The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-07 00:00:00

Course of the Exchange—Yesterday.

Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 174 11 la
Antwerp — 25 45 25 60
Brussels — 25 45 25 50
Hamburgh — 13 71 13 n
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine.. 1 (9/
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh — 35/ 351
Berlin '—
Madrid
Cadiz

Leghorn — 25 65 -
25 70
Milan — 25 65 25 70
Genoa — 25 65 25 70
Naples
Palermo — 25 671 25 721
Messina — 25 67t 25 721
Lisbon —52 a
Oporto — 521 52i
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz.. £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars . 0 5 6
Silver in Bars (Standard)
South American Doubloons 0 0 0

THE FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT PADDINGTON.—
Yesterday Dr. Lankester, coroner for Central Mid-
dlesex, opened an inquest at the Bank of England Tavern,
Cambridge-place, Paddington, on the body of Stephen
Langston, aged 27, John Stafford, aged 37, and Thomas
Down, aged 52, the three unfortunate men killed by the
falling of a stage at the depot of the .ltuabon Coal Com-
pany, near the terminus of the Great Western Railway, on
Wednesday last. The bodies of the deceased men having
been identified, the ',Coroner said it would be desirable to
view the spot where the accident happened, and he proposed
then to adjourn the inquest, as it would be necessary that
some competent persons should be employed to inspect and
give an opinion as to the stability of the building upon
which it appeared such immense ~weights had to be sus-
tained. He did not know that the fourth and injured man,
now lying in the hospital, could throw any light upon the
matter. He understood from the character of his injuries,
some weeks were likely to elapse before his recovery.
Should he have a relapse, he (the Coroner) would come
up and take his evidence. He wished to know if it
had been ascertained who was responsible for
the construction of the building which had fallen.
The inspector of police said he believed it had been erected
under the dir action of the manager of the Ruabon Coal
Company. The Court having been formally adjourned till
that day fortnight, the jury, accompanied by the coroner,
proceeded to the Coal Depot of the Great Western Railway
to view the fallen debris, and to judge for themselves, if
possible, the cause of the accident. It is stated that a
brother of one of the deceased men had repeatedly warned
him and others that the erection was dangerous.
LETTER OF JOHN MITCHELL.—When the Fede-
rals captured Mr. Sanders they found in his posses-
sion a letter from the well known John Mitchell, addressed
to the Dublin Nation. It tells how he made his way into
Virginia, crossing the Potomac, in company with two
Confederate officers, " close by four gunboats and under
the bows of a Yankee revenue cutter." Mr. Mitchella
says that north of the Potomac there is no law, a,!'
was in doubt all the time whether he wasirlA America,
or Poland, or Venetia. Richmond he finds very meagivinligttlae
changed, and that the Irish i
1
citizens are
hearty support to the Government.
learn,
about 40,000 he letter con-
cludes thus :—" There are, as
Irishmen in the Southern
army, but they are distri-
buted,all regiments and all
arms of the service, and
as they ought tobhe,etvherough
never been formed into an
Irish brigade. They do not pretend to fight this American
do they desecrate the name or.
quarrel las Irishmen' nor pros
titute the flag of Ireland at all. Ae for the Northern Irish,
who seem to have got themselves persuaded that the enfran-
' chisement of Ireland is somehow to result from the subjuga-
tion of the South, and that the repeal of one Union in Europe
depends on the enforcement of another Union in America, our
friends here do nwell understand the process of reasoning
which leads to that conclusion, nor do I. They call those
Northern Irish, as sell as all the other Northern forces,by
the one general name, Yankees, and indignantly protest that
the green bunting under which ' Irish' brigades have
chosen to march to the invasion and subjugation of the
South is not the banner of Ireland at all—merely one of the
Yankee insignia. In all this I agree with them entirely.
Nobody has the right to unfurl the colours of Ireland in a
War of invasion and plunder and coercion. These Irish at
the South have never pretended to mix up their native
country in the struggle ; they indulge in no Fontenoyism,
they flaunt no sunbursts, they display on their banners no
round towers, wolf dogs, or crownless harps, but go ahead
quite simply, under the stars and bars of their adopted
country, to defend their own homes and hearths from a host
of greedy invaders. If they should be ever overpowered
in
_n
defeated;
and defeated, Ireland, at least, will not be dishonoured
their persons. But they have no thought of being tei
and I will sum up my impression by declaring Inconvic-
doll that this Confederacy cau never be conquer° •