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UNIFORMITY OF GAUGE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—As a resident in the West of England, which
owes its escape from the isolated and inactive state in
which it has hitherto existed to the establishment of the
railway system, Ido hope that as soon as the public in-
terest has been exhausted in reference to Indian con-
quests, American ambition Polish revolutions, and pro-
tectionist struggles, you will find a little time and space
to devote to the Gauge Commissioners' report, which
involves a question of no small importance to those who
employ railways as a means of subsistence, and not
merely for pleasure.
The Gauge Commission have reported that for the
general purposes of the kingdom the narrow gauge
is decidedly superior to Mr. Bruners broad gauge.
This recommendation has made the Great Western
people very angry, and they have vented their anger
in some personal attacks on the Commissioners in
the columns of a Morning cotemporary. With these at-
tacks I have nothing to do ; but, as one of the travelling
public. I wish to show, from my own experience, as well
as by a few extracts from the evidence given before the.
Gauge Commissioners, that great practical benefit in
saving of time and money, in low fares, and punctual
delivery of goods at low charges, would arise from the
enforcement of a uniform narrow gauge throughout Eng-
land and Scotland. Unnecessary expenses incurred either
in the construction or the maintenance of railways, unne-
cessarily wide bridges, tunnels unnecessarily lofty,
carriages unnecessarily hettLy
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porterl in extraofdriia.ry numbers, in consequence of un-
necessary labour, must be paid for by the parties using
these railroads. Such expenses, like taxes, adjust them
how you will, must always fall on the consumer.
The broad-gauge rail way, which at present only includes
the Great Western and its branches, does cost a great
deal more money to make and maintain in working order,
and does require a larger army of porters than a narrow
gauge line, even when it does not come in contact with
one.
The question then very naturally arises, what return
is there for all this expense? On 1,900 miles of rail
way, running through all kinds of country, steep de-
clivities, sharp curves, and other engineering difficulties,
the locomotive business of the country is done with
constantly increasing economy, swiftness, and punc-
tuality.
On 270 miles of broad gauge we have a gauge which
will bring to a dead stop any narrow gauge that may
run into it, indifferent accommodation to third-class
passengers (until public indignation was aroused),
wretched accommodation for second-class passengers,
the highest charges in the kingdom for both passengers
and merchandise, and, as a compensation, two express
trains a day, at an unlimited speed.
By turning back to the journals of the years 1835.36,
when Mr. Brunel's project for a seven-feet gauge came
before the public, I find that he then believed
that the country would be divided into railway districts,
each of which would adopt a gauge suitable to its lo-
cality. Where, as in mineral districts, many sharp
curves were inevitable, there a narrow gauge would be
adopted; where, as on the road between London and
Bristol, the curves were unusually fist, a broad gauge.
He anticipated no difficulty or injury to commerce from
the diversity of gauge. On the Great Western Rail-
way he expected, by the size of his locomotives, to ob-
tain extraordinary size and power, and to supply the
wants of the public by one or two monster trains daily.
With the exception of extraordinary speed,' all these
anticipations have been falsified. Up to fifty miles an
hour, the 4 feet 8k inches, and the 7 feet gauge, are
undisputedly equal ; exceeding that rate of speed, the
Great Western, on account of its favourable gradients
one party, contends, and another contends on account of
its gauge, has an advantage. But so far from the
public being content with one or two monster trains
a day, the Great Western Company are compelled to
send heavy passenger-trains half empty; and, as each
broad-gauge first-class carriage weighs about nine tons,
while a narrow-gauge only weighs about four tons, every
carriage, not half filled, involves an unprofitable weight
of at least four tons. The average number of
passengers carried by the Great Western Railway is 47
and a fraction, and the average weight of the train is 67
tons, comprising seven carriages. Seven narrow-gauge
carriages, of the best construction, would convey 126
passengers with their luggage, and only weigh about 46
tons.

You will see, therefore, that, as a commercial resident
in the west of England, I have good reason to be dissa-
tisfied, when travelling upon the only communication
with London and the manufacturing counties, at finding
that I am paying not only the cost of my conveyance,-
and the profit on that conveyance, fairly due to the rail-
way proprietors, but also a 47th part of the cost of con-
veying thirty to forty tons of dead weight in empty car-
riages.

Then, with respect to the trucks of the goods' trains
the case is even worse. They weigh about nine tons
each, and are so large that it is impossible to fill them
without waiting too'long for the patience of customers,
so that they are sent on half ,and even a quarter filled ;
of course the carriage of the heavy truck must be added
to the charge for the goods. And all this is a sacrifice
we western folks are constantly called upon to make
to the magnificent genius of Brunel.
Really, there was a good deal of truth in the obser-
vation of the traveller, " That the farther he went to
the west, the more convineed be became that the Wise
Men came out of the east."
Then, again, although the great gaugeites assure us
that a contact between the wide gauge and the narrow
gauge is no sort of inconvenience, they seem anxious to
obtain uniformity wherever they can ; for, abandoning
the idea of fitting gauges to districts, the road
to Gloucester, with sharp curves, is fitted with
the broad gauge ; and they propose to adept the same
gauge in all the Great they
projects, so that the
thinly peopled districts of South Wales, North Wilts,
Somerset, North Devon, and Cornwall, are to be sap-
plied a ith the monster carriages and goods-trucks, which
are found twice too large even for the large traffic be-
tween London and Bristol. The question of curves is
avoided as much as possible in the Cornwall and South
Wales lines by closely hugging the coast I
It would he cheaper to vote the Queen a million for a.
new palace, and present Prince Albert with an ad
(litional regiment to practice army tailoring upon, than
to permit the Great Westernites to pursue their costly
schemes for drawing empty carriages at the expense of
the travelling public.
However, in spite of this forced extension of the
broad gauge, in order to produce uniformity, if half the
contemplated railway .Bills are carried out, the two
gauges will meet in mere than twenty places.
I need not theorise upon the result of such a playing
at cross purposes. Unfortunately for ill-fated, indolent,
apathetic-Bristol, which when not asleen seems always to
awake to execute some gigantic folly, a broad gauge
railway, or a Great Britain steamer—unfortunately I
say for Bristol, a break of gauge occurs at Gloucester,
creating a dead halt in the transit between the Northern
and Midland manufactories, and what ought to be their
port. It is in vain that a large army of porters is kept
up, and all sorts of ingenious and costly cranes and con-
trivances established, (all maintained at the cost of the
goods' carrier), delay is inevitable. Let any one, as I
have done, take his stand at the Gloucester sta-
tion, and see the process of unloading and re-
loading a goods' train, consisting of horses, fat cattle,
pigs and sheep, tin-plates, iron and timber, baskets
of fish and poultry, and miscellaneous small parcels.
He will see the small/parcels moved by hand, the heavy
goods by mechanical means, and the live stock by a
union of every sort of means that can be imagined.
The change in a train of ordinary size cannot be effect-
ed under from four to twelve hours. It will sometimes
that so
take hours r
such
hctio ovremumsetaonnceezeisstiitve ox.
extraordinary
little communication exists between Bristol and Leeds,
dAifsatnrchictessttoer,i,
,Bhiierhminitgmhaigm, ht,tahne Paaodtvtearnietasg,
eaond uslya,lltrathdoese?
Neither 60 nor 70 miles an hour can compensate for
such a tax, and such an interruption to trade as the
break of gauge.
I think I have said enough to show that this gauge
question is well worth the serious attention of the mer-
cantile community.
Free trade is now all the fashion. If the home trade of
England is to enjoy the same advantages as the foreign
trade, we must have no more crochetty breaks of broad
gauge, which is as• severe a tax on our internal corn
merce as any French or American tariff on our foreign
exports. I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
A WESTERN MAN.

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ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE,
_HOME CIRCUIT.—Lewes, March 17.
The commission for the county of Sussex was opened
on Monday at this place. The business is rather
heavier than usual at these assizes, there being fifty-fire
persons for trial, many of whom are charged with the
most serious offences, and fifteen causes are entered on
the civil side, five of which are special jury cases. Lord
Chief Justice Denman commenced the business of
the assiz3 this morning' in the Crown Court, and Mr.
Baron Alderson at Nisi Prius.
CRO W N COURT—(Before the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.)
IVilliam Benstead, 23, a young man of resp"ctable
appearance, and formerly a clerk in the Post•ofce at
Chichester, was indicted for feloniously stealing a gold
watch, the property of her Majesty's Postmaster-
General.

Mr. Russell Gurney, with Mr. Clarkson, conducted
the prosecution, and Mr. Johnson defended the prisoner.
It appeared from the testimony adduced that, in the
beginning of last December, a watchmaker, at York,
named Bell, sent the watch in question, which was a
flat gold one, enclosed in a letter, to a person named
Apted, in the service of the Duke of Richmond, at Good-
wood. The letter never arrived at its proper destina-
tion, and, on a representation being made upon the sub-
ject to the authorities of the Post-office, inquiries were
set on foot, which resulted in the apprehension of the
prisoner. It was then ascertained that almost immedi-
ately after the period when the letter, with the watch,
would in due course have arrived at Chichester, the
prisoner took the watch in question to a watchmaker,
and emplyed him to remove the hands from it and place
others upon it of a different description, at the same
time telling him not to say anything about it. When
the prisoner was taken into custody the watch was found
in his possession, and was now clearly identified.
Mr. JOHNSON, on behalf cf the prisoner, urged that,
as there was no proof of the letter having been seen in
possession, it was probabl,4 that the watch might
have fallen from it accidentally, and that he was nt,t
proved to be guilty of the most serious part of the
charge. :

The jury found the prisoner guilty of larceny, and
sentence was deferrA.

Mr. Baron ALDERSON disposed of several of the com-
mon jury causes, but none of the details were of any
intere,t.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT—York, March 17.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Air. Justice PArrEso:c.)
This Court has been engaged the whole of the day in the
trial of a special jury CAUSe, Rpm:, an issue out of Chancery
relating to a question of drainage. It is that of
_ _

DAWSON V. PAVER: AND ANOTHER.
Mr. Watson, Mr. Cowling, and Mr. Atherton, for the
plaintiff; ➢lr. Baines, Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, Mr. Tomlinson,
and Mr. H. Hill for the defendants.

The lands in question are situate in the neighbourhood of
Selbs, and the property of Mr. Dawson, whose mansion is
at osgaby. There is an immense mass of evidence in the
cause, which would not terminate to-day, and may probably
continue throughout to-morrow, if not into the next day.
CROWN SIDE.—( Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.)
John Atkinson, James Ella, and Christopher Wilson, were
charged, for that they, on the 9th of February last, at
Heworth, in the North Riding, did feloniously and bur-
gloriously break into and enter the dwelling-house of Win.
Witty, and steal therein five silver tea-spoons, one pair of
silver sugar-tongs, and one half-crown, his property.
Mr. Dearsiey conducted the prosecution, and the prisoners
were severally defended by Mr. Temple, Mr. Otter, and Mr.
Overend. _ _ _ _

It appeared from the evidence, that the prosecutor, who is
a farmer living in Stockton-lane, and his wife, are very old
people, having no other persons dwelling in their house than
a young man named George Vitty, their nephew, and their
grandchild, a little girl of abut eleven. The family retired
to rest at about ten at night, when all the doors ware safe.
But about midnight Mrs. Vitty heard a noise like knocking
against a wall, and the dog barked. All was still again after
some time, and the old lady again fell asleep. But at about
an hour and a half later, she was awoke by one of the pri-
soners approaching the bed in which she and her husband
lay. The prisoners all came into their room, and, the pro-
secutor having raised himself in bed, one of them, having a
gun in his hand, belonging to Mr. Vitty, which the party
had found in the house, threatened to blow out his brains.
They afterwards when into the room of the nephew, and into
that of the little girl. No further violence appeared to have
been offered ; but they demanded the money of the family, and
searched their clothes for it, and ransacked drawers and other
places in the house.
Wilson set up an alibi in his defence.
The men were all found Guilty, and each sentenced to be
transported for fifteen years.
Mr. Knowles, Q.C., sat in the magistrates' room this morning
to try prisoners.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Stafford, March 18.
There are only about 60 prisoners !or trial, but many of
the offences charged are of a very grave description, as the
following analysis will show :

Murder 2, manslaughter 6, rape 8, unn•rtural 3, highway
robbery 18, cutting and wounding 5, burglary 3, bigamy 2,
horse• stealing 1, maliciously killing a horse 1, larceny 3,
malicious shooting 1, uttering 1, embezzlement 1, forgery 1,
assault with intent to ravish 1, concealment of birth 1, ab-
duction 1.

Mr.

George Dorrell, aged 33, was indicted for the manslaughter
of George Lowe, on the 16th of June, 1844, at Upper Arley.
The prisoner, who was stated to be in the last stage of con-
sumption, having been seated in the dock,
Mr. BEADON, as counsel for the Crown, stated the facts of
the case to the jury, which were briefly these :—The prisoner,
with several others, amongst whom was the deceased, were
drinking together at a public•house, when, as it seemed, in a
frolic (far all the witnesses agreed that there was no quarrel
or subsisting between the parties) Dorrell caught the
deceased by the collar, and threw him over his shoulder, ap•
parently intending that 'he should alight on his feet. his
strength,however,wasunfortunately insufficient for the purpose,
for the poor man fell upon the back of his neck, and sustained
an injury of the spinal vertebrae, inducing paralnis, and ulti-
mately causing his death. Dorrell assisted in placing him
in a chair, and brought a doctor, but afterwards absconded
into Scotland.

The jury having found the prisoner Guilty, with a recom-
mendation to mercy, his Lordship sentenced him to be im-
prisoned for oneweek.
Mr. Huddleston appeared for the defence.

WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Dorchester, March 17.
George Bowditch was indicted for killing and slaying John
Gale, at Bradpool, on the 13th of October.
Mr. C. Saunders was counsel for the prosecution, and Mr.
Slade defended the prisoner.
It appeared that there
.had been a fair iu the neighbour-
hood. The deceased and his wife were returning home from
the fair, and were standing talking opposite a beer-shop, at
Bradpool. The wife heard some horses coming along the
road at a furious pace. The deceased pushed his wife close to
the door, and turned off the pavement into the road, when
he was instantly struck down by a horse, which in conse-
quence fell and threw its rider. It was about half-past eight in
the evening, ard it was moonlight. The deceased had had
some drink, but he was not in liquor; he was quarrelling,
with his wife at the time, and was in such a dreadful state
of passion that he hardly knew what he was about. The
road'was only 15 feet wide. The deceased never spoke af-
terwards, anal died in .a few minutes. The prisoner was the
man who was riding the horse that knocked the deceased
down. The deceased went towards the horse, as if he in-
tended to catch the bridle.
Mr. SLADE, on behalf of the prisoner, urged upon the
jury that the horse had ran away, and that the matter alto-
gether was an accident ; and be was
riding with the prisoner at the time, and who stated
bolted,
they were riding very slowly, but the prisoner's horse
and the horse of the witness ran away also. They were
neither of them in liquor. called a witness whot
The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
Pierre Renard Mallet was indicted for the wilful murder
of John Mekew, at Netherbury, on the 6th of December.
Mr. Hodges was counsel for the prosecution, and Mr. Slade
for the prisoner.
The prisoner, although he had been for many years in
England, is a Frenchman ; he was therefore asked whe-
ther he would be tried by a jury of Englishmen, or a jury
consisting of half Englishmen and half foreigners. Ile at
once said, "By Englishmen."
It appeared that the prisoner was a kind of tramp, and
was always accompanied by a woman who passed as hiswife,
but went by the name of Kitty. They travelled through
and about Dorsetshire, and were well known. The woman
had lived with him for fourteen years. On the evening of the
6th of December they were at Palmer's public-house at West
Clifton, the woman became very much intoxicated, and the
prisoner was anxious to get her away, and took up almost
every person's cup of beer and drank out of it. The man and
the woman cursed each other, and he held up a stick at her
and threatened to beat her. The deceased was also in the
house, and he said to the woman, lam going to Bridport,
and I will see you. The woman said she had lived with the
prisoner fourteen years, but she was not his wife; that he
was jealous of every one, and she would not live with him
any longer. Some time was consumed in this jarring, and
at last the prisoner left. Soon after the woman went out,
and then the deceased. The prisoner had gone to see some
one, and had not proceeded in the direct road to Bridport;
but he afterwards overtook a man (Roper), and asked if he
had seen a man and woman on the road. Roper said he had
not seen them, but he could hear their voices at that mo-
ment, and directed the attention of the prisoner to that
circumstance. The prisoner then said, " I've got a stick in
my hand, and if I catch them at something (you know
what), I'll give withth a good beating." He had a good-
sized walking -stick him. Roper and the prisoner then
separated ; but in a few minutes Roper heard two persons
crying " Murder." They appeared to proceed from a man
and woman He instantly started to the spot whence the
sounds proceeded. He got into a field adjoining the turn-
pike-road, and looked over the hedge, saying, "Stop, they've
had enough." The prisoner was then beating a man, who
was on the ground. The man was holding up his arm
to prevent the blows striking his head. The man so striking
was the prisoner, who said, "D
----n your eyes, you're not half
a man fur me," and then he gave him a blow with his fist.
The woman at this time was staggering
about the road, curs-
ing and swearing, and was as drunk as could be. Roper
asked him if the woman was his wife, and prisoner said she
was, but the woman said, " You're a , but 11l not liar; I've been with
-ears'
you many swith you again." The pri-
soner had previously told Roper that he had caught them in
the fact. The womau was so drunk that she could not stand
upright. Roper then went to the man on the ground, and
told him to get up, and he would protect him. The pri-
soner got up, went into an adjoining field, and then lay
down in a ditch. The woman went away, and the pri-
soner followed her. Roper went back to the deceased,
and talked to him for ten minutes, and told bins he would
catch cold. Deceased said his arm was broken, the man
had beaten him so, and he would have him before his betters
the next day. No one was then in liquor but the woman.
In about an hour and a half after this, a woman, who lived
near Chileott's public-house, which was nearly two miles
from the place where the man was lying in the ditch, heard
a noise outside her door. She went out and beard a groan,
and Own she saw it proceeded from a man who was lying in
the mud in the road. A man of the name of Biddlecomb
came and took the man, who turned out to be the deceas( d,
by the arm, and begged him to get up, but he did cot speak.
The woman procured a candle, and then saw there was a
wound on the deceased's face and head. The blood had