The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-22 00:00:00

ANOTHER EYE-WITNESS.

Some further details are given by another witness of the
calamity. He says : " The goods waggons were
smashed into fragments, and, from the effects of the
broken axle and subsequent concussion, scattered about
the up line, upon the hedge, and into the fields
beyond. The passenger cars next the engine
were by the momentum driven one over the other, and
piled in masses of mere firewood, high in the air.
Every carriage of the train had the windows
and doors broken—not one of the twenty-two escaped.
At the time your correspondent left, 12 orl4 persons were
found dead or in a critical condition, while from 100 to 200
of the passengers were injured. The groans of the wounded
and dying rang through the air, and in 'the dim light of
morning the passengers ran to and fro, some bleeding and
bruised, as if distracted by the awful transactions of the
last few minutes. Scores were wandering about, some
of whom had been driven violently against the car-
riages, others cut with flying fragments of glass or splin-
ters of broken doors and car sides. Under the frag-
ments near the engine several lay dead, while one lady,
whom it is understood was only slightly hurt, was fixed
among the wreck of a carriage which had mounted above
two others. The driver was killed, one side of his head
being literally smashed in. The fireman lay against the
firebox, his leg being torn off. One woman pleaded
piteously with the surgeons that they would amputate her
legs, which were transfixed by the broken timbers. One
sight might have moved the stoutest to tears. A baby,
about six months old, was picked up from among the
wreck, its arm and face lacerated, its mother was buried
beneath the carriages. Great praise is due to the officials
of the Great Northern Railway, who with the greatest
promptitude, aided by willing helpers, did all they could
to alleviateat. e miseries of the poor unfortunates."

The effect of the collision was very destructive. The
engine, driven by an old servant of the company, named
Thomas Hurst, with the tender, was completely over-
turned, the six succeeding carriages being thrown in a
heap and terribly crushed. The passengers in three of
them suffered very severely. The engine-driver wa killed
on the spot, and bis stoker had both his legs cut off, and died
shortly aft erwards. Assistance from the Newark Station
was speedily at band, and all the medical men resident in
the neighbourhood were soon on the spot, endering what
aid they could to the sufferers, of whom the following
list of those identified up to the latest moment. It will be
observed they are chiefly resident in Leeds and the sur-
rounding district, the Leeds carriages being the first in the

PASSENGERS KILLED.
Mr. Thomas Philpott, 72, Nile-street, North-street,

train ; --

Leeds.
Mr. Frederick Philpott (son of the above).
Mr. Kershaw Hirst, tobacconist, Leeds.
Mrs. Helton, wife of Mr. Helton, Chapeltovvn-road,
Leeds.
Mrs. Robin3on, wife of Mr. Robinson, scenic artist, Bees-

ton-road, Leeds.
Hannah Haddock, Lands-lane, Leeds.
And the bodies of eight others not yet sutheiently identi-
fied to justify a publication of names.
RAILWAY SERVANTS KILLED.
Thomas Hurst, engine-driver, of Doncaster.
Joseph Watson, stoker, of Doncaster.
PASSENGERS INJURED.
Mr. Marshall, Kirkstall, Leeds.
Miss Emily Groves, Meadow-road, Leeds.
Anne Burnett, Park-street, Kirkstall, Leed,
John Cook, Meadow-lane, L eeds.
T. Shuttleworth, Ilkley, Leeds.
Jane Brown, Meadow-lane, Leeds.
Anne Dutton, Fallowfielterrace, Leeds.
Mr. Had lock, Land's-lane, Leeds.
Charles A. Wilson, 17, Albion-street, Leeds.
Mrs. Greenwood, Faircroft-terrace, Leeds.
William Pitts, Beeston Hall, Leeds.
J. W. Booth, Crown-street, Halifax.
Mr. Toff, 14, Ellison-street, Middlesex-street, London.
Miss Smithson, 37, Bond-street, Leeds.
Mr. Joseph Miller, 6, Caroline-street, Leeds.
Mr Henry Friend, 1, Cross Templar-street, Leeds,
Mr W. Holland, Chapel Jovin-road, Leeds.
Mrs. Richardson, Aldgate, London.
Mr. Gray, Castleford, Yorkshire.
RAILWAY SERVANT INJURED.

Thos. Hulford, guard, Albert-terrace, Leeds.
Intelligence of the accident reached London at an early
hour yesterday morning, and before noon Mr. Oakley,
Secretary of the Great Northern Railway, left town for
Newark, accompanied by Col. Packe, Chairman of the
Board of Directors, and Mr. Faber, one of his colleagues.
Tlie inquest was opened yesterday afternoon ; but,
pending the more perfect identification of the bodies, it
has been adjourned until Friday next.
Information has been forwarded to the Board of Trade,
and Colonel Tyler is instructed to attend the judicial
inquiry.

The Cabinet Council appointed to be held to-
day is postponed till to-morrow.
A fire broke out in a hat manufactory in Leeds
yesterday morning, in which two women, employed on the
premises, were burnt to death.
We understand that Mr. Effingham Wilson, pub-
lisher, of the Royal Exchange, is about to issue a drama,
in a prologue and four acts, entitled " Oliver Cromwell,"
dedicated by permission to T. Carlyle. This effort has
received the flattering approbation of that great writer,
who has pronounced his opinion that full justice has been
done to the essential character of Cromwell. Other com-
petent critics live declared that the drama is eminently
suited for stage representation, and it is to be hoped
that the author will give it a fair chance of being
acted before it is published. We should like to hear that
Mr. Phelps is about to make his reappearance on the
stage in such a character as Oliver Cromwell. This is by
no means the first time that the well-known publishing
house of the Royal Exchange has given its imprint to a
work so totally disconnected from its usual style of sub-
jects. The maiden volume of Tennyson was published
by Effingham Wilson, as well as many distinguished con-
tributions to the Belles Lettres, in poetry, the drama, and
romance. _

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IMPERIAL PARLIAM ENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.--TUESDAY.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

Lord O'Hagan took the oaths and his seat as a peer of
the realm.
MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY BILL.

Lord CAIRNS moved the second reading of this bill,
the object of which is to give, further protection to the
property of married women. It sought to protect the
earnings of the industrious woman from being seized and
dissipated by an idle and dissolute husband. It gave the
wife power to sue and be sued as if she were a femme sole,
and it would also enable her to dispose of property in
which she had a right, irrespective of the wishes of her
husband.

Lord PENZANCE said the evil which the bill proposed to
remove was admitted, and that was to prevent an idle,
worthless husband seizing the wages that an industrious
wife had worked for, but according to his view of the pro-
visions of the bill now before them, it went too far. If it
merely protected the earnings of the wife he should not
object to it, but it went far beyond the necessities of the
case. The bill gave the married woman all the rights of a
single person, and he feared that if it was carried out in
all its entirety it would lead to a greater discord than at
present existed. He doubted much if a man would be
desirous of taking a wife just as he would take a partner
in business, as that would be the case in reality if the bill
passed. A man would always desire to be master in his
own house, but the enactment of the bill would pre vent
that. He thought an extension of the present power of
protection would effect all that was required.

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY said the present matter was
not only a legal but a social one, and it was absolutely
necessary that a bill to amend the present state of things
should be passed even if their doing so violated that
which had hitherto been regarded as legal principles. The
present bill, however, went too far, and would establish
something far more than equality in favour of the wife,
who would have all the power of a femme sole. She would
be enabled to accept presents of jewellery and money
from persons towards whom her husband felt an aversion,
she would be able to enter into all sorts of speculations,
and in the end the husband would be called upon to bear
the liabilities of such conduct. He quite admitted that it
was necessary to further protect the property of the lower
and middle classes, because the present protecting order
was wholly insufficient. He thought that a law enacting
the earnings of the wife to be her own instead of the hus-
band's would be found sufficient.

The LORD CHANCELLOR supported the second reading
of the bill, but he hoped, after it had passed that stage, it
would be referred to a select committee. The law and
practice with respect to settlements might easily be
improved, and as regarded the less wealthy classes a vast
amount of hardship existed, which showed the necessity
for immediate legislation. It was most objectio 'able that
it should remain in the power of an idle, good-for-nothing
husband to come down and sweep off the whole of the
property of the wife when she was endeavouring to keep
herself and children from beggary, which his conduct had
almost brought them to. He thought if they extended
the provisions of the 10th clause, all that was required
might be accomplished during the present session without
attempting that which the bill really did, namely, to make
a married woman a man by act •of Parliament.
The bill was ultimately read a second time, and referred
to a select committee.

Their lordships adjourned at a quarter to eight.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY.
The SPEAKER took the chair at ten minutes past two
o'clock.

THE EDUCATION BILL.
The debate on the amendment of Mr. Richard on the
order for going into committee on the Elementary Edu-

cation Bill, was resumed by
Mr. MIALL, who commenced by a reference to the tem-
perate manner in which the member for Merthyr Tydvil
had introdueed his proposition, and expressing his deep
sense of the gravity of the subject of education. He said
that the educational question was undoubtedly in a critical
condition.

The measure which had been submitted to

lem would require all the help that the House could

give it in order to get it through, supposing that the
House determined that it should proceed with it. He
would not left a finger against the passage of the
bill unless he were fully convinced that it was not

adapted to meet the wants of the country in that reg trd. He
protested against the position in which his right hon.

'riend had placed those who had refused and might

refuse to accept the religious clauses of the bill as finally
settled by the Government, and throwing upon
them the responsibility of defeating the measure.
He saw considerable efforts made to adapt the bill
to the supposed wants and tastes of the public mind,

but no sooner was it introduced than it raised a storm of

excitement. The Bill had been amended and re-amended

and he asked whether, after it should pass, it was likely
to effect a permanent settlement of the education ques-
tion. He did not suppose that there were many members
who thought that the measure could work for fifty years
without disturbance. Describing the measure in a very
words, it prop'osed a system of denominationalschools, sup-

plemented by rate schools, and he asked whether denomi-
nationalism was the basis upon which to found a system
which would last, or adapt itself to the wants and wishes
of the country in future years. He argued that the de-

nominational schools had failed to supply the wants of the
country. He did not believe that they ought to teach
Christianity as they taught geography. The House
might depend upon it, and so long as they put a
blind before the eyes of society, leading it to
be supposed that they were teaching religion by means of
the schoolmaster, to those poor little miserable creatures
who probably did not understand a word of the subject,
they would interpose between the religious bodies and that
which was their proper mission. If the State would only
undertake the teaching which the State could teach, and
leave religious instruction to be undertaken by those who
in his judgment were competent to give it, then the work
would be tolerably well done between them.
Sir CHARLES ADDERLET denied that the denominational
schools had been proved a failure, and said they were
asked by the amendment to accept a scheme which was
wholly problematical, and hampered with a great religious
difficulty.
Mr. VERNON HARCOURT said the Government Bill was

pure and undiluted sectarian denominational education,
whilst the amendmens of the hon. member for Merthyr-

Tydvilwa in favour of secular education. He had nohesita-
tion in saying that he could adopt neitherone nor the other,
awl he wanted to know whether there was not
an alternate course. He believed that the reli-
gious feeling of this country was in the direction of
unsectarianism, and in his opinion the tendency of modern
civilisation was to remove the differences which separated
the various communities of mankind. He asked why
they could not give general instructions to the school
boards and schoolmasters as to the spirit in which they
wished religious teaching to be given. He contended that
the proposition of the hon. member for South Hampshire
did not solve the religious difficulty but if anything

aggravated it. He condemned the proposal to increase the
grants to what he called denominational teaching and said
that the vote would occasion an annual battle. He
objected to denominational education on two grounds—
first that it was deleterious to civil society, and the cause
of religion and truth, and secondly that it multiplied
small schools instead of forming large schools which were
the best for the education of the people.
Mr. COWPER TEMPLE defended the amendment which
he had proposed, and which had been accepted by the
Government. It provided that in schools which were to
be paid for by all classes of the community, controversy
should not be taught. The State could not define what
was sectarian, but it might impose a condition that no
religious controversy should be taught.
The House was then adjourned until nine o'clock.
On the reassembling of the House at nine o'clock, the
attendance of members was very thin, and it looked as if
a " count out " would take place. The members, how-
ever, came straggling in, and when the Clerk reported
that, in consequence of having to go to Oxford, the
Speaker would not resume the chair, the benches looked
comparatively speaking, occupied. Mr. Dodson took the
chair and cast his eye about the House for Mr. Charley,
who had a motion on the notice paper in reference to
illegal lotteries. The hon. member, however, was not to
be seen, and after a brief period of expectancy his col-
league rose and explained that illness of a rather serious
character prevented his being in his place to introduce the
subject.
SPIRITUAL LORDS IN PARLIAMENT.

In such a House as described Mr. SOMERSET BEAUMONT
moved for leave to bring in a bill to relieve lords spiritual
hereafter consecrated) from attendance in Parliament.
Considering the interest and importance of the subject
the emptiness of the Conservative benches was phenomenal.
Not one of their recognised leaders was in his place at the
commencement, and it was evident that if the House pro-
, ceeded to a division, and the Government and its immedi-

ate supporters sanctioned the proposition, they would be
in a very insignificant minority. The member for
Wakefield did not trespass much upon tip:attention of
the House in urging his motion upon their ab:cePtance,
and if his speech was not brilliant, it possessed the o.leYit
of being clear and to the point. He expressed a ver;'''
firm conviction that the spiritual lords did not either
benefit the State or the Church by !being permitted to
Participate in the deliberations of Parliament, and Mr.
Locke King, who seconded the amendment, declared that
a debating bishop was " a bishop out of place." Great
laughter accompanied this declaration, while Sir Wilfred
Lawson received something like a cheer, at any rate he
evoked considerable enthusiasm, when he gave expression
to his regret that the hon. member for Wakefield had
not gone the extreme length of relieving those already
consecrated of their responsibilities and functions
se imperial legislators. If politics, he insisted,
n ere too vile for women they were eoually so
for " those holy and reverend men." The hon.
baronet said that their intentions were good, but their
legislation had always been mischievous. Mr. Gladstone,
before stating the reasons which he thought justified the
Government in not acceding to the proposition before the
House, could not resist a good-humoured allusion to the
absence of the Opposition chiefs, and created amusement
by talking about the "union of the two front benches." The
Prime Minister, in the course of his speech, emphatically
contradicted the statement that the dioceses suffered
through the bishops residing so long in London. Any one
conversant with the habits of the prelates of the Church
knew that they had ceased to reside in London during the
session, and whatever might be said about their seats in
the House of Lords, it could not be said that the duties
attached to those seats were allowed sensibly to interfere
with their diocesan duties. " Dismiss the bishops from
the House of Lords," said the Premier, " and you greatly
weaken the influence of the State over the Church." The
right hon. gentleman said the English bishops might have
had 'their faults like other bodies, but as an historical
fact they had been eminently distinguished by independ-
ence and regard for character. He went on to say that
the main and governing reason for resisting the motion was
the character'which it bore in the view of the Government
to the proportion of the House of Lords. If there was to
be, as there ever had been, a House of Lords in this coun-
try, it was well that it should be as strong as possible, and
if they were to remove the bishops it would not strengthen
thatichamber. It must be remembered that the bishops
had contributed to the intellectual force of discussion in
the House of Lords in a proportion infinitely transcending
the numbers of the body.
The House divided and the result was—Ayes, 102 ;
noes, 158. There was great cheering on the declaration of
the voting being made by the occupants of the benches
below the gangway.
MUNICIPAL FRANCHISE IN IRELAND.

Mr. W. JOHNSTON obtained leave to bring in a bill to
alter and amend the law relating to the municipal fran-
chise in Ireland reserving his statement until the second

reading.

LATE SITTINGS.

Two motions were submitted to the,House for considera-
tion, having inview the curtailment of the period of sitting.
Mr. GILPIN, who was very eloquent on the pernicious
effects which protracted business had upon public men,
proposed that business should not be taken after 12
o'clock, and Mr. CoLLINs, by way of amendment, moved
that one be substituted for two o'clock. Mr. GLADSTONE,
during the discussion, said he was more sensible of the
difficulty than of any method of solution, but Mr. GREENE
seemed to find an easy solution. He suggested that
shorter speeches should be made, that some reduction
should be put upon legislation, and that it should be real
and not sham. It seemed to him that nothing that is
is right.
On a division Mr. Gilpin's motion was lost. Although
Mr. Gladstone had stated, in the course of the discussion,
that he would endeavour not to proceed with any proposal
which might meet with opposition, Mr. Collins persisted
in going to a division, when he was defeated.
Several orders of the day were disposed of, and the
House adjourned at twenty-five minutes past one o'clock.

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