The Sun. — London, England, 1862-09-09 00:00:00

:§ERIOUS-MILIfARY RIO7-A7IVETirYO.RK (From the New York Herald, August 24.) The citizens of the quiet City of Churches were thrown into the most intense excitement yesterday evening, by a report that a fearful riot was raging at the barracks of the Empire Brigade. All sorts of rumours were afloat. Some had it that 20 were killed ; others that 50 were slaughtered, and the number of wounded was immense. In fact, the ex citement was up to such a fever heat that people flocked from all quarters to the scene of action. The railroad cars were crowded to excess ; every thing that ran on wheels was brought into requisi tion, and those who were not fortunate enough to get a conveyance footed it all the way; all eagerly discussing the cause that led to the unfortunate fracas. When our reporter arrived at the scene the utmost confusion prevailed. All sorts of ru mours were afloat, and it was with the greatest dif ficulty that he could squeeze himself through the crowd to ascertain the facts. On arriving at the barracks he learned that seve ral officers had been seriously wounded, some soldiers killed, the barracks terribly demolished, and the Howard House totally destroyed; but so great was the confusion, that it was impossible to ascertain the true state of affairs. From all he could pick up he learned that the riot originated from the fact that those who enlisted in the Empire Brigade some weeks ago had not received the State bounty, and those who enlisted the past week having received it, exasperated the others so much that they determined to take satisfaction by raising a revolt among the men, in which they seem to have succeeded most admirably. Nine who enlisted yesterday came to the barracks with the State bounty in their pockets, and this irritated the others so much that a bad feeling was immediately engendered, and shortly after two o'clock in the afternoon one of the ringleaders of the party, a private of Company A, 2d Regiment, being tolerably well drugged with rotgut, mounted a barrel in the barracks, and commenced to harangue his comrades on the subject, calling upon them not to submit to such treatment. Captain Kenney ordered him to his quarters. He refused to go, but was being forced in when the whole company came out to his aid. Several officers present attempted to restore quiet, but were set upon immediately and badly beaten. Nine muskets were taken from the guard-house, and used by the mutineers on their officers and all others who opposed them. The officers were overpowered, made their escape, and the whole brigade, numbering 1,200 men, rushed out of the barracks. Some ran back again, and commenced battering the windows and cook-house, which establishment was pretty well riddled. The others paid a visit to the Howard Hotel, immedi ately opposite, and after demolishing the furniture, smashing the windows, and doing all the damage they could, helped themselves to all the liquor they could find. Whisky, brandy, gin, and lager beer were taken into the street and into the barracks, and riot and confusion was the order of the day. The officers being powerless, the rioters had every thing their own way. General Spinola was attending a meeting at the City Hall when the riot commenced; but, upon hearing of the riot, he and Colonel Jurden went immediately to East New York ; but by the time they arrived there the men were scattered in all directions, scarcely two hundred remaining. Those who escaped got off by the Fulton avenue and Divi sion avenue cars, in the endeavour to reach their homes in Brooklyn and New York. As soon as it became known at the police head quarters that a revolt had taken place, Inspector Folk, with a large force of police, repaired to the scene. Admiral Paulding also dispatched one hundred marines, with loaded muskets, to the scene of conflict, A company of militia belonging to the vicinity also turned out, but before any assistance arrived nearly all the mischief had been accom plished. As soon as the police arrived on the ground they were attacked with clubs, bottles, and stones ; but the militia company came up promptly to their aid, and forced the rioters back to their quarters. In this encounter Inspector Folk was badly injured from the blow of a stone on the head. Officer Corwin was also injured in the face with a bottle. As the rioters were entering the barracks, a shot was fired which killed the sergeant-major of the 4th Regiment. There are a great many different rumours going the rounds as to the number of killed and wounded; but our reporter failed in ascertaining any more facts than those given above. Black eyes, bloody noses, and cut faces were numerous, proving that the revolt was very extensive. All was quiet at eleven o'clock last night. Coroner Norris was notified of the death of the sergeant-major of the 4th Regiment, and will hold an inquest on the body to-day. COUR7-MARTIAL ON COLONEL 7UR. CHIN-NORTHERN OUTRAGES. A correspondent of the New York herald writes:— " Colonel J. B. Turchin, 19th Illinois Infantry, whose trial 'has occupied the court-martial for three weeks, has been cashiered and dismissed from th e Eerv icc. As this trial has caused much com ment, and the sacking of Athens called various ex pressions from the Northern press, I append a brief statement of the charges and specifications made against Colonel Throb in, as shown by General Order No. 39, just published. There are three charges against Turchin. The first is' neglect of duty to the prejudice of good order and military discipline.' The single specification to this charge gives a full list of the outrages committed by Tar chin's men at Athens, some of which are very re volting indeed. Among the incidents of the plun dering and pillaging of the village I find the following named. " Squads of soldiers, with force of arms, e ntered the private residence of J o h n F . M a l one, an d foi cud open all the locks of the doors, broke open all the drawers to the bureaus, the secretary. sideboard , wardrobes, and trunks its the house, and rifled them of their contents, consisting of valuable cloth ing, silver ware, silver plate, jewellery, a gold watch and chain, &c., and in the performing of these outrages they used coarse, vulgar, and profane language to the females of the family. These squads came in large numbers, and: plundered the house thoroughly. They also broke open the law offices of the said Malone, and destroyed his safe and damaged his books. A part of this brigade went to the plantation of the said Malone, and quartered in the negro huts for weeks, debauching the females and reaming with the males over the surrounding country to plunder and Pillage. A mob of sol diers burst open the doors and windows of the business houses of Samuel Tanner, junior, and plundered them of their contents, consisting of boots and shoes, l ea th er, and sugar, coffee, other merchandise. Very soon after the command entered the town a party of sol diers broke into the silversmith's shop and jewellery store owned by D. H. Friend, and plundered it of its contents and valuables, to the amount of about 3,000 doll. A party of this command entered the house of B. S. Irwin, and ordered his wife to cook dinner for them, and whilst she and her servants were so engaged, they made the most indecent and beastly propositions to the latter in the presence of the whole family, and when the girl went away they followed her in the same manner, notwith standing her efforts to avoid them. Mrs. Hollins worth's house was entered and plundered of cloth in.. and other property by several parties, and some of the men fired into the house, and threatened to b arn it, and wed violent and insulting language td , varls the said Alm Hollinsworth. The alarm n y,i (i v:item-eat occasioned raiscarriage, and 5ub5...- cien tly her death. Several" soldiers cam e t o th e p ow -- of 1‘,1:•:;: Charlotte I Iliac and committed a rape on the Her on of a coloured girl, and then entered the house a nd plundered it . ol' all the sugar, coff ee , p which they could find. Be fore leareserv,es, ving, they an d the like , destroyed or carried off all the pictures and ornamentals they could lay their hands 'on. The house of T. if..lones was entered by Col. - Mihalotzy, of the 24th Illinois Volunteers, who be haved r u d e l y an d c oarsely to the ladies 0f 0..n. the . then quartered two companies t" 0 ° 1 7 1 4 the haast—abou t (as hour after Ciptaiu Edgarton quartered his artillery company in the parlours—and these companies plundered the house of all provisions and clothing they could ay their hands on, and spoiled the furniture and c rpets ma liciously and without a shadow of reaso, - : ; spoiling the parlour carpets by cutting bacon Jr) them, and the piano by chopping joints on it with an axe, the beds by sleeping in them with their muddy boots on. The library of the house was destroyed, and the locks of the bureaus, secretaries, wardrobes, and trunks were all forced and their contents pil laged. The family plate was carried off, but some of the pieces have been recovered. The store of George R. Peck was entered by a large crowd of soldiers and stripped of its contents, and the iron safe broken open and its contents plundered, con sisting of 940 dollars and 90 cents, and 4,000 dollars worth of notes. "The second charge is of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.' Colonel Turchin is accusedpaying his hotel bill at Ath ens , an d o make any effort to prevent th e disgrace fulf failing to not behaviour of his troops at Athens. The third c harge is ' disobedience of orders.' Among the specifications it is charged that he disobeyed the general orders requiring that peaceful citizens should not be molested; that fair compensation be allowed for use of private property, and that of forbidding the wives of officers or men to lodge in camp. To the latter specification Turchin pleaded guilty. The Court found him guilty of nearly all the charges, and sentenced him to be dismissed from the service of the United States. The following is the approval of the finding of the Court by General Buell : The proceedings of the Court are approved, and in pursuance of its sentence Colonel J. B. Turchin, of the 19th Illinois Regiment, ceases to be in the service of the United States. Six members of the Court have recommended the prisoner to clemency, on the ground that the offence was com mitted under exciting circumsthnces, and was one rather of omission than of commission. The gene ral commanding has felt constrained, nevertheless, to carry the sentence into effect. Colonel Turchin was tried for the disorderly conduct of his command at and in the vicinity of Athens, and the sentence of the Court rests on that matter alone, but on the question of clemency it is proper to look beyond the record of the Court. It is a fact of sufficient noto riety that similar disorders, though not to the same extent, have marked the course of Colonel Turchin's command wherever it has gone. The question is not whether private property may be used for the public service, for that is proper whenever the public interest demands it. It should then be done by authority, and in an orderly way. The wanton and lawless indulgence of individuals in acts of plunder and outrage is a different matter, tending to the demoralisation of the troops and the destruction of their efficiency. Such conduct does not mean vigorous warfare ; it means disgrace and die aster, and is punished with the greatest severity in all armies. The circumstances under which the disorders were committed were precisely those which demanded the strictest obedience of discip line. The command was supposed to be in the pre sence of an enemy that might take advantage of any confusion in its ranks. Every man should have been at his post, instead of roaming over the town and country to load himself with useless plunder. In point of fact the criminality is not so much that good order was violated on the particu lar occasion, as that by the habitual neglect of dis cipline the orders of the commander were unavail ing at a time when the observance of it might be of vital importance. Colonel Turchin had been in command of the Bth brigade for five months, and is fairly responsible for a state of discipline which has done injustice to the four fine regiments of which it was composed. The general inspected those regi ments more than once about the time of the organi sation of the brigade. There were none in the army from which he expected better service, and he still has confidence that they will realise those expectations.—By command of " Major-General BUELL, " James B. Fry, Colonel and Chief of Staff."' " General Buell and staff are still here. General Rossean commands the district. and it is occupied by the 3d division. Lieut.-Colonel Burke, 10th Ohio Infantry, is provost marshal of the city." The New York correspondent of the 7imes in his last letter, states that the ruffian has been re instated and promoted. THE ACCIDENT AND LOSS OF LIVES A 2 MONEWEARMOUTIL The following additional particulars of this me lancholy accident are from yesterday's Newcastle Chronicle :—" The well-known Pemberton's Pit— as it was once calied—at Monkwearmouth, Sun derland, is now the scene of another serious cala mity, involving unhappily the sacrifice of five lives and the present loss of employment to hundreds of survivors. The colliery, as our readers will remem ber, was visited in February last with a tremend ous inundation of water in the A pit, which burst from the side of the shaft and rushed down in a great cataract, completely filling the workings of the Hutton seam, whose depth is 300 fathoms— three times as deep as the lower seam of the famous Hartley mine. Above the Hutton is the Maudlon seam, worked by means of the B pit, whose shaft is aivided by bratticing into an upcast and downcast, and communicates into the A pit by means of a drift at the depth of 180 fathoms. Since the occurrence of the flood and the consequent stoppage of the A pit, the B pit has been worked by double shift, and measures have been in progress for the thorough repair of the flooded shaft with a view to the ultimate freeing of the mine from water. Accordingly just below the Maudlon seam a strong scaffold was constructed, being let iuto the wall of the shaft, and forming, as it were, a cork in the neck of the mine, to shut off all communication with the flooded Hutton, and to receive the rubbish which might fall during the progress of the re pairs. This seaff o ld was known to have stood firm up to last week, because it recently received the dead body of a poor man who fell down the pit, and on another occasion the cage alighted upon it through the breaking of the rope. At the depth of 170 fathoms from the surface a second scaflbld was constructed, so as to shut off communication ! between the Maudlon seam and the upper portion of the A shaft undergoing repairs, and to direct the current of air into the B pit. This scaffold was constructed after the completion of the metal tub bing,and also intend e d to receive rubbish or stone which might fall in the course of subsequent opera tions. It was formed by strong balks of tin*er let sides of the s h a f t, boarded with 3.inch pa nd covered by someth i ng like a thousand tons os ru bbish, maki ng a solid cork' of e l even fathoms thickness. sinkers an d masons u into o nk t s h , e Thus the with the wallin g o f t h e shaft without interruption, nuc ol could cee and, as they fancied, in comparative safety. These men worked in shifts, standing upon a • cradle,' which is a light round platform, fitting the circumference of the shaft, and s uspended by six chains to the s trong rope by w hi c h it was at work, a 4 , O n F r id a y night there were drawn up and lowered d own. hundred fathoms down, six men , named C. Wright, Robert Lamh David Mason, J ames Joseph Lamb (fath er Hall, Robert Dryden, and of Robert), who was t h e man in charge of be up at midnight, the shift. Their time would ttncl. 10 minutes before that hour it was agreed that they sho u ld p u t ano th er s t one in. The elder Lamb asked W r i g h t to go to b an k f or it, but the latter declined, telli ng L am b t o go f or it / and tie would smoke a pi pe wh i le he was away. accordingly went to ba n k f or the stone, and had j us t placed it in the tub to d escend, when he was arreste d by the sound of a terrific crash in the shaft. The immense scaffold, 11 fathoms thick, had given way, and was dashing down the shaft with destructive force. This was immediately followed by a tremendous rush of the fresh air into the vacuum and down to th e depths of the mine, creating a pneumatic force or suction so strong that astir of the six chain's which held the cradle were snapped asunder, and the cradle, of coarse, canting over, the five men were hurled into the abyss beneath. The ventila tion of the mine was thus deranged, and the fur nseee et the Maud len were hheen (via the fire scat tered along for 100 yarns, and the furnace man, Michael Quinn, and hie sin, severely burnt. The noise of the fall was heard throughout the colliery, and th e people ran out of their houses to the pit month to ascertain the cause. Among them were many drunken pitmsn, we regret to say, who wanted to jump down the shaft, and perform other impossible feats, and they so impeded the labours and consultation s of the officials, that a force of the borough pollee had to b e b • o tames& to keep them back. Mr. Butson, the engineer , and the master sinker, Mr. Wanless, descended to 40 fathoms be. low where the unfortunate men ha d been at work, but w rk, but could discover no thi ng of their fate , save the painfully apparent fact that the y h a d s ey a gone to the bottom of the shaft only to meet with instant death. The month of the shaft was then covered over with planks and tarpaulins, to preserve the ventilation until the neighbouring mining engi neers could be called in to advise as to the best means of reaching the bodies. Providing the lower scaffold, at the Maudlon, has stood firm, the bodies might be recovered with tolerable facility, but there is too much reason to fear it would also give way, and therefore they must be at the bottom of the flooded pit, rendering their recovery a matter of considerable doubt. The workmen were taken out of the B pit immediately on the occurrence of the accident, and must be " idle " till something definite be ascertained respecting the situation of the bodies of the lost sinkers. "The whole of the unfortunate men were mar ried, and with one exception, had children. Robert Lamb was a young man of 21, and married only two or three weeks since. Davin Mason, 30 years of age, leaves a widow and one child ; James Hall, 44 years, widow and five children ; Robert Dryden, 35 years, widow and three children ; Charles Wright, 37 years, widow and seven children. The latter would seem to have been attended by a sin gular fatality, for it was not his turn on the shift ; but as the right man, Scott, was out of the way when the shift was summoned, Wright was induced to go in his room. Then again, as we have previ ously stated, he was requested to go to bank just before the accident, but preferred to remain behind to smoke a pipe, and meet with a terrible doom, which seemed to hang over him with all the dread fatality of predestination. lt was also the last shift that James Hall had to work, and he was to have proceeded to Thornley, his wife coming over to Sunderland on Saturday morning to meet him. The wife and family of poor Wright are left unprovided for, as it seems he had neglected to connect himself with any box or benefit fund. "On Saturday, at noon, the covering was removed from the pit mouth, and workmen descended to get up the cradle ; and when this had been accomplished new chains were attached, and it was once more got into order for a descent. Mr. Dunn, the go vernment inspector, with Messrs. Armstrong and, Easton, visited the pit during the forenoon, to con sult with the resident viewers .and engineers ; but they did not descend. It was deemed advisable to put in planking on the sides of the shaft, where falls of earth had or stone had taken place, and dur ing yesterday (Sunday) this work was making rapid progress. It will have to be continued, and the shaft sides thoroughly secured, before any one can with safety descend to attempt a recovery of the bodies. There have been two or three addi tional falls of stone since the accident occurred. The operations which have been in progress for sinking the B pit shaft down to the depth of the Hutton seam will be resumed to-day ; but the miners cannot yet get to work, so that those who have not been bereaved will have to suffer hard ship through the loss of their employment. "Similar repairs to those required in the Monk.. wearmouth Pit have recently been completed in a most satisfactory manner at Gosforth, by Mr. Coulson, of Durham, the eminent sinker." IHE DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE 47 BRADIORD. On Saturday Mr. Jewison, coroner, resumed and concluded his inquest on view of the bodies of Mary Ryan, aged 22 years, and her two children, Patrick Joseph and Mary Ann Ryan, who, on the 3d inst., were found drowned in a milldam in Frederick street, Bradford. A large crowd of people assem bled in front of the Britannia Inn, Dryden-street, where the inquest was hel and where the bodies of the deceased were still lying. The following ad ditional evidence was taken;— Sergeant Joseph Bolton, of the Bradford police force, said—About half-past five o'clock on Wed nesday evening last, in consequence of information that Mary Ryan had been found drowned in a mill dam in Frederick-street, and that her two children were missing, I assisted to search the dam, and in it were found, in my presence, the dead bodies of both the children. The bodies were brought to this house. I saw no marks of vio.ence upon either of them. I afterwards examined the pocket of Mary Ryan, the mother, and found in it 21d. and a " charm." Richard Mitchell, engineman for Mr. James Gal lemore, Frederick -street mill, said—On Wednesday last, about 20 minutes before 5 o'clock I saw some article of dress floating in the mill dam. I got a piece of wire, made a hook at the end of it, and drew the article to the aide of the dam, and then I saw the body of Mary Ryan. She was quite dead. I observed no wounds upon her person. I did not know her. I have known her hushand, James Ryan, more than two years, and have been in his company regularly at a public house once or twice a week. I never saw him drunk. Catherine Clayton, of Ebenezer-court, Bradford, said—l lived near the deceased, Mary Ryan, and was acquainted with her. She left her home early on Tuesday morning, owing to a quarrel with her husband. She went to her mother's house, stayed there all Tuesday night, and on Wednesday came to Mr. Costello's, Ebenezer-court, where I had some conversation with her. She was crying. Mrs. Costello went out, and then deceased said, " Oh, dear, I've a good mind to drown both myself and my children." I said, "How can you say so ? You can go to the workhouse with your children, and the guardians will make your husband pay." She replied that she ought to have gone the day be fore, as no applications would be taken on Wednes day, it being the board-day. Directly after this she went away, saying that her youngest child was very cross, and her mother would scold her for being so long absent. She went towards her mother's house, in Croft-street, and took with her her eldest child, and a chair which her husband allowed Mrs. Costello to take out of his house, and give to her. This would be about half-past one o'clock in the afternoon. I have not seen either Mrs. Ryan or her children since. Whilst I was in Mrs. Costello's house Mrs. Ryan's husband passed by, and gave the elder child sixpence and some copper coin. I thought the money was intended for the mother. She refused it, and said, " I want the bed." Her husband took the money baek again, and said she should not have the bed until the rent and other debts were paid. He afterwards sent his wife six pence and some old cloth that had been cut up to make into waistcoats. Mrs. Costello brought them to her. He declared to Mrs. Costello that he would not take his wife back until he had paid what ho owed. Both ho and his wife were obstinate. She said, "1 darn riot go back ; 1 am afraid he'll murder me." Her right eye was discoloured. She said her husband had made it so. When I had this conver sation with her she seemed quite rational. I never saw her in a passion except once, rather more than a fortnight since, when she and her husband had been quarrelling, and she came out of their cellar and broke three or four squares of glass in their window with stones. He had been striking her at that time, and she had then a black eye. About 5 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon. last 1 heard that Mrs. Ryan had been taken out of a milldam in Frederick -street; the dam is about 300 yards off Ebenezer-court. Bridget Hayes, mother of the deceased woman, said—My daughter came to me on Tuesday morn ing, and brought her two children with her. Her lett eye was black, and she complained of pain in her right shoulder and back, caused, she said, by her husband having kicked her. She told me she begged like a cripple for mercy—begged that he would not kill her entirely, I have seen him beat his wife in my own house. I remember her breaking the windows. She came and told me on that occasion that she had had a hard struggle to get away from her husband, who had been beating her, and that when she got out of the house she took up two stones and threw them at the window. She stayed with me last Tuesday night, and wont back about 11 o'clock next morning, to ask her husband for the bed, and with the intention of leav ing him the elder child. I cannot tell how long she remained away. She had no dinner at my house ; she was not in the house when my own family got dinner. When she returned on Wed nesday, sh e b roug h t b ot h t h e c hild ren b ac k w ith her ; she w as crying ; she told me her husband had sent out 6d. for her, that she had demanded the bed, and t h at he said ' ho would not give it to her until his debts were paid. , I saiddid not tell her I I husband lived, lest he sh S ou h l e d go and try the always drinking and spending would not take her • door of the cellar where she and her tak ingw from the deceased aullidatinsghheiseamronlelde3.r, she murder her.as afraid liew a t to on Tuesday morning, and de ceased told me her N'.husband without awaking her. when she left it on Wcdnesclaasy nfoort the my house I last saw her alive about 2 or 3 o'clock e in taisiet after noon. noon. James Ryan, her husband, has threateneerd g got cause t hr o h u ° gmhe thea 2 a' w int O ld : n e e dlooeNkv, kin both ml and his wife. lie has struck me as •;ell c „, th.• deceased. Oa one oecrr3ion he threw a s t o ne through a window at her. Ho deserted h er , and was a way in Lancashire ei g ht weeks. The de _ ceased was afra id her husband w ould do her som e harm. On Wednesday she was terrified ab out i t. visaged man, has.band of the deceased woman, and fathe r of the chil_ &an, gave the following te stimon y : I know nothing I s o a n m ie e ti s mes Ryan, tho tailor, ught a t her al I ,d mind a rvla.a disordered. J as to the cause of the death of my wife ex cept my calling her, and she may have taken it t o h eart. On Mond a y mo rning last I went out of the house, and did not return until two o'clock on Tuesday morning. I went out with the intention of buying materials for some work, and I met with a perty c t men belongi ng t o m y own trade, and re went down to Kelly's beerhouse, in Croft-street. When I re , turued At me at two Tueticlay woruivg lifted up the window, got into the house, and looked into the oven where my supper was gene. rally placed, but there was no supper for me. I touched my wife, who was asleep in bed, awoke her, and asked for my supper. She told me I might get it where I had been all the day and night. I told her I had not been in improper com pany. We quarrelled, and I struck her with my open hand on the left side of her head. She then began to cry. I raised my hand over her and threatened to strike her again if she did not give over crying. She gave over crying, and I went to bed to her without my supper. She got up at half past seven on Tuesday morning, and cleaned the house and the children, after which we had some further angry words, and she took the children and went away. She told the neighbours I had been accusing her of improper intimacy with a man. I may have said something about a man to her, but cannot recollect. If I did, I never thought there was anything wrong about her in that respect. On Wednesday she came to Mr. Costello's, a few doors from my place. I did not say I would not re ceive her. I told Mrs. Costello to tell her to come home with the children, as she had nothing to fear. I gave the elder child 9d. at Mrs. Costello's ; that was all the money I had. I never threatened to murder my wife, and never sharpened a knife for that purpose. I never in my life struck her with my closed hand. She had not black eyes when she was alive. The last time I saw her alive was about half-past on© on Wednesday, when she left Mrs. Costello's. I had taken back 6d. which I gave to the child, and I gave the 6d. to Mrs. Costello to give to my wife at that time. I never spoke to her on Wednesday, and cannot say what state of mind she was in. The witness went into a long explanation of frequent quarrels between himself and his late wife, and blamed his mother in-law, Mrs. Hayes, for some of them, The coroner made some remarks upon the evi dence, after which the jury were left to consider their verdict. After they had deliberated about a quarter of an hour, The foreman of the jury (Mr. Wardman, of the Junction Inn), said they were unanimously agreed upon the following verdict :—" That Mary Ryan drowned herself and her two children, and that she was of sound mind at the time, but acting under a fit of violent passion." The coroner said that was a verdict of felo de se, and expressed his approval of it, The body of Mary Ryan, the mother, was buried at the town's expense in the Undercliffe Cemetery at a late hour on Saturday night, without Chris tian rites, as is usual in such cases. The funeral of the ;children took place at the same cemetery on Sunday. AWFUL FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE A 7 LIVERPOOL. TWENTY-•FOUR LIVES LOST. (From the Liverpool Nears of yesterday.) A few minutes after two o'clock yesterday morn ing a fire was discovered under the gallery at the south-west corner of the church in connection with the Liverpool workhouse, which is situate at the eastern or upper end of that pile of buildings, and stands on an angular piece of ground enclosed within a wall 12 or 14 feet in height, which runs along the west side of the upper part of Mount pleasant. The police, as quickly as possible, conveyed information to the West of England and Hatton garden fire stations, and before three o'clock one engine and a number of firemen, reels, ladders, &c., from these stations hastened to the spot ; but before their arrival the fire had got a con siderable hold, and by half-past two began to make vivid appearance. It was some little time before the engines could be got into working order, owing to the hose having all to be carried across the high street wall, and when the water was brought into play the pressure was so weak that the stream rose but a few feet, only occasionally torched that which appeared most in need of subduing, and seemed to produce no perceptible effect upon the devouring element, which gradually made its way through the sacred edifice, and it soon became apparent that the entire structure would be destroyed. Window after window became illuminated. and the roof at the end next the workhouse began to show symptoms of having caught the contagion, just as the clock in the spire struck three. This was speedily followed by a fall of slates, beams, and debris, at the other end, and the breaking of the glass in two of the windows immediately beneath. The devouring element being now fanned by the gentle breath of a beautiful clear and slightly frosty autumn morning, the flames stealthily crept along the interior of the roof, until every rafter and beam seemed to be on fire, when they burst through the roof with one gush, which rose some 30 or 40 feet into the air, and for some ten or fifteen minutes the building presented a scene of terrific grandeur, every window being brilliantly illuminated, the flames in the centre rising again and again higher than the top of the spire, whilst the stained win dows on the north side of the church, as they had their variegated hues reflected upon the numerous spectators posted on the balconies and every acces sible spot in front of the houses in Mount-pleasant, gave to the whole scene an extraordinary and very picturesque appearance, the roof did not fall in, but was consumed piecemeal. The woodwork ventilators under the clock in the the spire now began to burn brightly, but as the flames seemed to make little progress for some time, it was thought that the spire (the under portion of which is of stone and the upper of wood covered with slate) might escape destruction. These illu sions were quickly dispelled, however, and the spire soon became one mass of flame—that is, the wood work of it ; and from its elevated position, as it blazed away in mid air_ it became an object of at traction not only to the crowds, immediately sur f rounding the scene of the catastrophe, but must have proved a cause of wonder to all who were astir in every part of the town, especially in the ele vate?. parts of Everton and Cheshire, from both of which it was witnessed to great advantage. By half-past 4 o'clock the spire was entirely destroyed, a Id fell into the body of what was once the church, amid a shower of sparks and embers which threat ened destruction to the surrounding buildings. Up to this time no one outside had the least idea that any lives had been sacrificed. The fire was discovered about half-past 1 o'clock by Miss Kannon, the schoolmistress, who slept in a room immediately adjoining the children's dormi tory, and at once succeeded in rescuing a number of the children. Finding the alarming character of the fire, she then roused Mr. Carr, the governor of the house. Mr. Carr, as soon as ho ascertained where the flames were, immediately directed his attention to the rescue of the children. The southern end of the dormitory was at once entered, and the children in that end were for the most part rescued. The smouldering beds, however, rendered this a task not only difficult but exceedingly dan gerous. Mr. Carr mounted a ladder and went to one of the windows, in the hope that an entrance might be effected there, but the smoke was so powerful that he but narrowly escaped suffocation. Mr. Hewitt, the superintendent of the fire brigade, and several of the police force, were also most active in their exertions, but they found it utterly impossible to enter the burning room, owing not so much to the heat, though that was intense, as to the immense volume of smoke with which the en tire building seemed at this time to be filled. The supply of water, we are bound to say, was throughout most insufficient ; but, on all hands, there was the most zealous and active exertions to render it as effectual as possible. Mr. Carr's first object was to save life, and in that he succeeded to a very great extent, for notwithstanding that the fire had extended so rapidly before attention had been called to it, he succeeded in rescuing at least 20 of the children who were sleeping in the ill fated building. The scene inside the workhouse from two to four o'c.ock was of the most terrible character. The whole of the inmates were roused from their beds, and even those in the fever hospital, which is on the north bide of the church and close to the child ren's dormitory became alarmed. The able-bodied paupers, both male and female, were in the yards with blankets and other portions of the bedclothes wrapped around them, the women being all, of course, much terrified and excited and the men for the most part being worse than helpless. Whilst the governor, the police, and others were toilin g away with the hos e , mcny o f th e a bl e -b o di e d ma l e paupers stood looking on with comparative indif ference. Up to Friday last the dormitory zontained nearly double the numberof children than were in it when the fire occurred this morning, but on that day the governor fortunately drafted off a considerable num •ber of thorn to the Industrial Schools. When the fire broke out it is supposed there were 40 children in the dormitory-I.G elder girls and 34 younger ones, and of these, as near as could be ascer tained 18 or 19 children h a d either been burnt to death or had been suffocated in the room. In a row of little iron bedsteads running along the western wall of the dormitory there now lie 14 lifeless bodies, a charred awl blackened mass, partially covered with the fragments of the roof. Two of the nurses have also lost their lives, one of them in a most noble and praiseworthy effort to save Ihe children. One of the nurses, a pauper inmate, named Carroll, was brought out lifeless, with one of the children, which was also dead. The other nurse, a poor simple girl, named Harriet Mr/aeock, got safely out heroelf, but went backwards and forwards several times, bring ing out little terrified and almost lifeless children, Ana At length slao busulf beemuv §uffmted vit4 tiao THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTE:VIBER 9, 1862. smoke. She was at once got out, but died almost immediately afterwards in the arms of the governor. FURTHER PARTICULARS. No idea whatever can be formed as to the cause of the fire. It is now supposed to have originated in some one of the waterclosets underneath the school, which is attached to the church, and sepa rated from the children's dormitory by a passage about a yard in width. From the dormitory to the closet there is an underground passage, and it is supposed that the fire made its way through this passage so rapidly and with such tremendous effect as to cut off all communication with the inner room of the sleeping department ; for it is in the inner most one that the poor children were suffocated, all who were in the outer room having been rescued. No one who has looked upon the awful sight in the dormitory can ever forget the horrible picture. Here and there, in all directions, lay the remains of the poor little ones, some in the beds where they had been deprived of ffe so suddenly, and others on the floor, covered with blackened timber, bricks, and other debris of the fire. Did one not know that the charred remains were those of human beings, it would be a difficult matter to recognise the fact to the mind, for recognition of any trace of what those remains once were was impossible. Not one of the bodies were entire. The positions in which some of the little ones were found indicated th - tt they must have been awakened by the noise or pain of the fire. One poor child had turned itself on its fa. e, and an other had managed to crawl from its bed to the floor, and its remains were found under the iron bedstead. But we cannot dwell upon the awful sight presented in the dormitory. It was one more horrible than words can convey an idea of—one upon the like of which we hope never to have to look again. It was heartrending to witness the pain and anxiety depicted in the countenances of many in the crowd who stood round the gates of the work house making inquiries as to what children were burned. The agonised pleadings of one poor woman to the officials begging of them to tell her whether her little one had perished were truly harrowing to look upon. Everything was in such confusion that it was impossible to give the information sought, and unfortunately the register containing the names of the children has been destroyed in the flames. The engines still continue to play upon the shells of the burned buildings. It appears that it was some time after the fire was discovered that a supply of water could be obtained, and when procured, it was with difficulty brought to bear upon the portion of the building where its services were needed. Twenty-two bodies have been discovered, which, including the two nurses who lost their lives, make 24. It is supposed the children were suffocated be fore the flames reached them. One of the nurses lost her life while heroically endeavouring to save those of some of the children. Again and again she returned to the dormitory, till at last she was over come, and fell a victim to her devotion. Several of the guardians have visited the scene of the disaster, but all are puzzled to account for the fire. Thr.t it was accidental is very much doubted, though it is to be hoped that malice had no share in producing a conflagration that has resulted in con sequences so disastrous and appalling. POLICE INIELLIGENC.E.—Sept. 8. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Wm. Ward, a publicAn at Greenwich, and also a pugilist, was charged with cutting and wounding, with intent to do some grievous bodily harm. Benjamin Butler Gaunt, sou of the late ex-champion. The court was crowded with friends of both par- ties. Mr. Sleigh, instructed by Mr. Edward Lewis, was ,for the prosecution ; and Mr. Pearce, in structed by Mr. Abrahams, for the prisoner. The complainant, who had his head bandaged all over, and who appeared to have suffered serious in jury, on being sworn, said—l keep the Coach and Horses public-house, St. Martin's-lane. On the 29th of August, about eight o'clock, I returned home from the country, and I found a pugilist named Reardon at the bar, conducting himself in a disorderly manner. I went into my parlour, and after a short time the prisoner came in and asked me what I struck Reardon for. I said, " That is my business." The prisoner replied, "If you struck him without cause, I'll murder you." A person who was present told me that the prisoner was Ward, the fighting man. I told the prisoner to leave my house. We jawed ;one another, and the prisoner went out of the parlour. I heard a noise at the bar, and going out I found the pri soner swearing about Reardon being struck. I said I would have struck him had he made use of similar language to my mother. The prisoner swore a tremendous oath, and seized me by the collar. I hit and pushed him to- get away, and ran off fearing violence. The prisoner broke a pint tumbler on the counter, and came after me, saying, " I'm a-- tiger when I begin." The prisoner struck and cut me over the head three times, The prisoner was dragged away by some person, and I was dragged away into the bar-par lour by another person. The prisoner seized hold of two glasses and threw them at me. Tde glasses were smashed against the wall. The prisoner then laid hold of a quart pot, but it was taken from him. The prisoner was quite sober. I had done nothing to provoke this savage attack. When I hit and pushed past the prisoner, it was in my own defence. I was sober, but I had had something to drink. I was taken to Charing-cross Hospital smothered in blood. I am an out-patient of the hospital at this time. Cross-examined by Mr. Pearce—Did not know the prisoner's name. Had not known the prisoner for the last dozen years. Recollected the fight be tween Reardon and the black. Had not backed Reardon. Had not backed either of the pugilists. Had seen Reardon in the house. Had fought with him in front of the bar. The prisoner was not pre sent at the time. Was in the habit of being in his own parlour of an evening. Did not have a glass of ale with the prisoner in front of the bar. Did not fight that night a man named Mick the Gre cian. He ordered Mick out of the house. Had not struck Mick, and given him a black eye, after the conversation. Did not recollect the prisoner ask ing him why he struck Mick the Grecian. Might have been asked the question, but did not strike Mick. Did not strike the prisoner on the nose for asking why he had struck Mick the Grecian. Would swear that he had not hold of the prisoner, striking him, and that the injuries he had received were occasioned by the prisoner having a glilss of gin and water in his hand. There were about five or six persons present at the time of the assault. His wife and sister were serving in bar at the time of the affray. Was not a pugilist. Had challenged a man called the Australian to fight for £lOO. Had not challenged Reardon to fight. Re-examined—The reason why lie was fighting with Reardon was because, when he returned home from Aldershott that evening, he found him creat ing a disturbance and pushing people about in the house. Mr. George Delamotte, house surgeon at Char ing-cross Hospital, recollected when the com spolvaienraanl t w C o a u u n n d t s w o a n s br ought the he a to d w t h h e i c h h e s were ital. e re such e c h had as might have been inflicted by the ragged edges of a broken drinking glass. There was a great deal of hemorrhage. Two of the wounds on the head were an inch and a half long, penetrating to the bone, Complainant was not in danger now, but at one time symptoms of erysipelas set in. The complainant was still in a very weak state. Thought complain aet when brought to the hospital was quite sober. Mr. Sleigh said he had now put before the bench such a prima facie case as would perhaps induce the the magistrate to send the case for trial. Mr. Pearce said he was prepared with witnesses to prove that the assault was nothing more than a matter of self defence. Mr. Selfe having declined to say whether he would commit for trial until all the evidence was before him, Mr. Sleigh proceeded to call his witnesses. Rose Bryan, sister-in-law of the complainant, said she saw the prisoner strike complainant. The prisoner took up a pint tumbler, broke it on the counter deliberately, and then attacked the com plainant with it. The nrisoner struck complainant three times with the broken tumbler. The prisoner had not been drinking out of the tumbler. The pri soner then throw two other tumblers at the com plainant. The prisoner had previously been supplied with a glass of ginger beer. Did not see the com plainant strike defendant on the nose. Mr. Selfe said that on this corroborative evidence it would be his duty to send the case for trial. Mr. Pearce said he was prepared with witnesses to rebut the evidence given, and to give a different complexion to the case, but on the intimation that had been given, he should reserve his defence for the trial. Ho presumed that bail would be accepted. The prisoner was then committed to the Central Criminal Court for trial. Bail was then given, the prisoner in £2OO, and two sureties in £lOO each. --- WESTMINSTER.—AIfred Kibby, a waiter at Cremorne, was charged with s t a bbing police-con stable Potter, 174 V , un d er the following circum stances : Complainant said—About 8 o'clock on Saturday night I was on duty in Cremorne - gardens, when I was calk d int o th e hotel, and Mr. Pearce, the ma.. Hager, said, " Potter, you must see this man out, he's drunk, and using abusive language, and the • company are complaining of him ; you must see him off the p rem i ses' I've paid him his wages, and dis charged hi m ." After Mr. Pearce left, the principal waiter, Avory, said, "Now put on your coat, Alfred, and go away quietly." Prisoner then said, What. you've brought g P°U" / " Zi hem If he lays his hand upon me, I'll stab him." After a little per • suasion, he put on his coat, went out and into the ball-room. Thinking myself called upon to follow him, I called Avenel!, 244 V, to my assistance, and going to the prisoner said, " Mr. Pearce has paid and discharged you, why don't you leave the pre mises ?" He then said, " You'd better not lay a hand upon me." With some persuasion I got him to leave the ball-room, and was still persuading him to leave the gardens, when he said, "If you lay your hand upon me, I'll knife you." He then turned round and kicked me on the knee. I then took him into custody, but had not touched him before. Avenell and I took him by the collar quietly on each side, when he commenced kicking violently, and we had got him a shert distance, when he made a job at my stomach with his right hand. I brought my hand forward and received the blow upon it and immediately found the blood trickling from it, and that I had been stabbed, upon which I called out to Avenell, " he's got a knife," and catching hold of his wrist, one of the bystanders took an open knife from him. We got him outside, ho still kicking us violently; we called Parish, a hackney carriage attendant, whom he kicked two or three times, once very seriously, upon which Parish knocked him down and we held him there till I got assistance. I may mention that from the time I was called to him first until he struck me I did not see him put his hand in his pocket to take out the knife. Although he threatened to stab me I never anticipated that he would do so ; he was the last person I should have thought capa ble of doing it, as during the time he has been there he has been a quiet and inoffensive lad. Cross-examined by Mr. Smyth—l bled very freely, but the wound is not very painful now. I considered it my duty, according to my orders from Mr. Pearce, to see the prisoner out of the gardens. I boated him with the utmost kindness and for bearance all through. He did not promise to g o quietly it we let him go. I did not say to him, "By --, if you don't go I'll break your shins." I had my truncheon out after he stabbed me, but did not use it. I almost did, but I was most re luctant to offer him any violence, having known him so long, although several gentlemen endea voured to persuade me to strike him. Thomas Avenell, 244 V, and James Parish, hackney carriage attendant, 194, were called in corroboration. Parish was not called till Potter was getting exhausted from loss of blood, and on prisoner's kicking him violently, Parish knocked him down. _ _ _ A certificate having been put in from Mr. F. Goodrich, the divisional surgeon, showing the nature of the wounds, Mr. Smyth made a lengthy address to his worship, in the course of which he said it was much to be re gretted that so serious an offence, in point of law, should have been committed by a young man who, according to the constable's own account, and as he would show by Mr. Adams (the secretary to Mr. Simpson, the late proprietor of Cremorne), and a host of 'witnesses, was a most quiet and inoffensive young man. He was afraid the case had arisen out of over-zeal , .•usness on the part of the police. His client was intoxicated, and after having some words with Mr. Pearce, that gentleman had asked Potter to remove him from the hotel, which Potter, i❑ his anxiety to do his duty, had no doubt construed into an order to turn him out of the gar dens. Acting under this impression he had fol lowed prisoner about. He contended that the con stable had no right to do this; prisoner had thought so too, refused to go away, and he (Mt% Smyth) understood some violence was used in removing him, and in the struggle the policeman was accidentally , stabbed, a state of facts supported by Potter's ob servation that the young man must have had the knife in his hand before the constable came up. Mr. Dayman thought the observations made by the prisoner clearly showed that he meant to stab the constable, and whether the policeman had ex' ceeded his duty or not had nothing to do with the case. His own impression was that the prisoner, having been discharged, had no right to remain in the gardens. Under these circumstances he should send the case for trial. Mr. Smyth remarked that such being his worship's determination, he would bring forward no witnesses at present. His worship would, however, he sup posed, accept bail for accused's appearance. Mr. Dayman remanded the prisoner in order that the depositions might be prepared, and accepted two securities in £5O each for his appearancp. WORSHIP-STREET. —George Rust, 31, de scribed as an artificial florist, at 44, Beech-street, City, was charged before Mr. Leigh, with obtain ing from Mr, George Damon, of Eagle -street, City road, a large quantity of glass beads value £5O 135., by means of a forged cheque. Mr. Beard defended the prisoner. The prisoner said that on the 30th of August last, he sold the prisoner the property mentioned, and received in payment a cheque for £4B 13s. purporting to be drawn by Alexander Winer upon the London and Westminster Bank. On the Ist of September he presented it, and it was returned to him marked " no account." - - Gross-examined by Mr. Beard—Prisoner did not ask me tn present the cheque immediately, nor have I received any letter to that effect. Have known the prisoner four years, and have had business transactions with him, one of which was for £5O. I received the cheque in question as part payment of the dealing for the beads. By the Court—l have been told by Mr. Winer that prisoner did not receive the cheque from him. By Mr. Beard—Mr. Winer is not here. I have no proof that be said this. Mr. Thomas Tomlinson Gill, cashier of the South wark branch of the London and Westminster Bank, in Wellington-street, Southwark, proved the pre sentation of the cheque, and that not any account was kept there by Mr. Winer; he so marked it. Manbridge, 145 N, proved having apprehended the prisoner in Hailsham, in Sussex, on Saturday last, on this charge. On hearing the charge prisoner asked if any one else was in custody upon it ; and the reply being in the negative, he added, " If the prosecutor follows up this charge I shall get four years." Mr. Winer told me this morning that he paid the prisoner in hard cash for the beads; pri soner also told nr.i while coming to London in the train that he did not write upon the cheque, but forged it to Mr. Damon. Mr. Beard observed that such a string of words was simply ridiculous and totally without meaning. Prosecutor had manifestly been too hasty in pre fc•rrin T this charge, and not any evidence was be fore the court to bring prisoner within the pale of the criminAl law. Mr. Leigh said he should assuredly remand the prisoner, and refused bail. ALLEGED OUTRAGE ON A YOUNG LADY. At the Petty Sessions, West Bromwich, on Sa turday, Major Elwell and Mr. W. Sharp being the presiding magistrates, William Henry Paine, a respectable-looking young man, residing at the Lozells, the son of a farmer in Suffolk, who rents between 300 and 400 acres of land from Sir Chat les Hanbury, was placed in the dock, charged with committing a rape upon the person of Ellen Mary Bagnall, aged 20 years, dressmaker, of Perry Barr, Mr. J. T. Bayley, of Wednesbury, having briefly stated the facts upon which the charge was founded, called the prosecutrix, Ellen Mary Bagnall, a ' modest, genteel-looking girl, who seemed very ill, and was accommodate with a chair during the proceedings. She said.—l have known the prisoner twelve months last Christmas. Last Monday even ing I had been to Mr. Barrett's surgery for some physic for my mother, and in returning had to pass the house where the prisoner lodges, at the top of Chain Walk, in the Lozell's Road. I saw him talking to a young man, and when I came up he wished him good night and joined me. We went together down the Heathfield Road, and along the Wstminster Road to Hollerton Smith's mill, when 1 said, " Let us go back, or we shall be sure to meet my sister." I also said, "Itis so late, I dare not go back all the way round by the road ,•' let us go the nearest way across the fields." As we were walking along I told him that my mother said I must give him up, when he bit his lips and seemed vexed, and said, "It appears to me you want to shuffle," and I said, " You may think what you like. There is a widower lives in a house acros these field, and he has spoken to me." He asked me what he said and what he was. I told him he was an independent man, and he did not say much to me. He made no remark to this, and I said, We have lost the footpath ; let us make for it." I was then on his right hand, and he tock hold of me, and I thought he was going to pretend to push me into the ditch, when he clasped me tight, put his mouth upon mine so as to prevent my shouting, pushed me down on the bank, and fell on me. The witness then detailed the nature of the assault, which was of a brutal character, and continued : I struggled with him, and tried to push him off me, and struck him with my left hand, my right arm being pressed by hia body across mine, so that I could not use it. As soon as I escaped from him I said, " You brute, what have you done ? I shall tell the first person I meet." He said, "Not you." We met a man about thirty yards off; but he looked so rough that I did not speak to him. He said, " Hallo, what's the matter ?" and the prisoner said, "We've lost our path." He followed me nearly home, and asked me to forgive him, but I said, " No." As soon as I got in the house I told my mother what had happened.. Mr. Motteram cross-examined the witness with out shaking her evidence, Mrs. Bagnall, the mother, said—My daughter came into the house on the evening in question in “ very CZcitc4 Ntate, owl afikod Jar what WM the matter, when she came across the room and fell at my feet, and told me what had occurred. I imme diately sent for Police-constable Davies, who arrested the prisoner on the following day, and brought him to my house. When I charged him with committing a rape upon my daughter he stood for a moment, and said " I've not hurt your daughter ;" and I said, " You have ; she was a virtuous, good girl ;" and he replied, " I've nit:done anything criminal." Mr. Alfred Barrett, surgeon, of Great Hamp ton-row, said he ,?.xamined the prosecutrix on the following day. There was a bruise on the right 1 side of the right breast, and also a discoloration on. the right thigh, and another a little above the left knee. The witness then detailed such evidence as left no doubt of the nature of the assault. Mr. Motteram, for the prisoner, pleaded not guilty, and made a most able and eloquent defence, and called a witness, named George Pendroy, who deposed that he was a farm labourer, and on the night in question saw the prisoner and a young lady, - whom he believed to be the prosecutrix, pass him at about half-past nine o'clock in the evening, as he was watching in the field. They turned out of the footpath under a hedge, where he lost sight of them for a quarter of an hour, until they came over a bank together, when he asked them where they were going to, and also for something to drink. The prisoner gave him 11d., and said he thought there was a road across the field. Mr. Greenway, merchant, of Princip-street, who gave the prisoner the highest character, said be be lieved him quite incapable of doing such an action, and stated that he had been apprenticed to him, and also that he was now in his office. Mr. Thorneycroft, farmer, Harborne, and other witnesses, gave testimony to the prisoner's hitherto irreproachable character. The magistrates having retired with their clerk to consult, after the lapse of a short time returned, and amid breathless silence in the court, Mr. Sharp said that though there had been such a defence made as they very rarely heard, and one that almost tempted them to forget the evidence, which they must say was not rebutted or contradicted, they felt it to be their painful duty to commit the prisoner to take his trial at the next assizes. In consequence of his previous good character, the magistrates con sented to take bail, himself in £l,OOO, and typo sureties in £5OO each. Mr. Greenway and Mr. Harrison gave the bail required. GOUN2RI 111.611a.L.25. COLCHESTER--SETT, 6. The supply of wheat to-day at market was pretty fair, and prices were about is per qr lower. A few samples of malting barley were sold. Beans and peas were not sold. Wheat, white ..56s 64s Beans, Mazagan .. 38s 40m red 50s 60s middle & small.3BB 44s ' Barley , 31s 40s Peas, white 42s 44s O a t GLOUCESTER-SEPT. 6. To-day there was a good supply of wheat at market, most of which was of the new crop, and brought rather easier prices. CHELMSFORD-SErT. 5. The supply of wheat was large, and a fair average busi ness was done at a decline of 2s to 3s upon last week's prices. Spring corn a dull trade, at barely former prices. Wheat, old white 44s 59s Peas, Partridge- ...37s 470 new 44s 57s White 39s 40s old rcd....49s bss Boiling 4ls 43s new 48s 54s Dun 36s 48s Barley Chevalier 3os 42s Grinding 24s 32s Malt.... 6ls 67s Chevalier 64s 69s Oats 22s 29s Beans, Tick, old ..35s 390 new..—s —0 Harrow Ticks ..35s 400 Mazagan .......34s 38s KIRKCALDY GRAIN—SEPT. 6. A small show of wheat and oats to day, and only one parcel of barley. A slow trade, and prices as of late. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Od 32s Od 2Bs Od Second ..545 Gd 34s 6d 26s Od Third...6oB_od —8 Od 30s 6d COAL Al Mews of Coal per Ton al [ARKET. t the Wove of the market. s. d.l Cowpen Hartley 19 3 1 Wylam ..16 0' Carway and Duffryn Malting .. 23 0 Do. Anthracite 21 0 Holywell l6 0 Walker Primrose 12 3, Davison's West Hart- Walls End. E. d. - - ley West Wylam 15 0 Lambert's West Hart- ...... — 16 0 Bell's Primrose l3 0 North P elton Gas . /3 31 Eden Main 15 9, Kelloe Frain well gate ... . l5 6 Hartlepool 16 3 . 1 South Hartlepool.... l5 3 Hetton 0 South Hetton 17 0 Haswell l7 0 Whitworth 15 3 Cassop l6 0 South Keno° l6 0 Heugh Hall 15 6 W.Byron 15 3 Belmont 15 3 Braddyll's Hetton 15 9 Tunstall James ....14 9 78; sold, 60. Walls End. Trimdon Hartlepool ..16 Ships at market FOREIGN HAIL PACKET EMT. MAILS DUE. Aue.ralia and Mauritius, via Southampton . . Sept. 18. via Marseilles .. Sept. 12. Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. .Oct. 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Oct. 2. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Sept. 18. via Marseilles ...Sept. 12. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Sept. 14. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Sept. 18. via Marseilles Sept. 12. India (Bombay), via Southampton Sept. 14. via Marseilles Sept. 8. Lisbon Oct. 4. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Sept. 14. via Marseilles Sept. 8. Newfoundland .. Sept. 17. Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit, packet Sept. 11. by U.S. packet by Canadian packet. Sept. 10. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Sept. 10. Bahamas, via New York Sept. 23. Mexico. All parts of West Indi es , i nc l u di ng Chili, Peru, I Sept. 13. California, and Briti s h Columbia.. MOCK AUCTIONS.—The various forms in which these present themselves to public notice, and espec i a ll y to the notice of the public and magistracy, prove the necessity for some urgent measures for their suppression, for it is hopeless to expect that the fraudulent aspects they bear will always suffice to warn the unsuspecting against falling into a trap. It is quite certain that any one possessed of ordinary judgment need not bo mistaken at the genuineness of an auction anywhere ; and it is mainly for the protection of fools that we urge the adoption of whatever measures can be devised in accordance with the existing state of the law. When landlords are tempted by offers of high rent to let premises for short periods for auctions, they may always be sure they are aiding and abetting a system of swindling and at the same time ruining their own properties. Auctioneers themselves are, or should be, concerned in purifying their own ranks, and we cannot understand how it is they so quietly allow the trade to be aspersed by these will o' the wisps without name, fame, or character.—City Press. 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