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    most learned and intellectual men in the country are in favour of the national board . Dr . Whately Archbishop of Dublin , the Lord Chancellor of Ireland , and nearly all the nobility—certainly all the Catholic nobility —and gentry of the country , are for it . Remember , it makes no difference what Government is in power , for every Government , both Whig and Tory , will support the Board of Education . Lord Stanley , who originated and founded it , would support it if he were in power tomorrow . Therefore you may as well hold your tongues , the half of you . " ( " Hear , hear , " and laughter . )

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    The first of a series of meetings of the congregationalists of Lancashire , Yorkshire , Cheshire , and Derbyshire , favouring the promotion of education through the influence of voluntary effort , was held at Manchester on Tuesday evening , in the school-room of the Reverend Dr . Halley ' s chapel , Cavendish-street . There was a good attendance . The opinions broached were those of pure and extreme voluntaryism . The Reverend G . W . Condor thought the prevailing agitation for extended education savoured more of quackery than earnestness . Education without religion was inadmissible . The people had no right to education . If they could not get it without having recourse to the State , they ought not to have it at all .

    . ... On Wednesday morning a conference was held . The chief fact we can gather is , that a want of money to carry out the objects of the Congregational Board was felt . Some pounds were subscribed at once .

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    LINCOLN PENITENT FEMALES * HOME . The Earl of Yarborough presided over a public meeting , held on Monday week , in the Town-hall at Grimsby , in behalf of the •« Lincoln and Lincolnshire Penitent Females' Home . " The noble lord is president of the society . Ministers of every denomination attended the meeting , which ? was full and respectable . The institution owed its origin to the suicide of an unfortunate girl at Lincoln . In seconding one of the resolutions , the Reverend Edmund R . Larken , honorary secretary of the society , gave a detailed account of the rise and progress of the society , its operations in the small and inconvenient Home formerly rented in Lincoln , and the erection of the present spacious and commodious Home : —

    " The number of inmates admitted from the commencement was seveaty-one , from various parts of the county , for the advantages of the institution were not confined to Lincoln . Of these , one had married respectably , fifteen had been provided with situations and were giving great satisfaction , and six had been restored to their friends . One had died in the Home , two had been transferred to the Union , and twenty-six were at present tinder the society ' s care . They were under the charge of a matron and sub-matron , and a committee of ladies , one of whom visited the institution daily . Their instruction was attended to , with especial reference to their religious and moral improvement ; and they were

    industriously employed in needlework and washing—their earnings in three years and a half having amounted to £ 360 . It was the wish of the society that the inmates should consider themselves as constituting a family ; accordingly they engaged , under the matron ' s direction , in domestic worship twice a day . They were visited on alternate Saturdays by the Reverend J . Crap 3 , Baptist minister of Lincoln , and by himself , when they read the Scriptures and engaged in prayer . If illness , or any other cause , led an inmate to request the extraordinary attendance of his coadjutor or himself , it was given ; or she might receive the instructions and consolations of

    the minister of the religious denomination to which she might belong . On Sunday mornings , such of the females as were able , attended divine worship in hia parish church of Burton ; wherein he had , on several occasions , witnessed their reverential and devout attendance on the communion . On the Sunday evening , they were visited by a member of the ladies' committee , who joined with them in Scriptural and devotional exercises . The greatest harmony had prevailed throughout among all concerned in the management of the Home ; no proselytism had been attempted , but all had united cordially in the one effort to reform the vicious and restore the lost .

    Their necessities were still gicat ; from three to four hundred pounds were still required to set them in a position to carry out their object uuecessfully ; but he trusted that the efforts and contributions of the charitable would meet their requirements , and that the blessing offered by the Home would be extended to every unhappy creature who might desire ' to avail herself of them . "

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    BICESTER RAILWAY ACCIDENT—IMPORTANT VERDICT . The jury met again on Monday , and recxamined several of the principal witnesses as to the cause of the uccident . The opinion of Mr . Bruyeres , that the line wua essentially a double line ut Biceater , and not a main line and a , siding , wus opposed by the opinion of Mr . Bruin and Mr . Dockrny , who thought it wus a aiding . This remains , therefore , u inalter of opinion ; but it is important : a aiding is uaed on dingle lines for the purpose of Hhifting one train out of the way of another . If there in no double lino at Bices ter , of courao an enginemnn , who is not ordered or clearly signalled to stop , would not go on to the Biding . The Coroner very ably summed up the evidence ; but the string of remarks which the jury appended to their verdict render any account of it unnecessary . Alter deliberating for almost an hour and a half , the foreman , of the jury announced their

    verdict to be— " That the deceased died from accidental causes ; " and stated that the jury desired him to append special observations to that verdict , which he then read as follows : — " The jury consider that , inclosing their investigation as to the cause of the melancholy catastrophe which has been attended with such fatal results , they are . called upon , as well in regard to the distressed feelings of the relatives of the deceased as of those unfortunate sutterers who have survived the accident , and also in justice to the public at large , to record some special observations with reference to the events preceding the occurrence and attendant upon it , but further with reference to the future traffic of the Bucks Railway . ... lament

    " The jury find that the railway upon which the - able event occurred is a branch line from the London and North-Western Railway , diverging at Bletchley to Oxford through Bicester , and that from Steeple Claydon to Oxford is a single line only . " The jury find that the train to which the accident occurred was not only an excursion train advertised by public notice for passengers to leave London on Saturday and to return on the following Monday , but it also formed a return excursion train for passengers who had left Oxford for London on the previous Monday , as well as for those who had left Oxford and Bicester on the previous Tuesday . " The jury find that the notices to the public of these excursion trains were imperfectly and vaguely drawn , for , while the company ' s officers at Bicester construed them to mean that the Saturday ' s excursion train from London to Oxford was to call at Bicester , the officers at Bletchley

    construed them to mean that they should not stop at Bletchley but go through to Oxford ; and the jury con * sider that both of those constructions might be fairly adopted without the imputation of any neglect of duty on their part as arising from such cause . " The jury find that the company ' s servants at Bicester were prepared for the train to stop there for the Bicester passengers to alight , but that the engineman in charge of the train acted upon the belief that he was to go through to Oxford without stopping at Bicester ; and that such a misunderstanding had a tendency to produce confusion in the arrangements , and required more than ordinary vigilance to be paid to the points and signals ; and the jury consider that there was a want of adequate instruction to the guards from their superior officers as to the stoppage of the train to be consistent with the public safety . much discre

    " The jury find that , although there is - pancv in the evidence before them as to the speed at which the train was travelling when it reached the junction point at Bicester , yet the engineman admits that he was going at a greater speed than he would have done had he known that he was to stop at Bicester . It appears , therefore , that , in the absence of a clear understanding among the officers as to stopping at Bicester or not , the only guides they had to direct them were the signals provided by the company with directions for their use . That in the present case the signalman had used the necessary signal and caution at the auxiliary signal-post , and of danger and stop at the points . That the engineman and guards had observed the caution signal at the auxiliary post , and had slackened speed accordingly ; but that the driver and his guards were misled by some optical illusion as to the white light or ' Go on ' signal at the principal signal-post at the station .

    " The jury find that the white light was not turned towards the approaching train , yet they see no reason to doubt that the engineman and guards were , from some unexplained cause , misled by the appearance of a real or reflected light which they believed to have been the white light signal for ' Go on ; ' and that , being deluded by this supposed white light , they did not observe the danger signal at the points until they had approached so near to them as to be unable to stop or to reverse the engine . " The jury find that if the points had been fairly open for the train to pass down either the straight line or the siding , and had been in perfect condition at the time , it is more than probable that the train would have passed to the station .

    " The jury find that there was nothing observed by the pointsman at the time the train reached him to indicate any defect whatever in the points ; but they find , also , that after the train had passed the pointsman , and before any other train hud gone over the points , it was discovered that the tie-rod , which is shown to have been partially broken before , and which connects the two point-raila , had been broken asunder near to the screw and nut , und that the heel-chair was ahto broken , and the point-rail uttached to it bent . " The jury find that these injuries to the tic-rod , the chair , and point-rail were occasioned at the momentary

    transit of the engine or tender over the points by coming in contuct with the toe of the point-rail , but whether they were so occasioned by uund , gravel , or any other material , having prevented the points fulling into their proper position , or whether by any indecision on the part of the pointsman as to which line of rail he was to send the train down by , or whether by any slip of the handle of the points-lever , or by uny other cause , yet the jury hud thut from dome such cause the engine went over the points on to the struight line , while the rest of the train took the siding , und reBulted in thut uwful logs of life , serious injury to persons , und great destruction of property , which are now so painfully deplored .

    Ihut , while the jury iind that there was not that mcaaurc of culpability in the conduct of any of the company ' s servants us to wurranl the finding of un nuvcruc verdict against any of them , yet they feel thut it is due to the public safety that aoiue grcutcr incuiiH of protection to life and property thuu now exists should be resorted to by the company , and that in the monopoly which railways have uchievod in travelling the liven of passengers should not bo jeopardised at Uie nhiine of intercut and dividends .

    . " The jury find that a single line of railway necessarilv involves more danger to passengers than a double on / by reason of the trains having to pass over junction points in the one case which would not be required in . the other . They also find that trains are occasionally delayed at the stations to prevent collision with other trains and hence that the enginemen on duty are superinduced to travel at a greater speed than is consistent with safety on a single line of railway , in order to observe the times appointed for their arrival at stations . These and other matters of more minute detail impose upon the company ' s servants a degree of watchfulness and care on a single line of railway almost superhuman ; and that the pointsman , in the discharge of his duties , is liable , from a mere accidental slip or fall , or from a wa nt of nerve or that presence of mind which is so essential in cases of difficulty and danger , to be the innocent or accidental cause of destruction to life and property .

    " The jury , therefore , earnestly urge upon the directors of the company , as they value human life and deplore the sacrifice of it , that they will cause a second line of rails to be laid down without delay , as a means of preventing the recurrence of such a dire calamity as that which has now formed the subject of their very anxious inquiry and most painful deliberation . " With these views the Coroner entirely concurred , and suggested an additional clause , as follows : — " The jury suggest , that , until the line of railway is made double , every train should stop at the Bicester station . "

    Mr . Wagstaffe , who had attended to watch the case on behalf of the railway authorities , assured the coroner and j ury that attention would be paid to the suggestion without rendering it necessary to add it to the recommendations made by the jury . He begged to produce two general orders which had been issued by the company : one , a circular to guards and breaksmen ; another , a notice to enginemen , and especially to those working the Buckinghamshira line , enjoining great caution , and also attention to the thirty-fourth rule , respecting the speed of trains when running through stations .

    The clause suggested by the coroner was then added to the recommendations of the jury ; and , the separate verdicts required in the different cases having been taken , the proceedings terminated .

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    PUBLIC OPINION . " It has pleased God to bless us with a bountiful harvest , " says the Norfolk Ckroniele , which , after thankfully acknowledging the merciful dispensation , seems to lament that the price of wheat this year will be not more than 4 s . 6 d . a bushel . " Our spirited contemporary , the Norfolk News , thus replies : — ' What consistency is there in returning thanks for the bounty of Providence , and lamenting at the same time that the poor can get at it at so cheap a rate ? It would be much better—for it would not savour so much of hypocrisy—if they closed their prayer books without uttering the thanksgiving , than to express gratitude with their lips , whilst desiring in their hearts to reenact an iniquitous law by which man can make a scarcity where God has sent a plenty ! "

    No opinion upon any matter of public political importance is expressed by the Ayr Advertiser ; but it contains rather a vigorous rebuke to the writer of Killing no Matter "—a dashing and caustic leader in the Examiner , apparently pointed and vig orous enough to have been written by Ponblanque himself . The following sentence , the clincher to a not very profound resume on colonial wars in general , and the Kafir war in particular , in the Macclcsfield Courier , expresses exactly what a certain party think about the cauBe and continuance of the hostilities at the Cape : —¦ " Mr . Cobden , and the unwise ajconomy in our military establishments , are the true causes of the present disastrous state of affairs in Kaffruria . "

    The Preston Guardian is hard upon the ^ American " sympathisers , " who were butchered in Cuba . »* ° believe the Guardian ia a " peace-at-any-p * 'ic e P ! l " per : — " The acquisition of territory by our republican brethren ha » hitherto , we regret to say , been coinp » s « by the most exceptionable means , to which the Tecii " invusion of Cuba forms an atrocious climax , and » disasters which have now befallen the particip * " " therein are nothing more than a just punishment u such flagrant violations of national honour » morality . " Insecurity of tenure , and the necessity lor " le oi

    Peasant Proprietary in Ireland , form the stap earnest article in tho Londonderry Standard : — " The benefit of a Peasant Proprietary is p lacedI beyond a doubt , by the testimony of those who imve " ho it in operation . Just in proportion as the tjllerH OI ¦ oil are owners does the land improve , and the cou « ^ prosper . The social revolution in Prussia , \ ; t ( . u verted serfs into proprietors , it is confeBBeii , ^ \ ^ years curried the nation forward a whole century- ^ ^ is no country in the world where there are H " farmers not tenants , or so many who are tenants-o Insecurity of tenure was a chief cause of lrin « ^ mentioned by Spencer , in the reign of . hlissuDeiu , we need not nay that the obvious remedy hau never » been applied . " Opnoaing American designs on Cuba , tho W" <¦ '* field Journal nays ;—

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 20, 1851, page 890, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1901/page/6/