The Miner and Workman's Advocate. — 1865-01-07 (London, England)

LVDWORKMAN'S ADVOCATE.  LONDON. SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1865.  SUMMARY.  The captain and mate of a Russian vessel lying at Grimsby were suffocated in their beds by. the fumes of charcoal on Friday night. There was charcoal burning in a stove in their cabin, and the mate, before "turning in," put a cap over the funnel. In the morning both men were found to be dead. A most extraordinary system of robbery was discovered last week at Huddersfield. It appears that for some time past the manufacturers exhibiting their goods in the Cloth Hall of the borough have missed portions of their goods: andsso skilfully contrived was the theft that all efforts to detect the thief proved fruitless. A slight suson was at last excited against One of the exhibiting manufacturers ; and, this clue being cleverly and patiently followed up by a most ingenious contrivance, the suspected individual was detected with stolen goods in his possession. His father, father-in law, and a friend of his are all implicated in the charge. The case is still under investigation. A daring case of swindling is reported from Shrewsbury. A man, pretending to be a constable from Wales, procured the arrest, on a forged warrant, of a gentleman of property staying in the town, took from him—with the help of the Shrewsbury police—a gold watch and chain, with eleven sovereigns, which he pretended were stolen, and then decamped with the property. No trace of him has yet been detected. On Monday, a coroner's jury in Southwark,  examining into the circumstances attending: the death of a suicide, returned the now rare verdict of felo de se. It seemed the man had lost isome money, and, excited by the idea that he would have nothing to keep his Christmas with, he cut his throat. He was buried by torchlight at Woking Cemetery. Another death from paraffin oil has taken place. A little girl holding a penny paraffin lamp found that it became too hot for her. She dropped the lamp, the oil ignited and set fire to her clothes. It was with. great difficulty the flames could be extinguished, and the poor child received such severe injuries that she soon after died. Official accounts received at the Admiralty report the melancholy neis of the shipwreck of her Majesty's steamer Racehorse on the coast of China, when only nine persons, including the commander, were saved out of a crew of 108. From the despatches received it appears that the• vessel struck on a rock in comparatively calm weather; but that immediately after the 'accident the sea rose, the vessel was broken in pieces; and though the crew to the last calmly and steadily 'obeyed orders, the end was that only nixe reached the shore in safety. The fight between Wormald and Marsden for the championship, which was prevented by the police on Tuesday, took place on Wednesday at Henley. After battering each other for 37 minutes, and fighting 18 rounds, Wormald proved the victor. The recent cold weather has told severely on the health of aged people in London. The Registrar General's report raises the list of the deaths from 1523 of the previous week to 1697, the increase being mainly if not altogether among persons• above 60 Years of age, and bronchitis being the principal disease. The number of deaths is 177 above the estimated ten years' average. The births during the week were 1956, which is about 130 above the average. The Registrar of the London Coal Market has published the returns of the London Coal trade for the year 1864. They show that gradually the railroad is superseding water conveyance as the means of carrying coal to the metropolis. It appears that the progress of railway importations during the year 1864, as compared with the previous year, represents an increased tonnage of 567,791 tons, equal to 311 per cent.; -while with sea-borne importations there is a decrease of 1,473 ships, or 15'4 per cent., and of 218,471 tons, or 6.5 per cent. A fire broke out in the Hanover-street Mills at Preston on Saturday morning, just as the workpeople were about to commence work, which has had th% effect of throwing about 200 people out of employment. Although the hands were all on the premises, and the fire seems to have been discovered instantly, such was the combustible nature of the building that all efforts to extinguish it were unavailing, and the whole mills, with the valuable machinery, were destroyed. The destruction is heavily felt in the town, where work is so scarce, and it appeared the proprietors of these mills were working them full time.