Star.
London, England, 1816-06-14 00:00:00

VENTILATION BF COAL MINI.

SiI'ORZING INA 2LLIGENCR.

ASCOT 'HEATH RACES, THURSDAY, JUNE 1s:
THIRD DAT. :-

The Renewed Sweepstakes of togs. each for the yeses 1416 and
7817, for 3 yr sild colts, ttst. 71b. and fillies sit. 21b. the new
mile. The winner of the Derby and Oaks to carry 71b. extra.
Lord Foley'of by Sir David. out of Dowager - 1
Lord Lowther's Landscape, sister t Raphael, (71h. extra) 2
Mr. Blake's 'Expectation . SI
Mr. Wyndham's cL e. by Election . 4
Five and 6 to 4 on Landscape, sto 2 and 3 to 3 agst Dowager
lilly, 5 to 1 agat Election colt, 7 to, 1 agst Expectation.
The Gold Cup, value One Hundred Guineas, the surplus Of any)
to be paid to the winner in specie; a Subscription of POP.
each, if seven subscribers or more, the second horse to receive
back his stake. 1 lireeir•olds 6st. 101 b. four est. 21b. five
sq. telb. six and aged, 9st. 311). Mares allowed 31b. Two
miles and a half.
Mr.Thornhill's Anticipation, 4 yis old • 1
H. R. H. the Duke of York's Aladdin, 6 yrs old 2
Doke of Rulland's Fandango, 4 yrs old • 3
Lord Lowther names Caper, 4 yrs old • 4
Mr. Wyndhass.'s Wanderer . • 6
Mr. Blake's . .4sectation, 3 yrs old - 6
Six and 7 to 4 apt Wanderer, 3 to I agst Aladdin. S and 4 to
,1 agst Fandiege, 5 to I apt Caper, 10 to 1 apt Anddpation.
A Plate of £.lO for all ages, three yrs old 7st. four fist. 51b. five
98f. biX and aged, Pit. 51b.; mares allowed Sib. The winner
• of one Plato or Sweepstakes (Handicaps excepted) to carry
Sib, extra. • Heats, one mile and a half.
Mr..l. Perrin's Gans 4 yrs old - •
Mr. Pearce's br. rat. Lioness, 4 yn old •
Ten to 1 on Garin.
CURRAGH MEETING, JUNE 10.

1 1
2 dr

This day the Kirwan Stakes of 30 guineas were run for;
twelve horars started, and but three were placed. The race was
won by Mr. Ward's b c. by Goodall; a very sharp match against
hit. Roger, who lost it by scarcely a length; Governer threw his
rider, but ran out the heat without him, and came In first.
.weeps akes, SO guineas. red post.—Mr. Prendergast's f.
Rosetta, beat Mr. Caldwek's cb. f. Glenty.

Cniatvr.—The Grand County Cricket Match.—
The Mary-la-Bonne Club, with LAMBERT against
Hampshire, was decided in LORD% Ground, on
Wednesday, in favour of the Mar pia-Bonne Club.

• Y•NTS. MA 1tT•L4•110,2 11111.CLUS•
Ist Ins ....... 69 Ist Ins ....... ........ 921
Yd Ins lBO 4d Ins 69
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279 _ I

The Club won by 10 wickets.—Betts at starting, 5 to 4 in
faeour of =the Club, it then came 7 to 1 against Hants, after-
wards 4 to 1 against Hants. ,

Yesterday the anniversary assemblage of the Cha-
rity Children, educated in the several Parish Schools
within the metropolis and its suburbs, took place in
St. Paul's Cathe Oral. The LORD MAYOR and She.
tiffs, in their stare carriages, the RECORDER, and ten
Aldermen and their Ladies, &c. went in grand pro-
cession. The Church was extremely crowded, and a
most excellent bcrmon was preached by the very Re-
verend the Dean of CHESTER. 44 Te Deans Jnoilate
Deo," the Co:. nation Anthem, Handel's Grand
Chorus, " Hallelujah for the LORD G"D," &C. wese
sung by ..he Gentlemen of the Choir, who also chum-
ted the Ps.il,ns, the children joining in the chornsses.
The children also sung the 100th, 104th, and 113th
Psalms in admirable style, and a hymn. The
whole was executed in a manner that reflected the
bi,hest credit on the conductors. Among the cam-
• pany present were the Duke and Duchess of Cum.
• 3IWLAND.

ACCOUNT OF THE RECEPTION OF THE DUCHESS Da
Bzaiu.—Her Royal Highness entered ltilalseilles on
Thursday, th: 30th C*f May, at nine o'clock in the
morning. The regulations requiring that she should
enter that place by water, her Royat Highness em.
barked in a boat of the Royal Marines, which con-
ducted her to the Hotel de Ville. The boat was es-
corted by 120 men of the National Guard, and SO
Grenadiers of the Legion of the Mouths of the Rhone,
with a lg. •Her Royal Highness had besides a de-
tachment of the Sicilian Guards, to the Hotel de
Ville. The ceremony or the delivery of her person
to the French Authorities took place at the Hotel de
Ville. which was considered a neutral place. Only
the principal Functionaries, General Officers, mid
other persons of consideration, who had received
tickets from the Master of the Ceremonies of France,
sod Deane)); his seal, were admitted. 4 discharge
from 36 pieces of cannon announced the moment
when her Royal Highness was resigned by the Pt ince
4e San Nicandro, Commissioner of his Majesty the
King of the Two Sicil;es, to the Duke d'Havre, Am-
bassa.l'r of France. Her Royal Highness afterwards
went to die Church of S:. Martin ; her carriage, ac-
cording to the etiquette of the ceremony, being drawn
by two horses only. On the sides of her Royal High-
ness sat the Duchess de Reggio, Lady of Honour,
and the C. iuntess de la Ferronnays, Maid of Honour.
Her Royal Highness returned in the same order to
her Palace. Thirty young females, invited by the
Mayor, complimented her Royal Highness by pre-
senting her flowers. In the evening the city was il-
iurninated. Her Royal Highness left for Toulon on
Friday, May 31, at seven o'clock in the morning,
escorted by the National Guard and the Royal Gen-
darmerie, and a:tended by the Members of the Muni-
cipal Council, part of the way. She received the
compliments of the Constituted Authorities and the
inhabitants of Toulon, on the evening of the Sel of
June, and left that port next morning with a salute of
$6 "pieces of cannon. Ntedu"g could he more touch-
hag than the moment when her Royal Highness took
the pen :o sign the act of delivery of her person. Her
eyes were filled with tears ; she raised them to
HEAVEN, and a s :ft melancholy appeared in every
feature. She sighed, and her physiognomy regained
its serenity l However there still ref gained a
trying sap., anon to go through ; she was deeply af-
elected in parting with the Neapolitan Ladies who
bad accompanied her. She addressed them most
tendesi), end her eyes were again suffused with tears
of the m. se interesting sensibility.
Thi. is the age of real and useful discovery.—ln no
branch is it more displayed than in the treatment of
that destructive disease which is the bane of youth
and sensual enjoyment. To such success is the prac-
tice (in the w IA forms of it,) now brought at that
respectable institution, the Lock and Surgical Dis-
pensary, under the direction of Mr. KIERNAN, of the
Royal College of Surgeons, London, Lower Char-
lotte-street, kledlord squ tie, that upwards of one bun..
dred cases cf Stricture, besides Debility and other
Affections of the Generative Oigans were radically
cured by the last report of the institution. An impor.
• taut mechanic l improvement has luta made by the
expetieuced Surgeon of the Institution, which renders
the cure of ()Wimp Stticiare particularly suoceasful
and speedy. •

A new sera is about to commence in tie system of
working Coal Mines, which has cued prospect of
rendering that hitherto-dangerous operation perfectly
harmless in future, and many valuable lives will of
coarse be saved to the community.
I Our Readers, doubtless, recollect the melancholy
accidents at Felling, Hebburn, Newbottle, and other
Collieries, within these few years, by which thou-
sinds lost their lives. The details of these fatal and
extensive calamities could not possibly be concealed
front the public view: it is a lamentable fact, how-
ever, that hundreds of unfortunate individuals have
been annually suffocated or burnt to death in our
Coal Mines, without any notice being taken in the
Public Journals; and ie some counties, so common
is the occurrence, that not even a Coroner's Jury is
held upon the bodies of the sufferers I
We rejoice to have it in our power to announce,
that a highly meritorious and humape individual has
succeeded, by a hippy combination of well-known
philosophical principles; in removing this source of
affliction to the feeling mind. Mr. JAMES Retie, an
eminent Mining Engineer, at the late distribution of
prizes by the Society of rts, had the honour to re-
ceive a reward of one hundred guineas (being the
highest ever given by the Society), besides the gold
MOdill, as the discoverer of a new system of ven-
tilation. His process is extremely simple, and its
principles are so strictly in unison with the laws of
chemical and mathematical science, as to carry con-
viction, at the first view, to the plainest as well as to
the most cultivated understanding. Almost every
Coal Mine, as our Readers perhaps know, contains
a contaminated and highly explosive atmosphere: the
most prevalent part of this atmosphere consists of the
inflammable substance called hydrogen gas, now
used for the purposes of illumination. This gas,
when mixed with common air, in the proportion of
from l•sixth to l•fourteenth, cannot be approached
with a light, without inflaming and dealing death
and destruction to all around ; and its accumulation
has occasioned some of the richest Mines of Coal in
Great Britain to be shut up.
The mode of ventilation now in use merely consists
in bringing a current of fresh air down one pit or shaft,
and after visiting every cranny of the Mine, (by
means of boarding up the passages, at great expense,
so as to form a kind of labyrinth), this current of air
is made to pass up another pit or haft at the opposite
extremity of the Mine, mixing with and partially
sweeping the deleterious gas before it. On this
system, as our Readers will perceive, no provision is
made for a fain the roof of the Mine, an accident
which always interrupts the current of air, and ex-
poses to suffocation and death all who are working
beyond the ruins thus thrown down; nor is it possible
on the same system to guard against the fatal effects
of breaking into an old Mine, or other receptacle of
accumulated gas, an accident of frequent occurrence,
and by which many of the dreadful calamities above
alluded to were occasioned.
Mr. • RYAN'S method of ventilation obviates all
these dangers, and carries off every particle of the
hydrogetegas the instant it is liberated from the coal.
His first operation is to insulate the whole !Aloe, or
field, as it is technically called, by cutting round it a
course or passage. This is what he calls his gas
course ; and it is always made of a size sufficient to
carry off all the gas which would otherwise accumu-
late in the Mine. Within the body of the Mine itself,
holes are cut of different diameters, entering into this
gas course from the higher parts or roof of the Mine.
Between this gas course and the lower part of the
(wan shaft of the Mine, a communication is made,
and the gas by its levity naturally ascends. Heat,
however, is occasionally applied at the lower part of
this shaft to accelerate the exit of the gas. Our phi-
losophical Readers must be aware that no Mine
whatever can produce the quantity of hydrogen
which a gas course on this principle is capable of dis-
charging. In fad, on the old system of ventilating
by the labyrinth process, the atmospheric air remains
at least twenty hours in a Mine of common dimen-
sions, during which it traverses a space of forty miles,
and becomes every second more and more impreg.
nated with hydrogen gas, and consequently increasing
the danger throughout its whole passage through the
workings of the Mine. On Mr. RYAN's system, the
inflammable gas, as fast as it flows from the work.'
ings, takes the nearest course to the upper gallery or
reservoir for gas, whence it finds its way by the
shortest course to the upcast shaft, through which it
passes into the open air.
Mr. RYAN has introduced his valuable discovery
with the happiest results into some of the most de-
oructive and fiery Coal Mines of Staffordshire and
Worcestershire, and has obtained certificates of the
most flattering description from numerous respectable
and humane muse-owners. In some Mines in Wor-
cestershire, for instance, where daily explosions take
place, and where none but the most desperate cha-
racters could be obtained as workmen, all alarm has
subsided. Since the introduction of his system, the
price of labour has fallen, and hundreds of valuable
lives have been saved to the community.
We cannot, in short, pronounce a better eulogium
on the author of this valuable discovery than by pre-
senting our Readers with the short but eloquent ad-
dress of the Royal and Illusttions President of the
Society of Arts, when delivering the premiums
in
dividual.:
64 by the Society to this meritorious
64 Mr. Rein," said the Duke of Sussex, so in rising
to present you with the rewards so justly voted you'
by the Society, they wish it to be understood, that
they do not intend these rewards as any remuneration
for your valuable discovery s for such remuneration
you are to look to yourself—l Mean, to the feelings
of your own mind. But to mark their sense of yoor
merits, the Sudety have voted you the highest pre.
miton ever given by them ; and when I reflect on the
personal risks and dangers you have run in bringing
this invention to its present state—an invention which
his already saved more time than are nowhere present,
and which promises to render the most lasting services
not only to this, but to every country that may adopt
it, I feel an increased source of satifactioo in being
the organ of We Society on the occasion." •
It may perhaps redound still further to Me. RYAN's
=edit, to state, that no fewer than ten meetings of the
Committee of the Society thoroughly investigated
his plans and models previous to the final vote of the
Society, so that every opportunity wis afforded for
that ample and WO *WOW of his-Offip which
they received,.

- INASIFSBUIer, SUNS T.

Compjaints of the adverse situation of the landed
interest have been echoed through the country—cer-
tainly not without justice, and we may add, not
-without good effects, while the distress of the mano.l
factoring and trading classes has scarcely been mur-
' mitred forth or mentioned ; or if mentioned, only to
be considered as a consequence of the poverty of the
farmers, and claiming only secondary consideration
with regard to the necessity of relief.—Scarcely,
however, is there any manufacture or trade (whether
dependent on its home or its foreign customers) in
which there are not numerous workmen out of em-
ploy and if we de begin at home," there is none
which has so urgent a claim on our compassion as the
Iron Trade.—At Ketley, Madeley, and other parts
of the county, many Smelting Furnaces have been
extinguished and the workmen turned adrift, which,
of course, has occasioned Forgeries and Collieries to
stop also. In this county, and the adjoining one of
Stafford, forty-three Furnaces have stopped working,
each of which employed from 200 to 260 men ; or,
including forgemen, it may be said that each concern
gave labour to at least 800 men—so that not less than
twelve thousand—many with destitute families, have
been dismissed, to wander in search of subsistence.

Wednesday se'nnight, the Comet, for New York,
sailed from Hull with upwards of 80 passengers for
that country ; many of them small farmers, .or la.
bourers in husbandry, who expect to better their con-
dition by the removal.
As Mr. R. Lee, of North Shields, was a few days
since endeavouring to save two children tr..m being
run over by a waggon, he fell under it himself, and
was killed on the spot.
A young man, son of Mr. Deans, baker, Broughty
Ferry, was killed on Friday se'nnight, by a cart
wheel passing over his body.
Monday se'onight a child was killed in Strathaven,
by the falling in of the bank of a sand pit, in which it
was diverting itself.
Wednesday evening, as the Mercury, a new Lon-
doa coach, was driving down the High-street, Rams.
gate, at a furious rate, just a-head of the Wellington,
another coach, to which it is opposed, a little boy
belonging to a tradesman in the town, was knocked
down by some of the splinter bars, when one of the
hind wheels passed over a leg of the poor child.
and smashed the limb all to pieces, so that it is feared
amputation must take place. We cannot but consi-
der the system of driving through towns in this neck
or nothing sort of style to be a most unpardonable
offence, and sincerely hope the Bill which the kr-
TORNRY-GENERAL is so laudably bringing into Parlia-
ment for the better regulating s f Stage Co.iches, will
prove a salutary check to suck a scandalous mode
of driving.—Another sad occurrence happened at
Ramsgate but a very short time before the above
—A child belonging to a fisherman in that place was
gathering flowns near the edge of the West Cliff,
and had the misfortune to fall over, (a height of
nearly 60 feet) by which dreadful accident the poor
child had both its legs broke, and was otherwise
much bruised, so much so, that k is expected the'
little sufferer cannot survive.

Inermiess.—During the last week we have had
daily awful warnings and admonitions of the preca-
rious tenure of human life. A very piomising young
malt, William Robertson, in crossing the river Conon,
on horseback, was unfortunately drowned on the 28th
ult. At Milntown, New Tarbat, a young man sit-
dog on the fore part of his cart, fell down and one
of the wheels passing over his body, he died without
a groan. At Obriachan, a woman, while leading
her cow to grass, dropped down dead. In this town, a
'labouring man, when on his way to his work, returned
home sick, and died in a few hours. A young and
respectable tradesman, after working as usual during
the day, on going home, fell sick, and died next
morning.
About a fortnight ago, a fox's hole was discovered
in one of the plantation's upon the estate of Fasque,
the property of Sir Alexander Ramsay,Bart. in which
was dug out six young foxes. The young ones %ere
all brought to the dog kennels at Fasque, about a
mile tram the place of their former abode, and fas-
tened with chams to prevent their escape. On the
second day after they were caught, the she fox, from
natural instinct, traced out their new abode; and her
maternal care for her young prompted her to venture
within the kennel, and suckle the young; but, on re-
newing her visit a second time, for the same affec-
tionate purpose, one of the servants shot the animal
dead upon the spot !
The usual scene of mirth commenced on Tichborne
Down, near Alresford, on Wednesday se'nnight,
where a commodious May-house, decorated with
wreaths and garlands of flowers, was erected for the
purpose of a dance. The Down was honoured by
the presence of many of the first families in the neigh-
bourhood, and upwards of 90 couple kept up the
festive dance till a late hour. The company was not
so great the first day on account of the unfavourable
state of the weather, but on Thursday se'nnight there
was a more numerous and elegant assemblage.—
Dancing was kept up with great spirit till a late hour.
Flue.—Friday, the 24th ult. an accidental fire took
place at Abergeldie House, the seat of P. GORDON,
Esq. by which the principal part of •that truly hospi.
table mansion was unfortunately burned to the ground.
The fire, we understand, took place in the house.
keeper's room, and from thence communicating to the
root, had attained considerable strength before it was
discovered, so that all efforts made to save the lower
part of the house proved ineffectual ; and the only
part of the building that. remains is the Tower or
Carafe, containing the dining-room, library, &c. The
house and furniture were partially insured ; and of the
latter but a very triflingiortion has been saved.
H ATTON• G A assn.— roaosey.---Yesterda y Robert
Towneend was examined on a charge of forging, and
uttering as true, a promissory note for the sum of
£725, payable to himself, and purporting to be the
handwriting of Mr. Fortunatus Crisp, of Yarmouth,
in the county of Norfolk. The facts of the case were
published in our King's Bench report yesterday.—
' He was fully committed for trial.
Fitcurusso—This morning Phi* Street, for bur-
glariously entering the stables of the Earl of Rose.
berry and others, was eaectsted before the Debtors'
Door, in the Old Bailey.
' A respite fair a week was received at Newgate, at a
late hour last night for J. Blunder, the youth who was
to ;love suffered thii mornin for a highway robbery.