The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-17 00:00:00

SHIPPING—This Day.

LONDON, Dec. 17.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Westerly ; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but a little
cloudy.
PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 16.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Cathe.
rine, from Humburg for Gibraltar—Aurora, from Hamburg
for Bermuda.
HUMBER, Dec. 16.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Pomona,
from Quebec.
KINGROAD, Dec. 16.—Wind W.—Arrived—Chatham,
from Montreal for Gloucester—Trylia Maggiore, from

Suline.
QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 16.—Arrived—Elizs Jenkins, from
Mazatlan.
CLYDE, Dec. 16.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Glen. Islay
from New York.

DEAL, Thursda.
(By ItIAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVEBEND, Thursday Morning.
Arrived—Comet, from Granville.
Sailed, Dec. 17—Berlin, steamer, for Hamburg
steamer, for Ostend; Seine, steamer, for Boulogne
Adolphe, for Ch
—er
Scott, for Adelaide; Jobe
Passed—Corcyra, screw steamer, irnm yMi fl
or ng,
Malta. London, for
hored—British Tar, from Jamaica, Ancfor London.

BURIED ALIVE.—Last ALIVE.—Last Ttiursday evening a fatal
accident occurred at Burnhill colliery, about three
miles from Dudley. Connected with the works there is an
old shaft, which it was determined to reopen and deepen, so
as to reach a still unwrought Pleasure of ironstone. The
work was left to a sinker named Thomas Parkes and he em-
ployed as his assistant a man named Thomas Marrs. Itt this
district all the pits are built round with bricks, and the epee-
ration involves a good deal of danger unless the utmost care
and caution are observed. When several feet in depth have
lace
been built round, the proper mode of proceedingtiliserolopwest
a thick piece of wood, known as a curb, unclieit
g by means
course of bricks, which is drawn up
tight
r laid across
of chains connected with balks
uf
timber
and Marrs
the sides of the pit-mouth. When Parkes
and all other
commenced operations in the pit,
the
safety were pro-
appurtenances necessary to
however, they did not use the c
descended the pit and
vided for them. From a deseireeentorhesaatinave
noon, the manager of the colliery descended
did not, however, pay
warned them of their
remonstrance,dauger! but continued to go on
.t h eon: ev,
The
rtardoauyb l
ae ,t
any attention to his
iThursday evening about nine
as they had been doing. d
been
thisYn
five feet of space Marrs was about to commence
was ready for building P.
duthat all the new brickwork and a
againadd e d
hadt o the
bee
n old. o
1 eaa
rn
edd, about
and
He gave an alarm to
feet of new brickwork had
pOrtion of
but the sides of gave way, and
rubbish. Marrs managed to
his companion, .
ed in the
burl
Ire the signal to the banksman to
the latter was
work when he observed
ladder, and ma .
run up
rope.
let down the enginet
ts in bricks and rubbish. As soon as the
giving
way
pit
up t° the an"'
he fastened it under his arms, and was
e down At this time he was standing
badly bruised about the
r°l"
came
surface. He was
the old was
some parts of the body, but fortunately
face and
head and
broken. Deans
Da were of course at once
no bones
were
er the body of Parkes. This work was
adopted to
re
ao little difficulty and danger, as the old
accompanied
continuedwith
to fall in large masses at intervals.
brickwork
; h re elapsed from the time of the accident till
Twenty-6.x —ou
fthe body. It was shockingly mangled.
hoisted to theo
the recovery
His age was 42, and he was a widower, without
f
The only person blameable for the accident is the deceased
himself.amily.
YNE.—On Tuesday the
Newcastle-on-Tyne and at Shields
firinirgHoEf TthreMtiEme GUNSgun s ONa
t is
TT
eHwEe
ais'
harbour was resumed. At 1 o'clock in the afternoon these
guns were fired by a current direct from the Royal Observa-
tory, Greenwich, through the wires of the Electric and
International Telegraph Company.
Au Abel's fuze was
used to ignite the powder,
STOPPING A PRIZE FIGHT.--Yesterday morning
Police-sergeant Seymour and a detachment of the It divi-
sion,
metropolitan police, as also a strong body of the Kell'
county constabulary, proceeded to the Erith Marshes for
the purpose of preventing a prize fight which ha", be
announced to take place between Goss and Baker*,
was
On
arriving at the spot the
police found that the
ee
loutnb the
ring
formed and the fight was about to
w suss,
the shore
combatants and their friends quickly rushed
and _edY
and entered a number of email boats jin
the fight
goff,
they crossed over into Essex, where, it is stated, in which
w,As renewed.