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    narefitly sitting composedly at the bottom of the em-£ hkment , but quite dead . He exhibited no external sign * finiury . There were four passengers ; I think one firstlass and the , other three second-class . I myself am conriderabl y scalded about ihe head , face , and armj but I hope tint seriously so . John Gosling , police-constable of East Eetford , stated—T left the Sheffield station last night by the Great Northern train at a little after nine o ' clock : we came on for , some minutes at a good speed , when I heard a crackling kind of noise—craot after Crack . I had just time to say to my fellow-pass engers , " What can be the matter ? " when wo found ourselves topsy-turvy , and going down we knew not where . Ultimately we stopped , with the carriage

    lying on one side . We were considerably snaken , but X cannot say how often the carriages went over . When we recovered ourselves we tried to get out , but could only do bo by breaking the glass of the window with an umbrella . On getting out we could see nothing , for it was very dark , and we shouted out , but received no answer until wegot on to the top of the embankment , where we found William lee , the stoker , who told us to keep off , for he expected the engine boiler to burst every minute , and he also said there was another train due from Eetford . He then too k off and ran on the line , but I believe he did not know which road he was going—whether to Sheffield or the Woodhouse junction . I then directed two of the passeneers to proceed towards the junction to stop the train

    • which was due from Jietford . I remained on the spot tor aome time by myself ( as I thought ) , and kept calling put , and ultimately found the fourth passenger , who complained of having been shaken , and of his fingers being cut , but I told him not to mind his fingers . Seeing alight at a distance , we went in that direction , and found it to be the residence of Mr . Smith , solicitor , who kindly furnished us wit h matches , candles , Ac ., and accompanied us to the spot . We then found a lamp , which we lighted , and on looking round found the guard dead in a sitting position . I felt his arm , but it was cold , and Had not the slightest pulsation . One of the buffers was pressed against his chest , and his back was jambed against another carriage . We tried , but could not release him . We then went totne engine , on the other side of the line , and found the driver and

    with his legs under the firebox . He was sensible , begged of us to lift it ( the engine ) up ; we tried to release him , but found we could not . We then went for some assistance to di g him out : it soon arrived , and he was got out , and taken to the Woodhouse Junction Inn . I then took the lamp , and went towards Darnell , and lighted one lamp on the road , and got the other lamps lighted at Darnell . I waited there until the pilot-engine arrived from Sheffield , and went with it again to the place . When we got back , poor Tuckwood was in the same position , but Wright had been taken to the inn at the Woodhouse junction . A surgeon arrived shortly afterwards , but pronouncd Tuckwood to be dead . The station-master at the Woodhouse junction behaved most kindly towards the whole of us , and did everything in his power to alleviate the sufferings of both Wright and Lee .

    On the following morning the engine , which did not appear to be much damaged , and the debris of the train were removed , and the line repaired by a staff of workmen from the Great Northern Station at Doncaster . The unfortunate engine-driver lingered until a quarter-past eight o ' clock on Thursday night , when lie died . He has left a wife and a child by a former wife . He had been for several years past engaged on railways , having been a driver for four or five years , on the Paris and Bouen railway . About two months ago , while in the service of the Great Northern Company he ran his engine into another at Leeds , for which ho was suspended two months , and Wednesday was the first day he had resumed his work .

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    The most extensive firo that has occurred in tho metropolis for a considerable period broke out yesterday morning at a iowminutea beforefour o ' clock , and at ftoonwas far from being entirel y extinguished . The scene of this terrible firo was Donmark-Btreot , St . George ' s-in-the-East , whereon was oreoted the oxtensivo sugar refining housos of Messrs . Bra-< lon and Co . Tho discovery was mado by a police-constable . Engines wero on tho spot with all possible expedition ; but at thatt imo tho flames had assumed a most terrific appoaranco , for tluvy had taken possession of every floor in the building . From what was called tho " Large House , " whoro tho fire originated , the flames oxtonded to tho " Small i ' ouko ht of

    I . " Each place contained many tons woig sugar , and , as tho same became ignited , tho flames rolled forth liko streams of liquid firo , throwing up a glare of light which illuminated , not meroly the eastern portion of London , but tho reflection could bo seen as far off aa Gravouend . l'Wtunatoly the mains yielded an abundant supply of jvator , from which tho firoinon sot thoir engines to work ; but , in Hpito of thoir exertions , tho roof and floors of the 'nrwi houucH foil , and , conBoquontly , tho costly stock in j rado foil along with thorn ; ho that in a few hours this building became gutted , and the Bmallor building about tw () . ( , hi destroyed . Tho Iosb , it is expootod , will oxcuod ^ K ()( KH . ; anil , unfortunately , tho firm wua ipsurod for "nly 0 , 000 / . Tho origin of the misfortune ) is unknown .

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    A HcalFold foil suddenly from tho front of a house at KontiHh Town on Thursday . Two men wor , o fatally injured . Tho ro-rutting of the ? Koh-i-noor was finished on Tuos"" ¦ y . It in now a iram unequalled in nhapo , lustre , and boauty . A retired drayman , in the omploy of Moasrs . Truman , i I anbury , Buxton and Co ., came up from tho country u low dnyn , ijO Hn ( 1 p ^ Hentod 60 * . to t ho London HoBpitul , >» token , ho Haid , of h ' m gratitude for tho groat kindness ind atten tion lie had received when un imnato of that mftutution thirty yoara ago . At tho aamo tinw h « gave 60 * . ™ tJie Livatued . Victualler . ' A . jluwi

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    " THE ORDER OF THE LONE STAR . " Cuba is to be annexed to the United States ; so has decreed the great society which exists in the American Union—a society embodying the determination of Young America . Hitherto it has been secret , less because it feared the restraint than because it desired to save its Government from the embarrassing duty of recognising the popular movement . But now , like the phantom fate of Otranto , it is too big to be secret any longer . The American citizens have resolved to possess

    Cuba , and they will not be disappointed . More than a year ago we mentioned to our readers the existence of the secret society in New Orleans , with its branches throughout the Union . It is some time since we mentioned the existence of the revolutionary paper , the Voice of the People , in Cuba itself , continued in spite of the attempts of the local Government to suppress it . "We have already told our readers that the revolutionary party still maintains its organized existence , partly in the hills of the Island , and partly by

    favour of the popular connivance , the official or Spanish party notwithstanding . There is no Government which can be established in Washington capable of resisting the popular resolution of its own citizens , enforced as that resolution will be by tens of thousands of the most restless and energetic of the American citizens . The public writers of the Union already confess to an organization of 15 , 000 strong : we

    believe that our own journal was before many of the American papers in announcing the existence of this society ; and we equally believe that the American , papery l muqh .. un 4 er ^ a |; er if , not the enrolled numbers ; , at least those vast numbers who are prepared to support and back the movement when it shall take effect . From these facts it will easily be perceived that the annexation of Cuba to the United States is simply a question

    of time . The leading article in the Times of Monday last , setting forth in animated terms the popular notion against the new Cuban expedition , must be received , we conjecture , in more than one sense . It is , in the first place , a very able essay on passing politics , such as the routine of every journal requires to have in its chief columns . Secondly , it is as vivid a statement of the English case as one of the most skilful writers in one of the most skilful journals in Europe can

    set forth . Thirdly , we may conjecture that it is not altogether alien to some understanding as to tho prooable course which Downing-stroot may take in the affair . It may be considered as a feeler on behalf of Downing-strect—that sort of tentative suggestion which invites public acquiescence without too strongly committing tho official party to tho course indicated . As an effort of composition—brilliant , lucid , rOrMir in its nuraoso . Graphic in its

    illustrationsit must bo confessed as an admirable specimen of tho work that can bo turned out of tho richest office of journalism . It would bo difficult to find a greater number of ideas , of visual allusionsalways tho most telling in public writing—and of historical references , within tho same space . Tho power of tho pen surprises tho mind of tho reader into acquiescence , and many will accept the conclusions , however false , which aro wrappod up in such brilliant truisms and glittoring analogies . As a reprosontation , of tho English case , the fooblonoss lies rather in that case than in tho

    powers of tho advocate . It may be said to divide itself rhetorically into two parts ;—Ono is a suggoBtiou to tho United States , how much bettor it would be for that country to adliero to "tho policy of commerce" rather than to " the policy of conquest "—how much more is to be mado by fidelity to " the almighty dollar" than by yielding

    to the intoxication of territorial aggrandizement The second part consists of an example . The grounds upon which " enlightened opinion in the United States would sanction the annexation of Cuba are analyzed and marshalled thus—the sympathy of the discontented Creoles ; guarantee for the permanence of slavery ; extension of commerce ; . and an agreeable retreat from the severities of a New York winter . Such are the reasons which Americans are supposed to entertain for the measure . They are not perfectly sound . The Times supposes the sympathy of the Creoles to be negatived by the experience of Lopez : a mistake , since the experience of Lopez only showed that he himself did not understand the

    geographical distribution of the Island defences . The permanency of slavery is not desired by the leading minds of America . On the contrary , if America be left alone , that institution will be extinguished at the earliest period of time that is possible ; the only delay can arise through intervention from without . The other reasons fail , because the annexation of Cuba is needless to supply America with a field for the extension of commerce , or with a winter retreat . But , argues the . Times , after marshalling the supposititious reasonings , we might on similar grounds take possession of Madeira , with a commanding commorpinl -nnsitinTi . f \ r \ c \ its nlimate regarded as a mercial positionand its climate regarded as a

    , specific for the national disease of consumption . Why , then , do we not make it our own ? Because it would tarnish our character for fairness , and we dare not face the retribution which follows on such acts . So says the Times . A strange argument to come from the leading journal of that country which has so recently annexed Hong Kong , and which forcibly retains the Ionian Islands to the British dominions against their will . The Times argues as if annexation were entirely a new passion , and peculiar to the United States ; but it is not new , and it is not peculiar to the Anglo-Saxon in America since he has become a self-acting " statesman . "

    The string of annexation may be made out continuously , from Canada , annexed by the English , and the Cape of Good Hope , annexed by the English , through Louisiana or Texas , Hong-Kong or Aden , down to California and Scinde . It is a propensity not peculiar to either branch of the Anglo-Saxon , and not limited to any period of its history . But the proposed annexation of Cuba is by no means an isolated fact ; it has its context at present but partially disclosed to ub ; and it is in reference to that context that the exposition of the Times must be regarded aa in part an official feeler . It is evident to us that some mischievous spirit is at work in Downing-street , intending to le

    array the prejudices of the English peop against the interests of the English people . An attempt was mado to embroil the Protectionist interest of the Colonies in a contest with America . Next , a uso has been made of what wo cannot help regarding as a serious mistake ( not to say a political immorality ) of Mr . Webster ' s , in proposing to seize tho Lobos Islands . It appears to us ' that that seizure would bo impolitic , because mean and dishonourable . Jn spito of tho respect which wo entertain for the American republic , and for the individual citizens in that republic , wo use these strong , if not coarse , expressions because wo wish to have tho meaning of a journal which they know to sympathize with them and to bo honest before them , made

    thoroughly clear to their understanding . We repeat , that the seizure of tho Lobos Islands , against tho usage of international law , from an inferior power , for tho Hake of mere commercial advantage , would bo dishonourable and mean , and for that reason eminently injurious to tho great republic that could bo guiity of such au act . Wo believe , and wo speak with scarcely less confidence , that the uho to which that mistake has boon turned in Downing-strcot is in itsolf dishonest and fraudulent : that the aberration

    of ofUcial individuals in America on u subieefc utterly paltry in itself , is Hyslemnlieally used to rouso ' tho prejudices of the lOn ^ lish . people against the interests both of England and America . It ban boon reported , wil-h ^ reiit show of probability , that negotiations arc on fooMoinaintiunthointorosts-of Spain . gainst those of the Anglo-Saxon republicans . JN ' ow , Spain has no locus ¦ standt va . America : her rule ia not beneficial ; if she bo left absolutely alone , it will ho shaken oft'by her own subjects ; uh her rule Iuih already been cast aside by lhc republic of Mexico . About thud

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    gtffMM&ll , 1858 . ] THE LEADER . 871

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    There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Db . Abitold .

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    : —r SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 11 , 1852 .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 11, 1852, page 871, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1951/page/11/