The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-14 00:00:00

IRELAND.

4. -

DIAILIN, OUT. II
THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

The statements to the effect th rt after the late
fatal collision on the Great Southern and Western
Railway, some of the sufferers while lying on the
ground wete pillaged by the country people, have
been a source of great pain ; and, althougk they
have met with sundry contradictions, it is to be
feared that in some instances they are but too true.
The inquest on the persons killed by the accident
was resumed yesterday at the Court-house of Naas,
when the examination of Mr. G. Ilberry, the com-
pany's superintendent of traffic, was resumed. In
reply to the question whether red lights hud been
fixed to the tail of the express train, witness said—
Those lights were supplied at the proper stations to
be put on the trains. They had been sent down to
Kildare on that morning by the a.m. train from
Dublin, and it was the duty of the station master
there to have seen that they were put on the train.
A tail light had been put on the express train at
Kildare on Nlonday evening, and also on Tuesday
evening. I did not see it dune myself, bat was so
informed by the servants of the company. Three red
lights should have been put on the express train at
Kildare. The guard is the person. who has charge
of every train. With a he►vy train there are two
guards—one next to the engine tender, and the
other at the end of the train. In a light train, such
as the express train, there is only one guard at the
end of the train. It is the duty of the guard to keep
a look out, and he has nothing else to do while on the
road. At the station he sorts parcels. Ho has no
means of communication with the driver of the en-
gine.
The engine-driver of the passenger train was next
examined, but his evidence disclosed nothing new,
and the inquest was adjourned.

The Maynooth ors held their sixteenth
meeting yesterday in Dublin Castle, when the Chief
Baron was sufficiently recovered to be able to resume
attendance. A short-hand writer from Messrs.
Gurney and Sea's attend on the commissioners, who
have been for a considerable time engaged in the
examination of the professors and officers of the
college.
Mr. Jonathan Joseph Richardson, the liberal can-
didate, has been returned for Lisburn, his opponent
having withdrawn from the contest.
The magistrates at Pareonstown have taken the
informations of a scripture reader named Edghill,
and of another man named White, against the Bit.
Mr. O'Keefe, a Roman catholic priest, for an assault
upon the former committed on the highway. The
cue will be tried at the Quarter Sessions.
A meeting highly creditable to the people of Bel-
fast was held in that town on Monday, in consequence
of communications received from the tiome-office,with ,
reference to the cruel and unjust treatment to which
some factory girls induced to leave Belfast for em-
ployment in a mill in Belgium, have been subjected.
The meeting was convened and presided over by the
mayor, and the following correspondence, which will
fully explain the circumstances of the case, war
read on the occasion :

Whitehall, Oct. 4,1853.
814-1 as directed by Vissosat Palmerston to transmit
the assompaaylog OWN of slitter from the Foreign-
's' of Ili emslomme, ringsmlng the ill-treatment to
whltYmate Ida glob, maims -of 11•Brist, are subjected who
are ampleyod hi • sill at "'ferias], near Louvain,
in Bagleria. Load laws,fte hm ezpromod to the Earl of
Omaha Ms opiates hat it would he on act of kindneos
to mad di hem Orli Imo to Daft; bet that some ar-
rangassaat isseld be mob hr seaming hem from the
Ow of hating in linghad to Belfast, as otherwise, if
manly hadod is a aMlown, withal. Meads or means
of subsistoms, they be driven to mom ham which
it would b.right to dam Lard Pelmsmbut re-
quests het you will Moss yourself in esmammisalka with
the PeschpiaMes. mid semen with dist &optimist az-
songossones he do wpm-1 am, eitiyor obedient m-
aser, SWIM FITULOY.
The Mayor of Belfast.
The letter to Lied Poleassolsa 1111 s ill haws:
Forelifrollse. llopenalse 20, 1853.
" diresesd by the Med offnersedsa to trans-
mit to yak ye be laid before Timm* Pawnees, the ac-
mash. espy of a deeps*hum Mr. Johnson, her
Maj maid the m Antwerp, r=g ill-treatment
to w same Mb girls are se who are employed
is • spianingmill at Thrive!, near lisonsin, and who were
seaweed hum their Mass at Belfast by a man named Steele,
the awe of a Ostuasn brass ostalhisbod at Braman, under
the Ina of Eissimussk and Otibmirovo. Lord Clarendon
huhu as to state hot iasinislions will he immediately
'M it in T. Wats, Xshatg's Charge d'Affairs at
Mies sash mops m may he mosasary to put •
temp Mha ihellellerneet 111 WWI them mfoetunate girls
Mae bola Ilto Thin% aA if amnesty? to send them
book is Moir Imes he Wumi ; and his lordship will
dm barest Mr T. Wake M UM legal advice an to B.
INPIOI7 se Phiallothrt Os spent, Steele. In hying
MM. sliphre am Smeary of State for the
Ma.. t, hi lordship desires me to state tbas
laud P will
_probably hint it right to make
' bona le the Mayer of lisilast, through the Lord-Lients-
"ai the sort of mamma to dish mesas are calmed in
j sur, who rely, so Ms Oils tilindsd mln this care seem
to am dons, and who have no MM.

for!dq illielasagArlltlNgori Ck..k dean ■

to add that cases of this kind use Sow fropiont.—l am,
sir, your most obedient 'mast,
"H. W. ADDINGTON."
The fallowing was the letter of Mr. Johann, the BROW
Cassel: " Antwerp, Sept. 23, 1314.
" M Lram—l take the liberty of bringing under your
• case of great oppression and ilt•tleea.
_,Tpetieseed by some British subjects now working ith
• Hersaa house, under the firm of itiesataait
Catabeva, of Bruxelles, who have • spinniupeil at
a glace Naha Florin', war Louvain, did, in July, MK
thee* the neaten of ea agent named Steele (their Iss►
ana sag meows et the mills),
re seduce thirty Iris=
bap MINI whew tales promote, which ha been
to lossrmit their Belgian operatives in spinning a particular
hail of ems. Shade, who sagged these girls at Belfast,
peemYM thus 10s. • week wages, and told them that they
wave emir te a country whets meat was 2J, • pound, and
eggs 2d. • demo, and that they ware to work 11 hours •
day. On their arrival in Belgium, they found they had to
work 15 hours • day, Sundays included; that the provi-
sions they had were famished to them, and in very small
quantities; that they seldom saw most; and that the
food they did get wee charged to them at such a rate
that there remained a few centimes balance on their
• weekly wages. They have all along received, and con-
tinue to receive, the moat brutal treatment from Mr.
Steele, and are constantly beaten by him with sticks. This
has been stated to me on oath by three of the girls, and
exactly the same stogy repeated by ovary one I have sun.
Sixteen of these girls have at different times got away, end
I have sent them to Hull on their way home. Fourteen
are, therefor*, still remaining at Florival, sad their position
is what 1 have stated, with this change only, that they now,
instead of working oa Sunday, work from six o'clock on Sa-
turday morning till six o'cloci on Sunday morning. One of
thou poor creatures, named Bliss Procter, who has been
forwarded on to my care by the Rev. Mr. Drury, with aid
from the British Charitable Fund at Bruxelles, stater that
they are all anxious to get away but cannot do so. Four
who were tried were detained for trifling debts on accoant
of medical attendance, itc., many of them having been ill
with the fever of this country; oa which occasions of ill-
ness, if they are late in bed, they are beaten out with a
large stick. Steele has lately been heavily fined by the
Tribunal at Louvain, for beating a Belgian lad who worked
at the mills, but the Irish girls can get no redress. (The
mayor here omitted a portion of the letter, se it sollassi W
matters which he considered injudicious to glum Woe
the public.) Ido not know it Florival is swialy wilds
this consulate, so as to give me any authority to latitalhee
and I therefore request your lordship's imam..
Sons, whether I may set, and in what
ship would wish me to do so, in endeavouring to obtain the
release of these persous from their present bondage.—l
. have, itc., (Signed) " GODSCHALL JOHNSON...
The meeting esprcesed its mese of the charac-
teristic kindness of the Britinit statesman who thus
attended in no careless or indifferent manner to the
interests of those poor girls, and resolutions were
adopted to raise a subscnption for conveying the
girl.
ael:ram their place of Lending in Eagland to their
in Belfast.