17 JUNE 1865, Page 3

Mr. Darby Griffith has observed a 'law' in railway accidents.

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unlocked door is always 'the one thatis downwards—on the ground, and he asked Mr. Milner Gibson on Thursday night whether it was not "extremely improbable this should happen so of ten,"—a question which he should not go to a Minister to answer, but might settle for himself with a halfpenny whenever he has ascer- tained• how often said event has really happened. Mr. Gibson proposed in reply the question on which door, locked or un- locked, is a railway carriage most likely to overturn ?—a problem too much for the House, and Mr. Griffith, who evidently thought carriages ought always to overturn on their locked door, which is an amiable theory, only not so amiable as that they ought not to overturn at all.