The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-27 00:00:00

MARKETS--THIS DAY.

HAY 'MARKETS.
SMITIIPIELD..--Mee.OW hay, £2 Os to 15s Od ; clover,
£3los to £5 15s Od ; and straw, £1 16s to Os 'per load.
Trade dull.
CUMBERLAND..—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 15s; clover
do., £3 lOs to £5 15s; and straw, £1 16s to £2 Os per load.
A slow demand.
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 15s; clover
.E 3 10s to A
heavy £trades 15s ; and straw.
£1 16s to £2 Os per load.

COLONIAL.
TEA.—The"dealings have been of a very limited charP.cter,
the dealers ,aaving been occupied with title samples for the
Public sP:tes which commence on Thur. sday next.
Sur—Business continued dull, except for good grocery
"sr riptions which have fully supprirted previous prices. In
o..te' refined' market there has been no change of impor-
tance.
COFFEE.—OnIy limited dealings have been recorded,
and prices have tended downwards, particularly for planta-
tion Ceylon.
lirce.—For East India qualities there has been a mode •
rate inquiry, previous quotations, however, were fairly
supported.
SALTPETRE.--A moderate business has been recorded at
about former prices.
TALLOW.—The market has been dull, and prices exhi-
bited a downward tendency. P.Y.C. on the spot is now
quoted 46s 3d, and last three months' delivery 49s pier cwt.

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAIL-
WAY.—An adjourned extraordinary general meeting of the
proprietors in this company was held yesterday at their
offices, London-bridge, under the Wharncliffe clauses of
the Railway Clauses Consolidation Act, for the purpose
of approving a certain bill now before Parliament. Mr.,.
Leo Schuster occupied the chair. The chairman submitted'
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the following bills for the consideration of the meeting, and
moved that such clauses of those bills as related to the cou
pany be approved. They were both permissive bills :—" A
bill for making a railway from Horsham to Dorking, and
for other purposes bill for making a railway, tc, be
called the East Grinstead, Groombridge, and Tanbri dge
Wells
Railway,
purposes." Mr.Seott (dep•aty -
resolution, and it was agreed. to.
chairman)seconded and for
the other
THE HARTLEY COLLIERY CATASTROPHE.---The
report of Mr. Kenyon Blackwell on the late catastrophe at
Hartley, in the official investigation of senich, as the repre-
sentative of the Horne-office, that geut!ieman took part, has
been published. The document is on aof considerable im-
portance, and will doubtless be read with interest, as tend-
ing to throw additional light on the circumstances of that
fearful calamity, and the nature of the legislative measures
which should be adopted with a view to the prevention of
similar accidents in future. From the date of the entry
found on the person of the overman, Amour, Mr. Blackwell
concludes that the men in the pit died not later than the
afternoon of the day succeeding the fatal occurrence, and
the death of the sufferers, he thinks, had been attended
with comparatively little pain. The material of the engine
beam which occasioned so great a sacrifice of human life is
represented as having been of " fair" quality, and the
breakage is attributed to the violent concussion to which it
was subjected when its progress was arrested by coming in
contact with the spring beams beneath, after the counter-
balancing load in the shaft was partially or wholly lost.
The inconvenience and danger of single shafts, both in
point of ventilation and as a means of ingress and egress to
the miners, are emphatically dwelt upon by Mr, Blackwell,
and an earnest desire is expressed that ,uch a system should.
henceforth be abolished, the cost of a different and more
safe arrangement being in many instances of a very trivial
character. Such is a summary of this elaborate report, and
it is to be hoped that the present session of Parliament, now
fast approaching towards a close, may not pass over with-
out some action being taken upon so vital and important a
subject.—. Newcastle Chronicle.