The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-26 00:00:00

ROSS-SIIIRE.

The Easter Ross Farmers' Club and the commu-
nity of Tain have bestirred themselves with such
good success that a company of volunteer riflemen
has been raised and sanctioned in this far-off corner
of the north. The volunteers have all provided
their own arms and uniform, either personally or
by substitute, and have chosen Mr. M'Lcod, of
Cadboll, captain ; Mr. Worms, of Allan, lieutenant;.
and Bailie Murray, ensign. Already 80 men have
undergone a fortnight's training, and the company
is to re-assemble for chill at the end of this month.
It is to be hoped that their spirited example will
be generally followed in the county, as it has already
been in Sutherlandshire, where, under the command
of the Marquis of Stafford, a very excellent corps is
in progress of formation. The Ross-shire regiment
is 38th on the list, and the Easter Ross Company is
No. 1. At Inverness the movement has also much
progressed, a company being in course of formation,
and drilling going on.

REALTH OF LONDON DURING THE

WEEK.

(From the Report of the Registrar-General.)

The weekly report issued by the Registrar-Gene-
ral, Oct. 21, 1859, states, that the London returns
for the week that ended last Saturday exhibit a
low rate of mortality as compared with the average
rate obtained from the returns of corresponding
weeks in previous years. The deaths in last week
were 940, a number which is nearly the same as
that of the previous week, but which is less (if
allowance is made for increase of population) by
about 200, than the average number of deaths that
occurred in the third week of October in the ten
years 1849-58.
The mean temperature of the air last week was
10 degs. lower than that of the former half of the
present month ; but the remarkable depression of
temperature that was experienced last week
occurred on Friday and Saturday, and was too late
to affect much the present return of mortality.
There were 29 deaths from small pox in the week,
6 of which were those of persons between the ages
of 20 and 40 years, and three-fourths of the whole
number occurred in the East and South districts. A
young man, a member of the medical profession who
is amongst those recorded as having died of the
' disease, is supposed to have caught the infection
when attending cases in Newington. Eighty-five
deaths from scarlatina and 14 from diphtheria are
returned ; three of those from the latter disease
occurred in the sub-district of Camberwell. Thtee
deaths from scarlatina occurred in each of the fol-

lowing sub-districts :—Kentish Town, Islington
West, St. Clement Danes, St. Mary (St. George-in-
the-East), Mile-end Old Town West and East,
Christchurch (Southwark), and Lambeth Church,
second part. There were 31 fatal cases of diarrhoea ;
2 of cholera ; one of intermittent fever ; 7 of
syphillis, all amongst infants ; and besides a case of
delirium tremens, the deaths of five persons are
stated as directly caused by intemperance.
Of bricklayers one died in the week, of brick-
layers' children, 8 ; of carpenters 3 died in the
week, of carpenters' wives, 2, of carpenters children,
14; of masons 1 died in the week, of masons' wives
1, of masons' children, 2 ; of painters 2 died in the
week, of painters' wives, 2, of painters' children, 9 ;
of plasterers' children 3 died.
Last week the births of 872 boys and 918 girls,
in all 1,790 children, were registered in London.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1849-58
the average number was 1,533.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.490 in.
The readings fell from 29.86 in. on Tuesday, to 29.16
on Friday, being respectively the highest and lowest
in the week. The mean temperature of the air in
the week was 48.3 deg., which is less by 0.8 deg.
than the average of the same week in 43 years (as
determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily
range of temperature was 13.5 deg. ; the entire
range in the week was great, namely, 36.5 deg., the
difference between 64.5 deg., the highest reading in

ne shade, which occurred on Sunday, and 28 deg.,
~he lowest point (4 deg. below the freezing point of
water) to which the thermometer fell on Saturday.
The mean daily temperature was more than 6 deg.
above the average on Sunday and Monday, and was
more than 12 deg. below it on Friday and Satur-
days The mean temperature of the water of the
Thames was 58.6 deg. The difference between the
mean dew-point temperature and air temperature
was 3.3 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the
air was 88 ; on Tuesday the humidity reached 100,
which represents complete saturation. Till the
afternoon of Thursday the wind blew from the
south-west ; on Friday it was in the north, and on
Saturday in the west and south-west. Rain fell to
the amount of 0.53 in., the• greater part of it on
Sunday and Monday. Lightning was frequent in
the evening of Saturday. The minimum tempera-
ture of Saturday, 28 degs., was lower by 53 dogs.
than the maximum of the 4th inst., and the mean
temperature of Saturday, 36.3 degs., was 30.5 dogs.
below that of the 4th inst., which was 66.8 degs.
Tuesday, the 4th, is distinguished as being the hot-
test day in October for a period of more than 44
years.

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WIEESLAUGHTER. AT Ik EDNESBUR 1;

Yesterday afternoon Mr. G. H. Hinebliffe
coroner, reopened the inquest upon the body of Jane
Owen, who was killed by her husband, Benjamin
Owen, at Wednesbury, last week. Owen is a beer-
house keeper at Wednesbury.
Hannah Rogers, a girl of .15, heard deceased
screaming in her husband's house, and also heard
him tell her to leave the house, and declare with an
oath that she should have no place to put her head
in. Afterwards saw the deceased leave the house
and go to Cresswell's, Owen following in a few
minutes afterwards. Ile demanded admission at the
closed door, and was at length let in. He went to
the pantry, where his wife was concealed, and said,
" I'll give you Moggy," pulled her out by the
shoulder with one hand, and with his other fist
struck her a violent blow under the left ear. He
kicked at her also, but witness could not say
whether his foot reached her. Owen then said,
Pick the drunken --up," and then left the
house. Mrs. 0 wen was not sober and could not walk
straight, but her husband was sober. When he
was fetched back to Cresswell's, after his wife's
death, he seemed much affected, said it was the first
time he struck her, and he was willing to die with
her. After he struck her down in Cresswell's house
deceased did not move again nor speak.
Hannah Pitaway, wife of Thomas Pitaway, a
puddler, deposed that she was passing by Owen's,
when she saw deceased leaving her house, followed
by her child in her night clothes; and Owen was
behind them. Witness got into Cresswell's before
Owen, but left when he obtained admission.
Ann Williams, a married woman, saw three
women drinking in Owen's house on Tuesday last,
at about 20 minutes to 10; deceased drinking with
them at their solicitation. She was "fresh," and
was sitting down in the bar when Owen came in.
She had been crying, and had told witness that
because she had spoken to her sister Emma at the
door her husband " had been having words with
her." Owen said, " What's the matter with you ?"
She made some reply, and Owen several times
asked her to go to bed, but she refused, and Owen
struck her. Witness saw her on the floor, but
could not tell if the blow knocked her off. Owen
told her to leave the house. She replied " Yes,
Ben, I will," and went out. After she went out
Owen said the deceased began to drink six weeks
before, that she had respectable neighbours, and he
was surprised that she harboured such women in
his absence ; that he worked hard to keep a good
home, but if she continued that course he would
break the home up. He did not seem in a passion,
and remained in his house talking to witness a
quarter of an hour before he followed his wife.
After she fell on the floor he kicked at her. Saw
the deceased's daughter pull a pint cup from her
mother's mouth. The daughter asked witness to
try to get her to bed.

Edward Williams, husband of last witness, gave
similar testimony.

Jemima 0 wen-, daughter of the deceased before
her marriage, but who had passed as her sister,
deposed that her mother drank with other women
till she became intoxicated, on Tuesday. Took the
cup from her mouth twice. Saw Owen strike her.
Owen was a good father to witness, and a good
husband to her mother, but did not know deceased
was hor mother till the day of her death.
Police-Inspector Blayney deposed that when he
arrested Owen and charged him with the murder,
Owen said, "I did not, Sir; I pulled her out of the
cellar, and she, being drunk, fell against the door-
jam. lam very sorry for it. No two ever lived
happier together." The distance from Owen's to
Cresswell's house is 117 yards.
Mr. G. W. Ilowitt, surgeon, who had made the
post mortenz examination, deposed that death had
occurred from congestion of the brain, occasioned
by diffuse extravasation of blood all ovdr the brain.
There was a mark of a severe contusion under the
left ear, and at this point the brain was like a jelly,
The extravasation was not the mere clotting occa-
sioned in cases of apoplexy. This extravasation had
occasioned death, and it was produced apparently
by the injuries hat were found on the left side of
the head. Those injuries, in his opinion had not
been occasioned by kicks.
The coroner then summed up, and
The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter, two
of the 14 jurymen, after two hours' deliberation,
holding out for a verdict of wilful murder.

COLLIERY EXPLOSION AND LOSS OF

FOUR LIVES.

On Saturday morning, about six o'clock. an ex-
plosion of fire-damp took place at Washington Col-
liery, situated a few miles to the south of this town,
by which three men and a boy have lost their lives.
It, appears that the colliery is being worked in three
scams; and that in the seam in which the explosion
has taken place the only persons at work were the
unfortunate deceased. Their names are William
Richardson (horse-keeper, William Mould and
Christopher Mould (hewers), and William Elgee (a
driver-boy). Richardson and the Moulds have each
left a wife and family. One of the Moulds has
five children and the other three ; Richardson one.
The immediate cause of the explosion is yet I
unknown. Ever since it occurred unremitting
exertions have been made to recover the bodies.
That of Richardson was found close to the
abaft. He was quite dead, and had evidently been
killed by the after damp. The bodies of the other
three sufferers have not been reached. That part of
the pit in which the unfortunate fellows were work-
ing is still charged with gas, and consequently it
has been impossible to reach the bodies, or to ascer-
tain the extent of damage which the pit has suf-
fered; but it is needless to say that every possible ap-
pliance has been had recourse to in order to get at
themen. Immediately after the explosion Mr. Crud-
das, the viewer of the colliery, was at the pit, and he
has been aided in his exertions by a great many
of the viewers belonging to:the surrounding colleries.
Though nothing is absolutely known as to the
cause of the explosion, it is considered more than
probable that the Moulds had been working with
naked lights instead of lamps. Richardson had
evidently run from the stables on hearing the ex-
plosion, and had endeavoured to reach the staple or
communication with the lower seam, but the after-
damp had caught him when within a very short
space of a place of safety. It is reported that a
man named Bowes, an overman, ran to the staple
and escaped by sliding down the rope to the next
seam. The pit has always been considered in a
good and safe condition. It is the property of
Messrs. Kimpster, Bell, and Co.
Another account says :—A terrible explosion took
place in the Maudlin seam of the Washington Col-
liery, between five and six o'clock on Saturday
morning. The overman (Mr. Bowes) went down
with the men about an hour before the explosion
took place, when all seemed right with the cur-
rent of air in that portion of the seam where
the workmen were to work. The workings in
this portion of the pit consist of an upper and lower
seam, which were connected with a staple. At the
time of the explosion the overman was in the lower
seam near the staple, and feeling a concussion of
air, which he concluded must be caused by an
explosion in the upper seam, effected his escape
from the pit by means of another outlet. By the
explosion the brattice was broken and the ventila-
tion of the steam stopped ; but it was afterwards
partially restored by means of a temporary brattice
of cloth. The body of Richardson, the horse-keeper,
was found near the staple. It was impossible to
effectually explore the scene of the disaster until a
permanent brattice could be constructed, which was
immediately commenced with, and it is expected
will by this have been completed and the bodies of
the unfortunate men and boy found. At the time
of the explosion there was a supply of fresh air to
the seam equal to 120,000 cubic feet from a large
furnace which has been but recently built.—New-
castle Chronicle.

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