The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-03 00:00:00

THE SUN,

TURKEY.
Tbe Condi tzdionnel has the following from Con

atantinople, dated the 17th :—" An important change
has just taken place in the Turkish Ministry. Ifn-
i fortunately I have no time to obtain exact informa-
tion in time for the packet. RESCHID PACHA and
' his party are triumphant. The dismissed Ministers
are, it is said, MEHEMET ALI Peelle, Minister of
War; SOLISIAN PACHA, Great Administrator and
Minister of Marine; and MEHEMET PACHA' Minister
of Police. Ido not know whether these Ministers
have been replaced. The Director of the Octroi,
HUSSEIN BET, hh3 been also dismissed. At the mo-
ment lam writing the members of the council and
• all the high functionaries of the Porte are assembled
in;the apartments of the GRAND VISIEE, to hear the
• •*man read which names the new Ministers."

RAILWAY IN TEL LI GENCE.
WATERFORD AND KILKENNY.
The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on
Satorday, at the London Tavern ; General M•Leod in.
the came.
The advertisement convening the meeting having been
read, s'o the seal of the company affixed to the register
of shareholders,
Tke SECRETARY read the report. It stated that the
eontrae% for the completion of the railway between
Reock ittam and Waterford had been concluded on
ravonc.-4:J e terms, upon the understanding that a loan of
40,0001. te obtained from the Public Works' Loan Com-
missioners, and that the whole of the company's liabi-
lities be forthwith discharged. All the queries proposed
previous to granting a loan had been satisfactorily an-
swered, sod There was no doubt that when a resolution
bad b pissed authorising the directors to borrow this
40,0001., !,,e first instalment would be advanced by the
board. he statement of accouuts showed that the re.
otripts for the halt-year amounted to 8321, and the expen.
claim) to 3731.
The CHAIRMAN having moved the adoption of the re-
port, it was stated,
in answer to questions from a pro-
Trietor, that a sufficient number of preference sharps had
been taken up to complete the entire undertaking, and
the directors had no doubt that they should be enabled
to settle the claims of the creditors by paying thew with
these shares.
The report WaS unanimously adopted, and the meet-
ing was male special fur the purpose of submitting a bill
to•the priTrietors for amending the acts of the company
and for other purposes, which having been explained b
the solicitor, was approved of by 'he proprietors
y
A resolution was then passed authorising the directors
to borrow the sum of 40,0001, and after a vote of thanks
to tit, chaircaqo the meeting separated.
AMALGAMATION OF THE EAST AND WEST. YORK-
SHIRE WITH THE YORK AND NuRTH MIDLAND RAIL-
WAY.— mer,ting for the above purpose was held at
KnareshorQugh on Friday, and the arrangement, as
above-mentioned- was aereed to.

NORTH-WE TERN RAILWAY.
Extrle,:ivotn the minutes of a meeting of general
Man-weri of railways, held in the Euston Station, May
22, i

" Lt. Harding draws attention to the position of
those cmpinies who are aggrievedby the interpretation
put upon clause 9 of 7 and 8 Vie., cap. 85 (providing an
•zempi.sr,u from Tax on fares at and under Id. per mile),
by the lt4iiiva3 Cowmisiioaers and the Commissioners
of Inlaud Revenue, on wbich Mr. Swift has reported that
a remedy, by legislative enactment, cannot at present be
anticipated.
" Revolved,—That the attention of the Committee of
the Clearing-hoJ=o bo respectfully called to the unsatis-
factory position of this question, the Railway Companies
being now refused all exemption from tax on excursion
fares, though under .Id. per mile, except on the lowest
fare; that is to say, if is an excursion train running
100 miles the fares are 75., 55., and 35., it is only on the
3s. fare that the Commissioners will grant exemption
from tax. A. penalty is thus practically imposed on
giving any but the worst class of carriage accommodation.
" This will be much more severely felt in a pecuniary
shape, as the excursion train traffic to the Exhibition in-
creases, and should therefore, it is submitted, be looked
to before such excursions commence."

RAILWAY MASSACRES.
Long lists of figures are periodically paraded before
the public, in which they are informed how many pas-
sengers travel annually upon our railways, and what is
the number per cent. that meet with any accident on
their journeys. We are then usually informed how many
used to travel by stage-coaches in the olden time, and
what was the per-centage of accidents among passengers
by that mode of conveyance.
It was impossible in stage-coach travelling to guard
completely against all kinds of accident. In railway tra-
velling it is possible to do so. No amount of care or
skill in the proprietors or driver of a coach could furnish
absolute security. The coach might be sound and well
built, the horses might be well chosen and well
driv.., , ..here might be no overloading, and yet an ac-
cident might happen.. Horses might suddenly tall, or
take fright, or the misconduct of the drivers of other
vehicles might bring on a collision ; or there might
be an unknown danger in the state of the road over
which the coachmaster bad no control. There is
nothing of the kind in the case of a railway. Bail.
way carriages have inanimate machinery for their
motive power. A Bream-engine does not kick or bolt
or take triglar. It has no vice; and, if it is unsound, the
railway company have themselves to blame. Then, the
road is their own. None but their own carriages travel
On it. Jr these Interfere with the safe transit of each
other, or if the road itself is in an unsafe state,
it is the fault of the company, and of the company
only. We repeat it, a railway accident cannot hap-
pen without the railway company being to blame. If
they buy defective carriages or engines, or if they
allow them to become defective by neglect and wear and
tear, but persist in using them; it they start their trains
too soon after each other; if they do not keep the rails
and the permanent way in good order; if they employ
insufficient and incompetent servants; if they do any of
these things, they are justly blameable, and they ought
to be made severely responsible.— Weekly News.

STARVATION OF GIRL BY HER FATHER AND
Srue-xontkft eer BarnisexAOL.- Robert and Louisa Carpenter,
who have been for sotre4;vieeks in custody at Bristol upon a
charge of cruelly ill-treating Christiana Carpenter, a girl 16
years old, by locking her ungainfua room, half-starying her,
and beating her, undernwnesnarturdrather ramination before the
magistrates of Bristol
In consequence of the
immense crowds which thronged the streets upon the occa-
sion e` the former remands, and of thetlreatening and vioe lent aspect which the populace at those times
wards the prisoners, the magistrates deemedrisspuramudednttteo-
keep the time of the present examination a secret, d their
e
intention to proceed with it was only made known to to
press and to the parties actually engaged in the conduct of
the case. It will be remembered that when she was brought
up about three weeks since the poor girl was a complete
skeleton, only weighing 591bs. in her clothes; her appearance
on Saturday was greatly improved. Mr. Brice, the clerk to
the justice, stated that in that short period she had gained
191 b. As soon as the prisoners were placed at the bar, the
girl was accommodated with a seat in the witness-box, and
having been sworn, she stated the case; but while under ex-
F_ninat;on the poor girl became exhausted and excited, and
Pr!r. Bern .rd, the surgeon in attendance upon her, expressing
Jlaintsy opinion that she was not in a fit state to be questioned
further, the prisoners were again remanded, the magis-
trates e ea expressing their readiness to take responsible sureties
tor their rwere remove
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No bail being forthcoming, they
to thestatinen.dhinonTe.stody, and the poor girl was driven back
lay A
Sat4rday, at Gus rFAIL—An inquest was held on
jury, is to the'sHospital,
before Mr. W. Payne and a
cab proprietor and deathdrl of Charles Palmer, aged 43, a
on the Derby
who died from the effects of in-
juries received
very mysterious
in
night under circumstances ,f a
recently resided in these' e..
It appeared that the deceased
day was engaged wit Kent-road. and on the Derby
kthPs'cdab in conveying persons to and
from various points 0
Chen
road, whereby, it was stated, he
had received about AL
chtea late hour the deceased stopped
at a eublie house near
, a:T, were he was engaged by
Jemmy Welsh, Bernath
haoitftler well-known pugilists, to
coavey them to London at
-a-crown each. Tney gave
deceased some meat, bread, eee.
home, When the deceased received Proceeded proceeded on their way
from the box of the cab, or by ethersome injury by falling
police. He was means, at present u• - known to the
taken to ' 1
acture of the
where he had every attention paid to him, but he Guy's
Hospital,
fall. The
Wednesday tram severe injuries to the Spiluet he expired on
robbed by
leg, and other violence, no doubt caused iht
sister of the deceesed stated that before her brother
he informed her that he had been hocussed, ender expired
some persons who bad been in the cab, by whom
also he way
bretally ill-treated by being pushed off the cab. The
Coroner was informed that several persons engaged in the case
were absent, but if time was allowed they, no doubt, would
"
be forthcoming. Tne coroner thereupon consented to ad..
iourti the proceedings for a few days, and the inquiry was
ecoordingly adjourned.
MaLascuoir OCCURRENCE.—On Thursday after-
n°oi, 111 inquest W,I, held at Lytham (a favourite watering-
place about 12 milts from Preston ), on the body of Hannah
4°wit 20
4 - years of age, who, together with Thomas Smith,
aged :` ' was drowned. •
River Ribblebble while on a pleasure excursion , one
th
li
ow.e-
son
int,ou
tl-ie
establishment
that the deceased,
who were l
cite, p,-,,,t0 of Dr. Winstanley, of the West
,:.,
zy n, sere betrothed to each other, and were to have
held t ,
held o. e i ieurthe very day on which the inquisitions were
th
...deiarnzains. It appeared from the evidence that
with dtht'll ''
,',',iew et,
pru,„r other persons left Preston in a boat,
sham. Vie boat (wh'iceiiing on a pleasure excursion to Ly-
about 23 feet in the keel'aWas in a good state of repair) was
centiv been fitted with neeetßel:il feet in the beam, and had re-
men of the petty, named Joh.ti se., it belonged to two young
with a
stroll astham and John Blakey.
They lia,l t eueeeded,
f ebb tide, as far as Warton a
village eet 'it
'three miles from
well, the
some ttk i. r three miles in breaciL, ), where the river is
whentloa in consequence, as
Ss statee, of a sudden sq
capsized, and the
wheel il ely were immersed in the velictentr, being at the time
within a few yards of the shore.
gathering
spot),
Anthony Jordan and Peter Lamb (~,,10-34.. men, named
eoekles en the sands within a short distance; thesore;iz.
means
rendered prompt and praiseworthy assistance
which lay at anchor close by, they were the fortunainttieme
of rescuing four of the party. Smith, who clung to
'when the boat capsized, was taken prom the water a 18111 e
young
laBt
time after the accident, but life was quite extict. The you
woman Jowitt was carried about a mile and a-half down the
river by the force of the current, and when the tide receded,
her body roar found on the sands. The inquest upon Smith
was bele at Warton. A verdict of "Accidentally Drowned"
was given in tub case. On the evening of the inquest both
bodies were interred in one grave in the burial-ground of
Wartou Churl.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC
A letter from Holstein of the 24th, in the Cologne RAILWAY PROJECT.
Gazette, says :—" The Russian note addressed to the The letter from liti:: Whitney in the Times of the 17th
Cabinet of Copenhagen has determined M. DE of April, describing his proposed railway across the-
RzEnz, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, to proceed to American continent from the 'Atlantic to the P„catio,
Warsaw. We consider it as certain that complica-
has excited attention, and led to offers in this country
tions of a disagreeable character have led to this sod-
to afford him any assistance he may rEquire.!- 'the
den journey.',
novelty and simplicity of his plan contrast remarkably
The the magnitude of its otj•ct, and suggest a
has protested revolution in the modes of conducting public enter-
The Duke of AIIGUSTENDURGH
prises which may opportunely compensate for the
against the resolution taken by the King of Dazotemi
to exclude him from the throne. destruction of faith dutin- th- .