Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1848-11-24
VOLUME XLV.-NUMBER 50.

land are rather higher lamauIs Bills ale ;
t'ifs lower han yesterday. The Paris Bouy>,
Is The same
Letters received yesterday from some OF III
leading firms in Paris manifest considerable in
crease Of dstrust and desire 10 restrict, as IA
as possible, even their present limited lfansac
lions. The present state OF affairs causes incleas
sed difficulty in finding employment Tor money
dis counting being now as low as rom 10 II pc
cent.
The North, South and Great Western Rail
ways are amalsamated.
WHITsHAvEs, Tuesday, Midniehi.-DREaD.
ruL ExPLosioN.-THIRTY PERSON. KiLLgD-The
whole number al hands engaged in the Whin-
ny-hil Phi, leased by The Hefmalie Mining
Company, have been killed OF these men II
were malred, and leave behind them each a
widow, and, in the whole, So children; while Is
three being LADS Of the tender age Of IL aud Is,
were unmarried The mine AT which The acct
dent occurred is about three miles from this
town, and within the Lordship OF Egremonl.
The accident took place between 6 and 7
o'clock in The morning. The number employed
in the pit was 81, only one Of whom escaped
the furnace man. stationed in the shaft, having
also succeeded in saving his own life.
The explosion took place from some workmen
taking off the 'op of their Dayy lamps 10 light
their pipes, which fired tie inhanpable air OF
The pr; and out II 80 persons engaged in the
works, one man only, named Bradley, engaged
in the funniest working from the SHAFT succeeded
in escaping with life.
GLASGOW, Tuesday evening .-Yesterjay NOR
ming, shortly after seven o'clock, a most trighttul
catastrophe occurred in this city by he falling OF
The large sugar house belonging 10 Messrs Sam
uel Wilson e. Sons, sugar re6ners, situated al II
Aston street, by which from nineteen 10 twenty
men were suddenly buried in IFS ruins, fourteen OF
whom appear TO be killed, and five are more or
less seriously injured.
THE CHOLERA-A London letter OF Bird
November, in the New York Commercial Ad-
verliser says
The general health OF London for The past two
or three weeks has been above the average but
the cholera remains with US, and although the
cases ale not numerous, The propoItiona,e mortal
lily is large Up 10 The present time II has been
worse al Edngburgh than elsewhere, The official
reports, from its commencement on The 4th up 10
The 80 h Of Oct showing 275 cases, l64 deaths,
46 recoveries and 68 remaining.
Among The multiarious remedies employed,
chloroform has just been tested BY one London
practitioner who reports having used il in IL ca
ses, in 0 OF which il was attended by perfect sue
cess while as regards The remaining two, which
proved fatal, the choroorm was not resoried TO
until The patients were Doth sinking. The sufe-
rer is kept under the influence by inhalation as
long as The bad symptoms occur. In some in
stances he will sleep for twenty minutes or half
an hour, in others Tor several hours, and on awaK.
ing will again be seized. One OF the cases re-
CURED The use OF The chloIotorm al intervals lor
lwehty.four hours. Although, however, these
trials OF choroform seem Satisfactory and hofe-
ful, il will no, do TO be very sansuine regarding
Them Innnmpra HE other remedies on their first
trial in this disorder have been reported upon as
equally successful, and in The course OF shor
time have been found as int ttcenl asthose which
they were 10 dispace. Indeed this extensive and
reInar kable success, which mol only in cholera
but in all other disorders is SO frequently found
TO attend the first administration OF newly disco
vered remedies, is a curious point, worthy OF in
vesliealion. Perhaps the arior and confidence
OF The physician communicate themselves 10 the
patient and the cure is thus then in some degree
a mesmeric one.