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At the opening meeting of the Institution of Civil
Engineers, the president (Mr. G. P. Bidder) thus
referred to the loss the profession had sustained in
the death, during the recea of Mr. Joseph Locke :
Before commencing tht ordinary business, the
president rerninded the assembled members that at
the opening of the last session they had heard from
the then president, Mr. Locke, a most feeling ad-
dress announcing the deceases of those two dis-
tinguished members of the profession, Mr.-Brunel
and Mr. Robert Stephenson. How little was it
imagined that the lips which then uttered the fer-
vent eulogy upon the memories of his departed
friends would so soon be hushed in the silence of
the grave. Another of the leaders had passed away,
cut off in the prime of life, and in the full vigour of
his intellect; In Mr. Locke the profession had lost
one of its most eminent members, whether regarded
professionally or socially, and the institution one
of the ablest presidents that had occupied that dis-
tinguished position. Sprung originally from that
great nursery of practical engineers, the works at
Newcastle-on-Tyne, Mr. Locke acquired there his
mechanical knowledge and his unbounded confi-
dence in the powers of the locomotive engine.
He was soon transplanted to co-operate with the
late Mr. George Stephenson in several of his early
works, and nearly at the commencement of the
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ALARMING INCREASE OF CHILD MURDER.

On Saturday, at the weekly meeting of the
Mai-viebene Representative Council, held at the
Court- house, Mr. Churchwarden Charles Carr in
the chaff:', the subject of the large increase of the
crime of child-murder, more especially in Maryle-
bone, was brought tinder consideration by some re-
marks contained in the monthly report of Dr. R.
D. Thomson, the medical officer of health. In
reporting various deaths from drowning in the
Regent's Canal and Ornamental 18raters, Regent's-
park, Dr. Thomson stated that one was the body of
a newly-born infant, " wilfully murdered," and
then proceeded to make the following remarks :
"I have not learned that any further steps have been
taken respecting these cases. Surely, if there were
a public prosecutor it would be his duty to endeavour
to discover the perpetrators of murders, or in the
absence of such a functionary, is there no one to
investigate judicially such cases of child-murder as
form the opprobrium of our parish month by month?
Ten instances of murder and manslaughter of infants
are recorded in my annual report for 1859, and I
have not heard of a conviction having taken place
in the case of any of the murderers, Surely if these
crimes are not detected, something should be dons
to investigate and modify their causes."
The rector, the Rev. E. I. P. EYRE, said that Dr.
Thomson's report afforded matter for very serious
reflection. The parish of Marylebone had obtained
unenviable notoriety for the number of. murders of
children which took place -within its boundary, and
surely it was their duty to see if some steps could
not be taken to check the evil. He would move,
" That a memorial be presented to the Secretary of
State for the Home Department requesting him to
take some steps for ascertaining whether a course
could. not be adopted for checking the crime of
infanticide."

Mr. HODGES said he would second this motion, but
ha could not admit that these cases were confined to
Marylebone, as he saw from the papers that the
crime of child-murder was on the increase equally in
all other parts of the metropolis. No doubt great
facilities were afforded by the Regent's Canal and
the ornamental waters for the purpose of conceal-
ing crimes which were concocted and effected in
other places.
Mr. HALLAM could not be a party to this motion,
because he apprehended that it might interfere with

the jurisdiction of the Coroner's Court. There
could be no doubt but that it would be most desir-
able to check, as far as possible, the crime of child
murder, but he could not believe that this resolu-
tion would be productive of much good.
Mr, GREENWELL, the vestry clerk, said the diffi-
culty in respect to these cases on the part of the
Coroner's Court was, that that Court, after having
once recorded its verdict of Wilful murder," had

no power itself to follow up the inquiry by any

[Vrther actioN.

The Rev. RECTOR said if the Coroner's Court had
not the power, there ought to be some step taken by
the Legislature upon the subject, as the present
system had a tendency to raise and foster the crime
of infanticide. He (the Rev. Rector) did not mean
to say that all the cases of infanticide brought be-
fore the coroner in Marylebone were perpetrated in
that parish, but he could not shut his eyes to the
fact, that with regard to the produce of illegitimate
children, the evil was very great, and he regretted
to say that that parish held an awful pre-eminence
over every other in the crime of infanticide.
The resolution was put and carried unanimously.
STATE OF OXFORD-STREET.—STONE TRAMWAYS
REJECTED.

Stephenson was taken away on the eve of the com-
pletion of the great Victoria-bridge over the St.
Lawrence; and Mr. Locke's decease occurred on
the completion of his long-cherished project—the
extension of the narrow gauge line to Exeter, the
capital of the West of England. These remarks
would be incomplete, if no allusion were made to
the distinctive features which marked Mr. Locke's
professional career. They would be best under-
stood by extracts from the able address he had
made to the members on assuming the presidential
chair, only three years ago. He then said—" Let
us consider the principle on which public works
are now undertaken—the motives that supply those
abundant means by which alone they become pos-
sible. It must be seen that the problem proposed,
on such grounds, to practical science, is not merely,
the execution of certain works, but rather their ar-
rangement and construction in a manner calculated
to realise the object in which they originate. . . .
Beyond this, observing the springs from which our
profession draws its support, and the relation which
it bears to the voluntary employment of private
means in public works; the significance of financial
results, as final exponents of their success, or
failure, must be apparent. . . . In every point
of view, therefore—whether especially considering
that it is the triumph of science to solve the whole
of every problem submitted to it, and not a part only
—or regarding its general relations to the object of
modern society in inviting its exercise; it will be
seen that the financial result of their joint opera-
tion is not their least important feature ; and that
the appreciation of this side of the question really
concerns the engineer no less than the statesman or
the capitalist." Those who had watched the career
of Mr. Locke were well aware how pertinaciously
he adhered to these rules. It was not that he feared
engineering difficulties, for when they were inevi-
table he encountered and overcame them with skill;
as for instance in the works of the Manchester and
and pupil occasioned painful feelings at the time,
but it must now be looked upon as an inevitable
necessity, for the more rapid development of the
railway system, at the period when the existing
modes of transit had become totally inadequate for
the requirements of commerce, and for the growing
wants of civilisation. It had always been observed,
that whenever the necessities of society required
any peculiar development of talent, or any parti-
cular invention, by the interposition of an all-wise
Providence, the man and the knowledge were
forthcoming to provide for the growing wants of
society. On the introduction of railways, it was
requisite that a vast amount of mental energy and
of physical exertion should be employed, in order
to render the development as rapid as possible.
Mr. Locke [possessed peculiar qualities of mind
which secured for him the confidence of capitalists,
by whom the construction of the Grand Junction
Railway was entrusted to him. At an early period
of the railway epoch he became the engineer of the
South Western line, whence he almost naturally
sought for and ultimately accomplished the exten-
sion of the system to France, where in the construc-
tion of the Paris and Rouen, and Rouen and Havre
lines, he introduced English capital, English work-
men, and English contractors, and initiated the con-
tinental railway system. He was thus the first who
promoted the establishment of the present rapid
communication between the great commercial capi-
tal of Great Britain, and Paris the fashionable me-
tropolis of the continent. Returning to the field of
his early labours, he undertook the extension of the
lines from Preston to Carlisle, and thence to Glas-
gow, Edinburgh, and, ultimately, to Aberdeen, thus
becoming also the pioneer of the Scotch railway.
system. Without entering minutely into the de-
, which would be given
would be admitted, from
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what had been stated, that Mr. Locke was entitled to
be considered one of the great engineers of the period,
and a distinguished pioneer in the introduction of
the railway system. There was a curious coincidence
in the circumstances of the deceases of the three dis-
tinguished men who had been removed within little
more than a year. Each one had departed on the eve
of, or At, the completion of, some great work. Mr.
Sheffield Railway. But his great anxiety, and
which secured for him the confidence of a large
body of capitalists, was to attain his object by avoid-
ing difficult and expensive works, from a desire
that all the works on which he engaged should be
commercially successful. The abnegation of profes-
sional renown arising from the construction of monu-
mental works, whilst establishing his reputation as
an economical engineer, induced him to turn to the
locomotive engine, and to tax its powers (in which
he had, from the earliest period, the greatest confi-
dence), for overcoming steeper gradients than had
hitherto been deemed compatible with economy and
safety. In this he was very successful, and when
viewed in conjunction with the previously-men-
tioned general features of his professional life, it
must be conceded that the decease of Mr. Locke
had caused a gap in the profession which would
long be felt. It would be improper to close this
hasty sketch without alluding to the extent to
which both Mr. Locke and Mr. Robert Stephenson
had acquired the confidence and esteem of a large
circle of friends in the House of Commons. They
had ably maintained the dignity and the indepen-
dence of an important profession, which should
always be adequately represented in Parliament.
They went there without any personal objects be-
yond that of fair ambition to attain an honourable
other active
position ; whilst there they were eminently useful,
usefuland
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re
sof hoped
thethat
profession before long
would
assume
their places in the house. Of the urbanity and im-
partiality with which Mr. Locke had acquitted
himself of the duties of President, it was unneces-
sary to say a word, all that he had said and done
was so recent and had been so universally approved,
The members of council, and those who had en-
joyed his friendship, would lament the loss of a
genial companion and the institution a valuable
and influential member.
It was announced that the following paper would
be read at the meeting of to-morrow the 20th inst.
—" On the River Or well, and the Port of Ipswich,"
by Mr. George Hurwood, M. Inst. C. E.

Mr. GREENWELL read the following report from
the Paving Committee, on the subject of the state
of Oxford-street, and the propriety of laying down
stone tramways between Bond-street and Duke-
street :

" St. Marylebone, Nov. 13, 1860. At a meeting
of the Paving Committee,
Present—Mr. Brooks in the chair, Mr. Abrahams,
Mr. Baddeley, Mr. Bating, Mr. I. Bird, Mr. E.
Hodges, Mr. Hickman, Mr. Jackson, Mr. Marshall,
Mr. Lines, Mr. Thorpe, Mr. Wingfield.
" The committee proceeded, in accordance with
the resolution of the vestry of Saturday last, the
10th Nov., to view the carriage-1 Nay paving of Ox-
ford-street, from Bond-street to Duke-street, and
to consider what necessary repairs were required
for the same, and also to consider and report on the
propriety of laying down stone tramways in that
portion of Oxford-street.

" Resolved—That it be recommended to the
vestry that the portion of the roadway of Oxford-
street, from Bond-street to South Molton-street, be
wholly taken up and relaid with new stone where
requisite, and that the work be done forthwith.

Resolved—That the consideration of the sub-
ject of laying down stone tramways be deferred for
three months.

" Signed—William Brooks, chairman ; Joseph
Wingfield, Israel Abrahams, E. Hodges."
Mr. BROOKS, as chairman of the committee,
Moved the adoption of the report, but said the last
paragraph was not in accordance with his views.
in rejecting the proposal to lay down stone tram-
ways in Oxford-street as an experiment. He re-
gretted this because he felt sure that if tramways
were adopted in the principal thoroughfares of that
parish it would be for the benefit of the funds of
the parish, and to add to the comfort of the inha-
bitants by a lessening of the dust and noise. (Hear
hear, and ironical cheers.) This was not like Mr.
Train's principle, as the parish would not in this
instance have to give up the government of the
roads.

Mr. WINGFIELD supported the adoption of the
report. Although there were twelve members of
the Paving Committee present, there were but two
who held up their hands in favour of this stone

tramway. (Hear, and Oh, oh.)
Mr, D'IFFANER would be glad to know the ex-
pense of laying down these proposed tramways ?
Mr. MICHELL said he objected to the report, be-
cause the latter part of it ignored one of the very
objects the committee were requested by resolu-
tion of that board to inquire into and report upon,
namely, as to the propriety of laying down a
stone tramway between Bond-street and Dake-
street as an experiment. He would therefere move
as an amendment " That so much of the report as
related to deferring the consideration of laying
down the stone tramways fora period of three
months be not adopted."
Mr. SODEN seconded the amendment. If the
committee had carried out their instructions, and
were of opinion, upon investigation, that it would
have been improper to have laid down these stone
tramways, then they ought to have recorded their
opinion honestly, stating that they could not re-
commend the plan to the vestry.
Mr. ABRAHAMS 'said the reason the committee
had recommended the postponement of this matter
for three months was, that the vestry had given a
pledge to Mr. Train not to re-introduce the subject
of tramways for three months.—(No, no, and Hear,
hear.) It would have been a breach of faith to Mr.
Train had they adopted Mr. Michell's proposal.—
(No, no.) What was the fact ?-namely, that they
would have to spend £3OO for a mere experiment,
whilst they could have got Mr. Train's experiment
on a large scale laid down for nothing.—(oh, oh,
and Hear.) He would ask Mr. Scace, the surveyor,
what was the estimated expense of this stone
tramway ?
Mr. ScACE said it would cost £3OO for a single
line of 1,000 feet.
Mr. HIITCHONS said he knew what the resalt
would be when he found this matter was referred
to the " Train" Committee—(Oh, oh, and Hear.)—
to those who had been feasted and toasted for sup-
porting Mr. Train's scheme.—(Oh, oh, and confu-
sion.)

Mr. HODGES said he was astonished to hear Mr.
Hutehons charge the Paving Committee of Maryle-
bone with being feasted and toasted, especially
when it was a committee that gentleman had
himself moved, and which contained such names
as Hutchons—(laughter)—Bird, and Head. A
certain rev. gentleman had on a previous occasion
read a letter from a rev. brother at Birkenhead,
denouncing Mr. Train's street railway there, and
therefore he (Mr. Hodges) rejoiced that Mr. Train's
name had been mentioned, as it gave him an
I opportunity of refuting the rev. gentleman, by
reading from the Liverpool Albion the following
copy of a requisition from inhabitants to the
Birkenhead Commissioners :—" We, the under-
signed inhabitants of Claughton and the neigh-
bourhood, notice with extreme regret that your
board have postponed granting permission to Mr.
Train for extending the street railway by Claugh-
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