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London, England, 1865-02-02 00:00:00

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LOSDON, THURSDAY, FRBRUARY 2.

No one could expect any other verdict then that
which the Inquest on the Blackheath Railway as
has returned. We do not, indeed, under-
take to vouch for the act of the parties implicated
_ _

amounting to manslaughter, for much may be said
in favour of at least one of them to prove that
even technically he isnot guilty of the legal offence.
But the jury was not composed of lawyers, able to
define crimes, but of ordinary men capable of
judging on facts, and we take their verdict for the
present as meaning no more than that Joilzs, the
signalman, and La scums, the guard, were the
immediate causes of the disaster. And of this
there can be no doubt. Had JOS= not signalled
that the line was clear, the passenger train which
overtook the goods train would not have started.
And had LANcArraa, on the first stoppage, instead
of trying to work the train forward by pieeerneal,
gone back to stop anything from following, he per-
hap, might have been in time to prevent
the passenger train from entering the
tunnel. But while this is the state of the

facts, both have the excuse that they acted
not deliberately wrongfully, not even negligently,
but to the best of their judgment and their
powers. More particularly is this the case with
Jozias. We shall do him no more than justice in
transcribing some muteness of the explanation,
drawn up solely by himself, which he read sobbing
to th. court. " I entered the Company's service
" two years ago as porter, which ritnation I bald
" up to a week previous to the accident, when I
" was planed in the signal-box to do duty for the
" signalman, who was iIL I don't believe I bad
" done more than twenty hours' duty in the sig-
" nal-box before I took charge of it, so that my
" experience was but little. However, when I
" took the duty I hoped I should have been able
"to perform it satisfactorily. My duties were to
" attend in the signal-box from 7 in the morning
" until 6 at night, with the exception of one hour
" allowed for dinner. While in the box I had to
" receive and give telegraphic signals to and
" from Lewisham station, and to and from
" Angerstein. I had besides to enter signals
"in five different places for each train in the
" signal-book ; in addition, I had for each train or
" engine to attend to the semaphore and distance
" signals, and upon each train passing to show my
" flag or hand signal that all was right.' After

also a coal train• But he

a coal train, which came
dint* station of Anpratain.
sudden mesas.e cane to him that the traffic at
Charlton wet stopped he forgot for the moment
that the train signalled by the "two beets " had
really never passed him, and fearing lest he had
made an omission, he lost his hoed, and gave at
once the fatal signal. A man either more in-
different, or more cool, or more experienced, would
have remembered everything, and held his hand.
Jowls blundered only because he wee anxious, and
nervous, and inexperienced, and on him, at least,
no shadow of blame will, after this explanation,
for a moment rest.
But what shall we say of his superiors? They,
too, have been anxious up to a certain point.
They have adopted a careful and elaborate system
of signalling, which, if carried out by an infallible
intelligence, can never go wrong. But unfortu-
nately its success depends wholly on how it is
worked, and it is to be worked by man
with only ordinary faculties. Of an error
arising from this cans. alone we could not indeed
strongly complain. But we are entitled to ask
that at least the faculties which are employed
in this intricate and confusing service shell be
trained and exercised before they are trusted with
a mechanism of which one momentary jar ends
in irremediable slaughter. Now Joy was placed
in this post when he bad not had twenty hours'
'aperient*. Yet, ea he himself says on cross-
examination, " it is only by constant work that a
" man gets nerve to work the signals." He does
not complain personally of the length of time
that he was at work, bat of the intolerable burden
of the Woman! responeibility. "When I have
" left the box at night," he adds, " I have felt
" more delighted than wordl can tell that the last
" signal had been given." He was overweighted—
he knew he war—but still he hoped to do his duty.
But could the Company fairly expect that any
man could do such duty with no more *upsilon*, f
Or can they pretend that it was impoerible to train
men to it, so that when illness made a vacancy
there should be some competent person to fill
►is place t We are not, indeed, about to take on
ourselves the responsibility of telling the Directors
what they should do : that is for them to see to.
But no excuse can justify them in taking a course
so plainly perilous as that of setting an inexpe-
rienced man to superintend a most complicated
system of siguals, to watch over both an up and •
down line, to keep the trains punctual on both, and
yet the line clear. Theirs was the error in that
they demanded the intelligence and coolness
which are the fruits of long practice at the hands
of a man who had had no practise. On the sups-
rior officers who placed such a man in each a poi,
end on the Directors who gave to the superior
officers authority so to act—an authority which
they have never yet disclaimed—rests the impas-
sibility for the blunder which has oat so many
lives. And we must hope that Railway Compa-
nies will take note that whether they are respon-
sible to the law or not, the public, as the Qom',
does hold them morally responsible for the conse-
quences of every miasmas which, by better ma-
nagement or better precaution on their part, could
have been avoided.

THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES.
• BUCILUIEST, V. 1.
The Chamber has p:ased. by 105 against 11 votes,
the bill granting to Primo. Coosa alone the power
of nominating the metropolitan and bishop..

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE EDINBURGH.
QUERNSTOWN, Fn. 2.

The Inman steamer Edinburgh, from New York
on the 21st ult., arrived here at 9.80 a.m. to-day.
She briogs the mails, 211 passengers, and 407,259
dole. in specie.
She landed 12 passenger and proceeded at 10 a.m.
Her news has been fully ahticipated by the Nova
Booths), which brought despatches to the 21st
afternoon.

IMPRESS nom PARIS

0103 003 Owl

An article in the RevueContemporaine, by M.
Boiavilliers, a muter of requests in the Council of
State, means, if it means ►nything, that •die an-
swer to the election in the Ch►rente Infiirieure,

PARIS, WEDNISDAT EyLtwa

following upon the elections for Paris, is to be a
coup d'ifot doing away with the Corps Legislatif
altogether, except as a mere machine for re-
gistering the decrees of the executive power.
The writer raises a cry of alarm at the
progress made by the liberal party, and,
nukes some stringent measures are taken to
stay the movement, he fears that that dreadful
thing, " parliamentary government," which, it was
the special mission of Louis Napoleon to crush,
will spin be " held in honour." He ' therefore
calls upon the nation to choose between the " em-
pire" and the " parliament." There is no doubt
that in putting these two words in antagonism he
represents a formidable coterie of the Tuileries ;
but I cannot think that the Emperor, instead of
taking wholesome warning by the manifest ex-
prerdon of public opinion in the country, will be so
mad as to act upon their advice.
Turin letters assert that Cardinal Antonelli has
just addressed a diplomatic note to the representa-
tives of the Vatican at foreign courts, in which it is
stated :

L That the manure prononnowl by the Pope are sot
notemipeatai by say theological dcanittowi.
2. That the amnion of the rionenew meet be sought far
la the rearlicals, opoutotical Idiom sad ellocatieoe which
are alluded to in connexioa with every ono of the proposi-
tivo, scedenmed.
The (7 ifs Catches adds to the above news that
theologians are about to be selected to write
answers to the different bishops Mho have asked for
explanations.
The " very delicate cases" iu question, and
the answers of the court of Rome to them,
may shortly be expected to be made public.
If this sews should be true, the Encyclical ay vary
likely be explained away and proved to mean
nothing at all, just as the Bishop of Orleans would
represent.
Cardinal Autonelli has congratulated the Bishop
of Orleans upon his very pretty piece of pleading.!
It is to be recollected, however, that the Pope, in
his blind obstinacy, issued the Encyclical without
consulting Cardinal Antonelli, who would be de-
lighted to do away with the bad effect of it.
People read with amazement in the English papers
the tariff of fanzine prices at which tea, coffee, sugar,

butter, (to., are sold in the Confederate and even
some of the Federal states of America. I rather
think I shall be sending something more sensa-
tional, because nearer home, when I tell you
that I this day paid four francs for a pound
of butter in Pans ! The purchase was not made at
an extravagant house like Cbevet'e, in the Palais
Royal, or Potel end Chabot'a, in the Rue Vivienne,
but at quite a common shop in the Rue Neuve des
Capucines. lat first thought there must be a cuis-
take,and remonstrated, but the buxom rosy-cheelced
country dame who presided at the counter, assured
me that the was only charging the current price for
the best Britanny butter, and she volunteered
the information that butter was now so
dear that small retail dealers (the phrase
implied that she herself was blessed with
extensive custom) had not the means to provide
themselves with it. I write in ignorance of the
present price of the beat butter is London, but,
recollecting what was paid by the most liberal
housewives some years ago, I shall be greatly asto-
nished to learn that in any part of the British
islands so much as 3e. 4d. a pound, or anything
like it, was ever heard of. Possibly in one of your
forthcoming numbers you will let us Parisians know
what is the highest figure that it is possible to pay
within a mi►e of Charing-cruet.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

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ALARMING ACCIDCIT LN A RAILWAY
Os Wednesday night an alarming accident secured in the
Newmarket Wise' of the Great Eastern Railway. A
mixed train was poising through it about 5 p.m., when the
engine, on reaching the Newmarket end, came in contact
with some bricks which had fallen from the roof. The
train was proceeding at a slow rate, as It was about to stop
at the Newmarket station, but the engine was thrown off
Use metals, broke away horn the train, and plunged spinet
ewe of the sides of the cutting which ennead' the tunnel.
The (Myer and stoker escaped unhurt. The passengers had
to leave the carriages, walk back through the tunnel,
sad get on to the road leading to Newmarket as
well as they Geoid. To add to their unpleasant
position it wee a very wet night. Yesterday traffic was
ecedaelerl between Newmarket and Kama by MOM
of =album and *be ; bat later in the day
a temporary platform was organised at the Kennet end of
the tunnel, and passengers started from thence. The pee-
anger service between Newmarket and Bury was greatly
=lied yesterday on the Newmazket and Bury Nation.
company's officials did the best they °cold under
very trying circumstances. The water melting from the
fall of snow probably loaned the bricks which fall, and
whisk amounted to several cartloada

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