The Express.
London, England, 1864-08-03 00:00:00

COMMUNICATION Iff RAILWAY TRAINS.

The Board of Trade baa lamed the following
circa's: to the secretaries of the different railway *am-
pullae : _ _ _

" Whitehall, July 30.
" am directed by the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Oomoil for Trade to request you to Mate to the
directors that my lords Lave had under their consideration
the complaints, frequently urged on their attention, of the
danger existing or apprehends! from the want of means of
ocmaannicatioe between the different portions of a railway
Mein while in motion. Several induces have occurred of
terrines having taken fire, or having been thrown off the
rails, the passengers in which had no means of making their
perilous situation known to the servants of the com
piny in charge of the train. Recent ocourrenose,
also, of a criminal nature in pas eager railway trains have
excited among the public a very general feeling of alarm.
Under these circuwetances, my lords are desirous of calling
the attention of railway companies to this subject, with a
view to the consideration by them of the Tomato bow far,
by mama of isareseed facilities for communicative between
different portions of a railway train while in motioo, or
other improved regulations, it may be practicable to obviate
the evils complained of and to allay the sense of insecurity
at present prevalent among railway passengers. My lords are
very sensible that without the cordial eo-operation of the
railway oompaniee any attempt to introdam improvements in
the system of railway management would be attended with
doubtful sumer. Several expedients have been
as calculated in some degree to further the deeirellgoreg
One expedient for guarding spinet offeuese in railway
carriage' which has been proposed is that of placing win-
dows between the compartments of esob carriage. As these
wisdom might be provided with curtain, the privacy of
the °animas need not ordinarily be interfered with. As an
expedient for providing means of communication between
the guard and the paseeogera. it has bees suggested that
evssy vehicle taming part of a peeessier train should be
farnialied with footboards and handrails, which would
admit of the guard (or, in case of emergency, other persons)
passing along the train. It appears to my lords
of consideration whether this expedient, guardtlr,vinJ
comae, by carefully framed time to prevent abase,
might not ha generally with very beneficial effects,
The see of • end running alesg the Oslo, by means of
which the guard can attract the attention of the eagine-
driver, has now misted on some lines so Imp as to prove
that there is no difficulty in ite application. I am to re-
quest that my loves may be favoured with the opinion of
the directors as to the practical value of armoire:mote of
the nature specified, and also with my euggemoss which
the directors may think adapted to accomplish the ends
which my lords have in view. I am also to request that
my lords may be informed what MOMS are in practice on
your line for effecting communication between portions of a
train while is motion, and whether, with a Mew to the
application of such mesas to the carriages of ma company
pamieg on the line of mother company, any regulations of
a general end compulsory character are deemed expedient,
—I am, air, your obedient estmet, "Jaime BOOTH."

THE CASE or CHILD BURNING IN BETHNAL-
ossFs.—Yestonlay afternoon the *airy was reremed by
the coroner at the Prince of Wales Tavern, Charlantern's,
Bethnal gresa, respecting the death of the child of Use
Macomb, which was found partially ceesemed by fire under
its mother's bed. Last Ilemiy week Policmeoestable Gulley
was celled to the home, No. 5, Iliriaglilacia, Friar'.-mount`
Bethnal-green, aed is • boa undue the bed of Mee Mel-
comb he found the body of the deemed child frightfully
burnt The mother said that she had net burned it, but she
" supposed she was he for it" She was • married woman,
but bar hesband wu in gaol. She bad two children, whom
the supported priocipally by slopmaking for cheap tailors.
—Mary Stephens said that on last Saturday night,
between 11 and 12 o'clock, she found Mrs. Meloocab sitting
ea the stairs at No. 5, Mirieg-plaos, kimiusg her son, a
child of six years of age. She was very ill. end wee moan-
ing. She said that on the previous Tuesday night she bad
hue confined, sod that the child wu in • box under the
bed. She said it was a miscarriage. The child was so
shockiegly burnt that wither could not tell the sex.
Dr. J. Edmunds, 2, Spital-equare, said that be had
examined the dummied child. lie (mod it to be • full-
grown mature child. The body had bees subjected
to the action of fire—the abdomen was Led open, the
bowels protruded, and the thigh was separated Dearly
from the body. He had been told by the mother that the
deceased was • female child. Decorpontioe was se
far advanced that he could not say whether the air in the
lungs bad been inhaled by breathing or not. Looking at
the question anutifically, he could not say positively teat
the deceased had had a separate living existence ; but his
belief was that the child was both alive. Mr. J. P. Dukes
said that, from the charred and decomposed state of the
body of the child, he could not state the cause of its death,
or whether it had bad en independent existence. The Co.
loser said that though it was very clear theta peat wrong
had been done, there was not saMeient evidence to send
the ease to the Old Bailey. The fep returned the following
open verdict :—" That the deowed child wu foiled deed
in a certain box, under the bed of Ellett Meleomb ; but
whether the child was hors alive. 'ad, if so. bow it mum by
its death, and how it was subjected to the aides of fire,
there was not snakiest evideue to show." The coroner
said that the form of the verdict was inteeded to leave the
police at liberty to follow up the eau if further evidence
should transpire.
SZIIIOIIB ASCOIDZIFT AT THE BRISTOL RAILWAY
Srarios.—A earions accident occurred on Monday morn*/
to • man semed Pillieger, at the Bristol statics of the
Bristol and Exeter Railway. Pilling', is ia the employ of
Messrs. W. H. Smith and Boa, nowfogatita who supply
books and newspapers at the railway Asthma, and it wu
hie duty on the arrival of the 11.20 a.m. down train to
receive the Leaden daily papers, and, after those for the
Bristol station had bees taken out, to arrange the remainder
le parcels for delivery at other stations on the Bristol and
I Exeter line. Ou Moodily morning the train was consider-
ably after Its proper time, sad only 10 minutes were left to
Pager for the sorting of the papers. In order to make
the moot of the time remaining, Allister stayed in the
train to do hie work until the carriages were in motion, and
bad goes as far se the goods shed, where he attempted to
jump out. He, however, mimed his feeding sad fell, and
his left leg being caught by • wheel ef the traln, was like.
rally meshed, his right foot also being %fined. He we.
immediately rescued by some of the porton who were en
the platform, aid conveyed to the Guard Hospital, where
the mutilated leg was at twos sampolatog. Ho t
tbo operatioa remarkably well, sod at peraat is rim se
favorably.