The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-29 00:00:00

LAIIRENVS GRAND CASINO.

A RGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
St. James's,
Lmsee, Charles Emile Laurent, Onslow House, Brompton-road.
Licensed pur2uant tb Act of Parliament, of 25th George 11.
Open ev,:ry evening with Laurent's Celebrated Ittutd.
.crovt.ti- Piston, M. Bonlcoar.
Admission—ONE SHILLING.
Doors open :It Half-past Eight o'clock. Dancing to commence et
Nine. *no to minair at Half-past Eleven precisely.

QPLENDID PRIZE PIANOFORTE.—To be
kJ disposed of by Shares. Messrs. LAMBERT and Co., Inventors
and 4akers of the Patent Check Action Repenter Piatioti,rie an
improved Iron 'Bracing, .21, Perey-street, Tottettlimit-eourt-road,
beg respectfully to inform the nobility, gentry, and the Puolie, that
they have still a few t,hate4 to dispose of for the Carved and GI t
P.anoforte, which attracted so much attention, and gained tile only
prize awarded to an English cottage Piano, at the Great Exhibition.
The tickets are a guinea each, (tor which Yost-office orders may be
sent as above,) and the drawing is expected to take place early in
the) ear. An ins.ection of this magnificent instrument is invited.
—2l, Percy-street, next door to Tottenham-court-road.

THE HOOD MEMORIAL.
CLOSE OF THE SUBSCRIPTION.
AT a GENERAL MEETING of the SUB-
SCRIBERS to the Fund for Erecting a Monument above
the Grave of THOMAS HOOD In Kensal•green CemeterY, held Dec.,
2d. at the Whittington Club, it was resolved that theSabscription
List be CLOSED on the let of February, 1853, and
Miss ELIZA. COOK,
Ma. MURDO YOUNG, and
Ma. JOHN WATKINS,
were appointed Trustees to the Fund.
The amounts subscribed are deposited at interest in the London
and Commercial Bank.
Contribations are received by Mr. William Strndwicke, at the
Whittington Club, Strand ; by Miss Eliza Cook, Treasurer, 54,
Great Ormonde-street, Bloomsbury; aid by Mr. John Watkins,
Hon. Sec., 34, Parliament-street.
Among the subscribers aro the following :
His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, K.G.•• • • 0 8
Tie Right Hon. Lord John Russell, M.P.......
The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P • • ••• • . • ... •
The Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, M.P........ • • ..
Sir William Frazer, Bart. ..
James Harmer, Esq.,— •• • • •

Arnold 1i Ogers, Esq. .. •••• • • • •••••. • • • • • •
Birs. Robert Elliot ... • • • • • • • • • •• • • • • • • • •
Richard Dawson, Esq., M.D • • .. • • • • . .....
George Peabody, Esq.... •• . • • • • • • • • • .•
Edward Moorman, Esq. ....•
David Salomons, Esq..
Messrs Spalding and 10dge........ • .. • • • • • • • •
Miss Eliza Cook
Proceeds of an "Evening with Hood ' at• the

• 0 0
• 0 0
5 5 0
6 0 0
5 5 0
5 5
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Whittington Club.. • .• • •
Murdo Young, Esq., and family .............
Samuel Rogers, Esq • • • • • • • • • •
Charles Lushington, Esq.. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •.
Elias Davis, Esq..• • • • • ........ . • • • • • • • • .. • • • •
The Right Hon. the Earl of Ellesmere • • • • • • • •
The Right Hon. Lord John Manners, M.P.•••
Sir James Duke. Bart., M.P.. . „
R. Monckton Milnes, Esq., M.P.. • • •
B. W. Procter, Esq., (Barry Cornwall) ........
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Dcuglas Jerrold, Esq.... • • .....
T. K. Hervey, Esq. ••• • • • • . ..........
Rowland Hill, Esq., General Post-ofilco ........
C. Mackay, Esq., LL.D. ......
C. W. Dilke, jun., E5q..........
Edward Moxon, E5q..........................
James Coppock, E5q......,
Rev. Thos. Wilkinson, Durham.... ••••• • • • • • •
Collected by M. J. O'Conner, Esq., Morpeth,
Northumberland • ....... • • .......... • • • • • •
Jas. Wyld, Esq., and family.... ........... • •
Sirs. Theodora Martin (Miss Helen Fancit)
A few Young Men at Simpkin and Marshall's..
Nine half crowns from Manchester.....•
The Right Hon. the Earl of Carlisle • •
The Right Hon. the Earl of St. Germans— .•
The Right lion. Lord Brougham • •
The Right Hon. Lord Dudley Stuart, M.P. ..
The Hon. and Rev. S. G. Osborne • • •
Alfred Tennyson, Esq. (Poet Laureate)..... • • ..
Lady Sandys.. • ... ..... ,
W. M. Thackeray, E5q.......
'Charles Swain, Esq, •• ..
W. C. Macready, E‘q •• . ...... •• .. • • • •
J. Westland Marston, Esq
Mrs. S:C. Hall „
Albert Smith, Esq. ........., ..
Lady Morgan ........., ,„
W. C. M. Kent. Esq.
Alfred Crowquill, Esq. ...... .... • • • • • •
William Jerdan, Esq....
Hepworth Dixon, Esq • • .......... • • • • ...... • •
W. H. Gore Langton, Esq., M.P. .. • • • • • • • • • • • •
C. Baring Wall, Esq., M.P.... • • • • ......
Charles Gavan Duffy, Esq., M.P.. • • .... •• • •
R. Swift, Esq., M.P..... ...... .............
James Macgregor, Esq., M.P....
B. Oliveira, Esq., M.P.. • • • . •
W. J. Fox, Esq., ..... ...... • •
Sir John Kerle Haberfleld, Knt.,,Bristol
Mrs Milner Gibson ... • • • • •• • • .
Thomas Creswick, Esq. R.A
J. B. Buckstone, Esq.... •• •• •• •• •• ..... •• .• ••
Mrs. Fitzwilliam
'Rev. Felix Palmer, Frierning ......... ...... .
Horace Mayhew, E5q...... • • ........
Sydney Yendys Dobell, Esq.
C. Cowden Clarke, E5q............• ..........
J. E. Carpenter, Esq. •••••.• • • • • ....... •• •. „
Dr. Robert Elliot, Stratford
Elocution Class, Walworth Literary Institution..
Eight half crowns from Preston.... • •
In pence from Bideford ..............
In Half-crowns, from Bristol.• .....
In Half-crowns and Shillings .• .• ~• •••• • • • •
In pence from Bristol
Miss Martineau .
Miss Mitford ..... .............
(leo. Dawson, Esq., M.A. .. • • ........ • • ....
B, L. Blanchard, E5q........
W. C. Bennett Esq. •
A Sew poor Needle...lien ...... .•

£416 13 6
Every subscriber's name will appear In Eliza Cook's Journal.
JOIIN WATKINS. lion. Sec.

CONVENIENCE AND PROFIT.

THE space required for the accommodation of
the business and population of London, renders It impossible
during inclement seasons for the inhabitants of the West to visit
the East when they wish to purchase articles of Dress. E. MOSES
& SON'S WEST ESTABLISHMENT is intended to offer the required
accommodation. Every article there being the same in Style, Quality,
and Price as at their gigantic Emporium, Aldgate and Minories, at
either place the public has the accommodation of the largest, most
varied, and appropriate stock of Goods. This is a convenience which
has given the greatest satisfaction, and it is the daily aim of E.
MOSES & SON to unite convenience and profit at each Establish
ment. On this account every article displays the most artistic Cut,
the highest order of Workmanship, and the most fashionable and
serviceable materials. This applies to the novelest styles of
CAPES, WRAPPERS, AND OVERCOATS
ever offered by any house in the world, the Prices being very much
Lower than those charged elsewhere.
E. MOSES & SON'S JUVENILE ATTIRE,
ready made or to measure, surpasses all others in Elegance, Dura-
bEity, Comfort, and Cheapness.
HOSIERY, the elegant and useful, HATS and CAPS, the newest
shapes and most superb finish, Cheaper than at any other House.
EMIGRANT, MORE GOLD TET !
The Account of new Gold Fields discovered in Australia, and
New Zealand also, having given satisfactory proof of its soil
being the depository of Gold, will hasten the emigration of thou-
sands. Emigrants, save your time and money by applying to
E. MOSES and SON for your OUTFIT and all requisite
of CLOTH-
ING for your voyage, your pursuits, and the climate a new
country. The best Goode, at Wholesale Prices. every article of war-
ranted suitability, the largest stock in the kingdom to select from,
and immediate attention paid to all comMands. A separate depart-
ment is kept for Outfitting. Ship sailing information and full lists
of Outfits may be bad on application, or post free to any part of the
kingdom.

CAUTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the
public against imposition, having learned that the untradesman-like
talsehood of " Being connected with their Establishment," or " It's
the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for
obvious reasons, they beg to state that they have
No CoNNEZION WITH .NY OTHER HOUSE IN Olt OUT OF LONDON,
except their own Establishments, as follows :
London City Establishment, 154, 155, 15, and 157, Minories, 83,
84, 85, and 86, Aidgate, opposite the Church 6, all communicating.
London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, I, 2,
ea, Bart-street, all communicating.
Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19, Bridge-street.
Sheffield Branch. 36, Fargate.
Merchant Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and
Shoe Makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen.
IMPORTANT —Should any article not give satisfaction, it will be
exchanged if desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned
without hesitation. All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest
price, from which no abatement can be made.
The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset on
Saturdays, when business is resumed till 12 o'clock.
A new Book, entitled "The World's Pharos," containing the
Emigrant's Assistant, full list of rt prices, and directions Mr self•meaof
surement, may bo had on applicat or post-free, to any pa
the kingdom.
A handsome Almanac for tl,e year ending 1853 can be had gratis,
on application.
Id ron parle Francals.
Hier srricht man Deutsch.

Qui si parla Italian°.
Aqua so habla Espanol

Mae. CHISHOLM ON FEMALE EMIGRATION.—Last
evening Mrs. Chisholm delivered a lecture on female
emigration at the Sussex Hall, Leadenhall-street, to a
great number of members of the Jewish persuasion, for
whom the lecture was especially intended. Mrs. Chis-
holm, on proceeding to address the meeting, was re-
ceeived with loud cheers. She stated that it was a fact
that rates of wages in Australia were very high ; and
from letters she had received, nursemaids were getting
251. a year, and housemaids were 20s. per week. Ladies
in the highest ranks of the colony were obliged to do
their own work.

Now, seeing that the public press were such rigid cen-
sors of their proceedings, and very properly so he
thought, and seeing that, as far as he was aware, neither
by the press, nor at the investigations which had taken
place before the magistrates, arising out of those acci-
dents, had any imputation of blame been cast on the
general management, or on any of the superior officers
of the company, he thought they were entitled to con-
sider it a piece of bad luck that they should have been
amerced so heavily in compensations as to those accidents.
Both lof those accident arose from the same cause—
namely, criminal neglect on the part of servants in trans-
gressing distinct and positive regulation with regard to
signals. In the accident at Ford Bridge, the engine-
driver ran past a signal that was exhibited to him, and
came into collision with a goods train ; and the
man felt so strongly the consequences of his own
misconduct, that he made two desperate attempts
to commit suicide. He considered that if any one
was to blame for that accident beyond the engine-
driver, it was the Board of Admiralty, who, when the
line was being constructed, compelled the construction
of a bridge with a single line of rails, instead of a double.
With regard to the Redhill accident, the cause of the
accident was the same. They had gone to the expense
of providing proper signals to guard against that contin-
gency, and there were distinct and positive regulations
as to those signals. When the accident occurred, and
the enginedriver was brought into the box, the first
thing met with was a circular notice, which had been
issued a fortnight before by the superintendent, calling
especial notice to the signals, and instructing the men to
look on the main line as something sacred, and on no ac-
count to be invaded without a proper signal ; and yet,
in the face of that, the man who had been selected with
great care came out from the siding in defiance of the
signal, ran against the express-train, and caused that
serious collision which had so heavily trenched upon the
present dividend. He was anxious to correct some mis-
apprehension with regard to the view which he took of
these accidents, and of compensation for them, at the
last half-yearly meeting. He had no doubt it was his
fault for not expressing himself as clearly as he should
done, for he had always found the gentlemen of the
press exceedingly painstaking and accurate on these oc-
casions ; but, somehow he was represented to have said
precisely the reverse of that which he did intend to state.
He was reported to have stated it as if he considered the
question of human life as a simple question of money,—
as if it was a question whether we should pay so much
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railway management, should take that view of the case.
On the contrary, the very thing that he objected to in
the present law was, that it measured the amount of
compensation to be paid by the railway company not by
the degree of moral culpability attaching to the parties,
but simply and solely by the pecuniary circumstances of
the person who suffered by the accident. It might hap-
•pen that on one line of railway a third-class passenger
might be killed, under circumstances involving great
blame to the superior officers of the company, and that
they, might all escape scot-freeo;k44ome trivial com-
pensation fin extent of'lett?.' the-next
day an accident might take pia ike that at Redhill/
where the directors and officers had • all done their best,
and where, from some cause altogether beyond their con-
trol, an accident happened by which wealthy people
suffered, by which solicitors, stockbrokers, and others,
to whom time was very precious, met with accidents
which laid them up for a time, and by which they
suffered heavy loss, and the company might be called
upon to pay an enormous amount of compensation.
What seemed to him to be a reasonable principle was,
that in cases of compensation they should distinguish
two portions,—one, which was the punishment for neg-
ligence or misconduct ; the other, which was insurance
against inevitable accident. He thought the law was
deficient, that, as regards the punishment for negligence,
it did not bring it home sufficiently to the proper
persons. In the case of the individual engineman
or signalman who occasioned these accidents, they
often escaped with what seemed to him a very
trifling punishment, and if they came to the superior
officers and directors, they escaped altogether in
many cases where there might be a considerable
amount of blame. He would be perfectly willing, for
one, to take that fair responsibility which he thought
ought to rest upon a director. If it could be shown
that he, from favouritism or jobbing, had put improper
persons in certain situations, or, having put proper
persons, had neglected to take their advice from motives
of false economy, or, from an unworthy desire of popu-
larity with the shareholders, to keep down the expenses,
he had neglected to make provisions to keep up the
stock and the road in the highest state of efficiency, he
thought he ought to be personally responsible if acci-
dents occurred from want of care on his part. But then
he must have a fair trial. He would not be sent before
a jury composed of those gentlemen who favoured them
with their columns in the Sun, or of military
*en-
gineers, who knew about as much about railways as
he knew about the establishments at Chatham and other
places. But, if there were a proper tribunal composed
of such men as Robert Stephenson, Captain Huish, and
men of that class, placed in a position to administer
justice, he thought there was no railway man who would
object to go before a tribunal like that, and under-
take the fair responsibility of his misconduct ; and
that misconduct ought to weigh upon him equally
whether the person injured. by his misconduct was a
poor third class passenger or the Lord Chancellor of
the realm. But, if they went beyond that to the ques-
tion of insurance against accidents, which were beyond
their control, such, as an accident resulting from an
iron breaking, though selected with the utmost care, or
against the risk of men, though selected with the ut-
most care, neglecting or forgetting their duties, it ap-
peared to him somewhat anomalous to apply practically
a different law to railways from that which was applied
to steamboats or other modes of conveyance. With re-
gard to the destruction of the Amazon by fire, there
could be no doubt that that arose from an act of negli-
gence or improper conduct on the part of some servant
of the steamboat company. This was analogous to the
act of one of their servants, when they had laid down
proper regulations, neglecting those regulations and
occasioning an accident ; and yet, who ever heard •f a
company, under those circumstances having to pay a
large amount for insurance against the loss incurred on
those risks. If 10s. 6d. to Brighton were a reason-'
able and sufficient fare for them to charge a widow
lady of small property, with no relations, involving, in
the case of an occident, an insurance only of 500/ ,
it could not be a proper sum to charge the Lord
Chancellor or the Archbishop of Canterbury, if they
were taking him down in the same train, under the
same circumstances, with an insurance, practically, of
100,0001. against all casualties by the way. He thought
the law was deficient in both those respects. He thought
it was equally deficient in the one direction as in the
other ; both in letting certain offences escape with im-
punity, and in visiting another class of cases, where the
accident had arisen without blame, with an undue seve-
rity. They must see that they were subject to these
extraordinary charges in deduction of their divided ;
they must face the thing manfully, and the only way he
could hope for escape was to strain every nerve for the
prevention of accidents. They had done their best
hitherto, and for the future they must try and do more
than their best. Those accidents to which lie had re-
ferred had reduced their dividend between 4s. and ss. per
cent. during the year. The other additional source of
expenditure was the extra amount of renewals. In 1849
ho had estimated the probable amount of renewals then
at about 35,0001. for the year, and that upon a less
amount of work done. It was certainly no surprise to
him to find that in 1852 their renewals should cost
36,6001. a-year. As their stock and line got older, a
larger amount of renewals would from time to time be
required. Prices of materials of every description con-
nected with railway. workings had risen very materially
of late, and the emigration to Australia was beginning
to affect the rate of wages very seriously ; and, on the
whole, they must look forward to additional expendi-
ture. On referring to the estimate which he made in
1849, lie found that on the present amount of traffic
the estimated expenditure would have amounted to
230,000/. a-year, whereas the actual expenditure
had been 239,000/, a-year. Considering the altera-
tion of circumstances and prices, he was astonished at
finding his rimsestate was so near the mark. He believed
that a great ny of those scandals in the railway
world which had been imputed to dishonesty had arisen

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a 0 o titled to say in these cases, that it had been in a great
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5 i o Bridge, and the other to the express train near Reigate.