The morning papers publish official letters by Mr. J. B.
Owen, the secretary, and Mr. Peter Bruff, the engineer of the Eastern Counties
Railway Company, on the subject of the communication from:the Board of Trade. The effect of these letters is, that the Directors of the Rail- way have taken Colonel Wynne's report into anxious consideration • that the works of strengthening are carried on by a thousand men in addition to the ordinary establishment, without sparing expense ; that passenger- trains have already been reduced, while the works are daily tested by the greater weight of goods and mineral trains ; that their safety is proved by the absence of accidents ; and that many precautions have been taken further to diminish the speed of the trains, insure the safety of passengers, and to push effective repairs.
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