The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, IF6B

SHARE LIST.

ORDINARY SHAREB_AND STOCKS.

DOCKS.

10 Anglo-American Tel., lim all 1 211 21 21}
10 Anglo-Mediter. Tel.,lirn 10 4 ip
10 Anglo-Mexican Mint all lb 16
et Atlantic Telegraph lO 27 29 281
et Do. 8 per cent.
25 Australian Agricultural
25 Australian Mort. Land and
Finance, lim.
10 Baugarah Tea Estates, lim 9 7 id
10 Berlin Water Works, limn all 131 14 i
10 Do. New 6 3 11
100 Boickow Vaughan, lim.
5 Bombay Gas, lira, all 3 / t
5 Do. New 4 11 01
SJ British American Land 44 16 18
st B. and I. Magnetic Tel., lint lO9 167 172
20 British Indian Tea, lim all 21 81
20 British Ship Owners 7l
29 Canada Company all 67 72
10 Canadian Loan and Invest-
ment, lim 24 21 11d
20 Ceylon Company, lim.
20 Do. A shares
10 City Discount, lim 6 44 91 1
25 City of London Real Pro-
perty, lim 8 41 21c1
30 City of Milan linprov. lim all a 10
25 City of Moscow Gas, Um all 2 8
50 City Offices, lint 25 24, 23/d /
50 Colonial, lim.
Do.
50 Commercial 'Union (Assur) 4 p ip
10 Company of African Mer-
chants, limn.
20 Continental Union Gas, lint all 171 181
25 Copper Miners of England,
pref. 71 per cent.
100 Corporation of London
Bonds, 1877, 41 per cent. all 104 105
100 Do. 1879, 41 per cent, all 104 1041
100 Do. 1882, 4 per cent. all 1031 1041
10 Credit Fon. of England, lint, all 14 2
50 Credit Fon.onlauritius lira lO 8 2 d
et Crystal Palace lOO 19 21
at Do. Preference l9O 96 101
at Do. 6p. c Petpetual Deb. 109 155 110
20 Darjeeling, lint.
ICI Eastern Assam, lint.
„,d
50 East Indian Land Credit _

- - and Finance, lint.
20 East India Irriga, & Canal all 17 18
32 Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron, and
Coal, lint.
100 Egyptian 9 per cent. V'roy
Gua. by Egypt. Goy all 87 88 871 81
20 Egyptian Com. & Trad. am 6 bi 51
at Electric & Inter. Telegraph 100 237 243
10 Do. New 8 10 12p
3 Eng. & Austral. Copper, lim 21 i I
15 English and Foreign Credit 7i b 4d
100 Eng. and Scot. Marine, lira. 8 ...
..d
10 Fairbairn Engineering 6 11 11d
20 Fore-streetWarehouse,lim l2 pr ip
100 For. & Col. Coy. Trust and

-- - - Loan Scrip, issued at XS& all 831 841
50 Gellivara, lint. 2O
10 General Credit & Die., lim. 71 21 14 51 1
15 General Steam Navigation 14 28 29
50 Home & Col Marine In. Um. 5 41 31d
10 Hong Kong and China Gas all ... ...
20 Hudson's Bay all 134 131 134
20 Imperial Land Co. of Mar-
seilles, lint.
25 Indo-European Tel., lim lO ... ...
20 Interns. Financial Soc. lim 5 11 11
20 Interns. Land Credit, lint 6 6 4d
50 Italian Land 5 11 Icl
20 Italian Irri. (Canal Cavour) allj 31 4
100 Do. 6p. c. Bds., redeem
1870, issued se all 63 113
50 Land Securities, lim 6 31 243
25 London African Trading lO 7 5d
25 Lon. & Coded. Marine, lim 6 ... •••d
10 London County Land and.
Building, lim.
5 Loud. Provincial Tel. lim all 31 31
1 Do. Prefer. 10 per cent. all I 1P
50 Lond. Financial Asso., lim 30 23 221
4 Lond.Gen.Omnibus.Co.lim. all 1/ 2
50 Loud. and Glasg. Engineer
and Iron Ship, lim 25 22 17d
20 Loud. & Provincial Marine 2 ld pr
st Madras Irriga. & Canl. Gua.
sp.c. by India Gov. lOO 105 107
10 Mauritius Land, Credit, and
Agency, lint_
........ 11 1 13
10 Mediterra. Exton. Tea., lim.all 4 41
50 Merchant Shipping lim all 32 37
50 Millwall Iron Works, lint l2l ••• •••
10 Natal Land and Colonisa-
tion Co., lint.
25 National Discount Co., lim h 12 121 11/
25 National Prov. Marine, lint. 4 4 3d
10 National Steam Ship, lim. all 61 91
20 Nerbudda Coal & Iron, lint. 6 3 2d
10 New Consolidated Die. lim. 3 14 13
6 New Quebrada, lint, 44 0 44 34
25 New Zealand. Loan & Mer •
cantile Agency,lim 2l I IP
25 New Zealand Trust and
Loan, lim
10 Northern Assam Tea, Jim. 5 7 e
10 Do. B
st North Brit. Austral., lim lOO 46 51
50 North Brit. & Mercan. In._ 64 181 191
25 Ocean Marine (Insurance) 5 141 15
50 Oriental Financial, lim ll ... ...d
f Oriental Gas, Rm.
5 Do. New ............... 1 4 11,
10 Otago and Southland 111 ,
vestment, lina ip
5 Ottoman Gas, lint., all 14 21P
10 Panama, New Zealand, and
Australian It. Mail lit* all 2 21
5 Do do.
et Peel R. Land & Miner', Born 100 30 33
50 Peninsu. & Oriental Steam all 54 56 501
50 Do. New 1867 lO Id pr
25 Reuter's Telegram 24 30 353
50 lthymney Iron . all 19 20
15 Do. New
26 Rio de Janeiro City 1na.,1131 1'
20 Do. Gas, lira all 23 24 241
100 Royal Mail Steam 6O 46 48 47
st Scottish Aust. Invest., lim lOO 107 112
st Do. 6 p. c, Guar. Pref. 100
... ...
20 Societti Fin. d'Egypte, lim. 10 7 6d.
20 Soci6t6 Gen.de l'Ernpire Ot. 9 3 4P
50 S. African Mort. & Inv., lint. 6
23 South Australian Land
st Submarine Telegraph
1 Do. Scrip all 11
20 Telegraph Con. & Main.,lim all 151 18
20 Thames and Mersey Marine
(Insurance), lint 2 21 24
20 Trinidad Petroleum, lim Bl ... ...
10 Trust & Agency of Aus.,lim 1 1 1p
10 Do do. do. all ... ..
20 Trust & Loan Co., U. Canada, 5 id p 5
SO Union Marino L'pool, lim 5 4 41p
20 Union Steam Ship, lint all 22 24
15 United Discount Corp., Jim 8 11 sia
SU. Kingdom Tel. Co., lira all 4Z 31
5 Do. 10 per cent. Pref all 21 31P
20 Universal Marine(ln.), lim 5 1 llp
10 Upper Assam Tea, lim
all 3 4
30 Van Dieman's Land
281 7 g
7 per
iloofrtEgagygep)t,Loan all 751 761
00 Vicceenrto.y(
50 Warrant Finance, lint. l2 12 10d
50 West India and Pacitle
Steam, lint 25 4 3d
20 West London Wharves and
Warehouses lO
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COLONIAL UOVERNIdIiaIT SECURITIE6

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- canlov.6p.o.Jan.,&July
1877-84
Do. 6p. o. Feb. & Aug lOO 105 10
Do. sp. 0. Mar. & Sept lOO 195 10
Do. 6p. o. Jan. & 100 93 94 9
Do. sp. c. Inscribed sk lOO 99 92
Cape (i.llope, 5 p. 0.1873 lOO 102 104
Do.Apl.&oot .1890-1900 lOO 111 113
Do. do 1880-90 lOO 107 109
Do. Jan.&July, 1891 •••• 100 108 110
Do. 5 per cent. 15 April
and 15 oot., 1900 lOO 100 102
Ceylon, Nov 1878, 6 p.c lOO 108 110
Do. 1872, do lOO 105 107
Mauritius, 6 p. 0, 1873,
Jan. and July
Do. 1878 ... lOO 106 LOS
Do. 1882, May and Nov lOO 106 108
Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug• ••• 100 106 108
Melbourne Corporatn.,
1667-75, 6 per cent • • 100 _
N.8.G0v.6 p.o.Ja.&July
Natal 6 p et, Apl & Oct lOO
Do 613 c. May & Nov lOO 106 108
N. S. W. 5 Ire. '7l to '7B lOO 99 101
Do. 6 p.c. 148 to 1896 100 99 IN 1001 i
Do. 5 p.c. rd.'67 to '75 lOO 90 101
N.Zcaland, 6p. et. 1831 lOO
Do. 5 per cent....
DoJan,Aprl, July, o,t lOO 974 984 953
Do 6p c. Afar & Sept '9l lOO 108 110
-- Do J nue & Dec , 1,91 •••• 100 109 111
—j Do I'ruv. (.1 Auckld.
( b(rie3l &2, 1696... j 1•9
- ova Scotia 6p. c.Jau...
and Jnly, 1875
- Do 18e6..
Qucenslnd. Rp. 'B2 5 100 1: S 109 108
Do 1891
S. Austral. 6 p 0.186 J 77 lOO _
Do 1878.94 lOO 103 110
Do 693 1908 lOl 107 108
Tasmanian pO, 1095 lOO 13.6 107
Do rd. 1693 to 189/. lOO 117 108
Vic Loria 6p.0. J A.& July . • 100
Do. lE9I
.7.7 DO. ;10, April & 008..,, 100 109 110 104 i

ANOTHER EXPLOSION NEAR, WIGAN.

It will not be a very merry Christmas in some of the
colliery districts around Wigan this year. Already we
have had one very disastrous explosion. Now there is,
unhappily, another, though, fortunately, not so very fatal
as the other. By date Monday, we have the following
advices from Wigan :—" Another colliery explosion
occurred this morning at the Norley Colliery, situated in
the township of Pemberton, about a mile and a half from
Wigan. The pits at which the casualty occurred are
Nos. 2 and 3 pits of the Norley Coal and Cannel Com-
pany. Shortly before nine o'clock a party of men
descended the downcast shaft, conveying with them a
pony, which it was intended should work in a tunnel in
the bottom of the downcast shaft. Mr.' J. Peet, one of
the managers of the colliery, left the cage at the five-
feet mouthing, and just as the other two men who
occupied the cage, and pony, reached the tunnel an explo-
sion occurred, the effects of which were quickly visible on
the pit bank by a cloud of soot ascending the upcast, and
the customary indications in the downcast. The ventilation
very quickly returned to its ordinary course, and Mr.
Thompson, the manager, and other persons, descended
the pit. They were, however, able to learn but little, for
the cage had been wedged fast in the shaft, and the
replies that were given to the shouts from the mouthings
were not satisfactory. As promptly as possible a capstan
was rigged over the pit, and when our report left the
bottom had not been reached. Fortunately to-day is
reckoning Monday—that is to say, the Monday:after the
fortnightly pay—and no colliers are at work in the pit.
There are, however, a number of datalers, or day labourers,
the fate of whom is at present a matter of the profoundest
interest to the crowd that is clustered around the pit-
bank."

Further news is to the effect that the gas was fired at the
extremity of the workings, where a number of men were
vatting across a step. The number of the dead is not
yet ascertained, but it is thought that six persons have
perished. Five others are severely burned—one probably
fatally. Only two bodies yet have been brought to the
surface. Another, fearfully mangled, is said to be below,
tnd the exploring party continue at work

THE ACCIDENT ON THE BRIGHTON
RAILIV AY.

The accident by paraffin oil on the isrignton Railway
has caused a second death. It will be remembered that
the guard of one of the trains, hearing a dripping of some
kind in a truck where paraffin was stored, went with
his lamp to see the cause. An explosion occurred, which
enveloped him in flame, and he died from injuries received
a few days after. His comrade, who attempted to rescue
him, was also so much injured that he died on Sunday
night last. An inquest has been held. Dr. Letheby gave
tome important evidence as to the properties of paraffin, a
vesume of which we subjoin.
Dr. Letheby said : I am Professor of ;Chemistry at the
London Hospital, and am very well acquainted with the
liquids known as benzole and refined naphtha, as I have
had to examine thousands of gallons for the Paris mar-
kets. A few years ago that which was known by the
name of benzole, or benzine, was a naphtha containing, in
trade language, 90 per cent. of benzole. It was the most
volatile and highly-rectified spirit of coal tar. It was used
for making coal-tar colours, and was then thought to
be the best description of naphtha for that purpose ; but
within the last few years they have found that a weaker
naphtha, containing 40 per cent. of benzole, is better suited
for the production of analine reds, and they are now using
naphtha containing as little as 20 per cent. of benzole. In
English commerce all these are known as refilled naphtha
If British manufacture—that is the general designation ;
but in France they call the 90 per cent. benzole, and all
below 40 per cent. refined naphtha. All the samples contain
a large proportion of benzole, which is the most important
onstituent with regard to the inflammability of the
article. Benzoic) itself has a gravity of 0.850, but this
(in the bottle) is said to have a gravity of 0.875. Still it
is very volatile at ordinary temperature, and seven
"r eight drops went off my paper in a minute and a half.
A. couple of drops of common naphtha will in about a
minute and a half expand to a cubic inch of vapour, and
that diffusing itself through 371 times its bulk of air will
form an explosive mixture. The explosive power is many
atmospheres'—over 20. It therefore evolves inflammable
vapour at common temperature which, mixed with air, is
7apable of generating heat enough to set fire to itself and
any common combustible substance near it, and has-force
enough to blow any vessel to pieces in which it is contained.
t have read the evidence taken on the last occasion, which
you forwarded to me for my examination, and I have no
doubt that the refined naphtha in question had leaked or
become diffused in the waggon, and, mixing with atmo-
pheric air, formed an explosive mixture which was fired by
the light of the lamp held by one of the deceased mento the
carriage ; and that explosion resulting, the burning
naphtha was blown over them and continued to burn. I
have heard the evidence which has been given by Mr.
Thacker and by Mr. Kay, and I am of opinion that the
dangerous properties of this naphtha are not suffi3iently
well-known to guard against the dangers which may
arise from its carriage, as the leakage of it into a confined
truck might at any time, by the approach of a light, be
the cause of serious accident. I think it might he carried
subject to regulations which would not at all interfere
with the commerce of the article, which I do not think
would ignite with flint and steel, or with a red-hot poker.
It would require a temperature of about 1,500 degrees to
explode it. A Davy lamp would not explode it.
Mr. Hawkins : Would the closed lamps carried by
Tuards explode the vapour?

Dr. Letheby : If they had a moderate-sized aperture to
admit it.

Mr. Hawkins explained the construction of the railway
hand lamps, and said they had openings to admit the
entrance and passage of air.
The Coroner having summed up the evidence, the jury
delivered the following verdict, agreeing with his direc-
tions :—" That the deceased died from shock caused by
burns received by the ignition of vapour at the flame (,f a
lamp carried by one John Harris, given off at an ordinary
temperature, from a product known as refined naphtha,
then being carried in barrels in a truck on the railway,
and which vapour then fired the remainder of the said
naphtha ; and the jurors further find that the said product,
sailed refined naphtha, is a dangerous article, and that its
carriage should be the subject of special regulations, which
should include means of giving information to the guards
and servants of any and every company carrying the same
of what the substance is which they are carrying."

A. large number of the clergy of the Established
Church, several Roman Catholic clergymen, many
Methodist ministers, the leading Unitarians, and eccle-
siastics of other denominations, walked in the funeral pro-
cession when Dr. Cooke was buried.

THE " RECORD" AND THE LATE MR. DRUMMOND.
.--The Record, in a notice of the approaching celebration of
the marriage of Lord Percy to Lady Edith Campbell,
eldest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, pays
the following unconscious testimony to the erratic brilliancy
of the late Mr. Henry Drummond, and Lord Percy's sup-
posed inheritance of his eccentric humour. Our contem-
porary says : " Lord Percy is maternally the grandson of
the late Henry Drummond, and it is announced that there
will be a grand display of rockets at eight p.m. on St.
Martha's Hill."

FULFILMENT OF A PREDICTION ABOUT MR.
GLADSTONE.—A tradition has been long current in Liver-
pool, and implicitly believed in by many people, which is
to the following effect :—After the close of the poll for the
borough election in 1812, at which Lord—then Mr.
Henry—Brougham was defeated, the freemen were assem-
bled at the house of Sir John Gladstone, a leading Liverpool
Tory, in Rodney-street. The four days' poll and the
triumph of Toryism had excited these constitutionalists
to the highest pitch, and they joyfully appreciated the
resources of Sir John's "open house." While the revelry
was at its height, one of the freemen called for " Little
Willie." This young gentleman was then about two years
of age, and, unfortunately, history does not record the
feelings he experienced on the occasion. The honest voter
took " Little Willie " in his arms, and when the young-
ster's health had been drunk, he held him up before the
crowd, and said : "As for this little fellow, he'll be
Premier of England afore he dies." " Little Willie " is
now the first—he has long been the greatest— commoner
in the kingdom.
M.P.'s AND THE SUNDAY QUESTION.—In 1855
and 1856 there were 75 members of Parliament who voted
in favour of the proposal to open the British Museum,
Crystal Palace, and similar institutions on Sundays. Of
that number 23 have been returned to the present Par-
liament; 10 of the 75 members who held seats in the last
Parliament have failed to secure seats in the present
Parliament. 13oth of the promoters of the Sunday Lec-
tures Bill, Lord Amberley and Mr. J. S. Mill, have lost
their seats. Mr. J. A. Smith, who introduced the Sale of
Liquors on Sunday Bill, has also lost his seat, and the
chief opponent of this bill, Mr. Roebuck, has been
unseated. Mr. Baines and Mr. Bazley, who co-operated
with Mr. J. A. Smith ou the Sale of Liquors on Sunday
Bill, have been returned. Mr. Thomas Hughes, Lord
Claude Hamilton, and Mr. Alderman Lusk, who intro-
duced the Sunday Trading Bill, have each secured seats
in the present Parliament. There are four members out
of the fifteen composing the present Cabinet who voted in
1855 or 1856 for opening the British Museum and the
Crystal Palace on Sundays, viz., Mr. Bright, Mr. Lowe,
Mr. Bruce, and Mr. Chichester Fortescue, and there are
two other gentlemen, Mr. Layard and Mr. J. A. Otway,
holding office in the new Ministry, who favour the opening
of places of amusement on Sunclays.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE--Phis Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

COWARDLY ASSAULT ON A WOMAN.—Richard
Gamble, a costermonger, living in Newport-market,
was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with assaulting
a female named Hayes, also residing in the same
place.

The complainant said that on the previous night
she met prisoner in Prince's-row, Newport-market,
when he said, " You got me fined 205," she having
been a witness against him that day week, and he
then struck her and kicked her in the eye, and the
blood on her dress was the result. (The complain-
ant exhibited her blood-stained dress to the magis-
trate.) She gave the prisoner into custody, and
while she had gone to the station the prisoner's
aunt burst open the room door with the intention
of, if she found her, fighting her, the aunt, on
the last occasion, having got up a subscription to
pay the prisoner's fine.

The prisoner denied striking the complainant.
James Hemming, 159 C, proved finding the com-
plainant bleeding from an injury to her eye.
__.... _

The prisoner called a witness who was of no bene-
fit to him.

et Mr. Tyrwhitt said he believed the prisoner had
assaulted the complainant as she stated, and he
could see a motive for it, she having been the cause
of his being fined for an assault. As the prisoner
had been fined for an assault, he was still in the
same mind ; he would send him to prison for a
month with hard labour. It was no use in such a
caes inflicting a fine, as a subscription would be got
up to pay it.
The prisoner, who is a member of a family noto-
rious for their quarrelling propensities, was then re-
moved from the court.
A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION—CRUELTY TO A
HORSE.—Francis Matthews, a carman, living at
Tuf ton-street, Westminster, was charged before
Mr. Tyrwhitt, by the Royal Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals, with cruelty to a
horse, by working it while in a totally unfit state.
Inspector Temperley, of the Royal Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, saw the de-
fendant driVing a horse which was trying to draw
a load of rubbish in Burlington-gardens, but it was
unable to do so, it being dead lame of the off fore
leg, and having both its hind legs diseased. The
horse was poor, old, and quite unfit for work, and
its near hind leg appeared to be paralysed. The
defendant said his master had taken away a good
horse he had been driving and gave him one in its
place.
The defendant said in his opinion there was
nothing the matter with the horse—it only had a
contracted foot and stoo# a little over.

Barns, the gaoler, said the horse could scarcely
walk.

Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the defendant on his
own recognisance, and ordered Inspector Ternperley
to take out a summons against the owner of the
horse.

THIRD EDITION,