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

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JANUARY 29, 1849.

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

At the request of Mr. John Jeffcock, one of the
owners of the pit,
Wm. Samley, banksmaihwas called to explain why
the men were unable to work on Tuesday. It was
in c3nFequ,nce of the very' high wind which pre-
vailed, and not from any anticipated danger in the
pit. None of the men complained of any danger.
About half-past fire o'clock the inquest was ad-
journed to Tcursday week.
During the afternoon, the greater part of the unfor-
tunate sufferers were interred. Five large graves
were male in the churchyard at Worsbro'.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
B.A. EXAMINATION, 1849.
CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 27.—The following list was issued
last evenin,, after the last train had left for London :
QUESTIONISTS NOT CANDIDATES FOR
HONOURS.
MATHEMATICAL Ex AMINERS.—Thomas G askin, Jesus
College; Alexander Turner Cory, M.A., Pembroke Col-
lege.
CLASSICAL EXAMINERS.—Re,v. John Newton Peill,
8.D., Queen's College; Rev. William Reynolds Collett,
8.A., Caius College.
EXAMINERS IN THE ACTS, EPISTLES, ECCLESIASTICAL
HISTORY, AND PALEY.—Rev. James Edward Dalton,
8.D., Queen's College; Rev. John Rustat Crowfoot,
M.A., Caius College.
FOURTH CLASS; Olt, FIRST CLASS OF ORDINARY DEGREE.
Best, Trinity Parsons, John's
Blayds, Trinity Pearson, Queen's
Campbell, Corpus Phillips, Christ's
Collins, Christ's Pinhorn, John's
Crane, Queen's Rawes, Trinity
Dacre, Trinity Read, Emmanuel
Ford, Queen's " Rowell, Emmanuel
Gilbert, Emmanuel Smethurst, Trinity
Hon. R. C. Herbert, John's 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, Corpus Watson, Trinity
Millar, Christ's Wawn, John's
Hon. L. Neville, Meg& White, C., John's.
FIFTH CLASS ; OR, SECOND CLASS OF ORDINARY
DEGREE.
King, Emmanuel
Long, Trinity
Mann, Peter's
Mortlock, Cams
Noyes, Trinity
Packer, Catherine
Rodgers, Clare
Rowlett, Emmanuel
Seeley, Peter's
Sherwen, Trinity
Simpson. Trinity
Smith, W. L., Trinity
Taylor, Corpus
Thomas, Catherine
Walker, J., Trinity
Whaley, Christ's
White, Trinity
Willoughby, Trinity
Woodhouse, Caius
W 3 vill, Jesus.
ASS OF ORDINARY DEGREE.
Lewthwaite, Trinity
Machin, Emmanuel
Meggison, John's
Moore, Trinity
Outhwaite, Corpus
Philpot, Gains
Prendergast, Queen's
Juhn'a
Rayner, Clare
Russell, John's
Selwin, John's
Shaw, Trinity Hall
Smart, Trinity
Taylor, S., Trinity
Turner, Magdalen

Aubertin, John's
Ayre's, John's
Bartlett, Emmanuel
Borckhardt, Peter's
Charlton, Queen's
Cholmondeley, Trinity
- Cooper, John's
Crowther, John's
Franks, Trinity
Freeth, Christ's
Gillbanks, Clare •
Gill, Emmanuel
Haddock, Clara
Ball, John's
Helyar, John's
Hewett, Trinity
Hunt, John's
Hutton, John's
Jone, A., John's
Jones, W. T., Queen's
SIXTH CLASS; OR, THIRD C.
Anstey, Coins
Barton, John's
Blunt, Clare
thnnett, Caius
Byam, Trinity
Dale, Trinity
Eaton, C. 0., Trinity
Gay, Magdalen
Gibson, John's
Giibert, Catherine
Gill, Corpus Christi
Glossop, Trinity
Gurney, Pembroke
Harris, Christ's
Heartley, Catherine

Hodgkin3on, Peter's Vivian, Trinity
Jacson, Trinity Weston, John's
Law, Corpus Whistler, Emmanuel.
SEVENTH CLASS; OR, FOURTH CLASS OF ORDINARY
DEGREE.
Barber, Trinity

Barchare, Trinity
Bardsley, Queen's
Barham, Pembroke
Bentley, Catherine
Blathwayt, Trinity
Bowles, Corpus
Butcher, Sidney
Coleman, Corpus
Comber, Jesus

Gatliff, John's
Gurney, John's
Hardcastle, Downing
Hockin, John's
Hulber, Peter's
Jcnes, H. %V., Trinity
Macniven, Trinity
Mansell, Trinity
Morgan, Jesus
Pulley, Corpus
Smith, Clare
Smith, C., Trinity
Swire, Emmanuel

Cotton. Trinity
Done, Sidney
Douglas,Johu'd

Evan's, TriLity

IEGRO'

,TANT.
Bickersteth, Trinity Helm, Christ's
Ellerton, Trinity Parmenter, John's
Fenwiek, Christ's Parr, Trinity
Gaston, Christ's Stephen's, Trinity
The Professor of Anatomy has given notice that his
ectures on the Anatomy and Physiolovy of the Human
Body will be c )ntinued on Tuesday, Jan 30.
OXFORD, JAN. 27.—A c mgregaeon will be holdi n
on Thursday next for granting graces and conferring
degrees.
There was an election at Queen's College on Thurs-
day last, when Mr. Henry Barnes Byrne, of Oriel Col-
lege, was chosen 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'e, Jesus, New, Oriel,
Worcester, University, Merton; and Magdalen and St.
Mary Halls,

INTERCOURSE WITU Sram.—We have frequently
alluded to the representations made of the necessity for
opening up an intercourse with Sian], and it appears by
recent accounts that the Chamber of Commerce at Sin-
gap .re have memorialized Lord Palmerston on the sub-
j• et. The maintry possesses all the elements of an ex-
tensive trade—fertile plains, capable of producing im-
mense quantities of sugar, rice, and indigo, P.gether with
forests of teak and other valuable woods, while at the
same time, in his 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 a 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 tonna'e duty
which is enforced, and which is levied according to
measurement, whether vessels be full or empty. What
is urged thelefore 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, at 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 for their ad-
vantage.
EIGHT LIVES LOST AT LANCASTER.—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 ten 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 Clem all into the river. One of
them clung to the boat, and was heard for some time
crying fur help. Two others saved themselves by swim•
the rest sunk. On Wednesday an inquest.
ming, and
was held, and a verdict of "Accidental Death" returned.
—Manchester Guardian.

A CHILD MURDERED BY ITS MOTHER.—Mary
Ann Beveridge, a blind woman, who was convicted of
the murder of one of her children at the March assizes
for liatnpshire, 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 Fecond 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 ITAnn.—The new novel, by the po-
pular author of " Emilia Wyndham," "An la,"
promises to be as great a favourite as any of the pre-
c ding works of this gifted writer. It has been repre-
sented as essentially a istory of the middle ranks, con-
Ye) ing o::e of those p.)werful morals, which rarely fails to
exert an immediate and lasting influence over society ;
but by the int. rest it has already excite d, it is plain that
it is considered as a book for all classes of readers, and
that it will be as eagerly Ferused by those who care
only for present enterttdoment, as by those who can at -
Dreciate the higher excellencies of imaginative prose
iicti n.
TRINITY CORPORATION.—Lord John Russell has
been elected one of the Elder Brethren of the Trinity-
house in the room of VillCOUnt littlintirnet

[PRICE SD.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
By the death of Vice Admiral Milling, Rear-Admiral
H. M. Omma,nney 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/. per annum reverts
to the gift of the First Lord of the Admiralty. captain
Carroll was midahiptiaan 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. Was
midshipman of the Syren, at the capture of Surinam, in
1799; and in 1800 was severely wounded in attacking a
French sloop, under Havre de Grace. Was acting lieu-
tenant of the Ctnturion, in the engagement with the
sq laciron of Linois, in Vizagapatain Roads, 1804 ;
was flag-lieutenant to Sir S:dney Smith in the Rom-
lea in 1806 ; 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 I'esquies, and the guns in the wrecks of
the Turkish ships. In the same year he commanded an
armed transport, tender to the Potnre.), at Copenhagen,
and repeatedly engaged the enemy's defences; he was
senior Lieutenant of the Achille at Walcheren, and 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 Barossa 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 battery at the cap•
ture of Fort St. Philip, when he was injured by the
bursting of a shell; ho conveyed important di'patches
acro•s 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 gaz-tted in 1804, twice
in 1806. 1807, 1810; twice in 1811; and in 1813.
Licut-nant J. G. Napier (1842), Flag-Lieutenant to
Vice-Admiral alcres; and C. C. Forsyth (1843), to the
rank of commander.

APPOINTMENTS.
Capt +in E. Ommanney, to the Royal Naval Collegr
for study.
Likutenants—C. G. Rigge, to the ordinary deiot ship
at Devonport, tor service in sucerintendina ti.e reserve
',team squadron; 11. B. Eurest (additional), to the Dus-
tings flag-ship. in the East Indi s.

8-urgen—il. J. 13. Chanib,rs to the Raleigh f1a,,,-;•shir,
on the Brazil station.

Assistant Su peons—T, Graham, M.D., and J. Forbes
(d), to the Havings.
Midshipman—C. J. Jago to the Centaur steam higate,
at Portsrnimth.

Naval Cadet—Tl. Michell to the Centaur.
COASTGUARD APPOINTMENTS.
Commander—H. S. Smith to the inspecting command
of Sheerness district, vice Langtry, removed.
Li,utvnantt—G. M. Smith to command the Grey-
houini cutter. T. M. 11) ne, to command the Pembroke
Dock station.

Mr. John Thompson (late East India Company's
service) to command Poole Harbour station, vice Liiu
tenant Pears, removed to Yarmouth, station vice Lieu-
tenant Simpson, removed to the Ramsgate station, vice
Lieutenant Lake, rt signed.
Mr. G. llorwood, second master, to command Arthur's
To»n station.