The Express.
London, England, 1858-07-20 00:00:00

issue of small notes in Scotland and Ireland, and of
private Issues generally in the United Kingdom,
should be reserved without prejudice for the future
consideration of parliament, and the pecuniary arrangements
subsisting between the executive government and the Bank
might be left to the consideration of a less numerous com-
mittee. " The appointment of a separate committee may tend
to produce the useful conviction that it is not necessary to
unsettle the great principles which regulate our monitory
stem merely because the pecuniary relations between the
Treasury and the Bank may require to be reconsidered."
The report concludes in the following terms :
•• It appears to your committee that no mischief will re-
sult from at least a temporary continuum of the present
state of things under which the Bank of England holds the
powers given by the act of 1844, subject to a notice of twelve
months, which may at any time be given by the House of
Commons through Mr. Speaker. They agree with the
opinion expressed by Mr. Goulburn in 1844. The Bank
directors had suggested the propriety of renewing the
arrangement for twenty years, with a power of giving notice
at the expiration of ten, as hu been done in 1833, Sir
Robert Peers government preferred the limit, which was
actually sdopted, of ten years; the act, at the expiration of
that period, to be terminable at any time upon a notice of
twelve months ; but until such notice be given, to
continue in force. Mr. Goulburn thus aogionnts for
this decision. In making the proposal he says,
• The government were mainly influenced by the considera-
tion that it was not advisable unnecessarily to agitate qua-
done affecting the banking interest and the currency of the
country.' Your committee have stated the reasons by which
it is estsblished, to their satisfaction, that the recent com-
mercial crisis in this country, as well as in America and in
the north of Europe, was mainly owing to excessive specula-
tion and abuse of credit; and also, that in the time of
pressure the houses which deserved assistance received it
from the Bank of England in • manner in which that eata-
bliehment would not have been able to give it, except for the
bullion retained in their coffers; and your committee are
satisfied to leave in the discretion of the executive govern-
ment, the time end prudent opportunity of giving further
effect to those principles by which the convertibility of the
Bank of England note has been kept above suspicion."

SERIOUS 22.41L1F.dY 4CCIDENT.

TWENTY PERSONS INJURED.
(From the Leah Mercury of this day.)

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Yesterday (Monday), another of those fearful
casualties with which our columns have recently been filled,
occurred about one hundred and fifty yards from the Long-
wood Station, two miles from Huddersfield, on the London
end North Western line.
The parror train from Leeds, due at Huddersfield at
1.30, was eight minutes late at this station. It contained
an engine, break van. one second-classy one first-
' close, and three third-class carriages, and in this
order' in the care of John Lutey, an experienced driver,
it left for Longwood. Here it should have stopped, and,-.11
the driver had been looking out, on his leaving the cutting,
600 yards from the Longwood station, he would have seen
the distance signal, calling 9p him to stop. For, by the points-
man's box, about 160 yards from the station and 200 yards
from the distance signal, stood part of a coal train with its
engine, three of the coal waggons having been shouted off
to the Longwood siding and the rest remaining to be sent on.
Most unfortunately, to use no stronger word, the driver of
the passenger engine was engaged with the stoker within,
looking, so it is raid, at the buffing-boxes below which were
making a noise. Under the usual circumstances!, it would
have been his duty to have slackened speed to stop at Long-
wood, and at 150 yards from the station the train should
have been ooming up at a very plow rate. Instead of this,
It appears to have been going at the ordinary speed, and,
without notice, it rushed into the coal train, emaahing the
beeakvan of the coal train and a coal waggon to pie.
knocking tho chimney of the passenger engine away, and
loosening and scattering the seats of the passengers,
.who,
bruised, shaken and cut, lay stricken unconscious within, or
leapt and scrambled out of the carriages as they could—men,
women, and children huddled together, and adding to tho
confusion all the fearful cries and screams natural to so
fearful a shock.

at the station were promptly on the spot
Mr. Robarts, surgeon, of Goicor, slmost immediately came
to aid the sufferers, and Mr. Clark, surgeon, of Hudders-
field, followed In a very brief space of time. The following
is a list of the injured :
• - -

AT TRE HODDIRISFIELD INFIRMARY.

Mrs.!Drunfleld, entering from /MOW internal injuries.

AT THE RAILWAY HOTEL, LONOWOOD.
O. V. Ryder, Beg , resident manager at Manchester of
the Royal Insurance Company—general &hock to the
system, internal laceration of the muscles of tho neck
and aide, internal injury of ihe bead feared.
Thomas Porter about 30 years of age, at Ball's, confeo-
doter, New-street, Hudderefirld, very serious internal in-
jarit. This is a precarious case.

TREATED ET THE EVROZONS, AND DONE TO TIME

RESPECTIVE ROMEO.

Zane Thorp, 26, tirTgsrls,;;eyellid and contusion of
lere. Taylor wife of Mr. Abel Taylor, grocer, Ley-Moor,
Golair, contusion of leg.
Mime Sykes, Longwood, contusion of face, and very serious
contusion of left leg and thigh.
Mr. G. Burniaton, silk dyer, Bridge-street, Leeds, two
1 lacerated and knee injured.
gates Senior, aged 76, once manager at Dranttleld'r,
manufacturer, now limo(,retired. He mays his head we
sent completely. through the partition of the railway carriage.
His hat is entirely smashed to pieces; his neck behind is
seriously injured. His 14 gs are swelling fast.
Mr. Wood, Wortley, near Leeds, a severe general aback
to the system.
Mr. Thomas Dickson, shoemaker, Hulingdoa, our York,
also seriously shaken, end slightly contused.
Mr. Thomas Littlewuod, Huddersfield, foreman with cloth
merchant, severe contusicn of both knees,

Fenn!Wet Birkburton, laosratei e7e•lia.
In addition to the above the names of the following suf,
term have reached us :

Mr. Jamb Barley, of Batley, injury to the nasal bones,
and otherwise cut slx.ut the fate.

Mrs. Donbavond, Dewsbury, severe internal shook to the
eystem. For some hours scarcely 00111601111.
Mr. Ferrand, auctioneer, of Sheffield and Huddersfield,
cut about the face and bruised in the back.
Mr. John Hawkyard, at Mellor's, New-street, Hudders-
field, severely shaken; the carriage seat underneath him
broken to pieces.
Mr. Charles Blake, guard of the passenger engine, wrionaly
shakes.

Mr. Tom North Swift, cotton manufacturer, Hudders-
field, lacerated forehead and Borers.
Mr. Wm. Duklnfield, of Meltham, Injured in the beck
and calf of leg, and much shaken.
Mr. Wm. Brook, collector of the water-rate, contusion of
knees, and Up cut.
The stoker apparently bruised severely.

T-Mr. Fitzroy on Thursday will ask the Secretary
of State for the Home Department, " whether It is true,
stated in a daily paper, that at a recent visitation, the Com-
miardoners !. in Lunacy discovered in a private provincial
lunatic asylum, a concealed cell, in which a man, who id
stated to be in full possession of his faculties, had been for
may yeses maned,"
On Friday Mr. Dillwyn purposes calling the
attention of the Secretary of State for the Rome Department
to the prevalence of aggravated assaults upon women and
children, and to urge upon his consideration the necessity at
making some alteration in the law relating to such offences.
Lord James Stuart, M.P., at the close of the pre-
sent session of parliament, accompanied by Lady James
and Mies Stuart, will make a tour on the Continent by
Bringer, Hamburg, and the North; and will probably not
return till October.—.dyr. Express.
I remember on one occasion prodigious excitement
in • large camp. A young European lady was to be res-
cued from the hands of her bt ntal ravishers; and bye rapid
night march the place of her concealment was surrounded,
and she wee found. But, to the disgust of her catboat's&
champions, she proved to be a half-mate girl who declined
to have anything to mto them, elected to stay where she
ins, and they were obliged to leave her. At Lnt know,
strange to say, many of the Christian drummers went off
with the mutineers—Later front Lacks ow, June 5.
SEPOY AriOCfyies.—lna letter from Mr. George
Campbell, dated Lucknow, June 5, we lead—" With the
exception of the two ladies saved at Lucknow by the Berms
and native nobles, and a very few insulated instances (I
believe not more than three or four in all) of women more or
lees allied to themselves in blood and manner., I believe
that throughout the mutinies there is not an instant* la
which the murderers made any disdnetion whatever between
men end women or children. There wu a bestial bloodier,
which must, I sincerely think, have been impossible Neon
any other race but Htndooe, or perhaps Chinese. Seer
times the Europeans were hurried off by well-disposed
persona before murder was committed. Bur, °earths week
of slaughter was commenced, not one pure European woman
was spared, not one chill reserved in any Sepoy mirror%
Such a phase of human nature would seem almost I:-
credible if it had not occurred in these our days. So meth
may, perhaps, be said (if it be thought that a still more dark
shade of crime may have bees possible), that I believe there
has never been any good ground for believing, or even any
reasonable suspicion, that in any care the victims were kept
alive for the purpose of torture prior to death. The Sepoys
were too much in earnest for that—they killed at mace. And
all who have seen anything of Indian murders can well be-
lieve that they over-killed—hacked their victims lie
pieces. As to mutilations, they did not motflitie
and leave alive simply because they would not so fez
stare; but that it was from no mercy that they did meg
mutilate may be judged by their treatment of pine,
tower& whom their heliugs are somewhat lee NOW
—the natives in our service, or supposed to be Mamas lee%
whom they catch beyond the reach of our sues Wile
neighbourhood. As regards dishonour, I believe that ea
feeling towards mema was not that which leads to sucked&
It wee more like the rising of one form of creation alt
another, like demons attacking angels, and trying bled
them down. They were influenced by feelings too bitter cad
a fury too iesane to leave room for the commoner waned
humanity. Whatever the cause, I think there can few
doubt of the fact. Not only is there no well mended
nation et the dishonour of our women, but in tie muse of
which we have good information there Is excellent MUM IX
believing that it was not to."