The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-06 00:00:00

THE ACCIDENT AT LIVERPOOL.

The sad results of the fall of a warehouse, run-
ning from Harrington-street (behind Lord-street)
nearly to Matthew-street, Liverpool, yesterday,
are described by the local papers. The premises
were owned by Mr. E. Kearsley, Exchange-street
East, and were used for the storage of rice, cotton,
meal, &c. The warehouse is six stories high, and
fronts with Harrington-street, the rear or northerly
portion of the block—that which has fallen—
abutting upon Matthew-street, but leaving sufficient
space for two or three small dwellings, which stood
in No. 2 Court in this street. These premises
were occupied by Mr. John Moss, cabinetmaker.
According to a dite on the front of the warehouse,
which is known as " Harvey's," the building is 84
years old. In its fall the immeese mass swept away
or entombed two of the cottages, and did consi-
derable damage to surrounding property, indluding
that occupied by Mr. Bolton, drysalter, whose office
has been entirely demolished. Two persons were in
in it at the time, Mr. J. S. Butler, the manager, who
lives at 14, Melia-street, and a youth named Thos.
Aokers. On hearing the noise the lad rushed to
the door, which remained standing, and managed
to scramble unhurt into the street. His companion,
he said, also endeavoured to reach the door, but
while in the act of doing so the flooring gave way,
and he disappeared among the debris. Butler,
however, was rescued alive, though seriously in-
jured. Another man seems past hope of recovery.

HER MAJESTY'S STAGIIOUNDS.—A special train
will leave the Waterloo Station every Friday morning at
9.55, calling at Twickenham, Staines, and Bracknell, for
the convenience of gentlemen hunting with these hounds.
THREE MEN KILLED IN A MINE.—A shocking
accident is reported from Cornwall. While four men wore
at work in one of the stapes at Drakewalls Mine, in the
parish of ealstock, the ground fell in upon them, and three
of the poor fellows were killed. The fourth received severe
injuries, but it is expected he will recover.

A 4, long firm" swindler was yesterday capture:l
at Sheffield. Ile gives the name of John Henry Wood, and
has been trading as "Wood, Jeavons, and Hawk." Amongst
those whom he has victimised are Messrs. Ransoms and
Simms, of Ipswich, the welt-known agricultural implement
makers, some of whose machinery he obtained and sent to
various auction rooms in the town f r disposal.

Another outrage is repertcd to have been com-
mitted at Thorncliffe. The other evening as a non-unionist,
named Watson, who is employed at one of the pits belong-
ing to Messrs. Newton, Chambers, and Co., was going to-
w.urds the Tankersley pit be was attacked by ten men, who
kicked Lim and struck him in a sharnaul manner with
bludgeons, and afterwards threw him into a pond, whence
he was rescued by a passer-by. The police, on going to the
adjoining village for the purpose of endeavouring to arrest
the perpetrators of the outrage, were stoned by the crowd.

With respect to the accid(nt at Forgandenny, a
station on the Caledonian Railway, the Putzdte Adetriixer re-
m like :—The passengers who were most seriously wounded
are still in Perth Infirmary, and, up to last night, aro
progressing favourably. Yesterday, the stationmaster
at Forgandenny, Mr. M'Currach (who is considerably over
50 years of age) and the driver of the mail train (Banks)
were examined before the Procurator-Fiscal at Perth. The
perter is still in custody, but, so far as we can learn, little
culpability appears traceable to him.-

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At the Dorset quarter sessions yesterday, held at
the Shirehall, Dorchester, Mr. Floyer, M.P., presided, and
in opening the business alluded to the distressing hunt-
ing accident which had befallen Lord Portman, one
of the county magistrates. Ills lordship had under-
gone a Tory painful operation, and his life at one time
was despaired of, but be (the Chairman) was happy to say
that he was now progressing favourably. Tho Earl of
Shaftesbury moved a vote of sympathy with his lordship,
to whose diligence and ability, manifested in the interest in
the county, ho bore testimony. The motion was carried.

A correspondent of the Tagespresse describes a
visit he paid the other day to Barbar Übryk (the nun), in
company with the physician of the lunatic asylum where
she is confined. He says that she looks extremely well,
and far younger than she really is. She has a
small, merry face, with a retrousse nese and bright lively
eyes, which, says the correspondent, peeped out shyly every
now and then from under the bed clothes. She conversed
freely, though rather incoherently, laughed a good deal,
and occasionally broke out into snatches of hymn and other
tunes.

The originators of the Socialist conspiracy which
was lately discovered at St. Petersburg (according to the
Eastern Budget) are some young men of the Radical party, who
had joined the Russian revolutionists at Geneva in a plan
for raising the peasants against the nobles. Several pro-
clamations addressed to the Russian people, and printed at
Geneva, have been seized by the police. At the head of
each of them are two crossed hatchets, surmounted by the
inscription, "People's Tribunal." A great number of these
documents were found in the residence of a justice of the
pea3o named Ttlerkesseff, who is now in the bands of the
authorities.

The decision of the Government in accepting the
resignation of Messrs. Schneider and Fenwick, who were
formerly justices of the peace for Lancashire, has, it is stated,
caused great dissatisfaction in the localities in which these
gentlemen reside. Tho gentlemen named had been re-
stored to the commission of the peace, but, on finding that
the Chancellor of the Ducby of Lancaster was not ac-
quainted with the circumstances connected with their poli-
tical careers, they resigned their seats as justices of the
peace. So intense has the feeling regarding Mr. Schneider
become that the people of Barrow-in-Furness, where that
gentleman lives, have resolved on electing him to the mayor-
alty at the earliest possible opportunity.
The Alabama claims are referred to again by the
New York Times of the 25th ult. " The whole subject has
now to be dealt with at the seat of our own Govern-
ment," observes our American contemporary. "The United
States has not receded from any one of the positions it has
taken up during the protracted negotiations, while
Great. Britain has found itself compelled to relinquish
the ground which Lord Russell unwisely took as his stand-
point. A similar spirit of concession may now result in a
formal settlement of the difficulty. Our firmness in refusing
to assent to imperfect compromises is as much in England's
interest as in that of the peace of the world. That consi-
deration has doubtless had its influence upon the British
Government, and induced it the more readily to comply with
the preliminary conditions exacted by Pres:dent Grant."
The death is announced this morning of Admiral
Sir Thomas Hastings, K.C.8., at the age of 80. He was
born in 1790. Having been educated at Winchester School,
Thomas Hastings entered the navy in 1803, and became
lieutenant (for his services in command of a gunboat at
Walsteren) in 1810. He was first lieutenant in the Badger, at
the destruction of a French brig of war at the mouth of the
Ems, and served afterwards on board the Hyacinth at the at-
tack on the batteries of Malaga, and the capture of the armed
vessels in the mole of that port in nn. He was first lieu-
tenant of the Undaunted, which ship conveyed Buonaparte
to Elba in 1814, and became captain in 1825. He organised
and commanded the Excellent, gunnery ship, from 1832 to
1845, and was superintendent of the Royal Navy College at
Portsmouth, and a member of the Board of Ordnance for
several years. He was appointed a Rear-Admiral in 18b5,
a Vice-Admiral in 1862, and Admiral of the Red fn
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