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PURSUANT to an Order of the High Court of
Chancery, made in a cause, " ROGERS against
HARDING," the Creditors of Elizabeth CI allig, late of No
3, Nottingham-street, St. Marylebone, in the County of
Middlesex widow, who died in or about the month of Sep-
tember, 1860, are, by their solicitors, on or before the twenty-
seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-two, to come in and prove their Claims at the cham-
bers of the Vice-Chancellor, Sir Richard Torin Kinderslry,
at No. 3, Stone-buildings, Lincoln's-inn, Middlesex, or in
default thereof they will be peremptorily excluded from
the benefit of the said Order.
Saturday, the eighth day of March, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-two, at one o'clock in the afternoon, at the
said chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating
upon the claims.
Dated this eighteenth day of January, 1862.
CHARLES PUGH, Chief Clerk.
BICKNELL and BICKNELL,
Plaintiff's Solicitors,
79, Connaught-terrace, Edgware-road.

N° 21,706

BLICATION S.

Next week, in :3 N'ols., with Portrait, 31s. Gd.,
THE PRIVATE DIARY OF RICHARD,
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CAPTAIN BURTON'S ACCOUNT OF THE MORMONS.
Second Edition, with 3 Maps and 18 Illustrations, price 18s.,
THE CITY of the SAINTS ; and across the
Rocky Mountains to California. By RICHARD F.
BURTON, Captain H.M. Indian Army; Fellow and Gold
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uddition to the Laurent Valse, Strauss 2uadrille, and novel-
ties of list week, A NEW POLKA, by M. Boulcourt, the
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w Notwithstanding the liberal suppori which the Com-
mittee ccntinue to receive from the public, the large increase
of destitute sick at this inclement season of the year occasions
a frequent exhaustion of the current resources of the Charity.
The Weekly Board invite benevolent persons to make a per-
sonal visit of inspection as to the mode in which the several
departments of the Charity are conducted.
Contributions are earnestly solicited, and are received by
the Treasurer, Edward Masterman. Esq., Nicholas-lane; also
by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries and
Co. ; Ransom and Co.; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith,
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CHARLES READE'S NEW STORY.
Eighth American edition, and Fourth English edition of
"ir HE CLOISTER AND THE
HEARTH."

"We shall look in vain, even in the volumes of Walter
Scott, for a passage which can rival in dramatic force the in-
terview between Gerard and Margaret in the fourth volume."
Westminster Review.
Trubner and Co., 60, Paternoster-row.

rHE PRESENT DISTRESS IN TRADE
fully explained in J. GROSSMITH'S

R OPAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT
INSTITUTION
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM
SHIPWRECK,
(Incorporated by Royal Charter).
Founded in 1824.—Supported by Voluntary Contributions.
PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
PRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral his Grace the Duke of Northum-
berland, K.G., F.R.S.
CBAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P., Chair-
man of Lloyd's.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P.,
Chairman of Lloyd's Registry of British and
Foreign Shipping Society.
APPEAL.
The Committee of Management have to state that, during
the past year, the Institution has incurred expenses amount-
111g to £6,?58 Is. in establishing Life-boat stations on dif-
ferent parts of the Coasts of Eng' and, Ireland, and Scotland.
The Institution has also expended on the repairs, stores,
alterations, and inspection of its numerous Life-boats, Boat-
houses, and Transporting-carriages, £3,632 10a. ; and £1,550
for exercising the Crews of its Life-boats—making altogether
_ a total of £11.441.
During the past year the Life-boats of the Institution have
Teen in'trumental in rescuing the Crews of the following
wrecked Vessels :
Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Montrose
Schooner Jane Roper, of Ulverstone
Brig Pallas, of Shields .. • • • • • • •
Ship Ann Mitchell, of Glasgow • • • • •• •;
Smack John 80, of Yarmouth • • • •
Schooner cathetine, of Newry- - • • • '•
Barque Niagara, of Shields • .. 11
A Barge of Teionmouth .. 2
Brig George and James, of London ... 8
Brig Zephyr, of Whitby
Coble Honour, of Cullercoats
Schooner Eliza, of North Shields .. • • • • 7
Barque Oberon, of Liverpool .. 15
Brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth • • 9
Smack Wonder, of Teignmouth .. 2
Brig Scotia, of Sunderland . 6
Sloop Three Brothers, of Goole .. • • • • 5
Sloop Charlotte, of Woodbridge .. . • • 5
Brig Ann, of Blyth .. • • • • 8
Sloop Hope, of Dublin
Schooner Druid, of Aberystwyth .. .. 5
Barque Vermont, of Halifax, U.S. .. 16
Schooner William Keith, of Carnarvon .. 2
Brig Flying Fish, of Whitby . • • • • . 5
Smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis .. 3
Steam Dredge, at Newhaven .. .. • • • • 9
Schooner Admiral Hood, of Roche ter 6
Schooner Susan and Isabella, of Dundee .. • • 5
Schooner Rose, of Lynn 3
•• •• •• ••
Brig Prodroma, of stockton 11
Brig Eliza, of Middlesborough
Brigantine Freia, of Konigsberg .. • • • - 6
Brigantine Diana, of Fredrikshamn • • • • 7
Brig Gloucester, of South Shields .. .. . 7

" GOVERNMENT UPON FIRST PRINCIPLES."
The cause is there predicated of the monetary difficulties ex -
perienced in 1860. The Crisis is at hand. Anxiety in busi-
ness has now become the grim torture. Purity of motive.
intelligently exercised, must animate all Governments, or all
is lost, All denominations of Constitutions • are carefully
examined in J. Grossmith's "Government upon First Prin-
ciples."

Kent and Co., Paternoster-row.

Just published, price 25., free by post, 2s. 4d.,

SPERMATORRIICEA.
By F. B. COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.E.,
And formerly Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the
Cure of Strictures of the Urethra.

ON

" The aim of the author is to present a common-sense view
of the Causes, Nature, Consequences, and Treatment of this
Disease, as also to free these questions from the Professional
Fallacies, the Popular Delusions, and the exaggerations of
Quackery by which they have hitherto been surrounded, to the
destruction of the health and happiness of thousands. These
objects are discussed in a common-sense and highly practical
manner."—Medical Circular.
London : H. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street.'

A MOST DESIRABLE BREAKFAST BEVERAGE,

EPPS'S COCOA.
(Commonly called Epps's Homoeopathic Cocoa).

The delicious aroma, grateful smoothness, and invigo-
rating power of this preparation have procured its general
adoption as a most desirable breakfast beverage.
}lb., Ob., and llb packets, at ls. 6d. per lb., by Grocers.

TEA.—STRACHAN and CO.'S Strong Rough
" Domestic" Black at 3s. id. per lb.-26, Cornhill,
London, E.C.

TEA.—STRACHAN and CO.'S Fine "
Inter-
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TEA. STRACHAN and CO.'S Delicious
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Dr. Ha asall's Certificate of Purity, and a Price Current
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`4AUCE.-LEA AND PERRINS
beg to caution the Public against Spurious Imitations of
their world-renowed
WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE.
Purchasers should
ASK FOR LEA AND PERKINS' SAUCE,
Pronounced by Connoisseurs to be
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*** Sold Wholesale and for Export, by the Proprietors,
Worcester ; Messrs. CROSSE and BLAcxwELL, London,
&c. &c., and by Grocers and Oilmen universally.

Total

..210

For these and other Life-boat services the Institution has
voted £9OB Rs. 4d. as re ards. It has also granted rewards
amounting to £203 48. for saving 245 shipwrecked persons, by
whore-boats and other means, making 4 total of 455 persons
ved from a watery grave on the Coasts of the United
Kingdom.

TOOTHACHE.---HOWARD'S ENAMEL, for
stopping decayed teeth, however large the cavity. It
is used in a soft state, without pressure or pain, and hardens
into a white enamel. It romains in the tooth many years,
rendering extraction unnecessary and arresting the decay.
Directions for use enclosed. Sold by all chemists and medi
eine vendors, Price ls,

During the present year (1861), the Life-boats of the Insti-
: ution have also been instrumental in rescuing the Crews of
he following Vessels :
Brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham
Brigantine Nugget, of Bideford 6
Schooner Prosp ct, of Berwick
Sloop Thomas and Jane, of St. Ives
A FlShing-boat of Whitburn 4
Brig Arethusa, of Blyth
Schooner Dewl Wyn, of' Portmadoc
flat Cymraes, of Beaumaris .. 2
Schooner William, of' Morecambe 5
Smack Gipsy, of Newry•
Schooner M argaret Anne, of Preston • .. .. 4
Brig New Draper, of Whitehaven .. 8
Schooner William, of Liverpool .. 5
Lugger Nimrod, of Castl etown
Brig Providence, of Shields .. 8
Brig Mayflower, of Newcastle
Schooner Village Maid, of Fleetwood .. 4
Barque Guy tna, of Glasgow 19
:13rig Roman Empress, of Shields .. .. 10
Br; cr San Spirid,one, of Galaxide .. 2
Schooner Voador du Vouga, of Vianna .. 8
rlg La Jenne Marie Therese .. 6
everance, of Scarborough .. .. 5
FBraernqcuhe Pi 7
er
Schooner Elizaeth• of Bridgewater
Ship Danube, of iNfaSt
Schooner Hortensia, Of Hanover .. 4
Schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven .. 44
Brig St. Michel, of Marans • • • • .. .. 8
Spanish Barque Primers, de Torreviega (saved ves-
sel and one of the crew) • • • • • • • • 1
Schooner Hurrell, of Penzance (saved vessel and
crew) . 4
Brig Anne, of Plymouth (saved vessel and crew) 8
Schooner Betsy, of Sunderland (saved vessel and
crew) .. .. 6
Barque Frederick, of Dublin .. .. • • •• ,1
Barque Peace, of London .. • • • • 2
Lugger Saucy Lass, of Lowestoft .. .. 11
Schooner Fly, of Whitby (saved vessel and crew
of four hands) .. .. 4
Smack A dventure, of Harwich.. .. 10
Pilot cutter Whim, of Lowestoft .. 7
Barque Undaunted, of Aberdeen •11
Wrecked boat on Blackwater Bank, on the Irish
coast, saved one man .. 1
Schooner Skylark, of Folkestone .. 6
Brig Lively, of Clay, Norfolk .. .. 6
Barque Robert Watson, of Sunderland .. • • 5
:Schooner Auchincruive, of Grangemouth .. • • 6
Schooner Friends, of Lynn .. .. 4
Schooner Eliza Anne, of Dublin .. • • • • 5
I; rig Content, of Sunderland 5
Smock L+ lien Owen, of Cardigan .. .. • • S
Schooner Epimachus, of Amsterdam .. ••

RIIPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.
CI HITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS
v (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT
EXHIBITION or 1851), is allowed by upwards of Two
Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective
invention in the curative treatment of fl ERNI A.
The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects,
is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the
body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the
Moe-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease
and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn
during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had,- and the
truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir-
cumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being
sent to the manufacturer,
Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly.
A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, ls.
A. Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd.
An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, is. 10d.
Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post-
office, Piccadilly.

VEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS,
A-1 KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of
Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &o. They are
porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on
liYe an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 75. 6d., 10s., to 165.
each. Postage 6d.
JOHN WHITE. Manufacturer, 228,:Piecadilly.

AN EFFECTUAL REMEDY.-LAMBERT'S
ASTHMATIC BALSAM, without confining the
bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant,
is admitted to be the best medicine for immediately relieving
coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and consumption.
I tfrequently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce in-
curable, admirably allays the tickling which provokes frequent
coughing. In approaching consumption its effects are truly
beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for
fear of suffocation, may depend on relief in a few minutes
atter taking it. Prepared only and sold by W. Lambert,
Chemist, 2°, Jermyn-street. Haymarket, London, and by all
'druggists, in bottles, 13id., and three times the quantity in
one, 2s. 9d. each. Be particular, and ask for Lambert's
ksthmatic Balsam.

Total ..

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The public cannot but sympathise with the vigorous.efforts
now being made by this Institution to save the lives of Ship-
wrecked Crews. Their help was never more needed than at
the present time, when, through the extraordinary exertions
she Society has made within the past few years, it has now
One Hundred and Twenty-one Life-boats under its man-
agement, or the maintenance of which, in a state of thorough
efficiency, a large permanent annual income is absolutely
needed, if Its humane mission is to be perpetuated.
Donations and Annual Su' scriptions will be thankfully re-
ceived by Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard-
street; Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand; Messrs. Herries,
Farquhar, and Co., 16, St. James's-street, London ; by a 1
the Bankers in the United Kingdom; and by the Secretary,
Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Office of the Institution, 14,
John-street, Adelphi, London, W.C.
_ _ _

Payments may be made by Cheques or by Post-office Orders
(crossed), to Messrs. W Ills, Percival, and Co., or to the Secre-
tary.

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147 ANHOOD: the CAUSE andanws' R of PRE-
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.7"..i. MATURE DECLINE IN MAN ,with
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(31:111210, 15, Albermarle-street. By Dr. J. L.
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CONTENTS:
INTROD-OCTO/fY CHAPTER on the physiologioal
Structure and F ganctiens of the Reproductive Or
CHAPTER ll.—Causes of Spermatorrifcra andar
Early Vicious Indulcrences ; Dailirers of Neglect. Impotence;
CHAPTER TIT.—A Review 0 the various Disquti
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Follies of Maturity, the Effects of Climate, a: Infection.' th
kr,` RAPT ER S IV. and V. on the modern Treatment of
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't Ne Book concludes with numerou s recipe of a prevent ivs varied and interesting
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turn to that " North Country" of ErOafttigirtin.l i-14.4
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cover romance enough in all its elemetts:.f-IfErti 4.---:-Y
pity—c-TaTar-etiel pathos. Look there, vl/4*Q.saya s
sentimentalists and fancy chroniclers of war—
*" - - - •.- look there, where every gale that blows strews
the rock-bound and sand-ledged coast with wrecks,
and ravages sea-port towns with more than the
----------- fury of a devouring pestilence or a pitiless in-
'lC. .... -...4d. wader ; where a sudden fall in the weather-glass
-D ....sa, proclaims to many a group of women and children
as they stand gazing vacantly out at the hazy roll-
NI in; distance, a sentence of desolation and bereave-
-1 meat !

PRICE.— . ...4d.
STAMPED ....sa.

You said the hydraulic failed and that the beam fell
upon the chocks. Then, you are satisfied of that
from some indication while you were at the handles ?
Mr.Dunn—You can answer for it haying dropped
suddenly ?—When the hydraulics gJ.vo way the
handles dropped down.

Ceroner—D id the beam get any injury by that ?
—Not that I observed.

Do you think it might not have got some injury
by that ?—No, sir.
Mr. Dunn—Did the cross-head not get some in-
jury by that P—No, sir, not till the beam broke.
Coroner—The beam, then, received no percep-
tible injury from the fall?—Not that I ever
observed.
Can you give any further account about when
the beam broke ?—She came crash upon the cross-
head, and broke it.
Mr. Dunn—Where were you standing at the
very time the beam broke P—l was going down-
stairs, and had my back to the beam.
Coroner—When you heard the crash did you
turn round ?—No, sir, I ran and stopped the engine.
Then you did not see the beam fall into the shaft?
—No.

Can you give any idea of the weight the beam
would have to carry ?—The piece that fell would
be about 20 tons.

Or, if there is nothing of romance in the founder-
ing of fifty coasters, what shall we say of such a
scene as that around the mouth of the llar:ley
Coal Pit, where throughout the long dead January
nights, and the bleak cheerless fog-wrapt miserable
days from Thursday to Thursday, a crowd of poor
wives and children—widows and orphans now wait
and watch—all hushed and helpless and tearless, as
if turned to stone by anguish, or murmuring
vacantly remembered syllables of prayer—for a
sound or sign of life or movement from husband,
brother, or child, buried alive a hundred fathoms
down in the bowels of the earth, it may be drowned
or stifled, or crushed by an avalanche of falling
planks and iron beams, or a torrent of rushing water
and loosened rubble from the refts of the crumbling
pit. Already an ascending " cage" with eight
miners in it has met the plunging beam; of these
eight two have been crushed to death, three sur-
vived a short time, the rest are recovered after
awful suffering. But the agony of the women,
watching there all day and night, while from hour
to hour whispers of hope or of despair are caught
up no one knows where or how ! At midnight on
Friday the buried men were distinctly heard by the
working party. This, it was reported, gave great
relief. But as the weary days and nights pass
away, the buried men are no more heard, and even
the searchers come up sick, and faint, and de-
spairing. Deadly gases have escaped; a deluge of
water has rushed through ; the roofs and sides have
fallen in. Is it possible the buried men and lads
can be out of reach of harm, still able to breathe,
still keeping body and soul together on some chance
morsels of the lads food, still holding out for dear
life in the very grasp of death ? Surely there is
nothing in the romance of war to compare with this
picture of the buried men and lads in the depths of
the pit, and the women and children standing at
the mouth, mutely suppliant and stupefied with
grief, under the pitiless winter skies. Buried alive!
The delirium of fever never pressed a more horrible
nightmare on the brain. The most cruel tyrant
never devised a more atrocious punishment. The
wildest imagination never conceived human agony
more intense than this tug and wrestling of strong
life with the remorseless weight of a legion of
deaths. It is hard to be shot down or hewed to
death by assassins, to be cut off by a fell surprise ;
but who would not rather be murdered in the light
of the sun and in the free air of Heaven, than die
by inches in the yardseam of a coal pit, yet almost
within earshot of aid and rescue ?
Let us not look idly on at such a spectacle as
this. The other day when a great man died a
courtly Bishop, by way of improving the occa-
sion, began unctuously to mete out judgments
to the people in the name of Providence. How
do Bishops, courtly or popular, moralise on the
chaos of mortal destinies in a coalpit ? Around
that pit's mouth stood the aged and infirm, weak
women with infants at the breast, and children just
able to say " father"—widowed, orphaned, home-
less, desolate as the survivors of a city sacked by
an invading army, torn up by an earthquake, or
overwhelmed by a volcano. The buried men and
lads below represent the destruction of a British
army or the loss of a British fleet. Rude in speech,
coarse in manners, they have not escaped the cari-
caturist or the social homilist—this hardy and en-
during population of miners—the very pith and
marrow of our race, who sustain on Atlantean
shoulders the weight of the prosperity of England,
as in life long darkness, and amidst dangers inces-
nways imminent,
they explore the secret
ssoaurt andce al
national wealth and power—to whose
sources of
unknown and unrecorded martyrdom we owe not
only the cheerful light and warmth of our dwellings
and our streets, but the very means by which the
strength of England subsists, and the peaceful vic-
tories of our civilisation are achieved.
Does the British public as it sits by its fireside
ever spare a thought to these true paladins of the
nineteenth century—these nameless champions, but
for whose strong arms and patient spirits neither
Downing-street, nor Whitehall, nor Woolwich, nor
Portsmouth could maintain the honour and the
rights of England for a single day ? Chivalry and
courage, and heroic virtues, are not found only in
camps and on quarter-decks. Let us celebrate the
heroes of gazettes in sonorous bulletins and pomp-
ous volumes ; let us raise monumental trophies of
their prowess in public places ; let us reward the
shattered survivors of campaigns with pensions;
let us comfort our invalided veterans in hospitals.
But let those humble but not less heroic men of
peaceful labour and enduranco, who absolutely make
England, and who, it may be, die as these two
hundred and fifteen men and lads in the Hartley
pit have died, at work and duty, be not forgotten
wherever at this season public charity is something
better than an ostentatious and organised hypocrisy.
When the working people of Lyons were the victims
of an inundation, the City of London called a meet-
ing to subscribe to their relief, The widows and
orphans of these poor buried colliers will, we trust,
excite at least equal commiseration, not in the
capital only, but in all those commercial and indus-
trial centres, and in all those houses of the highborn
and the wealthy, whose honours and riches and
comforts have been wrung from the labours of such
men as those who lay last night locked together,
father and child, son and brother, in the last em-
brace, in the yardseam of the Hartley Pit—buried
alive.

What would the spear and bucket weigh P—l am
sure I cannot tell.

Mr. Dunn—There was a column of water also
upon it P— Yes.
•

Coroner—What weight was the cage P—l cannot
tell.
A Juror—About 15 cwt.

Mr. Dunn—Did she work well after you got the
new brasses in P—She went down upon the old
brasses again. We never got the new ones in ; but
she wrought as usual.
Then, she was working precisely in the same way
as she had done all along P—Yes, sir.
Coroner—And the engine has been working upon
the old brasses since ?—Yes, sir.

Up to the time of the accident ?—Yes.
You have seen the fracture of the beam ; did it
appear to be sound P—No, sir, it seemed to be honey-
combed or to have air-holes in the metal.

Is that the case at each side of the gudgeons ?
Yes, sir.

Mr. Dunn—Did you measure the depth of the
honeycombing P—No, sir.
Mr. Dunn—lt is about 1, foot deep.
Coroner—Would that lessen the strength of the
beam in your opinion P—Well, sir, I think it would;
it is not solid, you know.
Could any thing have gone wrong in the shaft
and have laid extra stress upon the beam ?—No,
sir, I think not. I think she was going very
" canny" at the time ; just going her usual speed.
Did you ever hear of an engine-beam breaking
before ?—Yes. I have heard of engine-beams break•
in g.

Where ?—'There was a break-down at Cowpen
there.

How long ago am sure I can't say, but it is
a few years since. Only one plate was broken there.
Mr. Dunn—lt was a double plate ?—Yes.
Has this beam one side or two P—Two sides ; it
is a double plate.
Coroner—How are they connected together ?
By bolts and studs.
Mr. Dunn—Who was at it, and bad the manage-
ment of the lifting beam P—Mr. John Short, the
enginewright.
NEW HARTLEY, NooN.

The work has been going on vigorously in the
shaft, and the canvass brattice is now complete.
The men are securing it with bunting. The sides of
the shaft are also being made very secure. Mr. G.
B. Foster and Mr. Daglish have been down to the
high seam, and have recently come to bank, They
report very favourably of an improvement in the air,
and the shaft seems to be clearing itself of the foul
vapours. It is confidently expected that the yard
seam may be reached in a few hours, and it is sup-
posed that mach of the stones and rubbish has fallen
from between the timbers to the bottom of the shaft.
The pitmen from adjacent collieries got somewhat
impatient this morning, but the exact state of affairs
having been represented to them, they became satis-
fied. A report will be made to them every four hours
of the progress of the work. Mr. Holt, the master
diver employed by the River Tyne Commissioners,
has conic out this morning with a diving bell, and
there are various other expedients suggested to force
a way through the gas supposed to exist in the
shaft ; but the authorities in charge, sustained as
they are by the most experienced mining engineers
in the coal trade, carry out their own plan. About
50 picked miners have been employed by shifts, in
the operations that have gone on in the shaft. Two
sections of the most experienced men in the coal
trade are banded together for the purpose of ex-
ploring the workings as soon as the state of the
air will admit.

DIRECT TAXATION.

For the first time in the history of this country, it
has become necessary for the Government to levy
direct taxes, on a scale of gigantic magnitude.
Besides the revenue from taxes upon imports, the
Government requires at least one hundred millions
of dollars a-year to be raised by direct taxation.
To enable the country to realise this vast amount,
everything taxable should be taxed. All profes-
sions, all incomes, all real estate, all personal pro-
perty, should be taxed within due limits, but
to an extent hitherto unprecedented on this
side the Atlantic. The Government may not
find it necessary to levy such minute and exorbi-
tant taxes as those of England, where, according
to Sidney Smith, people have been taxed upon
every conceivable necessity, comfort, convenience,
and luxury, from the cradle to the grave ; where
the schoolboy whips a taxed top ; where the youth
rides a taxed horse over a taxed road ; where the
old man is medicined with taxed drugs, makes his
will upon taxed paper, dies on a taxed bed, and is
buried in a taxed coffin ; but still, as the remedy is
necessary and unavoidable, we hope that the Go-
vernment will make it strong enough to be com-
pletely efficacious. Receipt stamps, window lights,
gold watches, books, newspapers and newspaper
advei tisements, horses and carriages, lottery dealers,
grogshops, banks, insurance companies, incorpora-
tions, brokers' stalls—everything and everybody
taxable should be taxed. Those who can afford to
drive or ride fine horses about the Central Park
should be made to pay 150 dole. a year for each
animal,and the privilege. Those who can afford to
keep cats and dogs should pay a dollar per head for
the enjoyment. Those who can afford to carry
willwhat pay
it
sh
impossiblees e taxes
is
watches, and beindependent of the City-hall clock,
should pay for their conveniences. To say that the
to
obuatv
asaidy.ingTothaaatytthheayt
will d people
o
they will pay these taxes cheerfully and willingly
is but to say that they love their country, that they
are grateful for past immunities, benefits, and
blessings derived from their
country, and that they
desire to have their country preserved and perpe-
tuated. We should be grateful that the Govern-
ment affords every man an opportunity to do some-
thing for his country—to make sacrifices, to sub-
mit to deprivations for his country's sake. The
country has never asked any such thing before.
Direct taxation now affords every stay-at-home
patriot a chance to be a hero. It will do all of us
good to be obliged to pay cash down for our privi-
leges. It will teach us to prize, to appreciate, to enjoy,
to cherish them more. We shall learn to guard them
better from corrupt politicians and swindling lob-
byists, who sow the seeds of treason. Ballots will
seem more valuable after we have fairly paid for the
balls and bullets which careless, wrong, or neglected
votes have rendered necessary. The rebels are
learning to appreciate the preciousness of a good.
and free government by the sacrifices they have to
endure in their insane effort to destroy the Union.
same lesson by the We will learn precisely the
sacri-
fices we shall be obliged to endure to preset ye the
Union. North and South we shall have better
patriots, better men, better Americans, and a better
the war is
when over
country, and peace again
brings plenty.—/fete York Herald.

NORTH SHIELDS, 10 P.M.
The sad tragedy at Hartley Colliery has been
revealed to us in all its horrors this evening.
The cloth brattice was completed this afternoon,
and cleared the shaft to some extent of gas. Three
pitmen (volunteers) went down, penetrated the ob-
struction, got into the yard seam by the engine drift,
and found men lying dead at the furnace. They
pushed their way through. The air was bad. Within
this door they found a large body of men sleeping
the sleep of death. They retreated, and came to
bank with the appalling intelligence.
Mr. Humble, viewer of the colliery, and Mr. Hall
immediately went down, and returned in an hour
and a half. Both had to be taken off the sling,
seriously affected by gas. They have been
through the works, and found no living man, but
a hecatomb of dead bodies. The bulk of then bodiesare lying in the gallery near the shaft. A
affect-
ing report, which has touched all hearts, has been
made by them. Families are lying in groups ;
children in the arms of their fathers ; brothers with
brothers, Most of them looked placid, as if asleep,
but higher up, near the furnace, some tall stout men
seemed to have died hard. The corn-bins were all
cleared. Some few of the men had a little corn in
their pockets. A pony was lying dead among the
men, but untcuched.
Several volunteers have since penetrated the
workings, and confirm this statement. Nearly all
of them, however, have been brought to bank
seriously affected by gas.
There was great danger of more men losing their
lives. Medical men, of whom there were large
numbers at the colliery, held a council at 8 o'clock,
and by their advice no more men will be allowed
to go down until the ventilation is improved.
It will be some time before the bodies can be
brought to bank.
A telegram was received from her
afternoon asking intelligence as otMhesjhesotpyesthoist
saving the men.

(From the Daily News)
The other day it was our painful office to relate
the sufferings and death of a party of brave and
devoted explorers of the Australian continent. The
story was heroic enough but the party were civi
lians, and a jaded public sees no materials for a
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sensation in the noiseless fate of a few enterprising
trearvneells:srs:
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dernesses, sheer starvation
when their work is done.
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for some new effects; and how many of them are
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