The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-12 00:00:00

ACCIDENT TO THE SCREW-PROP''

LER STEAMER PIRATE. • ..er,
The Pirate, a vessel of 285 tons and 60 horse Pn-the
f which left Liverpool on the 11th of April, under
command of Captain John lititchie, laden with ur
ble cargo, chiefly of British cotton goods, for xn;,,e
Syra, Constantinople, and Smyrna, after experieno;
fresh breezes from the south and east on the 12th and I jot,
was discovered on the 15 h at 0 30 A.M., when 11 00
41 53 N. and long. 9 33 W., to be on fire,' bps des
smoke which came up from the chain lockers, egi"fo.
a strong smell of burning wood. The engine sush'ain
mediately stopped, and water pumped into the ce"t-he
lockers, as well as poured upon the bearings 01 g
shaft, in copious quantities; but the crew, finding 11,d-1
A.M. that the smoke and beat had increased, made 811670;
set the engine at fulls peed, and steered a contseL.
Vigo, pumping water all the while into the chain
by means of the engine. At 9.15 A.M. reached V 4:4
and by continued pumping and pouring water (fresh n.."
salt) into the afterhold, extinguished the fire by- 11 tl
when they removed the hatches, got oat the cart°, ..-n(1
sent some on shore--mach of it burnt, scorchedr,7oo
wet. The fire is said to have originated by Oa ignr-b,
from fiction of the wooden casing of the abaft, vr,:li,
however, had always, for several voyages to the 't be
terranean, worked with perfect safety. On 'a surrey. o':b.
cargo, the segregation of the wet and damaged tom( ye
Sound was recommended, and the drying of thalvethld
repacking; but as this would have taken up some rao,ll*.he
time, and at a heavy cost—besides which, 54 P",,n,
goods which might be condemned as unfit to go 'et
could not be sold at Vigo, and, for the wanta Prla
means, the cargo, once opened out for segregation,o',' its
never have been repacked in a manner to admit of
being all taken in again—the master resolved to retyc,
the same after newly casing the shaft, and-prooenuk •
the ulterior ports of 61 e vessel's destination. '-11,°°,,,r a
fresh departure accordingly on the 18th, and, n'rche
rough passage, reached Malta on the evening eL.tied
27th; landed the Malta goods, which had not susialci on
any damage from fire, aad but little from water;oe ad.
the 28th, at 2 r.nt , left for Syra, with a strong .ll
wind and a heavy sea. The Malta goods are of en'
value, not exceeding in all, 2,8001.

AWFUL COLLIERY ACCIDENT
EIGHTY LIVES LOST. BRISTOL, MAT 11.—Intelligence reached this citY thiS
afternoon of a terrific coal-pit accident which occurred YT;
terday m the Aberdare Valley, Glamorganshire, Stri
`Vales, and by which no fewer than eighty lives have bee 1
sacrificed. This valley is completely studded Will' .cient
pits, and the colliery in which this dreadful accieb,
happened; is known as the Duffryn Pit, o'o2,r:flea
near Aberdare. It is the property of Mr.0
Powell, of the Gaer, one of the largest coal ovrnettl,ch
the United Kingdom. The cause was the same by vinee,
so many lives have been sacrificed in the Welsh colliers
namely, fire-damp. It seems that at the time the accidew'
occurred there were 160 men at work in the " pit, and ell;
thing proceeded in its accustomed order and regularity, who,
suddenly a tremendous explosion was heard' by it" st
surrounding the mouth of the pit, and the Into
consternation and alarm was at once excited. The drea
st
news spread throughout the neighbourhood with the utrn°rsi
celerity, and the works were speedily surrounded by save
hundred people, consisting of the immediate relatives lithe
friends of the miners who were at work at the time in
pit. Inquiries were at once instituted, and after .the lapse
.
of some time a communication was effected with the gulf
vivors, when it appeared that a tremendous explesinn
fire-damp bad taken place, but which fortunately did 11ot
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extend to the whole of the works in the mine, otherwise
all the 160 men in the pit must have lost their Hy"'
Although the sacrifice of life in this melancholy instance beg
been enormous, it was at first feared that 155 had perished.
as after a lengthened period only five men were extricated
from the, pit. After some time, however, more men were
drawn out, and it was finally ascertained that the death"
amounted in number to 80. Neither the amount of damage
done to the works nor the precise cause of the accident hill
as yet been ascertained, but the cause is attributed to care-
lessness on the part of some one or other of the men, tg
they were all prdperly supplied with. Davy lamps. tis
well-known that in these Welsh collieries the men are often
extremely foolhardy, long habit has rendered them perfect'',
regardless of risk, and they frequentlyopen their lamps either
for the sake of lighting their pipes or other purposes. TbL
is supposed to have been the case in this instance, and 01
course the flame, coming in contact with the stream of Pre'
damp, would instantaneously cause the explosion. The scene
in the neighbourhood may be more easily conceived than de-
scribed.

E-YCHEQUER BILLS.
half
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An announcement regarding the eight millions and a
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a Exchequer-bills which fall due in June is now daily es-
' pected from the Treasury. From ithe price of these bills
during the past month it will have been noticed that a‘r..e.:
abeepneurne3g,afradretdhiansgcoerrtaainp.ennlyVhiesthmear
tttbeartorfeddnocutibotn.
duction in the present interest of three-halfpence per day "'"
latter, they would pay 1/. 10s. sd. per annum, which iS
above the highest allowance that can now be obtained for
money at call, and there can be no question that they would still command a premium fully equal to what is usually con'
sidered desirable. The extraordinary doctrine of Sir Char!
Wood in February last, that the State should forbeal
making any reduction, and continue to pay mach 111.°_,r,e
than the market rate, lest at any time dure-3
the the
some unprecedented crisis should
wiAlltbeuitsocit
occur to render necessary a return to the prev ?'"'a
scale, drew forth at the moment a sufficient expres_s::a
of opinion to prevent the probability of its
again adopted. The country upon that occai
oa
lost 64,1001., to say nothing of the comparative disadvantage
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that was inflicted upon the public credit, and a repetiti°Fra oe
the proceeding will hardly be ventured. At the same
•ii
the timidity with which all such matters are touched
most likely prompt an intermediate course, and hence the
rate of a penny farthing per day, or 11. 18s. 01,4 d. per annu'fa
is perhaps that which may be anticipated. The wag l°
which this reduction will act upon the market may best
from the fact that, notwithstanding its assumed certain
and the possibility even of a still greater alteration, the Pr„
mium on June bills is at this moment 4,t. higher than ,1;
February, when it was announced that no change would
months
made, while those dated March, which have nine inontu.t
longer to ran, are 10s. higher than at that period. Even,:
a reduction to a penny were decided upon, it is not imP„--
bable that the premium would maintain itself at about ses."
and this would actually be ss. above the price current 10
1849, when the last lowering took place, and when the pros'
pects of a continued accumulation of capital were far less
marked than at present.

ST. PETER'S, SOUTHWARK, SUNDAY AND INFANT
SCHOOLS.—The calm of these schools upon the public gene"
rally, as well as the inhabitants of the locality, were on S day last most ably advocated at the district Church of
Peter's, Bankside—in the morning by the Rey. T. Jecks°t.
prebendary of St. Paul's ; in the evening by the Rev' Kemble, incumbent of St. Michael's, Stockwell. Each sermonterminated with eloquent and urgent appeals for the support
of the cause, and produced a very liberal contribution from
the congregation.
DEATH OF ME. MATTHEW GISnORNE.—It 13 our
melancholy duty to record this week the death of g
Matthew Gisborne , of Walton Hall, in this county, which
took place At St. Leonard's on the 118th April last. Mr.
Gisborne was born in the year 1794, and was fifth son of the
late Rev. Thomas Gisborne, of Yoxall Lodge.—Derby Re'
porter.

On the Bth inst., atMARRIED
Clontarf Church, Thomas S. King'
Esq , of Camberwell, Surrey, to Mary, eldest daughter of the
late J. Sullivan, Esq., of Castle Avenue, near Dublin.

DIED

On the 6th inst., at Claremont-house, Cheltenham, Thomas
R. Exham, Esq., ➢i.D., aged 32.
On the Bth inst., at Nottingham, aged 85, Mary, the
widow of the late F. Hardwick, Esq.
On the Bth inst , at King's Farm, near Richmond Surrey,
Mr. Robert Yeats, aged 67.

On the 7th inst., aged 54, Ann, wife of John Jesse, of the
South Sea-house, Londons;

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NETHERLANDS LAND ENCLOSURE
COMPANY.
SOCIETE. ANONYME.
• • With Hann; EMU Ato the amount subscribed, in ac3ordance with
the law of Holland.
Capital 6,00),00(11. (5‘ 0,0001.) in 50,090 shares of 1206. (10/.) each.
Deposit 24 florins (21.) per share. •
commussutEs.
Prince Joseph de Clumsy, Member of the Chamber Representa-
. . tives in Belgium.
James Ashwell, Esq., Managing Dire tor of the Great Laxembourg
Company, Brussels.
• Le Chevalier Drouet, Belgian Legation, London.
M. A. Brixhe, Engineer of Mines, Charleroi.
John Harvey AC ell, Esq., 6,•Vigo-street, Ecgent-street.
Thomas Cotterell, Esq., 50, Eaton-squa •e, Sheriff of London and
Middlesex.
A.uolphe Deschamps Member of the Chamber of Ile,,resentatives
in itßigium,• and late' Minister of Public Wo:l'o, and of Eoreign
Affairs.
John B. Illidge, Esq., Brixton-hill, Surrey.
M. Toe Laer, Amsterdam.
John Ma.terman, Jun., Esq., Nicholas-lan3, Lonion. -
Richard W. Pelly, Capt. R.N., Director of the Hudson's Bay. Com-
pany.
At. Ferdinand Spitaels, Senator, Brussels and Charleroi.
M. Van der Lek de Clercq, Member for Zealand of the First Cham-
ber of the States General, Holland.
M. J. Frausen Van de Putt, Member of the Provincial States in Zea-
land, and Banker, Goes, Zealand.
MANAGING DIRECTOR.
M. Jean Val Alste'r, Inspector-General of the Public Treasury at
Brussels.

BANKERS.
Messrs. Alstorpl ins ,and Van Hemert, Amsterdam.
Messrs. Faenrleer and Sons, the Hague.
Messrs. Tit ergb!en, Delloye, and Co., Brussels.
Messrs. Masterman, Peters, and Co., London.
Messrs. Dorm, A.ubry Gautier, and Co., Paris.
ENGINEER.
Sir John Rennie, F.R.S., London.
BROKERS. •
Messrs. Cannon and Pelly, 26, rOkeIIIIOIISO-yards
SECRETARY (FRO TEM.)
Mr. Nicholls, 46, Moorgat&street, London.
In the River Scheldt, between the towns of Bergen op Zoom -and
Antwerp, there exist on both sides of the river large tracts of land to
the extent of several miles. which at high water aro covered by the
sea, and at low water present a varying surface of ;several feet in
depth, of the richest alluvial soil, which is rapidly increasing by the
daily action of the tides.
To reclaim and dispose of this valuable land is the object of this
Company.
• .
' The necessary poBrers for this purpoSe have been grafited by a con-
'cession ftordthe King of the Netherlands for the term of 99 years,
commencing from August., 1851. ;The concession provides that in a
• alatine,betweept two given lines tiae Company May recover and enclose
land to the extent. of abotit 35;000 acres. -
•• The extretne importance of this undertaking attracted-the atten-
tion or the Emperor Napoleon, and a barrier nearly identical in situ-
ation .• • and purpose with that intended by the, present Company wag
planned by him, but the decline of the empire
,prevented the caeca-
' : tion of the project.
-'"•• • - The adequacy of the proposed works to the t olteMplated result"
kat been investiga ed by Sir John Rennie, the Engineer ef the Com-
pany, whose'report will be found annexed,
The matter has likewise been examined by Mr. A. Greve, the
engineer of the Wateratraat •in Holland, under the authority of 'he
•,
nri'k .-. Mini ter of the Interior ;by Mr. Joseph Locke and Mr. George
• Rennie, of Lonclea ; and Mons. Tnemnaen, o' Zealand, at the re-
quest of the . rom:*te:s of the Company: and reports have been
made by each of these gentlemen of a highly favou, a le cnara?,ter.
These reports may be teen-at the offices cf the Company.
Contracts have been entered in' o with responible English con-
tractors for he exe. utioa of the work, at such prices as will secure
the reclamation ef tae lard at about 201 per acre.
-The works will be commen: at, once, and it is confidently ex-
Pected that 4,000 acres will be ready for sale cr can't: Wan during
the preient year ; in 1853 a further extent of about 5,000 acres on
the Bergen op Zcorn side of t• e ri,er will be similarly enclose i ; at
later periods, successive portions of about 2,500 acres will b 3 an-
smelly enclosed, until the reclamation of the entire 35,000 acres sisal].
have been completed.
In no part of Holland.. are the alluvial deposits found to be of so
rich and so wettable a quality as in this:provtned of Zealand; and ikis
affirmed With certainty that such lands will bear crops for 20 years
in succession, without the application of manure.
- In the immediate neighbourhood of the intended reclamation, and
close to the small town of Bath, a considerable amount of land has
• been acquired by a similar process, and cannot now be purchased at
701. per acre. •
Alluvial land of precisely the same deScrietion as that conceded to
the Company, situated at Saeftingen, on the borders of the Western
Scheldt, was lately sold by auction in Zealand by order of the Dutch
Government, and realised about 501. per acre, subject to the addi-
tional charge of constructing the necessary banks or dykes (estimated
at 101. per acre), making the price in reality at least GO/. per acre;
Various proprietors of lands on the borders of the Western Scheldt,
whose lauds are worked by themselves, are now receiving a net
revenue of V: per acre.
The expenditure u) to the pe led, and inclusive of the first recla-
- Matto:, of 7,500 acres, will not exceed 150,000/.,- and it is exp?cted
that an amount of property will la, ther.sby - acquired sufficient to
indemnify the shareholders for the capital then advanced, and leave,
'is. a large balance for the prosecution ef the remaining works.
• , The subsequent reclamation of the remaining • 27,500 acres,' ex-
- - • tending over a period, of ten Or twelve years, will furnish the means
ef division of a large bonus from 'time to time among the share-
, hol
- • Out of the net profits of the Company a dividend at the rate of 5
Percent, per annum will be paid to the ,shareholders on the capital
• SaPeuded, and the residue will be' applied to, th redemption of the
capital,.andtb a division in the" shape of bonus in the folloiving
Manlier, 'viz.: 4-6 to the shareholders, 2-6 to the pro-
reoter'i and to the concessionaire, who has a eded his rights to the
Present Company. '
•In selling the lands provision has been made for the convenience
of shareholders who may desire to become purchasers, that their
.• shares may be taken in payrnencof the 'purchase motley at par, or
• at. the price of the day. ' ' •
Tho required caution money has been paid to the Dutch Govern-
ment.•
A Considerable portion of the capital has been subscribed for on
. • the continent.
' After the payment of the deposit, no further call will be made of
*larger amouat, than 10 per cent., or at shorter intervals than three
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Months. "
APPlications for the remaining shares may be addressed to the
, Offices of the Oortmany, 46, Margate-street, and to. Messrs. Cannon
• Intl rally, stockbrokers, 2G, Tokennouse-yard.
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REPORT OF SIR JOHN RENNIE, P.R.&
London, 14th April, 1852.
Gentlemene,At your request I have examined the district of
land, concede& by the Dutch Government to Mr. Dirk Dronkers, of
• Middleburg,' comprising an extent of about 35,000 acres now co-
vered at spring tides.
The feasibility of reclaiming this valnaVe district attract ed
ed to the nobe
-
tice of the Emperor Napoleon, and a company was propos
formed for that purpose. In 1846 Mr. Rennie saw it, and the idea
equally struck him, and he reported accordingly. Mr. Locke, also,
• - has made a repert to a similar effect, in fact the perfect practicabi-
lity of the measure cannot be doubted, and the only questions to be
considered are—
ht. The cost of reclamation. •
2d. The value of the land when reclaimed.
With regard to the first. The expense of reclaiming the landmay
• „ 'be divided into two parts, viz , the works of the canal and barrier,
And the additional sum required to gain the land.
\ . I consider the expense of toesiming the land,- including the canal
and barrier, will amount to about 201. per acre. And if the land be
• ".'f
sold as recovered, and the proceeds applied to further reclamation!,
probably only one-half of the proposed capital of 50^ 000/will ever
, .
be called up.
With regard to the second. It appears from the report of com-
petent authorities, that the land when recla med will be extremely
valuable, and may be cultivated so as produce a profit of up-
wards of 6/. per acre English per at.num ; in order, however, to
estimate its real value, it will be better to take the selling price of
the day. ; from this it appears that on the 16th March last, at a pub-
lic, sale at Uulst, in Zealand, by order of the Dutch Government.
some unreclaimed lands similar to those conceded to the Company
:were sold for 501. per acre, and if to this be added the cost of ern-
bankrnent the price would be eO/. per acre.
••
Assuming, therefore, the value of the lands of the Company, when
reclaimed, viz , 35,000 acres, at 601. per acre. the whole would be
' worth 2,100,000/. Now it appears that there are 7,500 acres fit for
immediate reclamation, which may be commenced and carried on
• simultaneously with the canal. 4,000 acres of thhquantity may be
gained this season at a cost of 150,0001., 'including the works of the
canal to that period. The 4,000 acres taken at 601. per acre would be
240,0001.; and if more land can be-reclaimed this season, which is not
improbable, the amount will be proportionably increased. Next sea-
son a similar amount of land may be obtained with a like result ; and
--' • At each succeeding year an additional quantity of laud would be
reclaimed until the whole quantity concede i has been completed.
• Supposing, however, the land not to be sold, but to be cultivated for
the benefit of the Company, then, taking the net profit of 6/. per acre
according to the Flemish valuation, there would be a revenue of
2i0,0001s per annum ; and, unlike many other enterprises, the return
• wotild commence when only one-third of the_ capital has been
• expended. Making every allowance, therefore, for contingencies, it
*PPears that there is just ground for expecting a profitable return on
the capital ' •

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I am, gentlemen, your humble servant,
JOHN
RENNIE
• To the Directors of tho Netherlands Land Enclosure Company.

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