The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-02 00:00:00

MAGAZINES-(CONTINUED).
AINSWORTH' S MAGAZINE.
The author of " Csesar Borgia" does not by any
means make the best use of his materials—of the ma-
terials, at least, which he might have collected for his
purpose—as his story proceeds. The whole history of
the Middle Ages presents no passages more remarkable,
itt every point of view—moral, political, and chivalric—
psychological and romantic—than those which are con-
nected with the fortunes and the fall of the monster
race of the Borgias. There is no portion of European
story for which these anecdotical collections—diaries,
memoirs, biographies, annals—so invaluable to the
novelist, exist in such variety or abundance. The most
secret chambers of the Vatican—the most flagitious
councils of the detestable Pope Alexander and his still
more execrable son, Duke Caesar—the debates of the
holy Consistory—the intrigues of the Sacred College—
the profound duplicity with which the Courts of Naples
and of France long maintained an unequal contest
against the unapproachable perfidy of the Papal closet ;
these are among the bequests which contemporary his-
torians, annalysts, and diplomatists have left to pos-
terity, in confirmation of the otherwise incredible tra-
ditions of Borgian guilt. The same authorities are, for
the most part, equally rich in all those details, not only
of manners and customs, but even of costume, which can
add to the interest of authentic narrative the excitement
of picturesque description. With these fortunate inci-
dents attaching to the epoch which our author has
selected for his story, we must confess, with , disap-
pointment, that as this romance of " Borgia" develops
itself, we can recognise no corresponding development
of good taste or skill in the author's mode of handling
the vast resources that be might have enlisted in its ser-
vice. Indeed, there are some indications of extreme
negligence, if not of unpardonable ignorance, in that
which seems to be his favourite employment—namely,
personal portrait painting. In days like these, when
Sir Rush eyrick has supplied authors and artists with
so minute and graphic as account of the military armour
and arms of all the great European nations from the
12th to the commencement of the 18th century, such
errors as these, contained in the following passages, are
to be as much protested against as the slip-slop phra-
seology of Milanese mail being "apparently manufactured
in imitation of the ancient Roman military garb." Whe-
ther the author means by " garb" the " chiamys," or
the stately " paludainentun" or the flowing " dalmatica,"
it is, perhaps, useless to inquire. If, however, he be
speaking neither of cloaks, nor robes, nor gowns, but of
coats of mail, we beg to tell him that the Milanese
armour worn by any forces of the Italian princes in the 14th
or 15th centuries were not fabricated in imitation of that
borne by the old Romans (who had no plate armour at
a ) ; that neither Papal guards nor body guards of any
other designation in Borgia's time wore " greaves of
polished steel" (and it is clear that, instead of greaves,
which are plate leggings, he means cuisses, which were
protectors for the thighs), nor exhibited such a Cockney
medley of minor theatre costume as legs encased in steel
and bare knees. But the "short hilts of quilted steel"
are a violation of all " theatrical property propriety,"
which we should look for in vain in the dresses intro-
duced in one of Richardson s
melodramatic spectacles.
" The stone table was occupied by some thirty men-at-arrus,
feeding on a kind of black barley bread, cheese, curds, and
milk. Beside each man, crossing the table, lay a spear nearly
double his own height, its point barbed like a fish-hook, so
that on being withdrawn from a wound the flesh must be fear-
fully lacerated : their armour was at once stror4 and rich,
bright from the smithies of Milan, and apparently manufac-
tared in imitation of the ancient Roman military garb—greaves
of polished steel, bare knees, short kilts of quilted steel, breast
and back pieces of gleaming plate, helmets surmounted by
silver eagles with outspread wings and sun-soaring upward
gaze. A round shield with a spike in the centre, a short
sword, and a massive mace intended to knock those on the head
whose armour denied the sword access when overthrown, corn •
pleted the uniform."
We have Lord Campbell's authority for saying that,
until very lately, it was a breach of the privileges of the
Upper Rouse of Parliament to write the life of a de-
ceased Peer. We shudder when we reflect on the amount
of damages at which, under any analogous custom touch-
ing illustrious foreigners long since departed, the de-
scendants of Bembo or of the great Florentine secre-
tary would be entitled to estimate the injury done by
our author to the reputation of the great Cardinal and
the still more renowned Machiavelli, by his mode of ex-
hibiting them in these chapters, and still more by the
inconceivable imbecility infused into their conversation.
" The Moors and the Stubble" is a pleasant paper on
the 12th of August and the Ist of September (the mar-
tyrology days respectively of the grouse and the par-
tridge), by Frederick Tolfrey, whose agreeable writings
we never encounter without pleasure. But can Mr. Tol-
frey be serious in thus noticing the absurd pamphlet
,by
Mr. Grantley Berkeley on the Game-laws, which we
:have more than once introduced to our readers:—
" One of our oldest and best sportsmen has taker, up the
subject, and in the House, as well as in a pamphlet remarkable
for good writing and an admirable analysis of the laws, has
suggested- the only effectual remedy for the existing evils ; and
we, in common with every sportsman in the kingdom, most de-
voutly hope that then hints and advice so forcibly and clearly
offered by Mr. Grantley _Berkeley, will meet with the attention
they deserve and the case u," in ands. '
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HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO THE

CONTINENT.

SAxE GarrrA, AUG. 29.—The royal party left Rein-
hardtsbrunn between 3 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon of
yesterday Gotha, where great preparations had been made
to welcome them. Coburg is situate in the midst of a
rich and fertile valley, looking like one large park.
Gotha rises from a plain, which has been rendered pro-
ductive and covered with corn-fields by the labour of an
industrious population. Like Coburg, it is a sort of
model city, but it looks less like the residence of a Court.
It is more a seat of manufactures and commercial
industry. The population is greater by some 5,000
or 6,000 persons. There is, too, a sort of middle
class here, whicb you do not find at Coburg, at
least not to the same extent. But it is at stated
periods the residence of the members of the reign-
ing family. There are no less than four or five palaces ;
but here they are in the town, while at Coburg they
are situated at different points in the neighbourhood
favourable for commanding the superior scenery with
which it abounds. The largest palace is the Friedrich-
stein, an immense pile of building, irregular, and with
no pretensions to architectural symmetry, but surmounted
by two enormous mosque-like towers, which are promi-
nent objects for miles around. There is another palace,
called Friedrichsthal, much smaller, and facing the other.
A very beautiful garden, or, more properly speaking,
a richly wooded park, interspersed with lawns and
flower beds, surrounds the former. Like all other places
of the kind in this part of the country, it is not shut in
with jealous care from the public. There are no gates,
fences, or sentries to exclude them ; but all are free to
come and go as they will. An open carriage-road, in
fact, runs through the most carefully preserved parts of
the grounds. There is also a magnificent orangery.
One or two smaller palaces are also in Gotha, occupied
at intervals by different members of the Ducal family.
The widow of the late Duke, and of the preceding one,
have each a residence in these palaces.
The city itself is larger than Coburg, but similar in
its general construction. The houses in the chief streets
are on a very large scale, and the main streets them-
selves are much broader than is usual in continental
towns of the same antiquity. The market-place, which
is laid out on a rather steep declivity, is a particularly
fine one. There is a handsome theatre and a museum;
and there are other public buildings which will bear
competition with those in cities of muck larger size and
greater pretensions.
The preparations made to welcome the Queen and
Prince Albert were very general throughout the town.
Almost every house was festooned or garlanded, and
that in a very tasteful way. That they were not similar
to those at Coburg seemed to show that they were
in both places spontaneous offerings of welcome,
and not suggested by the authorities. At the
entrance of the city, from 'the side of Reinhardtsbrunn,
a very elegant triumphal arch was erected, and
the long street leading from this point to the
palace in which the Queen was to take up her abode,
was one long avenue of festoons and garlands sus.
pended across the road from the lines of trees on each
side of the way. The street was lined by a body of the
gensdurmes.
As the hour at which the royal party were expected
came on, the population of Gothaand the neighbourhood
began to throng the streets in multitudes. It was sur-
prising how so comparatively small a place could yield
so many people ; but, in fact, it was a general holiday,
and every man, woman, and child came out to see the
sight. And a most picturesque crowd they made. The
peasant girls from the surrounding villages, many
of them beauties of which any country might
be proud, intermingled in the throng with
their antique and picturesque costumes, long since
abandoned in the towns, but clung to by the villagers
with rustic tenacity. We have nothing in our coun-
try like their head-dresses, but they are certainly more
quaint and elaboiate than graceful. The head is sur-
mounted by a tower of black velvet, silk, or stuff, ac-
cording to the taste or means of the wearer, which is
shaped like an infantry soldier's cap. This again is
covered with short sable plumage slightly curled ; and
from the top falls a shower of long black silk ribands
reaching below the waist. A dozen or two of these
women walking together reminded one of the top of a
hearse. Others of the peasant women wore less ambi-
tious coiffures; but then they had large cloaks of various
colours thrown over the left shoulder after the Spanish
fashion. The men, too, wore very characteristic
dresses. Some stalked along in lock black coats, like
priests' soutans, and boots fitting tight to the leg up to
the knee. The costume of the miners, too, was very
peculiar.
These odd costumes mingling in the throng, with the
uniforms of the soldiery, huntsmen, postilions, and
others who were there, produced a very pretty effect ;
nor were the gay colours in which the city damsels
decked themselves without their use in keeping up the
ever-changing variety. The great centre of attraction,
and where the throng of people was most constant,
was the triumphal arch already described. Here the
chief municipal authorities of Gotha were assembled in
a sort of tribune to receive the royal visitors on their
arrival within the boundary of the city.
Shortly before six o'clock a succession of salutes an-
nounced the approach of the royal cortege, and a band,
stationed opposite the arch, struck up the National An-
them in very good style. In a few minutes the head
of the procession—for a procession it was, and a
very fine one—was seen moving among the living
mass that crowded the road. First came a large
body of the municipal police on horseback. They are
a half military body, and have a very soldierly appear-
ance. Then came, also on horseback, the burgher
guard, not quite so soldierlike. Next, a party of the
mounted gendsarmes, and after them a band of the pos-
tilions in their gay dresses. A body of some 200 or
300 citizens and gentlemen of the town, excellently
mounted, followed, and then the Duke's chasseurs, all in
uniforms of green and gold. After these came the
Queen's carriage, containing, besides her Majesty, the
King and Queen of the Belgians and Prince Albert. The
Duke of Saxe Coburg rode on horseback by the carriage
from Reinhardtsbrunn. Two other carriages, with the
suite, closed the procession. When the:Queen's carriage
came opposite the tribune, the chief magistrate stepped
forward and delivered a speech, of which the following is
a translation :
" Happy in the consciousness of the presence of your
Majesty in our city, we lay our humblest and mostheart-
felt devotions at the feet of the Sovereign of the great
British empire. Happy we are that the kind and natural
sympathies of the mother and the wife have never lost
their intensity amidst the splendours of the greatest
throne in the world. To those sympathies we are in-
debted for the incomparable satisfaction we feel on this
occasion. Welcome to the home of a beloved Prince of
our House. Welcome as his consort, 0 mightiest, and
at the same time most amiable of Queens ! Little are
we able to convey to your Majesty our unfeigned deep-
felt joy at welcoming such illustrious guests to our un-
pretending town. Still, however far we could have
carried the outward showing of our attachment, it never
could have equalled our desire to offer homage and best
love to Victoria Queen of Britain I"
Her Majesty bowed very graciously, and the cortege
then passed on, amidst deafening cheers from the
people, to the palace of the Duchess of Saxe Coburg,
where they are to stay. Crowds of people lined the
way, and filled the area opposite the palace. After
alighting, her Majesty came forward and bowed re-
peatedly to the people. Altogether this reception at
Gotha was as good as any the Queen has net with on
her various journeys, and exactly the same in form as
most of them.
There are to be several grand displays here during
the next few days, which promise to be very charac-
teristic of the manners of the people, and new, in their
way, to the Queen. Both her Majesty and the Prince
are in excellent health.

ADELPHI THEATRE.

An adaptation of the French drama, entitled Le Canal
Saint-Martin, was produced here last evening, and popu-
lar as the drama is in Paris, we augur that its popularity
in London will be greater still. It is ono of those pieces
which are technically called " dramas of interest," and
in the present instance the term is certainly not a mis-
nomer, for the plot is of that nature that from the begin-
ning of the piece to the end, the attention of the specta-
tor is rivetted to the stage. The hero of the piece is a
certain Monsieur Martial (Mr. Webster), a gentleman
at large, alias an accomplished scoundrel—accomplished
in every sense of the word, with the manners of a gen-
tleman, the dross of an exquisite, and tho morals and
imperturbable sang froid of a MePhistophiles. He is the
chief of a gang of thieves, and among others whom they
determine to plunder is a certain Monsieur Laroche
(0. Smith), a rich timber merchant, a man of wealth
and character, employing a great number of workmen,
the foreman of whom, Robert (Mr. Lambei t), is a rough
honest fellow, the beau ideal of an " ouvrier." Laroche
has an only daughter, Clarisse (Madame Celeste), who
is devotedly attached to Armand (Mr. Worrell), his
clerk. Laroche is absent from Paris, and Martial
contrives', to insinuate himself into the confidence of Ar-
mand and of Clarisse. He manages to keep Armand out
all night, and takes advantage of his absence to rob the
house. Laroche returns—his daughter dreads his
sternness, and endeavours to devise means to replace the
money, and to prevent his knowing of the robbery which
has taken place. Among the stolen property is a port-
folio, containing papers, from which Martial learns that
Laroche is no other than Pierre Bernard, a noted pirate
and murderer. It appears that-he had met Bernard for-
merly, and at once introduces himself to him, and ad-
dresses him as Pierre Bernard. The old man, horror-
struck, grants him an interview at ten o'clock at night
on board his boat, and thus ends the first act. The
second act opens in the cabin of the boat. It is nine
o'clock, and Laroche dismisses his workmen, all but
Robert. He has discovered the robbery. Clarisse and
Armand enter—he drives Armand from his pre-
sence, and ho behaves harshly to Clarisse, who
leaves him heart-broken at his cruelty. Robert re-
proaches him, and then we hear Clarisse is in fact Ro-
bert's daughter—that Robert, condemned to the galleys
at Malines, had met with Laroche, who had adopted
' Clarisse then an infant, as his child, on condition that
Robert should never betray his secret ; and that, after
Robert had served his time out at the galleys, Laroche
had taken him into his service. He sends Robert from
him, promising to behave more kindly to the child, and
as the clock strikes ten, Martial enters, armed. La-
roche accuses hiur of robbing his house, and tells him
that he could only have acquired his knowledge from the
contents of the papers. Martial, with the most perfect
coolness, says—" Then 1 will tell you something that is
not in the papers," and proceeds to relate that he had
seen, 20 years before, off the coast of Newfoundland, the
ship of Bernard wrecked, and had seen him (Ber-
nard) murder Laroche and his infant daughter,
and then escape on shore. Martial had been a
cabin-boy on board the ship, and the only
person, except Bernard himself, who had escaped
from the wreck. His reason for adopting Clarisse is
thus evident—he had passed himself as the real Laroche
on his return to France, and taken possession of his
property. He comes to terms with Martial, promises
him large sums, and taking him off his guard while
drinking a glass of wine, touches a spring, and through
a concealed trap tumbles Martial into the river. At
this instant Clarisse enters, sees the murder, and is
horror-struck. The next scene is at Belville, the
gardens of which are beautifully illuminated in honour
of the fete which Laroche gives his workmen there.
Clarisse is brought there to join in the festivities—but
she is miserable ; Laroche explains to her that the
man she bad seen killed was an enemy of the family, who
had spoken slightingly of her mother—that it was a ne-
cessary crime. Armand then enters to entreat his for-
giveness, which is freely given, and Laroche promises to
marry him to Clarisse, and desires him to go and pre-
pare for the wedding. Armand has scarcely quitted
them when, to the rror of Laroche, Martial enters.
He had been fished up by Barbillon (Wright), a pro-
fessional diver, who often throws children into the
water to get the reward for pulling them out again,
and restored by the Humane Society. He demands
12,000 francs and the hand of Clarisse as the price of
his silence. This interview is interrupted by the arrival
of a gendarmiere, bringing Robert a prisoner. Robert
had been seen to leave the boat, a few minutes before
Martial had been picked up under it, and suspicion rested
on him. Martial, with the utmost sang froid, takes
advantage of circumstances, denounces Robert as having
attempted to murder him, and Clarisse, out of affection
to her supposed father, dares not reveal the truth. The
second act concludes with this very effective situation.
In the third act Clarisse is informed of her horrible
destiny—to wed Martial ; to save her father, she con-
sents to the loathsome marriage. Meanwhile, Mar-
tial's companions are about to share the plun-
der, as they suspect him of intending to cheat
them. He invites them to the wedding to watch
them, having, in the meanwhile, given information to
the police to have them arrested on their arrival. Robert
has escaped from prison, but, before he leaves France,
he determines to have a last look at Clarisse, and goes
to the wedding for that purpose. On the wedding-day
Armand also arrives, thinking he is to be the bride-
groom. On seeing Martial enter as the bridegroom,
Robert can no longer contain himself. He rushes for-
ward, declares himself her father, and refuses to permit
her happiness to be sacrificed to a villain. Relieved
from the tie which bound her to Laroche, she at once
declares Robert's innocence; and Laroche does jus-
tice on himself by shooting himself through
the head. The gang are arrested on the de-
nunciation of Martial, and as the worthy is
about to walk off he is also taken into custody, for
the members of his gang have in their turn denounced
him, and the curtain falls as they are marched off to
prison. We never saw Webster to greater advantage
than in the character of Martial. It is a great piece of
acting. The imperturbable coolness—the perfect self-
possession—the presence of mind that nothing can for
an instant shake—the shrewd mother-wit, ever ready to
take advantage of the slightest circumstance that may
urise—the suaviter in modo yet foe titer in re—all that
goes to the making up of the quasi gentlemanly and ac-
complished blackguard, were never more completely deli-
neated. Webster's Martial is a perfect study for an actor.
The acting of Celeste was intensely, painfully interesting.
It is a part admirably adapted to her peculiar powers,
and she does it ample justice. Wright, as Barbillon,
the diving gentleman, who has a love affair with Milanie,
a grisette (excellently performed by Miss Woolgar)—
Paul Bedford, as Galon, a drunken workman, with a
Nix my Dolly" sort of song, entitled " Blaze away,"
in the singing of which he is assisted by a little Paul, an
urchin about three-and-a-half feet high, who is almost
as comical as the great leviathan of f'un-himself—and
Munyard as John Cabot, the English tiger of Martial
(a sort of minor Jacques Strop), afforded, by their
humour, an agreeable relief to the more serious portions
of the drama. The scenery is exquisite, and the mice
en scene perfect. In fact, it is a regular good Adelphi
piece, and will have a long run. The house was crowded
to the ceiling.

NAMES or RAILWAYS,

Aberdeen
Airdrie and Coatbridge
Arbroath and Forfar ....
Ditto Half Shares ....
Armagh, Colr., & Portnish
Bandon and Bantry
Belfast and Ballymena ..
Belfast and County Down
Birknhd,Lan. & Ches.Jnc.
Birmingham and Glo'ster
Do. Now (iss. at 7 dis.)
Ditto Half Shares ....
Binninglim & Oxfrd June.
Blckburn, and Preston ..
Blekbuni, Darwn,& Bolin
Bolton, W igau, & Liverpl.
Boston, Stamil-d and Birm
Brighton, Lewes, & Hast.
Bristol and Exeter . .

Ditto New ......
Bristol and Gloucester ..
Bristol and S. Wales June.
British and Irish Union..
Caledon. and Ayrsh. June
Caledon. & Dumbar. June.
Caledonian

Ditto Extension ......
Cambridge and Lincoln..
Chester and Birkenhead..
Ditto New Shares ....
Ditto Half Shares ....
Chester and Holyhead ..
Cheltenham and Oxford..
Chichester and Brighton..
Churnet Valley .........
Clitheroe Junction
Clydesdale Junction .....
Cork, Blackrck & Passage
Cork and Bandon
Cork and Killarney
Cork and Waterford • ...
Cork and Youghal
Canterbury and Dover...
Coventry and Leicester..
Cornwall . • • • • • • • • • • .. ••
Derby and Crewe . •
Direct Lon. and Manchstr
Diss, Beccles, & Yarmoth
Direct Northern • •
Direct Norwich .• • • • . • • .
Dublin and Belfast June.
Dublin, Belfast, & Colrce
Dublin and Drogheda....
Dublin and Galway .• . • .
Dundalk and Enniskillen
Dundee and Arbroath . • .

Ditto New .. • .
Dundee and Penh .. • • • .
Durham and Sunderland
East Lancashire (No. 1)
Ditto (No. 2) .... • ...
Eastern Counties .
Do. Perp. spr Ct., No 1
Do. do. No. 2
East Dereham & Norwich
East Union
Ditto Extension
Edinbgh, Glas., and Dum.
Edinburgh and Glasgow..
Do. Quarter Shares • • •
Do. New Quarter Shares
Edinb. Leith, and Granton
Do. Pref. 5 per Cent
Edinburgh and Northern
Edinburgh and Peebles..
Edinburgh and Perth....
Ely and Huntingdon
Enniskillen and 51ig0....
Exeter, Yeovil, & Drchstr
Fltwood, Prstn, & W. Rid.
Garukirk and Glasgow ..
Glasgow and Ayr
Do. Quarter Shares
Glasgow and Greenock • •
Ditto New ......
Ditto Preference
Glasgw, Dinfries, and Car.
Glsgw, Kilmarnck-, &Ard.
Glasgow and Belfast Un.
Goole and Doncaster
Grand Junction
Ditto Half Shares ....
Ditto Quarter Shares ..

Ditto New Quarters ••
Ditto Eighths ..
Grand Union
Great Eastern & Western
Gt Grimsby & 1)k Extens.
Gt Grimsby and Sheffield
Gt Stlirn & Wstrn (hind)

Ditto Extension
Great Munster.. • • .. •
Gt Northern of Scotland
Grt Northern of England
Do. New 401. Shares • .
Do. New 301. Shares
Great 'Western
Ditto Half Shares • • • •

Ditto Fifths • • . • • • • • • •
Guilfrd, Farehm, & Ports.
Harwich ........... &
•• • •
Il udrsild & Man. R. Caul
Huddersfield and Sheffield
Hull and Gainsborough • •
Hull and Selby • •••• • • • •
Ditto Quarter Shares • •
Ditto Half Shares • • • •
Inverness and Elgin •• • •
Isle of Jersey •
Kendal and Windermere
Kingstown and Bray ....
Killarney Junctions .....
Lancaster and Carlisle ..
Lancaster and Preston ..
Leeds and Bradford ....

The "good writing" in the precious production
anre-
ferred to must certainly have escaped our detection in
'--.ii
the most infinitesimally homoapath.
•atient ! " The
dose of "good
writing" ever administered to the public 1. , ,s a
Malocchio (or Evil-Eye')", by Captain Ikeu,w.l"
sketchy bold " extravaganza," the preternatural horrors
of which are not satisfactorily or even plausibly Z'4'.
plained by the somewhat clumsy solution attempted of
natural causes. " A Story of a Strange Childhood," by
Arnheldt Weaver, is told with some pathos and occa-
sional power, and a " Reminiscence of Marseilles,"
slight as the anecdote is, is as well done as such an affair
can perhaps be. The best, most vigorous, and racily
written article is " Captain Bobadil, but it is devoted,
not. as this ti
the ould
implyi to that dramatic impersona-
twit, but t lass which he is the type It ur-
ports to be by " Pat Fogarty of Cork." No .Irishiaman
need have hesitated to affix his real name to a contribu-
tion which contains many other passages as
following : good as the
" And here we would take leave to ark, are the recent pro-
jects of recent Bobadils wiser than the foregoing? Are the
companies for doing everything by steam—by gas—by gal-
vanism—by air— by smoke—by humbug, one atom more likely
to be successful than Bobadil's grand nostrum ? Have not eur
Joint-Stock Banks driven thousands to beggary ? How many
hundreds are wandering and starvin through the country
from our knavish Assurance Societies? What is the meaning
of the great tunnel just about tobe made under Fleet. Ditch
uTe
—of the marble bridge, of ten millions cost, that
13 to
thrown across the fishi-brook at Walton ? Is there no
Bobadi! at work in the American Loan, the Spanish Loan, the
Cherokee Loan, the Portuguese Debentures, the Central
Moon Colonization Company, the erection of National Schools
at Sierra Leone ? Truly, good people of England, of each and
all of them, a Bobaiil is the mainspring ; and it is only when
ye are fleeced to your heart's content that you will discover
that the grand plan which was to enrich you all, was started
merely to fill /us pockets by sinking a shaft through yours. But
financiers will never be warned, nor capitalists ever deterred
by the destruction of those who have gone before them in the
mine line, and the valiant tribe of swindlers laugh and grow fat
as fast as ever. Exult then, 0 ye illustrious Bobadils I—exult,
and be assured that your dynasty is immortal. So long as
there are fools to be fleeced, so long will there be rogues to
fleece, and from the history of the past we may safely conjec-
ture that the race of both will continue per omnza sacula
saculorum."

Ditto Extension
Leeds and Dewsbury
Leeds and Thirsk
Leeds & W. Riding June.
Leicester & Birmingham
Leicester and Bedford
Limerick and Waterford
Limrck, Emits, & KU. Juc.
Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Liv. Man. & G t N. of Eng.
Liverpool and Manchester

Ditto Half Shares ....
Ditto Quarter Shares..

Liverpl, Ormskrk, & Prstn
London and Birmingham
Ditto Thirds ...... • ...
Ditto Quarters .. • • • • ••
London and Blackwall • •
Lott.&Maii.(ltemington's)
London and Brighton. • • •
Ditto Consolid. Eighths
London and Croydon .. •.

Ditto New . ••• • • • • • •
Do. Guarant. 5 per Cut.
London and Greenwich .
Do. Pret. or Privilege
London and South Westru
Do. New Cons. Eighths
Do. New, 501 Shares..
_ Do. New, 401. Shares..

London and York ..• • • •
Ditto (Bawtry) .• • .. • •
London and Windsor
Londn, Salsbury, & Yeovl
Londonderry & Coleraine
Londonderry & Enuiskilln
Lynn and Ely .• ....
Lynn and Dereham .••••
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Quarter Shares

Ditto Sixteenths
Manchstr and Birkenhead
Manchester & Birminghm
Ditto Quarter Shaxes • .
Ditto New Quarters ...
Do. Coll.& Welsh June.
Manchestr, Boltn, & Bury
Mnchstr, Buxtn, & -Math(
Man. Shen and Mid. Juuc.
Manchestr & Southamptn
Midland .. • . • • • • • • • • • • • •
Ditto Fifths .. • • • • •
Ditto New .• • 7. •• ..

PRESENTATION ofNEW COLOURS

TO THE 65TH REGIMENT.

Do. Con. Birm. & Derby
3lidind Gt Westrn (Irish)
Do. Extension to Sligo
Nen•cctl & DarLngtn June.
Do. New (Branding) ..
Newcastle and Berwick..
Newcastle and Carlisle..
Nwcstle, Durham, & Lan.
Newport & Abergavenny
Newry and Enniskillen..
Newark and Sheffield .
North British • • • • • • • • • •
Ditto New Shares ....
Northern and Eastern ..
Do. Scrip (iss. at 5 dls.)

SIMMOND'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE.
The claims of the Nova Scotia baronets to the exten-
sive lands granted to them by former sovereigns are ably
advocated in the opening article of the present number. It
ofpears that the baronets intend to proceed by petition
ap
right, and certainly they make out a strong case.
Should they succeed, they are, we understand, pre-
pared to perform the conditions on which the
land was granted, in which case they will
afford a practical answer to the question
sneeringly put by Sir James Graham in the
debate on Lord John Russell's resolution, " What is
systematic Colonization ?" The revival of the rights
and dutiel the Fore Scotia baronets is a matter of
great netional imp( rtance, for while it secures to the
~,,cotch • nigrant tl at immediate care on his arrival in
Lue 1 „, .. .
anta of ins adoption, which is so necessary to hhis
well-being, it erects a barrier against Yankee encroac •
ltheyhope will succeed in obtaining those rights to which theyti_
eiess? justly entitled. There are several valuable ar
the, n the present number of the Colonial. Among
43;44e la th 6 report of the Committee of the General
thatrliy of
Newfoundland on the state of the fisheries.
_
_,colony--
lu' who eo a document well worth the attention of
reeo ea nalner the umintenance of a nursery for sea
3apreroZyalaae secure the continuance of our naval

This regiment was on Wednesday, the 27th inst.,
presented with new colours by the lady of General
T. Grosvenor, with all the usual ceremonies ob-
served on such occasions. At three o'clock in the
afternoon the 65th Regiment was formed in line in
the square of the barrack ground, Artillery Barracks,
Brompton, the old colours being in the centre. On
the ground appeared the principal officers of the gar-
rison and their ladies, and, as the day was remarkably
fine, the ceremony drew together a numerous body of
spectators. Shortly after three o'clock General Gros-
venor, accompanied by his lady and the lady of Colonel
Senior, with Sir Thomas Wiltshire, Bart., K.C.8., and
Brigade-Major O'Brien, of the garrison, with other
officers, arrived in front of the line and were
received with full military honours. The officers
and colour-sergeants then advanced with the old
colours, preceded by the band, playing the " British
Grenadiers." The usual evolutions were next per-
formed, and the old colours were removed to the rear.
The new colours were then uncased and crossed on the
big drum, awaiting the consecration. This part of the
ceremonial was performed by the Chaplain of the gar-
rison, the Rev. Dr. Curteis, who delivered an interest-
ing and most effective address, concluding by soliciting
a blessing from the Almighty on the colours about to be
presented to the regiment. The lady of the General
then advanced, and, addressing Colonel Senior, the offi-
cers, and soldiers of the regiment, expressed her confi-
dence that, under the colours she had the honour and
pleasure to present, they would c•ntinue to deserve the
approbation of their country. The Ensign standing by
advanced, when Ensign Stephen Blake and Ensign R.
B. T. Thelwall received the colours—the band playing
" God save the Queen." The General, who is also the
Colonel of the 65th, briefly addressed the regiment.
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Senior returned thanks to
Mrs. Grosvenor for the honour which she had done to
the 65th, in thus presenting the regiment with new
colours. " Those standards, Madam," he said, " will
constitute our soldiers' honour in whatever country the
service of our Queen may lead us. Wherever
we go, I promise you, in the name of the
regiment, that they shall be faithfully guarded,
and th-fended as becomes British soldiers." Then
addressing the soldiers, he said—" Soldiers of the 65th
Regiment. You have heard the promises I have just
made in your name. I confidently rely on your enabling
me to fulfil them, by guarding these standards with
bravery, with loyalty, and with discipline." The cere-
mony having been concluded, the regiment closed
ranks, and marched past the General in slow and quick
time, and the regiment was then dismissed. Its strength
consisted of 1 lieutenant colon I, 1 major, 4 captains, 7
subalterns, 4 staff officers, with 24 sergeants, 12 drum-
mers, and 330 rank and file. The officers of the regiment
adjourned to the Sun Hotel, Chatham. Covers were
laid for 24 is the large room of the hotel. Colonel
Sir Thomas Willshire and Brigade-Major O'Brien were
among the visitors on the occasion. The band of the
regiment was present,, and played at intervals. The
Gallant General presented the officers, on this occasion,
with a very superb gold vase, standing nearly two feet
in height, for the service and ornament of their mess
table. The non-commissioned officers, as well as the
men of the corps, were regaled at the General's expense
with a good and substantial supper. The General and
his lady left Chatham yesterday, for Woolwich.

Do. Quarter Shares
North Devon . • • • • . • . • •
North Kent • • • • • • • • • • • .
North Staffordshire
North Eastern .• •. ••
North Union (A)
Ditto (B)• • • • •
North Wales Mineral
Ditto New Shares
North Western .• ••.. •
North Wales •
Norwich and Brandon

Ditto New • • •
Not., Belvoir, & Granthm
Nottingham and Boston
Nott., Er wsh. Val. & Man.
Nottingham & Mansfield
Oxford and Birming. June
Oxford and Worcester
Oxford and Cambridge
Perth and Inverness • .
Portsmouth Direct
Preston and Wyre
Ditto Half Shares

Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. Guar
Do. Prof. 5 per Ct. & div.
Preston & Wyre Extols.
Richmond & W. End June
Rugby, Worcestr, & Tring
Scottish Central .... • • •
Scottish Midland..
Sheffield and Manchester
Ditto Qnarter Shares • •
Ditto ditto (No. 2) • •

In "E
214LLOON, or AEROSTATIC
additif,„ MAGAZINE.
Illorith Lb to the usual aerostatic intelligence of the
,‘
the wat.n.o Present number gives a minute description of
boat), —lroof car (constructesl on the principle of a lif
by ttl an ingenious invention of the editor (Mr. Wells),
"48
of Which the aeronaut can with safety make a
4evilt Into the sea.

Ditto ditto (No. 3) • •
Sheffield and Lincoln • • • •
Sheffield and Rotherham
Shrewsbry & Grand June.
Shrewsb., Won', & Crewe
Shrws.,Wolv.,Dudl,&Bir
Shrwsbry & Trnt Val. Uu.
Shrws, ilerefd,& N. Wales
Slamannan . .. • •
South Devon. • • • • • • • • • •
South Midland • . • . • • .. • .
South Eastern and Dover
Do. New (iss. 321.) No. I
Do. (iss.33/.65.5d.) „ 2
Do. (iss. 30/.) „3
Staines and Richmond . • •
Staffordshire & Shropshire
Stirling and Dunfermline
South Wales • •
Tean and Dove Valley . •
Trent Valley .• • . • • • • • • • •
Do. and Holyhead June.
Vale of Neath • • •• • • •
West London, Old Shares
West End & Sothru Cowl.
Wexford a Ad Carlow • • • •
Warwick and Cheltenham
Waterford and Kilkenny
Watrfil,Wxtil,Wick& Dub
Wakefield and Bradford • •
Wakfid, Pontefret, & Gool
Wakefield and Harrogate
Warwick and London. • •
West Lancashire ..... •
Worcester and Tring • • • •
Whitehaven and Farness
Do. New llalf Shares • •
Welsh MiAland . • • • • • • • • •
We,t Cornwall . • • • • • • • • •
West Yorkshire . • . • • • • •
Wilsontwn, M. & Coltness
Wilts, Somrst, & Weymth
Yarmouth and Norwich • •
Ditto New
York and Carlisle . • • • • • •
York and North Midland
Ditto Half Shares .. • •
Ditto Scarbro' Branch
Ditto Selby • • •• • • • • "
Ditto Extension . • • • • •
Yorkshire & Glasgow tin.

th ath,
aneed MIVNY, the LITTLE MILLINER,
, we see.„ through a tenth number, towards
tlte f°tEreati 41 of ultimate happiness which we trust awaits
nng heroine.

- - - -
Last -+DEISTT AT HUNGERFORD STEAM-BOAT PIER.—
cee,rzlight, between seven and eight o'clock, another accident
bar re 4 at this pier, arising from the crowded state of the
%eget
in forming the pier, and the rush made to get on board
dayjhatas steam-boats, owing to the cheap rate of the fares
Chelsea wooden boats. A young man named Double-
tairi on the Primrose coming alongside, and before she was
qr Y moored, forced his way across the Prince of Wales
rose boat, and endeavoured to get on board the Prim-
thoses% to proceed to London-bridge, and, although called on by
nn board to wait until the Prince of Wales's bow gang-
-I:lYboard was properly fastened, he went on. The board
h!nke short off at the time, the persons on board could net see
tu'r4' and it was believed he had gone under the boat. For-
front-natY, however, he succeeded in laying hold of the chains in
res the bows of the Prince of Wales, and was ultimately
litUcued from his perilous situation.
An inquest was held at Lewes on Saturday, on a
p bcy, named Charles Holden, who had been killed on the
Passing
evening by the wheel of one of the Brighton coaches
tiirsieng over his body. Having beard the evidence the jury re-
tort° d a verdict of " Accidental death," with a deodand of
Y shillings on the coach and horses belonging to Messrs.
10.9 and Tice
oust, accompanying the verdict with the Apl-
roawril,g observation :—" And the jury cannot separate witffout
the King strongly their sense of the dangerous manner in which
allornprietors of the Brighton and
,Lewes coaches generally
Public tihifee.r„sery t to drive, to the imminent danger of the
an s
A Ft
b MALE FOUND DROWNED.-011 Monday morn-
e n
ritla ut h alf•past six o'clock, the body of a female, appa-
b-t,
L :N0 Y about nineteen to twenty years of age, was discovered
labourers lying in the City Canal, just opposite Raw-
-I,"s Wharf, St. Pancras. The body, from its general appear-
; rnust have lain in tins water for some length of time.
e body has not yet been rocognised.

An election took place yesterday for the judgeship
of the Westminster Court of Requests. There were fourteen
candidates, and the following were the numbers at the close :
Moylan (Revising Barrister), 44 ; Le Breton, 26 ; A Beckett,
23 ; Ker.nei 20 ; Campbell, 14 ; for the rest n.,t a vote.
THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—MANCHESTER.
—Since our last, the weather has been'uninterruptedly fine ;
marked, however, so far, by repeated:chine of wind and flue-
tuations of the barometer calculated to inspire some doubts as
t its coatinuance.—lliatichester Guardian.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 2. 1845.

RELATIVE CLC
RAILWA

PRINCIPAL CITIES
SCOTLAND,

2,3%1

1 3"
222

102%

2p
al P
81,

10y.
1p
77%

27
I%p

4%
217%
104

SING
Y SH.
THE

"D TOWI
AND IRE:

-48
a.
.4

Sept.
I.
3%

2%
1%
7%
4%
15%

IVA
33
23s9di

6%
22%
11%
20%

14%
73)4

PRICES OF
.RES

S IN ENGLAND,
LAND.

18%
3.;1
4M
614

10
35
F49s6d

Sept.
1.

45a p
1596,11

8 p
- 1

7 Yi
4
22141
15%
8 YI

1814
31/2

184
56 p
688 p

Aug.
30.

Wales, 44—Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush,
2%—Co-
ventry, Nuneaton, &c., 31A—East Lincolnshire, 7 %—East
Coast, 25s.—Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, &c., s—Grand
Union, 48s.—Hull and Gainsborough, 15s. U.—Leicester
and Bedford, 3%—Leicester and Birmingham, 4f/4—Lon-
don and Birmingham Extension, 30s.—London and York,
734—Ditto (Bawtry Scrip), s—Manchester, Buxton, and Mat-
lock, 9%.—Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire, 511,—Not-
tingham, Erewash, &c., 3/. 10s.—Nottingham and Boston,
50-L.—Nottingham and Mansfield, 36s.—North Western,
6%—North Staffordshire, 71. 2s.—Rugby, 3—Rugby and
Huntingdon, 55s.—South Midland, 7%—Shetlield and Lin-
colnshire Junction, 7%—Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Dud-
ley, &c., B—Shrewsbury and Trent Union, s—Tean and Dove
Valley, 3—Wakefield and Bradford, 51/—West Yorkshire,
18%—York and Carlisle, s%—Yorkshire and Glasgow
Union, 3%.
YORK, SEPT. 1.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Union Exten •
sion, 3%—Great North of England, New, 33—Newcastle and
Darlington Junction, New (Brandling), 411/2—York and
North Midland Extension, 25%—Clitheroe Junction, 514
—Grand Union, 411t—Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction,
Quarter Shares, 514—Leicester and Bedford, 4:l4—Lon-
don and York, Ml—Newcastle and Berwick, 2714—North
Staffordshire, 714—North Western, 614—Rugby, 2:1(3--
Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 814—South Midland, 9—Welsh
Midland, 514—West Riding Junction, 19—York and Car-
lisle, 6.

SHEFFIELD, SEPT. 1.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-- The sales are—Preston and Wyre
Extension, 473/—Derby and Crewe, s—East Lincolnshire,
51. 6s. 6d.—Goole and Doncaster, s—Grimsby and Sheffield,
211/—Ditto, Quarter Shares, 4% —Grimsby Railway and
Dock Extension, 91/2—London and Windsor, 42s.—London
and York, 7%—Nottingham, Erewash, and Ambergate,
51 —North Western, s;'—Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 7 1-6
—Welsh Midland, 5 (,---York and Carlisle, 5.

70s6d
5756c1
748
12
6756 d

HUDDERSFIELD, SEPT. 1.
STOCK EXCLIANOE.—The sales are—Nottingham and
Boston, 40s.—Shrewsbury, Hereford, and North Wales, 514
Cambridge and Lincoln, 41/.z—Essex and Suffolk, 1 Is. 6d.—
Grand Union, 3%.—Huddersfield and Manchester, 21—Hud-
dersfield and Sheffield Junction, 20 c. n.—Leeds and Thirsk,
22—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 73/4—Rugby,
Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 7%.
EXETER, SEPT. 1.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Exeter and Cre-
diton, 10—Exeter, Yeovil. and Dorchester, % prem.—North
Devon, 2 lA—Aberdeen, 3:4—Eastern Counties, 20%—South
Wales, 5:4.

HOLYHEAD ROADS AND HAR-
BOUR, &c.

There has just been issued, by order of the House of
Commons, the Twenty-second Report of the Commis-
sioners for the Improvement of the Holyhead Reads,
&c. The following are the more material portions
thereof :

In pursuance of the directions contained in the 124th
section of the Act of 4th George IV., c. 74, we lay
before your Honourable House two reports of our engi-
neer, Mr. John Provis, dated respectively the 31st and
sth of May, 1845, the former of the state, condition,
and repairs of the road from London to Shrewsbury,
and the latter from Shrewsbury to Holyhead Harbour,
and the Menai and Conway-bridges.
We also lay before your Honourable House an account
of the sums received and expended by us during the
year ended sth January last ; and we have further in-
serted accounts, the first of which contains the particulars
of loans to the amount of 83,7001. advanced on the secu-
rity of additional tolls, out of the Consolidated Fund,
and expended by us in various improvements on the line
of road between London and Shrewsbury ; towards the
repayment of which there has been paid into the Ex-
chequer, on account of the principal sum advanced,
43,3721. Bs. I Id., and 25,7271. 2s. 10jd. on account
of interest to the sth of January last ; at which
period there remained due in respect of the said
loans, for principal, the sum of 40,327/. Ils. Id., and for
interest, 16,8171. 10s. 9id., making together 57,1451. Is.
10 d. which is in course of payment.
The second account contains the particulars of loans
to the amount of 54,1001. advanced, on the security of
additional tolls, by the Commissioners for the loan of
the Exchequer-bills for public works, to several trusts of
the road between London and Holyhead, and expended
in various improvements within those trusts ; of
which sum of 54,100/. there has been repaid
2,1061. ss. 5d., and 12,4661. 15s. 2d, paid on account
of interest to the sth of January last ; at which
period there remained due in respect of principal,
the sum of 51,993/. 14s. 7d., and 2,141/. 9s. Gid. on ac-
count of interest, making together the sum of 54,135/.
4s. lid., and which is also in course of payment.

128 s pl

LINCOLN,
A. MILNE,
Whitehall-place, Aug. 5, 1845. CHARLES GORE.
The following are extracts from one of the documents
inserted in the appendix.

2N
74
13%
11%

1 —5
8 s 91

SU
6y.',
3%
200

534
108

THE MENAI BRIDGE.
The whole of the iron work was painted, and a coat-
ing of pitch and tar was given to the timber platform,
wheel guides, &c., during the last summer ; every part
of this bridge and its approaches is in a proper state of
repair, with the exception of a trifling portion of the
paved roadway, which will require to be taken up and
relaid

27
358 p

liUL:

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The
shares 23—North British,

18-Is6dj

2-7s6pl

34s p
4%

141%
18%
16
6\

494
23!4
17

9ils9dl
9%
5%,

,T3/4pl

aErr. 1.
sales are—Hull and Selby, Half
Half Shares, 94 3s. 9d.—North

' William Atkinson, master of the Syren, did not witness the
accident. but saw the confusion occasioned by it, and believed
that both vessels were stationary at the time.
The evidence of the house-surgeon of Charing-cross Hos-
pital related to the injuries received by the unfortunate lad,
whose leg was amputated about six hours after he reached the
hospital. The case progressed favourably until the following
Friday, when death, resulting from mortification, took place.
The CosiosEst, after reading over the evidence, said that he
did not feel called upou to address many observations to the jury
in reference to the conflicting testimony which had been pre-
sented to their notice. It was for them to infer, from the mass
of depositions before them, whether the accident was caused by
a neglect of duty or otherwise, and, if so, who were the blame-
able parties. The larger proportion of the evidence had been
given by passengers on board the vessels at the Hungerford-
pier, and, in considering their verdict, the jury would give due
attention to the statements made by the more interested wit-
nesses likewise. He ought, perhaps, to explain, to them that when
men acted without sufficient caution, and death was the conse-
quence, they were liable too the charge of manslaughter; but it was
the more desirable on that account, that they should be agreed as
to the party to whom the blame in such a case was really attribu-
table. He might remind them, in conclusion, that the law of deo-
dands was still existing, and, if they thought fit to mat k their
sense of any minor negligence, they were at liberty to record a
verdict of accidental death, at the same time imposing a deo-
dand proportionate thereto.
The room was then cleared of strangers, and the jury pro-
ceeded to consider their verdict. After upwards of an hour's
deliberation the public were re-admitted, and
The foreman announced that. the verdict of the jury was—
" Accidental death, a deodand of 401. being imposed upon the
Moonlight steam-boat." He stated that his brother jurymen
and himself had experienced great difficulty in arriving at a
conclusion, owing to the extremely contradictory nature of the
evidence submitted to them by parties whose respectability
entitled them equally to credit. They had, however, come to
the unanimous opinion that the Ilungerford Market Company
were in duty bound to provide more piermen for the better
protection of the public.

THE LATE FATAL RAILWAYS
ACCIDENT.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.

DEFFORD, SEPT. 1.-Mr. Saunders, Secretary of the Com..
parry, yesterday morning sent off an express to London, with
a full report of the sad affair, which brought General Pasley
in the course of the afternoon to inspect the part of the line
where the accident occurred ; the Gallant Officer did not ex-
press any opinion, though it, no doubt, must be a strong one
upon the gross impropriety of placing a truck upon the main
line, which was the sole cause of the accident. The men
(nearly 200) employed to clear the line have succeeded in
doing so and in relaying the rails which were torn up for several
yards, in time for the up mail train which leaves Gloucester at
8 50 P.M., so that no detention was occasioned to this train,
and Sunday intervening, there were no other trains to suffer
any inconvenience. Great praise is due to Mr. Saunders for
the considerate manner in which he behaved towards the suf
ferers and other passengers who were compelled to remain
during several hours of the night in a strange place, and with
no accommodation within three miles. The poor fellow who
was so dreadfully scalded and burnt lingered until nearly
daylight this morning, when death put an end to his sufferings.
An inquest was fixed for twelve o'clock to-day. This morn-
ing General Pasley and several of the Companny's officers be-
longing to the engineering department were upon the spot,
with a view to an inspection. The
.jury have just met, and
have proceeded to view the body of Ward, which was lying in
a barn close to the line, and presented one of the most awful
spectacles ever witnessed, being cut and bruised in every part,
and hardly an unbroken bone in his body. A post mortem
examination has been ordered, and his body has been opened.
The result has not yet transpired, but it is fully expected that
the inquest must be adjourned, as the principal witness, Ward's
fireman or stoker, is unable to be moved, he having been
brought to the Gloucester Infirmary, where he lies in a dread-
ful state.

The inquest upon the passenger (Williams) must also be
adjourned until after the one on Ward is held.

Ward has left a wife and one young child ; he was a clever
man in managing an engine, but not a very careful driver.
He was heard to declare before he left Gloucester that he
would be in Birmingham in two hours. The engine he was
driving, called the " Derby," was the largest at work on the
line; it is not so much injured as was anticipated. Something
must be wrong to allow a man to drive an engine of such
power at such a fearful rate, with a heavy luggage-train, merely
for the fun of the thing ; and this accident shows the neces-
sity of some legislative enactment to put a stop to such reckless
conduct.

Another accident occurred this morning, but was attended
with little or no danger, and no other inconvenience than a
slight detention of the passengers. The engine attached to
the short train, leaving Cheltenham for Gloucester at thirty
minutes past nine o'clock, A. m• , burst a tube when it neared
Badg worth, a police station about two miles from Cheltenham.
Some consternation was manifested by the passengers, but in
about half an hour all was made right, and the train proceeded.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

All doubt is removed as to the eause of the fearful accident
which occurred on this line on Saturday night. It was a truck
standing in the way of the luggage train on its way to Birming-
ham, just as was stated yesterday. The cause of the colli-
sion must have arisen from one or other of the following mis-
s takes :—either the signals were imperfectly given at the
Defford station to indicate that an obstruction had to be
guarded against, or no signal was given at all, or the engine-
driver fell a sacrifice to his own recklessness in pushing on in
spite of the warning.
It is only by an official inquiry that the facts can be pro-
perly ascertained. Railway officers look as though you were
going to solicit charity, or pick their pockets, the moment in-
formation is asked about the occurrence of an accident ; but
even a passenger sitting in a carriage can give no information
beyond his sensations at the time of the accident, or what he
witnesses after it. In the present case the responsibility rests
with the officers at the Defford station. It was they who were
in charge of the truck which caused the double accident, and of
course it remains for them to account for its having been PO
placed, and to prove that the requisite signals were given.
I have seen this morning James Baird, the man who acted as
fireman to the unfortunate Ward. He stated, "We left Glou-
cester at nine o'clock on Saturday night with the luggage-
train. When we got to Bredon the pumps of the engine got
bad, and by our attending to them the fire got very low, but
by the time we got to Egginton the pumps were working
pretty well, and Ward said he would assist in getting the fire
filled up. I then commenced filling up the fire, and he assisted
me by opening and shutting the fire-hole door as I put in the
coke. lam not exactly sure whether it was by the bridge at
Defford or when crossing the Avon that Ward said to me,
Jamie, there's something wrong;' and immediately I saw him
shut off the steam. On observing this, I began to reverse the
engine and whilst doing so I was thrown off it. As I was
falling I felt something strike my shoulder. It was very dark
at the time. I was restored, after a time, to sensibility by the
pouring of water over me. On looking up I saw engines and
carriages heaped upon each other, and some of them on fire.
I asked the person who was assisting me if he could tell me
anything of Ward ? He said, Stranger, we will take you to
the station. You are not fit to inquire after your friends.' "
Baird attributes the accident to imperfect signalling at Defford.