The Sun. — London, England, 1835-12-04 00:00:00

VICE-CHANCERY-THURSDAY. DAVIS V. WAITE. Mr. 'Cog moved, on the part of plaintiff, for pay tsent into Court of a sum of 8001. Three per Cents. The bill was led against the trustees of the plaintiff's marriage settlement, whereby 4,0001. Stock, and upwards, was set tled on the plaintiff's wife, Sarah Davis, for her separate use for life, with remainder to the plaintiff for life, with remainder to such person as Mr. Davis should appoint by will. The trustees, under an impression they were au thorised so to do, allowed Mrs. Davis to sell out 8001. of Cie fund in her lifetime, under a power of attorney, and this sum her husband now sought, after her decease, to Lave replaced. His HONOUR thought a prima facie case of breach of trust had been made out sufficient to induce him to order the money into Court. KING'S BENCH-THURSDAY. J. J. STOCKDALE V. THOMAS CHAPMAN, ESQ. In this case, which was not concluded yesterday when We went to press, the Jury returned a verdict for the plain tiff—Damages, 701. 'MOWN, SLOMAN, AND OTHERS, V. THE GENERAL STEAM *NAVIGATION COMPANY. This was an action by the plaintiffs, the principal pro prietors of the Herne Bay Company, against the defen dants, to recover compensation for the damage occasioned to the plaintiffs by the injury sustained by their vessel, the Red Rover, having been run foul of by the defendant's vessel, the John Bull, in the Gallions reach, near Wool svich, on the 11th of May last. After hearing evidence, the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff. COMMON PLEAS.-THURSDAY. LAURENCE AND ANOTHER V. WEST. This was an action brought by the plaintiffs as assignees id a bankrupt to recover the amount of an execution which the defendant put into the bankrupt's house after le had committed an act of bankruptcy. A verdict for ls. was recorded for the plaintiff. NICIIOLS V. BOUCHEII. _ This was an aetion brought by the plaintiff against the defendant, as publisher of the Albion newspaper, for a libel. The libel in question was contained in a police report from Bow-street. In July, 1834 the plaintiff and another attended at Bow-street as bail for a friend. On the same day there was a person held to bail for keeping a gambling louse. One of the bail who presented themselves for the gambling-house party was rejected on account of his po verty, and the utter destitution of his family. The repor ter, anxious to obtain the names of the parties, inquired of the officer, who gave him the name of the plaintiff, as of %he person who had been rejected as the bad and insufficient %ail, and which he stated in the report, which also appeared tin the Morning Post, Morning Chronicle, True Sun and 4lbion. The plaintiff immediately commenced actions against all the papers. The actions against the three for- Tiler papers were settled, and the present action was the Mr. ADOLPHUS addressed the Jury for the defendant. Verdict for the plaintiff.—Damages, 51. LAWES V. M‘DONNELL. This was an action for assault. It was undefended. The plaintiff and defendant met at the Castle Hotel, Moorfields, where they quarrelled, and while the former was getting into his chaise, the latter caught hold of his coat and tore it up the middle.—Damages, .5/. EXCHEQUER COURT.-THURSDAY. INSURANCE POLICY.—WAINWRIGIIT V. ELAND. (C'oncluded from The Sun of yoste7day.) The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, for the defendant, begged to relieve the Jury from the apprehension excited in their r ands by his Learned Friend in his opening, that it was his intention to impute to the plaintiff or parties connected with him the murder of Miss Abercrombie. He gave t'ep that point. The defence upon which he meant to rely as, that the policy upon which the action was brought was ot the policy of Miss Abercrombie, but the policy of the plaintiff, Mr. Wainwright. That gentleman, it was true, might have no interest in that policy; but others depended upon the fate of this action, to the amount of 11,000/., in which he was interested. He did not assert that the de ceased participated in any intention to defraud the In isurance Company ; but he asserted that this policy was effected by Mr. Wainwright in the name of Miss Helen Abercrombie—that it was done at his instigation, with his money, and for his purposes. If he should prove this, the .Tury must give him a verdict ; for the 14th Geo. 111., cap. r.kB, sections 1 and 2, made all policies null and void in which the names of the persons really interested in effecting insur unces on the lives of others, or " for whose use, benefit, or On whose account," such policies were made were not in virted.; As this policy had been effected for the plaintiff, it t lust be invalid, for he had no interest in the life of the young lady. Policies, amounting in the whole to 11,0001., had Leen effected at various offices, for two years, by Miss Aber crombie, on her life. About the time that this policy was completed she had no property whatever, and was dependant on an annual pension of 1001., allowed her by Government. She had not the money wherewith to pay the premiums, and having no prospect of coming into a fortune, no motive could be assigned for insuring her life. She was young and blooming, and there was no reason to apprehend her pre mature death: She was a mere instrument in the hands of the plaintiff. Soon after completing these policies, she assigned two of them to Wainwright, and though in bloom ing health when those policies were effected, yet not more than a month elapsed before she was the inmate of an early tomb. The plaintiff was greatly embarrassed in his circum tances at the time that he effected this insurance, and was also keeping up the premiums upon other policies to the amount of 11,000/. Now, he would put it to the Jury to determine the motive of such conduct in a man so circum stanced. The policy was effected by the most fraudulent misrepresentations and suppression of facts. The following witnesses were examined for the defence : Richard Marshall, a clerk in the Ordnance Office, pro duced a letter, written by Miss Abercrombie, bearing date August, 1830, wherein she said that she had attained the age of twenty-one, and was without any means of subsistence, and requested that the annual pension of 101. might not be withdrawn. He alsd produced an affidavit made by Miss Abercrombie, in which she swore to her destitute condition. The pension had been originally granted in 1812. Nicholas Grant, attorney to the Palladium Insurance Office, stated that the plaintiff, on the 23d of March, ap plied to insure the life of the deceased young lady. The insurance was completed, on the 30th of April in the same year, for 3,0001., for three years. The premium paid was 9/., and the amount of the stamp was 4/. On requesting to know the object of the insurance, Mr. Wainwright an swered, that it was made to procure them the means of enabling them to get possession of property which would fall in within three years. Miss Abercrombie was present on this occasion. On inquiry being made of her as to the reason she had for insuring her life, she answered, that she Lad been told it was proper to do so. Monkhouse Tate, Secretary to the Pelican Office, proved that on the Bth of October, Miss Abercrombie completed am assurance on her life for five thousand pounds for two years. Buckstead, a Clerk in the Eagle Company, proved that in October, 1830, Miss Abercrombie desired to insure pier life for two thousand pounds for two years, but her proposal was declined. Andrew Hamilton, Secretary to the Alliance Company, said that on October 5, 1830, Miss Abercrombie and the plaintiff's wife came to that office. The young lady stated that a suit ;was pending in Chancery, which was likely to terminate soon in her favour, but were she to die in the mean time, the property would descend to another family, against which she was anxious to provide through a life in surance. Witness replied that a young lady had called at that office two years since, under similar circumstances ; and it was the opinion of the Company that she had come to her death unfairly. He declined effecting the policy. John Charles Denham, Secretary to the Globe Insurance Company, deposed, that Miss Abercrombie wished to in sure her life for five thousand pounds, for two years, and on a subsequent occasion, when asked whether she had effected no other insurances, she replied in the negative. Witness knowing this to be untrue, would not complete the policy. Robert Rikards stated, that on the 27th of October, Miss Abercrombie completed an insurance on her life for two thousand pounds for two years, in the Hope Office. James Boyd, an attorney, stated, that on the 13th of December, 1830, Miss Abercrombie and Mrs. Wainwright 'called on him. Mrs. Wainwright produced an assignment from the Insurance Office, which she requested witness to SR up. He did so, and Mrs. :Wainwright dictated, Miss .Abercrombie only signing her name. Barber Beaumont, Esq., managing Director, proved that 5n October, 1830, Miss Abercrombie effected a policy on ler own life for two thousand pounds, for two years. She was a remarkably healthy, cheerful, and handsome-looking young woman. Mr. Lyss, an attorney of Took's Court, Chancery-lane, tleposed that, on the 13th of December, 1830, Miss Aber crombie desired him to make her will. She was unaccom panied when she came. She executed the still in his presence. - Several tradesmen proved that the plaintiff was indebted to them for necessaries, but had never paid them. Lord ABINGER, in summing up, said that though there were circumstances of strong suspicion in the case, he was mot warranted in presuming that Miss Abercrombie had teen unfairly made away with. But, whether such were the fact or not, that would not affect their decision, for the 3aw of this country would not admit of any person having an interest in the death of another. His Lordship ad verted to the well known decision upon the case of a con tract to pay one guinea for every day that Napoleon Bona parte survived the day of the agreement, upon the receipt in hand of 100 guineas. His Lordship directed the atten tion of the jury to the extraordinary fact of the young lady having effected the insurances for only two years, and re minded them that not a tittle of proof had been adduced to substantiate the reasons she had given to the various offices for so doing. By the assignments and wills made by Miss Abercromby, Mrs. Wainwright was placed in a situation in which the law would not allow any person to stand— namely, that of having an interest in procuring the death of a fellow creature by lawful means. If the Jury thought Miss Abercrombie had been guilty of wilful concealment, or of an evasion of the statute—that was, making an insurance in her own name for the benefit of another party—they would find for the defendant. The Jury returned a verdict for the defendant. Lord ABINGER—On what grounds, Gentlemen, do you find your verdict? Foreman—We find on both grounds, believing that there was concealment by Miss Abercrombie and an evasion of the statute,—Miss Abercromby having no real interest in the insurance. 1 PREROGATIVE COURT. hei.■•••••••••.r. BUTLIN V. BARRY. In this extremely long testamentary case concerning the will of P. B. Barry, Esq., late of Tollerton Hall, in the county of Nottingham, the objections to the evidence were taken to-day (Thursday). Dr. LUSHINGTON, on the part of Mr. Barry, the son of the deceased, in the first place objected to certain parts of the evidence of Mr. John Gough, the clerk of Mr. Percy, the attorney who drew up the will in question, and who is benefitted by it to the amout of 3,000/. The KING's ADVOCATE, on the other side, did not mean to contend that every part of the testimony was unob jectionable, but he should leave the point entirely in the hands of the Court. Dr. LUSIIINGTON then objected to several witnesses who had been examined on a plea exceptive to the testimony of Richard Evelyn Falkner. The COURT decided that such evidence could not be re ceived ; and in accordance with that decision, a great body of testimony was ordered to be expunged. The KING'S ADVOCATE was heard on the other side in objection to certain of the interrogatories ; upon which the Learned Judge decided seriatim. _ The CouRT was occupied the whole day with this case, which is, perhaps, the longest that has ever been before it. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. 8011 7 -STREET. At a late hour on Wednesday evening a very powerful athletic man, named Thomas Weekes, was brought up from Norwood, in the custody of Keys the officer, on the fol lowing charge of burglary and robbery : In the night between the 21st. and 22d of November, the house of the Rev. J. E. Wright, son-in-law of the Arch bishop. of Canterbury, at PCnd's Hill, Bletchingly, near Gladstone, Surrey, was entered by the pantry window, and rokhed of a valuable gold watch, with the crest of the Archbishop upon the case (it having been a present from his Grace), and a great number of seals, chains, jewellery, and other valuable property. Mrs. Wright was awoke in the course of the night by a noise, and distinctly heard some one moving in the drawing-room, but forbore to call her husband, he being very ill at the time, and she feared the consequences of a sudden alarm. The property men tioned, together with two pocket pistols (loaded), was missed in the morning ; and it was observed as a remark able fact, that a fowling-piece, which was always kept loaded, and was furnished with a percussion cap, had had the cal► removed, xvhich of course rendered the piece harmless. This must have been done by the burglar, as the piece was in its proper state on the previous evening. Information having been given at this office, Keys was di-' rected to undertake the affair, and he obtained such infor mation as led him to Norwood, where he found the prisoner keeping a fishmonger's shop, which he had very recently taken, in a small street near the Horn's public-house. He went in with a warrant, and having made the nature of his visit known, he proceeded to make a search. When he came to a particular box, the prisoner took from it some thing which he held tightly in his liand, and when the officer attempted to take it from him he made a desperate resist ance, and a scuffle took place which lasted nearly ten mi nutes, and at length Keys succeeded in throwing him on the ' bed, and wrenching the article from his hand, which proved to be a very small pistol-case, in which were contained six gold seals, a bunch of small keys, a gold knife, a gold pen cii-cae, and a small ivory card-case filled with seeds, care fully wrapped up and addressed to Mrs. Wright by a female friend. All these articles formed part of the property stolen from Mr. Wright's house. Keys immediately brought the prisoner to town in a post-chaise, and he underwent an exa mination on Wednesday night, and was remanded until some further evidence could be brought forward. The prisoner had formerly been butler in Mr. Wright's establishment at Pena's Hill, and at the time he was ap prehended was paying his addresses to a young woman who was also a servant at the Rev. Gentleman's, and it was understood that he was to be married in a few clays. When called upon to account for the possession of the articles found upon him he said he found them in the road, and knowing them to be Mr.. Wright's he intended to return them ; and, in fact, had put his hand upon them several times for that purpose, but had delayed it, thinking it of no immediate consequence. BATTON-GARDEN. Mary Welch was examined on the charge of having stolen some property belonging to the Marquis of Anglesey• Mr. LAING remanded the prisoner for a few days. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. A miserable looking object, covered with rags and filth, and bellowing with great emphasis, was brought to the Office by a Mendicity constable, and put to the bar before Mr. Chambers, charged with being a common vagrant and a notorious imposter. Mr. CHAMBLS, looking at the man attentively, perfectly recollected him as being one of the most notorious and artful impostors that infested the metropolis. The story which he contrived in support of this statement, and which was in writing, was, that he had been pressed on board the Algerine fleet, and, because be refused to work as a sailor, his tongue had been cut out. He also had an extraordi nary faculty of being able to swallow his tongue, and thereby present in his mouth nothing but the appearance of a stump. On one occasion his tongue was forced from his throat with a fork by a surgeon. The prisoner was committed for three months to the House of Correction. FIRE in TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD THE CORONER'S INQUEST UPON THE UN FORTUNATE SUFFERERS. Yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, a very lengthened inquiry took place at the White Hart Inn, Tottenham court-road, before Mr. Stirling and a Jury of respectability, for the purpose of investigating the circumstances attend ing the respective deaths of William Davis, aged 37 ; Louisa Tozey, aged 20 ; Catharine Rogers, aged 23 ; and Mary Ann Singer, aged 26 ; who perished in the late la mentable conflagration in Tottenham-court-road on Tues day night last. Mr. J. G. Hellagar, jeweller, of 212, Tottenham-court.. road, examined—l knew William Davis and Mary Ann Singer by sight, and saw them alive a few days back. On Tuesday night, about a quarter-past eleven o'clock, I was with a friend at a house nearly opposite Mr. Chinnock's, when I heard the cry of " Fire." On going out I disco vered that the lower part of Mr. Chinnock's premises were on fire. I instantly rushed across the road, and at Mr. ' Chinnock's shop door found that a man was attempting to burst it open. By myself and others assisting this was effected, when a body of flame and smoke was apparent from the direction of the first floor landing, which prevented any ingress, and I then heard a cry of distress from the first floor windows, and I left the passage and endeavoured to reach the balcony by raising myself up by a blind-iron, which, however, gave way, at which time a body of flame and smoke rushed out of the private entrance. I ulti mately got on the balcony, when I saw Mrs. Chinnock lowering herself from the second floor window by a sheet. I called out to her to let herself down, and I would catch her, which I did. She was in her nightdress, and I observed some blood on her bosom. At this moment I saw Mr. Frederick Chinnock alongside of me. He was also un dressed, with the exception of his night shirt, which had some blood on. I assisted Mrs. Chinnock and her son to get over the balcony into the windows of the adjoining house. Mr. Chinnock, sen., then made his appearance in the balcony in his night dress. He appeared in a confused state of distraction. He made his escape in the same man ner as his wife and son had. Mr. Frederick Chinnoek was next examined—l was at home on Tuesday evening, at which time the inmates of the house consisted of my father and mother, four sisters, Mary Ann Singer, Catherine Rogers and Louisa Tozey (servants) ; , the lodgers consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Cavall, Mr. and Mrs. Davis and child, and Mr. Hodgson. My brother Charles and my sister Mary Anne-were absent at the time of the catastrophe, having in the early part of the evening gone to Brompton. Between ten and eleven o'clock my father and mother and my sisters retired to rest. A little after eleven o'clock as I was sitting read ing on a sofa in the parlour I heard an unusual gust of wind, and immediately afterwards a violent cracking. On going into the passage I heard screams in the kitchen, and, smelling fire, I took up the hearth-rug, thinking that Miss Singer, or one of the servants who were , below stairs, bad THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1835. caught fire, but my progress was stopped at the top of the kitchen stairs by a dense mass of smoke, and towards the kitchen I observed flames. I called out to the females, for God's sake to save themselves ; but they made no reply, but continued screaming. I then sought the safety of my father and mother, and: by an extraordinary exertion, I reached the front balcony, and assisted in my father, mo ther, and sister Emma's descent by sheets from the second floor window ; after which, I again entered the house, and reached the top of the house, anxious for the preservation of my other three sisters, who slept at the top of the house, and on the parapet I saw a man, who informed me of my three sisters' safety. I had previously knocked at the door of the lodgers, but none of them made any reply, and I con cluded they had escaped. I. ultimately made my own escape, and then ascertained that my father and mother and three sisters had obtained refuge in some neighbours' houses. By the Jury—l cannot say positively how the fire ori ginated, but am of opinion that the fire first commenced in the upholsterer's room, under the front shop, which con tained wool, willow, and hair, for mattresses and skeleton frames for furniture. After some discussion, the Jury returned a verdict, " That the four deceased persons were accidentally burned, but how the fire originated there was no evidence to the Jury." The unfortunate Mrs. Davis, who has lost her husband, continues in a state of delirium. son, master, with iron from Cardiff to Liverpool, came ashore at Rastoonstown, near Carnsore Point.. The sea was tremendous, and was breaking when she struck with an awful violence ; the crew got into the foretop, hoping to escape the fury of the surf; but the next sea that took her dashed her against the beach with such force that the masts went by the board, and all the crew, with one exception, perished. The man who escaped was saved in almost a mi raculous manner, having been thrown upon the rocks off the mast head by the violent shock which loosed the holds of his unfortunate comrades. Those who were lost consisted of the master, mate, and four hands. LEWES CHRISTMAS AGRICUL TURAL MEETING. This show took place yesterday at Lewes, but was both smaller and inferior to that of last year. After the show, about sixty farmers sat down to a dinner, the chair being filled by Mr. Verrall, jun., supported on the right by H. B. Curteis, Esq., M.P., and on the left by T. R. Kemp, Esq., M.P. After the removal of the cloth, the Chairman gave as toasts " The King," " The Queen," " The Princess Vic toria," and " The Lord Lieutenant of the County," which having been severally drank, the Secretary announced the awards of the Judges. The CHAIRMAN then gave " Success to the Show ;" and afterwards " The Judges, and thanks to them for their services." Mr. TURNER returned thanks. HENRY HURLY, Esq., the Treasurer, then read the ac counts, and proposed " Prosperity to the town of Lewes." The CHAIRMAN, after nominating Mr. Stephen Lowdell as his successor next year, proposed the health of the " Members for the ounty." H. B. CURTEIS, Esq., returned thanks. He had great pleasure in meeting them, and had come 40 miles on pur pose. By and bye, if desired, he would state his opinion on the various remedies proposed for the relief of agricultural distress. The CHAIRMAN then proposed the " Members for the borough of Lewes." T. R. KEMP, Esq., returned thanks. Mr. HURLY (who occupied the Vice-Chair) proposed the " ilealths of the successful candidates." Mr. ELLMAN, in returning thanks, observed that at Arundel and Chichester the aristocracy and clergy attended the Cattle Shows in large numbers ; he should have been glad to see some of them here. He would propose " the health of almost the - only gentleman and magistrate in the neighbourhood who had stood by them—Mr. Mabbott." Mr. MABBOTT, in returning thanks, said—He perfectly concurred in the necessity of keeping the chain of society well together. If the. high aristocracy would not associate with the' classes below them, he would not hesitate one'mo ment in saying they could not suppose that they had any right to expect that respect which must necessarily be due to their rank.—(Loud cheers.) There was one thing which had always been most strongly impressed' upon his mind ; that was, that the interests existing between landlord and tenant were reciprocal,. He believed rents had been re duced to a very great extent. If a tenant occupied under a long lease granted many years back, and the rent he was standing at was far beyond what was fair and just, he should say under such circumstances, any landlord who possessed the feelings of a man and a Christian, would say, " It is true you are bound by 'a piece of parchment, hut I wont allow you to be so bound to your injury ; for it never shall hereafter be said of me I tied you down by an existing lease which must absorb your capital, and bring down ruin on you and your family." He was sure there was no man would say but such a lease should be cancelled. Mr. CUIITEIS proposed the health of the Chairman, who returned thanks. Mr. ELLMAN announced that the farmers in the western part of the county intended to present a piece of plate to Captain Pechell for the Bill which h e carr i e d t h roug h Par liament relative to the tithe on turnips. Mr. VLLMAN announced that a Gentleman had autho rised him to be answerable for the payment of 20 guineas to the occupier of the best cultivated farm in Sussex. After several healths had been drunk, Mr. CURTEIS said, no one could more deeply sympathise with them on the distressed state of the agricultural inte rest than himself, for all his property was agricultural. He thought the currency question should be kept in abey ance. But he still stuck to a repeal of the Malt Tax, and a more favourite theory of his was, an equitable adjust ment of the tithe system.--(Hear.) He also demanded poor laws for Ireland—(Cheers)—and wanted a still fur ther reduction of the public expenditure. He also thought the New Poor Law would have a beneficial operation. Mr. DARBY declared himself opposed to an alteration in the currency such as proposed by Mr. Cayley, declared many of Sir It. Peal's statements respecting the Malt Tax to be fallacious, that the adjustment of tithes would only be nefit particular parishes, that poor laws alone would only partially benefit Ireland, and that the English farmers were more injured by the importation of Irish corn than by the influx of Irish labourers. He then strongly urged the agriculturists to support the Marquis of Chandos in obtaining a Committee to inquire into the cause of agri cultural distress,—the great cause of which was low prices, which would not allow farmers to employ the surplus po pulation. Mr. VALENTINE next addressed the meeting, re-echoing the arguments of Mr. Curteis, with whom in the main ho agreed. Mr. W. BAATTLE proposed the " health of the late Lord Lieutenant of the County." Mr. CURTEIS gave, " Prosperity to the parish of Uekfield." Mr. MARBOTT then delivered a long speech on general topics, and declared himself an enemy to tampering with the currency, and a complete convert to the new Poor Law ; and added that there could be no reduction of ex pences in Ireland until that arch fiend, that abominable in dividual O'Connell was got rid of ! Mr. CURTEIS defended Mr. O'Connell, not for his in temperate language, but for his usefulness in tranquillizing Ireland. After a few further observations from Mr. Mabbott, Mr, Curteis, Mr. Darby, and others, the meeting broke up.— Brighton Guardian. THE STORM-IRELAND. The provincial papers contain distressing accounts of wrecks and loss of lives. From Dunmore they write : " Never did we witness such a tremendous storm as during the last few days ; it blew incessantly a perfect hurricane. Great damage to the shipping, besides numerous wrecks on the coast, has been the consequence." The Cork Constitution gives the following account of one of the numerous calamities occasioned by the storm. It will be seen that a Spanish vessel has been lost, and eight of the crew drowned : LOSS OF THE SPANISH BRIG SANTA ANToNIA.—Tbis vessel left Stockholm in October—we do not know on what day—with a crew of fifteen persons and a cargo of iron, tow, &c. Her destination was Lisbon, and she was pro ceeding direct for that port, when, on the night of the 22d, or the morning of the 2sd, it blowing a heavy gale from the North, she struck on a sand-bank about six miles off the coast of Norway. In a few minutes she grounded, and eight of her crew were washed overboard and perished. Their names were :—Guisippe Defermi, Pietro Masso, Giusippe Gandolfi, Farquoni Della Spina, Mattio di Scalzi, --- Grimaldi, Podesta, and Guisippe Enrico. The remainder of the crew were rescued from the wreck, and taken to Galway by the Swedish brig Ceiphini, Austin, master, and after a harassing journey on foot from that town, the poor men arrived here yesterday. WATERFORD, Nov. 2 8.—Early on Wednesday a vessel was seen embayed at Tramore. About one o'clock she grounded a little above the Men's bathing place, a dreadful sea rolling at the time. The crew were landed in safety, but the vessel went to pieces in two, hours. She was the schooner Les Deux Sceurs of Calais. The cargo is saved. Between ten and eleven on Thursday night, a vessel went down at the rocks to the eastward of Portally, in the county Waterford, about two miles west of Dumitore East. It appears too probable that her crew perished, as no trace of them has been seen. About five o'clock on Wednesday evening, a b r i g was driven on the lime rocks at Slade, on the coast of the county Wexford, a little above Hook Tower. She speedily became a total wreck. She bad on board one or two Ca tholic clergymen and a student returning from the Univer sity of Salamanca. The latter and two of the crew, we are informed, were drowned—all the rest were saved. She was bound for Liverpool, and, we believe was returning from Finding some of the British auxiliary force in Spain. The late violent gales have been productive of vast in jury to the Shipping along the Wexford and the Waterford coasts. The Freeman of Saturday gives the particulars of seve ral wrecks amongst others of the following : On Tuesday night, while it was blowing a hurricane, the brigantiog Brunette, of Great Yarmouth, Willi am New- CESSATION OF THE STORM. The same paper happily furnishes the gratifying intelli. gence of the total cessasion of the gales which have so lone prevailed, and have caused such destruction along a far ex tended coast. On Friday morning they entirely ceased. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S. THE DERBY. 1,000 to 30 agst Mr. Batson's Taishteer—taken 1,000 to 10 agst Mr. Batson's Barbary—offered 40 to 1 was afterwards offered against Taishteer. No others mentioned. THE PORTLAND HANDICAP, P.P. • 4to 1 offered agst Mundig—offers to take 6 to 1 4 to 1 offered agst Hornsea—offers to take 6 to 1 50 even on these two agst Birdlime, Rioter, and Pelops Offers to take 8 to 1 about Revenge The acceptances closed on Tuesday night as fellow :—Mr. Et wall's Revenge, by Fungus, 6 yrs, Bst. 101 b. ; Lo r d Ch es t er fi e ld' s Hornsea, by Velocipede, 4 yrs, Bst. 41b ; Mr. E. M. Mostyn's Birdlime, by Comus, 5 yrs, Bst. 21b; Mr. Cooke's Brother to Hope, by Lotter y, 4 yrs, Bst. 21b; Mr. Bowes' s Mu n di g , by Cat ton, 4 yrs, Bst ; Mr. Sowerby's Rioter, by Reveller, 5 yrs, 7st. 121 b ; Mr. Greville's Dacre, by Bizarre, 5 yrs, 7st. 111 b ; Lord Warwick's Pelops, by Middleton, 4 y rs , 7 s t. 41b ; Lord Tavistock's Oak Apple, by Royal Oak, 4 yrs, 6st. 121 b. ; Mr. Sowerby's Bodice, by Lan gar, 4 yrs, 6st. 121 b ; Mr. S. Stanley's Tiber, brother to Rapid Rhone, 4 yrs, 6st. 71b. The race excites very considerable interest in the sporting circles. • HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. The Duke of Cleveland's Hounds on Saturday at Langton Village. The Puckeridge (Mr. Dalyell's) Fox Hounds en Saturday at Cumberlow Green-10. The York and Ainsty Hounds on Saturday at Craike—hf-past 10. Lord Scagrave's Fox Hounds on Saturday, at Broadway. Mr. Morgan's Hounds on Saturday at Lanrumney Lodge—at 11. The Haydon Hounds on Saturday at W., o dh a ll Mill s — a t 9. Captain Weir's Harriers on Saturday, at Ridgeway— at ten. The Warwickshire Hounds on Saturday at Ilmington----qr,to 11. Lord Petre'S Hounds on Saturday at Wickford Castle—hf-p. 10. The East Essex Hounds on Saturday at Notley Turnpike—hf-p.lO. The Cheltenham Harriers on Saturday, at Charlton Abbots-11. The Marquis of Hastings' Hounds on Saturday at Lount Turn pike--half-past 10. Sir R. Hill's Hounds on Saturday Oteley Park—half-past 10. The Albrighton Houndson Saturday at Summer House—hf-p.lO. Mr. Meynell's Hounds en Saturday at Langley—at half-past 10. The Oakley Hunt (Mr. Dansey's Hounds) on Saturday at Wil bamstead—quarter to 11. The Rufford Hounds on Saturday at Dillener Wood—hf-past 10. The Holderness Hounds on Saturday at Hotham-11. The Badsworth Fox Hounds on Saturday at Streethouse Bar-10. Sir R. Sutton's Hounds on Saturday at the 7th mile-stone, Newark-road—at 10. The East Sussex Hounds on Saturday at Keymer-10. Mr. Drake's Hounds on Saturday at Thanford House—hf-p. 10. The H. H. on Saturday at Bradley—at 10. The Lambton Fox Hounds on Saturday at Embleton-11. The Atherstone Hounds on Saturday at Twycross—qr to 11. The NOW Forest Hounds on. Saturday at Moyles Court—hf-p.lO. The Cambridgeshire Hounds on Monday at Gransden Wood ; Friday, at Morden Heath—hf-plO. Mr. Mure's Hounds on Tuesday at Coldham Hall ; Thursday at Stetchworth Park—half-past 10. The Royston Harriers on Tuesday at Chishill Mill ; Thursday, at Kneesworth Toll-bar-11. 'fhe Devizes Harriers on Tuesday at South Down Barn ; Friday, at Shepherd's Shore—at 11. Mr. A. Smythe's Hounds on Monday at Oare Hill ; Tuesday, at Everleigh House; Thursday, at Huratbourne Tarrant ; Friday, at A bbotsdon Wood—.ll. Mr. Richard Bagge's Harriers on Monday at Well Hall; Thurs day, at Setchey Toll Bar-11. Mr. Farquharson's Hounds on Monday at Honeycombe ; Tuesday, at Ridge Coppice—half -past 80. The Burton Harriers on Wednesday at Horn Hill. Mr. Hall's Hounds on Monday at Patcombe Lodge ; Tuesday, at Cadbury Castle ; Thursday, at Asham Wood; Saturday, at Annis Hills—half-past 10. The Somerset Subscription Fox Hounds on Tuesday at Nettle combs Kennel ; Friday, at Wick Park—half-past 10• The C. 11. Hounds en Tuesday at Anchor Bridge; Friday, at North Barrow. The Brookside Harriers en Mondays at Newmarket Hill ; Wed• nesdays, at Lewes Race Course ; Fridays, at Telscombe Tye—half past 10. Th• Brighton Harriers meet every Monday at Patcham ; Wed nesdays, at the Race Course; Fridays, at the Dyke. The Thanet Harriers meet on Monday at Monkton Sea Mark ; Wednesday, at Minster Mills ; Friday, at Nash Court Hill—at 10. Mr. Wicksted's Hounds on Tuesday at Aqualate ; Friday, at Seighford—half-past 10. The Cheshire Hounds on Monday at Delamere House ; Wednes day, at Cholmondeley Castle ; Thurrsday, at Wrenbury Village ; Saturday, at Darnhall—half-past 10. Lord Yarborough's Hounds on Monday at Scartho Mill ; Wednes day, at Howsham ; Friday, at ,Blyborough Hall ; Saturday, at Stallingborough—at 11. Th• Norfolk Fox Hounds on Tuesday at Beeston, by Sherring ham ; Thursday, at Melton Constable; Saturday, at Elmham Hall—hf-p. 10. Mr. Brown's Hounds on Tuesday at Stoke Lacy Villagc-9. Sir T. Stanley's Hounds on Tuesday, the 17th, at, Brombro New Lodge—at 10 In addition to the very few packs of Stag Hounds at present kept in the kingdom, one has just been established by the Hon. G. A. Craven, residing at Bishopstoke, between Southampton and Win chester, which has already had some splendid runs. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ADVICES, ARRIVALS, AND DEPARTURES AT THE SCOTCH WHARFS, DEC. 3z HOEE'N, DUNDEE AND PERTH STEAM WHARF.—Advice the Dundee, Perth, and London Shipping Company's steam ship Dundee, John Wishart commander, sailed from Dundee the 2d inst. for this wharf. HORI'S Wflaar.—Advice : the Dundee, Perth, and London Shipping Company's smack Elbe, Peter Lowson master, sailed from Dundee the 29th ult. for this wharf. No arrivals or de partures. _ _ DOWNE'S WHARF.—No advices or arrivals. Departure : the Bridport Shipping Company's vessel London, J. Swain master, for Bridport, with a general cargo. MILLnR's WHARF.—.No advices or arrivals. Departure : the Aberdeen and London Shipping Company's smack Duke of Gordon, Robert Duncan master, for Aberdeen with a gene ral cargo. VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUS TOM-HOUSE, DEC. 3. Earl of Liverpool, Lomax, from Ostend ;. Mary, Capon, Rotterdam ; Ramona, Bridge, Rotterdam ; Vrouw Helena, Kraan, Amsterdam . ; Undine, Smith, Amsterdam ; Mars, Martin, Madeira -and Demerara ; Diligence, Phillips, Ma laga; Lady Clinton, Day, Messina and Palermo ; Colum bine, Pilcher, St. Mary's, Gambia ; Morning Star, Linton, Ceylon ; Belfast, Middleton, Calais. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING, Dac. 3. Jennys, Comte, for Havre and Rouen • Batavier, Dunlop, Rotterdam ; Will-olhe-Wisp, Cl ar k, Lisbon ; Anne, Dry borough, Oporto; Cater, Whitnall, D un ki r k • Iris, Mack wood, Madeira and Ceylon ; Amelia, D e Asar le, Barcelona, Alicante, and Malaga ; Sarah Barry, Bissett, Jamaica ; Guillelmo, Godfrey, Gibraltar. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO, DEC. 3. Bees Wing, Smith, for Oporto : Juliana, Druce, Madras and Calcutta ; Symmetry, Markwood, Ceylon ; Sarah, Car penter, Trieste and Venice ; Sarah, Wrightson, Gibraltar and Malaga ; Water Lilly, Hart, Jamaica ; Blanche, Passmore, St. Kitt's ; James, Wilson, Antwerp ; Ostendais, Delpiena, Ostend. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, DEC. 3. Hampshire, Temperley, for Gibraltar ; Malcolm Brown, Cook, Cadiz ; St. Johannes, Anderson, Norway ; Neptune, Lanquherst, Cherbourg. ARRIVALS AT LIVERPOOL, DEC. 2. The Mensagero, Gorordo, from Ilavannah ; Ann, Blackey, Africa; Shannon, Wilden, Quebec ; Blessing, Willis, Cadiz ; Activo, Freitas, from Fi gue i ra ; A r i a d ne , A yre, f rom Trieste ; Richard, Codner, Naples, &c. ; Desire, Griffiths, Southamp ton ; Fanny, Lewis, London ; Hegnfield, Brown, Dublin ; John M'Cann, Lowder, Drogheda ; Adonis, N ew p or t ; N ew Pursuit, Clum, Milford Despatch, Wall, Wicklow. ENTERED FOR LOADING, Dac. 2. The Frisk, Whiteway, for Buenos Ayres ; Caledonia, Stro yan, Bombay ; Susan, Courtney, Havre and Rouen; Vixen, Waken, Madeira and Cape de Verd ; Madras, Thornton, New Orleans ; Emma, Percival, Trieste. CLEARED OUTWARDS, DEC. 2. The Mischief, Lacy, for Genoa, &c. ; Helen Jane, M‘Do nald' J am aica; Liverpool, R owe, B a hi a; Parker, Riesen, Demerara ; Achilles, Mallan, Bahia ; Oglethorpe, Miller, Savannah; Cybele, Armstrong, Pernambuco; New Bruns wick, Bruce, Savannah ; Lightfoot, Wilson, New Orleans ; Byken, Bence, for St. Thom as ' s ; F a l con, Mair, Calcutta. TELEGRAPHED, Drc. 2. Off port, the Columbia, from Bombay ; John Begg, La guna; Sauguenay, Manilla. EAST INDIA. ARRIVALS AT THE MAURITIUS. —The 'toile, August 16, from Bourbon; the Prince Carrolier, 17th, from Bourbon ; the Ricrio, 17th, from Bombay, and sailed 19th for Liverpool; the Maria, 4th, from Marseilles ; the Prudence, 9th, from Marseilles ; the Eliza Jane, 21st, from th e C ape o f G oo d Hope ; the Tyne, 18 th, from Bordeaux. DEPARTURES.—The Thomas Snook, Aug. 13, for Madras; the Nerais, 16th, for Salem ; the Asie, 17th, for Bordeaux. ARRIVALS AT BOMBAY.__. The Laigee Family, July 24, from China and Anjer ; his Majesty's steamer Victor, 25th, from the Mauritius, and sailed the 18th for Trincomalee. DEPARTURES. — The Bombay Castle, July 26, for Calcutta; the Charles Forbes, 28th, for Madras ; the Napoleon, 26th, for Madras ; the Hon. Company's brig Euphrates, 22d, for the Persian Gulf ; the Pestonjee B oman j ee, 23d, for China ; the Sir H. Compton , 29th, for the Persian Gulf. ARRIVALS AT ST. HELENA. .The Lord Hobart, Oct. 9, from the Cape of Good Hop e ; t h e Sanguenary, 9th, from Manilla, and sailed the 10th for Liverpool ; the Astrolabe, 10th, from Calcutta and Madras. DEPARTURES.—The Paris, October 6th, for Boston ; the Harriett, 3d, for London ; the Belzoni, 3d, and the Test, Bth, for London. ACCIDENTS IN MINES. ABSTRACT OF A REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE appointed by the HOUSE OF COMMONS, " to in quire into the Nature, Causes, and Extent of those lamentable Catastrophes which have occurred in the Mines of Great Britain, with the view of ascertaining and suggesting the Means of Preventing the Recurrence of similar Fatal Accidents." The Committee state that they called before them wit nesses connected with all the great mining districts of the kingdom, and also examined plans, diagrams, and a great variety of lamps ; that they had ample opportuities of multi plying proofs of the calamities which have occurred in the mines of the kingdom by sudden explosions of fire-damp, foul air, or sulphur, all which terms arc locally applied to carburetted hydrogen gas, so copiously evolved in many of those mines. Few collieries being entirely free from fire damp ; but, in many, the quantity emitted being so large that in spite of skill and unremitting attention, the risk is constant -and imminent. The following is given as a summary of the returns made in the last session by the Clerks of the Peace, of inquests held by the Coroners on parties who had met with untimely deaths in the mines of England and Wales, during the last twenty-five years. They give a total of 945 persons who had perished during that period ; but they are stated to be exceedingly defective, as, from some counties, the required information could not be obtained, and in others the nature of the accidents reported was not mentioned : Chester, lives lost by fire-damp and choke damp Cumberland, ditto Derby, ditto ~, Gloucester, ditto Monmouth, ditto Nottingham, ditto Salop, ditto Somerset, ditto Stafford (one district), ditto.— Warwick, ditto York (North Riding), ditto 29 (West Riding), by choke-damp 23 7 140 89 104 1337 fire-damp . 93 by other accidents, not specified 230 Brecon, ditto . by explosion Flint, by choke-damp and fire-damp 39! Lancashire (no returns for several districts), ditto 1351 954 In these Returns the counties of Durham and Northum berland are omitted ; but the lists of accidents published by Mr. Sykes of Newcastle—and which extend to a very early period—supply the deficiency. It appears by Mr. Sykes's lists, that since the year 1710 there have perished on the banks of the rivers Tyne and Wear alone— By explosion of fire-damp By inundations By other casualties 1,479 84 37 Total since 1710 Of these 1,125 lives have been lost since 1810, which, add ed to the returns already alluded to, gives the number of fatal accidents during the last 25 years at 2,076. The Committee state that one striking fact requires to be particularly pointed out. If the year 1816 is assumed as the period when Sir Humphrey Davy's lamp came into use, a term of 18 years since 1816, and a similar term prior to 1816 being taken, it will be seep that in the 18 years prior to the introduction of the lamp, 447 persons lost their lives in the counties of Durham and Northumberland, whilst in the 18 _years since its introduction, the fatal accidents amounted to 538. To account for this increase the Com mittee observe that the quantity of coal raised in those counties has greatly increased, while seams of coal, so fiery as to have lain unwrought, have been approached and worked by the aid of the safety lamp, and many dangerous mines were successfully carried on, though in a most inflam mable state, and without injury to the health of the people employed ; and they advert to the prevalence of the notion, that on the introduction of that lamp the necessity for fer mer precautions and vigilance in a great measure ceased. The next question arises, how are such accidents to be prevented for the future ? ,And whilst they acknowledge the anxious care taken to diminish the risk of accident, a strong opinion is expressed upon the paramount claims of humanity, to any considerations of pecuniary interest, whe ther personal or national. The Committee allude to the melancholy catastrophe that occurred at Wallsend colliery immediately after their cppointment, where, though no rea sonable precaution appeared to have been omitted, an ex plosion took place, by which 101 men and boys were in stantly killed. The Committee here observe, that without questioning the zealous and faithful discharge of their duties by the local Coroners and Juries, it will be well to consider how far it is necessary to provide that the earliest information of every accident, attended with death to a large number of his Majesty's subjects, should be transmitted to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, and that he or the Chief Justice of England, his Majesty's Coroner, should, at his or their direction, direct the attendance of some fit and proper person or persons, by them to be ap pointed, to assist the local Coroner and Jury in their inves tigations. It is observed, that from such a proceeding re sults the most valuable to science and humanity might be obtained ; the aim of justice would be still better secured, and to the public (particularly the relations of the deceased), the verdict would be delivered under the best possible re commendations, and with the highest sanction. The Committee observe, upon the frequent presence of carbonic acid gas, or choke-damp, by which innumerable accidents have happened ; and also notice the existence of other noxious gases in certain mines, as furnishing addi tional subjects for chemical investigation. Another source of destruction in mines is inundation by water ; and they observe that a long list of casualties still remains, some wholly beyond human contest, and inseparable from mining pursuits, but the fatal results of which are often justly at tributable to ignorance or a wanton neglect of ordinary caution, and a recklessness of danger, in defiance of common discretion. The Committee next proceed to comment upon the various means of prevention which were investigated by them in the course of their inquiries, and which may be ar ranged under the following heads : " 1. Ventilation, by which is meant an adequate supply of atmospherical air, sufficient as an active agent to displace deleterious gases, or so to adulterate those gases as to leave them no longer explosive, or as in the case of carb o ni c ac id gas, no longer f ata l to vitality. On ventilation, and the daily, unceasing, strict discharge of duty by every person en gaged about the mines, from the scientific, professional viewer, through all grades, the under-viewer, the wasteman, the overman, the deputy, the lamp-keeper, the pitman, down to the trapper (often a. boy too young and thoughtless, who manages the air -doors), depends the safety of hundreds of men and boys, from minute to minute ; one act of omission of assigned duty, one solitary, momentary neglect, may cause the instant destruction of life and property to an indefinite extent. "2. Safety-lamps • by the aid o f w hi c h th e m i ner i s en able to c ommen c e and continue his operations in situations where no naked light could be used, and at other times as a precaution against apprehended sudden changes in the atmos phere which surrounds him. " 3. Maps or plans, accurately defining not only the mode of conducting the air-courses, but the entire of the workings; pointing out also the position of adjacent abandoned mines, which may have become reservoirs of gas or of water." Upon these subjects, the Committee observe as follows : " The various modes of ventilating mines already in use, as well as those systems which have given place to improved methods, will be found detailed by various witnesses, arid their merits so fully canvassed, as to require no comment from your Committee. To enter upon a review of every plan and suggestion would compel your Committee to exceed the rea sonable limits of a report. They do not hesitate to express a conviction, that whilst some mines equally foul are naturally freed from large accumulations of gas, by the approximation of the seams of coals to the surface of the earth, others, where the seams lie horizontally, or nearly so, require more shafts, additional opportunities for the injection of puro air and the rejection of foul than are ordinarily afforded. A less parsimo nious system in this respect, in the original design of those mines, and in their subsequent workings, would have rendered easy otherwise difficult ventilation, and saved many valuable lives. The absolute necessity of greater attention to this point has been fully established. " The practice of placing wooden partitions or brattices in the ventilating shafts is deservedly reprobated : the slightest explosion may remove them, thus the whole system of venti lation is destroyed, and no timely aid can be rendered to the temporarily surviving sufferers. Your Committee have rea son to believe that this opinion is generally adopted in the coal-mining districts. To this point they attach an import ance, inferior only to the provision of a sufficient number of up-cast and down-cast shafts. They consider that the evi dence justifies the suspicion that the foul and free air-courses are frequently too near to each other, the communications not adequately protected, and that the lengths of air-coursing are excessive, giving opportunities for leakage, interruption, and contamination. The temporary nature of the stoppings, often boards imperfectly united, sometimes mere heaps of small coal, and their frequent derangement, inevitably produce dangerous consequences. " Your Committee have endeavoured to investigate with strict impartiality the merits of the different lamps which have been brought under their notice. In the course of the evidence many varieties will be found described. The invention claimed by the late Sir Humphrey Davy, on principles demonstrated by that able philosopher, may be considered as having essen tially served the mining interests of this kingdom, and through them contributed largely to the sources of national as well as individual wealth. Many invaluable seams of coal never could have been worked without the aid of such an instrument; and its long use throughout an extensive district, with the com paratively limited number of accidents, proves its claim to be considered, under ordinary circumstances, a safety-lamp. The principle of its construction appears to have been practically known to the witnesses, Clanny and Stephenson, previously to the period when Davy brought his powerful mind to bear DIED. On the 27th ult. in Edinburgh, Mrs. Blair, widow of Dr. Blair'' Prebendary of Westminster. On the 2d inst., at Turnham-green, Jas. Fittler, Esq., A.R•A'' aged 79. On the Ist inst., at Windsor, Berks, John Nash, Esq., in his 4 0 year. On the Ist inst., at Brighton, Charles William Bynon, of Sea l ' Bank, Regent's-park. On the 30th ult., in Wilton-place, Mrs. Sophia Streatfeild, i ° her 81st year. On the 29th ult., at Hastings, Charlotte, wife of W. Unval i f., Esq., of Putney, Surrey, in her 26th year. On the 27th ult., Benjamin Hutton, Esq., aged 62. On the 30th ult., Mrs. Martha Stevenson, of Richmond, Surfeit, in her 78th year. On the Ist inst., at Camberwell, Mr. Thomas Harrison, in 1 ,19 58th year. On the 30th ult., at Bath, in his 75th year, Thos. Brooke, Escl" formerly of the Hon. East India Company's Bengal Civil Service. .-") On the 24th uit., at Enfield, in his 71 s t year, P eter Hardy, Esit . o' one of his Majesty' s J us ti ces of the Peace for the county of 3/flu-A, dlesex. * 4' On the 2Sth ult., a ge d 84 , M r. Simon Payne, for 50 years s' sheep salesman in Smithfield -market. On the 23d ult., a t Addi ngton-house, Buckinghamshire, Maio 44 waring Davies, E sq ., age d 91. London : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, ofll2, Strand, a t M e Sun Mice, No. 112, Strand, in the countY of Middlesex. upon the subject, and produced an instrument which Will down his name to the latest ages. " The attention of your Committee has been drawn , 13 1: ferent witnesses to contingen c i es i n undcr lamp of Sir Humphrey Davy ceases to afford adequate P tion. Of the possible existence and nature of those 01 gencies your Com m itt ee h ave ascerta i ne d t h at the ince", was well aware, and they regret that the cautions he r some of his immediate friends were not made more Accidents have occurred where his lamp was in gener", careful use ; no one survived to tell the tale how these rences took place ; conjecture supplied the want of knowledge most unsatisfactorily; but incidents are r' which prove what must follow unreasonable testing of the rity of that lamp ; and your Committee are constrained to. lieve, that ignorance and a false reliance upon its merit s cases attendant with unwarran t a bl e risk, hare led to disa'" consequences. The proofs collected in support of 0 1 ' 5 , nion may be consid ere d as so many warn i ngs to the mill': England. The prejudice which exists in many district 3 the employment of the Davy-lamp are not occasioneu doubts of its protective character : the complaints ma d e with',, of too little light, an d th e diffi cu l ty , i n comparison ',t use of the common candl e , i n b r i ng i ng t h at li g h t to bear precision on the work, particularly in the thicker seams ' l a are found in Warwickshire, Staffordshire, and other CO0; Notwithstanding these prejudices, your Committee em ice r , that no employer of miners can be justified in allowing caPj, or inconvenience to certain individuals to "interfere with , 10 protection to the liv es o f hi s wor k peop l e . I n som e ° i now lighted by the ordi nar y means , t h e use o f the s, i i ed ought, in the judgment o f y our C omm i ttee , to b e com pelled' the owners. " Many improvements, calculated to lessen the numb er ,„ dangerous contingencies already alluded to, have been 5. r ; gested; all these may be considered as extensions of the l ciple ; such are the lamps produced by Messrs. "..lptif t ." Roberts, Mr. Newman, Mr. M ar ti n , Mr. Douglas, Mr• and Mr. Dillon. The l am p s o f Dr. Clanny and Mr. P , are provided with additional mechanical contrivances to exclude danger, which might overcome the safety prin" and at oxce warn the miner of the insecurity of his sit', by the extinction of his light. All these are described tr i ce evidence, except Mr. W. Martin's ; a drawing which ac panies will serve that object ; and Mr. Ayres's, which is a pended extinguisher, descending on the flame immedia , telt gas inside the gauze is ignited ; this lamp cannot be opeP7 , interfered with, without producing such extinction. Committee have not ascertained how far the extinction 01, lighted wick would also be accompanied by the extineti ° the burning gas surrounding it. " In the experiments made before your Committee 48, London University, it may ,possibly be remarked, till° , tests applied were not such, in nature or mode of appliot t as the known actual condition of the mines would point, as satisfactory. It must not be forgotten that the objec:„ those experiments was to ascer t a i n w hi c h, o f a ll the 11 '; produced, was, when exp ose d t o th e severest tr i a l, best e ; tied to the name of a safety-lamp.' I n th ese experiin f e er , the explosion of the gases within th e l am p was e ff ec t e d ine_, e one, and similar explosions p ro d uce d externa ll y , sav e IqPi Upt on and Roberts's. Your Committee are therefore to cidedly convinced that its construction possesses parant ° o merit: Your Committee cannot admit that these experi. l „lY had any tendency to detract from th e c h arac t er o f 01, ' ,0 Davy, or to disparage the fair v a l ue pl ace d b y hi m self 11 0 his invention. The imp rovemen t s are pro b a bl y t h os e longer life and additional facts would have induced bi ni t y contemplate as desirable, and of which, had he not bec li j inventor, he might have become the patron. With the ;;;, exception of unexpected destr uc ti on o f th e i ns t rumen t, M e s ; ,, Upton and Roberts's lamp appears to your Committee to ro vide against all, or n ear ly a ll th e cont i ngenc i es atten ding,. Davy-lamp. Mr. Buddle s t a t es , th a t ti n s hi e ld s , an d a rty tial concealment of the lamp under their dress, constitute s .o prudential precautions taken by the miners in dangerous situst i o to prevent the flame passing the gauze when the lamp is. o tated. The glass chambe r d oes a ll thi s w i t h greater certal". its sudden fracture leaves the instrument a perfect lamp, Sir H. Davy's constru c ti on . Th e i ntro d uct i on o f the gilv not new ; the novelties are , th e s h a p e o f t h e g l ass , t he 61 .,;, which regulates the a d m i ss i on o f a i r or gas to t h e co tt o n W l ;t . and the double tissue of gauze beneath the wick, which P e vents firing backwards. If no practical objections are do ! vered, and your Committe e d o no t con t emp l ate any w hieh oo , 8 0 not be readily overcome, M essrs . Upt on an d R o b er t s 's f „. will supply a grand desid era t um , es p ec i a ll y if extens i v e 0 1 , 1 rience should prove that the lamp and area of the gauot.' be so increased as to allow of more light with safety. ,of "On the necessity of h av i ng correc t maps an d plans, el Committee have al r e a dy re p or t e d. Th e l ong catalogn e . fr i casualties to which the miner is subject, will be found dots' „„; in the evidence. M r . R o b er t s , one o f t h e w i tnesses, prodt l ; to your Committe hi s sa f e t y -h oo d, to ena bl e persons to en drains, wells, and mines charged with carbonic acid gas. I, c 'd Committee report with pleasure their opinion of its V io value, and of the merit of the inventor. The advantafro be obtained by having the safety-hood always ready.fiti„.o are by no means hypoth e ti ca l ; i n t erest i ng proo f s o f w hat be effected by its use have been received, and the practinaei lity of saving life after explosions, when no hope remain has been demonstrated." In reviewing their labours, the Committee state t b3 , r ; although they cannot b u t f ee l a pp re h ens i on t h at they 01110 failed in devising any adequate remedies for the e v . o which have been brought before their notice, they entert3l,ll nevertheless a sanguine hope that the public attentioni e l ( be turned with advant age t o t hi s i n t eres ti ng subject. V' acknowledge the aid afforded to their inquiries fry many scientific and phil an th ro pi c i n di v id ua l s, an d th t e : ? suggest that great b ene fit m i g ht b e f a i r l y ant i c i p a from such persons being encouraged to visit mines, j which they are assur e d th ey wou ld b e we l comely rece ip t by the mine owners, and every assistance in the waY experimenting afforded them. The great difficulties , g the way of laying down an y p rec i se di rect i ons, or formu L d any rules universally a ppli ca bl e t o th e di ss i m il ar natur e as o varying circumstance o f p ar ti cu l ar m i nes , i n d uce there , 0 refrain from advising any present legislati ve enac t me nts ° this important su bj ec t. Th ey no ti ce w i t h p l easure t he 113 ii creasing attention which is paid to the moral culture education of the mining population, and they observe ttig t great advantages may be anticipated from the establishel, of associations similar to the Polytechnic school reco il ,' formed in Cornwall. They remark upon the deep resP, ° ';,, sibility which rests upon the owners of mines, and the i'Pri ci lant oversight which ought to be exercised by the ovol e l , yid managers over all their subordinate overseers, as welL t the necessity of constant examination into the state of then mines, either by personal inspection or by daily writ te reports from their subalterns of every circumstance a t ; netted with their proper ventilation. The great innA r ance of making the workmen fully acquainted with their ii r e dividual responsibilities, and with the principles u pon ti t ', observance of which, both as to light and ventilation, tj ; safety of the whole body of miners depends, are also PO I ' cularly dwelt upon. In concluding th e i r R e p or t th e C omm i ttee aga i n exPre„ 5" their regret that th e y are not ena bl e d to l ay before ti' House any particular plan by which the accidents in VI; tion may be avoided with certainty ; but they anticilo, considerable advant ages f rom th e c i rcu l at i on o f the valnavil evidence which they have collected, and that science avail itself of the inf orma ti on th us prominently exhibit and, finally, they feel assured that those for whose immediate t benefit the inquiry was undertaken by Parliament, will ' l° ,l hesitate to place a generous construct i on on t h e mot i ves at'` intentions of the Legislature. (ADVERTISEMENT. Dr The NEW FLAT GOLD WATCH I are offered in d ou bl e -b o tt ome d eng i ne-turned cases, with accurately' finished vertical movements, jewelled and warranted for Seve' Guineas each, or, with highly-finished horizontal movements, oail . ranted at Nine Guinea s eac h ; a t T . COX S AVORY ' S, WOr kiPv Goldsmith, Silversmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, Londo BIRTHS. On the 3d of M a y l as t, a t S ecun d era b ad, the lady of Captain O. H. Sotheby, Madras Light Infantry, of a daughter. On the Ist inst., at Harting, Sussex, the wife of William Cur Esq., of a son. MARRIED. On the 11 inst., at Christchurch, Marylebone, Thomas Gebrq : Shaw, Esq., of Woburn-pl ace , R usse ll -square, to Mary, ekl_.es,l daughter of the late Joshua Ryl e , E sq ., o f C ars h a l ton, Surrey, all niece to John Ryle, Esq., M.P. for Macclesfield. On the 3d inst., at Charlton, Captain George Gayton Palm of the Royal Artillery, to Lydia, youngest daughter of the Benjamin Benyon, Esq., of Wilton-crescent, and Monknmah' Shropshire. On the 2d inst., at St. Bride's Church, Mr. Henry Roberts, a f f , the Grange, Bermondsey, to Emma Boring, fourth daughter 0 Mr. Thomas Rowe, of Plymouth. 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