The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-26 00:00:00

TEE MEEKLY PRESS.

The Saturday Review thinks that there is an
inherent vitality in railway undertakings which nothing but
the grarest mismanagement could have depressed to its pre-
sent feeble condition. Had a tenth part of the pta,seas
end intelligence which are displayed in the newsy ma-
menial bueiness of the country been exhibited by the direc-
tors of railway companies, 'Embolden would bare Ind as
much reason es the travelling public te oongratslate thsiiilvss
on the malts of the bold speculation which so rapidly covered
the country with its network of rails. The take which
show the progress of traffic and the amount of dividend for
the last ten years, prove beyond all question that, but for the
flagrant attravegenoe practised by every band In the early
days of the railway movement, a ten per oast. dividend,
instead of being an unheard-of-thing, would have been the

rule with the majority of companies. The mirage cost of the
lino now in existence appears, by Captain Gallon's rr
port, to have been about 35,00 W. per mile, while tho
lines which have been opened since 1848 have been con-
structed at an expense of less than 10,0001. per mile. There
is no reason to believe that the more recent lines have been
freer from engineering difficulties than those which wart
thought the most promising at the commenessuset of the

mat experiment; and it seems to be a (sir inference, that
about two-thirda of the capital mu* by the existing com-
panies have been recklessly equandered, and that the average
rate of interest realised, including that upon loans sad pre-
ference shams se well aa upon ordinary stock, is not more
than one-third of what it would have been if s reasonable
thrift had taken the place of the wild prodigality is Ali which
the money airlifting companies has been expended.

The Press mays:—" The conservative party suffers
Pen now from the strategy, or, to speak more exactly, the
want of strategy, of the conservative leaders in 1830-1-2.
Their mode of dealing with 'Catholic Emancipation' had
placed them in difficulties on ' Reform' which they had not
anticipated. The rapidity with which they struck their
protestant Plows to O'ConseP end the Clare electors in
1825,while at the same time they pertinaciously misted sway
moderate madam of reform, was the worst course that they
could have adopted. Their own parliament did not follow
them. They were deserted on Sir Henry Par-
nell's motion for Financial Reform. But if the
tories were in difficulties about reform in 1830, it is
very unuatiefactory to ma to know that the whip are in still
greater difficulties about reform in 1858. There was • cer-
tain agreement and distinct understanding in 1832, to which
the Whig ministry was a contracting party, which cannot
be overlooked in 1858. Lord Palmerston knows all about it;
so does Lord John Rummell; so do other still living members
of Lord Grey's cabinet. On sno:hcr occasion we shall have
to allude to that agreement, and wo shall take care that its
Wading force be maintained fur the preservation of the
'Rights of Comervativae.' "

Tho Economist points out that our statesmen in
India have—what so rarely falls to the lot of Mates:nen—
carte blanch—an unencumbered field. The Bengal army is
gone—passed away into history, with all its defects, all
Its obligations, all its claims. It might have been very
difficult to reform it—it will be comparatively easy
to re-construct it. The moment the principle on which
its re-creatiou is to proceed has been determined on,
the moment we have satisfied ourselves as to those errors
is its former constitution which rendered possible its late
crimes and dissolution—we are free to act as on tho first
day of our Imperial existence; there are no ruins to interfere
with the new edifice we choose to build, no catheter...sing
legacies of the post to hamper or control our action. If we
are not successful now—if we do not create a new army,
perfect at all points, adequate to our necessities and specially
adapted to our circumstances—we can plead no want of
mauls, or experience, or golden opportunity, in extenuation of
our failure. Never did tuberoses to work with more unfettered
hands. There is yet another "jewel" of inestimable price to be
found in this " venemous and ugly" visitation, if we have
but the wisdom to extract it. It will surely compel ae—we
shall be very senseless and very guilty if it do not compel
ue—to study thoroughly end to determine distinctly
and deliberately the principles on which our entire
government of Ilindostan shall in future be con-
ducted, so that all our measures shall be consistent with
each other and convergent to one point, and se that for once
and In one quarter of the world British policy shall be spa-
tematic, uniform, and persistent. We can no longer without
wilful fully act a little on one plan and a little on another;
hesitate between two opposing theories, and end by borrow-
ing something from both, or trying timidly and imilitisintly
each in tarn ; allow ono governor-gtmeral to upset or neu-
tralise the proceedings of a predecessor, his antipodes in
opinion and temperament; in a word, leave one of the grand-
est empires ever entrusted to a nation at the mercy of that
feeble vecillation which is the invariable mutt of half-know-
ledge and half•csnvictions.

The Dispatch has the following:—" Amiens
Plato, red 'ee.ms armies mita.. He beat loves England who
will not suffer hie patriotism to ignore Lis sense of truth,
and to lower the tone of public principle. It WOWS now to be
universally admitted that we can trust only to British troops
to govern India, and that we must totally disarm the native
population. It is really believed that a territory of nearly
2,000 mike square, inhabited by myriads of estui-civilieed
subjects, can be held in subjection by 50,000 or 100,000 Euro-
peans, in defiance of chronic disaffection, habitual fear, and
the despairing disloyalty induced by imperious domination.
!Ivey', we are =tired, are en geodes English troops Hied by
English officers. It consists with our certain knowledge that
Hunan and other Europe= officers are at this moment
flocking to Hindoetan to command the revolted Sepoye. This
uprising has betrayed to the Cur and the other autocrats of
Europe the fatal secret that the people of India are prepared
to receive an army of liberation with open arms; and let us
blink the fact as we may, th►t will heneefierth be a perpetual
source of weakness to us in the adjustment of European poli-
tic.. We have habitually speculated on the probability of a
Russian invasion of India. Our ablest military authorities
have considered it perfectly practicable. It is quite prac-
ticable. by co-operation with the native princes and indepen-
deetnative states, to draw thither unobserved all the neces-
sary muniments of an amy. There are seventy millions of
}Redoes the subjects of independent native sovereigus
all adjoining to, several rurrounded by our dominions. How
can we prevent there States from orgenieing large etanding
armies, officered and taught by Europeans, and filling
arsenals with the necereary equipment for veer ? We are
coolly told that these Stals must be annexed, by hook or by
crook, en that England alone Mull reign in Modulen.
Have we not enough on our bands already? The more we
take, the more wo have to hold, to garrison, to overawe; if
that be =policy, how is our population to stand the drain of
troops, the drain of our exchequer? When lei the income-tax
to end / How high will the poundage reeeb 1 "
The Leader hes " Especially refrained, upon all
occasions, from reckless invective against men wl✓b, like Lord

•
Canning, occupy responsible poeitions in time, of confusion
and calamity, and whose duties have to be performed in the
midst of sudden alarms and even actual dangers. Bite it is
impamible to resist the conclusion that, as Governor.Genreal
of Indio, Lord Canning stands convicted of in-
difference or incapacity. 'rho case against hint meta,
not upon suspicion but upon absolute evidence.
Overrating himself and underrating the (lingers of the
country, what guarantee have we that Lord Carling is
the wen to whom should be entrusted the conduct of that
gigantic struggle by which, if by anything, the English an
to regain the supremacy of India? The curse of the nation
is that no guarantees required from men In responalble
situations. We insist as little upon qualifications as upon
guarantee*. General Amon was an ensign with the bag-
gage guard at Waterloo, and wo made him commander-In-
chief in India. Fume gathered by field-days in Hyde-park
has been permitted to supersede great Indian reputations—
°atrium and Lawrence are no competitors of Anson and Can-
ning. The favourites may break down, it is true ; but Bri-
tish nepotism is ingvnious. To satisfy the public (which is
easily satisfied), a board of old Peninsular. will tit, and
whitewash every one concerned. But we aro anticipating.
We have not yet made head against the rebellion, and if the
feeble government at Calcutta should bend to the blast, It
may at length be thought necessary by the nation at home
that personal vanity should give way to imperial interests,
and that India should be saved, even at the risk of offence to
Viscount Canning and Mr. Vernon Smith."
The Illustrated Yews, on the other hand, re-
m aka that "opinions differ as to the length of time and the
amount of maifice by which the final victory of Great Bri-
tain will be achieved; but there le no difference of opinion
on the main fact, that we are fated to conquer, and that the
Ices of India by this country would be a calamity to the
world. The only exceptiona to the unanimity of feeling and
opinion are peculiar. They all spring feint ono soiree —the
hostility of the liltra-Hontene and l'ltra-Popish party.
They are lot Influenced by reason. of state, but by reams of
Wiese. A few raid Irishinen—and they may be
cooratal by units, nut by hundreda—gloat over the die-

trews a protestant England. Cardinal Winn= maxi•

feats a lukewarm and jollities' sympathy with the country
of which he claims to be a native, but not until he has beta
roughly called to account for passages in his published ser-
mon which might warrant a different interpretation ; and the
French Roman Catholic journals—which would restore
Fromm, if it were in their power, to the darkness of the mid-
dle ages, when St. Lout, was the type alike of manhood, of
royalty, and of christianity—.spew doubts as to our ulti-
mate triumph, and a very strong conviction that, If we—
heretics as we are—should be the whiners, it will be
a misfortune to Europe and the Church of Rome. One or
two Orleanlet prints of Faris, who only bate England be-
cause the present Emperor established the Anglo-French
alliance—a feat of statesmanship which Louis Philippe had
neither the talent nor the huneety to scbieve--affect to be-
lieve that England must be beaten out of India ; but with
these slight exceptions Europa and the world are with us.
The fact is cheering, and will hot only have its weight in the
councils of this great empire, but in the ranks of our armies.
It is better to fight with the approbation of mankind than
without it ; and that tha world approves of what we have
done and are doing in India is clear to demonstration. Even
the Russians know that we shall win. They may lament
the fact, bat they lack the assurance to deny it.

The United Service Gazette has the following t--
" Emphatically we say, then, let the idea of resuscitating
the native may be altogether discarded. It has been an ex-
crements for the past eight years—it has been a curse and a
scourge for the past six months. We aro con-
vinced that Englishmen can always be found in end&
dent numbers to keep op a force of 80,000 bayonet.
end sabres, provided that pains be taken to cherish the
force by not needlemely exposing it to irksome duties
under a powerful sun. A couple of hundred low cuts
natives might be attached to every regiment, as the gun
Lasses are to the Artillery, to perform all the fatigue work
of the Corps, such as mounting guard in the heat of the
day, escorting prisoners, atoms, and treasure, protecting
baggage, keeping dam the barracks, the arms, and the
accoutrements of the Europeans, pitching tents, &c. This

wee their duty in the lest century—the conversion of them
into regular soldiers was an idle COIIONSiOtt to their pride,
which we have lived to repent, They ue only fit to do the
work of alana—they are unworthy of a higher occupation:*

THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.

THE INQUEST.
An inquest was held yesterday morning on tho
bodies of the four persica killed, at the Newcastle Arms,
To:ford, before Mr. W. Newton and a respectable jury.

The jury, having been sworn, proceeded to view the
bodice, which were laid on stretchers in the large room of
the inn. That of the Hon. W. W. Clive presented no
marks of violence except a superficial cot on the face. The
heed of Miss Lttitia Paget was • shapeless mass. The had
of Mrs. Heaton wee crushed almom entirely fiat. The body
of Mn. Pitman exhibited no outward marks of injury, sad
her face wore quite a placid expression.
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The jury neat proceeded to tweet the Kett of the accf-
dent, Mr. Leith, the superintendent of the Great Northern
line, having provided a special train for the purpose.
The jury returned to the inquest-room at about ten
o'clock. Mr. Leith watched the case for the cowpony. Mr.
Graves, the resident engineer; Mr. Child, the company's
surgeon ; and Mr. Williams, the superintendent of the pdim
of the line, wen also present.
The coroner having addressed the jury, proceeded to ex-
amine the witnesses in attendance.

Mr. John Marr, of Morecambe, near Lancaster brother to
Kn. Mary Heaton. and cousin to Mies Letitia Paget, Men-
third the bodies of thoso two ladies. He said—Mn. Heaton
was • widow, 63 years of age, and resided at 18, Greensquere.
Lancaster. Miss Paget waa 43 or 44 years of age, and re-
sided at Forton-lodge, near Manchester. They bulb left As
Lancsater rsilway station yesterday morning.

Mr. Richard Booth, travelling auditor for the Great North.
eru Railway Company, identified the body of Mae. Pitmen.
She was the wit, of Mr. Pitman, the neelver of the com-
pany's mats.
Richard 8001, groom of the Mambas to the mother of the
Ron. W. Windsor-Windsor Clive, at Howell Hall, Bream-
grove, Worceetershire, identified the body of the unfortunate
f'ngentlemen. He wee twenty years of age, and started
froanchester yesterday morning by the Great Northern
time in perfect health.
James Smith, of Bury, Lancashire, examined—l wee
travelling by the Great Northern Railway yesterday from
Manchester to Loudon. 1 woe the end compartment of
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clock
a first-rises carriage. We left Manchester at ten o a. m.
r'
The train is timed for 9.5.5. We were not more than fire
minutes Isle. The first stoppage we made was at Guide•
bridge, where we pulled up for two or three mutates. The
next stoppage was at Sheffield, and I remarked to a friend
in the carriage how punctually we ran, having a Bra-
sliaio's Gunn in my 1..u.d. R c tea =maul, or a
quarter of an hour at Sheffield. We went slowly round by
the curve at }Catbird. The next stoppage was at the place
of the accident. I think we went a little hater between
Sheffield end the place of the accident than between Mon-
cheater and Sheffield. I did not consider it more than the
usual speed for en express train. I have been accustomed
to travel in express trains. When I left Manchester I wen
in the tame carriage with Mr. Pitman and his lady. At
Sheffield, my friend Mr. Raynor and opal left the
hind compartment of the carriage and got into the
front compartment of the same vehicle. A gentle-
man was in the carriage, whom I have since sisea
hired wee the lion. Mr. Clive. I felt the accident all
at 01100—.9 sudden as a gueehot. As far as I can tee
member I did not feel any oscillation of the carriage be-
fore we ware doubled up as it were, and falling down the
elope of the embankment. The effect was as if a person had
put Ma foot into a bandbox and crushed it op. The only
conversation I bad with Mr. Clive, was whether he was a
smoker. Ile said he was, and we changed carriages to
smoke with him. Mr. Clive was Fitting with his
bock to the engine, and next to the window, which
WY about half open. As soon as I gathered myself
up, I found that I had no injury, but a great
pats at the bottom of the back. My friend and
myself shortly after found Mr. Clive laid on an embank-
ment below the railway. My friend gave him a little
brandy. and-water, but he did not revive. I did not notic•
that we were going at any additional speed at the time the
accident occurred. I believe we were keeping correct time.
After the accident, I went to the top of the bank end over
the bridge, but I did nut observe any displacement of the
metals, or anything to indicate the cause of the accident,
except a disturbance of the halliard where the carriages had
left the line. -

Idr. Braithwaite Raynor, of Bury, Lancashire, corrobo-
rated the evidence of Mr. Smith. but he did not think they
stopped more than tan or twelve minutes at Sheffield. It did
not ream more than express speed. He felt a alight oscilla-
tion just before the accident, but they went over almost in-
stantaneously. He did not observe any jumping of the car-
riages previously, or anything to indicate an obstruction on
the lino. lie went upon the line after tho accident, but
could discover no clue to the accident, and woo quite at a
lose to amount for it. When the first shock was over Mr.
Smith and himself found themselves on their backs on the
roof of the carriage, which was upside down. When they
recovered from the shock they linked about for their friend
(Mr. Clive), and found him on the slope of the bank quite
unconrinius. The carriage wall smashed te Moms. Mr. and
Mrs. Pitman were in the first compartment of the carriage;
some Indies were in the middle compartment ; and Mr.
Smith, Mr. Clive, and himself were in the last compartment.
Robert Brooks, a platelayer in the employ of the Great
Northern Company, examined—l was working ye-terday on
Cm line mar the Wesson-Midge. I saw the Manchester
express coming in eight, and naked me of the men what
time it was. He looked at his watch, and said it visa two
minutes to twelve. The train wee then about throe-quarter
of a mile from where I um, and appeared to be travelling
quite right. I saw the three hindmost carriages strike the
corner of the bridge. They were the two last carriages and
the break. All the camogra were off the line. The last
three carrisges turned over the embankment on to the road.
The engine and two front carriages went over the
bridge, and about 30 )1124.1 un the other side the
couplers of the carrisges !mike, and the vellieles fell
ever the embankment. The engine and tender went along the
line for about 400 yard', and thin they stopped. I could not ay
whether the guard put on the break or not. After the train
went off, both of the metals were thrown out of the gauge a
few pude from the bridge. I gauged the test of the metals
and found them perfect. After tee got the passengers out I
went down the line to where the carriage. left tho rail*, but
found nothing to amount for the accident.
John Shaw, of Peterbonsigh, engine-driver, examined.—
I am the driver of the No. 13 express train from Manches-
ter. I left Sheffield at 11.13. I Rog the time from my
own watch and the clock at the station. I do not keep
any memorandum of the time. I had an engine, four car-
riages, nod a break. I got to Retford station at a quarter to
12 o'clock. We are not timed there. At the time the ac-
cident happened it was two minutes to 12 o'clock. I
looked at my watch. I was driving at the rote of 60 to 65
miles en hour. I judged this from the tiers we had bees
coming. I did not notice anything wrong till I got or the
bridge, when I felt a jerk at the engine. I reversed toy en-
gine, and on looking beck I cow two carriages next the
tender going over the bank. We hail only one break to the
train. We used to Lave two, but now we have an empty car-
riage next to the engind instead. There was a bell on my
tender, but them was no couwiunication between the guar*
and me. I have always had one before. This was the only
time I have been without the communication. I drters o metope,
the mason it was omitted. It ix the duty of the po WV"
on the communicating. From Retford to Tuxford we went at
our regular speed. I did not put on any extra steam. We were
working with a pressure of steam at 120. We owlet get
an, '
grigitgorrat.l.Woaver:guth'na declartitednalth.ennei"..reguginiehlaebeteZe:tea::l.4.4ed: Wen
win
to my own judgment. I eased the regulator on the Belford
ride of the Tnxford stittion. 1 had a bout haf steam on
, from Retford to work up the intline w
hom Ti
uxford, and
when approaching Tuxford 1 altered the regulator one
bole, taking off the maim. 'flio regulator acts pr,
perly, and 1 have no fault to find with it. The ago*

bee boa wed tee arra trains he eras trot
vas err re the are speed SO 1110 me el. She
wee erred err elz mare ego, but eat her per.
raida eabies resat We no freest Ire
le Nem* hit
r weir le massened we nee Wart
I oridee. bower; red re Timis sheer pored
ray My rasa With • Isla trete ere errs=
desebill rib very little Manor area I
re pewee el re erase at the top of the beak eree raft
rawest re lama et Talked, awl pas diva re rim to
eranbeidge.
By ltemen—lf there bad bre a oeseenatersa
irk re pes4„ I abouM her bra sere et the earetagee
heat
sae mere am I war, but eat la Nee to evert
the
Warn free= to No. 13 up darer train, ex -
imaird—l w rear yesterday. 1 area tlat en left
Illershl to 11.13. Whoa we got to tbe tq of the beak,
Erse raft Toth* I saw the Misr rote the rein-
=bet I rd sr area se rat penicare port it
I wee leehift hewer ran re sadder esweered.
We wee writ at • speed se err r urn ea bat, but
see swat ire, le Wert bar bra hr. We wan aot
eneellles the red peredsy. ba eke* the
men se sena Tie aselne hes twee ger wow
all. Ire bow nee be under weak rase ire bee bad
re. Tr erelere therree bre erre rear pre-
per. The earns wear abet 200 rode borne we palled
sp. We meet pa u Wryer, whoa Se eels r gobs
st imam arr. Ids not tram Irby the wernmleellea
re see gel es thie ear The peed errls we,. thee
le ne ownerreatiess. 1 bar newer entered rare the
erwerwellea betore with this are. 1 thd wet Sr the
pow to Sheffield that thaw was no eassenaleadea. 1
but. eel beard that it is a positive regulation of the ass.
ray Ur tree gall be a ciarannication between the tare
sad the leer..

esnsW twee 'squired et Kr. Leith whether it wee
wistarias that the etemeasketlos should be mord with

Mr.-Lath replied that it was.
'lionisation of wetness coach:mod—lt is the ditty of the
pan sow that the comenunisalina is put on.
By a Jsryamaa—l don't know whne duty it is to am that
the esmatimnience between guard end driver was pat ea.
It is net my duty. It le a regalatioa of the comipmey that
they shall be pat en. When the communicaticm is in and
the bell Asp three times we stop. If it bad been en when
the snidest conorn it would lane made very then Mb-
norm. We should not have had time to poll up.
The Center here reed tbe 67th role of the company's
vegetation on this subject, which Y a•
" The exact time for perfcemiag each joemey vial be find
by the time-tabla,and the great Object of the engine= meet
be to keep hi. engine InidarlY at dui trod n'ilatrttli
sad hem which upend be should vary as little a. possible,
neon nand* the need Nasally revived for keeping the
time pasetually, and tbstebn sever arriving at aurg.t.l;
manor, or ry part of the hue. or at the end of theo
before time. If employed ta taking empty enrages o;
empty **gins aloft the Una be mom not exceed a spool
of thirty miles per hour, without special orders to that
det

Mr. Pees Widdspreon, names, of Tazford; Mr. Ci
Bonne Childs, 11, Fmehoury-plant rwoth, surgeon trrX
Oriel Northern Company; and Mr. drib= Gray &baby,
=lsieation-on-Tranr, deposed to the wounds cm tho
nd the moss of the &stk.
' • '

Mr. Leith was nett examined se to the cause of the strident,
hello mid he had not yet foraged any opinion on that point, but
he thought he should be able to don at the adjourned
torery. H. did not think a light train Incurred any more
denser to ring down me wire than other trains. A
heseier train would be more dialed& to pull up. It wen •
mgerown of the company to have the communication be-
tween the guard and dnv ran put on all tree terns It wee
the duty of the guard to roe that wort dome.
ARr err converestre between the jury and Mr. Leith,
The corer marred that they had now goes through
all the *Mere that would be adduced to-da' y seed We
*wet would therefore eland adjourned to • fatureday for the
tariff investigation of the ear.
It eras, after some diarnaron, settled that the !spiry
ahead road adjured to Tuesday hen.
Yr. Child, the surgeon to the company, stated that all the
weviuded were going es very favourably, and that it
wee mow =the whole el them would recover. The stri-
der le Capers Marahatrs eyes not so severs es et Ant
suird.gerremset irgneter will hold an oilkial Invietlge-
ties Weal the elremeseaese of the ataie ea Friday mat.