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tally inspected,
Fort Pitt Hospital for medical treatment, and the
remainder taken to the invalid establishment to
await the order for their discharge from the service.
Those of the troops not forwarded to Chatham will
be discharged at Gravesend. The Maria Soames
brings home a cargo of Indian cotton.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. F. W. Lewis, to
the Cumberland ; Lieut. Henry Berkeley to the
Donegal; George H. Verner and Thomas H.
Broughton, midshipmen, to the Orpheus, addi-
tional as supernumeraries for disposal on the Aus-
tralian station; W. M. Chambers, acting chief en-
gineer, to be additional to the Cumberland, for
charge of the Pylades ; George P. W. Freeman, has
been nominated to a naval cadetship; Edward
Rumble, master's assistant to the Nile; Nicholas
L. Gedye and William A. Milner assistant clerks
additional to the Orpheus.

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and to pass it by a tri ek. If the board could take
anything in good pal :t, he would remind them of
the proverb, honesty is • £ the best policy, and not to
overreach others lest i n the attempt to do so they
themselves might go to the wall. Another bill he
had succeeded in de 1; ?ating was one which would
have continued the k mnpike on the Dover-road.
He would now Ask CI tem to consider what were
their prospects for t Ili 3 future. We were at this
moment at peace. T hey were, however, told by
the Conservatives thr
it a reaction was going on.
de in regard to the foreign
Did they mean that there was a change in the
anaent—that they sided with
p°PoliincYnosfotfhethGeovPeee°,7
Austria, and not wit la Italy—that they sympathised
with Russia, and nf A with Poland? (Hear, hear.)
Did they wish to see Italy again dismembered
among petty prints 3s ? (Cheers.) If they did, they
acted upon the p ri aeiples of the Tories, if they had
any principle .i'liff errs nt from that of the present
Government. If ; wils 1 rue that in different boroughs
Liberal Censers ratives were elected, but where the
question was f airly r Jut, as at Plymouth, between
Tory and Liberal prl aciples, the latter were trium-
phant. In tha t bort nigh they recollected that the
name of Addingtcin we as associated with the Adminis-
tration of Lord Castl.3 reagh,and that the benefits they
had conferre,a on tl- ie people were the suspension of
the Habeas 'Corpus act,
and the employment of such
felloWs as Castles a nd Oliver ; that wkly made the
peopeopleconsPiratoconspirator;3 again...A their, and then
heonms
oaft
.\'
arliszn,
levvii:ate. Such were the lively
which went upon the
principle of of keep frig things as they are for the
benefit of the few, , 'whereas liberalism extended the
liberties and privileges of the people for the benefit
See. He had lately visited Italy,
and sthe famed quadrilateral the troops of
o Austriafthse i
n human "
in
the
' highest condition ready for action,
while the peot?le were impatient of the presence of
foreitpers 'upon their soil, and felt themselves
back .ed by 'the public opinion of England. But
shot ild the tories obtain power, they would sympa-
thi• se with despotism. But was this great nation
to take no interest in the future of other states—
(b ,ear, hear)—and where was there a man more
e /Table than the present Prime Minister of giving
c Met to the high feelings of Englishmen ? He had
maintained the honour of the British flag, which
the people would never see tarnished. It was an
exultation by the tories that because of the civil
war in America liberal institutions had failed, but
they forgot history when they did so. They forgot
that wars had been waged in the interests of
families and individuals, whereas each section of
the States considered its own interests at stake in
the quarrel. It was not for them, because they
wanted cotton, to break through the law of nations,
but to hope that there are in store for that great
section of the Anglo-Saxon race days of prosperity
and happiness.

MR. (TORN LOCKE, P., AND HIS CON-
STITUENTS.

On the motion of Mr. WALKER, seconded by Mr.
HARRIS, the thanks and confidence of the meeting
were voted to the hon. gentleman, and the pro-
ceedings terminated.

ALARMING RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

FIVE PERSONS SERIOUSLY INJURED.
'From the fontypool Free Press and Herald of the Hills.)
On Tuesday morning, an accident of a fearful
nature took place on the West Midland lino of rail-
way between Pontypool-road station and Newport.
The following are theparticulars which our reporter
gathered on the spot, from some of the unfortunate
sufferers, and from eye-witnesses of the terrific oc-
currence. It appears tha two trains—one leaving
Hereford at 8.40, and the other leaving Monmouth
at 9, are due at Pontypool-road station within a few
minutes of each other. The train from Monmouth
had arrived, deposited its Pontypool-road passen-
gers, and (before pursuing its journey to Merthyr,)
was about to be shunted on to the up-line, in order
to let the Hereford train pass. The engine driver
turned on the steam sufficiently to move the train to
the points and shunt it on the other line. While
thus engaged, he saw the foreman of the locomotive
department (Mr. Watson) on the platform, and
jumped down to speak to him, leaving the fireman
(as he supposed) to take the train down to and re-
turn from the points on the opposite line. The
driver and Mr. Watson were talking together, when
the latter observed that the train, instead Of—return-
ing from the points, was proceeding towards New-
port on the wrong line of rails. At the same mo-
ment, to their surprise and alarm, the fireman—
who was supposed to be in charge of the train—
made his appearance on the platform by their side !
It was now too late to catch the train, which soon
attained express speed, and the utmost anxiety was
felt for the safety of the passengers. The gradient
from Pontypool to Newport is such as to render it
unnecessary to put on much steam, the weight of the
train being of itself almost sufficient to take it to the
terminus. But with the steam turned on, and no
driver, the prospect was, indeed, terrible. With its
speed fearfully increasing as it rushed down the in-
cline, if it did not topple over the steep embank-
ment, it was too possible that it would, at the rate
of 60 or 70 miles an hour, dash into the station
just about the time the passengers were being seated
in the 10.50 train from Newport to Hereford, in
which case nothing less than a miracle could have
saved passengers, trains, and station from demolition.
Just as the unfortunate train, however, started en
its perilous journey, it happened that at the Coed-
y-gric Junction, distant about three-quarters of a
mile—and just below the locomotive engine-shed—
a luggage train was being taken out of a siding on
to the main line. The fireman and driver both saw
the advancing train, and immediately blew the
whistle of their engine as a danger signal. As it
was not answered from the other engine, the speed
of which remained unslackened, they concluded
something was wrong, and as their engine and
tender were already on the main line, they saw that
a collision was inevitable, and jumped off their
engine and ran for their lives. The run-away
engine, with the train in its rear,crashed up against
the engine of the luggage train, and the pieces of
broken iron, wood, and brass flew in all directions,
The heavy passenger train overturned its lighter
opponent, and then, with a groan of escaping steam,
fell over on its side, the still-revolving wheels
ploughing up the rails and earth to the depth of two
feet. The passenger carriages were not overturned,
but their occupants were all more or less injured
from the concussion. They got out of their several
compartments as soon as they could, with cut and
already swollen faces. The news reached Ponty-
pt
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accident. aw r e ntcoe ,r e snudregr eaosns,i
sptraoncceee
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cottage of one of the railway employes was placed
at the disposal of the injured, and every attention

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ceeding to the Clarence state,.:..`yoNg Haan in
search of a situation, named Mry Ann Bartlett, living at the Race, received a contused wound on lower side of the orbit between the eye and the
k
cheek. The only other person in the train was an
old man named Watkins, who escaped with a
fright and a shaking. Meanwhile Mr. Sayers
had been telegraphed for, and on his arriving
at the scene of the accident, means were soon re-
sorted to in order to clear the line for the passage of
trains. Soon after the accident, Mr. Lane, the
traffic manager, and Mr. MB, inspector for the Mon-
mouthshire Railway and Canal Company, arrived,
and assisted in superintending the clearancewhich
was partially effected in time to let the 12.0 train
from Crane-street station to Newport pass, and the
line was cleared of the broken engines and the rails
replaced during the afternoon. The manager of this
section of the line, Mr. Percy Morris, has instituted
a searching inquiry into the circumstances of the
occurrence.

AMEERICAN LOAN.

The American advises for some months past have
shown that great reliance was placed on the ability
of the Federal Government to raise money by a
large issue of their bonds in Europe. Indeed, the
total failure of this hope is obviously one of the
causes that aggravate the deficiency exhibited in
the correspondence of the 'Washington politicians
in the power of courteous control. The only want
both of North and South is money. Men are
abundant on each side, yet the Northern statesmen,
who would hold us up to execration if we were to
permit a handful of volunteers to leave this
country for service under Jefferson Davis, think
it a high ground for reproach that our capi-
talists do not furnish them with those far
more important sinews by which their opponents
could at once be overthrown. It appears, however,
that they do not yet despair of obtaining a consider-
able amount. The home subscribers to the loans,
which are now being poured out at the inadequate
rate of five millions sterling per month are comforted
by assurances that immediately on the forthcoming
victory there will be a rush of applications from
Europe that will go far to clear the market ; and it
is currently reported that numerous agents in Eng-
land have been invited by the New York banks,
with a reward of 21 per cent, commission, to per-
suade our people to enter on these investments. The
prospect of realising £25 for every £l,OOO that
another person can be induced to subscribe will
doubtless prove a great stimulus to individual
dealers, and probably if 2 per cent, should not
arouse sufficient activity a still more liberal al-
lowance would readily be conceded. There should
be little fear, however, that any attempts of the
kind will be successful. There is no prejudice here
against American or any other loans. The prejudice
is even the other way—namely, in favour of any
new channel for a profitable investment. We are
always lenders, and, like a rich banker, we welcome
good paper from any source, and only inquire if it
is likely to be met at maturity. Sometimes a bill
that has been rejected by a banker may be dulypaid
after all ; but the banker acts on a general rule, and
in the long run never regrets not having departed
from it. Without venturing, therefore, into any
rash prophecy as to what will be the fate of the
Federal Bonds now offering in Europe, it will be
enough to say that their origin and endorsements
are such as would deter any ordinary man of busi-
ness from touching them, The Government by
whom these notes are drawn is spending at the rate
of 100 millions sterling per annum, with a revenue
which it is not professed can, under any circum-
stances, exceed 30 millions, and the collection
of a large portion of which will not even commence
till next midsummer. Like all spendthrifts, they
assert that this rate of outlay will not last long, but
for the moment, at all events, the signs are the other
way. Next, while this expenditure is going on the
resources of the country are diminished by a lock-up
of cotton to the annual value of 40 mplions, and
which cotton will, upon its release, be utterly insuf-
ficient to meet the debts of its Confederate owners,
who are entering into pecuniary commitments with
no less zeal than their Northern enemies. Next,
when the war is ended the Federal bonds contracted
in the name of the Union must be exclusively paid.
by a dismembered portion, or must be legalised and
provided for by a Congress largely composed of the
persons for whose subjugation the debt was con-
tracted. These are contingencies which, to say the
least, will keg) any holder of the stock on a
bed of thorns, while the unpleasantness of his posi-
tion will be increased by the consciousness that, as
he has interfered in a quarrel with which he had no
concern, everybody will regard his distress with
complacency. Further, while it is plain that the
financial prospects of the borrowing Government
are most critical, we are also bound to remember
that its previous character is not such as in Lor.ii-
bard-street would be regarded as satisfactory. If
the loan is to be considered a loan for the Union as
it lately stood, and still theoretically stands, com-
posed
of 34 States, then the circumstance must be
weighed that four of these States are pledged to the
principles of repudiation, and that three or four
others have been stained by acts of a very similar
character, so that about 20 per cent, of the
whole are more or less disentitled to reliance.
If, on the other hand, the loan is to be simply to the
States of the North, we have the fact not. only that
one of them is the most flagrant of the repudiating
class, but that her attempts at justification and sub-
terfuge find insertion and approval in. the leading
journals of New York and the other Northern States.
The three or four instances which, although not in-
cluded in the history of direct repudiation, approxi-
mate very closely to that category likewise belong to
the North. If, again, it be urged that we must not
look at the conduct of individual States, but only at
that of the Federal power formed at the agglomera-
tion of these States, we are met by the circumstance
that when Mr. Jefferson Davis was most notorious
as the apostle of repudiation he was selected by
the will of the Union to be one of the most influ-
ential members of the Cabinet at Washington.
Although that personage had been untrue to foreign
creditors, not a word was said against him until he
became untrue to his alleged national obligations,
and then every other country was threatened that
refused to treat him and his followers as pirates
to be executed wherever found. Finally, the per-
sonal relations likely to subsist between debtor and
creditor are not unworthy of consideration in any
loan negotiations; and the fact, therefore, that the
feeling against England on the part of the Washington
statesmen is avowedly such as almost to overmaster
the ability on that side to keep within the conven-
tional civilities of ordinary intercourse should be held
to have some significance. The supporters of the
American Government cite a long list of grievances
which they conceive justify this feeling, but that
is a matter on which it is not necessary here to pro-
nounce, the point of importance for lenders being
simply that the feeling exists. The notification,
moreover, by Mr. Seward that every consideration
regarding the rights of property as well as of per-
sonal liberty, alike on the part of aliens or
citizens, must be subordinate to the "saving of
the national life," may suggest a question whether,
if the existing struggle be much protracted, the
"saving of the national life" may not necessitate
that all foreign payments should be suspended..
withT es e
ourar e
willingnessthe soleto
considerationssuobvseerrinnabeetnotthlomaatnayisn tttieoersatiernreye.
extent that the American Government
Are they valid, or can they be removed by denials
or explanations ? If there is a shadow of error in
any of them, a correction shall instantly be made
upon the means being furnished. All that it is
desired to impress upon the Americans is that in
matters of this kind we are wholly free from any
thought except for our own profit and security, and
that if we decline to part with our money it is from
no aristocratic rancour either to North or South.
The principles of political economy have not made
much advance among them, as they are even now
engaged in calling their Government to account for
having purchased some woollen necessaries for the
army in the cheapest market, but they should surely
be convinced by this time that financially we do
nothing for an "idea,"and that we never allow either
personal likings or antipathies to interfere with our
shopkeeping rule of making money wherever we can
honestly do so.-7inzes' City Article.

THE CHURCH AND EDUCATION.—It is the wealth
of the members of the Establishment which has called into
existence, and keeps in action, the extensive educational
machinery which is the subject of all this boasting, P Why,
of the £3,005,644 voted by Parliament in 20 years, the
Church of England has had the benefit of no less than
£3,070,432. SD that, if she educates 10 per cent. of the
scholars, she has 7G per cent. of the public money spent on
education, and 84 per cent. of the sums expended on school..
buildings. And the difference is occasioned, not by a lack
of dissenting zeal, but by the fact that the Disscutcts 01)-
°ll3lfor eththeyeact iaonn ,glevth, i laen and; r''
e Havingu P 3
tloingoutbid Dissenters with their
ob-
ject to receive State-n 2
01 Bans
obtained
willit, takethey every
ar e ablesh
own
obtain for
money, and, by means of bribery, direct or indirect,
their own schools a practical monopolyoptilai:B,
to i
c
needful to say, further, that Esisc '
a large extent, take up the cause of educationP fora
selfishg be
dud sectarian ends. If not, what other construction
put upon the fact, that attendance at church on Sundays is
tis
1
made the condition on which instruction is imported in the
week, and that the child of the Dissenter must attend the
Sunday-school of the Church, instead of the Chapel, and
lose even the help of charity except at the price of con-
formity?—The
.Liberator,