The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-02 00:00:00

FRAGMENTS FROM
Vol.
FOUNTAINS. Two Vole.
. I.

VISIT TO THE LAKES; SKETCH OF EDINBURGH, &c.
Vol. 11.

7111; LAKES OF KILLARNEY ; REMINISCENCES OF
DUBLIN, &c.

WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID,
"That three score years and ten our course may run,"
A popular review of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner-
vously-debilitated health and enfeebled constitution that harasses
the young, besets the man of pleasure, business or study, and em-
bitters old age ; with tables and rules for the diet and physical regu.
lation of every-day life.,,

W.
THE PASSIONS.
" What passions hurt the body—what improve,
Truths as refined as Athens ever heard."
SVBJECT :—Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The ad-
vent of the passions. Chastity and its infringement. The casualties
oflicentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narra-
tive, and remediative. Advocacy of early marriages.

THE MARRIAGE STATE.
To be or not to be, thatis the question."
Plooassfstx:—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and reli-
gion regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and
choice, on both sides, as to age temperament, complexion, and
figure, to secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them.
Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion.
Cases,

By—R.J. CULVERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A.
(1824), Twenty-five years Medical and Forensic Referee in there
matters.

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The Chief Baron Pollock then said to the jury—Be-
fore your verdict is recorded, I will say a word or two,
which I am disposed to do in this case in consequence
of the sort of interlocutory matter which passed between
me and the learned counsel, or rather that sort of inter-
rupted statement which arose from the learned counsel
continuing to press upon the judge and jury those
topics which he thinks the interests of public justice
required him to urge. I intend to state distinctly
the grounds on which it appears to me that that which
the learned counsel opened to you cannot be made a
crime. It is very true, as is stated, that one of these
defendants is the chairman of the board in London, and
the other of them, as is said, is the superintendent of
the traffic department in London ; but when these gen-
tlemen are remote, as we may call it, from the scene of
their usual seat of business, that is, from London, I
think it is a great deal too much to make it a matter
either of presumption—certainly it is not legal presump-
tion (I think it ought to be proved from evidence) of
any negligence on their part that this accident occurred ;
and I think if they, at Guildford, 20 or 30 miles from
London, ordered a special train, they were just as little
responsible as any entire stranger. It appears to me to
be hardly justice to expect that the chairman, because
he is chairman, and the superintendent of the traffic (if
the other defendant is so), should be personally ac-
quainted with the starting of every train—with the
times at which they stop at this place, and where it
stops, and with all the details of the railway, from one
end fit to the other. If these gentlemen could be made
responsible, on this sort of evidence, for an accident
which occurred between Guildford and Ash, or where-
ever the place was, the persons connected with a rail-
way to Edinburgh, or persons connected with an entire
system of travelling from London to Paris, or from Lon-
don to much more remote places—if the extension of
railways should open conveniences to more distant parts
of the globe in one journey—would be also responsible.
How monstrous it would be to make a man, because he
is the chairman of a board in London, responsible for
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any accident that may happen at Edinburgh, or it were
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such acci-
dent happening some hundred miles off on the other
side of the Channel ! A man who orders a special train
at a particular station expects that he is there merely as
a passenger, expects those whose duty it is to take care
that the traffic is there safely carried on ; and that due
attention be paid to the manner in which arrangements
are made for the starting and the safe travelling of the
special train—these are matters which are conducted
by the men of business ; and, as I understood from the
counsel, there is no mode of bringing home to either of
these gentlemen any personal knowledge upon the sub-
ject of any individual carelessness. But the argument
seems to be this—because you, as the chairman, be-