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    A SIMPLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT . The accident near Kings IJangley has the merit of simplicity . An express train rushed by a danger signal at a speed of nearly sixty miles an hour , and before , it was stopped , dashed into a disabled coal train . The collision was mitigated by a reduction of speed ; but , as it was , a lord was wounded , an honorable gentleman was bruised , and others , less notable in a" Couxt Guide , " were seriouslinjured . t

    y « Kings Langley is a station , on the IJoiidou and North-Western line , about three miles at the other side of Watford ; and beyond Kings Iiangley the next station is Boxmoor . Between Boxmoor and Kings Langley is a signal hut at a place called Nashmills . Here a man was stationed , whose duty it "was , when a train passed , to telegraph forward that the train had passed , and to telegraph backward that " the line was clear . " A coal

    train passed on Monday about four o'clock , and he made both signals . The signal that the line was clear was contradicted before his eyes just as he had made the signal , —for the coal train , after it had gone less than two hundred yards from his hut , was stopped through the loss of a bolt in the engine . An express train , from . Derby to London now thundered on ; it had been , late forty minutes at Derby , and the driver was going , it is said , at the rate of sixty miles an hour , to make

    up for lost time . Passing Boxmoor , the driver saw the signal representing that the line was clear , and rushed on with undiniinished speed towards the signal hut at Nashmills . Here the signal-man , who had just signalled , " line clear , " put on the danger signal , and ran down the line waving a red flag . " It was broad daylight—about four o ' clock in the

    affcernon—there was no fog , and the danger signal at Nashmills is raised high , in tho air , and can be seen about eight hundred yards before arriving at it . " The driver still rushed on : at length he saw the signnl , ana tried to stop tho train . Ho checked its speed , but , seeing a collision certain , ho and the fireman jumped off without injury . The passengers were wounded and bruised—one

    or two seriously . The accident clearly shows that tho system on this line is defective , and that on this occasion it was not well iiBed . A signal that tho lino was clear was shown at a time when a coal train was actually in sight of the signalman , and just as he gave tho signal tho coal train broke down . Had ho waited until no saw the coal train safely out of BigM , « ° should on this occasion have been enabled to telegraph back to Boxmoor that tho lino ^ ns not clear . It will be argued that the duty 0 * tho man was simply to telogrnph tlint to train had passed his hut—but if tho comply

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    say or do something clever to maintain his position . Instead of that , he bows to the stormj and sends in his resig nation as member of the Chamber , and returns the Cross of St . Maurice and St . Lazarus . Evidently there is a mystery in all this , ; says the reader . So there is . We know it . To explain , it would be to give an interesting episode in the life of M . GrAxiiENQA . ; but we must not

    forestal the publication of the letter from Egypt which M . Mazzini still holds in terrorem over his former friend and coconspirator . Suffice it that the English public is now edified on the -value of the information it has so greedily swallowed on the constitutional prospects and wonderful progress of the ambitious little kingdom of Piedmont— -as well as on the character of its princes and statesmen . f We hope it will profit by the lesson .

    Chabi / es Albert . Mazzini objected , and heaped up reasons against the act , although he admitted that the ferocious king deserved death . GKaltiEKGA stood firm , showed great enthusiasm , obtained a passport and money , and started . It is a curious circumstance , however , that he at first compared himself to Habmoditjs ; and at last remembered that there had been such a

    person as Loeenzi ^ o Medici . But he started , and went to Turin . Here Ms movements were interesting , but it would be too long to relate them . The most amusing fact is , that he professed to be unable , to obtain any weapon to " fulfil his act" with ; and actually sent a person named Sciandra all the way to Mazzini at Geneva to obtain one . S ciAND jja came to the great revolutionist and took , by his permission , a dagger with , a handle of lapis lazuli from his table . Times

    have since changed , for men were actuated by different passions from what they are at present . Our opinions on such attempts are known . It is unnecessary to refer to them . It is sufficient to say that the idea of assassination was suggested by GrAi < iiEi > r < aA , that the pathetic touch about the mother of Rtjfetni is a poetical ornament , and that if " the aet " was not fulfilled this arose simply from the want of nerve " on the part of the man who had undertaken it .

    Of course , if Signor Gaulenga had merely accused himself under the mild alias of " a young fanatic , " no one would have cared , but he mixes up the names of other people ; and his object evidently is to justify the Piedrnontese aristocracy for their aversion to Mazzent in * 1848 . In many , other ways , also , he endeavours to blacken his old friends ; and to exalt the foolish , ignorant , and indolent nobles of Piedmont into political idols . The " Senate , " according to him , is

    • who refased to act on Mazzini ' a advice ] , wandered about Savoy -without preoonoerted plan [ no : the plan-was definite and preconcerted , bat circumstances prevented its execution ] . They came to Annocy [ they did no such , thing ] , and occupied it [ never ] ; and then retreated [• worse and worse ] and coasted the lake towards Thonon Fall wrong ] . The proclamations of Mazzini in Italian [ no : they were in French ] made little impression on the Savoyards , " &c . &c

    Most of these errors are those of a man perfectly indifferent to material facts , and only anxious to effect his general purpose , namely , to exhibit Mazzini in a ludicrous light as the leader of an insurrection , occupying the most important place without resistance , retreating without motive , and addressing jthe population in a foreign language ! The passage becomes cruel and libellous , however , when it comes to talk of the man , who has laboured so much in the

    cause of revolution being startled by shots fired at hazard , seizing his carbine , and suddenly fainting away , to "be carried in safety over the frontier . M . G-AiyrattGA , alias Ma-» iotti , must have known very well that Mazzini , instead of fainting , assumed the command of the expedition after UtAitoeino had fled , and was one of the last to leave the territory of Savoy .

    Another passage in this precious history nas led to more serious controversy and a very unexpected result . Mazzini himself las been brought into the field . M . Galuenga relates the story of a " young fanatic " ¦ who vras wandering about Switzerland once , ¦ who , moved to enthusiasm by the grief of the mother of Ettjetini , offered to go to Turin and assassinate Chables Albebt in 1833 , went there with passports and money from MazzIut , did not dare to strike the blow , and

    ultimately disappeared . Those who are behind the scenes already know , though the public may not , that tHs " young fanatic " was G-alleitg a himself ; and that it is to him that a recent writer alludes when he says : " An old disciple of Mazzini , after watching a king for two months , blunderbuss in hand , out of the window of a inezzanino , comes before us with an ill grace to curse his master when he has become a deputy , and aspires to be minister of the son of the very man whose death he planned in this unmanly manner !"

    an Assembly of Kings , " &c ., &c . He has succeeded more , however , by his anonymous than his signed labours , in producing a totally false impression concerning the state of Piedmont ; and as , in order to arrive at this result , he has been obliged frequently to resort to calumny , we are not surprised that Mazzini has at length lost patience .

    Whether Signor Gallestgia ever entertained the ambitious idea here attributed to him we ^ do not know . It is evident he can entertain them no longer . M . Mazzini has Btretehed out his strong arm and xitterly crushed his detractor . His letter to the Italia e JPopolo is too long for us to extract at present . In substance it is as follows : —In 1833 , after the frightful execution of innocent people in . Genoa , Alessandria , and

    His crushing attack , published at Genoa , in the Mazzinian paper , although impeded in circulation by the unscrupulous agents of the post-office , has produced a tremendous sensation in Piedmont . Signor GalIi ^ noa at once wrote ( October 27 ) , praising the " consummate genius , " &c , &c , of Mazzini , expressing his love for him , and declaring that he has written the truth ! 'Observe the character

    of courtiers and Ministerialists . 3 ? or two or three days , the partisans of Count Oavottr affected to treat the revelations from Grenoa with , contempt . They counted on a clear denial . For some mysterious reason , MI . Gal-IiEWGA tells the truth—admits everything said against himself most humbly , and only tries to exculpate his dear friend Melegabi . Next day , indeed , he writes again , more cautiously , and quibbles on a few points ; but still Mazzini is a great man , and has written what is true—has merely erred from inadvertence in one or two details . Tile human nature

    Uhambery , by order of the former Carbonaro , who had deserved a throne by treachery and ¦ was determined to keep it by murder , a young man called on Mazzini at Geneva . He bore a letter from a Signor Mjei / egabi , tlien a democrat , now a professor of constitutional law , and a ministerial deputy—of whom tve may dispose a . t once . He recommended his friend with extreme warmth , and said he was firmly resolved to "fulfil one act , * Now , the son of the man on . whom tho act was to

    The Ministerialists at onco fall away , and the unhappy pamphleteer found himself in the centre of the battle-field , aimed at from all sides- Tho King falls into ecstasies of indignation at the idea thai ; a man wlio once planned the assassination of his father should be an important political personage , and Bhould wear on his breast tho decoration of St . Maurice and St . Lazarus . Tho Ministers ara shocked-r-because the culprit has not the courage to deny what is undeniable Great is the commotion ; groat tho coming and going . Friendly companions suggest at tho last moment that Gallenga may

    "be performed being on the throne , said profesBor writes to the papers , saying , that . whatever may have been the words of Ms * ??*' " ke was completely ignorant of the total project entertained . We should like to T ^^ words of tlie letter : and hav e no v . tll ? Ltlie Kine > whose S roat political characteristic ia re 8 pect for the father dead , whom ho disobeyed and betrayed when living , IB equally inquisitive . However , to return to Signor GAixiNaA . lie was then a member of Toung Italy ; and distinctly proposed to go aixd Btab o ? shoot

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 8, 1856, page 1070, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2166/page/14/