The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-26 00:00:00

chester, cotton spinners and manufacturers—T. Firth
and J. Bottomley, Bradford, Yorkshire, worsted spinners
—W. Sanders, S. Brown, C. Sanders, and J. Sanders
(so far as regards C. Sanders and J. Sanders), Belper,
Derby hire, nail manufacturers—S. Sandhach, 11. R.
Sandbach, and W. F. M'Gregor, Liverpool. engineers
and ironfounders—J. Davis, jun.. and R. Davis, Preat
bury, Gloucestershire, builders—J. Salmon and J. Smith,
jun., Great Oakley, Essex, grocers—J. T. Hanson and
J. Crowther Eccles, Lancashire, wholesale and retail
grocers.
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
James Hopwood, Blackburn, lamplighter.
Henry Clare, Leftwich, Cheshire, waterman.
Walter Beber, Wbitchurch Canonicorum, Dorsetshire,
schoolmaster.
William White, Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, butcher.
James Orpin, Gloucester, coal dealer.
Andrew Octavius Carter, Gloucester, attorney's clerk.
Robert Holliday, Blackburn, Lancashire, innkeeper.
Thomas Jones, Cardiff.
Charles Stewart Sweeny, Studham, Hertfordshire, phy-

sician.
John Bartram, Dunstable, straw hat manufacturer.
John Kent, St. Alban's, journeyman grocer.
Robert Lowther Clarke, St. Alban's, surgeon.
John Jenkins, Athorde-la-Zoucta, Leicestershire, che-

mist.
Thomas Gibbs, St. Alban's, waiter.
Thomas Dracott. Whitwiek, Liecettershire.
William Watts, King's Lynn, Norfolk, auctioneer.
Henry Roman, King's Lynn, Norfolk, cabinetmaker.
William Hudson, Sheffield, butcher.
Joshua Purdy, Sht tfield, tableknife manufacturer.
Henry Dutton, Tarvin, Cheshire, joiner.
Thomas Rogers, Dorchester, tailor.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
A. and W. M'Laren, Montroso, innkeepers, to meet
within the Royal Hotel, Montrose, May 30 and June 22,
at two.

J. Simson, Kinross, manuraottrer, to meet within
Kirkland's Hotel, Kinross, May 30, and June 20, at four.

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown
i or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the returns made n the week ending hi ay 22,
1849, is 265. 44d. per cwt.

DEATH of a LATTER-DAY SAINT
THROUGH REFUSING MEDICAL ADVICE.

A man named John Pugh. belonging to the sect of
Latter-day Saints, was seriously burned at the late
colliery explosion at Aberdare. His brother Saints
refused to permit any medical man to come near him,
and he died in consequence. An inquest was held, at
which two of " the Saints" were:examined; they gave the
following evidence (we copy from the report which
appears in the Principality):—
James Jones (Jim Pontypool) was next called, who
stated that he was a Saint, and according to their creed
no one should send for a doctor, but rely on the ordinances
of their church for cures in all cases, and had it not been
for the weakness of John Pugh's faith he would have
been cured immediately. Having made several other
absurd and most contradictory statements, several of the
jurors said they could not believe him on his oath.
With this the Deputy-Coroner quite agreed, and he was
dismissed without being sworn.
William Sims was next called, who also stated that
he was a Saint and an elder in the Church of Christ.
On the day John Pugh met with the accident he was
sent for. He went and anointed him with oil, and ad-
ministered the ordinances of the Church of Christ. He
was perfectly sure had John Pugh's faith been good he
would have cured him that instant. He tried him again
several times, but the deceased's faith was too weak each
time. He knew that Dr. Evans had offered his service
to attend the deceased, but that John Pugh wished to
try the ordinances of the Church of Christ, and if that
failed then he would have a medical man. Though I
failed to cure him I did not advise the propriety of having
a doctor. It is my duty as an elder to exhort our people
to trust to the ordinances of the Church for cures in all
cases, and not to medical men. Still we would not ex-
clude any one from having a doctor. He knew that the
deceased was delirious for several days before he died,
stlil he took no steps to have a proper medical man to
see him. Ido most solemnly declare that if all the flesh
was burnt off my hand this moment that my blessing
would cure it in an instant. I have cured myself many
times. I have cured my wife frequently, and I have per-
formed instantaneous cures on my children by my bles-
sing only, and had John Pugh's faith been good I would
have cared him like putting one hand in the other.
The jury returned the following verdict:—" We find
that the deceased John Pugh died from the effects of
an accident caused by an explosion of fire-damp at
Werfa Colliery, May Bth, and the culpable neglect of
his attendants, who were members of a certain society
called the Latter-day Saints, in refusing to permit a me.
dical gentleman to attend to his case. The jurors beg in
the strongest language to censure the conduct of these
deluded people, and caution them not to repeat their
foolish practices in future."
The verdict was read in open court by the Deputy-
Coroner, who advised the Saints, and said that the jury
had been exceedingly lenient, and that the verdict was
a very merciful one. He fully expected to have had to
commit several of them for manslaughter, but as it was
they had a most narrow escape this time, and he trusted
that the serious caution of the jury would have due
weight with them. Had they not put the fault upon the
poor man now dead, nothing could have prevented them
from being sent to another tribunal.
The proceedings lasted for nine hours.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT LANT-

WIT VA RDRE COLLIERY.

SEVEN LIVES LOST.

Last week we gave particulsra of a fatal accident at
the Werra Coniery, by means of which two of our fel-
low-creatures vv, re brought to an untimely grave. No
sooner had the intelligence appeared in our columns,
than another fearful and more distressing accident oc•
caned at Lantwit Vardre colliery, near Treforest, be-
longing to Thos. Powell, Esq., the extensive colliery
proprietor, when five men were killed on the spot, and
others dreadfully injured.
It appears that there are two pits at the colliery,
worked by the same machinery, so that the weight de•
scending into one pit enables the engineer to raise the
weight in the other with comparative ease. On Friday
eight the chain belonging to one of the pits was broken,
which led to the temporary suspension of the works.
There was left, therefure, but one pit in working order,
and the weight of materials ascending or descending it
must have been, consequently, borne by the engine itself'.
About one o'clock on Saturday morning the foreman
made application to the engineer to let him down the pit,
but was refused, the engineer very properly wishing to
ascertain by daylight whether or not not any injury had
been done to the machinery by the accident of the pre-
vious night. About four, having first of all examined the
engine and found everything safe, he let three men down
the pit, who reached the bottom in safety. About
seven o'clock, John Jones, a contractor or underground
steward, came to the engineer, accompanied by three or
four other men, and requested to be 14 t down also. The
engineer, we were given to understand, remonstrated with
him, he being anxious to test the machinery by some dead
weight; but it was to no purpose. The engineer then set
the engine in order, and when the carriage was descend-
ing the pit, he perceived that a considerable number of men
had entered it. They had not descended more than seven
or ten yards More the engineer heard a crack or a jerk
in the machinery. He instantly stopped the engine,
examined it, and found it out of " gear." The unfortu-
nate though reckless men in the pit, by this time per-
ceiving their dangerous position, cried out, and called
on the engineer to raise them. He attempted, and
while doing so the engine lost all power over the
fly-wheel, and the natural consequence was, that
the poor fellows were precipitated to the bottom
of the pit, nearly one hundred yards deep.
The heavy chain a hich suspended the carriage then telt
with great force on them. Every effort was then made
to assist the sufferers, and it was not until one o'clock
that all the bodies were taken out. Medical aid was
immediately sent for, and every attention was paid to the
injured. It is rather remarkable that the only man whose
injuries were comparatively light was a stranger, who
had gone with the men to see the pit.-7 he Principality.

ANECDOTE OF THE LATE ADMIRAL SIR NESBIT
WILLOUGHBY.—He was the greatest " dare-devil " of
his day. On one occasion he had been sent from his
ship in commend of the boats to board an enemy's pri-
vateer. The privateer proved to be well manned and
armed, and the boats suffered a good deal in pulling up
to her. Willoughby was encouraging his men in every
possible way ,by word and deed. W hen his boat nt ared
the privateer she was prepared to resist them; • when
Lieutenant Willoughby, taking off his hat, flung it over
the quarter on the deck of the vessel, exclaiming, "A
gallon of rum to the fellow who gives it me back."
Willoughby was the first to board himself, but it is un-
derstood that three or four fellows claimed the grog,
which was divided amongst them. The privateer was
taken, but with considerable loss, as her crew far out-
numbered the people in the boats.
LINNJEAN SOClETY.—Thursday the annual 'general
meeting of this society, which was establisf ed in 1788,
was held in the house of the institution, Soho-square;
the Bishop of Ipswich in the chair. The usual routine
business having been disposed of, the Secretary read the
report, from which it appeared that during the past year
many valuable presents had been madetothe
osfoeiety,
both in the shape of books and rare specimens
natu-
ral history. Deserving of notice was
Antechningar ofver Ni-mesis Divine;"
1 a portrait
of
fnsneirs
Joseph Banks was presented by a
which
oviw',att
that
of
the
lithographic portraits, one of whl h
n cwere
f
8831., and the dit•buriements 631 L,
.1
Bishop of Norwich. The receipts foarvintghea
e the session, and
`252/. Ten members had died yearbala
A vote of thanks
only one had been made a Fellow..
meeting separated.
having been passed to the Right Rev. Chairman, the
GREAT _..
rt'ANE OF Fisu.—The weekLefore Lst r.to Portknockie, called the " Rack
bt3orautc'e,b"cJi:neinls4.ll.lair (" Pun") skipper, met with an ex-
traordinary catch. The Crew left Portknockic on Mon-
day morning, and prccieding northwards, sighted the
Orkneys on Tuesday evening. They again reacher:
Po. tknockie on Saturday morning, and landed ten score
of ling, six score of cod tish, 103 turbot or halibut, and
eleven score of large state, besides 700 haddocks. One
fi,h of the state specie was of. enormous size. It is of
the kind known amorg the fl hermin by the name of
"t gaumelt," and was about 71 feet long, 61 feet broad,
and about 7 inches thick.—/uverness Courier.
It has lately been w hispered by certain influential
parties here about, that it is not at all improbable that his
Royal Highness Prince Albert will, in the course of the
autumn, honour Sir Charles Lyell, the eminent geologist,
with a visit to Kennordy douse. Should this report turn
out to be true, the inhabitants both of Forfar and li,rrie-
muir will in all likelihood have the gratification of be-
holding their Queen; as, in the event of the Prince
ocming this way, there is every probability that he will
be accurapwiect by her Majesty.--Perthshire Advertiscr.