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are ascribable, and adopting adequate means, so far as
practicable, to prevent their repetition.
Captain lima, the intelligent, experienced, and
indefatigable manager of the London and North-
Western Railway recently read a paper* at the Insti-
tution of Civil Engineers, on tha subject of " Railway
Accidents, their Cause, and Means of Prevention,"
and detailing particularly the various contrivances
now in use, and which have been proposed, which
would show the cavillers the folly and absurdity of
their proceedings. A higher authority on such points
than Captain Huns could not be produced, for exclu-
sive of his acknowledged ability and talent, he pos-
sesses unequalled opportunities for observation.
But the admirable paper now referred to, requires no
such authority. It contains intrinsic evidence of the
accuracy of the statements, and the soundness of the
arguments put forward, and will carry conviction to
every unprejudiced acd disinterested mind, even
if published anonymously. Hitherto, we be-
lieve, it has only been privately circulated,
but we earnestly hope that Captain Huisu may con-
sent to submit it to the consideration of Govern-
ment as the best antidote to the poisonous trash al-
ready in circulation.

latterly to have arrived at the conviction that 1
being " in" office constitutes a public man a being just
one shade below an angel— a mere trifle, say without '
the wings—non Angli sed Angeli 1 Upon the same
principle, the writer in old Ebony appears to fancy
that being " out" of office reduces a man to a most
contemptible condition—making him revert possibly,
we will suppose, to his original state of monkeyhoodl
according to the ingenious hypothesis cf my Lord
Morimpno. There is apparently, indeed, only one
created being more degraded in the estimation of our
contemporary than a man who has been driven from
Downing-street, and that is the man who aspires to
return there upon the first available opportunity.
Hear his allusion in this way to the Right Hon. Sir
JAMES GRAHAM—and you would fancy that the
writer was speaking of some political imbecile, with
the guilt of apostacy, the buffoonery of a clown at
ASTLEY'S, the ignorance of a CHRISTOPHER SLY, and
the vanity of MALVOLIO. You would infallibly
imagine that when Blackwood refers to Sir JAMES
GRAHAM, the writer was commenting upon the
fatuity of some such individual as we have here
described, instead of to one of the ablest ad-
ministrators, one of the most adroit debaters, and one
of the most gifted Statesmen who has ever adorned
the annals of England, since the period when the
country first passed under the regime of constitutional
government.

IMPERIAL PA RLIAMEN T.

MONEY

HOUSE OF LORDS;
(THIS DAY.)
Parliament will this day farther prorogued until the
4th of November in pursuance of the official notice pub-
lished in the G catte last week.

The LORD CHANCELLOR appeared upon the floor of
the Home of L)ds shortly after two o'clock, and, ad-
vancing to the font of the throne, his Lordship an-
nounced that he: Majesty bad been pleased to direct the
issue of a writ unler the great seal, proroguing the Par-
liament until the ;th of November,; and the Parliament
stood adjourned accordingly.
The USHER of the BLACK ROD was then directed to
go for the Comma is ; and after an absence of a few
minutes, his returatd, attended by some of the Clerks of
that House.

Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE, the Chief Clerk of the House of
Peers, then read tie writ of prorogation, together with
the proclamation,declaring the royal will and pleasure
that the said Parlament should, on the said Thursday,
the 4th day of November next, be held and sit for the
dispatch of divers argent and important affairs; and the
Lords Spiritual sad Temporal, and the Knights, Citi-
zens, and Burgesses, and the Commissioners tor Shires
and Burghs of the louse of Commons, were thereby re-
quired and comm is:led to give their attendance accord-
ingly, at Westminster, the 4th day of November next.
The LORD CHASCELLOR then bowed to the officers of
the Commons, and retired.

Captain Hum( shows, at the outset, that railway
accidents have been greatly exaggerated, and that
" even in its present state railway travelling is incom-
parably safer than any previously designed system of
locomotion." The public attention 15, however, very
pointedly directed to the aggregate of accidents in a
manner not attempted in any other department.
" Were the casualties to steam-boats as carefully
chronicled, and the deaths in mining as elaborately
tabulated, or were even the fact of a British vessel
being wrecked on each tide throughout the yea: as
generally known, the public"—as Captain Maui
truly remarks—" the public would view more justly
the occurrence under the railway system of those
contingencies, which, even under the most perfect
management, must ever accompany the arrangements
of fallible men." Let the matter, then, be temper-
ately discussed without passion or vituperation, and
we have no doubt that the desideratum, the greatest
possible amount of safety for travellers, will be best
attained.

It is not by thus insolently treating its more im-
portant antagonists that the DEBBY Cabinet will
make secure the extension of its popularity. We look
to the prominent members of that Ministry in the
confident expectation of a programme very different
from the one indicated, both by the diatribes of
Blackwood and by the fanfaronades of the Quarterly.
Should the popular wishes in this particular meet
with disappointment, the Earl of DEBBY and his
Ministerial colleagues will as inevitably find the reins
of power slipping from their grasp, as, in the reverse
case, they will find their Cabinet steadily and ap-
preciably consolidating itself into a compact, a pa-
triotic, and a vigorous Administration.

The proceedings which were purely formal, did not
occupy many minutes.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-THIS DAY.

CLERKENWELL VIOLENT ASSAULT UPON A
CONSTABLE.—CharIes Mildred, a young seafaring man,
was charged with viilently assaulting a police constable
of the G division.
It appeared from tae evidence that last evening the
police constable, who was, on duty in plain clothes, was
proceeding down Liquorpond-street, Gray's.inn-road,
when the prisoner catia behind him and knocked him
down. Ile remonstrated with him, and told him that he
was a police constable, when the iormer replied with a❑
oath that he did not care, and struck the policeman a
violent blow in the face, and made his nose bleed. The
prisoner in defence stated that be was very drunk ;
that he had only sigied articles with a captain of a
vessel to sail to St. Mehels f,,r a cargo of oranges yes-
terday, and that if he did not go to Gravesend this
moming he should iOB3 his ship.
Mr. Corrie fined tte defendant 51.. or three month's
imprisonment ; but aiterwards, upon the solicitation of
the prisoner's iriends, the fine was partially remitted,
and he was discharges,

THE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S CHARTER

The report of the select committee" On Indian Ter-
ritories," tcgether with the evidence, has just been pub-
lished. It is a folio volume of 1,006 pages.

Captain HUISH shows that a firm and well•kept
road is the basis of all safety in railway travelling,
and he points out the measures now in course of
adoption. The Directors are doing all in their
power, but, notwithstanding the utmost caution
on their part, and dealing only with persons
of the highest respectability in the trade, they but
too frequently receive defective articles, which exhibit
early symptoms of failure. The next point is the
locomotive, and out of 1,000 cases of Engine failures
and defects, it appears that few more than half result
frotn " burst and leaky tubas, and broken springs and
vale es.''

Tho committee was appointed on the 19th of April—
on the motion of Mr. Herries, the President of the Board
of Control, the approaching expiry of the Company's
charter rendering it des rable that evidence should be
taken as to the operation of the existing Act previous to
determining the conditions of renewal. The committee
consisted of 31 members ; Mr. Thomas Baring acted as
chairman. 16 sittings were held, and 19 witnesses were
examined, some of them oftener than once.

On the 25:h of June, it was agreed that the following
report should be presented to the house:—
" Your committee having deemed it to be advisable,
for the more complete investigation of the extensive sub-
ject referred to them, to divide it under the following
separate heads, viz.:—
" 1. The authorities and agencies for administering
the government of India, at home and in India respec-
tively :
" 2. The military and naval establishments of India,
—character, extent, and cost:
" 3. The income and expenditure of the British Indian
empire, allowing the produce of the territorial revenues,
and of ail other sources of income; and the modes cf
assessing and levy ing each, in the respective presidencies
and districts; also, the progress of trade and navigation
is India:
'• 4. The judicial establishments of British India,
European and native ; the modes of administering jus-
tice, civil and criminal, and the working of the system,
as exhibited by tables of triali, appeals, and decisions:
" 5. The measures adopted, and the institution es-
tablished and endowed, for the promotion of education
in India:
" 6. Works of local improvement executed, in pro-
gress, and now under consideration:
.17. Ecclesiastical provision fur the diffusion of Chris-

The whole of all these causes, however, do not
produce st tithe of the accidents which result from
inattention to signals, and the neglect of regu-
lations, the effects of a momentary forget-
fulness or an instant's neglect, being frequently
fraught with the most tremendous consequences.
But, unfortunately, we cannot expect perfection
where human agency is resorted to ; all that the
Directors can achieve is to obtain the services of men
of unexceptionable character, and to punish with se-
verity any inattention, however trivial, whether
prejudicial or otherwise. This they do, and it is all
that can fairly be required at their hands.

To-morrow we shall take occasion to publish in our
enlurans, tho whole of this interesting document in

eztenso.

Loath, indeed, should we be to regard as a minis-
terial manifesto the political article recently put
forward by our old friend the Quarterly. As loath as
to accept as official the kindred sentiments expressed
by its co-mate and cotemporary Blackwood. It is
impossible to credit, for a moment, that any group of
statesmen can be so utterly blind to the difficulty of
their position, as to declare open war in a manner so
intolerably gratuitous, or so odiously flagrant, not
only with the leaders of the Parliamentary opposition,
hut with the great mass of the intelligent population.
We speak thus advisedly. We assert that the argu-
tnents advanced by the monthly, and the quarterly
organs of Turyism, are in direct violation of all the
known wishes of the multitude. They are nothing
less than the utterance of the most intolerant scorn,
of the most perverse contumelies, and of the moat
irritating vituperation, directed against those men and
those measures most regarded by the great body of
the people with interest, and some of them even with
unaffected veneration. It is preposterous, therefore,
to suppose for an instant that the writers, to whose
strictures we are here referring, are the exponents of
the views of an entire Party. It is ridiculous to
imagine this, no matter how bigotted that party may
happen to be in the maintenance of their more che-
rished opinions, in the furtherance of their more bitter
prejudices, and of their more dearly-fostered predilec-
tions. Rather must we regard those publicists at
once as the exponents not of Party, but of Faction,
the mouthpieces ❑ot of a Political Faith, but of a
Parliamentary Antipathy, the organs not of a calm
Conviction, but of a fierce and infuriated Fanaticism.
" Defend me from my friends " may well be
the ejaculation of Lord Daunt when he finds those
who are forewarned to be the exponents of his
views, giving utterance to language so deplorably cal-
culated to embitter the feelings of the people towards
his Administration.

tian spiritual instruction.
" 8. Miscellaneous topics of inquiry:
Having pursued their inquiries under the first of these
heads, viz!—That which relates to the authorities and
agencies for administering the government ot India
at home and in India respectively,' and have taken the
evidence thereupon which they now report to the house.
" The labours of your committee, being necessarily
interrupted by the approaching prorogation ot Parlia-
ment, they direct the attention of the House to the fa-
vourable tenor of the evidence with respect to the opera-
tion ot the Act 3 Will. W., cap, 85, so far as it regards
the administration of the Government of India by the
East India Company, as trustees under the control of
the Crown.
" It is apparent, however, that one only of eight heads
of inquiry has hitherto occupied the attention of your
committee; the inquiry under the remaining heads,
which are very important, ought, in the opinion of 3 our
committee, to be pursued in the next session of Parlia-
ment."

Mr. Hume and Mr. Cobden did not approve of the
reference made to the favourable bearing of the evidence
as regarded the operation of the Act of 1833; and Mr.
Hume moved that the words " favourable tenor" be ex-
punged. On a division, the amendment was lost by 15
to 2.

As regards the re-appointment of the committee next
session, it may be mentioned that Lord Mahon, Sir
Edward Colebrooke, Mr. Plowden, and Mr. Cardwell,
are no longer members of the House.

The Duke of Modena arrived at Rome on the
10th, fr,m Naples, under the incognito of Count of Novellas.
Pea's, MONDAY.—Mrs. Bower left the asylum of
Dr. Blanche yesterday perfectly restored to her reason, and
immediately set out for England accompanied by several of
her relatives.

BRITIbiI BENEFICENT INSTITUTION.—Yesterday a
meeting of the patrons and subscribers to this institution was
held, at the offices, in Lincoln's-inn-fields, for the purpose of
electing four pensioners on the funds. Sir Felix Agar, one
of the vice-➢residents, took the chair. It appeared that in
1849 the society was established for the purpose of affording
permanent incomes to the widows and unmarried daughters
of military and naval officers, clergymen, members of the
learned profession, professors of the fins arts, bankers, mer-
chants, and others. Since the foundation of the institution,
fifteen ladies have been elec'ed as annuitants, and at present
there are fourteen in the receipt of an annuity of 301. each.
On the list to-day there were fifty candidates, the greater
number of them being widows or daughters of military offi-
cers or merchants. The polling commenced at 12 o'clock,
red closed at 3, when the scrutineers retired to make their
report. During the interval a conversation took place with
reterence to an alteration which has been made in the third
rule at a late general meeting, and which defined the qualifi-
cation for voting at elections. The alteration appeared to
have created considerable dissatisfaction. After a good deal
of discussion, the chairman intimated that in his opinion the
better way would be to call a general meeting to have the
rule reconsidered. On the return of the scrutineers the
names of the successful candidates were announced, and the
business terminated with the usual complimentary vote to
the chairman.

Supposing, for the sake of argument, that the opi-
nions recently expressed by the monthly organ of
Toryism, Blackwood, and by the quarterly organ of
Toryism, TUE Quarterly, to be actually those enter-
tained by the chief Ministers of the Crown, it would
be simply absurd to calculate upon their continuance
in office beyond an interval such as would at last
render respectable Lord GODERICH'S brief tenure
of the reins of Government. The affairs of the coun-
try could not possibly be carried on much longer by
a groupe of administrators so resolutely antagonistic
to the hopes and aspirations of the English multitude.
Not only so antagonistic, be it remembered, but so
arrogant in the declaration of that antagonism, so in-
solent' to the opponents of their policy, and so infa-
tuated, it would seem, with a belief in their security,
as to brook not the faintest vestige of opposition. We
entertain a loftier notion of Lord DERBY'S sagacity
as a statesman. 'We conceive him to be incapable of
observing signs like these of petulant bigotry and
overbearing self-confidence, otherwise than with sen-
timents of chagrin not very different from those of
stern and deliberated indignation. It is impossible,
again, that Mr. DISRAELI can, with his keen intellect,
his vigilant shrewdness, and his rather severely pro-
tracted experience, remark the course pursued in this
manner by his pretended supporters, without feelings
towards them of the strongest dissatisfaction. Neither
can we deem it within the limits of probability that
I the influential writer in Blackwood, or the fanatical

MEETING OF CAB PROPRIETORS AND DRIVERS.--
Last evening, a very numerous meeting of the cab proprietors
and drivers of the metropolis was held at the Old Red Lion,
St. John-street-road, for the purpose of considering the result
of the proceedings against a cab-driver for plying for hire
within the terminus of the London and South-coast Railway,
and to adopt such measures as may be deemed expedient to
break up the present monopoly existing at the various metro-
politan railway stations. Resolutions were passed in favour
of agitating the question, and a liberal subscription was made
for the purpose. In the course of the discussion, the Chair-
man stated that the amount estimated to be received by way
of bonus by the railways was 14,000 L a year ; and the com-
mission and watermen amounted to 651. a week, or 3,380/.
annually.

FATAL ACCMENT 111 THE CITY.--Yesterday a
young man, named James Cullen, who lived in Old ish-
street, Doctors'-commons, died in St. Bartholomew's Hospi-
tal, where he was taken on the previous day, suffering from
most extensive injuries. He had been at work at some of
the new buildings of the city improvements, and on corning
down a ladder, slipped from it, and fell from a great height
to the pavement beneath.
StacinE.—Last evening Mr. W. Carter, Coroner
for East Surrey, held an inquest at St. George's Tavern,
Coleman-street, Camberwell, on the body of Mr. George
Golding, aged 56, lately residing in Wells-street, near the
above house, who committed suicide by taking oxalic acid.
The jury returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity."
FRIGHTFUL DEATH OF A MAN UNKNoWN.--Yea•
terday morning Mr. W. Carter, coroner for East Surrey, held
a long inquiry at the George Inn, Kingston-hill, touching
the death of a man unknown, who met his death by having
incautiously fell asleep in a clump of heated bricks. The
jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death."
lloaniaLE MURDER, OF A WOMAN BY BEE 11U8-
DAND AT BRISTOL.—On Tuesday, a very painful sensation
was excited in Bristol, in consequence of its becoming known
that, at a late hour, a married woman. of about 30 years old,
had been brutally murdered at the Castle Tavern, Castle-
street. The name of the deceased was Ann Spear, the wife of
John Spear, a shoemaker, carrying on business in the neigh-
bourhood of the Dings. Her husband was ocoasinally given
to habits of intoxication, and on Tuesday he was from home
a considerable portion of the day. About nine o'clock in the
evening, he called at the Castle Tavern, in company with a
man who was believed to be his brother-in-law; and, having
entered the tap-room, they called for a pint of beer. Spear
had not been in the tap-room more than from five to ten
minutes, when his Rife came in, carrying a baby in her arms,
fur the purpose, as is believed, of fetching him home. She
began to upbraid him about his misconduct, when he rose
from his seat, came close to her, and was observed to drive
an underhand blow with his right hand, at the lower part of
her person. The poor woman made an exclamation, drew
herself up almost double, and immediately fell upon the
ground, bleeding profusely,—and almost suddenly ceased
:o exist. The prisoner was taken into custody. The
coroner has directed a post-mortem examination.
CAUTION TO CONTINENTAL TRAVELLERL—Lose
sour money, your watch, your carpet-bag, your railway
ticket—manage by great adroitness to leave your biggest
portmanteau behind you—but beware how you mislay the
'wrva charta of your rights. Without it your existence in the
eyes I t r p'ilir tniL,ht tp.tixprem-e•A g I`,
tht.t the unueppy Lipner Las attached to iL flu laid ut co-efti-
cients, implying disaffection to the state, privy conspiracy,
criene,,and schism.

disputant in The Quarterly, can be regarded
with any degree of complacency by the rest
of the leading members of the Cabinet—by
an administrator as tutored by the past as Mr.
HENRIES—by a public functionary as habitually
watchful as Mr. Harmay—by an astute lawyer
like
LLord
ss i 3 o
or, lenDn w
s—bey a diplomatist like Lord
iiAmay venture to say, by a
mE:
even
legal practitioner like Mr. WALPOLE, or by a chairman
of Quarter Sessions like Sir JOHN PARINGTON. Argu-
ments as intemperate in tone as those referred to in
our allusions to the eminent periodicals already more
than once particulariz?d—arguments as intemperate
in tone, as incoherent in arrangement, as insulting in
commentary, as haughty in assumption, cannot
be accepted by any sane man as the authorized ex-
pression of the views entertained by a great Govern-
ment. The advisers of a Baron of the middle ages
might feel like this—not the advisers in the nine-
teenth century of a British Sovereign.
It is only necessary to glance at the opinions ex-
pressed by our monthly or by our quarterly contem-
porary upon the subject of the religious difference,
agitating the people of the United Kingdom, to re-
cognize at once the preposterous folly of imagining
that such opinions can lie the b guiding lights of the
leaders of the DERBY Government. A Cabinet feel-
ing like that upon a question of that exceeding mag-
nitude and of that exquisite delicacy, would not sur-
vive beyond a fortnight. Be • d
es which, must be
borne in recollection, the sorrowful
and splenetic
manner in which sre paricrilarz,d, one by ()rip,
of toe most distinguisLed tutmbers on the brachia of
the Opposition. Blackwood especially would seem

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 21, 1852.