The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-25 00:00:00

HAY MA.RKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 21 lOs to 4110 s ; clover do.,
lOs to 5/ 103; and straw, 11 es to 1/ 107, per load.
A. moderste supply, and a sluggish demand.
CUMBERLAND. —Meadow hay, 2/ 15s to 4/ 12s ; clover
do., .51 lOs to 5/ 10s ; and straw, 117 s to 1/ 12s per load,
Both hay and straw moved off slowly, at late rates.
WRITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 21 lOs to 4/ lOs; clover
do., 41 Os to 5/ 14s; and straw, 11 64.t0 1 lOs per load.
Supply tolerably good, and trado dull.

Col. Sandbatn, director of -the Royal Engineers at
Chatham, has been ordered to hold in reacFness one com-
pany of the Royal Engineers corps (Sappers and Miners)
for the purpose of proceeding to Dover, where they are
to be employed is eogiaeoring operatiows.

THE SOUTH WA.LBs RAILWAY.—The first local meet-
ing of the directors—an object decided upon at the last
general meeting, atter so much argument—was held at
the Neyland terminus on Friday last. The Malakoff
steamer and other vessels were gaily decorated with
flags on the occasion. Mr. Talbot, the chairman of the
board, presided. The purport of the meeting had refer-
ence to the traffic in general and that per steamers with
Ireland in particular ; also that of the construction of
the proposed hotel on the spot, for the accommodation
of the numerous passengers. This is one of the most
important events favourable to the line that has yet
transpired. The great delay in the completion of the
pier must have arrested their attention and caused their
displeasure.
GM'S HOSPITAL—At a Court of Committee's of this
hospital, held on the 14th inst., the Right Hon. and
Right Rev. Lord Auckland, Bishop of Bath and Wells,
the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., Mr. Western
Wood, and Mr. Augustin Robinson were elected gover-
nors of the hospital in the room of three governors de-
ceased and one retired.

COLLISION AT THE WATERLOO ROAD TERMINUS.—
Yesterday forenoon a train was being made ready on the
main line for Harnpton-court, and several passengers
were seated, when another train was being taken upon
the Windsor line. The last train was going at its usual
speed, when the pointsman, by some accident, turned
the pints so as to send the Windsor train upon the
main line, and the consequence was that the Windsor
train came into c Alisien with the one for Hampton-
court, forcing the passengers from their seats, and
hurling them in terrib!e confusion among each other.
The Hampton-court train came rattling down the rails
at a fearful speed, and no one can jell what direful
effects woeld have ensued had it not been for the pre-
sence of mind of Mr. Parker, one of the chief .nspectere;
who eeeine the great danger that existed, and
regardless of his own personal safety, rushed off the
platform, entered one of the break carriages, and, apply-
ing the break most vigorously,
was enabled to skid the
wheels and thereby stop to a great extent the momentum
of the carriages, but not, however, until the train had
been forced alrnost to the extremity of the platforry. By
the sudden concussion several persoes were injured ;
one lady had ore of her eyes severely injured, another
was severely cut about both legs, and three or four others
were more or laws hurt.

Is time one and the same thing for all mankind,
flowing on in one unvarying stream, carrying along
with it prejudices, errors, and delusions of all
kinds, and continually bringing down new convic-
tions to replace the old ; or is time a different
thing to different people, "galloping," as bhaks-
pere says, "with some, and standing entirely still
with others ?" The question may seem a strange
one, but it really seems impossible to believe that
Thomas Vincent Airaldi, of the Order of Preachers,
Master in Sacred Theology, and Grand Inquisitor
in the diocese of Ancona and certain other lands
and localities, specially appointed by the Hely See
against heretical depravity, can actually exist on
the surface of this planet at the same time with
Humboldt and with Herschel, with the inventors
of the electric telegraph, with Faraday) with Igen
or with Grote ? Was Thomas Airaldi born 306
years ago, and has he slept the sleep of Nourjahad
or Rip van Winkle, and awoke into the 19th eon
tury with the ideas and prejudices of the 16th ?
We cannot tell ; but some supposition at least as
extraordinary as this is needed to explain the ex-
istence at the present time of so singular and mon-
strous a phenomenon. This Grand Inquisitor, in
his zeal against heretical depravity, informs us,
" that without the Catholic faith, as the Apostle
Paul writes to the Jews, it is impossible to please
Got" The word of the Apostle is "faith," and
" Catholic" is the addition of the Grand Inquisitor,
whose indignation against heretical c 1( pravity does
not prevent him from garbling the text of Scripture
by wilful misquotation. The document in ques-
tion proceeds to enjoin all persons to inform and
testify against all persons of their acquaintance
who are heretics, Jews, Mahomedans, or apos-
tates, or "who may have committed acts from
which sufficient proof might be deduced that they
are in open or secret league with the Devil, per-
forming acts of sorcery, magic, or necromancy,
offering to the above-named (that is to say, the
Devil) perfumes, incense, or prayers for the disco-
very of treasures, or other uniiky purposes, by in-
vocations or promises of obedience, or by other
practices in which his name or others are invoked
who are familiar with or who practise necromancy,
or no matter what sort of magic." There are a great
many more offences enumerated, and this marvel-
lous document, which is ordered to be posted up in
all shops and hotels, concludes with two
.especial
denunciations. The first is against those who use
any book not previously approved by the Holy
Office ; and the second against Christians who
sheep, eat, or play with a Jew, or disguise them-
selves in the garments of that stiff-necked race. It
is signed by the same Thomas Airaldi, ces the Bth
day of August of this present year (18WG).
If the Church of Rome requires from its disci-
ples that they should learn much, on the other
baud it makes them the compensation that it asks
them to unlearn nothing. Every absurdity to
which the human mind for the last I,BOJ 3 ears
has bowed in degrading submission is petrified
for the use of the faithful, -and dud up at suite.ble
intervals to show how far the infallible Ceurc,h is
raised above the progress of human inteibgence,
and how completely she can afford to despise the
lessons of exerience and the dictates of reas9n.
Because, during the dark ages, when the belief in
witch raft and necromancy was universal, the
Church of Rome, never before and often behind
the age, proscribed these imaginary offences,
the same form must again and again be ;;one
through, that she may not be supposed to falter or
draw back from positions which she has once occu-
pied. She is cursed with infallibity, and can there-
fore retrench no extravagance and admit no cor-
rection. It has come to be pretty generally ad-
mitted, whatever opinions existed to the contrary
in the days of Faust and Margaret, that the
" abovenanied" enters into no league with the sons
of men ; and, indeed, the sanity of the late Mr.
Dove was gravely doubted by many persons, prin-
cipally on the ground of his having sought to enter
into a contract of the kind of which the most Holy
inquisition desires to be particularly. informed.
We wonder what kind of response such an adjura-
tion as this meets with from the true sous of the
Church—what kind of evidence the Holy Office re-
quires to establish a league with the "above-
named,"—what manner of perfumes and incense
are agreeable to the nostrils of the enemy of man-
kind. The Prince of Darkness is a gentleman by
reputation, and, as such, probably exquisite and
recherche in his taste. Can the Jesuit tell us any-
thing about him, and where he is to be found ?
Magic, too, and necromancy, which the cold
fancy of this northern land finds only in the per-
formances of the Wizard of the North and the
King of the Conjurors I How delightful' to find
that on the-coasts of the sunny Adriatic there are
Mill ghosts and enchanters, and that the land of
Ariosto has not subsided into the prose of modern
life ! Let them come—spectres and goblins, en-
chanters, and enchantresses, Astolfes and Admiras
—Thomas Airaldi, Grand Inquisitor, specially ap-
pointed against heretical depravity, is ready for
them all, and will treat them with as little mercy,
as if they had "abused the locality of penance," or
slept, eaten, or played at cribbage with the Jew.
Perhaps it is good for human, pride that the
Church of Rome should offer to us from time to
time these incredible manifestations of folly and
fatuity. Wo have obtained so large a dominion
over the powers of nature, we are achieving
triumphs so great and unexpected, that we might
be tempted to overrate the scope of the human
faculties if the Church of Rome were not per-
petually there, to remind us of the boundless credu-
lity and infantile superstition of which that same
human intellect is capable. For the Church of
Rome the earth does not revolve upon her axis,
nor perform her annual journey round the sun.
Rome is as sceptical of the most undoubted truth as
credulous of the clearest and most unquestioned
falsehood, yet still she stands erect amidst admir-
ing thousands, denouncing imaginary crimes and
punishing imaginary heresies, and never, probably,
at any former period held so large a portion of
mankind under her sway as at this moment. Pride
was not made for man --if any one doubts it, let
him ponder well the history of the Holy Office,
and he will doubt no more.—Times.

BOILER EXPLOSION AT MIDDLESBOROUGH.

MIDDLESBOROUGH-ON-TEES, OCT. 23.

The inquest on Wllliarnson, White, Atkinson, and
Cbeeseman, the four men killed by the explosion e, lo-
c motive on Thursday last, was resumed this morning
by Mr. J. P. Sowerby, at the Exchange.
It was stated at the commencement of the inquiry
that two of the injured men were still in an unfit state
to give evidence, Robson, the fitter, being quite blind.
The only witness called was

R. Archer, engine-driver, who said,—l was upon the
engine at the time of the accident. Thomas Williamson,
Charles Atkinson, Thomas White; Matthew Cheeseman,
and James Robson, a fitter, were also there. We
rose the steam up by Mr. Williamson's orders. Having
lit the fire at 11 o'clock, the steam was up about two
o'clock, or a quarter past. Mr. Williamson just before
the accident asked what pressure there was 'upon her.
I told him 781 b., and he said I was to screw the spring
balance down a bit further—down to 100. I proceeded
to do so, and in a moment the boiler burst. I know no-
thing more. I saw no leakage when he gave these orders,
and I certainly apprehended no danger. I had sufficient
confidence in Mr. Williamson to obey his orders. When
a new engine is finished it is usual to test her in the
same manner as this one, to ascertain her power. There
have been two or three engines built in the works. Mr.
Williamson had full control, and no one else. I was
blown off in the explosion, and had my head cut by a
piece of plate. I only saw one of the dead bodies before
they carried me away.
By a Juror— The boiler was full of water at the time.
I had noticed the glass just before. We bad run her the
e
whole previous week at 130 generally. It would take
perhaps half an hour to get the pressure up from 72 to
beto
100. Where the boiler was standing she could not
got up to 72 in less than three hours. I had no chance
toit sweaeshboywmhigh
wshdenahmads
Williamson
orders
solvot:eimakyknew better
We ran
previous week raised the steametrtosilelt3hoa.tom_NlFieetni.rthbsealscibBnusrtshoter.
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fprloamoehtaovsinagy
shero roaatoly3f rivetsthe wrehpollaecewie,ekh.ut
iShet synaw.
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anything, so I thought Mr.
there was any other
than I. I I ehsapde c,teretwheedbtah,leamnbWcuerdlisoiv l:n properlytoiigicz"antdcd
wasthe
naontd
attend.o nder -
lifting my hand off when she
called. He. had seen
The Coroner asked the jury
intoe
I person they would
Yh'heartvheat men could morning,
sthtoeodsufrrgoemon
com-
pleted the evidence
that, unless it appeared 'that the
Id be contradicted, there Seemed to be
The witness Archer, however, had so satisfactorily
statements could be .
further.
hwhe other
The jury cmcurring in this view,
The Coroner bri,fly summe l up. The;sirnpla facts
d V) be that here were certain gentlemen build-
s. erred no necessity for anything
ip.g enginei on thtir pi etnh,es, and employing experienced
men to give orders. When engines were made it was
absolutely necessary for the safety of the public that
they should be tested, because it was better that the
'lieu on the works shonid run the risk than the pub
lie who rode in railway carriages, or to whom engines
were sold as being of eo many horse power. This
process of testing was going on in the ordinary way
'hill rt.h
aeWtriots
when an explosion took place, and these: foLr men
were eccideutally killed. ..,

The jury, after retir7hg a short time, fotiel that the
b. auting copper studs for rivets.
men lust their lives by accident, but added that they
could. not separate withcut cn-inring the practice of
substituting; They *Ma thought
that a boiler which shoved such signs of -iv:akne3s as
to "start" 40 rivets sh uld have been coodonued ; and
they recommended that Viese trials of strength shoald
be made without exposing eo many lives
The Coroner said the foreman had better commit-
nicata the views of the jury t 3 NieTs. Bolckow and
Vaughan, his duty being to take their verdict simply.
This concluded the proceedings.