The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1861-01-24 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL.

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 11.—The steamer Blen-
yille is below, with Havannah dates to the 7th
inst. Sugar was dull, at 71 to 8 reals. Stock,
29,000 boxes, against 20,500 boxes last year.
Cotton sales to-day, 10,000 bales. Middling at
11c to 121 c. Sales of the week, 78,000 bales.
Receipts of week, 76,500 bales, against 73,000
bales last year. Flour quiet. Mess Pork, $l7 25c
to $l7 30c. Coffee firm. Sales of week, 4,550
bales.

CHARLESTON, Jan. 11.—Sales of Cotton to-day,
185 bales, at 9c to

BALTIMORE, Jan. 11.—Flour firm, wheat steady,
coffee active, whiskey dull.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 11.—Flour firm, wheat
quiet, corn scarce, whiskey firm.

CINCINNATTI, Jan. Il.—Flour steady, with an
average business; whiskey dull; mess pork in
good demand.

NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—The Stock Exchange
manifested much strength again this forenoon.
In the face of the warlike despatches from the
South, in the morning papers, the State Stocks
and the Railway Mortgages exhibit much steadi-
ness of price and demand, and the speculative
Share list at the early board was firmer and
higher than even yesterday afternoon, and two
per cent. better than yesterday's early boari.. In
the afternoon there was a dull feeling over the
general dealings, without much disposition, how
ever, to press sales—Central, 774 ; Erie, 271
Illinois Central, 77. The market for money.
is shaping for lower rates of interest outside.
the Bank.

The dividend recommended by the Directors of
the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway is at the
rate of 6 per cent. per annum.

The following appeared in.our later editions of
yesterday :

FRANCE.

PARIS, Jan. 24.

General Vellisen was received yesterday by
the Emperor, to whom he remitted a letter from
the King of Prussia announcing the death of his
brother and his own accession to the throne.

A rather severe contest is expected in South
Wilts.
Four firms of London coal factors last year
disposed of 5,112 cargoes of coal.
The Bremen mail steamer New York having
got ashore in the Weser, her mails are to be for-
warded to Queenstown.
The Post says that for the present there is no
intention of assembling a conference at Paris on
the affairs of Syria.
Lord Palmerston will give a grand Parlia-
mentary dinner on Monday, February 4th, to
the Speaker and the leading supporters of the
Government in the House of Commons.
A South Carolinian, who writes to the Times
from Liverpool, says that the negroes give no
uneasiness in that State, and that they take
great interest in the war, and are anxious actually
to fight the Yankees themselves.
Yesterday a trial trip took place on the Thames,
of a very peculiarly constructed steamer, intended
for the conveyance of troops upon the lower
Indus. She is 377 feet long, and has accommo-
dation for 800 men and their officers, while the
draught of water was only 2 feet.
A conference of guardians of the poor in the
metropolis was held last night, at which a reso-
lution was passed in favour of the abolition of
the law of settlement and removal of extended
areas for rating, with a view to approximative
equalisation.

FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION-TWO MEN
KILLED.

On Tuesday evening, about seven o'clock, a terrific
boiler explosion happened at the Cockshut Colliery, near
Wolverhampton, belonging to Messrs. Aston and Shaw,
and two men were killed. This is the second fatal
boiler explosion which has occurred at the same colliery
within nine days. In the first explosion, which occurred
on Monday week, one man was killed. In that case it
was shown that the boiler was exceedingly old and
worn out; and the jury, finding they were unable to
moko the proprietors criminally responsible, censured
them for using such a boiler, and recommended that
government inspectors of boilers should be appointed.
In this last case, as in the previous one, the boiler was
used to work a pumping-engine. Its dimensions were
about 'lift. by 2Oft., with egg-shaped ends, and the
engine was a condensing one. The boiler had been
cleaned out during the day, under the direction of the
managing engineer, J. Elwell. It had either been again
set to work, or preparation was being made to set it to
work, when it exploded. Elwell was then in the hovel,
which was built ap against the boiler, and there was
with him John Legge, the engineman, who an hour
before had taken charge of the engine and boilers from
John Evans, the day engineman ; and Evans was just
leaving the hovel, where they had all been partaking of
the ale usually allowed by proprietors after boilers have
been cleaned. The force with which the boiler exploded
was very great ; it shook open the doors of some houses
situated a considerable distance away, and the noise
resembled that of a loud clap of thunder. The boiler,
which is supposed to have weighed about 5 tons, was
broken into two portions, one of which was aboutheal
tons. These pieces, after having been carried a 3
'
25 feet or 30 feet in the air, fell in opposite directions,
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seat- It
each about 200 yards from their original
is the custom at this colliery to cover the boilerscued
the
with brickwork, and this custom. .
inerrnins, and
devastation. The hovel was. laid
hlinlieg fearfully
Elwell and Legge, in addition
to being
subjected to
crushed in the ruins, were for some time
flowed upon
streams of hot water and steam,
which
, the side of the
them from the boiler which stood
it 1)
lied the engine
exploded one, and which with
suPsiv)as found, quite
with the necessary power.
, Elwellthe fireplace, and Legge
dead, standing up again.' f rth-e building. Legge
sitting down at the opposite end %ire
Hospital, but he
was taken to the South Staff? rds_m.ssion.
Evans was
died within an hour after his B,der 1
That lie escaped
severely scalded, but he will roots
;uprise. The stack
with his life is a matter of
gre:ine-house is a complete
has been destroyed, and the en,
boiler leads to the
wreck. An examination of thee
red hot or nearly so,
infer-
ence that the plates had becomand
a close observation
from a deficiency of water ,
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reveals a hidden danger, toinsw I M
prominent attention
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some time ago, namely, that for
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