The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-31 00:00:00

THE LATE COLLISION ON THE MID

LAND RAILWAY.
CHESTERFIELD, FRIDAY.—The inquiry into the cir-
cumstances connected with the late lamentable collision
on the Midland Railway was resumed this morning. Sir
Isaac Morley and Mr. Paget attended as directors of the
Midland Company.
Further evidence having been received, the jury, at
half-past three o'clock, having been in consultation two
hours and a quarter, returned the following verdict:—
" The jury arc unanimously of opinion that the
deaths of John Megnell and John Blake have been
caused by the reckless speed Samuel Stretton was
driving the engine of the luggage-train on the night
of Monday, the 19th of May, and pronounce a
verdict of manslaughter against him. The jury can-
not sufficiently condemn the practice of allowing
a luggage train to start five minutes after a passenger
train, without efficient measures being taken to ensure
the former keeping its relative distance from the other,,
es marked in the time-table. The jury consider the
officials guilty of great negligence in not placing a break
behind the last carriage of the passenger train on the
night the accident occurred. It is also their opinion that
a proper person ought to be on duty at the semaphore
at the Clay-cross station, to attend to the night signals,
as well as those in the day, and strongly reprobate the
neglect of this precaution. The jury consider the prac-
tice highly improper of allowing passenger trains to stop
at stations not named in the time-tables.
The Coroner then issued his warrant for the appre-
hension and committal of Stretton, the driver of the goods
train, to Derby, to await his trial.

ARCHITECTURAL PUBLICATION SOCIETY.—The an-
nual general meeting of the subscribers to this society was
held yesterday, at N 0.16, Lower Grosvenor-street; Mr. Syd-
ney Smirk°, A.R.A., in the chair. The report, which was
read by Mr. Wyatt Papworth, honorary secretary, stated that
the difficulties attending the early and consecutive publica-
tion of the Cyclopredia of Architecture were such as had in-
duced the committee to publish it in that order which was
most convenient and most economical for the present, taking
care, however, that when the whole work shall have been
gradually issued that it should form a complete and consecu-
tive volume, each part falling into its proper place, without
regard to the actual date of its publication. From the state-
ment of accounts. it appeared that the receipts for the year
rther
ended the 30th of April, 1851, amounted to 4231., and the
expenditure to 29/. The liabilities of the society amounted
to 3061., and there remained a balance in hand for
publications of 88/. 9s. 10d. The report was received and
adopted, and several resolutions, expressive of
tie
subsen-
bers' appreciation of the manner in which the businessofthesociety was conducted, were passed, and a vote of thanks to
the chairman concluded the proceedings.
THE LATE STARVATION CASE.-The examination
of Robert and Louisa Carpenter, who were remanded from
last Thursday on a charge of having cruelly neglected and
ill-treated Christiana Carpenter, child of the former, and
step-daughter of the latter, were to have been brought up
on Wednesday, but in consequence of a medical certificate,
stating that it would endanger the life of Christiana Car-
penter to attend that day
atthe
Council House, to give
Carpenter and Louisa his wife, and
that she will not be in a fit state to appear before next
Tuesday, the case was further adjourned until that
being known that the prisoners were remanded unt4lay i
i7Vecl-.t
nesday, an immense crowd entirely filled Bride well-lane, and
the greatest excitement prevailed. When the certificate
from Mr. Bernard was i eceived, the police communicated the
fact of the postponement of the case to the assembled crowd;
but as Mr. Inspector Bell said, " We could not convince them
that the prisoners would not be brought up to-day; the
reply we invariably received was, we are not to be gam-
monad.' " '1 he unfortunate girl is still at the central station,
were she is treated according to the requirements of her
pitiable condition. From her debilitated state, some time
must elapse before she is perfectly restored to health; but
there is no doubt of her ultimate recovery.—Bristol Journal,
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