The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 28, 1868,

DOCKS.

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102 108 103 2}
Di 100
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140 135
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109 111
8 91
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BANKS,

Closi
Share . NAME. Paid. Price.ng Business
done
10 Agra Limited, A all 111 121 121 12
10 Do B lO 41 61
40 Albion l5 6 4
100 Alliance, Limited
20 Anglo-Austrian
20 Anglo-Egyptian, lim all 19 2 )
20 Anglo-Hungarian
20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited 10 6 4
40 Australasian
20 Bank of British Columbia all 11 13
20 Do issued at 2pm ..... , 5 ... ...
25 Bank of Egypt
20 Bank of Otago, lim.
25 Bank of South Australia all 31 33
40 Bank of Victoria, Australia 26 37 39
10 Bank of New Zealand all 17 19
40 British North American
20 Chartered of India, Austra-
lia, snd China all 29 21 2C4
26 Chartered Mere, of India,
Louden, and China all 29 301 301
20 City
100 Colonial '2s 37 374
10 Consolidated, lira. 4 1 1
50 Delhi and London, lim
50 East London, lim 5 11 0 i
20 English and American, lim 10 ...
20 English Bank of Rio de Ja-
neiro. lim l6 ld pr
20 English, z•cuttish, and Aus
tralian Chartered
281 Hong Kong and Shanghai
Bank Corporation all
281 D o new
100 Imperial, lion 29 17 IS
20 Imperial Ottoman lO 11 11 111
.5 lonian all 25 28
25 Do new s 4d .1d
20 Lnd Mortgage of India, lim 4 4 Si
100 Do sp. c. Debs.lB6l, 30 all 76 1p 8
30 London Bank of 'Mexico
and South America, lim. 20 9 7
100 London and Brazilian, lim. 45 BO 25
20 Do new 71 5 41
100 London; River Plate, Rm 4O 2 4
25 Do new 10 11 14
20 London Chart, of Australia all 231 241
50 London and County 2O 51 52
20 Do new. iss at 20 p in, 16 pd ll ... .-
30 London Joint 5t0ck.......„ 1 824 334
20 London and south African al 12 13
100 London & S.-Western, lim, 20 ...
50 London & Venezuela, lim l2l ...
100 London and Westminster 2O 66 37 684
100 Do Scrip, is satlo pm 2O 65 G i 651
100 Merchant, lim 25 7 S
I() Metropolitan, lira all I 7
100 Midland, lim 29 id pr
6 National of Australia . .
25 National of Liverpool, lira, 14 ... .-
100 National Provinc. of Eng'd 42 ... 1341
10 Do . 42 ...
10 National., SO 54 46
20 New South Wales all 41 43 43
20 North-Western
25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 421 431
60 Provinc. Bank. Corpo., lim lO 1 41
•
100 Provincial of Ireland 26 S 9 9,1
10 Do. new. all -- --
100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, lira 25 13 11
100 Do • issued at 6 pm. 19 ... ...
25 Union of Australia all 48 49
100 Union of Ireland, lim
50 Union of London l5 341 351 37 1

COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.

--British Columbia, 6 per
0ent.,1872...• ••••••••• • • 100 •-•-
-- Do. 1895.. .... . .... • • 120
- Cal.Grov.6p.c.Jan.,&July
1877-84 .. • lOO 107 len
- Do. 6 is. 0. ..... & Aug.. •• 100 105
- Do. sp. 0. Mar. & Sept.. 100 105 10
- Do. sp. o. Jan. t July.. 100 93 94
- Do. sp. c. Inscribed ek.. 100 90 02
- Cape allope, 6 p.c.1873.. 100 102 104
- 1)o.6.pl.&001, 1890-1900.. 100 lit 113
- Do. do 1880-90 100 107 109
- Do. Jan.&July, 1891 • 100 108 1/0
- Do. 5 per oent. 15 April
and 15 Oct., 1900 100 100 102
- Caylon, Nov. 1878,6 p.c 100 108 116
- Do. 1872, do 100 105 107
- Mauritius, 6p. o, 1873,-
- Jan. and July lOO 104 106
- Do. 1878 .. lOO 106 108
- Do. 1882, May and Nov 100 106 108
- Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug•••• 100 106 08
- Melbourne Corporatn.• • •
1867-75, 6 per cent 100 -
- N.8.G0T.6 p.o.Ja.&July •• 100 102 104
- Natal 6 p ct, Apl & Oct 100 _
- Do 6p o. May & Nov 100 106 108
- N. S. VV. 5 p•c., '7l to '75 100 99 101 1011
- Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1890 100 99 109 101
- Do. 5 p.c. rd. '67 to '75•• 100 99 101
N.Zealand, 6p. ct. 1891 100 -
- Do. 5 percent.... lOO 971 98i
- DoJan,Aprl,July, OA- 100 974 984 97
-• Do 6p c. Mar &:.,,ept '9l" 100 108 110
-- Do June & Dec , 1,91 100 100 la
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Do rm. ( t Auctld. l 1.0
-
- t heries 1& 2, 1P.,96 .• )
- I"4ova Scotia 6p. c.Jan
- and July, 1875 l9O 101 tO3
18t6.. lOO 101 103
- Queenslnd. 6p. c. 'B2 6 100 105 106
- Do 1891 „.. lOO 1054 1064 109/
- S. Austral. 6 p 0.1869 77 100 _ _
Do 1878.92..........•• 100 108 110
Do 1893 1908 10) 106 109
- Tasmanian 6p e, 1895.. •• 100 106 107
- Do rd. 1893 to 189/ 100 107 108
- Victoria 6p.0. Ja.&July 100 - _
Do. len lOO 112 113
= Do: 40, April a (Muse 149 108 $lO 1093

I=?lrPßAcTraiff,'

toTcl Chelsea writes to a contemporary,- apropoi tc
the story about the detective employed to watch the pro.
ceedings of Sir Sydney Waterlow, that these kind of
practices are by no means confined to the Conservatives.
He (a Conservative) went down to Lancashire to con•
test the borough of Bury, " a complete stranger." He
had been but a few days in the town before he was
informed that the Radicals had sent an emissary to Lon-
don to " ferret out all the details of his private life,"
with a view, if possible, of blackening his character before
the electors of Bury, The embassy failed in its object,
partly because his character was proof against any such
inspection, but mainly, he adds, because the emissary got
drunk on his arrival in London, and was immediately
locked up - a circumstance which no doubt narrowed most
inconveniently his sphere of observation."

THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION NEAR WIGAN

~--

Hardly has the last body been recovered from the Oaks
Colliery than we have to record another and very disas-
trous colliery explosion. Warnings have within the last
few days appeared in nearly all the papers, cautioning
colliery managers to be on the aka to prevent the
freaks of the atmosphere from playing with the gases
of the several mines. But though forewarned—and, it is
hoped, in this case for the gases have asserted their
dominion. As we stated yesterday, the colliery in which
this disaster has taken place is worked by a limited
company. The former owner was Mr. John Scowcroft,
and the new company calls itselt by that
gentleman's name. The mine in which the explosion
has taken place is called the Arley Mine of the Hindley
Green Colliery, It is situated some three-and-a-half or
four miles from Wigan, in the centre of the Lancashire
coalfields. Hitherto it has borne an excellent name. The
Colliery is an old one, but the mine itself is com-
paratively new, having only been worked for some five or
six years, No complaints have been made of the coal
giving out too much gas, nor, it is stated, had the managing
authorities any ground for anticipating such a calamity.
The system of employment prevailing in the pit, as in
most collieries, of one man working with and receiving pay
for two or more boys or other assistants, the principal of
each party being the one registered in the company's books,
makes it impossible tostate the precise number of persons
who were in the mine at the time of the accident, but, as
nearly as can.be ascertained, about 300 persons were em-
ployed in the mine, and of these at leazt 150 were
lowered into the shaft on that morning at six o'clock.
The pit is worked in four sections, known as the north-
east, north-west, south-east, and south-west sections. All
are worked on the same levels, but the workings are
divided, as respects ventilation, into two halves. The same
shafts supply and carry off the exhausted air, but at the
bottom of the pit the ventilating apparatus is divided into
two branches. It was in the north-west section, in which
from sixty to seventy men were engaged, that the explo-
sion took place,

Of the explosion itself very little is stated. It appears
that at six o'clock in the morning the fireman made
his rounds and found all safe, and yet before nine
o'clock the explosion had occurred. It could hardly
have been very violent, though it is said that
it was felt a mile and a half away. Be this as it
may, many of the men working in the east portion of the
colliery knew not that anything alarming had happened,
and continued their work for two hours after the event.
But at the mouth of the pit it was immediately clear by
the smoke and el6bris which were shot into the air that
" something had gone wrong," and relatives came pour-
ing in from all quarters to see if their friends were hurt.
Those who went to work to find the dead found their task
difficult. The explosion altogether deranged the plan for
ventilating the mine. The current of air was reversed, and
for some time there were doubts as to whether the colliery was
on fire. The engines were got out, and every prepara-
tion waS made to extinguish the " destroying element."
But, happily, it was discovered that there was no fire ;
and after a short interval the air began to rush along
the usual channels. The cage then descended, and
several miners were found waiting at the bottom of the
shaft, having providentially escaped through the choke-
damp,which stifled so many of those who were unable to free
themselves from it in time. Mr. Thomas Southworth, the
manager, with an underlooker named Ellis, who had given
the alarm, then commenced the search for the bodies.
The ventilation Iyas still exceedingly imperfect, so that
their work was arduous and dangerous as well
as painful. The first who were found to have suffered were
some persons at work near the upcast shaft ; they were
burned owing to the flames from the furnace
having been driven along the workings. Some few were
found still alive, of whom a small proportion were able
to help themselves. These latter esear2d, but several
were dying and never got alive to the mouth of the pit.
Here energetic labour did good service. One man was
apparently dead when he came from below. But
for ten minutes artificial respiration was produced,
and breath was, so to speak, brought back to the body, and
the sufferer lives. For six hours the search was continued.
The condition of the corpses varied considerably. Many
of the boys who were killed had clean faces, and the
features were as placid as if the healthy looking lads
were merely slumbering. Some of the men were
dreadfully wounded ; others were much burned, and
in one instance the flesh had been burned to the bone
off a man's fingers. Many of the killed were relatives.
In the workshop on Thurday night lay the corpses
of two brothers named Tyldesley. They were two of
the four sons of a widow who only lost her husband
quite recently. The other two sons were in the pit at the
time of the explosion ; one escaped without injury, but the
other had to be taken home. One man had his hat blown
off his head and his lamp extinguished by the explosion,
but he escaped uninjured. Nearly all the dead bodies
were found in such a position as to make it certain that
they had left their working places, and were making their
way to the shaft. Some bodies were taken up alive, and
borne to their homes, which they just reached to die.
But the details of this case are heartrending and sicken-
ing. Suffice it to say that there were taken up dead, when
found, some 54 bodies, the last being recovered about six
hours after the occurrence. These arc arranged in rooms
adjoining the shaft, and have all been identified. Altogether
the ascertained deaths are set down at from 57 to 60—the
former number being the one which from the facts seems
nearest the truth.

It is supposed that two men, said to be named Beasley
and Shannon, are still in the pit, it having been stated
by some of those who have been rescued that they were
seen going in the direction of the shaft, and, by another
person, that he had heard men calling out that they were
in the "sump," or " dib-hole "—a large cavity filled with
water at the bottom of the shaft. The " dib-hole " will he
pumped dry, in order to test the truth of this statement,
and rescue, if possible, the missing bodies. Another boy
is also reported missing.

On the meteorological part of this subject Mr. IL T.
Negretti writes to a contemporary, apologising somewhat
for seeming to puff his trade (meteorological instrument
maker), but giving what he considers good advice.
Meteorological observations, he most positively de-
clares, ought to be taken at every mine. " Expe-
rience proves it in this case, as it has done
in almost every other, At every mine there should
be at least one barometer, The late Admiral Fitzroy
often spoke to me on the subject, and had he lived
I doubt not but he would have placed barometers
at every coal mine for the guidance of the miners, as
he did in all the fishing villages for the benefit of fisher-
men. True, he was laughed at at first, and by the very
men he intended to save; but bow is it now? Fishermen
never put to sea when the barometer plainly indicates
they should not. It would be the same with the
miners ; let there be a barometer hung at the
mouth of the pit; let there be explanations and directions
printed in large type close to it, the miners will soon
understand it, we should soon have less lamp-trimming,
lamp-opening, and pipe-smoking in mines. Do not believe
that I wish to recommend any special instrument."

The death is announced of Sir John Dorney
Harding, Q.C., D.C.L., formerly her Majesty's Advocate.

The Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, who are
guardians of the spiritualities of the archbishopric during
the vacancy, have appointed the Bishop of London to be
President of the forthcoming Convocation. His lordship
will therefore take the chair at the apprcaching meetings,
and will continuo to preside in that capacity until after his
enthronement, when ho will, of course, take the chair in
his capacity of Archbishop of the province,

Whilst two officers of the 14th Hussars—Captain
Campbell and Lieutenant Bulkeley—were sitting in a room
in the White Horse Hotel at Drogheda on Tuesday evening,
some Sligo ruffian fired a gun loaded with slugs into the
room where they wore sitting, evidently mistaking the
window of one room for the other, as the twa rooms are
separated only by folding doors, captain Campbell clad
Lieutenant Bulkeley bad only returned that evening with
their troop from election (Wks at Dundalk and C..rriekma.-
cross. No damage was done beyond tilt) broakinz of some
panes of glass,

ANoT=It (ialiTllAQT,—The contract for the con•
etruation of the engines and tho machinery for the iron.
clad turret-ship Olatton, a, 600 horsepower, building At
Chatham, has been glyen by the MinimltY to Mesere•
Laird Tirothers, 131ricenheati, irli9 engines oto machinery
for the ironclad broadside 1-11Mgg tans,
1,200 horee•power (nomlng, nwlgr construction A
Vi 4,
will he Tnamtfagtort4 by Memo; John Penn 6114
SON; 00 rhAli§B ti 4 HOU, fcr 014 gcrimieg)