The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-29 00:00:00

S N JANTJARY 29, 1849.

I cannot say, to speak thetruth, whether any one was
to blame.

At the request of Mr: aohn Jeffcock, one of the
owners of the pit, •
Wm. Samley, banksman, was called to explain why
the men were unable to work on Tuesday. It was
in consequence of the very high wind which pre-
vailed, and net from any anticipateq danger
.in the
pit. None of the men complained of any danger.
About half-part. five o'clock the inquest was ad-
journed to Thursday -week.
During the afternoon, the greater part of the unfor-
tunate sufferers were interred. Five large. graves
were made in the churchyard at W,orsbro'.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
B.A.,EXAMINATION; 1849.
CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 27.—The following list was issued
last evening, after the last.train had left for London:—'
QUESTIONISTS NOT CANDIDATES FOR
• HONOURS.
MATHEMATICAL EXA.MINERS.—Thomas Gaskin, Jesus
College; Alexadder Turner Cory, M.A., Pembroke Col-
lege. ,
CLAsswer. EXAMINERS.-Rev. John Newton Pei%
8.D., Queen's College; Rev. William Reynolds Collett,
8.A., Caius College.
EXAM/NERR IN THE ACTS, EPISTLES, ECCLESIASTICAL
HISTORY, AND PALSY.--=EOr. James Edward Dalton,
8.D., Queen's College; Rev. JOhn Rustat Crowfoot,
M.A., Caius College.
FOURTH CLASS; OR, FIRST CLASS OF ORDINARY DEGREE.
Best, Trinity Parsons,' John's
Blayds, Trinity Pearson, Queen's
Campbell, Corpus . Phillips, Christ's
Collins, Christ's Tinhorn, John's
Crane, Queen's Bowes, Trinity
Dacre, Trinity Read, Emmanuel
Ford, Queen's Rowell, Emmanuel
Gilbert, Emmen-del Sn3ethurst, Trinity
Hon. R. C. Herbert, John'. Stuart, John's
Humbly, Trinity Tottenham, Trinity
Kirk, John's Valentine, John's
Lester, Christ's Walker, T., John's
Lovelock, John's Ward, Trinity
Lush, Oorpui Watson, Trinity
Millar, Christ's 'Pawn, John's
Hon. L. Neville, Magd. White, C., John's.
FIFTH CLASS ; OR, SECOND CLASS OF ORDINARY
DEGREE.

Aubertin, John's King, Emmanuel
Ayre's, John's Long, Trinity
Bartlett, Emmanuel Mann, Peter's
Borckhardt, Peter's Mortlock, Caius
Charlton, Queen's Noyes, Trinity
Cholmorideley, Trinity Packer, Catherine
Cooper, John's Rodgers, Clare
Crowther, John's Rowlett, Emmanuel
Franks, Trinity Seeley, Peter's
Freeth, Christ's Sherwen, Trinity
Gillbanks, Clare Simpson. Trinity
Gill, Emmanuel Smith, W. L., Trinity
Haddock, Clare Taylor, Corpus
Ball, John's Thomas, Catherine
Helyar, John's Walker, J., Trinity
Hewett, Trinity Whaley, Christ's
Hunt, John's White, Trinity
Dutton, John's Willoughby, Trinity
Jones, A. John's Woodhouse, Caius
Jones, W. T., Queen's Wyvill, Jesus.
SIXTH CLASS; OR, THIRD CLASS or ORDINARY DEGREE.
Anstey, Caius Lewthwaite, Trinity
Barton, John's Machin, Emmanuel
Blunt, Clare Meggison, John's
Bonnett, Caius Moore, Trinity
Byam, Trinity Outhwaite, Corpus
Dale, Trinity Philpot, Caius
Eaton, C. 0., Trinity Prendergast, 'Queen's
Gay, Magdalen Ram, John's
Gibson, John's Rayner, Clare
Gilbert, Catherine Russell, John's
Gill, Corpus Christi Selwin, John's
Glossop, Trinity Shaw, Trinity Hall
Gurney, Pembroke Smart, Trinity
llarris, Christ's Taylor, S., Trinity
Heartley, Catherine Turner, Magdalen
Hodgkinson, Peter's Vivian, Trinity
Jacson, Trinity Weston, John's
Law, Corpus Whistler, Emmanuel.
SEVENTH CLASS; OR, FOURTH CLASS OF ORDINARY
DEGREE.

Barber, Trinity
Barcharc, Trinity
Bardsley, Queen's
Barham, Pembroke
Bentley, Catherine
• Blathwayt, Trinity
Bowles, Corpus
Butcher, Sidney
Coliman, Corpus
Comber, Jesus
Cotton, Trinity
Dene, Sidney
Douglas, John's
Evans, Trinity '

Gatliff, John's
Gurney, John's
Hardcastle, Downing
Hockin, John's
cHulber, Peter's
Jones, H. W., Trinity
Macniven, Trinity
Mansell, Trinity
Morgan, Jesus
Pulley, Corpus
Smith, Clam
Smith, C., Trinity
Swim, Emmanuel

Bickers teth, Trinity
Ellerton, Trinity
Fenwiok, Christ's
Casson, Christ's

'ANT.
Helm, Christ's
Tormenter, John's
Parr, Trinity
Stephen's, Trinity

The Professor of Anatomy has given notice that his
lectures on the Anatomy and Physiology of the Human
Body will be continued on Tuesday; JAR 30.
OXFORD, JAN. 27.—A congregation mill be holden
on Thursday next for granting graces and conferring
degrees.
There was an electicm at Queen'j
.Collrge on Thurs-
day-last, when Mr. Henry Barnes Byrne, of Oriel Col-
lege,.was Choien and admitted a Scholar on the Michel
Foundation, and Mr. William Sargeant .was chosen an
Exhibitor on the same Foundation.
The members of the following Colleges met this
day :—Corpus Christi, St. John's, Jesus, New, Oriel,
Worcester, University, Merton; and Magdalen and St.
Mary Halls,

INTERCOURSE 'WITH SIAM.—We have frequently
alluded to the representations made of the necessity for
opening up an intercourse with Siam, and it appears by
recent accounts that the Chamber of Commerce at Sin-
gapore have memorialized Lord Palmerston on the sub-
ji et. The country possesses all the elements of an ex-
tensive trade—fertile plains, capable of producing im-
mense quantities of sugar, rice, and indigo, together with
forests of teak and other valuable woods, while at the
same time, in her numerous Chinese subjects she has,
were they well used, a trained and energetic body of
cultivators. These advantages, however, are rendered
useless by a vicious system of monopolies, introduced by
the present King in 1840, since which time the trade of
Great Britain with Siam has greatly diminished. We
have a treaty with the country, but it has become tr dead
letter from the absence of any representative of the British
Government who could have remonstrated against its
infringement. This treaty is represented to be alto-
gether opposed to the monopolies that have been
established, and also to an oppressive tonnage duty
which is enforced, and which is levied according to
measurement, whether vessels be full or empty. What
is urged therefore is, that some competent person should
be sent upon a mission to the Siamese Court, with the
view of re-establishing our rights, and of accomplishing
an equitable tariff. It is asserted that the task would
not be difficult, and this statement seems to be rendered
probable by the fact that one of the sons of the King is
possessed of great intelligence, and a considerable know-
ledge of the English language and of European habits,
while, et the same time, the present discontented and
dangerous condition of the population must be suffi-
cient to warn the King that there is no time to lose in
promoting such changes as may operate fur their ad-
vantage.
EIGHT LIVES LOST AT LANCISTER.—On Monday
last eight men lost their lives by the upsetting of a boat
on the river Lune, at Lancaster. The men were work-
ing at Denny Back Quarry, on the North-Western Rail-
way, about two miles from Lancaster. They were in
the habit of crossing the Lune in a body; to get to Hal-
ton, where they lived. Ou the afternoon in question,
the boat had crossed twice, once with ton in it, and once
with seven. The third time, eleven got in, but one,
thinking it too full, jumped out. The others pushed off.
The fresh was then running strong, and the wind being
very high, while the edge of the boat was close to the
water; the waves dashed into it, and turned it com-
pletely over, throwing them all into the river. One of
them clung to the boat, and was heard for-some time
crying for help. Two others saved themselves by swim-
ming, and the rest sunk. On Wednesday an inquest
was held, and a verdict of "Accidental Death" returned.
—Manchester Guardian.
A CHILD MURDERED BY ITS MOTHER.—Maxy
Ann Beveridge, a blind woman, who was convicted of
the murder of one of her children at the March assizes
for Hampshire, in 1847, and confined in the gaol at
Winchester on the ground of insanity, on Saturday last,
after her discharge from that asylum (by whose autho-
rity she was discharged we have not learned), destroyed
another of her children, a boy five years of age, by
strangulation. She immediately made a confession of
the second murder at the station-house of the borough
of Portsea, telling the police she had strangled another
child. On the police going to her room, with her hus-
band, her story was found to be too true. The child
was lying dead in the bed, two pieces of calico being
twisted round its neck. An inquest was held in the
evening, and a verdict of " Wilful murder," returned.
The unfortunate woman was committed to Winchester
gaol.
MORDAUNT HALL.—The new novel, bylth,e,
e,
po-
pular author of " Emilia Wyndham," " Angela,"
thea,
promises to be as great a favourite as
la)ansybeen pre-
ceding works of this gifted writer.
It bas
ranks, repre-
sented as essentially a istory of the
sto;
con-
veying one of those powerful more.
exert an immediate and lasting influence over rare
l y
societyfail
foreall classes of reers and
bat by the interest it has already excited, it is plain that
it is considered as a bookl
as by those who can Sr-
that it will be as eager.),tr,used by those who, care
only for present entortai m
preciate the higher excellencies of imaginative prose
fiction. John Russell has
TRINITI CORPORATION.—Lord John
elected
one of the Elder Brethren of the Trinity-
house in the room of Viscount Melbourne.

[PRICE SD.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
By the death of Vice' Admiral Haling, neat-Admiral
H. Ommanney is promoted to the rank of Vice-
Admiral; and Captain Carroll, C. 8., is promoted to the
rank of Rear-Admiral. By the promotion of the latter
officer a good service-pension of 150 L per annum reverts
to the gift of the• First Lord of the Admiralty. Captain-
Carroll .was midshipman of the Diamond, and in 1796
assisted -at the destruction of a French corvette, 8-gun
lUgger, and convoy, on Henri Point, under batteries,
which were stormed, and guns spiked ; and in the same-
year was made prisoner with Sir Sydney Smith. Wm:-
midshipman of the Syren, at the capture of Surinam, in
1799; and in 1809 was severely wounded in attacking
French.sloop, under Havre
in
Grace. Was acting lieu-
tenant of the Centurion 4 n the engagement with the
squadron of Linois, in Yizagapatam Roads, 1804 ;
was flarlieutellant to Sir Sidney Smith in the Pom-
P6e in I£lori at 'the sieges of Gaita and Scylla, and
the storming of Capri ; and in 1807 commanded the
seamen and marines at the destruction of the battery and
guns on point Pesquies, and the guns in the wrecks of
the Turkish ships. In the same year ho commanded an
armed transport, tender to the Pompie, at Copenhagen,
and' repeatedly engaged the enemy's defences; he was
senior:Lieutenant of the Achille at Walcheren, land at'
Cadiz in' 1809, and in the Cadiz flotilla in 1810. Was
at the attack`upon'Fuengirola and Malaga; and in 1811'
his vessel was sunk at the attack upon Fort Catalina,
Served also at Barossti and Tarifa, and until the siege of.
Cadiz-was raised; commanded the Volcano ,in co-opera-
tion with the Spanish patriots on the coast of Catalonia,
and served on shore'in- a breaching batter)? at the cap-
ture of Fort St. Philip, when he was injured by the
bursting of a shell; he conveyed important dispatches
across the country to the Duke of Wellington relative to
Tarragona; was Captain of the Revenge in the Adriatic
at the reduction of Venice, and the capture of the squa-
dron in that port; and Captain of the Cyrus at the sur-
render of Napoleon in 1814. Twice officially mentioned
by the Duke of Wellington, and gazetted in 1804, twice
in 1806, 1807, 1810; twice in 1811; and in 1813.
Lieutenant J. G. Napier (1842), Flag-Lieutenant to.
Vice-Admiral Dacres; and C. C. Forsyth (1843), to the
rank of cDmmander.

APPOINTMENTS.
Captain E. Ommanney, to the Royal Naval College
for study.

Lieutenants—C. G. Rigge, to the ordinary depot ship
at Devonport, for service in superintending the reserve
steam squadron; 13. B. Eurest (additional), to the Has-
tings flag-ship, in the East Indies.

Surgeon—R. J. B. Chambers to the Raleigh flag-ship,
on the Brazil station.

Assistant-Surgeons—T. Graham, M.D., and J. Forbes
(d), to the Hastings.
Midshipman—C. J. Jago to the Centaur steam•frigate,
at Portsmouth.
Naval Cadet—H. Michell to the Centaur.

COAST-GUARD APPOINTMENTS.

Commander—lL S. Smith to the inspecting command
of Sheerness district, vice Langtry, removed.
Lieutenants—G. M. Smith to command the Grey-
hound cutter. T. M. Hyne, to command the Pembroke
Dock station.

Mr. John Thompson (late East India Company's
service) to command Poole Harbour station, vice Lieu-
tenant Pears, removed to Yarmouth, station vice Lieu-
tenant Simpson, removed to the Ramsgate station, vice
Lieutenant Lake, resigned.
Mr. G. Horwood, second master, to command Arthur's
Town station.

REMOVALS.
Commander P. Fisher, from the Newcastle to the
Folkston@ district, vice Commander Prouse, superseded.
Commander C. J. Postle, from the Dundalk ,to the
Newcastle district.
Lieutenant H. G. Veitch, from the Elmes to the New-
haven station.

Lieutenant H. F. Sewoll from Kelnore to Winchelsea
station.

Mr. J. T. Page, from the Newton to the: North
Parwick station.

THU AVENGER BELIED FUND.--The committee dis•
tributed this bounty for the January allotment to all
entitled to its benefits, at the Naval College at Ports.
mouth, on Saturday.