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
causes beyond their own control
Servants of company or contractors killed or injured
owing to their own misconduct or want of caution
Other persons crossing at level crossings

Trespassers

Suicides

Miscellaneous

Killed. Injured.

10

311

18

20

Collisions between passenger trains

Collisions between passenger trains and other trains or engines
Passenger trains of portions of trains getting off the rails
Passenger trains running into sidings or off their proper line,
through points being wrong

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.

First Commissioner of Works and Pub-Right Hon. Sir William Molesworth, bt.

Paymaster of the Forces, and Vice-Pre-Right Hon. Lord Stanley of Alderley.

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SCOTLAND.

Right Hon. James Moncreiff.
Thomas Mackenzie, esq.

The MINISTRY as formed by Viscount PALMERSTON,
February 16, 1855.

First Lord of the Treasury

Lord Chancellor

President of the Council

Lord Privy Seal

Home Secretary

Foreign Secretary

Colonial Secretary
War Secretary

THE CABINET.

Chancellor of the Exchequer
First Lord of the Admiralty
President of the Board of Control

First Commissioner of Works and
lic Buildings

Right Hon. Viscount Palmerston.
Right Hon. Lord Cranworth.
Right Hon. Earl Granville.
His Grace the Duke of Argyll.

Right Hon. Sir George Grey, bt.
Right Hon. Earl of Clarendon.
Right Hon. Sydney Herbert.

Right Hon. Lord Panmure.

Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone.

Right Hon. Sir Jas. Robert Geo. Graham, bt.
Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, bt.
Pub-Right Hon. Sir William Molesworth, bt.

Most Hon. Marquess of Lansdowne.

NOT IN THE CABINET.

General Commanding-in-Chief
Master-General of the Ordnance.
President of the Board of Trade.

Right Hon. Lord Raglan.
Right Hon. Edward Cardwell.

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
Postmaster-General

Secretary of the Admiralty

Attorney-General

Solicitor General .

Judge-Advocate General

Chief Commissioner of the Poor Law

Lord Steward
Lord Chamberlain
Master of the Horse

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. Lord Cranworth.
Right Hon. Earl Granville.
His Grace the Duke of Argyll.

Right Hon. Sir George Grey, bt..
Right Hon. Earl of Clarendon.

Right Hon. Lord John Russell.

Right Hon. Lord Panmure.

Right Hon. Sir George Cornewall Lewis, bt.
Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, bt.

Right Hon. Robert Vernon Smith.
Right Hon. Earl of Harrowby.
Right Hon. Viscount Canning.

First Commissioner of Works and Pub-Right Hon. Sir William Molesworth, bt.

lic Buildings

NOT IN THE CABINET.

General Commanding-in-Chief.
Master General of the Ordnance.
President of the Board of Trade.

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.
Sir Richard Bethell, knt.

Right Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers.
Right Hon. Matthew Talbot Baines.

SCOTLAND.

Right Hon. James Moncreiff.
Edward Francis Maitland, esq.

Lord Steward.
Lord Chamberlain
Master of the Horse

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.
His Grace the Duke of Wellington.
Duchess of Sutherland.

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.

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SHERIFFS FOR THE YEAR 1855.

ENGLAND.

John Shaw Leigh, of Luton Hoo, esq.
Henry Elwes, of Marcham Park, esq.

P. Duncombe P. Duncombe, of Great Brick Hill, esq.
Sir Williamson Booth, of Gamlinghay, bart.

J. Chapman, of Hill End, Mottram, Longdendale, esq.
William Henry Pole Carew, esq.

Thomas Story Spedding, of Mirehouse, esq.

Peter Arkwright, of Willersley Castle, esq.
Thomas Daniel, of Stoodleigh, esq.
Robert Williams, of Bridehead, esq.

Robert Surtees, of Redworth House, esq.

John Watlington P. Watlington, of Moor Hall, esq.
Corbett Holland Corbett, of Admington Hall, esq.
R. F. Wegg Prosser, of Belmont, near Hereford, esq.
Nathaniel Hibbert, of Munden, Watford, esq.
Sir Wal. C. James, of Betshanger, Sandwich, esq.
John Pemberton Heywood, of Norris Green, esq.
William Ward Tailby, of Humberstone, esq.
George Skipworth, of Moortown House, esq.
John Russell, of the Wyelands, Chepstow, esq.
Brampton Gurdon, of Letton, esq.

Fred. Urban Sartoris, of Rusden Hall, esq.
Rowland Errington, of Sandhoe, esq.
H. Bridgeman Simpson, of Babworth, esq.
Benj. John Whippy, of Lee-place, Charlbury, esq.
Arthur Heathcoate, of Pilton, esq.

Willoughby Hurt Sitwell, of Bucknell, esq.

George Barons Northcote, of Somerset Court, esq.
Samuel Pole Shawe, of Maple Hayes, esq.
Hon. Sir Edward Butler, of Harefield.
John Josselyn, of St. Edmund's Hill, esq.
James Gaddesden, of Ewell Castle, esq.

George Carew Gibson, of Sandgate Lodge, esq.
Chandos Wren Hoskyns, of Wroxall Abbey, esq.
John Hill, of Castle Bank, Appleby, esq.

Simon Watson Taylor, of Urchford, esq.

W. Dowdeswell, of Pull Court, near Tewkesbury, esq.
James Brown, of Copgrove, near Knaresborough, 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.
John Williams Vaughan, of Velinnewydd, esq.
Samuel Dukinfield Darbyshire, of Pendyffryn, esq.
Edward Ab Adam, of Meddleton Hall, esq.
John Battersby Harford, of Petterwell, esq.

H. Robertson Sanbach, of Havodunos, Lbergele, esq.
Viscount Dungannon, of Brynkinalt.

Wyndham Wm. Lewis, of the Heath, near Cardiff, esq.