The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-06 00:00:00

LONDON;, TUESDAY EVRNINCI, NOV_EMBER 6 1855.

' buted to the staff. As a matter of course there
were accidents, some unavoidable, and others
arising from carelessness, sometimes on the part
of the passengers who suffered by them, oftener
on that of the minor officials. The public, natu-
rally enough, demanded that every possible pre-
caution should be taken to ensure their personal
safety ; and, not quite so justly, attributing a
large portion of the accidents to the smallness of
the force employed, that the number of minor
officials should be increased. Yet in 1852 there
were nine or ten officials on the average on every
mile of railway open, a number increased to
twelve in 1854. The fact, as we now, know, was,
two-thirds of all the accidents of importance arose
not so much from the quantity as the quality of
the individuals employed. In vain might the
directors pay the closest attention to the safety of
their carriages and the solidity of their rails, if
the human machines to whom the carrying out of
their arrangements was confided failed in their
duty, whether from carelessness or lack of intelli-
gence. The want all along has been a larger
number, or rather an entire body, of
conscientious and intelligent officials. And
now that the railway system has invested
in it no less an amount than 300,000,0001.,
yields an annual revenue of 20,000,0001., and
employs a force of 90,000 man, the necessity
for the moral and mental culture of the entire
body of officials being stimulated to the utmost
becomes too manifest to be insisted on. Under
these circumstances, the public will be gratified
to learn that an important step in this direction
has recently been taken. An association, entitled
the " Railway Club," has been formed in Man-
chester, the object of which is to facilitate com-
munication between the higher classes, as we
suppose, of railway officials throughout the
kingdom—to enable them, in other word; to ex-
change in kindly intercourse with one another the
results of their daily experience, so as to arrive at
the required data for the perfect development of the
great railway system. A development which can
only be secured by the aid of an intelligent body
of officials, and which will involve not only due
consideration for the interests of the shareholders,
but also, what our readers will care most about,
for the physical and commercial interests of the
public. An association of this sort, with such
objects in view, we cannot but wish success,
while we congratulate it on the brightness of
its prospects.

the Ambassador of England, the Minister of State,
Count de Mornv, and Baron de Rotlischi!d.
Tile Emperor -yesterday gave an audiene at St.
Cloud to the dbeiralier Paleocapa, Minister of
Public Works at Turin, who cam• to Paris to be
present at the deliberations of the International
Scientific Commission on the subject of cutting
through the isthmus of Suez. The Minister was
presented to his Majesty by the Marquis do Villa
Marina, the Sardinian Minister.
We read in the illoniteur Gen. Canrobert
embarked on the Ist inst., at Lubeck, on board
the steamer Gothiod, for Stockholm. In every
part of Germany through which he has passed,
and particularly at Hanau and at Hamburg, the
populations of the towns gave him a bona fide ova-
tion. At Lubeck the most enthusiastic cheers
hailed his arrival and accompanied him to the
place of embarkation."
A Paris letter, in the Independance of Brussels,
says that, on the occasion of the visit of the Duke
and Duchess de Brabant to Paris, Count de Wa-
lowski, Minister of Foreign Affairs ; M. Magne,
Minister of Finance ; M. Troplong, President of
the Senate ; and Marshal Magnan, Coin fnander-
in-Chief of the Army of the East of France, re-
ceived the Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold.
BOURSE, Nov. s.—The following are the latest
quotations :

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