The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-07 00:00:00

INDIA.

The following is from the Bombay Gazette of the
13th January :
The South-Eastern Provinces of Pegu, Arracan,
Moulmein, Martaban, Amherst, and Tenasserim
have been united, and placed under the adminis-
tration of Colonel Phayre as lieutenant governor.
The supreme Government has authorised the im-
mediate issue of a first distribution of the Lucknow
prize money at the rate of 17 rupees each share.
Lieutenant-Colonel Norman, C. 8., has been ap-
pointed secretary to the Government of India in
the Military Department, in succession to Major-
General Sir R. Birch, K.C.8., who retires.

The future effective strength of the European
force for all India is fixed at 73,577 men. The
force will be distributed as follows :—Bengal,
44,916 men, at 1,100 rs. per mar, total, 4,94,07,600
rs. per annum; Madras, 15,161 men, at 1,100 rs.
per man, total, 1,66,77,100 rs. per annum; Bombay,
13,500 men, at 1,100 rs. per man, total, 1,48,50,000
rs. per annum ; which give a total charge for the
European army of 8,09,34,700 rs., which sum is
less by 84,16,100 rs. than the amount spent for this
purpose in the year 1860-61.
The native army now amounts to 111,112 men
and officers, divided into 156 regiments, distributed
as follows:—Supreme government, 13; Bengal, 60,
including all the Sikh and Punjab battalions;
Madras, 52 ; Bombay, 30 ; Pegu, one local regi-
ment of sappers. Since 1858-59 no less than 64,065
men have been struck off the strength of the native
army, by which the country has saved more than
a crore of rupees.

The Delhi prize money, consisting of jewels, gold
and silver plate, has arrived in Calcutta, and been
valued at one crore and 20 lakhs of rupees, of which
14 lakhs have been received in silver.

The Governor-General of India passed an ordi-
nance, under date the 27th December, prohibiting
the exportation of saltpetre except in British vessels
bound to the ports of London or Liverpool. On the
3d instant a modified ordinance was passed declaring
that " it shall be lawful to export saltpetre in
British vessels bound to any port of the United
Kingdom."
The following statement, showing the financial
position of the several guaranteed railway companies
quoad the government, has been published in the
Calcutta (azette at the request of the Bengal
Chamber of Commerce :

Amount authorised to be raised. Capital,
£30,454,040; debenture loans, £11,878,960—t0ta1,
£48,333,000.
Amount paid by the railway companies.—Capi-
tal, £28,443,585; debenture loans, £9,058,909;
total, £37,502,494.
Amount withdrawn by the railway companies.
—ln England, £14,316,655; in India, £22,942,800;
total, £37,259,455.

Balauces standing to the credit of the railway
companies, £1,545,601; amount advanced in excess,
£1,302,562.

The Bheels have broken out into insurrection in
great force at a place called Chudda, about 80miles
north•west of Malligaum.
A Vice-Admiralty Court is to be established at
Bushire for the suppression of slavery.
His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief of the
Indian Army met with an accident while pigstick-
ing at Jummoo with the Maharajah of Cashmere.
Sir Hugh Ruse got "first spear" at the pig, which
charged between his horse's legs, threw him, and
gave the Commander-in-Chief a heavy fall. He
was not severely hurt.
Sir Hope Grant, Commander-in-Chief of the
Madras Army, was sworn into office on the 26th
December.

The budget estimate of government customs duty
for the year 1862.63, has been calculated by the
authorities at about £2,800,000, or 20 lakhs below
the estimated amount of the last year, which Nitta
about 3 crones of rupees.
Two hundred and fifty officers of the Bengal
army, including the newly admitted captains, had
taken Sir Charles Wood's pensions, up to the 20th
December.

On the 15th December the retiring poll stood
thus :—Bengal—field officers, 98 ; captains, 18;
total, 116. Madras—field officers, 81. Bombay—
field officers, 31 ; total, 112; captains, Bombay and
Madras, 19 ; total, 247.
A revision of the establishment of peons or male
nursery maids attached to the various ( fficers under
the government of Bengal only, has led to an annual
saving of 34,250 re. Two inferences may be deduced
from this fact—first, that similar reductions are
feasible elsewhere ; and secondly, that savings, even
in apparently petty items, are not unimportant.
The New Council of the Governor-General is
expected to hold its first sitting on the 15th of this
month.

The New Council of Bombay is not yet constituted.
At present the membership includes s:x Europeans
and five natives. The governor has the power to
appoint two more non-official members, and it is
hoped he will exercise it in appointing a European
as one of them.

A Bombay Christian Literary Association has
been formed, and opened, with an inaugural ad-
dress by the Lord Bishop of the diocese. The
association is formed on a broad basis of Christian
union.

The prodnct of the last cotton crop is now pour-
ing into Bombay from the various cotton districts.
The health of the city and island of Bombay has
considerably declined. Cholera is prevailing ex-

tensively amo, gst the poorer classes of the native
community. The weather is cold and seasonable.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Times of India).
BOMBAY, JAN. 11, EVENING.
The money market has undergone but little change
during the fortnight. The Bank rates remain unchanged,
except for short-dated paper, which has been reduced to 6
per cent.
Government securities have fallen in value here, conse-
quent upon the lower quotations from London. Closing
quotations are as follows :—Fours, 85i ; Fives, 98 ;
Fives-
and -a-Half, 10
Exchange—Rates on London are again lower for this
mail. We quote Bank paper 2s 9-16 d; first-class local
credits, 2s Old to 2s 11-16 d ; documents, 2s 13-16.1 to
2s Old.

THE HARTLEY COLLIERY ACCIDENT

NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, FEB. 5.

The inquest on the bodies of the men and lads
killed in Hartley New Pit was resumed in the
chapel at Seaton Delavel this afternoon.
Mr. K. Blackwell again appeared for the Govern-
ment. There was a considerable number of viewers
present, but few pitmen.
John Short, engineer to the colliery, was recalled,
and was interrogated by Mr. Blackwell as to the
strength of the machinery of the pit. The weight
of the beam he stated was 42 tons, and the total

weight on the beam working both iu and out was
107 tons lOcwt 3qrs 121 b.
Mr. Horsley, engine builder, who fixed the engine
up at Hartley, and completed it in 1857, believed
that the accident to the beam had occurred through
a spear or spears breaking. If all things had been
going on right, and there had been no broken
spears, he was confident that the ordinary weight
carried by the beam would not have broken it.
During the time that the engine had been at
work there had only been one main spear broken.
It occurred in September, 1858. Two of the
wet spears broke in the high set pumps, and
damaged the key in the crosshead of the engine.
The engine at the time would not be going over
four and a half strokes per minute, and would be
loaded the same as at the time of the accident.
Mr. Humble, the resident viewer at the colliery,
was recalled and examined by Mr. Blackwell. He
stated that when he penetrated into the furnace
drift on the afternoon on which it was discovered
that the men were dead, he found two of the bodies
lying upon the furnace-bars, but the coals and cin-
ders were carefully raked off the bars. The men
who were lost in the yard seam had access to fresh
water within 40 yards of where they were found
dead—indeed, some of them were found lying
within three yards of where the water was flowing
down the shaft. The workings in the low main
seam were extensive ; the output of coals averaged
about 350 tons a day when the pit was working.
There was a staple from the low main seam to the
yard seam, with a ladder in it. There was also a
staple from the surface to the high main seam, about
3'i fathoms in depth. The distance from the high
main to the yard seam was 32 fathoms. He could
not answer what would have been the expense of
putting a staple from the high main seam to the
yard seam. It had never been considered by him.
At the time of the accident they were making every
effort to reach the Mill Pit, and had that been
accomplished there would have been two shafts
from the bottom of the mine. It was expected
that this would have been effected in from four
to six months if the accident had not taken place.
This was not suggested by the Inspector; it was
being carried out by Mr. Carr. No fault had
ever been found with the general management
of the colliery. There is only one dike of any
importance in the Mill Pit, and it had already
been cut through by Mr. Jobling. If the drift
had been completed before the accident, all the
men and boys would have been saved, as they
would have been got up there.
Mr. William Richard Cole, viewer at Bebside,
produced a hook which he took from the pocket of
Amour, the back overman, at the time that his body
was found near the furnace. It contained the fol-
lowing entry :—" Friday Afternoon, at half-past 1,
Edward Armstrong, Thomas Gledson, John Har-
ding, Thomas Bell, and others took extremely ill.
We also had a prayer meeting at a quarter to 2,
when Tibbs, Henry Sharp, J. Campbell, Henry
Gibson, William Palmer , . . . Tibbs ex-
horted to us again. H. Sharp also."
Mr. Coulson, master sinker, was again examined,
and, in answer to Mr Blackwell, said that the cost
of a staple from the high main to the yard seam
would have been about £3OO at the outside. It

would, however, have taken 15 weeks to complete it.
Of the great number of winnings he had made he
had sunk about 24 single-shafted pits out of the 84
he had 2ompleted. To a considerable extent it was
the practice in this part of the country to sink one
shaft at first, and subsequently to make another
shaft at a considerable distance from that first sunk,
the distance of the second shaft being regulated by
the dip of the coal, or to speak more generally, it is
regulated by the circumstances brought to light by
the exploration from the first shaft, without a know-
ledge of which a second shaft could not at all times
be put down. The Hartley Pit shaft cost £3,600
sinking. Now, he calculated that two Bft 6in pits
in the same situation would cost £4,500 to finish
them in a similar manner to the single shaft. An-
other 12ft 3in pit, including the same materials, but
sunk under more favourable circumstances, would
cost £2,600. The two Bft 6in shafts, instead of the
12ft 3in, would cost £3,100. But in the one case—
Hartley—they had 600 gallons of water in a minute;
at the other place comparatively none. In answer
to Mr. T. Foster, Mr. Coulson said that in sinking
through a place making a quantity of water the
tubbing would cost £4,800 more. To this might be
added additional engine power and additional
pumps and spears. He had based his calculations
upon a shaft to be sunk 100 fathoms deep.
Mr. T. E. Forster said the only damage he anti-
cipated in the Hartley colliery was from water ;
but up to the time of the accident he never had the
slightest hesitation to go to the colliery himself had
he been requested to do so. He thought a double
shaft was not absolutely necessary. Such an acci-
dent as this could not have been contemplated by
anybody ; but he was in favour of two shafts.
THE VERDICT.

" That John Gallagher, on the 22d January last,
was found killed in the workings of the New Hart-
ley Colliery, having died therein from inhalation of
gas, being shut up in the yard seam of the said col-
liery on the 1611. of the said month, when the shaft
was closed by the accidental breaking of the engine
beam, which, with other materials, fell into the
working shaft of the pit, and there being no exit
therefrom, all access to the deceased v< as cut off,
..rd he perished from the cause above mentioned.
The jury cannot close without expressing their
strong opinion of the imperative necessity of all
working collieries having at least a second shaft or
outlet, to afford the workmen the means of escape
should any obstruction take place, as occurred at
New Hartley Pit; and that, in future, beams of
colliery engines should be made of malleable, in-
stead of cast metal. They also take occasion to
notice with admiration the heroic courage of the
miners and others, who, at the risk of their own
lives, for so many nights and days devoted their
best skill and energies to rescue the unfortunate
men who were lost; and that everything that hu-
man ingenuity could accomplish was done towards
this humane object."
The inquiry terminated at four o'clock.

ANOTHER IkIURDFR NEAR BRIDG-

WA TER.

On Wednesday evening last another shccking
murder took place within two miles of Bridgwater,
the scene of the murder of Moses Anthony by
Matthew Doyle, which occurred so recently as the
previous Saturday night. From the particulars
which we have been enabled to gather it appears
thut the man who committed the deed is named
Wm. Chard. jun., a gentleman farmer, about 34
years of age, and the son of Mr. Wm. Chard, a
very wealthy and respectably connected agricul-
turist. The victim is Parnell Stowe, a servant in
the employ of the younger Chard, who lives at
Andersea, on the banks of the River Parrett, in the
parish of Weston Zoyland. Between six and seven
o'clock on Wednesday evening this girl's master
shot her with a double-barrelled gun in the left
side, just above the hip, and the probability is that
the charge entered the lat kidney, causing death.
Information was at. once forwarded to Sergt.
of the Somersetshire constabulary, who proceeded
to the spot, and took the deceased's master into
custody. The prisoner asked the sergeant,
" Can you prove it ? Wait until you see the result
of the coroner's inquest, and see whether it isn't
brought in as manslaughter." He afterwards said
it was a bad job, acid was an accident. The sergeant
took him to Weston Zovland, and yesterday he was
brought before the county magistrates, who re-
manded him. The prisoner was drunk at the time
of the occurrence, and when in that state on pre-
vious occasions he has frequontly been heard to
threaten to shoot people. The gun was hidden after
the murder by one of the prisoner's labourers, but
when asked for by the police it was produced,
and was found to have been recently discharged
with cross or middle-sized shot.

EXPORT OF SPECIE.— LivERPooL, Feb. 6,—The
Canadian screw steamer Bohemian, Captain Burgess,which
sailed hence this afternoon for Portland, took out £lO,OOO
in specie.
A NEW CUNARD STEAMER.—Yesterday the
China, a new screw steamer of 1,539 tons register, arrived
in the Mersey from Greenock, whE re she had been con-
structed. The dimensions of the China are—length, 323
feet; breadth, 40 feet 6 inches; depth, 27 feet 6 inches ;
and 550 ho so power. The China carries out the United
States mails to New York on the Ist of March,