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      STEAM ; ^ m ^ S ^^^^ -P !^^^ Thb xaArteflpdnflfent of the BiOy Mu >* ¦ & $ ?* ° * 5 » gives ^ tfefoUowiMg intelligence . of some ptand Si progress for better comimunxcation T ™ V ««* countty :- ^ - ; „ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' . "¦ ¦ "• ' " ¦ . ¦¦ . - ¦ .. . .. ¦ .. ;¦ -. ' .. " : ' ¦ ' ¦¦« The interruption of bur regular steam communication witfr Europe is attended with serious inconvenience to our merchants , and it fealso felt by the whole country . We have grown so accustomed to pur weekly and semiweekly European arrivals , feat we feel very much as Londoners would if the daily communication between Prance and England were interrupted ; but we are congratulating ourselves , after all , upon this , interruption , for our newspapers and public men are everywhere asking the questionwhit is that we are dependent u |» on the

      , y British steamers to bring us news from the Old World ? Why can we not putsteamships enough upon the ocean to render us independent of foreign establishments ? A movement is being made in Congress which promises to secure this object ; while one of our richest citiiens , Cornelias Vanderbilti a practtfc&l navigator , Who has amassed a colossal fortune , is known to hiave been making bis preparations during several years for establishing a line of ocean steamers superior to any now afloat . Mr . VanflerbUt ia called * Commodore Vanderbut , ' because he is recognised as bemg the Most accomplished master of commerce and whatever appertains tb the sea we have amongst us . Commodore Vanderbilt is able to

      spend five or sis : million dollars frdm his own private fortune in Sending this fleet of steamers to sea . He has gonerat ttte Work deliberately , and his preparations are alreadyso mature that he trill be able in a few months to send off the pioneer packet of the line , nor is any 'doubts entertained tfhat he will be able tb sarpasa any speed tliat has yet been . made on theocean . Theloss'Of the Arctic , the impressment of the Guttard steamers * for the Esatetti service ; the Idas of two or three other Americtooeean stiBam ^ rB during the year , have crippled our intercourse with Etttopte to > stfeh an extent that we are now obliged to- wait ten or twelve days after the arrival of the Pacific beforewe can get the news from Sebastopbli "

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      THE " MISSIGW' ^ TGX ROaiE . The Uhtblin Evening Pdst says that letters have been received from Borne , by Catholics of distinct tion in-lJiiondon , announcing that the mission of-Mr . Lucas tb > the "" Eternal City" has ; so far ; entirely failed . A 4 the dater of those letters nothing had . occulted- about the appeal against the exercise of his ecclesiastical authority by Dr . Walsh , Bishop of Ossory , which has been so much boasted of by the Tabietaad Nation j but a copy of a " Memorial , " said to be in course of signature in Irelatidj had been placed in the hands of Monsignor Barnabo , Secre . tary of Propaganda ^ So far , the great object of Mr . Lucas , and the small section sustaining him at

      Borne , had been to urge complaints of an exceedingly vague description against Dr . Cullen , Archbishop of Dublin , to the effect that his grace had taken steps t ^ discount « nance-poHtical-agitatiott ,-and .- to ^ prevent clergymen from leaving their own dioceses to take part in agitating missions elsewhere . The charges of which Mr . Lucas was the bearer had been brought before Propaganda , but on examination they were found to be altogether groundless and untenable ; and it appears that Propaganda itself was subsequently assailed from the same

      quarter . Those letters further stated that Mr . Lucas , and the parties who co-operate with him in Ireland , were looked ; upon as engaged in schemes very injurious to religion , and that they received no countenance from any high or influential quarter . Nevertheless , Mr . Lucas avowed his determination to persevere to the lasts and is it likely , if he be so disposed , that the Editor of the Tablet will have ample time to obtain a far better knowledge of the antiquities of Rome than any other Quaker who ever paid a visit to the Holy City *

      It is mentioned that the statutes which had been agreed to by the Synods of Dublin and Armagh , against , which Mr . Lucas and his confederates protest , were about to receive the sanction of his Holiness . Indeed , one of the letters states that the statutes of the province of Dublin had been already approved of by the Sovereign Pontiff " . Altogether , this mission to Borne against Irish bishops is likely to be a most signal failure , and the recoil will have a most crushing effect in Ireland upoTti that party assuming to be ultra-Catholic , but embracing Diseenters from the Established Church and persons whose motives are at least questionable , and whose policy has been to degrade religion for the advancement of their political designs .

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      -Singular Accident . —An inquest has been held at West Bromich respecting the death of a woman at the Swan-village on the Great Western Railway . She was standing on the platform when an express train passed at the rate of 40 miles an hour . Just as the train arrived opposite to her the tire of the driving wheel flew off , knocked up part of the timber platform , and a heavy splinter struck her upon the head . She was conveyed , bleeding , into one of the waiting-room 8 , and died in half an hour . The tire had been but recently put on , and had a flaw in it .

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      A CLEVEB WOMAN . The magistrates of Hertford have been investigating a charge against Mrs . Emily Harriet Geraldine Morris , described as the wife of Mr . William Morris , of the Stock Exchange , and of Willen-hall , East Barnet , of having forged the acceptance of her husband * to a bill of exchange for 1500 / . It appears that Mrs . Morris married , in 1841 , a lad of seventeen , but in consequence of the unhappy character of the union , the parties were separated , * and a divorce from bed and board obtained in an ecclesiastical suit . However , the proceedings had never been so far complete as to enable her to marry again : Notwithstanding this , she , in the year 1846 , married Mr . Morris . In 1 « 58 tnat gentleman took Willen Hall , and the prosecutor , Mr .

      Arthur David Owen , went down to superintend the work ifor his employers , when an intimacy , sprang up between him and the prisoner , she , to use his own words , making love tb him first . The w < ork was completed in December , 1658 , atid after that prosecutor , upon a good many occaeiohfr , visited the prisoner during the absence of Mr . Morris . In February , 1854 , prosecutor received a letter , of which the following is a copy :- » " You can do me a jgWafr service ; I believe you will . It is in a Way which had better not be written about : I am here all alone every day till four or five o ' clock ; can you come down , or , rather , will you come down ? The best way will be to take a cab . God blesa you !~ H ! a . bri ** . ! ' The prosecutor ' wcfnt down and saw the prisoner , who asked him to lend her a large sum of money , upon property , which she said wtts-settled upon her at her marriage . This ho

      declined ; an * she ftenaaked iB ne'wouia caah a note © B hand signed by her huBbaad , He seid fee would ,, as ba thought hslr husbandquiter safe * but As he could not ; find the " money himself , heshooldlike some collateral se * u « - rity . She said she : Would place hit his hands he * dia *» taonds , which , were worfli dOftOfc To tin * he assented * and * took the notes and-jewels * . which ! she-sealed * upj andsaid were not to be opened until the bill ? was taken up * todi after deducting 400 fca » interest , for the siamont *»

      _ of its datSi handed her overt 1100 ft From something that subsequently transpired , he opened : the jewel-case ^ and found Hie whole to be paste and imitation of the most worthless description . He subsequently took pro * - ceedings upon the bill against Mr . Morris , who repudiated the chum ,, and swore that the signature was a fbrgerrjy and not the least like his handwriting . Under thesfe circumstances a warrant was placed in the hands of Forrester , and the lady , who had absconded , was

      apprehended in Paris , aftd brought over here upon the charge ° TJretench , having heard tfafc evidence , committed her for trial , expressing , their readiness to take bail —the prisoner in 2000 / i , and two sareties in 1000 / - each . xi . This case presents some amusing features ; the Very exorbitant : interest proposed- to be received materially affects the position of the prosecutor , wno-Was clearly-, throughout the business , acting , in a u very friendly" manner .

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      SAViNfcS B'ANB : ^ A 2 S 1 DTHENEWBtLB . We extract from ah article in the JScmqmist an , account of the relation of Savings Banks to Government , together with ah explanation of what is proposed to be effected by Mx . Gladstone ' s Act : *—'«« : Accordingly , parliament has heretofore : given < to the Chancellor ofthe Exchequer , through-tit » e Cornniissioners of the National Debt , the most- absolute discretioii- asto > the mode of investment in public securitfes of savings , banks money ;> but -parliament has done something more * . Which strikes at the very root of the integrity of these deposits and of parliamentary control of the pttblicdebt .. According to existing acts of parliament , ways and meansbillsor deficiencybills may be issued , to inake good the . charges on- the consolidated fund to the Commissioners Of the National Debt in exchange for savings bank moneys ,, and which bills need not bejedeemed'frpm _ the .

      growing , produce of the revenue , as is the case ordinarily , but may be funded , and thus add to the _ amount of the national debt , not with the authority of parliament , but by the jnere-act of the ^ Chancellor of the Exchequer of the day , who thus indirectly pays by his own * will' the current expenditure of the year by the creation of debt .. This power has fortunately not been ; much resorted to . But from time to time it has been so to such an extent ,, that the stock- actually held by the Commissioners of the National Debt , and at this moment ,, is many millions less than the amount of the savings bank , moneys deposited with them . And thus , although' the government is clearly responsible to the banks for every farthing deposited ; the fund liable is deficient by many millions oftheamounfrof thecUump-fifom-the-faot-that from time to time these moneys have been , by the process described , applied to the-current expenditure of bygone

      years . " The main object of the bill now before parliament is to remedy this glaring defect in the present state of the lkw ; to restore to savings banks a source of charge , as well as a legal claim to the full amount of their deposits ; and . to render any such abuse or alienation of their funds to meet nnanoiali emergencies impossible for tine future . And this ft is proposed to do without depriving the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the facility whioh idle moneys in the hands of the National Debt Gomnridiionera

      frequently offer for relieving the Batak of deficiency bills , by simply imposing . upon him the necessity bf redeeming those bills from' the growing produce of the revenue , in the same way as he now redeems- deficiency bills 4 ni the hands-of the Bank b £ England } and by prohibiting , the Commissioners of the National Debttb ftod such- Bills . By this means the savings' banks funds cannot , be infringed upon , and' the permanent debt of the - country cannot , by Buch indirect means , be increased ate at present . "

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      THE DISTRIBUTORS Ol " RELDEJ ' . " Complaints atQ made in Newington © f ' the manner in whioh the poor are treated by the " relieving officer" of St . Mary ' s , and the matter has been brought before the magistrate . The applicants not only complained of not receiving relief ; but of theharsh treatment which they met at the hands of the officers . In , one day alone there w « w > not lose than twenty-seven case » from Newington parish j and Mr ..

      Norton , finding that they were cases in which tho parties should have been relieved ) by the parish officers , and not from the poor-box , desited Dixo » ,, om > of the summoning ofBeere , to-take tliree of tho worst cases to Mr . Herring , and tell him they were deserving ' his immediate attention . From these throe Herring selected one woman , and ' said that she had been before tho Board of Guardians on the Thursday , when she wkb offered three loaves of bread , but that she refused them : and believing , therefore , that ilt&

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      FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENTS . Two more railway accidonts have occurred , the reeults befrtg' the loii of three lives , with severe injuries to seveYnl others , and some considerable destruction of property . ... Tbeflrst Accide ' nt occurred as follows : ^—" Three goods trains Were despatched in succession from th « Polaoll Colliery . Tho first , carrVinff coal , in

      ^^ 6 be 4 tt « iw tb s % aats of tifee presence of a- taraui at the tyalflftS . ' % ttWion , ^ w « b bwhlglit to a standstill in «» cutting . A second , cc « sifeting of about' 40 waggons , a ? nUinl > tt <« Myntaining obfcfcj and ottier * Mmestone , and Witii about aidojKn empt ^ waggoas at tiie e » d , succeeded , and ? Was toroughi to rest within a ^ few J ^ rds -bf ; the first tram . Thegnarlof this seb « nd train , namedBeechj got ^^ oufe of the van juiat before the train stopped , and went back about 40 yarffe to see if the signals were right s When he saw aluggage ttain , ditew ^ a by two engines i coming on at a great speedi ; and ? When within 200 yards He v saw ftom the ines

      one of the drivers and * fireman Jutftp 'eng He saw the ffefeman miBB Ms «) btiligi and fall- trpbtt the metafsj the asdebbies bf the' waggons attiring WS head aatJIioy passedi The tW © engines , wiffiabbut * ff track behind them , dashed krtb Beech ' s tram Witn afeatfftl crash ^ After cuttfttg up and through the dozen empty waggons and tearing up the rails , the two engines were disabled ; and almost knocked to pieces . " With such velocity did-thtidduWe-en - gineA train borne , that Beeches train was driven against the coal train with a force that threw the guard out of his Van , but he fortunately sustained no serious injury . "

      The fireman , Stretton , who jumped from the third train , died the following morning . A verdict of manslaughter has been returned against the driver of the last train , named Lawson . A more- serious accident has oecuri * d : on th » Eastern Counties- A mail train left Thetford , but came to a stand at a place calfed Two-mile * bottom in consequence of the breaking of the gib or cotter of one of the connectmg TOds of the engine . When the train- was brought : to a > stand ! Golman , the guard , wetit up-tb the enghieman , wlw ^ told him to go- back immediately and stop the advancing train , as he Should be three' -quatters of an hour before he would be able to proceeds Golman appears to have gone

      out and placed dowa two- fog signals only wt a dis ^ tanee of seven and a-half telegraph postfl , or 450 yards from the point of obstruction * He next , it appears } went a few yards furtlier back and eX " hibited his hand lamp * In the mean time the spcteial cattle train passed him at a speed of about 30 miles an hour , at 11 . 28 p . Mi . Drury v the driver , Says ^ that on reaching the decline he shifted the reversing bar one notch ! and shut his regulator a little . "By this means his speed was somewhat reduced , but not to any-gEeat-extBot . — He ^ further states that he did not

      observe the guard ' s hand-Jamp Until he was Within about three telegraph posta ^ or 180 yards , from it , His mate put on his break , and he didall he could to effect a stoppage , but to no purpose , and he ran into the mail at a speed of something : like 20 mile * an hour . By this collision two lives were lost , and several persons were severely hurt ? . The question of culpability will , of course , be dealt with by a-jury ; but those likely to be best informed on the point , say that rules 83 and 84 laid doWn by the company for the guidance of their servants were not properly carried out by the guard Column .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 6, 1855, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2072/page/10/