The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-15 00:00:00

PROPHECY FOR THE ST. LEGER,

1846.
(FRoar A CORRESPONDENT.)
Ah, why did Lord George quit the turf and the ring
To herd with Disraeli, that mischievous thing?
Why quit Goodwood's grove and its famed racing grounds,
In the Commons to share in the ups and the downs
Of party and foolery, nonsense and strife,
And with gall to embitter his maments of life?
But Mostyn is fame and success to his stud,
Consisting of ev'ry description of blood.
Though the Leger this year is far out of his way,
He'll be dreaded enough on the next Leger day.
But away to the course, bidding Lord George adieu,
For the highly bred cattle are passing in view.
The Fancy 13:iy is but a fanciful child,
Take care he's not beaten by Jonathan Wild.
The Traverser, like the heroic King Dan,
At starting will certainly be in the van ;
Strong running he'll make, if he goes on alone,
To assist his companion, stout Goodwood's Griniston.
Brocardo appears the best of the lot
Of that once invincible stable of Scott.
But Sir Tatton comes out neither sluggish or slow,
Bill cries to his brother, " Dear John," it 's no go,
As I settled Tom Tullock, I'll serve Brocardo.
lago the traitor will treacherous prove,
He'll find it was easier Othello to move
Than the Leger to win,—he's but one of a drove.
The Red House is past, and Tom Tullock is beat,
lago does presently sound the retreat.
The Free Lance is done, as is Erin-go-Bragh,
And silenced at once is the Irish hurrah.

Ilrocarc:o goes on in the Traverser's wake,
And the running of Fancy Boy 's quite a mistake.
Now Grimston runs stoutly, Sir Tatton lies next—
See Cranebrook 's in trouble, and sorely perplex'd.
The performance of Sting turns out but so so—
Grimston wins !--next, Sir Tatton—the third's Brocardo!
Bicester, Sept. 12 ESAU.

COLLIERS' STRIKES.—In the last report of the
Commissioner of the Mining Districts, under the Act
5 and 6 Victoria, cap. 99, some interesting particulars
are (riven relating to the " strike" of the colliers in 1844
in Northumberland'i and Durham. The last was the
fourth strike in the north of England, and was the most
complete combination yet effected among the colliers.
In the words of the Commissioner—" It was set on foot
by certain delegates psid by various districts, with the
avowed object of causing all the collieries and iron
mines of the United Kingom to limit their hours of
work, to reduce the supply of coal and iron ore, to force
up the prices, and then to make the public contribute to
pay them higher wages for their diminished quantity of
labour." The strike commenced on the sth of April,
1844, on which day nearly the whole of the persons
employed below ground Jri Northumberland and Dur-
ham, amounting to upwards of 22,000 men and boys,
ceased work, and not until the end of July did they
resume their labour in the usual manner, and on their
masters' terms. It was the fourth great disturbance
of labour that had occurred in that district since
1826 ; a strike of some duration took place in
that year, and again in 1831 and 1832. " 4 Hitherto,"
states the Commissioner, " the expectation among
the best informed persons in those districts has been
that an extensive combination or strike will occur once
in every ten years. The experience of 1826, of 1831,
and 1832, had no effect in preventing what took place
in 1844. Two years have since elapsed, an 3 having re-
cently, in the course of an official tour through those
counties, informed myself as to the ultimate results of
that obstinate struggle and as to the measures since put
in operation by the masters in the hope of preventing
its recur, once, I conceive it falls within my duty, as
commissioner of inquiry into the state of the mining
population, to record for your information any facts
which may have a tendency to bring about a more har-
monious state of things for the future, in a district so
populous and important as that of the coal fields of
Northumberland and Durham." It seems that the con-
duct of the large body of people was, with few excep-
tions, peaceable and exemplary. Two or three attempts
at resistance to authority occurred, but they were soon
put down. Their demeanour showed, that though ca-
pable of being misled, their general intelligence and
their sense of right had undergone an improvement.
The commissioner is of opinion that sound religious in-
struction is neechal, and he gives an account of the im-
provements effected in that respect. Much, however,
remains to be done to counteract the poison of hired de-
legates, both in politics and religion.
COLLISION ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—
BRENTWOOD, MONDAY EVENING.—An accident of a most
serious and alarming character occurred near this station
this morning, which it is feared will terminate fatally to
one if not to two individuals. At seven o'clock this
morning an excursion train, consisting of thirty car-
riages and two engines, Mr. Taylor, chief of the locomo-
tive department of the Eastern Union Railway, being
upon one of them, started from Ipswich. They reached
the Brentwood station in safety, and after stopping for
a few minutes, ptoceeded on towards London at a slow
pace. On reaching the Brentwood incline, the gradient
of which is 1 in 90, the driver, on account of the increased
weight of the train, shut off the steam, but had got but a
short distance down it, when the train came in collision
with a truck left on the line. The engine-driver and
stoker jumped off the engine, by which they were se-
riously injured. The passengers were much shaken by
the collision. Information of the accident was for-
warded to the terminus at Shoreditch, and several of the
principal officials of the Company proceeded in the after-
noon to the spot, and after a most minute investigation,
they felt it their duty to give the parties who left the
truck upon the line into custody.
CROTON OIL.—On a recent representation respect-
ing the mode in which the duty was charged by the
officers of the revenue, on the article called croton oil,
it was decided that it should be leviable with the duty
of ls. per lb. as a chemical oil, in conformity with a pre-
vious decision on the same subject in the latter portion
of the year 1842, which did not appear to be generally
known or put into practice by the proper officers, and
directions have been issued for this rate of duty to be
charged on all future importations of this article.
Croton oil is a distillation or extraction of the croton
seed, and is made use of for medicinal purposes, being
a most powerful purgative, and it is deemed that it
must be so considered for duty, and not admissible as if
it were expressed or squeezed from the seed, as seed oils
are generally, and useful in large quantities for mecha-
nical and other business purposes.
DREADFUL AND FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE WHITE-
BARN COLLIERY, NEAR NEWCASTLE.—A frightful acci-
dent occurred at this colliery, yesterday morning, to
Joseph Lovatt, an old man, sixty-fire years of age. It
appears that he was employed to attend to the engine
fire from six o'clock at night till six in the morning, and
on the morning in question he was seen about half-past
three o'clock sitting in the engine-house, within a yard
of the fly-wheel. On Mr. Platt and two or three of his
men going to work at half-past five, they found the en-
gine stopped, and on proceeding into the engine-house
deceased was discovered forced between the wall and the
fly-wheel, a space of about four inches, hanging head
downwards, and dreadfully crushed and mutilated. It is
supposed that the deceased had fallen asleep, and neg-
lected the fire, and that on awakening and finding the
engine almost stopped, he got up in a hurry and, stumb-
ling, fell on the wheel, which appeared to have carried
him about three parts round, and must have killed him
instantly. When Mr. Platt arrived, at half-past five,
the fire was quite out. Deceased was removed to the
house of his son-in-law, in Pepper-street, Newcastle.
An inquest will be held on the body to-day.—Sta fjord-
shire Mercury of Saturday.
...._

LLOYD S.—MONUMENT TO 'IRE LATE MR. LYDEK-
NER.—The Lord Mayor, Alderman Gibbs, R. L. Jones,
Esq., the Committee of Lloyd's, Charles Francis, Esq.,
Vice-president of the Seamen's Hospital; Captain Sir
Henry Hart, R.N., Captain Nairne, R. A. Gray, Esq.,
0. Ommanney, Esq., Francis Warden. Esq., and other
members of the committee of the hospital, attended at
Lloyd's on Monday afternoon, for the purpose of un-
covering a neatly executed statuary marble monument,
erected in the lobby, consisting of a tablet surmounted
with a bold projecting pediment on carvea Italian trusses,
supported by two seamen, one with a fractured arm, the
other leaning on a crutch. The tablet stands on a bold
projecting cornice, under which is a panne' representing
southern whale fishery, and the whole is supported by a
richly carved foliage and shell. The tablet bears the
following inscription:—" Erected by the Governors of
the Seamen's Hospital Society of the port of London, in
memory of John Lydekker, Esq., South Sea shipowner,
gratefully to record his munificent bequest to that in-
stitution. He died on the 23d July, 1832, and was
)utied in the north vault in St. Dionis Backchurch,
Fenehurch-street." The sculptor is Mr. J. J. Sanders,
and the architect Mr. William Tite. The sum be-
queathed by Mr. Lydekker to the society was 58,000/.,
pang the residue of his property.