29 JANUARY 1870, Page 3

A deputation waited on Mr. Bright on Thursday to ask

for an enactment compelling Railways to run cheap workmen's trains in and out of London, and for once Mr. Bright was not opposed to action. He seemed inclined to grant the request, but wanted a concession from the other side, that no workman should claim more than /100 damages for an accident. He grew quite pathetic over the losses sustained by poor shareholders through the excessive compensation awarded by juries, and seemed to think Companies would take all the care they could without such heavy fines. We doubt that, but supposing it true, is there not a further point, the just right of a man injured by a railway to the value of what he has lost ? •