The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-26 00:00:00

THE NAVE

The steam transport Dee, Master Commander Panels,
sailed from Woolwich yesterday, morning with steam gear
for the western yards, and convoyed the gunboat, Ripple to
Portsmouth.

The Orion, 91, screw, Captain Edwin C. T. D'Eyncourt,
bearing the flag of Itcar-Admiral Sir Charles Howe Fre-
mantle, Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Squadron ;
the Caesar, 91,:serew, Captain Charles Frederick; the Re-
nownz 91, screw, Captain Arthur Forbes; the Brunswick,
80, screw, Captain Erasmus Ommanney ; and the Racoon,
21, screw, Captain James A. Paynter, sailed froth Spithead
yesterday for a short cruise in the Channel, the first move-
ment of the Channel fleet.

The Hydra, 6, paddlewheel steam sloop, Commander R.
V. Hamilton, sailed from Spithead yesterday morning at
daylight with snp,rnumereries for Plymouth.
The Terrible, 21, paddleweel steam frigate, Captain
Frederick H. li. Glasse, arrived at Spithead yesterday
forenoon, with 300 men paid off from the Royal Albert, 121,
screw, Captain the Bon. Francis Egerton, at Plymouth.
She discharged them to the Echo and Sprightly steam-ves-
sels, sod returned again to Plymouth.
Admiral Sir, George Francis_ Seymour went out to Spit-
held in .the Fire Queen steam vessel, Master Paul, yesterday
afternoon, and visited the Russian commodore Popoff on
bsard the Russian corvette Rends, at Shithead ; on leaving
he was saluted with 17 guns. The Russian Commodore and
captains of his squadron dined with Sir George Seymour in
the evening at the Admiral's residence in the dockyard.
Yesterday, at 2 p.m., the paddlewheel steam vessel
Cologne built by Messrs. Westwood, Baillie, and Campbell,
for the General Steam Navigation Company was successfully
launched from their yard at The vessel is about
500 tons, builders' measurement. The Cologne, after-launch-
ing, was towed immediately to the factory at Deptford-
creek.

The Board of Admiralty have concluded the purchase of
the double-action pump, the invention of Mr. Delpech, anti.
which is in general use in the French maritime service. Oa e
of these pumps is ordered to be fitted on board her Majesty's
experimental corvette Galatea, under construction in
Woolwich dockyard. In -a recent experiment to test the
capabilities of the above-named pump, a 300 gallon tank of
water was emptied in the short space of 52 seconds.
The Valorous, 16, screw steamer, Captain W. C. Aldhana,
having been docked at Chatham, has- underaone a careful
examination in order to ascertain whether she has received
any injuries, but only some very slight defects were dis-
covered, which were immediately made good, and she was
yesterday undocked.
Her Majesty's screw steamship Diadem, Captain l‘loor-
sem, ?t.N., arrived at the new harbour at Holyhead on Mon-
day evening at 7 o'clock with the Lor Is of the Admiralty.
Next morning Sir John Pakington, M.P., First Lord, ac-
companied by two other Lords of the Admiralty, Lord
Lovaine and Admiral Milne, Mr. Corrie, secretary, and
suite, inspected the new harbour works. Tucir lordships
were conducted over the several departments of the works
by Mr. G. C. Dobson, resident engineer of the Admiralty ;
Commander B. Priest, R.N., Admiralty agent; Mr. Charles
Rigby, one of the contractors for the wen &c. After
minutely examining the pr.gress of the construction of the
northern breakwater and superstructure, their lordships
proceeded to Salt Island to :inspect the works in the old
harbour. They then went in Mr. Rigby's steam yacht Marie
to South Stack Island, whence they returned early in the
afternoon. Captain Mends, C. 8., R.N., of her Majesty's
ship Hastings, now stationed in the harbour, was also in at-
tendance upon their lordships, and salutes were fired from
the Hastings on the arrival of the Diadem, and during the
inspection of the harbour.

. -
THE ATLANTIC ; It *tr.
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The sentiments of exult.l ; ti:) sY9I
blve I)^Pn 0-C...el on Intli
of the great - e
' A - • tzstiznotie3 to the gr \`. u 3
..d it I,ty
the yo,

tile completion
the best of all _
of the work. It is_ upon spulsr mindtliatthe
magnitude and consequences of this mighty enterprise
have been most strikingly impressed. Before grain-
lations could be transmitted from Government to
Government the people of the two countries gave
vent to their joy. Their feelings instinctively taught
them that a feat of marvellous import had been ac-
complished, and that in some manner or other,
through agencies either immediate or gradual, direct
or indirect, the concord and amity of two kindred
States had .become a greater certainty than before.
In England we talked and thought about it, till at
last the success of the enterprise burst with almost
unexpected abruptness upon our ears. In America
they have done even more. Preachers took the topic
into the pulpit, and addressed their congregations
upon the beneficent powers of the intercourse which
now, by God's blessing and for God's purposes, had
been at length achieved. The secular authorities fol-
lowed with equal animation and zeal. Meetings arc to
be held, resolutions voted, and festivals given, and
we may already learn a lesson from our American
brethren in their prompt recognition of national ser-
vice. The expedition from which the Agamemnon
has successfully returned was at least as important
and as heroic as any of those which, in old times,
brought down the acknowledgments of Royal visits,
knighthoods, promotions, and gratuities.
We must say, however, that the instinct of Ame-
rican citizens has carried them straight to the mark.
The-voice of the people has been the voice of truth.
The real import of this surprising feat is the con-
nexion of the two nations already united by links of
lineage, institutions, and speech, and separated only
by the space-of waters which the wonderful :wire has
now annihilated. 'We may regard this last conquest
of man over nature from many points of view. We
may discern in it the crowning and conclusive esta-
blishment-of telegraphic :intercourse ; for, now that
2,000 Miles of a stormy ocean have been successfully
traversed there remains no gulf or distance on the
globe which, may not be bridged. Take-the map of
the world, and it will be seen that if points 2,000
miles apart can be thus connectede the problem of
universal communication is solved. By the aid •of
islands we can easily cross the Pacific. and find cur
way to China ; through the Indian Archipelago we
can readily grasp Australia, and as overland wires
present little difficulty in Nmerica, there is no reason
why our correspondence, • • "ancfWer's Island as
well as with Newfoundlanct seou;., iiot be instanta-
neous. This is one aspect of the victory, but it was
not this which was seized upon by the American mind.
The people of the States saw only the great fact
that the New • World was now linked to the
Old, and they were justified in their- discern-
ment. For years past the involuntary tendency, of
events both in England and America has been to-
wards this Consummation. It is not a little striking
to look back upon the struggle. We have colonies
and possessions creating interests which, at first sight,
may appear. nearer and dearer to us than any pro-
duced by the American continent. We have the im-
mense territories of Australia, rich in all the bless-
ings of climate and fertility, and excelling even
California in mineral wealth. We haVe the magni-
ficent empire of India, with its 150,000,000 inhabi-
tants, its mighty provinces, its ancient lustre, and its
undeveloped means. Yet to neither of these has the
electric intercourse been speeded. Our Australian
colonies are even bow complaining that they cannot
get the assurance of ordinary postal communication,
and the telegraph to India, though inconceivably
easier of accomplishment than that to Newfoundland,
has only just beerecoinmenced. Twelve months ago
the eyes of Englishmen were fixed on India with-an
anxiety which nothirig could exceed ; but the affair
did not end in a telegraph. It is only with
America that we have placed ourselves in these
intimate relations—only with New England that
Old England is united. The same irresistible
though insensible attraction has been operating for
years. Steam navigation fell into the same line, and
was develOped on the same field. It was the first
ocean steamer,*as it is nowsthe first-ocean wire, and

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members of the town-council, • magistrates, &c., of South-
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the speCulations about the possibility of an Atlantic
steamer-exactly foresh.adowed the discussions about
an Atlantic telegraph. When it was found that the
novel voyage could be actually accomplished the
energies of the two countries were thrown into the
work, till the Atlantic steamships excelled. all other
steamships as much as steam excels sail. Nowhere
has there been such a mortal race of man against the
elements, and always with the one object of bridging
the great Atlantic Ocean. .It is now bridged indeed,
and, as the first steamer which reached New York
„was but the pioneer of the finest vessels in the world,
so may our single wire, now laid amid the wonder
and rejoicings of millions, prove but the prototype of
perfect union.
The homage paid to this wonderful enterpris is
enhanced by the fact that the novelty of the prin-
ciple has. been lOng-extinct. The real marvel of the
electric telegraph consists in conversing at a dis-
tance, and the extension of the distance adds com-
paratively little to the original miracle. When it
was ascertained that Aberdeen and London could
exchange messages in a few seconds of time, and,
above all, when the communication between Bou-
logne and Dover showed that the
.sea_ offered no
impediment to the new agency, little more in the
nature of surprise seemed likely to be effected. The
electric current could be transmitted along a cer-
tain metallic channel, it could be turned to pur-
poses-of communication, and the mere length of the
wire employed seemed an item of little weight in the
estimate. Perhaps, indeed, if the first attempt of
1857 had been successful, we should have thought
less of the result ; for it is the nature of the human
mind to leap from one victory to another ; and to
think that any step can be accomplished after the
first has locen achieved. As soon as we had crossed the
Channel we prepared to cross the Atlantic, and, if
our confi,lence had not received a check, we should
probably have; less appreciated the triumph which
awaited us in the end. But the failure oft he first drill,
and the renewal of the disappointment upon another
trial, taught us that all our energies were indeed de-
manded for the work hefbre us, while the dreadful
tempest encountered and survived by the A.;aniein-
non proved what dangers and difficulties stiq lay in
our path. It is not too _much to say, indeed, that
after the ships had a second time returned unsuc-
cessfully from their rendezvous in mid-ocean the
hopes of both countries were seriously diminished,
and it became a question whether the powers of
man had not in this attempt been overcome by the
obstacles of nature. But courage and devotion
have received their reward, and we are conquErora
in the strife. The augury is a grand one. Nov
that England can converse freely with America
across the Atlantic Ocean what is there of which
science need despair ?
It is impossible but that the prospects of peace
should be improved by an intercourse which
almost extinguishes the chance of a misunder-
standing. Englishmen and Americans can now
certainly never quarrel over
_a •misteke, and Ilia',
•.ve t: ease, is equivalent to an assumption that they
cannot quarrel at all. Perhaps this result is none
the less probable because we are often exchanging
hard words with each other. Peop'•e who are
prompt to " jangle " rarely fight. Bickerings
furnish a vent for ill-temper, and estrangement
is not thought so much of when it occurs for the
hundredth time, baying been always followed by re-
conci►iation before. There is another consideration,
too, in favour of peace, which is, that as America
becomes an older country she is assimilating more
in ideas with older States, and losing the chief ele-
ment of differente between her views and our own.
But the great bond of all must be fixed and immov-
able in the sympathies and convictions of the two
nations. What have Old Englanders and New Eng-
landers got to keep fliem asunder except those
leagues of ocean which are now annihilated ? This
is one of the forms in which truth must ever prevail,
if only it can be recognised, and now that recognition
appears so certain we may reckon with assurance and
hanksgiviug upon the result.—Tunes.

It is high time that masters, or, as they are
termed, "captains," in the mercantile marine service,
should profit by the many painful lessons they have
received of late years, and learn that, though neces-
sarily entrusted with great power, they cannot abuse
that power with impunity, or vent their wrath on
innocent persons, whether they be passengers, or
even seamen under their command. For a long
time they had it all their own way—could indulge
it► any amount of brutality, without any dread of
being called to account ; or, if brought be-
fore a court for some great atrocity, the
indiscretion was charitably ascribed to excessive zeal,
and they escaped on payment of a mere nominal fine,
a matter that never in the slightest degree influenced
their future conduct. The conviction and execution
of Captain ROGERS at Liverpool, and the transporta-
tion of his twoimates, produced a very salutary effect,
showing that it' death followed, if an unfortunate
victim perished from continued ill-treatment, whe-
ther produced from personal animosity or rough
practical joking, the perpetrators would be held
responsible to the law, and that the obsolete cant
respecting the necessity !' of preserving discipline
would no longer be tolerated in a court of justice.
Since the execution of Captain ROGERS, another
captain in the merchant service has been sentenced
to penal servitude, and several have been called to
account for driving their victims to suicide. This,
however, is a comparatively safe game, for though
morally murderers, being responsible in the sight of
GOD for the deaths of the miserable sufferers, they
could only be punished for common assaults, and
even in such case the full machinery of the law
was seldom, if ever, put in motion.
It is not often, however, that these " Vikings"
attempt to attack or insult gentlemen of rank and
position who may chance to be passengers in the
vessels of which they may be masters. They know
that such cases cannot easily be hushed up—that
they will eventually be called to a strict: account for
their " sayings and doings ;" and that, although it
may be very pleasant to exhibit spite towards per-
sons immeasurably their superiors in social position,
education, and everything that constitutes a gentle-
man, it is rather a dangerous game to play, and
may prove to be a very expensive luxury. Be-
sides it may give the ship an ill name. Cap-
tains too prone to put passengers into irons, or
in any way abridge their liberties, will not
find many, able and willing to pay a fair price for
their accommodation, anxious to sail under such
sinister auspices. For their own sakes, then, they
would avoid such manifestations of ill-humour, but
sometimes bad temper outruns discretion, and they
vent their malevolence reckless of future conse-
quences. _ _

Such a case has been recently tried at Bristol, in
which a gentleman named KROG was plaintiff, and
Mr. HALE FRANKLIN, master of the ship Undaunted,
was defendant. Mr. KROG was an advocate of the
Scottish bar, son to an eminent member of the House
of Assembly at the Cape of Good Hope, from which
place, unfortunately for himself, he came as passenger
to England on board the Undaunted. It happened
that Captain FRANKLIN had serious differences with
some of his military passengers before arriving at the
Cape, and that in consequence many of them bad
kept him at a " civil distance," giving only formal
replies whenever addressed by him. He seems
to have resorted to petty annoyances in order to
avenge himself for what he was pleased to think their
contumacy; and, accordingly, one evening at eight
o'clock he ordered the lights to be extinguished,
when a party of officers were engaged in a friendly
rubber of whist. The usual time for so doing on
board the Undaunted was eleven o'clock, but Captain
FRANKLIN chose to anticipate the time by three
hours. Mr. KROG was not in any way engaged in
the game, but on hearing the extraordinary
order, and feeling that he was better acquainted
with the law than any of his fellow-passen-
gers, he declared that the steward had no right
to remove the lights ; whereupon the captain,
in his elegant phraseology, asked " Who the devil
arelyou." On replying that his name was KROG, the
captain repeated it in derisive and insulting tones,
adding that he was captain of the ship, and would
have the lights put out. Mr. KROG said, " You are
captain of the ship and the crew, but the passengers are
different as regards them; the ship is a sort of floating
hotel, of which you are the landlord." This could
not be borne—the indignant captain threatened to
carry him to England in irons, and, what is more,
carried out the threat, for Mr. Kxoo was kept in
irons ten days in a close cabin, seven feet by six,
until the doctor of the ship declared that he could
not answer for his life were he longer kept in con-
finement.

In this extraordinary case the jury gave the
plaintiff £376 damages, not as a punishment for the
brutality of the captain, but as compensation for the
unmerited sufferings he had endured.
The defendant himself, by his evidence, completely
negatived the defence set up by the pleadings, that it
was "to prevent a mutiny" that he had strained his
authority to such an extent. He also admitted that
he had threatened to pull Lieut. ARMSTRONG'S nose,
6, because he was in a passion because his wife was in
hysterics. He threatened Captain Ilunr, and told
Captain GRREN that he was ready to meet him at 12
paces ; but' then " he was annoyed!'" He had an
altercation
with Dr. VBALE, an officer seriously
wounded at Lucknow, and jeered him on
account of his wound. And this is the man
empowered by the certificate of the Board of
Trade to wield the authority which he has already,
through mere petulance, so grossly abused !
We have no personal feeling against Captain
FRANKLIN. We know nothing either of him or of
any of the parties concerned, beyond the facts
diaclored by the evidence, and the views taken by
the learned judge and the jury in reference thereto.
It is unquestionably a case that should be strictly
investigated by the Board of Trade, so that it may
be ascertained whether Captain FRANKLIN is a fit
and proper person to be entrusted with despotic
authority for the time being. Nor is it merely Captain
FRANKLIN'S case that should be acted on. There are
many others, indeed they are of daily occurrence,
iD which Certified masters greatly forget themselves,

vulgar burglars, robbers, and murderers of bis time
did not hesitate to pour his blood-stained legions
into the peaceful provinces of Turkey, and to un-
sheath the sword whea Europe was at peace, merely

1 and purely for his own aggrandisement. On his
head, and on the heads of his people who
obeyed him when they ought to have treated
him as other Russan despots have been treated,
rests the curse of all the blood shed from
Kalafat to Sebastopol and Circassia. No one ever
ventured to defend this man of bloody ambition, this
arch-offender against Europe, humanity, and the
common laws of nations. No jury but a Russian one,
and not every Russian one, could be found to offer
an excuse for him.
Yet this is the man whom, thanks to German in-
fluence with our Court, thanks to the leanings of
despots to brother despots, and our governors' leanings

to the relatives of our Crown—this is the man who

escaped all direct penalty ! England paid some
eighty millions, France probably as much more, to
resist his villanies, yet he repaid none of it. We
take indemnity of a million or two, it may be, from
the comparatively innocent but helpless Emperor of
China. We leave to the burglars of Europe the sinews
of war—leave them their picklock keys and crowbars
for the next attempt. By amercing the needy Court
of Pekin we gain nothing but the saving to our
pockets of a few pence. had we fined the CZARS in
merely the pecuniary costs to which they put the
Four Powers, we should not only have repaid
the people the heavy sacrifices imposed
upon them, but have taken security of the most
aggressive of European powers to keep the
peace for long to come. Who can deny that
it looks almost like meanness to take a small indem-
nity from a weak Power, declared by half our own
legislators to be guilty of no crime, while we allowed
the criminal, whom all alike condemned, to walk off,
boasting that he had punished the exchequers of four
countries as much as his own ?
We observe that in his speech at Sligo, Lord

PALMERSTON lauded the terms of peace—they were
such as no one would have thought of when the
war began. That may be. But when we had spent
eighty millions of money, and were in a position to
enforce any just demand, it behoved his Lordship to
show that we had obtained what we were entitled to
ask. First and foremost amongst just demands
was the one we have made on China ; and we repeat
there was tenfold reason, both in equity and utility,
for enforcing the same demand on Russia.

Her Majesty will hold a Privy Council on Thurs-
day next at Osborne. The summonses were issued yesterday.
The Princess Anatoli Dariatinsky 'and family have
left the Clarendon fur Shanklin, Isle of ‘Vight.
The Earl and Countess Constance Grosrenor and
family have arrived at Brighton, where they have taken a
house on the Marine-parade.
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Mr. and Mrs. C. Congouilke have arrived at
abrisrh.maenadt
fMrorms.
Laaenoregaeshßirrern

Mr. and Mrs. Mason have arrived at the Queen's
Hotel, Upper Norwood.

We regret to announce the demise of Mr. Charles
Drummond, one of the active partners
000 f the well-known
banking firm. Mr. Drummond died onorflaiff afternoon
at Brighton. The deceased was brother Gen.
Berkeley Drummond, and of the unfortunate Mrai;.vvard
Drummond, many years private secretary of the late .
Peel. He was born 4th 'September, 1790, and married 15th
July. 1819, the Hon. Mary Dulcibella Eden, sixth daughterth
of William first Lord Auckland, by whom he leaves a
numerous family.
The prospectus of the Indian and Australian
Telegraph
iCompany (limited), first section, was issued to-
day. the proposed capital being £500,000, in 25,000 shares
of £2O sack,svth aof preliminary deposit of 2s. per share.
The directors are
conducted in a istbac highest respectability, and their
commercial position guarantee that operations will be
is announced that the legitimate(.and straightforward manner. It
,raphic
ebirct of the undertaking is the ex-
tension of tele
Asm Jiluenfication from England and
India by the Red Sea.ditto Government contem-
plate a continuance of the Red 'B'e line by the land route
any will be made
Ceylon,ftroonls ing etphoer
o, first
and section t
obayllyth'i;urcami
The success
will be
awarded
i.
Com-
pany, e
dcarried to Hong Kong and Australia.
attend-
ing
the laying of the Atlantic cable, and the subsidy
to the promoters of the Red Sea and India Telegraph
luny, have induced the originators of this projeet 3t, antici-
patenl Government assistance, and representations will forth-
with be made to the authorities to secure an adequate gua-
rantee. No doubt can be entertained but that a thorough
connection between the whole of our Eastern and Austra-
lian dependencies will now be established, and that the
works will be speedily commenced and carried out.—
Norm:rig Herald.

MURDER IN SCOTLAND.—The Bridge of Earn was
on Saturday last the scene of a dreadful tragedy, which has
caused the utmost excitement, not only among the inhabi-
tants of the place, but also among the numerous strangers
who are at present sojourning there. The circumstances are
these young man, a sailor, named Alexander Murray,
aged 23 years, came—as usual when not employed at sea—
to live with his grandmother, Mrs. Campbell, the widow of
the late postmaster of this place. It appears that he
reached the Bridge of Earn on Thursday night last from
Greenock, where his vessel had arrived from Trinidad on
the Sunday evening previous, and remained with his
friends until about one o'clock of" the afternoon of Saturday
last, when he expressed a wish to go out. This was mildly
objected to' on the part of his grandmother, when he in-
stantly, and without the slightest warning, snatched up a
breakfast knife from tbe table and plunged it with much
force into her neck, severing the jugular vein and causing
almost instantaneous death. Mrs. Campbell had just suffi-
cient strength before she fell to make her way two or three
steps out of the room into the lobby, where she was found
by her daughter, who had just the moment before left the
room where they had been sitting. Oa attempting to lift
her unfortunate mother the daughter was set upon by the
young man, who, it is supposed, had he not dropped the
fatal weapon in the room, would also have taken away her
life. On assistance arriving be quietly left the house, and
walked along the front street of the village, without shoes,
coat, or hat, and with his hands and shirt all
covered with blood, towards the bridge crossing
the Earn, with the intention, as stated by him to
the person who intercepted him, of casting himself
into the river. He was without any difficulty lodged in the
police-station till the arrival of the authorities from Perth
in the evening, by whom be was conveyed to the Perth goal.
The unfortunate young man was at an early age deprived of
his parents, and had been brought up by his grandmother,
to whom up to the fatal moment is had ever evinced deep
gratitude and affection.. He evidently committed the fear-
' ful deed when in a state of temporary insanity brought on
by excessive drinking. It is said that he was some time
ago confined for a few weeks in an asylum in London,
shortly after his arrival there from one of his voyages, from
the same cause. Such a melancholy event has cast a deep
gloom over the district, where the parties were well-known
and highly respected.—Daily Scotsman.
THE MOORS.—As we anticipated, the moors pro-
mise to stand out well this season. The birds had attained
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of a lot of cheepers, yet grouse are not unplentiful, and,
when the weather is favourable, the probability is that,
for a considerable time to come—until the birds get
thoroughly wild towards the end of the season—a good
day's sport will reward the labours of the active and skil-
ful sportsman. On the 14th Lord March and Prince
Edward of Saxe-Weimar were out shooting together in
Blackwater, and had 52 brace grouse; Colonel Jebb and
Mr. Cox had 36 brace. Monday was a still more successful
day. Lord March and Mr. Cox shot about 70 brace, and
Prince Edward and Colonel Jebb 42 brace. On Tuesday,
Lord March and Colonel Jebb bagged 34 brace, the Prince
and Mr. Cox 38 brace grouse and 3 hares • while on
the 18th, Lord March and Mr. Cox had 27i brace, the
Prince and Colonel Jebb 33 brace. Prince Edward and
Colonel Jebb, on Thursday, had 34 brace, Lord March
and Mr. Cox 42. Lord March and Colonel Jebb bad 20
brace on Friday, while Prince Edward's and Mr. Cox's
success on that day was 57 brace. The grouse in Black-
water are getting very wild, and inclining to pack. At
Glenfiddich, Lord Coventry and Colonel Napier shot 42
brace grouse on Monday, and 25 brace on Tuesday; while
on Wednesday Lord Coventry, with Colonel Black, had 32
brace; Colonel Napier and the latter gentleman bagging, on
Thursday, 15 brace, and on .Criday 25. The Du ice of Rich-
mond, on Friday, on his way from Glenfiddia to Black-
water auk back, un horseback, anti keeping tne roan the
meat of the way, shot 27 brace of grouse and 3 hares. Two
' guns on the Itantadalloch moors had 20k brace grouse, 1
duck, a plover, and 2 hares after two o'clock on Wednesday,
and on Saturday, after 1 o'clock, 401 brace grouse, 21 brace
black game, and 1 hare. The party at Lagganauld continue
to have excellent sport. Mr. Walker bagged on the 13th 45
brace grouse, and the Rev. J. King in a few hours had 81
brace. On the 14th Mr. Walker killed 57 brace grouse,
and Mr. Hall 241 brace. On the 16th Mr. Walker had
another remarkable day's sport-911 brace grouse and 3
hares, and had only 5 dogs; the Rev. Mr. King on the
same day had 80 brace, 1 hare, and a wild duck. M. Hall
killed on Tuesday 29 brace grower on Wednesday '251
brace and 4 hares; on Friday 371 brace grouse, and on
Saturday 28 brace grouse and 3 bares. Mr. alker on
Wednesday bagged 49 brace; on Thur day, in less thin
an hour, he had 7 brace, and on Friday made another
achievement of 911 brace, ki ling on Saturday 271 brace.
The Rev. Mr. King on Friday had 551 brace, and 18
brace grouse and 2 hares on Saturday. Lord Scarsdale, at
Carrbridge, had 25 brace on the 16th, 11 brace, 2 hares,
and 1 snipe on the 17th, and 9 brace grouse, 1 teal, a snipe,
and 2 hares on the kith; Captain Holden and Mr. Bradshaw,
on the same moors, killed 18 brace grouse and 4 hares on
the 16th, 101 brace grouse on the 17th, and 201 brace
grouse and 2 hares on the 19th. The sportsmen around
Kiugussie have had rather different success as yet—from 3
to 15 brace—except Mr. Allsopp, who, on Glentrium, had
42 brace grouse on the 19th. Mr. W. B. Coltman, on
Deskryside, bagged on the 12th, after mid-day, 30 brace
grouse to his own gun, an] his party had pretty good sport
also. Captain Arbuthnott, on the Strathfindsay hill, killed
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in this neighbourhood, owing to the prevalence of rainy
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been general, a iinfilar cessation of labour has taken place
throughout the kingdom. The unfavourable state of the
weather commenced on Tuesday last, and Wednesday and
Thursday were decidedly wet days, rain falling almost
continually though most heavily. On Friday and Satur-
day there was an improvement, and occ.s'onally a fresh
breeze prevailed. Yet out door work, so far as the harvest
was concerned, could not be proceeded with, owing to the
continued humidity of the grain. On Suuday the rising
of the Larometer and other meteorological indications gave
a promise of fine weather, which Monday and Tuesday
fulfilled, and an active resumption of harvest operations will
in all probability quickly take place. A considerable pro-
portion of the corn and barley crops is still standing, and in
sheaf, in the fields, but has not, so far as we can learn, suf-
fered from the rain, which after the long term of dry weather
that prevailed was especially serviceable to root crops and
grass. At many mar*.ts, on Saturday last, samples of new
wheat were sold, and leenerally it is spoken of as being in
good condition, and selling at an advance of about is. per
quarter. Some of the repot's represent the wheat in the
districts spleen of as all housed and in " fine condition,"
the more detailed description being that " the grain is
plump and well-fed, and heavy in bulk." In no instance
do we observe any complaint made of the quality of the
grain, except that in a few northern markets it is repre-
sented to be damp, and to be sold at a low price. With
regard to the general character of the crop in quality some
diversity of opinion continues to prevail. Whilst some
affirm that notwithstanding the fine season, the yield is not
!o satisfactory as was expected, others state that the yield
proving abundant. There is no doubt that the crop is a
variable one, but on the whole the result is most satisfactory.
The barley crop is represented as turning out better than
was expected ; though some of the late sown in Oxfordshire
and other counties will hardly pay the expense of harvest-
ing. The crop, taken as a whole, may be pronounced good,
yet it is expected that superior samples of malting descrip-
tions will he fewer than usual. Oats, and beans and peas
have improved in consequence of the late rains, but the two
latter will still be deficient. As we have said, an extensive
breadth of corn remains still to be cut ; yet, within afortnight,
should the weather continue fine, all the crops will have
been housed, and even then the harvest will be cempleted
nearly a fortnight earlier than in the majority of years.
The position of our own immediate district Is described in
our preceding statements. From Lichfield we learn that a
very large proportion of corn has been on many farms
secured in excellent condition, and many samples have been
brought to market. The recent rains have benefited the
turnip., marigolds, and grass in an extraordinary degree.
Very little is heard of the potato disease, and the crops are
of an average yield. At Tamworth no injury from the late
rains appears to have resulted to the corn, whilst real good
has been done to the grass and turnips. In the neighbour-
hood of Burton-upon-Trent the rain has replenished the
river, though, owing to its fall, chiefly in thunderstorms, no
great pro7ress was made in harvesting operations. A good
many potatoes have been got up, several samples of the
"flukes" turning out rather inferior, and some touched
with disease. Mangold wurtzels are looking well, and pro-
mise a tolerably good crop. Barley continues to turn out
tolerably well in weight, and the colour very good. At
Uttoxeter the gathering of the wheat crop had been sus-
pended, bat it was not considered to be injured. An ac-
count from Cheadle represents the crops of wheat and oats
upon tbe whole as very good ; while to the pastures, clover,
turnies, and other green crops the rain has been exceedingly
beneficial. In some few instances the disease has shown
itself among the potatoes, though as yet to a very trifling
extent. At Newport and its neighbourhood the change in
the weather is stated to have been not unwelcome, as pas-
tures, turnips, &c., were receiving considerable damage from
want of moisture; and farmers had been disposing of their
stock for want of grass, the aftermath this year being not
one-third so good as it was last. There is a large quantity
of grain cut in the district, and the quantity yet standing
is supposed very seldom to have been surpassed. Upon up-
land farms a deal of corn of all kinds appears to have been
gathered, but as a whole it is presumed three-fourths is still
un Wlt tiered. At the time we write there is every prospect
• of a continuance of fine weather,and in a day or two, or
the scythe will again
perhaps earlier, the sickle and
be busily
• employed in forwarding the ingathering of the outstanding
portion of the huvest W o verhampton Chronicle.

A despatch from Lisbon announces the proroga
tion of the Cortes until Oct. 11.

Count de Persigny has arrived at St. Etienne to
take part in the labours of the council-general, of
which he is the president.
The importance of the role France is playing in
opening China to the commerce of the world is not
lost sight of, either by the diplomacy or the press of
this country. Before the reign of the Emperor Na-
poleon 111., the task of introducing civilisation and
spreading Christianity in oriental lands was almost
confined to England. :During the reign of the late
constitutional King, France had little influence at Con-
stantinople, and less in China. Her commerce with the
last was rather the traffic of toy merchants than the
trading of serious mercantile men. The diplomacy of
the Tuileries in those days exhausted itself in petty
intrigues, such as the Spanish marriage, and fretful
jealousy towards England, which, on one or two
occasions, almost produced war. The Ambassadors
of England and France at foreign Courts were ever
working in different directions, so that their influence
seldom brought about any good results either for the
political or commercial advancement of foreign coun-
tries. The present ruler saw the evils of such a
policy from English ground, and one of the strongest
convictions in the Emperor's mind was, as now, the
necessity of France and England uniting their influ-
ence to improve their own diplomatic and commer-
cial relations with the rest of Europe. But in order
to carry out this theory, his Majesty has had to con-
tend with the prejudices of a majority of the French
diplomatic corps, educated in quite an opposite school
of politics. Events have singularly confirmed the
Emperor in his views regarding the utility of the
Anglo-French alliance. Both in Turkey and Greece
France has gained immense influence since the
signing of the Paris treaty of peace. Thus a
French Ambassador at Constantinople can now
influence the Sultan in politics as well as commer-
cial affairs, and promote French interests, which
ought to be ever identiled with those of England.
France has just gained another great victory by acting
with England in China. There her moral weight,
her intelligence, her interests, stand side by side with
those of England. The two great nations of the west
make no treaties either egotistical in conception or
selfish in practice. The whole world participates in
the free navigation of the Danube; and the shipping
of the world also will enter the ports of China on
equal terms. If the genius and wealth of France
turn such elements of prosperity more to external
commerce than of old, the Sovereign and Govern-
ment of France have at least opened the gates for
traffic on terms which give security to the merchant.
That such results would have followed the old
jealous policy of the two nations is scarcely to be an-
ticipated. Every nation of the Continent has an in-
terest in the Anglo-French alliance, since it ensures
peace and produces material progress.
The Siecle has the following reflections on the in-
terference of the allies in China :—" Many persons
have disputed the right of Europe to raise thus
violently the veil which kept China concealed from
the world's view. We do not participate in that
opinion. We believe in the solidarity of the human
race; we think that the same intercourse should
take place between nations as between brothers. No
nation has a right to shut herself up egotistically, and
to repel those whom God has sent as her companions.
If a state of isolation is unnatural in an individual,
it is much more so in a nation. What treasures are
lost when a nation surrounds herself by a wall like
China. How many efforts she would have spared
to other nations, if she had five or six centuries
ago communicated to them what she then knew.
She now pays the penalty of her selfishness, and we
do not pity her."
A Telegraphic Congress, in which France, Bel-
gium, Holland, Sardinia, Portugal, Baden, Wurtem-
berg, and Switzerland are represented, has just been
opened at Berne, under the presidency of M. Naeff,
Federal Councillor.

PARIS BOURSE.—The market had rather a down-
ward tendency at the opening, owing to numerous

Crowds of gaping yokels, stiff and shiny police-
men got up with excessive care, and looking as if
some tremendous secret which they would reveal to
no human mortal were buttoned up in their official
coat—coaches and carriages, four-horsed and
two-horsed—musical artists in such excessive
hats, and impossible caps as every freeborn
Londoner thinks himself privileged to wear on
his travels, but which seldom fail to elicit plea-
santry of a certain kind from those who are less
imaginative or independent about their head-gear
—a great bustle, noise, and confusion—everybody
getting into everybody's way—shiny policemen more
bothered than any one, but vigorously shaking an
observant yokel whenever they got a sharp word
from the inspector for not taking sufficient care of
the public peace—rattle, and dash, and finery, and
a great tuning of instruments large and small, string
and wind—pray, what does all this mean? Why, no-
thing but that the first grand miscellaneous concert of
the festival is nbout to commence in the Shire [lan ;
that the great and tic vex-to-be-sufficiently- admit
lions and lionesses of musical London are going to
display their wondrous powers for the especial delec-
tation and delight of the good people of Hereford.
The exterior of the Shire Hall has a certain nobility
about it, although the roof is too low, but we can
say nothing in favour of the concert hall, excepting
that it is good for musical sound.
This orning Mendelssohn's "Elijah" was per-
formed in the cathedral, the principal vocalists
being Madame Clara Novello, Madame Viardot, Miss
Lascelles, and Madame Weiss; Mr. Montem Smith,
Mr. Weiss, and Mr. Sims Reeves. We can only describe
in terms of praise the satisfactory execution of a
sublime and difficult work like this with a provincial
amateur chorus, and a provincial conductor, unused
to command so large a body of performers, and
having to deal with metropolitan instrumentalists
unaccustomed to his peculiar style of beat.
We have so often recorded the merits of Mr.
Sims Reeves' versions of "If with all your hearts"
and " Then shall the righteous," both perfect efforts
in their way, which no other tenor of the present
day could rival, that we have really nothing left to
say about them, unless it be that they delighted us
again on this occasion as much as ever, and that we
shall never tire of hearing such grand and beautifhl
music so finely sung.

The lovely voice of Madame Clara Novello gave
all the usual effect to her renderings of the widow's
scene, " Help me, man of God," and the noble air,
" Hear ye, Israel."
The best opportunity Madame Weiss had for dis-
tinguishing herself was in the recitative of the youth
who is sent to " look towards the sea," and the
highest praise we can give is that she took the fullest
advantage of it.

An encouraging word must likewise be spoken for
Miss Lascelles, who displayed much promise as an
oratorio singer in the air, " Woe unto them," and
the various concerted pieces in which she took part.
Although we did not mention Miss Louisa Vinning,
Mr. Thomas, or Mrs. Clare Hepworth amongst the
principal performers, simply because they had very
little to do, and sang for the most part in concerted
pieces, we must not omit to state that the!r
valuable assistance contributed materially to the
general excellence of the performance, or that
Mrs. Clare Hepworth sang one short solo, " Behold,
God hath sent" (erroneously set down in the pro-
gramme for Madame Viardot) in a highly com-
mendable manner.

The following pieces were repeated by desire of
the bishop :—" Cast thy burden on the Lord" (ex-
quisitely sung by Madame Weiss, Miss Lascelles,
Mr. M. Smith, and Mr. Thomas); " 0 rest in
the Lord" (sung by Madame Viardot); " Then
shall the righteous" (by Mr. Sims Reeves);
" Lift thine eyes" (Madame Clara Novello, Mrs.
Clare Hepworth, and Madame Viardot) ; and "0,
come every one" (Miss Louisa Vinning, Madame
Viardot, Mr. M. Smith, and Mr. Thomas). The
attendance at the concert of last night was 220, at
this morning's, 583. The collection this morning,
£181; that of the first morning concert of the last
Hereford festival, £207.
Amongst the notabilities present to-day were
Lady Foley, Lady Powis, Lady Curtis, . Mrs.
Hampden, Mrs. King, Mrs. Clifford, Mrs. Griffiths,
Miss Leighton, Mrs. Acton, Mrs. Lowther, Miss
Conewall, and Miss Bullock.

FOUR GENTLEMEN DROWNED.—The retired and
beautifully situated little town of Emsworth, Hants, bas had
a sad gloom cast over it, occasioned by four of its inhabitants
being drowned by the capsising of the pleasure smack Caro-
line, James Cribb, master, of the above place. It appears
on Saturday afternoon she left that place with six
gentlemen on ~rard, the wind being strong at the time.
When about four sidles down the harbour a heavy squall
took the boat, and before the master could get hold of the
tiller (one of the gentlemen steering) the ill-fated boat cap-
sited, and, melancholy to relate, the Rev. H. Morse, Joshua
Smith, Esq., solicitor Mr. Brown Moorhead, and Mr.
George Shean were drowned. The persons saved were Mr.
Philip Tyne, the Rev. Henry Shean, and James Cribb,
master. The Rev. H. Morse swam ashore, but in his anxiety
to save life he put back again to the wreck, by which the
heroic clergyman lost his own life; it is supposed he was
seized with cramp. The other three lost are, we believe,
single men; but the Rev. H. 3lorse is married and bas fur
children, and his wife is hourly expecting to be delivered of
another. The four dead bodies bare ell been picked up and
landed at Emsworth.—Brightott Guardian.

William Skeldon sworn—l am a plate-roller. I was in
the train. The guard was in his break, and the carriages
being so crowded I went into the break with bim. Shortly
after we started the guard asked if any one had any matches
or tobacco. He got my brother, who was 17 years of age,
and now dead, to work the break fur him, he being also in
the break-van. I gave the guard some tobacco and he lighted
his pipe. He appeared to be quite sober. It was when we were
between Dudley and Stourbridge that my brother worked the
break under the direction of the guard, who was smoking.
Near Brettell-lane I felt a very severe shock, and the guard
said a coupling ohein had broke. The shock was then so
severe it threw the off my seat. When we got to Brettell-
lane the guard took out a fresh coupling chain. A little
further on there was another shock, and the guard said it
was a second coupling chain had broken. He took another
chain, and went to the top of the train, but brought it back
again, saying, " I can do without it." We reached Wor-
cester at 12.25. There were 45 carriages and two engines
part of the way. 2,000 persons were in the train before it
was divided. I don't know why it was divided. The first
of the divided train left Worcester at 6.20, and the
second train in which I was left about a quarter
of an hour after. Our train went on steadily up to
between Brettell-lane and the Round Oak station. There was
then a severe and sudden shock, and I was thrown violently
forward against the opposite side of the carriage, and was
much injured. I got out of the carriage, and first saw the
funnel and the buffers of the engine knocked off and lying
on the line. The steam was off the engine, and I asked the
engineer what was the matter; and he replied, " What the
d—l do you want here ? Go back to your carriage ; there is
nothing serious the matter. We shall be off in a few
moments." I then went on further with a man named
Benj, Lswes, and saw the smashed carriages of the first
train, and the first person I saw was the same guard
in whose break van I bad ridden in the morning. I did
not speak to him, but I knew in a moment that it
was the same train in which my father, mother, and brother
were in. I was unable to find either of them fur two or
three hours, and heard then that my father was lying at. Mr.
Noden's, the Moor-lane House. My father, when I went
there, was alive. His legs were broken, and both feet were
cut off. His legs were amputated, and he died in about 20
minutes after. My mother and brother were amongst the
dead.

By the Jury—At the time of the accident there was no
light in the carriage I was in, nor do I think there were
lights in any of them.

By Mr. Burbury—My brother, who worked the breaks,
knew nothing about railway matters. He was never so
far on a railway before in his life. My brother was in no way
intimate with the guard I have spoken of. When we arrived
at the Worcester station in the morning I and my brother
and the others who were in the guard's van got out. The
officials could have seen us leave the guard's van. I heard no
complaint made at the Worcester station that parties had
ridden in the guard's van. I saw the first part of the
train leave the Worcester station. The guard invited me
and Benjamin Lawes to ride in the brea back again, and
I declined. Ten or 12 persons got into the break. The
guard asked us openly at the Worcester station to get
into the break. The second train left about 10 minutes
or a quarter sf an hour after the first. There are
about eight stations between Worcester and Brettell-
lane. Our train stopped at about three or four stations.
Oar train stopped at the Stourbridge and Brettell-lana
stations. We stepped at the Brettell-lane station about five
minutes. _ _

By the Coroner—There were a great number of young
people and scholars who went by the train, but there were
no other people denied from going by it.
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passed J saw another train coming on the same line from
the direction of Stourbridge. I immediately after heard a
loud crash and shrieking. When I first saw the two trains
there was a distance between them of between 300 or 400
yards. When the smash took place I ran down and saw
seven or eight dead bodies lying under the two or
three first carriages, which I had seen coming down the
ncline from the Round Oak station. I helped to get the
bodies out. The carriages were smashed to pieces.
Adonizebeck Gordon said—l am a watchman at a colliery
close to the scene of the accident. On Monday evening I
was on the bank by the side of the railway near the bridge,
by Brettell dane. I heard the whistle of an engine,
nod saw a train coming in the direction from Worcester.
In about a quarter of an hour I saw the same train coming
back again without an engine. Almost immediately I
heard the whistle of another engine coming with a second
train from the direction of Worcester, and I saw both trains
meet with a frightful crash. I saw several carriages
smashed, and the people lying about dead and wounded.
By Mr. King—I saw the carriages from Round Oak be-
fore I saw the train coming from Stourbridge.
The Rev. Edwin Cresswell examined—l am a clergyman,
and reside at Cufflon Field, Sedgley. I was a passenger by the
excursion train. I had with me a party of nearly 200 children,
teachers, and their friends. I should think the train con-
sisted of nearly LO carriages, principally second and third
class. There were two engines to the train when at Bilston;
and they conveyed the train to Worcester. I believe I saw
two guards to the train. I heard no complaint of there being
a want of engine power, or too many passengers. On

reaching Brettell-lane station a circumstance occurred
which created some alarm. There was a sudden
jerk, and one- third of the train was separated.
I could not understand the extra shake, and put my bead out
of the window and saw that there had been a separation of
the trains. This was during the morning journey: From
that time we received several shocks. On the second
shock, which was before we arrived at the Kidderminster
station, there was another separation, and myself and
wife were in the carriage next to the carriage where
the coupling chain had separated. When the train sell.
rated, I jumped out of the carriage and ran by the side for
at least 50 yards, until the last portion of the train stopped,
and the guard then came and placed a new coupling chain,
on. While running by the side of the carriage, I observed
that some chains w are broken, but I cannot say whether
they were under the centre of the carriages. The middle
chain was not broken, and the guard immediately coupled
the carriages again, by fastening the centre chain, which
appeared to me not to have been fastened before. Front
this fact, I assume that a similar occurrence took place
at the Brettell-lane station. After this occurrence I had
a conversation with the guard, and I said to him " I hePe
those engineers are not playing us any tricks. I don't knoW
whether they are drunk or not, but I hope not, although'
from the many jerks we have had, I should feel inclined to
believe so." The fluard said they were playing no tricks, that
they were both perfectly sober, and that one was a teetotaller.
We then went on pretty steadily to Worcester. On the re-
turn we started. from Worcester about half-past six o'clock'
I was in the first portion of the train when it was separated'
and that part consisted of 29 carriages. In the two train'
there were 1,540 people, or from 50 to 60 people in each of
the carriages. A second engine joined the train either at
Church-hill or Kidderminster, and the train went on verl
steadily to the Round Oak station. The latter part of the
train then becaime detached from the former. I was in the
former part, and when the separation took Place
the latter part of the train of 15 carriages tali
down the incline towards Stourbridge. After standing
at the Round Oak station for about 10 minutes our part et
the train was pushed gently back by the engine for the
distance of half a mile, perhaps, where it stopped, and sell
after it fort her moved to within 100 or 150 yards oftbe scene°
the accident, which was reported to us by one of the portal'
who had a lamp in his hand. There was a terrible rush fromeer
carriages when the news of the accident reached us, and fie
saw people being carried away dead and dying on planks and
various articles. It was dark; so much so that I could 00t
distinguish the features of the children who belonged to
the schools, some of whom were in that part of the Ulla
which had run down the incline.
By the Coroner—My impression is that when the cluda
separated on the occasion when I ran by the side of the
carriages, that, 'sad the centre coupling been fastened, the
separation would not have taken place.
By the Foreman—l saw no lights in any of the carriages'
There were none in the carriage where I was. The trail
was engaged exclusively for our schools, and I was Inacl
astonished to find that it was converted into a general e'fi
cursion train. I had refused to allow persons not conned
with the schools to have our tickets for the train.
Mr. John Phillips, stationmaster atlßound Oak statieal
examined—l was on duty at the Round Oak station °:
Monday last, when this excursion train arrived in tfil
morning. There were two engines to that train. 1 don
know the names of the engine-drivers of that train. Thetam
were two guards, but the guard of the front portion of t
train was a stranger to me. The one behind fieg
Thomas Cook. There were upwards of 40 carriageel:
that train. If there was any complaint, either U:4
in reference to a guard, it is to be made to the ors
stationmaster. If chains or couplings are broken, there
are fresh ones kept at every station to supply the deficieSce
No one applied to me for any such things on the moral
of the accident. I was at the station during the great
part of the day. I have no stated hours. I was not Pt
Round Oak station at the time of the accident. I Was
Dudley, and had left the station in charge of my assisrani:
named Boulton. We have telegraphs from Round °0(
to other stations. We gave no signals of the progrees,lo
this excursion train from station to station. We are ne'rit
the habit of doing other than use the signal stations. I bt
heard of this accident about nine o'clock on MondaY nigid
on Dudley platform. I hastened, with all the force lOn
muster, to the scene of accident to assist the sufferers. ...„1,
By the Coroner—l don't know whether the Oxford, Ivviti
tester, and Wolverhampton permit strangers to trace!‘ei
the guards' break vans in excursion trains, It is prohthp to
with ordinary trains. It is the duty of statientnastereo
see that the three coupling chains are properly c°°Prti,
when a train is at the station, although there are no Polio
culsr instructions to that effect. (Some coupling c the
were here produced which had been broken, and whichlio
witness identified as the property of the coropanY,
well
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the coupling hook of one of the carriages, which, as "e
the screw, was broken completely in half.)
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Witness continued—The chains produced were given
by the porter, who found them at the spot where the BCC
dent happened. They were in the same state 89 when Biles
to him. The broken nut and screw he picked up himself
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the following morning at the spot. That nut and 6CI-og
would have been sufficient to have sustained the en01111:0
weight of a train consisting of 1,500 people. He c°'
not account for its breaking,
By Mr. King—The end of the pin which is fixed to the
buffer plank was broken, and pulled through the nut.
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By Mr. Burbury—There are signals at some stations;
show whether the line is blocked or not. There is no seco
signal between Brettell-lane and Round Oak. There 1614
telegraph. It was not used with respect to this train :be
after the accident. There would be a greater tension ne
shackle irons on the incline between Round Oak and Br*
tell-lan on level parts of the line.
At thie sthan stage of the proceedings, the Coroner said 10
..911,
inquiry of so much importance it was advisable that an °yea
portunity should be afforded for the relatives of the deceaevi,
persons, as well as the company, to produce any further co,
dence which would be likely to throw alight on the ch.°
stances which had led to so lamentable a loss of life; !li,
being his views, he now proposed to adjourn the invest 4
tion for a few days.
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The inquiry was then at six o'clock adjourned for a We

STATE OF THE SURVIVORS.
Upon instituting inquiries after the conclusion of !II:
inquest, it was ascertained that no less than 15 have 4;'
88 have been discovered to be more or less injured,
seriously, for the recovery of 13 of whom very great doubt,
are entertained. Many more, however, are believed Obrif
been hurt, but not sufficiently to prevent them reaching tv'ee
own homes. These cases have not come under the cogois9u-to
of the officers of the company, to whom it is only jeetic%to
state that they have done everything possible to alievihe
the sufferings of the injuted parties and to assuage
grief of the relatives of the deceased persons. The Ira
where the collision took place, between the Round 03k 1/11,11
Brettell-lane stations, is an incline of 1 in 75, which fila
account for the terrific velocity with which the &Whet
carriages, without the check of an engine, dashed dovill
and into the other portion of the excursion train.

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