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

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 29, 1851.

immediately jumped into the river after Pemberton, nod
eft r much difficulty and a struggle succeeded 4.. n bringing
him on shore. Throughout the circumstances subsequent 1,
to the disaster, Burgess behaved with the greatest presence
of mind and zeal.
A pilot engine having arrived at the K'zne of the accident
a few hours after its occurrence, the passengers were con-
veyed on to their destination, none of them being so injured
all to necessitate their being left bobind, hut they dill not
reach Portsmouth till nearly 6 o'clock yesterday (Friday)
morning, seven hours beyond their time.
The raginedriver, Pemberton, and stoker, Martin, were
conveyed tai Armidel, where every assistince was afforded
the, ~ut the last so_couuts left them in a very hopeless
condition.

break, and throwing the engine out of gear. If a driver
found that he could not stop an engine with the break, it
would be his duty first to reverse her, and if that would not
do, to throw her out of gear.
The coroner observed that Mr. M.Conncll must be
examined on the point.
Mr. Martin said he thought et was the cream of the whole
question.
Thomas Forsyth, examined by the coroner—l am an
engineer-assistant to the locomotive superintendent, Mr.
M'Connell. I wide present with Wm. Howland when the
regulator was examined on Monday morning. 1 saw the
iron taken oil', and have given similar evidence to what
Mr. M'Conn all has given.
By the kary—There was nothing irregular in the machi-
nery exes.pt what has been proved. When a driver cannot
shut off the steam, the pressure on the valve maker it more
ditHel'it to reverse the engine. It requires a greater me-
chwaieal effort.
By Mr. Martin If a train were going at the rate of six
or seven miles an hour the engine might be reversed by a
man of ordinary power. In reversing it was the driver's
duty to keep his hand firmly on the lever. Reversing was
a last expedient. lam not in a position to give evil( ace
as to the engine drivers that, I presume, will come from
the locomotive superintendent.
By Mr. Mayes—l cannot any whether or not Cotton could
reverse the engine when it was going at the rate of six or
seven miles an hour. Ido not know what his strength is.
James Edward M'Conncll, examined by the coroner—l
am superintendent of the locomotive department at Wolver-
ton. It is my duty to superintend the management of the
locomotive engines throughout the line. The engine drivers
are ad under my charge. There arc printed rules applic chic
to them. These rules are read over to them every month,
and they sign a declaration that they have received theta
and understand them. Their signatures aro forwarded to
my office. William Cotton has been a driver on the line
ever since IStri. He was made a fireman in ISM, and pre-
"lonely to that he was a cleaner. I have examined the
engine which he drove on Saturday last. Early on Mon-
day morning I requested the foreman, Mr. Forsyth, to take
it to pieces, and report to me. I have since examined the
engine myself. I found it, in all its mints, as far as I
could ascertain, in good working order. The only injuries ap-
parent were those done to the buffer valve. and the stay of the
steam-pipe. tram the face of the valve I have come to the
conclusion, as I see nothing else that would have done it, that
the stay must have got between the first face of the valve
suit the seat, which would prevent the valve from shutting,
and produce the abrasion. There is a twist on the spindle,
showing that great efforts bad been used in trying to shut
the valve. As far ex the regulator is concerned, that would
prevent the driver trout shutting off the steam, but he has
other means in his pOWVT of stopping the engine, which are
to throw the working valves out of gear and applying a
break to the tender. A more rapid mode of stopping the
onward motion, although, except in extreme eases, not called
fur, is to reverse the engine, which must have the effect

THE FATAL COLLISION ON THE LONDON

AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.

The coroner's investigation into the causes of this
accident was resumed yesterday, at noon, at the (Robe Inn.
Weedon.
As on the previnux day, Mr. Ilayee, of the legal firm who
are the solicitors of the railway company, appeared on the
company's behalf; and Mr. Martin on behalf of Coe de-
m:ware (James Currie's) relatives. Captain ladran, the
government inspector of railways, was oleo present.
The Comm r mid, in accordance with the and :rstanding
of the previous day, he would first take eviden et as to the
time at which the different trains left Rugby, and after-
wari:ii as to the state of the engine at the time of the
accident.
Samuel Grew examined by Coroner—l am the station-
master at Rugby. On Satunlay last a telegraphic
di.p itch arrived, stating that an engine with 11•111113
ratty had broken down. This was about half-past
boar. 1 he message was delivered not to me, but to
tile. Crawford. It is my duty to despatch all the trainns and
tales tier e, neral superintendence of the station. I am
1,..i.tttl by Piz or eight clerks, and four or five foremen.
A foreman named (,coalman despatched the cattle train. I
do not know at what time it was despatched. I saw the
train mine into the station, but did not observe at what
time it left, l Bing engaged at the moment with the mail
train. The mad train was a down train going un the Mid-
land Ilse. The next train which hit for London after the
cattle train w..a the one o'clock train from Birmingham ;
it arrived at Rugby at eighteen minutes put 2,
being due at fitter • minutes mot. The first cattle
train left at 1.411. A coal train hit at three. At ten
minutes atter tour I started the cattle train, which ran into
the passimger train at Weedon. The wheels of the engine
slipped to much that it enuid net he got 111011 i at the &ti-
tian without the assietunce of another engine. The pas-
sings r tram h:tt exactly at four. The engine used to assist
the rink tridu was detached after the train had been got
from the siding. At the time I started the cattle train I
was not aware of the engine of the other cattle train having
broken 11.1111. Mr. Crawford despatched the engine that
was telegraphed fee. Whenever such a communication is
numbs, it is 31r. Crawford', duty to send maistance withost
waiting to consult me. 1 lielieve it is also his duty to
examine the engine. la fore they start. I know nothing
myself about the can.:itiun of the engines. I had nothing
sit:, that. Cotton drove the engine of the spema•
tattle train.
Cr.-a-examined by Mr. Martin : Our first cattle train
start. .1 at I.asi, and the Biriuingham train started at 2.1 h,
the Midland NW at 2.25, the Lancashire third class one at
2.:t0. The n. xt train which followed the Lancashire one
wa. a special tout train, which started from Rugby at three
(ideas. The special rattle train was nut in the regular diet
of trins ; it. eendim Wa. announced by a red humid on the
east train. I did net telegraph the hour at which the spe-
eial rink train would start ; it is riot usual to do no. The
next train that left was the passenger train, which was run
into, ; that Lett at 10 minutes past four. There wee
• signal of the special cattle train by the coal train
which kft ut 3, and another by the passenger train
at i. Ti. re is a rule that an interval id five or
ten minutes shall elapse before one train fiillows mu-
other. It is elan to the station mister to detain trains,
arioreling to hi. opinion of the weight of the engine and
ether eireutiotances; but trains must never follow each
other in less than live minutes. From the cireumatances

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of stopping the train sooner. The steam, nut being fully
shut elf, would assist in retarding the onward motion. I
have always found Cotton a very careful man. lie has
always performed his illative in a satisfactory manner.
By the Coroner—now long would it take to stup on en-
gine by reversing?
Witness—lt detenils on the gradient..
The Coroner—Whit are they in this case ?
The Wit:sec.—One in 400 approaching from Rugby. Th?t
is one circumstance. A slippery state of the rads would
render the power of :stopping leas; and the weight of the
train would haven good deal to do with the effect. Looking
at all the circumstances, I sheahl suppose that this
train, going eight or ten miles an hour, might
hare been stopped in five or six hundred yards. The
rule with respect to cattle trains limits them to 20 miles an
hour, without special orders. An extra speed would in
crease the difficulty of stopping. I cannot say, from the ap-
pearance of tie piece of iron found iu the regulator, bow
long it had been out of its proper place. In reversing an
engine the driver should keep his bawl on the catch, lest it
should fly back. Both reversing the emene and putting
on steam in the reverse way arc evidence that the train is
going too fast; and both those operations strain the engine.
Sometimes the engine flies into forced gear after being re-
versed. There is nothing in the printed regulations with
regard to the mode of reversing an es:gine. To put down
everything would make too long a code of regulations. The
engine drivers have sill undergone a probation before being
appointed to the of ice, and are instructed in their duties.
On being asked if he had anything niore to say, Mr. M'Con-
dell said, I wish to state that I have u very high opinion of
Cotton. I have always cousidentl him u careful and experi-
enced num.

which I have just mentioned I judge of the speed at which
train...Mudd travel. Cattle trains are considered goods
trans, and as ouch meet nit travel at a greater speed than
211 mites per hour. 'I he •I o'clock train was not an express
trail; its totaitittal rate of travelling betweeu Rugby and
Witslon is about 31 miles an hour. When I started the
.serial cattle train I thouglit it would travel at the ordinary
rate of 2t) mike an hour. Two engines were despatched in
towel mime of the receipt of the telt graphic message; they left
at ahem ait I. On that subject Mr. Livock has
fallen into an error. There was an assistant engine un the
down empty coal train which detached at Crick, and ran
back to trillion, where it woe coupled to the Market liar-
Isuough train, which it waisted Irieu thence. I sent an
engine to the tunnel in coneequence of information I had
remittal from the driver of the down train, and at 4.30 I
ant two to %V, cilia'. I was nut aware that an accident had
h ippcned here nil half-past 1. The telegrapie message we
rreiived on the subject came about half-past 1. I had re-
ek ivcd a erevioue ineseage trout Mr. Livock at twenty
minutes peat 3. Ile askisl when the Birmingham and the
I o'clock train left. We told him that it and the Midland
train were slipping in the tunnel. The driver of the down
train told me this. The special cattle train was sent in
nateequi nee of there being u great fair at Rugby. It was
nut heavy ; there were only 16 or 17 carriage.; sometimes
there are 40 cartilages. I received about 5 o'clock a
ti.l.egraphic message, informing me that a collision had oc-
curri•d. I stopped the trains in consequence. The 4.4.3
train hail then started ; it was an ordinary passenger train
and the neat after the special cattle train. rite first cattle
train wits late ; it ought to have left at 2.1 min. after 1, and
it did not hay, till 1.50. It came from Nottingham. It is
not unusual for the wheel, of an engine to aIM.
Jain. • Crewed," I.llHllinell.-1 em foreman of the locomo-
tive di iiartment at Rugby. it I. my duty to examine all
the engim•s before they leave my station. I examined the
engin, of the cattle train which left at 30 minutes past 1 on
Natant iv. It ware in proper working order when it left
Rugby at 17 minutes past 4. I received a telegra-
phic el. match of its having broken down at IV ee-
don. The manage was, " Cattle standing here."
$, lad an t nein,. immediately." That was. the Market liar.
botongli train. I desmitchi•d two engines to its assistance.
The station-maater, Mr. tirew, was standing close by me
when I riceived the message. I examined the engines of
all the other trains on the same afternoon; they were all in
mucking order. 1 examined the engine of the cattle train
twice hethre it started. 1 have examined it since, and
knutil it in good onler atter the accident. The works were
all good, except that the buffer part was broken. I did not
examine the regulator at Weldon. That could not be done
without taking the pipes off, which would have occupied
three or four hours. 'rhe proper way of stopping
an engine is to shut the steam off and apply the break.
Engines are not reversed except incases of great emergency.
To reverse an engine in likely to do it au injury. If the
breaks will not top a train the only remedy is to put the
gear out and to reverse the engine. I did not myself try
the regulator of the engine of the special cattle train at
Itughy, hut I ban a man in the act of doing so. I have
never barn an engine driver. I have heard that it is a
Common occurrence for as engine when reversed to start
into forward gear again. A man of ordinary power can
manage by mean+ of the lever. Directly the engine is
revered the driver aught to be careful in holding
the handle. The use of the regulator is to
regulate the amount of steam. There is very little trouble
with regulators. If they are not cut they will work for a
length of time. By opening the regulator you can always
Had out the state of the steam. We have had the engine
in question about three years. It is a General rule to work
cattle trains with goods engines ; but in this case the load
did not require it. The engine was therefore a passenger
engine.
Examined by Mr. Ilayes—l can tell whether or not the
regulator is iu order without taking the engine to pieces.
I have no doubt that in this case it WO* in order, and that
the driver would have sufficient power to stop the engine.
The rules respecting regulators are read over to the engine-
elzivers once a mouth. The drivers receive a book containing the
rzgulatione, which they always sign once a month. There
is a notice on the door of the shed at Rugby u to slacken-
ing speed; it runs thus: "Drivers of espresso, while passing
eedon and Rugby stations without stopping, are particu-
larly cautioned to slacken speed." This notice is in addi-
lion to the books. It was placed on the door of the shed at
B s
Ify the coroner—Each driver has a copy of the rules,
which he keeps. The rule which I have read has been on
the door ever since it was issued hest year.
By Mr. Mayes—lt is one of the rules that the engine
drivers shall constantly report the state of the engines.
The engines are examined in the first and third week of
every month. This engine was examined iii the workshop
on h • 7th and on the 21st ; it was sent out in perfect order.
By a Juryman—The stoppage in the Kilsby Tunnel sou
owing to the state of the rails.
John Hooker czainined—l am foreman of the locomotive
department at Wolverton. I know the engine that was
attached to the special cattle train run into last Saturday;
it is No. 67. I examine the engines every time they pass
the Wolverton station. I examined No. 67 at Weedun on
Saturday, to see' if any injury had teen done to the axles
Of wheels, my object being to take it to Wolverton. It is
now at Wolverton, and it has not been at work since the
accident. It was taken to Wolverton b 7 another engine.
Mr. Martin decliaeil to put any questions to this witness,
observing that he did not appear to kuow anything very
material to the inquiry.
Mr. Rowland examined by the Coroner—l am an engine
fitter at Wolverton, and foreman in the erecting shop. I
examined the engine No. 67, on Monday morning last. The
valves, pistons, and reversing motion, were all correct. In
taking out the regulator valve, there WAX a small stay
which had got loose out of the steam pipe • it was used in
the steins pipe fur tarrying the regulator ;od. By draw-
ing the regulator back it came into the regulator, and
was taken out by an assistant. I cannot say whether that
would prevent it from acting.
Mr. M'ConneU, the superintendent, observed that a piece
of iron had been found Au the regulator out of its proper
piece.
The regulator was then placed on the table, and Mr.
M•Connell explained to the coroner and the jury the man-
ner in which the displaced iron had obstructed its action.
There was a marked ..brasion where the iron had premed.
The Coroner—That would prevent the driver from stop-
ping the engine ?
The Wituess—Not altogether; it would prevent him from
shutting the steam off.
By Mr. Martin—There is nothing to lead me to believe
that if the engine-driver had kept his hand firm he could
not have threw n the engine out of gear, notwithstanding
the accident to the regulator. There are three make of
Stopping an engine-utting elf the steam, applying the

By a Juryman.—Regulators are so little liable to get out
of repair, that, without some special reason for it, they are
nut examined fortnightly like the rest of the engine.
The coroner said, the government insuector being present
he thought it desirable to hear his opinion on the scientific
part of the question as regarded the machinery of the
engine.
Captain Lain examined by the coroner.—l am the go-
vernmeut inspector of railway,. I have examined the engine,
No. 67. 1 der cted my attention chiefly to the valves of the
regulator, and to the reversing apparatus. I did
nut minutely examine the rest of the engine. I
think the reversing apparatus was in good order. Tho
regulator was iu the state in which you see it. It was the
day before yesterday that I examined it, and you have the
same materials that I had to form an opinion upon. It is
nut now in good working order. The face of the valve has
beam cut apparently by some obstacle between it and the
seat. The effect of the stay interposing would be to pro-
vent the driver form shutting off the steam ; he could only
chase the valve so far as this obstacle would permit him. it
would deprive him partially of one means of stopping the
train. In a ease of emergency it is a comparatively easy
task to reverse au engine, and throw the engine out of
gear; but that was a very extreme measure; it has led to
many accidents; and in this case the state of the regulator
would render it more difficult fiur the driver to avail himself
of it.
The Coroner—Do you consider that it follows from the
reversing of an engine that the train must have been going
at too great a speed ?
The Witness—l think a driver of great experience and
judgment would look to the state of the rails, unit take care
to run at such a speed as would obviate the necessity for
reversing the engine. At the same time I think it right to
observe, that I think the practice of reversing engines is
far too general.
By a Juryman—l could not say without trying the en-
gine, whether or not it was impossible for the driver to
Ireverse it or throw it out of gear.
Alfred Bird, a boy, examined—l am a clerk at the Tele-
graph-office at the Weedon station. Last Saturday I
telegraphed to Rugby to say that the cattle were standing
at Weedon, and requested that an engine might be ISMS
directly. This was at 9 minutes past 4. I received no
reply to that message. I telegraphed to Wolverton at 52
minutes to 7 to tell them to scud an engine to 'sVeedun.
The Coroner—Did you not telegraph a second time to
Reel ?
Witness—l don't remember. There were so many mes-
sages on the slate that afternoon that I bad to rub them off
the slate,
Mr. Martin—Did you, after nine minutes past four, tele-
graph to Rugby that an engine had failed, and was gone
with a pilot ?
The Witness—Not that I remember.
The Coroner asked whether there were any more wit-
nesaes ?
Mr. Bedford (the superintendent of police) replied in the
negative.

of it.

PROTESTANT ALLIANCE.

GREAT MEETING AT FREEMASONS' HALL.
Yesterday a public meeting, summoned by the
Protestant Alliance, was held iu a reemasons. Hall, to con-
sick, the propriety of petitioning parliament to revoke the
annual grant to the Roman Catholic College of Maynooth,
and of expressing the sympathy of the protestant people of
' this country with the struggles of the peoples of the con-
tinent for civil and religious liberty. The great hall was
densely crowded throughout the entire of the proceedings,
and even the staircase was almost impassable from the
numbers who arrived too late to obtain • better position.
The chair was taken by the Right How the Earl of
Soarreisacae ; and amongst theft present were Mr. P.'
Foskett, Mr. Seeley, Admiral Gordon, Rev. T. Nolan, Rev.
Dr. Bunting, Mr. Evans, Rev. Dr. Cox (Stepney), Rev. —'
Gowring (Kennington), Sir C. E. Eardley, Rev Ed. Auriol
(St. Dunstan), J. C. Colquhoun, Esq., Rev. F. Clow, Rev. Dr. '
Steam (Camberwell), Rev. J. Perot, Rev. Burgess
(Chelsea), Dr. Beecham, Dr. Tidman, and various other in-
fluential representatives of the episcopalian and noncon-
formist bodies.
The proceedings having been opened with prayer by the
Rev. E. Annul, Rector of St. Dunstan.s.in-the-West,
The noble CHAIRMAN rose to open the proceeding.,
and was received with loud and protracted cheeriest. lie
said—We arc assembled here this day upon a subject of
some delicacy, but of singular importance. (Hear, hear.)
We are met here to-day, nut to iustitnti—for that is al-
ready dune—not to institute a society, but to confirm and to
exteud an emaciation called the Protestant Alliance. (Loud
cheers.) Au association conflated of some members of the
church of England, some members of the great noncon-
formist hodies—(hear, hear)—united together for the pur-
pose of offeririg a consolidated resistance to the papal ag-
gression—(great cheering)—that aggression alike crafty tad
bold, againet our spiritual and our political liberty. (a Hear,
bear," suit cheers.) Now, the history of these craw actions
is short and simple. The outrageous insolence of the papal
power as exhibited during the past year—(hear, hear)—
and a sense of the comineu danger, have induced many
to inquire into the present state of things, and to
consider whether we do not present by our unhappy divi-
sions, abundant opportunities to our meidiuus and daring
fue—(hear, hear)--and to see whether it would not be pia-
sible to combine in wine effort many of those who, notwith-
standing their differences—l rejoice to ivy, thank God,
millet differeuces— (loud cheering)—might be induced, not-
withstauding those differences, to enter into one great effort
for the purpose of mainlining spiritual and pulite:el free.
duct both in this and every other region of the earth. Well,
now, after several per limitary coutarences, this lieseciation
wan funned on the aanli June, and these are the principal
opinious upon which it was 1111.3:4—‘. That it appears dean-
able to form an amociati tttt which shall combine all classes
of protestants ; whose object is nut mervy to oppose the re-
cent aggression of the papal power as a ViOhlthlll of our
national indepe udence, but to maintain and defend against
all encroachments the policy and scriptural doctrines of the
Re tummies and the prima pies of religious liberty, as the hut
eecurity, under God, for the temporal and spiritual welfare
and prosperity of this kingdom." (Cheers.) Such is the
basis of our assuciatiou, which we recommend to your
netiee, your sympathy, and your co-operation. (Hear,
hear.) And it 111 my duty and my pleurae, as chairman
of this conference, and as chairman of this meeting, to Kay
how cordial, how friendly, and how higiamindeil were the
feelings of all parties who engaged in these confereitees ,
how, rising to their great task, they consented to sink all
minor differences; and here we ore, by God's blueing,
united I believe in heart, as I trust we shall be in action.
(Loud cheers.) lien: wu ore to-day, desirous of puce,
but, if necessary, ran refusing to enter into war. (Tre-
mendous cheering.) Oh, there are many. modes by which
we may act beneficially uu the medic mind. We can net
by exhottation ; we can act by example; we can Act by
iliffueiou of toe word of Chia, and by the diffusion of healthy,
sound writius on these subjects, especially by the diffusion
of such a work as has been recently published in Edin-
burgh, bearing the cupionieue and appiopritite
title of the e lialwails," si hich is extremely cheep,
adapted to the necessities of the time, and singularly euitad
to the intelligence of the people. (Hear, hear.) But
better, let us go farther. Wu do not limit our views to
the compose of these islands, we are not bound by the four
Me.; we dare, under thin blessing of God, extend our
views and our sympathy much farther. (Hear, hiar ) The
time lam come when events of magnitude in any nation,
cannot be i elillareut to the people of any other nation.
(Hear, tear.) We appall, turn, for sympathy and co-ope-
ration to our protestant brethren of the United States of
America. (Loud cheers.) We appeal for the sympathy mid
co-operation of the Wahlensian Christians, the subjects of
the House of Savoy, who are now rescued from their deep
abasement and oppression, by the noble trawled and liberal
government of Sorilinia. (fanol cheer's) We appeal for
sympathy and co-operation, aye, to the people of Sarlinia
itself, because they, like ourselves, are the objects of the
attacks of spirituel and political power, beset by the
haughty domination of Aastria on one siele—(hisees)—
moil the automatic insolence of the Pope on the other.
(Ifisses.) They know what it is to struggle for
politicd freedom, and therefore we appeal to men who
know their danger, and value their institutions. ( Hear,
bear.) We appeal to them for that sympathy which 1 know
they rejoice to give, and which from us I know they will
be rejoiced to receive. (Loud cheers.) Aye, we appeal to
every protestant in every region of the earth, to every main
In whatever region he may live, or whatever sun may shine
on him; we appeal to every man who ',elute those great and
glorious gilts of Providence, civil and religious liberty.
(Loud cheers.) Now we come to the third consideration.
With these feelings, these views, and these principles, it
seems indispensably necessary—nay, inevitable, that we
must direct our attention to something within our owe
I realm-, the greatest monument of folly I think—(hear,
hear) —and, no one can deny, of inconsistency—(hear,
' hear)—that ever was raised by the hands of fallible man.
(Loud cheers.) You know that the college of Maynuoth
was confirmed by our statesmen a few years ago fur the
purpose of conciliating the 'Lomat% priesthood, fur the pur-
pose of propitiating the Irish people. It never, even
in the two houses of parliament, was defended
upon principle. (Hear, hear.) It was m iintained only on
the ground of expediency. (Hear, hear.) We were pro-
mised that we should have on the two opposite shores of
England and Ireland two temples of concord, nodding to
each other like (log and Magog. (Cheers and laughter.)
What has been the result of that sample of principle, that
worship of expediency ? Have you attained conciliation ?
(No, no.) have you purchased peace by the sacrifice of
your honour ? (No, no.) Ipso, how came the rebellion of
ISIS--the sedition of O'Brien and Mitchell ? (Hear, hear.)
If so, what say you to the proceedings of the synod of
Thurlets—what say you to the ravings of John of 'team, or
to the more cautious, but not less wild and mischievous de-
clamations of Paul Cullen ? (" Hear, bear," and cheers.)
What say you, last of all, to the irruption of Cardinal Wise-
man, with all his coxcombical suite of intrusive bishops
(" Hear," and cheers.) No ; every argument has proved
unsound every attempt has failed; everything has proved
tile reverse of what had been predicted. (Hear.) Instead of
peace we have found war, instead of conciliation we have
found insult, instead of safety we have found pail,
and, what now remains ? Maynooth remains with no
other character than this—that it is the miserable
record of disappointed hopes and violated principles. (Loud
cheers.) Having referred to, and quoted from, Mr. Glad
stone's work on the relation between church and state,
as argument against the grant, the noble chair-
' man went on to say: There are many other argu-
ments by which I might assure this great to Maynooth,
'the Coroner then addressed the jury. lie said there upon which I will not touch, because my business is
could be no doubt that the deceased met with his death by to indicate the order of proceeding, and not to enter
accident. The only question was whether any criminality into details which may more properly be left to other
attached to any party who was connected with it. Atter speakers. What I have proposed is the order of this day's
stating the precise manger in which the accident occurred, deliberations. I exhort you, from the bottom of my soul,
he observed that the regulations of the company were evi- as you value those great and mighty privileges which God
dently adapted to guard against danger ; he referred espe- has conferred on you as individuals and as a nation—as you
I daily to the signalling and the intervals which elapsed be- value the welfare and honour of the Christian faith—as you
tween the starting of the trains. At theWeedon Station, how- value the prosperity of the whole human race, and as you
ever, there were no sidings, nod this was to be lamented, as prey for the coming of the kingdom of God in your daily
had there beet sidings this accident would probably not prayers—to go forth from this hall, notaatisfled with hearing
have oecurree. There seemed, however, to be great daft- a few discourses, not satisfied with cheering the speakere on
culty in forming sidings, as there was a government em- the platform, but animated by a solemn resolution to give '
bsnkmeat on the one side and a canal on the other. As effect to the votes you now pass, persevering in the fear of
regarded the station-master and the officers of the stations Almighty God ; fur without perseverance we can never
generally, they appeared from the evidence to have done prevail—(hear, hear)—and I have no more doubt than I
their duty. At first he thought some blame was have of my own existence that it will please Almighty God
to be attached to the Rugby station master, inasmuch as he to give to you and to us, as a body, a final and complete
appeared to have started trains when he knew that there victory. (The noble earl resumed his seat amid loud and
was • stoppage on the line. It now turned out that the protracted cheering.)
telegraphic message was not received until after he had Mr. COLQI:HOVN rose to move the first evolution:—
started the trains, and consequently he could not be held ii That the revival, on the part of the Church of Rome, of
responsible for the accident. He now came to the engine the loftiest pretensions and moat intolerant doctrines of the
driver. They had been told that it was one of the com- 1 papacy of the middle ages, renders it the duty of all pro-
pany's regulations that engines should not travel at a I testants to unite, both for the defence of their civil and re.
speed of more than 20 miles an hour. It had been 1 ligious liberties, and for the maintenance of that revealed
ro
pved that in this instance the train was travelling at truth on which depend alike the temporal and eternal hap- '
the rate of 28 miles an hour, and though under other , piness of mankind." lie said that he stood on that plat-
circumstances that would be simply an offence against ; form en grounds somewhat different from those occupied by
the company, in this case, an accident having ee- . other gentlemen around him, inasmuch as he had not had
coned, it was for the jury to consider whether ! the honour of becoming a member of the Protestant Alliance.
the driver had not thus endangered the lives entrusted to ' For its zeal and its merits he could chum no praise, for he
his charge, and whether, if the train had been going at a ' had so tar had no concern in its manifestations. Ever since
proper speed, the accident would have occurred. One of the passing of that disastrous measure to which the noble '
the witnesses named Robinson had told them that when • earl in the chair had referred for the additional endowment'
the train was passing the auxiliary signal, he felt sure that it of alaynooth College, he (Mr. Colquhoun) having contended
could not be stopped in time, which showed that in his : in parliament against that measure, had cooperated with
opinion the train woe going faster than usual. Oa the others in 'eosin an unvarying testimony and in pressing
other hand, evidence had been given that the regulator of ' forward a constant effort against all stub similar measures.
the engine was out of order, and that the driver was thereby ' He bad, therefore, taken no part—perhaps it was his shame
deprived of one means of preventing a collision, and to- and his blame, but such was the fact —in the
gether with this must be taken into account the proceedings of this alliance. When, however, he perceived
state of tne rails at the time of the accident. If , the announcement of its resolutions—when he saw that it
the jury thought that the driver was driving so was comina forward in the metropolis of England, em-
carelessly and recklessly as to have exhibited gross bracing in its ranks men of various divisions and persua-
' culpable negligence, of course they must find ban guilty of sions, political and religion., and appealing fur sympathy
manslaughter ; bat it had been well observed by a learned and aid to all the protestants of the empire—he felt it would
judge that it was not all negligence that amounted to have been a desertion of principle if he had failed to come
manslaughter. All the evidence went to show that there
all spoke of had been • redaction of spa d; the witnesses . forward and to contribute his share of good wishes in the
great stra ;gle in which it was engaged. (Hear, hear.) He
speed of not more than eight or ten miles an hour when the haul not hesitated to offer co-operation. It had been asked,
collision occurred ; showing that the driver endeavoured to in speech and writing, what was the meaning of this strange
I reduce the speed before the train entered the station. They ' medley of setts and parties?—what were all these gentle-
' haul heard the opinion of the government iuspeetor as to men of various creeds doing on the same platform opposed
the state of the engine; and the real point fur them to de-
to Rome ? It was said, " You wish to displace the church
termine was whether the death of the deceased was the 'of Rome, but what are you going to substitute ? You
result of accident or of gross and criminal negligence on the wish to pull down her great and beneficent
I part of the driver. [ union, but will you tell us on what basis you
The room was then cleared. After the lapse of a few I mean to ground your church union ?" Laughter.)(
minutes the following verdict was delivered :—" The jury ' He thought that the gentlemen who wrote and said these
are of opinion that the deceased met his death by a cattle- things were innocent of understanding the first principles
train running accidentally into a passenger train at Wee- of this question. (Hear, hear.) They did not understand
don, but without blame to the driver, on account of the the principle of our common faith—he was quite sure they
engine being out of order and the rails slippery. The jury did not understand the principles of English freedom—and
cannot let the opp rtunity pass without recommending, for they had conveniently and effectually sponged out of their
' the better safety of the public, an alteration and enlarge- memory all the facts of English history. (Cheers.) It was
I ment of this station forthwith, it being too small for the very true that these were wide differences among the gen-
i quantity of traffic without a siding." tlemen constituting this alliance. It was quite true that if
1 The inquiry terminated at about half-past 4. the members of the alliance were to engage in some vision-

ary scheme 01 some amalgamation of all christian per-
suasions and all political parties, they would signally and
ludicrously fail. It was quite true that many of the gen-
tlemen whom he saw near him, and with whom he was now
acting, held many opinions essentially different from
those which he himself maintained, and that they were
men of truth, and of honesty, and of principle, who
would stand by their opinions and their principles.
Still they were all co-operating together, and he could
sea nothing to excite so much surprise in that
co-operation. When the noble lord in the chair had called
upon them in past times they had all as now not hesitated
to obey his wise and benevolent bidding. (Cheers.) When
the noble earl had led the way in grappling with some of
I the worst evils which afflicted humanity—when he had
dealt with pestilence and disease, and ignorance and crime,
stalking through the streets like armed men—was it to be
supposed that they, having received their summons in the
name of common humanity, to aid in the good work, would
have been withheld by the suggestion that one of them was
a baptist, another a nonconformist, another an episcopa-
lien, another a presbyterian, and another a free church-
man? (Cheers.) Any such suggestion would he received with
scorn and derision. (Clietc,) Alter some faith( r observations
Mr. Colquhoun said that the papers in Paris was one which
sooke fur the great ultra-montane party—the Jesuit party—
teat perty to which, as he had been told when in Paris
by a French abbe, the whole Roman catholic
church in France looked as a leader. Hero was
what the editor of the Cairo.: mid last August:—
" I avow my regret not only that they did not sooner burn
John Huss, but that they dd nut burn Luther; and I re-
gret further that there had not bean at the films some
prince sufficiently pious and politic to have made a crusade
against the protestants." (Laughter.) And when the
writer was taxed with this monstrous doctrine, he defended
it, and said, " A heretic examined and convicted by the
church used to be delivered over to the secular power, and
punished with death; and nothing could be more natural
and necessary. A prompt crusade against Luther would
have saved Europe.. ' (Laughter.) He (Mr. Colquhoun)
would go on, and give them the best of all authorities for
the position he had taken up. It mi ;lit be said
he was quoting from unauthorised documents which
the human Catholic church neither ado Ned nor guaranteed.l
Ile would therefore go to the fountain-head oh all—to his
Mainers the Pope of home. What his holiness had said
he (Mr. Colquhoun) woule out take from an heretical paper,
but from the pure Pada. (Laughter.) lie referred to the
" Allocation of our most holy Lord and Pope, Pius IX.,
held in merest consistory of the sth September, 1850."
This allocution, met the ablet, was full of hope and good.
Everything, said the Tablet, was changing, but the char of
Peter stood like a rock amid the fluctuations of Europe.
(L 'tighter.) He perfectly agreed with the Tablet as to thin
immutable rock of Rome. It did not change. With the lapse
of time it kuew nu modideetion ; intellect and civilisation
rose and increased : but the chair of Peter remained unals
tered—etereotyped as strongest hypocrisy. (Cheers.) The
ellecutiou in question related to the concordat made iu 1850,
between the Pope autlSpaiu,whereby the kingdom of Spain,
and it was melancholy to consider the fact, mooted and re-
instituted the church of Rome on her former basis. (Hear,
hear.) ply this allocution all " unjust deprivation •' of
ecclesiastical property was to be cancelled and such pro.
Perty resumed ; all schools and colleges, public end titivate,
are placed under the sole jurisdicti el of bishops; end all
the magistrates of the kingdom arc called upon and
required to See that due honour and obedience
be paid to all ecelesiasticel authority and dignity.
In this concordat further the " most illustrious Queen and
her goverument" promise to give " all assistance by their
powerful patrouage and protection to the aforesaid bishops,
in restraining thu weakness and deceit of those !new, who
impiously seek to pervert the minds of the faithful and to
corrupt their morals, and in driving away front the flock
the dire plague and ruinous evil of perverse books ?" This
would show that whatever efforts tne alliance might make
in Spain, they must expect to here to light the magistrate
as well as the priest. (lkar, hear.) Ile now came to
another proof. Ile had to refer to a work which had been
published lately by a professor of Turin—the capital
of that country. which alone of all Italy, he was
about to Bey, winch alone of all central Europe, retained
the principles of civil and religious liberty. (hear, hear.)
The profeesor had writteu two works—one Mk the illstittl•
lions of Ecclesiastical Law, and a Treatiese on University
Ecclesiastical Law. Theme it might appear, were harmless..
books. But the professor said, in the course of these works,
that the church had nu coercive power. He allowed the
church the tail authority of mural and religious influence;
but he said the church had no right to use the power of the
sword of the magistrate to carry out her views. Fur this
out came a rescript front St. Peter's chair, in the 6th year of
our L'outificate," signed by Cardinel Lambrumhini, " under
the ring of tics fishermen." And that rescript announced
Bed the wore of the Turin professor was prohibited; that
no tine was to read it; 'hat if a prhed reed it he was to be
struck by suspension; that it' a layman read it he was to be
struck by the still severer blow of excommunication—a
serious sentence even in Ireland, but in Italy mewing ex-
conenuuiteition aud death. And all this because a
coercive power was denied to the church to bring
back them who hail strayed from her fold. (Hear.)
Was England then, the refuge of the oppressed, to stand
quietly by aud see this fearful crueatie ageing spiritual and
i constitutional liberty? (Hem.) But if we wanted to secure
religious liberty Mauer( we must secure it at home, and that
could wily be dune by bringing the force of public opinion
aud sentiment to bear upon government anti upon peria-
mutt, SU as to emigrant their steps into the direction we
wished, whether willing or unwilling. (Cheers.) Swift or
slow their pace might lie ; would it were swift for the sake
of them who Battered, but if it were slow it routed with the
' people themselves to quicken it. (Hem.) He prayed
them that they would take no rest, suffer no pause, until
throughout the world, especially in that part of Europe in
whien the couflict now raged between religious liberty on
the one head and the most fearful tyranny on the other,
the contest was decided in favour of the right. They had
emancipated the slaves whose bodies were manacled, but
nut always their souls, and he trusted they would carry their
I emancipation to the consciences and minds of the (limn.
thralied suffering spirits which were longing to read the
gospel. (Hear, hear.) By so doing they would open to
them the read to a glorious immortality, carrying balm to
the anguished heart, and accusing to it, be spite of Pope or
priest—(loud cheers)—the power to read, to think, aud to
pray, which would make mankind peaceful and virtuous
here, and happy hereafter. (Loud ewers.)
The CHAIRMAN interrupteil the proceedings to read
a letter from Earl Duck, regretting the noble writer's in-
ability to attend, but the pith of which was contained in
the following passage. Earl Doris said—" Besides this,
haying formerly voted fur the elaynooth grant, I should
have much wished for an opportunity of giving my reasons
fur a total change of opinion." (Loud cheering.)
Dr. TIDMAN then rose to second the resolution. He
mid that, us a member of ono of them non conformist
communions that had ever held evangelical protestantism
as the true faith--(cheers)—a faith which had never proved
recreant in trying times to the merest cause of civil and
religious freedom, had cordially accepted his present posi-
tion. (Cheers.) It was quite true that they did not re-
quire to be told that they held difference of opinion founded
upon deep conviction on questions of ecclesiastical policy,
but when they came to sue cuminou principlis of pro-
testantism, they were all, he trusted, .of one heart and of
one mind. (Cheers.) And furthermore, whatever might
be their minor differences, they came there determined to
strive for their common faith, undeceived by the sophistry,
and undismayed by the arrogance, of humanism. (Loud
cheers.) Whatever might tie their other differences, the
bible was their sole and common ground of Christian faith
and Christian duty, and no proceedings based on those
grounds would meet with the opposition of dis-
Denten. (Hear, hear.) He would further ven-
ture to say that with regard to the great design
of the sacred volume, whatever might be their difference
in minor matters, they all agreed in that great principle of
protestantism, that the only mode of redemption was faith
in Christ. (Hear, hear.) If he (Dr. Tidman) under-
stood aright, tho ieasis of all reformed creeds was the right
of private judgment, and with that right how few minds
could be expected to come to exactly the same conclusion.
Whoever complained of variety in our philosophers and
poets, and he maintained, that while they all maintained
due subordination to God, the 4arieties of protestan-
tism were only so many evidences for its purity
and truth. (Cheers.) Lord Fielding had sought refuge in
the unity of popery, and no doubt he now found himself
perfectly at home. (A laugh.) But what was that unity ?
Where was the page of its history on which was found
agreement, or concord, er peace ? And oh, could they only
get a peep at its internal history, what plotting and intrigue
would they not discover—everything, in short, but the
spirit of Christianity and peace. (Hear, hear.) Should
they look for it in the dungeon of Sableo, who only escaped
by telling a deliberate falsehood against his own convictions ?
or should they go to the demolished walls of Port Royal,
and see their own scholars and saint, persecuted to the
death ? (Hear, hear.) home had, in short, but one point
of unity; and that was, hatred of every party but her own.
(Hear, hear.) They, on the other hand, were agreed as to
what popery was. They thought it was a violation of Chris
tiauity, and a monstrous contrast to that system which
made Christ the sole governor and guardian of the people.
In one word, they believed that popery was Antichrist.
(Loud cheers.) They further believed that the Pope,
whether he was Alexander the Monster, or Joan the Impos-
tor, or Pius the Ninth—'hear, hear)—they believed,
because God had declared it, that he was the man of sin,
and the son of perdition. (Hear, hear) He wished to
give utterance to these solemn truths, which others might
cell bigotry and intolerance. (Loud cheers) But let him
explain. lie hoped that in this great alliance they would
not dishonour the cause by exhibiting the spirit they con-
demned. He would give to every papist the liberty he
himself claimed as a Christian, or Christian teacher, but he
asked this as his right, that he might teach, and use moral
force to communicate the lessons he approved of ; he asked
for no other means, which he felt convinced would only en-
cumber the cause he wished to support. (Hear, hear.)
There were men who while they ate protestant
bread supplanted protestant principles and taught
ltomanism in the most insidious and disguised form.
(Great cheering.) Better was it to have Cardinal Wise-
man, with all his pomp and insolence, than popery
gilded by sophistry, and put forth with all the subtlety and
eloquence of philosophy. (Hear, hear.) He was net then
displeased at the results of the late mission. He did not
think they would hear any more of an endowment of the
Roman catholic priesthon t, (Hear, hear.) These states-
men had had their eyes retorted, and would keep them open,
and the prime minister would lie a brave man who should
now say, " Let us endow the priest." (Loud cheep.) Once
more let them gird themselves for this conflict. They PS.,
the character of the foe, and they must expect a hard bat-
tle, but it was a battle between the spirit of good and the
spirit of evil ; and already he hear.) the sounds floating in
the breeze, " Babylon the great is fallen." (Loutlcheers.)
The resolution was thou put and carried by arc's
:nation.