Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1862-05-09 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

WOO. It is not stated what proportion were season ticket holders, and what paid, but the total presents a very satisfactory result, and is a good augury for the future,  A most extensive and daring robbery was perpetrated at Genoa on Thursday. Armed with pistols and daggers, a band of six thieves entered the office of one of the principal bankers of that city, garotted the officials, and carried away 850,000 francs (£34,000). The police are said to be on the track of the robbers.  In examining the details of the tables of imports for the first three mouths of the year we naturally turn with painful anxiety to the returns relating to cotton, from the want of which so many of our countrymen are suffering extreme hardships In this period last year 2,788,025 cwts. of raw cotton reached our ports; but this year only 574,138 cwts. have been received, a falling off of four-fifths of the ordinary supply. In the American import the diminution is from 2,606,496 cwts to 6,276 cwts.  , An accident of a melancholy character occurred a day or two ago at Langthorpe Hall, I lolderness, near Hull, the residence of Mr Thomas Braudharn. It appears this gentleman was Out Shooting rabbits, and while in the act of charging one of the barrels, the other barrel of the gun by some means or other exploded, and the contents entered his stomach, inflicting such severe injuries that he lingered only about an hour. The deceased was in his fifty-third year, and was greatly respected in the neighbourhood. The coroner's inquest returned a verdict of "Accidental death."  The miners of Northumberland and Durham have resolved to petition the legislature to take such proceedings as shall render the workers in the northern coal mines less liable to casualties. They ask first, that it shall be compulsory on coal owners to sink two shafts to each mine; second that the number of iuspectors shall be increased; and, third, that measures shall be taken to secure the better ventilation of mines Our report from Newcastle-on-Tyne says that the New Hartley Mine will be re-opened. A new company will sink a new shaft, and commence to rework the coal in the pit.  In 1847 cattle were so cheap in Australia that they were boiled down for their tallow. In 1850 gold was discovered, and the population so increased, and the rearing of cattle so diminished, that the butchers purchased all the cattle that were reared. It appears, however, that the number of cattle is again so increased at the present time that they almost reached the boiling-down price. It is proposed, however, to cure large quantities of meat for shipping, and to sell it at such a price as to induce shipowners in Europe trading to Australia not to lay a stock of meat on board their ships for the round voyage, but to get supplied for the homeward voyage from the Australian ports. Captain Wilson, who, with the assistance of his cook and steward, so cleverly recovered his ship, the Emilie St. Pierre, from a federal prize crew, was, on Saturday, presented with it service of plate, and a gold chronometer, which had been subscribed for by a number of Liverpool merchants and others, who desired to mark their sense of the courage and tact which the daring seaman had evinced in overcoming two officers and thirteen men, belonging to the well-known Northern cruiser, the James Adger. He was also presented with a sextant on behalf of his own crew, who have been sent home from America; while the steward and cook each received a purse of 20 guineas. The Mercantile Marine Association has decided to have a gold medal struck for the captain and a silver medal for each of the two men. The owners of the Si. Emilie Pierre have made Captain Wilson a present of £2000; and it is stated that they also intend to provide handsomely for his two trusty companions, one of whom is an Irishman and the other a German.  A Prussian sailor was clever enough to make his escape from Newgate on Tuesday last. He was lying in prison awaiting his trial for robbing a countryman of his own, and his escape is said to have been accomplished in a very daring way. Ireland is now the continual scene of the most dreadful assassinations. Another man was shot dead on the highway in Tipperary, on Tuesday last, no motive being apparent beyond the simple fact of his having come into possession of a faim from which the previous tenant had been evicted.  Two foreign gentlemen attempted suicide in London, on Tuesday last. One of them, a Swede, was only too successful; he shot himself in one of the public thoroughfares of Chelsea, to the great terror of some ladies who were passing at the time. Another leaped out of the window of his lodgings, but life was not extinct, and he now lies, though in a dangerous state, in Charing•cross Hospital.