Return of the Number of Persons of every description killed or injured from all causes on all the Passenger Railways open for public traffic in England, Ireland, and Scotland during the year 1855. Passengers killed or injured from causes beyond their own control Passengers killed or injured owing to their own misconduct or want of caution Total number of passengers killed or injured Servants of company or contractors killed or injured from Trespassers Suicides Miscellaneous Killed. Injured. 10 311 18 20 Collisions between passenger trains Collisions between passenger trains and other trains or engines Axles or wheels or machinery of engines attached to passenger trains breaking or getting out of order Axles or wheels of carriages of passenger trains breaking Couplings breaking Bursting of boilers of engines of passenger trains Train running into stations at too high a rate of speed APPENDIX TO CHRONICLE. The MINISTRY, as it stood on January 1, 1855. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Right Hon. Earl of Aberdeen. His Grace the Duke of Newcastle. Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone. Right Hon. Sir Jas. Robert Geo. Graham, bt. Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, bt. Right Hon. Sidney Herbert. Right Hon. Earl Granville. First Commissioner of Works and Pub-Right Hon. Sir William Molesworth, bt. lic Buildings General Commanding-in-Chief. Master-General of the Ordnance. President of the Board of Trade Right Hon. Edward Cardwell. Paymaster of the Forces, and Vice-Pre-Right Hon. Lord Stanley of Alderley. sident of the Board of Trade Postmaster General S Right Hon. Viscount Canning. Ralph Bernal Osborne, esq. Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, knt. Right Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers. SCOTLAND. Right Hon. James Moncreiff. The MINISTRY as formed by Viscount PALMERSTON, First Lord of the Treasury Lord Chancellor President of the Council Lord Privy Seal Home Secretary Foreign Secretary Colonial Secretary THE CABINET. Chancellor of the Exchequer First Commissioner of Works and Right Hon. Viscount Palmerston. Right Hon. Sir George Grey, bt. Right Hon. Lord Panmure. Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone. Right Hon. Sir Jas. Robert Geo. Graham, bt. Most Hon. Marquess of Lansdowne. NOT IN THE CABINET. General Commanding-in-Chief Right Hon. Lord Raglan. Paymaster of the Forces and Vice-Presi-Right Hon. Lord Stanley of Alderley. dent of the Board of Trade. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Secretary of the Admiralty Attorney-General Solicitor General . Judge-Advocate General Chief Commissioner of the Poor Law Lord Steward Mistress of the Robes The MINISTRY, as it stood subsequently to the 22nd President of the Board of Control Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Postmaster General Right Hon. Viscount Palmerston. Right Hon. Sir George Grey, bt.. Right Hon. Lord John Russell. Right Hon. Lord Panmure. Right Hon. Sir George Cornewall Lewis, bt. Right Hon. Robert Vernon Smith. First Commissioner of Works and Pub-Right Hon. Sir William Molesworth, bt. lic Buildings NOT IN THE CABINET. General Commanding-in-Chief. Most Hon. Marquess of Lansdowne. Right Hon. Lord Stanley of Alderley. Paymaster of the Forces and Vice-Pre-Hon. Edward Pleydell Bouverie. sident of the Board of Trade Secretary of the Admiralty Attorney-General Solicitor-General Judge-Advocate General Ralph Bernal Osborne, esq. Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, knt. Right Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers. SCOTLAND. Right Hon. James Moncreiff. Lord Steward. Mistress of the Robes Right Hon. William Keogh. Right Hon. Earl of Carlisle. Right Hon. Maziere Brady. Right Hon. Edward Horsman. John David Fitzgerald, esq. Most Hon. Marquess of Breadalbane. THE FOLLOWING CHANGES TOOK PLACE DURING THE YEAR. IN THE CABINET.-The Duke of Argyll, Postmaster-General, vice Viscount Canning. Governor-General of India. The Earl of Harrowby, Lord Privy Seal, vice the Duke of Argyll. Right Hon. Matthew Talbot Baines, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, vice Earl of Harrowby. Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, Colonial Secretary, vice Right Hon. Lord John Russell resigned. Right Hon. Lord Stanley of Alderley, President of the Board of Trade, to a seat in the Cabinet. NOT IN THE CABINET.-Master-General of the Ordnance, vice Lord Raglan, deceased, office abolished. Right Hon. Sir Benjamin Hall, First Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings, vice Right Hon. Sir William Molesworth, deceased. Right Hon. Edward Pleydell Bouverie, Chief Commissioner of Poor Law, vice Right Hon. Matthew Talbot Baines. Right Hon. Robert Lowe, Paymaster of the Forces and Vice-President of the Board of Trade, vice Right Hon. E. P. Bouverie. 1 SHERIFFS FOR THE YEAR 1855. ENGLAND. John Shaw Leigh, of Luton Hoo, esq. P. Duncombe P. Duncombe, of Great Brick Hill, esq. J. Chapman, of Hill End, Mottram, Longdendale, esq. Thomas Story Spedding, of Mirehouse, esq. Peter Arkwright, of Willersley Castle, esq. Robert Surtees, of Redworth House, esq. John Watlington P. Watlington, of Moor Hall, esq. Fred. Urban Sartoris, of Rusden Hall, esq. Willoughby Hurt Sitwell, of Bucknell, esq. George Barons Northcote, of Somerset Court, esq. George Carew Gibson, of Sandgate Lodge, esq. Simon Watson Taylor, of Urchford, esq. W. Dowdeswell, of Pull Court, near Tewkesbury, esq. ELECTED BY THE LIVERY OF LONDON. London and Middlesex R. Hartley Kennedy, esq., Alderman. W. Anderson Rose, esq., Alderman. WALES. Hugh Robert Hughes, of Bodrwyn, esq. H. Robertson Sanbach, of Havodunos, Lbergele, esq. Wyndham Wm. Lewis, of the Heath, near Cardiff, esq. |