The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-06 00:00:00

(By Electric Telegraph.)

GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.

•
Sailed, Feb. 6—lnternational, for Canaries ; Albert Ed.
ward, for Port Philip ;
Cid, steamer, for Bilboa ; Albion,
steamer, for Ostend.
DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Anchored—Roxburgh Castle, from Trinidad, for London
Corcyra, screw steamer, from London, for Malta.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—(This Day.)--An
arrangement was come to this morning between the parties
in the case of Kearns v. Storks, which prevented the
necessity of carrying on the suit, which has for the last
three days occupied the attention of the Court.
OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE.—CAM-
BRIDGE, Tuesday Evening.—At a meeting of the Univer-
sity Boat Club this evening Mr. Griffiths, the president,
proposed that the usual challenge be sent to Oxford, and
the proposition was carried i enthusiasm.
FALLING DOWN A PIT SHAFT.—On Saturday,
at the West Silkstone Colliery, Robert Hoyland and Thomas
Mellor were in the act of being drawn out of the pit, and
when near the top of the shaft, from some unexplained
cause the engine reversed, the engine man lost all control
and the unfortunate men, with the chair, fell to the bottom
The arms and legs of one of them were broken, and both
are frightfully mutilated.

INCOME TAX ENLIGHTENMENT.—The income.
tax returns are very suggestive and instructive as to the
general progress of the country in prosperity. From those
contained in the tenth report of the Commissioners (just
published) it appears that the increase of the 7alue of lands,
&c. (comparing 1864 with 1853) has been at the rate of
1.16 per cont. per annum ; houses, 3.50 ; gas-works, 11.45 ;
and railways, 7.57. On the other hand, the improvement
in profits of trades and professions in the same period has
been at the rate of 4.53 per cent. per annum. In Ireland
the improvement in this respect was only at the rate of .93
par cent. per annum.

SHOCKING MANSLAUGHTER BY A NEPHEW.—Late
on Saturday night two brothers, named Colley, with a son
of one of t hqm. were drjuking in a public-house at Tib-
herton, a village near ‘v orcester, where a quarrel arose
between the uncle, William, and the nephew Thomas.
They disputed on the way home, and on arriving there
the father of Thomas took the part of his son against his
brother. A row ensued, in the course of which Thomas
took up a ‘‘ dolly" and struck his uncle such a severe blow
on the head that he died from the effects yesterday
morning.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAIL-
W_Y.—As the 10.30 goods train from Swansea to Ponty-
pool,
on the Great Western line, was travelling at its ave-
rage rate of 12 miles an hour, on Saturday last, it met with
an unexpected accident. About seven miles from Merthyr,
and adjoining Quaker's-yard, there is a blind siding, to
which a new man, we aro informed, has been lately ap-
pointed. His duty was to look the points to this blind sid-
ing, but this, it is stated, was not done, and in consequence
an aperture of half an inch was left. Into this aperture i
the great wheel of the locomotive dashed, but n
passing through it broke the pivot of the point, and the
result was the points were at once firmly closed, and the
carriages sent along the main line. Thou followed ono of
the most singular accidents on record. Tho carriages, pre-
vented from following the locomotive, and thrown into the
right track, exorcised a resisting power on the engine, and
running, as it were, at right angles, pulled the locomotive
on its side, just as a restive steed brought masterly to a
pause is not unfrequently thrown on its back. The poor
engine driver, Phythian, and Evans, the stoker, were
killed instantly, and for ton or eleven yards the locomotive
ploughed into the earth.—Cambrian Daily Leader.
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.---The directors of
this company yesterday determined to recommend
ttoodt he
leacsl
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tat proprietorshdeivirate
dividend
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fortxh e 8
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half-year
meetingepa er r tannum
nt ohunem3t
.oesnt2t3hde Decem-
berinst.
ori-
ginal stock of the company, giving for the half-year £4
per cent. to the original stock ; £3 per cent. to the B stock ;
and £5 per cent. to tho A stock. These rates will make
the dividend for the whole year 1866 as follows, viz.:— 10s.
the B per cent,
on the original stock ; £6 per cent. on
stock ; and £7 per cent, on the A stock.
ACCIDENT ON THE STAGE.—A " ballerina" of the
Modena theatre, named La Barbizan, a few evenings ago,
more than usually excited by the acclamations of the public,
executed a pas with a wrong calculation of distance, which
carried her over the footlights into the orchestra. In the
passage her dress caught fire from the lamps, and she was
immediately in a blaze, which, however, was promptly
extinguished by the musicians, who enveloped her in their
paletots. She was carried out senseless, but was shortly
after found to have sustained no serious injury.
THE LATE CATASTROPIIE OFF NO RwiFLEET.—Af ter
the lapse of there weeks, one of the bodies of the nine un-
fortunafa men who perishsd on the night on the 20th of
December, while proceeding in a small boat from Northfieet
to their vesse:, the Rose Winans cigar ship, has been
picked up. The recovery of this first body has given some
melancholy satisfaction to the relations of the other unfor-
tunate sufferers, as some fear was entertained that the
bodies might have been carried out to sea. The accident
happened, however, during the early part of the flood, and,
as the body was found higher up the river, it is believed that
the other remains will soon be cast up. As handsome
rewards are offered for the recovery of the bodies, the
boatmen have commenced dragging the river.
REPRESENTATION OF BOSTON.—Mr. T. Parry is
still the only candidate in the field to supply the vacancy
about to be occasioned in tho representation of Boston by
the retirement of Mr. M. Staniland. Mr. Parry is a mode-
rate Liberal. A requisition to Mr. Gourley, of Sunderland,
inviting that gentleman to come forward, has received a
considerable number of signatures, and was to be forwarded
to Sunderland yesterday.
How TO GET MEASURED FOR BOOTS OR SIIOES.---If
you want a shoe to fit you comfortably, next time you aro
measured for a pair, stand upon a piece of paper, and get
the shoemaker to trace with pencil the outline of each foot ;
each foot, I say, because two feet are never alike in size and
shape, though they belong to the same person. They are
more than right and left ; they are unlike. Don't suppose
that you can be measured for a pair by the most careful
measurement of one. Insist on having the outlines as well
as the girth and length of each foot taken, and then, if the
maker is an honest man, he will send home a pair of boots
which, with their turned-in toes, will look unpromising
when off, but when once on will prove not only the most
becoming, but the most comfortable you ever wore._
Leisure How.

The strike of ironworkers in Blackburn, who re-
fuse to agree to a reduction of their wages, has thrown
about 3,000 men out of employment. At a mooting bold
on Monday the men again passed a resolution not to ac-
cept tho reduction. A few of the works aro still in opera.
ion on the old terms.

The Government of Coburg-Gotha has just an-
nounced that it has given orders for the elections to
take place on the 12th, and for the meeting of Par-
liame4t ou th 9 24th, of the prueut mouth,