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A I A PS.—No. 88, containing PLANS of MARSEILLES and TOULON, will be published on the 20th instant. No. 89, containing THE WORLD, on MERCATOR'S PROJECTION, will be published on the 22d March. Now ready, THE WORLD, on MERCATOR'S PROJECTION, in two Parts, without the names of places. 59, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Feb. 10, 1841. IUANCHESTER and BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. TENDERS FOR LOANS. The DIRECTORS of the MANCHESTER and BIR MINGHAM RAILWAY COMPANY are now prepared to GRANT MORTGAGES (under the powers of their Act of Parliament) of the TOLLS and WORKS of their un dertaking, as a security for Loans of Money, in sums of not less than 5001. on each mortgage, and for the periods of four, five, six, and seven years, at the option of the lender. Interest warrants, calculated at the rate of 5,. per cent. per annum, and payable at the Company's bankers, in London or Manchester, on the half-yearly days on which the interest will become due during the whole period of the Loaa, will be de livered to the Lender with the mortgages. Particulars, explaining the peculiar eligibility of this secu rity, may be obtained at the Company's Offices, No. 43, Pic cadilly ; or at the office, of Slater and Heelis, Princess-street, Manchester. THOMAS ASHTON, Chairman. Manchester, January 12th, 1841. ASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. .14 CONTRACT FOR ENGINE STATION. The DIRECTORS of the EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY hereby give notice that they are prepared to RECEIVE TENDERS for the ERECTION of an ENGINE STATION, and that the Drawings and Specifi cation, together with the bills of the quantities, may be seen on application at the Company's Offices (Engineers' Depart ment), High-street, Shoreditch, on and after the 19th instant ; the tenders to be delivered in signed and sealed before One o'Clock on the following Tuesday, the 23d instant, addressed to " The Directors of the Eastern Counties Railway," and en dorsed, " Tenders for Engine Station." The parties tendering, or their representative, must be in attendance at the above named hour precisely, and the success ful parties must be prepared with the names and address of two sureties for the fulfilment of their contract. The Directors do not bind themselves to accept the lowest tender. By Order of the Board. A. BULKELEY, Secretary. Offices, High-street, Shoreditch, 2d February, 1841. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. Notice is hereby given, that the next HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of this Company will be held, pursuant to the Act of Parliament, at the Company's-office, Princes -street, in the city of London, on THURSDAY, the 25th of Fcbruar/ next, at Eleven o'Clock, for the ELECTION of SIX DIRIXTORS in the place of the same number who will retire by ballot, and for other pur poses of business. The Chair to be taken at Twelve o'Clock precisely. . CHARLES RUSSELL, Chairman, ROBERT BRIGHT, Deputy Chairman. . The Directors retiring by ballot, are re-eligible under the provisions of the Act. The Transfer Books will be closed on Monday, the 15th of February, and will not be re-opened until after the said Half-yearly General Meeting, on the said 25th of February. Clause 123 provides that no person shall be entitled to vote as a proxy, unless the instrument appointing him shall have been transmitted to one of the Secretaries of the Company, at least five days before the meeting. By order, CHAS. A. SAUNDERS, Secretaries./ THOS. OSLER, Offices, 2, Princes-street, Bank, London ; Corn-street, Bristol. January sth. IMPORTANT TO GAS-LIGHT. and COKE COM PANIES, GAS-FITTERS, and CONSUMERS GENE RALLY. - NT DEFRIES, GAS ENGINEER, begs to .1.9 • inform Gas Companies and the Public, that after seve ral years' practice, and close study, he has succeeded in bringing to perfection hitherto unequalled, aperfect DRY GAS MEI ER, for which he has obtained her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent, and now confidently submits the same for their approval and support. The PATENT DRY GAS METER has been tested by several London Gas Companies, and the advantages it possesses over the Water Meters are, steadiness of light, working by the slightest possible pressure; and to show that the correctness and accuracy of its measurement may at all times be depended upon, it is only requisite to mention that the Gas Fittings are not injured by the impregnated water with which the Water Meters are charged, and that the severest frost will not effect it; so that the Patent Dry Meter is emi nently calculated to surpass any other hitherto produced. To be obtained at DEFRIES and LUY'S Manufactory, 67, St. Martin's-lane, where all orders will meet with immediate attention. CORN-LAW AND POOR-LAW. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sxa,—The friends of the poor in this town and neigh bourhood have been long struggling to counteract, as far as they could, the severe operations of the Corn-law and the Poor-law combined. But, notwithstanding a great extent of private charity, our workhouses are crammed full, and thousands are enduring the severest privations. We have above ten thousand persons in our town, who have not a single blanket to cover them. Vast numbers, including many ruined farmers, arc with out employment ; and we have 1,800 hand-loom weavers, whose average clear earnings do not ex ceed Gs. 6d. per week. We all see the direct in fluence of the Corn-law in producing this poverty ; and it is equally clear that those who support this law, have also endeavoured to throw the burden off their own shoulders by passing the New Poor-law. This has produced dreadful calamity during the present winter, and I have no doubt many are now in the churchyard, who would have been in health and vigour if it had not been for this law. The cruelties of separation, by send ing the husband to one house, and the wife and children to another, have been practised with impunity ; and the poor have yielded to hunger, nakedness, and starva tion, rather than submit to such horrid treatment. A determined spirit of opposition, therefore, will be raised in this district, against Lord John's new Bill. Petitions will be immediately got up in every town and village, praying for impartial investigation before the law be renewed. And my object, in now troubling you with this letter, is to call upon all the friends of humanity, and the friends of the poor, to adopt a simi lar course throughout the country. Both Ministers and Parliament, I believe, are deceived as to the working of this measure ; and nothing has tended to keep up the deception, so much as the one-sided Reports of the Commissioners. Let the powerful voice of England's humanity be heard within the walls of Parliament, and I trust the Legislature will pause before:they again give their sanction to this wicked Bill.—l am yours, Preston, Feb. 8, 1841. J. LIVESEY. SEWERS OF WESTMINSTER AND PART OF MIDDLESEX. A Special Meeting . of the Court of Sewers for the City and Liberty o Westminster, and part of the County of Middlesex, will be held at the Sewers' Of fice in Greek-street, Soho-square to-morrow, to transact the following business :- 1. To try Traverses of such part of the Presentment of the Jury on the Ranelagh District, delivered into Court on the 27th November, IE4O, as relate to St. Luke's Church, Robert -street, Chelsea—the Chopel (late Old Church), Church-lane, Chelsea—the Work house in Gloucester-road, Kensington—and the Burial ground and Workhouse, Arthur-street, King's.road. Mr. Adey to move, after the Traverses are disposed of, That a Special Day be appointed for ,the following matters, viz : To make Decrees for Rates on the Ranelagh and Counters Creek District, on Houses, &c. at 6d., and on Land at 2d. in the Pound ; and to sign the Rate Books for the New Rates, pursuant to the said De crees, and the Abstract of the Rate Books of the Rates made 15th November, 1839: or to take such other proceedings as the Court may then consider necessary. THE WEATHER.—The weather is becoming more Siberian day after day ; and since the morning of Friday last, the earth has been locked up by a frost scarcely less intense than thst which remained so long with us before the late temporary break up. T o ma k e matters worse we are scourged by a keen easterly wind, which al most defies the powers of rapid locomotion or exercise to produce a natural glow of warmth. If we except thrashing in the barn, and carting out manure, all agricultural opera tions are again suspended, and the plough is frozen in the soil it should upturn. In many cases where thra s hi ng m ill s are driven by water, operations are interdicted by the freezing of the dam ; and, altogether, independently of the farmer and his labourers, many thousands are again thrown out of emplyemcnt from this unwelcome recurrence of the bitter ness of winter. The ground is covered with a sprinkling of snow, but the mails and coaches have been little de layed by it. Last night the thermometer stood at 4 deg. or 5 deg. below the freezing point, awl the east wind con tinued to blow with cruel severity.-- Ghtsgoto Herald. REGULATIONS OF RAILWAYS. The following are extracts from the Reports of the Railway Department, presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of her Majesty : TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE PRESIDENT OF THE In complianc e w i t h BOAP.D OF TRADE. your instructions, that we should report to you u p on t h e measures wh i ch our eNper i ence of the worki ng o f t h e ra i lway system under the Act o f last Session for regulating railways has suggested as necessary to give efficiency to the supervision of rail ways vested in the Board of Trade, we have the honour to report as follows : The objects which an effective supervision ought to embrace may be classed under three heads :-1. Sta tistical. 2. Protection of public interests. 3. Pro viding for public safety. A reference to the provisions of the Act for regu lating railways, 3 and 4 Victoria, cap . 97, and to the R , ports of the Select Committes on. Railways, upon which that measure was founded, shows that the atten tion of the Committee and of the Legislature was chiefly directed towards the first and second of those objects, and that the third, which experience has since proved to be the most important, was, comparatively speaking, overlooked. _ With regard to the first two points, the principles upon which a Government supervision of railways ought to be based, were fully considered by the Select Com mittee, upon the authority of. whose Reports we may consider it as established— 1. That Railway Companies using locomotive power possess a practical monopoly for the conveyance of pas sengers on their several lines of railway, and that, under existing circumstances, this monopoly is inseparable from the nature of these establishments, and from the conduct of their business with due regard to the safety of the public. 2. That this monopoly is the result of circumstances contemplated neither by the Legislature nor by the Companies themselves, the extensive powers contained in their Acts of Incorporation having been obtained under the impression that the interests of the public were sufficiently secured by fixing a maximum rate of tolls, and providing for free competition in the supply of locomotive power and other means of conveyance. 3. That, under these circumstances, the Legislature is,bound to 'provide that the public interests shall not suffer from the mistaken view taken in the infancy of the science of locomotion, and that for this purpose the powerful monopolies, in whose hands a large and in creasing portion of the internal communication of the country is placed, should be subjected to the supervision and control of the Board of Trade. 4. That, as an important part of this duty, the Board of Trade should collect and register statistical information on all points of general interest connected with the railway system. 5. That, with a view to the protection of the public against any abuse of their irresponsible powers on the part of these monopolies, the Board of Trade should have the power of ascertaining precisely what the system is which is enforced towards the public on every railway, and of disallowing any part of it wh i ch appears ob viously arbitrary or objectionable, and also of enforcing the observance, of all provisions beneficial to the public contained in Railway Acts. These points being fully established, after mature in quiry, by the Reports of the Committee on Railways, it will be sufficient for us, with reference to this branch of the subject, to show in what respects the Act of last Session fails of accomplishing the objects recom mended by the Committee, and what additional enact ments appear necessary in order to give them effact. With reference to the other branch of the subject, viz., providing for the public safety, little evidence was gone into before the Committee, and in their Report they expressly state that they postpone the expression of any opinion on the subject, from the belief that more satisfactory information would be obtained by the Board of Trade. This information has been obtained more speedily than the Committee could have antici pated, in consequence of the rapid succession of alarm ing accidents which have occurred since the date of their inquiry. _ _ _ . . The steps taken by the railway department of the Board of Trade, in requiring returns of all accidents upon railways, and instituting inquiries into those which, from their nature and magnitude, seem calcul a ted t o throw light upon p o i n t s of general importance, have placed us in possession of a number of facts with re gard to the causes of danger upon railways, and the means of providing for the public safety, the result of which we now proceed to state as the ground upon which we recommend an application to Pailiament for additional powers, with a view to the protection of the public. _ _ - The following is a list of accidents, attended with personal injury, occurring in the course of the public traffic, which has been returned to the Board of Trade between the passing of the Act for regulating railways and the date of this Report. or [Then follows the list of accidents attended with personal injury, occurring in the course of public traffic, from the 7th of August, 1840, to the 25th of January, 1841.] This list is confined to accidents of a public nature, and excludes the numerous cases of accidents which have occurred to servants of the Company under cir cumstances not involving danger to the passengers or public, and also of accidents which arc attributable to carelessness or misconduct on the part of the person in jured. It is exclusive also of accidents unattended with personal injury, respecting which we have no power of calling for returns. The term " defective arrangement" has been used in stating the cause of the accident, not as necessarily implying neglect on the part of the Company, but simply as stating the fact, that the accident is one which, under an improved system of arrangements, might have been prevented. The following results appear from this list :- 1. Out of thirty-five railway accidents which have occurred in the course of five months, twenty-one are attributable, among other causes, to defective ar rangements. 2. Eighteen are attributable to "misconduct of ser vants," and 3. Six are attributable to "mechanical causes," among which the breaking of axles occupies a promi nent place. With reference to these results, the following obser vations suggest themselves : 1. The inherent danger of railway travelling is very small, and even under the present system less than that of other modes of conveyance. 2. It is not, however, by reference to comparative, but to absolute safety, that the question must be consi dered. The public have a right to expect that the maximum degree of safety that the nature of the case admits should be attained without reference to the safety of other modes of travelling. This is the more necessary as railway accidents, when they do occur, are frequently of a frightful character, and calculated to cause a panic in the public mind, which materially di minishes the benefit which the country would otherwise derive from the improved mode of conveyance. 3. The maximum degree of safety is far from being attained in practice, as appears from the - fact that a great majority of the accidents above referred to have arisen from causes not in any respect inherent in the nature of locomotive travelling, and which might have been avoided by the adoption of a better system of arrangement. This will appear more evident from a detailed state ytlieofßoard of been appointedhe subject by state ment of what has actually eccurred in the case of the eleven npersonal investigationaccidents by whichinspectors Trade. These accidents, which from their importance, and the degree of public attention they have excited, may he called the " leading railway accidents," are the following:—Hull and Selby, two accidents ; Eastern Counties, three accidents ; North Midland, South spe haveetors Western, London and Birmingham, two accidents York and North Midland ; Midland Counties. (De tails of these several accidents follow, occupying several pages.) In concluding this review of the railway accidents which have been the subject of investigation by the Board of Trade, we think it only fair to the Railway Compa nies upon whose arrangements we have had occasion to remark, to add that in a majority of instances they have evinced great readiness in adopting the recommenda tions of the Government Inspectors, and that the offi cers intrusted with the management of the different lines have shown a great desire to introduce improvements and prevent the recurrence of accidents. RECOMMENDATIONS FOUNDED ON THE FOREGOING EVIDENCE, AND REASONS FOR THEM. The powers given to the Board of T ra d e b y the 3d and 4th Victoria, c. 9 7, are totally inadequ a t e to ena b le it to carry into effect the measures which f rom t h e evi dence above stated appear .indi▪ spensable f or t h e pu b l i c safety. The only powers g iven by the A ct wh i ch have the a fol l owing any reference :_ 1. A power of requiring re turns of all accidents to the protection of the public safety ar e at tended with personal injury, to be made W ithi n t hi s ty days from the date of the requi▪ sition ; 3d and 4th Vic toria, c. 97, s. 3. 2. A power of appointing inspectors to ent er upon and examine any railway an d the stations, works, build ings, engines, and carriages be lon g i ng thereto ; s. 5. 3. A power of directing prosecutions in any case in which it shall appear that any of the pro visions of Rail way Acts have not been comp li ed with, and that it would be for the public advantage to enforce their per formance ; 5. 11. The power of requiring returns is evidently insuffi cient even for the limited purpose of obtai❑iag informa tion of accidents which have happened. The period of thirty days given by the Acts for making the return is alone sufficient to render it inoperative, and the limita tion to accidents attended with personal injury is very objectionable, as accidents unattended with personal injury may be equally important, as throwing light on causes of danger and the means of prevention, and may occasion serious inconvenience by interrupting the public traffic. For the still more important purpose of enabling the Board of Trade to obtain the information respecting regulations, signals, time-tables, and other de tails of naaragement upon different railways, which is indispensable with a view to any effective supervision for the prevention of accidents, the Act does not at tempt to provide, and by expressly defining the re turns which the Board is empowered to call for, ex cludes by implication all which are enumerated in the Act. Whatever information upon these essential points we have been enabled to obtain we owe to the courtesy of individual Companies and their officers—a source upon which it would be obviously unsuitable for a Govcrn meat department to depend, the more especially as the temptation to concealment is strongest in those cases in which it is most essential to obtain information. The Select Committee on Railways having in their Report expressly recommended " that the Board of Trade, should have the power of calling for any returns, financial or statistical, which it should consider neces sary for the performance of its duty," it is surely not too much to ask to be entrusted with the requisite powers of obtaining the information which is indispensible for the discharge of the most arduous and important part of our duty, viz., providing for the public safety. We accordingly recommend that in any Act which may be introduced in the course of the approaching Session, a clause should be inserted empowering the Board of Trade to call for returns of all accidents at tended with personal injury, or occasioning an interrup tion in the public traffic, and also such returns respect ing the arrangements for conducting the public traffic as the Board of Trade may consider necessary, with a view to providing for the public safety. This power, with that of inspection, would be sufficient to give us access to the requisite information. The possession of this infor mation, however, would be insufficient, unless our powers of acting upon it are extended. The only positive power given by the 3d and 4th of Victoria, c. 97, is that above mentioned, of directing prosecutions to en force the provisions of Railway Acts—a power which is useless for the purpose of enforcing the regulations and precautions which experience has pointed out as essen tial for the public safety. As the Act stands at pre sent the Board of Trade has no power of enforcing any one of the recommendations contained in the report of its inspectors, however obvious and necessary for the public safety. Although the Directors and officers of the different railway companies whose lines we have had occasion to inspect have, generally speaking, shown great readiness to attend to the representations of the Board,this has not been uniformly the case, and:instances have occurred which are sufficient to show the impossi bility of exercising any effective supervision, unless pro. vided with the requisite powers of enforcing our recom mendations. With regard to the nature and extent of these powers, the proper distinction appears to us to be, that the Go vernment should not attempt to interfere in questions of an experimental nature, which are still subjects of dis cussion, and admit of a fair difference of opinion among practical men ; nor should it attempt to regulate mat ters of detail, so as to take the management of railways out of the hands of the parties immediately responsible, viz., the Directors and their officers. On the other hand, the Government should have the power of enforcing, whenever it is found necessary, the observance of all precautions and regulations which are approved by experience and are obviously conducive to the public safety. For instance, upon such points as the comparative advantages of six and four-wheeled en gines, the best construction and mode of laying down rails,,the best form and construction of wheels, axles, &c., and other points of a similar nature, upon which the practice of the best conducted railways differs, and the opinion of the most eminent engineers is by no means decided, it would be premature for the Govern ment to interfere until experience has solved the ques tions which may still be fairly considered as doubtful. But with regard to other points, such as the propriety of introducing upon every railway such arrangements re specting time-tables and signals as experience has shown to be necessary for preventing collision, of establishing a proper and uniform code of regulations for engine- I drivers, guards, and other servants placed in a respon sible situation, and for maintaining strict discipline, and generally of introducing upon all railways whatever has been adopted and proved to be conducive to safety by the practice of those which are considered to be the best conducted, no difference of opinion can exist, and if the principle of Government supervision be admitted at all, it cannot find a more legitimate field for its exercise. The same distinction applies to the case of opening new railways. It would be impossible for the Govern ment inspector, upon a short inspection, to pronounce an opinion upon questions of construction so as to share the responsibility of the engineer under whose superin tendence the works were conducted. On the other hand, the Government inspector is fully capable of judging whether the works are sufficiently completed, and whether the arrangements for working the line are of such a nature as to present no obvious and unusual danger to the public in the event of its being opened at the time proposed, _ _ _ The present Act establishes the principle of a Go vernment inspection of railways previously to their being opened for public traffic ; but if this principle is to be maintained, it is inc ispensiblc to give the Government power to prevent the opening of the railway in case the conditions considered as essential for the public safety are not complied with. As matters stand at present, the Government has the responsibility, without any of the power which ought to accompany it. The public naturally look to the Government inspector as a gua rantee that the line is in a fit state to be opened, while, in point of fact, the line may be opened in defiance of the representations of the Government and its inspec tor. The present Act is also defective in not obliging companies to give notice of the day when their railway will be ready for inspection, as well as of the day when it is proposed to be open it. Great inconvenience has been experienced from this cause, as, from the anxiety of railway companies to ope❑ at the earliest possible moment, the inspection has either been fixed so late as to afford no time for considering and acting upon the inspector's report, or, if fixed earlier, the works have been found incomplete. We recommend, therefore, Ist. That no railway or portion of railway should be opened for the public conveyance of passengers until one month's notice shall have been given to the Board of Trade of the intention of opening, and too days' notice that the railway is sufficiently completed for re ceiving the public traffic in safety. 2d. That in case of an unfavourable report from the inspector appointed by the Board of Trade upon any essential point connected with the public safety, a power should be given to the Board of Trade of post poning the opening from time to time, for periods not exceeding one month. With - reference to the exercise of this power, it should be a general rule never to sanction the opening of a railway until the works of construction are so far completed as to allow the permanent way to be devoted solely to the purposes of the public traffic. and of the ordinary repairs requisite for keeping the line in order ; nor until the establishment for conducting the public traffic is placed in all essential respects upon an efficient footing. With regard to the provisions which should be intro duced into the new Act for the purpose of enabling the Board of Trade to exercise an effective supervision over railways after they are opened, with a view to provide for the public safety, it appears to us impossi• hie to define in any Act of Parliament the exact nature and limits of this supervision, and to provide before hand for every case which may arise in practice. The principle which we think ought to regulate the exercise of this supervision has bee❑ already stated, viz. that it should be confined to the enforcement of such rules and regulations as are approved by practice, and obviously conducive to the public safety. The following also may be stated as an outline of some of the principal regulations which we think ought to be enforced : WEST INDIA PETITION. THE PETITION of the PLANTERS, MERCHANTS, and OTHERS interested in the BRITISH WEST INDIA COLONIES, to be presented to the House of Commons, on Friday next, AGAINST an EQUALIZATION of the DUTIES on EAST and WEST INDIA RUM, will LIE for SIGNATURE at these Rooms, and at the Rolls of the West India Merchants' Committee, 16, Bishopsgate-street-within, THIS DAY, and TO.MOILItOW, Friday, the 12th, till Three o'Clock, r.ac. z GEORGE SAINTSBURY, Secretary. West India Committee rooms, 60, St. James's-street, llth February, 1841. TIME TABLES, &C. 1. That all trains employed in the public traffic, whether of passengers or goods, should bx: worked by time tables, properly constructed with reference to the gradients, &c., of the line, and specifying the time of arrival and departure at each station. 2. That in tha construction of these time tables it should be a general rule that no train is to start within less than fifteen minutes of another, or to succeed an other upon any part of the line at an interval of icss than fifteen minutes. 8. That no engine, waggon, truck, or any description of carriage whatever, not forming part at the regular trains, should be allowed to enter upon the line of rails devoted to the public traffic, without a pass ticket issued by a responsible officer of the company. 4. That it should bo a general rule not to allow any ballast train or waggon to remain on the lino within half an hour of the time when a train is due, nor to allow return engines to approach within fifteen minutes of a train. 5. That every engine-driver and guard should be furnished with time tables, and also with printed in structions, specifying, among other things, the maxi. mum speed upon different portions o f the line, and the rules as to signals, &c., which arc invariably to be adopted. G. That the conductor, or head guard, of every train should be bound to keep a journal, specifying the times of arrival at, and departure from, each station, and the causes of acceleration or delay ; and that the chief clerk at each station should also note the time of ar rival and departure of each train, and be responsible for not allowing any train to leave his station before the proper time. CONSTRUCTION. 1. Every description of passenger carriage shall be provided with buffer springs. 3. The last carriage, and at least every fourth car riage, in trains by which passengers are conveyed, to be provided with a proper break. ESTABLISHMENT. Under this bead it is impossible to state beforehand the precise rsature of the regulations which it might be come necessary to make from time to time, as the power vested in the Board of Trad© ought to be considered me►rly as a check upon the possible circumstance of any Railway Company reducirg its establishment below that found necessary by experience upon well-regu lated lines. It may be sufficient to state that the general prin principle of enforcing nothing of an experimental nature ought to be strictly adhered to, and that companies ought not to be called upon to increase their establish ment until clearly insufficient for conducting the public traffic in safety, according to the practice of other rail ways similarly circumstanced. PRICE 3d. DISCIPLINE. Under this head our task would be confined to en• forcin,;, as part of the general code of all railway comp',nies, the regulations adopted upon the leading lines far maintaining the strict discipline among ser• cants which is essential for the public safety. Ammar: these may ITT mentioned the practice adopted by sfwcral railway companies of printing the provisions of the General Railway Act which relate to the pu nishment of misconduct on the part of servants, with the instructions to engine-drivers, guards, police men, &c., accompanied with a statement of the company's determination to enforce them rigidly on all occasions. Also a general regulation that all servants of the com pany shall be bound to report cases of misconduct which shall come to their knowledge. SIGNALS. 1. That all railways should adopt, as nearly as cir cumstances will permit, an uniform system with regard to signals ; " red" in all cases denoting danger, and " green" caution. •3. That every station should have a fixed signal -post and revolving lamp, and a signal-man who has no dis tracting duties to perform. 3. That it should be an invariable rule to exhibit a red signal when a train stops at a station, and for a pe riod of not less than ten minutes after it has left or passed a station or entered a tunnel, and a green signal for five minutes longer. 4. That no engine or train should be allowed to travel after dark along the line without proper head and tail lamps, and a proper supply of hand signal lamps. 'e mention these as instances of the principal regu lations which we think ought to be generally enforced ; but, as we said before, it is impossible to enumerate all the measures which may be found necessary, and to anticipate all the precautions which a more extended experience may suggest. We recommend, - therefore, that a general power should be given to the Board of Trade of issuing regu lations for enforcing upon railways in general, or upon any railway in particular, such arrangements and pre ' cautions as from experience appear necessary for the I public safety. We are aware that such an indefinite power is apt to be looked upon with jealousy, but we see no alternative between assuming it, and fettering the action of a supervising authority so as to render it prac tically of little use. The principle of Government su pervision necessarily implies confidence in those to whom it is intrusted. If the Legislature is afraid to intrust discretionary powers to public and responsible officers who have no conceivable motive for abusing them, this is an argument not for tying up their hands so as to de prive them of the power of doing good, but for dispensing with supervision altogether. In the present c ase , a l s o, it must be remembered that an effective supervision for the prevention of accidents is as beneficial for the rail way companies themselves as for the public, and that it is especially for the interest of the best conducted railways to have the precautions whip h they themselves adopt generally enforced. Indeed, from what we have seen in our intercourse with the Directors and managing officers of many of the principal railways in the kingdom, we are convinced that a supervision exercised on the principles, and confined to the objects above stated, would be regarded with anything but upprehension or distrust, and that we should find the Railway Companies generally willing and anxious to co-operate with us in the common object of insuring the greatest amount of safety to the public. Should the Legislature think proper to grant to the Board of Trade this power, it is evident that it ought not to he fettered by a proviso similar to that inserted in the 3d section of the 3i and 4th Victoria, c. 97, compelling it to issue the same regulations in like manner and at the same time to all Railway Companies. As a general rule, the regulations should of course be as far as possible uni. form ; but there are many cases in which regulations proper on one railway would be improper on another, and there are also particular cases (as for instance those of railways having a common terminus, and using a portion of the same line in common) in which it might be neces sary to make regulations more in detail than would be necessary on other lines. The best check upon any abuse of these discretionary powers would be a proviso that no order or regulation should be issued by the Board without a minute stating the reasons for its adoption, the pro duction of which might be at any time called for by Parliament, IVe now come to another important recommendation, the necessity of which had been strongly impressed upon us by experience, viz., that all engine drivers should undergo an examination, and be licensed. When it is considered what a vast amount of life and property is absolutely dependent upon the skill, presence of mind, vigilance, disposition, and good conduct of this class of men, it does not seem too much to insist on every possible guarantee that none but fit persons shall be employed, and that persons guilty of serious acts of disobedience or neglect shall not be retained in a si tuation of such responsibility. _ That some additional secerity is required in this re spect is sufficiently evident from the fact above stated, that of thirty-five accidents which hare occurred in the course of the public traffic, eighteen are clearly attri butable to the misconduct of servants as the primary cause. Of the leading accidents that have been de scribed in detail, five—viz., the second accident on the Hull and Selby, the three accidents on the Eastern Counties, and the first accident on the London and Birmingham, were mainly caused by inexperience, recklessness, or wilful disobedience of orders on the part of the engine -drivers. It would be unreasonable to expect that these causes of danger would be entirely removed by any system of licensing and examination ; but it certainly seems fair to suppose that they might be materially diminished, One grand advantage would certainly be gained—viz., that the necessity for prompt and implicit obedience to orders would be much more strongly impressed on the minds of engine -drivers than it is at present. A great defect of the present system is, that owing to the faci lity with which engine -drivers discharged from one railway get employment upon others, it is exceedingly difficult for the companies to enforce the strict sys tem of discipline which the nature of their duties rcqdres, Either owing to this, or to other unexplained causes, generally it certainly app ears th a t ra il way compan i es have shown re l uc t ance t o exert t h e powers placed in punishment of hands by L or d S eymour ' s A ct f or t h e of miscondu c t on th e p ar t o f t h e i r servants. In several instances above alluded to, in which accidents oc curred in the course of the public traffic, owing to the misconduct of servants, the off en d ers h ave escape d w ith adegree of impunity which cannot fail to be productive or the worst consequences. The system of licensing would provide an effectual remedy, by making a strict and undeviating atte n ti on t o character and co nduct the necessary condition of obtaining and retaining em phlment. The adoption of such a system, in conjunction with the system introduced on the London and Birmingham, Great Western, North Midland, Grand Junction, and other principal railways, of giving premiums for good conduct, and taking measures for promoting the mental improvement and physical comforts of engine drivers, would, there is every reason to believe, soon raise their character to a standard which would afford much greater confidence and security to the public. With regard to the nature of the examination, it ap pears a fair subject of doubt whether any high degree of mechanical knowledge is requisite on the part of en git,e•drivers, and could be att ained without sacrificing qu t litics of more importance for the discharge of duties • which require great capab ilities of end uring , exposure aril unremitting attention to a limited range of duties. However this may be, it appears better, in confo with the principle already stated, of abstaining rfrnroltu3ir interference in questions of an experimental nature, to confine the examination to those poi n t s upon neces sity of which no difference of opinion eaexitshte For instance, there can be no doubt-- I°utinidd be abl e . t o rea d understand them. Ist. That an engine driver sl 3, his instructions, and should ful a l 2d. That he should hav e competent and practical knowledge of the ordinary experience duties necessary for the management of a n eng • 'ne 3d. That he should know what course to adopt in /1/4 -- EVENING EDITION. any of the emergencies which can be foreseen as likely to arise in the course of his employment. 4th. That he should be able to produce an unim peachable character for sobriety, steadiness, attention to orders, and general good conduct. These may be looked upon as conditions which the public has a right to expect, and which ought to be introduced generally at the earliest possible period ; at the same time, however, it must h.! borne in mind, that great discretion w ill b e necessary, in the, first instance, especially with regard to engine•drivers already in the employment of railway companies. With regard to the details of the system of license and examination, we should recommend :- 1. That it should commence at a period of three months from the passing of the Act, and apply to all engine -drivers employed in the course of tile public traffic. 2. That all candidates for licenses should be bro:li,lit forward by rail wa y compan i es . 3. That the examination should be conducted by not less than two persons nominated by the Board of Tr.nic, one of whom, as a general rule, should be the engineer of the company by whom the candidates are brought forward ; the final decision of each case resting with the Board of Trade. 4. That the license should be kept by the company, by whom the engine -driver is employed, and a bad ge given with the license to be worn conspicuously. 5, That the Board of Trade should keep a register of licenses, and have power to cancel or suspend licenses . 6. That if an engine-driver leaves his situatiun, or is dismissed, notice should be given by the company to the Board of Trade, and the company shout(' be bound to keep the license and badge until instructed by the Board of Trade whether to cancel, suspend, or give them up to the engine-driver. 7. In cases of emergency the Board of Trade should have the power of dispensing with the penalty of em ploying unlicensed persons as engine -drivers. STATISTICAL. We now come to the question of statistical infor mation. The committee on railways considered it in dispensable that the department intrusted with the sup.‘r vision of raik-ays should have;the means of obtzining, lLral information on all points connected with the working of the railway system, and they reported the following resolution to the House : " That it is the opinion of the Committee that this department should have the power to cell for any re turns, financial or statistical, which in the judgment of this department may be necessary for the performance of its duties." By the 3d and 4th of Victoria, cap. 97, sec. 3, the power of calling for returns is limited to certain returns therein enumerated, viz., " Returns of the aggregate traffic in passengers, according to the several classes, and of the aggregate traffic in cattle and goods re• spectirely, as well as of all accidents attended with personal injury ; and also a table of all tolls, rates, and charges from time to time levied on each class of passengers, and on cattle and goods conveyed on the railway." And it is further provided, " that such returns shall be required in like manner, and at the same time, from all railway companies, unless the Board shall specially exempt any company, and shall enter the ground of such exemption in the minutes of their proceedings." The information which would be furnished by these returns, if literally complied with, is extremely and comprises nothing which is not already voluntarily given to newspapers, and published for the information of shareholders at every half-yearly meeting. The subjoined forms of returns which we have issued contain several particulars, such as the average charge per mile on passengers and goods of different classes, distinguishing toll from charge for locomotive power, which will furnish the groundwork of much valuable sta tistical information. (The forms follow in the report.) Independently of the doubt which may exist whether all the particulars hi the above forms arc warranted by a strict construction of the Act, it is evident that much more is require 3. in order to make the railway depart ment of the Board of Trade such a register of statistical information as was contemplated by the Select Com mittee on Railways. Among the principal objects of statistical inquiry may be enumerated : 1. The methods of construction adopted upon diEr ent railways. 'lle cost of construction, analysed into its diff,:r cnt clemcnts. 3. The cc,st of keeping the permanent works in repair. 4. The methods of working adopted upon different tines, especially with reference to the nature of the en &es, carriages, wheels, axles, and other important par ticulars, respecting which difference of opinion exists among practical men. 5. The cost of working analysed into its diff,Tcnt elements, and especially every particular calculated to throw light upon the cost of locomotive power. • 6. Tile amount and nature of the accommodation afforded to the public, including, as an important item, the r.!te, of speed, the degree of regularity, and the ar raegcments with other lines f or f orwar di ng p assengers and goods. 7. The re_7ult of experiments tried upon different !jags. It is for the Legislature to decide whether the ac quisition of accurate information upon these and the various other topics of statistical inquiry necessary in order to throw light upon the railway system consti tutes an object of suffiLient national importance to jus tify their adoption of the resolution of the Committee above referred to. Our duty is discharged in pointing out the limited nature of the po.vers coaf•;r red by the present Act, and the nsccssity of giving the. railway department the more extensive power recom mended by the Committee, if it is wished to render it efficient for the purpose of collecting and registering statistical information. PROTECTION OF THE PUBLIC INTERESTS. The powers given to the Board of Trade by the Act For regulating railways may be classed under two heads-- 1. Enforcement of the provisions of Railway Acts. 2. Revision of by-laws. For the former object the provisions of the present Act (3 and 4 Victoria, c. 97, s. 11 and HO appear Guilicient ; and although, from the ample and indefinite nature of the powers given to railway companies, it does net appear likely that the public interests will often suffer from any attempt directly to infringe upon the provisions of their Acts, there can be no question that the power given to the Board of Trade is highly use ful as a check, and ought to be continued. With regard to the remaining power of disallowing by-laws, this is necessarily of a very limited nature, be ing confined to " by-laws, orders, rules, and regulations, which impose penalties for the enforcement thereof upon persons other than servants of the company." In a majority of cases no such by-laws or regulations exist. Of 77 railway companies to whom a circular was addressed, calling upon them to make returns of their by-laws, in terms of the Act, 43 have either made no return, or made a return that they had no by-laws within the meaning of the Act. Of the remaining thirty-four the by-laws and regula tions relate almost exclusively either to matters of little practical importance or of local detail. Most of those which inflict penalties are proper in themselves, and sanctioned by the precedent of provisions of a similar nature contained in the Acts of other Railway Com panies ; as, for instance, by-laws imposing penalties upo❑ smoking, improper conduct, intoxication, wi►ful damage to the Company's property, and attempts to defraud. In all these cases the mal-administration, if any exists, must depend, not on the by-law itself, but en the manner in which Its provisions aro carried into effect, over which the Board of Trade has no control. In the same way with regard to the booking of places and collection of tickets, the only subject of really practic a l i m p or t ance w hi c h is brought under thejuris diction of the Board of Trade by the returns in ques tion, the regulations imposing penalties afford little in formation as to the system actually adopted upon an y particular railway. At the same t ime we feel bound to state that no complaints have been addressed to lig by-laws has brn o ff p o p r r t e l s lati since the railway department came into oporation, and that we have no evidence before us to slityr that the sively exercised. :1. power of imposing The by-laws and re emulations which have re turned to the Board of Trade appear in manyinstancee indirectly taking; i t m h; Fi...y an d penalties by ol:enntobyo the ct A io c n t s a o p n pea t r b s e to gr u o s un to d b o e f i i i r l i t l e o u r d m ed l technical defects ; but as the power of disallowanc e given p o r protectiont,i n ce anodf nottlre apsubaliemienansmtoitfters thoughtenactment it on advisable vi by-laws sa b l e tinto exerciseour it where hands, nwo we have sub. not stantial objection appeared than the want of uniformity aware that it is objectionable that the and Iv c e or arercet fully laws public up s o h n ou e l v d ery b e subjected different these regulations rail t :a a and t tltat_ o i r t tn a desira ble e sira well-. as the substance of erent code . of .by ble to introduce more uniformity tio rri ns o ; the f but we think it better to attain this object gradually and by the co operation of th e ra il way companies themselves, t h an b y straining the power of disallowance given by the Act. Indeed, from what has been already stated, it is evi dent that the Board of Trade could do but little with its present powers towards the enforcement of an uni form system of regulations upon all the railways of tha kingdom, since more than half the number are relieved by the provisions of their several Acts from the neees.. city of making by-laws at all, and therefore do not come. in that respect, within the jurisdiction of the Board. The first step towards the introduction of an uniform% system must be the enactment of a general Railways Act, consolidating the scattered provisions of the diffe. rent Acts of Incorporation which relate to similar oh. jects, and defining clearly the objects and nature of the s ub -legislative powers given to companies, and the ob. ligations imposed upon them in regard to their exercisei In the meantime, unless the Legislature should think fit to extend the duties and powers of the Board of Trade with regard to the supervision of the arrange• ments of railway companies by which the public inte rests are affected, the power of disallowing by - l aws ,~~~ `~-