, 1870-06-10
EYRE'S INHUMANITY,
Result Of Itls Appeal from the Light
Septcucc Imposed upon f1jm-FQe
Is Convicted AGAIN upon His Own
Adm n1Sa~Sntt.

Sentence Imposed upon f1im-K1e
Is Convicted AGAIN upon His Own
Admission.
Dispaseh to Lhe Philadelphia Telegraph
, Minister Thornton has received and for
varded to the Secretary Of State copies of COM
munications submittcdon tho e3dof April last,
BY Captain Eyrc, of tho Bombay, which ran
winter. and By tho Board Of Directors OF
tho peninsula1 and Oriental Steam
ship Company Of London to the Board Of
Trade, for them to forward to the Lords, &C.,
praying that tho slight punishment ordered ly
tho Court Of Inquiry in tho case Of Captain
Eyre be removed, and the boards reply there
to. Tho Board Of Directors Of tho Steamship
Company state that they 11aVa had tho report
OF tho proceedings in the inquiry under their
serious consideration, and they cannot but
feel tho decision arrived at by tho
court on the j.. conduct OF Captain Eyre
By tho evidence laid before it. 1t appears to
the board that Captain Eyre, either before and
after the collision, did all that prudent and
experienced seaman could do, and under
these circumstances tho Board request that
the Lords Of tho Committee review the eyi-
dence taken at the Court Of Inquiry, and give
consideration to any statement which Captain
Eye may make, and expressive hopo thatthey
viii sce lit to return to him his ceztidcate. The
board submit letter from Capt. Eyre. and il
that connection, state Tint he has boen IN
their employ eleven years, three years OF
which as commander, and has always T. poEno o. nc
are quite unable to express, in adequate terms,
their deep sorrow that an aceident, in
which ono OF their compapy}s steamers
was concerned, should have been At
tended with lanentAble loss Of hfe. The
Mi tle citizens Of the United States who have
nnhappily lost relatives OF friends by the
founaering Of the Oneida, but they cannot help
entertaining 8 confident hope that careful
revision Of the circumstances Of the
case will result in the removal 81 tho
unfayorable impression which now
exists there and here as to tho
conduct Of Captain Eyre after the collision.
In CAPTAIN EyIe's memorial to the board he
etates that he would have rendered assistance
| to the Oneida il he had thought ahe needed it,
| az he had eeyen boats, capable OF carrying
| tfom one hundred and ninety to two hundred
men. and oven il his own vessel had beon
seriously injured be could have spared several
| Of them.
! III tho reply Of the Board Of Tratae tho 1attet
| State that they are Of the opinion, after care
| fulIy revising the 1ecord Of the court, that ho
| was guilty OF gross breach OF the thirty y-third
section Of tue Merchant Shipping act, which
clearly states that all assistance possible in
case Of collision must be rendered; and fur-
ther OF opinion that the sentence Of the
court in suspentling his certificate for six
months only, so far from being too severe,
ID more lenient than the gravity Of the
| otense required, us well as the enact
nent to which they referred; that it simply en-
bodies the dictates Of humanity, and thst in
disobeying it ho has been guilty not only Of
an offence created by statute, but OF disre-
! gard OF the natural duties which circumstances
| Of danger snch n that OF the Oneida imposed
npon those who have been the unwilling cause
| OF the danger; and they are especially an1ioua
to express emphAtically their sense Of the i'm
| rartancs Of those daiies At time when the
i,,creaseof rapid steam navigation auSments
! the danger Of collisions, and renders the per
| fQrmsuca Of those duties more imneratiEe.