The Express. — London, England, 1867-01-08 00:00:00

!.; „et 4.„ c I. R • ts'i - • ' - ts, .6767 , ;fr RECI . • ---- • • 44 4.: zSaddi It ) ~-..- -I. No. 6,373.] -I L.lll FROM LIVERPOOL OR OLTERESLOWN \KW YORK TWICY A WKM.K. THE LIVERPOOL, NEW YORK, and PHILADELPHIA STEAM-8111P COMPANY hatood .itching their full-powered Clyde-built Iron Screw Steam-Ships, mug the United States mail. FM's! LI 1' KK iL for NEW YORE: Try of' EW %I K Wednesday, Jan. 9. I Li %I ER It* satunlay, Jan. 12. ill% If misfit\ , ichicalm, Jan. 16. .Ind every Wednesday and Saturday. Calla passage by the mall steamers smiling eery Wednesday, 1% 17. and 21 guineas., acimniiim to the accommodation. 1• rw.ad rascage includes a full supply of cooked provisions. Maar:era for Canada and the (lilted States booked Wough on very aavantageous terms.—For further particulars apply to n 11.1.1.111 INMAN, 22, Water-street, Liverpool; and to kii%*KiS at.,! MACEY, 61. King Willlam-street. London. . _ It ENu- .%VRES STEIILINC BONDS ‘1 HR.% NTS falling due on the 12th of I,.•st .41 the pia per cot. Bnds. slot also on the Three • • WI. 111 .1 torr•ictit laaring 20-r cent. lnte• • I that ..r ony snrecedilin day Rowley and • .1 4,1 . 'storms. the hours of Id mind 2. at the count . -. I:A It I ItHlilli ,:Its and Co.. J. Ilishops6atc • is wise list, may. as usual. be obtained. 41*N11.11' EVENINGS for the PEOPLE, St. —.lauo.,ry 13, .1t ill S , Pre-Went of the Et looological Socioty, out the"l'ln at ol (h. Ine r+ of Man. - preceded and followed 11 Sa,:red oast,. l'onitnent cat 7. O UkIIN)RTERS, Shippers, Steam Shipping T Hompaillea, and Con/deflect of Foreign (Mods, by steamers nr otherwise into the Pot of London.—the pr.prietors of Free trade Wharf, Ratclilf, end Upper Free Trade %hart, Dow gate Hook. rpprr Themeastreet, OFFER FACILITILS to the a Further information may be obtained on application, by ii:ti r hi pers.., to R. 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For habitual costiveness, as a tangly sPrrieut medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly nrdlent ; mild in their operation and grateful to the stomach, L'lry create appetite, promote (Digestion, and strengthen the v!eile nervous system—Sold by W. Lambert, chemist, % roil .%intim-street, Charing-cross, and by most druggists, In is lid. and three times the quantity In one, 2s. Id. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious anti Liver MIL Tb. genuine are in a we green package, with William Lambert" engraved on the jUZEAr'S COPAHINE MEGE, the only French preparation adopted by the Paris Academy and 1 • I n college of Surgeons on the report of Mews. enHerter, .'^d. Lloyd, Poland aad Leyroa Clark ("lancet," Nov. 6, I . ! Is. ed., at G. JOZIAL"fI, h'ench amnia. 49, hese° receipt of 4s. 6d. I.'. I HENT AT DI IM:OT J 17NITION. —The goods of the Great Western Railway was delayed on • 4 .1. y morning at Didcot by en accident which occurred t' -rt .hiring the night. The engine of a narrow-gauge •h tr a in became disabled by the bursting of one of the I ,— , and a broad-gauge engine was attached to draw !.., or, hilt the two wo•Ild not work together, and the • , , :l.gaug e engine was thrown off the metals, blocking Hi.. Labourers were set to work as speedily as pos. i , • and under the direction of Mr. Resent, the district 1 :; - rintendent, the obstruction was removed without any 1' I-41 being injured. Th e hill', James Cm/afield, from Calcutta, bound 1.iv , ..rv001, is a total wreck at the Isle of Man. uI,II.NSARY FOR SKIN DISEASES, 56, GREAT 1' , .“. , H0t GM-STREET, RECENT-STREET, W.—One hundred , ughty-four patients were relieved at this dispensary ' 4 4 the week ending January 5. :ion, on% July tally miss and rSC3. tent ter- ky ▪ the • ot ll:Vf ▪ , • vfiir 1:441.• 4 the maid'. 11)0$1. .......... --- No 8. 4 w• ars.— TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (lEUTZII . 3 TELEG&III'J. ) ITALY. FLORENCE, JAN. 7. The Nazione of this evening says The Ita lian government has been accused of having failed in its engagements by not paying the over due interest on the obligations of the Cavour Canal Company. This accusation is based upon the sup position that the government has directly guaran teed the payment of the interest to the holders of the shares in question, which supposition is entirely erroneous, inasmuch AS the go vernment has contracted no other engagement towards the shareholders than that of paying them the interest and sinking fund out of the govern ment funds as soon as the sum promised as guarantee is properly due to the company. As, however, the guarantee only commences when the canal is in working order, and as this condition is as yet unfulfilled, the government is, up to the present, neither liable for the amount of the guarantee, nor, consequently, for the payment of the interest on the bonds." REDUCTIONS LN THE MILITARY BUDGET. FLORENCE, JAN. 7. The Minister of War has addressed a report to the King, proposing certain reductions in the mili tary expenditure, which will diminish the budget of the War Department for 1867 to about 140 million lire. THE EASTERN QUESTION. VIENNA, JAN. 7. The Evening Post (evening edition of the official Vienna Gmette) declares certain statements con tained in a recent article of the Mgmoria/ Digo tnativite to be false, and says:—" Austria has made no proposal to the signitary Powers of the treaty of Paris, but has only addressed a confidential despatch to the Austrian ambassador in Paris, in structing him to open the way for an exchange of views between the French and Austrian cabinets on the questions at issue in the East. The suppo sition that the despatch made reference to an in tention to provide against eventualities calculated to give one or other Power a one-aided advantage is unfounded." " The Austrian government," remarks the Evening Poet, in conclusion, " has by no means in view the partition of the Turkish empire, but rather the maintenance of the status quo, by the satisfaction of the just demands of the Turkish populations." THE CANDIAN INSURRECTION. (OFFICIAL.) CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. 5. To-day the whole of the isbad of Candia is again subject to the authority of the Sultan. There only remains to clear the island of a few foreign adven turers who have taken refuge in the mountains. THE NORTH GERMAN PARLIAMENT. BERLIN, JAx. 7, EVENING. A proclamation has been issued by the Minister of the Interior ordering the electoral lists for the North German Parliament to be drawn up by the lbth January, and the elections throughout the entire monarchy to take place on the 12th of Februari. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, JLN. 7. The public functionaries in the annexed pro vinces are not to be superseded. They will remain in office, and are shortly to take the oath of alle giance to the King of Prussia. " This," says the North German Gazette of this evening, "is a proof that the government is convinced that it can rely upon the continuance of a sufficiently tranquil spirit in those provinces." The same journal, in an apparently inspired article, compares the state of the electoral move ment in Prussia with the electioneering excitement which exists in the minor States in reference to the North German Parliament. It points out that the Parliament will have to determine the budget and the military constitution, and expresses a desire to see in Prussia the same general activity displayed in preparing for the elections. BERLIN, JAS. 7, EVENING. A deputation from the nobles of Schleswig-Hol stein waited upon the King to-day, when Herr Reventlow, spokesman of the deputation, addressed his Majesty as follows :—" We are happy and grateful to see our dearest interests entrusted into the hands of your Majesty, and we aro proud to belong to the renowned Prussian monarchy, and to participate in the blessings of the common fatherland." THE NEW FRENCH MINISTER AT WASHINGTON.— The Marquis de Menthelon, the retiring French Minister, and the newly accredited minister, M. Berthemy, were presented to the President by the Secretary of State at Washington on the 2.5 th ult. M. Berthemy made the following address to the Preeident :—" Mr. President,—l have the honour to place in your bands the letters which accredit me in the quality of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the Emperor of the French. In confiding to ins the mission to represent bim near you, my sovereign has specislly charged me to make known to you the value he attaches to the rela tions of friendship which exist between France and the United States of America; to maintain these relations; to draw them more closely, if possible, in view of the de velopments of interests common to the two countries, such will be the constant aim of my efforts, and I have firm hope to attain it, if, as I am in advance enured, the government and the people of the United States share in the sentiments of which I bring to this place sincere expressions." The following is the President's reply to M. Iterthemy :—" Sir,—Grateful affection towards the French nation is among the earliest, the moat profound, and the most enduring sentiments of the people and the government of the United States. We constantly try to believe that no interest of either country requires aliens- Cons or antagonism between them. While intimate com mercial interests tend to bind them together, as you have justly observed, they have at the same time a common interest in the advancement of civilization and humanity throughout the world. In expressing these feelings I am only repeating what has been uniformly said by the United States since they became sovereign. We have had much reason to be pleased with the conduct of your predeces sor, the Marquis de Montholon. Be assured, M. Bee thony, that no consideration or courtesy will be withheld which shall tend to make the performance of your duties agreeable and pleasant." A RAILWAY SWITCHMAN FROZEN TO DEATH. A night switchman named Warner, employed on the Great Western Railway at Reading, was on Friday night frozen in such a manner :bat his death resulted on Sunday. Warner hail been a porter at the company's station at Ox ford, and only recently removed to Reeding. He performed his duties as narrow gauge switchman during Thursday night, and proceeded home, but only Omit two or three hours on Friday, as he hail arranged to fetch his wife and family from Oxford on that day. This he did, and at night went on duty. In the morning be was found in a dread fully cold condition, and removed to one of the rooms at the station, where everything possible was done to relieve the poor man's sufferings, and he was removed to his borne. Mr. F. A. Finney, surgeon to the Great Western Railway Provident Society for the Reading district, attended Warner, and notwithstanding the careful treatment of the case, the patient expired on Sunday morning. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S-INN•ROAD.—The number of patients relieved at this hospital during the week ending Jan. 5 was 3,181, of which 992 were new oases. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1867. ROME. (FROM OCE SPECIAL CORRIESPONDEIT.) ROME, JAzi. 1. On the eve of the new year it is the custom of the Popes to proceed in state to the church of the I Jesuits, in order to assist at a Z. Deln, or solemn I thanksgiving for mercies received during the plat I year. In thus publicly preferring its claims to those of St. Peter'a or the Vatican, and in selecting this particular church fors° important a ceremony, it must be admitted that the Pope pays a graceful and well-deserved compliment to the genius of Loyola and his followers—the real workers in the Roman hive. For had not Ignatius Loyola ap peai'ul so opportunely upon the scene in that crucial sixteenth century, to infuse new life and vigour into the decayed system of the Roman church, and gain for it fresh lustre by extending its influence over the newly discovered Americas, it may surely be reasonably doubted whether the Roman catholic religion would ever have survived the blow dealt to it by Luther. To the ceremony of yesterday afternoon additional interest was lent by the fact of its having been the first occasion of an out-doer appearance of the Pope in state on which the duty of keeping the ground and maintaining public order devolved ex clusively upon troops iu the Roman service. When at length, after threading my way through the labyrinth of slimy-narrow streets which lie at the back of the Pantheon, I succeeded in gaining the open space in front of the Church of the Gesu, the head of a column of the Antibes Legion, with colours flying and baud playing, was in the act of debouching into the Piazza. But for the black stripe down the red trowsers, and the conspicuous white and yellow ensign, which looked strangely out of place waving over undisguised Frenchmen, there was nothing iu the appearance of the regi ment to let you know that it took its orders from the Pope and not from the Emperor. Hardly had these warriors, after shifting their position more than once, finally settled down into their places, when the Palatine Guard, approaching from the direction of the Vatican, appeared upon the scene, and, marching through the ranks of the Antibes Legionaries, disappeared into the church. Of the crowd which, as knowing people assure one, is packed into the Piazza for the occasion, the most conspicuous elements COD aist of Zouavea off duty, German axle siastical students in red habits, Italian Orfaui iu white ; English, Scotch, Irish, and Ame rican collegians, in black—it sounds odd to catch the familiar Yankee twang proceeding from under a broad-brimmed ecclesiastical hat, surmounting a black-stoled figure ; monks and priests of every de nom inationoind a liberal sprinkling of gendarmerie. It will, indeed, be hard upon the poor Pope if he does not get something like a hearty demonstration out of such promising material as this. Although dignified by the imposing name of "Piazza," the open space in front of the Gesu is but a miserable apology for a" Place;" such a one as the Emperor of the French—who if he applied his Paris principles here would have to clear away at least nine-tenths of Rome—would not tolerate for a moment. Of the Piazza, such as it is, the eastern side is entirely taken up by the Church and Convent of the Gem ; on the south stands the Palazzo Cenci-Bolognetti ; on the west, the Ufficio della Societa Pio-Ostiensis ; on the north the Palazzo Alfieri. All these buildings alike are dressed out for the occasion with red banners, protruding like very red tongues from each opened window, at which rare faces appear. One would have thought that the papal " whippers-in" might at any rate have made certain of getting the win dows filled ; but Ido not think that one in three was tenanted. On the balconies of the Palazzo Cenci-Bolognetti, amongst the English there may be descried more than one member of the late government, and many eyes are fixed on the some what worn, anxious-looking face of the most emi nent of English statesmen, who, with deep sym pathy for the Italian cause at his heart, looks as if he did not half relish the idea of being displayed to the gaze of the hasty-judging Romans by the aide of sleek monsignores in the ranks of the reactionary party. At a few minutes before 4 p.m., the hour ap pointed for its arrival, the vanguard of the Papal cortege, consisting of a couple of dragoons and a carriage conveying the Pope's sacristan, who on such occasions is sent on ahead with the pontifical vestments, made its appearance upon the scene. Next came the mounted " batti-stmda," whose duty it is to clear the way for the Pope, and make his paths straight. Immediately after him, fol lowed the Holy Father himself, with uplifted two fingers, dispensing his blessing to the faithful from the windows of his red profusely gilded state coach, which is drawn by six coal black studs, four in hand and two postilion-ridden. On the appear ance of the Holy Father, a considerable waving of white pocket-handkerchiefs ensued, and a mild kind of enthusiasm was displayed by the faithful; but the Roman nose is not, as a rule, indulged with a white pocket-handkerchief, so the inference is, that what little demonstration there was must have been more foreign than native, and conse quently not worth much as an indication of the will of the Roman people. After the Pope's coach followed the usual escort of Guardia Nobile ; then, the carriage conveying the monsignores in attend ance, the escort of Papal dragoons, and several carriages and broughams, conveying sinister look ing individuals in and out of uniform, amongst whom were probably the Minister of War, the Director of Police, and his attendant satellites. While the spectacle in the Church and Piazza di Gesu, where the main action of the drama of New Year's-eve was being played, was absorbing general attention, turning my back on the Papal ceremony, I made for the church of Ara Deli, the modern municipal cathedral, or, if one may so term it, parish church, which occupies the site of the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus, situate on the higher of the two horns of the Capitoline-hill—that wall or " scheidwand " separating ancient from modern Rome. A lofty Hight of I know not how many steps, but certainly more than a hundred, brings you in a state of breathlessness to the plat form in front of the church, which towers aloft over the city. At your feet is the Piazza di Ara Cteli, and apparently hardly more than a stone's throw beyond, the Piazza and Church of the Gesu. Here the Senator (it would be inaccurate to write the Senate), there the Pope, are respectively engaged at thanksgiving services. We have seen the Pope go in ; let us now have a little patience and wait till the Senator comes out. In the meantime let us throw a glance at the senatorial carriages, which are drawn up below in the Piazza di Campidoglio, which occupies the hollow between the two summits of the Capitol, the summit or horn towards the river being the world- renowned Tarpeian rock. On the panels 4,f the carriage you will find here, instead of the eternal cardinal's hat or Papal tiara an allegorical figure of Rome , and below the she-wolf and the sucking twins, worked in gold on the cloth hangings of the coachman's box, he who runs may read, so big and conspicuous are they, the four mystic letters S. P. Q. R., which are so dear to every true Roman. On nearer inspection, engraved all over i the harness, and wrought into the trappings, may be descried representations of the standard of an cient Rome—the eagle surmounting the spear and bundle of hay. At the fountain in the Piazza, by the side of which I am waiting, stands, drawing water, a little Roman maiden, in appearance not in the least romantic, yet about her singing—and about that only—there is that which distinguishes her remarkably from the slatternly street girl of Lon don life. As she trolled out merrily the words : Si Nona l'appello Si tooca la retirata, I turned my head round suddenly, and looked her full in the face. Frightened, as if she had never seen a stranger, or been caught singing before, the timid thing tilled her bucket as quickly as she could, and made off at once. But now trumpets bray out, and the procession of the Senator is advancing. As compared with that of the Pope it is a poor thing, and as such allowed to pass almost entirely unnoticed, even by the Roman people, which still persists in speaking of the municipal body as scunto sea. First comes the band of the " or tire brigade, as is signified by the tongue of flame and the axes on their brazen helmets. However, mere firemen as they are, the Vigil are the modern representatives, and a very passable imitation, of the ancient lictors, whose axes and fasces, I thought, at first sight, I had recognised on the helmets of the Vigili. That they are not in the least behind the ancient lictors in the art of summarily removing intruders out of the way I anon found out to my cost when I accidentally got in the way of the procession. Behind the Vigili, and in the midst of his council of eight Coneereatori del Popolo &maw, as they are styled, walked, habited in black velvet, and wearing a gold chain round his neck, the solitary Roman senator, who is at the present day no more than a mere Lord Mayor among aldermen. To this little measure has shrunken that august body, the Roman Senate ! Yet, as one compared the two pictures— the state of the Pope and the statelessness of the senator—one could not help feeling that it might be in the fates that, as the Pope decreased the senator should increase, and that perhaps on New Year's eve, 1867, the church and piazza of the Gesu might be deserted for the Campidoglio and the church of Ara GAL AN AZTEC WEDDING. The London public will perhaps remember two extraordinary children who, some fourteen years since, were e • • under the auspices of Mr. Anderson, known as the Wizard of the North, and who were train described as being specimens of an ancient Indian race that still survived amongst the ruined cities of Central America. The story then told was that one of those cities, " Ixamays," still remained intact, but was so jealously guarded by its inhabitants that it was almost impossible for any stranger to approach it. A Spaniard named Velazquez, however, ventured within the lines, and at great risk of life and limb bore off two children, to whom be gave Spanish Christian and surnames. He brought his prize to New York, when he handed them over to Mr. Maoris, who has been their proprietor and guardian ever since. On the occasion of their first exhibition in England, Mr. Morris, being too much occupied to come over him self, intrusted them to Professor Anderson, who repre sented them to be brother and sister—a state ment which it is now understood was entirely without foundation. These children excited a great deal of curiosity and much discussion amongst the learned in ethnology, but no one ventured to give a decided opinion as to whether, es was asserted for them, they might be accepted as specimens of an ancient but newly discovered race, or whether they were merely abortive births, such as occasionally happen in every country. Since then Mr. Morris has himself travelled with his in teresting little charges through most of the great cities of Europe and America, and shows approving teeti menials from person" of thel highest distinction in more than one continental city. In St. Petersburg especially the Aztecs attracted extraordinary notice, and received written testimony to that effect from member. of the imperial family. Everywhere the same discussions were raised amongst the means as to their origin and race, and every where with the same inconclusive results. What they are, whether accidental births, or the last remnants of some ancient and sacred race which had for ages been preserved by the priests of Central America to serve as a sort of !Meg idols for their worship, still remains a mystery—a circumstance which of course will only serve to heighten the curiosity of the British public should Mr. Morris determined upon exhibiting them in London. So far as we could learn, he has brought them over for the purpose of having them joined in holy wedlock, they new being both of marriageable age, and accordingly the legal ceremony was performed yesterday morning, by the registrar, in the vestry-room of y St. George's, Hanover-square. In order to give all proper eclat to the wedding, the preparation of the bride's troosPeau was entrusted to the house of Howell and James, in Regent -street. The dress was of the richest white satin, trimmed with the costliest of lace, and the Jewels of the purest water. The little lady seemed to be I absolutely enchanted with her sparkling necklace, her solitaire ear-rings, and her bracelets of emeralds and bril -1 Hants. We were informed that thin trousseau cost close upon 2,0004., and, considering its completeness, we should be reluctant to pronounce it dear at the money. The bridegroom wore plain evening dress, but was moat de monstrative in his examination and exhibition of a splen did gold watch with which he had been presented for the interesting occasion. During the ceremony he deported himself most judiciously—for a bridegroom, examined the certificate which the registrar handed to him at its conclusion most carefully, and then, with much impres siveness, presented the bride with her " marriage lines." They are both much grown since their last visit to this country, but still far below either in stature or bulk anything else that we have ever seen in the shape of either savage or civilized humanity. Their heads are not bigger than would be that of an English child of a month old. ;tad their figures are in proportion. The female is well formed and has a not unpleaaing countenance, but the man is a most extraordinary looking individual. The type of countenance in both is decidedly antique, but whether Assyrian, Egyptian, or Central American we must leave to Professor Owen and the Anthropological Society to decide. There never was anything like them exhibited in London except themselves on the occasion of their first visit, and whatever attraction they then offered for the curious must be increased tenfold now when they present themselves under such altered circumstances, and in full and complete maturity. After the marring. ceremony the bride, bridegroom, and a party of their friends ad journed to Willies Rooms, King-street, St. James's, for the wedding breakfast, when some appropriate speeches were made, and all sorts of good wishes were expressed for the interesting couple. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL &Perim. —At a meeting of the Nottingham Town Council, yesterday, a resolution Win Passed appointing a committee to wait upon the council of the British Agricultural Society in London, to ask that body to select Nottingham for the society's meeting in 1+468, There is a probability of another colliery dispute in the neighbourhood of Leeds. A fortnight ago the miners in the Gildersome and Morley districts gave notice to their employers of a demand for an advance of ten per cent., and also to have house coals free, the ground on which the demand was made being that the price of coal to the public had been increased. The claim for coals bas been given up, and the masters have offered an advance of 7,', per cent., but at present the men refuse to accept this compromise. [STAMPED, id. ADDMORAL] THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION NEAR BARNSLEY. BARNSLEY, MONDAY. The adjourned inquest on fifteen the budies recovered frost the Oaks Colliery was resumed morn. in before Mr. T. Taylor, coroner for the Ws.kefiel.l dis tnct, in the Barnsley Court-house. Mr. Vernon Black. burn, barrister, appeared on behalf of the proprietors of the colliery ; Mr. Kenyon Blackwell, a commits:eller ap pointed by the Rome Secretary, and Mr. berjemit Rubin son attended on behalf of the government. Mr. hinds, from the °dice of Meagre. Shaen and Roscoe, ::pprared on behalf of the National Miners Aasocistion to watch the ease in the interest of the sufferers. Mr. Dickinson. inspector of collieries in Lancashire, was also present. Mr. Mor i tan, inspector for the Yorkshire district, was nu; in at tendance. - Mr. Serjeant Robinson said he thought it due to the coroner and jury that be should state the reason why be and Mr. Blackwell appeared there. The government naturally felt great interest in this inquiry, bet the action of the gut eminent was entirely independent ; they represented no) persons, but thought it their duty to give every facility far the fullest investigation, and whoever had anything to adduce which they thought would throw any . light on the matter they were anxious to have ex amined. They had accordingly secured the assistance of Mr. K. Blackwell, a gentleimut of eminence, to watch the proceedings, and he would from time to time make such suggestions and oak such questions as he might think would tend to throw light on the subject of the inquiry. Thu government also thought it would not be unaccept able to the coroner and jury if Mr. Blackwell had legal assistance, and this was the reason why he ( nerjeant Robinson) was present. The Coroner said he was delighted to have the milit aries of such able gentlemen. Mr. Dickinson said he wished to state that owing to the intone anxiety and excitement caused by the recent catastrophe, his colleague, Mr. Morton, the inspector for this district, had so completely broken down in health, both bodily and mentally, that he had been urgently advised by his medical attendants to immediately resign his office. He (Mr. Dickinson) had the certificates of Dr. Atkinson and Mr. Ross, Mr. Morton's medical attendants, to show that Mr. Morton was quite incapable ' of attending on the present occasion, and under these cir cumstances the Secretary of State had directed him (Mr. Dickinson) to supply Mr. Morton's place. Mr. Birnie stated that he was present to watch the proceedings on behalf of the National Miners' Association and the Beneficent Society of London. He had collected a large amount of evidence in the ner.ghbouriniod, upon which he had intended to ask questions ; but on hearing I of the course taken by the government he hal banded that written evidence over to Serjeant Robinson.and should only ask leave to put such questions as he might desire to put in reference to individual cases that might not be touched upon in the general evidence. The following evidence was then taken : Smith Bates, miner, of Woraborough Common, exa mined :—I worked at the Oaks Colliery. I was at work in ' the new south level on the 12th ult. I went down at 5.311 a.m., and left at 12.45 p.m. I went to the box bole, and was there about ten minutes. William Youle, a lamp keeper, and Richard Hunt, both told me they were going to tire a shot directly. I waited and heard the shot tired, and then the explosion took place, and the tire wits on us in two seconds. I was knocked down and became insensible. I only heard one report, and saw the place all in • dame. The shot sounded very dead, as if it bad blown through into some workings. By Mr. Blackwell—l have worked in the Oaks pit for two years. We wanted more air in the bank where I worked. We often found gas there, and there was some there on the day of the accident, and all the day before. We used the Stephenson lamps exclusively. By Mr. Dickinson—There bad been gas where I worked for many a day before the explosion. It was in the breaks where we wed to fetch the stone from for packing. I was not allowed to take my lamp there. The further I went the stronger the firedamp became. We were allowed to work under such circumstances. By Mr. Blackburn—Sidduns, the deputy on duty, came through that morning. A caution was put up on the " chocks," at the entranoe to the breaks. I did not speak to Skidoos about the gas. By Mr. Birnie—About a fortnight before the explosion there was • deputation of miners who went to the office to complain of the gas. By the Coroner—l never complained about the gas. By the Jury—l have been 2-i years ip coal cedars. The coal was very solid and very bad to get. William I oule, examined by the Coroner—l am a lamp keeper at the Oaks Colliery, and have been there a year. I stand near the pit bottom between the two shafts. On--ale 12th of last month, when I got down • at six o'clock in the morning, I gut my lamps ' ready for the miners, and after dinner I went down in the stone drift. Between 12 and 1 o'clock John Clayton and Richard Hunt, who had been working in the drift, came and had dinner in the lamp-office, which is also called the box-bole. Afterwards John Robson and Richard Hunt went round to see if the drift was through, and they asked me to give them a stroke from the face of the drift so that they might hear if the drift was bored through. John Clayton sou at the drift face when I got there. He had his drill in the bole ready for me to strike, and I struck • few strokes. When Hunt and Rob son came back I asked how it sounded, and Hunt said it sounded as if it was through nearly. John Robson and I then measured the drift with a tape, and we made it a little over or a little under Oa; palls. I said, " You had better draw your drill awl charge if it's nearly through." There was a six foot drill in the bore, and Clayton could just take bold of the end awl turn the drill while I struck. Hunt said to Clayton, Draw out the drill, and we will charge," and I went away to the lamp office. I was preparing to relight the gas lamps at the pit bottom, which were always blown out by a blast, and in a quarter of an hour or 20 minutes the shot was tired. I was running with a safety lamp from the lamp office when the blast occurred, and (had only got • few yards when the pit bottom was Olin a dame. I tried to fight any way out of the flame, and heard the sound of a chair falling down the pit shaft, and then fell down insensible, When I came to nay menses I saw the cage come down and jumped into it. I was much burnt and was taken home. Thegas lamps that used to be blown out by the blasting were about the pit bottom and down the engine plane. Wilson, the shot tire, used to help me to re-light the gas lamps. They talked of Mlle/ the drill hole as full =they could and &in.., it. It might hold half a stone weight of powder, but I could not say exactly. By , Mr. Blackwell—The blast only sounded a little louder than usual. I heard the blast fired and then another loud report, which I thought was the sound of • chair falling down the shaft. It might have been the bound of another explosion. If I found anything wrong with a miner's lamp I used to report him. I did not often receive damaged lamps—sometimee not one for many weeks, some times two in a week. There were 431 lamps, of which about 400 were in work. The gas lamps were lit about 400 yards down the engine plane. The gaslainps were not put out more than MO yards below the pit bottom. By Mr. Blackburn—l know the damaged lamps duced. One of them was damaged two years ago. Another, a new lamp, was damaged a few months ago by John Bates. I remarked that it was • pity a new lamp like that should be damaged. Another was slightly elamaged the night before the explosion by a miner named Hamden. He said it had fallen off the nail. The glees and one or two of the wires were broken. Ramadan is dead. 1 have found lamp. unlocked. By Mr. Dickinson—There were two lamp station" down the engine plane. At the bottom one there w.“l 1.0 gas. light, but a safety lamp with the top off was kept there for the purpose of lighting the other lamp. Can you tell how many shots were fired on the day of the explosion!—Only that which fired the pit. It was 800 yards to the station where the lamp was kept with the top off. Something has been said about a shot having been fired on the stein outside the drift ?—I can only say that I went there about 10 o'clock in the morning to see if the drift was nearly through, and no shot Lid then been fired outside the drift. I saw no drill hole there. There were a few loose piece. of 'done on the steps ; they bad been shaken down by the shots fired from the face of the drift. Sometimes there were two shots tired by break fast time ; sometimes there were three. There had been none tired on the day of the explosion up to breakfaud time. Robert Thompson examined I am a miner, and worked in the old south level at the Oaks pit at the time ..f the explosion. Iwa in the lamp-office when the explosion occurred. Youle told me they were going to tire a shot, and asked me to go into the lamp-office while it was firael. I heard the shot fired, and thought it was not quite so loud as usual. The lame instant the dame en veloped me and knocked me down. I was afterwarl• led out of the lamp-office and drawn up the shaft. There was gas in the break of my hank, but not in the working face. I never complained about the air, but I have toll Christopher Siddons of the gas, alai ire told um to keep my lamp away. I have known there was gas by its putting my lamp out. When my lamp went out I uaed to send it by one of the drivers to be relighted. I ...eke. times borrowed • spare lamp. I always kept my lamp locked. By Mr. Blackwell—T have worked in the pit about Id years. The air was good on the face side. It would be a very long time before the roof of &goat would fall. When the roof fell it would force the gas out upon na—econte , times suddenly and sometimes nut for an hour or two. When the gas was forced out it would sometimes put my lamp out. By Mr. Dickinson—My place was 13 or 14 yards wide, and there were three pocked walla, each four feet wide, reaching to the roof. 'The roof was rather over five feet high where it had sunk, but the oral was seven or eight feet thick. I was not frightened of the gas. If a b it of stone had fallen and broken the glass of the lamp, the gm was [TWOPENCE strong enough in the Ist,:aks to Live taken fire. About nine o'clocic on the morning of the explosion Christopher Sid. dons Same and put down the work I had dote. told me to keep my lampoot }steak. I hsul just thet. told him there was plenty u gas in tbe break. I have 11 ,- vie cottr..itt. d to the tuin.n,' ..luion of the gas in the pit. The fire at the time of the explosion came from the dneet: ut - et. d. I heard the report of the shot LePte fitwt. nad the flute knocked me down, and then I heard another r..i.ort like L. c.asir falling down el.( -:raft. Here' •! ntir. , !A I. W:ls next examined—He sail, am a I ...t•in curter. and wan employed in the Oaks I'it. I was r:tllP:o7,,i under IVilltau. Poole. On the day of the esi.'..)E.,u I w. , ‘ t p,rt of the pit cilled the Sk V': nth Ho!.' t ' .. n:e while going back I was sud:culj. b:.• •..niiethiag, I cannot say what, :ttia I cattrem I.cl r.w.hing more. . R >he. t Cad:. to ei.7uinel —I am a fireman and hav, 1, 1101/ en.:.: 1 , 0 yeara at the oaks Pit, six years ma fintnaa. On the IV 41!t of toa itt. Isecemher I went down the pit, at L o'clock, with Retest G. Mitchell, a Ind who ine.! t., .!.) i.e the I top. Matthew Haigh and Dilly \V.I.:on, who were also firemen, went down the Fame ri;ht I took the . o . 7 level district, the south ra,, from the pit bottom up to No. 2 Jenny. My.l w t. put up the sheeting, or bratticing. and state of the workings. I found gos in six of the fxs: - teen b antis t! ere were in that level. Where I saw gt, I mark Id the fa,t on the "chocks," writing " fire' in capita letters. that being the regular signal is such c 3. I 3ot back tv the lamp office about four oclock, and th.it r, sorted to Christopher Siddons what I had seen and doye. Siddons entered the report in a book. stlbas was under steward of my district. I and Billy \\T.,.)r. hung on two full caves, as a signal that the pit h A been evan.ined and was safe. I had no occasion to make r! . . d ‘nzer .i.rnal. The whole of the banks were, is wy °pins Jo. safe to work in, only there was gas in the I breaks. 1.:3 , wine. —I Raw n 3 ur.usual quantity of gas in the Mr. 13 tckweli—The gas tru in the breaks and be hind th.- C.l7:k‘. The men had to go where the gas was in thy or hal-y coarse of their work, but they had no need to take their iAllp1) with them. The position of the gas cha: r,,..0.10. an a corve will frequently drive the air one way or the other. The fall of part of the roof will ootnetintes push the Ins out. I have known such a thin happen when I have bh.n going out. Th-• in ;u:ry was proceeding when our parcel was des patched. TH2 CuLL!SRV EXPLOSIONS Fr so. —Altlintigh the Mansion-Louse Committee di.l not hold a formal sit ting yesterday, the contributions to the fund raising for the r !her or the sufferers by the two terrible colliery ex plosi Ramsley end Silk continued to flow in. Among the su:: received up to 2 o'clock were the following : Penny suip.criptions by Messrs. Charles Blyth and Co., 41/. 1::a. ; offertory at the English church of Carrabach, near Nixr. IRs. ; collection at t'pton and Slough, 14'. 14, ; the Clothworkers Company, 10a. ; Mr. R a lph Elli o tt. pi% Pia. ; Messrs. Mann. Cronniart, and Pau.lin.Jlf. 10s. ; Mr. Charles and Lady Harriet Raimiloa, 13/. ; 24..nars. Krautler and Misville, 10/. 10s. ; the vicar and churchwardens of Dorking, 2ol . ; Mr. Alexander Bell, 10/. ; Mr. Thomas Turner, W. ; Mr. tiouldrworth, 2UI. ; Mr. J. H. Smith. 21f. ; the Rev. H. I.:. Talbot, 101. ;. Maas. Hodgkinson, Tooge, and Co., 2,1 t. ; the gentlemen of the rtubate.odite, 61. Itla. ed. .5110r.`KING MCIZDER AT SALFOED. A man named Henry Parker,a labourer, residing at 4.), Ordeal-bane, Salient, was biought before Mr. Traf ford, at the Salford Town-hall, yesterday n.oraing, charged with having murdered his son, Samuel Parker, szed seven years, by cutting his threat with a razor. AlieeViesou Lid she lived nt:.t door to the prisoner, and about ten minutes to six tb .. t morning she had been awakened by a son of the prisoner's, who had asked her to come into their house. Being in bed she got up, dressed, and went as desired, when she found the prisoner sitting with his wife be the kitchen ire. Witness ;inked what was to do, when kr+. Parker toll her to go into the scullery. Witness went there, and upon the fluor saw the dm:eds.:4 with his throat cut, and the blood running from the wouoil upon the floor. She took him up, and found that he was quite dead. Witness tAurneci to the kitchen, and said to the prisoner. " Whatever have you done Y' and he replied, "Oh Mrs. Wilson, it is done, and it is tow late.' Witness then went and brought her husband. Francis Wilson, husband of the first witness, said he was c died up at six o'clock by his wife, and went directly into the prisoner's house. Went into the scullery, and aims the prisoner's child Samuel on the floor, with he throat cut. It was quite dead. Witness obtained a board, upon whit:: placed the body. :.nd took it into the kitchen. The prisoner was sitting by the kitchen fire, and witness said to him, "This is a bail j ob," awl the prisoner replied, '• Yes. it is done, and it is et. bad job." L:y the side of the child witness found a razor cowered with and he identified one produced by polite-coistable Wood to be rise same. John Holon Parker, son of the prisoutr, mid his mother had caUal him about a quarter to sin o'clock, and he went into the scullery and saw hie brother lying there in a large pool of blood about his head. Ws father then came down, and witness said to bun. " Wbat were you thickin; of when you did this :'• The prisoner rephed, " I c..nztot tell what I was Cduking about; it would have been better undone." Witness then heard pri soner say to hie mother that the rtssor was in the scullery. The deceased had i ten sleeping in the same room with witness.—Mr. Trafford : Yau did nut bear Anybody fetch it out of the room! \Vitt:est: No, sir. In reply to the clerk to the magiatrwtes and to the bench, the witness stated that his i.,ther bid been always " worriting" his mother about not having enough to eat, and the. there were too many children to be in one fami:y. could not see how other families were getting on vs wet! comps:red with his. Mr. Tr.fford—Hre he had enough to eat? Witness—Yes. Mr. Trafford —lfas he been ? Witness—No. Mr. Foyster —What has been his condition as to his spirits ? W.tneas—He has been very low spirited indeed for twelve mouths. Polite-constable Wood said he had apprehended the prisoner, and upon charging him with having inutdered his child, lie said " Yes." While taking him to the office, he said " I lost my work and I !ace le ea . And I have had my harry robbed, and it is done." Mr. Stocks. surgeon, said he b.,.1 ex twisted the body. He had found a wound on the left ode of the neck, about an inch above the collar bone, and mire:lel to it. It was Sin. long and wide, severing the whole of the striae , tures outside, and the neck in front of the vertebral column, also partially dividing :be vertehia. Th.! prisoner, on being duly charged, said—" I have notEing to soy to his worship in nay own defence. I wish the thin.; could be undone. I Loy nothing snore to ray." ledn; naked to sign the foregoing 14..truomt, be asked if it tittered whether he signed it or nut! On Icing told that it did not, he declined to do en. lie was then formally constui: tad for Dial at the mime on the charge of wilful 'minter. The deceased child was one of a triplet.we are informed, and Or: other two are still alive. The piiiox.er has still five children alive. T:tc GREIT EASTERN. —Thu Itealiltr, now re cetvi:,; a thoroufh refit at Liverpool, is appointed to Mill for New I ork from that port on the '2oth March. She will loave New York forßrrs: on the :Viol April. and sail l,tween France and the Unit,.l states doling the con tiuu..u., of the Paris Exhibition. Ai.ti IRALTY. JAN. 7.—APN , INTMEN7S. —C..rn iusii,L:t—A. J. Kennedy. to the Lord Clyde, vice Lamar disten. Lieutenant—A. Little, to the Charybdis. burgeon —Dr. .1. C. Messer, to the Charybdis. Assistant. l / 4 mgeon —Dr.l*. (*.mu, to the Charybdis. Second Master—C. 11. S. Dougias iadditionakto the Victory. THE PRICE or LtOoKS IN ASIERIt A.—TM% is tins mason of the year when the books. lien expect to reap a harvest. The holiday smiles are alletys liege, and the public expend their ituperhuous cash wits sit admirable freedom. But the price of American 1..01is stew has b , ,,mitio so hi;h as to seriously damage l t . tli the publishers anti the public. The heavy customs duties tui the material that enters iota their manufacture. the heavy taxation. in varm, s f o rms, levied by the itit...rmd revenue dew. toge -1 Cher with the high prices of labour here, have made the publi s hing of books in this c o untry an .least hope:mends 1 branch of industry. English I asks :1::11 1,..ks punted in England are now taking the 1.1.,ies f,ttnerly occupied in our booksellers stores by workS of Americ to itiannfactuee. The evidences of this at thi present tine are enough to fri4liteu our publishers, as well as all who are inte rested in domestic literature and native industry. Eng halt puhliehers rind no difficulty in laying even the 1 heavy customs on their importation of book, to this county. and then underselling us in our own I market. Take, for example. such a standard book as ' • :,....Lests ire," a new edition of which, we observe, has just Leen published in London. comprising the poems as • well 34 foe plays, with a biography and !kh engravings, nmking . volume of 1,100 pages, in good type, which is sold a; the retail price of one shilling (English /. Wo I need not ass , that this book could not have been got up in this country and sold for anything leas than five dollars, or :asset fifteen times the price of this English edition. 0/ course we could hardly raise our tariff upon foreign books to sueh a height as would cover this difference; na , l, in fact. in the interest of American intelligence. we should think it very bad policy to do so. And so the book.puhlishing business suffers, and the intellectual pro gress of the community is retarded. We certainly think that Congress, in revising the tariti and the internal re- , venue law should make some effort to modify the duties and the ta xation so as to weigh less heavily than they do at present upon literature and knowledge.—Nice York Tunes, Dee. ::.i. +`: f ~~