The Sun. — London, England, 1866-12-21 00:00:00

The Barn Ixplosion. BARNSLEY, Thursday. ADJOURNED INQUEST. This morning, at 10 o'clock, Mr. T. Taylor, the coroner, and the jury assembled at the Court-house, Barnsley, after an adjournment from the previous Friday. Mr. Vernon Blackburn, barrister, appeared for the proprietors of the colliery. Mr. Morton, the Government inspector, was in attendance. A plan of the colliery workings on a scale of two chains to an inch was exhibited on a table in front of the coroner and jury. Mr. John Edward Mammatt, of Birk-house, near Barnsley, mining engineer, said—l am manager at the Oaks Colliery, and look after the venti lation. I act under the authority and instruc tions of Mr. J. T. Woodhouse. I have been ac quainted with the colliery nearly nine years. By Mr. Morton—l have held my situation at the colliery since January, 1865, but before that I was connected with it under Mr. John Brown, who then held the post I now do. For two years I have taken my orders from Mr. Woodhouse, the engineer, entirely, and reported almost weekly to him the operations going on. The late Mr. Parkin Jeff cock, Ido no think, had anything to do with the colliery, although he was Mr.Woodhouse's partner. The owners of the colliery are Mr. Thomas Dymond and the representatives of the late Mr. Kennedy Marshall —namely, Mr. Alderson and Mr. Simpson, both of Barnsley. Mr. Dymond occasionally went down into the underground works, and in a general way made suggestions without consulting Mr. Woodhouse, because he was the owner and a prac tical man. Mr. Woodhouse was responsible, as the consulting viewer, and I was his deputy. Mr. Dymond did not give me orders, but we used to talk things over. Our suggestions were carried out by David Tewart, the resident underground viewer, now uo more. The deputies were William Wilson, fireman, Sugden, alias Barker, Cadinan, another lire-trier, Christopher Siddons, anc.: John Robson. These men are all dead except Cadman. Ido not know whether Cadman was burnt. I think he was not in that shift. Thedeputies had districts assigned to them. Siddons had the whole of the south level (Nos. 1,2, and 3on the plan). lam not certain whether he had No. 4or not. The dip side down the main incline (No. 7) Camden and Sugden had charge of. Nos. 8,9, 10, and 11 Wilson and Rob son had between them, but Robson was more a shot-firer than a deputy. He used to try for gas, and look after the men generally, as, indeed, all the deputies did. Robson used to fire the shots in the stone drift. The other deputies had power to fire shots if Robson was not there, but the stone drift was the only place where shots were fired. There were no other shot lighters. The colliers never fired their own shots; but waited for the deputies. The ventilating furnace was attended by three men. There was only one furnace, but it was a double one, or two large grates side by side under one cupola. The furnace was attended to constantly day and night. This pit worked single shift, but there were one or two places which worked double shifts. Work began at 6 a.m., and finished at 2 p.m. None remained in at 2 p.m. except a deputy, a fur nace-man, a horseman, and a few who were working double shift in one of the levels, at the extreme end of the siutli dip level, and at the bottom of the en gine plain. The other dip places are a continuation of the engine plain iu the same direction. I have not ascertained how many people were in the pit on the day of the explosion ; but I believe more than 300. There were 131 colliers or sets of tools there, I think, and each set of tools would have one, some two, hurlers. In addition to that there would be all the horse drivers, and all the daymen or road repairers. There were also young boys as trap-door keepers, and safety-lamp keepers, who were kept at work all night. There were four or five of them, and they cleaned the lamps in the night time, and then came up. One called Billy Newell was at work iu the day time; he went down at 6 in the morning and came out after the men had left. There were also hangers-oe, but he thought they got out safe. Ile believed the total number killed was over 300, but he could not say exactly. My statement is con fined to the underground people. The plan on the table before us represents the bearings of the works. That plan was drawn up in July last. Only from conjecture can I supply on the plan the works since pushed forward. The whole of the colliers and harriers employed in No. 3 district were not more than 15. In No. 2 district there was not one em ployed ; nor any in No. 1. These districts are to the south-west of the shafts, and also on the rise of the mine. In No. 4 district there were not above 40 men and boys employed. I surveyed it about three weeks ago. In No 5 district 1 think there were about eight workpeople. There were none em ployed• in No. 6 district, nor in No. 7. In No. 8 there would be two .or three men making a return air course, and a horse and a boy. In No. 9 no one was employed, a 3 the coal had been got there. In No. 10 not less than 50 men and boys were em ployed. In No. 11 about 15 were at work, includ ing two or three in the north level. The extreme south and extreme dip I call No. 12, and there i le were employ e d ;n a pl ace adjoin ingabout 30 peop le there would be about 15 more person s at work. At the extreme or dip slant I think there wou l d be about tweety at work. The daymen were scattered all over the mine. The distribution of the workpeople and their position in the mine is kept in a book, I think, by David Tewart, but whetherany.. one else but himself can understand it I cannot say. I have not seen that book. Books with the names of all the men and boys employed arc kept at the colliery-office. The coal worked at the Oaks is the Barnsley thick coal, and it is eight feet thick. All the districts I have mentioned, except Nos. 1,2, and 3, are situated towards the dip of the colliery. The rate of the dip is about one in 12. As to the mode of working the coal it is worked chiefly on the longwall system, but the old part of the mine was formerly worked on the Barnsley system. The long wall system is taking all the coal before them and leaving no pillars. The old method was to drive levels at intervals of 50 or 60 yards ; other passages were turned up to the rise. The pillars at first were not more than 15 yards thick, and some only ten yards. The banks never exceeded 30 yards thick I think. There were following-up banks, which were made on each side of every leading bank. The people employed on the rise side (No. 3) were all taking away pillars of coal. The goaves (or old workings)are on the rise side of the colliery. The largest goaf is in No. 3. They are spaces from which all the coal has been removed. On the dip side a different system cf working coal was pursued. It was the longwall system, by which instead of driving levels or strips the whole breadth at once was taken up, and there was one face only. There would be five banks in that face, at intervals of about 30 yards. The scale of the plans before us is two chains to an inch (the goaves on the dip side were here pointed out). There were nine goaves, and the largest was in No. 8 dis trict. I have very roughly estimated the extent of the colliery. The total acreage of the mine is about 450 acres, as near as I can tell at present. About , 300 acres of it has the coal taken away, and is hol low. The e•reatest quantity of coal I ever knew taken out of this colliery was 850 tons in 10 hours, but that was not the average. A good week was 4,000 tons in Six workin g days, or from 3,700 t o 4,000. The mode • of lighting the workings was by Stapleman's safety-lanape, and there were more than 400, and were used by the colliers s ti and hurriers, ex cept those who went to th ebes, and they h a d lanterns, as well as th ose at the pit bottom. The lanterns were naked lights. Along the south level ~ ked lights from the shaft. were Down the carried not mor e th an 150 yards engine plai n they were carried 400 yards, at which point t h ere were stables I am not aware that naked lights were carried in any other direction, excel?: the furoace man took one i n _ wards the north but I have no reason to b e li eve that naked lights were takel i 2 that direction. In the extreme north dip about 8 years ago a small pit was sunk underground in No. 10 district to prove it. It was 12 yards deep, and to the north-east of the shaft 1,000 yards. In making die pit a large quantity of fire-damp made its appearance. It was suffered to escape for two or three years without being utilized. Then a small gas-holder, sft. in diameter and Eft. or Bft. high, was erected over the pit to collect the gas. From it common gas pipes, 4in. or sin. in diameter, were laid along the nortl level, through the stone drift, to the bottom of the travelling road, which is about 800 yards from the shaft. The pipes were laid on the travelling road whicl is parallel with the engine plain. The pipeswere taker to the lamp cabin, and wherever a gaslight wal wanted it was supplied. The stables 400 yard: down the plain were not lit with gas, but those neat the pit bottom were. Naked lights were taken tc the stables 400 yards down, and that is the same as having gas there. A place for shoeing the horses is near those stables, and gas was lit near them. Gas was not taken further than 400 yards down the dip. Only in the south level was gas also used, not in the lamp-office at the bottom of the shaft. Gas was not used northwards from the shafts. The safety-lamps were locked. The hurrier boys and horse-drivers and trapdoor keepers had lamps. It was by Mr. Woodhouse's authority those natural gdslights were used. Mr. Dymond and I made suggestions partly for the use of gas, and Mr. Woodhouse modified them. Mr. Minto, who was then resident engineer, approved it being done. Mr. Woodhouse sanctioned the gaslights used up to the time of the explosion. There was only one ar tificial gasometer. The orders and suggestions and modifications by Mr. Woodhouse, I believe, are not in writing. We showed Mr. Woodhouse what kind of gas it was. He was rather opposed to it at first. Ido not know what his reasons were, but I believe he said gas was a ticklish thing to deal with. Before that we had naked oil lamps burning 400 yards down the workings where gas has since been used. Mr. 'Woodhouse, I think, never recommended that naked lights should be taken away, but he ob jected after they had been there some time to their being carried as far as 800 yards. They had not been taken as far as 800 yards without his know ledge or consent. It is more than a year since they have been kept within 400 yards. We had not one Davy's lamp but two Clanny's lamps, kept for sur veying purposes only. The lamps were cleaned every day after the men left. The man who lit the lamps locked them. Ido not know his name. He is alive. I shall be able to get the names of the persons whose duty it was to examine, light, and lock the lamps, and I will obtain them for the coroner and jury. (A. copy of the Oaks Colliery rules was here put in, and at Mr. Morton's request Mammatt took out the bylaws not connected with this inquiry). As the workpeople went down each morning the lamps were delivered to them by the lampkeeper. In the places where coal was got the lamps were hung upon nails driven into the coal or into one of the props. It was a regulation that they should not be put on the floor, and were to be placed far enough from the swing of the pick. Generally that regulation was observed. Occasion ally I have seen a lamp set on the floor, and ordered it to be hung up. There have frequently been the glasses of lamps broken by accident, leaving the wire entire, and then the lamp became not so good as a Davy lamp. We have had instances within my observations of lamps being struck through, one apparently by a pick and another by a nail. They were shown to me by Mr. Dymond, but none that I remember by the late David Tewart. Sometimes we have had limbs broken or crushed by falls of coal, but it is a long while since I remember one. We have had the hurriers' lamp-glasses broken, but not by being accidentally run over. Damaged lamps, when the glass is broken, generally remain till the end of the day, but a crushed lamp should be put out at once. if a Stephenson lamp glass was broken, a thousand to one the light would go out. I do not know any instance in which a lamp so in. jured has been kept lighted to the end of the day. If the lamp is put out, the man would go to the lamp office for another. I cannot say whether men have been in the habit of keeping broken lamps burning, but I have heard of no such instance. The man pays the value of the glass if the lamp is crushed. Inquiries were made as to the breaking of lamps, and there was a pit diary, which is now in the lamp cabin in the pit, and every occurrence of the kind is there entered. I used to see it every time I went down, which was sometimes twice a week. I was last down before the explosion on the 21st of November. I went down at 10 o'clock in the morn ing, and came up about half-past 12. We used wedges and picks entirely in working the end. Not an ounce of powder was used in the mine for coal getting. A long time since powder was used, but for several years and lately none has been used ex cept at the downcast pit bottom, which is not coal, but stone. It was used there on the day of the ex plosion, and for three or four months past. It was in a drift not far from the pit bottom. From the shaft bottom, the place where it was used on the day of the explosion is 80 yards. The stone drift was nearly parallel with the engine plain. We had two motives for making that drift. One was mine and one Mr. Dymond's. Mine was to assist the ventilation down the travelling way on the dip side. Mr. Dymond's motive was to save the men the trouble of going round to their work, and to give them more direct access to their work; instead of going down two sides of a triangle they would then have only to go down one. It would be 7ft. high and 6ft. wide, or 40ft. area. Ido not know who authorised the use of powder in that drift. I was never asked about it, but if I had been I should have allowed it. Mr. Woodhouse knows that some drifts cannot be driven without powder. Mr. Dy mond and I ordered drift to be made, but not the particular kind of work. I ordered David fewart to get it ma d e as soon as possible, but the question of gunp ow d er was not discussed. I had informed llr. - Woodhouse about maki ng th e d r if t, b ut not about the p ow d er. Tewart never objected to me to use the about B Powder there. Powder had been u se d th ere f our months . During that peri o d I h ave heard no objection . to the use o f p ow d er th ere. I did not obj ect to it n the powder th ere we eontracto r r s s . J ( ln b i d both alive),hugemyself. John and enand and his mate i r ys The .T pe h r e s m on as s who Sudden, used den , RhmaradHwunert,e thewho sd not know the names of any others w eiso h nk o tir NN lal ' e o cd r to k . ed in this drift, but w l ascertain. Ido no t know whether the contract lyasi veterbi‘lr. T ess ar t . I al or writte n . rememb er It was made by Mr. D ymond an am not aware that during the la s t fe ever There no e have been any mishaps with gas i n thwatm do ri n ou ths ld theret ft, and I have been in it frequently. Ido not seeing a naked light in the drift. 7 be naked lights in other parts of the mine without my knowing. The drift was to communicate with the travelling road. The last time I inquired about it they thought next day the drift would be through into the regular travellingway,which was.one of the main fresh air courses. It would also pass a passage which was Bft. under. The strata between the two passages was stone-bind. No communication had beeu made by a bore hole or anything else with the return air course. All the passages, &c., connected with the stone drift are delineated in the map. The dip end of the drift is 100 yards from the nearest goaf. I do not k now th a t th ey b a d go t the drift through with drills or boring rods. When I went down on Nov. 21 I could detect no gas in the lamp, but there was a noise of gas hissing through the water. I have been in the habit of examining other places than the goaves, and tried to find gas, but have not found it once this year. There was a great deal of gas in one part in 1817, but none lately, though there has been choke damp in the rise part.. (The most likely places for finding fire damp were here pointed out on the plan.) The extreme dip headings were the most suspicious. I thought gas might prevail in extreme south levels, but never found any there. We have no pit diary in the office,. the presence of fire damp was put down when it oc curre,l, but the book did not frequently announce fire damp. The deputies made the entries after each shift, but none of them are alive except Cadman. The result of theobservations recorded were not sent regularly to Mr. Woodhouse, but I used to send a re port weeklyor fortnightly if therewas anything to say. Th e working, goaves were exam i ne d every morn i ng for the purpos e of finding fire. There were not less than four or five morning fire-triers and deputies. There have never been complaints of want of proper examination of the works in a morning. heard of one complaint, and only one of air. It w as a fortnight ago , about a want, and I beard it second hand. The compl a i nt would be in the pit diary. There was a deputation of men at the colliery office about it. I have no doubt it is recorded. I wrote to Mr. Woodhouse, stating that I understood there was gas in the banks in No. 12 district on the south side. received a satisfactory reply. I did nothing in con sequence of what was said to me, but I did not do anything because of what Mr. Dymond did, and be- - cause I was not there. I did not go into the works to examine them, because I was away, and the exa mination had been made. It was days after when I came home, and the thing had blown over. I did not see the deputation, but I was told it was about gas. The steps which were taken were, I was told, satisfactory to the deputation, and satisfactory to Within the last six months we have had no complaints of imperfect ventilation, or of dangerous practices —not one, or of bad discipline, or of neglect of duty, or not having a sufficient number of depu ties to examine the works. I have known of no firing of cotton wool in the mine, or anything of that sort. No return air touches the furnace, but it might be brought there by smashing a door which separates the returning from the in-going air, and the door is always kept locked. Tewart and the deputies had keys as well as myself. The viewer only and underground viewer and the deputies were allowed to go through this door. The furnace was 70 yards from the upcast shaft, and the smoke was carried up the drift, which was 10ft. high by 6or 7 feet wide. From the bottom of the furnace drift to the bottom of the upcast shaft is 18 yards. The return air was conveyed up the upcast shaft by two roads. The nearest was 12 yards be low the end of the furnace drift. I have once or twice seen the soot on fire in the upcast shaft. The furnace was fired briskly. I think the distance was sufficient from the bars of the furnace to prevent the flames or any fiery material communicating with the return air up the up-cast shaft. I have heard no complaint that the furnace was too near the up cast. The fresh air supplied to the furnace on the 7th of December was 17,220 cubic feet per minute. On the same day the air circulated through the mine was 151,950 cubic feet per minute. The mine is divided into districts for ventilating purposes. (Here the districts and currents of air were pointed out.) The two down-cast shafts were 285 yards deep. In some parts the goaves are partially open. I have generally, but not invariably, found them free from gas. Sometimes they suddenly fall in. After such falls the mine was liable to be charged with gas from the strata above. They generally fall from 18 to 20 yards from the top of the coal. The strata book will show whether at that distance above the thick coal there is not a thin seam of coal, but I will refer to the book and see. If there is such a fall I know gas would escape. I have known the floor of a mine burst up and yield a dangerous amount of gas, so that Davy lamps would scarcely be safe, but Stephenson's lamp would be a protec tion. There was a dangerous outburst of gas at the Oaks Colliery in August last, in the second bank, south side, low end of Engine -plain. Other explo sions of the same kind have had the effect of ex tinguishing Stephenson's safety-lamps, and making Davy lamps red hot. I was at the colliery the day before the first explosion, but from home at the time it took place. On the day I was there I heard no thing of danger being apprehended. I got a tele gram on the 12th inst., saying that there had been a great explosion. At 9.10 on Thursday morning I found No. 1 and 2 shafts in their ordinary state— fresh air going down. Mr. Mammatt went on to relate the steps taken by orders of the engineers on Thursday after the explosion, and then went on to say —At 1 o'clock I was taking observations when I heard the signal-bell from the bottom ring several times in the engine -house. I ran to the top of No. 1 pit, and found the carpenter and a police man shouting down the pit. We heard a man's voice at the bottom, and then sent to Barnsley for the en gineers and viewers. Inspector Wetherall and I in the meantime let down to the man at the bottom a bottle of brandy and water; it was let down by a length of signal wire, and it was taken off. After describing the modes operandi by which it was ac complished, Mr. 2,laminat described the descent of himself and Mr. Einbleton, jun., down No. 1 shaft. He added—We took three lamps and went slowly down, so that we could examine the shaft sides. One hundred yards down the shaft a stream of water as thick as my body was falling down the shaft. When we got to the bottom at first we saw no oue. The scaffold was blown off the sump at the bottom. The sump was 9 yards deep, and it was full of water. I shouted out, " Anybody here ?" There was a great fire 40 or 50 yards from the bottom of the shaft in the engine plain. It was full of corves of coal which had been ready to conic up which bad been burnt. They were all of a glow. At last we heard a voice saying "Take me out ;" he was between the two shafts, sitting in a heap of dirt. The distance be tween the shafts is 9 yards; the lamp cabin is there. 'The man had his back against the wall, with a bottle on his knee. I asked him where the others were, and he said, " No, there's no more ; I am the only one." I saw no dead bodies, but he said there were two or three close by. I called " Jeffcock," " Barker," and " David," but there was no reply. Iu the face of the fire it would have been death to have gone. The man could not walk, and we had to help him to the truck and tied him with ends. I then fell into the sump, but spreading my arms out I saved myself. The man's name is Samuel Brown, and he is all right again. As I was falling I said, " Halloa, what's that?" and Brown said," There'sthreeor fourdown there." Since Friday there have been many explo sions; six on Saturday, someon Sunday and Monday, and 17 altogether. The last explosion of the 17 was at 3.40 a.m. on Tuesday. On Saturday we began to pile up the furnace shaft, and yesterday afternoon 20 yards were filled up, and the filling up has got above the furnace draught. We also began to pile up No. 1 shaft on Tuesday afternoon.' We have started the pumping engine, so as to prevent water flowing into the mine. It is thought desirable not to let water into the mine at present. From No. 1 shaft to the extreme dip the distance is a mile and four yards. From the downcast shaft to the furnace shaft in a straight line is 18 chains and 50 yards. By Mr. Blackburn—ln Mr. Tewart's book, found at his house, under date Nov. 3, is this entry— " The colliers left the pit idle, and said the south me. level bank and straight places were full of gas. When the banks were examined no gas was to be found." The dip in the stone drift is lin 7, and it is impossible gas could accumulate. I never herd of gas in any stone drift. Using gunpowder in blast ing that drift was not at all dangerous. If the ex plosion had taken place in the stone drift the blast would have gone up the shaft. I WWI close by, but bodies were found a great distance from there and at the bottom of the shaft. By the Jury—There have never been any explo sions in the engine plain. The state of the bars under has a great deal more to do with the existence of more gas than usual in a mina. Knew of the em ployment on a given day of more than the ordinary number of workmen. Mr. Dymond could do no thing contrary to Mr. Woodhouse's orders. The return air course could not have been fired by ashot going through the 8 feet of strata between them. I asked the men to push on with the air way, but no premium was offered whatever. The stone wasvery hard, and the men could not make money, and, as they were getting tired of it, David Tewart offered them a sovereign for extra work. Here Me. Morton said the Government had ap pointed Mr. Kenyon Blackwell to assist him in the iuvestigation. As the inquiry was looked upon by Government as one of great weight and public inte rest, it was desirable that the inquiry be closed until Mr. Blackwell had investigated minutely all the circumstances, and until all witnesses who could throw light on this painful subject could be got together. He, therefore, hoped the inquiry would be adjourned until after Christmas. Mr: Blackwell said the colliery proprietors, for whom he appeared, felt as deeply as other persons with respect to this matter, and were anxious with- out delay to examine witnesses who would clear up certain points with reference to blasting and the use of gunpowder. The learned gentleman called John Sugden, contractor for making the stone drift, and he said he left the drift at six o'clock on the morning of the explosion, and no gas was in it at that time. Two or three hours after the explosion he went down and examined the face of the drift, and then saw no signs of gas. By the Jury—Tewart gave them orders to blast by Morton. They had had no complaint about blasting. Tewart told them there was sufficient THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1866. thickness between the draft and air course, but they were to take notice if there was any gas. William Maddison, of Woolley Colliery, general viewer, said he got to the Oaks Colliery on the day of the explosion at 2.20 p.m. After a new rope had been put on he went down with Mr. Brown and Barker, a deputy, who had been killed. Before he went down he heard that a shot had been fired in the stone drift, and he and Barker examined very particularly. It was not through, and there had been no explosion there. The shot hole was from the top side, in the main aircourse, to meet the drift. There was no rubbish in the drift. Mr. Phillip Cooper, of Masborough, was with him. The cavity in which the shot had been was left undisturbed to all appearance. , At this stage of the proceedings the inquest was adjourned until the 17th of January. MANSION-HOUSE RELIEF COMMITTEE. During yesterday the sum of £1,300 was received by the Lord Mayor towards the fund which is being raised at the Mansion House under his auspices, at the head of a committee of gentlemen of considera tion in the city, for the relief of the widows and orphans of the men who perished in the recent col liery explosions, making in all, with the previous days' subscriptions, £5,800. Among other donors Lady Elizabeth Dashwood (through Messrs. Coutts and Co.), sent £100; Messrs. Glyn Mills, and Co., £lOO ; Mr. E. Mackenzie, 1100 ; the Fishmongers' Company, £52 10s ; Messrs. Spartelli and Co., £52 10s. ; Messrs. Stern, Brothers, £5O ; Messrs Ralli Brothers, £25 ; Messrs. Sloans, Wells, and Co., £25 ; Miss Marston, £25 ; Messrs. Huntley and Palmer, £2O ; Mr. R. B. Byass, £2O ; and the Marquis of Bristol £25. A collection in Harwich had resulted in £22 odd. There was also a consider able number of subscriptions of smaller amount, all which will be advertised by the committee in due course. In the course of the day a meeting of the Relief Committee was held at the Mansion-house, there being present the Lord Mayor, Mr. George Moore, Mr. J. P. Gassiot, Colonel Stuart Wortley, Mr. Al derman Cotton, Mr. W. J. Maxwell, Mr. Frederick Thompson, Mr. James Hill, and Mr. It. N. Fowler. The Lord Mayor took occasion to call the attention of the meeting to cer tain information which had been kindly furnished him by Mr. Clayton, the town-clerk, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Mr. Atkinson, the secre tary to the Hartley Colliery Relief Fund. A rumour,he said, had prevailed for some days that there was a considerable surplus of that fund left unapplied, after satisfying the necessities of all the persons who ' had legitimate claims upon it, and that rumour was believed to have had a somewhat adverse influence upon the funds now being raised in various quarters lot...the relief of the distress caused by the recent calamities near Barnsley and in North Staffordshire. He was now in a position to state exactly how that matter stood. The total amount of subscriptions raised iu reference to the calamity at Hartley Colliery in 1862 was £81,838 odd, which was fur ther augmented by interest on investments and cur rent account to £83,234. Of that sum upwards of £20,000 was raised at the Mansion-house. A local committee, of which the then Mayor of Newcastle was at the head, and in whom that sum was vested, propounded and adopted a scheme, with the assis tance of a skilful actuary, for the relief, under cer tain conditions and fur a time limited, of the widows and orphans, and aged parents of the 204 men and boys who perished on that occasion. They first of all applied £7,790 in the relief of the destitute chiefly, and in incidental expenses arising out of the calamity, leaving a balance in hand of £75,442, and to provide for the profuse allowances under their scheme, and which were spread over a number of years as to certain classes of the recipients, and for the remainder of life as to the aged, £55,000 in all was set apart; leaving an unappropriated balance of £20,440, being one-fourth of the amount subscribed, and that surplus in March, 1863, they . divided among the coal-mining districts of the whole country, 12 in number, making the number of coal miners in each district the basis of the division. They also agreed that in the event of any further surplus remaining after all claims on the Hartley Fund were fully satisfied it was to be divided in the same way as the £20,440 had been. Of that sum £2,034 was set apart for the Yorkshire mining dis trict, and £1,106 for that of North Stafford, Shrop shire, and Cheshire, in which two districts the recent colliery explosions had occurred ; but it had so hap pened that the sum apportioned to the .Yorkshire district remained unclaimed, no local committee having been organised in the district to receive the money. The Mansion-house Committee, yesterday, were unanimously of opinion that the explanation given by the Lord Mayor was most important, and de serving the utmost publicity at this particular time, as being calculated, not only to dispel a popular error as to the £20,000 left over from the Hartley Fund, but to show that if £55,000 was required on that occasion for the suitable provision of the de pendent relations of the 204 men and boys who then perished, double the sum would be now wanted where the persons who lost their lives in the Barns ley and North Staffordshire calamities were said to number about 400. The Explosion in North Staffordshire. No other bodies have been found in the mine, and it is the opinion of the managers that the whole of them have now been recovered. The number brought up from the pit is 89, whi ch, with the two men res cued alive who have since died, makes a total of 91, which corresponds, with a difference of one, with the number of men on the colliery books, and the num ber of bodies claimed by relatives. The " sump" has not yet been searched, on account of the delay in repair of the pumps. A meeting of the Widows' and Orphans' Relief Fund Committee was held yesterday atliidsgrove, Mr. Smith Child in the chair. The following letter of Sir T. M. Biddulph was read : "Buckingham Palace, Dec. 17, 1866. "Sir,—Having received the Queen's command to make inquiry as to whether a subscription was about to be raised for the benefit of the relatives of the unfortunate men who lost their lives by the colliery explosion at Talk-o-th'-Hill, and having read in the newspapers of to-day that you have opened a subscription list, I take the liberty of addressing you, with the request that you will put down her Majesty's name for the sum of £lOO, and that you will signify the Queen's deep sympathy for those who have been bereaved by this terrible accident—inferior only in its fatal effects to the one which has recently been brought before her Ma jesty as having occurred at Barnsley.—l have the honour to be, your obedient servant, " THOMAS M. BtDDULPH. "Mr. Smith Child, Hanley." A delay of one day had occurred in the delivery of this letter through its having been addressed to Hanley instead of Stallington-hall, the residence of Mr. Child, who received it on Wednesday morning. After the letter and the reply by the Chairman had been read, the following resolution was pro posed by the Rev. Sir L. T. STAINER, and seconded by the Rev. M. W. M‘HuTcHIN, and was unani mously passed : "That this Committee request Sir T. M. Biddulph to communicate to the Queen on their behalf the expression of their profound appreciation of this fresh proof of her Majesty's gracious sympathy with the distresses of her subjects, and of the generosity with which she has ever hastened to minister to their relief." • It was announced that collections in aid of the sufferers will be made in the churches of Coleridge, Longton, Kidsgro7e, Edensor, Normacott, Blurton, and Tunstall next Sunday, and in the other churches of the district on Christmas-day and Sunday week ; and that collections would be also made in all the Wesleyan chapels and in other Dissenting places of worship, on Sunday next. At the various works and manufacturing establishments in the district the workmen are contributing, or are about to contri bute, to the relief of the widows and orphans. Public meetings are being held in most of the towns and villtges for the same purpose, and in several places a house-to-house canvass for subscriptions is being carried on. Everywhere there is a disposition to help the charitable work, and large as the sum required will be there is not likely to be any very great diffi culty in getting a full share of the amount in Staf fordshire. With regard to the provision to be made for the unfortunate children made orphans by this calamity, it was at first proposed that an effort should be made to get them admitted into the Wol verhampton Orphan Asylum, which had not nearly its full number of inmates; but on application to the authorities it was ascertained that the rules of the institution required the sum of £lOO to be paid for the admission of each orphan sent there, and the • managers had no power to take children on any other terms. Mr. Child, at the meeting of the Re lief Committee yesterday, referred to this subject, and expressed the opinion that they had not received the treatment they had a right to expect from the authorities of the asylum, which was established especially for the mining and manufacturing dis tricts of Staffordshire. The last appeal in connexion with the asylum he had was on behalf of the orphan of a coachman, who might have been in New Zealand for aught he knew. Mr. Child hoped that the re cent colliery casualties would lead to the establish ment of an asylum for the orphans of colliers. There were fatal colliery accidents every week, which the public never heard of, and the annual average of deaths in collieries up to the present year had been above 1,000. The suggestion of the chairman met the cordial approval of the members of the commit tee, and a hope was expressed that it would not be lost sight of. Among the additional subscrip tions to the local relief fund reported yesterday were the following :--£717 2s. from 12 shareholders in the North Staffordshire Coal and Iron Company (including £250 from the chairman) ; £5OO granted from the funds of that company (the owners of the colliery) ; £5O from the Bishop of Lichfield ; £2O from Mr. J. W. Phillips ; £2O from Mr. J. V. Phillips ; £2O from Mr. J. Cooper ; £5O from Mrs. Kinnersley ; and smaller sums, making a total of between £4,000 and £5,000, contributed to the local fund. The sufferers from the catastrophe are returned as :—Widows, 40 ; orphans, 8 ; fatherless children, 120 ; children badly off, 3 ; aged parents, 13. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—It carries one into the depths of the time to come to hear a talk of municipalities, and a common municipality, for this metropolis. When shall these things be ? It is one of those mighty works to be done that remain to stimulate the youthful imagination and nerve ambition. Young and old dream of a great city that, in its unity, its order, its reign of wholesome laws, its plan, and its beauty, shall be worthy of this empire. A grand ideal hitherto has only resided in a name, and in the minutest and most indistinct embryo=—the name of London, which, after all, is only a popular, and not a legal denomination. Indeed, when people talk of London, they leave the particular meaning of the word to be inferred from the context. It is only of late years that we have come to the inevit able conclusion that for many public purposes we must take an immense area, including the very dis tant suburbs, and containing an estimated popula tion of three millions. This we call the British metropolis, and wish to see in closer union. For the purposes of drainage it has lately been brought under the Metropolitan Board of Works, and that Board has even been made the medium of a general rate for the relief of the houseless poor. At its own request it has been charged with the making of the Thames Embankment and the new approaches. Thus far it must be thought to have succeeded, but the more it does the more it has to do. We work the willing horse; hut the Board does not rise high enough or descend low enough. In dignity it pales before the Corporation of the City, and for many local purposes it has not the power of the smallest borough corporation or parish vestry. So they who have cast their lot in London are looking about for some organisation that shall both come nearer and go further, that shall combine the homeliness of the village and the convenience of a town with the grandeur of a great city. The most zealous of them met lately in St. James's-hall, the chosen scene for all our grandest enterprises. The two points specially urged. were the great number and variety of cross divisions and jurisdic tions, and the lavish expenditure in some districts as compared with others. London is divided in one way for registration, in another way for the Build ing Act, in another way for the Police, in another way for the County Courts, in another way for the Militia, in other ways for Inland Revenue, for the Post, for gas, for water, and for Parliamentary pur poses. Indeed, it is impossible to say how many maps would be necessary to show all these divisions. No doubt, if any new occasion could be found, a new division would. be extemporised. Practically, the metropolis is infinite in bulk, and infinite also in its complexity ; and in a material of this sort there must be always the desire and hope of some simplification. No one can dive into metropolitan statistics and topography without longing to apply "some law to the chaos. Then, it is impossible that there should not be waste of money and official strength in the indefinite multiplication of departments, and therefore of offices. But, as one gentleman showed at St. James's Hall, thi s i s no t merely a matter of inference. There is no very great difference between the rates to be collected in West minster and Marylebone, but as the latter has one board, and the former five, the administrative ex penses in Marylebone' are £B,OOO a year, and in IVestminster £20,000 ; so that the ratepayers of "Westminster are paying, for management alone, 150 per cent. more than the ratepayers of Marylebone. There can be no doubt that multiplicity, variety, and intricacy oppose insurmountable obstacles to good and economical administration. The stoutest reformers are driven wild or paralysed when they enter these labyrinths. One might as well throw oneself into a jungle known to be full of wild beasts, venomous things, and malaria, as wage war with the multifarious waste going on under these infinitelyldivided responsibilities. A.man must have a hundred lives for the work. Many have tried their hands at it only to find they would lose health, strength, temper, and substance before they could achieve anything worth the sacrifice. And this is what we call self-government, which, as interpreted in the Metropolis, means that the twenty thousand principal shareholders are not to have the least share in the management of their own affairs, or the least knowledge of them, or be even acquainted with the names and characters of the persons who make arrangements in which they themselves are much concerned, and levy rates which they have to pay. The plan which seemed to find most favour with the gentlemen who met at St. James's Hall is that the metropolis should be divided into boroughs for municipal purposes, combined for common objects in one great municipality. The Corporation of the City is said to be so much in favour of this plan as to offer influence and even pecuniary aid. it is a very pretty and symmetrical idea, and very like the model Constitutions one has read of. But this is a practical question. The evils to be avoided are practical ; the difficulties are practical, and so are the Objects. The metropolis was excepted from the operation of the Muncipal Reform Act at the urgent entreaty of the City Corporation, but for reasons which found accere ance. The metropolis always has been treated exceptionally. Even the Parli t mentary position of the metropolis is exceptional, for with half the population of Ireland it has only one-fifth of her share in the representation. In ,the neighbouring empire, Paris and Ly ons are th e on l y two cities that are not allowed to govern themselves, both being governed by nominated Councils. There are obvious reasons why an elective and compre hensive organisation would be a dangerous experi ment in a population of three millions, inhabiting the seat of Governthent and the Legislature. Yet we certainly should like to see something done in the direction of good and simple goverrment, if only to enlist the energies of a higher class of men in the welfare of the metropolis. Even a century ago it was complained that London was one of the most slovenly and ill-cared for cities in the world, and some the matters of that complaint are unamended to this day. So there is plenty to do, and plenty that may be done. But we cannot forget that Lou don, with the population and revenue of a conside rable State, has also its variety. It comprises the seat of Government, the annual gathering of the aristocracy, the courts of law, the commercial capital, the chief port, an immense number of national insti tutions, and many important manufactures. It is impossible to conceive a greater variety of popula tions and pursuits than are found in the metropo litan bounds. The unity to be made out of such materials can only be approximate and practical ; it cannot be absolute and theoretical. The difficulties of the case will be better understood: if some of the advocates of a Metropolitan Municipality will sit down and attempt to draw out a complete plan. if they do, they will themselves probably be the first to wish their own plan revised. DAILY NEWS.—An explosion of the anti-military spirit of the age is the latest, and not one of the least curious and interesting, surprises which the Second Empire has reserved for the sadder, if not the wiser, period of its history. There was a some what similar movement of opinion, it may be said, in the latter days of the First Napoleon. But the resemblance is superficial only. It is neither a com pliment nor a calumny to represent the Second Em pire as much more unlike than like the First, thanks to the civilising progress, or at all events to the altered conditions of Europe. M. Veuillot describes the Paris of to-day as the " site of a great unfinished city." It would not be more extravagant to de scribe the military history of the Second Empire as a gallery of splendid but unfinished pictures. There has' been one war of two years and another of six months, and three foreign expeditions and two foreign occupations ; there have been brilliant camps of exercise, enormous constructions of bar racks, imposing reviews. Yet on the whole, the Second Empire has shown neither the lust nor the latitude of glory. The wars it has waged have not been very obviously to the public mind under taken for the profit, honour, or advantage of France ; and as to the foreign expeditions, they have been inexplicable caprices, fantastic adven tures, or prodigious speculations ; and though they have left their marks upon the bud ge t s an d upon many a French household, it has not been their cost in blood or treasure that has cooled the military fervour of the nation and disabused it of the old passion for victory. After two millions of French men had been swept by the conscription into the armies of the First Emperor, and offered up as a holocaust to insatiable ambition—after the disaster of Leipzic and the tragedy of Moscow—it was time that France should begin to sicken of war and glory, and that from deserted field and desolate hearth a cry for peace and quiet should arise. The patriotic fury that hurled the armies of the Con vention againse the league of monarchs had, long burnt itself out ; to the passion of conquest had succeeded satiety, and the fever of victory had sunk into exhaustion. When the banished Emperor set foot again on the shore of Provence the:magic of his name and presence could rally an army to his stan dard, but the nation was no longer there. It was there when the enemy gathered on the frontiers, but not to fill the gaps in the ranks or to pour its trea sure into the military chest. The love of righting for fighting's sake had died out. Invasion, the martyrdom of the Great Captain, the sufferings of his disbanded soldiers, their alliance with the revo lutionary party, even the interested vanity of the restored dynasty, the appearance of a new gene ration on the scene, the restlessness of the na tional temper, the impatience of repose, un it e d to rekindle this military spirit within eight years after the fall of Napoleon ; and again, seven years later, the monarchy of July, though peace fully inclined, made the memories and traditions of the Empire its own. There was, however, no anti-military reaction of public feeling during Louis Philippe's reign. How comes it that the Second Empire, after 15 years of ease and pros perity, broken only by short, comparatively inex pensive, and successful wars, finds itself in the pre sence of a peaceful public, the moment it provides a measure for the reorganisation of the army, which would double its effective and convert the whole civilian population into a reserve ; a measure, it should seem, called for with loud cries last summer by many who denounce it in the autumn ? More than one explanation of this singular revulsion of public feeling maybe assigned with sufficient pro bability. Assuredly it is not to be assigned to the causes which signalised th e d ec li ne and fate of the First Empire. The forces of the Second Empire have been constantly victorious, so all the world knows, even in Mexico, and s till h o ld t h e i r gro und in Cochin China. They have suffered no reverses in Europe. All their campaigns have not consumed a tithe of a single conscription of the first Napoleon. His successor has given to that military spirit which is never long dormant in France, not only the in citement of waging short and successful wars, but the more subtle stimulus of looking on while a great rival military Power was establishing by force of arms its supremacy in Central Europe. He has been aided by the zeal of the Opposition in denouncin g the ambition of Prussia, and demanding new secu rities against Prussian aggression in the develop ment of the military resources of France. And yet upon the appearance of a well-considered scheme for the reorganisation of the army, to which all the Marshals have:contributed their counsels, and the Emperor himself has set the seal of his approval, a scheme which at the probable cost of some two millions sterling a year makes every Frenchman out of his teens, capable of bearing arms, a soldier, if not of a° offensive, of a defensive army, public opinion throughout France declares itself in spite of all re strictions or impediments unequivocally, and all but unanimously, opposed to its adoption. Every jour nal with the slightest pretension to independence condemns it utterly; even the Government organs halt and hesitate iu defending it. Even th e p a pers that demanded some measure of the sort most eul pbatically denounce it as almost equivalent to a declaration of war against Europe ; as an act of arbitrary government at home, as a scheme of de population ; as the ruin of industry, commerce, and agriculture ; as an outrage upon civilisation. And it is asked, " Why invite all nations to a Congr of Peace in the Champ de Mars in 1867, if you are about to turn all France into a camp or a barrack ? Are there not barra c k s enoug h i n F rance a l rea dy? This extraordinary movement of the public mind in France is indeed a startling novelty, and we must k sincerely congratulate our gall an t ne i g hb ours on tae evidence it affords to the most incredulous witnessed of their gradual awakening to a sense of the true conditions of modern civilisation, and their recovery from the old fever and folly of glory. It would probably be an injustice to the Second Empire to refuse it the credit of having provoked this anti warlike spirit, not only by it s eucourage r oeu t or peaceful arts and enterprises, not only by the example of some aimless wars and abortive expedi tions, but by the simple fact of its own existence es an essentially military government, and by the natural law of attraction and repulsion which under the monarchy of July made the Liberal Opposition ardent for war, and under the Second Empir e makes them sick of soldiering and eager for peace' Naval and Military Intelligence. Mr. E. J. Reed, Chief Constructor of the Navy, paid a visit to Portsmouth dockyard yesterday, on business connected with the outfit of the iron-clad frigate Royal Alfred, and returned to London by early afternoon train. Rear-Admiral Sir George Rodney Mundy, K.C.8., also visited the Royal Al fred yesterday. The Wyvern, 4, turret screw sloop, Capt. Hugh 'F. Burgoyne, V.C., has been towed into Ports mouth harbour again from Spithead, to remedy an unexpected defect in one of her engine pump valves. The screw two-decker Nelson has been surveyed by the officials at Portsmouth, and, it is reported, is to be jury-rigged for a voyage to Australia, • where she will be handed over to the colonial authorities as a boys' training ship. The cadets at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, celebrated the close of the half-year on Wednesday evening by a theatrical performance previous to their departure for the approaching holydays. It was given in the School of Arms, and was attended by about 800 or 900 persons, who were admitted by special tickets only. The evening's proceedings commenced with the farce by Mr. J. M. Morton, entitled " Lend me Five Shillings." This piece was followed by Mr. J. R. Planche's comedy, " The Follies of a Night." The entertainment was closed with the popular burlesque of " Bombastes Furioso," by Mr. W. Rhodes. In all these pieces the acting was excellent, and the audience separated much pleased with the amusement they had received. The undermentioned gentlemen have been nomi- Dated naval cadets :—The Hon. Edward R. Gifford, Hon. Francis G. Hay, Randolph F. 0. Foote, Geo. Hodgkinson, William C. F. Irons, Duncan Al'Pherson, Algernon R. Mends, George J. Majen die, Alfred R. A. Stock, Ernest H. Peel, Wilfred Powell, Morris H. Smyth, Charles Th)mas, John Windham, Hubert G. , WT.,'Thorold, Harry R. Moore, Blair O'Cochrane, Frank F. Bone, Thomas F. Abbott, James Knowles,. Richard B. Newland, William H. L. Ga'e, William C. Armstrong, John IV. Andrews, Archibald E. Blake, Henry E. Baker, Cecil G. F. Boothby, Randolph de Lisle, and Rode rick W. Fraser. Railway and other Companies. DEMERARA. The traffic receipts on this c - unpany's line for the 'ortnight ending the 10th of - November amounted ,o $5,732, and for the Orresponding fortnight i❑ 1865 to $6,003, showing a decrease of $271. MAURITIUS, The traffic receipts on the Mauritius Govern ment railways for the four weeks ending the 11th of November amounted, on 65 miles of railway, to £7,053, and for the corresponding four weeks in 1865 to £5, 753 on the same mileage, showing an increase of £1,300. GENERAL CREDIT AND FINANCE OF LONDON (LIMITED). An extraordinary goneral meeting of this com pany was held yesterday at the London Tavern for the purpose of confirming the resolution which was passed at the extraordinary general meeting held on the 27th ult. ; Mr. Bromley-Moore in the chair. The Secretary, Mr. R. J. Butler, having read the notice convening the meeting, The CHAIRMAN said the present meeting was one almost entirely of a formal character, and was called to confirm, or otherwise, the resolution which was submitted to the shareholders at the last •general meeting. It would, therefore, be quite unnecessary to say anything with respect to the company's posi tion, which, in fact, was very much the same as when they last met. lie would consult their interest in at once moving that the resolution be condrrned. The Secretary read a formal resolution to the effect that the report of the directors be adopted, and that a dividend of 6s. per share be declared for the year ending the 3lstinst., including2s. per share already paid ; and that the company be wound up voluntarily as from the 31st of Dec., 1866 ; that Mr. Jas. Macdonald and Mr. R. J. Butler be the liqui dators for the purpose of winding-up the affairs of the company and distributing the property ; approv ing the transfer of the business and property of the company, after providing for the dividend and other matters to a new company, called the General Credit and Discount Company (limited), in consideration of the new company assuming all the liabilities of the present company, and paying £1,500,000 by a credit of £7 10s. per share on 200,000 shares in the new company, with full powers to the liquidators. The motion having been seconded, a long discus sion ensued, which resulted in the resolution being confirmed, and the proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman. CRYSTAL PALACE. The report of the directors states that the balance to the credit of revenue was £59,212, which, added to £1,284, the balance from the preceding year, made a total of £60,496 available. After deducting the interest on preference and debenture stocks, &c., there remained a balance of £28,339. Out of this the directors recommend a dividend of 2f per cent. on the ordinary stock of the company, leaving a balance of £3,272 for the next account. The num ber of visitors during the year had been 2,067,598, being a larger number than in any preceding year, and exceeding those of the preceding twelve months by 309,082, of whom 149,525 were visitors paying the price of admission for the day. The expenditure on renewals and improvements amounted to 14,000. The change in the mode of issuing the guinea season tickets, by which they dated from the commencement of the mouth in which they were purchased, had continued to work well, and 3,000 more had been sold than during the previous 12 months. The at traction of the Saturday concerts was still on the increase. The exhibitors' department had fully maintained its position, and the receipts showed a slight increase over those of former years. The re freshment department participated in the general increase in the number of visitors, and the revenue from this important source had reached £19,614. The directors continued to be satisfied with the man ner in which the service of this department was con ducted by the contractors. Since the last meeting the company had sustained a severe loss in the de cease of Mr. T. N. Farquhar, the chairman, who died, after a short illness,Thn the 30th July last, after having filled the chair for nine years. COUNTAY MARKETS. MANCHESTER--TxuRsDAY. The day's market was well attended, and holders .oh" taiued an advance of ls. per qr. on the finest descriptip a ! of English wheat in the business transacted, but this provement did not extend to other sorts. Flour was 1 : limited request, but with ou t a lt era ti on i n va l ue. O a ts de dined ld. per 451 b ; oatmeal 6d. to ls. per load cheaper' Beans and Indian corn were each rather easier. BIRMINGHAM—THURSDAY. At this day's market there was a fair supply of English i wheat, fcr which higher p r i ces were d eman d e d , bat n° generally realised, and we - make no alteration in our qu °- tatious. Barley unaltered. O a t s fi rm. B eans an d Pea' ,, only saleable in small quantities. BRISTOL-THURSDAY. On our market to-day there was a short supply of Eng" lish wheat, which sold readily at an advance of ls. per (11 ;; In foreign not Much d o i ng , b u t a s i m il ar i mprovemen t was generally realised. Malting barley firm, and fully as ( L 3ar c i The demand for grindin g , h as cons id era bl y f a ll en off, ins last week's prices were with diffi cu l ty suppor t e d. 6d. per qr. lower, anti the inquiry was very limited. gal" - and beans quiet, and rather cheaper. BURY ST. EDMUNDS=WEDNEsDAY. There was a limited show of wheat here to-day, Wh ich , was principally cleared o ff a t an a d vance o f f u ll y 25. Ir' s qr. There was a f a i r supp l y o f b ar l ey ; t h e b est sample s were sold at fully 2s. p er qr . more money, while in t he value of other qualities there was no alteration. 03t-14 beans, and peas were extremely dull. EDINBURG 11-WEDNESDAY. Wheat on the top, Os Gd up average, Os lld UP. Barley on the top, 7s Od down average, °slid (10 0 ' Oats on the top, Is Od down average, I.)s id devP' Beans on the top, Gs Od down average, Is 5d up• ... _ Total supply and sales. Wheat 698 qr• • sold 505 Bley 1893 qrs sold 132 8 Oats _2185 qrs.- sold 1326 qrs 160 qrs sold 49 Average prices. • Wheat, 60s 3d ( Oats, 26s 9d Barley, 3Bs 2d Beans 42s 3d Town-made flour sells as follows :—White, 53s 6d; extra superfine, 526 Od ; superfine, 506 6d; fine, 49s Od. Beans. GLASGOW—WEDNESDAY. To-day's market wad w e ll attended ; wheat and flour met a moderat e d eman d. P r i ces unaltered. Barley sr 3s „ s7 fair sale, without change in value. Oats, oatmeal, pea' peas, and Indian corn the turn in buyer's favour.) Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUB. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton....,„ Dec. 29 ' Ditto, via Marseilles Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet •. ....Jan. -; Ditto, by French packet Des. 2 ' Cape of Good Hope, Asoension, and St. Helena Dac. 2 „ B ' China, Penang', and Sing spore, vi a S ou .h ampton. „Deo 2' Ditto, via Marseilles Dec. 28 foaikland Islands tlibraltar, via Southampton Dec. india (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Del Ditto, via Maraeilles - 21 India (Bombay), via Southampton. Dec. 2 ° Ditto, via darseiiies llalta, E:. , ypt, and Aden, via Southampton Dec 2) • Ditto, via Marseillea De o. 21 dauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via atarseite,..:.* * - J an 9. ewfoundlimd ..• Vortuga, ••••• Jail Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. United States and British North.Amerioa, by Bri tish packet Dec. 27 ' Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, Nita Cork. ...... 1. Ditto, ny Canadian packet, via Londonderry (Feet Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerilfe ....Jail. a Teat Indies and• Paelilo {except Bahamas and Honduras)- Baham...4, via New York. • Jan. 1 Cuba and Mexico ./ Bermuda, via Halifax .. Jan. 18 --- -WADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment. and -r" — ,.. o f rongs and their Remedies.—Wh en th e sa f e t re atinnn' il d disease, by those purifying preparations, is so simple , the good result so fully k nown , it seems almost unuec-ut sary to ask the ailing to give them a trial.. Th e Ointni e st .. is infallible in curing skin diseases, healing ulcers, acre a ing inflammations, reducing enlargem en t s , and retn e t , 9 , almost all external maladies. In a ll affections of the jointbs gouty rheumatic, and scrofulous att ac k s , by whi ' • t health of many is daily drained away, Holloway s, „ . 11 meat and Pills will afford indescribable relief, and gradually, if they be used as recommended in the ac,c,eios panying directions, bring a b ou t a th oroug h and it e l " o f cure. These medicaments are suitable for both eases every age and condition. Births. CHETWYND —On the 16th inst., at St. Germaine-en -14 ' 13e ' near Paris, the Hon. Mrs. H. W. Chetwynd, of 3 S p B r. CLARK— On the 19th inst.,. at Sutton, Surrey, 311.8. Clark, of a datighter. fir er LUMLEY—On the 19th inst., at 3, ITarley-place, v. Harley-street, the wife of R. B. Lumley, Esq., of a S° 4 lo VANSITTART—On the 20th inst., at 27, Dover-stree t, wife of Wm. Vansittart, Esq., of a son. Marriages. L n a1e5 1141 GROVER—WORMALD— On the 19th i ns t., at S • Piccadilly, Charles E. Grover, Lieutenant Re”,,, 1 ,7 00 0.0 neers, to Elizabeth Anne, s econ d d aug hter of "- 1 -" - Wormald, Esq., of Bengon, Herts. j 11 0' 1 STEEDE —TIDDEMAN— On tile 19th inst. at at S t. of Brixton, Richard, only sou of Joseph. Steede, ."-„Ythe Buckland, Berks, to R os i na E m il y, eldest daughte r -.- late F. A. Tiddem an , E sq . , o f Earl-street, Blackfrial'' Deaths. ARK - WRIGHT—On the 17th inst. at Sutton Scars Derbyshire, the Rev. G. H. Arkwright, aged 52 • w est BATEMA.N—On the 17th inst. Bateman , H. Batean, Y°lllep JAB d cK a e u rsk g oNs ber of the late Sir J. Bateman, FOxhi ll, ~, aged th 75 .e 19th inst., Mr. Henry Jack son, of 33, Thayer-street, Manchester-square, aged 50. KENNETH—On the 14th inst., at Addison-road, gensiar ton, Robert Kenneth, Esq., aged 68. V. LEE—On the 18th inst., at 1, Napier-road, Edin burgh, H. Lee, Esq., late of Calcutta, aged 41. gis9 TURNER—On the 18th inst ., at Kettleburgb, Suffet't - Turner, aged 74. VANE—On the 17th inst., at 16, Royal-parade, Cheltenllo3' the Dowager Lady Vane, aged 93. Qndon : Printed t ad Publiched by W ILLIAM AN :b . vy It No. 112, dtraud, Piiater at Pn 40N ace , Strand, in the Precinct of the Sav3y , in the Coati of 11111dlesem—Friday, Pecezuber 21, 1506. I IssT E RI TAE T' Cayii or] Al' li e E J. ketr, Re street Me nuns Btrew Th sin na eert the / It Vete( IT/ 1 ot th e t he If ititer e I ( terest thus ceive( C eirec teiv; Th, allot n °larei the ht • r •ro t , Tli; . - ro sp the 73 4 PPEC -......____ lin No Aepi he Cl L end( aPplic IRA 0 f Coo t engly;:, Caße 0 Rtre t killer glitinch PA IC, 41 Ait.81 'Priv Mr. TI br Of chi; Acidit I ndigo for lad krid E °ALIT] ..,, PR :lig an itio y °MceE Partici A.ddre ro w; s. Il e 81 t e a rsii n , 4 Cliaed