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

THAMES.

DAVNO ROBBERY IN A SHOP..—William Darby, a
dirty-looking fellow 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 shopman 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 ho 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. He cap-
tured the prisoner, and gave him into custody. The
trousers had keen 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 drink.

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 -eiCCIDENTS.

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 was about to descend the shaft yesterday
morning, and Grayley was assisting, when the rope
by which the descent was to be made caught one of
the nuts of the coupling-box, the result of
which was that the two men were dragged into
the machinery, and their bodies so fright-
fully mangled that they died shortly after-
wards. Bishop had his legs completely severed
from his body ; while Grayley had one of his legs
broken and his skull fractured.

A third accident occurred tit 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 reaching it safely but a boy,
who was overtaken by the advancing stream and
drowned. Efforts were at once made to raise the
men to the pit mouth ; but so quickly did the water
rise that before the whole forty could be got out
they had to cling on the ropes attached to the cage,
and raise themselves up. Two miners, working in
a separate part of the pit, were saved after the
water had risen within a foot of the roof at the
bottom of the shaft; other four, who were in a still
further distant portion of the workings, it is all but
certain must have perished.

GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—TIer Majesty's Emi-
gration Commissioners have given notice of their intention
to receive tenders on Thursday, the Ist prox,, for a ship to
proceed to Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, to carry not ex-
ceeding 200 statute adults, to be ready for the reception of
her mamma gbeut the 11th December.