The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-25 00:00:00

THAMES.

DARING ItORDERY IN A SHOP.—William Darby, a
dirty-looking follow about 20 years of age, was brought
before Mr. Elliott, charged with stealing three pairs of
trousers from the shop of Mr. George Grumbridge, an out-
fitter and draper in Ratcliff Highway.
Thomas Harper, a shoprnan in the service of the prose-
cutor, stated that yesterday evening, at seven o'clock, his
attention was called to the prisoner by the foreman of the
establishment, to whom the prisoner had tendered a card
with the name of Spikes, a boarding-house keeper, upon it,
and asked if there were any goods ordered for Mr. Spikes,
to which he replied in the negative, and, at the same time
saw the leg of a pair of trousers hanging under the
prisoner's coat. He told the prisoner he had not
received any orders from Mr. Spikes, and. if he did
not mind he would lose the property he had about him.
The prisoner said, indeed, shall I ; and made an attempt
to run out of the shop. He laid:hold. of the prisoner, who
burst away from him, and at the same time dropped two
pairs of trousers. The prisoner ran out of the shop and
dropped another pair of trousers in the street. Ho cap-
tured the prisoner, and gave him into custody. The
trousers had teen stolen from a shelf in the shop. They
were worth 155., and the property of Mr. Grumbridge.
The prisoner said he was guilty, and committed the rob-
bery under the influence of dr.nk.
Mr. Elliott—That is no excuse at all. You are sen-
tenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for two
calendar months.

DREADFUL COAL-PIT ACCIDENTS.

TEN LIVES LOST.

On Tuesday, three colliers, named Henry Smith,
Joseph Siveter, and Josiah Chivers, were working
in the Bear Moor Colliery at Corngreaves, in the
parish of Rowley Regis, South Staffordshire, when
a fall of coal took place, killing the three men in-
stantly.
Yesterday, an accident, which resulted in the
death of two men, occurred at the Portway-road
Axle-tree Works, Wednesbury. A new engine had
been recently laid down, but as a more plentiful
supply of water was necessary, two men, named
Thomas Bishop and James Grayley, were employed
in constructing a cistern at the bottom of a shaft.
Bishop wits about to descend the shaft yesterday
morning, and Grayley was assisting, when the rope
by which the descent vas to be made caught one of
the nuts of the coupling-box, the result of
which was that the two mon were dragged into
the machinery, and their bodies so fright-
fully mangled that they died shortly after-
wards. Bishop had lis legs completely severed
from his body ; while Grayley had one of his legs
broken and his skull fractured.
A third accident occurred at the Benstone Col-
liery, near Johnstone, Lanarkshire, on Tuesday.
The pit was flooded with water from the old work-
ings in the neighbourhood, and at least five lives, it
is suspected, have been sacrificed. At the time the
alarm was given there were about fifty men and
boys in the workings. Some forty of them were
working near to the spot when the water had come
in upon them, and they at once made for the bot-
tom of the shaft—all teaching it safely but a boy,
who was overtaken 135 the advancing stream and
drowned. Efforts.were at once made to raise the
ole forty could be got out
they had to cling on tie ropes attached to the cage,
mbpefio pit mouth othueth ,iih
rise entthoatthe ;but so quickly itia the water
and raise themselves tp. Two miners, working in.
a separate part of pit, were saved after the
water had risen withn a foot of the roof at the
'bottom of the shaft ; ether four, who were in a still
farther distant portioi of the workings, it is all but
certain must have pershed.

GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—Her Majesty's Emi-
gration Conamie-sioners hive given notice of their intention
to receive tenders on Thirsday, the Ist pros., for a ship to
proceed to Table Bay, Cfpe of Good Hope, to carry not ex-
ceeding 200 statute aduls, to be ready for the reception of
her passegers about the Uth December.

Notwithstanding that the supply of beasts in to-day's
market was limited, the demand for all breeds ruled heavy
in the extreme at almost nominal currencies. We were
scantily supplied with sheep; nevertheless, the mutton
trade was in a depressed state at barely Monday's decline
in the quotations. For calves—the show of which was
good—the inquiry was much restricted, at a further de-
cline in value of from 2d to 4d per 81bs. The top price
was 4s Bd. Some small pigs realised full prices, but large
breeds were drooping. Mulch cows ;commanded very little
attention.

s. d. s. d.
Primecrs-wool do. 4 2 4 8
Pme.S'thdowndo. 4 10 i 2
Largo orse. calves 3 8 4 2
Prime small d 0... 4 4 4 8
Large hogs . 4 0 4 6
Small porkers.... 4 8 5 4
Id to Os Od.

Por Sibs to sink the offal.
s. d. s. d.
erse. &inf. beasts 2 6 2 8
Second qualitydo. 2 10 3 4
Prime large oxen 3 6 4 2
Primo Scots, &c. 4 4 4 6
& inf. sheep 3 0 3 4
Second quality do. 3 6 4 0
Lambs, Os
Suckling calves, 19a to 23s
23s to 30s.
TOTAL SUPPLY.

Beasts
Sheep and lambs 4,500
Calves
Piga

and quarter •old store pigF,

FOREIGN SUPPLY.

Beasts .. 440
Sheep . . 1,200
Calves

Pigs

MEAT MARKETS.

NEWOITE AND LEADENRALL.—The supplies of meat
are large, and the trade rules heavy, as follows :
Beef, from 2s 2d to 48 Od ; mutton, 3s Od to 4s
2d ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 3s 104 to 4s 2d ; perk,
3s 10d to 5s 4d per 811 m. by the carcase,
SOUTMALL, Oct, 24.—Although the gupplics of stock hero
to-day were only moderate, the trade ruled heavy, as
follows:—Beef, from 38 Od to 4844 ; mutton, 3s 4d to 5s 2d ;
lamb, Os Od to Os ; veal, 4s 441 to 4s 6d; pork, 48 Oa to
5s 2d per Sibs to sink the offal.
ROMPORD, Oct. 24.—Our markot bas been much de-
pressed to-day, and prices generally ?nave given way :-
- Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; mutton, 38 4d to 58 2d ;
lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 4s 04 to 4s 4d; and pork, 4s
4d to 5s Od per Sibs; suckling calves, 15s to 19s; quarter
old store pigs, 22s to 29s each; and miloh cows, £l4 Os
to £l3 5s each.

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a sailing ship or steamer. Livyerpool is the great
port of departure for both, and the best starting
point, particularly in the beginning or the close of
the year. In the summer
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season, a departure from
London is perhaps to preferredforthtaefit is neview
of the coast of the English
ob-
tained; but London only offers the choice of a pas-
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The Irish steamers present the attractions of the
Irish coast, and the shortest sea voyage.
Whether the passenger takes a steamsli
p
or a sailing vessel, the steerage is much
the same in both. It is the forward part of
the ship, between decks, and although fitted up
with common deal boards, it is always very com-
fortable, both in winter and summer. In fact, no
fire is needed nor supplied. Between the steerage
of different steamboats and sailing ships there incon-
siderable difference if privacy is desired, and intend-
ing emigrants must, as a rule, judge for themselves
between one ship and another. In somo ships and
steamboats the berths rise from the floor to the ceil-
ing, without partitions of any kind, and the only
privacy that is obtained is by the hanging up of a
curtain; while in some steamboats and sailing
vessels the steerage is formed into different state-
rooms or compartments with closing doors. When
this latter is the case, the unmarried men are put
into a state room by themselves, and the unmarried
females with the married people in the other state
rooms. This is by far the most comfortable arrange-
ment, although the best of feeling invariably exists
where the separation is of the more slender kind.
One of the excellent requirements of recent le-
gislation is, that the steerage passengers, and in
fact all .the passengers on board every ship, must
be served with a given quantity of provisions
weekly ; and the quantity it may be said is amply
sufficient for all wants. There is so much beef,
pork, flour, beans, peas, oatmeal, and tea and
sugar, and other things, and a fire is provided
on deck at which the passengers cook for them-
selves. This is usually undertaken by one of the
passengers who is willing to receive a gratuity
from the others; and when the passengers are
very numerous, it not unfrcquently happens that
the captain remits the passage money of the
person or persons who undertake this duty.
This cooking of the provisions necessitates
the providing of cooking utensils by the pas-
sengsrs ; and it may be added, that although
the ship supplies all that is needed by the passen-
gers in the way of food, there arc a few luxuries
which experience shows the wisdom of taking at
least with every family. These are potatoes, a box
of herrings, a ham or two, a little arrowroot, and
extra sugar. With these a steerage passage may
be undertaken with more comfort than might gene-
rally be supposed. Nothing more serious than
cooking food and eating and sleeping distracts the
attention of the passenger, after he has got over the
first day or two of sickness. In steam-vessels there
is this difference, that the food is served out cooked
to the passengers; and steamers charging rather
more than double for the voyage, and doing it in less
than half the time, they are able to supply a few
luxuries in the eating way, and steam steerage
passengers are not under the necessity of providing
extras.
Passengers will usually meet with people full of
information on board the vessel in which they
make the voyage, but they should form soliething
like a definite plan of proceeding before setting
out, and not be easily diverted from it. If they
have made up their minds to go to Canada or the
Western States, they should go and set to work
the moment they arrive, and face all difficulties
and overcome them. Nowhere has the poor man
so many chances of getting on as in America, but
the truth cannot be too often repeated, that work-
ing people are what is wanted, or people with
money and brains enough to know how to use it.
Such can soon turn the wilderness into a garden,
and raise their families to a state of comfort and
independence which they cannot reach at home.