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TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1837

THE DAY'S NEWS

Liverpool refuses to have anything more to do
with the Committee of the House of Commons

on the Mersey Conservancy Bill. On the meeting
of the Committee yesterday, Mr. Alexander, Q.C.,
intimated that the Dock Trustees have thought it
their duty to keep themselves altogether free and
unfettered, in order that they may be at liberty to
pursue such a course as they may deem most
advisable, in reference to the future stages of
the bill in Parliament. They deem that it would
be inconsistent if they were to attend further, or
take any part in the proceedings of the committee.
Mr. Hope Scott, on the part of the Liverpool Cor-

poration, made a similar statement. Sir James
Graham was evidently chagrined at this in-
timation, for his reply was extremely curt :
Very well, the committee will now proceed
to go through the clauses, seriatim." The
two counsellors, and the other gentleman on

behalf of Liverpool, then left the committee
room in a body. Sir James Graham had the

counsel on behalf of Liverpool recalled, and inti-
mated to them that on Friday, in his hurry,
he. had omitted to mention that the committee

were desirous of leaving out clause 35. The
committee then proceeded to go through
the clauses. It was agreed that the cost
of the observatory should be transfered to

the dock estate. On the clause relating to the
town dues being transferred from the Corporation
to the conservancy of the Mersey, Mr. Phillips
objected, but ultimately the committee agreed
to the clause by 4 to 1. Clauses 29 and
10, for the transfer of the sum of £600,000 from
the Town Council to the Dock estate, were post-
poned. Clause 35 was amended, at the suggestion
of the chairman, as follows :—" The Board shall, if
they think fit, immediately after the commencement
of the act, proceed with the construction of outer
works referred to in Birkenhead Docks Act 1853,
with a view to the completion of the same in
accotlance with the plans which have been sanc-
tioned by parliament.'
In the House of Lords, last night, the attention
of the House was drawn to the state of affairs in
India Lord Ellenborough asked what measures
the government had taken to restore tranquility
and punish the delinquents. He considered the
outbreak in the army as a most serious affair, and
urged upon the government the expediency
of preparing for the worst emergency. Earl
Granville did not consider that there were any
grounds for alarm, and the Earl of Donoughmore
drew attention to a libel published in a London
weekly paper upon the Bishop of Mann, and moved
that the printer should be called to the bar of the
House. Earl Granville ridiculed the idea, and the
motion was withdrawn.
In the House of Commons, Mr. Disraeli drew
attention to the present state of our Indian Em-
pire. He asked the Government what steps had
been taken, and what it was proposed to take in
connection with this disastrous state of affairs.
He asked for full and frank answers to the
questions—what was the origin of the disaster?
what steps had been taken in conse-
quence ? and whether or not it was
true that the Governor General had resigned his
office. Mr. V. Smith replied that the facts of the
case were truly stated in the public papers, and
he was proud of the manner in which the govern-
meat of India had acted. Steps 'had bpi taken
to send out 14,000 troops by the end of duly, and
Lord Canning had not resigned the governorship—
nor was he likely to do in the present state of
affairs.

There was a meeting of the promoters of the
intended new Recreative Society, at the Concert
Hall, last evening. The proceedings, which were
of an interesting character, we have reported at
length, and will well repay perusal.
A very serious accident happened on the North
Sent Railroad on Sunday night, by which upwards
of 12 lives were lost and some 40 or 50 persons
wounded. It appears that the ordinary train that
leaves Strood at 9.15 on Sunday evening, started
as usual at its proper hour, and proceeded without
interruption to Lewisham, where it was brought
to a stand-still, in order to allow the train from
Beckenham—a line recently opened—to pass on
its way to London Whether the Beckenham
train was late, or the Strood train in advance of its
time, we are not able to state, but there appears
no doubt the first train was delayed about twenty
minutes, it having arrived at Lewisham about

twenty minutes to eleven o'clock. The hour of
eleven had just struck when another train was
heard coming up at rapid speed from the direction
of Blackheath- Some of the passengers, on hear-
ing the approach of this train, naturally felt some
slight alarm, and a few left their seats in the car-
riages and stood on the bank. In about two minutes
afterwards the last-named train—which it appears
was the ordinary 9.30 Strood train, dashed into the
standing one with most fearful violence, spreading
death and destruction in all directions. To attempt
anything like a description of the fearful scene
which followed the collision would be a matter of
impossibility, and heart-rending shrieks pierced
the air. Men ran about almost frantic looking for
their wives, while mothers equally excited sought
their children ; and to add to the horror of the hour,
the groans of the wounded, who were unable to
extricate themselves from their excruciating posi-
tions, were frightful in the extreme. Those who
were not wounded, to their credit be it said,
exerted themselves to their utmost, as did also the
few persons who were either on the spot, or, being
in the neighbourhood, had hastened on to the line.
The exact number of persons more or less seriously
injured has not been accurately ascertained. Thirty
persons had their wounds dressed at St. Thomas's
Hospital, and afterwards proceeded to their homes.
About a dozen are still in that institution. Four
of the sufferers are so dangerously wounded that
their lives are despaired of, and they remain at the
Plough Inn, Lewisham. A London coteinporary
of last night, in speaking of this calamity, says it
will no doubt be termed an accident :—" But it is
simply an insult to common sense, and an out-
rage on ordinary prudence, to pretend that arrange-
ments which would effectually prevent one train
from running into and smashing another are
beyond the reach of railway managers. In this

ease—the heartrending particulars of which we give
elsewhere—there appears as yet no reason- why it
should not be set down as the result of
sheer negligence. A " searching" inquiry will,
of.course, be made. An engine-driver, or a points-
man, or a signal-man, will, perhaps, be punished
with a few months' imprisonment, and the share-
holders of the company will suffer in their pecuniary
interest by, we hope, heavy damages being exacted
in every case of death or injury. But will all
that lead to the adoption of greater care and
caution in the working of railways ? Ex-
perience bids us doubt it. The real want
is an adequate feeling of responsibility in those
appointing the officers who actually work the
traffic. These officers, it is true, are criminally
liable for the consequences of their own neglect ;
but who is criminally liable for the appointment of
officers deficient in the essential qualities of pru-
dence and carefulness ? A mere pecuniary respon-
sibility which scarcely reaches the directors,
furnishes a quite inadequate motive for that
extreme caution necessary in the choic a of men
who have every day the lives of thousands of peo-
ple in their hands.
In the Court of Queen's Bench, yesterday, before
Lord Campbell and a special jury, an action.
Feather v. Maitland came on for trial. The plaintiff
was a wine merchant, carrying on business at Liver-
pool, who in 1851 had a quantity of light sherry to
dispose of. A friend of the plaintiff's, Mr. Douglas,
a shipowner in London, mentioned the fact to the
defendant, who was a partner in a firm at Montreal,
and produced a sample of the wine. The defendant
tasted it, said it would bring about £l4 a pipe in
Montreal, and that his firm would be prepared to
receive the consignment of it. This con-
versation was communicated to the plain-
tiff in June, 1851, and he had the wine
bottled and packed in thirty-nine cases. which be
shipped for Montreal in July, 1852. They arrived
there in September, and on the 6th of December
the defendant wrote a letter, saying that the wine
was unmarketable in that city. The plaintiff then
requested him to return it, but he neglected to do
so uutil June, 1856, when it had completely lost its
virtue, and was wholly worthless. The plaintiff
now claimed to be re-imbursed for the damages
which he had sustained by reason of the neglect
of the defendant. The jury were of opinion that
there was merely a consignment, and no undertaking
on the part of the defendant, that he could sell the
wines, and that the defendant was not liable for
not having returned the wines before 1856, and the
verdict was accordingly for the defendant.
The reports received from the agricultural dis-
tricts of the state of the weather and the crops
would lead us to the conclusion that if matters
continue as now the harvest will be most abundant.

The details of the Indian news, though not so
gloomy as the telegraphic summary, are very dis-
couraging. The mutiny which began at Barrack-
pore was continued at Meerut. There were three
native regiments quartered at that station—the 3rd
Light Cavalry, and the 11th and 20th Infantry
Regiments. We were already informed that the
3rd Light Cavalry had refused to receive the
cartridges which have given such general offence,
and that a number of men of this regiment
were punished by imprisonment for their in-
subordination. But it now appears that the
Infantry shared the feelings of the Cavalry,
and that the disaffection was more widely spread
than it seemed to be at first. For the day after
the sentence of the troopers was read on parade,
the 11th and 20th suddenly rushed to arms, and
shot down all the officers who essayed to bring
them back to obedience. Having become masters
of the lines, they slew and burned in all directions.
Night had fallen; the mutineers were well on the
road to Delhi before the infantry came up with their
rear. The cantonments were in flames; the mutineers
had fled ; and when the moon rose nothing remained
at Meerut but the European troops, the blazing
camp, and the bodies of the victims. The muti-
neers must have made a forced march to Delhi, if,
as reported, they arrived there on the 11th, for
the distance is forty miles. On reaching the
ancient capital of the Mogul Empire they, it is
said, immediately called upon the three native
regiments there to join them "in resisting the
design of the Government to convert them to
Christianity." The appeal was unhappily answer
ed. The three regiments instantly fell in with
those who had fled from Meerut. They began
by murdering all the officers they could lay their
hands on. Then they seized the city, palace, and
civil station, and continued to butcher every Eng-
lishman, woman, and child, who fell into their power.
Some, happily, escaped and fled; but the rest, un-
less concealed, have fallen a sacrifice to the ferocity
of the mutineers. One gallant aetion was per-

formed at Delhi which should immortalize the
actor's name ; Lieutenant Willoughby, of the Ar-
tillery, blew up the arsenal and powder magazine,
and himself therewith, to prevent their falling into
the hands of the rebels. The next step of these
misguided meu was to proclaim a King, and they
selected a puppet for this purpose from the family
of the Mov,ul. So far as we are informed the dis-
affection was confined to Meerut arid Delhi. There
were, indeed, some symptoms of mutiny at Feroze
pore and Lucknow, but they were quickly
suppressed. At Agra, as early as the 14th, Mr.
Colvin delivered an address to the troops on the
station, and confirmed their loyality. At Etawah
some of the 3d Cavalry were cut to pieces by the
9th Native Infantry and police. At Allyghur a
mutinous agent was arrested by the native soldiery.
In the Punjaub Sir John Lawrekce had made
excellent preparations for the suppression of the
slightest symptom of disaffection. Mr. Colvin had
placed the Delhi and Meerut districts under mar•
tial law.

The most important intelligence from the Con-
tinent, if it be true, is the adherence of Russia,
Prussia, and Sardinia, to a project of Lord Cla-
rendon, for effecting an administrative union of
the t‘l o Danubian Principalities, without establish-
ing a common sovereignty.
_This project has been

discussed for some time at Vienna, between Eng-
land and Austria, and we have already had
to record that France refused to support it. Louis
Napoleon's Government demands that the initia-
tive in every question concerning the Principali-
ties should he allowed to proceed from the national
divans themselves.

Th Emperor and Empress of Russia have ar
rivedvn German soil, and were on Saturday al
Hamburg.
The United States Mail steam packet Washing

ton, Captain Cavendy, has arrived at Cowes • from
New York, on her way to Bremen, trinaing a num-
ber of passengers for England ; and specie for
England, 240,000 dollars; and for France, 300,000
She passed a steamer, supposed to be the Persia,
on the 19th inst.

ON Thursday last, two matters connected with
the expedition to the Crimea took place in Liver-
pool. They were exceedingly Aingular for the
contrariety of treatment which they manifested
towards the respective parties concerned. The
first of these was the distribution of the Medals
of the Order of Valour to certain soldiers, on the
Exchange flags, by Col. BELL, one of the
Crimean heroes ; and the second was that portion
of the proceedings at the Health Committee,
which related to the " unjust treatment of the
"Liverpeol Sanitory officers by the government."
Both of these occurrences deserve some notice at
our hands ; and as Her Majesty was engaged in
the same praiseworthy task on Friday, which
Col. BELL performed with less ostentation on the
previous day, we shall first notice the distribution
of the medals for the " Order of Valour."

Hitherto it has been cause for loud and general
complaint, that the heroism of the British army,
although generally acknowledged. has been
rewarded :only in the persons of its high and
influential officers. Deeds of daring, steadfast-