The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-06-21 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

JeSTICEE OF THE PLACE.—It appears from a parlia-
mentary return issued Thursday that 1,070 persons hal
been appointed to act as justices of the peace in tl.e
neveral cities and town of England and Wales since the
tat of January, 1850.
THE COURT OF CHANCLET.—The total payments on
account of the Suitors' Fund of the High Court of
Chancery in the year ended the lit of October, 1858,
amounted to £61,586, and the surplus interest carried
over to the Suitors' Fee Fund account, to £55,789. The
balance of cash on this latter account amounted on the
21th ot November last to £BO,OlO.
Tue Conntrree or Coo Nat on Eocctrioir.—A
blue-book of some 700 pages, contains the report of the
Committee of Council on Education for 1858-59. The
report bears date May 24, 1859. Fifty-four inspectors
were employed in visiting schools and in holding ex-
aminations last year. They visited 9,384 daily schools,
or deportments of such schools, under separate teachers.
They found present therein 821,744 scholars, 5,495
certificated teachers, and 13,281 apprenticed teachers.
They also visited 98 separate training colleges, occupied
by 2,709 students in preparation for the ogles of school-
master or mistress. The inspectors also visited 539
schools for pauper children, containing 47,527 inmates,
and 118 reformatory, ragged, or industrial schools, con-
taining 7,793 inmates. The Commissioners, with the
eoseent of the Treasury, have determined to resume the
annual printing of the individual reports of the inspec-
tors of scliools,—not as before, for gratuitous itemisa-
tion, but for sale, like the other public papers; but
only so long as the sue shall covet the expense. The
local interest excited by these reports and their service
to the muse of education are assigned as the reasons for
this step. The result of the building grant accounts for
the year is that the grants for building, enlarging end
improving the fabrics of elementary ools amounted
to £140,046, and the sum voluntary subscribed to
t andt,ol,Bti'd
eat le96Brve n;.uitmtbheb enr
residences uo
fm
additional
bb e h a.
.19 rg du schoolrooms
hotor.
numberibi:Ve.perotal
wiiwyceut,
el2B7ld3yr
children
schools improved, but not extended) 59,664. The further
sum of £10,388 was granted to meet subscriptions of
£13,999 for expenditure upon premises of training
colleges. Thirty-six training colleges are under inspeo-
tMn ; the mamba of students last month (May) was
2,833. The Commissioners think, certain premises
being admitted, that it is not advisable at present to
add materially to the number of training colleges already
existing or
_proposed, as the permanent provision for
training ought Dot to exceed the ultimate permanent
dim i for trained teachers. There are now nearly 16,000
" papil-teaehers," ard this number is ealeulated to yield
9,619 who annually complete their quinquennial tont oil
ndidates
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tail. No sooner, however, is this condition removed.
and the fault charged upon the passengers themselves,
than we find 28 casualties out of 43 proving actually
fatal. The critical figures, therefore, are to be found
in the 26 deaths and the 419 injuries of railway ii'-
sengers in the space of twelve months from the
mishaps or defects of railway management, but it should
be added that it took nearly 1414000,000 pa-acuity' to
prodooe them. Not one passenger in 5,000,009 mine by
his death on a railway independently of auy fault 41 his
own. The real dangers of railway travelling arias
alum.' solely from railway management. Taking •
sumuiary of the last eight years and a half, it is found
that whereas on 6,860 miles areaway, out of 849,000.000
passengers conveyed, 142 were killed and 2,830 injured,
there are 1,5 U other miles of railway on which, though
71,000,000 passengers were conveyed, not one death nor
any injury occurred during the whole period. It is not to
be denied that railway travelling, AM compared with any
other travelling is woriderfelly safe, and some even of
the accidents entered formally in the report can only be
set down to Um score of railways by a.considerable
strain of reckoning. For instance, an engine driver in
the employ of • company had • sweetheart who lived
near the line. She engaged to elope with him one day
by the train he was driving. and made her escape for the
purpose, upon which her father and brother (it was in
Ireland), having failed to intercept her, deliberately
bezyzedreilidtatre""esageree,by
art.olol7l.
turned the points of the hoe the wrong way, and sent
the whole train, pearngus, driver, sweetheart and all,
into a hog that lay convenient." It would be rather
hard to tell this story as a proof of the danger attend-
ing railway travelling, but enough still reinerne=
Use expostulations of the public, and can for
we on the part of railway managers.

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