The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-28 00:00:00

OCTOBER.

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Edinburgh 6, i, 8 I eu:Tagh • 19, 20, 21.
Leicester 7, 8 I West Drayton 2l, 21

Bromley 7, 8 i Hereford

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Carmarthen 3. 4 Harrow lB, 19
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Birmingham ', 9 Windsor 22, 2:3
Chippenham 10, 11 I St. Albans 23, 2%
Streatham 11, 12 Derby • • 25
liewbriclge 15 Baschurch 26
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Lincoln l6, 17

ANOTHER CHARGE AGAINST DIRECTORS

MANSION-HOUSE-THIS DAY.

At the Justice Room of the Mansion-House to-day
Mr. Richard Stuart Lane and Mr. James Childs, directors
of the Merchants Company (Limited), appeared before
the Lord Mayor to answer a summons charging there
with having, ou the 25th May, 1866, published a circular
accompanying a call upon the shareholders, they well
knowing the same to be false in a material particular, with
intent to defraud.
The summons was issued at the instance of Mr. John
Land, of Litchureh, in the county of Derby.
Mr. Straight, the counsel for the prosecution, explained
the specific charge imputed to the defendants, which was h it
they, while directors of the Merchants Company, had
issued to the public a false prospectus, is which they
stated that the business of Lane, Hankey, cud
Company, of which the defendant, Mr. Lane,
was the principal partner, was in a per-
fectly solvent condition, and had not made any
losses, and was, in point of fact, in a flourishing condition,
and the effect of which was that the public were induced
to take shares to a large amount, and a very considerable
loss was incurred. It will be unnecessary to go into details
of the particular facts relied upon to support the charge,
as they were nearly the same as had been adduced in sup-
port of the charge against Mr. Lane, Mr. Chapman, and
Mr. Helbert. The prosecutor in this case was a gentle-
man named Land, residing at Derby.
The learned counsel proceeded at some length to detail
the particulars connected with the position of the different
houses that had done business with Lane, Hankey, and
Co., and the Merchant Company, whose estates were sub-
sequently wound up, causing considerable loss to the
latter, with a view to make out the charge of fraud, and
called witnesses to bear out his statement.
The hearing was adjourned.

TWO 11 UNDRED ANDEIGH7Y-TWO MEN
IMPRISONED IN A MINE.

The Aldwarke Main Colliery, belonging to Messrs.
Waring, Shaw, and Co., and situated at Rawmarsh, about
two miles from Rotherham, was yesterday the scene
of a fearful boiler explosion, which, though not of a fatal
character, has yet been attended with disastrous conse-
quences. The drawing apparatus at the pit mouth was of a
somewhat extensive nature, and worked by a powerful en.
gine, which was fed with steam by three large boilers, 36ft.
by bjft., lying parallel to each other alongside the
engine-house. Early yesterday morning 282 out of the
350 miners employed at the colliery were lowered into
the mine as usual, and all went on well until a few
minutes before twelve o'clock, when the boiler nearest
the engine-house burst with a fearful report, which
was heard several milers away. In a moment the engine-
house became a mass of ruins, and the gearing
at the pit mouth was blown away, bricks and
timber flying about in all directions. There was great
alarm as to the 282 miners in the pit below, cot:walnut-
cation with whom was found to be impossible till nearly
5 o'clock, when the first batch was brought up, a tempo.
rary apparatus, worked by hors:: and manual labour, hay
ing been fixed. It was estimated that it would take all
the night to rescue the whole of the men.