The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-30 00:00:00

FATAL ACCIDENT ON TRE LONDON

AND SOUTH WESTERN RAIL WAY,

On the evening of Monday, the 28th, a distress-
ing accident occurred on this railway to the Ports-
mouth express train, which leaves the Waterloo
station at 510 p.m. The train in question was
preceded by the 5 p.m. express to Southampton,
which proceeded safely to its destination. Unfor-
tunately, however, the 5 10 train ran off the line at
the Epsom Junction about 9 miles from the Water-
loo station. The engine passed safely along the
line, and was not at all concerned, apparently, in
the accident. The tender appears to have mounted
the rails close to a bridge about 20 yards from the
Epsom Junction, and sweeping completely the
para
petTohfethueppberirdpgaertiteffetlhleotveenrdeinrteoenthtaeinroing
road be-
neath.the
ewater was completely severed from the under side,
to which the wheels were attached, and turned up-
side down into the road. The framework of the
tender also fell over, and rested in the road by the
side of the tank with the wheels uppermost.
A few yards further on several first and second
class carriages left the line and turned over, the
bodies being severed from the framework and
wheels, the latter being driven much further than
the carriages themselves. The ends of the carriages
were driven in, and nothing remained at all sound
save the middle compartments, which had the
cushions and rugs driven about in utter confusion.
A tip of one of the buffers had rested in the middle
of a first class carriage. The bank over
which the carriages ran was about twentyh
feet high. Several carriages remained upon
thet e
line, two were off the line on to the ballasnt,
the
foremost one being partly down the bank
carriagesthe
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travelling
removed to
a house close
much hurt that she was _
'n a fit state to be removed to Lon-
don. A Lassenpgers from the scene of the accident
wounded
to London.
The line near the spot was being repaired, and the
bo Oast was cleared away from the sleepers for the
purpose of packing them. The train in question
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was followed by another train, express to Kingston,
five minutes only after it. This, fortunately, was
brought to a stand before arriving at the spot, or it
must have dashed into the sound portion of the
unfortunate train, and the consequences would have:
been still moro awful. Fortunately it was clear at
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being hid from view by large tarpaulins thrown,
over them. There is great credit due to those in.
charge of the trains. The engine-driver ran on for
medical assistance, the guard left his train and ran
back with the red or danger light, and the driver
of the following train, seeing the signal, pulled xrp
about 300 yards from the spot where the accident
occurred.
The pointsman at the junction has two distant
signals about 400 end 800 yards towards London
respectively, and it is a very strange and culpable
thing that the most usr,,ful one, which can be seen
nearly a mile from the junction by down trains,
was out and utterly useless.

Then as to Austria—well she, too, is surely and
R 0 YAL ENGLISH OPERA,
COVENT-GARDEN. obviously powerless in the presence of the Italian
Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W.
Harrison, Sole Lessees. movement, With ten million Hungarians upon
THIS EVENING, and during the Week, Balfe's New
Legendary Opera, BIANCA, THE BRAVO'S BRIDE: her flank straining like bloodhounds in the
slip—
Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Dilemma ; Messrs. A. Lawrence,
J. Wharton, IT. Corr!, A. St. Albyn, G. Kelly, Wallworth, T. with her coffers empty and her credit exhausted—
Distin, Lyall, and W. Harrison.
with all the military force at her command occupied
With the Grand Pantomime, BLUE BEARD ; or, Harle-
quin and Freedom in her Island Home. Clowns, ilessrs. 11. in holding down the few Italian provinces remain-
Bolen°, IT. Payne. Mild ant, and Lilliputians. Harlequins,
Messrs. Milano and F. Payne. Pantaloons, Messrs. Barnes ing to her, Venetia and the Quadrilateral, from
and Tanner. Columbines, Mdme. Boleno and Clara Morgan.
Sprites, the Zelinski Family. }lr. W. 11. l'ayne, Mlle. an insurrectionary' outburst. Prussia has some-
Lamoureux, Arc.
Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at Seven. how rather too many anxieties of her own upon
her hands to trouble herself, even if so disposed, by
interfering with the Italians in the dissipation of
theirs. England and France, we have already
seen are long since sufficiently conscious, have
clearly and unalterably pronounced in favour of
non-intervention. So much for the five great
Powers of Europe. As to the smaller Powers,
those need scarcely be taken into account seriously
in a matter affecting so vitally the interests of all
Christendom. Even the most ambitious among
them, that kingdom of Spain that was once the
great ruling power in both hemispheres, even Spain
that actually aspired the other day to assume her
place among the chief powers of Europe, making a
sixth at the Council Board of Christendom—even
Spain who a year ago was dealing so haughtily in
arms with the warriors of the Emperor of Nloßocco
—has contented herself (and no wonder) with
sending a present of gunpowder to the young King
of GAETA in his beleaguered stronghold, forwarding
to FRANCIS 11. the assurances of her sympathy
with all that " villainous saltpetre." The Italians
in effect have all still pretty securely and pretty
comfortably to themselves. Upon -themselves will
rest, therefore, in a great measure, almost entirely
their future destinies. They have already passed
through the ordeal of many battle-fields. They
have now to pass through another and a very
different ordeal, that of discussions and divisions in
Parliament. The representatives of the various
provinces in that Parliament are now fast mus-
tering—are being sent thither to that new legis-
lature of Italy rejuvinated—by the Piedmontese,
'by the Lombards, by the Parmese, by the
Modenese, by the Tuscans, by the Romagnese,
by the Neapolitans. Let those representatives
but remember that local interests ought, at this
crisis of their destinies, to be subordinated by them
to the ulterior interests of the whole Italian Penin-
sula, and all will go as well and as smoothly in the
Italian Parliament, as it went well with the pro-
vinces themselves, when one after another they
were abandoned, for several months together, to
their own resources in self-government. Anarchy
alone was predicted then and anarchy
existed only in those sinister prophecies. So
may it be now in the bosom of the new Italian
Parliament. There, all jealousies and heartburnings
should be forgotten. The Italian alone ought in
each instance to be recognised, and not in any one
urea Sorridere"
"Oh qua] perenne" instance the mere provincial—not the Tuscan or
" Vola talon dal Carcere"
" got erido di teste" the Nlodenese, not the Lombard or the Par-
-- Vergini"
mese, not the Romagnese, the Piedmontese, or
the Neapolitan. It should be recollected, too,
by these new representatives of this new
nationality that, while Europe is watching
them closely, some with secret hatred, but the most
with sympathy—the first question of all that will
come before them to be answered plainly—Aye or
No—will, accordingly as it may be answered, give
the keynote for good or for evil to the future
of the whole Roman peninsula. It is for-
tunately a question that is simple enough.
It is already put ; may we not say it is
already answered—[answered, though the Par-
liament by which it will have to be answered has
not yet assembled, though that Parliament has not
yet even had numbered up its full complement of
representatives]—it is the one root question to Italy
of her Unification.

TITEA TR E.ROYA L, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Ba:Astonc.
TTTTS EVENIN(; the performances will commerse with
(by desir ) SII E STOOPS TO CONQUER. Miss rrardcastle,
Bfiss Fanny Stirling*; Tony Lumpkin, Mr. Buckstone.
After which, a new Pantomime, QUEEN LADYBIRD
AND HER CHILDREN. The I'antomimists by the un-
rivalled Leclercqs, Herr Cole, and Fanny Wright.
Commence at 7.

1..!0YA1, PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
t• I,PRRPe and Manmzer, Mr. A. Muria.
THIS EVENING, the performan.cos will commence with
RUT BLAS. MessrA. Fechter, Basil Potter, Garden, Ray
mond, Graham, Citheart, and A. Harris.

•
Aft" which, a"W hristmaa eomieal nantornime, entitled
ROBINSON CBUSOE ; or, Ifarleinin Friday, and the Eine'
of the raribhe : fn which Monsimir Espinosa and
Mille. Marie Dinilatre, of the principal eantinental theatres,
will ap:'ear. Clown, fir. A. P. Forrest,.

-T.E TTATRE- ROYAL LYCEUM
• So',e Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.

THIS EVENING, a new Drama, entitled THE IRISH
EMIGRANT. Messrs. G. Vinint. .T Johnstone, T. Lyon,
Forrester, and John Drew; Miss Rate Saville, Miss Stuart,
and Mrs. .1. Rome.
After which, the Lyceum Christmas Comic Extravaganza,
CRYSTA BEL LE or, The Rose without a Thorn, showing
THE VEST() \i 5)1" A ROSE. ITS FADING AT EVE,
AND THE MAY-BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR.
To conclude with MORE BLUNDERS TITAN ONF•
Larry oola,cran, Mr. John Drew.
H

A D
FI PHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL,
Sole Proprietor and Manazer, Mr. Bent. Webster.
THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J.
E. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E.
Thorne.
Alter which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Poneicault, D.
Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson, 0.. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billingrton, and
Mrs. Chatterley.
To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravar.ranza, entitled
BLUE BEARD FROM A NEW POINT OF HUE.
Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford. C. J. Smith ; Miss Woolgar,
K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and R. Thorne.
Doors open at half past 6—Commence_at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes ..C2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l.
Orchestra Stalls, :is. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, is. t
Pit Stalls, 28.; Pit, 18.6 d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

A.STIFY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
1
Proprietor and :Tanitc,er, Mr. WM. BATTY.
Last week of Mr. J. Crockett and the Trained Lions.
A Grand Juvenile Fete will take place on Friday, Feb. 1,
commencing at two o'clock with the Pantomime, concluding
with the-Lions.
This Evenincr, a new Spectacle, entitled THE LION
CONQUEROR; or, The Death Jungle, expressly for the
introduction of the Wonders of the World, " The Groupe
of Performing Lions." The Lion Conqueror, Mr. J. Crockett,
To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by
talented Parisian and Brif ish Artistes.
Concluding with Batty's Prize Equestian Comic Panto-
mime, for Good Little Boys and Girls, by T. L. Greenwood,
entitled HA lILEQUIN AND THE WONDERFUL
IH)R S E ; or, Percinet and Grociosa, the Ugly Duchess and
the Greedy King, produced with Gorgeous Scenery, by Mr.
Cuthbert, new Costumes and Appointments, and introducing
in the comic scenes Batty's Prize Equestrian Harlemtinade,
and the celebrated Old Bob Ridley, and Brandon Ledger.
Doors open at half-cast 6, performance commenoe at 7.

CANTERBURY-HALL CONCERTS!!!
A Grand Selection from Verdi's Opera,
IL CORSARO,
consisting. of the followins, Morceauxs : 1
. 1
Prelndio.
Coro Srena ed Aria. "Tutto r arca Sorridere"
Coro di Odalische. " Oh qual perenne"
Cavatina 1
Coro ed inno
Scena ed Aria. " Cento 'eggiadre Vergini"
Terzetto Finale "Vol tacete io nol" • •
will be produced in a few days, in the Oriznal. Key•and
Italian la.ngua ,e—the first time of performance in this
country—in addition to the usual attractions.
Mr. F. JONGEIMANS, Musical Director.
Also, in preparation, Selections from Verdi's New Operas,
"Un Ballo in Maschera," "Simon Boccane,tra ;" and Flo-
tow's celebrated Opera of "Stra,lella."

HIGH WATER A T I ONDON BRIDGE.
Tnrs DAY.—Mornin, 4h. 26m.—Afternoon, 4h. 46m.
T )-mORROIV. -Morning; sh. 9m.—Afternoon, sh. 26m.

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TUEEMOMETER, IN THE SHA.DB. •
4G —highest since noon yesterday.
36 —lowest this morning and during the night.
42 —this day at noon.

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Economy and Retrenchment is excellent advice
to most of us. Even the richest sometimes need it,
for we have all a strange facility for approaching
the margin of our incomes. And then the Re-
trenchment is not felt when Economy produces it;
for good management leaves us as good results as
we obtained by ill-advised prodigality. The diffi-
culty lies in teaching the good adminstration, from
which Retrenchment of expenditure follows rather
with pleasure and satisfaction than inconvenience.
Economy is not niggardliness and pinching; it is
doing all things in the best way, and it cannot be
the best if there be waste of resources. The highest
efficiency by the least expenditure necessary topro-
cure it, is what should be understood by Economy.
This, hOwever, in national even more than in pri-
vate business, is a difficult problem ; and we do
not find that Mr. BRIGHT, who seems to have de-
livered such a long and passionate philippic against
our national expenditure last night, did much
towards its solution. It was but too easy to show
how we had gone on increasing our expenditure till
it reached the enormous amount, unparalleled
we believe in time of peace, at which it
arrived last year. The difficulty was to
shew how to get back again, without impair-
ing our defensive strength. Be it, as Mr.
BRIGHT thinks, delusion, or be it wisdom, while all
Europe eats, drinks, and sleeps on its arms, we do
not think the English nation will easily be pur-
suaded to go to sleep without pistols beneath its
pillow. We do not indeed imagine that any one
in particular thinks of attacking and robbing us ;
but when the nations all around us are accoutred
like brigands, we prefer to " keep our powder dry,"
as well as "to trust in God." Rather we should
say, it were impious to trust Him while we neg-
lected the plainest precautions for our safety.
There are two ways in which economy and
retrenchment might be taught to our governors,
and both have the sanction of precedent and expe-
rience. One is the regular orthodox House of
Commons one, of a Committee. The evil is that
Committees are of very slow operation, and waste
an immense amount of time and paper on irrele-
vant questions and answers. Still, if fairly
constructed, they do elicit a great deal of informa-
tion ; and a member of Parliament who devotes
himself to the subject, by the help of a good
Committee, and well arranged returns, may
let daylight into most of the dark corners
where our money is muddled away unobserved.
Mr. BRIGHT and his colleagues in opinion would
do excellent service, if they would resolutely devote
themselves to this work. Unless the general public
are much misinformed, the A iralty in its man-
agement throughout, its Doc ard management
especially, is a most fertile source of waste. Now,
we want to know on authority. what is the true
state of things ; whether, as alleged, we might
have better built ships, and better equipped
and manned, at half the cost or so. No one
desires to pinch and save by grinding down
seamen's wages and the pay of efficient officers;
hut, some of the broad facts, such, for instance, as
these proclaimed by Lord C. PAGET, have persuaded
the public that half its money is spent not on ships
but on blunders in building them. We should like,
therefore, to have found Mr. I3ntoece and his friends
pledging themselves to move for two or three com-
mittees to overhaul the general management, and
the details of expenditure in the navy, at the Horse
Guards, and on the miscellaneous estimates also.
The prospect of having sueh committees to face
would alone have done much to keep down the

THE SUN.
LONPON, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 30, 1881

The Italian Parliament now being elected will
have to decide as—the first problem of all submitted
to them for solution—the vital question of annexa-
tion, or rather, it should be said, of Unification.
It will speedily be seen, therefore, whether
Prince METTERNICH was altogether correct in his
cynical sneer about Italy having no more than a
" geographical expression.'' As something towards
the settlement of this still pending difficulty, there
has been latterly tbserved in active operation
throughout the Roman peninsuisa a movement of a
very extraordinary kind among the various States
of that great country—a movement more or less
active, but all tending in precisely the same direc-
tion. It has been actually there to all intcnt3 and
purposes of late as though, upon the alternately
smooth and agitated surface of time, or of affairs

(,just as we may please to call it), the rods of
the diffcrent ruling Po:S•ers of Italy had been
' afloat, drifting hither and thither, upon the surface
of the current—those rods heretofore the sceptres
of different Italian Princes, henceforth (it is in-
tended) to be bound up firmly and permanently
togother into the fasces of a single dominant au-
thority.

The binding together of these symbolical rods
will be the first work set apart for the New Italian
Parliament. And for the simplification of that
solemn and responsible duty, it has latterly come to
pass, in obedience to one of the recognised laws of
nature as defined in the rudimentary treatises upon
natural philosophy, that the smaller of the floating
bodies have clustered, one after another about the
largest, in accordance with the simple force of
a superior attraction or of gravitation. Have we not
sun it ? Is it not visible to the whole world ?
Sardinia, the chief of the Powers that be, yonder
in that beautiful and noble Italy, has drawn to-
wards her in succession Lombardy, Parma, Mo-
dena, Tuscany, the 'Emilia, Naples, Sicily. The
smaller sceptres or rods of power have floated, in
obedience to the force of gravitation, to that
chief sceptre of Sardinia, to that sceptre already
armed with the axe of authority ! Already,
therefore, the powers of the new Italian Kingdom
can be recognised at this moment as existing
loosely. Around the separate rods thus together
self-collected it is only needful now that the
Parliament of the Roman Peninsula should draw
securely the bond of Unification. Europe is the
spectator. Beyond the frontiers of the new
kingdom are countless sympathisers. And even
those -who are far from sympathising in the
liberation of Italy by the Italians themselves—even
those stand around, too, simply as spectators. They
are powerless to act, they are powerless to interfere.
The fiat has gone forth from France and from
E ,goiao d—reluctantly,taraily it may be from France
—earnestly, resolutely from England—the man-
date of the epoch, the policy of the age—Non-
intervention T.
iteßsia, even the hang,hty and inso-
lent autocracy of RLl;Zia, does not interfere. her
ambassador to the late Court of Naples, it will be
observed, has now, within the last few days, now
that FRANC? s TI, is man i fntly in extream's, his excel-
-I,:ncy the diplomatic representltive of the CZAR to
the Court of the King of GAETA has, very
recently, as the latest indication of the power-
lessness of Russia, withdrawn from the side of the
sing (of Gaeta) to Rome ! This—from Russia!

estimates of 1861, and without detriment to the
efficiency of the public service.
Another mode, and it is one which might be
combined with the former, of compelling Ministers
to economise, is to refuse the means of extrava-
gance or carelessness. We must indeed assume
that we have such an amount of patriotism in the
Government that it will make the smaller sum do
the work of the larger, and not cut off more than
would leave what was really sufficient. But, with
this caution, no plan is so efficient as that of stop-
ping the superfluous supplies. This was indeed
the wisdom of our ancestors, If our readers will
turn to another column they will find a sketch
from the pen of Lord BROUGHAM, of the battle
fought,by the people, and therefore by the Commons,
of 1816, against the old income tax; and they will
see how the proudest of the Tories, the lord who
denounced the people's "impatience of taxation,"
had to yield to the wisdom which he scoffed at a
ignorance. The Government wished to maintain
a war establishment and war taxes for some time
after the peace. The people refused their assent,
and made their refusal tell. The income tax
vanished, revised estimates were brought in,
economy and retrenchment followed.
We can hardly doubt that our ancestors took the
wisest course. They did not—Mr. BRIGHT says he
will not do it—hack at hundreds of pounds, while
millions were being squ an dere d, they went straight
at the millions. They alleged all the arguments
against the Income-tax which we now do, and
they laid special stress oar its being a war tax ; the
tax which ought to be kept in reserve for war, and
which it is treachery to our strength in time of
war to continue in time of peace. On what arti-
cles of commerce could a Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, with any hope of success, lay duties now, if he
needed to raise more money in time of war ? His only
resource, then, must be direct taxation ; to fore-
stall that source of Revenue therefore, appropriate
to the hour of extremity, and to make it a part of
the regular taxation of the State is, really, as
dangerous to our security as to leave us without an
adequate army or navy. Should war break out,
we shall assuredly need supplies of money as we
shall ships and soldiers: It is tantamount to
leaving the country without a war tax to prolong
the income tax, merely to repeal Customs' duties to
which Manchester objects.

The other social and fiscal arguments against the
tax which render it an abomination now, were not
less felt then. Yet, if we remember rightly, it had
one injustice less than those to which we are sub-
jected. The Peel-Gladstone income-tax makes no
allowance for the number to be maintained by any
income. The poor clerk, whose income is, in fact,
the income of half a dozen or half a score persons,
who must maintain a wife and family out
of it, pays just the same as the
man whose entire income is devoted to
his own support. A considerable allowance was
made for families formerly; indeed, Sir ROBERT
PEEL'S only excuse for not doing it was that the
tax was intended to be temporary ! We need not
repeat what almost any one knows by experience,
respecting the cruelly unjust incidence of the tax
on the incomes whch have to be earned by labour,
skill, and risk. No man has yet been found to
deny it. Mr. GLADSTONE himself has condemned
the hopeless iniquity of the tax, in language as
strong as any one.

We would then suggest to Mr. BRIGHT and
the Manchester School, that if they mean to effect
anything, they must place the Government under the
necessity of economy. They must select the ini-
quitous war tax, and demand that it be reserved
for war. They will not deprive the Government
of the entire amount raised by the tax, for
part of it will come back in • the shape
of increased consumption ; but they will have
cut off as much as will compel a revision of
the estimates, and probably a permanent reform
in the money-spending Departments themselves.

A French Magazine, it is said, will soon throw a
flood of light for Parisian eyes upon the disease,
the squalor, and the poverty festering among great
masses of our London population, " They manage
these things better in France" as well as others to
which the Rev. LAURENCE STERNE alluded in
his fameus journey as a sentimentalist. They
manage these things far better, do our Gallic
neighbours; and they will now know that
they do (to our shame) if this announced design
on the part of the Paris magazine be but duly
realized. It is not by any means for want of a
knowledge of the miseries rife in London that we
have done so little, and that little so indifferently
in the way of striving to dissipate them, or
even (to any appreciable extent) to diminish
them, The squalor of the back slums
of the Eng'ish capital is a very old story
indeed to Englishmen generally, but particularly
to Londoners. -Mr. DICKENS has, with his benign,
genius, brought the frightful truth in this matter
to light in many and many of his wonderful
descriptions of the condition of the humblest classes
of his fellow-countrymen. Every one remembers
Tom all Alone's. And the name is the name not
of a locality, but of a class of localities. And
the Brothers MAYHEW have, with rare industry and
varied ability, done their part too in the wholesome
toil of exposure. Of this fact let HORACE MAYHEW'S
story of the City paved with Gold," and HENRY
MAYHEW'S statistics accumulated in the terrible
chapters of his " London Labour and the London
Poor," bear witness. Our charitable societies
again have been more or less frequently, and accord-
ing to their energy more or less effectually drawing
the veil of conventional ignorance aside, and
laying bare an appalling diversity of hidden
wretchedness. Journalism has assisted continually
in furthering these humane efforts. We ourselves
have so far the consolation of remembering that for
years past we have striven to forward the good cause
—however, by necessity, our efforts in this way have
been made, for the most part, intermitently. The
Olorning Chronicle a dozen years back toiled
through much of that Slough of Despond, choking
up the back ways of London, toiled through much
of it effectively and systematically. An intelligent
and benevolent representative of our contemporary
the ,Corning Post has been now very recently
penetrating into those miserable haunts of vice and
anguish, constituting a fearfully large proportion
of the externally wealthy and well-to-do mass of
these twin cities of London and Westminster. The
correspondent of the Post has done this very strik-
ingly, indeed, and very eloquently—exposing to
view, one after another, a series of appalling
sights, designated by him under the collective
title of London _Horrors. It is the revelation
of these among our London Horrors that has of late
awakened the curiosity and excited the amaze-
ment of the Parisians. And to the interest thus
excited among the Parisians we have to attribute
the rumour of the design already spoken
of as entertained by one of the French
Mag,zines, An announcement like this
ought to shame us at last into some more
comprehensive and systematic endeavours than any
that have yet been adventured upon with a view to
the clearing away of so much squalor and wretched-
ness'. To this end the Government ought to come
to the aid of scattered societies, and to the aid of

the still more scattered and isolated efforts of in-
dividuals. Let us recollect at least that our lon.
don Horrors are now being brought vividly under
the French microscope.

CORE BLARNEY, AND M.ACROOII RAILWAY.

This bill came before Mr. Frere, one of the
examiners of the Houses of Lords and Commons, in
room 16 of the House of Commons, this day, the
30th January inst. Messrs. Fearon and Clabon,
Parliamentary agents, with Mr. Thomas Barry, of
Cork, the solicitor to the bill, attended. The
examiner declared the standing orders to have been
complied with.
We learn that the bill will be introduced on the
first day of the session.

MR HULLAH.