The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-06 00:00:00

'ECCLESIASTICAL LIVINGS.

Viscount CLIVE rose to ask the question of the Right
Hon. Baronet, the Secretary of the Home Department ,of
which he had given notice. It was, whether any communi-
cati ,n had taken place between the Right Hon. Baronet and
the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, as to the formation by them
of a scale for augmenting small livings, in which area shall be
taken into consideration as well as population ; also, when such
scale is likely to come into operation, as proposed by Sir J.
Graham, during the progress of the Cathedral Churches
( Wales) Bill (Act 6 and 7 Vic. c. 77), through the House
of Commons, in the session of 81437
Sir JAMES GRAHAM said that as yet, on account of the
deficiency of information received, no precise arrangement
had been come to on the subject referred to. The commis-
sion,Ts however were busy in getting tip their scale, and as
soon as it wa., completed, he would be able to lay the matter
before the House.

ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES
RAILWAY.

Mr. WADDINGTON wished to ask the Right Hun. Ba-
ronet the Vict,- President of the Board of Trade, if he had re-
ceived any information of the frightful accident on the Eastern
Counties Radway• by which one unfortunate man, the stoker,
w is killed. He had seen the occident after it had occurred,'
and a most frigh,ful one it was.
Mr. WARD said, that as the Right Hon. Baronet was not
likely to have had any information upon the subject, he (Mr.
lard) might perhaps be allowed to state the particulars of the
unhappy occurrence, anti the HOUse would see that no human
prudence or foresight could possibly have averted it. since
the ipening of the new line to Cambridge, it had been a regu-
lar matter to send a superintendent of the locomotive depart-
ment with the train, in order to see that the whole worked pro-
perly. He had seen the gentleman who accompanied the train
ye=terday, and he (:Ur. Ward) had taken the report of the
sad event from his lips. He stated that the engine was run-
ning perfectly steady, and at the rate of 28 miles an hour;
there was no vibration, no oscillation, nothing, in fact, to make
any one apprehend any danger; when on a sudden the engine
was struck by the rail where one of the wedges had got loose.
The engine was forced off the rails, and ran for upwards of a
hundred yards on the gravel, drawing the carriages after it.
It was expected that they would have been enabled to avert any
danger by letting off the steam, but unfortunately the engine '
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his leg broken, and was conveyed to the hospital
at Cambridge. Not one of the passengers had been
injured. After the most stringent examination, he
did not find that any blame could be attached to any one con-
nected with the line, and he could assure the House that every
precaution had been taken to prevent any accident of any kind,
for before it was opened enormous quantities of dust waggons
ran up and down under the inspection of General Pasley, and
they had therefore ever), reason to believe that the works were
quite safe. He did not think that any caution had been neg-
lected, and therefore no blame could be attached to any one
connected with the railway.
Colonel SIBTIIORP asked was it not necessary that her
Majesty's Government should take some measures to prevent
such accidents, an!s to prohibit all persons who had the manage-
ment of the railway in question from carrying on the work
until a full inquiry should have been made into the manage-
ment of their works. He thought, also, it was incumbent on
her Majesty's Government to see that there was a proper and
ample compensation made by those rich Companies to the un-
fortunate pecple who were mutilated in their service, and also
to the relatives of those who were slain. The law required
coal proprietors to dive such compensation.
Mr. GREGORY could bear testimony to the want of suf-
ficient accommod-ttion, to the delay, and incivility of the
Eastern Counties Railway. He thought the Board of Trade
should have more power. Some time ago he presented a me-
morial to the Board ot. Trade, complaining of incivility, delay,
and want of acmmmodation. It was signed by twenty-two
Members of Parliament, and Lords Exeter and Stradbroke, and
had reference to the Eastern Counties Railway.
Mr. WARD said that on the Newmarket week there cer-
tainly had been a great succession of mishaps on the Eastern
Counties Railway

Sir. C. BURftELL said be thought that Government ought
to have the power and controul over those railways, so as to
make laws t:, prevent these accidents.

Colonel WOOD said that a fixed salary should be paid to
the Directors, and one of them should be compelled to reside
on the railway.—( Laughter.) He had the greatest respect
for the Member for Sheffield, yet he would say that. it was im-
possible for that Hon. Member to attend his duties in that
House and discharge at the same time tho,e of a railway Di-
rector. Again, lie would say they should fix the salary and
limit the number of Directors, and compel one of them to re-
side at the station.

Mr. P. HOWARD was of opinion that 211 parties suffering
by accident on those railways ought to get compensation. He
was aware that on the Carlisle line such was the practice.
Mr. WARD said it was only this very morning that his
Board had agreed to pay all the expenses of, and every atten-
tion to, those who had been sufferers by the late accident.