The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-05 00:00:00

RAILWAY EDUCATION.

It is no uncommon thing to hear railway proprietors
spoken of (or at least thus much is hinted) as being
engaged in a system of traffic and mercenary specula-
tion which absorbs their entire affections, leaving them
careless of the moral condition of those whose time and
services they command, in the numerous avocations
which a railway induces. It is enough, say these pre-
.
judiced observers, if railway directors can but produce
favourable reports at their meetings ; if they can but
succeed in showing a decrease in their expense, or an
increase in their traffic ; it is sufficient for shareholders
if they hear their line is prosperoue, and if they have
a good half-yearly dividend declared ; what cares either
shareholder or director by what means their ends are
attained, or if they are carried out by men -whose whole
time is engrossed by these railway monopolists, their
minds being left uncarcd for ?
. Such complaints are as unjust as they are uncalled
for, and we are happy to know that they arc gradually
diminishing. They form part of that incongruous mass
of prejudices against the railway system a Lich are
now gradually—we might almost say rapidly—dying
away. It is to the interest of all who have any share
in the management of railways to have as their ser-
vants men, not only capable of performing their allotted
daily tasks with correctness, but men of general intelli-
gence, who can be depended on in an emergency, who
will not feel themselves at a loss if they are now and
then called to diverge a little from their ordinary
beaten path. To obtain such men it has been found
mutually advantageous to employ, even in the me-
chanical departments, men whose education has been
not nominal, but real, and opportunities for further
improvement have been provided on most of the prin-
cipal railways. During the progress of construction
of various lines of railway the labourers have had their
moral and religious wants attended to by the gentlemen
employing them, which has aided very materially in
advancing the moral character., and in raising the
mental condition of the Workmen. On the London lead
Birmingham line, at the little town of Wolverton, a
school has been built for about 100 children, as also a
church, the seats of which are all free, which will ac-
commodate 900 or 1,000 persons. The inhabitants of
this town are almost entirely employed by, or in some
measure connected with, the railway ; in fact it is a
town which may be said to have been created by rail.
way enterprise, inasmuch as before the construction of
the line it was an agricultural spot, with few inhabi-
tants, while it now contains a population of some 1,000,
and the London and Birmingham annually expend in
the town about 50,0001. in wages,' &c. These facts
will serve as a specimen to prove that railway pro-
prietors are not careless of the welfare of those whom
they employ : we could adduce many more, but it is
needless. But we must just mention that the Grand
Junction have attended to the bodily as well as mental
condition of their workmen, in establishing baths at
Crewe ; that at Fleetwood, another railway-made town,
schools for two or three hundred children have been
built ; and that, by reference to our last number, it will
be seen that the South-Western are about to form a
benevolent fund for their employes, and schools for their
servants' children.—Deronport Telegraph.

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NEW ARMY DEFOT.—As we stated several months
agn, Government having completed the purchase of 21 acres of
land, the property of the trustees of Erasmus Smith, near the
town of Tipperay, military barracks to accommodate 2,000
will shortly be erected. They are intended for a general
army depot in that part of the south of Ireland.—Limerick
Chronicle.
THE WEATHER AND HARVEST. Since Sunday
the weather has turned gloomy and cold again, though we have
not had n ueh rain. A great portion of the corn has been cut,
but the major part was in an unripe state. The crops in parts
of the neighbourhood are about an average, but there are other
parts where the wheat has sustained much damage from the
severity of the' summer. The potato crop has also suffered
serious injury. The few bright and warm days we had last
week gave promise of effecting much good, but the weather has
ince been so unfavourable that great fears are now entertained
for the results of the harvest—Cambridge Advertiser.

DARTMOOR.—We hear it is in contemplation by
the Government to dispose of the prisons at Prince Town. The
courts and various buildings cover a space of thirty acres, and
during the late war near 10,000 prisoners were lodged within
the massive gates. The prisons are surrounded by a double
wall and an iron railing; at certain distances on the inner
wall lamps used to be lit, and centries walked on the top, so
that escape of the prisoner, was almost impossible. The prisons
at this time have the most gloomy appearance to parties who
visit there,- on the eastern side are the coffins in which the un-
fortunate Frenchmen were buried, quite above the surface of
the ground, caused by the storms of winter in this romantic
region, and the curiosity of strangers seeking for remains.—
Instern Luminary,.
A KING SIDING WITH THE RADICAL. PARTY.—It
is known that in the last Swedish Parliament several bills,
containing organic and radical improvements in the Constitu-
tion, were thrown out by the lords and the clergy, in orpesi-
tion to the votes of the burgesses and peasantry, which latter
is represented in Sweden. The King was, it seems, reluc-
tantly compelled to yield to such a powerful impulse. In one
case, however, he did not, and gave his assent to a bill equa-
lizing the law of marriage and inheritance in all classes of so
ciety, which the nobles had protested against. This is the
first step, as it were, to do away with primogeniture and the
entailing of property. The Swedish papers are full in praise of
King Oscar, and consider this act as an indication of a liberal
and enlightened reign, like that of his late father.

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