The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVE -,-4rINCT, SE'PPEVIBER 9, 1862.

SERIOUS MILI7ABY BIOT-A7 NETV YORK

(From the New Fork Herald, August 24.)
The citizens of the quiet City of Churches were
thrown into the most intense excitement yesterday
evening, by a report that a fearful riot was raging
at the barracks of the Empire Brigade. All sorts
of rumours were afloat. Some had it that 20 were
killed; others that 50 were slaughtered, and the
number of wounded was immense. In fact, the ex-
citement was up to such a fever heat that people
flocked from all quarters to the scene of action.
The railroad cars were crowded to excess ; every-
thing, that ran on wheels was brought into requisi-
tion, and those who were not fortunate enough to
get a conveyance footed it all the way; all eagerly
discussing the cause that led to the unfortunate
fracas. When our reporter arrived at the scene
the utmost confusion prevailed. All sorts of ru-
mours were afloat, and it was with the greatest dif-
ficulty that he could squeeze himself through the
crowd to ascertain the facts.
On arriving at the barracks ho learned that seve-
ral officers had been seriously wounded, some
sc,ldiers killed, the barracks terribly demolished,
and the Howard House totally destroyed; but so
great was the confusion, that it was impossible to
ascertain the true state of affairs. From all he
could pick up he learned that the riot originated
from the fact that those who enlisted in the Empire
Brigade some weeks ago had not received the State
bounty, and those who enlisted the past week
having received it, exasperated the others so much
that they determined to take satisfaction by raising
a revolt among the men, in which they seem to
have succeeded most admirably.
Nine who enlisted yesterday came to the barracks
with the State bounty in their pockets, and this
irritated the others so much that a bad feeling was
immediately engendered, and shortly after two
o'clock in the afternoon one of the ringleaders of
the party, a private of Company A, 2d Regiment,
being tolerably well drugged with rotgut, mounted
a barrel in the barracks, and commenced to harangue
his comrades on the subject, calling upon them not
to submit to such treatment. Captain Kenney
ordered him to his quarters. He refused to go, but
was being forced in when the whole company came
out to his aid. Several officers present attempted
to restore quiet, but were set upon immediately and
badly beaten. Nine muskets were taken from the
guard-house, and used by the mutineers on their
officers and all others who opposed them. The
officers were overpowered, made their escape, and
the whole brigade, numbering 1,200 men, rushed
out of the barracks. Some ran back again, and
commenced battering the windows and cook-house,
which establishment was pretty well riddled. The
others paid a visit to the Howard Hotel, immedi-
ately opposite, and after demolishing the furniture,
smashing the windows, and doing all the damage
they could, helped themselves to all the liquor they
could find. Whisky, brandy, gin, and lager beer
were taken into the street and into the barracks,

and riot and confusion was the order of the day.
The officers being powerless, the rioters had every-
thing their own way.
General Spinola was attending a meeting at the
City Hall when the riot commenced ; but, upon
hearing of the riot, he and Colonel Jordan went
immediately to East New York ; but by the time
they arrived there the men were scattered in all
directions, scarcely two hundred remaining. Those
who escaped got off by the Fulton avenue and Divi-
sion avenue cars, in the endeavour to reach their
homes in Brooklyn and New York.
As soon as it became known at the police head-
quarters that a revolt had taken place, Inspector
Folk, with a large force of police, repaired to the
scene. Admiral Paulding also dispatched one
hundred marines, with loaded muskets, to the scene
of conflict. 9. company of militia belonging to the
vicinity also turned out, but before any assistance
arrived nearly all the mischief had been accom-
plished. As soon as the police arrived on the
ground they were attacked with clubs, bottles, and
stones; but the militia company came up promptly
to their aid, and forced the rioters back to their
quarters. In this encounter Inspector Folk was
badly injured from the blow of a stone on the head.
Officer Corwin was also injured in the face with a
bottle. As the rioters were entering the barracks,
a shot was fired which killed the sergeant-major of
the 4th Regiment.
There are a great many different rumours going
the rounds as to the number of killed and wounded;

but our reporter failed in ascertaining any more
facts than those given above. Black eyes, bloody
noses, and cut faces were numerous, proving that
the revolt was very extensive.
All was quiet at eleven o'clock last night.
Coroner Norris was notified of the death of the
sergeant•major of the 4th Regiment, and will hold
an inquest on the body to-day.

COUR7-111ART1AL ON COLONEL IUR-
CHIN-NO.R7ITERN OUTRAGES.

A correspondent of the New York Herald

Writes:—

" Colonel J. B. Turchin, 19th Illinois Infantry,
whose trial has occupied the court-martial for
three weeks, has been cashiered and dismissed from
the service. As this trial has caused much com-
ment, and the sacking of Athens called various ex-
pressions from the Northern press, I append a brief
statement of the charges and specifications made
against Colonel Turchin, as shown by General
Order No. 39, just published. There are three
charges against Turchin: The first 19 neglect of
duty to the prejudice of good order and military
discipline.' The single specification to this charge
gives a full list of the outrages committed by Tur-
chin's men at Athens, some of which are very re-
volting indeed. Among
the incidents of the plun-
dering and pillaging of the village
1 find the
following named :

-
force of arms, entered
"Squads of soldiers, with
the private residence of F. M
and foi ced
open all the locks of the doors, broke pen all the
drawers to the bureaus, the secretary, sideboard,
wardrobes, and trunks iu the house, and rifled
them of their contents, consisting of valuable cloth-
ing, silver ware, silver plate, jewellery, a gold
watch and chain, &c., and in the performing of
these outrages they used coarse, vulgar, and profane
language to the females of the family. These squads
came in large numbers, and; plundered the house
thoroughly. They also broke open the law offices
of the said Malone, and destroyed his safe and
damaged his baoke. A part of this brigade went
to the plantation of the said Malone, and quartered
n the negro huts for Weeks,debauching the females
and roaming with the melee
andpillage, the surrounding
country to plunder
gewindows of the
A mob of sol-
diers burst open the doors and
business houses of Samuel Tanner,inunclor and
plundered them of their contents, co
sugar, coffee, hoots and shoes, leather, and
of
other merchandise. Very soon after the
command entered the town a party of
jewell
sol-
diers broke into the silversmith's shop and ery
store owned by D. H. Friend, and plundered it of
its contents end valuables, to the amount of about
3,000 dots. A party of this command entered the
house of B. S. Irwin, and ordered his wife to cook
dinner for them, and whilst she and her servants
were so engaged, they made the most indecent and
beestly propositions to the latter in the presence of
the whole family, and when the girl went away
they followed her in the same mariner, notwith-
staenliug her efforts to avoid them. MIS. Hollins-
worth'a house was entered and plundered of cloth-
ieg and other property by several parties, and some
of the men fired into the house, and threatened to
burn it, and used violent and insulting language
towards the said Mrs. Hollinsworth. The alarm
tied excitement occasioned miscarriage, and subse-
quently her death. Several soldiers came to the
Lonee of Mrs. Charlotte Hine and committed a rape
on the person of a coloured girl, and then entered
the house and wandered it of all the sugar, coffee,
which they could find. Be.preserves, arel the like,
fern leavinr, they destrayel or carried off all the
pictures and ornamentals they could lay their hands
on. The house of J. ff. Jonee was entered by Col.
Mihalotzy, of the 24th Illinois Volunteers, who be-
beered rudely and coarsely to the ladies of the
6"'1313-. lie then quartered two companies of in-
fantry in the house—about one hour after Captain

Edgarton quartered his artillery company in the
parlours—and these companies plundered the house
of all provisions and clothing they could ay their
hands on, and spoiled the furniture and c .Ipets ma-
liciously and without a shadow of reaso ; spoiling
the parlour carpets by cutting bacon oc, them, and
the piano by chopping joints on it vv,t b an axe, the
beds by sleeping in them with their muddy boots
on. The library of the house was destroyed, and
the locks of the bureaus, secretaries, wardrobes,
and trunks were all forced and their contents pil-
laged. The family plate was carried off, but some
of the pieces have been recovered. The store of
George R. Peck was entered by a large crowd of
soldiers and stripped of its contents, and the iron
safe broken open and its contents plundered, con-
sisting of 940 dollars and 90 cents, and 4,000 dollars
worth of notes.

"The second charge is of conduct unbecoming
an officer and a gentleman.' Colonel Turchin is
accused of not paying his hotel bill at Athens, and
of failing to make any effort to prevent the disgrace-
ful behaviour of his troops at Athens. The third
charge is disobedience of orders.' Among the
specifications it is charged that he disobeyed the
general orders requiring that peaceful citizens
should not be molested; that fair compensation be
allowed for use of private property, and that of
forbidding the wives of officers or men to lodge in
camp. To the latter specification Turchin pleaded
guilty. The Court found him guilty of nearly all
the charges, and sentenced him to be dismissed from
the service of the United States. The following is
the approval of the finding of the Court by General
Buell :

"'The proceedings of the Court are approved,
and in pursuance of its sentence Colonel J. B.
Turchin, of the 19th Illinois Regiment, ceases to be
in the service of the United States. Six members
of the Court have recommended the prisoner to
clemency, on the ground that the offence was com-
mitted under exciting circumstances, and was one
rather of omission than of commission. The gene-
ral commanding has felt constrained, nevertheless,
to carry the sentence into effect. Colonel Turchin
was tried for the disorderly conduct of his command
at and in the vicinity of Athens, and the sentence
of the Court rests on that matter alone, but on the
question of clemency it is proper to look beyond the
record of the Court. It is a fact of sufficient noto-
riety that similar disorders, though not to the same
extent, have marked the course of Colonel Turchin's
command wherever it has gone. The question is
not whether private property may be used for the
public service, for that is proper whenever the public
interest demands it. It should then be done by
authority, and in an orderly way. The wanton and
lawless indulgence of individuals in acts of plunder
and outrage is a different matter, tending to the
demoralisation of the troops and the destruction
of their efficiency. Such conduct does not mean
vigorous warfare ; it means disgrace and dis-
aster, and is punished with the greatest severity in
all armies. The circumstances under which the
disorders were committed were precisely those
which demanded the strictest obedience of discip-
line. The command was supposed to be in the pre-
sence of an enemy that might take advantage of
any confusion in its ranks. Every man should
have been at his post, instead of roaming over the
town and country to load himself with useless
plunder. In point of fact the criminality is not so
much that good order was violated on the particu-
lar occasion, as that by the habitual neglect of dis-
cipline the orders of the commander were unavail-
ing at a time when the observance of it might be
of vital importance. Colonel Turchin had been in
command of the Bth brigade for five months, and is
fairly responsible for a state of discipline which has
done injustice to the four fine regiments of which it
was composed. The general inspected those regi-
ments more than once about the time of the organi-
sation of the brigade. There were none in the
army from which he expected better service, and
he still has confidence that they will realise those
expectations.—By command of
" ' Major-General BUELL,

" James B. Fry, Colonel and Chief of Staff."'
" General Buell and staff are still here. General
Rosseau commands the district. and it is occupied
by the aa. division. Lieut.-Colonel Burke, 10th
Ohio Infantry, is provost marshal of the city."
The New York correspondent of the limes in
his last letter, states that the ruffian
.has been re-
instated and promoted.

THE ACCIDENT AND LOSS OF LIVES

A 2 MONKIVEARMOUTII.

The following additional particulars of this me-
lancholy accident are from yesterday's Newcastle
Chronicle :—" The well-known Pemberton's Pit—
as it was once called—at Monkwearmouth, Sun-
derland, is now the scene of another serious cala-
mity, involving unhappily the sacrifice of five lives
and the present loss of employment to hundreds of
survivors. The colliery, as our readers will remem-
ber, was visited in February last with a tremend-
ous inundation of water in the A pit, which burst
from the side of the shaft and rushed down in a
great cataract, completely filling the workings of
the Hutton seam, whose depth is 300 fathoms—
three times as deep as the lower seam of the famous
Hartley mine. Above the Hutton is the Mandlon
seam, worked by means of the B pit, whose
shaft is divided by bratticing into an upcast and
downcast, and communicates into the A pit by
means cf a drift at the depth of 180 fathoms. Since
the occurrence of' the flood and the consequent
stoppage of the A pit, the B pit has been worked
by double shift, and measures have been in progress
for the thorough repair of the flooded shaft with a
view to the ultimate freeing of the mine from
water. Accordingly just below the Maudlon seam
a strong scaffold was constructed, being let into the
wall of the shaft, and forming, as it were, a cork in
the neck of the mine, to shut off all communication
with the flooded Hutton, and to receive the rubbish
which might fall during the progress of the re-
pairs. This scaffold was known to have stood firm
up to last week, because it recently received the
dead body of a poor man who fell down the pit,
and on another occasion the cage alighted upon it
through the breaking of the rope. At the depth
of 170 fathoms from the surface a second scaffold
was constructed, so as to shut off communication
between the Maudlon seam and the upper portion
of the A shaft undergoing repairs, and to direct the
current of air into the B pit. This scaffold was
constructed after the completion of the metal tub-
bin and also intended to receive rubbish or stone
which might fall in the course of subsequent opera-,
tions. It was formed by strong balks of timber let
into the sides of the shaft, boarded with 3.inch
and covered by something like a thousand
rubbish, making a solid ' cork' of eleven
ptolnansk ofs
thickness. Thus the sinkers and masons
shifts,ciedin comparative
safety. Thesestanding upon
fathoms in
could proceed with the walling of the shaft without
g t round platform, fitting
interruption,
and,me men worked
ltihehy fiann
is
a the shaft, and suspended by
a • cradle,' which
the circumference of
six chains to the strong rope by which it was
drawn up and lowered dow.n.
" On Friday night there.x were at work, a
hundred fathoms down,
named C •
Wright, Robert Lambs David Mason, James
Joseph (father
Hall, Robert Dryden, and
of Robert), who was the man in charge of
the shift. Their time would be up at midnight,
'and lo minutes before that hour
it was agreed I
that
lamb
caked they, should put another stone in. The elder
Wright to go to bank for it,
declined, telling
Lamb to go for it, ,
and he would
but the latter
smoke a p'P© • lle accordingly
B While he was awa
placed it
went to bank for the had just
stone, and in the tub to deice Estee,. by the
descend, when he was arrested
sound of a terrific crashla! The immense
scaffold, 11 fath in the shaft. i was
and otna thick had given via}',
dashing down the shae a, force.
This wail immediatel followed
deetructis
ne
__.
rush of the fresh airy nto° iohwed :1-)y a teemcycnteir"
to
the depths of the mine.
creaetivaeuum and do ~.
re_
or suction so strong that ,bug a pneumatic gait g
which held the cradle were Isnapped asunder, and
the cradle, of course, canting
were hurled into the abyss beneath'. thTeb five
men
tion of the mine was thus deranged, and the
venti a-
fur-
naces at the Maudlon were blown out, the fire
tered along for 100 yards, and the' furnaee scat-
Michael Quinn, and his son, severely burnt. rn'llte
noise of the fall was heard throughout the colliery,
and the people ran out of their houses to the
pyit, mouth to ascertain the cause. Among them were
many drunken pitmen, we regret to say, who
wanted to jump down the shaft, and perform other
imoossible feats, and they so impeded the labours
and consultations of the officials, that a force of the
borough police had to be obtained to keep them
back. Mr. liutson, the engineer, and the master
sinker, Mr. Wanless, descended to 40 fathoms be.
low where the unfortunate men had been at work,
but could discover nothing of their fate, save the
Painfully appar,:nt fact that they had gone-to the

bottom of the shaft only to meet with instant death.
The mouth of the shaft was then covered over
with planks and tarpaulins, to preserve the
ventilation until the neighbouring mining engi-
neers could be called in to advise as to the best
means of reaching the bodies. Providing the lower
scaffold, at the Maudlon, has stood firm, the bodies
might be recovered with tolerable facility, but there
is too much reason to fear it would also give way,
and therefore they must be at the bottom of the
flooded pit, rendering their recovery a matter of
considerable doubt. The workmen were taken out
of the B pit immediately on the occurrence of the
accident, and must be " idle " till something definite
be ascertained respecting the situation of the bodies
of the lost sinkers.

" The whole of the unfortunate men were mar-
ried, and with one exception, had children. Robert
Lamb was a young man of 21, and married only
two or three Reeks since. Davin Mason, 30'years
of age, leaves a widow and one child ; James Hall,
44 years, widow and five children ; Robert Dryden,
35 years, widow and three children ; Charles
Wright, 37 years, widow and seven children. The
latter would seem to have been attended by a sin-
gular fatality, for it was not his turn on the shift;
but as the right man, Scott, was out of the way
when the shift was summoned, Wright was induced
to go in his room. Then again, as we have previ-
ously stated, he was requested to go to bank just
before the accident, but preferred to remain behind
to smoke a pipe, and meet with a terrible doom,
which seemed to hang over him with all the dread
fatality of predestination. It was also the last shift
that James Hall had to work, and he was to have
proceeded to Thornley, his wife coming over to
Sunderland on Saturday morning to meet him. The
wife and family of poor Wright are left unprovided
for, as it seems he had neglected to connect himself
with any box or benefit fund.
"On Saturday, at noon, the covering was removed
from the pit mouth, and workmen descended to get
up the cradle ; and when this had been accomplished
new chains were attached, and it was once more
got into order for a descant. Mr. Dunn, the go-
vernment inspector, with Messrs. Armstrong and
Easton, visited the pit during the forenoon, to con-
sult with the resident viewers and engineers ; hut
they did not descend. It was deemed advisable to
put in planking on the sides of the shaft, where
falls of earth had or stone bad taken place, and dur-
ing yesterday (Sunday) this work was making
rapid progress. It will have to be continued, and
the shaft sides thoroughly secured, before any one
can with safety descend to attempt a recovery of
the bodies. There have been two or three addi-
tional falls of stone since the accident occurred.
The operations which have been in progress for
sinking the B pit shaft down to the depth of the
Hutton seam will be resumed to-day ; but the
miners cannot yet get to work, so that those who
have not been bereaved will have to suffer hard-
ship through the loss of their employment.
"Similar repairs to those required in the Monk.
wearmouth Pit have recently been completed in a
most satisfactory manner at Gosforth, by Mr.
Coulson, of Durham, the eminent sinker."

2IIEDOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE

Al BR ADIOR D.

On Saturday Mr. Jewison, coroner, resumed and
concluded his inquest on view of the bodies of Mary
Ryan, aged 22 years, and her two children, Patrick
Joseph and Mary Ann Ryan, who, on the 3d inst.,
were found drowned in a milldam in Frederick-
street, Bradford. A large crowd of people assem-
bled in front of the Britannia Inn, Dryden-street,
where the inquest was hel and where the bodies
of the deceased were still lying. The following ad-
ditional evidence was taken;—

Sergeant Joseph Bolton, of the Bradford police
force, said—About half-past five o'clock on Wed-
nesday evening last, in consequence of information
that M-Iry Ryan had been found drowned in a mill
darn in FrederiA-street, and that her two children
were missing, I assisted to search the darn, and in
it were found, in my presence, the dead bo lies of
both the children. The bodies were brought to this
house. I saw no marks of vio.ence upon either of
them. I afterwards examined the pocket of Mary
Ryan, the mother, and found in it 23d. and a
" charm."

Richard :kitchen, engineman for Mr: James Gal-
lemore, Frederick-street mill, said—On Wednesday
last, about 20 minutes before 5 o'clock I saw some
article of dress floating in the mill dam. I got a
piece of wire, made a hook at the end of it, and
drew the article to the side of the dam, and then I
saw the body of Mary Ryan. She was quite dead.
I observed no wounds upon her person, I did
not know her. I hay° known her hushand, James
Ryan, more than two years, and have been in his
company regularly at a public house once or twice
a week.
_I never saw him drunk.

Catherine Clayton, of Ebenezer-court, Bradford,
said—l lived near the deceased, Mary Ryan, and
was acquainted with her. She left her home early
on Tuesday morning, owing to a quarrel with her
husband. She went to her mother's house, stayed
there all Tuesday night, and on Wednesday came
to Mr. Costello's, Ebenezer-court, where I had some
conversation with her. She was crying. Mrs.
Costello went out, and then deceased said, " Oh,
dear, I've a good mind to drown both myself and
my children." I said, "How can you say so ? You
can go to the workhouse with your children, and
the guardians will make your husband pay." She
replied that she ought to have gone the day be-
fore, as no applications would be taken on Wednes-
day, it being the board-day. Directly after this
she went away, saying that her youngest child was
very cross, and her mother would scold her for
being so long absent. .She went towards her
mother's house, in Croft-street, and took with her
her eldest child, and a chair which her husband
allowed Mrs. Costello to take out of his house, and
give to her. This would be about half-past one
o'clock in the afternoon. I have not seen either Mrs.
Ryan or her children since. Whilst I was in Mrs.
Costello's house Mrs. Ryan's husband passed by,
and gave the elder child sixpence and some copper
coin. I thought the money was intended for the
mother. She refused it, and said, " I want the bed."
Her husband took the money back again, and said
she should not have the bed until the rent and other
debts were paid. He afterwards sent his wife six-
pence and some old cloth that had been cut up to
make into waistcoats. Mrs. Costello brought them
to her. He declared to Mrs. Costello that he would
not take his wife back until he had paid what ho
owed. Both he and his wife were obstinate. She
said, "I dare not go back ; lam afraid he'll murder
me." Her right eye was discoloured. She said her
husband had made it so. When I had this conver-
sation with her she seemed quite rational. I never
saw her in a passion except once, rather more than
a fortnight since, when she and her husband had
been quarrelling, and she came out of their cellar
and broke three or four squares of glass in their
window with stones. He had been striking her at
that time:and she had then a black eye. About 5
o'clock on Wednesday afternoon last I heard that
Mrs. Ryan had been taken out of a milldam in
Frederick-street ; the dam is about 300 yards off
Ebenezer-court.

Bridget Hayes, mother of the deceased woman,
said—My daughter came to me on Tuesday morn-
ing, and brought her two children with her. Her
lett eye WE, black, and she complained of pain in
her right shoulder and back, caused, she said,
by her husband having kicked her. She told me
she begged like a cripple for mercy—begged that
he would not kill her entirely. I have seen him
beat his wife in my own house. I remember her
breaking the windows. She came and told me on
that occasion that she had had a hard struggle to
get away from her huiband, who had been beating
her, and that when she got out of the house she
took up two stones and threw them at the window.
She stayed with me last Tuesday night, and went
back about 11 o'clock next morning, to ask her
husband for the bed, and with the intention of leav-
ing him the elder child. I cannot tell how long
she remained away. She had no dinner at my
house; she was not in the house when my own
family got dinner. When she returned on Wed-
her ; she was crying ;
nesday, she brought both the children back with
she told me her husband had
sent out 6d. for her, that she had demanded the
bed, and that he said he would not give it to her
until his debts were paid. I did not tell her I
NghVouostlablnialdnnatorltyitvatehkde:
lestdh oe or rhi nooisthhSoeuh
cellars lsnl aalirudrwtsilehlereriWeleasrsh.
she
faurnaedi dwh
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ags
tfl'id•o
tmol.dt hneted deceased sheudow,al::dlt
camesli e
always drinking and spending his money, and tak-
naernitur, and got titrou,b the window
Clbvilil:11-ilouuestdaaywaking her. eh'nornnteeda.t 2Toh'eclodc7t
1 was not in my house
when she left it on Wednesday for the last time.
I last saw her alive about 2 or 3 o'clock in the after-
noon. James Ryan, her husband, has threatened
to kill both me and his wife. lie has struck me as
well as the deceased. On one' occasion he threw a
was away in Lancashire eight weeks. The de-
stone through a window nt her. He deserted her,
and
ceased WEIS afraid her husband would do her some
harm. On Wednesday she was terrified about it.
g-oman., and father of the chil-
dren, James Ryan, tailor,
~ bus.
I sometimes thoughthaertamlLinddarrysisdaigsoedrdreor,e:!.
testimony: I.lteow nothing
death of my wife exe,pi-
bda
sar
entndo,
tolflevt
cheaetcllsceefcooelf,
the y
calling her, and she may have taken it to heart.
On Monday morning last I went out of the house,
and did not return until two o'clock on Tuesday
morning. I went out with the intention of buying
materials for some work, and I met with a of
mon belonging
to nay Own trade, and we went flown
to Kelly's beerhouse, in Croft-street. When I re-
turuod bborne at two o'clock on Tuesday morning I

lifted up the window, got into the house, and
looked into the oven where my supper was gene-
rally placed, but there was no supper for me. I
touched my wife, who was asleep in bed, awoke
her, and asked for my supper. She told me I
might get it where I had been all the day and
night. I told her I had not been in improper com-
pany. We quarrelled, and I struck her with my
open hand on the left side of her head. She then
began to cry. 1 raised my hand over her and
threatened to strike her again if she did not give
over crying. She gave over crying, and I went to
bed to her without my supper. She got up at half-
past seven on Tuesday morning, and cleaned the
house and the children, after which we had some
further angry words, and she took the children and
went away. She told the neighbours I had been
accusing her of improper intimacy with a man. I
may have said something about a man to her, but
cannot recollect. If I did, I never thought there
was anything wrong about her in that respect. On
Wednesday she came to Mr. Coatello's, a few doors
from my place. I did not say I wo,ild not re-
ceive her. I told Mrs. Costello to tell her to come
home with the children, as she had nothing to fear.
I gave the elder child 9d. at Mrs. Costello's ; that
was all the money I had. I never threatened to
murder my wife, and never sharpened a knife for
that purpose. I never in my life struck her with
my closed hand. She had not black eyes when
she was alive. The last time I saw her alive was
about half-past one on Wednesday, when she left
Mrs. Costello's. I had taken back Gd. which I
gave to the child, and I gave the Gd. to Mrs.
Costello to give to my wife at that time. I never
spoke to her on Wednesday, and cannot say what
state of mind she was in. The witness went into
a long explanation of frequent quarrels between
himself and his late wife, and blamed his mother-
in-law, Mrs. Hayes, for some of them.

The coroner made some remarks upon the evi-
dence, after which the jury were left to consider
their verdict. After they had deliberated about a
quarter of an hour,
The foreman of the jury (Mr. Wardman, of the
Junction Inn), said they were unanimously agreed
upon the following verdict :—" That Mary Ryan
drowned herself and her two children, and that she
was of sound mind at the time, but acting under a
fit of violent passion."
The coroner said that was a verdict of felo de se,
and expressed his approval of it,
The body of Mary Ryan, the mother, was buried
at the town's expense in the Undercliffe Cemetery
at a late hour on Saturday night, without Chris-
tian rites, as is usual in such cases. The funeral of
the children took place at the same cemetery on
Sunday.

AWFUL FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE A 7
LIVERPOOL.

TWENTY TOUR LIVES LOST.

(From the Liverpool News of yesterday.)
A few minutes after two o'clock yesterday morn-
ing a fire was discovered under the gallery at the
south-west corner of the church in connection with
the Liverpool workhouse, which is situate at the
eastern or upper end of that pile of buildings, and
stands on an angular piece of ground enclosed
within a wall 12 or 14 feet in height, which runs
along the west side of the upper part of Mount-
pleasant.
The police, as quickly as possible, conveyed
information to the West of England and Hatton-
garden fire stations, and before three o'clock one
engine and a number of firemen, reels, ladders,
&c., from these stations hastened to the spot ;
but before their arrival the fire had got a con-
siderable hold, and by half-past two began to make
vivid appearance.
It was some little time before the engines could
be got into working order, owing to the hose having
all to be carried across the high street wall, and
when the water was brought into play the pressure
was so weak that the stream rose but a few feet,
only occasionally to'iched that which appeared
most in need of subduing, and seemed to produce no
perceptible effect upon the devouring element,
which gradually made its way through the sacred
edifice, and it soon became apparent that the entire
structure would be destroyed.
Window after window became illuminated. and
the roof at the end next the workhouse began to
show symptoms of having caught the contagion,
just as the clock in the spire struck three. This
was speedily followed by a fall of slates, beams, and
debris, at the other end, and the breaking of the
glass in two of the windows immediately beneath.
The devouring element being now fanned by the
gentle breath of a beautiful clear and slightly frosty
autumn morning, the flames stealthily crept along
the interior of the roof, until every rafter and beam
seemed to be on fire, when they burst through the
roof with one gush, which rose some 30 or 40 feet
into the air, and for some ten or fifteen minutes the
building presented. a scene of terrific grandeur,
every window being brilliantly illuminated, the
flames in the centre rising again and again higher
than the top of the spire, whilst the sjained win-
dow's on the north side of the church, as they had
their variegated hues reflected upon the numerous
spectators posted on the balconies and every acces-
sible spot in front of the houses in Mount-pleasant,
gave to the whole scene an extraordinary and very
picturesque appearance, the roof did not fell in, but
was consumed piecemeal.
The woodwork ventilators under the clock in the
the spire now began to burn brightly, but as the
flames seemed to make little progress for some time,
it was thought that the spire (the under portion of
which is of stone and the upper of wood covered
with slate) might escape destruction. These illu-
sions were quickly dispelled, however, and the spire
soon became one mass of flame—that is, the wood-
work of it ; and from its elevated position, as it
blazed away in mid air. it became an object of at-
traction not only to the crowds, immediately sur-
rounding the scene of the catastrophe, but must
have proved a cause of wonder to all who were astir
in every part of the town, especially in the ele-
vated parts of Everton and Cheshire, from Loth of
which it was witnessed to great advantage. By
half-past 4 o'clock the spire was entirely destroyed,
aid fell into the body of what was once the church,
amid a shower of sparks and embers which threat-
ened destruction to the surrounding buildings.
Up to this time no one outside had the least idea
that any lives had been sacrificed.
Ti,e lire was discovered about half-pant 1 o'clock
by Miss Kennon, the schoolmistress, who slept in a
room immediately adjoining the children's dormi-
tory, and at once succeeded in rescuing a number of
the children. Finding the alarming character of
the fire, she then roused Mr. Carr, the governor of
the house. Mr. Carr, as soon as he ascertained
where the flames were, immediately directed his
attention to the rescue of the children. The
southern end of the dormitory wag 'at once entered,
and the children in that end were for the most part
rescued. The smouldering beds, however, rendered
1 this a task not only difficult but exceedingly dan-
gerous. Mr. Carr mounted a ladder and went to
one of the windows, in the hope that an entrance
might be effected there, but the smoke was so
powerful that he but narrowly escaped suffocation,
Mr, Hewitt, the superintendent of the fire brigade,
and several of the police force, were also most active
in their exertions, but they found it utterly
impossible to enter the burning room, owing not so
much to the heat, though that was intense, as to
the immense volume of smoke with which the en-
tire building seemed at this time to bo filled.
The supply of water, we aro bound to say, was
throughout most insufficient ; but, on all hands,
there was the most zealous and active exertions to
render it as effectual as possible. Mr. Carr's first
object was to save life, and in that he succeeded to
a very great extent, for notwithstanding that the
fire had extended so rapidly before attention had
been called to it, he succeeded in rescuing at least
20 of the children who were sleeping in the ill-
fated building.
The scene inside the workhouse from two to four
o'caeck was of the most terrible character. The
whole of the inmates were roused from their beds,
and even those in the fever hospital, which is on
the north side of the church and close to the child-
ren's dormitory became alarmed. The able-bodied
paupers, both male and female, were in tte yards
with blankets and other portions of the bedclothes
wrapped around them, the women being all, of
course, much terrified and excited and the men for
the most part being worse than helpless. Whilst
the governor, the police, and others were toiling
away with the gore, many of the able-bodied male
paupers stood looking on with comparative indif-
ference.

Up to Friday last the dormitory zontained nearly
double the numberof children than were in it when
the fire occurred this morning, but on that day the
governor fortunately drafted off a considerable num-
ber of them to the Industrial Schools.
When the fire broke out it is supposed there were
40 children in the dormitory-16 elder girls and 34
younger onPF, and of these, as near as could be ascer-
tained 18 ern children had either been burnt to death
or had been suffocated in the room. In a row of little
iron bedsteads running along the western wall of the
dormitory there now lie 14 lif:less bodies, a charred
and blackened mass, partially covered with the
fragments of the roof. Two of the nurses have also
lost their lives, one of them in a most noble and
praiseworthy effort to save the children. One of
the nurses, a Pauper inmate, named Carroll, was
brought out lifeless, with one of the children, which
was also dead.
The other nurse, a poor simple girl,
named Harriet illeaeock, got safely out herself, but
want
backwards and forwards several times, bring.
ing out little terrified and almost lifeless children,
1 and at length she herself became suffocated with the

smoke. She was at once got out, but died almost
immediately afterwards in the arms of the governor.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

No idea whatever can be formed as to tho cause
of the fire. It is now supposed to have originated
in some one of the waterclosets underneath the
school, which is attached to the church, and sepa-
rated from the children's dormitory by a passage
about a yard in width. From the dormitory to the
closet there is an underground passage, and it is
supposed that the fire made its way through this
passage so rapidly and with such tremendous effect
as to cut off all communication with the inner room
of the sleeping department; for it is in the inner-
most one that the poor children were suffocated, all
who were in the outer room having been rescued.
No one who has looked upon the awful sight in
the dormitory can ever forget the horrible picture.
Here and there, in all directions, lay the remains of
the poor little ones, some in the beds where they
had been deprived of life so suddenly, and others on
the floor, covered with blackened timber, bricks, and
other debris of the fire. Did one not know that
the charred 1 emains were those of human beings, it
would be a difficult matter to recognise the fact to
the mind, for recognition of any trace of what those
remains once were was impossible. Not one of the
bodies were entit e. The positions in which same of
the little ones were found indicated that they must
have been awakened by the noise or pain of the fire.
One poor child had turned itself on its fa. e, and an-
other had managed to crawl from its bed to the
floor, anal its remains were found under the iron
bedstead. But we cannot dwell upon the awful
sight presented in the dormitory. It was one more
horrible than words can convey an idea of—one
upon the like of which we hope never to have to
look again.
It was heartrending to witness the pain and
anxiety depicted in the countenances of many in
the crowd who stood round the gates of the work-
house making inquiries as to what children were
burned. The agonised pleadings of one poor woman
to the officials begging of them to tell her whether
her little one had perished were truly harrowing to
look upon. Everything was in such confusion that
it was impossible to give the information sought, and
unfortunately the register containing the names of
the children has been destroyed in the flames.
The en;ines still continue to play upon the shells
of the burned buildings. It appears that it was some
time after the fire was discovered that a supply of
water could be obtained, and when procured, it was
with difficulty brought to bear upon the portion of
the building where its services were needed.
Twenty-two bodies have been discovered, which,
including the two nurses who lost their lives, make
24. It is supposed the children were suffocated be-
fore the flames reached them. One of the nurses
lost her life while heroically endeavouring to save
those of some of the children. Again and again she
returned to the dormitory, till at last she was over-
come, and fell a victim to her devotion.
Several of the guardians have visited the scene of
the disaster, but all are puzzled to account for the
fire. That it was accidental is very much doubted,
though it is to be hoped that malice had no share in
producing a conflagration that has resulted in en..
sequences so disastrous and appalling.