The Express.
London, England, 1852-07-30 00:00:00

IRISH I'EAT COMPANY.

The first annual meeting of the above corporation
was held yesterday at the King's Head Tavern, Nedra-.
Mr. Mecoaenon, presided. The repot sued
stated that the experiment. made up to Mardi la-t
year, though they confirmed the statements of Mr. Reece as
to the amount aid character of the products obtained Iron
the peat, the value of which products was known in the
market, yet being made on a very limited wide in
the private laboratories of chemists, and not iii cord
vessels, leR it to be proved whether the AMC n suits
could be obtained from retorts of large dimension.—
whether the peat-tar could be Repented from the game,
and whether the gases would Income pure SO as not only to
save the consumption of extra fuel, but also to produee
charcoal. Charcoal was an article in great demand. and
though in the calculation of prulits in the pro-Teen, no
account had been taken of it, the directors but never Pet
sight of it as a valuable product. The experiments since
'weer at Newton Cromlin' in Antrim, and also at new, oeu
London, on a large scale, had been so succeestul that see, rid
gentlemen united to form a company with the new, in the
first instance, of employing only a 'Nation of the capital to
be raised in carrying out operations in this country and in
Ireland—Mr. Reece having patents for both kingdoms—
and to enlarge the works at a future period. The promo-en,
however, thought it prudent, in the first instance, to routine
their operations to Ireland, the government being averse to
granting a charter for England, and land and labour Deice
much cheaper in the sister country. The capital had been
fixed at 120,0001. with power to increase it to 308001.
At first the experiments were directed to testing
the applicability of the hot bluets to the furnace,
and the operation of the gases, and upon the caleulatra
made for that purpose the directors had announced in ttt
prospectus that the works taught be brought into operator.
by calls of U. a share. The site chosen for carrying nut
their operations was situated on the north of the bog of
Allan, four miles from the town of Athy and near tL
Carlow branch of the Great Southern and 'Western Its.
way (which had met the company in a most liberal spin,
and had constructed a siding to the works at their own el-
pense), and comprised 500 acres of bog, which had been ib
tamed on advantageous terms on a lease fur 100 years,
power being reserved to the company to terminate it on a
year's netlike. There had been some delay its bringing the
works into operation, and it was not until January last that
the fires in the retorts were fairly lit, but within the let
few months all the difficulties which had presented them-
selves in the manufacturing p•ocess (aud they were numer-
ous) had yielded to the scientific principles employed. 'the
directors had recently engaged Mr. Scanlan, the chemist,
of London, who had gone to Kilbury in June last
to superintend the works, and specimens of the
paraffine and the oils produced from the peat had been for-
warded by him. (These specimens were exhibited to the
meeting.) The paraffine, Mr. Scanlan reported, might he
produced in immense quantities, and, according to the
statements of experienced brokers, was available for the
manufacture of candles at Is. a pound,--at which rate la
offer had been made by a party to take all that was mute
factured for three yeah. The volatile oil, and the tiled
oil, would produce, it was calculated by the same brokers,
from 2s. to 2s. 6d. a gallon .—the light oil, being valuable
for varnishes and the heavy oils for lubricating machinery.
and the charcoal, which was the residium, and of which no
account had been taken in the original calculation, though
the directors had never lost sight of its value, would pro-
duce at least 40.. a ton, and 2,000 tuns might be sold an-
nually at 50s. a ton. So far as the works had been carried
out, the most successful results were reported ; but such as
enlargement as would make them profitable to
the shareholders would require a further call
of 21. a share—which the director. recommended.
The balance-sheet to the 30th of June, which was neat read,
stated the total expenditure, including preliminary ex-
penses, works, machinery, wages, and isecielentals, and s
balance in hand of 8831. Is. I Id., at 12,0081. 13.. 811. Tee
receipts, 12,0001. from calls and 8/. 13.. 80. from sale
of samples, ific., making a total of 12,0081. 13.. Bd. The
assets were stated at 7,7431. 17s. 11d,, including
arrears of calls; and the total liabilities of the company at
1,5031. Gs. 6d., besides whatever allowance might be made
to the directors.

The report having been adopted,
Other resolutions, authorising the call of 21. a shin.
allowing 7001. for the past services of the director*, end 2,
recting notices to be given of the forfeiture of sh.irisoa
which the calls remained unpaid were carried, and aft,
vote of thanks to the chairman the meeting eeparated.

FATAL COAL PIT EXPLOSION
THL'IroDAT.—An inquest less ripened en
Tuesday and continued by adjournment yesterday, at 04
Miners'Arms, Hi ham, near Barugh, in the West Bald*
of York, before Thos. Taylor, Esq., deputy coroner, on
view of the body of John Foulding, who was burnt PO OP
verely by an explosion of tire-damp in the Old Sillstesse
Main Pit at Ilighem Common as to result in has death.
which took place on Saturday last. From the evidence
adduced at the inquest, which wan Teri voluminon
it appears that deceased, along with William
worth and Benjamin l'restun, was engaged in trial-At
the main level in the pit. Preston had had
candle stuck all day in a slit between the two board'
gates. Deceased used a safety lamp. Sullenly an csl4°-
sion took place, and on Houldsworth turning round he ob
served a blase some to the end of the telel he se.. woes'ai
at. lie waited until the sulphur had gone out, sud new
ran to the back-board gate in the main road, where hi
found the deceased standing up. Deceased then isol,_w
Holdaworth, " I'm done, Bill : his cap or head •••O at
time on fire, and Houldswortb had to put out the gams
with his hands. Hastily catching him nit, and puttiug him
in a corf, liouldsworth was about to run Foulding to the
shaft bottom, when he heard Preston also calling
nut
tor
help. To release him from the coal round about him less
Houldsworth's next duty, and this being done, and Preston
deposited also in the corf, they were both taken to the pit
hill, and from thence conveyed home. Preston, it
thought, may recover, hut Foulding was so severely burnt
that Ise only survived until Saturday last, when death
released him from his sufferings. It is the oriuioa Of
practical men that sulphur must have accumulated between
the beard-gate face and Preston's candle, for it was Item
where the explosion took place. The open slit was stool
16 yards from the broad-gate face, and six yards from the
naked candle. There were no air-pipes or brattices. it
was only a hand-breadth between the top of the .ick when
raised up and the roof. One of the standing orden of the
bottom steward was that no men should work czcept with
lamps in the straightwork, and if he found any I.l*'"''
working without tops to their lamps, hr ordered them out
of the pit foe the day. The jury deliberated for neatly
two
hours, and then returned • verdict of " Accidentally Murat:
but they requested the coroner to reprimand the twit.ga
steward, which was accordingly done.
LONDON ittiVERnIONAKY ISTEREST Si" IEI
Yesterday the twelfth annual meeting of this eanipatl
place, at the offices, in New Bank-buildings, Deity. Alder-
man Sit I'eter Laurie took the chair. The i.eentary read •
report, which showed a steady im rovement in the business
of the past year. A dividend of trper Cent. per anouru wa`
• usual
proposed, and agreed to unanimously. Atter tht
vote of thanks to the chairman and directors, ill. aeeugg
adjourned.

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ITATI OF Tua PraLIC
The deaths in the spriou quarter were 100.813, and the
firtality was at the rate of 2127 per teat. per annum,
"hick slightly above the average of the mama, The
easels of d. aths was chiefly in the town districts, which
maintain their fatal pre-eminence over the country in
aletroying the lives of the population. The rate of mor-
tality in the 506 districts, comprising chiefly small towns
sad country parishes, was 2052 ; in the 117 town districts
2.436, so that out of the same population for every 4 deaths
k the districts where the air and water are comparatively
pare, there are nearly 3 deaths in London and our other
estrus, where all the psaltery sneagements are still left
so imperfect that no ingstmemeen sensibly affecting the rate
ef
mortallty has hitherto timanelbeted. In the three months
that have elapsed 48,347 deaths have been registered in the
tetra districts M the place of 40,000, who would have died
if the mortality had not exceeded 2 per cent.; a standard
of ealiihrity by no means high or unattainable. The season
hm bees unusually col.', but food has been abundant, and
five the notes of the registrars generally it may be Inferred
that the people are actively employed.
In London 13,173 deaths were registered in 13 weeks ;
2,8111 were ascribed to xymotie diseases, 443 to vialSlll4
pei-
Tatioe, told. or intemperance. 19 deaths were ceased by
polecat, •*, by laudanum, 3 by oxalic acid, 3by sematial oil
at almonds, and 2by pnimic acid, Two of the deeds were
.wised to overdoses of laudanum ; the °them wee, eases
ef suicide, and included 7 males, 4 females, Kyw welgialt
heat IN to 70 One death was referred to iftWe ail, am
to improper medicine, one to lead (a painter, egad 36), sad
3to poltomne by accident. It is gratifying to observe that
Is ease of death by arsenic has been registered he Leadea.
Of towline ranee 20 died, 39 et delirium tremens, of prim•
boa b, cold 5, burns and melds 60, Imagism slowegileg, sad
nadke awn 78, drowning 69, Matures emit Ileataiiime 121,
meatt, gunshot, and others 19, ether Vith••• i 6.
Small.pos, scarlatina, kospbag-invO, and typhus have
premiled to some 'steal, net i.ly la Imam, but In many
porn of the country, and wefts with families who are
ahem to visit strange distrists In search of health will ab-
be. taformatiou from the metes et the registrar, or by local
immirics, which nosy prevent their exposure to local *pi-
demos.

lie following is sae example, exams many, of the eth-
eney of 'acclivities:
'Totals Bischkratleigh. ♦ ow of virulent anall-poz
was intioduced, is March lest, into s thickly-populated part
dill town from lrlyesouth (where numbers have suffered,
OM its fatality has be*. great) by clothes brought hither,
and wars by s child about It years old, who took the inflow
Ma, bat passed well through the disease. No other caw
appeared, the juvenile population having been immediately
einnaated to the number of 400, or 'lowly a fifth of the
whale ~•

N.eh good has already been effected by the onforeesent
of Issitary regulations in the lachyles-boom of the country.
MO ',snorer of North Saint (I nays :—" Moro is de-
sew of aste-Afth in the deaths, so wpaparod with than of
tin nurrespondiag quarter of last jeer, which I sillnlisala
Mem sanitary arrangement* Wins& by tie pear, Is
orating° to, Isndl.,rds of the bows r Cbsesboloa• awl tae
Wert whitewash and dome then. .d ast Owlet
awe e certain number of perms le clasp Is the Wear-

Th i:,aistrars of St. Ann, NuttMaltase, sad of Cardiff,
k bath Wsles, hsve recorded dialat good effooM from
ihs se perv.isa of the low to itgram.
reblic attention has been barn sad la these periodical
wpm to the neglect and ill-uaags of child/ea is the large
boas of the country, and more particularly la Laaonshire.
Otter, the atonality of children wader ITS of age is
Osier as high ss it is in the healthiest oouagsa, aad much
lialmw than it is in London.

WINItwiR ELECTION.-800211 of the teed* sup-
porters of Mr. Samson Ricardo, the sseureeesfid cendidste
et Me late election, have resolved tiousszt a petition
=the return of Lord Charles W ,cm tbe ground
awry and treatins, both of whirl, slate, can be
lamed to have been resorted to meet extensively. The
residence before the committee of the Houma COMIIIOOI,
natio expected, will fornialt'som startling diadem.. .a
to the way in which the infleesee of the government,
Ihreuelt the medium of the royal homebeld, was brought
Is hear aeon the recent contem.
Tara GREAT ElttlitaloN CIatTITICATEL—Proots
Mae engraved certificates shoot to be Miami to the Ex-
Minns awl others engaged In the late Exhibition, have
Mesa printed. One of these will be varied, so es to apply to
a. of prise and &tuned medals, and those of whom
limmarshie mention was made in the juror's reports, oleos)
thens.elree, and will each bear a representation
the mvolel awarded. Another will be Weed to the re-
Islader of the exhibitors, the royal CCOMieIIiOWS, ineett-
Gm committee and stag, and all will bear the setegrepti
if • .It. li. Prime Albert.