The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-26 00:00:00

We learn that a general meeting of the members
of the new Military and County Service Club was held
on Wednesday last, iu St. James's-street, Lieutenant-
General Sir Charles Napier in the chair, supported by
the Earl of Cardigan (11th Hussars), Lieut.-General Sir
Augustus Da Butts, K.C.H., General Sutherland, Major
Sir Wyndham Anstruther, Bart., Lieut.-Colonel Brand-
ling, Sir Matthew Wyatt, and other officers. The re-
port of the managing committee was read, by which it
appears above 400 members have already enrolled, em-
bracing the Lames of officers in the cavalry and infantry
in the Queen's and Company's army. The selection of
a site for the new club-house was carried unanimously in
favour of Crockford's Club-house, in St. James's-street,
which has accordingly been taken on a long lease. The
house will be at once decorated and furnished in the
most complete manner, and be ready for the occupation
of the members early in March. It was proposed by the
Earl of Cardigan, sad seconded by Lieutenant. General
Sir Charles Napier, that the officers of the Royal Navy
and the Hon. Company's Navy be also admissible as
members. This was carried unanimously.
Our mercantile advices from Vienna to the 18th
inst. mentions an announcement upon authority that
the contract for the new loan of 8,000,0001. sterling
will be deferred till March. Ia consequence of this
resolution the funds had experienced an advance of be-
tween one and two per cent., and the Five per Cents.
were quoted 85. i. In Bank Shares also there had been
a very considerable rise. The foreign exchanges, how-
ever, were still unfavourable, the rate on London being
as high as 11.23, although the Bank was understood
to have discontinued purchasing. The feeling of general
confidence with respect to trade was steadily increasing,
but the condition of the various manufacturing interests
is yet complained of, the recent improvement being great
only when compared with the terrible state of things
during the past year. It is estimated that in the cotton
manufactories (except as regards yarn, in which branch
there is fall activity) the present employment is not
more than two-thirds of its ordinary amount; that in
those for wool and linen it is not more than one-half,
and in those for silk scarcely more than a third.
THE NEW MAGISTRATES FOR MIDDLESEX.—
following is a correct list of the gentlemen who have just
been added to the commission for Middlesex :—David
Salomone, Esq., alderman of London, 91, Great Cumber-
land place; Richard Edward Arden, Esq., 4, Bedford-
square; George Cooper, Esq., Brentford; Edward Harris
Donneshorne, Esq., Twickenham ; James Montgery,
Esc,., Brentford; John Laurie, Esq., Thomas Turner,
Esq., Hampstead; John Samuel Tanqueray, Esq., Hen-
don; Thomas Henry Allen Poynder, Esq., Harley-street;
Daniel Harrison, Esq., Chaseside, Enfield ; Henry
Lang, Esq., Montagu-square; George Charles Bing-
ham, Earl of Lucan, 20, Hanover-square; Edward Smith
Bigg, 45, Tavistock-place; John Walter, Esq., M.P.
68, Russell-square; Gerard Noel Hoare, Esq., Mill-hill,
Hendon ; John Frederick Stanford, Langham-place ;
Edward Henry Nixon, Esq., Bladen-hill, Old Bromp-
ton; William Henry Hawkins, Esq., Mile-end-road,
south ; John George Hammack, Esq., Mile-end-
road, north ; Nathanield Gould, Esq., 4, Tavistock-
square; John Savery Brooking, Esq., 'l'avistock-square;
Thomas John Hamilton, Earl of Orkney, Taplow-court;
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas George Marriott, Twicken-
ham; Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., M.P., 45, Portland%
place; Richard Stovin Maw, Esq., Ashford-house,
Chertsey; Henry Wilson, Esq., Highbury-bill; Francis
Henry Newland Glossop. Esq., Isleworth; Francis
Lloyd, Dap, Beaufort-lodge, Chelsea; William Glad-
stone, Esq., Highgate; William Williams, Esq., Park-
lane; Henry Granville Fitzallen Howard, Earl of Arun-
del and Surrey, Carlton Houso-terrace; Edmund Edward
ArtrJhus, Esq., Bath-house, Chelsea; Francis Henry
Deane, Esq., Eastcote-houso, Ruislip; William Purton,
Esq., Tottenham• park ; Edward Hanson Denison, Falq.,
Thurlow-park, Brompton ; Robert Jacob Hunsler, Esq.,
Holland-park-terrace; William Cubitt, Esq., Gray's Inn-
lane (late sheriff of London); Charles Hill, Esq., 25,
Hyde-park-square (ditto); Lord Portman; Thomas
Metcalfe Flockton, Esq., Crawford-street; and John
Beake Kirby, Esq., 9, Devonshire-street, Portland-place,
and 5, Elm-court, Temple; Charles Woodward, Esq.,
Compton-terrace.

COLLIERY EXPLOSION.--REPORTED Loss OF FIFTY
Lrves.—About twelve o'clock en We dnesday, a dread-
ful explosion took place at Darley Main Colliery, which
is situated about two miles south of Barnsley. From
inquiries made on the spot, it spears that there were
employed in the mine forty-four getters of coal, who,
along with their hurriers, will amount to about sixty-
six persons. There are also horse-drivers, trappers, and
others, who will amount to six or ten persons, making in' f
the whole between seventy and eighty persons who were
in the pit at the time the explosion took place. At half-
past five o'clock twenty-one persons had been got out,
sixteen alive, most of whom are severely burnt, and five
dead; four of the latter are married persons, some with
very large families. Their names are John Parsons, the
elder, and John Parsons, the younger, father and son;
Amos Harper, who has left a pregnant wife and six
children; Francis Wilson, and a single man named ..p- ,
kinson. Every means are being tried to extricate ne s
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others who are yet in the mine.
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MURDEROUS OUTRAGE.—M. IL
printer in Abbey-street, Bethnal-green,a-!wnd charged
Worship•street, yesterday, with cutting and
to
do him
Lewis Landon, a broker's man, with intent
lainant was some grievous bodily harm. Thecoatp at
the defendant's
em-
ployed to levy a distress for rent
o n,
but had no sooner
house on the previous afternoon,
room than the prisoner
established himself in an upper
prisoner,
the
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who dragged him
flung him down
to the
by main force to the
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moment him
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bottom of the stairs; a
apartment, but
was followed by
took refuge in a lowerei
zedhold of thepoker
the prisoner,
Whi9s him until the and made a
which was als9 r
furious attack upon.
w.,weapon was wrested
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from which it glanced off and laida
force then seized a
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of his cheek. The prisoneer.bltolal
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at him with the knife, and in his efforts to ward them
off, his hand was cut in several places. He was ulti-
mately driven into th© t h n
he obtained the as-
sistance of a policeman,sal:heeot'rewturened with him to the
house and took the prisoner into custody. In answer to
the charge, the prisoner declared that upon entering his
house the Complainant failed to produce any warrant or
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other authority for the seizure, and he, therefore, consi-
dered himself justified in exerting his best efforts to eject
him, but denied having token up a knife or any other
weapon upon the occasion.—The prisoner's journeyman,
however, who was sent for by the magistrate, and gave
his evidence with manifest reluctance, completely con-
firmed the complainant's account of the transaction,
and admitted that the contest was of a protracted and
desperate description, and that the broker's assistant
was Llceding profusely from the wounds he had sus-
tained.—Mr. Ilammill considered the case of far too se-
rious a nature to be summarily dealt with, and ordered
the prisoner to be committed for trial.
ACCIDENT WITH FIRE-ARMS.—An accident which
terminated fatally occurred on the 24 t h inst., at Bicester,
to Master Elliott, aged 17, son of Sir Charles Elliott,
Bart. The unfortunate youth, who was a pupil under
the Rev. J. W. Watts, at the Vicarage, was out in the
fields near the town shooting, in company with Master
Edward Watts. On firing at a blackbird tke gun burst,
and the breach struck hint on the eye, entered the has 4 „
1 and scattered his brains on and about his clothes.