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LONDON:
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1840.

The contest for the High Stewardship of Cam-
bridge is decided in favour of Lord LYNDHURST.
The old hypocrisy, therefore, maintains its ground
against the new hypocrisy. We are no followers
or favourers of Lord LYNDHURST, but our aver-
sion to him could not make us tolerate his compe-
titor. Lord LYTTELTON'S only claim to support,
besides his school-boy tasks, was his out-and-out
defence of the Church. Drilled by the priesthood,
'he signalised his entrance into political life by re-
sisting an attempt to reform the most corrupt, base,
and hypocritical institution that ever existed. The
Church of England surpasses the Papacy in hy-
pocrisy. The latter has something frank in its fe-
rocious arrogance, and dooms man, as of right, to
damnation ; while the former denies the power,
which, with sneaking meanness, it seeks neverthe-
less to exercise. There is some sincerity and some
consistency in the conduct of the Papacy. It has
continued in uninterrupted possession of the so-
denominated Apostolical succession ; but our priest-
hood have broken away from the succession, re-
nounced its authority, and yet, merely for the sake
of keeping some of the wealth and power which be-
longed to Rome, claim all its presumed advantages.
The Church of Rome does, as far as is consist-
ent with its tenets, and as far as its light shines,
show to its people the path to everlasting life ; but
the Church of England has grossly and scandal-
ously neglected its duty towards the people over
whom it has claimed dominion, and whom it has
plundered. Now,the only merit of Lord LYTTELTON,
and the only ground on which he was put up for
Cambridge, was his championship of the Church. He
belongs to that fanatical class of young nobles and
gentlemen of whom Lord STANLEY and Mr.
GLADSTONE are two of the chiefs, who are as ar-
rogant, but more cunning, than the priesthood ; and
who, because they unite worldly wisdom with
priestly audacity, are more to be dreaded than the
kindred tribe of IVPGH EES, O'SuLLlvArts, and
STowELLs. On this account, though some of our
Liberal Contemporaries, from a just aversion to
Lord LYNDHURST, supported the candidate of the
" holiest of all" men, we could give him no approba-
tion, and we are glad he is not elected. The lesser
hypocrisy of the two has succeeded, and the fana-
tics, though aided by some Liberals, have been
defeated. For the ready and mere tools of the
priesthood, particularly when found in high places,
no contempt can ba too great, and we shall always
rejoice at their disasters.

Our Paper contains the account of two lament-
able railway accidents, one at the Harrow station,
on the Birmingham and London Railway ; and one
at Milford, on the York and North Midland Rail-
way. Both accidents, by which four persons have
lost their lives, and several have been wounded and
maimed, seem to us the results of want of reason-
able precaution, not to say of gross neglect.
We pointed out, some time ago, the great supe-
riority of railways, in consequence of
.every part of
them being the invention of man, and completely
under his control. We then observed that a nail
ought not to be misplaced or loose, without some-
body being accountable for it ; and we insisted on
the necessity of jurors holding the Directors re-
sponsible for every accident. Differing as we do
from those who would at once, prior to experience,
encumber the management of railways with many
useless or noxious regulations, we are bound to en-
force these views, and point out, if we can, the
source of the accidents, and by what means they
might have been avoided.

The accident on the Birmingham Railway was
primarily caused by the breaking down of one of
the waggons of an upward train, about one and
three-quarters of a mile on this side Harrow. The
breaking down of that waggon must have been
caused either by overloading it or by the waggon
1 being worn out or being damaged, and not in a
proper condition. Into that circumstance the
iCoroner's Jury, not satisfied with any inquiry into
the immediate cause of the accident, ought to in-
stitute a rigid investigation, and ascertain, if pos-
sible, by whose carelessness or negligence the car-
riage broke down.
The accident was immediately caused by an en-
at the Harrow station, an unusual
gine wailing
occurrence, when the second train with merchan-