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London, England, 1846-12-04 00:00:00

DECEMBER 4, 1846.
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ILIOLBORN-HILL, SNOW-HILL, AND
FARRINGDON-STREET VIADUCT COMPANY.
(Registered Provisionally,)
Capital 200,0001., in 20,000 Shares of 101. each.
Deposit Ils. per Share.
The allotment of Shares will take place as early as practicable by
the Committee of Management, and in the meantime all further ap-
plications for Shares are to be made to the solicitors, Messrs. Carritt
and Osgood, 5, Gulldhall-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, 2,000,0001.
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.
TRUSTEES.
Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., M.P., &c. ; Luke James Hansard,
Esq., &c. &c. &c.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT,
Henry Berkeley, Esq., Essex-street, Strand.
John Berkeley Cotter, Esq., Broad-street-bui
John Gardiner, Esq„ Regent's Villas, Regent's Park.
William Gilpin, Esq., Northumberland street.
Captain Hackett, R.N., Upper Rutland-street, Dublin.
George Peters Irvine, Esq., Travellers' Club, Pall-mall.
George Leslie Lee, Esq., Broad street-buildings.
George Frederick Minton, Esq., Berners-street.
Edward Duke Moors, Esq , Arlington-street.
George Kennett Pollock, Esq., Essex-street, Strand.
William Stuart, Esq., Bedford-square.
William Walmsley Terrington, Esq., Great Winchester-street.
Charles Robert Thompson, Esq., Winchester House.
James Tracy, Esq., Great Winchester-street.
With power to add to their number,
BANKERS—The Commercial Back of London.
STANDING COUNSEL.
Mr. Sergeant Channeil and Mr. Thomas Bourdillon, Esq.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Bourdillon and Sons.
ARCHITECT—John Hargrave Stevens, Esq., C. E.
SURVEYORS —Messrs. Hoggart and Norton.
SUPERINTENDENT—James Macdonald, Esq.
SECRETARY Edward Beare, Esq.
The proposed objects of the Metropolitan and Suburban Cemeteries
Society are as follow :
To provide sites for Burial, East, West, North, and South, of the
Metropolis.
To effect considerable reduction in the rate of charges.
To adopt a new principle of payment—a single charge being sub-
stituted for the customary fees.
To provide for the decent and respectable Burial of the Poorer
Population by a system of arrangement perfectly novel, including
buildings for the temporary reception, as well as for the transit of
bodies. Negotiations are now pending for the purchase of several
exceedingly eligible sites, and one portion of 150 acres has been
already secured.
The estimates show a large annual dividend when the Society shall
be in fall operation, until which period four per cent. interest will be
paid on the deposits and calls. •
The Committee of-Management are now ready to receive applica-
tions for Shares, which mly be made to Messrs Bourdillon and
Sons, Solicitors, 30, Great Winchester-street ; J. 13. Stevens, Esq.,
Architect, 6, Clement's Inn, Strand ; Messrs. Shewell and Sons,
Brokers, 25, Tokenhouse-yard ; Thomas Sleigh, Esq., jun., Broker,
22, Exchango-street East, Liverpool ; Messrs. W. H. Collis and Smith,
Birmingham; Messrs. .Tate and Nash, Bristol; Messrs. Jacklm
and M'Cowan, Glasgow ; James Kingle, Esq., Edinburgh ; Messrs.
Smith and Minton, Bradford, and at Leeds ; or to.„ the Secretary, at
the Offick of. the Society, 6, Broad-street-buildinge2WherOtreaspee-
fuses- aheall.flirther particulars may be obtained. • -
By order of the Board, • •
London, Nov. 25, 1846. EDWARD HOARE, Secretary.

1-1 AVIES'S CANDLES, 6d. per lb. ; Genuine
; Yellow Soap, 48s. 545., and 60s. per 1121bs. ;
Mottled, 60s. and 645.; Wax Candles, is. per lb.; German Wax,
Is. 2d. ; Fine Wax, Is. sd. ; Transparent Wax, Is. 10d.; Genuine
Wax, 2s. la. ; 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.

INe'LUENZA, COUGHS, AND COLDS.
QIMCO'S ESSENCE of LINSEED is the most
efficacious remedy ever discovered for the relief of persons suf
fering from influenza ; the two first doses generally arrest the pro-
gress of this distressing complaint, and a little perseverance com-
pletely'removes it. Children's coughs, as well as recent ones in
adults, will be removed by a few doses (frequently by the first), and
asthmatic persons, who previously had not been able to lie down in
bed, have received the utmost benefit from the use of Simco's
Essence of Linseed.

Sold by all Medicine Vendors, in bottles at Is. Ij4 d. and 2s. 9d
each.

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

Mr. BENNOCE gave notice of a motion for an address
to her Majesty to urge upo❑ Parliament the necessity of
establishing a system of education universally in Greal
Britain and Ireland.
QUALIFICATIONS OP 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 Mayor.lty, 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 ostnplained that some of the
notices of motions ha•i bet n Actually staring the mem-
bers in the face, on the business paper, nearly twelve
months. ,

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
GENERA!, ORDER.

WOOLWICH, OCTOBER.—The following circular memo.
randa from the Horse Guards are promulgated for the
information and guidance of all officers of the Royal
Regiment of Artillery. The Honourable Board directs
the same to be carried into effect in the Ordnance mili-
tary corps.
(Signed) E. JONES, Adjutant-General.
" Horse Guards, 1846.
" The Commander-in-Chief desires that in all cases in
which a soldier has been wounded in action a specifica-
tion of wounds or wound rney 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) " . MA.CDONALD,
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 &obi 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-
academy. Another most stringent man cadet a room to himself, and for that purpose a
most material alteration must take place to enlarge the
limit them to their barracks, gent regula , said,
will be adopted—that of nOrtin
permitting
. the cadets the
privilege of promenading regulation, it is
garrison after dark, but to
.except. in cases where it is
known that they visit their parents or rela-
tives residing within the garrison.

CURIOUS ROBBERIES OF MLLE.—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 miik 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 for a
'policeman of the N diviiion, who had been for some time
watching their manoeuvres, taking them into custody.
The prisoners were committed.
DREADFULDEATH.—On Wednesdayforenoon,aman
named Joseph Reynolds, aged twenty-one years, ex-
pired is 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 seized
with an epileptic fit and fell into a deep lime 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

CHORLEY.
FURTHER PARTICULARS:
Another inquest was held on Tuesday afternoon at the
house of Mr. Thomas Glover, the Wheatsheaf Inn,
Coppllll (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," whetithe melancholy explosion took
place on the 24th ult., whets 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
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. He was a little burnt, but it was
suffocation that affected 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 in 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. He found it going into
Thomas Halliwell's place, and just where Grime said he
was at the time of the explosion. 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 Halli well'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 blame 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 newspapers 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
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Moss, aged 21 years, who was killed by the explosion on
the 24th of November.

carrot crops are exceedingly good and of excellent qna-
lity. In all quarters the markets are liberally supplied
with them, at very moderate prices.
Depastured stock has fared remarkably well, and
supply of food continues abundant. In some parts the
dit.ease has made its appearance amongst the beasts, yet
actual losses have not been extensive.
In Ireland and Sotland the various markets have been
moderately well, but not heavily supplied with corn and
cattle. A full average amount of business has been
transacted in most articles, at full prices.

THE LAKE SUPERIOR COPPER

MINES.

(From the Montreal Herald.)
The following is a chapter from the forthcoming
volume of Charles Lanman, who has recently returned
from a journey in the wilderness of the north-west.
This chapter is of a character different from the rest of
the work, which is a narrative and description, instead
of being geological. It will, however, be read with in-
terest at the present moment, when the region of copper
mines on the greatest of our lakes is an object of such
general attention:—

" THE COPPER REGION.

" I am the owner of a few shares of copper stock, but
exceedingly anxious to dispose of my interest, at the
earliest possible moment and on the most reasonable
terms. This remark defines my position with regard to
copper in general, and may be looked upon as the text
from which I shall proceed to make a few, a very few,
general observations on the copper region of Lake Su-
perior. lam curious to find out how it will seem for

the public at large to read something that is not a pur-
chased puff. Those, therefore, who are unaccustomed
to simple matters of fact, will please pass on to another
chapter of my little book, or lay it down as the most
insipid volume that was ever published.
"It is undoubtedly true that all the hills and mann-

tains surrounding this immense lake abound in valuable
minerals, of which the copper, in every variety of form,
is the most abundant. The lamented Douglas Houghton
has published the opinion that this region contains the
most extensive copper mines in the known world. The
discoveries that have been made during the last three
years would lead one to suppose this opinion to be
founded in truth.
" Not to mention the ship-loads of rich ore that I have
seen at different times, I would, merely to give my
reader an idea of what is doing here, give the weight of
a few distinguished discoveries that I have actually seen.
" The native copper boulder, discovered by the tra-
veller Henry in the bed of the Ontonagon river, and now
in Washington, originally weighed 3,800 pounds; a
copper masa of the same material was lately found near
Copper Harbour, weighing 1,200 pounds; at Copper
Falls the miners are now at work upon a vein of solid
ore, which already measures twenty feet in length. nine
in depth, and seven and a half inches in thickness,
which must weigh a number of tons; and at Eagle River
another boulder has lately been brought to light, weigh-
ing 1,700 pounds.

As to native silver, the Eagle River valley has
yielded the largest specimen yet found about this lake,
the weight of which was six pounds and three ounces.
These are mineral statistics from which may be drawn
as great a variety of conclusions as there are minds.

"The number of mining companies which purport to
be in operation on the American shore of Lake Superior
and on our islands is said to be 100, and the number of
stock shares is not far from 300,000. But notwithstand-
ing all the fuss that has been, and is still made, about
the mining operations here, a smelting furnace has not
yet been erected, and only three companies up to the
present time have made any shipments of ore. The
oldest of these is the Lake Superior Company; the most
successful, the Pittsburg and Boston Company; and the
other is the Copper Falls Company; all of which are
confin'd in their operations to Point Keweenaw.
" This point is at present the centre of attraction to
those who are worshipping the copper mammon of the
age. It is a mountainous district, covered with a compa-
ratively useless pine forest, exceedingly rocky, and not
distinguished for its beautiful scenery. As to the great
majority of the mining companies alluded to, they will
undoubtedly sink a good deal more money than they
can possibly make ; and for the reason, that they are not
possessed of sufficient capital to carry on the mining
business properly, and are managed by unexperienced
and visionary men—a goodly number of whom have
failed in every business in which they ever figured,
and who are generally adventurers, determined to live
by speculation instead of honest labour. The two prin-
cipal log cabin cities of Point Keweenaw are Copper
Harbour and Eagle River. The former is quite a
good harbour, and supports a vacated garrison, a news-
paper, a very good boarding house, and several intern
perance establishments. The latter has a fine beach for
a harbour, a boarding-house, a saw-mill, and a store,
where drinking is the principal business transacted.
The number of resident inhabitants in the two towns I

I was unable to learn, but the sum total, I suppose,
would amount to fifty souls. Altogether, perhaps, 500
miners and clerks may be engaged on the whole Point ;
while about as many more during the summer are hang-
ing about the general stopping places, on the shore, or
the working places in the interior. This brotherhood
is principally composed of upstart geologists, explorers,
and location speculators. From all that I can learn.
about the same state of things exists on the Canada side
of the lake. Twenty companies are already organised
for that section of country, the most promising of
which is the Montreal Mining Company ; but not a
pound of ore has yet been smelted or taken to market,
so that the subject theme,' for the present, is as barren
of real interest there as in our own territory. Ration-
ally speaking, the conclusion of the whole matter.is just
this—the Lake Superior region undoubtedly abounds in
valuable minerals, but as yet a sufficient length of time
has not elapsed to develope its resources. Three quarters
of the people (the remaining quarter are among the most
worthy of the land) now engaged in mining operations,
are what might be termed dishonest speculators and
inexperienced adventurers ; but there is no doubt that
if a new order of things should be brought into exist
ence here, all those who are prudent and industrious
would accumulate fortunes.

" I ought not to leave this brazen thole without
alluding to the science of geology as patronised in the
mineral region. Not only does the nabob stock-
holder write pamphlets about the mines of the Ural
Mountains, and other neighbouring regions, but even
the broken down New York merchant, who now sells
whiskey to the poor miner, strikes his huge whiskers
and descants upon the black oxyde, the native ore, and
the peculiar formation of every hill-side in the country.
Without exception, I believe, all the men, women,
and children residing in the copper cities, have
been crystalised into finished geologists. It matters not
how limited their knowledge of the English language
may be; for they look only to the surface of things ; it
matters not how empty of common sense their brain
chambers may be, they are wholly absorbed in sheath-
ing their minds and hearts with the bright red copper,
and are all loudly eloquent on their favourite theme.
" But the grand lever which they use to advance
their interests is the word conglomerate,' which
answers as a general description of the surrounding
country. You stand upon a commanding hill-top,
and while lost in the enjoyment of a fine landscape,
a copper harbor bear' or bull,' recently from
Wall-street, will slap you on the shoulder and startle
the surrounding air with the following That
whole region, sir, is conglomerate, and exceedingly rich
in copper and silver.' You ask your landlady for a drop
of milk to flavour your coffee, and she will tell you that
her husband haS exchanged the old red cow for a con-
glomerate location somewhere in the interior,' thereby
proving that a comfortable living is a secondary consi-
deration in this life. You happen to see a little girl
arranging some rocky specimens in her baby-house, and
on your asking her name, she will probably answer—
Conglomerate the man ! my name, sir, is Jane.' But
enough. It will not do for me to continue in this strain,
for fear that my readers will, like my mining friends, be
made crazy by a remarkable conglomerate specimen from
the mineral region."

FATAL ACCIDENT AT MERTON.—A painful sensa-
tion has been occasioned in the villages of Mitcham,
Tooting, and Merton, by the death of Mr. William New-
man, of Mitcham, the well-known medical herb grower.
On Tuesday morning, about eight o'clock, some men in
the employ of Mr. B. Drewett, of Lower Tooting, were
at work in a field near the Single-gate. at Merton, when
they heard the smothered report of a gun. About eleven
o'clock, business calling them to the farther end of the field,
they perceived the body of a respectably-dressed man
lying across the ditch, with a recently-discharged fowl-
ing piece lying by his side. The roof of the right side
of his skull was blown completely off just above the ear,
and the brains lay in the ditch a few inches apart from
the head. The men immediately procured assistance,
and conveyed the deceased, who was recognised as Mr.
Newman, to the Victory Inn, Merton-lane. It appeared
that the deceased had left home early in the morning to
shoot over his fields, and from the position in which the
body was found, there is no doubt that whilst he was in
the act of leaping the ditch, which is six feet wide, his
foot slipped, and as he fell the trigger caught the hedge,
and in a moment the deceased was hurried into eternity.
The deceased was 62 years of age, and has left a numer-
ous family well provided for. An inquest was held yes-
terday upon the body by Mr. Carter, and a verdict of
" Accidental Death " returned.
AUGMENTATION OF THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF AR-
TILLERY.—In consequence of the number of companies
required to relieve those on foreign stations whose period
of service has expired, it is Oetermined to add two addi-
tional companies to each battalion, which will augment
the number of officers, viz., 20 first captains, 20 second
captains, 20 first lieutenants, and 20 second lieutenants;
the latter receiving commissions from the Royal Mili-
tary Academy in the Royal Arsenal, where they are
now studying, in order to pass an examination before a
board of officers, to receive their promotion. This im-
portant augmentation will take place in the forthcoming
quarter.
INDIAN CORN.—A large vessel, with a cargo of
2,500 quarters from Odessa, has arrived " for orders."
The demand for, and consumption of, the article here is
very great, under the influence of which, and in the
absence of supplies, prices have again advanced (since
Friday) to the extent of 10s. per ton. The supplies of
grain of every description continue small to this market,
—Cork Examiner.

PRICE SD.

MEETING OP MIDDLESEX
• MAGISTRATES.
The monthly meeting of the magistrates was yester-
day held at the• Sessions House, Clerkenwell-green. Mr.
H. Pownall in the chair.
The meeting was very fully attended, because it was
known that the question of lessening the number of
juvenile offenders and the amelioration of their condition
was to be brought under consideration. Accordingly,
after some business had been transacted with reference
to Coldbath-fields Prison, the report of the committee,
appointed on the 9th of April last, for the purpose of
inquiring into the best means of checking the growth of
juvenile crime, and for promoting the reformation of
juvenile offenders, was next read ; and, after adverting
to the lamentable condition of the youthful offenders,
concluded by suggesting that measures should be at
once taken by intercessions with the Government, for
the purpose of obtaining the introduction into Parlia-
ment of a Bill, the preamble of which should in effect
state that the fearful extent of juvenile depravity and
crime in thmetropolitan districts, and in large and
populous towhs, requires generally immediate interfer-
ence on the part of the Legislature ; that the great causes
of juvenile depravity and crime appear to be the
absence of proper parental or friendly care, and the ab-
sence of a comfortable home, and that all children above
the age of seven and under the age of fifteen years, suf-
fering from either of these causes, require protection to
prevent their getting into bad company, learning idle
and dissolute habits, growing up in ignorance, and be-
coming an expense and burden on the country as cri-
minals, and that such protection should be afforded by
the county. That an asylum for unprotected and desti-
tute children be founded by legislative enactment, and
placed under the direction and management of the jus-
tices of the peace for the county of Middlesex, to be
called " The County Juvenile Protection Society."
And the report pointed out, in fourteen clauses, what
should be the principal enactments, the visiting justices
to be empowered to make rules and regulations, to be
sanctioned by the Secretary of State, and have the force
of law, &c.

After some discussion the report was received, and
ordered to be taken into consideration on the next
county day.
The question of the erection of a new lunatic asylum
again came on for discussion, and, after occupying the
attention of the Court for several hours, a series of reso-
lutions were passed, by a large majority, for the erection
of the new asylum, and for the appointment of a corn
mittee to select a site.

The Court adjourned a few minutes before six o'clock.

THE LATE. FIRE AND LOSS OF

LIFE AT LAMBETH.
Yesterday afternoon Mr. W. Carter held an inquest
at the Hero of Waterloo Inn, Waterloo-road, on the
body of Mary Ann Southey, otherwise Mary Ann Ro-
bertson, aged 16; the dwarf who lost her life at the Sre
which occurred on the morning of Wedliesday, at Mr.
Fergusson's wax-work exhibition, in the New-cut,
Lambeth.

The jury having been sworn, proceeded to view the
body, which was lying in the vaults of St. John's
Church.

Mr. James Fergusson said that he was the proprietor
of the wax-work exhibition, No. 32, Uhalcraft-terrace,
New-cut, Lambeth. The exhibition was opened at ten
o'clock in the morning, and closed at ten at night. On
the evening of Tuesday last witness and Mrs. Edwards,
his housekeeper, had been spending the evening at the
Surrey Theatre. They returned home at twelve o'clock,
when the shop was closed, and he understood that the
deceased had retired to bed. Not having a fire up-stairs,
he went into the kitchen to take his supper. About a
quarter of an hour after that time he sent his servant
out on an errand, and on her return she cried out,
" Master, master, the house is on fire!" On witness run-
ning up stairs he found the exhibition-room all on fire,
and the flames were rolling up the staircase.
The CORONER—Do you know whether or not the
servant took a light with her when she went out? Wit-
ness—l understand that she took a lighted candle with
her, and that she placed it on one of the organs in the
middle of the exhibition.

The CORONER—Was any attempt made by you to
save the deceased? Witness—lt could not be done.
The staircase was very narrow, and the flames were
ascending rapidly.
The CORONER—But was not any attempt made to get
to her from the window? Witness—Even that was
impracticable, for the fire burned so fiercely that the
flames extended nearly half across the roadway.
The CORONER—Can you form any opinion as to how
the fire originated? Witness—Only by supposing that
some person who had visited the exhibition during the
' evening had dropped the end of a lighted cigar, which
might have smouldered for some time, and then have
burst forth in a flame. I did not, however, detect the
smell of fire, nor yet the escape of gas, on my return
, home.

Mr. Robert Thomas Barrow, deputy foreman of the
West of England Fire-office, said that on the morning
of Wednesday last he was called to Mr. Fergusson's
premises, which he found were enveloped in flames from
the bottom to the top. At that time there was no pos-
sibility of entering the place. He assisted to extinguish
the flames. The fire having been subdued witness pro-
cured some"scaling ladders, and on entering the second
floor back he found the deceased lying partly in and
partly out of bed.
Maria Biggs, a servant in the employ of Mr. Fergus-
son, having spoken to the time her master went out, the
hour he returned from the theatre, and the number of
persons in the premises at the time, she added that she
was quite certain the fire was not wilfully caused by any
party. -
The jury returned a verdict "That the deceased died
from the effects of burning, caused by the house having
accidentally taken fire."