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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY' EVENING, AUGUST 28, 1866.

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The Accident on the Great Eastern Railway.

In the report of the accident on the Great Eastern
Railway, near Ely, which appeared in The Sun of
yesterday, it was stated that two passengers had
been seriously injured. They were Mr. and Mrs.
Ainbroso Ground, of the Griffin Hotel, March, who
are now lying at the Lan!, Hotel. Ely. They are
said to be recovering, but Mr. Ground being a stout
man of 50 great fears are entertained of a relapse.
The reports from Peterborough, whither the guard
and fireman have been removed, state that neither
of these men is going on so well as he was. The
inquest on the body of William Brown, the en-
gine-driver, was opened at the Shire-hall, yester-
day morning, before Mr. W. Marshall, the coroner.
The coroner and jury having seen the body, and
inspected the scene of the accident, Isaac Brown
deposed that he is engine-driver in the service
of the Great Eastern Railway, and identified
the body as that of his brother. He had been a
driver for 21 years, chiefly on the Great Eastern
Railway. He had the reputation of being a sober
man. John Barton, of Peterborough, produced
the staff book, which showed the train to be an ex-
cursion train, described thus No. 8.-1, 2, 3
classes ; leave Peterborough 230 a.m., call at
Whittlesea 2 43, at March 2 58, and due at Ely at
3 25." The engine is a single engine, has a tender
attached, and -has six wheels, the middle pair being
the driving wheels. William Tofts deposed that
he was gatekeeper nerrwhere the accident took
place. He saw the train coming up about 3 28,
throwing the ballast up. The engine went off the line
and the carriages were turned over. He saw the de-
ceased, whose head was buried, up by the break. The
signals were all right for him to come on. Jacob Cross,
who worked under a platelayer, saw the train. It
was going, he should think, from 40 to 50 miles an
hour. John. Taylor, solicitor, Peterborough, said he
was a passenger in this train. After the accident he
examined the place where it had happened. The
cause was palpable. There is a place where the iron
rails should be attached to each other, and where
some iron bolts hold them. He found at the place
on the right hand of the up line the bolts in ques-
tion, two or three had flown out and others were
broken. That was the point where the train left
the line. It was 4f yards nearer to the gate than
to the telegraph-post. He observed eight yards fur-
ther up a piece of rail gone from the left. The bolts
were much corroded, and they showed marks of re-
cent fracture. The bolts were out of the right hand
rail. John Tyler, inspector of permanent way, said
he arrived at the scene of the accident about half-
past 6on Saturday afternoon. The down line had
been repaired, but nothing had been done to the up
line to his knowledge. He saw some bolts broken
about four or five yards from the inside road up rail
at several joints. Some chairs were burst. The
rail was sound. It appeared the flange of the wheel
ran on the top of the key and burst the chairs.
Some of the rails were bent. The left hand rail was
broken where the engine crossed. After some fur-
ther evidence had been taken, the inquest was ad-
journed for a week.

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what a'we t 6 gig of such a staid of thluo 4 thin,
systematically established and recognized for the
last hundred years ? What kind of Parliamentary
Reform will apply to Great Yarmouth ? Is it to be
expected that any voter can be ashamed of doing
what he knows that five hundred of his fellow-
voters are doing, and what his father, grandfather,
and great-grandfather did before him ? It is not a
mere margin of corruptible votes that we have to
deal with. The purchasable electors are numerous
enough to turn an election under universal suffrage.
Mr. 11. Berkeley thinks that if the Ballot were in-
troduced these voters would take the money without
performing their promises, and so prevent candi-
dates from buying their promises again. We do
not believe they would do anything so suicidal. On
the contrary, we are persuaded that instead of thus
killing their goose they would preserve their golden
eggs by faithful conduct; indeed it seems evidently
to be thought wrong at Yarmouth to take a bribe
without giving a vote. There, however, is thestory,
told without the least reserve by those actually en-
gaged in the proceedings. Never have we had so
extraordinary a tale before, and it surely should
contribute some important arguments to the discus-
sions on Parliamentary Reform.
Irri:ar.n. --No one who has had any practical ac-
quaintaneo will! the typal English working man
will care to deny for one nioment that be has noble
stuff in him. He is the strongest, the most indus-
trious, and the most intelligent Worker to be found
all the world over. But he has his faults ; and, con-
sidering the demoralising influences which unhap-
pily surround him, it is a wonder that they are not
far more numerous and far more conspicuous than
we find them to be. He is sadly credulous and
easily worked upon. He, the comfortable, well-
to-do working man, earning wages which curates
and City clerks would regard as magnificent, will
applaud to the echo the fluent mouther who tells
him that he is " down-trodden." Having within
himself the consciousness that he is as independent
a man as any upon the face of the earth, he never-
theless gives his entire acquiescence to the propo-
sition that he is nothing better than " a serf," and
that he is " trampled under the hoof of a tyrannous
oligarchy." A body of men who would " strike"
at a moment's notice if their employers offended
against any of the canons of their trades unions,
will listen with frantic delight while a demagogue
of the Mason Jones or Odger or Mantle stamp
paints them to their faces as the writhing victims of
tyranny and oppression. An English working man
tyrannised over by an English master would be a
singularly rare phenomenon, although we imagine
that it would not be very difficult to adduce ex-
amples of masters despotically ruled and dictated
to by their men. This pitiable weakness in the
direction of credulity renders him sadly accessible
to flattery. We question if any class of men in
modern society has been so persistently or so ful-
somely bepraised as the working man. Mr. Horace
Greeley has certainly gone great lengths in his
efforts to convince the negroes that they are the
equals of the whites. But the worst possible in-
structors of the working man—Mr. Bright and
Mr. Beales—go far beyond Mr. Greeley, for, not
satisfied with teaching him the doctrine of
universal equality, they encourage him to
believe that he is better than anybody
else. In the face of the ascription of all the
virtues to the working man, it requires a painful
effort to realise one's own respectability. Being
taught to believe that he is exceptionally "honest,
the working man may be pardoned for doubting if
anybody else is. He is eulogised on the special
ground that he is " horny-handed," and, of course,
regards a smooth palm in others as the badge of
mental and moral obligation. A man may get
through a serious amount of work—Lord Pal-
merston did, for instance—and yet preserve a soft
white hand and a clear complexion ; but the artisan
who is instructed to admire in himself " the swarthy
son of toil," looks upon such workers and their
work as humbug. Thus petted and fawned over,
he comes to regard himself as the crystallisation of
human perfection and every other grade in the social
scale becomes ticketed with the badge of his com-
placent depreciation. If titled, you are the haughty
scion of an effete aristocracy ; if wealthy, you are
purse-proud ; if a Tory, you are treacherous and
tyrannical ' • if a bishop, you are bloated ; if a parson,
you are fa,t; if a middle-class man, you are selfish ;
if Mr. Walpole, you are bloodthirsty ; if a police-
man, you are a brutal ruffian. That is how we are
all ticketed, and why ? Because the working man
hears the abuse of all other classes blended with
the adulations of his own, and feels too much
flattered to be inclined to discriminate. He takes
it all upon trust. He listens to Mr. Bright and
Mr. Beales, and he reads his Star and his 7ele-
graph—the one possibly, as Mr. Matthew Arnold
suggests, for its wisdom and charity, and the other
for its taste and style. He believes, or affects to
believe, all he hears and all he reads, and the result
is that he becomes a discontented and excitable
member of society. And this brings us to another
and equally unsatisfactory development. Assuming
that he is tyrannised over, the working man of the
present day has actualiy become tyrannical. The ex-
orbitant aggressiveness against the Church of the
"conscientious Dissenter " is more than paralleled by
the imperiousness of the down-trodden working man.
For years past he has made the country ring with his
complaint that he is absolutely excluded from poli-
tical power. The statistics produced at the com-
mencement of this year by those who urge his claims
prove to demonstration that he is represented to the
extent of one-fourth in the existing constituencies.
It was then urged in his behalf that he had a right
to a preponderating influence in the franchise ; and
no sooner was the question postponed by the resig-
nation of the Whigs than it is declared in his behalf
that he will be satisfied with nothing less than man-
hood suffrage—the neat and simple expedient for
swamping the wealth and intelligence of the country.
A not less striking example of this arrogant temper
was shown in the demand that Hyde-park should
be given up for the purpose of a political meeting.
That is exactly one of the purposes for which the
park was expressly not intended, and it would have
been as fair and as just if the inhabitants of Bel-
gravia and Tyburnia had required that on a certain
day it shouldbe given up to them for croquet parties.
In the same spirit a Mr. D'Gruyther and his
friends insist that the Queen shall grant them an
audience to receive their petition requiring the dis-
missal of the present Government. It is vain to
point out, as Sir Thomas Biddulph does, that the
proper course is to forward their petition through
the Home Secretary. They reiterate their demand
to the Queen in person, with a stern intimation that
if the refusal is persisted in they will look upon
her Majesty as having abdicated. Of course, one
may either shudder for the appalling consequences
which may ensue to the Crown and realm, or
laugh at the silly presumption which could have
preferred such a demand, and backed it
with such puerile menaces ; and we pre-
fer to laugh. But is it not pitiable to find
the working man, in whose name the Wat Tyler
of Bedford-street professes to act, committed to such
silly impudence, such contemptible braggadoccio?
Other and equally distinguished agitators have
clamoured for the expulsion of the Tories, and their
demand has been endorsed by " great demonstra-
tions"—which is English for hole-and-corner meet-
ings-44 ()rated" by local nobodies, reinforced by
professional demagogues from the clique ill Adel
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to represent the nation exclusively any more than he
exclusively represents its wealth, its intelligence, or
its respectability. Let the workingman disabuse
himself of the silly notion that thebse arrogant pre-
tensions are recognised by any class of men out of
his own section. The claims of the working classes
always are and always will be respectfully listened
to when they are urged with justice, good sense, and
moderation; it may be worth their while to con-
sider whether they would not stand a better chance
of obtaining a fair hearing if they were to disen-
tangle themselves from such spokesmen as Messrs.
Bright and Beales, and the minor spouters by whom
they are surrounded.

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