The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-08 00:00:00

was brolen.. The complaints were loud and gene-
ral against the driver of the Great Northern ex-
press, who must have seen the standing carriages
at some distance, and it was declared that he
seemed to be taking no notice of his engine. Un-
-I,si it was that the rails were more slippery from
the rain than he had calculated upon, and he was
unable to bring up his eiwine in a reasonable dis-
tance, there can be no doubt he was guilty of gro-s
negligence. The matter certainly demands, as we
presume it will receive, thorough inquiry.
Lady Londeshorough and hor daughter, the
Hon. Miss Denison, were among the persons who
were injured. The3e ladies were in a carriage than
tvas about to be detached for Hull, to which town
they were about to proceed to meet Lord Londes-
borough, and to attend the annual ball of the Hull
Regatta. Both Lady Lendesborcugh and her
daughter have their faces bruised, and the former
received a severe contusion of one of her legs.
Both the ladies returned to Lord Loudesborough's
seat, Grimston-Park, near Tadcaster, where they
were joined the same evening by Lord Londes-
borough, who on receiving information of the ac-
cident by electric telegraph took a special train
from Hull to Tadcaster. Happily both the ladies
are likely to recover, the report as to the state
.)f their health from Gritnston-house yesterday
(Friday) morning being of a favourable character.

any selfish or sinister motive,-but in the hope that,
they would establish an honourable fame in en-
deavourmg to bring together the tw ) greatest
countries in the world by a rope male with the
magnitude of strength with the minimum of
weight. It was exceedingly encouraging to him-
self to find their motives were thus appreciated ;
and he was sure he spoke the sentiments of his
colleagues, • of whom there were five or six
present, who had come there from a desire to
visit Ireland, and pay honour and respect
to their distinguished host. The po,sibility of
failure had been intimated ; but he thought
they bad every reason to auticipata a suceisful
result to their labours. All persons engaged in the
work were exerting themselves with the utmost.
zeal ; and on board the Agamemnon and the Nia-
gara it was gratifying to perceive that every one,
from the highest officer to the lowest boy, seemed
to be actuated by but one desire—to do everything
in his power to carry,out this great enterprise to
completion. The directors of the Great Southern
and Western Railway had placid at their disposal
carriages and horseq, and done everything to pro-
mote'their comfort and convenie.ice. The chairman
of the junction from Mallow to Killarney had also
given them his support, and he was bound to re-
turn to those gentlemen kis cordial acknowledg-
ments. They were overcome by Irish hospitality,
and he assured them that they had a very serious
task to perform in endeavouring to work through
it. (Laughter.) It would ill become him to piss
unnoticed the name of a man who, whether they
succeeded or not, must ever be mentioned with the
greateit este3m and gratitude by all connected with
that company—he alluded to Sir C. Wood, First
Lord of the Admiralty, whose spirit had animated
them from the first day until their departure from
London. It had even crossed the Channel, and
entered into the heart of Admiral Chads, who had
stimulated them to further action, and offered them
every assistance in bis power. In conclusion, he
would express a fervent hope that the New World
would be bound to the Old with the cords of man
and the bonds of love. (Loud cheers.)
On Wednesday, as we have elsewhere announced,
_

THE NEW REFORM BILL.

(From, the Times.)

A week ag) Lord Brougham found an occre
sion for delivering a speech on the expected Re-
form Bill. The ex-member for Yorkshire, the
Chancellor of 1830, naturally regards the revival
of discussions on the representative system with the
half-sympathetic and half-contemptuous feeling
which some old Peninsular General may have en-
tertained when, after 40 years of peace, the Guards
embarked for the Dardanelles. The colours are
the same, although a third or fourth generation of
recruits has taken the place of the seasoned soldiers
who crossed the Pyrenees. The veteran sees with
pleasure that the interests of his youth are reviving ;
but he takes care to remind his younger contempo-
raries that they are not yet equal to their fathers.
The agitation for " the Bill, the whole Bill, and
nothing but the Bill" will assuredly not be repro-
duced in 1858. The hopes and fears which will be
excited by any change which may be proposed are
comparatively moderate and calm. Lord Brougham's
successor will have no occasion to implore the House
of Lords on his bonded knees to pass Lord Palmer-
ston's Reform Bill.
The immediate reason for introducing such a
measure consists in the fact that it has been re-
peatedly announced, and that almost all consider-
able statesmen and a majority of the House of Com-
mons are pledged to support a change. Lord J.
Russell was with difficulty persuaded to withdraw
his Bill in the midst of the Russian War, and he is
ready at any moment to take the lead of the Re-
forming party, if the Government shows any want
of zeal in the cause. At the general election it was
impossible to confine candidates and constituencies
t.) the immediate issue between Lord Palmerston
and his opponents. In a large number of boroughs
Reform was made the test of Liberalism, and the
temperate desire for change which is partially enter-
tained was loudly and universally expressed. The
country and its rulers have been led by circum-
stances to make a kind of compact among them-
selves, and it would be rash, and scarcely honest,
to treat the bargain as a nullity. Communities as
well as individuals feel them-elves bound to act up to
a resolution when they have once publicly announced
it. The business of wise politicians at present is
not to thwart the popular demand, but to make
use of it for the purpose of strengthening and puri-
fying the representative system. Lord Brougham
need not deprecate the renewal of revolutionary
excitement. The Reform Bill of 1831 was a train
applied to a powder mine. There is no mass of
combustible materials underlying the present posi-
tion of political society in England.
Rotten boroughs, close corporations, corn laws,
and navigation laws have -disappeared, and, above
all, the suspicion that public evils are to be attri-
buted to the legislation of a selfish minority has
happily become obsolete. - There maybe errors and
abuses still to correct, but there is no indignant
feeling of disaffection among the great body of the
community. The advance of prosperity and of en-
lightenment in the last quarter of a century has been
so visible and rapid that the popular imagination is
not forced to employ itself in creating a future
Utopia, or in looking back to a fictitious age of
gold. Even the most thoroughgoing advocates of
organic change demand rather a logical symmetry
in the representative system than a machinery
adapted to the realisation of extensive social re-
forms. By a natural consequence, the old spirit of
bigoted resistance to improvement has almost dis
appeared with the subsidence of revolutionary agi-
tat ion.
There never was a time at which the correction
of constitutional irregularities might be more
safely undertaken. The difficulty of the Govern-
ment will consist principally in the absence of
enthusiasm for any definite scheme which may be
proposed. The measure which obtains the sanc-
tion of the ablest politicians may perhaps not be
calculated to satisfy the popular expectations. The
constituencies at the general election probably
desired a considerable extension of the suffrage,
and it will be necessary to carry out their wishes.
On the other hand, all statesmen worthy of the
name will be unanimous in resisting proposals
for uniformity of representation, The admission of
the higher and more enlightened class of non-voters
will meet with universal approval ; but it unfor-
tunately happens tl.at in proportion to any man's
rank in society is his indifference to the Parlia-
mentary franchise. The upper classes must neces-
sarily form a small minority, and it is not through
the influence of their individual votes that they
contrive to govern the country.
The borough constituencies, especially in the
larger towns, are already too homogeneous. Small
tradesmen outnumber the more educated portion
of the middle classes, while the active and intelli-
gent artisans-are for the most part excluded from
the franchise. If some plan can be devised for
enabling the manufacturing operatives to vote,
without swamping the remaining bodies of elewors,
the economic errors which embody themselves in
" unions" and in " strikes" may soon be eradicated
by the influence of free disscussion. The Lancashire
factory hands might possibly, in the first instance,
return a few Socialist demagogues to Parliament,
but experience would rapidly convince them of
their error ; and the consciousness that they had a
voice in the councils of the nation would go far
to anticipate their periodical outbreaks of dis-
content.
It must not be forgotten that the total amount
of electoral power is necessarily a fixed quantity.
Nothing can be given to one class but what is
taken away from another. New seats can be
created only the disfranchisement of small
boroughs. Large additions to existing constitu-
ences will swamp the present electors. At the
time of the Reform Bill it was comparatively easy
to transfer power from a score of noblemen to
Rom') dozens of counties and of large towns. The
elective bodies of the present day are more power-
ful than the boroughmongers, inasmuch as they
occupy a less anomalous position. The disfran-
chisement of fifty small boroughs would unite
seventy or eighty members in opposition to the
proamotors of any reform measure. If Lord John
Russell's bill had passed a second reading in 1854,
it was generally understood that the disfranchising
clause would be rejected by a large majority.
It may be doubted whether any powerful class is
really eager for a specific change. The gentry
manage the counties ; the Liberal manufacturers
have no rivals in the
large towns. The electors in
On Tuesday afternoon last a collision took place the minor boroughs can scarcely wish to reduce a
the
at the Milford Junction station, between Leeds and importance of the suffrage by sharing it with
York, on the Not th-Eastern Railway, which might larger number. Yet there are advantages to those
have been attended with serious results, hai-, which who know how to use them in the opportunity of
was fortunately accompanied with nothing more navigating in a calm. A well-considered measure,
severe than a few contused or incised wounds, a vio- pressed on, with all the vigour of Government, will
lent shaking, and a good deal of alarm. The comm.ansi the aid of those numerous members who
North Eastern up express leaving York at four are pledged to do something, and at a loss to decide
o'clock p.m., had arrived at the station, and the among competing projects. There is no reason to
Leeds carriages, which were filled with passengers fear Mr. Disraeli's protest on behalf of the ill-
returning to Leeds from the Yorkshire Agricultural treated covnties, for his Conservative supporters
Coincide with Society's Show at York, had just been detached are well aware that they can only lose by any
perty and with numbers. lf Lorsion,
from the other portion of the train, when the Great attempt to make representation
sixty or seventy
pro-
Northern express train came up and ransinto the
out theb sameth principle, demands
baloadt carrying
standing carriages with considerable force. The
the provinces will D. sfailtosupport the
porters on the roation gave an alarm by calling to
reu iatir,
the passengers to " Look out," and as soon as the Gmoemernerms'ent
formv ity. The ]penalmischievous uni-
latter discovered their position there was a genet-
obstinate resistance' seasority will overbear any
ral rush to the doors, and a great number got ou. , .
_. so improvement,
either in [ortion of its teen- and a large
but the majority of the passengers were ei steers will, at
lat- read to the same time, be
the train or in the act of leaping on to the p_a y suPPo:et the Minister
and several of d ngerous i against any rash and
form when the collision took place,T:inovation. The result will undoubtedly
the latter, including some ladies, were thrown an increase of
'd
Those who re- si c r popular power, but no con-
and had a very narrow escape. _ _ J able section of the community demands a
manned in the carriages were violently shaken and serious
derangement
W. R. C. titans- ~ • of the balance of the consti-
bruised, and the servant of Mr. _ ution. The electoral body must itself, in a certain
field, of Esholt-hall, near Bradford, received
coecti ase . .suss, represent the 11 've nation. If it once
vere incised wound near his eye. The glass in becomes identical with the multitude, all the more
keveral of the windows and doors of the car iages enlightened ghtened classes are practically disfranchised.

the Lord-Lieutenant performed the ceremony of
attaching the end of the telegraphic cable to its de-
stined iilture on the beach. Amongst the gentle-
men present were Lord Russborougb, Mr. F.
Howard, the Kinght of Kerry, Lord Dunraven,
Mr. Brooking, Sir E. M'Donnell, Mr. Daniel J.
O'Connell, Sir W. O'Shaughuessy, Mr. C. Field,
one of the principal projectors of the Atlantic cable,
Mr. Saward, secretary to the company, Dr. Pal-
mer, of the Niagara, and Dr. Hamel, member of

the Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg, who by
direction of the Emperor attended to watch the pro-
ceedings, and to report upon them to the academy;
together with many of the local gentry.
The cable having been landed and fixed, one of
his Excellency's chaplains read a payer.
His Excellency here said—My American, Eng-
lish, and liish friends, I feel at such a moment as
this that no language can be becoming except that
of prayer and praise. However, it is allowable to
any human lips,.though they have not been speci-
ally qualified for the office, to raise the ascription
of " Glory to God in the highest—on earth peace,
and good will to men." (Cheers.) That, I believe,
•
is the spirit in which this great work has been un-
dertaken, and it is this reflection that encourages
its •
me to feel confident hopes of final success. I
("Hear, hear," and loud cheers.) I believe that '
the great undertaking now so happily begun will
accomplish many great and noble purposes of trade,
of national policy, and of empire. But there is only
one view In which I will present it to those
whom I have the pleasure to address. You
are aware—you must know, some of you from your
own experience—that many of your dear friends
and near relatives have left their native land to
receive hospitable shelter in America. Well, then,
I do not expect that all of you can understand the
wondrous mechanism by which this great under-
taking is to be carried on, blit this I think you will
all of you understand. If you wished to communi-
cate some piece of intelligence straightway to your
relatives across the wide world of wa'ers—if
you
wished to tell those whom you know it would in-
terest in their heart of hearts, of a birth, a mar-
riage, or, alas, a death, amongst you, the little cord
which we have now hauled up to shore will impart
that tidings quicker than the flash of the lightning.
(Loud cheers.) Let us indeed hope—let us pray,
that the hopes of those who have undertaken this
great design may be rewarded by its entira success
—(cheers)—and let us hope further, that this At-
lantic cable will only in all future time serve as an
emblem of that strong cord of love which I trust
will always unite the British Islands to the great
continent of America. (Hear.) And join with me
in my fervent wish that the great Giver of all Good,
who has enabled some of His servants to discern so
much of the workings of the mighty laws by
which He rules the universe and pervades each
atom in it to accomplish this wonderful work, will
further so bless its operations as to make it ever
more to serve the high purpose of the good of man
and his own great glory. And now, all my friends,
as there cin be no project or undertaking which
ought not to receive the approba' ion and applause
of the people, will you join with me in giving three
hearty cheers f, r—(loud cheers.) 'Puree cheers
are not enough for me—they are what we give on
common occasions—and as it is for the success of
the Atlantic tel,graph cable, 1 must have at least
one dozen cheers. (Loud and prol naged cheering.)
Mr. BROOKING, chairmen of the executive com-
mittee of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, then
presented himself. He said—. After the eloquent
and spirit-stirring address of his Excellency, I will
not delay you lenger than to acknowledge, on the
part of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, our some
of the kindness of his Excellency, not only for the
great compliment paid to us by his approval arid
countenance, but for the trouble and inconvenience
he put himself to in coming here to-day to render
to us the great and important service of inaugurat-
ing this event. I beg to propose that three cheers
be given for his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant.
The proposal was heartily responded to.
Mr. CYRUS FIELD, the projector of the Atlantic
Telegraph Company was then called upon. He said
—I have no words to express the feelings which fill
my heart to-night—it beats with love and affection
for every man, woman, and child who hears me.
I may say, however, that if ever, at the other side
of the waters now befora us, any one of you shall
present yourselves at my door and say that
they took hand or part, even by an approving smile,
in our work here to-day, you shall have a true
American welcome. (Cheers.) I cannot bind my-
self to more, and shall merely say, " what God has
joined together, let no man put asunder."
The Lord Lieutenant and suite, the directors c f
the Great Southern and Western Railway Company,
and several other gentlemen by whom they were
accompanied, then posted to Killarney, where they
arrived about three a.m. on Thursday morning.
His Excellency returned by special train, leaving
Killarney at a quarter to nine o'clock and arriving
in Dublin a few minutes after two. —Freeman's
Journal.

RAILWAY COLLISION.