New-York tribune., 1872-11-05
FOREIGN NEWS.
GREAT BRITAIN.

GREAT BRITAIN
PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION AT TTvERTOS-moT-
ING IN sHEFFIELD-oPPosITIOE TO CLOSING
THE LIQUOR SALOONS IN LIVERPOOL.
LONDON, Monday Nov. 4, 1877.
The election of member Of Parliament for
Tverton TO fiji the vacancy caused by the elevation to
the judicial bench Of Mr. George Denman is taking place
to-day dispatch from that town at 100 o'clock this
afternoon saye that the baotng is going on amid great
excitement and vigilance committees have been formed
by both parties TO the polls and that unfair
advantage taken One voter who was just In the act
OF depositng his ballot, dropped dead from heart
disease. The Liberal candidate is W. ~ Massey. The
Conservatives supporting Mr. j. W. Walrond, who
has already represented the borough in Parliament
dispatch from Sheffield at to-day, reports that
some rong had taken place In that city, and that the
police had five of the rnRleaders. The dispatch
does not say what was the cause OF the disorder
The demonstrations which begun last week
against closing the saloons in Liverpool during certain
hours OF Sunday renewed yesterday AT one place
In the city crowd numbering 1900 persons which was
addressed by speakers in opposition to the act was d
persed by the police
An American seaman was before the courts in Bow-st
to-day, the charge OF murder committed on the high
teas. He was arrested under tie Extradition Treaty
with the United States, on motion Of Mr.. Mum, the
American ViceC Consul General At the examination Of
the accused the representative Of the United States
failed to make out pTind Jdete ease OF murder Ihe
evidence showed that the was only ono OF man.
slaughter, and the Justice decided that that degree OF
crime did not under the provisions Of the Treaty
vcoConsu Num- concurred, and the prisoner was dis
charged.
RAILWAY ACCIDENTs-CRIMINAL MIsMANAGE-
MENT-MR. sTANLEY'S SECOND TRIUMPH
FEES OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN LAWYERS.
lTROM TnE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUSB.l
LONDON, Oct 19.-In this dullest of dull
weeks Of a dull month In London, have had but one
sonsaon- such name can be given TO the last rail-
way accident, which, though fatal, has had too many
predecessors and viii have too many successors to be
much OF event by itself There are but two ways In
which the Railway Companies can be reached; one in
Parliament the other by yerdicts for damages ac-
count Of injuries by these sO-caed accidents. Juries
give pretty heavy yeTdcts I'm cases, but the
whole, the companies find cheaper 20 pay for collisions
than prevent them and nobody expects them TO take
heed any other consideration than pecuniary
Parliament they strong that next to nothing
be DONE while TO the outery or the newspapers In
crimnated directors manifest the most sublime Dder
Not long the papers were filed day after day
with complaints OF the regular irrcguarty OF various
railways. IL appeared that on several OF the most i'm
portaut limos In EuglaHd, the pretense OF
running trains in accordance with the time
table had been good "a abandoned People
gave facts and dates with the most appalling particu
larity What did the directors do1 Dispute them? BY
means. Excuse them sail less. They simply held
their tongues. There attempt Gt contra iction,
and they did not think 1t worth while to express regret
to the public they were ill-tTeating, nor to promise
amendment fer the future They waited for the storm
to blow over knowing that newspaper cannot devote
its columns railway grievances, and convinced
that men 20 place when they want to by the best
conveyance they can got gumble about II as much as
they may. And since competition which once gave
partial rejection, is pretty much az an end VIC have no
choice most cases, but to go by rail slowly or
flo 20 1fa -
yectors wise IN their generaonin this generation
whether the next generation will submit TO their sway
with canal doai.ss- ae@te % inhuiteiy httle lm-
porlauce to them. 10 is all very well TO say one
journal does, that shall have to hang Railway
Board yet. Iremember hearing Mr.. Choate say that
man not hanged because lie guilty OF murder; he
hanged il at all because he Is legally proved TO have
been guilty Of murder Ncr you hang him then un-
less public opinion thinks him no subject Cor hanging
and public opinion irraed s, has hardly yet got
to the point Of passing law which shall permit the first
step 10 be taken toward gay proving the guilt OF rail
way murdercr-.
An Official report to the Board Of Trade railway
cdonts In 1871 tycs the number for that year Ill
being tbau In 1870 and 80 moro than the average
OF tic Eve preceding years. It true that the killed in
is were only u, while in the previous year they
CO. but that tclls nothing TO the advantage of the com
pauies because It greatly matter OF chance whether
an accident prove fatal not The fatal fact the fact
Of the accident Tor Capt Tyler, the very competent
thor OF The report declares that not tSsc accidents
can Dc properly called accidental but that every one OF
them night have been prevented by proper caro- and
suitable aqupmCut OF the road. Some OF the greatest
lines in England are stl worked without the telegraph
Icbloc systCm all Of them worked 20 is not too
much 20 say, ON a system which makes dividends tie
nrst consideration. safety aud purctuaty the second
md third Punch this week. has telling cartoon or
oyerworl polusinan, his hand TO his head, ha eyes
staring i'm hopeless hewderment at coming train, and
foliloquizing thus: Lets see There's the scurslon
were due at ilj, and taiut in then afore that were
the mnera-no that must Ia been the goods or the
cattle No. that after-oattles shutting now.
Let's sec Last train came through atcon found and
here comes the express its tme aud blest know
which liue she's onl" What happens TO the is
only too easy 10 conjecture. 10 has happened % many
train for precisely ithe reason, and whom hap
pens show = made OF inquiry, and very likely the poor
devil OF po.nsman. paid three dollars week for six
teen hours work day bears the brunt OF the coroners
verdict The director is much too respectable man to
be touched.
Mr. Stanley has achieved triumph second only to his
discovery Of LngsOne he has extorted from the Geo.
graphical Society a solemn recognition Of the genuine
ness aud ya,Ie OF his African work. They 70 give
him dinner and Sir Henry Rawnson, the sl0ptical,
not to say rather querulOus President Of the Society
taking the chair. 1t may be that Sir Henry VIII
announce at the dinner that the great gold medal has
been oted to Mr. Stanley though that is purely con-
lecture OF mine and perhaps walders INTO tho regions
of the highly improbable. BE that It may dnuer Is
| something aud when 1 said that Mr.. Stanley had ex-
tored IT, should have said that public opinion had
tore e. aud that irresistible force of the almost unan-
noas feeling OF the British public in favorofN M Stanley
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