The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-04 00:00:00

BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.

GRATE/SEND, Thursday Morning.
Arrived, May 3—Countess Leicester, Crescent, Margaret,
Temple, and Aliwal—all from Guernsey; City of Adelaide,
from Adelaide ; Cornhill, from Zante ; Crest of the Wave,
from Valparaiso ; Glendower and Mediator—both from
Melbourne ; Gibraltar, from Cadiz; Colonial Empire, from
Sydney ; Ida Zeigler, from Auckland ; Robert Selden, from
Calcutta; Octavius, from Dunkirk; Delhi, from Shanghai.
Sailed, May 4—Neva, steamer, for Dunkirk; Seine,
Steamer, for Boulogne.

DEAL, Thursday Morning.

Passed—Amathea, from Constantinople ; Flora, from
Algoa Bay ; Esperanza, from Havannah ; Wilhelm 111.,
schooner, from Oporto ; Victor, from Marseilles—all for
Eondon ; Penguin, from Alexandria, for Hull; Express,
from Marseilles, for Luna; Premier, from Bordeaux, for
Madras ; Stads Zierike, from Alexandria, for Sunderland;
Dorothie, from Cyrus, for Cronstadt ; Clarendon, from St.
Helena, for Hull; Magnific, from tho west from the north.
Passed in tow.—Agamemnon, from Bombay ; Mont-
morency, from Sydney ; Marquis of Argyle—from Adelaida
—all from London.

NEWSVENDERS' BENEVOLENT AND PROVIDENT
INSTITUTION.—We observe with much pleasure that the
President, Charles Dickens, Esq., will take the chair at the
dinner of the Newsvender's Benevolent and Provident In-
stitution, on Tuesday next, at the Freemasons' Tavern.
BOTAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—WO learn that
at the meeting of the council of the Royal Agricultural
Society yesterday, a resolution was passed by 21 votes to
17 in favour of Bury St. Edmunds as the place of meeting

in 1866. -1,44/211 I A
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:IDLS.
cirgthhCieehußt: rilgmehs.tpi:te. Clifford ; Mr. J. Pope.
A Deputation, consisting of Viscount Fielding ;
Lord Petre ; Lord Arundell of Wardour ; Lord
Henry Kerr; Hon. Charles Langdale ; the Right Hon
Hennessey, M.P. ; the O'bonoghue, M.P. ; Major Gay
; vJ..DAr..mßalnankien,
Manning
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M.P. 7SnisreCil'olm3la.Prill.
the O'Conor Don,
Sergeant Bellasis ; the Very Rev. F. Oakley ; Mr. D. J.
Bearden ; Mr. Richard Swift; the Rev. Father Kathaway ;
the Rev. F. Bagshawe ; Rev. J. L. Patterson ; Mr. T.
Wild Blundell ; Dr. O'Bryan ; Mr. T. H. Galton ; and Mr.
J. Burke; had an interview with the Right Hon. Sir
George Grey, at the Home-office yesterday, on the subject
of the grievances affecting Catholic prisoners in county and
borough prisons.
EXPLOSION OF FIRE DAMP.—LOSS OF EIGHT
Lryks.—A serious explosion of fire damp took place
at one of the collieries belonging to the Clay-cross Com,
parry yesterday morning, about half-past two o'clock, by
which eight persons, six men and two boys, have lost their
lives. There were about twenty men in the pit at tho time
of the explosion, which was first discovered by the engine-.
man, who perceived a large flame rise above the shaft,
cages accompaniedfrom itsby a
position loudexplosion,at the
top
ofthe which
shaft,ble
and,
nokdne, ecitio.uf s
In-
formation recoil of the pit-rope upon the head-gearing,
fthorema
getnioenrawlma•sacnoangNe-eryoefdtihmme
works,ediate immediately
rt.onMor,v.
who h
engineer, and the heads of departments,
mutilated. The other men who wereengaged
make an examination of tho mine. They
tie Proceededßb mineraloi nd netsos
of eight persons quite dead, andau d somethe3, o
foundf th e ma
nishockinglynexthite frroisme
workings were not injured,
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etholelipeirit along a driftway, which communicates with another