15 AUGUST 1863, Page 3

The coroner's jury assembled to inquire into the accident on

the Lynn and Hunstanton Railway have passed a verdict severely reflecting on the Great Eastern Railway Company for negligence in working the line, and on the official in- spector for allowing it to be opened. It appears that the fencing of the line is imperfect, and is supplemented by a -ditch which the hot weather dried up. The verdict will tell heavily against the company when civil damages are assessed ; but the penalty falls on the unlucky shareholders, not on -directors, or engineers, or contractors, among whom the real blame rests.