The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-14 00:00:00

VERDICT :

"That the said Thomas Dryden, George Dryden,
Hobert Dryden, and James Dryden, and Edward Ni-
cholson, together with ninety persons, being employed
in working in the Haswell Colliery, were therein and
then accidentally burnt, scorched, and killed, by an ex-
plosion of fire-damp, and we further say that no blame
is attributable to any one connected with the pit. and
we also further say that the said Thomas Dryden,
George Dryden, Robert Dryden, and James Dryden,
and Edward Nicholson, came to their death by accident,
and so say we all"
The verdict was then recorded by the Coroner, after
which the jury were immediately discharged.
Thus terminated the long and painful inquiry con-
nected with this melancholy occurrence—an occurrence,
which, considering the awful amount of life that has
been sacrificed, has seldom been equalled.
A subscription has been set on foot for the benefit of
the relatives of the sufferers, which already approaches-
to near 2,0001. The owners of the Haswell Colliery have
contributed the munificent sum of 7451.

ORLEANS AND BORDEAUX
RAILWAY.

The main features of this undertaking are as
fbllows :

The present proposal of the Company embraces the
whole distance from Orleans to Bordeaux, 295 miles,
passing by the populous cities and towns of Blois,
Amboise, Tours, Chatelleroult, Poictiers, Angouleme,
and Labourne, to Bordeaux.
The works to be executed, at the cost of the State,
on the portion between Orleans and Tours, are already
so far advanced, that in the hands of this Company,
that important extension of the Paris and Orleans
Railway could be opened to the public in the snmmer
of 1845, with an expenditure of not more than 51. per
share on the whole capital.
The Company is re-constituted for this purpose.
The statutes Of the Paris and Rouen and the Rouen
and Havre Companies have been adopted, so far as
they are applicable to this Company.
The Minister of Public Works, in the name of the.
State, engages to pay for the land, and compensation
to landowners • to execute the earthwork, masonry,
stations, workshops, police stations, and buildings of
every description ;—in short, to make the line, and
its dependencies, up to formation level, be the cost
what it may ; to maintain the earthwork for one year,
the masonry for two years, and-the buildings for five
years, after delivery to the Company.
The Company have only to provide, lay, and ballast
the permanent way, fence off the railway, supply the
locomotive and carrying stock, work the line, and
maintain it during the term of their lease. To these
alone their liability extends.
The State is to participate equally in the nett profits
of the Company, after 10 per cent. to the shareholders
upon the capital expended, namely, 9 per cent. divi-
dend, and 1 per cent. sinking fund.
The right of the State so to participate in the nett
profits does not arise until after the first five years of
the opening of the line throughout to Bordeaux.
This will give to the Company about twelve years
of undivided enjoyment of the nett profits of the sec-
tion between Orleans and Tours.

The Company are required to surrender the per-
manent way and its dependencies, at the expiration
of the term, without compensation, but are to be pail!
the actual value of their carrying stock, materials,
and stores, either by the Government or the new
lessees, within three months after the term of theit
leas-e shall have expired.—Railway Chronicle.

'THEATRE .ROYAL DRITRY-LANE.—Albert's success-
ful ballet of The Corsair, in which that celebrated cian..
seuse, Mademoiselle Adele Dumilatre, has created such a
sensation, is nightly increasing in popularity ; yet, in IS
determination to give as much novelty as possible, the
lessee has announced his intention of producing the last
opera •by Auber, called The Si/rot, on Thursday next,
The music is extremely beautiful, and will be supported
by Harrison, King, Stretton, Borraui, Weiss, and Miss
Rainforth ; a host of talent, which must insure its com-
plete success. In the course of the last week the follow-
ing distinguished persons have visited this theatre
Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Duke of Devonshire,
Marchioness of Conyngham, Earl and Countess of Ches-
terfield, Earl and Countess of Tankerville, Baron awl
Baroness Gersdorff, Countess.of Pollington, Earl of Car-
digan, Earl of Munster, Earl Fitzhardinge, Marquis of
Worcester, Marquis of Douro ; the Ladies Somerset,
Wellesley, E. Bruce, S. Cocks, Campbell, Ross, Turner ;
.Loeds Gardiner, Crans toun,Can telupe,Duncannon, Dover,
Rosslyn, Canning, Alfred Paget, Duplin, Ross, Seaham,
Clinton, Dufferin, Shelburne ; Sir Charles liakerley,
Bart. ; Sir W. Massey Stanley, Bart. ; Sir Jacob Astley,
Bart. ; Sir John Burgoyne, Bart. ; Sir Fred. Bathurst,
Bart. ; Sir Charles Ibbotson; Bart. ; Sir J. Lister Kay,
Bart. ; Sir Henry Webbe, Bart. ; Sir W. Curtis, Bart. ;
Sir Walter Blunt, Bart. ; Sir Richard King, Bart. ; Sir
E. P. Turner, Bart. ; Sir Henry Mildmay, Bart. ; S:r
Henry Webster, Sir John Canipbell, Sir John Rennie,
Sir Henry Wheatley, Hon. Mrs. Norton, Hon. Sydney)
Herbert, Hon. Mr. Curson, Col. M'Douall, Hon. W.
Ashley, Captain Balfour, Captain de Saumarez, Captain
Ridley ; Charles Standish, Esq., M.P. ; T. S. Duncombe,
Esq., M.P. ; Captain Curzon, and:Captain Blayne.
Sir George Itayter arrived in London from the
Continent on Tuesday morning, having passed the last
three weeks at Treport with his daughters and grand-
children. The melancholy news of the sudden death of
Lady Ilayter, at Brighton, on Sunday last, from the
effect of a paralytic attack, was the cause of his sudden
return to England. '

A - Nswv COLONY.—The magistrates of Herne
Bay intend opening an " Emigration Office" in Lon-
don. They offer as a bonus an empty house rent-
free, to any emigrant who will come and live there.—.
Punch. '

A KINDRED PEELING.—At a meeting of the
Pennsylvanian Repudiators, the following resolution was
put amongst loud cheers: —" Resolved, that the freedom
of the State be presented to Michael Gibbs, Esq., the
Lord Mayor of London, in a handsome money-box, as
token of heartfelt admiration of his conduct as church.
warden, for twenty-one years, of the parish of Si.
Stephen, WalbrOok. ' Carried unanimously.—Punch.
THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT SOUTH SHIELDS.
—The inquest on the body of John Brown, one "of the
persons killed by the collision, concluded on Wednesday
night. The jury found that John Brown had come to
his death by the collision, and levied a deodand of 3001.
on the locomotive which was " the moving cause of Ids
death." They also strongly expressed their disapproba-
tion of the practice which had prevailed of sending im-
portant messages by one inferior servant to another, and
be given to him by a third, and stated that the business
of the railway had been conducted in a very negligent
manner. It is already reported that the Company intend
to remove the inquisition into the Court of Queen's Bench,
with the view of quashing it, on the ground of informality.
We can state now, from unquestionable authority.,
that it has been decided by Government that the port of
Weymouth is to form one of the harbours of refuge
about to be established in the Channel,
the eastern part of
water will be built extending_ from
the Island of Portland to a length sufficient tom mercantile.
as protection for the shipping interest,
. as well
and that a:break.
we hear, be
as naval. This national undertaking
position
being about thL, centre in
Channel, will be a most efficient harbour of refuge
on a grand scale, and
btheetweeu the two large naval depots of Plymouth and
Portsmouth. It proprietors of the Great
Western
avairthemselves of this
' favourable circumstance for laying do a line from
Railroad
sWill expected
promptly
Bristol and 13iitb, through the most advantageous and
convenient track of country to Weymouth, as no doubt
thin latter port, from its peculiar apt locality, and becum.
lag a general depot for whipping, will be hereafter the
chief entrepot and link for commercial connection and
transition, through the medium of the Channel Islands,
from the midland counties of England
to the Continent.
—Sherborne Journal

ELATE MALICIOUS OUTRAGE IN LIMERICK.--Mr.
Robert Wheeler and Mr. Francis Egan, the shippers,
have already served notice for compensation, for mali-
cious injury to the cargo of. the Rapid, which was bored
at, our quays-Mr. Wheeler for 1201., Mr. Egan, 60/.
Other corn merchants have served similar notices on the
Clerk Of the Peace for the city. The evidence against
man named Liddane is very strong, but circumstantial!
He has been admitted to bail.—Pilot.

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INCENDIARiSM.—A fire broke out, on Saturday
on the farm occupied by Miss Fyson, at Exninir, about a,
mile and a half from Newmarket, which °
in a short time
destroyed a barn full of wheat, all the out-buildings and
stacks, four horses,- several pigs, and some poultry. Lord
Tligrloe's
.private engine (kept and horsed by his Lord:,
ship for' the use of his neighbours) and three othera
were rendered useless by the want of water.