The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-15
ENGLAND.
ENGLAND.
British Opinion on the Erie COmplica-

From the London Times Dec. 30.
Simple exhaustion rather than any
public or corporate procedure seems at length
TO have brought about an armed suspension of
knayery. The triumViIate retains the Corporate
fHDds and its uncontrolled power of flooding the
market with Erie shares, but the temptation TO
abuse this latter privilege is diminished by the
circumstance that there is no one to buy.
Mean lille each party waits longingly for the
coming sessions OF the New York and New
Jersey State Legislatures, in the certainty, as
our Correspondent seems justified by facts in
puttlDg IT, that they can "rusn TO one or the
other body, and, by iudcious bribery, get laws
passed sanctioning any vlllany."
This Is q very extraordinary state of hings 10
have prevailed in the second commerf ai capi-
Ia OF the world, and II is not made oetter by
the Just wrath of neutral American 4 at such
revelations. New York, to clear it~elf OF the
guilt OF connivarce, ought to have acted long
ago. A scandal ike this is only iostered oy
indignant discourses about the scale OF these
dIectorlal enormitIes, accompanied by ayo walls
OF admir- alton for the "Napoleonlc genius" they
evIDce. The persons first responsible for tue
continuance of such doings are the sharehold-
ere OF the Efie Railway themselves. 1t Is hard
10 believe that the honest shareholders are not
still major ity OF the company. They are the
people " no chiefly suffer by tricks OF financing,
snd they ought TO make 1t their business TO con-
vert themselves into a dominant majority. In the
second place. the city and State OF New York
are answerable for acts which have turned their
Stock Exchange into common gaming house,
and which have made the lmpartaity of their
courts more than suspected. Ii neither the
body of Erie snareh olders nor the New York
public care to vindicate their own reputation, it
may become a question whether the ommercial
bodies of Europe might not feel compelled,
when a company cannot or Will not repudia ate
snch conduct OF its managers, to hold 1t equally
guilty with them and to mark their sense of its
untrustworthiness by excluding 1t from their
stock exchanges.
Serious Accident in "a Mine.
The English papers of the 3Oth ult. coutain
the following account OF an accident OF an
alarming character which occurred q few days
ago IN an irOnstone coliery IN Shropshire.
About a dozen men were employed, when the
gas in the workings hred and All OF them were
Injured. II is hoped, however, they will
recover. The Wellington journal saYs;-"rhe
part OF the mine where the Ignition occurred was
a new opening at a considerable distance, anf
in an opposite direction from the other work
ines in which, also, there were men EN- ployed az
the same time. In the part where the accident
hanpened there were usually three men set to
''hohng;" but in this instance, TO expeolle the
work, there were ten men and youth engaged
at this sp 1. The company had win tnem
Pafety lamp, but we are not certain whether
the lamp was burning at the time or not. IL
would seem that there we're candles In use
Certain 1t 10 the gas took bre with a terrloie
effect. The men employed some 6OO 10 6O,
wards of, in another part OF the mine, felt tue
sudden motion aud draw on the ar around
them; but the VieJlms eDveloped In the burning
element were seriously injured. SIX OF then
are married men. The eleven are all more OF
less injured, some of them seriously.
Destructive Floods:
News received in London on the 29th ulf
states that great floods prevailed yesterday II
some parts OF the Fens. Between ely ana fMeter M
borough thousands OF acres were last ndgn
pubmeTged. A Nottingham paDer OF the sou
nit. states that the continued rains have caused
The Trent to overflow its banss to serlou
extent, not only in the neighborhood OF MOI
generally. The water at the Tent bridge wa
within eight inches OF 1854. The works ~ I'M
new Trent bridge are stopped by the hood. II
tbe Kings Meade VS. there Is water on each sla,
of the Midland Railway, and there Is muct
water out OD all the low lying lands Ia lh'