The Sun. — London, England, 1862-01-22 00:00:00

THE DREADFUL COLLIERY ACCIDENT IN NOBTIITIJIBBBLAND. SHIELDS, TI7EBDAY, 9 A.M. The condition of the poor women and children ' residing in the colliery village of New Hartley, from which I have just returned, is that of "mourn ing, lamentation, and woe." This morning the fifth night of the imprisonment of the husbands and children of the women has passed away, and the sixth day has dawned, but only to reveal to us that hope, which has buoyed up the poor women and children during the past five days, must give way to despair, as it is to be feared that every soul within the pit has perished. A few short weeks ago I was travelling in a third class carriage on a " Pay Saturday" with a number of poor women be longing to this and adjacent pits, who had been to Newcastle making their marketings, and I listened with much interest to their simple and womanly expression of sympathy with the noblest lady of the land, whom they termed " our poor Queen," in her great bereavement. Now the Angel of Death, which found its way into the Palace, has swept over their cottage homes, and their case this morning is one that recommends itself to every sympathetic heart. The telegram I sent hence last night was not cheering. I might have given expression to more gloomy forebodings, but we have all been " hoping against hope ;" and, though the conditions of life under which the poor creatures in the pit were supposed to be living were among the most depressing consistent with human existence, yet the assurance was always given that the air was certain to be good in the yard seam, and that there was plenty of water. Last night, after I left the pit to send off my telegraphic mes sage from this town, the prospects of saving the men became less favourable; and, as I did not re turn to the pit until 5 o'clock this morning, I am therefore indebted to a local paper for the follow ing particulars of what transpired after my leaving up to 1 o'clock this morning : " 8 o'Clock. " Once more the shift men have come to bank, and once again a more favourable statement is made. While working at the mass of timber impacked be low the bucket door, the hole previously alluded to was sufficiently enlarged for the admission of a lan tern, but it was not lowered far. The men work steadily among the wood and small stones, and while they work they are gratified by hearing the sound of pebbles falling from underneath the ob structing material, and this proves beyond doubt that the hoped-for vacancy must exist, and as soon as the firmly fixed portion of material is once loosened, the long hoped for fall will take place. A man now sits in the hole opposite the bucket door, to direct the working during the temporary absence of Mr. Coulson, who came up at 6 o'clock. While the work proceeds the water falls down amain from the craggy sides above, but no danger of further falls is dreaded. Abaut 7 o'clock a quantity of smoke, that must have accumulated in the furnace drift before the fire in the yard seam was extin guished, found vent and came away up the pit. Time being now more and more valuable, none is expended in jowling ' experiments, and nothing is heard from the interior of the yard seam or the fur nace drift. It seems now more probable than ever that the men will be-reached before the sixth day of their captivity dawns. " 10 O'CLOCK P.M. "Notwithstanding that the various officials on the platform endeavour to put a good face on the mat ter, it is painfully evident that the hope now re maining is of that character which serves merely to gild despair. Those only who descend the shaft and work for the removal of the knotty obstructions they find there can form a correct opinion of the task on which they are engaged. These men have been from the first, if not despondent, at least doubt ful as to the accomplishment of their task, and while they have refrained from expressing aught that might lead to increase the fears of those affected by the calamity, their silence on the subject has boded no good. The viewers, on the contrary, always ex press themselves in noperul terms, and Invariably put the most favourable construction on the sternest facts that are communicated to them from below, while, if there is any intelligence of an encouraging nature it is by no means rendered less cheering by the version given by these gentlemen. Meanwhile melancholy broods gloomily over the row of cottages facing towards the colliery ; and the cccupants, con sisting now almost entirely of women, l;abitually speak in a fearful undertone, as though a sick man lay in each house whose life depended on the preser vation of deathlike stillness. The inquest on the bodies of the men killed by the fall of the cage will be held to-morrow at the Hastings Arms, Seaton Delaval, but unless the men should be got from the pit in the meantime the proceeding will probably be simply formal. It is worthy of note that among so great a number of people as have visited the colliery since the catastrophe no accident has occurred, not withstanding that the Blyth and Tyne Railroad, where trains are constantly running, seems to be used as the principal means of approach for pedes trians to the colliery. " With reference to the suggestion made by a cor respondent and noticed in a previous despatch, we learn, since that notice was written, that a telegram has been received by Mr. Humble, resident viewer, recommending the same means of supplying the men in the seam with food. The message, which is said to have been sent from Bristol, was submitted to Mr. John Carr, and to other viewers ; but the suggestion was not considered a practicable one, in asmuch as the drilling might occupy six or seven days, even if it could be accomplished from the shaft instead of from the high main. ,' 10 10 O'CLOCK. " The accounts from the pit are very gloomy. The hole has been made larger, and is sunk near the seam. Great apprehensions are entertained with regard to the stythe. Should these fears prove correct there is great danger. " 10 30 o'CLocK. " A slight fall has occurred, and has blocked up the aperture, but this obstacle is expected to be removed in half an hour. ~ 11 O'CLOCK. " Discouraging news reached the bank. Mr. Wilkinson, one of the men in charge of the working party, was sent down to examine the hole alluded to in a former paragraph. He started with the 7 o'clock shift, and remained until shortly before 10 o'clock. In the interval the men were directed to apply their efforts vigorously to the enlargement and further sinking of this aperture in the direction of the furnace drift. They did so with a will. From time to time Alte. Wilkinson examined the aperture, and though at each inspection a man of his experi ence must have detected more and more unfavour able symptoms, he dauntlessly thrust his head as far down as possible, with a view of testing the state of the air. Wilkinson was brought to bank suffering from the effects of thef o oul hi inhalation, and Dr. Davidson at once attend e d t 16A deputation of men ha s come up . fro m among the crowd requesting to be inf orme d of the true state of affairs. Mr. Coulson offered to allow two of them to go down the shaft and examine for t h em selves, and they have descended. The y ima gined that the bodies had been found, and that the intelligence was kept from them. " HALF -PAST 11 O'C LOCK. " The excitement gradually increased among the crowd until it culminated on the return to bank of the deputation,Charles Gallagher and John *Lead, -rho had been down in the pit. One of these loving made his way into the middle of the crowd, sa id .11oud, ' There is not a morsel of stythe. There is water enough to drown a man, but there is no sty the.' Mr. Foster, who had just come up the shaft, and was standing with a number of other people against the railing of the coal platform over looking the crowd, then spoke to the assemblage. lie said, 'Then the men are satiffied that every thing has been done that can be done, and that they are told the true state of the ease. There is no fear of the men if there is no stythe,but, to tell you )he truth, I am afraid that there is stythe.' " A man in the crowd asked if it was correct that they had heard jowls up to yesterday P Mr. For ster replied that he believed so. Mr. Wilkinson would not tell him a lie, and Mr. Wilkinson had told him what he had told them. "Mr. Emmerson, one of the men who works in the shaft, and who was standing near Mr. Forster, then whispered to him that they had distinctly heard jowls yesterday. Mr. Forster repeated the statement. " Some confusion then arose, in the course of which one of the men restored order by stating aloud that the managers had done all in their power under the circumstances. They had granted them a deputation, and they had reason to be satisfied if they would promise to let them have a report every two hours, although he still thought they had reason to be dissatisfied, because they had not got definite information sooner. " Mr. Foster—' You do not wish a deputation to go down every two hours r—A general reply of No, no,' and statements to the effect that a report only was wanted, were made. "Mr. Foster—' Well, now, my lads, you shall have every word that we know. I will tell you whatever I hear. It is quite possible they may get the hole up in an hour, and it is possible it may be longer, or it may be less. I think there is no fear if there is no stythe. But I will tell the truth; I have great fear there is some stythe.' He hoped they were now satisfied." On reaching the pit this morning again at 5 o'clock, I found every one at bank in the greatest excitement —as Mr. William Coulson, the master sinker's son, Richard Wilson, Richard Pickup, John Liddell, and Matthew Dodds, sinkers, had just been taken out of the shaft, suffering from the effects of gas, Wilson apparently dying. They were immediately attended to by the medical men, and have happily all recovered. As already indicated by the extract made above, " stythe" had come up from below as loose stones fell from among the tim ber, and some of the men came to bank slightly suffering from it;in the early part of the morning. The sinkers, however, wrought with a will during the night, and a considerable quantity of loose stone was removed from among the timber and sent up to the high seam, The working parties had forced their way down to the clackhead pump, and they found it so firm that about 5 o'clock, the men whose names are given, had got of their "loops," and were standing, clearing away the rubbish ; indeed, had driven below it, and found a hollow space beneath. Everything gave a cheering prospect that the yard seam might be soon reached, and the sufferers, if alive, rescued at last, when there was a sudden and heavy fall of loose stones from among the timbers, and an immediate emission of gas. The men were overpowered by it ; but they had strength left to rap to their " marrows" in the high seam. They at once were lowered to them in " corves," and on reaching the platform they found the men nearly unconscious. They got them into the " corves," and were wound up to bank, and were brought up not a minute too soon, as the relieving party were being seriously affected by the gas. They describe it as coming up through the timber like blue smoke. The men who went to the rescue of their companions were James Muter, George Pace, George Graham, and John Henderson. Mutes had a most miraculous escape from death on Sunday while working in the shaft. He was below in the debris at the time of the heavy fall of stone. He was surrounded by it, but not struck by it, and there was just space enough left for him to be drawn through by the gin. The gas by which the four sinkers nearly lost their lives is very fatal to life. It is not found in the workings of-the mines in this district as exuding from the natural coal in the seam. But the furnace generates it among other gas. It is denominated carbonic oxide. It is a light, volatile gas, and would ' in the opinion of viewers, find its way into the shaft. The men lost below were heard to "jowl" in the shaft at 1 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, and it is cer tain that they have not been heard since. Down to and a little beyond that hour this gas would, to some extent, find its way out of the shaft through the interstices of the timber choking up the shaft; but late in the afternoon, it will be remembered, there was a heavy fall of stone, which would fill it up, and it is feared would almost hermetically seal up the shaft. Mr. Atkinson, the Government In epnotor of Mines, who has been here several days, furnishes me with the following note : "The furnace generates, among other gases, a very deadly one, carbonic oxide. This gas, owing to the blocking up of the shaft, has accumulated in the yard coal in the immediate neighbourhood of the shaft, and sufficiently accounts for the men being prevented from approaching the shaft to signal for so long a time—they have possibly retreated from this enemy into the workings, where they may have lived in the comparatively pure air of the mine. Some, however, have in all probability been de stroyed in their attempts to approach the shaft, or in their anxiety! to remain in its vicinity." Mr. Telford, Mr. G. Foster, and some other gen tlemen of great practical experience also agree with Mr. Atkinson that some of the men, indeed the great body of them, may still be alive in the yard seam. The following experiment, however, has sub sequently been tried :—A cat was lowered down the shaft in a basket from the upper seam 24 fathoms, and was kept there half an hour, when brought up it was stupid, and it has since died. An npcast and downcast shaft exists between bank and the high seam by means of a staple. From thence workmen will be occupied nearly all day in making a similar down and up-cast to the yard seam by means of a cloth brattice. The depth is from 50 to 60 yards ;it is to be feared it will be a tedious undertaking. NORTH SHIELDS, JAN, 21, 8 P.M, A quantity of prepared canvass has been brought to the pit from the neighbouring collieries. It is anticipated that the brattice in the shaft will be completed to-morrow morning. A fan-blast is also being erected in connexion with the furnace. It is quite possible, however, that to-morrow will be far advaneed before operations are resumed to remove the obstructions, as they cannot go on until the shaft is made safe and the gas has been removed. An inquest has been held to-day on the men killed in the shaft. Evidence was taken only of the beam breaking and falling, the larger issue of the cause being left until the other men have been found in the pit. Mr. Carr and the various viewers still hold to the opinion that a stronger body of men in the pit may be alive. The carbonic oxide is supposed to be local. It has not found its way into the yard seam. The air in the pit consists of many millions of gallons, and is supposed to be comparatively pure. 1,500 gallons of water flow into the seam per minute, and dislodge 1,500 gallons of air, which must find its way out through the staple leading into the yard seam. Eminent medical men are of opinion that, though nearly entering on the seventh day of their impti sonment, strong men with tolerable air and water may hold out some time yet. A large concourse of pitmen about the colliery are inclined to be riotous. Respectably dressed persons are allowed to go tothe pit's mouth, but working men are excluded, except those persons who are engaged in the operations. The men are calm, but there is a good deal of agita tion for a double shaft movement. The pitmen thought of knocking off work at adjoining collieries out of respect to the buried men. They were ad vised, as a more prudent course, to keep to their work and give assistance to the families of the buried men, and the advice has been adopted. A meeting of the principal mining engineers in the coal trade was held here this afternoon ; they ap prove the arrangements adopted in the shaft under the altered circumstances. FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. MAILS DITE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. .. Jan. • via Marseilles ..... Feb. 16 Brazil and C ape Yards, by British packet. Feb. 3. Cape of G oo d Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Feb. 1. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampthn.Jan. Falkland I s l an d s ..... • via Marseilles ...Jan. 2 7. ... ... ... Gibraltar, via Southampton 3. n. S India (Calcutt a ), an] Ceyloon, yiluthrtmpto . . ... j .T F i en n b: . via Marseilles.... Jan. 27. India (Bombay), via Southampton J an 25. via Marseilles ut Jan. --, Lisbon ................................ Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Soham . pton Jan. Jan. 21 an. •—• Newfoundland ..............................Feb.................. 22 Oporto and Vigo ............... Jan. 21. U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Jan. 22 by -U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. Jan. 22. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriire .......... Feb. 10. Bahamas, via New York Feb. 13, Mexico , Jan. 28. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru,; Jan. 28. California, and British Columbia,, THE WIND.HAM CASE. The adjourned inquiry into the state of mind of Mr. W. F. Windham, of Felbrigg-hall, Norfolk was resumed yesterday in the Westminster Ses sions-house, before Mr. Warren, Q.C., one of the Masters in Lunacy, and a special jury. Mr. Jackson, a solicitor, produced several letters addressed to him by Mr. Windham. This closed the evidence for the defence. Mr. Russell then addressed the jury for Lady Sophia Giubilei, the mother of the alleged lunatic. His client, he said, had no personal interest in this case apart from the interest of her son, but the Lords Justices had thought that in an inquiry into the mental sanity of her own child she should not be doomed to be a mere passive spectator, and he thought it would admitted that her counsel had not hitherto abused the power granted to her to be present and take part in the proceedings. Mr. Cham bers in his able opening speech had stated that Lady Sophia was to be taken as concurring in the petition against her son. That statement was not correct. Lady Sophia had never concurred—she did not now concur—in these proceedings; but, on the contrary, all her sympathies, interests, and wishes were with her son. It would be unnatural, indeed, for a mo ther, except upon the clearest grounds and for the most incontestable reasons, to assist in branding her own child with the stamp of mental incapacity. Perhaps the only gratifying feature in this case was that Mr. Windham—of whom it had been said that his heart was not capable of good and that he had no moral feeling—bad during his whole life, beginning from his earliest youth, con stantly expressed the deep and earnest affection which - he entertained for his mother. It was not surprising, therefore, that Lady Sophia, instead of concurring in the petition against her son, should disapprove and condemn it. She regretted and grieved over the faults which undoubtedly had stained his youth ; but those features of the case had been greatly softened by the evidence for the defence, and Lady Sophia looked forward with con fidence to the result of the interview which the Master and the jury proposed to have with her son. The jury had to consider a case surrounded by pre judice and falsehood, but he :trusted they would rivet their attention upon its real merits. He hoped they would pause long before they fixed upon Mr. Windham the stain of insanity—before they took from him on the very threshold of manhood that which made manhood a thing to be prized—the sense of personal freedom and personal independ ence. They had been told this inquiry would have a sobering effect upon him, enabling him to distin guish real from pretended friends, and, if so, it would serve a great and beneficial end. By a ver dict in his favour they would give him an opportu nity of retrieving the follies of his youth—the follies of a raw, riotous, unrestrained, untutored youth — and of playing a part which, though not conspicu ous by great deeds, might not be altogether un worthy of the name he bore and of the social , position into which he was born. Mr. Karslake was then heard for Mr. Wind ham. He rejoiced to hear from Mr. Russell that there was at least one of the relatives of Mr. Wind ham who did not appear in the ranks of the petitioners against him. He had thought until a recent period that there were two parties in this in quiry—the accuser and the accused ; but the jury had been told that, in addition to the other anoma lies which surrounded the case, there was no recog nised accuser at all, and that Mr. Chambers appeared there as a friend of the Court for the pur pose of assisting it in ascertaining whether Mr. Windham was insane or not. The result of the inquiry, whether favourable or the reverse to Mr. Windham, would be to saddle him with a charge of some £15,000 or £20,000, and for that enormous burden he would have to thank the petitioners, be cause they had chosen to bring forward a case which could not be proved in evidence, and because they had acted throughout, not in a fair, honest, and judicial spirit, but as partisans for the purpose of depriving Mr. Windham of his property, which was the only thing they cared a straw about. It must be admitted that, besides the prejudice excited by the petitioners against Mr. Windham, the pre judice which the alleged lunatic had created by his own acts weighed heavily upon him now. Even in contracting his marriage Mr. Windham had done an act which was calculated to disgust society. He should have thought, however, that when it had been proved that General Windham, Mr. Hook, and the other petitioners had made numerous affi davits in the Court of Chancery for the purpose of inducing the Lords Justices to issue a commission of lunacy against their youthful relative, and after wards had refused to pledge their oaths before the public to the truth of these statements, the case ought at once to have been brought to an end. No doubt he should hear some specious reasons from Mr. Chambers for not calling General Windham and the other petitioners as witnesses; but he sub mitted that if the jury were satisfied that the mo tives of General Windham were not so disinterested as they had been represented to be, and that he had declined to appear in the witness-box and to sub- ' mit himself to a cross-examination in the face of the public from a well-grounded indisposition to repeat in open court the statements which he had made to the Lords Justices, there was no reason, however specious, which could remove the im pression from their minds that General Wind ham had acted incautiously and unfairly. It was not his intention to contest the right of the petitioners to institute a proceeding which they honestly believed to be necessary and likely to be justified by the result. If General Windham and the rest of the band of petitioners were really of opinion that their statements in the Court of Chan cery amounted to proof of insanity—if they were satisfied that their allegations could be confirmed by unimpeachable evidence in open court—no fault could be found with them for the course they had adopted, even though they might saddle Mr. Win dham with an enormous debt and expose to the pub lic gaze every folly and vice of his early years. But, he repeated, the petitioners had acted through out, not as judges of the cause, but as partisans, and had done everything in their power to excite a pre judice in the public mind against their young rela tive. Instead of going to Mr. and Mrs. Martin, who above all other persons knew the early his tory of Mr. Windham, they had produced in the Court of Chancery a series of statements upon which they did not venture to rely before a jury, and they had been guilty of a deliberate concealment of evi dence, because they knew it would not suit their purpose. It would be recollected, moreover, that they had carefully kept out of sight the character and peculiarities of old Mr. Windham; and yet the jury had heard from Dr. Conolly that it was im possible to judge of young Mr. Windham without knowing something of his treatment in early life and the influences to which he was then exposed. The truth was, he believed, that young Mr. Wind ham was in many respects a counterpart of his father, all whose frailties and foibles were perfectly well known to the petitioners, who, nevertheless, acting in the spirit of partisans, had done every thing they could to conceal them from the jury. During the course of the case for the petitioners, two pictures, one of which must necessarily be untrue, had been drawn by Mr. Windham. Ac cording to Mr. Chambers, in his opening speech, backed by a number of policemen, Mr. Windham was a congenital imbecile, continually slavering at the mouth, talking ircohe ently, and screeching and howling like a madman. That picture had been utterly wiped out by Dr. Winslow, Dr. Mayo, and Lord Alfred Hervey, who had favoured the Court with another portrait of Mr. Windham, equally in consistent with the first and with truth. Mr. Wind ham, according to the two doctors and his uncle, although of unsound mind and incapable of managing his affairs, was so little of an imbecile that any person might converse with him for hours without perceiving that there was anything the matter with him at all. But the real issue before the j ury was not whether Mr. Windham was of un sound mind, or whether he was incapable of his affairs, but w h e th er h e was incompe tenta conduct of his aff a i r s by reason o f un soundness managing n in e t s hg s e of mind. It might be true that many of his acts had been profligate and vicious; but what the jury had to consider was, not whether Mr. Wind ham had spent his youth in excesses of various ' I ' THE SUN, 'LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY kinds and had done many foolish and objectionable' things, but whether the acts and events which had been proved in evidence were the clear and indis putable result of insanity. He admitted that there were defects in the character of Mr. Windham, but those defects were attributable to the example of his father and to the treatment he received in child hood. Mr. Windham seemed to have been allowed to do what he liked in childhood: his education, such as it was, ceased at too early an age, and he never was wisely or prudently directed. The evi dence of the witnesses showed that when at school he was not a boy of dirty habits, while the slaver ing was completely accounted for by the peculiar formation of his mouth, which had nothing what ever to do with his mental capacity. At school he was somewhat riotous and boisterous in his manner, and that circumstance, coupled with his fondness for rough out-door sports, satisfactorily explained his sobriquet of " Mad Windham." The learned counsel reflected with severity upon the conduct of some of the tutors, and argued that, though apt to resent and resist force when used by those whom he disliked, Mr. Windham was always amenable to authority properly andfairly exercised —while his letters to his mother showed that he had an affectionate disposition, He asked the jury whe ther it was likely, if Mr. Windham were the sort of wild beast he was represented to be by the peti tioners, if he were a creature who spent his time in howling and catcalling, a person who never by any chance indulged in coherent and consequential con versation, he would have been kept so long at Eton, or could have induced gentlemen of education, ability, and position to live and travel with him ? Mr. Burr, the tutor at Wokingham, had distinctly stated that in point of intellect Mr. Windham was not inferior to the other young men under his charge, and that if he had continued his studies a short time longer he would have passed the army examination without the smallest difficulty. On the other hand, the evidence of Mr. Cook and others showed conclusively that Mr. Windham transacted his business like any other gentleman, while the conduct of Mr. Andrews, of Rimpton, when he ex pressed his willingness to allow his daughter under certain conditions, to enter into an engagement with Mr. Windham was clear and convincing proof that in the opinion of a gentleman of great intelligence and position there was not the slightest taint of in aanity about the alleged lunatic. The education of Mr. Windham might be said to have closed When he left Eton, for none of his subsequent tutors, or rather companions, ever read with him, or ever wished to read with him. Col. Bathurst had given his evidence with more fairness than the other tutors, but he ought to have stated before leaving the witness-box that, after his connection with the alleged imbecile had altogether ceased, he did not scruple to visit him as a friend. The history of his connection with th e E as t Norfolk Militia at Great Yarmouth, abundantly proved that Mr- Windham, though qu i c k t o resent an injury, was always ready to snow respect where re spect was due, and capable of discharging his duties satisfactorily and properly when he chose to per form them. Mr. Scott, the metaphysician and solicitor, of Aylsham, had formed and expressed an opinion that Mr. Windham was insane, but the same gentleman had on several occasions gone to Felbrigg-hall and dined with the alleged lunatic, and had taken his wife and daughter with him, exposing them to the insults which a man who could not talk rationally or coherently might be ex pected at any moment to heap upon them. The way in which Mr. Windham was treated by the gentlemen of his own neighbourhood—the visits paid to him by Captain Ives, a deputy-lieutenant of the county, and his terms of intimacy with Lord and Lady Suffield, ought to have greater weight with the jury than opinions formed upon such flimsy and worthless grounds as those stated by Mr. Scott and others. No person could doubt for a moment that if Mr. Windham had been insane I.e would neither have been permitted to remaifi in the East Norfolk Militia, received as a guest by Lord Suffield, nor visited as a friend by Captain Ives. In an evil hour Mr. Windham went to lodge with the Llewellins, in Duke-street. The affidavits of the Llewellins to the Lords Justices were to the effect that Mr. Windham was more like a wild beast than a human being. That he was either unable or unwilling to wash himself, unless compelled to do so. That he was taken out of his room and put into a bath every morning by Mr. Llewellin. That he habitually threw away his money. That he was in the habit of running about the house in a state of nakedness. That he repeatedly exposed his person in a dis graceful manner to 'Nil's. Llewellin, and that his bed was frequently found in a filthy condition. Could anybody doubt that the Llewellins were mere creatures of Gen. Windham ? Gen. Windham had been called a distinguished man. All his informa tion of Gen. Windham had been derived from public report, he cared nothing for what his conduct might have been in the field. He judged him by his actions alone, and he begged to tell General Wind ham that he was a mere carpet knight if he could attack his nephew with affidavits in the retirement of the Court of Chancery, and then decline to re peat his statements in open court. General Wind ham had blown his own trumpet rather loudly; he had challenged his kinsman to the combat; he had exposed his life to the public gaze with every cir cumstance of exaggeration and falsehood, but, with a moral cowardice almost unexampled, when his nephew entered the lists to meet him in fair fight, he had left his hired and perjured witnesses to make what stand they could, and had meanly skulked and hid himself in the seat beside his counsel. Here was a man who the day before Mr. Windham came of age treated him as sane and competent, and who, long after his marriage, attempted to sell him a property worth £l,OOO. The last thing we heard of General Windham was that when Elizabeth Moore proved the perjury of Mrs. Llewellin in connexion with one of the most disgusting features of his case, he left his home in Belgravia on Christ mas morning and sought out the humble dwelling of Mrs. Brown, the laundress, for the purpose of seeing whether he could not bolster up the evidence of a baffled and discredited witness. General Wind ham had not the courage to come forward in open court and support the charge which he had dared to make against his nephew. In the privacy of the Court of Chancery he had ventured to defame and blacken the character of his youthful relative, but he had proved himself craven, recreant, and coward enough to decline to sanction by his oath in the face of the public a story which he had foisted upon the Lords Justices, and which he had not hesitated to support by the evidence of hireling witnesses. It was a remarkable fact that, after he had retained the Llewellins'as his principal wit nesses, General Windham, of whose distinction we had heard so much, did not scruple to dine with a retired valet and his wife to celebrate the birthday of a brother soldier. The house in Duke-street was, indeed, a mysterious establishment. Generals, co lonels, clergymen, and di s ti ngu i s hed schola rs were there in the habit of dining with a common lodging house-keeper, who one d a y wa ited like a foot man and the next sat down at table, while his wife took daily airings in a cab with a ge ntleman whom s h e called and sometimes travelled with him Th ea l ea r ned her farr e e aa ns " e Ramsgate.bd "baby, '' he , tleman had not concluded his speech when the Court adjourned. SHIP ASHORE AT ROMNEY.—The Dutch schooner Fry Fries, Arome, master, from Holland for Belfast, with linseed, went ashore near Romney coastguard-station about half-past son Monday morrAg, but was got off with the assistance of the Coastguard before noon, and proceeded to Dover harbour, where she has since arrived. BENSON'S WATCHES AND CLOCKS.-" Perfection of meclianism."—Morning Post. Gold watches, sto I (Oguineas; silver watches, 2 to 50 guineas. Benson's new Illustrated Pamphlet, free for two stamps, descriptive of every construc tion of watch, enables persons in any part of the world to select with the greatest certainty the watch best adapted to their use. Watches sent free and safe by post on receipt of a remittance. —J. W. Benson, 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, 46 and 47, Cornhill, London, E .C.—Established 174/ [ADVERTISEMENT.] — HoIIoway's Pills for the Cure of Biliousness, Liver and Stomach Complaints, and General Debility.—This medicine is so well known in every part of the world, and the cures effected by it are so wonderful, that it now stands in no need of public eulogy. Its pre eminence as a remedy for bilious and liver eel - up - taints, and disorders of the stomach and the chest, is no longer a matter of dispute or doubt. In these diseases th e beneficial effects . of these invaluable are so permanent and extensive that the whole system is reno va t e d, th organs of digestion strengthened', and a tree and easy respiration promoted. Plain directions for the use of this admirable medicine, at once so mild and efficacious, are affixed to each box. Hol. loway's Pills are always safe, and act as gentle aperients, 1 22, 1862. HEALTH OF LONDON DURIN - G4 THE WEEK. (From the .Regtstrar-Generak Weekly Return.) The mortality of London irl the week that ended on Saturday exhibited a satisfactory decrease on the rather formidable return of the previous week. The deaths, which had risen to 1,561, fell last week to 1,391. The deaths from pulmonary diseases (exclusive of phthisis) were 348 in the previous week ; they de clined to 310 last week. Those from bronchitis now returned are 185, the corrected average being 206; from pneumonia they were 79, whereas the cor rected average of corresponding weeks is 104. Phthisis was fatal to 144 persons, against an aver age of 163. _ There was a decrease in scarlatina last week ; the number referred to it was 57, It had previously ranged considerably above 70. There were 14 from diptheria, 3 of which occurred in the first sub dis trict, Lambeth Church. Three children have died of diphtheria in a family at 39, Penton-street, Clerkenwell, within 12 days. Five of the deaths from scarlatina occurred in Deptford. Typhus num bered 52 deaths, the corrected average being 47. The eastern districts returned 16, the southern 22. Four occurred in Hoxton, 4 in St. James's, Ber mondsey, 3 in the Borough-road sub-district. Of these 62 deaths, 15 are returned as caused by typhus, 20 by typhoid fever, 6 by gastric fever, 1 by bilious fever, 1 by continued fever, 1 by infan tile fever, and 8 by fever. A woman died on the 4th inst. at 12, Hyde-place, Hoxton, from destitution. A labourer, his name unknown, died apparently from want on Ole follow ing day at 7, Warren-lane, Woolwich. When in a state of exhaustion he was hospitably admitted to a common lodging-house, where he had requested to 1 1 be permitted to enter, and died soon after. Last week the births of 1,007 boys and 989 girls, in all 1,996 children, were registered in London. In the 10 corresponding weeks of the years 1852-61 the average number (corrected) was 1,890. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.747 in. The readings fell to 29'40 in. on Tuesday, and rose to 29.90 in. on Saturday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 35 deg., which is 0.7 deg. below the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The air was warm on Sunday, and the mean daily temperature con tinued above the average till Thursday; it then fell, and on the last two days the amount of depression was about 9 deg. The highest day temperature was 48 deg. on Sunday ; the lowest night temperature was 22 deg. on Saturday. The thermometer fell below the freezing point of water on the last three nights. The range of temperature in the week was 26 deg. The mean daily range was 9.6 deg. The difference between the mean dew-point temperature and the air temperature was 6.1 deg. This difference, showing the dryness of the air, varied from 1.3 deg. on Sunday to 16.2 deg. on Saturday. The mean degree of humidity was 82, complete saturation be ing represented by 100. The humidity fell from 95 on Sunday and Tuesday to 55 on Saturday. The wind blew from south-west and north-west in the early part of the week; towards the end it was in south-east. Rail fell to the amount of 019 in., the greater part of it on the morning of Tuesday. The mean of the highest temperature of the Thames was 43.1 deg., that of the lowest 40.5 deg. On Satur day the lowest temperature of the water was 6.4 deg. above the highest temperature of the air, and 16 4 deg. above the lowest. The thermometer on the grass fell on Saturday to 17 deg. COURT OF.ALILERIEN. Yesterday a Court of Aldermen was held at Guildhall, the Lord Mayor acting as chairman. There was a numerous attendance of alderman. The sheriffs reported that the number of prisoners at pre sent in the gaol of Newgate was 95 ; in the Debtors' Prison,Whitecross-street, 91; and in Holloway ge.ol 365. Alderman and Col. Wilson presented a petition from the gas meter manufacturers of London, pray ing the Court to take steps to resist the alleged en croachment of the Metropolitan Board of Works on their trading interests as a body. He said the peti tion, with one exception, was signed by every meter manufacturer of the city of London. It appeared that by an act of last session the Metropolitan Board claimed the right of stamping all meters in the metropolis, but meter manufacturers, with one exception, preferred that they should be stamped in the city, and had expressed an opinion that the act referred to did not include the city. The officers of the Corporation had been in communication with the Government on the subject, and the Lord Mayor had received a reply, which he asked to have read. This communication contained the written opinion of the Attorney and Solicitor-General to the effect that the Act 24 and 25 Vic., cap. 79, did not transfer the powers of the city to the Metropo litan Board of Works. The petition was referred to the General Purposes Committee. Mr. Alderman Sidney, M.P., presented a petition from the inha bitants and traders of St. Mary-at-Hall and others in the ward of Billingsgate, relative to the destruc tion to the traffic in that locality occasioned by fish carts and barrows. This petition also, after some discussion, was referred to the General Purposes Committee, with instructions to take the opinion of the Recorder as to the powers vested in the city authorities for the regulation of the traffic. Mr. Alderman Finnis presented a petition of certain sworn brokers of the city of London, praying that the admission of brokers by that Court might be discontinued, together with the rules and regula tions now established. The petitioners maintained that the rules were not only obsolete, but deroga tory to the city, and were condemned by the Royal Commissioners in 1854. The petition was referred to a committee to inquire generally into the whole matter, and to report thereon. Mr. Alderman Sid ney then presented a petition, signed by a very large number of sworn brokers and members of the Stock Exchange, praying for an abolition of the annual rent payable in respect of the office of broker: The petition having been read, the Lord Mayor said that, if he was right, that Court could not deal with the revenues of the city ; and he, therefore, put it to the worthy alderman whether it would be wise to take any course in reference to the matter. Mr. Al derman Copeland had no objection to this question being mooted in the Court of Common Council, but the Court of Aldermen certainly had no power whatever to remit the tax. Mr, Alderman Sidney, on the other hand, contended that the Court of Aldermen, by an act of Edward 1., had power to deal with the question independently olthe Court of Common Council. The Lord Mayor again ex pressed his conviction that a question of revenue could not be entertained by that Court. Mr. Alder man Sidney insisted that he was quite in order, and from what he knew of the petitioners he believed that if their memorial was rejected, instead of going to the Court of Common Council they would go to the House of Commons. He should take the sense of the Court upon the question, and therefore moved that the petition be referred to the General Pur poses Committee, to consider and report thereon. Sir Henry Muggeridge secondbd the motion. The Recorder expressed an opinion that the Court of Aldermen had no power to deal with the revenues; but it was open to the Court to do as they pleased with the petition. Mr. Alderman Challis moved as an amendment, "That the petition be received." Upon a show of hands there appeared for the amend ment, 8 ; against it, 7. Whereupon a division was demanded, when nine voted for and nine against the amendment. The Lord Mayor then gave hi s casting vote in favour of the amendment, which was agreed to as an original motion. Mr. Alderman Finnis moved that the petition be referred to the General Purposes Committee, to which several alder men objected as being irregsiar. It was, put to the Court, and lost by a l arge majority. The Gaol Committee reported that they had considered the duties end emoluments of the office of Governor of the Debtors' Prison, Whitecross •street, and re commended that the salary be £2OO per annum, with certain conditions. The report was agreed to, and referred back to the committee to select candidates for the office, and also to consider what altermi3lis were necessary to be made in the gaol in consequence of the diminished number of prisoners. Several re ports from the General Purposes Committee of an unimportant character were brought up and agreed to: Mr. Alderman Sidney moved " That it be re ferred to a committee of the whole Court to consider as to the expediency of continuing the imposition of the annual tax known as brokers' rents upon the sworn brokers of this city, and likewise as to the control exercised by this Court in relation to such brokers, and to report thereon." Mr. Alderman Copeland asked Mr. Alderman Sidney not to per sist in his motion. Mr. Alderman Sidney declined to give way. Mr. Alderman Copeland then desired that the Court should be counted, and, there not being a sufficient number present, the proceedings abruptly terminated. OFFICIAL REPORT. SHIP ELIZA, OF LIVERPOOL. Greenwich Police-court, Jan. 13, 1862, My Lords,—l have the honour to transmit for your Lord ships' information, minutes of evidence and the accompany ing report of the formal investigation in regard to the aban donment of the barque Eliza, of Liverpool, which, pursuant to your Lordships' directions, has been made by me, in con junction with Capt. Harris as nautical assessor. The barque Eliza of 447 tons burthen, was built in Nova Scotia in 1858, and registered in Liverpool in 1861. She was classed A 1 for four years from 1858 in the Veritas (French Lloyd's), and was in the last year of her letter. She was insured in Liverpool in the sum of £2,200, and was part owned, to the extent of 12-64ths, by the master, Capt. Wm. Raisbeck, who holds a certificate of competency, dated Aug. 18, 1855. The Eliza had a crew of 12 persons, exclusive of the mas • ter. She appears to have been a strong, well-bu It ship, tight, and well found. The cargo, consisting of portions of an iron wet dock, manufactured by Messrs. Rennie for the Spanish Government, was shipped with due care to the stowage. She left the Downs on the morning of the 28th of November last, on her voyage to Cartha gena, in Spain, with a fair wind from E. to N.E., and passed Beachy Head at 4 p.m, the same day. About mid night the wind shifted to the S.W., and freshened till 4 a.m. of the 25th, when they shortened sail. At 7a m. the pumps were sounded, and the ship was found to have made some water, about 2 feet 6 inches—of no great moment when we find that she sucked at 9 inches. At 8 a.m. all hands went to the pumps, which sucked after two hours' pumping. At 10 a.m. the foresail was furled, and the ship was then under close-reefed topsails, and from this time till she was abandoned, at 5 p.m. next day, there was no at tempt to make sail upon her. At this time (10 a.m. of the 25th) some part of her cargo was found to be in motion with the rolling of the ship. It may be here mentioned that the cargo consisted of pieces of iron, of various shapes and sizes, such as iron plates, ribs and bars of angle iron, cylinders, &c. The chief part of the cargo, about 400 tons, stowed in the lower hold, was firmly secured, by means of planks, stan chions, and wedges, from the under side of the hold-beams; but the upper part of the cargo, which was stowed upon the beams, was not secured in the same manner, and would, when the ship rolled, no doubt shift about a little, and make a noise, so as to cause possibly some alarm; but there is no reason to believe that any serious injury was caused to the ship by this means. Under these circumstances, and in the threatening state of the weather, at 1 p.m., the ship being then abreast of Brighton, the master prudently resolved to bear up and run back to the Downs. At 6 p.m. the ship was brought to the wind off Dungeness, the light bearing N.E, by N., distant five or six miles, and permitted to drift up Channel, wearing from timg,to time to keep her in the fairway, the intention being to make the Downs at daylight. During the night Dungeness and the South Foreland Lights, as also shore lights at Folkestone and Dover, were kept in view. About 5 30, when abreast of Dover, the ship was wore on the starboard tack, and stood out till about 6 30 a.m., when she was wore round on the port tack, and about 7 a.m., just at daylight, she is stated to have been distant about one mile or a mile and a half from the South Sand Ii ead Light, the South Foreland Light then bearing W.N.W., and the South Sand Head Light N.E., the wind being S.S.W. by W. These are the bearings as stated in the log and in the master's protest; but the master himself, in his examination, was desirous of casting a doubt upon the correctness of the en try of the South Sand Head Light as being N.E. Accord - ing to his statement, the South Sand Head Light bore N.N.E. I see no reason, however, to doubt the accuracy of the entry in the log, and consequently, had sail been made on the ship at the time, she was in a proper position for en tering the Downs, for which the wind was fair ; and, as the mainsail had been furled with the reef in it, the ship would have very quickly gone ahead and reached her anchorage, which was then only 21 miles distant. This omission was a " default" on the part of the master, and was followed up by a still more palpable default on his part, for when he found himself, as he says, too far to the eastward to weather the South Sand Head Light, he should have put his ship before the wind and run along the back of the Goodwin Sands for Margate Roads, or any safe anchorage in the entrance to the Thames. An hour or an hour and a half would have placed him in perfect safety. Instead of this course, he wore ship on the starboard tack, standing off shore S. by E. for four hours, until noose, when he sighted the French coast somewhere about %ads, distant six or seven miles. The reason he allegees for stand ing on this course so long was in order to get to windward, so as to be able to weather the South Sand Head Light; but he seems not to have reflected that, having no sails set to keep the ship to windward, his leeway and the whole strength of the ebb tide, then setting to the northward and eastward on the starboard beam, were putting her fast to leeward. In fact, by his own admission he did not know in what direction the ebb tide set; and though he consulted his tide tables, as he says, ho was between three and four hours out in his calculation of the time of tide. With re ference to the tide, it may be as well to mention that by the Admirality tide tables it was high water at Dover on the morning of the 26th of November at 4 40 a.m., and at Calais at 5 17. These defaults are of such a grave cha racter, and evince such an amount of incompe tency, that they demand notice, though only inci dentally connected with the particular question in this case—viz., the abandonment of the ship. At noon, the French coast being six or seven miles distant, the master wore ship on the port tack, heading N.W. 1 N., and in half an hour afterwards, it being then probably dead low water, the ship struck on a sandbank seven miles N. by W. of Calais, probably the continuation of the Dych, on part of which, at low water, there is only three to three and a half fathoms water, When she struck the boatswain sounded the pumps, and, finding she was making no more water than usual, he came aft, and as he says, pacified the master. At this time, certainly, if not earlier, the master seems to have con ceived the intention of abandoning the ship. He ordered the gig to be launched, and fetched his chronometer from the cabin, but finding the ship apparently uninjured, the boat, which had been towing asternwith a man id her, was ordered to be hoisted in, but she was stove in hauling her up, and went adrift, The ship continued this N.W. IN. course, still under double-reefed topsails only, till 4 p.m., when a vessel, which proved to be the barque Magdalena, of Bre men, hove in sight, and was hailed by the master, and en treated by him to take them on board, as their ship was sinking. The Magdalena hove to about a quarter of a mile to leeward, and the crew of the Eliza went on board her in three trips of their own pinnace, the master going in the sec nd trip. Before leaving the ship the master, as he tells us, went and sounded the well (with what object it is not easy to comprehend), and found, as he says, five feet water in her. He would not say, how ever, positively there were more than four feet water. When abandoned, the Eliza was left with the maintopsail on the cap and the foretopsail set, with the helm lashed a-lee, in which state she was found some hours afterwards by Calais boatmen, and carried into that port. So fully bent upon the abandonment of the ship does the master seem to have been, that he makes no re quest or suggestion to the master of the Magdalena as to staying by the Eliza, or ma ki ng any attempt to save her, though the weather in less than an hour's time bad become quite moderate, and cleared up so that the North Foreland Light was seen at 20 miles distance. No evidence has been produced as to the state of the Eliza when picked up and brought into Calais. We may however conclude from the deposit ion of the Eliza's carpenter, John Mercer, who went on board, her in Calais harbour some days afterwards, that she had sustained no internal injury, and that the leak was not very considerable. Though we are without any direct evidence as to the extent to which the master had rea sonable ground for supposing her to be in a sinking state, yet there are various circumstances from which it may be fairly inferred that the severity of the weather and the dangerous condition of the ship are both greatly exaggerated in the log and protest, and still more so in the deposition of the mate and the excenina tion of the master. Thus, with respect to the, leak, it is clear that, from first to last, spells of two hours at the pumps with short intervals, were sufficient to keep the water under till the time of the abandonment, the pumps having sucked about an hour and a half or two hours before they left her. Yet it is stated in the log more than once that "the water continued to gain on them." Again, with regard to the state of the weather, a pretty accurate test of this may be formed in the facts—first, that the gig is towed for two or three miles with a man in her; and again, that the pinnace makes three trips to and from the Magdalena with one pair of oars and without a rudder; yet there are repeated entries in the log of " Use sea and gale still increasing up to the time of tiss,at quitting the ship." The same observation ale. Pn'ee to the entries respecting the shifting of the cargo, as, for instance, the following entireyih"oTiehbeodcyarogfothsehcifalng from one side to the .Ther in such a manner as to make it impossible for the ship to hole +ogreotlhleorfratuteeh gp e.:;"_a.onod goingthis o t a h b e o r n e t n t t w r ye—fe:twith apparently every Such inflated expressions inserted in the log book after the evide a n m ee donment of the ship, betray a consciousness of a Weak l ,tuthearte,fourned, under requiring extraordinary justification. case the abandonment of the opinion, from a careful review of tk the circumstances of eise base, Eliza was unneeteeeeey, and not justifi e d b y the cond i tion of the ship ar'', state of the weather ; and that had the master remained in the ship she would have been saved by him, instead of being picked up abandoned and carried into Ca lais, and his omitting to do so was therefore a further de fault on his part. It is proper to add that, however extraor dinary and inexcusable the conduct of the master may ap pear to be in the several particulars nientioucl, there is uo ground for suspecting that he was in any degree actuated by a fraudulent motive. The master's certificate is sent with this report.—l have, &c., JAMES TRAILL. I concur in the above report. HY. HARRIS, Nautical Assessor. To the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council for Trade, &c. F.ROIII THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT. . _ FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN 20. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Horace Congar as Consul at Hong Kong for the United States of America. DOWNING-STREET, JAN. 20. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Henry Iles Woodcock, Esq., to be Chief Justice of the Island of To bago; Frederick Simon Berning, Esq., to be Registrar of Deeds and Distributor of Stamps for the Colony of Natal ; Frederick John Scott, Esq., to be a Member of the Legis lative Council of the Island of Trinidad • and Chas. Henry Okey, Esq., to be a Member of the Legislative Council of the Island of Antigua. ADMIRALTY, JAN. 21. 'I he following promotions, dated the 15th inst., conse quent on the death, on the 141 h inst., of Admiral of the Red Sir Edward Durford King, K.C.H., have this day taken place : Admiral of the White Sir Thomas John Cochrane, G.C.8., to be Admiral of the Red. Admiral of the Blue Henry Hope, K.C.8., to be Admiral of the White. Vice-Admiral Hayes O'Grady, on the Reserved Half-pay List, to be Admiral on the same List. Vice-Admiral of the Red the Right Hon. Maurice Frede• rick Fitzhardinge, Lord Fitzhardinge, G.C,8., to be Admiral of the Blue. Vice-Admiral of the White Sir James Hallway Plum ridge, K,C.8., to be Vice -Admiral of the Red. Vice-Admiral of the Blue Sir Henry John Leeke, K.C.8., K,H., to be Vice-Admiral of the White. Rear-Admirals Follett Walrond Pennell, Wm. Alexander Baillie Hamilton, Edward Purcell, Sir Charles Elliot, K.C.8., on the Reserved Half pay List, to be Vice-Admirals on the same list. Rear-Admiral of the Red Thomas Bennett, to be Vice- Admiral of the Blue. Rear-Admiral of the White Joseph Nias, C. 8., to be Rear- Admiral of the Red. Rear-Admiral of the Blue the Right Hon. Lord Clarence Edward Paget, C. 8., to be Rear-Admiral of the White. Captain the Hon. Joseph Denman to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue. Retired Vice-Admirals Robert Gambier, Hercules Robinson, Thomas Dick, have also become entitled to the rank and title of Retired , Admiral and ..... Retired Rear Admiral Theobald Jones to that of Retired Vice-Admiral, in pursuance of her Majesty's Order in Council of the 7th May, 1858. ADMIRALTY, JAN. 15. Corps of Royal Marines—First Lieutenant and Adjutant James Conway Travers to be Captain, vice Barnard; Second Lieutenant John Ignatius Morris to be First Lieu tenant, vice Travers, promoted ; First Lieutenant Frederick Lewis David to be Captain, vice Draffen, to half-pay ; Second Lieutenant Gerald Altham Heseltins to be First Lieutenant, vice David, promoted ; First Lieutenant Chas. Bullen Hugh Mitchell to be Adjutant, vice Travers. BANKRUPTS. Thomas Mosley, miller, Godmanchester and Alconbury Weston, Huntingdonshire William Rudd Knights, leather mercha n t, B ermon d sey Benjamin Chest er Rawles, bootmaker, Bermondsey William Bundock Foat, builder, Ramsgate Mary Watkins ' wholesale milli ner , Ald ermanbury, City Frederick Rawles, bootmaker, Camberw e ll- roa d John Harrison, Dissenting minister, Acre-lane, Brixton James Lee Flood, currier, Bedford William Thomas Horress,.leather merchant, New Broad street, City Thomas Gannon, gasfitter, Gray's-inn -road Charles William Marsh, sh merchant, Great Yarmouth William Garrard, shoe manufacturer, Hackney -road George Jessop, licensed victualler, Strand Alexander Leroy, general merchant, Gower-street, Bell ford-square Henry Agate, draper, Folkestone, Kent Joseph Austwick, ship broker, Great Tower-stree4i City Isaac Pitt and Horatio L. Fl e t c h er, iron me,rohanto, Willenhall, Staffordshire Thomas Oliver, lace manufacturer, Nottingb at ti Robert Gazard, timber dealer, Berkeley, Gior4cestershire William Hughes, licensed victualler, Bre.ccra James Strickland, licensed victualler, De' ronport Albert Lethrid ge , innkeeper. Totnes,:p - ,evonshire Joseph Wright Bishop, corn factor, xcipon. William Jones, brewor, Chester Mary Roberts, publican, Abe:egslte' Denbighshire '' David Jones, drap er , lienf i g.till, urlam organshire John Wheeldon, cattle 'ZfealP,r, Butterton, Staffordshire William John Booth BramleT;, farmer, belley, Notts Johnliam WoT rley, bc'dt maker, Codnor, Derbyshire E. tiomas, coal merchant, Crumlin,Monmouth BirtholombW Higgins, licensed vie , ualler,l ewport Pap. nell, Bucks. Owen Jo -Lies publican, Eglwysfach, D en bi g h s hi re Thowas Bailey, licensed victualler, Norwich Jaz Pratt, licensed victualler, Norwich CO UN ARA' LEEDS—JAN. 21. We have a fair show of grain to-day. There is rather an improved tone in the wheat trade, and our millers are compelled to give the full rates of last 7 .; uesday. In barley little doing, and prices had a downward tendency. Beano and oats at easier rates. MELTON MOWBRAY—Lix. 21. There was a small show of wheat to-day, and, with a more active trade, prices slightly improved, Barley was a steady sale, at fully late prices. Prices—white wheat, 62s Od to 68s Od; red, 53s Od to 62s per 36 stone; beans slow, at 44s to 50s for old ; new sorts, —8 per 38 st. ; barley, 345; to 38s D,r malting, and 29s to 32s per qr. for grinding; oats, Us to 26s Od per 24 stone. NIA.II,KET HARBOROUGH—JAN. 21. At tbts market to-day there was a better attendance, and a middling show of wheat. Business good, and prices 10 higher—old, 48s to 675; new, 62s to 64s per 36 stone, Barley at the extreme rates of the week previous, malcing Benin.- at 34s to 38s p er qr., grinding 31s to 33s per ~s 0 st. Oats, 26s to 35s per 24 at. ; beans, 38s to 465; new s 38s to 46s per qr. NEWCASTLE -UNDER • LYNE—JAN. 20. At to-day's market business was lively, with a limited show of wheat. Late rates were well supported. White made 62s to 68s; red, 48s to 6:;,3 per 36 stone. Barley a small show, at late rates. For other articles the demand was quiet. NORWIC CATTLE. The show of store cattle H to- day was unusually large, consisting of Scots, shorthorns, and Irish. The attend— ance of buyers was tolerable, with a dull trade, and prim; gave way slightly. Scots, 4s to 48 6d ; shorthorns, 38 6d to 48 6d ; Iri.sh, 314 6d to 4s Od; Devo ns , 4s to 4s 6d (estimated weight when fat). Fat beasts a small show and sales slow, at 7s 6d to 8s Od per 141 b. Sheep—There was a better supply and a fair sale, bf sheep in the pens, Fat sheep, 9s Od to 9s 6d per atone ; prime, Os Od., and all sold. Pigs—A fair supply. Store pigs, 16s to 20s • fat pork, 7s 6d to 8s Od per stone. CITY SEWERS COMMISSION.—At the weekly meeting of the Commissioners of Sewers held yesterday at Guildhall, Mr, Deputy Christie in the chair, Dr. Letheby the medical officer of health for the City, reported on the state of 173 houses that had been inspected during the week, and a list of 47 places for sßettary improvement. The markets and slaughter-houses bud been duly inspected dur ing the week, and the officer s haA seized 8851bs. of meat and 48 rabbits as unfit for human food. The rabbits were putrid, and 7731b5. of the meat was diseased, and 112 front animalb that had died from natural causes. It consisted of 14 sheep, four pigs, and one quarter of beef, all of which has been destroyed. THE WEATHER AND THE PARKS.--The various parks yesterday were again visited by a large number of persons, but owing to the heavy fall of snow in the morn ing, and the slight thaw that set in afterwards, the ice was in a very bad and insecure state. On the Serpentine and the waters in the Regent's -park and Kensington -gardens several hundred persons for some hours amused themselves with skating and sliding, but towards the afternoon the ice became ao sloppy and dangerous that they were compelled to desist. There were several immersions and narrow escapes during the day, but no accident of a fatal nature, In St. James's-park but few persons ventured on the ice, and of these many received a good ducking. BIRTHS. NICROESON.---011 the 20th inst., at Bolions, West Bromp— ton, the wife of J. W. Nicholson, solicitor, of a son. SOMERVILLE.—On the 17th inst., at Malmaison, Castle Townsend, co. Cork, th e w i fe of' Lieut-Col. Somerville, of a son. TURNER.-- On the 20th inst at 10, Park Village W., the wife of Ed mon d It. Turner, Esq. ) of Lincoln's-inn, of X daughter. MARRIAGES. AYNSLEY—..At —At St. Mary Abbot's, Kensing ton, Commander o:Murray Aynsley, R.N . . 2 to Augusta Judith, eldest daughter of William Gilbert Campion, Esq., of Calcutta. TROTTE R — KEATINGE.—On the 18th inst., at St. Stephen's Church, Dublin Coutts Trotter, Esq., of D reg h orn , N . 8., to Harriet Augusta,' youngest daughter of the Right Hon. Richard Keatinge, Judge of the Probate Court of Ireland, DEATHS. BAIN.—On the 18th inst., at Esher, Surrey, Admiral Bain, aged 86. PINLAY.—On the 18th inst., at 79, Cambridge-service, Hyde-park, Thomas Finlay, Es q ., age d 77. Honnn.—On the 18th inst., at W en d over, Bucks, Joseph the 21st inst., at St. Saviour's Parsonage, aged 71. the Rev. T. Marsland Hopkins, M.A., in cumbent, LIDDIAED.—On the 16th inst., at Kingsland, Mr. William Ho Hoare,x Paddington,i Ns E . - 8 Esq., aged d 37. Liddiard, aged 87. Ross.—On the 19th inst., at Southsea, Hants, Henry W. Ross, Esq., aged 79. WADE.—On the 19th inst,, at Seaton Lodge, Wandsworth. road, James Wade, Esq., aged 84. LONDON : Printed and Pnblished by I dURDO YOUNG. No. 112, Strand, P r i n t er, at TOE Sim Office, No. 112,Stran4C in the Precinct o f the Savoy In the County of Weckesciay, Janu ary 22, 1862.