The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-03 00:00:00

GOLD DISCOVERY.

A telegram from St. Louis, dated November 18,
received per Vanderbilt, says :

The accounts from the Carson Valley (Walker
River) Mines continue to excite great attention.
The mines promise to be equal to those on the
Fraser River. These mines are on the east side of
the Sierra Nevada, and are supposed to extend from
Honey Lake, north, to Walker's River, south. The
distance is 200 miles.

The principal discovery announced is called the
Gold Hill, a mound 60 feet high, 5,000 feet long,
and 2,000 wide, 20 miles north of the Carson Val-
ley, with veins of auriferous quartz.
Large quantities of silver ore continue to arrive
from Carson Valley.

THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH

COAST RAILWAY.

LEWES, THURSDAY NIGHT.
The inquest on the bodies of the unfortunate
men, Charles Moore and Samuel Paine, who were
killed by the London express running into their
van, at the Beddingham Crossing, about two miles
from Lewes, was held this afternoon, at the Trevor
Arms Inn, Glyside, before Mr. Gill, the county
coroner.

The case excited great interest in the neighbcur-
hood.

Mr. Faithfull, of Brighton, appeared on behalf of
the railway company, and Mr. Hillman, of Lewes,
represented the friends of the deceased.
An influential jury, composed of the chief farmers
of the neighbourhood, and other gentlemen, with
the Rev. W. do St. Croix as foreman, having been
sworn, then proceeded to view the bodies, which
presented a dreadful spectacle, especially that of
Moore.

George Moore, a cousin of one of the deceased,
identified the bodies, and stated that he saw both
men before they started with Mr. Ellman's van from
Beddingham, on Tuesday evening. Both were
sober, and the horse quiet. He knew the animal
to be a quiet one, having driven it himself.
Dr. Smythe, of Lewes, then described the state
in which he found the bodies, having been brought
to the scene of disaster in a special train by Mr.
Brook, the Lewes station-master. Moore's death
was caused by the injuries which he had sustained
about the head. His body was also frightfully
mangled. Paine's death was caused by the injuries
about his chest ; the other wounds were not of a
serious nature.

John Norman, the gatekeeper at the crossing,
was next examined. ' He is an aged person,
and gave his evidence with a tremulous voice.
He said that on the above evening while he was
in his sentry-box a van came to the Bedding-
ham side of the gate ; it was dark at the time, and
the express was due. Some man in the van called
out " Gate." He came out, walked up to the side
at which they were, and told them the express was
due. he horse plunged against the gate, and it came
open. It then got on the line and went down the
side on which the express was coming—the oppo-
site gates being close against the road. The express
immediately came up, and swept horse and van
all before it. The horse and van had then got
some distance down the line. He seized the animal
before it got on the line, but it plunged and got out
of his hand. He did not know how the gate had
got open, as the hasp was not injured, and he did
not open it. There was a rule of the company that
he should not open the gates to anybody when a
train was due. If he did so, in order not to keep
the public waiting after a train was due, he put up
a signal to stop it.
The witness was cross-examined at great length
by the coroner and jury, and admitted that he could
not be positive in what he had stated, as he was in
such a state of excitement at the time.

Edmund Blabes, a labourer, gave the jury the
distances at which the horse, van, and bodies were
found from the crossing—that of Moore being as
much as 130 yards.
The engine-driver and guard having been exa-
mined as to what they saw, the substance of which
has been already stated, a witness who had passed
the gate a few minutes before the deceased came up
to it was called, and he stated positively that one-
half of the Beddingham side was open.
The Coroner then summed up, and the jury, after
consulting for an hour and a-half, returned a ver-
dict of accidental death, with this addendum :

"The jurors state that, in their opinion, if sufficient
care had been exercised in the management of the
gates at Beddingham crossing, the unfortunate oc-
currence would not have taken place."
The inquiry lasted seven hours.

MINES.—The settlement of the fortnightly ac-
count in the Mining Share Market took place on Wednes-
day, and was particularly heavy in some stocks, such as
Ca!stock Consols, East Russell, East Caradon, &0., but we
understand it passed off pretty well. For;two days general
bakinesg was again interfered with through the settlenient;
but, on the whole, a large business has been done during
the week, and a few mines have advanced considerably in
price. Among them, South Frances, Stray Park, North
Roskear, Herodsfoot, and Mark Valley. A good demand has
also existed for Treloweth, Wheal Grenville, East Gren-
ville, Kelly Bray, North Downs, East Caradon, Wheal
Arthur, Drake Walls, East Trefusis, Par Consols, Redmoor,
Gt. Retallack, Wheal Edward, Tamar Consols, Tincroft, Tre-
lawny, South Caradon, and West Frances. Coppear has
advanced since our last, and the standard for copper ore
has again risen, and is now at a very satisfactory price for
the miner. North Roskear advanced on Monday from 23
to 30, 31 ; a circular was received by the London share-
holders on Monday morning, to the effect that, in sinking
at Pearce's shaft, a fine course of ore had been met with in
tho 170, worth at least £BO per fm. ; the shares leave off,
after a large business, at 28 to 30. Kelly Bray, 34 to 31;
the 45 cast is reported worth from 3 to 4 tons per fathom.
Alfred Consols, 54 to 5t ; Calstosk Consols, 3,1 to
4. South Frances have been greatly in demand,
owing to an improvement, and the price has advanced
from 140 to 155,:165, with shares very difficult to get. East
Pool have been enquired for at £2OO ; the mine is understood
to be looking better in the bottom of the shaft. Grumbler
and St. Aubyn, 60 to 621 i the now lode has been cut, we
learn, in the 36, and poor; other parts of the mine poor.
North Downs have fluctuated from 51 to 51 and leave off
51 to 6. West Caradon, 721 to 75 ; at the meeting, on
Tneedey, a dividend of £4 per share, and a bonus of £l, was
declared, leaving a large balance in hand ; the shares were
subdivided into 1024th. Ilerodsfoot have advanced
to 22, 23, and a good business done ; the 80 tons
of lead ore sold this week realised £2.5 Os. 6d.
per ton, the highest price yet realised. Wheal Edward
became in demand on Thursday, in consequence of an im-
provement in the winze sinking behind the 55 end, worth
£3O per fin., and advanced to 33s to 365. South Caradon,
255 to 265 ; the counter lode has recently been cut in the
100, in the south part of the sett, and which seems to have
given rise to the Into reports referred to. South Camden
Wheal Hooper, 9: to lie., and not so much doing. Gona-
mena, 3 to 3.1, and also more quiet. East Russell have
been fluctuating again, but not so much as fernierly, and
less business doing in them. On Wednesday (the settling
day), they declined from 11 to 10, and leave off 10 to 101'
'
the lode in the 88 is reported worth £6O per fathom.—
Xining Journal this clay.
COAST DEFENCES.—On Wednesday a special
ma ting of the Harwich Town Council was held to take
into consideration the present defenceless state of Harwich
harbour, when it was agreed that a memorial should be for-
warded to the Government 04 the subject, showing the
necessity for further fortifications, to insure the duo pro-
tection of the coast at that point,