Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-02
greater outlay on repairs occasioned by the falling in of the beneficial leases.

The official return of the railway ac- cidents in Great Britain in 1894 has just been published, and although the fig ures show heavy loss of life from vari- ous causes, the list of casualties among actual passengers Is, as usual, surpris- ingly small. Only 16 passengers were killed and 347 injured by accidents to the trains rolling stock, or permanent way. Six employees of the companies were killed and 62 injured by this class of
 accident. Vastly greater is the total of persons killed by their own careless ness or fault. In this way 620 persons were. killed and 1852 injured 101 of the killed and 821 of the injured sbeing pas sengers. Of the injuries, 120 were in- fiicted by the closing of carriage doors. The number of persons killed at level crossings was 80, while 2S3 trespassers were run over at different places, and 112 persons committed suicide. The fatali- ties among employees of the companies or contractors were 473, and the injured 2649. The accidents occurring on rail way premises, unconnected with the traffic of the line, amounted to 70 deaths and more than 5000 injuries. Of the It passengers killed in, trains in motion, 13 occurred in the collision at Chelford, on the London and Northwestern rail- way. Apart from this catastrophe only three passengers lost their lives in trav- cling.
 The Russian censorship has permitted the St. Petersburg press the utmost lati- tude in denouncing England since the latter declined to join in the European protest against Japan's terms to China. The following is a sample passage from the columns of the Noryoye Vremya:- "Why conclude all these arrangements with England concerning territory ad- jacent to India? They only tie our hands and bring us no advantage whatever. England all the same, never misses a chance of doing us injury wherever pos sible. These agreements are only useful to England by-insuring the security of India, and do not in the slightest de- gree cure or even mollify the traditional hostility of English policy towards Rus sia At the very moment when we were giving England the Pamir agreement as fresh guarantee for her tranquil rule in India, and when our pacific in-, tentions and moderation were being rec ognized by the English press-at that very moment England was doing her ut most to raise the Armenian question next door to us in the Caucasus. Before the Pamir agreement could be published England was trying to trip us up in the far east, and the cynicism with which this was done plainly showed that she considered Russia as 9er deadliest ene- my, against whom i-i measures were justifiable. These agreements, there fore, with England about the Pamirs are only advantageous to the English, and are positively injurious for us, as they weaken the significance of our proxim- ity to the Indian frontier Why, then, these agreements? We bind ourselves for the benefit of England and confirm her in the belief that she can injure us in all directions with perfect impunity It is precisely in the Pamirs that a free policy Is absolutely necessary as 1t is the only one that England respects and fears. Let there be no agreements and no frontier limitations where England feels vulnerable. Let the spheres of in- f1uence be controlled by military out posts and Russa's peaceful develop ment, we may rest assured, will be better guaranteed than it is at present"