The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-04 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING

ENGLISH and SCOTTISH LAW LIFE
ASSURANCE and LOIN ASSOCIATION.
12, Waterloo-place, London; 119, Princes-street, Edinburgh.
Established in 1539.
Subscribed Capital, One Million.
LIFE ASSURANCE, ANNUITIES, REVERSIONS, AND
ENDOWMENTS.
A union of the English and Scottish Principle of Assurance.
A COMPREHENSIVE and LIBERAL SYSTEM of LOAN in
onnexion with Life Assurance, en undoubted personal or other
ecurity.
The Assured participate in two-thirds of the profits.
J. HILL WILLIAMS, Actuary.

BRITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
1, Princes-street, Bank, London.
Estpowered by special Act of Parliament, 4th Yid., cap. 9.
AD'ANTAGES OF THIS INSTITUTION.
MUTUAL AAMTRANCI BRANCH.
Complete security afforded to the Assured by means an ample
subscribed capital, and the large fluid accumulated from the pre-
miums on upwards of 6,000 policies.
Half the amount only of the annual premium required during the
first five years, the remaining half premiums being paid out of the
profits, which, after five years, will be annually divided among the
Assured.

Half Pre- Whole Pre- Half Pre- Whole Pre-
Age. mium, first mium, after Age. mium, first slum, after
live years. five years. seven years. seven years.
s. d. L s. d. # s. d. # e. d.
20 1 0 0 2 0 0 28 0 18 0 1 16 0
25 1 2 2 2 4 4 25 0 19 Y 1 19 2
30 1 4 11 2 9 10 30 1 1 9 2 3 6
35 1 8 6 2 17 0 35 1 4 11 2 9 18
40 1 13 3 3 6 6 40 1 9 2 2 18 4
45 1 19 6 3 19 0 45 1 14 10 3 9 8
50 2 7 9 4 15 6 50 2 2 6 4 5 0
55 2 15 10 5 17 8 55 2 12 9 5 5 6

PETER MORRISON, Resident Director.

SOVEREIGN LIFE ASSURANCE COM
PANT,
No. 5, St. James's-street, London.

TRUSTEED.
Sir Augustus Brydges Henniker, Bart,
Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., M.P.
Henry Pownall, Esq.
Claude Edward Scott, Esq.
DIRECTORS.
CHAlAMAN—Lieutenant-Colenel Lord Arthur Lennox.
DIPIITT-CRAIRMIN—T. C. Granger, Esq., M.P.
John Ashburner, Esq., M.D.
T. M. B. Batard, Esq.
Philip Patton Blyth, Esq.
Heury Broadwood, Esq., M.P.
Charles Farebrother, Esq., Alderman.
Wm. Tulloch Fraser, Esq.
John Gardiner, Esq,
Aaron Asher Goldsmid, Esq.
Lord Macdonald.
Alexander Ogilvie, Esq.
Henry William Pownall, Esq.
Assurances and annuities granted on favourable terms.
The Rates of Premium, of which the following are specimens, are
on the lowest scale consistent with security.

ANNUAL PREMIUMS FOR ASSURING 1001.
For For For
Age. One Year. Seven Years. Whole Life,
£ s. d. £ s. d. £ e. d.
20 1 1 0 1 1 8 I 1 13 7

HOLBORN-HILL, SNOW-HILL, AND
FARRINGDON-STRRET VIADUCT COMPANY.
(Registered Provisionally,)
Capital 200,0001., in 90,000 Shares of 101. each.
Deposit Us. per Share.
The allotment of Shares will take place as early as practicable by
the Coramittee of Management, and in the meantime all further ap-
plications for Shares are to be made to the solicitors, Messrs. Carrltt
and Osgood, 5, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street ; and Appli-
cants are requested to confine their references as much as possible to
bankers, brokers, and others within the city of London.
The estimate of John Stead, Esq., the civil engineer, and George
Smith, Esq. the architect, is highly satisfactory.
30th November, 1846.

Provisionally registered ac •ording to Act of Parliament,

METROPOLITAN and SUBURBAN
CEMETERIES SOCIETY, established for public objects,
and carried out by private means.
First Capital, 100,0001., in 5,000 shares of 201. each.
Ultimate Capital, 2,000,000/.
Deposit, 11. 10s. per share.

All Shareholders to have the option of burial-ground In exchange

for their shares, at two •thirds the price to the public, with the pre-
emption of any future shares of the ultimate capital which may be
issued. To be incorporated, and the liability of shareholders limited
by Act of Parliament, or Royal Charter.

fIAVIES'S CANDLES, 6d. per lb. ; Genuine
Sperm, Is. ad. ; Yellow soap, 485., 545., and 60s. per 1121bs. ;
Mottled, 60s. and G4s. ; Wax Candles, Is. per lb.; German Wax,
Is. 2d. ; Fine Wax, Is. 5d.; Trattsparent Wax, Is. 10d.; Genuine
Wax, 2s. Id. ; Waxed-wick Moulds, 7d.; Sperm Oil, Bs. per gallon ;
Solar, 3s. 3d., Pale Seal, 4s. ; Argand, or Vegetable, 4s. 6d. ; Wind-
sor and Palm Soap, Is. 4d. per packet; Brown Windsor, Is. 9d. ;
Rose, 2s. ; Almond, 2s. 6d. ; Sealing Wax, 4s. 6d. ; Hale's Paragon
Composite, requiring no snuffing, 9%d. per lb.
For Cash—At DAVIES'S Old Established Warehouse, 63, St.
Martin's-lane, opposite Slaughter's Coffee-house.

THE BEST REMEDY FOR INDIGESTION.
NORTON'S CAMOMILE PILLS
are confidently recommended as a simple but certain remedy
to all who suffer from Indigestion, Sick Headache, Bilious and Live
Complaints ; they act as a powerful tonic and gentle aperient, impar
ing strength to the stomach, and composure to the nervous system,
Sold in bottles at Is. I M., 2s. 9d., and I Is. each, in every town in
the kingdom.
CAUTION.—Be sure to ask for " NORTON'S PILLS," and do not
be persuaded to purchase an imitation.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of busi-
ness.

Mr. BENNocn gave notice of a motion for an address
to her Majesty to urge upon Parliament the necessity of
establishing a system of education universally in Grea;
Britain and Ireland.

QUALIFICATIONS OF FREEMEN, &C.
Mr. JOHN WOOD moved that a " Bill for declaring the
Qualification of Freemen of London to be elected mem-
bers of the Common Council," be read a second time.
The Court was occupied during the whole of the day
in discussing the clauses of the Bill, with closed doors.
The interest is merely local.
There is a vast deal of business to be transacted, if
we are to form any opinion from the contents of the
business paper, and if the progress resemble the com-
mencement of the Mayoralty, as to the doings of the
Court of Common Council, the arrears will, in a few
weeks, be enormous. The public may judge of the
condition of the Court in this respect, upon being told
that one of the members complained that some of the
notices of motions had been actually staring the mem-
bers in the face, on the business paper, nearly twelve
months.

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
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tary corps.
Hinortshe
(Signed) E. JONES, Adjutant-General.
"The Commander•in-Chief desires that in all case:in
which a soldier has been wounded in action a specifica-
tion of wounds or woand may be inserted in his dis-
charge, documents in addition to the disabilities that
may be the immediate cause of rendering him unfit for
service.
" His Grace likewise desires that the dates of grant
and forfeiture of good conduct pay, as well as those of
restoration thereof, may be specified in their discharge
documents.
" By command of Field-Marshal the Duke of Wel-
lington, Commander-in-Chief.
(Signed) "J. MACDONALD,
Adjutant-General."
ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY.
It is stated, upon very good authority, in the military
circles in this garrison, that his Grace the Duke of Wel-
lington's serious attention has been brought to the demo-
ralising and baneful system of allowing from four to six
gentlemen cadets of this establishment to occupy one
room, and that the mode proposed to be adopted is that
at our universities, that of assigning each young gentle.
man cadet a room to himself, and for that purpose a
most material alteration must take place to enlarge the
academy. Another most stringent regulation, it is said,
will be adopted—that of not permitting the cadets the
privilege of promenading thegarrison after dark, but to
limit them to their barracks, except in cases where it is
known that they are ' golg to. visit their parents or rela-
tives residing within the garrison.

- -
CURIOUS ROBBERIES OF MlLK.—Three boys, about
twelve, thirteen, and fourteen years of age, were charged,
at the Clerkenwell Police Court, under the following
circumstances :—lt appeared that on Tuesday morning,
at on early hour, the prisoners were seen lurking about
Islington, watching the milk carriers, who left small
cans containing milk in the areas of customers for
servants to take in. The prisoners, in several instances,
climbed over the area railings and emptied the cans of
milk; and thus would they have deprived all the gentry
of Islington of milk for breakfast, had it not been fur a
policeman of the N division, who had been for some time
watching their manoeuvres, taking them into custody.
The prisoners were committed.

DREADFULDEATIL—On Wednesday forenoon, a man
named Joseph Reynolds, aged twenty one years, ex-
pired ill the accident ward of Guy's Hospital, under the
following dreadful circumstances : The unfortunate
man was employed at a lime yard at Peckham, and
whilst engaged in his usual occupations, he was seiznd
with an epileptic fit and fell into a deep limo pit. He
remained in that state for nearly a quarter of an hour,
when he was found by one of the other workmen lying
at the bottom of the pit covered with lime, and fright-
fully burnt over the back and lower extremities by the
action of the lime, which happened to be in a heated
condition, The body awaits an inquest,

COLLIERY EXPLOSION NEAR
II ORLEY.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
Another inquest was held on Tuesday afternoon at the
house of Mr. Thomas Glover, the Wheatsheaf Inn,
Coppull (three miles from Chorley, and seven from
Wigan), on the body of Thomas Grime, the man who
was employed in the coal mine of Mr. J. Hargreaves,
jun., as " fireman," when the melancholy explosion t.,ok
place on the 24th ult., when eight unfortunate individuals
lost their lives.
Mr. R. Palmer, the Coroner, commenced the inquiry
at half-past two o'clock, and Mr. J. Gaskell attended on
behalf Mr. Hargreaves, to afford every facility to the
investigation.
The only witness called was Joseph Ellis, the manager
of the colliery, who stated that immediately after the
explosion on the 24th of November at the Coppull Pit,
he went into the mine with the Davy lamp, and found
Morris about 300 yards from the shaft, lying upon his
face, and nearly dead. lie was a little burnt, but it was
suffocation that aff-eted him. He saw him afterwards at
his own house, and asked him if he could tell how the
accident happened? He replied, "I went down at half-
past four o'clock with my Davy lamp, and had put a
lighted candle its all the places except the last three—
Halliwell's and the two Turners'. I was going into Tom
Halliwell's place when I saw a light inside, and imme-
diately afterwards an explosion took place." Witness
then said, " Some of the men state that you had your
lamp-top off; is that true?" He said, " No, it is not;
but you will find that out in a day or two, for some of
you will find my lamp." On Saturday morning he
(witness) found the lamp, and the top was on, and it was
all perfectly correct.
The CORONER said he was
glad the lamp had been
found, as it corroborated the statement made by the
deceased, and would satisfy the public mind as to the
real cause of the accident.
Ellis continued—There was another person with him
when he found the lamp. Ile found it going into
Thomas Halliwell's place, ;and just where Grime said he
was at the time of the ~exoosion. Candles had been
stuck up in all the places except the last three. The
light had been blown out by the explosion, but the candles
being stuck up with clay were still remaining. There
were no candles stuck up in Halliwell's or Turners'
places. The deceased died at three o'clock on Saturday
afternoon. He died from the effects of the "after-damp,
which suffocated him.

The CORONER said, it appeared to him that the cause
of the accident was now satisfactorily explained, and
that no Wanly whatever rested with those who had the
management of the works.

The jury immediately returned a verdict of " Acci,
dental death."

The CORONER said he observed that the attention of
the London newspaper's had been directed to this melan-
choly accident, on account of women being in the mine,
which was contrary to law. Now, he wished to know
whether something could not be done to prevent them
going down in disguise in this manner.
Ellis—There might be somebody to examine them.
A Juryman—But who will examine them? They
will have them, do what you will, and if any one was
sent to examine, they would stick a pick into him di-
rectly. The women are fonder of working in the pits
than anywhere else, and you cannot keep them out, be-
cause there they get good wages. They " naturably "
like it, though I don't think they should be employed
there. When disguised, they are very bad to detect.
A young woman used to pass our door from a pit at
Blackrod, and I said one day to my wife, " That's a
clever young fellow;" but my daughter said, " Nay, she's
a wench."—(Laughter.)
After some further conversation among the jury, it
turned out that this " clever young fellow," who deceived
the juryman, was the unfortunate young woman Jane
Moss, aged 21 years, who was killed by the explosion on
the 24th of November.

AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR
NOVEMBER.
(From the Farmer's Magazine.)
Foremost in importance to the agricultural body at
this particular period of the year is the state of the
weather for out-door farm operations. That experienced
during nearly or quite the whole of the month just
brought to a conclusion has proved unusually propitious
to the sowing of the winter wheats ; hence, as a matter
of course, that work has progressed with considerable
rapidity, and under the most favourable auspices. In
many parts of England the plants have already appeared
above ground, and it is highly gratifying for us to be
enabled to observe that we never recollect to have seen
them finer or in a more healthy state. These observa-
tions refer, be it understood, not to any particular
locality, but to most our large corn districts, over which
we have travelled for the purpose of forming our con-
clusions respecting the many features of interest to our
farmers. The'value of the opinion frequently expressed,
that a change in our import laws must have the effect of
throwing out of cultivation a large portion of our wheat
lands, from the inability of the home growers to compete
with the foreigner, is now about to be tested. We our-
selves have looked upon the late alteration in the corn-
laws as indicative of low prices here in years of great
abundance ; but, at the same time, we have endeavoured
to enforce our honest conviction that it would be utterly
impo:sible for farming to be carried on in this country,
unless wheat—by far the most valuable crop we can pro-
duce—continue to form the principal article of growth
with us. This point of our argument cannot be more
fairly illustrated than by experience ; and, from what we
have recently witnessed, and from the remarks of our
numerous correspondents, we maintain that the year
1847 will show a much larger breadth of land under
wheat than has been the case during the last ten years.
alu
We would observe this is no idle assumption, though it
is a most conclusive proof of the energy of our
agriculturistsdecitoth is
wants of the population. Many parties may feel dis-
posed to argue that the increased cultivation we have
here
kpeeuprelpyace with the rapidly increasing
the result of the prevailing
comparatively high. prices. To an extent, such is un-
questionably the case ; but feeling strongly impressed
with our extensive and increasing wants as a nation, and
the great necessity for supplying these wants, in
order that at future periods we may be independent as
far as possible of all contingencies, the result of depen-
dence upon the foreign cultivators, and, further, the
tm-
portance of keeping the labouring population fully em-
ployed and well fed, all which matters are closely con-
nected with native industry, we very much doubt whether
—unless indeed our general policy, commercial as well
as political, receive an unexpected and, by some, long
dreaded convulsion—the prices of wheat will ever be
lowered to that point at which it will be impossible to
cultivate it. It would perhaps b unfair for us to draw
inferences from the p ist season what has been one of
extreme interest, and in which we have had to report the
failure not only of the potato crop, but likewise a consi-
derable falling off in the produce of all kinds of spring
corn ; all which circumstances have increased the con-
sumption of' wheat far beyond that of the ordinary run
of years. Still, in our judgment, it would be opposed
to a practical view of matters to argue that the cultiva-
tion of wheat will be materially affected by the import-
ation of a few hundred thousand quarters of foreign
grain annually.
The next point to which we shall direct attention is
the state of the stocks of wheat, both old and new, in
the hands of the home growers. The stocks of last year's
growth are very limited, and a few weeks will make a
total clearance of them ; but, notwithstanding the un-
usually large deliveries at the various markets, which
have been made in excellent condition, those of the pre.
sent season are good and of prime quality. Here, then,
is a matter which cannot fail to have some influence
upon future prices, and maintain a sensible effect upon
consumption. This subject being one of the most vital
interest to our readers, a few observations upon the
statements which have found their way into many con-
temporary prints may be useful. On the subject of
the relative value of wheat we have already expressed
ourselves to the effect that though the imports of grain
from America and elsewhere may be large during the
coming year, the demand will not be more than ade-
quately supplied ; hence present rates may be consi-
dered tolerably sate.
We have read with much attention the numerous
highly-coloured statements respecting the capabilities
of the United States to supply us with " bread stuffs;"
yet we see nothing whatever in them to create any
uneasiness—circumstanced as we are at the present
moment—or that a great fall in our quotations will be
produced thereby, for the simple reason that from no
other quarter of the globe can we expect to derive large
supplies of corn for a considerable period. High prices
—at least much higher than those now ruling in our
markets—we do not anticipate, because we feel justified
in the assertion that the evils resulting from the partial
failure in the potato crop—partial we only consider it—
and the comparative falling off in the supplies of barley,
oats, beans, and peas, have been greatly alleviated by
the large quantities of grain and flour which have passed
the customs for home consumption, since the commence-
ment of the present year. Again, it is placed beyond
a doubt that the wheat produced this season is of a very
ter amount of really good flour than ordinary. These
circumstances, therefore, induce us to conceive that we
surepaerior description, consequently is yielding a much
g
can entertain no idea of a famine, of famine prices, or of
a great depression in our market.
In the early part of the month—at which time the mil-
lers and others were well in stock, and the supplies of most
grain on offer considerably on the increase—compara-
tively little business was transacted in wheat or other
articles, and the quotations suffered a pretty general de-
cline ; but towards the close the demand became steady,
though the actual abatement previously submitted to was
observed in the
lean
d for both fat anddemanstock,
and in some had a downward in-
stances, the currencies have tendency.
This latter circumstance must, in a great measure, be
not recovered. Less activity has been
attributed to the immense importations of foreign stock,
which have taken place under the new tariff, in London
and at the various outports, which have greatly exceeded
those of any month during the present year.
The fact that the potatoes have been on the increase
in the metropolis and elsewhere, and that the condition
of that esculent has much improved, is strongly corrobo-
rative of the views we have all along expressed, espe-
cially as prices have fallen from 10s. to 15s. per ton,
viz., that the actual losses by the disease have been over.
estimated, as far as England and Scotland are con-
cerned.

It is very satisfactory to observe that the turnip and