Mr. Chichester Fortescue has addressed a sharp Circular to the
Railway Companies, in which he tells them that many of the immense number of casualties reported by Captain Tyler in 1872 are due to preventible causes, and insists that the " paramount object," safety to life and limb, shall be more adeqnately secured. He declares that improvements, thoroughly tested and approved, are too slowly introduced, and remarks strongly on the unpunc- tuality which so multiplies the chances of accident. He threatens, if his complaint is not attended to, to seek for further legis- lation. That legislation will, it is possible, be facilitated in singular way. We are encouraged to hope that one unexpected result of the Ballot will be the expulsion of the Railway mag- nates from Parliament. Their own eniployes can vote as they like, and the citizens of the towns they affect to serve hate them and their mismanagement.
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