The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-06 00:00:00

THE LATE COLLIERY EXPLO

SION NEAR WIGAN.
The lamentable accident on Tuesday last, at Kirkless
Hall Colliery, Ince, near Wigan, we are sorry to say is
of a much more serious nature than could at first be
ascertained. It was not until parties had been sent
round to the dwellings of all the workmen employed
that a correct report could be furnished, and this was
not completed until the following day, when it turned
out that six men were missing instead of one, and that
part of those stated by the man in charge of the lamps to
have come up could not be found.
A long search was made, under the direction of Mr
Lancaster, during the night of Thursday, for the :;ix
missing men. Two of them were found, and brought
up at two o'clock in the morning ; two others 14 ere
brought up at five o'clock; and the remaining two about
eight o'clock on Friday morning ; all of them, as was
expected, shockingly mutilated, and presenting the ap
pearance of having been dead a considerable length of
time.

The following is a corrected return of the killed and
njured

Dead John Cartwright, of Hindley (dead when
brought out of the pit), leaving a widow and three chil
dren ; John Berry, of Aspull (died on Wednesday
morning), a married man, no children ; John Rhodes, of
Hindley (died on Thursday), leaving a widow and five
children.
Taken out of the pit dead on Thursday night—
Joshua Painman, a wife and one child ; James Hirst,
wife and three children ; John Harding, alias Holorott,
wife and one child ; Robert Southern, wife and one
child ; William Daintry, single man ; William Jackson,
single man.

Severely Burnt—John Bolton, not expected to recover;
George Evans, underlooker ; Samuel Evans, his bro-
ther ; Henry Hansen, Henry Whittle, James Wilkinson,
a boy ; Henry Ashmore, a boy ; John Riley, Robert
Wilkinson, John Webster, and James Belshaw,
Slightly Burnt, all expected to recover—Eli Monk, e
boy; John Markland, John Mills, Thomas Lurrison.
Thomas Cawsey, and Samuel Foster, a boy.—Manchester
Guardian.

THE INDIAN SALT MONOPOLY.
(From the Friend of India.)
The recent modification of the price of salt and the
duty on it was discussed in this journal a fortnight
ago, when we alluded to the fact that Government
had sanctioned a further reduction of the cost of this
article by reducing the duty at the rate of 25 rupees
the hundred maunds, or 4 annas the maund. But
it inadvertently escaped us at the timc to state,
that a diminution had also been made of the
price of the salt manufactured in the country at
the public establishments, varying from 6 to 31
rupees the hundred maunds. The financial prin-
ciple adopted by Government in the matter of these
arrangements is to levy the same rate of duty on
salt of every kind consumed in the country, to add
this duty to the cost of manufacturing and storing
the indigenous salt; and to levy it on every importa-
tion of the article. When, therefore, the period had
arrived for revising the rate of duty, the cost of the
manufacture was made the subject of inquiry, and it
was found, on a calculation of the actual coot of
manufacturing and storing the salt of each agency
during the last three years, that the expense had been
diminished; and that the salt had been manufactured
at a smaller cost than that which was charged to the
public in the notification of 1844. The recent notice,
therefore, gives the public the benefit of this economy.
The relative saving which has been effected in each
agency will be understood by comparing the selling
price of each description of salt which lately pre-
vailed with that which has now been established—
Price. Price.
1844. 1847.
Hidgeleo ... 75 ... 62
Tumlook 85 78
24 Pergunnahs ... 95 ... ••• 97
Chittagong 87 ... 81
Bullooah 87 ... .• • 80
Cuttack 100
Balasore 118 .••87
Khoorda 119 ... •••
98
Madras ... 62 ••• •••
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against the remotest chance of a deficiency. The
reduction now made will, of course, affect in the first
instance the salt now in store, and reduce the price
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as the original cost to 10,96,000 r. If the
quantity of indigenous salt ]consumed in
the country, which has been estimated at
50 lacs of maunds the year, is made up from the con-
tributions of each agency in the same relative pro-
portion which is exhibited in the salt in store, then
the reduction of the selling price of the year's con-
sumption will be equal to about 19 lacs of rupee 3—
namely, 12,50,000 r. of duty, which is a clear sacrificeias
of revenue, and 6,37,000 r. the reduction which has
been effected in the original cost of the article.imported In-
eluding the reduction of duty on the sal
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