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Leader (1850-1860), 28th December 1850, Edition Town of 2, Page 940, Untitled Article

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      jected , trie ettect or which was to cona try . This temporary reverse was i however . M . Kerdrel having propc National Assembly , confiding in tl the Government , passes to the order ballot took place , which gave the foll < For M . Kerdrel ' s order of the day Against it •« »• •• •• The order of the day was , therefore , decision overturned the former one , am the Ministry in public favour .

      THE CHOLERA IN JAM , From the accounts recently receive it would appear that the late visit of tl has been the most frightful scourge tl for many years , any country in the The tropical climate of Jamaica—the i lent habits , and the ignorance and suj coloured population—the general po unprepared state of the inhabitants fc of a plague , have been the causes wl one of the most beautiful islands in

      Sea a scene of unutterable desolation . It was on the 7 th of October that ] V surgeon of the naval hospital in P nounced that Asiatic cholera , of a n had made its appearance in that town The inhabitants were incredulous a soon convinced them of its truth , an < request of Air . Watson , plans were de \ plague . A cholera hospital was establi of the surgeons of the fleet were sent i Government medical stores were distril it was soon found that both the quan stores and the number of medical m

      an - an answer on overcome , complaining parties by the chairma : id that " The tive committee of the northern divi solicitude of upon whom a deputation of the < 3 F the day , " a upon that section of the company ' s r finer resulti— few rlavs sinne ;—

      -inadequate to the frightful extent of i fering that prevailed . It is known tl 5000 persons have died in Kingston town alone ; but it is impossible to st have actually died . Numbers were so that they would not apply for assistai knows that they have been ill and die found dead in cellars , where they had for days . The dread of cholera in Jamaica destroyed all the social affections . Sc blacks have been found to place theii before the doors of their neighbours t ( . ^ L *^~ A . _ - _ - - »~_ ba It a . *«^ « * te 4- (^ ^ 4 w rf ^ 4 n V v an 1 ^ I vi

      J . c ;( jti , kij . ^ » . c *^ pense of burial . It was urgently trenches should be dug , and that cor buried without coffins , in order that the latter should be saved and go tow an orphan fund . One of the most distressing things the number of orphans , both black and and their condition and future prov occupying the serious attention of th thoritics . Hundreds of children of left utterly destitute ; for fathers , mot and sisters have been swept away by They are to be seen in houses forlorn Infants are found lying on the floo : friends and relatives , for they are slec

      and these innocents are kept irom pe visits of the benevolent . In the cho gentleman saw an infant a few mon mother had died there , kept alive b y man ; ho fed the infant daily with mi purpose by some benevolent clergy ma stricken state of the poorer inhabitant vellous . A medical man dragged out creature from a most filthy hole , wh his knees praying to God to spare his < „ gentleman saw seven poor frightened corpses

      BBjtp bing with turpentine rive others in tl : ^^ Km cholera . Nearly the whole of these ^^^ m in a few hours afterwards . ^^ B Communications were made by ^^ m Thursday , to the medical authorities ^ and Dublin , requesting them to ol f surgeons to proceed to Jamaica and ot islands to give assistance in the choler

      T H R EA T E N ED STRIKE O F DRIVERS . A good deal of excitement has 1 within the lust few clays , by the annc the engine-drivers upon the northern London and North- Western Kailway not to permit the company to retain who have given , or to engage any n < shall nirreo to irive . three months' no

      service . Tho notice under which tl firemen nro usually ongjiged is fourt tho dates of such notices can bo so n association at Birmingham , that all th a railway may strike at once , and thus ticulnr line without nn old hand upon the company cither to submit to their work its railways with men hastily mus nmidst the continuous manoeuvres of and the fears and complaints of tho

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      0 * 7 * 5 A ^ ° V ' agiccu * j ** j » . ** j V . 232 " 1 . That the three months' system 1 i A j * - i _ gether . lopted , which «« 2 . That all those men who have re-established months' notice , their signatures shall bi be placed in the station they were id b three months' notice . p . " 3 . That no engineman shall be enfc < " . but his own fireman , except in case oi from Jamaica being continually enforced , to the inc < cholera there enginemen . ; has afflicted , " 4 . That those men who have beer estern world , jecting to sign the three months' notice hy and indo- their former positions . " rstition of its In regard to the first resolution , rty , and the months' notice be abolished altogethe That

      the visitation say : T ^^ i wko ?^ " the system recently introdm ne ^ ariooean from all new enginemen ana new firerm notice before quitting the company ' s vv atson , the adopted , as supposed by the deputation ; Royal , an- about a reduction of wages , but simply v ignant type , viate the acknowledged evil of a sudder line , occasioned , perhaps , by some mist rst , but facts tween the enginemen and the locomctiv at the urgent They repeat that they have no intentior 3 stav the to reduce the wages of old and tried har

      en sent to tne n « own views only , he was of the locomo- men that whatever might be the vie * on of the line , the proceedings which the drivers v vers employed ™ u * d , if persevered in , inevitably for lwavs waited a t ° £ about » h 7 legislative enactmc iways waitea a for suc £ procee ( Kngs might never hv % respected the southern division . I a axe : them very earnestly not to come to an i abolished alto- and not to continue the present excite severance in such a course must of ne gned the three directors to make other provisions for ? rased , and they business of the company . He , as a < ore signing the former occasion , been the means of t arrangement by which the old hands 2 ed to take any their notices were restored to their forr emergency , this he was compelled now to say—not as a

      VcillcllUc oi lixts *«< ** o cue aunuc a . ^— m < on this occasion , without personal c reduced for oh- their duty in furtherance of the objec > e reinstated in distinct body of men , he could give their being , either by his interference T ^ o * + Tn » + t ,. instated in the company ' s service . ± nax trie tnree therefore to consider , not merely wha ' the directors and to the companV ) but especially themselves and their families , who mu 1 of requiring rash proceedings . " three months ' srvice was not An aggregate meeting of engmen order to bring men was held on Thursday evening h a view to ob- Tavern , Hampstead-road , when the Innnona rkftVio * ir » n urn c pniriofi unnniTYimiolw * vi ku& biuu vf uiituiiiiiv / uoi

      ^ MUppagc ao ^ chaagvi v . fu ^ fnttndent " this ™ eetin /> ^'" B ^ » v this moasure aT ) d Jflremen engaged on the London ai 7 , nor ™ obta ? n ^ ^ ^ f to ke ff « n ( riendly *? s ffn for a lower P loyers » and to avoid the mconvemen I flLSL % . ?» Tr « a"d the public from sudden strikes , LJl « S » , iSo tfwL their fellow-workmen throughout the 1 ney gruage me PStahlishment of a month's notice .

      ed , and some se r I wno ar . aisposea ior ^ trt » Q « i « t rate of wages or remuneration than wl lore xo assist . are performed for at present ; nor do tod freely , but preSent high wages of 7 s . per day , as t : y of medical and faithful service ; but they expect ir i were totally and cheerful obedience to rules and r « less and suf- in a liberal spirit , and calculated gener fc upwards of system which will ultimately secure the nd Spanish- line , the safety of the public , and the e how many whole concern . anic-stricken " The second resolution must be c < i . and no one swered in the reply to No . 1 . "

      Some were As regards the third resolusion " en lying dead man shall be forced to take any bu man , " &c .: — ems to have « The committee will engage that c e oi the poor shall be provided with a competent and ead relatives and , as a general rule , as is the custom ivoid the in- object to their remaining together . Bu i tisiv fVin mr - Hiuvonnnot li f > hnnnrl linrlpr nil oirfiilTl

      ggested that ply with this demand oi engineme ; ies should be surrendering their undoubted right to e expense of their own servants , as well as yieldin ds providing which would be subversive of all discip F ° blishment . " i Jamaica is In reply to the fourth resolutior bite children , men who have been reduced for objec on are now three months' notice be reinstated Jamaica au- positions , " the committee deny thai

      ncicr cige are enjjiiieiiiaii uriinjinwii » ers , brothers , to be reduced , for refusing to sign th < > e pestilence , notice . tnd helpless . A meeting of the engine-drivers < forsaken by division took place on Sunday ever ing in death , was resolved , before taking any ste ihing by the direction as the engine-drivers and a hospital a northern division , to know the decisic 3 old , whose rities on the subject , and a deputatioi ti aged black for that purpose . sent for that The deputation appointed to wait The panic- did not see him , as he was out of to

      s truly mar- they saw Mr . M'Conncll , chiet of the poor afflicted partment . He stated that it never w e he was on to establish such a system as ha e . The same the northern division . As long a < roatures rub- where he was the system proposed last stage of thick should not c ' otne into open persons were also promised that a fair represen case should be made to the directors , legraph , on jn accordance with an arrangemen t . Edinburgh j ^ r # M'Connell , the chief of the locc in volunteer ment , and the engine drivers am r West India r Jovcfi on the southern division of t biiw ii # w *

      ij l \ jy Cvl viii i /> iv ovu - » ^*« . y * j » w »* v cases . North-Western Railway , a deputation body waited by appointment upon fGINE- chairman of the company , at the Eus Tuesday . The men stated their imt m produced , determination of the authorities or icernent that division of the line to compel the en vision of the firemen ot the northern division to ave resolved months' notices was with a view to r < nv old hands oi' men , and that , understandu \ 4 « ... u « noxt . in lieu of the present separate ar litmus » cav i xii . ** vi * vi * w *»»* ^»—w ^ .. » - » ^™ ...-

      wno .. . le to quit the ment , the entire line would be cons drivers and management , they apprehended th . n davs but would be extended to the southern ( naoed bv the hearing the statements of the men an drivers upon ° * thci ' wish that he ( Mr . CJl yn ) wot ave anv par- Viator between the men of tho nortl , and compel the lino and the present locomotive mand or to and mnnnger of that division , Mr . Gly rod together , I rac 11 to tlie following effect : — e old hands , «< With respect to the long notice , he Lblic . Some as he was aware , no intention cxiste

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      Nations framed wirtl their expressed intention of not ii v to establish a P resent rates of wa es » wil 1 be P lease ( esularkv of the of the board guaranteeing the men no ell-beinsr of the be em P loyed during three years from tl ° reduction of wages , or encrease of th < 5 oroi 1 __ __ would be very thankfully received ; and siaerea as an- fee adjournedj to obta j n the opinion o various districts on this proposition . " lat no engine- his own fire- SERIOU 3 RAILWAY COLLI

      ? ry engineman During the fog on Monday night , tw < icient fireman ; lisions happened on the Eastern Coui iw , they do not volving serious injury to a number of hey regret that bably since the line was opened , a gr ; ances , to com- working the line was never experienced as it would be In the neighbourhood of Stratford ii e control over even at mid-day , to discern objects a i to a dictation and although the company adopted ev le in the esta- ensure the safe transit of the traim / t «/ iv > iiinll « wt AMAnnMWTT ? * - » + r \ lr f \ ^\* + ** THIVVt r Jieufssai i litne uii uixiiii

      eveiiiuitiiy _ y . u a . «« That those When dusk set in all the signal ligh . . - ! , „ and it was only by an extensive use of ng to bign the the traffic could then be carried on . their iormer these precautions two trains were run ii any registered of persons were seriously injured . 1 or is intended happened to the half-past four o ' clock 1 three months' which stops at the intermediate stations gate and Stratford . A quarter of an ] the southern parture from London , viz ., at a quarte it

      i ° " , at which it press tram to Jinheld leaves , and , « 3 m the same sto P between the terminus and Totten „ . „ . „„ __ t -u ford train was behind its time at Strat n ?? ho mi tho density of the fog . While the Stratfon oi tne autno- a ] . htin the Enfieid express was heard was appointed wa | in fa ' . gpen unt l u it had tual rear of the Hertford train , doubling pon Mr . Glyn carriage , and throwing the latter part c n . However , line . The screams of the injured ocou rvrrvinnti vo rip . - and as if to add to their sufferings , the foi

      s his intention steam and smoke of the engine , compl obtained on position of the unfortunate parties ; i he remained numerous staff of officers attached to tl w Air Treve ford were immediately on the spot , n y 4 j , , sarily transpired ere they could all be c lon f . !} . then discovered that the chief portion ition or their the carrjage were mOre or less hurt . moved to the waiting-rooms of the sts made between medical gentlemen having been sent lotivc depart- necessary to despatch several to the ] firemen em- while others had their injuries attendee j London and and were removed to neighbouring ta Vnm thr » 1 'ittPr those more seriously hurt ; and who wei ¦? Viif ,: ? ifl hospital , were two gentlemen and a fer

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      n terminus , on The second collision took place shoi ; ssion that the o ' clock , close to the Brick-lane goods c the northern * ast tram U P from Colchester , due at Bi ,. « j , i ,, ™ nn /> past ten . It was proceeding at a very c i . o drivers and | vithin a ghoft tim H after le * vin ^ the ' ign tne tnree wa 8 run - nto b the Norwich express , uce the wages of the Colchester train was a third class that in May number of passengers on a Christmas i local manage- friends in London . So great was the C ^ ln 4 * s \ rl in atia tU a « % « % J w «* n ^ m «* 1 »« # ) ««» *«* a ** 4 % fl Amnllfirl luutcu i lilt ? f ruuiaim oiueo cic ubiuwho

      n . une uu , , w " same system unfortunate passengers escaped mortal vision . After most miraculous . Many of them wo nn expression wounds in their heads and other parti 1 net ' as a me- and » as * n tne fo"ner instance , the c . _ jjv ^ . ' rtn nf mosphere added to the alarm . Sever , L -. JtnrlSnr . J ot ^ r V ^ ta of the train sustained contui ipenntcndent - n one unforlanate instance , a lady rec < addressed the vere bruises by coming in contact witl person sitting opposite . On the arriv ust say , so far iiishopsgate , it was found that many < to make any ously injured .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 28, 1850, page 940, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1863/page/3/