The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-22 00:00:00

A RAILWAY COMPANY'S COMPLAINT.

The Directors of the London, Brighton, and South
Coast Railway draw attention in their report to what
they consider the hardship of the present law on.
Railway Companies. Referring to the New Cross acci-
dent they say it widely differs from those which
may be attributed to want of reasonable precaution
on the part of the management. Human agency is
not infallible, and in the complicated working of an
extensive railway a certain percentage of mistakes will
occur with the best selected men. The directors
complain that under the present law a class of men
have grown up who make a trade of railway
accidents, initiate and foster expensive litigations,
and too often intercept from the sufferers a large part
of the compensation which may be awarded.- They
argue that under the existing law the temptation held
out to fraud and imposition becomes irresistible.
Whether these complaints are justified or not may be
a matter of opinion. That, having already paid
£45,000 on account of the New Cross accident, the
directors speak feelingly on the subject; there can be
little doubt.

• VAGUANCY AND PAUPERISM,
Mr. W. Valiance, clerk to the Whitechapel Union,
has presented to the Board of Guardians an interest•
ing report on the vagrancy and pauperism of White-
chapel, which throws much light on the operation of
the Rouseless Poor Act, and. goes to show
how that Act has tended to increase per-
manently the pauperism of that particular
union, and by the same inference that of
the whole metropolis. Mr. Valiance begins with,
the fact that on the 26th of December 1869,
there were, in the union workhouse to which
he refers, 1,013 paupers. He enumerates
at length the different circumstances under
which they were admitted, proving that there is at
present a great army of moving paupers constantly,
migrating from one house of refuge or workhouse to
another. The fact of there being 188 nightly lodging-,
houses for vagrants in that Union alone, making up
no less than 6,337 beds, accounts for the large
recruiting now going on in the permanent pauper'
ranks. To remedy this, the writer of the report'
suggests that some recognised official should have
power to make " raids " upon the various casual wards
of the metropolis, and give tickets of exemption from
the morning " task of work " to bond fide
wayfarers, proceeding to some fixed place of
destination ; to order to the workhouse those'
whom the magistrates might have power to remove
to a place of legal settlement, or the last ascertained
place of abode ; and to give into custody of the
police those whose repeated applications in the same
district rendered them liable to the charge of
habitual vagrants. " Were the casual wards,' says
Mr. Valiance, " liable to such supervision; it would,
I respectfully submit, lead to a speedy disorganisation'
and disbandment of what may be reallysregarded as;
the great recruiting force of greater paupx;
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