The Express.
London, England, 1856-08-01 00:00:00

TEE VERDICT UPON THE COLLISION CASE

IN THR NERSIIT.

LIVERPOOL, TaussDAT.
At the reenroption of the lengthened inveditigetion
into the omen of the solids. between the steamships Mail
sad Maaslam, before Mr. Statham, deputy comer, yes-

dey, - - -
Mr. W. Pink, agent for the Excelsior, and who was a •
powwow on board that vseaol at the time of the collision,
eorroborated the statemeau of the captain and pilot as to
the obscurity of the Mall's aide lights.
Copt. Croke, esperietendent of pilots, was ales es-
embed, sad said that after a Pilo.- went on board a steamer I
he took the conduct of the stn.'s course, bat the esptain
retained the =anapaest. These were no directions ;
from the pilots' committee se to what coarse the pilot
elsould take in barb's the port. By en trder in council ,
out-going esseeting steamers were not compelled to ,
sorry pilots. Yawns leaving port were directed by
law to sell on the east side of the mid ebonite' when
"este and practicable," but the west side was very often
used. Be (Ceptaia Cooke) could never ascertain what
advantage vessels gained by violating the law, sad he
thought the risk was not worth the little advantage they
might gain. It was very common for vessels to eons into
port on the east aide, although they ought to some by the
west side. This 'teethe Wt witness
The Cormier then proceeded, to sum up the evidences to
tie jury. He would put to the jary some questioas which
hod bees proponeded for their cousiderattea by Captain
Hodson ,the harbour-mast, r. They were as follow. :
let. dyes the Mail oh the proper side of the river ? AU
the seldom& promoter was the ease.
Zed. Did the Mail do right la porting her helm when
she saw the green light of the Bettelsier, denoting the helm
was a starboard ?—Yee; ander the cireousetanwse the cap-
tain of the Moil, baring parted his ham and stopped the
logien, not bevies tams to reverse, could do no more to
avoid the esilirton.
god (the most important poini). Were the tide light, on
heart the Mail in a proper position to be seen agreeable to
Me not; sad, if so, were they sufficiently clear at the time
of the collision to be peen half a mile off—a distance sufil-
cleat for avoiding a collision ?
4th. Sholld the jury he of opinion that the Maid's lights
ware as described by the mate of the Maria and pont:email
Me. 9, the ease I decided, and the Mail cleared of say
Whs.
Ildt, hub being the ew, lobo on board the Eloelsior is
rblemrf—Tbepma Is charge, for having been on the
wag elle of the river, and the man who had the look-out,
In mot herbs 8040 the Melt's lights in time to have articled
lb. collision.
&h. If the jury cahoot be satisfied from the evidence
MO the Mail's lights were as they ought to have been,
dam that they were improperly plaited or were too dm,
Me time mast be divided—the bateelsior in the first place,
ter befog os the smog side of the river, and the Mail, for
net Mow saffiedent lights.
The jaq, atter dabberatiog about two hours sad a half,
rietarsod the following verdict We consider that the
sad =Ms of the Mail are exonerated from all blame.
Vellbsenebber the pilot of the Eacalsior guilty of gross atoll-
pm% Is Nabs the ship out of the track directed by the
me skiissei sad he (slog too near the Cheshire shore; also
the =Ms Glebe Moselsier guilty of arose segligetce, in not
Imestsce sedlisst leek out; and the esptda of the Baal
else Was be Mahe. Is hi looking mere to toe &scions* on
beard Ids dder, bag on dick privies. to and at the time of
Use eollisish."
The Cease,—Your verdict, then, is effect, is sae of
maneleetahter east.% the pilot sad mete of the liacelsior ?
The lensass—Certainly.
Tie ~,diet having bees formal entered, the coroner
made can his warrant for the spore of the mate and
AM* both of whose, however, are at sea, we understand.

THE APPALLINU ACCIDENT TO AN AMERICAN
EXCURSION TRAIN.

The details given by the American journals of the
collision upon thi North Pinerylouts Railroad (briefly de-
aceibed la yesterday's Doily News), are frightful beyond
eneggeration.
Some of the bodies of the victims were entirely con-
eased. One gentlemen, in searching among the ashes
under some portion of the mech,nery, found a few *alarmed
human bone* in two pleat. They were, without doubt,
all that was left of two human beings. The remains of
both could readily be held in the palm of the head.
Three of Alison of the 'Reunion train caught firs like a
Baal, and in a very few moments nothing wee left of them
bat the wheals, the other iron work, and a few charred
timbers sad smonlderlos pieces of the human frame. There
an two Isola, one dwelling-husk a blacksmith's shop, and
a small el od, wards about three hundred yards of the scene.
and to Wes slaws the wounded were first curled. NiA •
tree is to be Inn for • considerable distance on any side,
and the glaring sun beat (limn upon the dead, the wounded,
their meson, and their litlf.assed friends, who were &ch-
i's to the acute, all ranting on foot, I. waggons, and every
species of vehicle that could he procured in the city. As
most of the victims, or a greater portion, were Irish, of
num the demonstration of grief which met the ears were
of the meet violent ohameter. ` They enured anything,"
says one joarael, " within the range of the reportorial es-
pities's."
The wounded were plated on the stets of the traia that
same to assist as comfortably as circumstances would per-
mit, and every attention possible was shown by the phy-
sicists, the employes of the road, the police in charge of the
trace, sad by the friends of the victims. Every conceivable
kind and degree of wound was to be seen, and nothing
save nosy from the wounded or their afflicted friends and
relatives met one's eye' at every turn. The train was run
to town quite slowly and carefully, and as it pealed along,
crowds of perms from the road sides and the windows of
dwellings on the line of the road sued mournfully on the
can and their freight.
Eleven bodies of men and women, and two children, were
horned to death in one car. The names an unknown.
They were caupht under the side of one of the cue end
roosted alive. When we saw the remains they presented •
horrible spectacle. The mutilated remains of four men
and women and a child were dog from beneath the engine
and tender.
The Roman catholic priest, the Rev. Daniel Sheridan; ras
trashed in a dreadful manner between two cars.
The lumen in the vicinity rendered every assistance in
their power, except one man, who demanded 10 dolt, for a
waggon to go a mile for • phyileian.
The track is single, and when the loe'motivin rushed
together they reared up upon end, dulling each other to
, pine% and becoming amalgamated, u it were, in en op-
, patently ineatsicablee mass e.. 1 iron and braes. The bottoms
of the two engines struck together, and the entire masa fell
over open their side upon the western slope of the embank-
ment. Two or three trains ran to and fro between the city
and the wens of the disaster during the afternoon. The
, friends of the aufferen crowded upon the up trans despite
the eurtioos of the police to prevent a rash, and some of the
more dating ones smelly rode upon the sow catcher in
frost of the locomotive.

LOCKING CY Or A CHURCH.—On Tuesday last, the
feel step towards the settlement of the loug-reading vela-
Goes question of the illegality! of Christ Church, was taken
by the patron, Ralph Ward Jack•on, Bp., in barricading
the doors of the church, sad anteing the various moqueee
to the churchyard with padlocks and chains, and issuing
the following notice to the pebl c, painted on a large bond
within the churchyard :—"Notate.—ln coongesi c• of the
invalidity of the cocoanuts as to Christ Church, West
Hartlepool, no inatriages, churl:hinge, cr baptitms cep
legally take place in It; nor is any clergyman whatever
aottorised to perform them. No ecclesiastical die-
trice has bees legally assigned to Christ Church,
West Hattlepool, and go maini4 r hes been duly
appointed or lionised to perform servitors In it; and
teastaech as the Rev. John Hut Burgas assumed to
oflkiate soatrary to law, and without having obtained the
notions gonseut from all parties, it is neesteary and proper
that this baildiug *build be closed (aad which is done with
great reluctance), caul all proper and legal documents and
&SUM WM be obtained. It will bet pined as soon as thus
matters are satisfsetorily arranged. Any person wanting
books or other articles sea have them on application.—
Henry Biased ltidley, Vicar of &racers. IL Ward
Jatiksee, Patron of Christ Church, West Hartlepo
Ludt Mercury.
Taz AIIIGIACAN bLULIA—The British and North
Amman royal mail .team-ship Canada, Captain W. J. C.
long, will sail tomorrow forenoon, for Boston and Hali-
but, with the usual weekly mails for the United States
sad British North American Provisoes. Letters will legatee
to he posted, is Livery, 01, before 8 am.; with lathes, to
880 a m. ; and at the leaching stage to, 9 aas. W. snow
monis&

Piloted sod pabbthed by WILLA/ Iwo Bomb et No. &Laster*
an* to tbs City of loodae, ?flaw. et tboOlbes, la Looted*
Mot. laths Petatoot Mom MIA.