The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-25 00:00:00

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 24.

MEREDITH V. HOLMAN.
In this cause, in which in the early part of the day
of
Mr. Chambers obtained a rule for a nonsuit and arrest
judgment,
Mr. MARTIN moved, pursuant to leave given him at
the trial, for a rule to show cause why the amount of the
penalties should not be increased from one shilling
on each sack of coals that were found deficient
in weight to five pounds, that being the maxi-

THE LATE COAL-MINE ACCI.
DENT AT OLDBURY.
BIRMINGHAM, TUESDAY EVENING.—The jury before
whom the inquest was held at Dudley on the bodies of
two of the sufferers, late residents in Worcestershire,
by the coal-mine explosion at Dudley, returned a ver-
dict last evening of manslaughter against Thomas Harris,
ground bailiff at Newbury pit—a verdict which has ex-
cited the strongest sensation in the district..,
The adjourned inquest at Oldbury, in Staffordshire,
was resumed at the Talbot Inn there to-day.
The Coroner, before proceeding with the business,
stated that efforts of a benevolent character had already
been made, with a view to relieve the distress occasioned
by the late accident in the mine.
Charles Kennedy was the first witness examined. He
had worked in the mine two years ago, but left on ac-
count of the sulphur that was in it, which he believed to
have arisen from the detective character of the ventila-
tion. The witness, on cross-examination, admitted
that a new gate_ road had been made since he left,
as shown iu the 'plan. He bad been twice burned in
the pit.
Mr. John Brittle, mining surveyor, Dudley, had exa-
mined the pit with Mr. Yardley and Mr. Silas Elwell,
yesterday, from one end to the other, and only found
sulphur in one part of it. He attributed the explosion
to the fact that one side of the work was not properly
ventilated. He ecnsiclered the place where the men were
at work sufficiently ventilated.. The state of the atmos-
phere affects much the condition of the sulphur in mines.
Tuesday last was a very bad clay to work in pits. The
colliers in several pits were at play that day, in conse-
quence of the sulphur in them, engendered by the damp
and fegey atmosphere.
Mr. Yardley and Mr. Elwell gave evidence to the same
efloct, both insisting strongly that the state of the atmo-
sphere had much to do in causing the explosion.
The CORONER then summed up the evidence, and the
jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death;" but ex-•
pressing dissatis'aetion with the ventilation of the pit.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND NORTH
WESTERN RAILWAi.—MAZieIiESTER, TUESDAY EVEN •
ING.—This morning a collision ioJk place on the Man-
chester and Birmingham wit-thin of the London and
North-western Railway, at :itockport, of a serious cha-
racter, but fortunately attended with no loss of life.
The forty minutes past nine o'clock train, which left
Manchester this morning_ for London, had just passed
over the lofty viaduct which crosses the Mersey at
Stockport, about seven minutes to ten o'clock, when the
engine came in collision with a coal train, one of Lord
Vernon's, which had passed the shunts to get upon the
London (or up line), about nine minutes to ten o'clock,
when the Superintendent of the Stockporte station stopped
it, and told the engineer that the train from Manchester
was due in a minute or two, and advised him to back
upon the down line until it had passed. The engineer
had proceeded to do to, and the whole of the carriages
had cleared the up-line, when the passenger train ar-
rived, and came in collision with the tender and engine.
The collision was dreadful, causing the engines of the
two trains to rear up almost on end, and fall off the line.
The front of one engine and the rear of the other were
broken badly, and one of. the buffers of each were broken
off. The tenders were als6 considerably damaged. Se-
veral of the passengers were severely bruised and in-
jured, and one had three teeth broken. They were all
conveyed to the Stockport Infirmary, a very short dis.
tance from the spot, and had their wounds attended to.
Four of them were able to proceed by the train, which
was not, however, in motion till about one o'clock, having
been detained three hours. The shunts at which the
accident occurred .was: only seventy ,yards from the
Stockport station, where the passenger train was to atop,
and it appears the engineer wasJo blame in not having
slackened his speed sooner. Indeed, the signal was up
for him to stop before arriving at the station, which he
ought to have seen at nearly a mile distance. The en-
gineer and guard of the coal train had both jumped off
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jumped of, and had his ankle sprained, and John Fox,
had his foot caught between the engine and
the stoker,
tender, and slightly hurt.

DARING PLATE ROBBERY.—Yesterday, at the
Greenwich Police Court. an elderly man of shabby.
genteel appearance, who gave the name of John Jackson,
and a young man similarly attired, named Thomas
Thorpe, were brought up on remand, charged with rob-
bing the house of Mr. William Hall, a merchant, of
Wood-street, Cheap*ide, whose country residence is at
Catford Bridge, near Sydenham, of a silver cruet stand,
gold cayenne spoon, silver salt spc ons, and a number of
table spoons, value upwards of 201. Ann Ward, house-
maid in the prosecutor's family, stated that on Thursday
last she was directed to lay the cloth in the dining
room, the window of which was partially open, and is
situated about twenty yards from the high road. She
did so, leaving the articles above enumerated on the
table, from which they were missed a short time after.
The articles were missed about two o'clock. Policea
constable Carpenter, of the detective force,
Blackheath
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bundle over the park wall into the garden of Mr. Ky-
naston, of Croom's-hill, but which fell short. He picked
up the parcel containing part of the property, and with
the assistance of other persons who ran to his aid, se-
cured the prisoner. He gave Jackson into the custody
of anether constable, and then went in search of Thorpe,
whom he subsequently aurehended. The prisoners
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Sheerniyts.
ACCIDENTS YESTERDAY.--Emily White, aged 18
d.
in
street, onth
mother, and during her temporary absence a saucepan,
whither she was con-
oawnrarsl boiling
neck,
removed
veyed in a blanket, in dreadful agony: ,and Rebecca
North, aged five years, residing at No. 1, Grange-
walk, Bermondsey, whilst standing on the fender, set
fire to her clothes, and, before the flames were extin-
guished, she was shockingly burned. She was taken to
the same hospital. Slight hopes are entertained of the
recovery of either.
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most unfortunate artist on the sympathy of the public
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funds of the National Benevolent Institution, the elec-
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