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    of individual persecution , which , as M . Ronge says , remind one of the cruelties of the sixteenth century perpetrated in the name of religion . We print elsewhere an instance of this . Herr Pressnegger is suddenly recalled from Paris by his family , interrogated as to imaginary visits td the European Democratic leaders while in Ldttdoti , Ordered about by the police , finally separated from hlft family , and obliged to travel from Vienna to Brikiln at his own expense . Suppose Baptist Noel , or George Dawson , or

    one of the Catholic con verts on his return from abroad , being ordered about by Commissioner Mayne and Sir George Grey , and compelled at his own cost to separate from his family , and abide where the said Mayne might indicate , would Englishmen permit it ? Not exactly . Yet we are the allies of these Sovereigns of iniquity who cast men into dungeons at Naples and Rome , and worry them to death in Prussia and Austria . Oh , for one month of Cromwell and Milton , that these abominations might be

    blotted out ! Yet as compared with Germany we may take heart in England—yes , in spite of the Anti-Papal aggression nonsense . Dr . John Henry Newman has been developing the most peremptory and logical form of Papal Catholicism , supported by the intelligent and clever Dr . Ullathorne , and the thorough-going Weedal . The Bishop of Birmingham came before a meeting as one " dead to the law ; " nevertheless , as he truly said , " he lived , and they recognised his existence . " " I am Duchess of Main still "— he is Bishop of Birmingham ,

    though we must not call him so . But where is it that these reviewers of Gregorian Popery develope their doctrines ? In Birmingham , the very place where there is the most strenuous political action , the very place where a true Free Catholicism is ¦ working with the greatest activity and progress . Birmingham is not afraid to listen nor to let Dr . Ullathorne call himself Bishop of Birmingham : Birmingham is not afraid of being converted * ' unbeknown , " nor does it dread annexation to the Seven Hills ; for Birmingham is strong and free , in hand , in heart , and head .

    The aggression nonsense , indeed , was a mistake so transparent that even its author is aware of it . We understand that a letter is in existence , recently written , by Lord John Russell to a Roman Catholic friend , confessing that he had been in error , and promising to do no more mischief . Very good ; if he will say as much in the face of the world , or act fets much without saying it , people will begin to believe in him again , yea , even in his Reform Bill of " next session ; " which is saying a great deal . But the casualties of the Russell career are trifles compared to the casualties of the railway world . They are multiplying beyond the power of surprise to be astonished at them . The French are accused

    of recklessness in regard to human life ; Napoleon would throw away a few soldiers , more or less , with much liberality ; the Irish perpetrate a kind of mutual suicide with the most disinterested reciprocity ; but every kind of lavishness is outdone by the wanton recklessness of the railway people . Butchers grieve to see mutton bruised , horsedealers grieve over broken kneeB , but railway passengers are a live stock not thought to be lowered in market value by any dmount of knocking about . Eels in a Hamburg boat , lobsters in a fishmonger ' s tub , passengers in an excursion train—perhaps it

    is an exaggeration to presume a perfect equality ; lor in the strict letter passengers have no saleable value . Look at the accidents recorded this week at liicester , Hornsey , Nottingham , Leith , and Gateshead . Evidently the safety of passengers is " no mutter . " The ruilway is the last invention of our competitive system . " Each for himself and God for us all , " cries your practical man—until lie is smashed : and , perchance , he may wish that a director had really " loved his neighbour as him-• elf ; " and may not despise the helping hand of a William Acton or a Frank Wyatt , although he is acting in total disregard of commercial principles .

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    CONTINENTAL NOTES . The constant preocupation of the ( Jovcrnmcnt of honest " M . L . N . Uonuparte is to get'out of the way by some means or other , fair or foul , the leaden * of the Republican and Constitutional party , "who oppoBe what in called a " legal barricude " to the prorogation of the Jilysean faction : to decimate by lines and imprisonment !) the Liberal press ; to " bring the disease out" as they call it in their horrid jargon , by driving the Democratic party into the streets for the defence of the last guarantees of freedom : and to curry favour with European Absolutism by persecuting , arresting , and f cpelling the refugees , who had hoped to nnd a Shelter under tlte ^ Republican flag from the

    violence of panid-ltruck tyrannies . But they dare not touch the representatives of the People : the time for coups d ' e'tdihas gorie by * or has not yet come . The People will not desert for a moment their fixed and sullen calm t they do not forget ; they ponder ; they compare promise with performance ; they regiUt . their stupid idolatry of fc name ; they suffer the ifttHgues of Courts And Cabinets , and the vexations of Spies and Police subsidized by Austria , as the priee of support to the unconstitutional projects of the President , who , after all > has only six months lefese of power , and ** there an end . "

    The first notice publicly taken by the Neapolitan Government of Mr . Gladstone ' s pamphlet , deserves to be inserted entire . It is in the shape of an official article in the Gazette of Naples , the sole remaining representative of a press under the present Constitutional regime : — " If her Majesty the Queen of England , at the prorogation of Parliament , had not assured both Houses of the amicable relations that subsisted between her and her foreign allies , the answer given by her Minister , Lord Palmerston , in the sitting o the 8 th , to a question put by Sir De Lacy Evans on the state of this country , would have made us doubt whether in reality our Sovereign and this kingdom enjoyed amicable relations with the Government of Great Britain . And in truth if the noble lord

    accepts as facts the false , absurd , and ridiculous stories collected , as may be said , by Mr . Gladstone , in prisons and among galley slaves , as detailed in his letter to Lord Aberdeen—if ,-we say , he has given such faith to that correspondence as to support by his Ministerial language expressions calculated to excite against our Government the detestation o the human race , what other opinion can we form ? We should add to this his declaration of sending , against all diplomatic usages and international rights , copies of the said correspondence to the British Legations near foreign Courts , to render still more prominent the charges thus made dishonouring our country , as if these Courts had not Ambassadors and Ministers of their own , whose

    duty it would be to report all that passed , and ^ whose conscientious labours should spare others the fatigue of performing their duty . While we cannot conceal our astonishment and surprise at the unqualified and unexpected aspersions made by a member of Parliament of a friendly Power , the amity of that Power being most dear to us ; while we are desirous o discharging from the minds o good men the fears and terrors inspired by these publications , which the implacable enemies of social order are ever forwaid in fomenting ; while , thanks to the wise execution of our good

    laws and the impartiality of our enlightened justice , the Government is only occupied in consolidating the peace whose fruits the country so fully enjoys ; while its constant care , directed to the punishment of the guilty , has been crowned with invaiiable success ;—let us hope that the noble lord , from the bottom of his heart detesting everything that can oppose itself in the slightest way to such a praiseworthy object , will , of his own free will and the same solicitude , forward to all his Legations copies of the pamphlet that shall be sent to him—a pamphlet by which the calumnious diatribes of Mr . Gladstone are contradicted and victoriously

    demonstrated to be unfounded , by authentic documents and by the records taken from the archives of our law , ao that his agents , being advised of the truth , will abstain from practices that are at all times reprehensible when for truih falsehood is substituted . " The Bishop of Oxford , it is said , is engaged on a tour of observation in Switzerland , and intends to carry his researches through the Papal States , as supplementary to the celebrated Gladstone letters .

    In the Cologne Gazette , which has been forced to abandon all political discussion , a little paragraph throws a gleam of light on the attitude of the Elysee in the councils of Absolutism . If the great uncle could rise from his monumental repose to see the little nephew thus carrying out the traditions of " Napoleon ! " But the descendants of the " grand army , " and the sons of the heroes of the great Republic ure awake

    !" The Schwarzenberg Cabinet , convinced of the necesnity of maintaining the existing state of things , has rceolved energetically to support the candidature of Prince Louis Napoleon . It is deniruble to avoid any convulsion , and it in precisely lor that reason thut the prolongation of the President ' s powers would be preferred to anything else . " According to the correspondence of the Semaphore the question relative to the Hungarian refugees then staying at Kiutahia was at length settled . The Sultan had resolved to put an end to an unjust confinement , calculated only to compromise the character of his Government . The American steam frigate Mississippi , placed b y the President of the United States at the disposal of Kossuth , was to repair from

    Smyrna to the Dardanelles on the 1 st instant , to await their arrival . On the same day the refugees would quit Kiutahia , and embark at Jeumelk in a Turkish steamer for the Dardanelles . Kossuth was to be accompanied by M . Lcmini , a Tuscan , his private secretary ; by Generals Perczol and Wiuosky , and Count Batthiany , with their families , ana twenty other superior officers . The frigate would convey tneso personages to Amerio , stopping a few days in England . l * y Jater intelligence we learn that the •« Mississippi " had got ashore in Smyrna Buy , and all tho exertions of two English and three Turkish steamers had been unable to get her off . How far this mishap may retard the departure of the exiles we are unable to way . Probably their present destination will be Jbngland , by a Peninsular and Oriental steamer

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    THE CrRfiAt RAILWAYMiACCIDENTS " ? BlCEStEk * MORKSEY , NOTT INGHAM . BICESTER . Our title fc a misnomer . The word accident does not apply to the catastrophes which we have to record * " Railway recklessness " would be betteror ' * railway indifference to life and limb" nprhn ™ best of all . Peroaps An excursion train set out from Euston-station on Saturday evening for Oxford , vi& Bl etchley and Bieester . It contained , perhaps , 700 persons Bletchley was reached , and Winslow passed safely the engine running at say thirty miles an hour It

    neared Bicester-station on the single line , which at that place , by means of a siding , becomes double There were two men on the look out , one at the signals , and one at the " points . The train came on at above twenty miles an hour . The driver had had no orders to stop at Bieester ; the officers at the station had received orders to stop him . The green flag , indicative of caution , was waved , and instantly the red flag , a signal to stop , was waved also ; but the train came on . The engine-driver intending to go through , the pointsman intending him to stop .

    Suddenly , near the points , the whole train was in confusion . The engine had mounted , and ran off the rails . The coupling of the engine and tender had broken , the carriages were disengaged from the tender , and the engine and the carriages were running side by side—off the rails . Then over they went—a crash , a tearing up of the rails , a doubling up of the carriages , a smashing of wood-work , and a dreadful shrieking of broken and compressed lmman beings , made up a scene which caused the heart to beat fast and the breath to quicken .

    The rest is best described by the extracts of evidence before the coroner ' s jury , which , eat . on Monday , and the three following days , for so dire a 8 mash could not happen without loss of life ; and , indeed , we have this week read of several small battles in Kafirland where fewer were killed and wounded . Mr . William Acton , a London surgeon , passenger by the train , published the following in the Times of Alonday : — " The best account I can give of the accident is as follows : — "We left town by the half-past four excursion train for Oxford . At Tring we stood twenty minutes on a siding to allow the five o ' clock express to pass . We then

    came at a very moderate rate on toBicester . At a quarter to seven p m ., I was seated in the middle compartment of a first-class carriage , towards the centre of the train , when I felt a succession of jerks , as if the carriage was suddenly thrown back by several backward leaps , and instinctively caught the side supports . Our carriage was thrown on the left siding , and I successively heard crash after crash , expecting every moment my back would be crushed . Suddenly all was hushed , except the moans of the sufferer * . My brother and myself immediately escaped , and found the carriages heaped one upon another , and the first compartment of the carriage in which I was , splintered , and people rushing about in all

    directions . The engine had run off the line , and was left behind the carriage I was escaping from , tomiting clouds of steam and smoke . My first care was to organize a system of assistance ; and while the people were extricating the sufferers , I had them them brought into the house of the station-master , whose wife gave us every assistance . I next collected four men , with a shutter , and as the wounded were sawn out from among the timbers under which they lay , by torohlight , for it had now become quite dark , I had them removed to the inns , having previously prepared beds for their reception , and the greatest kindness was shown by the landlords . In this I was most ably assisted by Mr . Wyatt , a student at King ' s College , London , and ft indefati gable

    traveller like myself by the train , to whose exertions the greatest credit is due . As they arnvea , the wounded men were successively cared for without hurry , and the dead and insensible were placed in a room apart . One poor fellow , who is now doing well , was about to be placed in the temporary dead-house , in the full oeliet of the railway labourers that life was extinct ; warm bottles to his feet , however , brought him round , and he was placed in a warm bed instead of being laid on the bare boards with those of the sufferers Who had already ceased to breathe . At about twelve o ' clock the whole of tne debris of the carriages had been carefully examined , nnd we could count our dead , many of tho slightly wound , u having , we supposed , gone on to Oxford ; and at t * o ' clock , a . m .. after having paid a visit to the hick , w

    retired to bed . " Mr . Francis Wyatt , the gentleman mentioned »' the above extract , gave evidence of great cleaine »» on Monday , a portion of which wo quote . A ' " carriage in which Mr . Wyatt travelled was no * overset : — " When I got up , I had hardly done so when a woman jumped out of a carriage on tne and others followe **• uBBinted them to dt-scend , there was a man who ran a _ me , having his head cut and much excited . He liaa . „ railway livery . At that moment I saw more »" work looked forward and two carriages t »»* ° " ont i looKca iorwara i t

    . I eaw . w . ana «« w «» wn »«> ^ .. ii-h over , and another lying on Its Bide not bo n u , knocked about . There was a first-class carriage win , had all the looks bent , bo that they could not be «» r » V and were knocked off . I met a person , apparently o « - » carried by four people . I asked If he was dead . - »•• -J said he was . That is tho man who is since dean ,, m who had been trephined . I followed him and htong ± him to this house . 1 had found he was not aeon , stripped him , and to « rk property off him , wniou a m

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 13, 1851, page 862, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1900/page/2/