The Sun. — London, England, 1862-12-11 00:00:00

711 E FATAL COLLIERY EXPLOSION NEAR BARNSLEY. WORSi3OROUGH, WEDNESDAY MORNING. A- long day spent at the scene of the explosion has enabled us to add some interesting particulars to ',hose which appeared in the Sun of yesterday. Ti - .103 dreadful calamity occupies the whole attention rat the population of the district. Throughout the day the roads leading to the colliery were thronged by crowds on their way to ascertain the fate of rela- Lives and friends. Among the persons connected with :he mine the greatest uncertainty existed as to the number of killed, but up to 9 o'clock last night it had been ascertained that 55 persons were dead and 17 or 18 injured. The investigations we made yesterday elucidated more clearly the cause and nature of the explosion, and ) as will be seen, open some serious questions fiJr the consideration of the coroner's jury. The explosion was caused by a fire in the seam, origi nating in the firing of a " shot" or a charge of powder used in blasting. According to the statements made by several in telli'gent miners with whom we conversed, the con di' lon of this part of the workings was peculiarly :langerous in consequence of the incessant emission of gas, and it certainly seems unaccountable why blasting operations were allowed to be carried on there. The men who were at work in the board gate, where the shot was fired, did all in their power to extinguish the flames and restore the ventilation ; but they were unsuccessful, although at first the fire spread very slowly, and there were hopes enter tained that it would be extinguished before it became necessary to alarm the workmen. There were 238 men and boys at work; a fire had broken out in one part of the mine, and the means of ventilation were becoming seriously impaired. It was clear, there fore, that the persons in authority were bound to make the men acquainted with the extent and imminence of the danger, and have the pit cleared as speedily as possible. Had this been done, it is undoubtedly the case that there was sufficient time to have enabled every one of the work men. to reach the pit bank before the explosion at 11 took place. Statements vary upon the ques tion as to whether any warning at all was given to the men. Some of the miners, who were work ing near the scene of the fire, were made acquainted with the ominous fact by their " hurriers," and se veral of them. proceeded at once to the pit bottom and were trawn to bank . But many others, who Were Working at a great distance from the fire, complain that they were never warned of the dan ger, and. that they made their escape with great difficulty, from the spreading of the deadly gas, They affirm that the men who were engaged in the attempt to put out the fire were desirous of " doing a clever thing" by putting out the flames without causing the men to leave their work. Where the responsibility rests it is not for us to say; we con fine ourselves to a simple statement of the facts of the erAse. The report of the " blast," when it took plu e at last, was very violent, and was heard at a considerable distance. Immediately all was alarni and excitement at the pit bank and in the neigh bouring villages, where the fatal signal had been heard. A large crowd speedily collected on the bank, and among them was a number of women whose husbands or sons were below, and who were frantically calling out for assistance to their friends. Down in the workings the shock of the explosion was felt by the greater number of the miners, and they at once began to rush to the shafts. The deadly gas which follows an explosion was spread ing thmugh the mine, and several of the fugitives stumbled over the dead and the dying in their flight. 'nab cages in the two shafts were put in operation, and the men were drawn up as quickly as possible, though there was considerable confusion at one time, owing ,to the efforts of a number of men to obtain places in the already crowded cage. Un happily, it soon became apparent that all would not be rescued. The following is a complete list of the victims of the calamity : George Firth, Worsborough-dale, married, two children James Ewine, Barnsley, married, live children Richard Hunt, Worsborough-common, single Charles Wildsmith, Worsborough-common, married, eight children Matthewllatee, Worebarough-dale, 'married, three chil dren. Thmnas Gsvithorpe, "iVoreborongh-dale, married, five children. William Rigby, Barnsley, single. George Columbine, boy, Woraborough-common. Thomas Wroe (otherwise Mitchell), Worsborough-com mon, single. Thomas Oxterberry, Barnsley, married, two children. George Galloway, Woraborough-common, single. Henry Palfreyman, Barnsley, married, six children. George Ogley, Worsborough-eommon, single. William Ogley, Worsborough-common, married, two children. William Sharrock, Woraborough-common, married, two children. John Shaw, Barnsley, single. James Rateliff, Worsborough-dale, married, one child, Ratelifts harrier (name unknown). William Parkinson, Worsborough-common, married, two children. Peter Blacker, Woraborough-dale, married. George Wroe, Worsborough-common, single. Edward Leech (otherwise Philipps), Worsborough-dale, married, leaves five children. Two of Leech's sons, who worked with him, were killed ; five children survive. John Hitchin, Woraborough-dale, married, one child. George Baker, Worsborough-dale, single. John Schofield, Woraborough-dale, married, one child. Joseph Walker, Worsborough-common, married, two children. Joseph Hawley, Worsborough-dale, married, one child' Patrick M'Court, Barnsley, single. George Lawton, bottom steward,Woisborough-dale, wife and one child survive. Henry Lawton, his eldest son, deputy steward, single. Benjamin Holyland, Worsborough-dale, married, one child. Robert Farrington, miner, residence unknown. William Porter, bricklayer, Worsboiough-dale, married; ilve children survive. William James Porter, his son, 12 years. John Hartley, Ben., Worsborough-common, widower, one child survives. John Hartley and Walter Hartley, his sons, single James Ellis, Worsborough-bridge, single John Ellis, Worsborough-bridge, married, two children survive Walter Ellis, his son, single Charles Frobisher, Worsborough-dale, married, three children Robert Oldffeld, Worsbcrough-dale, married, three children Richard Cottle, Woraborough-dale, married, five children living Nicholas Cottle, his son The son-in-law of R. Cottle (name not ascertained), mar ried Richard Watson, Worsborough-dale, married, three children Richard Hough, Worsborough• common, hurrier, mar 'sd, two children Thomas Margeryson, Worsborough•common, a boy John Parkin, Worsborough-dale, married, one child William Fielding, Barnsley, single James Eastwood, Kitroyll, married, two children -William Davy (who died soon after being brought out of the mine), Woreb t . roug h- common , marr i e d, one c hild `iec'tge Pickering, Darley Houses, married TUB INJURED MEN. Qom= e 33 7: t8 borough-commo n , s li g htly injured head and ba ck re tt, Worsb oroug h -common, contus i ons o f in C ured harles Taylor, p a utreY, Worsb oroug h-d a l e , s li g htly j M'Court, Wilsole_ ver ,“ , Barnsley, slightly injured Wm. Hellingworth, f a i n -- t Samuel Sowersby, Be rry _ 17' bruised ankle injured ro w ,w or ., , contusion of head, '''°Tough-dale, slightly Ed ward Hunt, Worsborough-co fractured fingers, and contused an iu la °ll Armitage, Joseph-street, li on l y H. Swift, Gooseholes, Worsboroughe--dallig bib' injured face and hands e, severe barn of _ R ose , Spedding's-fold, Barnsley, sufferin g effects of chokeda m p . from the Wm, 'Morrison, Edm onds ' -main C ottages, severe b urns of the hands and face. Samuel Tyas , Berry-row, Worsborough-dale, slightly John litvy, IVorbborough common, contusion of the leg Roden, Worsborough-common, slightly Joseph Walter, B4lc , r-street, Barnsley, suffering from inhalation of carbonic acid gas By the above list it Will he seen that the cal e a were mity has made 29 widows and 77 orphtins. Ther 15 single men and one w idower among the killed, and eight boys. Some of the eas es are peculiarly distressing. The widow of Charles Frobisher had, when she married him, a family of three children by her first husband, who was killed at the great explosion at barley Main. The unfortunate woman - has again lost her sole support by this c ,]amity. Mrs. Hartley died a few months ago, and now the father and two sons are carried off, leay.r g the re maining child, a girl, dependent upon c' arity. The engineers who were consultin,; with Mr. Morton, the Government Inspector, determined at 9 o'clock last night to " seal up" the three shafts and turn the water of a neighbouring steam into the mine, in order to put out the fire. The decision gave rise to violent dissatisfaction amid the ♦ast crowd who were anxious to see the bodies removed. A descent of the shaft was clearly impossible with any hope of success, yet there were hundreds of men ready and eager to descend if they had been per. , mitted. Threats were openly made CO to what would be done if the engineers persisted in their in tention, and a serious riot was apprehended for some time. A deputation of six veteran colliers was appointed to wait upon the Government In spector, and ask him for permission to descend the mine. Mr. Mor ton firmly refused, alleging that if a descent was made the probability was that there would be ano ther explosion more severe than the others. The men pleaded that the relatives of the deceased were in a fearful state of excitement on the subject, but they themselves admitted that it was impossible for any of the men in the mine to have lived after 3or 4 o'clock on Monday. In the evening a large stone was thrown through the office window. It is feared that if the water is turned into the mine weeks, or even months (as was the case at Lund hill) may elapse befo re th e b o di es can b e g ot at. Two deaths have taken place among the men brought to the bank after the explosion. An inquest was opened at the Mason's Arms last night by Mr. Taylor, and adjourned to Monday next. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. This terrible calamity continues to engross the attention of the South Yorkshire mining districts. Nothing so fearfully disastrous has occurred in Yorkshire since 1857, when the great explosion at Lundhill sent a thrill of horror throughout the whole country. By the investigations and inquiries made at the scene of the disaster on Tuesday some further interesting particulars have come to hand. The Edmond's Main Colliery is situated about two miles and a half in a south-westerly direction from Barnsley. The upper works of the mine are placed within a short distance of the South Yorkshire coa line to Worsborough and district, which run parallel with the Dearne and Dove Canal. The workings extend east and west for about 1,800 yards, and in the east they were being extended to establish a connection with the new Swathe shaft, which also belongs to the colliery company. There are two downcast shafts and one upcast, which is about 290 yards distant from the others, and is a very large and well built shaft. The managing partner is Mr. Joseph Mitchell, who was assisted by his son, and the general steward of the mine, a man named Lawton, universally respected for his experience and skill in mining affairs. The mine has bean in operation about nine years, and the quantity of coal got from the seam, which is here nine feet thick, has been very large. A branch line runs to the pit mouth from the South Yorkshire line, and the colliery has been one of the most productive upon the line. The number of men and boys employed was slightly over 300, and some parts of the mine were worked day and night, in order to supply the demand for the coal. Having thus recapitulated a few of the most essen tial particulars, we proceed to describe more in de tail than we were enabled to do yesterday the ter rible disaster which has suddenly broken in upon this busy scene of industry, and plunged into eter nity a great number of industrious workmen. The explosion was caused, as stated in our quo tation from the Sheffield Independent yesterday, by a fire in the eastern extremity of the workings, which were being driven to connect the mine with the Swathe shaft. It seems that the men who were engaged in driving the heading determined to blast the coal with gunpowder, and accord ingly a hole was drilled in the seam, and a charge of powder inserted in the usual manner. The duty of 4 ‘ - Bring the shot," as the miners term the exploding of the charge, devolved upon men who 1 were specially selected for the purpose. At a period which cannot be exactly ascertained, but it is vari ously stated at between half-past 7 and 9 in the morning, the shot was fired by a man named Wal ton, and the result was most disastrous. The ex plosion ignited the gas, which was issuing very freely from the newly-cut face of the coal, blew down several brattices—air courses—and finally set fire to the seam of coal. According to the state ments made by several intelligent miners with whom we conversed, the condition of this part of the work ings was peculiarly dangerous in consequence of the incessant emission of gas, and it certainly seems un accountable why blasting operations were allowed to be carried on there. The men who were at work in the board-gate, where the shot was fired, did all in their power to extinguish the fire and restore the ventilation. But they were unsuccessful, although at first the fire spread very slowly, and there were hopes entertained that it would be extinguished before it became necessary to alarm the workmen. State ments vary upon the question as to whether any warning at all was given to the men. Some of the miners, who were working near the scene of the fire, were made acquainted with the ominous fact by their " hurriers," and several of them proceeded at at once to the pit bottom, and were drawn to bank. But many others, who were working at a great dis tance from the fire, complain that they were never warned of the danger, and that they made their escape with great difficulty from the spreading of the deadly gas. About half-past 11 o'clock a mes sage was sent from the colliery to Mr. Mitchell, the managing partner, from Lawton, and the mes senger found Mr. Mitchell and his son standing to gether at the Swathe shaft. What was the nature of the message we have not been able to ascertain, but that it was urgent there can be no doubt, for Mr. Mitchell and his son went with all speed to the colliery, descended the shaft, and met Lawton, who stated it is said the circumstances which had occurred in connexion with the firing of the shot. Mr. Mitchell, senior, laid an especial charge upon Law ton to be exceedingly careful in what he was doing, but we are not informed that it occurred to either of them to have the miners sent out of the pit, and thereby prevent the danger of a wholesale sacrifice of human life. Lawtonotssured Mr, Mitchell that he had plenty of bricks and lime at hand, and that " he hoped soon to build up the stoppings and make all right." Mr. Mitchell, jun., then went to the cupola pit, and ordered the furnacemen to put out the fire immediately, which was done ; and the two returned to the pit bank just before the first explosion (that at 11 o'clock) took place. One of the killed, named Thomas Oxterberry, had earned a re putation for fearless hardihood. He also formed one of the band of explorers at Lundhill, the Oaks, at the explosion at Messrs. Twibell's colliery, at the upper end of the Dale ; and on other occasions his ever-ready and useful services have been called into requisition. The fate of Lawton, the steward, and his eldest son was very melancholy. They bad left the mine after the first explosion, but returned in a short time and went down the mine to attempt to rescue the men imprisoned in the distant workings. They never returned. About three o'clock it became evident that to con tinue the attempts to explore the mine would only be to court a useless sacrifice of valuable lives. At that time about seventeen injured men had been brought to the pit bark, and were at once attended to by the surgeons who had been summoned from Barnsley. One of the sufferers, named Davy, died in a short time after he was brought out; and another, Ge orge Pi c k er i ng, whose drea df u l i n j ur i es edynerdi g t erd ite szdness: agony.ribl The Tues Tuesday y m a os f afternoon, r nhoaornro, harrowing after ign en stories are told of the condition of some of the men who had been struck by the first blast and were seen endeavourin g t o furnaceman make their way to the shaft. The -Bickering, is is said to have had two of and one of the men sa w him come up ing hi s way to the shaft " With, one of who was mak ing Sons working in Pickering was then un injured, and he asked the boy where his brother was . The lad replied that he was a little away a-head, and the father replied in an affectionate tone, " God bless you; make haste out of the mine." A most remarkable and apparently trustworthy story of a presentiment of the approaching danger which was felt by one of the miners is current in the locality, and is vouched for by a respected leader in a religions denomination. An old man, a miner, who had long been a member of the Wesleyan body, worked in the mine with his two sons. On Mon- day morning, before leaving the house, he appeared greatly troubled and agitated, and stated that he had a strong presentiment of impending danger. He engaged in fervent prayer with his sons, and arose with his mind somewhat relieved. But the feeling of depression returned before he left the house, and he exclaimed. " I don't feel easy, lads," and again asked them to join with him in a special supplication to the Almighty for protection whilst in the mine. They then went to work, their work ing places being near each other. Shortly before 11 o'clock one of the young men saw what he de scribed as "a wall of smoke" coming up the head ing. He ran to his father, and related what he had seen, and the old man exclaimed, " Then it's all over." But hope did not desert them, and they immediately ran in the direction of the shaft, each having on only his working trousers ; they reached the shaft just as a number of corves were being sent up; they got into the cage, and reached the pit bank in safety, before the first explosion took place. The " wall of smoke" which the young man saw was probably a burst of smoke produced by the ex- plosion of the gunpowder used in firing the shot, but its appearance confirmed their already existing apprehensions of danger, and prompted their speedy and fortunate retreat. It is a noteworthy fact, that some of the members of the exploring parties state that they heard several of the miners whose escape was cut off by the gas praying with great fervency. There are few unacquainted with the peculiar habits and temperament of the miner who would credit the existence of the deep and apparently sincere religions spirit which animates many of these men, and which has from time to time produced noble examples of suf fering borne with uncomplaining fortitude, and danger and death in their most terrible forms en. countered with the simple heroism of the true Chris. tian. That such cases are not rare in this district is well known ; and some consolation may be gathered for the survivors from the fact that many of the men now lying " asleep" in Edmond's Main were not altogether unprepared for their sudden and fearful fate. The presence of an immense crowd of persons from Barnsley and the surrounding villages, on Tuesday, testified to the interest which this great calamity had excited. The road from Barnsley was thronged throughout the day with crowds of pedestrians, many of whom were on their way to the colliery to ascertain the fate of relatives or friends. Many of the men who are dead formerly resided in Barnsley; and here and there on the road were seen groups collected round women, whose pale and grie stricken features too surely bore witness to the ex tent of their distress. Around the pit mouth there was a vast crowd, amongst which were a large number of the wives and female relatives of the de ceased. Some of them carried young babies in their arms, and the greater part presented a very squalid and poverty stricken appearance. Their grief was painful to witness—the more painful that it did not find vent in noisy demonstrations, but was expressed by the pale, rigid features, and the fixed and tear less gaze with which they regarded the fatal shaft —the grave of their hopes. Very soon after the occurrence of the last and most fearful explosion, the proprietors of the mine sum moned to their aid several local gentlemen of emi nence as mining engineers, Mr. Brown, of the firm of Brown and Jeffcock, of Sheffield and Barnsley ; Mr. Maddison, of the Worsbro' Park Pits, and Mr. Mitchell, the managing partner, held a consultation with the view of deciding on some means of extin guishing the fire in the mine, and recovering the bodies. As one result of their deliberations, a large body of workmen were set to dig a trench from the main shaft to a small stream near the Dearne and Dove Canal, the intention being to flood the works from that source. The men worked in strong relays . :wring the whole of the night, and on Tuesday morning were still vigorously at work. The difference in the levels of the pit hill and the bed of the stream was so great that the trench was required to be cut to a depth of 14ft. lin. through the hill before any fall could be obtained by which the water would run into the mine. The cutting was partly through the rock, and the work entailed immense labour, and was not concluded when we left the colliery in the evening. The preparations to flood the mine were viewed with marked dis favour by a large number of the younger colliers, many of whom were anxious that another attempt should be made to recover the bodies before the water was turned in upon them. This feeling was very naturally shared by the wives and female re latives of the entombed miners, and as the day wore on and no attempt was made to go down the mine, the crowd indulged in some strong expressions of opinion. The front of the office, wherein the con sultation were being held, of Mr. Morton, the go vernment inspector for the district, and the gentle men above-named, was thronged with women, whose overpowering anxiety to get the bAies of their friends out of the mine was repeatedly expressed. About 3 o'clock, Mr. Morton and Mr. Bartholomew passed through the crowd, and immediately after wards a cry was raised for " volunteers to go down the shaft." Instantly the number mentioned—six— was supplied thrice over by the brave but unreason ing miners; but after a long interval of anxious suspense, it was decided that there should be no at tempt made to penetrate into the mine until it was ascertained whether the fire was out or not. The decision was received with great dissatisfaction, and eventually a deputation, consisting of eight veteran colliers, was selected to wait upon the managers. The men composing the deputation were John Shelton, James Shork, John Rigby, Edward Thorley, Richard Wilson, Wm. Stenton, John Wroe, and Robert Ratcliffe. They were ad mitted to an interview, after which they stated that they had come to the conclusion that nobody living was left in the pit on Tuesday at four o'clock, but that the crowd wished to see the bodies out. Mr. Morton replied that as Government inspector he could not assent to the application. He could not allow any one to act in a manner which would probably put more lives in peril by causing an other explosion, more severe than the others. The blind and ignorant impatience of the crowd exhi bited against Mr. Morton became more serious, and a large crowd assembled in front of his quarters in the evening, and one of the men was seen to throw a stone through one of the office windows. A riot is anticipated if the intention to flood the mine is carried out. It was expected that the water would be turned in about eight yesterday morning. In reference to the ventilation of the mine, the general statement is that the supply of air was very good. In a statement proceeding from the proprietors, we found a passage :—" The mine was worked with safety-lamps—Stephenson's." In test ingao the vari ous rumours b y persona l i nqu i ry amongst the men, we e w n e were used as s u u n r et until lmostsst Saturday , positivel y thatm n no g lamps had n, and then only by the men engaged in working near where s a the d eedx that plosion th e took s p h l s a ti c fi r T e d h , e , r o e other e d i n i y f oirn ma n t that district during the past week, and that on one occasion a fire burned for three hours before the steward and his men succeeded in extinguishing it. The truth of these statements will of course be tested by a jury. The calamity has deprived 29 women of their husbands, and made '77 children orphans. There were 15 single men and one widower amongst the killed, and eight boys. Some of the cases are pe culiarly distressing. 'l'be widow of one man (Chas. Frobisher) had, when she married him, a family of three children by her first husband, who was killed at the great explosion at Darley Main. The unfor tunate woman has again lost her sole support by this calamity. In one family (named Hartley) death has been busy. Mr. Hartley died a few mouths ago, and now the father and two sons are carried off at one stroke, leaving the remaining child, a girl, dependant upon charity for a livelihood. Many of the households in Worsborough Dale and (the Common, so lately happy and thriving, have THE SUM LONDON, TIOTRSDAT EVE been suddenly deprived of their breadwinners, and reduced to despondency and poverty. Mr. Smith, surgeon, of Barnsley, who is assiduously attending to the sufferers, states that several of them are in a critical position. Every attention is being paid to the unfortunate men, and there are hopes enter tained that the bulk of them will be able to go about again in a short time. Mr. Taylor, coroner, opened an inquest on Tues day night on the body of the man named Davy, then lying at the Masons' Arms. Formal evidence of identity was given, and the inquest adjourned. George Pickering died whilst the inquiry was pro ceeding. At nine o'clock on Tuesday night the engineers of the inspector determined to seal up all the pits, and turn the water in, with a view of putting out the fire. Threats were freely uttered as to what would be done if the engineer persisted in their in tention. LAW IN7 ELLIGENCE, Dec. 10. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings at Nisi Prius after Term at Guildhall, be fore Mr. Justice Crompton and a Common Jury.) LUTE V. HORN ER. This was an interpleader to issue to try the plaintiff's right, as against the defendant, to certain goods seized in execution on the premises, 103, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury. Mr. Huddlestone, Q.C., and Mr. H. Clarke were counsel for plaintiff; Mr. Sergeant Ballantine and Mr. J. Simon were counsel for defendant. The defendant, Mrs. Horner, is a widow lady, and a teacher of dancing, and the plaintiff is a piano forte maker at 103, Great Russell-street, Blooms bury-square. The defendant was the execution cre ditor of the plaintiff's father, and the question was whether the goods belonged to the son or the father. The plaintiff alleged that the partnership that ex isted at one time between him and his father was dissolved in February, 1860. In cross-examination the plaintiff said that about the time the execution was put in he compromised with his creditors_ He owed £BO, and he paid over X4O. After the execution he sold £4OO worth of pianofortes by private contract. £1,183 was the amount of the execution debt. He saw his father at Calais in June last. At one time by arrangement his father's attorney acted for Mrs. Horner. The origin of the acquaintance with the defendant arose from her borrowing a piano when she was Mrs. Marriott. He visited the defendant, and was pre sent at one evening party. He never heard or knew that the defendant was a woman struggling with dif ficulties and wor king heard for her living. She mar ried her late husband in 1851. He kne w she had entrusted valuable securities to his father before her husband's death. Previously, she called and saw him and his father. She had asked his father to realise. He obtained £2,300 for the bonds through Mr. Lamb, his friend, a wine and spirit merchant, carrying on business in Mark-lane. He had realised two or three days before that inter view, and he knew she was coming for the money. He knew that her husband was ill, but he was not aware that he was on his death-bed. The whole of the money was paid over to the defendant. He did not hand over £5O and say the remainder should be forthcoming on the following day_ He saw the whole of the money handed over to her. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine — Did it remain long with her ?—I don't know. Don't you know that your father obtained it again from her ?—I do not. I swore the notes were counted out, and he handed the whole of the money over to her in her father's back drawing room. He did not take a receipt for the money. He then left the room. He had no doubt his father had some of the money from her. He could not say if his father kept all the money except £5O. He did not ask his father how much he had kept back, and his father had never told him. He had great doubts that it went into the business. It was some time after Mr. Horner's death that he heard that his father had kept back the money. He did not ask his father how much money he had kept back, because it was no business of his. He had no curio sity about the matter. He did not think it was a dishonest transaction. He was not aware she had not been paid back one halfpenny of it. An action was brought against his father by the defendant for £l,lOO. Judgment was allowed to go by default, and execution was issued. Chan cery procedings were instituted in relation to the bonds, and Mr. Broughton, his attorney, acted for her. After the commencement of the Chancery proceedings he took the defendant to Brussels under his attorney's advice. He was not aware that his father was paying his addresses to the defendant. It was the first time he had heard of it. He had no curiosity to know the amount in dispute between his father and the defendant, and he made no inquiries about it. He only took care to look after his own interests. He thought the Chancery suit was compromised for £5OO. He did not know whose pocket the money came out of. Certainly not out of his or out of the business. He dissolved partnership with his father in February, 1860. The goods were sold under the execution. He informed the defendant about that time that they were ping to dissolve partnership. He had never asked her to accept £5OO and forego all claims upon him. He received a telegram from his father after the execution was put in to sell. It was in answer to a letter asking his advice. He did not ask his father's permission to sell. The execution was against his father, but it had been put in on plaintiff's goods. He had ca rr i e d on b us i ne s s on his own account since February, 1860. The bonds in question were on American railways not known in the market. He got the beat price he could ob tain for them. He had nothi ng more t o d o with the money besides receiving it and handing it over. The attorney advised Mrs. Horner to go to Brussels to avoid an attachment from the Court of Chancery. Mr. Burroughs was called—H e explained the Chancery proceedings. It was a fishing suit. The bonds produced X . ,2,250. H e spo k e t o t h e dissolu tion of partnership and the as s i gnmen t o f th e goo d s , &c., to the plaintiff in February, 1860. Sending the defendant to Brussels facilitated the settlement of the Chancery proceedings. Several persons who dealt with the firm of Luff and Son were called to prove that in 1860 that was the name of the firm. The cheques were signed "Lull and Son," and after that time in the son's name only. They understood the parties dissolved partnership, but they did not see it in the Gazette. One of the witness said the words "Luff and Son" were still over the door. The son gave bills to the father for the purchase-money, running over a period of -years. Mr. Simon, for the defence, said the alleged part nership though regular and proper on the face of it, was a sham and a fraud, in or d er t o g et r id of the defendant's just claim. It was a case not only of the greatest hardship, but of shameful fraud, in which the son had aided and abetted the father, and from which fraud he had i been one of the principal per son benefited. .The defend an t i n h e r widowhood earned her livelihood by teaching dancing, and she first became acquainted with the plaintiff and his father from borrowing a piano from them. The father and soon visited her, a friendly feeling sprung up between them, and the father displayed an ac tive interest in her welfare. In 1856 she became ac quainted with Mr. Horner, who was without means but was in expectations from a wealthy aunt, and she still continued teaching dancing, earning about £3OO per annum, on which they lived. The bonds in question were given by the aunt to the husband. They lived in Essex, and the husband had ruptured a bloodvessel. Mrs. Horner had to come backward and forward to attend to her pupils. The father ex pressed great sympathy for her, and his readiness to assist her in her troubles. He became acquainted with the husband, and being in his and the wife's confidenJe they spoke of the bonds. The father said he would take them and realise them in order that the husband might make some provision for his wife (defendant) after his death. The bonds were accord ingly delivered to Luff, sen., and some days after she received a letter from him stating that he had rea lised the bonds and had the money ready for her. She accordingly came up to town and called on the plaintiff, at Great Russell-street. She was shown into the father's private room, and instead of the proceeds of the bonds, amounting to £3,000 though said to be only £2,350, a little drama was acted. Luff, jun., held a parcel in his hand which the tather had given to him, which he was told to hand over to the defendant. He did so, and then she was told by the father to hand it back to him. Not having the slightest idea of what it meant, but supposing it was a necessary formality to be gone through, she gave back the money as re quested. Upon that the father said, in the presence of the son, that he thought it would be unsafe for her to have so large a sum about her, and advised her to take about £5O for her present wants, and leave the remainder w ith him, and he would bring it down to her and her husband the following day. At that time Mr. Horner was on the point of death. and the Lufl knew it. When she gave her hus band the £5O he expressed his surprise that she had not the whole of the money. A day or two after wards he died, and almost immediately after the father called on the defendant and expressed great sympathy, and vo l unteere d hi s serv ices in settling her affairs, and he acted for her about the funeral, &c. After a while she asked the father for the money, but he put her off f rom t i me t o time by various ex cuses. The Chancery suit was then commenced and knowing nothing a b out t h e proceedings, she relied on his statements that he would arrange and settle everything, and on his advice she went to Brussels. ING, DtqEMBER 1862. She relied entirely on him. the suit proceeded, and was ultimately compromised for £5OO, whieh the learned counsel said wee no doubt paid out of the proceeds of the bonds. On her return to Eng land. ehe again made application for her money, and began to press hard for it. The father then commenced paying his addresses to her, was ace cepted, and under the circumstances nothing further was done in the matter. The propcsal was made merely for the sake of delay, and in order to get rid of the claim. He broke his promise of mar riage, and she forgave him. He then renewed his promise, and was again accepted, thinking it better to forgive his peat violation of' good faith, and not to quarrel with the man who had, an she supposed, £2,500 of her money in his possession. He, however, again broke from his promise, and took bask his cook to live with him, by whom he had had a child, which it was alleged by the plaintiff was the cause of his disagreeing with his father and. their dissolving partnership. She then abandoned all thoughts of marriage with the elder Luff, being convinced that his promises had only been made for the purpose of getting rid of her claim. Mr. Simon strongly cen sured the attorney's conduct in acting for both par ties, and animadverted on the purchase and sale of the business by the father and sons The fact that the son had given the father six bills for £636 each, the first for two years, and the others running over seven years, for his share of the bnsiaess, were terms of that easy character which led to the belief that it was a colourable transaction for the pur pose of defeating the defendant's claim. The defendant was called and corroborated the learned counsel's statement. She said that she went to Brussels at the father's suggestion—in fact she acted under his advice, and placed every confidence in him then. She had then accepted his proposals of marriage, and in consequence of that she went abroad, and upon that promise she gave up her pro fession, which was realising £3OO per annum, and her home. The old man said he would take her to Brussels, but instead of that he sent his son George, the plaintiff, with her. She was there in an assumed name. She came home, and had to leave almost immediately in the assumed name of Brown, and she was not to see or communicate with any one. That was during the Chancery proceedings. When she came back the second time she was penniless. Her household furniture had been sold, and she was told that nothing belonged to her. Mr. Huddleston objected to this kind of evidence, upoa which Mr. Justice Crompton said he doubted if it would make old Luff worse. (Laughter.) Defendant said that after she left England she discovered fer the first time, that the elder Luff had formed an improper connexion with a common woman. She added that she told the plaintiff he had aided and assisted his father in bringing her to a state of destitution. He appeared to be deeply affected, and said he would be ruined if she pressed her claim. The plaintiff wanted her on one occa sion to compromise the matter for £5OO in bills. She consulted Mr. Broughton, her attorney, and gave him full powers to act, and to proceed imme diately against the Luffs es against strangers. Neither the plaintiff nor his solicitor ever told her about the dissolution of partnership. Ultimately a judgment was obtained against the father, and execu tion put in. He left England, and there was some difficulty in serving the writ. In the action she gave old Luff credit for the payment of £1,328 lls. 6d., and the judgment was for £l,lOO. The greater por tion of the credit was for money supplied when she was abroad. Her husband's relatives commenced proceed ings in Chancery against her about the bonds. She heard of the dissolution on the 29th February, 1860. During the elder Luff's absence, after the issue of the writ, negotiations were going on with a view to a settlement. She had no idea what the plrcel was the plaintiff passed to her in the father's presence. It was a small light brown paper parcel. Other evidence was then called in support of the learned counsel's statement. Mr Justice Crompton, in summing up. said they had nothing to do with the father's treatment of the defendant, but whether the dissolution of part nership and the purchase of the business was such as would pass the property and make the transac tion valid in law. Before the jury returned their verdict a compro mise was entered into, whereby the defendant ac cepted £3OO. A juror was then withdrawn. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. - --- - - Sittings at Nisi Prius after Term at Guildhall. (Be fore Lord Chief Baron Pollock and Special Jury.) RICKETTS V. STONE—FALSE IMPRISONMENT. This was an action for false imprisonment. The defendant pleaded a justification. Mr. Joyce and Mr. Kemp were counsel for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Raymond for the defendant. The plaintiff was a young woman, aged 22, the daughter of a publican in Clerkenwell, n and the de fendant was represented as a coaland corn merchant at Taunton. On the 19th of Aug. last the plaintiff, with the consent of her father, went with a young man namt d Doughty to the Foresters' fete at the Crystal Palace. Finding in the evening that the railway station was greatly crowded, they went t( the Anerley Arms station, with the view of getting back to town earlier, but here also a large crowd had assembled, and they walked into the Anerley gar dens, where they remained until about 11 o'clock. They then returned to the station, and while wait- ing in the crowd the defendant got into conversa tion with Doughty, and complained of the delay in running the trains. The defendant, who was accom panied by his wife and daughter, suddenly disco vered that his gold watch had been taken out of his waistcoat pocket, and he accused the plaintiff and Doughty of stealing it, and said he had felt the plaintiff's hand in his coat pocket. They were taken to the hotel and both given into custody for the rob bery. The policeman marched them off to the station at Norwood, two miles distant, tied locked them up all night. Next morning they had to walk to Lam beth police court, in company with several other prisoners, and the magistrate, after hearing the evi dence, remanded them for a week. At the expira tion of that time, during which they had been con fined in Horsemonger-lane gaol, they were brought up again and dismissed. Under these circumstances the plaintiff brought this action in order to vindi cate her character. _ _ Ellen Ricketts, the plaintiff, a respectable look ing young woman, was examined in proof of the above facts. She said she at once gave her address to the defendant, and wished to be searched in the hotel, but the policeman said that could only be done at the station. She was prevented giving bail, and was in prison a week. The amount charged by her attorney for his services on the occasion was £4 103. She positively denied having put her hand in the defendant's pocket. Cross-examined—Neither my friend nor myself pushed against the defendant in the crowd. The defendant did not take hold of my hand while it was in his pocket and pull it out. After he said he lost his watch I saw his chain hanging down with out a watch at the end of it. _ _ _ Re-examined—At the police station the defendant said he felt my hand in his pocket, but he did not say he caught it there. J. Doughty, a brass finisher, aged 24, and a widower, corroborated the plaintiff's evidence. He said he was a member of the ancient order of Fo resters, and had the permission of the plaintiff's father to take her to the fete, which was attended by 83,000 people. He said he tried to give bail, but another magistrate was sitting when his solicitor attended the court, and he refused to interfere in a case which had come before his brother magistrate. Upon cross-examination he admitted that as they were walking to the station he said to the defend ant, " I have not got your watch, but I think I know who has." He, however, explained that he saw a man in the crowd ciose to the defendant, who deli berately turned round and walked away, and he told the defendant that he thought that was the person who took his watch. The solicitor for the plaintiff said that Mr. Elliott sat at Lambeth Police-court on the first three days of the neek,and Mr. Norton on the other three days. He applied to Mr. Norton to take bail for the plain tiff, but he declined to entertain the application as he had not heard the case, and as Mr. Elliott did not sit till the following Monday, when the remand ex pired, he took no further steps in the matter. The Lord Chief Baron said he thought that was a very bad arrangement. It was the usual etiquette among the judges not to hear each other's sum monses, but th© humblest person in the realm could apply to any judge to be liberated on bail, that being a matter concerning the liberty of thesubject. It was very much to be lamented that bail could not have been taken in this case. The witness said that when he made the applica li - tion he was prepared to offer the father of the plain tiff and several other persons as bail. This being the case for the plaintiff, Mr. Raymond addressed the jury for the defence. He said the defendant did not accuse the plaintiff of stealing the watch, and the only question for the jury to consider was, whether he had a fair ground to suspect, and bona fide believed at the time he gave her into custody that she had been a party to the robbery. Mr. Stone, the defendant, who was very deaf, said the young man Doughty, whom he had never seen before, was in front of him in the crowd, and press ing very hard against him, so as to attract his at tention to his movements. He felt something in the side pocket of his coat, and put in his hand, when he found the band of the plaintiff. He said, "What are you about ?" She replied, e I b eg your pardon, I was taking some sweetstuff out of my own pocket;" but he held her hand until his daughte r came up. I mme di a t e ly a ft er wards he missed h is • watch, and su s pected Doughty, as he had seen i t safe in his pocket wily two minutes before, On going to the station Doughty said, "I have not got our watch, but I know who has." O❑ cross examination he said if the plaintiff and Doughty had been eearehed at the hotel and the watch had not been found upon them, he would not have given them into custody. Miss Stone, the defendant's daughter, a young lady, who also suffered under the infirmity of deaf ness, said she saw her father take the plaintiff's hand out of his pocket. The Lord Chief Baron, in summing up, said the jury would have to consider whether the defendant had good and sufficient reason for believing, and did believe, and honestly made the charge that Doughty picked his pocket, and that the female assisted in the operation. He said that if they found for the plaintiff, it did not necessarily follow that the defendant and his daughter had committed perjury, as it was just one of those eases in which mistakes on one side or the other might naturally be made as to what exactly took place. The jury, after a few minutes' deliberation, gave a verdict for the plaintiff—damages, £25. The foreman said the jury wished to express their opinion that the practice at the Lambeth police court as to taking hail was excessively inconvenient. The Lord Chief Baron said he had already made some strong remarks on the subject. It was very much to be lamented that a person like the plaintiff, charged with an offence of this kind, should be re manded a whole week without having an opportu nity of being released on bail. DOUGHTY Y. STONE. In this action, which arose out of the same affair, the parties, without going to trial, consented to a verdict for the plaintiff—damages, £l5. JEWELLERY ROBBERIES. At the Public-office, Birmingham, yesterday, be fore Mr. Kynnersley, stipendiary, several charges were heard, in which four foreigners, believed to be Polish Jews, were implicated, they having been engaged in robberies of jewellery in Birmingham and in London, In the first case, two men, named Tobias Kynnler and Herman Levey, were charged with having com mitted a robbery on the premises of Messrs. Pay ton, manufacturing jewellers, in Northampton-street, on Friday last. The facts, as detailed by Mr. Motterarn, of the Oxford circuit, who appeared for the prosecution, were as follows ;—ln the course of Thursday last the prisoners called at Messrs. Payton's place of busi ness, and having represented themselves as foreign merchants, intimated their wish to purchase goods. They were informed it was not convenient to show the goods at that time, and an arrangement was made that the men should call on the following morning, which they did. They were waited upon by Mr. Henry Payton and a clerkin attendance. Mr. Payton had a suspicion that the men were prigs; he was not only especially watchful and cautious of every movement of his customers, but by a memo randum in writing upon a card he enjoined watch fulness on the part of his clerk. No movement was seen by either. A selection of articles was made by each of the prisoners; these were put aside on a couple of trays, the men saying they would call again at 2 o'clock, when the things were packed, pay for them, and take them away. At the first interview the men said they would pay for whatever was purchased. Mr. Payton suggested that the goods might be packed in a quarter of an hour and taken at once, if the prisoners were prepared to pay for them. However, they left the place in a cab, promising to return at the hour named ; a minute afterwards Mr. Payton noticed that one of the brooches selected by the prisoners was missing from the tray ; his suspicions became stronger, and he despatched his father in search of them. The pri soners were overtaken and brought back, much against their will, almost by force. On entering the warehouse one of them asked to be shown the trays on which were the goods they had selected, and suddenly, with a dexterity which eluded all vigilance, the brooch Mr. Payton had missed re-ap peared upon the tray. Upon that a policeman was called in ; he proceeded to search Kynnler, but no thing was found on him ; the other prisoner in the meantime in some mysterious manner had deposited on the counter eight brooches and no less than 13 pairs of earrings, which he reproduced almost as cleverly as he had secreted them, one of the earrings only falling on the floor near him. These facts were fully proved, and the jewellery identified by Mr. Payton. The prisoners were both committed for trial at the sessions. There was also a charge against them, in conjunc tion with a young man and a woman said to be the wife of Kynnler, of having stolen valuable rings from the shop of Mr. Wilkinson, of Skinner-street, Clerkenwell, London. The woman when taken into custody had many rings on her fingers ; one of these, which she attempted to throw away, was identified by the prosecutor, and under circum stances to cause the committal of the woman for trial for felony. SIR JOSHUA JEBB'S PEN OF PRIZE LAMBS. (At the Metropolitan Fat-Cattle Show, Dec. 1862.) What Ellman of Clynde was as an improver of our short-woolled Southdowns, Bakewell of Ditchley as an im prover of the long-woolled Leicesters, and Culley of Fenton, or Jonas Webb, of Brabaham, as crossers of the long and short-woolled strains, Sir Joshua Jebb may claim to be in the case of his favourites, known as the Dartmoor or Port land variety of the old black-legged, coarse-featured, bull headed, thick-necked, Newgate breed. A pen of Sir Joshua's lambs just now on exhibition in the Metropolis (and delineated on the opposite page by our artist), are considered by all the judges as the most perfect examples yet seen of what may be done to develope the ani mal by careful selection of the stock in the first instance, and then by cultivating the natural qualities to the utmost by high feeding, the greatest attention to warm and well-aired housing, cleanliness, and every other condition of health and comfort. In order to be able perfectly to estimate what Sir Joshua Jebb has done for his favourite Portland Dart moor breed, we have only to contrast his pen, either with one of the old Newgate breeds, scantily fed, miserably housed, and harshly used in every way, or with one of the native stock of the district about Portland and Dartmoor unkempt, unwashed, faring hard, ill-lodged, and generally uncared for. Sir Joshua's lambs are the very perfection of development : the somewhat coarse and heavy face and bull-neck run in the blood, but the fine clear skins and short wool, the fat well laid on to the ribs, loins, and quarters, but not in excess of what is required for perfect health and symmetry, the sleek, round legs and forearms, and the general air of content and well-being, are entirely due to Joshua's admirable system of diet and housing. Sir Joshua's lambs are very free feeders, and fatten very quickly, in spite of their heavy bone : they carry a short fleece, but the pre sent pen being shearlings, must be judged rather by their symmetry than their wool. They are, however, a very costly breed, - and this, with their confirmed tendency to break bounds and run wild, at present militates much against their popularity. Sir Joshua has completely dissipated the notion formerly prevalent that lambs of this class ought to be kept hard, and would improve most rapidly on coarse and scanty fare, rough lodging, and generally severe treatment. On this system we rarely saw the qualities of the animal developed to any thing like the perfection to which Sir Joshua has succeeded in bringing them. The Portland or Dartmoor lamb re mained a stunted, poor, meagre specimen of his race, ragged in coat, low in flesh, dull and spiritless in eye, carriage and demeanour. The best proof how highly Sir Joshua's im proved breed is appreciated is the number he is annually enabled to let (loose), the figure they cut in the (police) re ports, and before the moat eminent judges, and the num ber that are annually sent abroad, which would be much greater if our colonies had not somehow contracted a preju dice against the breed, which has thrown a great deal too many on the home market of late. Sir G. W. Bramwell has lately borne striking testimony to the merits of a sample pen of Sir Joshua's lambs, which came under that excellent judge's eye, and stood A 1 at the last show in Newgate market. In a word, it may be aaid'of Sir Joshua's lambs, that wherever they enter the field they floor everything that comes in their way. Nothing can stand against them. Sir Joshua's great secret after all is feeding and lodging. In• stead of the coarse and carelessly prepared " skilly" which with bread and water constituted the food of the old. Dartmoor and Portland breeds, Sir Joshua's improved lambs have a diet table varying daily, which includes a great variety of carefully prepared mashes, and all the roots in season, to say nothing of other and more substantial ail ments. Then for the dark, damp, cold, and gloomy quar ters, once thought good enough for these animals, Sir Joshua has substituted clean, dry, spacious, airy and warm houses, in which his lambs are, as a rule, far better lodged than the labourer who are employed about them. It is i wonder, if under this costly and careful sy stem Sir Joshua's lambs lay on meat freely, and exhib it the very perfection of highly developed animal cendition. At how many pounds every one of these lambs stands we should not like to guess, but it is certain they must come very heavy. The only danger is, that such very high feed ing may developo inflammatory tendencies. Sir J os h ua declares, however, t hat this high feeding is necessary for the health of the animal when kept under cover, and fat tened in the house. He would not advocate it f or an i ma l s left to run at large. In short: i lv f i a th ske t d he to em po p i h n a t t t: t w h o e x m ds o — st consumma t e animals in this show we should turn to Sir J o shua's pen of p riz e lambs That's the ticket I " Punch. A letter from Munich of the 4th says that the ex-Queen of Greece is seen every day at noon on horseback, in the suburbs with a lady of honour and some personages of the oourt, --- TILE CRUISE OF 7HE ALABAMA. The following is an eztract from letter written by one of the petty offi,:.ers o O c tober 30 , 1862, f the Confederate cruiser Alabama. It is dated " latitude 41 deg. 30 min., longitut;le 45 deg. :--- No crew could be more comfortable than ours is) from the always watchful nature of the ch2li" which do though, volve upon us, more discipline and active duty are enforcsd than we will, perhaps, get credit for. Plenty to to drink, and plenty of work to do, is the order or the day' and of every day. It would be an endless task for 7:l° attempt to give you even an outline of the fearful havcie we have committed amongst the Yankee ekevels, sli-lee we left the shores of the ersey, or of the truction of the many splendid ships, of which not one plan k was left fastened to another. Amongst the finest laden; eat, plenty vessel bound to Bremen, but not very heavy cargo l aci : ; : ; the Wave Crest, bound from New York td Ca, ru l Captain Hammond.; the Manchester, from New l i °r- f , to Liverpool; the Three Stars, whale ship ; n e w barque, the Dunkirk, Capt. Johnston, from New .Vl.-4- to London. We have alread y taken about 20 vessels, ladell‘ with every article which it is possible almost for the cotia• tries of the world to produce, and they have all been d e - s troyed with the exception o f one or two, whose conaraan ders have given bonds for various amounts of ransom' t° Capt. Semmes, payable to the President of the Confederzlet a States when peace is proclaimed. The last one which we off was the Tonawanda, which lay beside us several da9s+ and had a good deal of British property, with some doubt -1 ful, aboard—the captain and crew being aboard our vesse" They were all glad to get away; but: ;the only reason they had a large such a course was pursued was that 'O 7ll number of females on board as pass:enOrs) ~ which' skipper said, could not be stowed in our •`‘ fi:clng ermll°';of The historical chivalry of the South would nt.'t per our 1115 disturbing or molesting the females, so we bond, put the prisoners we had on board,and sent h er heart Semmes declaring that it was enough to brea k a nat'l's to see that he was compelled to part in such a way W . a splendid ship. It is next to a play to hear the ce ' - oll t th em selves tell how they were taken,and wha t the y thi. e 118 ' of us when first sighted. The mate of the Manchester sty tiff that all on board his ship was in order , g oin g with a s t . b ree ze from S.S.W. when the look-out reporte d a sail in tlle beam. The red cross of St. George was flying, and t he day took being clear, our guns were out quite visi ble. The man a't the wheel remarked to the capta i n , " There's a British 1 3 : 0 ` '; of var bearing down o n us : we had better show our colour'' The captain shortly after ordered them to be hoisted. 11 - w l went the stars and stripes , a nd,almost at the same mortleu" down went the British ensign,and in its place appeared full flag of the Confederat es. A 10- p ound shot right say': s urve: their bows astonished the cap tain,who, after a rapid through his glass, exc l a imed, " It's that damned pirate Semmes—the ship is lost." I may onl y add that a lei, hours more and they were a ll p risoners on board the bama, and the last we saw of th e Manchester the an ew ing night was a bright shee t of fire in the horizon line as darkness fell. The priso ners are treated ,as well as P I :: s ible, though our having so many hands on board Pt roa r r them all from receiving what mig ht be considered Pr 4 ol , t accommodation. Some are made comfortable enough there are impudent and insulting Yankees who ar e '" . „4 thankful even for their lives being spared, and they ' 5- 0 take the consequences. Since we have come into the w aters, we have got splendid guns additional, all nionot and, what with our own crew a nd the brave volunteers Nt w e have since joined us, we are now able to fi g ht as hliore run, and both at the same time , if need be so. We 'oil also plenty of news about ourselves on board, in the „f" ° er e York 71mes and Herald, Shipping Gazet te, Liverpool eury, and Gore's Advertiser, 4-e. Some of the New 30, p a p ers , illustrated, give frightful pictures of the egt, m ents their vessels have had with us, makin g them all° rounded with smoke, and firing into us, all of heartily enjoy. One thing is ce rtiiin—they never 0, take the Alabama, nor a man of us aliv e. Captain, ° cers, and men know their duty, and aroma quite aW are os the doom which would befal them, if takn, for thereo no croakers or skulkers here ; but, if so wankel)" 5' let be should take place, and the hair of one of our he . .„ t ' .- 00 1 injured, our commander assures us that the gair 6 "; r s lfi i of Richmond will hang a regiment of Yankee ofge` ii retaliation. Capt. Semmes (or the admiral, as we o"', tlO among ourselves, both fore and aft), is of opinion a t % war will be settled in the beginning of the year ; gel that case, we shall all be provided for for l ife. No to°l.°olo for me after that. Previous to the 20 th of this mouth prize-money alone was worth from £4OO to £5OO 5131571 !AKIiL• :t b. 38s Beans, t o 6 gr r '' —WEDNESDAY. Barley, grindhig..3os to (Oats, old, ...... 27s to 'AI; New do .......... 22s to ........ • 40s to :4 ...... 36s to COUNTRY NEWARK — White wheat new, 48s to 52s Red do. 44s to 48 Old white ..56s to 58s i Red do. 48s to 55s Barley, malting.... 38s to 42s Peas, BOSTON—WEDNESDAY. qcs VW Jr 4, Jr White wheat 50s to 525 I B arle y .......... •;' s to or Redto 0 45e to 475 I 0at5.... ... ..... 4 A 0 Beans .32s to 405 1 Peas ............ - . HULL-TIJESDAIir. Vy Wheat.... Old whlle....per q r • 568 Od to "'",,' 6. " 0 Old red New white New red Batic and Hamburg, red . 49s Od to bis'oj St. l Petersburg and Riga,. Old . . 50s Od to 0,4 0,1 Barley.... English malting ............ 34 a s Od tO to 3 3 Od 03 Grin ding 31 Od '' Saul and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish 33s Od to 3 4° ocl Grinding Oats English, new Archangel and Riga, per at oBl2ld to ~1‘ Friesland and Dutch oBl3d to 05.9 Swedish and Danish osl2o to °,,° O i l Beans ....English, old, per qr .... 45s Od to 4 0 Oil 03 New pigeon 42s Od to 1, , 03 New tick Egyptian 34s Od to ''' oa Peas Foreign boilers ... 4o i, A 375 Od to „s, p d Grinding Tares ....Spring Indian Corn Linseed, feeding crushing . Linseed cakes (Hull) Foreign Rape cakes Bones 1 9 6 85 1 0 0 5 5 —4353 :2: 0 0 1 t tt t 0000 0 ; :dcic id ttttti g ;16; 1. : - 4 0 1 'I COAL MARKET. 4, tfrtoes of Coal per Ton at the close of the re.- .4. 0 e. d. lb Bate's West Hartley 15 6 North Pelton. Gas"' ' 6 Carway and Duflryn Walls End• 18 0 Malting 23 0 Hetton ........ •• • :l5 0 Do. Anthracite 21 0 Heugh Hall ...... •.1° Bass's Bebside West Thorpe ......... • ,1 6 $ Hartley ... 16 3 Belm.nt . ..... ••• • . 18 6 Bell's Primrose l4 6 Tauten.... •-• • . • ... I S 6 Carr's Hartley l6 6 Haswell . . ........... .11 Tanfield Moor 1 J 3 South Kelloe.. ...... Ships at market, 56 ; sold. 46. yo.REICIN MAIL PACKET LIST, MAILS DUE. Auslralia and Mauritius, via Southampton. ...... v9eo,e4. via Marseilles ........ • jo. L irazil and Cape Verde, by British packet. ....... Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena..l,7 o , ; 4 . China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton:;'ec„: via Marseilles .. *.. ................ . Falkland Islands j jr peo , Gibraltar, via Southampton • De ° ' India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southamptgn• • nec , l l, via Marseilles • • • • 3 5 e 0. 0, India (Bombay), via Southampton ..... ' ...... Deo. l , via Marseilles Portugal ... • De ° ' 0' . Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton ..... . 0 0. via Marseilles ....... • . peo• Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo .... . ............. /leo, U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet... • 1 5, by U.S. packet•••••• 900. la by Canadian pack''' . peo. i g, .C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe ......... .peo. 29. Bahamas, via New York ................... • • Dee' 6 Mexico • -nee' All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Pe ri n California, and British Columbia. ........... BIRTHS. A O f° BARRON.—On the 10th inst., at 436, W es t Strom " J. F. Barron, of a son. 1 00 4 BALFoun,—On the 9th inst., at Pilrig Hous e, ee Kent, Mrs. B. Balfour, of a son. fteg ell FREIEE.—On the 6th inst., at 9 , Blandford - p lacer 4 . park, the Lady Isabella Freme , of a daugh ter. ' ere, SymoNs.—On the 2d,inst., at Chaddlewood, ne t t dal' ton, Devon, the Hon. Mrs. Soltau Symons, of ter. MARRIAGES. , )9 tl n ; ginere,TaowaunlheyteAroollfi_xtheEylsagt.e, TY400•130:07,ir5,,,e Awax—DßAKE.—On the 9th inst., at St George: - . 4 :4 0- 0 ' a W the a r of Charles Allis, Esq.,. of Wig n olb , Li t ic,ol o6 ; V over-sq uare , Elizabeth z u th ar c e Whitt Drake, Esq., of Shardeloes, g'o, ~, rstef d Bucks. HAUGHTON—BROWNE. t o" .- ' —On the 9th inst., a " oa , O . Batt u-square - 1 John Haughton, Esq., of 1% " - tat ' ''ic wick, to Grace Emily, daughter of the late John Browne, Esg., of Morley Hall, Wymondhate) ' if , DEATHS. ~fa i or BACKHOUSE.—On the sth inst. , at Richmond, lu . " - , ' Backhouse, late 47th Regt., aged 7 8 . cl, 3311 SP BARTHELFMT.—On the Bth inst., at 2 , Scott s-9 t y lane, E.C., Mr. Charles Barthelemy, ag ed 52 ' tl l e ' CHILD.—On the 9th inst., at 13, Cecil street, SOO ' do suddenly, Mrs. Elizabeth Child, aged 75. ce sel l .,o FOXHALL.—On the Bth inst., at North House. Gra"0110 Edward Martin Foshan, Esq., late of South 4' street, aged 70. Pl iiir WlLLiams—On the 6th inst , at 29, Gerrard-street , 14 ton, . Wliams, Esq., ged 70. rti ce s T i p p WOLFE. W —On iI the 6th inst., a at Brighton, Lew/. Aro f Wolfe, Esq., of 19, Westbourne-terrace, 1-19' _.../% age4::1L.L............................................................"'"_______ - ' ------- oi,JS/ LONDON: Printed and Published by JOHN 011i' 112, of N 0.112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, P °. 4 , 4 of Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the COO" Middloon6—Thureday, December no 1862.