The Sun. — London, England, 1862-01-24 00:00:00

THE DREADFUL COLLIRRY A CCIDENT IN NORTH UMBERLAND. SHIELDS, THURSDAY MORNING. The sinkers have been pursuing their labours during the night to make the shaft in Hartley New Pit secure from the fall of stone and to effeet better ventilation in the workings ; but until these are finished no active operations can be recommenced to remove the bodies of the 215 men and lads out of the mine. The colliery authorities have furnished, as far as they have been enabled to do so, a list of the poor fellows who have lost their lives in the pit. It is as follows, and is the most terrible record, as regards numbers, that has been published in con nexion with colliery accidents in the North country, or perhaps in England :—Amour, James, married, back-overman; Amour, Richard, boy, son of the above; Allan, William, married; Atwell, Frank, married; Atchison, Adam, married; Alderton, William, married ; Ainsley, John, married ; Arm strong, John, married; Armstrong, Edward, boy, Armstrong, John, boy—sons of the above ; Ander son, William, boy; Beoadfoot, John, single; Brown, George, married, brakesman at inclined plane ; Bewick, Robert, killed on Thursday week, Bewick, John, married, Bewick, James, married, brothers ; Birtley, Samuel, married ; Brown, William, mar ried, killed on Thursday week ; Blackburn, Samuel, married; Burn, William, single; Brown, Thomas, married, Brown, Ralph, single, brothers; Bell, Mark, single ; Bell, Thomas, married; Bell, Thomas, boy, cousin of above; Burn, John, mar ried; Burn, Thomas, boy, son of above; Ben nett, John, married; Cole, Thomas, married, deputy-overman ; Clough, Henry, married, rolley way-man, first day in pit ; Campbell, James, married ; Coulson, John, married, Cheetham, Alfred, married; Chambers, Thos., married ; Chambers, Clark, son of above; Carling, Geo., mar ried; Cross, Philip, married; Cross, Philip, single, son of above; Cousins, John, boy, Cousins, Robert, boy—brothers ; Davidson, John, married, a rolley way man; Davidson, Wm., boy, son of above; Dixon, Wm., married; Dawson, Thos., married; Dawson, John, boy, son of above; Duffy, Patrick, married ; Duffy, James, boy, son of above ; Dixon, Win., single ; Douglass, John, married; Dixon, Robt., boy ; Elliott, Ellison, married, a stoneman ; Elliott, Edward, single ; Fulton, Gee., married ; Forster, Joseph, single; Forster John, boy, brothers; Ford, John, married, Ford, Henry, married, brothers; Ford, Peter, nephew of Wm. Oliver; Fairbairn, Win. married; Fairbairn, Geo., single, son of above; Gleghorn, Oswald, lodger with T. Liddle ; Graham, Christopher, married; Glen, James, single, Glen, Wm., boy, Glen, Geo., boy, brothers; Gwinelly, Patrick, single; Gallagher, John, married; Gal lagher, Duncan, brother of above ; Gallagher, Jas., boy, nephew of above ; Gledson, Wm., married ; Gledson, Wm., married, Gledson, Geo., married, Gledson, Thos., married, sons of above ; Gledson, Thos., son of above; Gibson, Henry, single; Howard, James, single; Harding, John, boy ; Har rison, Thos., boy; Hayes, Geo., married ; Hall, Geo., married; Humble, Peter, married; Humble, Joseph, married, nephew of under-viewer ; Hepple, Thos,, single ; Hill, Geo., married; Hindmarsh, James, first day in pit; Houston, Andrew, married; Hill, Gee., single, stoneman; Hamilton, James, married; Hamilton, James, boy, son of the above; Hodge, John, single; Hunter, Henry, boy; Ken nedy, Wm., married ; Liddle, Wm., married ; Li d dle, Geo., single, Liddle, Jas., single, sons of the above; Liddle, John, married; Liddle, Thos., Lid dle, George, and Liddle, John, sons of the above; Liddle, Thos., brother of John Liddle ; Liddle, Thos., son of above; Laws, Thomas, single; Laws, George, single, onsetter, brother of above ; Logue, William, married ; Long, John, boy, Long, Robert, boy, cou sins; Mason, Hugh, single; Morgan, Andrew, widower; Murray, Michael, single; Myher, David, married; Marley, Robert, married; Manderson, Peter, married ; Miller, Walter, stoneman, Miller, William, married, stoneman, brothers ; Macaulay, Thomas, married ; Mallon, Robert, married ; Mul len, John, married ; M'Luskey, Richard, single ; Macfarlane, William, boy ; M'Kie, John, married ; M'Kie, Adam, son of the above ; M'Racon, William, single; North, Robert, married, North, George,boy, North, John, boy, and North, Alexander, boy, all brothers ; Nicholson, John, married ; Nicholson, Joseph, single; Nesbit, Peter, nephew of Peter Manderson ; Nicholson, John, boy ; Ormston, John, married; Oliver, William, married; Oliver, John, single, Oliver, James, married, Oliver, William, single, and Oliver, Peter, single, sons of above; Pape, William, boy, nephew of John Tranent ; Pear son, Thomas, single; Palmer, William, married; Jacques, Winship, married; Johnson, Robert, single, Johnson, Joseph, married, brethers ; Rutherford, Thomas, married; Robinson, --, married; Red path, William, married ; Rowley, Edward, married; Rutherford, William, single, Rutherford, John, sin gle, brothers ; Riley, Hugh, married ; Robson, Ralph, married (killed in the cage); Richardson, Alexander, married ; Robinson, Thomas, married ; Ross, Thomas, married ; Rounall, Robert, married ; Robson, James, boy ; Stamsby, James, single ; Small, Robert, single ; Sebastian, Thomas, single; Sharp, George, married (killed in the cage) ; Sharp, George (killed at the same time) ; and Sharp, John son, son of G. Sharp, sen ; Sherlock, Patrick, sin gle; Stanley, William, single; Smith, Frank, mar ried; Sharp, Henry, married, and Sharp, Thos., mar ried, deputy-overman, brothers, and cousins of G. F harp,sen. ; Scurfield,George,married ; Smith, Win., glassmaker, Seaton Sluice, who was down the pit as a visitor ; Softley, Edward, - boy ; Skinner, George, boy ; Tranent, John, married, deputy over man ; Tranent, George, boy, son of the above ; Tel ford, William, married, rolleyway-man ; Thirlaway, George, married ; Taylor, Joseph, married ; Taylor, James, single; Tibbs, William, married; Tranent, William, married, an onsetter ; Weitch, John, mar ried ; Watson, Thomas, married, rolleyway-man ; Wilson, George, married, rolley way-man ; Wand less, Christopher, single; Wandless, John, single, and Wandless, Thomas, single, brothers; Walker, Benjamin, single ; Watson, James, married; Wat son, Joseph, son of the above ; Wade, George, mar ried; Weir, Thomas, married; Weir, Robert, single ; Whalpool, Patrick, single ; Watson, John, married, and - Watson, Thomas, single, cousins; Wilson, William, boy, nephew of Frank Smith ; Wilkinson, John, married ; White, William, single; Wilson, William, boy ; Walker, James and Wil liam, boys, brothers; Younger, Henry, married, deputy overman ; Youll, John, married. The list gives a total of 205 men and boys who were working in the pit at the time of the accident, and who are now all dead. It is supposed that even this large number does not give the whole loss, as the names of some of the men were unknown, in consequence of their being new hands at the col liery. • There is no doubt that the buried men were alive so late as Sunday afternoon, and that on the night of Sunday they perished. Down to Sunday after noon, as stated in The Sun of yesterday, the timber and bratticing which form the obstruction half-way down the shaft, might have been comparatively I open fir the air and ga ses to pass through from I the bottom of the mine; but after that evening it might to a large extent become almost airtight. T o get view of the t err ibl e accident. it i: get a necessary to recapitulate a little where it has taken place. Hartley New Colliery is a mine 100 fathoms deep. The high seam is not wrought at present, neither, to any extent, is the yard seam, which is below it, but 29 fathoms above th e l ow ' main seam, which latter seam is where the coals bay° been recently wrought, and in which the buried men were following their daily occupation at the time of the accident. The colliery is more liable to the inflow of water than almost any other mine in the Northern coal trade. It is a steam coal mine, and has been a very unprofitable specu lation to its owners. Some six or eight years ago the difficulties with the water were so great that a pumping engine of immense capacity, said to be working up to 400-horse power, was erected for clearing the mine of it, and the huge beam, which lifted 1,500 gallons of water per minute, was placed over the shaft, the beam, of cast-iron, weighing 40 tons. This day week the ordinary daily work of the pit was commenced by the first shift going down between 1 and 2 o'clock in the morning; they were followed by the lads at 5 ; and the back-shift men had gone down at 9 o'clock to relieve their "mar- rows" who had been at work since 2 ; two sets of the first shift men had been drawn to bank and were being followed by the third set, eight men, when, as already reported, about 10 o'clock in the forenoon the huge beam of the pumping engine snapped in two, and the arm overhanging the mine plunged down the shaft, sweeping away the brat tice which divided the shaft into the " up.cast and the down•cast," and tearing away the timber and planking which protected the sides of the shaft. The broken beam, being the more ponderous body, seems to have rushed past the timber and brat tieing it tore away, and has settled either upon the edge of the yard seam, or has fallen to the bottom of the shaft. The timber and bratticing lodged in the shaft between the high seam and the next, leaving the former open to bank, but cutting off all connexion with the latter. If the men had remained many hours in the low seam after the accident they would have speedily been drowned. But there was a staple, a kind of man-hole, independent of the shaft, and up it the men and lads clambered by means of an iron wire ladder. The distance up the shaft from the yard to the upper seam is from 50 to 60 yards—but there is a means of egress from the yard seam higher up the shaft than from the archway leading from its workings by means of the furnace drift—a sort of sloping chimney leading from the furnace in the yard seam into the shaft. It would appear that the more bold and adventurous of the buried miners, including Amos, the overman, and Tennant, one of the deputies, had found a way up this drift, and from saws and adzes, and other tools found there, had employed themselves down to Sunday after noon in trying to cat a way through the timber blocking the shaft, and so force a passage up to the outer world; and the entire energies of the sinkers who have been engaged in the shaft have been directed to reach this furnace drift. Yesterday afternoon, after the cloth brattice was finished, the air was considerably improved in the shaft ; and, a hole having been cut through, two volunteers, miners, belonging to Cowpen Colliery, were let down in the gin and forced their way through this hole into the furnace drift, and thence into the yard seam, whence on emerging at bank they announced the awful intelligence that the men were all dead. As already stated by telegraph, they were followed down by Mr. Humble, the resident viewer of the colliery, and Mr. Hall, viewer of _Felling Colliery. Their return to bank was anticipated with much anxiety. I have already forwarded to you by tele graph the result of their explorations in the mine ; but the following is a more detailed account by another hand than from telegraphic arrangements down here I was enabled to despatch last night : " At 20 minutes to 6 o'clock Messrs. Humble and Hall came to bank both suffering considerably from the combined effects of noxious air and the sad sight of which they had been the spectators. Both men were very much affected, and had to be assisted out of the slings and led to a seat in the horse-hole, which has been temporarily fitted up for the purpose of carrying on the workings during the last few days, much inconvenience being expe rienced in sending the men up and down by the staple. As speedily as possible some hot tea, which has been constantly kept in readiness, was admini stered to the suffering men by Mr. T. Pyle, of Ears don, and Dr. Pyle, of Sunderland, who were in at tendance at the month of the shaft. In a short time both men were sufficiently recovered to relate what they had seen in the workings below. Mr. Humble was visibly affected, and it was only be tween his half stifled sobs that the painful recital of the scene he had just witnessed could be obtained from him. His first words, on returning to con sciousness, were, ' Oh, dear ! oh, dear ! so many of my fellow-creatures killed. My canny fellows.' In answer to Mr. Pyle, he said, ' Yes; they're all dead. If they're only happy. May the Lord have mercy on them !' Here the trial was too much for him, for he again gave full vent to his harrowed feelings, and was unable to go on with his distressing story. It was considered advisable to lead him from the painful scene, and get him conveyed home, which was done, Mr. Pyle accompanying him thither to watch over his recovery. Before going, however, he enjoined those left in charge not to allow the men to go further than the first door, ' as,' he added, mourn fully, ' there's plenty of work there yet a bit.' Mr. Hall, though suffering in an equal degree with Mr. Humble, was rather more collected, and from him we learnt that they had seen, they expected, every one in they pit, and they were all dead. The men had evidently not had to succumb to hunger, as,'although the corn bins were found to be empty, many of the men now lying dead had their pockets full of corn. There was only one pony in the seam, and that was dead, bat had not been touched by the men. The men, he said, were all at the shaft, and the boys were lying among them, side by side with their relatives. It is scarcely possible to imagine a scene more touch ing than this—fathers and sons, uncles and nephews, after undergoing almost unheard. of misery and privation in that dreary dungeon, quietly resign ing themselves to their horrid and impending fate, their last remaining consolation being that even in death they were not divided.' One man, Mr. Hall said, seemed as though he had not died without a struggle, as he was lying with his body extended and his hands firmly clenched. Several men then went down the pit for the purpose of carrying out the necessary operations preparatory to removing the bodies, and were stationed principally in the high main, so as to be available when requisite— Mr. Maddison, the viewer at Burradon, also going down to superintend the work. " In fulfilment to the promise made to the people about the heap—who by this time had congregated some hundreds strong—Mr. Taylor addressed them from the platform, informing them that the greater portion of the men had been found dead, the nume rous corpses having been found gathered together near the door. In reply to a voice in the crowd, he said they had not got so far as the staple, but they had gone as far as they could with safety. He then requested them to communicate the sad intelligence to any of the friends of the deceased who might not be there. As yet they had waited patiently, and he trusted they would continue to do so for an hour or twe longer, when all would be finally settled. It was of no use, he said, throwing away the lives of living men to obtain the bodies of dead ones, and as yet there was great risk of that, and several of those who had been already down had been brought up in a most dangerous condition. A thrilling sensation seemed to take possession of the people at the an nouncement of the fate of so many of their fellow creatures, and in many cases their friends and ac quaintances. No demonstration of any kind, how ever, followed the recital of the result of the sad event, which had brought woe and desolation to so many hearths, the effect produced upon the people being evidently one of calm resignation to the will of Providence, and of deep concern for the mourn• ins families. A desire was, however, expressed by many that some of their number should go down the pit and relieve them from further anxiety and suspense by ascertaining, if possible, the full extent of the calamity. Upon this, two brothers, named Richard Boyd and Thomas Boyd, of North Seaton, volunteered for the arduous duty, and at once made the necessary change in their clothing, and went down the pit. With a spirit of dauntless perseverance they prosecuted their search for about two hours, and contrived during that time to penetrate further into the seam than any previous party of explorers had then been, having succeeded, in fact, in getting right round it. The air, they said, was good' in-by,' and was only to be called bad when they approached the shaft on the road out. Richard—apparently the stronger man of the two —nearly succumbed to the effect of the noxious vapour, b u t was prevente d f rom so d o i n g by his br o th er, who got hold of him and literally slings, and so got him dragged hi m to the h s s a a f f e t o a s b s a i n stin g k . hoi n arriving r n r t i o v i t n h g e there they described the scene that p rese nted itself to their gaze as most harrowing, many ance of the m en indicating the general appear at n'tn of them had been dead som e time, and were f decomposition. TLe hole throughths y t approaching the rubbish they described as being so sma ll that it W culty they could get through it—in faacst, with th diffi ey stuck fast two or three times in their upwa r d g Many of the men who had gone down on the melancholy duty of sending the bodies to bank, had to be sent up fainting, the ventilation not admitting of their remaining for any length of time together in the shaft. One or two men, indeed, were all but lost in their humane attempt; but by proper and efficient means being resorted to, and restoratives being promptly applied by the medical gentlemen in attendance, they were ultimately restored to coescionsness. Dr. White, of Newcastle; Mr. Pyle, of Earsdon ; Dr. Pyle, of Sunderland; and Messrs. Nichol, Lambert, M'Allister, and Ambrose, were in attendance the whole of the evening, and were most assiduous in relieving the temporary suffering of the men as they landed from the shaft. "It was at first intended to send the bodies direct to bank, but this was found from many causes to be entirely impracticable, the chief of those causes being the impossibility of bringing the bodies through the furnace drift to the shaft in consequence of the narrow passage through the rubbish already alluded to, the bad state of the air at present in the shaft, and lastly the state of the bodies." The Bishop of Durham and his chaplain kindly came yesterday in the company of the Rev. Mr. Mason, the incumbent of Earsdon, and visited the bereaved families. Several clergymen and other Christian ministers are also attending to them, as are also a number of Christian ladies. The kind and sympathetic inquiry sent by the Queen yester day has touched the heart of every one in the north! It will long be held in affectionate remembrance, especially by the pitmen down here and their fami lies. The message was to this effect : " General Grey, Osborne, to the viewer, New Hartley Pit, Shields.—The Queen is most anxious to hear that there are hopes of saving the poor peo ple in the colliery, for whom her heart bleeds." To this the following telegram was returned : " Charles Carr, viewer, to her Majesty.—There are still faint hopes of the men, or a portion of them, being recovered alive." On the fate of the men having been ascertained another message was transmitted to her Majesty, informing her that upwards of 100 men had been found dead, and it was feared the rest had shared a similar fate. A local paper describes the following scene in the village last night : " At half-past 4 o'clock the intelligence of the discovery of the bodies was conveyed to the village. It is impossible in the limits of language to con vey an idea of the terrible scenes in every house in this doomed village. Every house of mourning, and that is every one, is filled with sympathising friends and acquaintances, and the ministering hand of woman is busy in affording consolation to those unhappy women—now too surely widows. In every house may be heard the hysterical sob, the agonised wail of suffering woman, weeping for the husband of her love and the father of her orphan children, now lying cold and silent in the depths of the fatal pit. It is also peculiarly painful to hear the wailing of tender infants whose mothers are too sorrowful to attend to their wants. The street of the village is filled with women who steal noise lessly from house to house on their mission of mercy endeavouring, by arts only known to women, to impart solace to these bereaved ones. Truly, they are the very realisation of the poet's fancy— " ' When pain and sickness wring the brow A ministering angel thou.' So they have been, so they are, and so they will doubtless remain to the end of time. Not women alone, however, are engaged in this hallowed mis sion, for a few ministers of the gospel may be seen hurrying to and fro, in the semi -darkness, engaged in the walk of their Master, and endeavouring, by their spiritual consolation, to cheer the weary and heavy-laden.' It is scarcely possible to conceive a more sorrowful scene, and it is heartrending to re flect that every house is tenanted by grief-stricken widows and fatherless children, many of them left fatherless at the very threshold of the battle of life, and deprived, at one fell swoop, of the hand that should have guarded their infant years. May He who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb be their solace and stay in this their hour of adversity! In our hurried passage aleng the street many scenes came under our notice almost too sacred for us even to allude to—here the weeping mother spasmodically pressing the crowing infant to her breast, who was lisping out the name of its ' dada,' and a gush of tears and a hopeless shake of the head told too truly that the heart of that loved dada' was cold in death at the bottom of the There might be seen a fine little boy sobbing as if his heart would break, and looking wistfully towards the pit, as if he ex pected to see some well - remembered form, and perhaps wondering, poor little fellow, what his unhappy mother meant by telling him he was an orphan. There, too, might be seen an aged and infirm man, with his gray hair tossed to and fro by the wintry blast, endeavouring to comfort his little grand-daughter, whose outstretched hand was pointed towards the spot where her ' father was wont to work, and who eagerly scanned the countenance of every passer-by, in the hope, probably, of recognizing her long absent father. That father is now cut off from all earthly ties, and is now where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest.' Here even may be seen the strong miner, the tear in whose eye be tokens the agony of his spirit, endeavouring, in his rude yet kindly way, to impart consolation to the bereaved. Cheer up, hinney,' he says, ' the Lord is good to all ;' and perhaps the poor woman may appreciate his homely kindness in a greater degree than if it were couched in the most polished language. " The schoolroom of the village has for some time past been transformed into an office for the owners of the colliery, where tea and refreshments have for many days been ready prepared to be sent down to the unfortunate men the moment a communication was opened up between them and the brave hearts toiling incessantly in the shaft for their deliverance. But now all these kind preparations are of no avail, and it is melancholy to look into the school room, and see the loaves of bread and hampers of provisions prepared for the men, and to think they are now so far removed from ali earthly comfort." NEW HARTLEY, JAN. 23, Noox. _ _ _ The sinkers are now busy clearing their way down the shaft to the yard seam, and workmen are also making " wood cribs" to secure the sides of the shaft from further falls of stone and timber, but it will be late today before this can be accomplished. When completed Mr. Coulson, master sinker, with his exploring party, will then proceed through the workings to ascertain the full extent of the desola tion. Mr. T. Robson, viewer of Wyiam, and Mr. Coulson are in full charge of the various workings to-day. THURSDAY, 8 P.M. Mr. Coulson and his men are busily engaged cribbing up the sides of the shaft. He expects the sinkers will recommence some time to-night to re move the obstruction. He has no fear of effectually clearing out the gas before the men go into the workings to remove the bodies. It will be Saturday, however, it is feared, before they can be got out of the pit. The Bishop of Durham has continued his visits to the bereaved families to-day. He will leave hero to-morrow, it is expected, to attend the public meeting to be held in Newcastle to raise a fund for their relief. A similar meeting will be held in Shields to-morrow. 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He said that although he could be well content himself personally to leave the case of Mrs. Windham, as it had been put forth by Mr. Kerslake, still as her counsel he felt bound to address them briefly on her behalf. Ho was glad to appear before them to hurl back at least some of the accusations which had been brought against Mrs. Windham, and to vindicate her couduct, which had been cruelly aspersed in the course of these proceedings. Her character, conduct, and whole life had been made the chief point on which the sanity of Mr. Windham was to depend. He could honour and admire an inquiry of this kind, if it prOceeded from an honest and genuine love of purity and virtue, but it was evident from the progress of the investigation that the object in view was anything but a love of purity and virtue. The marriage, position, and settlement of Mrs. Windham, the position of her sisters, whom she loved, depended upon the verdict which the jury gave. No man could have watched the course of the inquiry without perceiving that the ultimate object of it was to set aside the marriage of Mr. Windham with Mrs. Windham. If Gen. Windham had obtained the resettlement of the Felbrigg estate, which he tried to effect on the Bth and 9th of August, they never would have heard of this case. There was no act too coarse, no motive too bad, which had been brought against Mrs. Windham. He did not find fault with persons for seeking by means of the law to set aside a settlement which they did not believe to be right, but he did blame them for the remorseless cruelty with which the case was prosecuted. He blamed them for the mode in which they sought to set aside the marriage, and to deprive Mrs. Windham of the comfort of a family and the hope of offspring. Let them look at the facts of the case and the position of the parties, and judge of this marriage from that point of view. Here was a young man with strong passions, riot ous disposition, fond of field sports, neglected by his family, and isolated in society, and a young woman, not yet 22, beautiful and attractive, though following a course of life which he could not approve, but which was well known to be a part of the social life in which they moved, and was it a wonder that such a man should fall in love with such a woman? Were young and foolish people to become old and wise at once ? Was the feeling of love to be ig nored, and were zople who did foolish things under its influence lo be regarded as insane? If so, what would become of the poetry and romance of life ? Would not a part of the occupation in life of even the learned Master be gone if this view of human nature was to prevail ? It was univer sally known that some of the wisest of men had fallen under the influence cf the passion of love, and that some of the highest members in the aris tocracy of this country had descended from persons who had done what Mr. Windham had done. But then it was said this was not the case of a man infatuated by beauty —that Mrs. Windham was a common prBstitute—that she was common to all the world, and that she married Mr,Windham for mer cenary purposes. There was not a tittle of evi dence to prove that Mrs. Windham was the cha racter which Mr. Chambers had drawn her. He was speaking to 22 gentlemen of the world, men who knew what life, and high life, was, and they must be aware that it was no unusual thing for men in high position to form in substance such alli ances as had been contracted by Mr. Windham and Agnes Willoughby. Were there no aged earls who allied themselves with young girls who never could have any affection for them ? And be cause this was done under a coronet and orange blossoms, was it to be sanctioned by society, and was Mr. Windham to be put in a lunatic asylum and Mrs. Windham to be separated from her hus band because they did the same thing ? Let them recollect that Agnes Willoughby was in receipt of £2,000 a year at the time she contracted this mar riage —that she mixed in society ; and because she had under these circumstances contracted a marriage with Mr. Windham for the sake of giving herself a better position and establishing her sisters in life, was she now to bo tura - u-C. round upon and told that she was no better than a mercenary prostitute ? If Mr. Windham was the hopeless imbecile that he was now represented to be, if he was a congenital fool, why did not some member of Mr. Windham's family warn Agnes Willoughby of what she was going to do ? Why was she not told by the friends of Mr. Windham that he was a fool and an imbecile, and that if she contracted a marriage with Mr. Windham it would not be valid and that an appli cation would be made to set it aside ? Was this information not vouchsafed to her because she was considered to be a person of immoral character ? He had yet to learn that all the rules of honesty and fair-play were to be set aside because a woman was a , If that was the view taken by persons of aristocratic lineage, he rejoiced that he was one of the people. If that was the morality of those with blue veins, he was glad that he had red blood. But it was said, how can you justify the settlement which had been made ? He did not mean to put it forward that Mrs. Windham had any great love for the man she was going to marry. She was proba bly looking for a position, and having regard to the means she was then actually enjoying, he did not think the settlement was so unjustifiable as had been represented. The truth was, the sting of the settlement which bad been made was not in the amount which Mrs. Windham was to have, but in the introduction of the word chil dren, and the clause that the offspring of the marriage were to succeed to the estates. Then with regard to the presents which had been made to Mrs. W., let them consider that Mr. W. was the owner of an estate worth nearly £15,000 . a year, and he did not think that jewelry to the amount of £7,000 was an excessive gift under the circum stances. As to the presents which had been made after the marriage, let them consider that they were made as some propitiation for the injury which had been done to Mrs. Windham by her hus band. As to Mr. Windham being the congenital fool, that view was quite upset by the fact which was proved before them, that he had reached the fifth form at Eton. Even General Windham him self, after the marriage, treated his nephew as of sound mind, because he negotiated with him for the sale of land to the extent of £l.OOO. The tender guardian and affectionate uncle did not hesitate to go to Felbrigg, in order to make this bargain with a congenital fool and imbecile. If the:re-phew was what was now represented, an imbecile and a fool, what must they think of General Windham, who went to transact business with him ? He now came to that Malebolgian pool of filth and nasti ness which had been stirred up by his learned friend for the purpose of creating a prejudice against his client—for its introduction was wholly unnecessary. The suggestion of his learned friend was that the disease of which they had heard so much, and from which she was still suffering, had been communicated, not from Mr. Windham to Mrs. Windham, but from Mrs. Windham to Mr. Windham. The learned gentleman argued from facts and dates that this was absurdly incredible, and that there was nothing' to justify the belief that Mr. and Mrs. Windham were so abandoned and horridly wicked as the one to connive at the act which was said to have takenplace in the railway carriage between Mrs. 'Windham and Roberts, and the other to have been guilty of it, and that at a time when according to the statement on the other side she was suffering from disease. The separa tion which had taken place between Mr. and Mrs. Windham was perfectly natural and intelli gible. The learned gentleman then proceeded to refute the allegations of profligacy which had been made against Mrs. Windham whilst in Dublin and Glargow. The q ues ti on f or th e jury to determine was not what the size of Mr. Windham's capacity, but whether he was compos mentis, w h e ther he had discourse o f reason . The case of Mr. Windham was , that he was a man of low intel lectual ill educated, and ill brought up. They , expect that such a than w in life, th a t h e wou ld b e guilty oi actso l would ref u whichda wrong could go r ci o tty, therefore, e neither be justified by morality nor religion. The case of Mr. Windham's eppo- ' nents was that he was congenitally imbecile. Now if he could show acts done by Mr. Windham—if he could show a series of business correspondence written by him, it was wholly irreconcileable with the view of the petitioners. There were such acts, there was such a correspondence, and in the face of those acts and correspondence could the case be sustained ? These affectionate relatives and sel.- ' sacrificing reversioners had letters of Mr. Wind ham's in their possession, some of which were stolen from Mr. Windham, which showed his capa city, and why did they not produce them ? For the same reason that General Windham had not come into the box—because he dared not. It seemed that an effect had been produced on the Master's mind which might be produced on the minds of the jury also, upon which he wished to say a few words. The newspapers, acting in the discharge of their duty, acting under a sense of responsibility to which alone they were amenable, had thought it right during the progress of this inquiry to reflect the 1 currents of popular opinion. They must take the press as they found it—an instrument of great use —the evil with the good together. It would be far better in his judgment if comments of all kind had been abstained from on the one side and the other tiil the verdict had been given. However, the eminent persons who directed the newspaper press thought differently—they chose to write upon the case, and, judging only by those things which he had seen, it would seem as if the opinion cf the judge and jury had already been formed, that the Windham property was saved, and that the marriage was set aside. If these persons thought fit to write in this way, the real and the only answer to it was that it 'was untrue, and could not be anything but untrue. Those who wrote in this spirit must have utterly mistaken the character of an English judge and of English gen tlemen if they thought they could be so base, or guilty of such an act of villany, as to be determined to break this settlement because it was one which they did not like, and to set aside the marriage be cause it was one which they did not approve of. The ruinous expenses occasioned by this inquiry would be a lesson enough for all the sins which Mr. and Mrs. Windham had committed. It had been said by Mr. Erskine, that " morals came cold in the ab stract from the pulpit, but men smarted under them when we lawyers were the preachers." He did not stand there to defend vice, to apologise for indecency or to palter with religion. He knew perfectly well that profligacy was wrong, that to live unchastely was sinful, that if to follow the sweet pleasures of sin was alluring, those who did so must be content to pay the penalty in future bitterness and repent ' ance " Stolen waters acre sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant, but he knoweth not that the dead are there, and that her guests are in the depths of hell." These were solemn and tremendous words, and he did not mean to disavow them, but he stood there to point out the irrelevancy of confounding sin and vice with insanity, and immorality and irre ligion with imbecility and legal incapacity. But if religion—if sacred religion —was to be dragged into this case—if sacred allusions were to be made use of, then he should say he would rather be the Magdalen, who washed her divine Master's feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair, than that self-complacent Pharisee who condemned the woman because she was a sinner, and plumed him self before the assembly for the outward regularity of his life. He stood there to point out that there Was nothing in the conduct of Mr. Windham to show unsoundness of mind. No man of candid mind could say that there was. He thought that this had been abundantly shown in the coarse of this inquiry and he hoped it would be shown in the verdict that they would presently give. Apart from all pre judice he asked for their verdict for Mr. Windham with the utmost confidence and an almost abso lute certainty of success, and more especially he asked for it on behalf of the wife of Mr. Windham with all the earnestness and energy he could command. (Applause.) Mr. Chambers, in reply, said that he should, though sorely tempted and tried by the observations of his learned friends, deal with the case before them with calmness and - equanimity. A difficult and trying duty was imposed upon him ; but who would dare to say that he had gone a step beyond that character which ha thought every honourable barrister ought to earn for his profession in the public mind. He had listened to the eloquent ad dresses of his learned friends; but this observation was common to them all, that they had introduced topics which were calculated to mislead, and attempted to raise numerous issues which were wholly irrelevant to the one which the jury had really to try. Not being able to meet the real point in issue, they abused all who were their opponents on this occasion. He knew that this case had been discussed elsewhere than in that Court, and great want of knowledge had been exhibited in respect of it from not understanding in the first place what was the doctrine of the law upon it, and in the second place from not keeping before the mind the facts which have been disclosed. It would be clear after understanding what the law of England on this subject was, as laid down by the highest legal authorities, especially in modern times, and what the rule of guidance was as established by the highest medical authorities, that Mr. Windham, even upon the evidence presented by those who re sisted this petition, was brought within the category of those who were of such unsound mind as not to be capable of managing themselves and their pro perty—that he belonged to that class of persons who were of such weakness of mind as to be unable to take care of themselves and their property. It was essential, first, to consider, what was the sound doctrine of law, and, in the next place, to consider from the medicel testimony what was the state of Mr. Windham's mind. There had been a studious concealment of the law of the case by all his learned friends, and, as a consequence of the ignorance of the law, views had been put forward outside of the court which were quite erroneous. The law of the case, as laid down by Lord Eldon and others of the highest legal autho rity, was, that it was not necessary a person should be an absolute imbecile or idiot to be adjudged legally a lunatic, but that he should exhibit such unsoundness of mind as showed that he was incap able of taking care of his person or property. It had been laid down that imbecility or weakness of mind might exist in different degrees between ab solute idiotcy en one hand and perfect capacity on the other. That was the law as laid down by Lord Eldon and Sir J. Nichol, and it was the view taken by Dr. Taylor, Dr. Ray, and Dr. Copeland, in their treatises upon insanity. That was the law as car ried out in the case of Lord Portsmouth, which had been before referred to. The language used in some of the medical works was, that it was enough if the intellect of the person was " below par"— if he was so feeble in mind as to "lay himself open to be imposed on by the artful and designing." Such was the language used in standard works on insanity, not written to meet the requirements of any particular case; and curiously enough, the evi dence given by those who are best acquainted with Mr. Windham, and who were amongst his truest and kindest friends, like Mr. and Mrs. Martin, was that Mr. Windham's mind was " below the ave rage." The learned gentleman proceeded to show that the whole course of Mr. Windham's life, the malformation of his palate which was common to idiots, his slavering, his filthy habits, his incapacity to learn, his howling and slobbering, were indica tions that he was a person of such weak intellect, of such feeble mind as to render him incapable of taking care of himself or what belonged to bim. All his learned friends had taunted him with not putting General Windham into the witness-box. He was responsible for advising that course, and he should net be doing his duty if he allowed him to appear there. In the first place, Gen. Windham could not give so much evidence as others as to the habits of his nephew, and in the next place having, as was said, an interest in the issue of the case, he thought it better that he should not appear as a witness. What his learned friends wauted was an oppor tunity of worrying and tormenting General Windham ; putting to him questions upon irrele vant matters ; he would not say abusing him, for in the way of abuse the force of malice could no fur ther go. The object of these attacks was to with. draw the attention of the jury from the real ques- tion. He believed the attack of his learned friends would recoil upon themselves. His hon. friend on his left (General Windham) was said to have slunk behind his advocates ; he had been called a carpet knight, a moral coward, and other epithets culled from a vocabulary which dared not be applied in former times, but which showed that malignancy did stalk abroad at present. " Skulk," " slink," " coward." And this was the language applied by his learned friends to a man whose name would appear with honour in the annals of his country as a brave soldier, who had fought the battles of his country abroad, who had been received at home amidst the cheers of his brothers in arms, and re turned by his fellow-citizens as the representative of his native county. Were these the epithets to apply to a man " who sought the bubble reputation even at the cannon's mouth," and gathered his laurels "in the imminent deadly breach ?" Was that the man for his learned friends to attack ? He was not ; for his country acknowledged his services. His hon. friend was not the " slink ;° and his hon. friends should remember that his friend was at the post of danger and on the fields where he won his glory whilst they were slumbering peacefully in their beds. But though the gnat could sting the lion, and the gadfly sting the war-horse, they were atter all but gnats and gad-flies, whilst the lion and the war-horse remained the lion and the war-horse. He hoped that in future brave officers like his hon. and pliant friend would be protected in courts of justice from such attacks, which were made for the simple purpose of withdrawing the attention of the jury from the points of the case, and which he would tell his learned friends went beyond the usual license of forensic oratory. The learned gentleman then proceeded to comment on the evidence till near half-past four, when the inquiry was adjourned till Monday next, when Mr. Chambers will continue his speech. MURDER NEAR DUMFRIES. The Dumfries Courier of Tuesday contains an account of a supposed murder in the Valley of the Glenkins. It appears that the name of the mur dered woman, who kept house for her two brothers (farmers), was Ann Hannah; and the woman ap prehended on the charge of murdering her is Mary Timany, the wife of a labourer on the roads. From the medical examination, it appears that no doubt exists that the deceased died from violence. The Courier says :—" The accused is a woman of about 27 years of age, black-haired, of active habits, and not unprepossessing in appearance. She is a Scotch woman ; her husband is an Irishman. They have four children, the two eldest being daughters, of ten and seven years of age respectively. The deceased was a powerful, strongly-built woman, with whom, in a fair encounter, the other would have had no chance whatever. The house in which the accused and her husband resided belongs to the Hannahs, and it is believed that the occupants were about to receive notice to quit on Whitsunday, as the two women were often quarrelling. We believe the authorities are in possession of a considerable amount of evidence, showing that on repeated occasions the prisoner had threatened to take the life of the de ceased. It has been alleged that the prisoner was jealous that her husband was too intimate with the deceased, but on what authority we have not ascer tained. On one occasion when deceased refused to lend some tea to Mrs. Timany, the latter is said to have threatened that she would one day give her what she would not recover from for seven years ; and at another time, when speaking to a visitor of Ann Hannah, it is said that she used the words, ' I'll dae for her yet ; I'll gang in and leave her a corpse some morning.' The visitor thereupon told her, To use her tongue and hands as she liked, but to take.no weapon.' This last story is not quite credible, but we give it as we have heard it. One point that tells strongly against the accused is, that while she alleges that on the day of the mur der she had not worn a tartan dress found stained with blood, and hidden away on the loft of her house, it can be proved by at least two witnesses, not of her own family, that she was seen wearing that very dress on the morning of the 13th. The authorities are actively engaged in the investiga tion of the case, both at Kirkcudbright and in the neighbourhood of the scene of the murder. We believe that on Friday night the chief constable proceeded to Edinburgh, and after consultation with the crown agent and Sheriff Hector, placed in the hands of Dr. Douglas Maclagan various of the pro ductions showing stains of blood, with a view to their being scientifically examined and reported upon. The prisoner still resolutely denies the crime with which she is charged, and in the meantime her children are under the surveillance of the police. While being conveyed to Kirkcudbright, the pri soner's principal anxiety appeared to be as to who should look after her pig. The funeral 11)f the de ceased took place on Saturday last, and was nume rously and respectably attended. The body was interred in the churchyard of Dairy." A UT OMATIC TELEGRAPHS. The systems of telegraphic transmission in actual use are limited to a code of signals representing the • letters of the alphabet, which happen to be the same or similar to those employed in several other lan guages of continental Europe. Nevertheless, when a message is to be received in a foreign language, it is necessary, in order to prevent mistake, that the employe should be well acquainted with the lan guage in question. However considerable might be the collective acquirements of a staff of telegra phists, it is probable that a missive couched in Hebrew, Arabic, or Sanscrit, might be the occasion of considerable difficulty in translation and retrans lation before its transmission to a distance could be effected. We do not here allow that the word " impossibility" should interfere with the legitimate employment of the electric telegraph. But what could we say to the antiquary who, in hot haste to discover some hidden meaning, should bring to us the hieroglyphics from an ancient tombstone for transmission to some distant Champollion—intelli gible to him alone ? Should we not have to refuse also the naive request of the young lady with the piece of music, a sonata or an aria, for her dear friend at St. Petersburg? And this poor man, defrauded to the extent of some few thousands by the absconded delinquent whose unmistakeable por trait, sketched in outline by the heliograph, he presents for immediate transmission to the Belgian police authorities ? Ceitainly here we should have to confess the present limits of our telegraphic art ; which can transmit to a distance intelligence and thought expressed in words, represented by the letters of our alphabet, but not any gribouillages that can be made upon paper or metallic foil. But we might also bring to mind that many years ago an English inventor of the name of Bakewell pro posed a system for transmitting autograph commu nications, which also was applicable to the repro duction of anything that can be inscribed on paper. In connexion with the subject we might also re member the name of M. Lucy Fossarieu, and, of late, we should have heard of that of the Abbe Caselli, the inventor of the pan telegraph. Few of our readers would require to be informed that by means of a telegraph wire and an accurately synchronous clockwork movement at two distant stations, it is both possible and easy to reproduce, with mathematical exactitude, the characters which may be traced at the transmitting station with a non-conducting material upon a conducting strip of metal in connexion with the line wire. Providing the conditions as to wire- and synchronous -move ment remain perfect, the arrangements to this effect are sufficiently simple. A metallic paint connected with the battery transmits the current through the conducting strip of metal and to the line wire, so long as the circuit is not broken by the contact of this metallic point with the lines traced in insulat ing ins. At the receiving station a chemical change is produced by the electrical agency upon a prepared strip of paper, traversed by a metallic point in connection with the line wire. At each interrup tion of the current the chemical action, which causes a coloured line to be traced upon the paper, is ar rested. The synchronous movement of the metallic foil, and of the prepared paper, causes the effect of each interruption, occasioned by the insulating ink upon the former, to be produced upon the latter when the two stylets are In exactly the same rela tive position in regard to the surfaces which are re spectively traversed by them in a series of lines in close proximity to each other. The characters are, therefore, reproduced in white upon a coloured ground. The result is sufficiently wonderful, occur ring as it does with great rapidity, to have occa sioned the encomiums bestowed upon the Italian inventor by the Emperor of the French. But the system is by no means new, and, we believe, ori plated with our own countryman. It is stated that the arrangements of the Abbe Caselli for sc curing isochronism, by means of the vibrations oniplete i of two pendulums, are peculiarly perfect; but not asserted, on the ot her hand, that those of Mr. Bakewell were defective. The complete success of the experiments w hi ch were mad eit at a Florence appear to have been due in a great mea sure to the perfection of the instruments constructed by M. Froment; but we have little doubt that, without interfering in any degree with the points of no veyl o t u y r w iT h e ic n h ie m ys a TE b ll e io li tt e s c , u a li n a d r B t o r h z a e Pan os ni g e l h e graph, t vindicate at the forthcoming International Exhibi tion our claim to an invention which, whether ap plicable or not in a practical point of view, is justly regarded as one of tLe z ni ec o e s r t ic b i e a a n ti . tiful applications of electrical science. RAILWAY 12V 7ELIJGE2VCE. LONDONDERRY AND ENNISIino,iEN. The report of the directors states that the rent ,of the rail way for the past six months (£13,003) has been .received from the Dundalk Company by weekly payments, less income tax. Such moneys as were not immediately ,re quired for uses of the company were placed to a deposit ad count, the interest on which amounted to £64. The transfer fees for the six months amounted to £l5 15s. ; this addect to £7 55., the balance from the preceding half year, made the gross total £13,087. From this the cost of some con veyances and land, office expenses, and the interest on loans amounting to £4,409, have been paid, leaving a disposable sum of £8,178 towards the payment of dividends and arrears. The directors recommend that the dividends, at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum to ti.'e 31st Dec. last, be declared and paid on the 10th Feb. nex - t, on the 245 half shares standing in the names of J. Lancey and It. Bagley; also the dividends, at the rate of 6 per cent. l amer annum, on the 3,185 (£10) 6 per cent. shares ; also the dividends, at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, being 6s. 3d. per flare, toge ther with Is. 3d. per share on account of arrears, making: 7s. 6d. per share on the 19,819 half shares of £l2 lOs. each represented by the half shares Class A, and the half shares Class A, final issue, leaving a balance of £215 for the next account. The scheme for the capitalisation of arrears of dividends has, with one exception, met with the approval of those proprietors who have communicated with the sec retary respecting it. The Dundalk Company have a bill before Parliament this session in which it is proposed to incorporate the lease of the railway and works, and also to obtain power to hold the markets which were the property of this company. The capital account showed that £702,886 had been received, and £705,103 expended, leaving a ba lance against the company of £2,217. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLN- SHIRE. It appears from a statement respecting the working of the trains on this company's line during the half-year ending the 31st December last, that the locomotive engines were in steam 180 ; 881 hours, of which 94,083 were occupied in running, 61,656 in shunting, and 25,142 standing. The engines consumed 61,837 cwt. of coke and 439,238 cwt. of coal. The cost of fuel per hour was 16 82d., and per mile 1.90 d. The train miles run by the engines amounted in the aggregate to 1,287,299 ; in assisting trains, 13,436 miles ; and in conveying empty trains, 79,246 miles; making tho total miles run by the engines during the half-year 1,379,981. The number of passenger trains run during the half-year was 26,477, of which 17,339 arrived in time, and 9,18 above five minutes after time. The number of goods trains run was 8,901, of which 5,304 arrived in time, and 3,597 above five minutes after time; and the number of coal trains run was 7,405, of which 5,186 arrived in time, and 2,219 above five minutes after time. The average num— ber of carriages in the passenger trains was 61, of waggons in the goods trains 361, and in the coal trains 251. RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday the cases taken before the Examiners were principally projects for extending and improving railway communication in Wales, the West of England, and the Northern and Midland distric•s. The following were dis posed of and declared to have duly complied with the stand. ing orders : BRISTOL AND SOUTH-WESTERN JUNCTION.—To autho rise the London and South-Western to make eight new lines to unite with the Salisbury and Yeovil, the Midland and the Somerset Central, and to raise a further capital of £750,000. VALE OP NEATH, AND SWANSEA AND NEATH: By this Bill the Vale of Neath propose to acquire the Swansea and Neath, sad to lay down on their own line the narrow guage, in addition to the broad guage, the coat of the latter being estimated at £lOO,OOO, and the remainder at £60,000. BRITON FERRY AND DOCK COMPANY.—Fora lease of the undertaking to the South Wales and Vale of Neath Railway Companies, to raise £30,000, and to borrow £45,000. STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON.—To make new lines to Towlaw and Crook ; to convert tho company's existing capital into stock, and apply any portion of it to the new works. NORTH BRITISH AND CARLISLE AND SILLOTH BAY COMPANIES.—For leasing the later to the former. MARKET DRAYTON AND NEWPORT JUNCTION. GREAT NORTHERN.—To make a line from Rossington, near Doncaster, to Gainsborough, and after levels from the latter place to Saxelby, with power to raise £330,000 in new shares, and to borrow £llO,OOO. NORWICH AND SPALDING.—TO extend the line from Sutton, in the Holland division of Lincolnshire, by a double junction; to issue new shares to the extent of £75,000, and borrow £25,000, WEST CHESHIBE.—For a new line from Mouldsworth to Chester, and branches to the Birkenhead Railway, with power to raise £200,000 and borrow £60,000. VALE or CLwYD.—To extend their line to the river Clwyd at Foryd, and to raise £13,000. LAUNCESTON AND SOUTH DEVON.—For a railway from Tavistock to Launceston at an estimated cost of £lBO,OOO, and power to borrow £60,000. MORETONHAMPSTEAD AND SOUTH DEVON.—From the Newton station of the South Devon to Moretonhampatead, at a cost of £105,000 and £35,000 on loan. The Bill of the Swansea, Neath, and Brecon, for eaten sions, was withdrawn. The cases of non-compliance included the Nantlle Rail way, to alter line and levels, and make five new branches in the slate districts, at £260,000; and the South Staffordshire and Central Wales, for extensions from Dudley to Bridg north, and branches to the South Staffordshire and West Midland Railways and Great Western at Swindon, with a proposed new capital of £200,000, and £66,000 loan. RAILWAY TO THE CAMP AT COLCHESTER.—This was an application on the part of the Tendring Hundred Rail way Company, running from the Hythe, in the neighbour hood of Colchester, to Wivenhoe, for paver to extend the line into Colchester and to the Camp, and to enter into contracts with the War Department, the additional money required for the purpose being £33,000. The standing orders were complied with. COUN2.RI MABEL 2S. ~ BIRMINGHAM-JAR. 23. At to-day's market there was a short supply of Eng lish wheat from the farmers, and the sales made were at an advance of is per qr on this day week. Foreign was unaltered. In barley more doing, and prices remain un changed. Oats 3, beans, and peas only saleable in retail. NEWARK-JAN. 21. We had a moderate supply of wheat at market to-day, and prices slightly advanced. Best barley at late prices; inferior on the decline. Other articles as before. White wheat, new, 60s to 63s Barley, grinding.. 29s to 31s Red do. sss to Ms Oats, old, .. oos to 353 Old white 6os to 63s New do 23s to 27s Red do. 4(s to 56s ( Beans. 45s to 478 Barley, malting.... 325.t0 39s f Beans, new.. 44s to —8 Peas, ....48s to 545. SLEAFORD--JAx. 20. The attendance was thin to-day, with a good supply of wheat. Trade moderate, and former rates a Wile higher. White wheat ruled at 64s to 70s, red 60s to 66s per qr. New wheat, —s to —s. Barley was in limited supply, and at late prices-32s to 375; oats ruled steady at full prices, 21s to 265; new, —s to —s; beans at from 40s to 465; peas, —s to —s. EDINBURGH GRAIN—JAN. 22. Wheat on the top 5s Od down .average is 2d up. Barley on the top is down . average Os 3d up. Oats on the top is 9d down average Os Id up. Beans on the top is Od up.... average Os id up. Total Supply and Sales. Wheat .1005 qrs Sold 619 qrs 8ar1ey........ 19 i 2 qr s S o ld 1612 qrs Oats 2025 qrs Sold 1531 qrs Beans 176 qrs Sold 145 qrs Averages per Imperial quarter. Wheat.... New wheat .... -12ths Barley Oats i 1 5 2 7-12ths Beans -12ths CORK-JAN. 22. The following were the quotations this morning :—Rc d wheat, 26s Od to —s 0,1 ; white, 31s Od to s —Od; barley 108 Gd to 16s Od ; oats, 9s 6d to 14s 9d. DERBY SMITHFIELD —JAN. 21. There was a good supply of fat beasts to-day, and the attendance was also good. Prices were high. The supply of sheep was good, and prices unaltered. Fat calves were short, and sold well. The show of fat pigs was good, fully maintaining late rates. Beet Gd to Gid Veal . 7ld to 81 Mutton ... 71d to Sid Pork Lamb Od to Od Rough f a t, 4 s 3d per stone. Hides, 3d to 44d ; calf skins, od to 6d. BIRTHS. CARTWRIGHT.—On the 22d inst., at 45, Park-street, Lady Elizabeth Leslie Melville Cartwright, of Melville House, Fife, of a daughter. LUDLOW.—On the 22d inst., at Hastings, the wife of Gcn. Ludlow, of a son. SOuTHGATE.—On the 23d inst., at Notting-hill, the wife of Tuffuell Southgate, Esq., of a son. MARRIAGES. BARING— PONSONBY.—On the 22d inst., at Saint Paul's, Knightsbridge, William Windham Baring, Esq., to Barbara, youngest daughter of the late Major Gen. the Hon. Sir Free erick and Lady Emily Ponsonby. LIDDERDALE—ACTON.—On the 22d inst., at All Saints', Kensington, T. W. Lidderdale, Esq., of the British Museum, to Frances Maria, daughter of the late John Acton, Esq., of Ludlow. DEATIIS. BLAIR.— On the 21st inst., at 4, Brompton•square, Augus tus Henry, the infant son of John Hunter Blair, Esq. BLOMMELD.—On the 22d inst., at Egremont Lodge, Brighton, the Dowager Lady Biome&ld, aged 67. DALTON.—On the 19th inst., the Rev. John Dalton, vicar of Warlingham, Surrey, aged 67. EVANS.—On the 22d inst., Thomas F. Evans, Esq., at Leyton, s MASTERMAN. — On the 23d inst., at hi s res id ence, L eyton, Essex, EJo h s nse ll L a s g ted erm B a 3. n , Esq., late M.P. for the city of London, aged 81. LONDON : Printed and Published by 111IJUD0 - YOUNG. cf No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TnE SUN Office, No. 112,Strat d, in the Precinct of the Savoy in the County of rdiddleaes Friday, January 24, 1862.