The Tamworth Miners' Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1873-10-04 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

REOI..I:AI lON OF Vii coo—Mr. R. K. Smithiee, hal ciao., held a court at the Tool, Hall, for the purpose of revising the lint of voters for East Stafford. shire, in the Tatnworth dintriet. The Liberals were represented by Mr. Jukes, of Bethel], an/1 the Connervutives by Mr. Feruie, of Stafford. There were but few objections or chains, but the result was a slight advantage to the Conservatives. The Barrister after wards revised the borough list ef voters—Amingion no claims or objections; Fawley, no objections, one lodger claim, Mr. Alfrtsl Brown, who resided with Mr. Judge. The rent of the whole premises wan £l2, sod the name .1:9. The elaitnant occupied two rooms, and paid 7s. for reut and attendance. The Barrister did not consider the claim a good one, 'Ault ,11,:ill0Wol it. Syerscote: no chums or objections. Wilimote three ClitiMb, which were allowed objections: time slight alteration. in names. Wigginton no claims or objeetious. Bolehall and Glaacote: no objections; two claims, one allowed; the other, a lodger's claim, the Rev. C. J. Hunt (senior curatei. Mr. Hoist did not ar pear. The Barrister said that the claim bad not been rightly made, and (hallowed it. 'rainworth Castle an objections or elai,ao. Tamworth one lodger chain, the Bev. Francis Hopkins (Boman Catholic priest), allowed. There were fifty other claim., several of which were objected to, through having received j viols relief. Mr. Atkins, aolicitor, said that the word of the assistant overseer wag not suffieient to show that the parties objected to had received parish relief. Mr. Baraelough said that some of those the overneer stated had had relief, denied that they bad. The overseer produced Ms collecting books, and showed that Mr. Sbuttleworth, the relieving officer, had Oared a mark against the names of those who had received relief. The Barrister said that was sufficient, and, they lid not appear to support their claims, lie should distilled them. Seven from this cause were disallowed, and one through not being valid. The others were allowed.  The Board of Trade annual list of railway amdents has been issued. The figures are not very I reassuring. It appears that, excluding the deaths marked as being suicides, 900 persons were killed in 1872 upon 14 of our railroads, each having capital exceeding 10 millions-95 persons on the Midland, 97 on the Great Western, 133 on the North Eastern, 167 on the London and North Western line. The companies state that the great majority of the deaths occur through the misconduct or want of caution of the victim. The companies report 1,145 persons killed and 3,038 injured, in the year 1872, on the railways of the United Kingdom; that is to say, three a day killed, and eight a day injured; but the companies throw blame on people's carelessness, and this plea, as the Times rightly remarks, should by more caution be made less available. The companies admit only 24 passengers killed in the year from causes beyond their own control, and this is stated to be :only one in 174 millions of persons carried, even without counting season ticket holders carried, the number of whose journeys is unknown. From 1862 to 1867 the number of passengers killed in a year never extreeded 36; in 1868 it was 62; in 1869, 39 ; in 1870, 90; in 1871, 57 and in 1872, 127. The number of passengers described as killed from causes beyond their own control was 26 in 1862, 14 in 1863, 15 in 1864, 23 in 1865, 15 in 1866, 19 in 1867, 40 in 1866, 17 in 1869, 66 in 1870, 12 in 1871. 24 in 1872, giving nearly 25 as the average. The average annual number of passengers injured from causes beyond their own control was 785 in the same eleven years.  The Social Science Congress meeting this year commenced its business on Wednesday, at Norwich. Lord Houghton, who has been appointed president, delivered an effective inaugural address. Sir Chas. Adderley, Bart., M.P., wrote, saying he wished to offer a prize for the best essay on a means of getting rid of sewage, smoke, and the whole refuse which was the surplusage of production in manufacturing towns, and the communication was referred to the Committee of Council for consideration. Speaking upon the subject of international arbitration, Lord Houghton considered it was doubtful if the general principle had gained by the proceedings of the Geneva tribunaL Without giving an opinion on the policy of the Government purchase of the railways, he sketched the chief arguments for and against, and remarked that it was indisputable that, whatever might have been the cost of competition, and the loss to individuals, the result to the country was such a network of railway accommodation as no other nation possessed, and a continuous course of concession on the part of the companies to the public convenience. Ile feared that no practical progress had been made in the vexed question of sanitary reform. There could be no better evidence of the exigencies and embarrassments of the present state of things than the story of the bill which Mr. Powell and Sir Charles Adderley introduced during the I last session, The Ices of this measure was much Ito be regretted. It would have given to rural sanitary authorities the powers of making byelaws and compulsory purchase which were now only possessed by the urban authorities, and would have enabled the I local government, by order, to supersede the sanitary authority in cases of non-performance or neglect. General tranquility had been improved by the Licensing Act, but there was little or no evidence of the diminution of intoxication. The struggle for the Permissive Bill, and the obstinate resistance offered on the other side, he compared to the stern ideal of Puritan life, and the licentious reaction in the days of Charles 11. le correctives of the vice of drink, he recommended the cultivation of the tastes of the working classes, the improvement of their dwellings, the enlightenment of their understandings, and the elevation of their sense of responaibility. On the education question, his lordship said that any systematic attempt to confine the future mind of England within hard dogmatic limits, either religions or speculative,would utterly fail in its object. On the Law of Conspiracy he said— itai rather is anticipation that in the expenenee alt,