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The Inquest On The Body Of Robinson, Who...
apparently sitting composedly at the bottom of the embankment , but quite dead . lie exhibited no external signs of iniury . There were four passengers ; I think one firstclass and the other three second-class . I myself am considerably scalded about the head , face , and arm , but I hope not seriously so . John Gosling , police-constable of East Retford , stated—I l eft the Sheffield station last night by the Great Northern train at a little after nine o ' clock ; we came on for some minutes at a good speed , when I heard a crackling kind of _noise—^ crack after crack . I had just time to say to my fell ow-passengers , "What can be the matter ? " when we found ourselves topsy-turvy , and going down we knew
not where . Ultimately we stopped , with the carnage lying on one side . We were considerably shaken , but I cannot say how often the carriages went over . When we recovered ourselves we tried to get out , but could only do 60 by breaking the glass of the window with an umbrella . On getting out . we could see nothing , for it was very dark , and we sh outed out , but received no answer until we got on to the top of the embankment , where we found William Lee , the stoker , who told us to keep off , for he expected the engine boiler to burst every minute , and he also said there was another train due from Retford . He then took off and ran on the line , but I believe he did not know which road he was going—whether to Sheffield or
the Woodhouse junction . I then directed two of the passenger s to proceed towards the junction to stop the train which was due from Retford . I remained on the spot for some time by myself ( as I thought ) , and kept calling out , and ultimately found the fourth passenger , who complained of haying been shaken , and of his fingers being cut , but I told him not to mind his fingers . Seeing a light at a distance , we went in that direction , and found it to be the residence of Mr . Smith , solicitor , who kindly furnished us with matches , candles , & c , and accompanied us to the spot . We then found a lamp , which we lighted , and on looking round found the guard dead in a sitting position . I felt his arm , but it was cold , and had not the slightest pulsation . One of the buffers was pressed against his chest , and his back was jambed against another carriage . We tried , but could not release him . We then went to the
engine , on the other side of the line , and found the driver with his legs under the firebox . He was sensible , and begged of us to lift it ( the engine ) up ; we tried to release him , but found we could not . We then went for some assistance to dig him out : it soon arrived , and he was got out , and taken to the Woodhouse Junction Inn . I then took the lamp , and went towards Darnell , and lighted one lamp on the road , and got the other lamps lighted at Darnell . I waited there until the pilot-engine arrived from Sheffield , and went with it again to the place . When we fot back , poor Tuckwood was in the same position , but Fright had been taken to the inn at the Woodhouse junction . A surgeon arrived shortly afterwards , but pronounced Tuckwood to be dead . The station-master at the Woodhouse junction behaved most kindly towards the whole of us , and did everything in his power to alleviate the sufferings of both Wright and Lee .
On the following morning the engine , which did not appear to be much damaged , and the debris of the train were removed , and the line repaired by a staff of workmen from the Great Northern Station at Doncaster . The unfortunate engine-driver lingered until a quarter-past eight o ' clock on Thursday night , when he died . He has left a wife and a child by a former wife . He had been for several years past engaged on railwa ys , having been a driver for four or five years , on tho Paris aud Rouen railway . About two months ago , while in the service of the Great Northern Company he ran his engine into another at Leeds , for which be was suspended two months , and Wednesday was the first day he had resumed his work .
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The Most Extensive Fire That Has Occurre...
The most extensive fire that has occurred in tho metropolis for a considerable period broke ; out yesterday morning at . a fewminutes bt _^ forofoux o ' clock , and at ne ) onwas far from being entirel y extinguished . Tito scene of this terrible fire was Denmark-street , St . Georgo's-in-the-East , whereon was e're _, etoel the _oxtensivo sugar retining houses of Messrs . Bradon and Co . Tho discovery was maele by a police-constable . _Engines wero on the spot with all possiblo expedition ; but at thatt _itno the flames had assumeel a most terrific appoarunco , lor thoy hael taken possession of every floor in tho building _, irom what waa called the " Largo House , " whoro tbo lire , originated , tbo flames extended to tho " Small ! louse . " Rueh place contained many tons weitrht of sutrar .
aad us the ; same } became ignited , tho flames rolled forth like , streams eif liquid firo , throwing up a glare ; of light which illuminated , not merely the eastern _petrtion of Lon'lon , but tbe reduction coulel be , _hisuii as far off as Gravesond . I _' lirlunatel y the , mains yielded an abundant supply of water , front which the , firemen _se , t their engines to weirk ; but , in spite eif their _exortieins , the , roof anel fleieirs of the , h » rge _, houses fell , and , consequently , the , costly _steick in trade fell along- wilb them ; set that in a few ' hours this building became gutted , unel the smaller building about ' >( MWii J'" ' " < , OHtr ° y - rj ' ll _« lmH » ifc >« expected , will exceed _~ M « H ) f . ; and , unfortunately , the ; firm was insured for en y () _, _( KH ) l . 'flu , origin eiC the ; misfortune is unknown .
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A wciuTeilel fell _suddenl y from the , front of a _houso at ¦ . » v . ftnti . _sh _Teiwtt on- Thursday .. _Twei men wero fatally " jured . J * ( 1 ' _- _^ 'h' re-rutting of the "Koh-i-noor was finished on Tuoma y- It is now a gem unoquallcd in shape ; , bistro , anel A retired drayman , in tho employ e > f Messrs . Truman _, - . ' " ¦ "bury , _Iluxtoti _iitiel Co ., camo up from the country a i _«» w e , tyH agei ami pre , _s ( , _nte ; d 50 / ,. tei tho London Hospital , i . t i , " ' J , ° HaH _<» f bis gratitude , for the , groat _kinelness _sti . ' . t ( mt - lM hM rocewod whon an inmate , eif that inin Vi t ¦ lrt y X onrt ' aR » - At tho sumo time ho gavo 601 . u tbo Licensed _VictiydW Asylum .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so ¦ unnatural and convulsive , as the strain , to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —De . _Abnold .
Wellington Wateeloo Lias Gone To The Tom...
WELLINGTON Wateeloo lias gone to the tomb : "Wellington , " as high , as Houen steeple , " the object of fear to French babes , and of mortification to Frenchmen , who have not , like a Soult , strengthened their heart in the field , has yielded to death , and the 18 th of June , his own and his country ' s fete day , will be celebrated no more , as it has been celebrated . That day is now a tradition and a memory . Wellington was a great man in the scale of his faculties , but not of the highest order . No canting claim for eulogy over the closing tomb , shall shut our sight to a truth ; and
our deep , unfeigned respect for the great departed Hero rests upon a belief in that full matter-of-fact straightforwardness which would make it an insult to his memory not to speak straight out . He had high qualities , but he also lacked the highest . He was a strong type of part of the manly character . He was the greatest military commander of our day , and perfect within himself . He accomplished his destiny , while his great rival , Napoleon , broke down half way ; not through the conspiracy of enemies , but through his own deficiencies . Napoleon did not know his place : Wellington never missed it .
Wellington was fearless : he possessed the General ' s powers of command and of combination in the highest degree . As a part of the soldier ' s faculties , he had no mean powers of administration . Hence , he was a statesman , so far as a great commander must be one : he could survey the political map , and combine the operations of influences , not less than of troops ; he could keep in mind the details , as well as tho larger
groupings of public affairs ; he knew the personages of politics throughout Europe and India , and could calculate their probable motives with much sagacity . But these powers only included the perception , so to speak , of the tangible and the authenticated ; he dealt with men and facts as they are recorded and classified , as they are tabulated and assorted in reports and histories .
But he was no philosopher . He was no real politician , like Caesar or Henri Quatre , entering into the spirit and feelings of men and races . Ho was an exact man , a stern man , and , for all his goodnature , a hard man ; and lie suffered the privations of a hard man . His touch was callous . He could not feel nice distinctions , nor understand motives working unsocn . Political events came upon him as surprises , when they sprang from the motives not classified in the data of thc
military calculator . He mistook _lieform for rebellion , and resisted it as crimo , until ho came near to the monster , and found it to be harmless . Ho objected to Louis Philippo a Government in its early stages , when it was tho farthest opposite both from tho republic or from that military dospotism which it waa Wellington ' s highest work to put down , and which is reviving aa ho sinks to tho grave ; and he agreed to Louis Philippe s Government when it fell in with routine , and maele a toy of a cockney soldiery—the
very things that destroyed the Government , and paved tho way for a new Napoleon . Without tho imagination of the political philosopher , or the warmer feelings of most men , Wellington was essentially destined to be a servant , and not a master . Hero lay the truo limitation , not less than the true greatness of his character . His ambition was , not to rule , but to attain tho highest promotion possiblo . The ambition of a _Cassar , of a Henry of Navarre , of a Cromwell , to overturn the state , would have been to him a madness . The zeal to uphold an abstract princi ple against tho powers that be , as Cromwell fought for national freedom and roli-
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gious freedom , against despotism and popery , was alien to his mind . He could not work the speculative proposition independently of the authorities of the time , nor share the passion for an abstract purpose . His duty must be laid down for him by others , and then he could discern it . And when he did descry it , nothingcould turn him from it . To take a fort , to conduct a negotiation to a certain end , to form a ministry , to pass a Parliamentary bill , were ' things to be done as soon as ordered , if they lay
within his power ; and he marched straight tb his object , without flinching , in the face of cannon or obloquy . He was a steward , upright , faithful , fearless—a Titan of the order of servants . He was not a statesman , for he had no thorough sympath y with the genius of his country : he never evinced any faculties which showed him . to be especially the countryman of Shakspeare , or of Locke , or of Bacon ; he would have been , ex officio , the mere denyer of Cromwell but for the anachronism ; he attended punctually to his observances in the Chapel Royal , but we never understood that he interfered at all in the duties of
Tillotson or Butler ; he _accepted his ceconomy from Peel . He did not even embody the principle of p hysical force , which is one element of the trinity-power of every state , —knowledge , affection , and force ; force was to him not a political principle , but only a raw material . He embodied one essential condition of state organization , —discipline . Discipline , in its active as well as its passive sense , is the power by which multitudes give effect to the dictates of the largest affections and the highest judgment amongst them . It is a virtue essential even more to the
free state than to the enslaved , and of that great political , not less than military virtue , Wellington was an honest embodiment . The virtue won him his rank and opportunity in India ; it won him Waterloo ; it won him the confidence of every Sovereign under whom he has served ; the respect and confidence of every political party ; and ultimately , the affectionate esteem even of a people , who commonly demand larger sympathies than his iron-bound nature could give—but the virtue was in itself so thoroughgoing , so complete in its purpose , so honest .
If " Liberals" and " popular leaders" could but imitate Wellington ' s straightforwardness of conduct , his firmness of purpose , and his chivalrous devotion to discipline , we should not see the people enervated by suicidal intrigues , nor a great party looking in helpless self-worship at its own intent ; but popular rights would , ere now , have conquered their Waterloo , and a holy alliance of tho nations might have signed its treaty , even at Vienna .
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FRENCH THREAT OF INVADING ENGLAND On the very day that Wellington died , the Consti tutionnel put forth an article directly threatening the invasion of England . The article is false in its facts , but thero does lurk in France—though not now amongst her patriots—a barbaric spirit of hatred to England ; and the unscrupulous adventurer , who is canvassing tho votes of " fathers of families , " would bo ready enough to tako advantage eif that spirit , if it fell iu hia course . Nay , he has beforo expressed regret that "his Star" should bave destined him " to conquer" us . One of his organs now advances tho throat as imminent : —
" Invasion ! May the misfortune's which such a word represents ho turned away freim the , English people , in spite of thc frequent iniquities of tbeir politics , and in spite of the oppression which their navy has se > leing exercise-el in Europe ! May we never be obliged to puss that moveable bridge which steam bus _threiwn between that iinfiein anel ours , unless tei stretch out the hand to the English , and to congratulate ourselves with them on beholding somewhat more , moderation and equity in their relations with either powers ! Hut , if ever the _plugue of war shoulel hurst out between them
und us , Loneleiu might well tremble . It is not fortifications on tho coast , nor the _aeil . ive _, watching of n licet , which could prevent vessels of great speed liko tho Napoleon from carrying eue _^ h more than 1500 moil on the first bench of England which might ho bare when the title was out . Tbe _strugg le , would there be transported to the , hind , and there , thank ( leiel , we , she mid light with advantage ' . " This is plain speaking ; but what is tho Constitutionnel t Some time since it represented M . Thiers , tho historian , who has given vor-
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 18, 1852, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18091852/page/13/
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