The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-30 00:00:00

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THE LATE FATAL RAILWAY
ACCIDENT NEAR NOTTINGHAM.

(BY EXPRESS.)

VERDICT OF THE JURY.

NOTTINGHAM, SATURDAY MORNING.
The adjourned inquest upon Mr. John Dean was re-
sumed yesterday at ten o'clock.
The room was crowded, and amongst those present
were G. B. Paget, Esq. ; W. C. Hutchinson, Esq. ; and
J. Ellis, Esq., Directors ; Mr. Clarke, superintendent ;
and Mr. J. Kirtley, manager of the locomotive engines.
After a very lengthened examination of several wit-
nesses,
Mr. Campbell addressed the jury on behalf of Mr.
lightfoot.
The jury unanimously expressed their high satisfaction
with the very ready manner with which the Railway
Company had acted.
The jury adjourned for half an hour.
At eight o'clock, the jury again took their seats, and
the coroner occupied an hour and a half in summing up.
The room was then cleared, and at one o'clock the jury
returned their verdict as follows :
" The jury, after a long and patient investigation of
the circumstances, feel compelled by their duty to return
a verdict of MANSLAUGHTER against Mr. Robert
Lightfoot ; and they cannot separate without expressing
their belief, that notwithstanding the management
for general transition by railroad, much might be
done, and ought to be done, to render railway tra-
velling more secure, and especially of second-class
carriages, and though they may not be so comfort-
able as the first-class, they may be as safe. And
they also intimate, that passengers ought not to be taken
along the wrong line of rails without their consent.
The jury further saggest, that much more safety,
might be secured by the general introduction of
electrical telegraphs. There was also another point
which the jury think ought to be attended to, and that
is, that in future great care should be taken to ascer-
tain that all the company's servants are intimately and
Perfectly acquainted in their social duties ; and the
jury cannot too strongly express their conviction that
Jonathan Raven has not sworn to the truth in his deposi-
tions, and that he is utterly unworthy of the confidence
of the Railway Company and the service of the
public. There was another point on which the jury
wished to remark, respecting Mr. Lightfoot, and
that was, they were exceedingly grieved, on account
of the many favourable circumstances in his favour,
to place him in the painful situation in which they
have done, and nothing but a paramount sense of
duty had compelled them to do so. The Coroner
wished to join also with every individual of the jury, to
express his sorrow on the occasion. There was an-
other thing which was desired to be recommended to
the Railway Company, and that was the situation of
Mrs. Dean, who, in the prime of life, has been sud-
denly, and in a moment, deprived of the stay of her
existence, and of her support ; and the jury hope that
provision will be made for her by the Rail a ay Company,
so as to prevent her feeling, in addition to her heavy
loss, the sorrows of destitution and privation."
THE FUNDS—(CL

OSING PRICES.
FUNDS.
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO — pn'•
Ditto under .£l,OOO — pm
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities
llitto New Annuities
1,000/. I X,d f,7
Ditto sbol ....... 57 inv.
Ditto Sinai! 57 pill
Bank Stock o,r Acct f:Oi
Consols for Act
India Stock ler Acct

BRITISH
Bank Stock ..... div 2i S I
3 per Cent. Red lOl
per Cent. Cons.
per Cent. Red
New 31( per Cent. 10•N
New 5 per .......
Long Annuities to expire!-16ir
Jan. 11380

Jan. 1E)60. ...... .......

Indian 5t0ck.....„ .......... „..

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austan, 5 per Cent ...... ... !Russian, 5 per Cent
Belgian, 5 per Cent Ditto, Metallic _
Brazilian' Bonds .—......,.... *anis)), 5 per Cent., 1840._
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... Ditto, 1811 ____ ........... ~
Cuba Bonds, 6 re: Cent...-. Ditto, 180
Chllian, Si per Cent .....»..... 1 Ditto, 1813.
Colombian, 6 per Cent ...... 137 i Dittw, 1545
Danish, 3 per Cent .... ....... . Ditto. !.i p• • Cent ... ......
Greek, 18-,5, 5 per Cent...... iVenez;:ela Bonds, 2 per Ct._
Mexican, 5 per Cent ......... French, :,' rer Cent . —t. - c
Neapolitan Boads,s per Ct... i French, 3 per Cent....... —l. —, ,
Prussian Bonds, 4 per Cent i Exchange
Peruvian Bonds, 8 per Ct... !Dutch, :2;6 Pet Cent ~ —
Portuguese Bonds, S per Ct iDitto,.s per Cen' —
SHARES
Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid).. ........ ..... 1,7%
Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) -
Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid
Caledonian (5 paid)
Cambridge and Lincoln, I% paid 24,
Direct Northern, 2% paid -,%
Eastcrn Counties (25 paid)
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid
Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 5 paid
Great Western (75 paid)
London and Birmingham (Stock)
London and Blackwall (161. 13s. 4d.) 6%
Pardon and Brighton (50 paid)
London and South Western (411. ca. 100. paid)
Ditto Eighths (15s. paid)
London and Croydon
London and York, 2% paid
Manchester and Birmingham
Midland (100 paid)
Newcastle and Darlingron Junction, 21 paid
Norwich and Brandon, 6 paid
Richmond and West End Junction, 1 paid I%
South Devon, 10 paid lO%
South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid)
Ditto, New Shares, 4 paid..... ................
York and North Midland (50 paid)
Ditto Half Shares (25 paid)
Ditto Scarboro' Branch, 10 paid
Xitto, Selby Scrip, *.) paid 6B
Ditto Extension
Boulogne and Amiens, 2 paid ................ ...., 5
Orleans and Vierzon, '2 paid ll
Orleans and Bourdeaux, 1 paid
Paris and Lyons, 2 paid
Paris and Orleans (20 paid)
Paris and Rouen. 20 paid
Rouen and Havre 10 paid 22

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS,

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
GLOBE.—" A good man struggling under misfortune
is a sight for the gods." So said an ancient philoso-
pher. But the world had not then seen a great com-
mercial country struggling under a Tory Ministry.
Our modern instance beggars in sublimity the ancient
apothegm. As, however, a good man so struggling
may be supposed to find in an occasional glance at the
wore fortunate condition of his neighbours, the con-
soling assurance that his lot is but an exception,
and probably as temporary in duration as it
is partial in extent, so may we yet occasionally
look abroad, and, in the brighter prospects of
other nations, find promise of an improvement in our
own. In the progress of sound principles of commercial
economy, especially, we have an interest greater than
that of any other people. Every step of that progress,
wherever made, must be a gain to ourselves. We have
been led to these observations by a consideration
of the present position of parties in the United
States, as developed by the approach of the period
appointed for the election of a new President. It seems
to be one of the necessary consequences of a democratic
election, conducted as that of the American President
is, that it should generally result in the choice, not of
the man whose talents and energy best fit him to govern,
but rather of he against whom the fewest objections can
be urged ; and so to place at the head of the republic
rather one in whose opinions the majority concur most
completely, than one in whose ability they have the
greatest confidence. This may mainly account for the
exclusion of such men as John Caldwell Calhoun, and
the election of Mr. Polk, when the representation of the
democracy of the United States is in question. But
such men, wherever their particular place may be, always
have their weight ; and speculating, as circumstances may
now warrant us in doing, upon the probability of Cal-
houn taking an important part in the American Go-
vernment during the next Presidency, it may be inte-
resting to the British public to review shortly his past
career, and mark what it promises for the future. Our
present purpose is to do this, and we take as our chief
authority a volume published in New York about twelve
months ago. It purports to afford a complete view of
Lis political life down to that time, " together with a
selection from his speeches, reports, and other writings,
subsequent to his election as Vice-President of the
United States." Born in 1782, it appears that he entered
Congress in what has been called the War Session of
1811, and immediately became a leading member of
the party which preferred war to a submission to the
restrictions we were then attempting to enforce upon
American commerce. In 1817 he became Secretary of
War, which office he held until 1825, when he was
elected to the office of Vice• President. It is chiefly
from this period that we must view him as a commercial
reformer, and a determined opponent of the measures
by which America has shown a disposition to imitate
the restrictive and destructive commercial system of the
old world. We find his speeches abounding in argu-
mentative and eloquent denunciations of the protective
system, as applied to the produce and manufactures of
the United States, and his growing influence constantly
exerted in favour of the adoption of those enlightened
principles of commercial policy which have at length
become so prevalent that they have even insinuated
themselves into the Conservative Cabinet of England.
-Could that their inconsistency with all else they find
the. -e were not productive of quite so much vacillat-
ing thfid blundering legislation—that our sapient rulers,
blinded • by the light of principles to which their
vision is unfitted, would consent to stand still where
the only a iternative must be floundering into mischief !
But to ret, 'um to our subject. The op!nicns of Mr.
Calhoun hay e been so clearly and freely expressed in
favour of lilDeral commercial arrangt inents between
the United States and this country in particular,
;and are throughout so uniform and consistent, that
we can have bait little difficulty in anticipating the course
.to be taken by any Government of which he may happen
to be a member. His untiring opposition to the Tariff
Bib' ;of 1828, followed by similar but more pchverful
effoscsagainst that of 1842, have sufficiently attested
his ch. aracter as a commercial statesman. His speech
in Cong. Nos on the latter, made in August, 1842, may
be taken . %.11 11. complete manift sto of the views by which
he is likes 'V to be guided in the conduct of any nego-
tiation bees. 'fen the two countriesiwhich he may
tear a part. . After describing the particulartfra effect
. of the
restrictive sys tOrsi upon the Arneri,,aonf natdieveli cotton,
industry,an
and also upon seine other branches
the reverts to more general view of his BUbject
,this Bill (the Tariff Bill of 1842) would
nerves that
'affect them all alike ; cause them to sell less, and give
wore for vita they buy, and to fall back on their
c . resources for supplies ;or abandon their pursuits,
to
IP° foolod finally, by impoverishment and loss