The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-20 00:00:00

RAILWAY ENTERPRISE IN INDIA.

When for the first time Indian legislation is retrogres-
sive, and when the absence of Government threatens the
extinction of half the European capital in Bengal, we de-
rive new confidence from the two facts that it is rfon-official
energy which has doubled the trade of the country and
created a vast railway system in ten years. Since 1850
eight companies have been formed in England to carry out
ten separate railway projects in a country in which no
finished materiel and no skilled labour exist, to which
800,000 tons of iron and 700 European engineers and work-
men have been sent. These projects involve a capital of
nearly £53,000,000 sterling, of which not one million has
been raised in the country to be benefitted by their execu-
tion. These companies have undertaken the gigantic task
of opening 4,917 miles of communication at a cost compa-
ratively as low as that of the cheap American lines,
through distilets rich with the virgin wealth of centu-
ries, but hitherto separated by the impassable barriers of
distance. In ten years they have completed a fifth of
the --work undertaken, and have so forwarded the rest
that it will be finished in four years more. Engi-
neering difficulties have been encountered unknown to
Europe, miles of quicksand and river have been bridged,
and the steep ascents of mountain ranges have been climbed
by the iron way. Science has triumphed over nature, and
that in a land to which she was a foreigner, under a sky
which to her votaries has too often been disease and death.
Living as we do on the spot, looking only at local delays
and official obstructions, remembering rash promises that
were made in the infancy of Indian railways, and sad disas-
ters which would have been averted in 1857 had these pro-
mises been fulfilled, we have a tendency to undervalue the
extent of railway enterprise in the East. But, if we look
at the picture of it as a whole, drawn by Mr. Danvers, tho
secretary to the railway department of the India-office, we
shall be astonished at its magnitude, and congratulate our-
selves on its present results. As we read his pages of
figures and accurate statements of facts, imagination fails to
grasp the full extent of the benefit which these £53,000,000
of English capital will confer on India. And when we re-
member that this capital is to bo applied almost exclusively
to trurk lines, that when they are completed branches will
run out from them into every district, that there is no spot
in the plains of India where a line will not pay, we may Well
pray for peace, that knowledge may be allowed thus to run
to and fro and cover the whole land. The basis of trade as
of the military security of India is a complete railway sys-
tem. We have so often described the progress of each rail-
way that we shall draw on Mr. Danvers only for a few of
the more striking facts. Ills report is a complete history
of railways in India up to the close of last year. Notwith-
standing the delays and destruction of material caused by
the Santhal raids and mutinies; in spite of the distance of
India from England, the loss of materials on the way, the
mortality among the European servants of the companies,
and the difficulty in many cases of securing labour ; and in
the face of the obstruction caused by the supervision and
interference of Government, a committee of the House of
Commons declared in 1858 that the construction of the In-
dian lines will bear favourable comparison with that of the
English. The same remark is true of the cost of construe-
tien and the expense of working. The Indian companies
havo had no legal and Parliamentary expenses, while they
have paid nothing for the land. The eight companies at
present in the field having guarantees as to the interest on
their capital are :

Finished. Total.
East Indian, from Calcutta to Delhi, with
line to Jubbulpore 3761 1,338
Great Indian Peninsular, from Bombay to
Jubbulpore (with branch to Nagpore) on
the north, and to Moodgul on the south.. 2981 1,266
Madras to Beypore on the south-west, and
to Moodgul on the north .. .. 137 850
Sinde and Punjab, from Kurrachee to Ko-
tree, and from Mooltan to Umritsir 361
Bombay, Baroda, and Central India, from
Bombay through Surat and Broach to Ah-
medabad .. .• • .. .. 40 3091
Eastern Bengal, from Calcutta to the Ganges
at Kooshtee •1091
Gre it Southern of India, from Negapatam
to Trichinopoly 80
Calcutta and South-Eastern, to the Mullah
River •. •• 29

Miles 852 4,917
In addition to three actually sanctioned, lines are being
surveyed in Oude, and from Umritsir to Delhi. Lines are
contemplated from Kooshtee to Dacca and Darjeeling,
from Delhi to Meerut and Mozuffernugger, from Nagpore
to Madras, from the Trichincpoly to the Madras line, and
in Rohilcund and Kumaon. The capital estimated as re-
quired by the eight companies is £52,430,000. On £34,133,000
of this interest has been guaranteed, and of that amount
£27,079,712 had been actuallyraised last December. Though
shares can be registered here as well as in England, only
£625,971 has been subscribed in India. The sum of
£3,840,790 had been paid as guaranteed interest to tho end
of 18,59, of which the three working companies had re-
ceived almost the whole. Up to June last they had re-
paid £562,633. It is a most gratifying fact that while the
East Indian had opened a section representing only
£1,716,000, and had received interest on £13,000,000, its
profits amounted to one-fifth of the sum paid for the gua-
rantee upon that whole. Reckoning the dividend of the
three railways at 71 for the East Indian, 6 for the Gnat
Indian Peninsular, and 3 for the Madras line, both Govern-
ment and the shareholder] will be gainers. On the East
Indian, for instance, the former will gain 11 per cent., and
the latter 61, instead of 5, the guaranteed minimum. As
soon as Government has been repaid the whole of its money
with simple interest the shareholders will receive the full
71 per cent., or whatevei is tho amount. The whole num-
ber of English shareholders is about 15,000. The cheap-
ness and
__vastness of Wien railways will bo seen from a
' comparison with any of those in England, say the London
and North-Western. The direct line from Calcutta to Delhi
is just 1,120 miles, and will cost for a double line of rails
17,480 per mile. The railway which begins at Euston-
square is 6861 miles, ?aeh of which cost £50,000, or three
times that of the fortmr. As to speed in construction, the
line of 121 miles from Calcutta to Raneegunge, the distance
of the Great Nester; from London to Bristol, occupied
just four years. Asto engineering works, the waterway
of the Jumna, Tonte, Keeul, and Ilullohur bridges is
9,150 feet, or twice that of all the Thames bridges
from London to Westminster inclusive. There are no rail-
way works out of America to compare with the Soane, the
Jumma, the Taptee and the Nerbudda bridges, nor with
the inclines up the Shore and Thull ghauts. The total
number of employes on all the three working railways is
737 Europeans and Christians and. 7,708 natives. To the
Indian Government, as to the public, the question of
reis, When will these 4,917 miles of railway
hgecaotmesptlientteedr.est Thf
political, commercial, and social inte-
rests involved in their termination are vast. A mutiny be-
comes impossible, the existing trade of India is doubled,
civilisation is advtnced a century, and England brought
nearer Calcutta a week. This report promises that the
whole railway system will be complete in 1863. We do
not expect it till tae cold weather of 1861. We shall be
content if the line from Rajmahal to Allahabad and Jub-
bulpore is ready i 1 the cold weather of 1863, and from
Cawnpore to Dent in that of 1861; if overland passengers
from Calcutta can go via Madras and Beypore to Suez 18
months hence, ald via Jubbulpore and Bombay in three
years sad a half.—The Friend of India.

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ER 20, IMO.

THE PORE'S "i-Rrs.ll BRIGADE."

The Pope is not happy in his appeal to the
sword. _ Cialdini retains his good fortune, and
pushes his successes. In a pitched battle under
the walls of Ancona he has defeated Lamoriciere,
and shattered to fragments that mercenary force
which was the last hope of the Sovereign of the
Pontifical States. Lamoriciere, whom the last
accounts had described as seeking a junction
with the Royalist Neapolitan troops, and threat-
ening a southward movment upon the Garibal-
dians, had appeared suddenly before Ancona; Cial-
dina accepted the offered battle, and the event
has been that the African General was totally and
entirely routed. Those bands, from whom so
much was expected, seem to he of no avail what-
ever against the Sardinian soldiers. This fire-eating
and pious soldado, who had fulminated such
dreadful threats, and who was known to have done
such strong deeds among the Arabs, has really done
nothing in Italy which might not have been
done by one of the College of Cardinals. With
11,000 men and the vigorous aid of th? gar-
rison of Ancona he has simply marched up to a
signal defeat. He has been beaten upon his own
ground, and upon a field of his own choice,—as
fairly and as innocently beaten as a young ensign
might be in his first skirmish. If Lamoriciere do
not effect something better than this to justify the
noise his name has made in Europe we shall soon
begin to believe that he has been rated by compa-
rison with a different enemy to that with whom he
now has to cope, and that he is only good to smoke
out Arabs and drill Irish mercenaries.
However, there must have been one other obsti-
nate fight, for the telegraph tells us that " the six
hundred prisoners of war taken at Spoleto are
Irishmen !" We have not yet received the account
of the great battle. The struggle was, perhaps, so
desperate and the carnage so tremendous that all
hands are too busy burying the slain to spare time
even for working the telegraphic wires. Spoleto
is, -of course, a mass-of- ruins, only there is no one
just now at leisure to tell us the fact. Spoleto was
famous for her defences. She gave the first repulse
to Hannibal, and emblazoned the boast upon her
gates. But what could that fight with Hannibal
fresh from Thrasymene have been to that last scene
which has been so curtly yet so fully described in
the sentence we have above quoted ? " The six
hundred prisoners of war taken at Spoleto are
Irishmen !' What compression there is in this
laconic phrase ! How it opens out into a thousand
details as we meditate over it ! The comparative
anatomist looks upon the tooth, and the whole
creature becomes shaped forth in his mind. e
look upon this telegram, and we ask ourselves what
must have been the preceding circumstances to such
an event as is here chronicled. What noise and
bloodshed does this result involve ! We remember

that the " Irish" of whom this telegram speaks are
the Kish heroes who went forth, inflamed by reli-
gious zeal, to champion the rights of their Holy
Father, and to trample out the discontent of his rebel
subjects. These heroes were a mixture of the swash-
buckler and the saint. They were fighting Irishmen,
eager to cut the throats cf Italians, and pious Irish-
men, hoping for Heaven and good pay for their
pains. All Ireland looked to them with pride, and
the Pope and his Cardinals sheltered themselves
under their shadow. Now, that the Sardinians
should have made six hundred of these heroes pri-
soners involves all the antecedents of a tremendous
fight, enduring so long that, after seeing all their
comrades fall arou-ad them, the remainder of the
sacred band, fatigued with slaughter, must have
sunk down exhausted under the pressure of over-
whelming numbers. What brave deeds have been
done for the honour of Old Ireland ! How bright
the valour of the Irish will shine among the nations!
How ardently other distressed tyrants will now bid
for such a profitable and stedfast guard! Although
all elsewhere is going wrong, although Lamoriciere
has been routed before Ancona, and guns, arms, and
generals are among the spoils, yet there is a resting
place of satisfaction in the desperate gallantry of
the noble Irish who have made the defence of Spo-
leto, if disastrous, still illustrious.
We must have a statue erected to Ireland's Own
Papal Brigade, and especially to these six hundred.
There is a precedent in it. Mercenaries are not
generally thought to have much to do with glory
or with honour. When they' are paid their wage of
blood, and when they earned it by the animal
courage of the hound, whose instincts they imitate,
accounts are quit between hirelings and master.
But even low qualities may be intensified into
grandeur ; and when eur English tourists go splash-
ing up the little back paths to look at the Swiss
Lion at Lucerne there is an inclination among them
to believe that even foreign hirelings who died at
their post, and disdained to surrender or retreat, de-
serve an honourable memory. It would be an in-
suit to the braggarts of the Irish people—who, as
distinguished from the Irish people themselves,
have been the powerful promoters of this Papal
Brigade—to doubt that the actions of the Irish at
Spoleto have been at least equal to the devotion of
the Swiss in Paris. So let us set about getting
up the statue. If a site be wanting Mr. Smith
O'Brien will perhaps be able to negotiate the pur-
chase of the cabbage-garden of that lone widow.
Since the telegram flashed the fact of the great
Irish captivity upon this metropolis its inhabitants
have, of coarse, been impatient for further news.
Some sanguine Irishmen have insisted that the
whole thing was but a ruse ; that 600 Irishmen, in
any Sardinian camp, were enough to turn it inside
out, and that they would even yet be heard of march-
ing to Rome, after dispersing the Sardinians and
Garibaldians, and with Cialdini and Garibaldi in
their train as prisoners. Other very different and
very distressing, not to say impossible reports, are
dropping in while we write. It is even averred that
there is no account of any great carnage to be re-
ceived, that thera are no deeds of Irish heroism to
be recorded, that these heroes, blessed by the Pope,
and relied upon for desperate fighting, gave in
without anything worth the name of a fight, and
have all been taken in a heap, huddled up together
like so many of their own pigs. There are most
unpleasant rumours that these our compatriots,
white men of our common country, have behaved
no better than as many Hindoos, and that these 600
fellows are all sound in skin and quiet captives to
a few Italians. This, if true, is very vexatious. We
knew they were going out to disgrace us. It can-
not but be a blot upon the fame of a free people
that cutthroats have gone out from among them to
serve as the instruments of despotism. We knew
we should have to endure this reproach ; but we
never thought that 600 Irishmen could be picked
out, even from the refuse of the population, who,
be the cause what it may, would surrender without
a fight. The Sardinians are treating their prisoners
with a contempt which seems to favour the idea
that they obtained them without much trouble, and
that they do not reckon the captivity of 600 of the
Pope's Irish as an achievment. Cunning Count
Cavour tried to make a favour to Eng-
land of giving up these valuable acquisitions
to the British Minister ; but 'Sir James Hud-
son did not think :that these chopfallen heroes
came within the definition of " distressed British
subjects" whom it is part of his duty to help to-
wards their homes. They are the Pope's soldiers,
not ours. We never had any Irish in our service
who behaved with the cowardice these men have
shown, or who have so softened under the tuition
of their priests. But then, indeed, we never sought
out the class of Irishmen fit for the work to which
these were destined.
So ends the Pope's Irish Brigade. It is a dis-
grace. The country must feel rather as a family
feels when a mauvais sr jet whom they knew to be
a ruffian turns out also to be a sneak. Six hundred
men ought to have made a fight for the Pope after
taking his money. Much as we hate their cause, we
have a natural interest in their pluck. They had
no right to go abroad and disgrace the name of a
Briton in that respect. We all expected at least
smug good rough fighting front them. Perhaps,
however, we ought to have known better. Human
creatures who could have been got together for such
a cause must have been the offscourings of the
island which gave them birth. They could have
had no confidence in each other, or in their cause,
or in their leaders. Ireland, brave, loyal, and
sound-hearted Ireland, proud in the memories of a
thousand battles, where shoulder to shoulder we
have together gained renown, can well afford to
look without much emotion upon the shame of these
outcasts. But we wish she had not paraded them
before Europe to her own and our discredit. If there
is no market in Europe for such services as they
can render, the best thing they can now do is to
steal back to their homes and hide themselves ; they
will serve as a warning to their neighbours against
temptations by recruiting priests.—Times.

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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT, sept. 19.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Byles.)

THE COLNEY HATCH LUNATIC ASYLUM
INQUIRY.

Wm. Slater and Wm. •Vivian were charged with
the manslaughter of Wm. S wift.
The evidence for the prosecution appeared in The
Sun of yesterday.
Mr. Metcalfe proceeded to address the jury for
the prisoner Slater, and in the course of a very able
speech he said that the charge against him was one
in itself of a very extraordinary character, and it
was sought to be supported by evidence equally
extraordinary, viz., that of two lunatics ; and he
expressed his confidence that no jury would feel
themselves justified in convicting two respectable
men of felony and ruining their prospects for life
upon evidence of such a character. He called their
attention to the facts, and remarked upon the vio-
lent character of deceased, and the probability that
he had received the fatal injuries in the struggle
with the warder Gann upon the occasion when he
made the desperate attack upon him. He observed
that the occurrence was proved to have taken place
in what was called the refractory ward, which was
inhabited solely by violent lunatics ; and he asked
the jury whether anything could be more likely,
supposing they should not believe the fatal injuries
were received on the Wednesday, than that some
act of violence might have taken place among the
lunatics themselves, during which the deceased, who
was proved to have been a quarrelsome, violent man,
might have received them. It was, he said, admit-
ted that the witnesses were liable to delusions,and
he urged that, for anything that appeared to the
contrary, the tale they had told about the violence
used by the prisoners to the deceased might be an
entire delusion.

Mr. Robinson also made an eloquent speech to
the jury on behalf of his client. He went over a I
good many of the topics that had been urged by
the other learned counsel, and particularly called
the attention of tho jury to the fact that they
were asked by the prosecution to convict the
prisoners of this serious offence upon the evidence
of witnesses who were under no moral or legal re-
sponsibility, acknowledged lunatics, who could not
be indicted for perjury, even if it was proved that
they swore never so falsely, and who were in fact
utterly irresponsible for the consequence of the
evidence they had given.
Mr. Justice Byles, in summing up, said the case
was undoubtedly one of very great importance to
the public generally, to the unhappy persons con-
fined in these asylums, and also to those who had
the charge of them ; and he then called the atten-
tion of the jury to all the important facts bearing
on the inquiry, commenting upon them with the
greatest impartiality as he proceeded.
The jury, after deliberating a short time in the
box, retired. They were not absent more than a
quarter of an hour, when they returned into court
and found both prisoners Not Guilty.
There was a slight attempt at applause when the
verdict was pronounced, but it was speedily re-
pressed by the officers of the court.

NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Blackburn.)

Wm. Williams was indicted for the manslaughter
of George Mitchell, and Wm. Henry Walker and
Wm. Davis were indicted for aiding and abetting
in the commission of the offence.

sir. Orridge prosecuted ; Mr. Thompson and Mr.
Ribton defended Walker, and Mr. Lilley and Mr.
Best the other prisoners.
It appeared that the deceased man and the pri-
soners were fellow-workmen, and some quarrel
having taken place between the deceased and Wil-
liams, they agreed to fight for £1 a side. They met
on Sunday morning, Aug. 13, at Battersea, where,
after fighting for half an hour, during which both
men were much beaten, the prisoner Williams was
declared the winner. The deceased went home
and laid down upon some chairs, and never spoke.
He laid for two days in that state, and upon an
examination of the body it was found that death had
resulted from the injuries received in the fight. The
prisoners Davis and Walker who had attended the
fight and acted as seconds, when they heard the
police were inquiring into the matter, went to the
station and gave themselves up.
The Jury found Davis and Williams guilty,
acquitting Walker, and added that they did not
think the case a very serious one, and recommended
them to mercy.
Sentence deferred.

CLERKENWELL.-111JTURNING FROM THE
MATCH FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE THAMES.
—James Spaing, aged 36, an ivory turner, with a
large profusion of beard and moustache, residing at
3, Norman's-buildings, St. Luke's, was charged be-
fore Mr. Corrie with being drunk and indecently
assaulting Mrs. Laura Hassell, in Goswell-street,
St. Luke's.

The complainant stated that she was returning
home from a juvenile party last night when the
prisoner stopped her, called her his dear, and raised
the whole of the front of her
_dress. She remon-
strated with the defendant, and would not have
given him in charge had he begged her pardon, but
he was very impudent and said he never begged
pardons from persons who belonged to goose clubs
—(a laugh)—and he was not a tailor. (A laugh.)
Police-constable Tubbings, 183 G, said he took
the defendant into custody, at which time he was
not drunk but the worse for beer—(a laugh)—he
was rather gone. (A laugh.)
The prisoner, in defence, said that he had been to
the regatta and was rather the worse for liquor.
He was very sorry and would apologise.
Mr. Corrie fined the defendant £3, or in de-
fault 14 days' imprisonment.
The fine was paid.

WANDSWORTH.—DARING ROBBERY AT THE
Ex-CHAMPION'S.-A young man, dressed in dark
clothes, who gave the name of Edward Fanninge,
and described himself as a costermonger, was
charged with the following robbery at the house of
the ex-champion of the Thames.
It appeared from the evidence that the Bells
Tavern, Putney, kept by the renowned Henry
Kelly, was crowded on Tuesday evening, after the
boat race, and while Charles Kelly, the brother of
the landlord, was standing in front of the bar, the
prisoner, who was being watched by Smith, a con-
stable in plain clothes, raised one arm to conceal
the working of the other, and then put his hand
into his (Charles Kelly's) waistcoat pocket. He
withdrew it very rapidly, and before the constable
could seize him ho put his hand behind him and
dropped some money on the floor. The prosecutor
charged him with robbery, upon which he said,
" Don't make a mistake—it might be somebody
else." He, however, afterwards said, " Will you
forgive me if you find your money ?" He was taken
to the station when the constable found upon him
two white pocket-handkerchiefs, one being marked
with the initials " C. G., 4,"

The prosecutor said that he had between ss. and
6s. in his pocket about five minutes before, as he
had given change for some ale. He afterwards re-
covered a portion of it, but a florin could not be
found.

The prisoner, who denied the charge, .was re-
mended for inquiries.

LAMBETH.—THE SCHOOLMASTER AT HOME.--
Mr. James Hoare, a cheesemonger, carrying on an
extensive business at No. 2, Surrey-place, Kenning-
ton-cross, appeared before Mr. Selfe to answer to
a summons charging him with assaulting Mr.
William George Twitchin, the proprietor of a
highly-respectable school, No. 24, Harleyford-
street, in the same Leighbourhood,
by spitting in
his face.

Mr. Twitchin said that for some time he had
been in the habit of dealing at the shop of Mr.
Hoare, and in the end owed him a balance of 305.,
and for this amount he summoned him to the
county court. An order was made for its payment,
and while it was being discharged he (the witness)
was subjected to the greatest possible annoyance
by messages being publicly delivered at his school
to the effect that if he did not pay the rest he should
be sent to prison. By some mistake or other, in
the last instalment, Bd. was left unpaid, and the
consequence was a repetition of the former annoy.
ance. He told the boy who delivered the insulting
message that if the balance was not paid immedi-
ately he should be sent to prison, he could scarcely
suppose that he came from his master with such a
message; when the boy said that he did, and that
he should continue to come until the balance was
paid. The balance, if anything, being only eight-
pence, and that the result of error, and the boy
having repeated that his master had said he should
send him
again, he, under the tempaorrmeacerkdyjnli
faeeling,
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exclaimed,
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the defendant there, who, on his presenting
himself, spat in his face in the presence of his pupils.
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protection.
A solicitor, on the part of the defendant, asked
the complainant if he would be satisfied, without
going further into the matter, with an apology from
Mr. Hoare.
Mr. h* Twitc la replied that he should be satisfied

with an apology, and also with the defendant's be-
ing bound over to keep the peace.
Mr. Selfe observed that this would be much the
best way of settling the matter, and
Mr. Hoare having expressed his sorrow for what
he had done, and entered into the necessary securi-
ties, the summons was dismissed.

.FRIGHTFUL DEATH.

Yesteralay a very lengthened investigation took
place before Mr. Langham, deputy-coroner, in the
board-room of St. George's Hospital, respecting the
circumstances attending the death of James Hol-
land, aged CO years, who was in the employ of the
Imperial Gas Company, and who lost his life by
inhaling some foul gases while working at a new
main being laid down at St. George's-place, Knights-
bridge, and at which, also, a boy named Dennis
Carrol narrowly escaped. Thomas Page, a pipe •
layer, said he was at work on Friday last in laying
down the new gas main in St. George's-place,
Knightsbridge. He saw the deceased, who was a
pipe joiner, go into the pipes, accompanied by a boy
named Carrol, carrying bags of cement, &c., for the
purpose of cementing the inside joint. About six
o'clock 112 was called by another mar., who stated
that he had heard cries for help issuing from the
pipes, and, believing the deceased and the boy were
in danger, he at once entered the pipes, and after
goinr, up them for about 180 feet he found the de-
ceased lyir:g on his side in an almost insensible con-
dition, and about 24 feet higher up was the boy in
a similar condition. With the assistance of others
the deceased and the boy were taken out of the
pipes, and conveyed to the hospital. In answer to
the coroner witness further stated that the pipes
were about three feet in diameter, and that when
he entered he detected no smell of foul gas,
and could not account for the state of the de-
ceased and the boy. Several other witnesses
corroborated this testimony. Dennis Carrol said
he assisted the deceased on Friday last in
cementing the inside joints of the pipes, and was
his general labouring boy. They entered.the pipes
shortly after 3 o'clock. After being there for some
time, he (witness) was suddenly overcome by a
strong smell of gas, and complained to the deceased,
who said, " I think we shall be suffocated, Dennis?'
He (witness) and deceased then tried to make their
escape, but had not gone far before they both fell
down, but witness had just strength left to call for
assistance. They were about 180 feet up the pipes,
and when endeavouring to get out the candle by
some means was extinguished, and they were left
in total darkness. The Coroner having summed
up, the jury, after a consultation, returned a ver-
dict, " That the deceased died from accidentally in-
haling some foul gas while engaged at work in the
new main ;" but the jury recommended that for the
future those overlooking the work should not allow
the men to go higher up than six joints, as they
considered the distance the deceased went dange-
rous and unnecessary.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

LYNN-SEpr. B.

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A fair supply of new wheat to-day, most of which wag
out of condition, and prices for good fresh qualities were 1%
per qr above former rates. Old in good demand, and ls to
2s higher. New barley 38s to 425, according to quality.
Old beans limited, and is up.
Old white 58s to 62s Old red 53s to 60s
New white.. 51s to 61s I New red... 50s to 566

SHEFFIELD-SEPT. 18.

At to-day's market the supply of wheat was moderate.
No reduction in the price of old wheat, but now slightly
declined. New oats declined 6d per qr. Other kinds of
grain and flour unchanged.
Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels...22s 6d to 23s 6d
White /9 /) ...258 Od to 26s Od

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