The Sun. — London, England, 1867-11-13 00:00:00

THE FERI'D_ILE COLLIERY EXPLOSION. RHONDDA VALLEY, Monday. In addition to what has already been reported re specting the explosion which took place here on Friday afternoon last the following particulars may be given : —The Ferndale Colliery has been vigo rously worked for the past six or seven years, more particularly within the last two years, the demand for its coal having steadily increased, until the out put reached 500 and sometimes 600 tons per diem. The colliery is a steam-coal colliery, and gave em ployment to upwards of three hundred and fifty men and boys, of whom three hundred generally worked during the day and fifty at night. Thirty five horses were also employed below the surface. In consequence of the pit being a " fiery" and a deep one—one of the deepest, indeed, in the Prin cipality —every precaution that skill and experience could suggest was adopted by the proprietors, Messrs. D. Davies and Son, to secure immunity from explosion from fire-damp, in which they were hap pily successful until the time of this lamentable ca tastrophe. As far as we can gather, only patent safety lamps were used, and every attention was paid to the proper locking of each lamp before the men descended into the pit to their work. Mr. John Williams, the resident manager, made it a rule to go down every day and satisfy himself that every thing was going on aright, and that nothing was being done contrary to the regulations which have been adopted for the safe working of the coal; the consulting engineer, Mr. Adams, never failed in the performance of his duties, and over all the officials the members of the firm of owners exercised, we are told, the most watchful vigilance, which was so far successful that Messrs. D. Davies and Sons earned the reputation of owning the best-managed pits in the Rhondda Valley. Ferndale Colliery has been known variously as Blacng wawr, Blau llecha, and Ferndale, and is distant five miles from the Porth Station of the Taff Vale Railway, in the " Rhondda Fach," or "Little Rhondda Valley." The output of coal front this valley is carried almost entirely to Cardiff by the Taff Vale Railway, and there shipped. Being so isolated and so cut off from quick communication with the large towns of the district, it was Satur day evening before intelligence of the explosion had become publicly disseminated in Newport and Car diff ; and it was not until this (\londay) morning that the dreadful truth became fully known. Like all the Welsh coal valleys, Rhondda Fach is romantically wild and beautiful; and this calamity, hurling so many human creatures instantly into eternity, taking place hundreds of feet below the surface of the earth, is difficult but horrible to con ceive in the vicinity of so lovely a spot. In dripping passages, in dim " workings," where only the dis tant lamp of a collier and the reflections of lights as they are moved to and fro are seen—where all is black darkness around —where no sound is heard bat an occasional hoarse cry in the . midst of silence, the collier's pick as it breaks into walls of coal, the tramp of a horse as it drags heavy loads along the Darrow tratuwa,ys—in the midst of this strange but everyday working life some three hundred human beings were busy in the performance of their seve ral duties, when the first faint crack announcing the ignition of fire-damp must have been heard by the terror-stricken men, and a rush made by them for the headings--a useless race for life on the part of most, for scarce a man in the east workings escaped to tell the tale. Many, doubtless, overcome by terror, heard the fearful "rush" iu the midst of their work, gave one terrified glance at the awful fire as it played on the walls, and then passed like a flash of light, leaving death, destruction, and ruin in its rear, and then fell dead, scorched, burnt almost to a cinder. Others, overtaken in a frantic effort to save their lives, were probably overtaken and struck down instantly ; and others, escaping in stant death, died gradually in far-off corners, of suffocation and of choke-damp; and others, too, were crushed by falling masses from the sides and tops of the workings. All this death and havoc occurred chiefly in the east and west workings ; nearly one hun Ire I men, it is computed, who were in the south district, having been brought up alive. The cause of the ignition of fire-damp can only be conjectured, but, as several carpenters were at work in the pit putting up some stalk for horses, it is thought that one of them, trusting in the im munity from accident which the colliery had hitherto enjoyed, or, more probably, thinking of little else than to get the best light he could to go on with his work, managed to open his lamp, and thus ignited the fire-damp which was so plentiful in some of the workings. Everything that money, skill, and experience could do to secure the safety of the pit seems to have been done by the owners. The Tampa have been, we arc informed, rigidly locked before the colliers descended, and the ventilation of the pit properly attended to, the passage of air -120,000 cubit feet per minute—being considered ample for ordinary security. Our report in yesterday's im pression was brought down to Saturday night, and we now proceed to state what has been since done, from inquiry on the spot. On Saturday night the gangs of " shifts," organised by Mr. Wales, the Government inspector, proceeded to work in a systematic and energetic manner, and, after incessant exertions, one poor fellow was brought out alive, about nine o'clock on Saturday night, but, being ill and much exhausted, he was unable to give any coherent account of the disaster. During Sunday no more bodies were found, but two have been brought out since. To day the most strenuous exertions are being made to get at a heading, where it is believed that many of the poor fellows will be found. The number of dead bodies viewed by the coroner, Mr. Overton, up to Saturday night, was 51. Six of the poor fellows brought up alive have since died, and several more are scarcely expected to live. On Sunday thousands of men, women, and boys visited the colliery, many being attracted merely by curiosity. The Cardiff town missionary also attended, ad dressed the multitude during the day, and gave away a large number of tracts. One hundred coffins, ordered in Cardiff, were taken up to the colliery by a special trai❑ on Satur d.ty night, and funerals have taken place constantly throughout Sunday and to-day. The bulk of them were buried to-day. MERTHYR TYDFIL, Monday Night. We regret to report that although operations for the recovery of the bodies in the east district have been continued incessantly by relays of workmen up to 8 o'clock to-night, none of them had been got at, and a considerable amount of labour would be necessary before the fall could be cleared away. One of the greatest obstacles which have had to be overcome has been the foulness of the air in the workings; this has been such that lights would not burn, and the work has had to be pushed forward in total darkness. It was with extreme difficulty, too, that brattices were put up for the conveyance of the air to the front. On Sunday evening a con sultation was held by the engineers who were head ing the working parties, and, after delibeiation, it w.is determined by Mr. Wales, the Government in spector, to attempt the lighting of the ventilating b rna c e s, by means of which it was calculated there would be created such a powerful draught as would draw off all the foul air in the workings that ren der,el it dAngerous to introduce lights. The pro position was fraught with the utmost danger, inas much as in attempting to effect it a second explosion might result as disastrous to the explorers as the first was to the colliery and the coliiers before. I lowever, it was necessary to do something, the state of the workings being such that it was questionable whether it would be possible to remain below even without light except at the imminent peril of life. The task was, therefore, attempted, and we rejoice to say that shortly after midday to day the furnace was blazing away and absorbing streams of vitiated air front the workings. The men were thus enabled to work with greater vigour, and towards the evening spoke hopefully o f neiclong the bodies soon. But all these hopes tiro merely hopes—it is beyond human knowledge when the bodies can be recovered, for the simple reason that the falls are dead misses of rubbish, the thickness of which nobody knows. All efforts up to the present moment have been directed to the release of the bodies confined in the east district, about 20 in number, and nothing will be done towards clear ing the falls, which, it is believed, are still more ex tensive in the west district ; or the rise, where many people think the explosion was felt with the most terrible effect. In all cases of disaster of this melancholy description and magnitude, and occur ring as this has in such an unfrequented and inac cessible spot, the truth is got at only with great difficulty, and many statements go forth which have to be partially contradicted or explained. We are now enabled to give some figures with tolerable exactness, which show the extent of the calamity. The number of hands employed in the pit does not greatly exceed 350, and at the time of the explo sion 328 of them were in the workings. Of those 170 were distributed in the east district, which de scends with the dip, and the west district, which is the " rise ;" and in two other districts, the Rhondda and south, there were nearly as many more. The explosion occurred in one of the first two, and affected with dire results the whole of their work ings, and reached as far as the latter ; but by the time it got there its force had been almost expended, and though the airways, &c., were considerably shaken, only a small proportion of the men were injured, and not one of them killed. They made their way to the bottom of the shaft, and were brought up as speedily as possible. They had been so frightened that nearly all of them refused to go back to the assistance of their comrades. Of the men in the east and west districts, 53 have been re covered dead up to the time we write, 138 came up uninjured, and 21 who were hurt, some of them badly, from the Rhondda and south districts. 'I here now remains down the pit 117 persons in the east and west districts. These figures have been ob tained from the returns of the police, who have made a careful house to house inquiry, and ascer tained in every place the number of persons missing. When the young man named Rowlands was brought up alive on Saturday night it led the people to en tertain a hope that others might still be living, but, considering the horrible condition of the pit and the fact that they have been incarcerated between the falls ever since midday on Friday without the slightest means of sustenance, even supposing they obtain air, this hope is now abandoned. The mining engineers, who are the best judges in this matter, believe that every man beyond the falls is dead. To-day a number of the bodies were interred ; the greater number in Llanwonuo churchyard, a burial-ground about two miles from the scene of the explosion, on the plateau of the mountain. A few were conveyed to their friends at Aberdaie and Merthyr. The writer, who has witnessed many similar scenes in South Wales, certainly never visted a more poverty-stricken lot of houses than the cottages of those poor people last Saturday ; nearly all of them were destitute of the comforts which are ordinarily found in the Welsh collier's home. But how this happens it is beyond his ability to explain, since it is a fact that men and boys at Ferndale earned 50, 60, and 70 per cent. more than the colliers of the Merthyr and Aber dare-valleys. The mourning is very widespread. Blaenllechan or Ferndale had no population of its own before the colliery was opened, and the resi dents are all immigrants from the neighbouring valleys ; consequently, families in all the towns and villages of earlier growth in the district are thrown into mourning, and Ferndale will be peopled by new settlers. The damage done to the pit is immense, and the loss will fall heavily upon the owners, for the force of the explosion was so great that, in the words of oue of the engineers, " the pit has been blown to pieces," and the shock was such that the houses on the mountain side rocked over the heads of their occupants. Among the mining engineers who have gone down the pit and assisted in clearing the wind ways, restoring ventilation, &c., are Messrs. W. Adams, 1 1E., G. Brown, D. Curnew, 11. Lewis, W. T. Lewis, L. Lewis, Jones, Morgan Joseph, Williams (Taff Vale Railway), Burns, Fruvan (Dowlais), Walker, &c. RIOTS AT OXFORD. OXFORD, MOnday (8.15 p.m.) Considerable apprehension exists that disturb ances of a still more serious ch:u•acter than those of Saturday last will be attempted to-night, as a num ber of workmen engaged in the erection of the new buildings at Balliol College and the new London and County Bank, in the High-street, are out on strike, having left their work on Saturday. Large numbers of the citizens have during the day been sworn in as special constables, and the members, both of the University and City Rifle Corps, have enrolled themselves for the prevention of a breach of the peace. In addition to these extraordinary measures, the publichouses are ordered to be closed at 9 o'clock to-night by the mayor and another justice of the peace, and two companies of the Guards are expected from Windsor. The shops are closed, and trade entirely suspended. Up to the time of our parcel leaving no rioting had taken place, although the streets were thronged with people. The University authorities have rendered every assistance in their power to preserve order by "gating" the undergraduates of the various col leges who are not in lodgings, and but few Univer sity men are visible in the streets. The strike at Balliol is said to be at an end, and that the artisans will return to their work on Tues day morning. Anticipating an attack upon their grain stores the Great Western Railway officials had cleared them by sending all the grain away by train. DESPATCH OF THE GUARDS FROM WINDSOR. WINDSOR, Monday Night. At twenty minutes past five o'clock this evening a telegram was received at the Sheet-street Infantry Barracks, Windsor, from, it is understood, the commander-in-chief's department of the War Office, London, ordering a detachment of the Ist Battalion Grenadier Guards to proceed immediately to Oxford, to assist in preserving the peace of that city. Within a quarter of an hour from the reception of the tele gram a detachment, consisting of Captain Cust, Lieutenant Wellesley, nine sergeants, eight cor porals, and 100 men, with four bugiers, accoutred for active service, had paraded in the barrack square. Forty rounds of ammunition were served out to each man, and at six o'clock the troops marched to the Windsor station of the Great Western Railway, where, in the meantime, a special train and engine had been got in readiness for con veyance to Oxford. Colonel Ponsonby, of the Ist Battalion Grenadier Guards, personally witnessed the departure of the detachment, and Major-General Seymour, C. 8., and others were also upon the plat form. The special train left Windsor, at 6.15 p.m. for Slough, whence the troops were forwarded by express train to Oxford. OXFORD, Monday Night. Lieutenant Wellesley and Captain Custance, with two companies of the Ist battalion of the Grenadier Guards, arrived in Oxford by special train from Windsor at half-past eight o'clock. The men, 121 strong, are located at the Corn Exchange. Several thousand persons congregated in the streets, but no serious riot occurred. The windows of the police station and of sonic of the bakers' shops were broken. The Mayor real the Riot Act, and ap pealed to the populace to diverse, as he did not wish to call out the military. 400 special constables and military with arms filed are ready for any emergencies. At eleven o'clock great crowds of people were parading the streets, but hopes are entertained that they will disperse without the soldiers being called upon to act. ADVERTISEMENT.] - Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— In thuse autumnal months the human health is sorely tried by the extreme changes of temperature, which weaken the digestive organs; lower the bodily tone, and lay the system open to numberless complaints. The vast majority of ma ladies affecting the throat, lungs, and circulation may be checked iu their dangerous course by rubbing this curative unguent briskly twice a day upon the skin covering the seat of ailment, and by taking at the same time appro priate doses of Holloway's purifying, corrective, and opera tive pills. This simple treatment knows no failures, is devoid of danger, restores strength to frames debilitated k.ey disease, and imparts vigour to the nervous centres, how ever much shaken by repeated illnesses. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 13, 1867 Naval and Military Intelligence. Yesterday Lieut. A. R. Puzey and the remaining portion of the non-commissioned officers and sappers of the 10th company of Royal Engineers who were unable to proceed to Abyssinia in the screw steamer Mendoza left head-quarters, Brompton-barracks, Chatham, to proceed by the African mail steamer. The Clara, East Indiatnan, has been chartered by the Hon. Council of India for the conveyance of troops to India, and will be ready in the course of a .ecw days to embark her detachment of artillery and infantry troops of various regiments at Gravesend. During the past few weeks recruiting for the various regiments at Chatham has proceeded with considerable brizlness, recruits from the several out-districts arriving at the garrison daily. The following are the regiments for which recruiting is now open, the service companies of most of which arc iu India, viz. :—TheBth (the King's) Regiment, 2d battalion of the 2d (Queen's Royals) Regiment, 10th Regiment, 15th Regiment, 45th (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment, 82d (Prince of \Vales' Volun teers) Regiment, 106th Bombay Light Infantry, and 109th Bombay Infantry. An examination of foremen from the various Royal dockyards for the appointment of assistant master shipwright commenced yesterday morning at the office of the Civil Service Commissioners, Westminster. Candidates whose ages did not exceed 50 years, and who had served three years as fore men of shipwrights, were eligible. The screw guuvessel Myrmidon, 4, 200 horse power, Commander Johnson, having completed her outfit in Chatham harbour, and had the alterations ordered to be effected made good, will ship her powder, shell, and ammunition from the magazines at Upnor Castle to-day, and afterwards take her de parture for her station, the West Coast of Africa. RAILWAY AND OTHER COMPANIES. CALEDONIAN. The directors of this company have given notice of an intended application to Parliament to autho rise the abandonment of four branch lines sanctioned in 1865, viz., the Bangholm junction, the Shielhill branch, the Crieff connecting junction, and the Barr head and Paisley branch ; to extend the time for the compulsory purchase of lands and completion of works of the Balerno and the Muirkirk branches ; and to extend the time for the sale of surplus lands on the Scottish North-Eastern and other lines ; also for power to purchase lands at various places on the company's lines, and to hold shares in the Crieff and Alethvin Junction Railway ; power to raise additional capital by the issue of ordinary or pre ference shares for the completion of certain works, to provide more rolling stock, station, and other ac commodation for the traffic. TRUST AND AGENCY COMPANY OF AUSTRALASIA (LIMITED). The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, St. Swithiu's-lane— Mr. A. Bonar in the chair. The CHAIRMAN stated that the articles of asso ciation providal that the power of declaring a divi dend should be exercised by the shareholders only, and that the Boa d should have no power to pay a dividend without first obtaining the consent of the shareholders. The accounts of the company were only made up annually, and presented to the share holders in May, but the Board had carefully gone into the company's affairs, and the dividend they proposed was a moderate one, and hal been fairly earned. Generally, he might say that the affairs of the company were progressing satisfactorily. With regard to debentures and the amount falling due everything had been met. The aggregate amount had been recently increasing, and now had nearly reached the limit fixed as the fair proportion to the capital authorised by their deed. Out of 12,500 new shares authorised to be issued at 12 premium, only '2OO or 300 remained unapplied for, so that he was fully warranted in saying that affairs both at home and abroal were proceeding satisfactorily. By advices received from New Zea land the company was collecting about £27,000 per annum. lie concluded by moving that au ad interim dividend of ls. per share, free of income-tax, being at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum on the paid up capital, be declared out of the profits for the half-year ending the 30th of June last. The lion. A. KINNAIRD, M.P., seconded the motion. Mr. WILMOT KNIGHT wished to know whether the advances made to Mr. Gladstone, late a director of the company, had been realised by the sale of the property upon which the advances had been ob tained ; if not, whether there were any special reasons why such a result was not reached, and whether any of the directors were under advance to the company at present. The CHAIRMAN said that the advances were not made to Mr. Gladstone while a member of the Board. There was a rule that no director or other officer of the company could obtain a loan from the company. The amount advanced to Mr. John Gladstone (£3,000) had been written off at the last meeting. The question had since been the subject of a suit in Chancery, and the company had got a verdict, so that anything which might come from that debt would be carried to profit and loss, and be dealt with in May next, The motion was then agreed to nem. con., and a vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the pro ceedings. MADRAS. The report of the directors alluded to the con tinued steady progress of the undertaking during the past half year. No further extension of the north-west line had taken place, but a section of about 32 miles of it in advance of the present ter minus at Moodanoor was so far completed that ma terial trains were running over it, and as soon as the bridge over the Chittravutty river was finished this additional section would be opened for traffic. The railway would then extend to within 30 miles of Gooty, and would be ready, it was hoped, to bring, down the cotton crop of that and the adjoining dis tricts in the beginning of the year. The mileage worked over in the half year on the company's lines was 645, against 611 in the corresponding half of the preceding year; the number of passengers was 1,019,164 against 930,845 ; and the goods 164,334 tons, against 132,052, railway materials excluded. The gross results for the half year were £241,010, against £213,673, and the net receipts £141,182, against £117,873 of the corresponding half of 1866. Those results, attained in the face of a continued and general depression of trade, must be gratifying and encouraging as regarded the future. While the receipts had increased on the half year 124 per cent. the expenses had only increased by 41- per cent. Of the general goods traffic of the railway salt held its place as the largest item ; the quantity carried in the half year was 24,697 tons, yielding a gross re ceipt of £20,191. The quantity of cotton carried to Madras was 9,422 tons, against 3,486 tons in the corresponding half of 1866. The permanent way and works were in the usual good condition ; no damage had been sustained from bursting of tanks or otherwise during the past 12 months ; and the train service hal been conducted with regularity, and, as heretofore, without accident to any passen ger. It had been determined, with the entire con currence of the Government, to construct a new passenger station at Madras on an eligible site, not far from the goods station adjoining the People's park, and the ground was now being cleared for the purpose. The removal of the station to this more accessible and central locality would enable the company to work both goods and passenger traffic more economically than was possible under the pre sent inconvenient arrangements. On the south west lino and Bangalore branch the maintenance of great part of this line was still enhanced in cost by the replacement of wooden sleepers as they decayed by iron sleepers, and by the greater expense of maintaining the wooden road in the western districts, though wooden sleepers were cheap and good there. It was found impossible to bring down the cost of maintaining a line with wooden sleepers to any thing like an equality with the iron sleeper line. The cost of maintaining the lines of this contract for the half year had been at the rate of £159 per mile per annum, and it did not seem probable that much further reduction could be attained at present. The number of passengers had been 812,215, being greater than in any previous six months, and the receipts were £64,347 ; the goods traffic, exclu sive of railway materials, had been 132,911 tons, and the traffic receipts £107,576. The total receipts on the line for the half-year ending the 30th of June amounted to £195,604, against £185,898 in the corresponding half of 1866, show ing an increase of £9,706. The total expenses amounted to £85,638, or 43.78 per cent , against £86,651, or 46.61 per cent., and the net receipts to £109,966, against ,1'96,244 in the same half of 1866. The receipts per train mile were Gs. llid., against Gs. 9 : 141. in the same half of 1866. The ex penses per train mile amounted to 3s. id., against 3s. lid. The net receipts showed au increase of £10,722. The receipts for carriage of railway mate rials had declined to F 67 per cent. of the entire re ceipts, so that the revenue wasbonatideearned from the public. On the North-West line, the permanent way open from Arconum Junction to Aloodanoor, 153 miles, continued smooth and cheap of mainte Dance. It had cost for the half-year at the rate of £66 18s. per mile pet annum. The prevalence there of drought, dearth, and sickness rendered it impos sible to retain or to bring together again for some time sufficient supplies of labour for the prosecution of the works. Copious falls of rain, however, having now happily restored a more natural and healthy state of things, the works all along the line were again in active progress. Beyond this point the works of several districts were considerably advanced. The quality of the masonry which had been passed by the company's engineers appeared to be unexcep tionable. The total traffic receipts for the half-year amounted to £45,406, and expenditure to £14,190, or 31.25 per cent., leaving the net receipts £31,216, against £18,629 in the same half of 1866. The re ceipts per train mile amounted to 7s. 104 d., against 6s. sfd. in the same half of 1866, and the expenses to 2s. 514.1., against 2s. 11d. in the corresponding half of 1866. The number of passengers carried was 206,949, against 156,941 in the corresponding half of 1866, and 31,423 tons of goods against 19,966 tons. The increase upon the entire traffic receipts of the line for the half-year was equal to 634 per cent, being £45,405 against £27,777 ; and the net receipts had risen to £31,215 against £18,629, showing an increase of £12,586, or 67 per cent., over those of the corresponding half of 1866. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Nov, 12. THAMES. SAVAGE ASSAULT ON A WOMAN.— William Stanton, a broad-shouldered Irishman, with a red face and partially bald head, aged 35 years, of No. 30, Sophia-street, Poplar, was brought before Mr. Paget charged with committing a murderous and unprovoked assault on Catherine Briant, of .No. 14, Dolphin-lane, Poplar. The complainant, who was in a weakly condition from loss of blood, said she worked iu a rope ground. Last night she was talking to two other young girls opposite the prisoner's house, and he crossed the street, came to the place where they were standing, and made use of a very indecent observation respecting them 'all. She said to him, " Go away, you nasty blackguard ; I don't think you know who you are talking to." He then procured a brick, and struck her a tremendous blow on the nose with it. She fell as if shot, and became senseless. When she recovered she was in the care of a medical gentleman. Ellen Sullivan and Sarah Lanbury, two decent girls, corroborated the statement of the complainant. Mr. Matthew Brownfield, surgeon of the East India-road, Poplar, said the complainant was seriously injured. This was a compound fracture of the nasal bone, and she would be disfigured for life. Mr. Paget—l perceive her nose is in a bad state. Is she permanently injured? 'Will the passage through the nose be stopped ? Mr. Brownfield--No, sir. She will recover the use of the nasal organs in two or three weeks, but the disfigurement will be permanent. The prisoner first set up a &Acne,: that his skull had been fractured by a fall, and that when he took a little drink he was mad and be did not know what he did. his next defence was that the girls were low strumpets, and followed him through the streets yelling and hooting. Sutherland, a police constable, 421 K, said that all the girls were well conducted and respectable, and not the sort of characters represented by the prisoner. . . _ The prisoner said he took up a piece of brick, and threw it among the girls, not intending to strike either. Mr. Paget—Suppose you bad struck this girl by accident you would if you had been a humane man, or a man of well regulated mind, have taken her to the hospital and expressed regret. You did neither. You struck this girl with the brick and have caused a disfigurement for life. I shall con vict you of an aggravated assault and sentence you to four months' imprisonment a n d b ar d labour. SAVAGE ASSAULT ON A WlFE.—Coleman Bun wen, an Irish labourer, aged 40, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with violently assaulting his wife Margaret, and also assaulting William Folo, porter at the workhouse of St. George-in -the-East. The prisoner had been in the practice of beating his wife and neglecting her. On many occasions when he had earned a little money he would spend it on himself, instead of sharing his loaf and meat with his wife. They had fallen into distress, and the Board of Guardians of St. George-in-the-East relieved them, and found the husband employment in the stoneyard. She was at home all yesterday and starving, and in the afternoon went to the workhouse in Old Gravel-lane to look after her hus band, and to share the ls. he had earned. lie caught sight of her in the lobby, and she asked him to buy her a bit of bread. The selfish brute said she should have nothing. Some words ensued, and he seized her by the hair of her head and beat her. In a scuffle both went down, and the prisoner kicked his wife in the sto:nach. Folo went to the assistance of the woman, and the prisoner struck him several times and tore his coat. Mr. Ralston and Mr. Allison, the relieving officers, collared the prisoner and gave him into custody. The pi isoner, iu a whining tone, libelled his wife and cried. Mr. Bolston said the prisoner's wife was a re spectable and industrious woman. Folo—Ycs, sir, she belongs to the well-conducted, hard-working class of such women. Mr. Paget sentenced the prisoner to three months' imprisonment and hard labour for the assault on his wife, and one month's imprisonment and hard labour for the assault on Foln, the sentences to be conse cutive. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, Nov. 12.—The market for ship ping yarns has assumed a rather quieter tone to day. There is more firmness among some of the leading spinners than others, on account of their being well engaged to order, but others have to concede id. to id. per lb. on the prices of last Fri day, in order to make sales. For home trade yarns also prices are rather easier. Many of our manu facturers having supplied tbemselves freely of late there is less disposition to operate. A rumour on 'Change, to the effect that the receipts at the Ame rican ports last week reached 60,000 b des, did not tend to improve values. In the quotations of sellers there is not so much change since Friday, as buyers find practically in dealing with them. In the cloth market the removal of immediate causes for appre hension as regards continental affairs had some effect at the close of last week in improving prices, but we did not perceive much business resulting, and since then the market has gradually been relapsing into much the same position it was in previously. We find buyers to-day exceedingly timid in making offers for cloth, and for the most part unwilling to put down fresh contracts. At the same time makers are in many cases too well engaged to be very will ing to make concessions in price. Makers quote prices nominally the same as last week, but we find but little business has been done at them to-day. Where there is any change in actual values it has been in favour of the buyer. The telegrams lately to hand from India have no doubt had the effect to some extent of deterring buyers for that market from operating. Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report of to-day's cloth market :—" The more pacific as pect of continental affairs, while tending to harden prices, failed to induce much business. To-day the inquiry is very limited, and though we cannot re cord any change in prices, there is a marked disin clination among buyers to venture on further operations." CARDIFF, 11th.—Steam coal proprietors continue tolerably busy, and the business doing shows a con siderable increase as compared with a few weeks ago. To the Mediterranean markets, which have for so long a period been smaller purchasers than usual, there is an addition to the quantity shipped, and the rumours of war on the Continent will probably further increase the demand. French houses are buy ing more freely, and France is still by far the best customer for Welsh steam coal. The exports for the mail packet companies that are to supply the Government at Aden and other stations with coals for the Abyssinian Expedition are large, and the impetus brought about by this demand has been the main cause of the partial improvement in the trade. The coasting inquiry for house qualities is about the average by rail and sea, and the railways com pete to a slight extent for the West of England traffic. The home consumption is increasing. At the ironworks employment keeps without change, and makers are afraid that the winter will be a hard one to pass through, owing to the difficulty of se curing fresh contracts. LEEDS, 12th.—The waolleu cloth markets have been almost of a nominal character this morning. The weather has been too foggy to allow of buyers to judge fairly of either the colour or the texture of the fabrics offered for sale. Hence much less than the usual amount of business has been done. The reports from both the large and small manufacturers show that though the trade is rather dull the r e is not so much depression as to create any alarm. Prices of wool, woollen yarns, and goods are alike steady. ItocIIDALE, 11th.—The manufacturers of flannel keep tolerably well employed, and, though for some time past the demand has been of a quiet order, stocks in the bands of makers aro not more than usual at this period of the year. To-day there was a little more doing than last week, but as a rule buyers bought only small parcels. The Yorkshire goods trade shows no improvement, but a late average amount of business was done. The local wool trade continues dull, but prices are firm, as are those of flannels and other goods. WESTMINSTER. ATTEMPTING TO RESCUE A PRISONER AND As- SAULTING THE MILITARY.—John Sullivan, a sweep, before convicted of assault, was charged with as saulting Corporal John Clark of the Scots Fusilier Guards, and attempting to rescue a prisoner from his custody. _ It appeared from the evidence of the corporal, which was confirmed by Thomas Waterman, super intendent of labour at St. Margaret's Workhouse, Westminster, who happened to be passing, that the Scots Fusilier patrol came out into Little George street, Westminster, in charge of Corporal Clark, and theme found a man who should have been in barracks. They took charge of him, and he became so violent that it was necessary to handcuff him. That being done the prisoner came up, and said the man should not go. Ile struck the corporal two or three times, and then attempted to get his bayonet out, and said he would run it into him. He further assaulted the corporal, who took his prisoner into barracks, and then returned with a constable and took the prisoner into custody. Prisoner said he had nothing to say, and admitted that lie had been in prison before for assault. Mr. Selfe said it was outrageous that a man in the discharge of a duty like the prosecutor should be set upon and assaulted by a mischievous fellow like the prisoner, who might have done further hurt had not assistance arrived. Ile must be taught a lesson by going to prison for three weeks with hard labour. ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. The first meeting for the session of the above society took place on Monday evening at Burling ton House. The chair was taken by Sir Rolerick Murchison, president of the society. The PRESIDENT, in opening the session of 1867, detailed the news which had been received up to the present date of the expedition in search of Dr. Livingstone. It had arrived, after a prosperous voyage, at the Kongoni entrance of the Zambesi in nine and a half days from the Cape, and after ob taining a negro crew had departed up stream on the 27th July. He still retained his doubts as to Dr. Livingstone's death, and hoped to have good news by March next, when Mr. Young's party would have returned. The next subject touched upon by the president was Abyssinia, upon the geography of which country, as ascertained in the early expedi tions of the Portuguese, a paper had been prepared by their secretary (Mr. C. Markham). He (the pre sident) would remind the meeting that 24 years ago he had given the society all the information he could collect on the subject, compiled from the researches of Dr. Beke. All the latest information confirmed the statements of the illustrious traveller Bruce. The Government had acceded to his proposal to send scientific men out with the Abyssinian expedition, and he was happy to add that Mr. Markham, their secretary, had been selected as one of the number. Mr. Blandford would also join the expedition from Bombay, and Lieut. St. John (one of their fellows) from London. From both gentlemen the most valu able and important scientific information might be expected. Maps of all the routes through Abyssinia had been obtained from the topographical depart ment, and a large and complete map of the whole country had been compiled from a careful sifting of all the previous documents. Until that map should be published the maps presented by Mr. K. John ston and Mr. Wild could be referred to, as also one which had been presented by Mr. Peterman, laying accurately down the features of the country in which the first operations of the expeditionary British force would take place. After a compliment to the work of Sir S. Baker, " The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia," the president proceeded to allude to the various papers which had been sent in on the sub ject of Central America, particularly the one which had been prepared by Mr. Collinson under the direction of Captain Bedford Pim, R.N., and which would throw much light on the physical geography of that region. Mr. Whymper promised an account of his recent expedition to Greenland, for which the British Association had voted that gentleman a sum of £lOO. In conclusion, he congra tulated the meeting on the list of candidates for ad mission, the largest since its formation, and which included the Pasha of Egypt, the Duke of Buc clench, and Sir Bartle Frere. Mr. MARTIN proceeded to read the paper which had been prepared by Mr. Markham, the principal portion of which was devoted to the Portuguese ex pedition, under Don Cristoval de (lama, in the 16th century. That expedition, consisting of only 450 musketeers and six pieces of cannon, unprovided with mules or camels, succeeded in crossing the desert and reaching the high table-land in seven days, after which they found plenty of water and provisions. The Portuguese defeated the Moorish invaders of Abyssinia, but were afterwards treated with much ingratitude by the pople they had saved. The various Portuguese expeditions to Abyssinia had been sent out under the impression that the country was the seat of the empire of Prester John. A warm vote of thanks was given to Mr. Markham for his paper. The president, when putting the question, noticed the presence of Count Lavradio, the Portuguese Minister, the descendant of the first Governor-General of India. Dr. Beke was then called on by the president to give his opinion as to the different routes through Abyssinia. (Cheers.) Dr. BEKE was understood to say that the expedi tion would land at a place called Zula, close to which, having followed the route which he suggested, it would find abundant water and provisions. Hav ing given some details of his own visits to Abyssinia, Dr. Beke came to the conclusion that there was nothing insurmountable in the difficulties of Abys sinian travelling. The towns were merely camps of huts built of mud and straw, and were run up wher ever the Emperor made a lengthened halt. Sir H. RAW LINSON said that the route which would be followed by the expedition from the sea coast to Magdala would be round by the heads of the rivers, thus avoiding the deep chasms and gullies which formed the chief obstacle to travelling in Abyssinia. This was the course which had been recommended by Dr. Beke, to whom they were much indebted for his explanations and sug gestions. With respect to climate, he believed that of Abyssinia to be one of the most healthy in the world, and he should not be much surprised if at some future day the highlands of Ethiopia were selected as a sanatorium for India. Zula, the place of landing, was so short a distance from Magdala, that the guns could be heard firing at the latter place from it; so that with respect either to Climate or the facilities of travelling he saw nothing to dread for the expedition. (Cheers.) The political diffi culties were quite another question. Dr. BEKE said that the beat proof of the healthi ness of Abyssinia was that the captives had retained their health throughout the whole of their captivity. He could not recall the case of a single European who had died of the climate in Abyssinia. (Cheers.) Lord HouGwroN concurred in the observations of Sir H. Rawlinsou as to the importance of the political aspects of the Abyssinian question. If her Majesty's Government should not be able to show that they had exhausted all milder means for the liberation of the captives before determining on this costly expedition they would have incurred a heavy responsibility. He should also like to know whether they had taken proper means to consult all the best authorities on the peculiarities of the country, and those who were capable of giving them the best advice. (The noble lord's observations did not meet the general assent of the meeting). The PRESIDENT begged to inform the noble lord that he himself and the Geographical Society had been consulted by her Majesty's Government, and the impression was that no expedition had ever been started, either from here or India, in which greater previous pains had been taken to obtain all the necessary information. (Cheers.) Mr. H. SEYMOUR reminded the noble lord that the captives themselves had stated that their only hope was in an expedition. (Hear, hear.) Sir R. Napier would have the co-operation of the King of Shoa, and also that of the Pasha of Egypt, so that if Theodorus retreated before him he would be completely hemmed in, and would find escape impossible. Under all the circumstances he (Mr. Seymour) had the best hopes of the expedition. After some further conversation the proceedings terminated. MINING INTELLIGENCE. (Extracts from the San Francisco Mining and Scienti Rc Press.) There is 1.30 Ar a great excitement on the Oro Fino Mountain, Idaho, caused by the discovery of a rich ledge, claimed by three different parties under as many different names. The ledge bears evidence of being immensely rich—from $5 to $2O to the pan being frequently obtained from dirt and decomposed quartz in the immediate vicinity of the ledge. We saw ore that was taken from the vein near the sur face where Fogus is sinking a shaft with fine gold visible to the naked eye all over it. The Minear mill is now engaged in crushing the ore from the Ida Elmore. REVEILE, REESE RIVER, NEVADA, Sept. 16th.— The Ophir mine in Manhattan district shows con siderable mineral, as far as explored, and several strata occur in thebody of the vein, which carry very fine ore. Towards the foothills, which jut into Smoky Valley, is a hudge ledge, called the M'Mur ray, which crops out boldly. The one procured from the surface, as well as from the deepest exca - vations, assays largely both in gold and silver. Besides these ledges there are several others which appear to be highly metalliferous. Some 4,200 ozs. of crude bullion were brought in from Cortez by Rassell's stage on Saturday evening, and delivered at the assay office of the Keystone mill for melting and assay. It was produced from ore obtained from the St. Louis mine. Some 3,000 ozs. of crude bullion arrived this morning on the, tage. It came from the mill of the Social and Steptoe Company at Egan Canon. By the Austin stage yesterday two bars of bullion were brought from the mill of the Belmont Company. Sept. 21st.—The Old Dominion mine in the dis trict of Hot Creek is producing ore of the finest quality. Perhaps the best samples of horn silver which hare yet been procured in any of the districts south-east of Austin are now produced by that mine. We were shown yesterday a massive piece of the beautiful ore, which one could indent easily with the finger nail. A person who saw the mine a few days ago says that great quantities of this pure chloride were being developed and extracted, and it was estimated that lots of it would yield in the mill from $l,OOO to pp() per ton. Of the ores sent to the Paris Exposition from Reese River, and assayed in the School of Mines in Paris, the greatest yield was from ore from the Timokc mine on Lauder Hill. The assay exceeded $6,000 per ton. ENTERPRISE, Sept. 18. —A boiler, weighing , 9,0001b5, passed through this city yesterday morn ing for the Empire State mill. Sept. 20th.—The Sierra Nevada Company are steadily drifting for their lead, having cleared the old tunnels of the mud which had accumulated in them during the time the mine was flooded. The mine is kept drained by working the pump one hour per day. Sept. 21 st.—Steele and Co. are still engaged in extracting ore fom the Sacramento mine, Cedar Hill. They have but a small force of men at work, but are making very good wages. Parties are now engaged in getting out ore in the old Chol- Jar croppings. We understand that they will take out one hundred tons as a test crushing. The total amount of *bullion shipped during the past week from Wells, Fargo, and Company's offices in this city and Gold Hill was 6,7391b5., valued at $143,519.67. The total number of ounces received for assay during the week at the various offices in this city and Gold Hill was 76,219. Sept. 22d.—A force of men have commenced work on the Coryell mine, situated just north of the Overman works. The shaft, which is 185 ft. in depth, has been thoroughly retimbered where tim bers were required, and a draft for the old Mary Ann chimney is now being rapidly pushed ahead. The Eclipse Mill at Gold Hill has resumed crushing ore from the mine of the company. A reserve of over 1,000 tons has accumulated. PLACER COUNT; CALIFORNIA.— The Lincoln correspondent of the San Francisco Bulletin writes, Sept. 23 :—" The Valley View quartz is regarded by all as very valuable. A mill of forty stamps has been paying dividends on it right along. It is now sold to an English company in London. Crosby and Manter have a mill adjoining the large one which works five stamps and two arastras. It is sur mised by those that know that the rock of the small mill is by odds the richest. Nickerson, Cadwalader, and Hubbard have nearly completed a third mill in the same locality, of twenty-four stamps." A correspondent of the Wall-street Journal, dat ing from Austin, Nevada, writes as follows :—" On Lander Hill the mines that are being developed are actually proving far better than was expected by their owners. The Great Eastern, Savage, Oregon (of the Manhattan Company), Magnolia, Florida, Chicago (of the Midas Company), Kailseed (of the Plymouth Company), and others, are among the best paying. Only a short time is necessary to make these mines of Lander Hill establish a credit for the entire of Central Nevada. All the mines at present under development in Nevada are proving a grand success, and in May, 1868, accurate calcula tions are being made that the railroad will safely land passengers within sixty miles of Austin City. The Gold Hill News gives the mode of working the ores of the Montezuma mine, in Arabia District, Humboldt county, Nevada, as follows : —The ore of this ledge consists of an oxide of lead and antimony, and much of it combines in the form of an antimo niate of lead. The ore contains from $5O to $3OO of silver per ton, and the entire vein of from 15 to 25 feet in thickness, is about 50 per cent., or one half metal. It is reduced by smelting. The reduction works at first erected, though incomplete, produced from 300 tons of ore $25,000 in fine bullion. The product of the smelting operation is an alloy of lead, antimony, and silver, the antimony varying from thirty to forty-five per cent. To separate these metals two distinct processes are required, and in furnaces peculiarly adapted to each operation. In the first, the antimony is volatilised and driven off, leaving an alloy of p ure l ea d an d s il ve r. This is called calcining. In the second the lead is oxidised, forming litharge, and run off, leaving the silver alone in the furnaces, in large cakes of from $3,000 to $5,000 each. This operation is called the cupel ling. The ore is readily smelted, the chief expenses being in refining. At present fifteen tons are re duced daily, producing about $1,500 in silver alone. The pure lead reduced from the litharge, after the loss incident to the operation, amounts to four toes daily. This is piled up to await the railroad which will run within a mile of the works before an other year. The lead will then pay nearly the en tire cost of producing the silver, leaving that a clear profit. The antimony, now wasted, may be made to add largely to the profits of the mine. The ore is smelted by charcoal, which costs fifty cents a bushel. It is from nut pine, and comes from forests of timber twenty-five miles distant from the smelting works. Great labour is required to procure the coal. The fuel for the calcining furnace is sage brush and greasewood of the country, two years' supplY of which, it is estimated, lies within a range of three miles of the works. Five first-class teams are used in procuring the fuel. The least part of the ex pense is the wood for the cupelling furnaces, only from a half to three-fourths of a cord a day being used to each furnace. The San Francisco Mining and Scientific Press announces a cheap edition, just issued, of the "New Mini l4 Laws of California and Nevada passed in 1865-6." Puce 25 cents. Copies will be sent by mail to those who aPPIY for them to Dewey and Co., patent agents, San Francisco. COUNTRY MARKETS. BRISTOL-TUESDAY. At the corn market to-day there was a slow demand for wheat at a decline of about is to 2s per qr. A small at" tendance. Barley 6d cheaper. Other articles quite 1 ° dear as last week. LEEDS—TUESDAY. Wo had a good attendance of the trade to-day, but i ll consequence of a dense fog little business in wheat to e& 'lace, at the prices of last Tuesday. Barley slow, and 111 favour of buyers. Oats and beans unaltered. LIVERPOOL—TUESDAY. We had a fair attendance to-day of both the town and country trade at our market, but very little business w as done ; wheat may be quo t e d at Fridays prices. Flour was neglected, at is per sack and is per barrel lower than th e rates of Tuesday last. Indian corn in moderate request , and Icing still very scarce brought full rates-498 Pe i r 4801 b for prime American mixed. B eans b roug ht au au; vance of about is per qr. Oats and oatmeal u eglecteu , and prices nominal. Barley at full prices. Peas decline d Gd to is per qr. MELTON MOWBEAY.—TCESDAY. White wheat, 75s to 80s ; red, GGs to 74s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 43s to 46s per qr ; feed, 34s to 38s 30 stone. Oats old, 33s to 365; new, 27s to 32s per 248 b Beaus, old, 42s to 48s; now, 42s to 47s per qr. SHEFFIELD—TUESDAY. There was a moderate show of wheat at to-day's ket, the fluor samples of which brought last week's price S, but the demand is inactive. Beans and peas quite as dean Malting barley is cheaper. 01 Red wheat, per load of 3 imp. bushels 0 58 Od to 289 d White do do ....U3s Od 318 Od New red do do kss Od 288 .... 1 New white do do 28s , d 318 ° ....28s 228 OA Beans do do ....los Od . Peas, per qr . lOs id 2 5 UL. Grinding,* ba.ley, per qr 42s Od 45s Od Malting barley, 4 o Oats, do 2ss Od 135 "- ___mar- F10ur....2s 7d to 2s ►ld per 141 b. MARKET lIARBOROUGH.—TUESDAY. l,; t. 6 3 Old white wheat, 72s to 80s ; new red, 65s to 73s p 3 e stone. Barley, fine, 48s ; other kinds, 38s to 43s per qi Oats, new, 25s to 30s ; old, 30s to 32s per qr. Beaus, ° 4Gs to 535; now, 42s to 47s per qr. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Nov' 1 , 9 ' Ditto, via Marseilles Nov. 13 Ditto, via Panama Nov. 23 • Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Dec. i• Ditto, by French packet .. Nov. 23 Cape Verde. by Brazil pauket Cape of Good dope. A.sJeasion. anti St. Lielei:la....Nov. ',,' China, Penang - , and Singapore, via Sou.hamptx.i..Nov. 1). Ditto, via Marseilles Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Nov. 13. India, via Southampton Nov. 19 ' Ditto, via Marseil es Malta, Egypt, Szo. Nov. 13. Ditto, Marseilles.. pct. 27. Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Southampton. Ditt ), vLa Mar6eides Nov. 1 : 1 • Newfoundla Lc Portugal DeJ. 4. Ditto, by r,‘ Lleship to Oporto ... Ditto 4 . 1 to Lisbon United State 3, ana California, &e., by British packet Ditto, by L i ited States packet Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto Nov York) Ditto ditty ( Baltimore) Ditto, by Canadian packet Nov 15 ' West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerilia Nov . • 17 ' West Indies and ;except Mexico and Baha mas) Cuba and Mexico 'S Bahamas, via New York No/. 11 Bermuda, via Halifax SUPPRESSION OF SCARLET FEVER.—LOIIOIOII 10 threatened with a n oth er au t umna l epidemic of scarlet fever. It is well, then, that the aid afforded bY Sanitary Act of 1866 should be known to the public, and "- put in force by the local authorities. Under former acts' such as the Nuisances Removal Act, sect. 13, the magis trates had power to order the cl eans i ng an d disinfection °f houses, and the emptying of infected houses of their inbid ) tants, and keeping themclosed till rendered fit for habi ts ' tion. Bnt the Sanitary Act, 1866, confers powers still mor d valuable. It provides for the disinfection of clothes an bedding, which are quite as efficacious as houses for 018 retention of infection. It authorises local authorities to pro f vide a place and apparatus for gratuitous disinfection 0f the clothes and bedding of the parishioners. It author ises the removal of sick persons from houses where thei 31.0 without proper accommodation ; it imposes penalties on per' sons who remove or expose infected clothes, and on Lo lls :: owners who let infected rooms to new tenants wi til°- tb• proper cleaning. Powers such as these, exercised energy, ought to suppress, or at l eas t t o c h e ck, the eP to demic which hangs over us. It wou ld b e interesting ; know the number of l oca l au th or iti es w h o h a ve Put t b l Sanatory:Aet into ope ra ti on d ur i ng t h e l as t year.--Acv fpciica Times and Gazette. during IAnVERTBEHENr.]—Du Barry's Delicious Health the Revalenta Arabica Food, which contains three time o th er nourishment of the best meat, saves fifty times its cost in, ° a gs, remedies, restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound 03 er of healthy liver, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, and el ' and to the most disordered or en f e ebled, removing speedilY t ioe, effectually indigestion (dyspepsia), habitual cons ii P 'L ous. diarrhoea, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, liatulencY, n,e,„roza ness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, catarrhs, colds, inii r uir noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, hnpurities,,' tions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, pitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cranops , nausea, and sickness, sinking fits, coughs, asthma, brofa"s incipient consumption, scrofula, tightness of the chest, p a t e o the pit of the stomach, between the shoulders, &C. c l i u „ Du few out of 68,000 cures :—The Pope's health restored J Barry's Food.—Cure No. 68,413. "Rome, July '2l, 1866. ;b5 0- health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since , to Boning all other remedies, he has confined himself entil.9',,, Du Barry's Revalenta Arabic°. Food, of which he cons 9 h ra ol eil plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisinglY,'" a cial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot Pra,', 9 ,; excellent food too highly."—From the "Gazette du frol o 25. Cure No. 49,832.—``0f fifty years' indescribable ag° n ,„ l loo dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, ilu • L' a cidit32sll,o, spasms, sickness at the stomach, and vomiting." M.af, - _-)lis 0 Wortham, Ling, near Diss, Norfolk.—Cure No. 47, 14 `'oeriOt Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, Waltham Cross' o irin h of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low e and nervous fancies. Important Caution.—Beware of t" v i t boa unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which , ' di ed. -- . authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attas In tins at Is. lid.; 1 lb., 2s 9d. 2 lbs., 4s. 6d.; i it,ro. il' 12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs 40s.—BARRY Du BARRY and C o : , „ a dilly' stegent-street, London; also Fortnam and Mason, 182, I' , e 2Svt and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside ; 63 , 150,s_`„,a Oxford-stree :330 Strand ; and all grocers and chefa Births. Dort" AITCHISON—On the 9th inst., at 4, Devonshire - pl ace, land-place, W., the wife of General Sir Job" Aitub° G.C.8., of a daughter. 4 1, 0 Wi fe HurToN—On the 11th hist tBl• Dulwich, e of Chas. W. C. llutton, Esq., of a daughter. the PENNANT—On the 12th inst., 77, Chester - sq u3r' Hon. Mrs. A. Douglas Penant, of a son. Marriages. BATERSTOCK—SOPER—On church, Stoke Damerel, Devon, Esq., Paymaster Royal Navy, to Eliza Louisa, P ) " daughter of the late Robert Soper, Esq. , rot- STANFORD—BLAKE —On the 9th inSt., at St. Pei °. 5 ' vat's tine-hill, Alfred Stanford, Esq., solicitor, of 1 314 ,, c1 „ '' ' ' to Emily, fourth daughter of the late J. Blake, x's'l • • Beath& g s shi re ' DAVIDSON—On the 27th ult., at Tulloch Castle, 1 0 Mrs. Davidson, 0 10th lo rra ce ' FLATOIU—On the inst ,at 49, Porchester-tc Hyde-park, Louis V. Plato . u, Esq. t °l3 , / ' HEEnis— On the 10th inst., at Halton Bank , eu ,ed 5 " . near Manchester, Thos. Ileelis, Esq., F.R.A.S., *-0110, RICE—On .he 9th inst., at 9, 'lova Villas, Cl i , f r n Brighton, Mr. Rice, late of Goswell-road, ag°d STRUTRERS—On the llth inst., a t Grove 1ri113,. 0 .0 4 4 . head's-grove, Chelsea, Win. S. 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