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London, England, 1862-10-13 00:00:00

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assist.-engineer ; F. H. L pathy with our brethren across the waters, if that
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(n. the camp at Cola case of Italy; • urrd -I - vent ure cheerfully. to stare
afficer's visit being to this company, that if, in turning the eye towards
'en. Hay, inspector America, there be any discouragement to the friar-ids
-.hided an official freedom and popular principles they may repair and
of last week. retrieve that discouragement by contemplating the
cause of Italy. Mr. Canning stated in a passage of
7:7'. IN YORK. burning eloquence, that he had called a new world
into existence to redress the blunders of the old.
,uer and Mrs, We may now state we turn to a country of the old
25 train fro.
,ey were ac failures of the new. (Applause.) If we have
° Thorpe . world to redress and compensate the calamities and
doubts as to the efficacy of Constitutional principles,
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let us see what has taken place in this old country.
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drove .a
Empire was the centre Of unity to civilised mankind.
id 'Jae centre of unity in
.a period when the Roman
—that country, which had been shivered to frag- ii
=nth for some centuries,fwas exhibiting more
order and an amount of self-government and"aelf-
eanmandatitat-wonld Op credit aaa any nation of the
earth. She was now gathering herseli trite` one A
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has been going on in Italy for the last three or four
years, and which still exhibit signs of advancing
there. (Hear, hear.) Even the very retardation
of the final fulfilment of the hopes of the people of
that country affords the most signal fruit of the
true progress which she has made. (Hear, hear.)
Italy, during the last four years, has shown that she
was equally ready to encounter both success and dis-
appointment. She at one time found herself under
the vidance of, perhaps, the greatest statesman of
inodern times; but the removal of that statesmanby
the wise and inscrutable decree of Providence had
pot left her destitute. (Hear.) She has shown that
Ole does not depend upon this man or that man ; but
'the selection by her people of men whose hearts
'are in the right place is enough to secure to her the
position which is her right. It is matter of no small
delight to us that the utmost extent of her hopes is
to reproduce our institutions. She has striven to
walk in the path of our fathers; she has striven, but
not in a spirit of mere servile imitation but in a spirit
of sound practical philosophy--she has striven to
embody in her laws, and fairly exemplify in her con-
duct, the very best of those principles wiiich guided
our forefathers through many political conflicts, and
enabled them to realise that which we fondly term
—which our children will fondly term for many
generations—the British Constitution. (Cheers.)
Let us be thankful that if any discouragement has
come from one party or another in the way of Italy,
she, I am persuaded, will always continue to derive
a consolation from the knowledge that in England,
not merely in the metropolis, not merely in one class
or another, but throughout the whole mass of the
community, and in every corner of the country,
there is a scarcely a heart but What beats warmly
in sympathy with her noble efforts. (Hear, hear,
and cheers.) I have cause to ask you to excuse me
if, upon the various points to which you were kind
enough to call the attention of the company, I have
unduly trespassed upon your time—(applause)—it
has been perhaps from a desire to express sentiments
which, at a period like this, fill so strongly every
heart and mind ; and it has been said in confidence
in your indulgence of all that I have said to-day,
and in other districts of the country, that has per-
haps too fondly induced me to speak as I have done.
(Loud cheers.) If you will permit me to do so, I
will drink to the health of the Lord Mayor. (Loud
cheers.)
The toast was drunk with all the honours.
Several other toasts followed.
Shortly after the conclusion of the lunch, Mr. and
Mrs. Gladstone proceeded to Escrick Park, the resi-
dence of Lord Wenlock, where they will remain
until Monday.

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Craker ; F. W. Robinson, confirmed as first-class
assist.-engineer ; F. H. Donnison and B. Gant,
second-class assist-engineers, additional to the Bac-
chante ; S. Sheldon, second-class assist.-engineer, to
the Blenheim; ; James S. Pidgeon and John W.
Nelson, acting ,eca,-„A•class assist: engineers, addi-
ti.nal, to the Bacchante; W. G. Paige, acting se•
cond-class assist-engineer, to the Hawke; Francis
Braddon, assist-paymaster, to the Leopard ; E. R.
D. Mayne, acting second master, to tLe Fisgard ;
and Chazles R. H. Robinson, master's assist,'Ait, to
the Chanticleer.
On Thursday and Friday Major Rumley, Inspec-
t? r-General of Infantry, made his half-yearly inspec-
tion of the troops iu the camp at Colchester, the re-
sult of the gallant officer's visit being pronounced
satisfactory.
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ry,has Major-Gen. Hay, inspector-General of
Musketry, alsoe
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MR. GLADS 7 ONE IN YORK.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Glad-
stone arrived in York by the 11.25 train from the
North on Saturday morning. They were accom-
panied by Mark Millbank, Esq., of Thorpe Per-
row, and were met at the station by the Lord
Mayor and the Deputy-Chairman of the North-
Eastern Railway Company (G. Leeman, Esq.) The
party, with the exception of Mr, Leeman, at ; Lice
entered a carriage which was in waiting, and drove
to the Mansion House. Subsequently, accompanied
by the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, Mr. and
Mrs. Gladstone visited the Minster, and spent
some time in the -1a4;,--e_o4,ion of the allured edifice.
They then returned to the Mansion ilou-0, where,-
at two o'clock, a large party of guests sat down to
lunch.

The LORD MAYOR having proposed " The Health
of Mr. Gladstone," and referred to his public ser-
vices,
Mr. GLADSTONE rose, and, after some few prefa-
tory remarks, said—My Lord Mayor, you have been
pleased to refer, in the most complimentary and in
the most friendly terms, to my own appearance in
this city. I really feel it is not on any personal
ground I can claim your notice, but I believe that
the characters of public servants and public men
are warmly and generously appreciated and libe-
rally estimated by the people of England, and that
every member of that body, however little he may
be distinguished, yet when he moves about among
his fellow-countrymen, he receives in his own per-
son a large share of reward which is due, not to his
individual exertions, but rather to the general
fidelity and general efficiency with which the great
works of Government and of legislation have been
carried forward during his lifetime in the country.
(Cheers.) It is, my Lord Mayor, a happy reflec-
tion for those who are beginning to see the shadows
of their life lengthened around them to compare the
condition of the country at the present moment
with what it was when their public career began.
I do not refer now merely to those patent facts
which are established in the intelligible, but in
the comparatively vulgar force of vigour—l do not
mean to compare population with manufactures
and trade, and yet I do not exclude them from the
reference, because I contend that the increase which
has taken place in this is not a mere signi-
fication of the accumulation of wealth in the hands
of the wealthy; but it is likewise a happy and a
blessed testimony to the fact that the privations of
human life have been diminished, the comforts of
human life have been increased, the sense of self-
respect has been strengthened in all classes of the
community, in consequence, in no small degree, of
the great fidelity with which the duties of Govern-
ment and legislation have been performed. (Cheers.)
My Lord Mayor, we have also hoped that some-'
thing has been done towards redeeming the reproach
in former times, not unjustly addresed to us, that
in the rapid and eager pursuit of wealth we had for-
gotten that it is not wealth alone which humanises
and elevates mankind; and although England in
these later years has abated nothing of her commer-
cial and manufacturing energy, but, on the contrary,
has seemed to augment that energy from year to
year, yet happily there has spread, along with that
increase of activity, a deeper moral sense, a stronger
consciousness of the obligations that capital owes to
labour, a constant development of every benevolent
design for the benefit of the masses of the commu-
nity ; and it is here we see the crowning blessing
of our lives in the increased and yet increasing, the
closer and still continuing closer growing union of
all classes of the community. My Lord Mayor, you
have referred to the ease of other countries, and it
must be our fervent prayer, not that our weaknesses
not that our infirmities (and we have them in abun-
dance), but that the blessings we enjoy may be im-
parted to other nations of the earth. You have re-
ferred, my Lord Mayor, to the case of our brethren
in America, and for one I confess 1 can hardly ex-
press the disappointment and pain with which I
witness what is now proceeding on that great con-
tinent. I have never been one of those who have be-
lieved that the new world was to be an improvement
upon the old. (Applause.) It may be because our
local and municipal and insular ideas in England
to a certain extent bind us down to what is English,
and tend to make us not only impartial judges of
the institutions and manners of other people, but I
must confess on all hands, while rejoicing that
America was a free country, I have felt that there
was something in the freedom of Americat that
was not quite of the genuine ancestral staple of the
freedom of England. (Applause.) We have now
lived to a period when that freedom itself seems to
be in danger. Every packet almost brings us ac-
counts of measures which show that in the despe-
rate agonies of the conflict that rages civil and poli-
tical rights are necessarily offered up a sacrificein
to
the necessities of the time, and there rises the
mind, along with the regret for the unlimited
effusion of human blood, and for the continuel axes
n the
peration of human passions—there rises
mind a question if possible yet more painful, because
it reaches further into the future, how, after this
tremendous conflict—how, after the enthroning of
force and military power above the ruin of laws and
prefer
order—how is America hereafter to return to a state
of things in which, at any rate,
or not, she did
English views of freedom to hers
out, l
and individual
whether we
I earnestly
afford perfect guarantees to pets. iife?
liberty both as to property and
be answered, and
hope that this question ¢'a9
but I think that
answered in a favourable spirit;
this terrific struggle
we must feel that the longer
f t re of America—
thegoes on,
ill it be for her to establish that
state of things now for the moment
orderly and leg .-
and which we saw,
and Were
at least superseded,
accustomed to witness with delight, at once the
extension of
best security for the her material pros-
oovver, and likewise the best
perity and -
to retain that resemblance hope of her
continuing nee to England,
and that deep attachment to England, which I for
one
believe that she never yet has lost. (Applause.)
My Lord Mayor, there is no doubt, I am afraid, if we
watch what has taken place in this country and
Europe, there is no doubt, as far as experience throws
light on the subject—and
, indeed, on the grounds
of reasoning and antici • pation—there is no doubt
that what has taken l p ace in America has operated
as a serious blow, and a seri •
ous and grave disadvan-
tage in Europe to the progress of principles, I will
not say merely of liberal
principles in the sense of
party, but own of those Constitutional principles in
firmly emb •
racing which all parties in this country
are happily agreed. I do not think it possible to
watch the course and current of opinion, and the
tone of public declaration as to the action of our in-
stitutions, without seeing that a very unfavourable
influence—an influence unfavourable to freedom—
has been strengthened by the unhappy experience
of what we may call American democracy. I ear-
nestly trust that Englishmen will be upon their
guard against that reaction. (Hear, hear.) If it be
true that the institutions of America have not pro-

COLLISION ON THE SOUTILWESTERN
.RAILWAY.

On Friday night an accident, which, as regards
loss of property, was attended with serious conse-
quences, occurred near the Guildford station. It ap-
pears that at about 20 minutes past 11 o'clock, as
the goods train which leaves Alton at 9.35 was ap-
proaching the station, the engine-driver observed.
the danger signal set, and immediately shut off the
steam, reversed the engine, and used every means in
his power to slacken his speed ; but as the train
had just arrived at the incline, which is at this place
one in one hundred, and which extends for about
two miles and a quarter, his efforts were of little
avail, and the train went rushing on. The guard
also applied the breaks, but a heavy storm which
had just fallen rendered their application almost
useless; the consequence was, that the train went at
a rapid pace down the incline, at the foot of which
it came into collision with the pick-up goods train
of the South-Eastern Railway, consisting of about
34 waggons, which was performing its ordinary
shunting at the time. The engine driver of the
South
approaching-Ea
stern Company's train hearing the whistle
of the
train, and being fully aware of
the inevitable danger, with great self-possession im-
mediately ran a-head, taking with him about half
the train which had been previously detached and
thus no doubt prevented a double collision, for
which he deserves the greatest credit. Of the re-
maining waggons belonging to the South-Eastern
Company, seven were completely smashed and ren-
dered unfit for use, including the guard's break-van,
which fortunately was empty. Of the South-Wes-
tern train, which contained about 30 waggons, laden
chiefly with market goods, four were overturned
and greatly damaged, whilst several others were
shattered to a thousand pieces, the massive iron
work being bent and broken like so many straws.
The tender, which being before the engine, struck
the guard's break, was much damaged, the water
tank being driven completely out of its frame. The
wheels of several waggons were broken off, and the
trucks themselves were piled up one upon another
nearly to the height of the railway bridge. A huge
block of freestone, measuring 4 or 5 feet in thick-
ness, was also broken in pieces, and the damage
done will amount to a very large sum, Finding that
a collision was unavoidable, the engine driver on the
South-Western line jumped from the engine, and
called upon the stoker to do the same. The former
escaped comparatively uninjured, but the latter sus•
tained a serious injury to the knee, arm, and other
parts of the body. The guard of this train also
jumped from his van,and escaped unhurt. 31r.Dysen,
station master at Guildford, was apprised of the oc-
currence, and was immediately on the spot with a
body of men, who were set to work clearing away
the shattered remains of the carriages and other
debris with which the line was strewn. Owing to the
praiseworthy exertions of the men, under the
fsuper-
intendence of Mr. Dyson, the line was cleared for
traffic at about six on Saturday
appears to be attached to any, pmerosornniinifoh;
the South Western engine, Walter
power to prevent
used every available meansed,drhiavevrinoof
i'211112 sh e employ of the
the accident. He has been
ail way Company for
London and South weltawtesys
born©a a high character
many years, ancl
8111u:satyr f. a bly exercised by him in the
Mr. Ross, surgeon, was in
nee upon George Stone, the fireman,
tdbirsethtgcea uotfi ocE
prompt attennis
progressing favourably.
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