The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-01-15
NEW YORK HERALD FRIDAY, JANUARY Is lso9TRPIM SHEET
journals. and why American events absorb so large
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Journals. and why American events absorb 80 large
Let me tell Won IN advance OF the assemblage Of
Parliament that every possible efort win be maze
claims at once. or course the terms offered by Lord
Stanley are still open to the American government
and u Is hoped that they viii be Ultimately acceptea'
II not, entirely new programme viii be presented
hut the organs Of the liberal party are already pro-
testing against any further CONCESSIONS on the part
1 OF England Both the Times aud Pan Nall Gdzeste
assert thar It would be madness to 60 further than
| Lord Stanley has gone. This only shows, however,
how greas Is the danger Of geang aasy up
| anything and everything In order TO restore the
| entente c01diale. Lord Clarendon himself Is com
programme Now. therefore, is the time for the
American government to stand 70 us guns Tne
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thing with them II he VIII only drop equvocation
and say in plain terms what the Americans desire.
posed alliance with the American republicans. and
the liberals feel that they must DO something TO
justify and prove this alliance. Inc Alabama
claims Is trump card ia both countries II 1t be well
played Let Secretary Seward be bold and straight
forward and he win win by honors.
Eric Complications and Whe Arc Answer.
able for Them.
from the London Times Dec. SOL
- Simple exhaustion rather than any pub
lie or corporate procedure seems at length to
have brought about an armed suspension OF
knavery. The triumvirate retains the corporate
funds and its uncontrolled cont power Of flooding
ion to abuse this latter privilege diminished by
the circumstance that there Is one to buy. Mean
slons Of the New YORK and New Jersey State Hegis-
latures in the certainty, as correspondent seems
To ons Of ne osr sy Srn
cry, get laws passed sanctioning any villany."
prevallod IN the second commercial capital OF the
world and It is not made better BY the just wrath Of
neutral Americans at such revelations. New York,
TO clear itself OF the quit of connivance, ought to
have acted long ago. scandal like this is
only f0stered by indignant dscOurses about
81 % r ae
genius" they evince. The persons first resp0n-
sible for the continuance OF such doings are the
shareholders OF the Erie Railway themselves 1t Is
hard to believe that the honest shareho ders are
not stu majority in the company. They are the
and they ought to make it their business to con-
vert themselves into dominant majority. In the
second place. the city ana state Of New York are
Exchange into q common gaming house. and which
nave maize the impartiaty OF their courts more than
nor the New York public care to vindfcate their own
reputation 1t may become question whether the
commercial bodies OF Europe might not feel COM
PEELED when company cannot or will not repudiate
such conduct Of its managers to hold 1t equally
guilty with them and to mark their sense OF its I'M
trustw0rthiness by excluding II from their stock
exchanges.
ScEkOuS AccAOcut IN u WHO OauAcO Dy OurIe3ys
ness.
The English papers OF the 3Oh nit, contain the fol-
lowing account OF an accident OF an alarming char
acter which occurred few DAYS ago in an from
stone coll,ery in Shropshire. About dozen men
were employed, when the gas In the workings fired
and all OF them were injured. 1t Is hoped however
they VIII recover. The We lingt0a Journal says
''The part OF the nine where the ignition
occurred was o new opening at consider
able distance and in an opposite direction from tn
older workings. in which, Also there were men en-
pl0yed at the same time. In the part where the &C
cident happened there were usually three set to
'hblng:' but In this instance to expedite the work.
there were ten men and youth engaged at this
spot. The company had with them safety lamp.
hut we are not certain whether the lamp burning
at the time or not. ltwoud seem there candles
In use. Certain 1t Is the gas took fire with terrible
eject. The men employed some $40 to 600 yards Off
In another part Of the mine felt the sudden motion
enye,oped IN the burning element were seriously in
inred. six OF them are married men, The eleven
are all more or less injured, some them seriously.
Destructive Floods in the Provinces.
News received in London the 10Th nit states
that great floods prevailed yesterday In some parts
of the Fens Between Ely and Peterborough many
thousands OF acres were last night submerged.
Nottingham paper OF the 30th ult. states that
TO overflow its banks to a serious extent, not only
in the neighborhoDd OF Nottingham but along the
valley OF the Trent generally. The water at the
Trent bridge was within eight inches OF 1864 The
works at the new Trent bridge stopped by the
Hood. In the Kings Meadows there is water on
each side OF the Midland Railway and there Ia much
water out on all the low lying lands IN the neighbor
hood, causing much Inconvenience to the nhabi-
tants. Between Nottingham and RatclifYe there IL q
good deal OF land under water