The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-24 00:00:00

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and sae ef the witnesses hammier to the boob said that
one it the two men was the second mat% wits. eherged the
roomier et th• Meggie Walker with the same canoe. The
maim in which the master gave his evidence favourably
imposed me as to his veracity, arid while I think he
dick's& a lamentable igsorance ef his duties ma a
metier, in the navigation of his =
reseal, and evinced a cul-
rnsounant of effort to save his ship, when by courage and
• he sight have done se, I acquit him of wil-
ful intention to abandon her. Beiag, therefore, of opinion
that the Maggie Walker was prematurely abandoned by de-
. (Nab et iter muter, I forward herewith, se oompliance with
the pnoefetem of the Merchant Shipping Act, the certdicate
el service of William Henry Sewell to the Board of Trade,
jto les dealt with as their lordships may think fit. Captain
Harris and 1 were rather in doubt as to retain. ing the certi.
ficate of the mate also, but we eventually agreed to return
it, cautioning him for the future to keep a more correct
log.book.—l have. . J. S. KALMAN
Stipendiary Magistrate, Liverpool, Dec. 15, 1860.
Chptain Harris concurs in this report.

SZPIASIOR ARID LOSS OP LIPS ON BOARD
PUB TONNING.

The following 'Board of Trade circular, dated
20th of Deossalcsir, 1860, has just been issued, containing
iestructioes to marveyors of steam vessels on the subject of
safety velvet, by way ale:Mitten to paregroplis 153 to 151
of former inetruetions :
"Oa the 3rd day of November last the boars of the
steamer Tonniag cs London exploded, causing great hies of
life and property. At the time of the expkeioa the Tkin-
' ning had a pueenger eertificate from this board. Au inquest
wee held by the *wooer for Great Yarmouth, who is tra-
parted by the focal aewspcparsit:B4made the fonceiripg
shiltemenarki mmillinhig Up the s ,I•s•-
"' The owners of the usemi w not be liable crimi-
nally ruder they absolutely knew the fact that the boilers
LasidDot bear • due pressure ; and they could
re
be liable, moreover, because at the very time
the accidest oceurred the need was running whit:mei.
metifieste Ames the Board, of Trade. By
.no Sy,
tbendore, would the slightest blame attach to e owner.
The nay person against whom it could be possible to return
an adverse verdict would be the chief newer, as he had
:harm of the boiler* at the time the accident happened.
• • With reference to the goverraneat valves be
t10...i. seas math struck with an oheenatica made by
~. , and also by the duel swam of the
that it would be desirable to mulatto, each valves
more frequently from time to time. But ft appeared from
the endorsee Bat all ether engineers of sommas anon is
the habit of tinsaispr entirely to the eassaisatiou of govern-
ment surveyor ; and, therefore, although it mght be very
proper and desirable that engineers should lea at govern-
ment valves, be did not think the feet of their not having
been looked at in this instance ought to bear hardly aman
the engineer of the Tonging. Oeis coda scarcely :is=
the summer of a Meaner to look at the government
sakes some rule of a general character was laid down on
She subject.'
" The alien obeereatious, if correctly reported, se doubt
lad nifenneste the particular nee et the Twig. The
Board of Tiede de nee wish, is Isaias this Mew* notive-
tapes, to be oemilibred as criticising the arreserh statements.
But since the report, as printed aad simulated, is otlea-
latad to produce erroneous impressions, the DOW Msde
think it right to impress upon the mover" tad' through
them apes the masters and owners of the visa which
they survey, the two following points :
" 1. That then is no provision in the Ifirehant Shipping,
Act, 1154, exempting the owner of any vessel, on the',
ground that she has been surveyed by the Board of Trade
surveyors, from any liability, cavil or criminal, to which he
would otherwise be subject
" 2. That it le clearly the duty of the masters arid engineers
of vessels to see, in the intervals between the surveys, that
the government safety valve, as well u the other safety
valves, and the reel of the machinery, are in proper week*
order. . .

set of parkament requires the goveraroent Polity
van to be out of the coetrol of the engineer when the
shwa it ap; this eamtment, far from implying that be is
mot to have seems to it, and to see to its working, at proper
later rah when the vessel Is in poet, rather the ow'
teary ; and the master should take care that the wichaese
has access to it for this purpose. —T. H. FARALI, Assistant
Seerebty, Marine Digietaiest."