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    out janv accident happening to o ^^ natljdb iibfc see the iie-Q ^ ijty of making any alterations , ortaking any precaution against an imaginary danger !' AccoHiri gly , we were obliged to continue our trip , with the broken chimney , whichwould , in all probability , more than once have set the vessel on

    fire , had not some of the passengers , at intervals , thrown water on the heated walls . " *

    Such was the case four or five years back ; and the newspapers of the present day continue to repeat accounts of a similar squandering of human life on the Mississippi , where this boiling murder is still unchecked . Nor are we better

    cared for on this side of the Atlantic . Almost every paper contains some narrative of strain-boat accidents , arising From neglect , ignorance , a homicide parsimony , or some other equally respectable cause . We qtow as

    familiar as brother Jonathan with explosions , burnings , CjOnqussions , and other pleasantries of the kind . Mr ( / Voker ( is his name ?) in the

    ' Iri p to Ramsgate / f would now prophecy too near the truth ; nor would his warnings , like Cassandra ' s , be despised . Yet the Government of the

    two i greatest commercial republics in the world are equally careless of the lives ami property of their subi ... . ¦ ¦

    ¦" ' TpilOft . fc - ¦ ¦ . ¦ : ¦ ¦ ¦ ' - - . v , .- ¦ ,:.: .. . , h i .-j-ni ; : f In three pleasant volumes , entitled * Gaieties and Gravities , ' a collection of papers originally published , we believe , in the * New Monthly Magazine /

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    j ects ! Upon the occasion tif the dissiste * atUtili ^ Mr Wfc ley moved in the Bdii » el ? of Commons for art in ^ uirpiiito the affair * - 'with d . view t 0 uM terior measures beingadopted for the prevention of similar calamities . But his " m ® w&

    ment was not met , and nothing has been done . No doubt can remain of the necessity for interference , and it is t <* he hoped it will not be delayed beyond the approaching

    session . Many persons , of more timidity than reflection , terrified at the shocking devastations of steam , when it breaks its bonds , would have its use re *

    linquished altogether . But their fears magnify the chances of danger in proportion to the awful appearance of the catastrophe . So that one has to be destroyed afloat , it would matter little whether it is t 6

    perish by an explosion , or by drowning . Indeed the former mode may have its advantages , as the less protracted . But there is no doubt that the use of steam is actually safer than

    the " good old fashion of sailing . " Among the wrecks tb&t strew our coasts after every hurricane , it will be observed how few steam-Vessels rire

    lost The reason is obvtfjua : in the sailing-vessel the nw ^ tive power is from withiout , and beyoiid the cdntrbl of the master ; the rudder can itfo-

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    Steam * boat Accidents and their Prevention . 277

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 277, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/52/