The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-30 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 80, 1857.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
RETURN TICKETS to all Stations taken on SATURDAY,
3fity 30th, and intermediate days, will be available up to and in-
cluding Tuesday, June 2d.

REAT-WESTERN RAILWAY.-NOTICE.
On MONDAY, June Ist, the Branch Line between TWY.
FORD and HENLEY will be Opened for Public Traffic.—For par.
ticulars of Trains, &c., see the Company's time bills.

GREA T WESTERN RAILWAY,
ALTERATION OF TRAINS for JUNE.

DOWN TRAINS.

Tbo 2.45 p.m. Train from Paddington will be discontinued from
Swindon to Chvltentiam.

A Trajn for Windsor, and intermediate stations, will leave Pad.
dington at 3.30 p.m.

The Train from Paddington at 6.15 p m. will be discontinued be-
yond Slmigh.
The Train from Paddington at 5.15 p m. will be accelerated, ar-
riving at Birmingham five minutes earlier than st present.
The 5.30 p.m. Train from Paddington will be continued on from
Swindon to Cheltenham.

LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY.—To CONTRACTORS and BUILDERS.—The
Directors are desirous of receiving Tenders for Additions and Al-
terations to the Stations at Harrow, Sudbury, and Pinner.
Parties desirous of tendering may inspect the drawings and spe•
cifications, and obtain a statement of the quantities, at the Engi-
ecr"s Office, Roston. Station, on Frrday, June sth, between the'
a
"botirs of 10 and 4 o'clock.

Tenders, addressed to the Secretary, at this Office, to be sent In
on or before Thursday, June 11th at 10 o'clock a.m.
The Directors'do not bind themselves to accept the lowest tender.
By order.
CHAS. E. STEWART, Secretary.
georetary's Office, Way 28, 1857.

QT. JOHN DEL REY MINING COMPANY.
1..7 —The wenty-seventh Annual GENRE AL MEETING of
the Proprietors of the St. John Del Rey Mining 'Company will be
In Id at the Company's Office, No. 8, Token House "Yard, on FRI-
DAY, the 19th June, at Two o'clock precisely. At this meeting,
one Director, H. W. SCHNEIDER, Esq., M.P., will go out by ro-
tatiou, but is eligibleto be re-elected.

JOHN ILOCKIN, Managing Director.
-
8, Token House Yard, 29th May, 1857.

METROPOLITAN COUNTIES and
GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 27, Regent-
street, Waterloo-place, London. Capital, 100,0001.
TRIIBTEII3.
Rt.Fln.Spencer Walpole,M.P. I Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P.
Fleury Peter Fuller, Esq. E. Vansittart Neale, Esq.
Life Assurance business transacted in all its branches.
N.B. The bonus declared at the last division of profits averaged
33 per cent, on all the premiums paid.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Manager.

From the London Gazette of Last Night.

WHITEHALL, MAY 27.

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, constituting and appointing
the Right Honourable Sir Charles Wood, Bart., G.C.B. ;
Vice-Admiral the Right Honourable Sir Maurice Frede-
rick Fitzhardinge Berkeley, K.C.B. ; Rear-Admiral the
Honourable Sir Richard Saunders Dundas, K.O B. ; Rear-
Admiral Henry Eden; Captain Alexander Milne; and
Thomas George Baring, Esq., to be her Majesty's Com-
missioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral
of the said United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire-
land, and the dominions, ialands,and territories thereunto
belonging.

of an individual's share in the respective classes will be
announced.

Mlles
opened,
1857.

26%
117
198►
9414
6%
20

67%
93
489

1835 i
283
203%
452
25$i
90
28N

16}
637
5N
1.8314
277

173%
9IA
28
667
177

87g
32
29g
48

57%
301
1713,
108

27%
12
682

Receipts.

1857. 1856,

1,362

279
2,855
1,026
6,125
13,102
6,040

322
1,085
1,777
1,595
649
987

985
6,609
22,916
5,846
6,779

1,473
6,664
21,595
6,3i8
29,608

241
5,825
23,433

61,506
1,466
13,047
15,534
731

270
2,479

10,016
1,060

931
6,319
11,852
5,724

247
1,222
1,654
1,329

582
1,038

947
6,047

937
31,217
3,538
1,545
3,342
5,623
7,642
809

22,866
5,384
6,062

1,327
5,951
20,593
6,425
27,221

2,690
24,507

225
4,015
22,219

38,738

38,149

60,893
1,480
12,874
1 5,339
633

8,853
794

978
28,031
3,50 G
1,247
3,429
5,6 1
7,447
947

2,283
23,352

35,561

30,726

36,077

33,130

32,987

28,676

BREACH OP PROMISE.—An action was heard on Thurs -
day in the Court of Queen's Bench, fora breach of promis e
of marriage. The parties to the suit were a Miss Dalzie 1
and the chief officer of an Indian trader, named Alex-
ander White. The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff,
damages 501.

Aaval and AUMary inteingeuce.

His Royal Highness the General Commanding in
Chief will hold a levee at the Horse Guards at one
o'clock on Wednesday next, June 3.
The Royal Commission on the Medical Depart-
ment of the Army assembled yesterday at No. 1,
Whitehall-yard. The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert
presided.; the other commissioners present were—
Mr. A. Stafford, M.P., Sir James Clark, Colonel
Sir H. Storks, Mr. J. R. Martin, Mr. T. Alexan-
der, Dr. Andrew Smith, and Dr. Sutherland;
Dr. Balfour, Secretary. Major-General Sir Richard
Airey attended before the commission. On break-
ing up the commissioners adjourned till the Bth
proximo.
The troop ship Belleisle moved from Hamoaze
into Plymouth Sound on Thursday to receive the
93d Highlanders, expected from Dover via Ports-
mouth. Two captains, two lieutenants, one per-
geant, and 59 rank and file of the 69th regiment
left Plymouth on Tuesday morning for Weymouth;
and 13 officers and 220 men of the same regiment,
from -Weymouth, arrived at Plymouth in the after-
noon.

The East India Company's troopship Bombay,
Captain Flamank, has arrived at Gravesend with
detachments of troops belonging to the regiments
serving in India, consisting of 26 non-commissioned
officers and men of the 14th Light Dragoons, 37 of
the 64th Regiment, 6 of the 78th Highlander 4, 40
of the 83d, and 54 of the 86th Regiment, in charge
of Captain G. H. Adams, 86th Regiment, Captain
W. English, 14th Light Dragoonq, and Lieutenant
L. Sweeney, 83d Regiment ; and in medical charge
of Mr. Bothell, civil -surgeon.. The,detachments
embarked at Bombay on the 29th of-January, and
sailed on the 31st of the 'same month, arriving in
the Thames on the 28th inst., after a long passage
of 120 days. The Bombay touched at St. Helena
on the 7th of April, and sailed on the following day.
During the voyage 13 deaths occurred on board—
namely, 12 soldiers and one woman. On the troops
disembarking at Customhouse-quay, Gravesend,
they were conveyed to Fort Pitt, Chatham, where
26 men were taken into hospital for medical treat-
ment, and the remainder sent to St. Mary's Bar-
racks to await their inspection by a Chelsea board.
The depot of the 93d Highlanders is ordered to
proceed this day from Dover to Chatham for the
purpose of being attached to the provisional Bat-
talion, the head-quarters having been ordered to
China. In addition to the depots of the 82d Regi.
ment and the 90th Light Infantry, the service com-
panies of which are on their passage to China, the
depot of the 23d Welsh Fusiliers will also be re-
moved to Chatham.

The outpensioners belonging to the Chatham dis-
trict having undergone their usual period of train-
ing, under Major R. Jenkins, were to be inspected
this morning on Chatham lines.
The enrolled pensioners of the two divisions of
Woolwich and Deptford, under the c•nnmand of
Lieut.-Col. Forbes and Major Warde, staff officers,
were yesterday morning inspected on Woolwich-
common by Col. Sir Alexander Murray Tulloch,
Military Superintendent of Pensioners. They as-
sembled in orderly trim, to the number of upwards
of 500. The line was formed at 10 o'clock, and
shortly afterwards Col. Tulloch, attended by a
mounted orderly, rode on the ground, and was re-
ceived with a general salute, drums and fifes play-
ing. Having inspected the line, the ranks closed,
broke into open column, and marched past. They
then commenced a complete round of field-day
manoeuvres, and went through a'series of manual
and platoon exercises. ',Finally, Sir Alexander,
dismounting and passing down the line, ex*ined
the pbrsonal appearance of each man, inquiring-4e
ages of those who appeared to'be'most advanced "i'it
years; and ilesiied that if any of them had any com-
plaints they would. make them known to him.
None, however, were made. Having formed square
the colonel advanced to the centre, and assured
them that be felt great satisfaction in meeting
them again after the lapse of six months as com-
plete a corps as when he last inspected them, with
the exception of three on sick leave and one ab-
sentee. After paying a compliment to Col. Forbes
and Major Warde, the colonel retired from the
common amid cheers. • _ _ _

The Agamemnon, Master-Commander Cornelius
T. A. Noddall, left Sheerness at 5.20 a.m. yester-
day, for Birkenhead.
The paddlewheel steamvessel Widgeon, tender to
the Fisgard, arrived at Sheerness yesterday at
10.40 a.m., with supernumerary seamen for service
in the Cumberland, Captain John B. Dickson,
from the Fisgard, Woolwich.
The Formidable paid off yesterday 90 men and
boys for continuous service serving in the Formid-
able and in ships in ordinary.
The Terror, floating battery, Capt. Frederick
Hutton, has been placed under the =sting-sheers,
at Sheerness, and masted.
The paddlewheel steam-frigate Cyclops, Lieut.-
Commander Joseph Dayman, had her compasses
adjusted yesterday at Sheerness.
The Erne gunboat left Sheerness yesterday for a
trial of her machinery.

ANOTHER COLLIERY EXPLOSION.

ABERTILLERY, MONMOUTHSHIRE, MAY 28

A whole district is again panic-stricken by a fatal
colliery explosion, and 12 lives have fallen victims
to that terrible element—firedamp.
At about 7 o'clock yesterday morning a cloud of
smoke was suddenly observed ascending from the
Tyr Nicholas Pit. John Carpenter, an overman,
who was on the surface, saw the indication of an
explosion, and immediately descended. About 80
men, we understand, were at work underground,
but the workings were divided into two separate
portions. Carpenter discovered reasons for appre-
hending that the explosion had taken place in the
"five-feet vein." He called men from the other
working, and with much bravery proceeded in search
of the living and the dead. Amid much danger
arising from the "chokedamp," and being obliged
to supply canvass doors for those blown away in
the air courses, Carpenter and his companions un-
dauntedly proceeded, and at length came suddenly
upon the bodies of eight poor fellows, who had been
struck down at a moment's warning by the terrible
" choke," and hurried into eternity.
Extending their search, they presently found the
bodies of two men and two boys. Three had met
their death by burning. The fireman, Samuel
Merrifield, whose duty it was to precede his fellow
workmen to ascertain the state of the pit as to gas,
had also fallen a victim.

The dead bodies were got out as soon as possible,
and the distressing spectacles witnessed at the pit's
mouth as each was recognized by children, or
brothers, or widow, were most affecting to behold.
The managing officials of the colliery lent every
aid to the survivors who were injured, three of
whom were said to be in a dangerous condition.
Oae poor fellow, named Henry Olarke, is said to
have become delirious, although physically unin-
jured from the shock received by him in the pit by
the explosion, in which lamentable state he yet
remains.

The cause of this sad catastrophe it is almost im-
possible correctly to ascertain. There are many
rumours in circulation, which it would be unjust to
repeat. A conjecture has been hazarded that as
Merrifield, the fireman, was found in the spot
where the explosion must have taken place, with
his Davy lamp lying near him, the top separated
from the bottom, he must have been " trying for
gas" with the naked light, and hence the explosion.
The following are the names and ages of the
killed :—Wm. Williams, aged 42 ; Samuel Merri-
field, 29 ; Jonas Brown, 52 ; John Silcox, 30 ;
Wm. Wyatt, 58 ; Thos. Bar-
John Hawkins, 51;
well, 18 ; John Jones, 13 ; Thos. Parry, 53 ; Geo.
Taylor, 58 ; Jas. Gregory, 23 ; and Chas. Merri-
field, 58. Orders for coffins were immediately
despatched to Mr. J. Palmer, undertaker, Newport,
and the poor follows are to be interred on Satur-
day or Sunday.

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