The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-25 00:00:00

-~

cohesion than time itself. Attacked on R
.
and resisting the shock, our politica:
gained in strength, and in the Chit; sate
,
country the party of the Governmen ;04144rit5`:
constituted.
"Another important result is due
tions—our institutions, criticised by t: JosiOon
under the pretence of their being capjfkle 01.
improvement, have received a fresh consecration
from the success of the Government candidates.-
What the French people meant to express, when
they voted the plebiscite in 1851, was not only
their wish to establish authority and liberty on
unshakeable foundations, but also their intention
to give up copying, in a democratic country like
ours, the aristocratic constitution of a neighbouring
nation ; it was above all a resolution condemning
the fatal doctrine, the result of which was to trans-
fer power from the hands of the Sovereign to orators
in the Legislature.
" The Opposition loudly esserted, timt in the last
10 years the country had cico,ngr.d its mind, that it
tspired not only to perfect and modify the working
of our libnrtics, but to change its essenti6l principles.
Ile country has protested against these assertions.
" And now that the struggle is over, I recommend
you, M. le Prefet, as quiet is gradually restored, to
take counsel from those sentiments of moderation
which are the mark of a strong Government and a
paternal administration.
" The Emperor's Government, you are aware,
excludes none. Consisting itself of men of all
parties, and unceasingly recruited from among them,
it remains faithful to the mission of reconciling them
all. It is open to all men of good will, and sets
aside only those who, not accepting the fundamental
bases of our institutions, such as they are laid down
in the plebiscite of 1851, are thereby in opposition
with the will of the French
people,—Receive, &c.,
"F. DE PERSIGNY."
This extraordinary document is described as the
last will and testament of M. de Persigny.

.I,tfdiac,tt-14,ijk--r-, . , --7,,,
,m IT
ID
t 41-
s .- .!:- ':,..,,i..--
....4:::....t.:\s
:,,,i,r,
e _
`,h :01
Icli,
-;.,'•.'::::,„ -
c,,,,,,, ~.,,?....-,
-..vi-14.1.,.,
'IZ-___.N.,:?/A''''

The late Accident on the Brighton and
Victoria Line.

Yesterday the adjourned inquest on John Salmon,
the engine driver, whose death resulted from the
fearful injuries he received during the recent acci-
dent at Streatham, on the Brighton Railway, was
held in the lecture room of St. Thomas's Hospital,
before Mr, Carter, the coroner for the eastern divi-
sion of the county of Surrey. As, however, a jury
could not be empannelled in consequence of the ab-
sence of two of them, who it is stated were fined in
the sum of 20 each, the coroner said hs thought it
advisable, more particularly pending the public and
official investigation into all the circumstances of
the accident, appointed to take place to-morrow
(Friday), to adjourn the inquiry to the Bth July.
Tribe, the fireman, who, it will be recollected, was
so severely injured, was found so far convalescent,
's Hospital, yesterday, as
on inquiry at St. Thomas
to be able to go about and in a condition to give his
evidence, the most important that can be adduced
relative to the probable causes of the catastrophe.
The causes that conspire to produce this particular
class of accidents, denominated in French railway
nomenclature by the term " derailment," or the
escape of the engine and train from the rails, are, it
may be usefully mentioned from the reported expe-
riences of the raitway department of the Board of
Trade, attributable either to impediments left on
the rails, to the wheels or axles breaking, or to the
rails or chairs being out of gear, but to which of
these the accident in question is to be traced remains
to be discovered by the scientific inquiry which has
been most assiduously prosecuted by Col. Yolland,
the Government inspector, and the officers of the
company since the accident occurred.
The Guards are going on well, so much so that 20
of them have already left the Military Hospital in
Rochester-row, where they were under the super-
intendence of Drs. Lane and Wardrope, and Ser-
geant Ruston, and have resumed their duties at the
Wellington Barracks for some days past. Only
seven now remain is hospital, and all save one, who
is feared to have been permanently disabled, will
leave the hospital for barracks very shortly. Up
to the present time no clue appears to have been
discovered to account for the unexplained accident,
and as no photograph appears to have been taken
of the scene of the disaster, and as the line was not
left in statu quo until such time as an inspection on
the following morning could be made, great diffi-
culty will be experienced in arriving at a clear
practical conclusion.