The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-16 00:00:00

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Major and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Kenneth Douglas
Mackenzie, from the 92d Foot, Deputy Quartermaster-
General to the Forces serving in China, to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, without purchase.
Captain and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Garnet J.
\Volseley, from the 90th Foot, Deputy Quartermaster-
General to the Forces serving in China, to be Major, with-
out purchase.
Captain and Brevet-Major the Hon. James Charlemange
Dormer, from the 13th Foot, Assistant-Adjutant-General
to the orces serving in China, to be Major without pur-
chase.
Captain and Brevet-Major the Hon. Augustus H. A.
Anson, from 7th Light Dragoons, to be Major, without
purchase.
COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT.

Deputy Commissary-General Philip Turner to be Com-
missary-General.
Deputy Assistant-Commissary-General Charles Foster
to be Assistant-Commissary-General.
Deputy Assistant-Commissary-General James Bailey to
be Assistant-Commissary. General.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals William 111. Muir,
M.D., to be Inspector-General of Hospitals.
Staff-Surgeon W. Rutherford, M.D., to be Deputy In-
spector-General of Hospitals.
Assistant-Surgeon John Ogilvy, M.D., from the 33d
Foot, to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon, vice McCarthy, ap-
pointed to the 90th Foot.
Assistant-Surgeon Charles George Lumsden, from the
90th Foot, to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon vice Henry, ap-
pointed to the 91st Foot.
Assistant-Surgeon John M'Leau Marshall, from the 91st
Foot, to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon, vice Spry, appointed
to the 33d Foot.
The appointment of Staff Surgeon James Jackson, which
appeared in the Gazette of the ISth December, 1860, has
been cancelled.
VETERINARY DEPARTMENT.—CharIes George II ether-
ington Reilly, Gent., to be Acting Veterinary Surgon.
BREVET.

Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Charles William
Dunbar Staveley, C. 8., 44th Foot, to have the temporary
rank of Brigadier-General while in command of her Ma-
jesty's Forces at Tien Tale, from the date of his assuming
such command.
Captain and Brevet-Major Henry Frederick Saunders,
retired full-pay, 3d West India Regiment, to have the
honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army.
Captain Henry Wylie Norman, C. 8., of the 31st Bengal
Light Infantry (having the local rank of Lieut.-Colonel in
the East Indies), to be Major in the Army.
Brevet-Major Henry Wylie Norman, C.B. of the 31st
Bengal Light Infantry (having the local rank of Lieu- .
tenant• Colonel in the East Indies), to be Lieutenant-
Colonel in the Army.
Captain Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Bengal Artillery, to
be Major in the Army.
Quarter-Master John Lilley, half-pay, Grenadier
Guards, to be Captain in the Army, the rank being hono-
rary only.
Colonel Sir Robert Napier, 5.C.8., of the Bengal Engi-
neers, serving with the army in China, with the local rank
of Major-General, to be Major. General.
TO BE COLONELS IN THE ARMY.
Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Charles
Arthur Stephenson, C. 8., Scots Fusilier Guards, Deputy
Adjutant-General to the Forces serving in China.
Lieutenent-Colonel John Hawkins Gascoigne, Royal
Marines.
TO BE LIEUTENANT-COLONELS ITN THE ARMY.
Captain and Brevet-Major Mark Walker, 3d Foot, Bri-
gade-Major to the Forces serving in China.
Captain and Brevet-Major Henry Andrew Sarel, 17th
Light Dragoons.
Captain and Brevet Major Guy Rotton, Royal Artillery.
Major Gibbes Rigour', 60th Foot.
Captain and Brevet-Major Martin Dillon, Rifle Brigade,
Deputy Assistant-Adjutant-General, to the Forces serving
in China.
Second Captain and Brevet-Major Arthur A'Court
Fisher, Royal Engineers.
Second Captain and Brevet-Major Gerald Graham,
Royal Engineers.
Captain and Brevet-Major John Desborough, Royal
Artillery.
Captain and Brevet-Major D. M. Probyn, C. 8., 3d
European Bengal Light Cavalry.
Captain and Brevet-Major H. D. Taylor, Ist Madras
Fusiliers.
Captain and Brevet-Major John Temple, 12th Madras
Native Infantry..
TO BE MAJORS IN THE ARMY.

Captain Dagald Stewart Miller, 67th Foot.
Captain Thomas Walter Milward, Royal Artillery.
Captain Jermyn Charles Symonds, Royal Marines.
Captain Robert J. Hay, Royal Artillery, Brigade-Major
to the Forces serving in China.
Captain P. Bedingfeld, Royal Artillery.
Captain Charles Maitland Govan, Royal Artillery,
Captain Frederick Wm, grogory, 44tli Foot,

Miles Opened. Receipts.
Railways. „....___.A.----.
1861. 1860. 1861. 1860.
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X .£
Ballymena and Port Rush.. 35 35 - -
Belfast and N. Counties.... 100 100 1,419 1,320
Belfast and County Down.. 21 21 522 519
Birkd., Lane., & Ches. Juno. - - - -
Blyth and Tyne 2O 20 1,474 1,274
Bristol and Exeter 125 125 5,694 5,621
Caledonian
Cockermouth & Workington 84 81 259 260
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 370 263
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l Oi 201 190
Cork and Youghal 26 - 210 -
Cornwall 531 534 1,040 907
Deeside l7 17 253 190
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 1,251 1,225
Dublin and Drogheda 63 63 1,559 1,473
Dub. & Wicklow(m.Kingst ) 401 401 1,738 1,313
Dundalk and Enniskillen
Dundee and Arbroath l7l 171 594 547
Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l 31 1,154 979
East Anglian 671 671 863 917
E.Counties,Nrfk.,&E.Union 499 499 23,841 23,309
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Eatn burgh, Perth, & Dunitee 78 78 3,023 2,943
Forth & Clyde Junction
Furness
Glasgow & South-Western 1831 1831 7,323 6,242
Great Northern 2&3 283 26,329 24,597
Great North of Scotland
firt.Southn. & Westn.(lrlnd ) 329 2191 7,043 6,567
Great Western 5834 5781 35,909 33,761
inverness & Aberdeen Juno 55 55 746 621
Irish South-Eastern 254 251 312 214
Lancashire & Yorkshire 3954 3954 35,287 33,160
Leominster and Kington
Limerick and Ennis.
Limerick and Foynes 2 2 149 134
Llanelly 4 46 379 471
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 5l 51 1,378 1,381
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, & S. Coast 22 2231 13,096 11,911
London, Chatham, & Dover 6 194 730 261
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend 42 40 859 877
3lan.,Sheffield,&Lincolnsh 173 1731 11,019 10,020
Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham' 91 933 866
Ma port and Carlisle
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6144 6144 3?,:,49 35,102
Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 177 177 4,471 3,876
Monkland 56 56 1,559 1,087
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,107 2,356
Newcastle and Carlisle 7B 78 3,864 2,935
North British (incl. Selkirk
and Galashiels)
North Devon 35 35 388 375
N-Eastern(Bedale&Leybrn) 764 764 36,478 33,928
North London 9 9 2,360 2,315
North Staffordshire • 246 233 7,940 7,896
Oswestry and Newton__ 20
Rhymney l9l 19/ 703 512
St. Helen's Canal& Railway 30 30 1,955 1,996
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern ll5 115 3,680 3,675
Shrewsbury & Birmingham 294 294 - -
Shrewsbury and Chester - -
Shrewsbury & Hereford
Shropshire Union 291 767 720
M
South Devon 74 2,876 2,796
South-Eastern
.306, .
1306, 16,622 15,853
South Wales I7II nt 6,874 6,834
S. Yorkshire and River Dun 118 118 3,304 3,261
Stockton and Darlington
Taff Vale 5l 54 4,503 4,483
Ulster 5l 51 1,629 1,515
CTlverstone and Lancaster
Vale of Clwyd.. lO 10 141 91
Vale of Neath 35 35 1,708 1,468
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 419 266
Waterfbrd and Limerick
West Cornwall 274 271 657 540
W.HartlepoolHarbr.&Rail 39 39 4,758 3,482
West Midland.
W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt 7 7 479 293
Whitehaven Junction l2 12 743 643
Whitehaven &Furness Jun 35 35 678 584
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL
Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 877 776
Austrian B2B 673 31,757 25,540
Belgian Eastern Junction 264 264 244 250
Buffalo and Lake Huron
Demerara (fortnight) - - - -
Detroit and Milwaukie lB5 185 1,566 1,051
Dutch Rhenish lOBl 1084 2,675 2,351
Eastern of France 1032 1006 45,678 42,007
Grand Trunk of Canada 970 970 9,876 10,833
Great Indian Peninsula 2974 245 4,977 3,270
Great Luxembourg l2B 128 2,640 1,874
Great Western of Canada 345 345 8,992 6,166
Lyons and Geneva 142 142 4,163 3,175
Madrid, Saragossa &Al.cant 301 284 13,424 8,410
Northern of Canada
Northern of France 620 620 46,371 41,877
Norwegian Trunk 44 44 462 587
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 879 840 84,601 64,153
Paris and Orleans 922 922 60,099 41,410
Paris and Strasburg - - - -
Royal Danish 69 69 439 435
Sambre and Meuse 6B 68 1,151 1,016
South Austrian lOB7 1087 33,105 29,171
Southern of France 777 773 21,919 15,511
Welland... - - -
West Flanders
W. and N. W. of France 742 730 33,639 32.435

TILE LATE LOSS OF FOUR LIVES IN
TILE FLEET SEWER.

Yesterday afternoon Mr. Sergeant Payne, the
coroner for the City of London, resumed the inves-
tigation at St. Bartholomew's Hospital into the
deaths of John Devany, aged 45 ; Daniel Harrigan,
aged 50; Patrick Ryan, aged 32; and Alfred
Ward, aged 20, the unfortunate men who lost their
lives in the Fleet sewer on the morning of yester-
day week.
The jury having answered to their names,
Dr. Henry Letheby said he was the medical
officer of health for the City of London. He had
seen the bodies of the deceased men. From their
appearance he had no doubt death was caused by
sulphuretted hydrogen. He also saw the bodies of
seven dead rats taken from the sewer, which pre-
sented exactly similar appearances to the men, and
no doubt death was caused in a similar manner.

The Coroner—What conclusion do you arrive at
from your examination ?
Dr. Letheby said that his opinion was that the
men had died from the inhalation of sulphuretted
hydrogen being suddenly let loose upon them.
That gas might have come upon them in three
ways—by the letting in of liquid charged with
sulphuretted hydrogen, as for example gas refuse ;
or by the disturbance f the mud of the sewer, and
thus letting loose tar hydrogen ; or, thirdly, the
action of an acid suddenly flushing the mud of the
sewer. From the most diligent inquiries, he found
that the gas could not have come upon them from
the two first reasons, but as to the third probable
cause, he had made inquiries into all the factories
and other places likely to affect the sewage, and
there was but one case in which acid liquors had
been discharged, and that was Messrs. Tyler's, a
most respectable firm, who carried on business as
braziers and founders near Newgate-market. On
these premises there were large quantities of nitric,
sulphuric, and other acids, and there were tanks
containing water in which the metal articles were
immersed after leaving the acids. Ten days ago a
tank containing 100 gallons of this said liquor was
discharged into the sewer, and since that another
tank containing between 80 and 90 gallons was
discharged.
The Coroner—What would be the effect of this
liquid being discharged into the sewer
Dr. Letheby said that he had a sample of the
liquid, and he found it to contain * per cent. of
nitric acid, and this he threw on the sewer mud,
and it immediately brought up sulphuretted hydro.
gen. The only question was, whether these pre-
mises were in communication with the sewer.

By Mr. Humphreys (who appeared for Messrs.
Tyler)—A large quantity of sewage runs into the
Fleet sewer, and he should say that the acid might
be destroyed, if it was mixed with a large quantity
of sewage' and alkaline matter.
By a Juror—The Fleet sewer was more free from
dangerous accumulation than any other in London.
Of course, all deposits were better removed than in
the sewer.

Mr. Humphreys said his client would adopt any
course which Dr. Letheby should suggest to pre-
vent a recurrence of such accidents, whether they
arose from Mr. Tyler's gas or not.
Dr. Letheby said he should recommend a con-
tinned stream of water let into the sewer.

Mr. Bazalgette, chief engineer to the Metropolitan
Board of Works, said he was thoroughly acquainted
with the construction of metropolitan sewers. The
plan produced showed that the sewer, where the
accident took place, was properly ventilated with
shafts. These shafts are about 100 yards apart.
It is a usual thing for the doors of the man-holes to
be shut down.

Mr. Haywood said it was a clause in the contract
that no less than two men should go down at one
time, that the hole at the top of the side entrance
should be left open, and that a man should be sta-
tioned outside.

By the City Solicitor—He had been acquainted
with the sewers for many years, and this was the
first case of loss of life which had occurred in the
City Sewers.

kr. Alfred Tyler, of the foundry, said the drain
through which the acid water went into the sewer
in Ludgate-street, from thence would pour into the
Fleet sewer lower down than where the accident
took place.
The Coroner having summed up,
The jury deliberated a short time, when the fore-
man said the jury had come to the verdict that the
deceased persona died from the inhalation of ob-
noxious gas, but they had not sufficient evidence
from whence it came. The jury were desirous to
express a hope that the Commissioners of Sewers
and their officers would investigate the matter
further in order to ascertain whether it is a practice
to let obnoxious matters into the sewers, and also to
prevent a recurrence of this sad calamity. The jury
also wished to say that in their belief there had been
every disposition on the part of the Commissioners
of Sewers to facilitate the inquiry, and therefore
they (thejury) left the matter with every confidence
in their bands.

The Coroner—You mean to record your verdict
as one of accidental death ?
The Foreman—Yes.
The City Solicitor, on the part of the Commis-
sioners of Sewers, said that every inquiry should be
made into the matter.
The inquiry was then brought to a conclusion.