The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-21 00:00:00

EVENING ED i ON

S PHUT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

(FROH THE EVENING PAYERS OF YESTERDAY.)
(From the Globe.)
The passages in Mr. Milner Gibson's speech of last
week at Manchester, which refer to the extension of
the suffrage for Members of Parliament, suggest one or
two paints for reflection, which we may take up as
I:isure occurs. " I defy any man," says Mr. Gibson,
4• to argue in the abstract upon the subject without
being landed on universal suffrage. There is nothing
whatever on earth so difficult as to draw the line which
is to separate the qualified from the unqualified." We
do not exactly know what the able orator means by
arguing in the abstract upon a question which is not an
abstract one. Abstract elector% and abstract mem-
bers, of a British Parliament, --are to us as difficult of
conception as Crambee abstract 'Lord Mayor. It
may be said their political relatious may be matters
of abstract consideration. But we say, 110—We
fiud
an actual, not an abstract state, in ex-,stencE.. ; and we
should as soon think of arguing abstractedly what was
the best superstructure to place upon gig en foundations,
as what was the best suffrage for a given empire. Nor
is it with us simply a question between qualified and
unqualified individuals—the question is, what public
etiinery will work the intended public
.ends It
is obvious that a question of suffrage must be widely
varied in its ingredients by the functions of the ai-
sembly which the suffrage is destined to constitute.
Tae argument for universal suffrage for a town couneil,
or vestry, stands on a very different fentiee from that
tor a chamber of national legislature. When the doe.-
tritte of self-government is laid down as a rule without
cxeeption, we must a-k whether self-government means
ae government of self-will at the moment, or govern-
- -

by what is recognised ultimately as the will of
t ? Men are always tempted to seek to make
:rill of the moment absolute, and prevalent over
the; Will of others, to ire diitant or less combined. 'rtic
q t.' ion then is, whether witat is called sell:g,,vernisseirt,
it eirried into fail operation by popular suffrage, can
peovide any security for the prevalence of the collective
wilt of all those who are capable of forming a real
.tonion, ter far klki for the. Ultimate will, which results
froqx r‘.4l,ction experiTnee. IF ail that is meant by
self-government is the emancipation of se.f-wiit, in the
plpulAr trilss,s, from feeling any restraint ~1•ove them,
wo can well unbrstand how that result may be effected ;
but we do at undz!rstAnd how the ends of Government
t;,,n be provided for afterwards.
(From Cie Standard.)
We have copied ferns the Times of this morning a
very able article upon the subject of open questi.ons,
l'eply to the ,11;rning tiiro,licle's defence of such
Wa have no disposition to enter upon
tcvo contrerersialists, or

th ground tal:cn up by

to enetiniber the Time; wiih our usistance. - It occars,
ho Toyer, to us, trait Coe present crisis eifsril 3 a re-
nvi-keble and a useful test as to the safety of open
Tn: country is thrc •tened wth war
one sseion of the. Cobinst, it is known, desires
to rasiesnin the natioeal iettoests and honour, and
on nets with good re Igen upon the support
ut the Censervai.ive opposition for support in doing
s ; another sectiun- of the Cabiect t) be-
tray the nitionAl interests and honour, and re-
Flea for aid upon nearly lice ililvile of Ant party
i 3 usually Is the qaestion
of peace or war, then, to be an open gess-
tio.s? Are we to hive a Secretary at War coining
(la ani to mave the army estimates in a epeech drioune-
ing as Weals and criminal the purposes for which those
estimates are respired ? -Tnia we certainly shall have if .
there be war, cad if Mr. Mac ‘ailay remain Secretary at
War. for lie is one of the net-English traitor section in the
Cabinet. Every one can see the absurdity of open
questions in such a cite, but what is the difFerence
between an open question of peace or war, and nn
open question upon any other mater of . primary
interest ? It has been suasgested by some wise
insn that the executive ought not to inteioere in legis-
li!lon otberwie than by a negative on what seems
impolitic. Whether this suggestion be good or bad,
—and much may be said jr, if not against it—the
practicedifferent ; the executive dees take part in
is •
debates upon !- matters of primary interest, and
taking part in any such deba:cs, it is clearly bound to
take part in all, for the business of a Government is
not to he done piecemeal. Well, then, the Government
tokcs one part and its members take another part. We
can see the folly and absurdity of this when it concerns
v ar, because then we have the opponent, whom the de-
fection of the members of the Government aids and
cecourage.s, distinctly marked out ; but is not the folly
and absurdity just the same in domestic questions, though
the opponent, aided and encouraged, is not so obvious as
a foreign enemy ? Is not the aid and encouragement just
the same ? Upon the other question ra sed between our
Contemporaries—the possibility of a Conservative Ad-
Ministration mainta'ning its position—the crisis also
gives,3olllVe light ; we see by that light very clearly that
htt Conservative party can m ,intain its position in offiee,
and that no other can, for the Conservative party is the
only party in the country either willing or able to main-
tain the national interests and honour.
(From the Courier.)
By the extraordinary expresses of the morning pa-
pers the news for some time past bruited in the Paris
papers conies confirmed, that the Queen-Regent of
Spain has abdicated her high functions by a manifesto
issued on the 12th instant at Valencia. The result
is, that the new Ministry, of'. which General
Espartero is the presiding, but nominal chief, only
remains provisionally charged with the Regency until
the convocation of a new Cortes. A second Royal
abdication within one month would, in ordinary.
times, (Ache curiosity and attention, but present
circumstances invest it with a more extraordinary irate-
rest, as it can hardly fail gravely to complicate 3611
more the actual involved state of political relations with •
France, for, on the Spanish as on the Eastern question,
we tied Lord Palmerston and M. 'niers again in presence,
and each, as before, with sympathies and policy repul-
, iee, if not hostile, to the other. As a matter not
,ble only, but one on which conclusion may already
have cents t iken in Paris, the Syrian intervention of the
British may be reciprocated and answered by the Span-
ish intervention of the French Minister, and we may ex-
pect to find the former in the curious dilemma or pro-
testing against the application of the very principle of
interference in the one case, which he was the first to
sanction and the most vigoroas to act upon in the
other. Far the position of Maria Christina in Spain
is the counterpait of that of the Sultan in Syria ; the
one is virtually deposed from legitimate authority by
relractory generals and subjects, as the other by rebelli-
ous vassals and Pacbas ; and the Duque de la Victoria
in Spain enacts the same role as Mehemet Ali in
Erypr. Should French armies march •to restore
rightful rule of a Queen-Regent, what must be the
coninsion of Lord Palmerston, when to his remon-
strances against their forcible entry into Madrid, M.
Thiess, or any other French Minister, shall coolly
reply by producing a Gazette Extraordinary of the
hlno)ardment of Beyrout. The compulsory abdication
of Maria Christina is therefore in the catalogue of facts
accomplished. She reigns no longer even in dumb show,
far since fhe fall of Zea Bermudez she has never ruled. Of
the prestige of sovereignty she was ravished at La Granja,
end of the pretence she has been despoiled at Valencia.
Mob and military law in the vulgar pe-son of Sergeant
G irvia performed the first achievement ; law, popular
and military, personified somewhat more decently in
the garb of the Madrid Junta and conquering Eipar-
tcre, perpetrated the second.

CII;S!.1013S.

MODERN EMBROIDERY.—The style of modern
embroidery, now so fashionable, from the Berlin patterns,
(fates f orn the commencement of the present century.
AOent the year 1804-5, a printseller in Berlin. named
Pnilipson, published the first coloured design, on checked
pater, fur needlework. In 1810, Midame Wittich, who,
being a very accomplished embroideress, perceived
tho great extension of which this branch of trade
was _ caoahle, induced her husband, a book and
prititseller of lledin, to engage in it with spirit. From that
periet4 i he trade has gone on rapidly increasing, though within
the las s 1 years the progression has b2en infinitely mot e raidd
th,tn it ba I previously been,owing to the number of new pub-
lt,hers who hive engaged io, the trade. By leading busts
lq, to th 3 commencement of the year 1840, there have be, t)
no I,•its than 14,000 copper-plate desigas published.--- The
Art
.., ffcl,NE7Pema:rfeEw
sotak,Rby (;ie Countess of Irt/ton
ease with which 11,..,.
lAIN IN CIRCASSIA.--From the
sa alighted from his sac Ale, as well as
too change in -
carse wrapp„ of 1 :he cress' •hew consisting of the
chflicolty i‘s
n.,,n.:,:n Ircaistan warrior, we bad some
winterF, 1 ,dar ozlii.' '
vgTh our friend of a hiindred
a;
irx,rni en wa had last seen him, he
pcarA to 1).1
man, comfortably clad,
end surrounded hy !)id
that had supervened `sitseeranipdr s. o
But the stirring times
have revived the energies
of his youth. On the
mounted his
the Russians, he b,ad
fling aside his staff,
retainers.—Lon
_ Is horse, and taken the
field at the head of hi 3 atners.—Longworth's Year
au: ony nes Circassians„
\Wiliam Addams Williams, V
;Indl.ll3li.sis i•Nlarres:
'..;" ! un.,, Mr. Willi= Addams Willi'asr;ll;l
for Llangibby-
lizi,.: V...lliams, have arr;ved at the Royal' thtel, Clielen
barn, from nyde, Isle of Wight, en route
Cast!e, M,,n near hsa ire.
CO.':IM 1 T TA I. OF it. PEA RSE.—c, Mondav
an aceou.,t wiz; given in 7'ile Sun of the murderous a`_
tempt or Mr. Pearat-, a surgeon at Kensington, on the life
of ia ..rif..., while at dinner, on F, iday last. Yesterday
ti,,• iriforunite man was placed at the bee before the
K •ru,ington M Igi3trate;, when a long investigation took
Plate, but no new facts were elicited. Mr. C. Phillips
" erg,ged for the prosecution and Mr. Clarkson fur the
dt,f-tic,.. - Mr. Rose. a surgeon, who was at table
'''''' Mr. and Mrs. Pearse, at the time, was the prin-
e'Ld witness. A servant girl also was examined,
and stated that shortly after the pistol had been fired,
.;l c found a bullet on the carpet in the dining-room.
;.:P.PeAred from the evidence of the surgeon who attended
5 vap
i n :7.lfaet, that the wound was very slight, but as she
to ea!l ht.,.
ax of greet excitement, it would Le inexpedient
a'!l the evideneiewiteess. The Magirrat ts after hearing
I h
tie commit ted ,Nlronsulted together for some time, when
hi2Pearse to Newgate, attempt to murder for the felonious
app,,./r earl cave rvid,_"ife. and bound over Mr. Rose to
in • hi., ~, ~ • , f ' 5‘ v ult at. the Centrs' Cr urinal Cour:,
heavy bon: ov,:s required',.--- 'a, ''
t '-' '..
431%
1 112.'
'
his intenticr, t 4 prcceeei as
-.r. Ruse had stated it wris
pearse ill the afterpon.,
___
conveyed
few days to Egypt. Me.
v" "I 4 in a fly to Newgate. 1

THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE
SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY.

INQUEST ON THE BODY.
(Continued from our First Edition of yesterday.)
Mr. John James Leech—l am a surgeon, Lying at
Vauxhall. On Saturday evening last about six o'clock,
I was requested to attend at the South Western Rail-
way station in consequence of an accident. Immediately
on my arrival my attention was directed to the de-
ceased. It was stated to me that one train had gone
upon another. There was another medical man exa-
mining deceased in the ladies' waiting room when I ar-
rived, and he said that she was dead. She was then
removed into another room. I examined her, and as-
certained that she was dead. I assisted Mr. Andrews,
the ether medical man, is opening the jugular vein,
and about four ounces of blood flowed ; no ef-
fect was produced by it. Blood was at that
time flowing from the ears, which led us to infer there
was an injury at the base of the brain which was the
anise of death. That flow of blood must have been oc-
cesionei by some blood-vessel having given way. There
was no apparent external violence, nor was there any
apparent injury of the body. The flow of blood proved
that there was a fracture of the basis of the skull, which
would be produced by any percussion. Blood would not
have flowed from the ears in consequence of any
rep. ure of a vessel in the brain, unless such rupture had
been the consequence of a violent blow or fall.
William llosgood—l am a porter in the employ of
the South Western Railway Company. I live at 2,
Lark-hall-lane, in the parish of Lambeth. I was at
my eznpleyment at the station on Saturday last, at
about ten minutes before six. About that time the
train arrived. I was then on the platfcrm. It was
the quarter past five mixed train, which arrived about
that time. It should have arrived at a quarter past
five. It left Southampton at half-past one. It was
called the halt-past oue Southampton train. It was
behind time 16 minutes. Ti:,2 train was stopped when
I ran up, after seeing the passenge7s come out. This
was after the accident. I had not noticed the
train bef ire, and cannot tell whether it was stopetel
or not. I saw the passengers coming out, and
ran up to see what was the matter. This was not at
the usual place of getting out. The train was not then
on ler the covered way. That was the reason why I
ran. There wag nothing the matter with the first car-
ricqes that I saw. I went to the last one. There was
no noise nor anything to attract my attention, except
seeing the passengers getting out. In the last
carriege the first thing I saw was the fern de,
whoa: lip is cut, lying bleeding. There was
another female, and a man else, hi the seam
carriage. The deceased was down with her face lying
no the other scat, mid her legs under the scat on which
she had been sitting. She did not appear sensible, nor
dal she move. Tne other female was assisted cut. I
got into the carriage where the deceased was lying, and
lifted her up. Mr. Dunn, who was vending on the
steps, asked me if I was the Company's servant? I sail
yes, and he said lay hold here, and as soon as I
had got hold of the deceased, he left me. I
considered she was dead when I lilted her up.
With - assistance, I took her into the waiting-
room. The moment I hid her clown a medical gentle-
man came forward and examined her, and pronounced
her dead. Her bonnet was thrown back when I lifted
her up ; I cannot say if it was ereshed. Blood was
coming from her mouth and cars at the time. I did not
see any cut or injury about her ; I could not perceive
• any bruise. On my oath I did not bear any noise prier
eto seeing the passengers running. I was about 2ao yards
from the train. 1 did not beer any noise as of a
collision between two trains. There was no appearance
of a blow on the body of the deceased, and I cannot
tell what occasioned the flow of blood from the ears
and mouth. From the information I have received, it
is my opinion that her death was occasioned by ono train
running against another. I did not particularly look at
the carriage in which the female was found, but it did
not appear to me to be injured. Tae inside was not
• injured. Ido noteknow where the carriage now is.
Alexander Tweedie, M.D., of 13, Montague-place,
Bedford-square. I got into the half-past one o'clock
Southampton train, at the Walston station, on Satur-
day last, about five o'clock. The train had been ex-
pected three-quarters of an hour. It should have are.
rived at Walton a quarter after four. The train was a
very long one. I got into the last of the first elan
carriages ; we started with two engines. I understand
it was what is termed a mixed train. We reached the
station at Nina E'ms after stopping at the intermediate
stations. I think we arrived a few minutes after six.
The train ia which I was had stopped, as I believe.
Up to that time nothing had occurred relating to this
investigation. I heard distinctly another train coming
up. -I have frequently travelled by the South Western
Railway. The place where we stopped seemed scarcely
33 far as the usual place of stopping. It was not so far
as the platform, which is, I believe, the usual place of
landing. I suspect that at that time the engines which
had brought us up were detached. We had been
there only a few seconds before I thought I
heard the sound of another train coining up. Almost
immediately afterwards there was a severe concussion
or collision, which appeared as if some powerful body
had run against the back of the carriages and propelled
them forward. I was thrown forward by the concus-

sion, and struck against the forehead of the gentlem.►n

. .., _
opposite. I was stunned ; I soon recovered, and
finding the carriage at re,;t, and hearing loud
shrieks, I stepped out. On proceeding a fev
paces torivard my attention MIS arrested by the

shrieks of a lady, stating that she was severely wounded.
She was bleeding profusely from the face. The glass of
the post carriage in which she W. 13 sitting was shivered.
I got some of the attendants to assist her out and c Irry
her to the waiting-room. Immediately after several
other persons were brought into the waiting-room ;
among them the deceased. I assisted in the examination
of the deceased. She was dead. There wits blood about

the face. I requested she might be removed from the
room, as many of those present were alarmed. I had
not, to my knowledge, seen her before on that day.
I did not go afterwards to see what had occasioned the
collision, nor of my own knowledge do I know.
Cross-examined by Mr. Burcham, the solicitor to
the Company—l am the author of the letter signed
Verax," in the Tinies of Monday. The pestacript is
also my writing. I saw at least a dozen other persons
wounded in the waiting-room. No one can tell what
may be the result. I think it likely that some of tbo
persons injured may have inflammation of the brain. I
have not seen the carriages this morning.
Mr. Burcham said that the carriages had been care-
fully preserved in the state in which they were at the
time of the accident, and that the servants of the Com-
piny would show them to any person desirous of
seeing them.
David ickland—l am in the employ of the South

Western Railway Company, as engine driver. I was so on
Saturday last. I left London at eight in the morning, and
returned again from Southampton on that day, as the
diver of the engine called the Crescent. The train
was a mixed train. We arrived at Southampton about
a quarter before one, and left again about thirty-four
minutes after one. We were coming to the Nine
Elms station ; I had the conducting of the same en-
gine, the " Crescent." There were fourteen carriages
attached from Southampton. The usual time of start-
ing was half-past one. We bad only one engine on
kav►ng Southampton. We took on tour fresh car-
riages at the Andover-road station, and one at Basing.
stoke. I had passengers. I received no addi-
tional carriages, until I got to Woking-common.
There were one or two more put on then, but I cannot
tell exactly. We took on a fresh engine at Winchfielil.
It was the Woking-common Pilot, and as I was behind
my time it came to sack me. It was placed before me.
It left at Farnborough, joined me again at Woking-corn-

mon, and assisted m(7 up to Nine-elms. I did not rceeive

any additional carriages after I left Woking-common. I
stopped at every station. I arrived at the terminus
at about fily-two minutes after five o'clock, but
I did not look at any cock. Nothing h ippened
either to me or to the train up to the time
of our arrival at the terminus. The train was stoppfd
at the usual place. We stopped fifteen or twenty
'birds before we came to the Bell. I cannot say to a
yard or two, but I should say ten or fifteen yard 3 be-
llied the point. It was the usual place, or within a
yard or two of it. We have to stop before we come
to th. points. The points are to enable the engines to
go cff one line on to the other, when detached from
the carriages which are pushed forward under
the covere4 way. I detached my engine
from the carriages on their arrival. , I am
sure it was detached. I was in the engine next
the carriages. I was in the act of drawing at the time
the accident occurred. I had just got. the tad rope
tight. I cannot say whether I had cleared the points
at the time the accident happened. There is a person
whose duty it is to attend to the tail rope, and to give
an order to go on when all is right. AtThr the engine
was detached I received an order to go on. I did so,
and just as the rope was got tight the carriages were
struck behind. The object of the tail rop is to
"'lo'w the engine to get out of the way, so that the
...tr._"..:ges may pass wider the shed. I cannot tell
erae,,isni,eiteerte. In
„tar: driiggoe boenl:3tilieino,th other line, sufficiently
u he carriages to pass me or not. The co.l;sion
was not severo against the engine ; there were about
anr,ott
ig6,,
aa i
,t. to
myse etsatai,Chadreasioned the collision. I did
i ,to
my
en,ri . .s, to the train at the time.
when I. felt I was struck. I did
ceainst tae until I was told, "t
know
not expect that we were i'allot Lad coma
ineTine-drircr of the
other train to!il
did not see 113, and did
there, and had no knowledge
iasetieahr
for
ilhhe
but that the r-oardlewants'i
LT: is John Wilford. His
20 minutes after.
train is what is called then This was about
rive was about six o'clock. 1
atrain. His time to ar-
rive
before or after his time ort:atinir sure saliethi7r he
believed it was not much either one
s occasion, but he
It was very dark. at the time. I cou7daYn or the other.
tti, read—not more perhaps thin. 100 °..,trsr far on
f :..,., ;. „. a :?::'. givers was a liiik i.eg-0.1..-,:.''"'7ePt
~,.
d :1..;,Z. :•. o,.2iVoti 2.7:).• n eves at taiy ..! :
5t.4:0..5. There were no ligi.ts pa'' out at
Kingston, Merton, or Wandsworth. Theta were
lio i