The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-12 00:00:00

RIOTOUS- PROCEEDINGS AT-KIL-

LIN Gr WOR I'II COLLIERY,

NEWCA TI.E-01!•;-TYNE, TUE,,DAY.—It will he remem-
ba-ed that, some time ago, there was a general strike
among the pitmen employed in the collieries of the Tyne
and the, We,r. That s7rike lasted several month 3, and
the men ultimately returned to their employment with-
out hqvieg gsinad the ob;ects they sought to obtain.
Tney were lizerally " starve d " into submission, fur their
union fluid; were exhausted and their credit was sus-
peeded. Recently, however, they have adopted the
plan of striking in detachments, and while the men at
one or two collieries remained idle, they were supported
by those who continued in employment. Under this
plan there have been strikes at Hartley and Hallowell,
and the men are now on strike at Killingworth and West
Moor collieries, belonging to Lord Ravensworth and
partners. The strike at the latter collieries was con-
tinued for some weeks, and there being no prospect of
an amicable arrangement, the men have lately resorted
!o very unlawful means to enforce their demands. No
actual broach of the peace, however, took place till
last night, when a number of men disguised, some
being dressed in women's clothes, and others in masks
with their coats turned inside out, assembled at West
Moor colliery, and proceeded to destroy the works.
They drove the men that were there away, threw
the corves and materials on the surface down the
shaft, gutted the houses of one of the men who had not
joined in the strike, assailed the police, and broke the
windows of the colliery offices. Intelligence of these
riotous proceedings having been conveyed to Newcastle,
a large body of police, under Mr. Stephens, proceeded
to the colliery, armed with cutlasses. On their approach
the rioters fled, but were pursued, and six of the leaders
captured, who were brought in custody to Newcastle,
and after undergoing a preliminary examination before
the magistrates to-day, were remanded till Saturday.
The names of the prisoners are William Arnott, Mat-
thew Teasdale, David White, Johu Baxter, and Henry
Walker.

Mr. Stephens stated that he had received a letter from
Mr. Johnson, the viewer at the colliery, stating that he
was apprehensive of another outbreak to-night ; that
great damage had been done to property; and rf questing
the aid of the military. Mr. Stephens added that he had
been in communication with Colonel Pole, who had said
he would render every assistance to the civil power.
It was accordingly arranged that the military should be
called upon if necessary. A considerable number of the
Newcastle police have been sworn in as special con
stables for the county of Northumberland, to meet the
emergency.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
GREAT INDIAN PENINSULAR.
A special meeting of this company. was held yester-
day at the offices, New Broad-street, for the. purpose of
considering and approving of a Bill now before Parlia-
went to incorporate the company, Lord Wharncliffe
in
the chair.
The CHAIRMAN briefly stated the object of the meet-
ing, and alluded to the difficulties which the directors
had to encounter during the early stages of the Bill in
the House of Commons, and to the consequent delay
which would have prevented the passing of the Bill this
session were it not fur the kind assistance rendered to
the company by the Government and the Board of Con-
trol. It was absolutely necessary they should have the
sanction of Parliament to carry out the undertaking with
a view to remove all doubts on the subject, and to limit
the liabilities of the shareholders.
Mr. BORRETT, the solicitor, read the preamble and
siOeheads of the 11111, which stated that the company
would come under the regulations of the Companies
Clauses Consolidation Act, that the directors may enter
into arrangements with the East India Company; sp,ci
lying the capital to be 500,0001., in shares of 5/. each.
with power to increase the shares to 251. or 501. each;
that the number of the directors may- be increased from
sight to nineteen; and that the capital may be increa,seo
tor extensions ut the line with the consent of the Eas'
India company and of the shareholders.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the resolution for the ap-
proval of the Bill, said that the dame giving power to
increase the capital further extensions of the line was
inserted at the request of the East Board.
slr. COLQUHOUN secs uded the resolution, which etas
put and carried una iimously.
In answer to questions it was stated that the prelimi-
naly expenses, up to the 2Sth of March last, amounted
to 25,0001., which would be included in the capital upon
which they would rec( ive 5 per cant. interest. The
shares upon which 103. only had been paid would be
placed upon the same lowing as those shares upon which
51. had been paid in full. The present guarantee was
upon 500,0001., which they calculated would be ample to
complete the first section the line, about 35 miles in
length. The contract with the East India Company would
be signed as soon as possible atter the Bill receives the
royal assent. Every difficulty with regard to the ar-
rangements has been removed, and nothing remained but
to carry them into effect.
The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to
:he chairman and directors.

YORK, NEWCASTLE, AND BERWICK.
Yesterday the adjourned meeting of ihis company
took place at York, but as notice had been given that a
further adjournment would take place, the attendance of
proprietors was viry limited. Mr. R. Davies took the
chair.
The LORD MAYOR of YORK said the Committee of In-
vestigation very deeply regretted that circumstances had
arisen to prevent them presenting their second report on
this occasion. They might, perhaps, have bad it ready
on the Monday; but as it was of considerable extent,
they were anxious that the shareholders should have
more time, so that they might go coolly and deliberately
through the whole before the day of meeting. The com-
mittee hoped to place the report in the hands of the
shareholders not later than Friday evening, and this
would give them an ample opportunity of perusing it.
He, therefore, begged to move that this meeting be ad-
journed to Thursday, the 19th instant.
Mr. LOVE seconded the motion.
Mr. CRAYTOR said he wished to inquire whether the
report would be a final one?
The LORD MAYOR—NO. _ _ _

Mr. CHATTOR then asked what further period would
be required to finish the lab ,urs of the committee?
The LORD MAYOR could not answer that question.
He could assure the Hon. Proprietor that tho labours of
the committee were very great; they worked long hours,
and did all they could to git through their duties as soon
as possible. lie hoped they would be able to state at
the next meeting tl-H period when they would make their
final report.
Mr. CHAYTOR was quite sure the shareholders must
be greatly gratified with the exertions of the committee
but he felt that whilst matters were going on as at pre-
sent, the board of directors must be paralysed from not
being complete, and a pecially as important transactions
were before them, such as the settlement of the Great
North of England purchase, the period for which is fast
approaching, lie therefore gave notice that at the next
meeting he should move the following resolution:—
" That the number of directors be increased to twelve,
and that the present directors be requested to call a
special meeting for their election; that the names of the
persons proposed as new directors shall be sent to the to-
cretary by any shareholder, and the secretary shall in-
form the shareholders of the same in the circular calling
the meeting, at which meeting they shalt ballot for the
requisite number out of the said names; that it is highly
xpedient to complete the new board of directions, in or-
der that the afnirs of the c..mpsny may not suffer from
a continuance of the present uncet taint)."
Tire motion for the adjournment was then carried.
The meeting then separated.

.17
AUDIT OF RAILWAY__ACCOUNTS
BILL.
The following are the sections in the Bill which has
been read a third time in the House of Lords and which
is now bt,f ore the House ot Commons, for atditingsail•
way accounts:—
til.yay accounts to be kept under three sepEraeit tk
heads or oivisioro,; viz., Periamentary Account, Capital
Account, and Rev. nue Account.—Sect. 1.
Every such account to be made out to 30th of June
and 31st of December, and to be according to the forms
in the schedule.-2.
Accounts to be mace out in tripleoate, and two copies
transmitted to Co ntaissionera of Railways. 3.
Accounts to be transmitted monthly to Commissioners
of Railways.-4.
Commissioners may require accounts 40 be made out
in a different form, and order for that purpose to be
published in Gazette.-5, and G.
Commissioners of Railways to appoint an auditor to
audit the accounts in conjunction with the auditors ap-
pointed by company.-7.
Directors to deliver duplicates of the accounts to the
company's auditors.-8.
Scheme to be laid before auditors where dividend in-
tended to be declared.-9. •
Auditors to examine accounts, and to inspect books,
and call for vouchers, 80.-10.
Auditors either to make a special report on accounts
or confirm the same ; in case of difference of opinion
separate reports to be made.-11.
Reports to be prepared in duplicate, one copy to be
transmitted to directors for next ordinary meeting, and
the other copy to the Commissioners.-12.
The accounts audited, together with the auditor's re-
port, to be laid before the meeting.-13.
In default of company's auditors, the other auditor
may act alone.--14.
Auditors may employ accountants, &c.-15.
Cots of auditors to be defrayed by company, and if
required may be taxed by taxing officer of the House of
Commons.-18.
Penalty on the company for default in transmitting
accounts or producing documents, as required
.by the
Act.-17.
Taxation of bills of costs for legal and Parliamentary
expenses.-IS.
Auditors elected by company not required to be share-
holders.-19.

bhareholders may inspect company's books of account
for fourteen days previous to each ordinary half-yearly
meeting, and for one month thereafter.-20.
Register of shareholders and register of transfers to lie
open tor inspection of shareholders.-21.
Act to be construed with Companies Clauses Act.
—22.

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.
NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, JOLT 10.—There 13 an
unusually small show of beasts on offer here to-day, includ-
ing about 100 from the North of Scotland by sea, which are
of a very indifferent quality; of sheep and lambs the supply
is also short, the quality of the former is tolerably good, but
the latter is in middling condition. The supply of beef would
comprise 36.1 head of beasts—the falling off in the numbers,
and there being good attendance of buyers, htts caused prices
to advance from 3d to 61 per stone, otherwise the h
-eet trade
is dull, yet all will be sold. kThe number of sheep and lambs
is 5,500. The mutton trade is more active, yet prices have
undergone little altoration, very little remains on hand.
Lambs are in brisk demand, And prices have advanced from
Is to Is 61 on former rates, and all sold. Prices—Beasts,
prime Scots, 6s 9:1; middling, 6s 31 to 64 6d ; good steers,
6s to 6. 3 1; middling, 5s 9d ; inferior, 5s per stone of 141bs.
Sheep, 5:1 to sid ; lambs, 6d to Is a-head more per lb, sinking
the offal.
EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, JULY 10.—There Ware
in the market to-day 71 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2801b3
imperial, which sold thus: —3B at 1! 105 Od, 13 at 11 9s 6d.
6 at I/ 9s Od, 8 at 1: 8,6 d, 1 at 1/ Ss Od, 0 at 117 s Od.
Average price of the whole, 11 9s 7d 2- 12ths. 7 sacks flour,
whereof 2 sold at 325, 2at 30s, 3at 295, and oat 28s. 1 sack
!•arley meal, which was not sold. 13 sacks pot-barley, whereof
7 sold thus: —1 at it 9s Od, 1 at 1/ is t.d, 1 at 11 4s 6d,
3 at 114 s Os, 1 at 113 s Od. 2 sacks brosemeal, none Fold.
EDINBURGH HAT AND STRAW MARKET, JULY 10.—
Supplirs of ad kinds moderate. Oat straw, from 5s Od to
7s Od per kemple of 16 stones tron ; wheat ditto, 5s 01 to
6s Od ; barley ditto, 5s od to 6s 6d. Hay from 7d to 9d per
stone.

BELFAST, JULY 9.—The supplies of grain since Friday
are small, and prices remain unchanged. Wneat, from 99 3d
to lOs 9d:: barley, 6s 6d to 7s tid; oats, 65 9a to 79 6d;
oatmeal, from lls 9d to I2s 9d per cwt. Indian corn
is in fair demand at 8/ 7s 6d to 8/ 10s for

)ellow, and 81 Iss for white. Potatoes, per stone, 9d to11d;
ditto, per cwt, 5s 4rl to 6s Od ; new, 10d to is 3d per stone.
Fruit—Apples, per dozen, 6d to 9d ; pears, per ditto, Od to Od;
grapes, per lb., 8d to led ; lemons, per dozen, Os 9d to Os 10d;
nuts, per quart, 6ri to Pd; wall-nuts, per hundred, Is to Is 3d;
chest nuts, per ditto, is Od to Os ; cocoa nuts, 6d to 8d each;
American apples, led to Is ed per dozen ; mixed pickles, 10d to
Is. Butchers' Meat—beef, per lb, 4d to 7d; mutton, 5d
to 7d ; veal, 5d to 61c1; lamb, 5d to 6.0 per lb.
Fish—Trout, Os 6d per lb ' • brett, 3s Od to 41 Od;
soles, is to 2s Od per pair ; salmon, 6il per lb; lobsters, from
6d to is 6d each ; crabs. 6d to 3s per &sten, at Keane's, Wil-
son's-court. Poultry—Fowls, 2s to 2s 6d a•pair ; chicken's,
Is 6d to 2s per pair ; ducks, Or to 2s 6d ; turkeys, Os to Os
each ; geese, Os Od to Os Od ; eggs, per doz, 6d to 7d. Hay,
old, Is 2d to 2s Od; new ditto, Is to Is 6d; straw, oat, 8d to Is
44 ; ditto, wheat, 9d to Is 2d per ewt.

COAL MARKET

:.-YESTERDIT.

Buddle's W. Hartley.. 13s 6diSouth Hartlepool
Carr's Hartley
East Adairs Main..... 12s 6d Whitworth l3s 9d
Hasting's Hartley l3s 6(1 i;owndon Tees ... ..... 151 6d
New Tanfield l2s 6d ,Pease
Ravensworth'sW.Hart 12s 6d;St. Helen's Tees
Tanfield Moor .... l2s 6d Tees
Walker's Primrose ... 12s 6d West Cornforth .. 152 6d
Wall's End, &c. West Het ton lss 6d
Eden Main • 168 Od Cowpen Hartley
Bell
Stewart'.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, ,IDLY Ir.
STOCK E XCITANGS.—The market has been flat, the business done
being confined to Great Western, Quarters, which were do. .e at 5%
dia., and New 171. Shares, at 3% dis.
LIVERPoOL, JULY 11.
STocrt Exert...Nos.—The share market was quiet and 'steady
to-day. Prices, however, are about the same, and a fair amount of
business was transacted. The market closed firmly for London and
North-Western, and all the Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock. The
sales are Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, $5% dLs.
13olton. Clltheroe, and West Yorkshire (North-Western, B, guar-
anteed 6 per c00t.,) IN—Great Northern, 5 per cent. Preference.
IC, dia.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Consol., Fifths, 3% dis.—Ditto,
Halves (Huddersfield and Shrewsbury), 10 dis.— Ditto, Halves (L.
and B.), 9!4 dia.— London and North-Western, New Quarters, 3% p.—
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Preference, 11%—Midiand.
66—Ditto, Halves, 12% dis.—North Union (A), 226—Shrewsbury
and Birmingham (B), 414 dia.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Ori-
ginal Newcastle, and Berwick), 201—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase, G per
cent. till 1850), dis.—York and North Midlanl, 29 X ,
MANCHESTER, JotY 11. •
STOCK EXCIIANGIL—The transactions to-day were as follow :
Leeds, Halves, 9 dis.—Ditto, Thirds (32/. Shares), 6 13-16 dis.—
Dico dls.— Seeffleld, Preference. 114 Clltheroe, Prefer-
ence, 17% —Bolton and Bury, 19 dla. —1 01,4 r (So. 4), GS ex in.
YORK, Jun id.
Stocs EICHANGE.—The transactions to-day have been as fol-
low: Great Northern, 10% —North British, Preference, 2/. 10s. 6d.
—North Staffordshire, 13—Sheffield, Rotheriam, and Goole, N. Div..
guaranteed 5 per cent , 114—York, Newcastle, and Berwick 2914
14—York and North Midland, Pre'
—Ditto (Newcastle Extension),
terence, b .

GLASGOW, Jurs 10. ~ .
STOCK EXCHANGE—Me trallSaletiolli to-day were as follow:—
Glasgow. Kihnarnock, and Ayr, 55—Ditto (5 per cent. guaranteed).
103—North British, Preference, 49e Gil.—Stirling and Dunfermline.
4y4—Wilsontown, Morning'slde. and Coltneee, New, 411.

FIRE IN LAMBETH.—Yesterday morning, about
five o'clock, a fire, attended with a considerable destruc-
tion of properly, and nearly land results to the inmates,
broke out upon the premises belonging to Mr. C. Ouch-
rune, a corn and seed merchant, carrying on business in
the New-cut, Lambeth, next door to the Windmill Ta-
vern. The discovery was !Lade by Police-constable 196
of the L division, through seeing a body of smoke pour-
ing forth from the basemi-nt floor. The cfficer initne-
distely aroused the residents, when they found the fumes
ascending the staircase so fiercely as to prevent their
descending. They immediately went to the second floor,
bu'. there tisey were followed by the fire, and they were
at length obliged to jump upon a leaden roof over one of
the setires filled with itihhe hay' azin
sdhosttrtahwro.
u•glhVhitst waiting
therefir a
and trap-dooe, so that nothing but destruction stared
them in the face. Two pollee officers having got a short
ladder, they held it out at arms length in the form of
a bridge, over which the parties passed into the house
adjoining. Nearly three hours elapsed ere the fire was
extinguished, and not until the whole of Mr. Cochrane's
furniture, wearing apparel, and at ek in trade were de-
stroN ed, and the pre mises ready gutted. '
DREADFUL SHIPWRECK. THIRTEEN PERSONS
STARVED TO DEATII.—By the Emma Sherratt, which
arrived yesterday, from Sydney, p!,rticulars have beau
received relative to the loss of the British ship Sarah
Crisp, Captain Taylor master, and the appalling suffer-
ings of the crew, thirteen of whom perished from starva-
tion. The Emma Sherratt, on her outward voyage to
Houg-Kong, in lat. 170. 28. N., long. 116.5. E , per-
ceiving a vessel in distress, bore down to her assist-
ance, and she proved to bo the unfortunate vessel in
question. She was teak laden, and waterlogged—almost
a perfect wreck—her masts were gone, as well as every-
thing on deck. With much care, nineteen persons, in a
most shocking state of exhaustion, were takenp oeffd
wreck by the Emma Sherratt's boats. They theto
Long, - therov
chief
be Capt:in Taylor, the master;
beenwreck, truly
awful—they bad been 27 nights Jr
mate; and 17 seamen. Their
dayssufferringr.s
and
hadonb.
,
was about a couple of
fish. All the water they had with nothing to subsist on excepting ing a monkey two
buckets, which they csught by some old canvass.te and 12 seamen had died from want Of sub-
and
The
second ma
The ship' s loss was attributed to a' plank
SlStel9co.
turned
over
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starting, a. she filled in very time,short
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th eorvesri,dca.ndTthheercerehweldj
they succeeded in righting the wreck by cutting away
the mast. Her poop. and forecastle were Washed away.
Not a vestige of provbions that were below could be
procured. The wreck is supposed to have parted and
disappeared FOOD after the Emma
Sherratt left. The
vessel and cargo were insured to the '
amount of 20,0001.
Tuc MARBLE Ancu.—We have no faith 'in the
stat,tnent of some of our contemporariekt, that the
marble arch is going to Windsor. Our correspondent
puts boor, us tho suggestion made in the A thenceunt,
that it should be erected in front of the British Museum.
W e incline much more strongly to the suggestion in bur
own pages (among twenty others), that it should be made
to form a fitting entrance to St. Jaines's-park. at
Spring-gardens, where such is much needed. -7 T4e
Builder.
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