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. 13., has been ap-
pointed secretary to the Goverument 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,
44,91'6 men, at 1,100 rs. per mar, total, 4,91,07,600
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
hound 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,
£36,454,040 ; 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.

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

The Bheels have broken out into insurrection in
great force at a place called Chudda, about 80miles
north-west of Alalligaum.
A Vice-Admiralty Court is to be established at
Bushire fur the suppression of slavery.
His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief of the
Indian Army met with an accident while pigstick-
ing at Jummno 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 Commarder-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 Nuts
about 3 crores 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 31,250r5. Two inferences may be deduced
from this fact—first, that aimilar reductions are
feasible (lsewhere ; 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 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 district 9.
The health of the city and island of Bombay has
considerably declined. Cholera is prevailing ex-

tensively amongst the poorer classes of the native
community. The weather is cold and seasonable.

COMMERCIAL INTELT.IGENCE.
(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, 85:1. ; Fives, 98 ; Fives-
and -a-Half, 104 i,
Exchang--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 13-161 to
2s Oid.

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. N. 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

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weight on the beam working both in 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
was recalled and examined by 'qr. 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
deed—indeed, so.ae 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
31 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 hire.
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 bad 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 book 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 completed. 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 mme 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 Gin 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 bin 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 bad 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.
Tllft 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 16tL 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 was cut off,
.nd 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 AI URD PR NEAR BRIDG-

WATER.

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 left kidney, causing death.
Information was at once forwarded to Sergt. Pavey,
of the S.omersetshire 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, and was an accident. The sergeant
took him to Weston Zoyland, 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 frequently 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, where 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 se power. The China carries out the United
States mails to New York on the lot of March,

POLICE iNLALLIGENcE.—( This hay.)

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

HOUSEBREAKING.— W tn. Un win, 27, Rathbone-
place, was charged before Mr. Yardley on suspi-
cion of breaking and entering the house 11, Percy-
street, Tottenham-court-road, and stealing £4 in
silver, 40.5. in postage stamps, the property of Mr.
Fredtrick Win. Rowney.
Mr. E. Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, pro-
secuted.

Michael Prady, time-keeper to Mr. Rowney,
artists' colourman, said on Wednesdiy night last
he left the premises at half-past seven, and he was
the last person there, and everything was then
safely fastened, including the trap door on the roof
of 11, Percy-street. Yesterday morning, about
half-past 8, he found the drawers in the counting.
house all pulled out of the tables, and a desk open,
and some of the cupboards had the locks broken off,
having been locked overnight. He then found at
No. 10 the trap door open, and he saw the door
broken ()flits hinges, evidently done with a "jemmy"
or crowbar.

Mrs. Landford, 27, Rathbone-place, said the
prisoner came to the house last Monday to look at
the bedroom at the top of tile house. He said he
was about a situation, and if he got it the room
would suit him very well. He then left, but came
back and took the room shortly after. He was let
in on Wednesday night by her husband. He could
see the next house from the parapet.
In answer to Mr Yardley, the witness said there
were 13 houses between hers and Mr. Rowney's.
The husband of the last witness said on Wednes-
day night prisoner wished him good night, and he
left him in the loom. He had other lodgers, and
each had a room.

Lambert, 68 E, proved finding three desks in the
counting-house forced open, also two cupboards at
the house No. 11. He found the trap door and the

loft door wrenched off. He also found footmarks
on the leads leading to Rathbone-place, and also
knee-marks. It was very easy to get from Percy-
street to Ra.thbone-place over the roofs. There
were also knee marks corresponding with the pat-
tern of the prisoner's trowsers. At the station he
told the prisoner the charge, and he said he knew
nothing about it. He also said he was not in a
situation, and had not been after one, and on ask-
ing why he had toid his landlady that he had, he
denied doing so. Prisoner's sister refused to give
any account of him.
In answer to Mr. Yardley the officer said the
marks appeared fresh ones.
Mr. James Aylmer Kelly, clerk to Mr. Rowney,
proved that when he left the premises £1 Os. 7d.
was in a till in the desk, and he missed it. About
130 persons were employed on the premises.
Mr. Yardley said there was sufficient evidence for
a remand, and the prisoner was remanded for a
week.

LAW IA 7'ELLlt7' _ENC.E.—(This Day.)

ROLLS COURT.

(Before the Master of the Rolls, Sir John Romilly.)

MOTION FOR JUDGMENT.-IN RE BAYLIS.

This was an application to discharge an order to
tax a solicitor's bill of costs.

His Honour, the Master of the Rolls, said that if
Mr. Falconer would pay three guineas to Mr.
Baylis he would discharge the order. Mr. Baylis
to deliver up to Mr. Falconer all books and papers
in his possession within one week, which was
assented to. No costs of motion on either side.

COURT OF DIVORCE.
THWAITES V. THWAITES.

This was a suit instituted by the wife for judicial
separation on the ground of cruelty; the respon-
dent pleaded denial and provocation.
Dr. Twiss and Dr. Wamby were for the peti-
tioner; and Mr. Karslake and Dr. Spinks for the
respondent. •
Mrs. Minerva Thwaites, the petitioner, said she
was married to the respondent in 1849. They re-
sided in Bristol, where her husband carried on
the business of a dentist. In the latter part
of 1851 Mr. Thwaites complained of our
eldest boy coming into the bed-room; and in order
to prevent it she got up no less than nine times.
Her husband complained of such a disturbance,
although it was at his desire she tried to prevent
the child coming into the room. Ste was called
a selfish woman, and was afterwards kicked by
Mr. Thwaites. He got up shortly after, and feeling
faint from the effects of the blow, she called her
husband, and he gave her a glass of brandy and
water. In the summer of 1854, when her infant
son William was at her breast, she was struck by
her husband. In July, 1856, her husband showed
her some gold he said he had been saving for the
education of his boy, and quarrelled with her because
she answered al l his questions in the affirmative. Her
husband was in the habit of firing pistols in his
woik-room and used to get intoxicated. He used
to wake the children and pinch her while she was
in bed without her saying a word to him. At
diff rent times he prevailed on her to allow him
to extract 16 of her teeth, and while her gums were
in an excoriated state he refused to allow her pro-
per fled. The separation took place in 1861. There
were four children.

In cross-examination, the petitioner stated she
considered the cruelty commenced after the birth of
her second child. While she was in a very precari-
ous state her husband had kicked her in bed. After
this they slept in different apartments. She was
not in the habit of accusing her husband of being
drunk. She was on as good terms with her hus-
band as forbearance would allow. She used to com-
plain of the food that was given her after her teeth
had been taken out, but she was always told
her food was cut off the joint provided for the
family. It was always the hard portions of the joint
she had brought her. While she had the children
under her care no complaints were ever made of the
filthy state of the child. The little girl ce:tainly
was never in such a filthy state as to have contracted
a disease. She never threatened to show the child
to the neighbours, and accused her husband of
ill using it. The child was never sent away
from home in consequence of the neglect of
cleanliness. She left home in 1860. While
she occupied a separate room she used it for
all purposes. The servants used to complain, but
they did so without cause, as she obviated every
cause of inconvenience or unpleasantness. Willie
she was at Welsh's all communication between her
and her husband was carried on by means of mes-
sages brought by the servants. She never abused
her servants. Her servants had said her con-
duct was not that of a mother. When she
confined herself to her room in 1860, she
for some time endeavoured to direct the household
affairs, but she was so insulted that any attempt to
keep up her position was entirely useless. She
never insulted the servant, Hannah Dade, in her
husband's presence. Hannah Dade had accused her
of being a kept mistress, and she had replied that
she (Dade) was Mr. Thwaites' kept mistress. The
witness was then minutely cross-examined on seve-
ral points, hut she denied ever having given her
husband cause for his ill-treatment.

The case is expected to last the whole day.

TBIS DAI'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, Feb. 7.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Easterly ; moderate breeze, and very fine seasonable
weather.

(BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning,
Arrived—Gem, from St. Ives; Ann, from Plymouth;
Alice Richardson, from Sunderland.

GRAVESEND, Friday Morning.
Arrived, Feb. 6—Clarissa, from Terceira.
Arrived, Feb. 7—Providence, from La Uncon ; Puzzell,
from St. Michael's; Perseverance, from Medirublik ; Han-
nah Eleanor, from Stettin; Speedwell, from Mauritius.
Passed, Feb. 6—John Temperly,DE AL. Friday
LodnadyoMn,ofronrißngo.ra-
bay ; Hollingside, from London, for Sydney; Behrend,
from Memel, for Dublin ; Lily, from London, for Shanghai;
Vicar of Bray, from London, for Adelaide.

LORD VANE TEMPEST.—There was a brisk fight
in General Banks's command the other day. One of our
officers, a Capt. Young, who had been dismissed from the
service for improper conduct, saw fi,, for what reason
know not, to make an assault on Capt. Stewart, Assistant -
Adjutant-Gene al, a gentleman better known in England
as Lord Vane Tempest. Capt. Stewart took the matter
with coolness, and inflicted fearful "punishment" upon
his assailant, with weapons of nature's own providing,
Polishing him off most artistically. The coming up of the
provost guard put a stop to the little affair, and well for
poor Young too, who found that he had met with an old
hand. The American verdict is, that Captain Stewart
served Captain Young right; for it the later had anY
gr.,und of complaint against a gentleman who has hand-
somely volunteered into ourarmy, and whom we have found
a valuable friend, he should havo had resort to the mode
that is customary with gentlemen, and which is more
proper in military circles than it is atnoog civilians. As it
was, he got the worst of it, and in such full measure, that
it is not probable he will try the " rough" manner of pro-
ooeding again in a hurry.
The will of Mrs. Mary Massie, formerly of Ross"
shire, N.B. late of Royal-crescent, city of Bath, relict of
Watkin Williams Massie, Esq., was proved in London ou
the 2d of January, the personalty sworn under £160,000,
the executors nominated being her nephew, Sir Roderick
Impey Murchison, and Wm. D, Hull, Esq.
THE COAL TRADE.—The, depri as7on in trade
and the mildness of the season have had a rt markably de-
pressing effect on the consumption of coal in the metropolis
during the past month. In January, 1861, the respectil
railways having access to London carried 136.900 tons !a,
ewts'; this year for tho corresponding period but 126.270
tons 16 cwts—viz., the London and North-Western, 49,001
tons 18 ewts ; Great Northern, 38,682 tons 11 ewts;
Eastern Counties, 26,763 tons 17 ewts ' • Great Wester!),
10,909 tons : Midland, 5,048 tons; Chatham and Dover,
349 tons 15 ewts • London, Tilbury, and Southend,
tons; showing a decrease of 10,629 end 18 ewts. The
portation of sea-borne coal has declined still more consid-
erably,—from 302,774 tons in January, 1861, to 233,0 V
tons in the past month, being less by 69,754 tons.