The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-18 00:00:00

AWFUL EXPLOSION OF A STEAM
BOILER.

and Eli Hull. The other four bodies were not iden-
tified by name, but the doctor found that they all
cline to their death by injuries received by fire and
otherwise, in consequence of the explosion of the
boiler as above stated.
THE VERDICT.

FIFTY KILLED AND FIFTY WOUNDED.
(From the New York Herald of Feb. 5.)
It is our melancholy duty to day to present to our
readers the details, as far as they could be gathered
up to the time of our going to press, of one cf the
most frightful casualties, attended with an awful de-
struction of human life, that ever occurred in New
York.

The jury rendered the following verdict :—" That
the deceased persons came to their death by injuries
received by the bursting of a steam boiler, which
caused the falling and burning of the building, Nos.
5 and 7, Hague•street,"

The accident occurred at a quarter to eight o'clock,
yesterday morning, by the bursting of a two hundred
horse power boiler, in the printing press and machine
shop of Mr. A. B. Taylor, Nos. 5 and 7, Hague-
street, within a door or two of Pearl-street. As soon
as the explosion took place, we are informed
by persons who witnessed the catastrophe, the
whole building, which was six stories in height,
was actually lifted from its foundation to a
height of six feet, and when it reached that
elevation, it tumbled down, crushing in its ruins a
vast number. So great was the force of the explo-
sion, that fragments of the building were scattered
in every direction.; the windows in the neighbour-
hood were broken, and a large portion of the
front wall of the fated building was thrown
with tremendous power into the houses oppo-
site. In fact, the building was completely
wrecked, hardly one brick being left standing on an-
other, with the exception of a solitary piece of wall
eight or ten feet high, as if to indicate what had been.
In the firm of Alvah B. Taylor and Co., there were
about sixty-five persons employed. In addition
to these, there were about the same number
employed in another firm in the same build-
ing, namely, St. John Burr and Co., hatters.
In the basement story was the engine and the
blacksmith shop, where there were four pair of bel-
lows and about twelve men at work, besides Crissey,
the engineer, and his brother. The engine con-
nected with the second and third stories, where
the machine shop was situated, by means of
shafts and straps. The ground flsor was oc-
cupied as a hat shop, and eight men worked at
a table in front, of whom there is no account.
The fourth story also belonged to the hat establish-
ment, and was used as a blowing room. The fifth
story of the building wss used as a carpenter's shop
for making models for the machine shop. The sixth
was occupied by Mr. Singer, a letter engraver, who
has obtained a patent for a new invention. It is be-
lieved there was no person in this story at the time of
the explosion.
A building immediately in the rear, occupied as a
brush factory, and also as a watch-case manufactory,
had the roof and a portion of the wall thrown in by
the falling ruins. It was in going to this building that
Louis Day, the Frenchman, was killed. The walls of
the machine. shop were very strong, being 20 inches
thick. The building belonged to the Messrs. Harper,
and we understand was not insured. The stock and
engine, &c., we have heard are insured.
The soap and candle factory of Hull and Co., in
the rear, was considerably injured by the shock.
So dreadful was the explosion that the windows in
several houses in Pearl-street were broken. Even
the sashes of 351 were smashed. A gentleman who
was looking on at the time informed us that the ex-
plosion was like the reports of two cannons fired in
quick succession, one after the other. Doubtless
the second report was the crash of the falling ruins.
Immediately after the explosion fire burst from
the promiscuous heap of bricks and beams, and
human bodies were seen with legs and arms
sticking out—some of them dead, some living.
The fire alarm for the district was first
given, and then a general alarrr, which
brought the firemen from all parts of the city to
the scene of desolation. Some plied the engines,
while others assisted to get out as many as possible
of those who were under the ruins. In a short
time the fire was so far subdued that the fire-
men could work more effectually in removing the
bricks and timbers ; and towards ten o'clock
there was scarcely any flame issuing from
the wreck; but the heat was very great, and the
great difficulty to be avoided was lest those beneath
the pile should be either drowned or scalded ; s hile
on the other hand they might be burned to death by
the fire ; and but little could be done to save those
still living, until the fire was completely brought
under.
As near as can be estimated, there were 120 per-
sons in the building at the time of the catastrophe,
scattered throughout the machine-shop, and the hat-
factory above-mentioned, in both of which a great
many men and boys are usually employed.
Had the accident occurred an hour, or even half-an-
hour later, the destruction of human life would
unquestionably have bean much greater than it
was, as a great many of the boys, in consequence of
the extreme coldnes of the weather, had not at that
time arrived at their work. As it is, however, the
number of persons killed is dreadful to contemplate.
In the machine shop and hat shop together there
were usually about 130 hands employed ; probably
there were front 100 to 120 men and boys present at
the time of the explosion.
In the hat shop most of the hands were present.
In this establishment a good many boys were em-
ployed—in the machine shop there were few. The
following is a list of names, though not a complete
one, of the hands in the machine shop :—George Ford,
first foreman; Robert King, second ditto; J. S.Crissey,
Samuel T. Crissey, A Huggins, Adam Neely, John
Browne, Larry Chrystal, Robert Ross, John Gil-
martin, Thomas M'Keever, Owen Cunningham,
Charles Dougherty (saved), A. C. Osborne, William
Proctor, Henry Reed, E'i Hull (taken out dead),
Marshal Vought, George 11. Davis, Thomas Van-
derbilt, Robert Hyslop, Rufus C. Witing, . A.
Aldridge (Seneca Lake), William Gowenlop, James
Gilderoy, Thomas Philips, Robert Knowlton,
Oscar Kelsey, Lorah King, Halsey King, John C.
King, Leonard Brookes, James Brookes, Thomas
Oliverj Browne, Luther
Lander, M. M. Calton,
Thomßrookes,as
Thompson,Clarke i N
a'm ought,
De M M
Wood,v i
1 Williami
Rogers, William
Proctor, Richard Herschel!, M. D. Ford,
hies the a
flosswafineg explosion. not
are names of those in the employ of
J. Gilder, J. Thompson, James Powers, Richard
Burtwhistle, and two or three names not ascertained.
Mr. Taylor, who resides
havingesd in
aecwhaerdk ,thadthe
p premises
arrivedises t
till
i
at the time of the accident ; Mr. Putnam, his part-
fnteerTr,
0. Jessup, foreman,
John Mills, A. R. Martin-
dale,W.
LM.e
Can.ssrs
fi
el
d, Burr
James and
Hyatt,Cl); C
A. V. Smith, S. H. Smith,
Joseph Ilinnibal, John Rogers, Edwin
James Flood (boy), P. McPhillips (boy),
Thomas Weed (boy),
Hurd, George
Ryder, John Lockwood,
D. Doekerty (boy), G.
Hyde, Peter Hyde, Frank
W. Quigg, J. Docherty (boy),
F. Worrell (boy), R. Hannibal (boy), L. B. Whitney.
T)ndalll(boy), F. Lynch,
111..M.'Laughlin, W.
Barclay, Frank Barclay, B.
homes Farrell, W. Collies
Richard Egbert, W. Boudoine,
Oughton, E Lambert,
(boy), J. Collins
Dutch DaMaerr,ri t
'Thomas
(boy), Tnompson (boy),
Peter Burn-, John IVard W. Collins, Luke
Collard, J. Doming, T. Granger, John Thurston
(boy), J. Huestis (boy), and a boy, name unknown,
with others, whose names the foreman could not re-
member. For many of their friends and relatives,
who heard of the accident, entertained the worst
fears.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVER-
HAMPTON.
A committee having been appointed in Leeds some-
time ago by the shareholders ( f this company, fur the
purpose of endeavouring to induce the directors to
convene a special general meeting, to consider the
affairs of the company, their report has just been
issued. The attempts of the committee to procure a
special general meeting failing, they tried to induce
the present directors to carry out the suggestions of
the committee of investigation, appointed last summer,
for a partial completion of the line. With this view,
the directors were requested to convene a special
board ; but the proposal having been declined, the
committee drew up the following and other proposals,
to be submitted to the directors at a special meeting
of the board.

" That immediate measures be taken for completing so
much of the works as aro involved in the efficient work-
ing on the narrow gauge of that portion of the line
between Abbott's Wood and Tipton. That arrangements
be made with the directors ( f the Stour Valley Railway
Company, for liberty to si ork the engines, &c., of this
company over that line from Tipton to Wolverhamp-
ton for a limited period, reserving in the mean time
the question as to the policy cf. hereafter carrying the
line of this company from Tipton to Wolverhampton.
That arrangements be made with the London and North-
We.tern and Midland Companies, or one cf then-, for
working the above portion of this company's line in con-
nexion with their own traffic on proper terms, as respects
this company. That fur the purpose of raising funds
for the necessary works to carry out the first proposi-
tion, the directors proceed at once to ascertain from the
contractors how far they are willing to rtceiva payment
in the debentures cf the company now remaining un-
issued to the extent of (say 365,0000—0 r to offer such
debentures fur sale to the public on the best terms that
can be had—or to offer the debentures to the previa
shareholders of the company, in such amounts as they
may severally be willing to take up."
At a meeting of the Board of Directory, held at the
Queen's llotel, Birmingham, on the 6th of February,
the objects contained in the above proposals relative
to the London and North-Western and the ➢Midland
Railway Companies, were not recognised or adopted.
On this account the committee are reluctantly com-
pelled to conclude that there is no real intention
whatever of any change of policy by the present di-
rectors, and that if the suggestions of the committee
of investigation, embodied in the proposals above set
forth, are to be carried out at all, it must be by a new
Board of Directore. They therefore called upon the
shareholders, by a united effort at the forthcoming
general meeting, to be held on the 22d inst. in Lon-
don, to rid themselves of a board, all of whose sympa-
thies were with those whose interests were opposed
to theirs. Nothing short, however, of a unanimous
determination to sink minor differences of opinion,
and to act together for this simple object, could effect
anything, and failing this, the committee were con-
vinced that it was perfectly hopeless to look for any
improvement in the condition of their property.

MEETINGS AT BIRMINGHAM.
The half-yearly meeting of the Birmingham and
Oxford Junction was held in the company's offices in
Birmingham on Saturday ; Mr. F. P. Barlow, chair-
man of the company, in the chair. The proceedings
were purely formal. The only incident worthy of
mention was the resignaticn of Mr. Crossthwaite as
auditor, in consequence of his appointment on Thurs-
day as one of the directors of the Great Western
Company. No report was read, nor any speech de-
livered by the chairman.
The half-yealy meeting of the Birmingham, Dudley,
and Wolverhampton then took place ; Mr. F. P.
Barlow, chairman of the company, presiding. No
speech was made by the chairman, nor any report
read to the meeting. One or two formal resolutions
having been passed, the chairman stated, in answer
to a question from a proprietor, that he had no doubt
both railways would be completed in the course of
two years. Circumstances with which all the pro-
prietors were acquainted had hitherto impeded the
progress of the lines ; but those obstacles were now
removed, and he saw no reason to doubt that they
would now be able to proceed with the lines. Al vote
of thanks was given to the chairman. The two
meetings did not altogether occupy five minutes.

MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE
RAILWAY.—A deputation of some of the largest share-
holders in this line had an interview with the direc-
tors, at their regular meeting on Thursday last. The
object of the deputation was to carry out the line of
policy marked out in the resolutions of the meeting of
shareholders held at Sheffield on Friday week. The
deputation consisted of Messrs. Jack, Healey, Fos-
bery, and Highfield, of Liverpool ; some Manchester
shareholdtrs ; Messrs. G. Hounsfield, T. R. Barker,
C. F. Younge, and R. Waterhouse, of Sheffield ; Mr.
Gamble, of Gainsborough ; Mr. Brooke, of Lincoln ;
and Mr. Webster, of London. On being admitted to
an interview, the deputation stated that they felt the
strong necessity for an extensive change in the board,
with a view to the improved management of the com-
pany, in order to re -establish its credit and develop its
resources. They were desirous that Lord Yarbo-
rough, and Messrs. Turner, Chapman, Greig and
Ellison should remain at the board ; but that
the other seven members should be replaced.
They suggested to supply five of the vacan-
cies, Messrs. T. R. Barker and C. F. Younge,
of Sheffield; Mr. Gamble, of Gainsborough ; Mr.
Hutton, of Gate Burton ; and Mr. Brooke, of Lin-
coln ; leaving the other two vacancies for further con-
sideration. After consultation, the directors stated
their willingness to place at the disposal of the share-
holders six seats at the board, and on being asked to
say who were the six directors they proposed to retain,
they named the five first mentioned; and Mr.
Whitaker, Mr. Blake, and Dr. Bartolorne (the pre-
sent Sheffield directors) stated that as a meeting of the
shareholders at Sheffield had declared their desire to
be represented by Messrs. Barker and Younge, along
with Mr. Ellison, they were perfectly ready to retire,
and place their seats at the disposal of the chairman.
The other four were decided upon by ballot. Some
consultation took place among the deputation as to the
acceptance of this arrargement. They had, however,
the satisfaction to receive from Mr. Whitaker the
strong assurance of his concurrence in their opinion,
that it would be most impolitic in the direc-
tors individually, or by any committee of manage-
ment to interfere with the management of Mr. Alport,
and his belief that if Mr. Alport had been appointed
at an earlier period it would have saved the company
thousands of pounds. The conclusion, therefore, was
to accept the arrangement which the directors were
willing to make. Another subject of consideration
was the propriety of continuing the inquiry into the
affairs of the company from May last (the date when
the last committee closed their labours) up to the pre-
sent time. On this point, which the Sheffield share-
holders had resolved upon, the Liverpool deputation
mere undecided. The directors were in favour of
continuing the inquiry; and it was finally agreed to
propose th It it should be again taken up by Mr.
Jack, Mr. Healey, and Mr. Hounsfield, and two other
gentlemen, suggested by them.
WHITEHAVEN JUNCTION RAILWAY,—At the half-
yearly meeting of this company at Whitehaven on
Friday, the Earl of Londsdale in the chair, a dividend
of 21. per share was declared.
RAILWAY BILLS ON STANDING ORDERS.—The Se-
lect Committee of the House of Commons, to whom
all cases of non-compliance with the standing orders
are referred, report; that they may be dispensed with
in the case of the Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway,
and that the promoters may proceed with their Bill.
The Committee had also under their consideration
the case of the North lient Continuation Railway,
upon which there is a report from the examiner, con-
taining some hundred points of non-compliance,
chiefly relative to u.isdescription in the plans and
books of reference. Owing to the voluminous nature
of the report, the Co mmittee adjourned their decision
to the next sitting.
LUNG, READING, AND BASINGSTOKE RAILWAY.--
On Saturday the further consideration of this com-
pany's affairs came on before the Master in Chancery
Richards, with r..ference to a third list of contribu-
tories brought in by the official manager Mr.
Wryghte, consisting of the managing directors ef the
company, to each c f whom an allotment of 200 shares
was made, and 150 more in their capacity of promoters
of the measure. Only one pf the directors took
up these shares, araid the object of the proceeding is to
compel the others tt, take up theirs and pay the deposit
of 51. ss. thereon, -which, subjcct to a deduction of
103. per share, wilt be divided among the shareholders,
who will then, slat ,uld this and a further sum of
6,3001., ordered by the master to be paid, be re-
covered, be in the 3a3ceipt of 2/. 10s per share, as a
return out of the 51. ss. per share which they origi-
nally paid as a dept sit.
COMPJLESSED-An RAILWAY COMPANY.—
The winding-up of this company's affairs is now
nearly brought to fa close by the settlement last week
of the list of coot ributories by the Master in Chan-
cery, Sir W. Hor rte. The subscriptions in promotion
of the measure amo anted to 8,5541. The expendi-
ture was 5,205/., and the balance in hand up to the
commencement of the proceedings fur winding-up,
3,3491., out of whicih sum the proprietors are to
i re-
claim. The other outstanding liabilities will, tis
expected, absorb trio rest of the balance in hand.
Measures are to be taken against those who did not
pay the deposit, the! proceeds of which will be divided
among those who dicl. This will be one of the few

TUE CORONER'S INQUEST.
Coroner Geer was called to hold an inquest on the
dead bodies of those alreadp taken from the ruins
and conveyed to the Fourth Ward Station Home.
The following is the testimony taken. Six of the
vodies have been recognised, and the other three,
making nine dead, have not been identifiied :
William Dodd, residing at Newark, New Jersey,
being sworn, says—l am foreman of the machine hat-
body
strethe establishment,iuildnig
wasint ochecuped
buildingi 5 and 7 Hague-
et ;by
A.
Taylor
and Co., machinists, and 11. A. Burr, hat-body manu-
facturer. The engine and boiler was situated in the
basement of the said building. I know nothing of the
occurrence.
Francis McNelly, resideng at No. 4, llague-street,
being sworn, said—That about half-past seven o'clock
I 'this morning he heard the explosion of the boiler at-
. Itched to the engine in the basement of Nos. 5 and 7
.llague-street ; I immediately jumped from my bed
And saw the smoke; I saw the house falling and
covered with smoke and fire immediately after; the
:boiler went into Nos. 5 and 7, I think it was on Sat.
tarday two weeks ago.
Albert Putnam, residing in Brooklyn, being sworn,
pays :—I am one of the firm of A. B. Taylor and
Co. I think the boiler attached to the engine in the
'basement, was brought in about two weeks since ; it
vas bought of Peese and Murphy ; I think it was a
second-hand boiler, and also, that it had been used on
koard a saeam-boat, but a few times ; it was found too
*mall for the purpose, and purchased by Peese and
Murphy, and afterwards bought by A. B. Taylor
esnd Co.

Alva B. Taylor, residing in Newark New Jersey,
?king sworn, says—He is one of the firm cf A. B.
Taylor and C©, and that they got the steam on
'heir boiler a week ago to-day ; I w pchased it
tsf Reeve and Murphy ; it was built. for me
kbout two years since,
and, as I was informed,
Ores sold for a boat at the South ; it was found
o be too small for the engine, and was exchanged
NA/Ith Peese and Murh for a large boiler ; I after.
Peese 'wards purchased it of and Murphy ; Mr. Alur-
i. 7.oby told me it had only been fired up five times ;
_I do not know it it had been inspected by the inspec..
ttor of boilers, nor did I know a certificate was neces-
t tary at the purchase of said boiler.
Dr. Thomas Holmes being sworn, says—He exa-
Tiin!d the bodies now lying dead in the Fourth Ward
ttitation-houFe, and find that the deceased, Peter Hyde,
tame to his death by cold and exposure to water oc-
,casioned by the bursting of a steam-boiler at Nos.
.. and 7, Hague-street. Also the bodies of George
.llyde, Isaiah Marks (a coloured boy), John Rogers,

cases in which no ca .11 or contribution is likely to be
nude upon the shareholders.

MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18, 1850

DUBLIN AND DROGHEDA lt AILWAY.--DUBLIN,
FEB. M.—Yesterday the Navan branch of the Dub.
lin and Drogheda railway was opened for public
traffic. There are seventeen and a half miles of the
line now complete, and it is intended to extend to
Kells, ten miles further, which can be completed, it is
calculated, for about four thousand pounds per mile.
The principal feature of interest connected with the
line is the magnificent bridge, spinning the river
Boyne, near its confluence with the I3lackwater. It
is of seven arches, each fifty feet span, built of rough
hewn limestone in the most permanent manner, and
presents a noble feature in the landscape of the place.
The distance from Drogheda to Navan is easily ac-
complished in half an hour, so that from Dublin to
Navan will not occupy more than two hours, includ-
ing stops, the distance being nearly fifty miles.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, FEB. 16.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market still continues inani-
mate, and little business has been transacted. The tone,
however, is rather firmer.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 16.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The transactions to-day were as
follow : —Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 71,4 c. dis.—
London and North-Western, 110 c.—Ditto, New Quarters, 3%
p.—Ditto, Fifths, 11,E p.—Ditto, Quarters (C), p.—Mid-
land, llalves, 24173 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover (N 0.4),
61/B.—Dublin and Drogheda, 27.

MANCHESTER, FEB. Ig.
STOCK EXCHANGE.— There has been no important change
since yesterday. The market has been tolerably steady,
chiefly owing to the operations of speculators. The trans-
actions were as follow :—East Lancashire, 101/s Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 713 dis.—Manehester and Bir-
mingham, Quarters (C), 13-16 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, 2 n.—Ditto Preference, 714 n. —Ditto (Shef-
field and Lincolnshire), 3* —South Staffordshire, 4 dis.
BIRMINGHAM, FEB. 16.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market was extremely
quiet to-day. The only transactions were—London and
North-Western, New Quarters, 16s. 3d. p. cash—Shrewsbury
and Birmingham (B), 61. Is. 3d. dis.

THE LATE FIRE IN LAMBETH.
The great distress into which yearly 100 young
women in the employ of Messrs. Nickels and Co.,
Ladiarubber- web-manufacturers, have been plunged by
this calamity, was mentioned some days ago in this
journal. A subscription in aid of a fund for affording
these poor creatures some temporary assistance until
M.ssrs. Nickels's premises are rebuilt has since been
opened, and contributions have been solicited in
various quarters. It is to be regretted that the ap-
peal has been only very partially responded to, and
the amount in hand will hardly suffice to keep want
from the threshold of many deserving families during
the next fortnight. An application was made, among
others, to Mr. Sidney Herbert, and that gentleman
in reply at once consented to place a certain number
of the younger women on the list of emigrants to be
immediately dispatched to the colonies, under the
auspices of ti-e society of which he is the benevolent
founder. It is a significant fact, however, that on
the question being put to the workwomen by a mem-
ber of Messrs. Nickels's .firm, not one of the whole
number would consent to leave her native land. That
this unwillingness to emigrate arises solely from the
difficulty of severing the tie which binds
even the poorest classes to the home of
their birth is evident from the fact that a
more helpless class of women can scarely be found
than this. Many of them have worked for
Messrs. Nickels's firm for periods of 10, 12, and 16
years, and, being quite unable to undertake any other
handiwork, the sudden cessation of their ordinary
employment has thrown them for the time into a
hopeless state of destitution. The clergy of the
parish of Lambeth have taken up the case, and two
of them were present o❑ Saturday when a distribution
of the funds in hand was made at Messrs. Nickels's
factory in York-street. The Rev. Abraham Peat,
incumbent of All Saints' District Church, where the
late factory stood, preached yesterday on the subject,
and after an eloquent discourse, in rs hich he forcibly
pointed out the distressing consequences of the late
fire, a collection was made, and he announced his
readiness to receive contributions from all charitably-
disposed persons. The calamity was also alluded to
by the minister of the Independent Chapel in the
York-road, where a collection was made in aid of the
fund. Another appeal, arising out of the same
catastrophe, on behalf of the workmen employed by
Mr. Myers, the builder and contractor, who lost the
whole of their tools in the late fire, has been some-
what more liberally responded to, though only a small
sum in comparison with the value of the property has
yet been obtained. This is a matter, however, of less
importance, as, owing to the resources of Mr. Myers,
not a single workman has been thrown ont of em-
ployment.

MARYLEBONI VESTRY.
THE PAUPER CHILDREN.
There was a crowded meeting of the vestry on Sa-
turday to consider the propriety of removing the chil-
dren from the workhouse to an agricultural industrial
school.
The proposal was approved by Mr. JOSEPIT, and
supported by Mr. WILSON•
Mr. HUME, M.P., objected to the proposal, because
even the Government was opposed to the establish-
ment of manufacturing establishments by public bo-
dies, as they interfered with the wages of the indus-
trious classes, and because it would incur an expense
which would have to be defrayed by the ratepayers.
The Rey. Mr. GURNEY and the Rev. Mr. BARING
wished to see the pauper children brought up in an
industrial establishment, apart from the workhouse, in
order to remove them from the contamination of
evil example. _
Mr. WILLIAMS opposed the scheme in tot*, assur-
ing the vestry that the children in the workhouse
were better cared for and better educated than those
brought up in many metropolitan boarding-schools.
Finally, the proposal was rejected on a division, by
35 votes to 13.

HAMBURGII FUNDS.
HAIIBURGH FUNDS, Fab. 12.
Bills, Money.
Hanoverian New Loan.s per Cent. • . 106 105%
Ditto, 334 per Cent. ..............
Bank Shares ... ••• •• ••••• • • • • ...
Prussian 5 per Cent. 106% 106
Anglo-Russian Loan ••• • • 106%
Ditto (1850, 434 per Cents. .... •. • • 92% 92%
Hamburgh, 334 per C'ent. ........., 87 87
Lubeck Loan (1850) • • ••• .. c,3 98
Hamburgh Certificates, 6 per Cent...., 100
New 4 per Cent., Hope and C.. ...... 95
Ditto Stieglitz 85
Belgian Loan,2% per Cent...—. _
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent
•. •• • • 70%
Ditto, in 1001. Shares • • •.• • • 71
Ditto, 5 per cent. ... •
...... • • • 95%
Anglo-Swoclisli Loan 97%
Ditto, Transport Loan
East Gothland 4 per Cents
Norwegian Joan, 1848 ......... 59% 99% Spanish New 5 per Cent.. •••••• • • •• 11 "
Ditto, 3 per Cents. ........ ••• • .• 2814 28
Anglo-Yortuguese Loan, 2% per Cent • •

--
REPEAL OF THE WINDOW TAX.—The following
notice of motion has Leon given by Mr. Anderton, and
stands for discussion in the Court of Common Council
on the next court-day, which is to be held on the 28th
instant:--" That the tax upon windows is an unjust and
unrighteous tax, being an impost upon the air and light
of heaven, depriving a large majority of her Majesty's
subjects in England, Scotland, and Wales, of those bless-
ings of Providence so essentially necessary for their
health and comfort, and our.,ht to be abolished. That it
is a tax partial in its operation, being chargeable only
upon a portion of the United Kingdom, and is oppressive
upon shopkeepers and tradesmen, as well as upon the
poor, and prevents those sanitary measures of ventila-
tion, air, and light, being effected so frequently recom-
mended by the health of towns commission, confirmed
by the Government, and recognised by the Legislature in
the provision contained in the Act of the 7th and Bth of
her present Majesty, cap. 84, intituled An Act for
Regulating the Construction and Use of Buildings in the
Metropolis and its Neighbourhood.' That the curt do
present a petition to Parliament to abolish the tax upon
windows, and that it be referred to the Parliamentary
Committee to prepare such petition, and report thereon
to this court for approval."
HYDROPLIODIA IN A HORSI4.—A case of this na-
ture occurred to a mare, the property of Mr. Shawcrose,
of Gorton, on Monday last. The animal, on being put
to work, snapped at and attempted to bite the man, and
showed other symptoms of such an alarming nature that
she was put into the stable again. During the day she
attacked and nearly worried a donkey and bit several
men who were attending to her. She got so much
worse that Mr. Moore, seterinary surgeon, of Downing-
stret t, was called in between one and two o'clock on
Tuesday morning, and he unhesitatingly pronounced her
to be labouring under the above dreaaful malady, and
cautioned the men in attendance to be aware how they
approached her. She got gradually worse, and attacked
whatever object she could lay hold of, and so great was
the force with which these attacks were made, that the
upper jaw was extensively fractured, and several teeth
knocked out. Death relieved her from her dreadful suf-
ferings about twelve o'clock. The wounds inflicted on
the donkey were excised and cauterised by Mr. Moore,
and as yet no symptoms cf madness have been deve-
loped.— Manchester Courier.
1 `THE COUNT VON WLADISLAW.—The publicity
which we gave last week to the doings of the " Count,"
as a patron (f the trade of South Staffordshire, has been
the means of our being furnished with a few particulars
of his previous career in the swindling line. He was at
Newcastle-on ne a few months back, in his capacity
of agent for the Cracow Railway, and amongst otter
orders gave one for 14 locomotives, upon the strength
of which he managed to obtain 251, by way of loan,
until his remittances from Germany came to hand, from
the person to whom he gave the order. His " Count-
ship" was also at Sheffield shortly afterwards distribut-
ing his favours in the usual was ; and from a manufac-
turer there he managed to obtain 201., placing in his
hand?, as security for the amount, a packet, which he
said contained valuublo bills to an enormous amount, but
on being °cern] its contents were found to consist cf
waste paper. This affair caused hits to bo taken into
custody, but it was fund that nothing could be done to
him, and he was discharged, as at Bilatin lust week.
Some time previously the " Count" was a guest at the
tables of some of the principal merchants in Glasgow,
and the contracts he entered into there were so enormous
that they had the effect of raising the price of iron in
the ram km—Birmingham Journal.