The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-21 00:00:00

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

';'.l-4-to'ot the Wind and Weather at each of the following
plimmt at zinc o'clock on Wednesday morning.—The stations
ar-• arsangera in irth.r of latitudt,.
HASTlSGS—Caltn—cloudlesl

SO UTE AAITTOI4 Wind N.E , gentle breeze—foggr.
for.KzFrrolim— Wind S.W., light breeze—partially cloudy.
SINOWSO/CD —Wind calm—foggy.
tittkES e, ICE—Calm - foggy.
STnoop—Wind S.E., ealm—foggy.
Swrimon—Calra—cloudless.
LUGHTON— Wind SE., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
'S.W., gentle breeze—foggy.
VAXIBMIDCZ—Winti S., gentle breeze—cloudless.

Trio returns from the tollowiag places indicate the state of
the wksd and woather on Tuesday morning at nine

o'c!(,ek

I,Armor—Wind 5., calm—partially cloudy.
gt LUX fill—Wind S., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
Pe'or.R.—Wind N., gentle breeze—cloudless.
GREENWlCH—Calm—dense fog.
CASS RIDQE—S., gentle breeze—cloudless.
I:lA.rtutAn—Wind S.W , gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
LuorcArrz IL —Wind S.W., calla.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1952.

Utah has recently been said and written on the
subject of railway accidents. The changes have
been rung on the subject usque ad nauseam. At
club or coffe-e-r.:om we hear of "railway mismanage-
ment," " railway unpunctuality," " railway irregu-
larity," or of "rally:ay grievances." If a casualty
occur, whether it b© the unavoidable delay of a few
ngeutes, exciting the indignation of some atrabilioul
paasenger, or of a more formidable character, such as
a beeak down, a running off the rails, or a collision,
tba Board of Management are formally impeached.
and ()ills of pains and penalties threatened against
the Directors. Some of the more moderate would be
centeneed with the Companies being mulcted in heave
pecuniary fines. while nothing would satisfy others but
making the Director' criminally responsible for
evory untoward cccurrenee, although the greatest
possible precautions bad been taken, and nothing
wtruting w,hich human foresight could provide. if
tiv, suggestions of these wiseacres were even partially
adopted, a rsitway directorship would he anything
l'a' a bed of roses ; and it would speedily become
itomsible to obtain the services of men of character
and rEqente.bility, under their new and almost un-
limited respunoinilities ; nor would the shareholders,
on even the best circumstanced lines, have much pros-
peet of TeLssiving a dividend.
From
the assertions so freely and arrogantly put
forward, it would appear as if direckas were men of
peculiar tastes and Wings, regarding
with malignant
pleasure the misfortunes of their fellow-men, although
acoompanied by heavy pecu l
niarosses
Their and al-
moat unlimited liabilities. ,
y carriages might
be erushed to atonas---tb,i,
permanent way torn
up, or otherwise damaged; and in case of loss
of life or bodily it.jury t,„
Pa9Sengers, they
way be subject to many actions—N
-34)g the corn-
pissatinn assessed by the juries, and also the
full coats of all parties ; but that is not sufficient, un-
lees they are nude to suffer in person as well as in
puree, for the negligence of servants with whom
they bad received unexceptionable characters ; or for
the failure of machinery that had previously been
subjected to the most stringent tests. This is
really too absurd. It defeats its own objects.
The directors of the different companies, and every
person fumed in their service, are using every pos-
sible exertion to prevent these casualties—and they
require no stimulus beyond that supplied by their
feelings as men of the world, whose pecuniary hate-
roots srre deeply involved in the result, to say nothing
a the higher motives in which every person of or-
dinary humanity must participate. It is not by coarse
And vulgar abase of the management that these evils
can be remedied. Cool and dispassionate considerate
tson-of competent perionv, reflecting on the nature of
ate aasuultidos, asceilaining the causes to which they

are ascribable, and adopting adequate means, so far a 3
practicable, to prevent their repeti.ion.
Ciwain fluistr. the intellig-nt, exp rienced, and
indefatigable manager of the London and 39 orth-
Western Railway recently read a paper* at the Insti-
tution of Civil Engineers, on the 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 Htizsu could not be produced, for exclu-
sive of his acknowledged ability and talent, be 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 Huzsli may con-
sent to submit it to the consideration of Govern-
ment as the best antidote to the poisonous trash al-
ready in circulation.

Captain Huisa 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 is, 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 year as
generally known, the public"—as Captain litisu
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.

Captain Husn 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
from " burst and leaky tubes, and broken springs and
valves."

The whole of all these causes, however, do not
produce a 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
:bat can fairly be required at their hands.

" To-morrow we shall take occasion to publish in our
columne, the whole of this interesting document in
extenso.

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, us to declare open war in a manner so
intolerably gratuitous, or so odiously flagrant, not
only with the leaders of the Parliamentary opposition,
but with the great mass of the intelligent population.
We speak thus advisedly. We assert that the argu-
ments advanced by the monthly, and the quarterly
organs of Toryism, are in direct violation of all the
known wiehea of the multitude. They are nothing
less than the utterance of the most intolerant scorn,
of the most perverse contumelies, and of the most
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 not 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 DERBY 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.

Supposing, for the sake of argument, that the opi-
nions recently expresed by the monthly organ of
Toryism, Blackwood, and by the quarterly organ of
Toryism, THE 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 s'ges 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,
egain, that Mr. DISRIELI 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
I can we deem it within the limits of probability that
thus influential wrier in Blackwood, or the fanatical
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.
liEnnius—by a public functionary as habitually
watchful as Mr. lIENLar---by an astute lawyer
like Lord St. LEONARDS—by a diplomatist like Lord
MALMESBURY—or, even we may venture to say, by a
legal practitioner like Mr..WALpoLE, or by a chairman
of Quarter Sessions like Sir JOHN PAKINGTON. Argu-
ments as intemperate in tone as those referred to in
our allusions to the eminent periodicals already more
than once particularized—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 nece,aary to glance at toe opinions ex-
pressed by our monthly or by our quarterly coutem-
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 opining can be the guiding lights of the
leaders of tilt* DEklir Government. A Cabinet feel-
ing
like that upon a question of that exceeding mag-
nitude and of that exquisite delicacy, would
sur-
vive beyond a fortnight. Besides wh.noth' must
be
borne in recollection, the sorrowful and spleneticf
manner in which are particularized, one by one, some
of the most distinguished members on the benches of
the Opposition. Blackwood especially would seem

latterly to have arrived at the conviction that
being " its" ffice covsitute-, a public men a being just
ooe shade below an angel— a mire t-ny wllLca?
the wings—non Angli sed Angell! 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 monkeyhood,
according to the ingenious hypothesis cf my Lord
I MOICBODDO. 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.

It is not by thus insolently treating its more im-
portant antagonists that the DERBY 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 DERBY 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 EAST INDIA COMPANY'S CHARTER,

The report of the select committee " On Indian Ter-,
ritories," together with the evidence, has just been pub-
lished. It is a folio volume of 1,006 pages.
The committee was appointed on the 19th of April—
on the motion of Mr. Ilerries, the President of the Board
of Control, the approaching expiry of the Company's
charter rendering it desirable 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 25th 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, showing the produce of the territorial revenues,
and of all oth(r sources of income; and the modes of
assessing and levy ing each, in the respective presidencies
and districts; also, the progre;s of trade and navigation
in India:

`.4. Tha 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 trials, 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:
•' 7. Ecclesiastical provision for the diffusion of . hris-
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 of the Act 3 Will. IV., 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 your
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 meat
sesidon, 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, from N:ples, under the incognito of Count of NoveLlara.
Pause, MONDAY.—Mrs. Bower left the asylum of
Dr. Blanche yesterday perfectly restored to her reason, and
immediately set out for England accompanied by severa 1 of
her relatives.

BRITISH BENEFICENT INSTITUTION.—Testerday a
meeting of the patrons and subscribers to this institution was
held, at the offices, in Lincoln's-bin-fields, for the purpose of
electing tour pensioners on the funds. Sir Felix Agar, one
of the vice-presidents, 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 tine arts, bankers, mer-
chants, and others. Since the foundation of the institution,
fifteen ladies have been elected 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,
rnd closed at 3, when the scrutineers retired to make their
report. During the interval a conversation took place with
reference 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.

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, end 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 14,0001. a year; and the com-
mission and watermen amounted to 65/. a week, or 3,380/.
annually.

We have been requested to call attention to the
advertisement in another part of our paper, which notices
the removal of the principal departments of the Excise
Branch of inland Revenue from Old Broad Street to Somer-
set House. The Stage and llackney Carriage department,
and that of the Collectors for the receipt of Duties, are not
included in this removal.

SUICIDE.—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.—yes.
terday morning Mr. W. Carter, coroner for East Surrey, held
a lozg 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 bricke. The
jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death."

HORRIBLE MURDER OF A WOMAN BY HER HUS-
BAND 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 year. old,
shtardeebt.eeTnhebrnuatuallelyofmtuhreddereeedeasaetd the Castle
s Annsrpreaavr,ertnh, Castle-
e wife
of
John Spear, a shoemaker, carrying on business in the neigh-
bourhood of the Dings. Her husband was occasinally 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 wife came in, carrying a baby in her arms,
for 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
to exist. The prisoner was taken into custody. The
coroner has directed a post-mortem examination.

CAUTION TO CONTINENTAL TILAVELLERS.—Lose
your money, your watch, your carpet-bag, your railway
ticket—manage
t
behind you—hot beware how you mislay the
parva
,harta of your rights. Without it your existence in the
eyes of the p
)lice might be expressed algebraically by 0, save
that the unhappy cipher has attached to it no end of co-effi-
cients, implying disaffection to the state, privy conspiracy,
portmanteau
by great adroitness to leave your biggest
crime, and schism.

01PERIA L PA Ell AM EN o`.

HOUSE OF LORDS:
(THIS DAY.)
Parliament was this day further prorogued until the
4th of November, in pursuance of the official notice pub-
lished in the Gazette last week.

The LORD CHANCELLOR appeared upon the floor of
the House of Lords shortly after two o'clock, and, ad-
vancing to the front of the throne, his Lordship an-
nounced that her Majesty had been pleased to direct the
issue of a writ under the great seal, proroguing the Par-
liament until the 4th of November.; and the Parliament
stood adjourned accordingly.

The USHER of the BLAtex ROD was then directed to
go for the Commons ; and after an absence of a few
minutes, he returned, attended by some of the Clerks of
that House.

Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE, the Chief Clerk of the House of
Peers, then read the writ of prorogation, together with
the proclamation, declaring the royal will and pleasure
that the said Parliament should, on the said Thursday,
the 4th day of November next, be held and sit for the
dispatch of divers urgent and important affairs; and the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Knights, Citi-
zens, and Burgesses, and the Commissioners for Shires
and Burghs of the House of Commons, were thereby re-
quired and commanded to give their attendance accord-
ingly, at Westminster, the 4th day of November next,

The LORD CHANCELLOR then bowed to the officers of
the Commons, and retired.

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 violently assaulting a police constable
of the G division.

It appeared from the 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 came behind him and knocked him
down. He remonstrated with him, and told him that he
was a police constable, when the former replied with an
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 he was very drunk ;
that he had only signed articles with a captain of a
vessel to sail to St. Michels for a cargo of oranges yes-
terday, and that if he did not go to Gravesend this
morning he should lose his ship.
Mr. Corrie fined the defendant 5/.. or three month's
imprisonment ; but afterwards, upon the solicitation of
the prisoner's friends, the fine was partially remitted,
and he was discharged.