The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-12 00:00:00

PIPE BOYS BURIED ALIVE.

A serious accident, whereby one boy has het his
life and another resolved dangerous injuries, took place in
Dukinfleld yesterday afternoon, James Lawton (nine years
et age), John Holmes (seven years), and three other boys
about the earns age, were playing at the Dnkinfield Park.
Near the Dukinleld Brewery, there ham existed a oollieryr
for many years worked in the side of the bill, under
the park, but it has been disused for three or four
yams. The park is a considerable height above.the
road, so that the coal crops out in some places in the perk
*diciest to the road. At the beak of the brewery the seem
is thin* or four inches in %ikons, and the eve boys were
digging out the coal when the earth pre way, and they were
all more or is caught by it as it fell. An alarm being
given, some men who are engaged at the brewery ran to the
spot with spades, The boy Holmes was rescued alive, though
he wee completely eovered with earth except hi feet. The
boy Lawton was quite dead ; he was found with his head
uncovered, but had been crushed to death with the weight
of the earth which had fallen upoa him. The three other
boys escaped without being in the least hurt, The boy
Holmes, though dangerously crushed, is expected to recover.

SAMBRE AND MEUSE RAILWAY.-(THL4 DAY.,

The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors wue
held at 1 o'clock, at the offices, 61, Itocegateatreet ;
G. SIMIAN) in the chair.
The report, which has been published in the Erpr(
hay* buss takes as read,
The Catalan moved its adoption. He observed that
no change had taken place during the lasi air moths. IL,
income had now become for a time a fixed
and the final result would depend on the receipt,
prior to the amalgamation. There would he
further expenditure of capital erupt for coo or two sn.
works in progress ; no renewal, or repairs would ever c• r,.
upon them, bat everything of that kind would be bort,'
by the new company. sad therefore virtually
capital account wee clued. He bed been in corranoodm
with some of the shareholders se to the price of the ehr•i
in the market. That was a matter over which the diri .
ton had no control ; but it wee certainly an anomaly it.
the West Flanden preference stock, which wu in precis. ;
the same portion as their own. bore a higher pre
With regard to the dividend after January, 1865, he n
reluctant to express say opinion, but he thought tb.
would be an increase. He should be disappointed it r,
of these days he did sot get 5 per mat., brit his expectat
was not based on anything he could lay before tin rn. et . Notwithstanding the amalgamation, the company w •
not cease to exist as inch up to the dosed the periul
the emerge° so fares its ebliptiom to the gocerim• • •
were concerned, sad kenos it would be necessary
tinne to hold meetings twice a year.
In reply to a question,
The Catalan said the directors would eadeavour •
make the dividends payable in future on the Ist of
and the let of September. A dividend of 4s. per AL.: ,
being at the rate of 2 per mat, per annum, would be pe.;
on the 7th of November next _ _

to a dieenssiOU which eayued with regard to the position
of the English companies in Belgium,
The Cumnreas made some staving remarks on the conduct
of the Belgian meat in iodating on unfair redurtiota
in the tariff. Eveerernwere, he old, 160 newrail *ay project,
this year, and be wag told the other day that half thecap3.l
was expected to be found to linglaod--an expectation winch
be trusted wee not likely to be realised.
The report having been adopted, the meeting was mall
special, and a resolution =for the re-transfer of LA
MO* of the company to
The retiring directors were thou re-elected, and the pr..
°endings terminated in the wad manner.

THE COLLIERS' BTIIIIE.-77:11THER OUTRAGE.

(From the Birmingham Porn el this day.)

Yesterday morning, at Springs Mire, Dudley,
a gross outrage was committed by some miscreant or
miscreants, in the house of John Haywood, :Meer.
It appears that a tin bottle, containing powder,
with a fen attached, wae throws at the sin.
dow of the said bowie, and it immediately exploded-
A billyoock bat was discovered outride the house, sod the
fragments of the bottle, and it is thought that the author
of the diabolical act must have been injured b the explo.
don. Fortunately the place where the bottle struck the
top of the window was so protected by shutters that it did
not penetrate to the house, arid thus, DO doubt, serious in.
jury was prevented. The man, Haywood, DU wife, nod
eight children were in bed at the time, bat they Lave not
sustained any itijury.
Yesterday morals& about 4 o'clock, a can of powder with
a fuse was thrown into the nail shop at Cherry Orchard, 01.1
Hill. occupied by the wife of Samuel Williams, a miner.
who DI at work. The can exploded, and the shop was tom.
pletelv blown down. On Saturday night a breakfast tan
containing powder was thrown into die offices connected
with Corogrames Ironworks, near Hales Owen, and by the
explosion which followed a somber of tea windows were
blown out. The colliers connected with the Corogreaves
works have been at work recently.
At Old Hill, near the same spot as that named in the
above, and within a few hours of the MOW time, another
can of powder was thrown into the house of Medd
Oreenteld, a miner, who has been at work at the reduced
wages. The man and hie wife were in bed at the time.
The can exploded, and the windows of the house
were blown mit, but no personal injury was sustained.
Nothing has at nt been beard of the perpetrators of
these foul deeds; but lameetor West, Staffordshire do.
'active, end the police an ma the alert, and it is hoped that
they will roomed in bringing the miscreants to justice.
We have been informed that Ili. Hunt, the manager of
the Contgreathe Worth, has received a threatening letter.
There have been several meetings of colliers in the as.
triet, but they have not aseembled in such number, ea for.
comfy, and their proceedings do not offer any new feature
of interest.

The man at several of the collesies hays gone in, and in•
tend to continue at work ; but there are still influences
being used to intimidate them on their way to and flow
work.

THE HEALTH OP LONDON.

It appears from the return iasued by authority
of the rogiatnr-general that in the week that ended on
Saturday the deaths of 1,263 persons. of whom 637 were
males, end 626 females, were registered is London. U the
deaths from epidemic cholera in the fortieth week of 18:4
ere excluded, it will be found that the average somber of
deaths in oorresposdiag weeks of tea years, 185443 was
1,085, and if this result be corrected for balsas of Meals.
tics, it becomes 1,193. The deaths registered least week are,
therefore, 70 in excess of the estimated number. Scar/stint
wee fatal to 80 possess ; is the previous week 93 deaths
were recorded from this cheeses, it prevails more especially
in Deptford. Seven deaths were caused by small pox, xi
by meads; 20 by diphtheria, and 56 by typhus.' 140 death'
from phtlusis were registered, sad 184 persons died from
other diseases of the respiratory orgasm. The wife of a car.
man, aged 63 yeses, died from pemphlgus. A photographer
committed melds by taking cyanid* of potassium.
lest week the births of 997 boys sod 899 girls, in all 1
ehildren, were registered in Lood6o. In the tee correspond.
fog weeks of the years 185463 the average number (cor-
rected) was 1798.

The birth' registered in Dublin dazing the week ending
October 8 wars 142, and the &sibs were 82, is a tion
of 254,828 (in 1861), spread over sa siva of 3,808 'tatua
sena

&Odeon Bummed and eight swoons died is Ueda
during the quarter which ended on Saturday, October 1.
In the corresponding quarters of the yaws 1860-63 the
numbers of the deaths registered were 12,916, 14,=.
15,133, and 17,106 respectively. Zymotie diseases were fatal
to 6,421 persons, being more than a third part of the total
number ; in the same period of 1863 the &wain clami6ed
under this bead numbered 6,296. Diarrhoea, se used at
this season, mused the greatest mortality is this clam, 2,040
persona dying from this disease ; ib• Nit sod month districts
suffered from it the most severely. Cholera was fatal to 1;i0
persona, the raajority being children. Small-pox caused
140 deatba, • number Think although large, eon-
tweets favourably with that in the correepood-
iag quarter of 1863, whoa 512 lives were lost by this
scourge of the human race. Measles on the ooatrary exhi-
bits a large increke, causing 855 deaths ; in the same period
of last year the number was ?.',21. The east districts show
the greatest mortality from this disease ; it was particularly
fatal at Poplar, Bow, Mileiwod Old-town West, and in Dome
parte of Bethnal-green. Searldisa was pertecularly fatal at
this season last year, causing 1,519 deaths ; is the quarter
' sow expired, it caused 806 deaths, of this number 74 occurred
in Westminster, and IN in the sab.district of Belgrave, St.
George Hanover-square. Typhus carried off 980 petunia,
and visited with much seventy the east and south districts
of the metropolas. Phthisie destroyed 1,933 lives. The
numbers of persons who died from this disease in
the correspoodin_g quarters of 1860.61 were eaper-
Seely 1,721, 1,765, 1,720, and 1,799. Other direresis
of the respiratory organs proved fatal in 1,699 oases. From
diseased the brain and nervous system 1,734 gnome dad
diseases of this charaot•r show • gradual sad steady in-
crease. Five hundred and twenty-seven peewee lost their
lives during the quarter from oxidants of various kinds,
264 of these were Wed by factures and °oatcakes, 49 by
burns or scalds, 13 died from the effects of poises', 84 were
drowsed, and 66 were suffocated. Sixty-three penal, com-
mitted sniaide. The moan temperature of the air during
the quarter was 59'4 dogs. Ia the thirteen weeks et-d-
-ing Ist Oct., the birth. of 12,865 boys, and kt,loo girls, in
all 24,955 children were registered is Loedoa. The births
registered in Dublin during the quarter were 1,930, and deaths were 1,285.

DECIMAL. Hirolatt.—An influential meeting rf
commercial moo was held ysiterday in Liverpool, at which
it was resoled to form a provisional omainittes with the
view of establishing a branch of the international moos-
tioo for obtaining a uniform decimal system of measure,
weights, and coinage.
Walt HILL (SICOOND DAY'S) FAIR, OC'T. 11.—Thic
mooing the sheep peas, which had hidden a large owe
of ground, were empty, sad it is estimated that more than
two-thirds of the sheep hurdled is have been sold. The
fair was resumed with the horse-show, and the large droves
of loose (mite which had been.depasturing in the vicinity of
the fair gelds were brought ta, and stay strings of well.
bred ridiag, light harness harem were es ale. Bushiest
opted very flat, and soles were slowly effected, and only
mama], of superior stamp were inquired after. Handsome
pram cart-hones for Loads. purposes and active ditto for
tow. carts cad machete work mad* moderate figures.
Seasoned home for farming porpoise were offered at
reduced prices. Horses of high class, for either saddle or
harems, broeght good figures. Irish colts commauded at-
toad° and sold • Welsh pony colts had but little isle.
A huge somber 'of horses were held over for sale. In the
semis' divisions of the hop fair peat esonisy prevails is
to the probable balk of hops entered for ishi, and it is sur-
mised that the number of pockets is less thin the average
of previous yews, as the new hop fairs held prior at Farn•
barn, which represents Sarney growths, and at Reading-
at which Berkshire and Sussex hope are sold, tend much to
diminish the usual quantity consigned to this annual inirt.
sad the expensive custom of bringing whole growth' in hulk
is Dot so much adhered to, and the selliug by sample core
generally adopted. There is a large display of farming im•
*masts and agrieultaml machinery. In the cheese her
the dairy produce ociseists chiefly of dorneneta, and very
few Cheddars are in the stalls. The horse fair remains
=sad the bISop and cheese mart will formally be dr
104DORIT.

LAW INTELLIGENCE,
gnu; DAY.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Wore Mr. Registrsr Winslow, acting ma Commissioaer.)

EE ILIMP.-THE MUTH OF MIL DONAL&

This was a sitting for examination and discharge. The
bankrupt. Richard Kemp, was deemibed as of Paynton-
street, Poplar, and Iroubridge-wharl,Barking-road, Bromley,
mast and blockmaker, and shipemith. The failure was at-
tributed to the falling off of trade, loom, and the death of
Mr. Duman Dunbar, the well•knows shipowner. The total
liabilities are 1,9274
Mr. Sargood appeared on behalf of the assignees ; Mr.
Bagley (instructed
ppbymteMd.r. Green, from the office of Mr. W.
It
su
&schema),
Mr. Sargood mid that the bankrupt had anticipated the
wishes of the assignees by filing a cash account. There was
so opposition to his passing his examination.
In answer to the registrar, it was stated no benefit would
result from an adjournment, and the examination was there.
fare passed and discharge granted.
RI AISORKW HURON DONTRILL.—A HARD CARR UPON Alf