attached are the 60th Rifles and Rifle Brigade, the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, sth, 6th, 7th, Bth, 9th o 10th, 11th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, and lath. The staff of the Ist Royal Lancashire has received instructions to recruit for forty-four regiments of the line. About a dozen fine young men have already been enlisted. The adjutant is offering 21. extra with the Government bounty and a free kit to all volunteers and recruits, to enable an officer in the corps to obtain a commission. Vice-Admiral of the Red J. B. Purvesj died on Wednesday at his residence at Southseu. Captain Frederic Bullock obtains his flag. SIR CHARLES NAPIER AT BURY. A LIBERAL TEA PARTY was held at Bury (Lancashire), cn Wednesday evening, to celebrate the return of Mr. Phillips, M.P. Upwards of 4,000 persons were present, and among the guests Sir Charles Napier, M.P. The gallant admiral in the course of the evening, after the usual loyal toasts had been drunk in cups of tea, rose to respond for the "Army and Navy," and having, as a matter of course, given his hearers a concise history of his Baltic campaign, touched upon the question of India. Sir Charles blamed the Government for reducing the army with such information as they had before them early in the year as to the state of the native Indian army, and severely condemned their neglect to despatch troops until July, when they had certain intelligence of the mutiny in May. Having expressed himself further on this point, Sir Charles arrived at the momentous question of Reform. "I think reform can go on at the same time that we are sending out troops to India. It requires only a stroke of the pen from the Minister to order so many thousand RIM to go there, and while they are performing the voyage I do hope and trust the country will keep Lord Palmerston to his promise to give us reform." Mr. R. N. PHILLIPS, M.P., followed, and express ing an opinion that, in the next session, so soon as the Indian rebellion was put down, it would be the duty of every member of the Legislature to give to the Indian question his serious consideration, said that they must ask what were the evils which had caused this mutiny, and, if possible, remedy them. He thought that a powerful executive Government, under the Crown, was necessary, and that for the administration of its internal affairs there should to a good commercial head appointed, who would make such progressive improvements in the interior of the country as would develop its resources and benefit India as well as the mother-country. With regard to the question of the reform of the House of Com mons, he hoped that the noble viscount at the head of the Government would see that the time bad ar rived when a Reform Bill was again necessary. There had been many social changes in the country since the last was passed, and put an end to the rout n borough system; a new bill was wanted to extend the franchise among the industrious working class( a. If, however, Lord Palmerston should not thiLk proper to bring forward any Reform Bill, there was another noble lord —he referred to Lord John Rus sell—who might think it was time for something to be done. Under any circumstances, whoever brouibt forward a good substantial measure of reform should have his sincere and hearty support. One great advantage of bringing forward a Reform just now would be, that its introduction would not to the result of clamour; it was not desirable that legis lation should be postponed until it must take ,place under pressure. . •