THE MONGOL.

Evening Star, Issue 3459, 24 March 1874, Page 2

THE MONGOL.

A charge j ) een’ i lat6iy ; laid! s.B. Mongol (wliich' lately ’ M' tMli Cplony with a tale ,pf great .sick&V*.‘Ml breach of the Passenger Acti’ ifcfeV’W -neglecting to supply the,passengers stipulated quantity Of; water ■‘dhrmjj 1 shp voyage from England.'The Wndt'ttf of , » .complicated nature, ..the,resting wholly itfoti the l evidenee r of'.the Ipurth officer p! the yeafel M blf'Mlijf passengers. .The a^tptden>'of M ! fortdi’f .Witness, made'it appear that by no means solicitohs as tdiihi! cOmfdrP'S - »nidpr jiis: bliarg£ complying with the Abt.il’ ihemafcter of supplying them with the p&joef huah'tftV of watep,.proy/dpd that iubimtMd ,to upon. These damagmg assertions, howeVer,';Mae from a. witness, who, from .the . tenor of his evidence, was plainly actuated'byi,some ill., feeling against the captiin.' -The -fact that the wit" ness was aware tbathe-Was? not held in very high estimation at his request for an advance in wagrs had not . oeenbccedfed to;■: would; be; suffi ciuqt jprpof-<qf this, and any view which he might entertain on the;sub]>st Could: not'.therefore'Jacdpoked upon as being wholly unprejudiced. The '• other witness^. one,: of, , the,, paepeugers; p Vi* deutlyla thorough.specimen pf.JlaßijiemjU immigrant, totally ignored and the persistent, efforts,.,of, the couqspf for

. the delence only reaulted'in e]iciting tlifrt the witness was captain of a mess,, thg;t, 1 sc*9qrditig to, his.ideas, , the passpngerp wert)Asthmatically, defrauded of their proper;' allowance of water, and that several other details'connected with the accommodation of thp 'passengers required amendment. These kssertions were supplemented by V certain amount of badinage at the expense of the learned counsel; which probably did not go far towards establishing his dharocter as a plain straightforward Svdtii'esS -fagthilmg ~3 u uplc facts, but rather tended to throw "an air of; jocularity iphtW ence whs alro 'Brtpf, •tbr chpidel who appealed oh behalf of thedefendaht^nlcftmifß he Court tKitvtW. ;Best‘' :^ri^«sßi«s! ‘‘foV'C|He captain the do'otbr and K^W': iihffiigrdtJli» cbok’-were not in' the Proyiijbfe/kiid he’thfei laid a calculation before the <?oufb, tehding to show that the water supplied to the passengers hnd to the chote WffcbiHs/feideeded; the quantity' stipuHsftM Iby the Afct. It was also alleged-tori the dfeffchtk - that .the 'proportion he delivered tel the .passengers themselves; ahdthe proportion tb dfegivehtb the cook fordressiug their provisions 'wasleft by the Adt at [ the‘ discretion of the captain, and that many difficulties might be thrown m the way by refractory passengers if such were not the' case. The evidence 'ofi. fse chief steWdrd was'then taken, showingluKfc h ° complaints had been made to this funitionary-; hut mqtbihg further on- thh wtttbr ’question 1 transpired/' Tb|s ’conoluded ' lUe case; and fihe' o’ouueel for the tiroadCutlbn Haying addressed the’Court, the -Bench. v&y properly dismissed ! the' Case, on the- grourid Uat the evidence htid failed to show that d&s the minimum l quantity had 1 ' been served bn ahy particular day during the voyogej did that the passengers, /or’ the «>’eiptatukio&f messes, nob haying the captain to alter ,the respective, proportions served out 'to-the-passengersand to of the Act HodQb f een co|m^it|e.d;"