The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY :E YEN' NCI, MARCH 15, 1862.

expense of the lives and limbs of their passengers .
The sufferings entailed upon working men from the
nature of their employment are unfortunately too
common. The palsied frame of the toiler, whose
unhappy business it is to minister to the luxu-
ries of his fellows by applying the quicksilver
to mirrors, the rapid death of the lucifer
workers, mostly women and children, the evils
resulting from the stifling atmosphere necessary in
some of our factories, the dangerous inhalation of
the poisonous white lead by painters are among the
" grisly family" which threaten our working classes,
and if they do not deprive them of their lives,
rob those lives of their bloom, and doom them to
the pains and penalties of age before half their
race is run. Attention has recently been drawn
to the arsenic employed in various manufactures
which we trust, for the sake of humanity, will
henceforth.fall into disrepute. But among the trades
which cannot be dispensed with in a civilised life
there arc many which might be deprived of their
terrors by a little precaution, expense, and labour.
Those for which at present no remedy or mitigation
is known are surely well worthy the attention of
our scientific men. There is, however, one cause of
disaster very easily removed which has recently oc-
casioned frightful some accidents. We allude to the
risks attending machinery not properly protected.
The sad fate of Mrs. MOUNSEY, who lost her life
lately from becoming entangled in machinery, was
speedily followed by a similar misfortune, and we
see with regret that another case of the same kind
has very recently occurred near Mallon. A thresh-
ing machine was at work, and Miss BOULTON,
the daughter of the occupier of the farm, stood
near, looking on. The wind blew her dress too
near the tumbling shaft, which drew her in and
whirled her round and round. She received, as
might be anticipated, the most dreadful in-
juries, and now lies in great danger and
suffering, with two broken limbs, and otherwise
severely hurt. The most painful thought to the
owners of the machine must be that this lamentable
disaster might have been entirely avoided had pro-
per care been taken in covering the tumbling shaft.
The accident at Burgthorpe resulted from the same
cause. Surely after this second lesson the owners
of such machines will take a simple precaution
which may spare so mach sorrow and suffering. It
has been by no means uncommon to hear of injuries
arising from the careless use of such machines, but
it seems that nothing less than loss of life will suf-
ficiently arouse the attention. Allowing for the
greater risk of a lady's flowing dress and for the in-
experience of the sufferers, there are many cases in
which the workers themselves might get entangled.
surely every one who employs machinery should do
so at the least possible risk to his fellows. The other
day a valuable horse was greatly injured by an
alarm caused by a similar machine. Something is
of course to be said as to the heedlessness or rashness
of visitors and workers. No stranger should be
admitted to see machinery in motion without being
told where the danger, if any there is, lies ; and
undertaking to abide by the directions given by
those better informed. The same care should be
taken with those employed, and severe penalties
should await the neglect of due precautions.
Were such rules steadily enforced the inevitable
dangers of machinery would be guarded against.
while a little care and outlay on the part of the
owners would often save life and spare themselves
painful reflections.

TBE PRINCE OF WALES' TOUR IN TILE EAST.

ALEXANDRIA, MARCH 14.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales arrived
on the 13th inst. at Siout, on his way up the Nile.

WINDSOR, MARCH 14.—Her Majesty, attended
by the Countess Blucher, walked and drove in the Home
Park this morning. Her Royal Highness the Crown Prin-
cess of Prussia (Princess Royal), accompanied by his
Royal Highness Prince Alfred, went to London, and re-
turned in the afternoon. His Royal Highness Prince
Ar'thur, attended by Major Elphinstone, lt.E., arrived at
Windsor Castle from Osborne.

The Marquis of Hartington, M.P., has arrived
at Melton Mowbray from visiting the Countess of Sefton,
at Croxteth-park, Liverpool.

The Marquis and Marchioness Pisani di Stefano
have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from
Italy. . _

The Earl and Countess of Yarborough have left
Portman-square for their seat, Brocklesby-park, Lincoln-
shire.

The Earl of Wilton comes to town to-day from
Melton Mowbray.
The Earl of Coventry has left town for his seat
in Gloucestershire.

Lady Egerton of Tatton has issued cards for an
assembly on Monday, the 24th inst., at the family mansion
in St. James's-square. _ _

Lord and Lady Ashburton come to Bath House
on Monday next from the Grange, Hants, for the season.

The Hon. George and Mrs. Barrington have ar-
rived in Hertford•street from Beckett House, Berks.
The Itolie states that Baron Ricasoli left Turin
on the 9th for Switzerland.

Advices from Corfu state that the Duke and
Duchess of Saxe-Coburg have arrived in that island.

In consequence of the Seine, the next West
India steamer expected, having:left Southampton with the
outward mails on the 3d, instead of the 2d of February,
which happened to be on Sunday, and owing also to the
shortness of the past month, she will not become due at
Southampton with the homeward mails until six p.m. on
the 17th inst.

It is proposed to open the exhibition rooms of
the Royal Academy on certain evenings of the week dur-
ing a portion of the season.

A correspondent of the Manchester Guardian
states that Mr. Thackeray is about to resign the editorship
of the Cornhill Magazine.
Sir Roundell Palmer, it is said, has, for some
years, been collecting and arranging materials for a new
hymn-book, which he will shortly publish.
M. Mires' new trial is to come on at Douai on
the 31st of the month.

THE OPERA SEASON.—Her Majesty's Theatre
opens, under the management of Mr. Mapleson, on Satur
day, April 26, The Royal Italian Opera opens on the Bth
of April.
THE GREAT ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY IN THE
CITY.—Wo have already briefly mentioned a very exten-
sive robbery of jewellery at the shop of Messrs. Dodd,
Brothers, jewellers and silversmiths, No. 40, Cornhill. The
shop, we now learn, which has a double front, with the
sides and shutters covered with sheet iron, was closed and
secured at 9 o'clock on Tuesday night, one of the firm, with
his servants and assistants, sleeping in the upper part of
the premises, a large Newfoundland dog having the roam of
the bons:. The discovery of the robbery took place about
5 o'clock on Wednesday morning, when the constable on
duty in Cornhill noticed that the small panel of the shop
door had been cut out, and temporarily placed against the
aperture. On entering the shop it was found in the greatest,
state of disorder. The glass cases on the counter and inthe
shop windows had been opened and cleared of all the most
costly jewellery, watches, diamond pins, rings, brooches,
&c., roughly valued at between £3,000 and £4,000, Eater
nally there are no marks of violence to lead to a conclusion
that the shop was forcibly entered from the street. The re-
moval of the panel underneath the shop door appears to
have been done from the inside, while the aperture is
scarcely large enough to admit of a person squeezing him-
self through. Another extraordinary circumstance is men-
tioned. The padlock that fastens the shop-door on the
inside was wrenched off with its fastenings, from which it
is inferred that the thieves must have secreted themselves
in. the shop before the business was closed on Tuesday
evening.

RAILWAY AND PUBLIC COMPANIES IN PARMA-
mENT.—Yesterday, the committee of the House of Com-
mons, sitting to consider the competing schemes for a rail-
way to the camp at Colchester, passed the bill of the Ten-
dring Hundred Railway for that purpose, with which, it
may be mentioned, was associated the accommodation of an
extensive agricultural district, and ignoring the bill of the
Eastern Counties Railway Company, but giving them an
extension of time for the completion of their line to Ongar.
Clauses connected with the interests of the South Eastern
committee on the bill of the London, Chatham, and Dover
A
Railway
Railway. The
were submitted, and considered in the
he committees on the Andover and Great
Western group of railways, and on the Barnsley Coal Rail-
way Company's Extensions were engaged in taking im-
portant evidence throughout the day, until the Speaker
wus at prayers.