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July 31, 1852.] THE LEADER. 723
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RAILWAY "ACCIDENTS." THE BUBNLET "VEEDIC...
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A plan is proposed to ventilate railway ...
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THE STOCKPORT RIOTS. Tiie inquiry before...
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turn the Government of Prince Louis Bonaparte , or simply the case of the death of that personage , the Powers bind and oblige themselves to aid and favour by all means ? _jkejr power the restoration of the legitimate heir of the Crown and in the sequel they will recognise no other dynasty but that of the Bourbons , and no other claimant but M . Comte de Chambord . In acting thus they protest beforehand against the imputation of wishing to _attack the independence of France . France is free to organize her internal government as she chooses , and the Powers do not reject the system called constitutional , any more than they reject any other system . But the recognition of legitimate and hereditary royalty does not interest France alone j it interests all European States . It is a national principle in as far as regards France , and an international principle in as far as regards ihe other European Powers . It is on this account that the right and the duty devolve upon the Sovereigns of defending that principle , and of assisting it to triumph in as far as that depends upon them . This convention is signed—Francis Joseph , Frederick William , Nicolas . The funeral obsequies of Marshal Excelmans took lace
p on Tuesday , with all the military honours due to his splendid services in the battles of the Empire * The cortege was composed of detachments from the army of Paris , and the hig hest civil and military dignitaries followed the hearse The Archbishop of Paris performed the service in the Chapel of the Invalides , in which the surviving comrades of the deceased were assembled to pay the last _resnecte . Louis Napoleon arrived expressly from St . Cloud , dressed in the uniform of a Lieutenant-General , and attended by a large suite of aides-de-camp . Among the distinguished persons present at the ceremony , General Petit , Governor of the Invalides— " his hair white as snow , and his form bent with years "—was particularly noticed . M . de Ravignan , the brother-in-law of the deceased , was also present . General Gourgaud is dead , after a lingering illness . He , too , was an old soldier of the Empire , an aide _> de-camp of the Emperor , and subsequently of Louis Philippe , to whom he was warmly attached . His devotedness to the house of Orleans threw a slight shadow on his position under the regime of the nephew of his first and greatest master . He was buried on Wednesday at the Church of St . Thomas d'Aquin with due pomp . The Moniteur of Wednesday has the following ad captanduvi announcement : — " The still increasing amount of cash in hand belonging to the Treasury has enabled the Minister of Finance to reimburse to the Bank of France 25 , 000 _, 000 f ., on account of the 50 , 000 , 000 f . lent by the Bank , in March , 1848 . " That sum was paid on the 26 th instant . of decrees
In the Moniteur Thursday , appeared appointing Drouyn de L'Huys Minister for Foreign Affairs ; Magne for Public Works ; Lefebvre Durufle _' , Senator . M . Baroche is to take part in the business of the Council of Ministers . The Elector of Hesse Cassel having dispensed with the oath on the constitution , the Chambers have been opened . It is said , however , that as soon as the Hessian Government shall have got the grant of a loan of a quarter of a million sterling " for the expense of restoring federal and constitutional order in the Electorate" the Chambers will ibo prorogued . state that Mi
Letters from Turin of the 24 th instant - nisters had mot to consider the expediency of taking proceedings against the signers of the declaration of the Episcopacy of Savoy against the Civil Marriage Bill . They , however , agreed that , as the bill had not yet _revived the sanction of the Senate or been promulgated by the King , it had not acquired a legal character , and that consequentl y bishops , as well as all other citizens , had a right to make known their opinion on its merits . General Guglielmo _Pdpe , celebrated in the wars of Italian independence , and now an exile , was lately passing through the town of St . Rinio ( Piodmont ) . The national guard was desirous of paying him some public murk of respect , but the Intendant oi tho town forbado any demonstration . Mr . Moore , tho British Consul at Ancona , has been very insultingly called to account by _Monseigneur Amici , the Papal Governor of Ancona , for what tho latter calls " nn infraction of tho pratique regulations" in that port . Mr . Moore , ifc seems , had brought a friend on shore from n Trieste steamer without the required Papal Consul ' s visa , after vainly endeavouring to hunt up the proper authorities in tho town , in order to get the slight irregularity rectified . Tho Correspondent of the Daily Neios writes , that his " Reverence has become the laughing stock of tho town by the circulation of his letter , and the foreign conkuIs are disgusted at its tone . " of
We commend the following to the attention our ultra-Protestant ministry and their Exciter Hall supporters . It will test tho sincerity of that Protestant zeal which wo have hitherto found to be nothing bettor but bigotry at home imd subservience abroad . We take the account ( _extually from the Naples correspondence of the Daily _JSft ' _-ms ; Mr . Hamilton is an English Protestant schoolmaster , who settled in Naples early in 1 H 1 K , and opened a Protestant school for tho instruction of English and Swiss boys . II in establishment rapidly increased , and , therefore , attracted tho jealousy of the Neapolitan ecclesiastical authorities . Not being able to treat Mr . Hamilton aH they hud treated the Swiss , he _became the object of indirect annoyance . The police visited tho _parents of his pupils , and endeavoured to influence nuoh as had any ( _. _-onnexioM with or dependence on government employment . Kntuo Were induced to withdraw their children under fear of tho parent , losing Iuh appointment , ( engineer , for example ) in Naples . Other I ' rot cut ant . parents , having less protection I linn Briti _s h subjects , were equally intimidated ; and by ¦ ¦ ¦ 'i' ! i _trieaim Mr . Hamilton ' s _OHtablishment was reduced to homo dozen children of purely English parents . fc ) uch was tho _utato of things when Mr . Hamilton , a few
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days since , _was called before the police , and told to shut up" his school ; that the Government could no longer allow a Protestant school to exist in Naples . Mr . Hamilton rep lied , that he carried on his business of schoolmaster by right of treaty ; that he had never offended the law , and would not therefore comply with the unjust demand of closing his school . Soon after this interview , the police suddenly entered the house of Mr . Hamilton , and turned out all the boys by force , some of whom , their parents not being in Naples , were positively in the streets , not knowing where to go . This unjustifiable act was immediately communicated to Sir W . Temple , who no doubt has taken immediate steps to protect . Mr . Hamilton . It is a subject on ' which the home Government ought to express their opinion , if British subjects are to be allowed to reside in Naples as traders or visitors . An extract of the treaty between her Majesty Queen Victoria and his Sicilian Majesty will at once discover the illegality practised towards Mr . Hamilton . " Their dwellings ( those of British subjects ) , warehouses , and all premises appertaining thereto , destined for purposes of residence or commerce , shall be respected . No arbitrary search of , or visit to , the houses of British subjects , and no arbitrary examination or inspection whatever of books , papers , or accounts of their trade shall be made ; but such measures shall be executed only in conformity with the legal sentence of a competent tribunal . "—Article 3 . Treaty signed April 29 , 1845 . The entrance of the police , therefore , in Mr . Hamilton ' s house was a direct violation of the treaty , and the sudden expulsion of some dozen boys from their forms into the streets was an act of petty cruelty , worthy of the Neapolitan police . If treaties are to be respected , now is the time to act ; for should such offences be allowed to be passed over without ample apology and compensation , they will assuredly be repeated all over the world by such governments as that which now misrules the Two Sicilies .
July 31, 1852.] The Leader. 723
July 31 , 1852 . ] THE LEADER . 723
Railway "Accidents." The Bubnlet "Veedic...
RAILWAY _"ACCIDENTS . " THE BUBNLET "VEEDICT . The jury before whom the circumstances of the railway accident at Burnley were investigated have returned the following verdict : — " We find that the four deceased lost their lives at the Burnley station of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway accidentally , in consequence of the return of the" Goole excursion train running into the siding instead of the main line connected with the East Lancashire Railway , and coming in contact with the buffers fixed in the masonry of the abutment of the bridge at the terminus of the said siding , thereby causing a violent concussion to those carriages at the head of the train , and the total demolition of the body of the carriage in "which the deceased were found . The cause of the train being thus run on the siding the jury attribute to the points ; on _thrf wooden bridge being closed when tho train passed , which should otherwise have been opened to shunt the train on to the main line . It appears to the jury , from the evidence produced , that there were only two guards , each working a brake , for this train , consisting of thirty-five carriages , and containing upwards of 1000 passengers , which they consider were quite inadequate to check the impetus of such a train descending an incline ; and that had more guards accompanied the train to work tho brakes , or had the engines not been detached from the train , but their action had been reversed in descending the incline , the jury are decidedly of opinion this accident would have been , if not entirely prevented , very much less fatal in its consequences . Tho jury aro unanimously agreed that tho sole cause of this accident was owing to the deficiency of guards and pointsmen to let tho train safely down tho incline into tho station , and to tho employment of incompetent and _irresponsiblo men , and to tho want of order and discipline amongst tho company ' s servants _genorally , and tho total absence of any responsible person to direct and superintend tho safo arrival and unloading of tho train ; and they feel bound to state that the greatest negligence was displayed by the executive officials of tho railway company on this occasion . It is tho opinion of the jury there is great blame to bo attached to the selection of carriages for this train—more particularly on account of their inequality in size and difference in the height above tho rails to the centre of the buffers , as given in evidence . At the same time the jury wish to record that they bad no opportunity of forming an opinion of their condition and construction , as tho whole were removed before they were called upon to visit the station . In conclusion , tho jury beg to submit to tho directors of this railway that in their opinion tho siding into which tho ordinary arrival trains run is fraught with danger , in consequence of being situated at the bottom of an incline , and terminating against a strong , dead bufl'or . "
The Coroner inquired if their verdict as to death was accidental . " They replied in the affirmative . It is not easy , from the evidence upon which this verdict was founded , to make out a very clear account of tho affair . But this seems ut least made out—that the points at which the train turned from its intended course were- left by the regular pointsman in charge of a man named Cmbtree , who was not employed by the company , but was in the habit of _relieving tho regular ofliccrH , for tho nuke of what bo could get casually by _carrying passengers' luggage . Tikis Onibt reo bad again , for some reason which does not seem clear , left bin posl , in the c _; ire of a man named Hridge , : i blacksmith , who also was not employed by tho company , and who was quite unaccustomed to so important a jK ) st . Tho engine which brought the train wn _« dotaohed at tho top of the incline , and preceded tho train . When it camo
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to the points turning off to the engine-house , which are a short distance from those at which Bridge was stationed , the driver called out , " Turn me into the _shetf . " Bridge , hearing this request , left the spot where he was standing , and went to the shed points and turned the engine into the shed . Before he could return to the other points , the train had begun to pass _though . On this occasion the train followed more closely upon the engine than is usual in such cases . As to the question whether the two guards were sufficient to manage the train , all the officer _^ of the company who were examined agree that two are sufficient ; but on the other hand , it is clear that the g uard , Charles Smith , who had care of one of the breaks , when he found the train was going wrong , was unable to stop it , and that the other breaks were not usecL With _, regard to the buffers of the carriages being of unequal heig ht ( those of the carriages in which the sufferers were seated being higher than those of the next ) , the guard stated that such an arrangement was decidedly dangerous , and that a slight check might make such a carriage rear up .
A Plan Is Proposed To Ventilate Railway ...
A plan is proposed to ventilate railway carriages by fixing horizontal tubes , with bell mouths , to the roofs , so as to catch the air when in motion , and direct it into the carriage . The stream of air is to be directed by passing through wire gauge screens , while outward currents are produced by deflecting windows , composed by vertical panes of glass , so mounted as to turn in any way according to the direction of the train . A train of empty carriages and trucks , passing down the South Eastern Railway on Monday evenmg , was shunted on to the up line of rails at Headcome _, to allow the down mail train to pass it , when the Paris tidal train from Folkestone came up . The driver of the latter train disregarded the signals which indicated to him that he should stop , and ran into the stationary train with such force as to knock over two trucks on to the down line in front of the mail train . A double collision was thus caused . Several passengers were bruised and hurt but none killed . A collision took place on Wednesday week , at Stockston , on the Leeds Northern Railway , at the junction with the Clarence and Hartlepool Railway . Several persons were severely injured , two of whom have died . One of the latter is Mr . Thomas Grainger , civil engineer , of Craig-park , who suffered a compound fracture of the right leg , which brought on mortification . An inquest was held on Monday , when it was proved that , in order to pass from the Clarence line to the Leeds Northern , the trains have to use the reverse lines of the former railway for some distance , that is to say , the down trains have to pass along the up-line , and vice versa . In this way a passenger train _, and a goods train were approaching each other in opposite directions , both upon the down pair of rails . The passenger train had just entered the points in order to turn off to the other line when the goods train met it , running into the tender , and making great havoc of the luggage van and the three first carriages . As far as the evidence can be consistently understood , there does not seem to be any blame to be imputed to the servants of the company .
The Stockport Riots. Tiie Inquiry Before...
THE STOCKPORT RIOTS . _Tiie inquiry before the magistrates was concluded on the part of the prosecution on Saturday . Some witnesses made charges against Michael Murray and James Loinas , two of the prisoners , the former among other things being accused of having said" We'll wash our hands in Protestant blood , and walk over their beads for stones ; " but as both of them were discharged we have not given the evidence against them . Margaret Marlow testified that sho saw the prisoner Samuel Preston breaking open the poor-box at the Edgeley chupel , on the night of tho riot . Ho inserted bis hand into the broken box , and afterward put it , closed , into bis trousers pocket , she being unable to see whether be bad anything in it . Theresa Amy saw Mark Gleave , another of the prisoners , stirring up the lire outside the priest ' s house . Sho saw him about two o'clock the next morning in Walker ' s-yard , Brook-street , with about twenty people , armed with truncheons , _breaking into somo cellars inhabited by Irish . They destroyed tho furniture and dragged the men away , threatening to kill them if they did not go .
Other witnesses were ( railed , who proved nothing important , except that Hamlet Hulmc and Mark Glcavo were in tho Kdgeley _cbajK'l during tho riot . Tho magistrates , after retiring for an hour and three quarters , determined that the following prisoners should be discharged , viz .: —Michael Murray , James Ijomas , _l'eter Kowbottoin , Henry Oliver , John Watson , William Wood , and George I _' otts . Against tho followingthe magistrates were of opinion that a case was made out , which they would have to answer :- Patrick OMIaru , James Finn , Michael M'UermoM , Thomas G _« rvey , James Walsh , Thomas Murphy , Patrick Naughtcn _. Tlioiuns _Ferney , George IV 1 I , Samuel Itoyle , Henry Ithodos , William Buttrey , Murk ( Heave , Honry _Ashton , ThoinuH Edwards , John Slater , Samuel Preston , Thomas Walker , Joseph Birch , Samuel Williamson , and Thomas Uarcbier . As to George Parry and Hamlet
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Leader (1850-1860), July 31, 1852, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_31071852/page/7/
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