The Press.
London, England, 1857-04-25 00:00:00

Vrobiuttal.

MAJOR-GENERAL WINDHAM, K.C.8., was last week
presented by his Warwickshire friends with a testi-
monial in the shape of a magnificent silver gilt
Warwick vase and pedestal, standing on an ebony
plinth. From the four angles of the plinth rise in
frosted silver groups of the allied flags, while the
four panels of the pedestal contain a bas-relief of
the Redan attack, a bust of the gallant general, his
arms, and an appropriate inscription. The presenta-
tion took place privately at the gallant general's
residence at Learning:on, Lord Leigh and a select
number of the local committee attending.
THE BROTHERTON MEMORIAL, it has been decided
by the Salford committee, shall consist of a monu-
ment ovet the tomb in the Salford Cemetery at New
Barns, and a bronze statue in the Peel-park. The
commission for the statue has been given to Mr.
Matthew Noble ; and its coat, we believe, will be one
thousand guineas. The pedestal will be of granite ;
and in its general character the work will be similar
to the Peel statue, in the Peel-park. Nothing has
been decide,' as to the monument to be placed over
Mr. Brotherton's tomb.

LIANDAFF CATHEDRAL, which has lately been
partially restored, was opened for public worship
last week.

THEIR HIGHNESSES THE PRINCES OF OUDE are at
present on a visit to Manchester and Liverpool.
Their Royal Highnesses have met with a most
distinguished reception from the local authorities, and
express themselves highly gratified with their visit.
AN ACCIDENT occurred on the Great Western Rail-
way on Tuesday. The ten a.m. train, with about
forty passengers, when making the sudden curve
between Uxbridge over the Thames and Windsor
station, ran off the rails. Fortunately the engine
turned towards the centre of the line, instead of to the
outside, in which ease the engine and carriages must
have been precipitated into the Goswells, the line
from the bridge being entirely on piles. The traffic
from that part of the line to the station has been
suspended, and the passengers from town have to be
drawn into the station on trucks. Beyond the fright,
the passengers sustained no injury.
A DREADEUL BOILER Exmostos occurred in Wol-
verhampton on Wednesday, on the premises occupied
by Mr. Benj. Mason, fireiron-maker, between Bilston-
street and Walsall-street. About four o'clock, the
boiler in Mr. Mason's building burst with a force
which shook the houses at a considerable distance,
Tbo maltbouse was knocked down, and a piece of

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the boiler was found embedded a foot deep in the
premises of Mr. Beddowes, coach-builder, Cleveland-
road, more than a gun shot from Mason's. When
the smoke and dust cleared away, a search was made
on the premises, and a most deplorable spectacle
presented itself. Mr. Mason, jun., the acting pro-
prietor of the works, had his bead blown off, and his
arms nearly severed from his body, which was
otherwise horribly mutilated. The engineer and
two other men were also quite dead. It was ascer-
tained that. twenty-three persons were wounded, and
many of these bad not been engaged on the premises,
but were merely passing in the street at the time of
the accident. Most of the survivors were taken to the
South Staffordshire Hospital. With regard to the
cause of the calamity, it is stated that the water in
the boiler was allowed to get so low that the metal
became red not; a supply of cold water was poured
in, and the explosion took place.
THE LIINDHILL COLLIERY is now nearly emptied of
the water. Last Friday week the first descent was
effected into the mine since the explosion. The ex•
plorers penetrated a short distance on each side of the
shaft. All the doors and stoppings were blown down,
and the state of the mine, as far as the explorers
could see, afforded strong proof of the intensity with
which the fire had raged. The roof was falling in
is many places, and the stables were down. The party
remained in the mine for a considerable time, and suc-
ceeded in finding three bodies. The bodies next day
were got up and an inquest held the same night.
The identification of one of the bodies was accurate.
Though horribly decomposed, the wife recognised
the body of her husband, Thomas Gray, by a wart
on the root of the thumb on the left hand. Another
woman, Mrs. Cutts ,recognised the body of htr son
by the waistband of his trousers. Six had hurriedly
repaired it the day of the explosion, and left one but-
tonhole unfinished. Every possible precaution is being
taken to prevent any ill-effects from the effluvia
which will come from the pit. Dr. Holland, of the
Board of Health, a few weeks ago visited the pit and
gave various directions with this view, and Messrs.
Sadler, Ibeson, and Sadler, of Barnsley, surgeons to
the Landhill Company, have addressed to them
a long letter on the same subject. They recommend
that all advances from the bottom of the shaft into
the pit shoul.t be preceded by the circulation of sul-
phurous acid, to be generated by mixing oil of vitriol
with M‘Dougall's powder ; that only hale men should
be employed in the recovery of the bodies ; that,
provided there is much smell, the men should come
frequently to the surface, and that any person who
may feel himself powerfully affected by the stench
should at once return for a while to the fresh sir.
They intimate that to carry out the latter recom-
mendation it will be necessary to have relays of men,
so that the work may progress as rapidly as
possible. They recommend the use of Stern-
house's charcoal respirators ; that M'Dougall's
disinfecting powder should be not only dredged
upon the bodies but freely scattered about the mine ;
and that the corpses should be put in coffins lined
with pitch, and kept in readiness in the
.pit. The
letter concludes as follows :

From the pit having been on fire. some days before the
water was admitted into it, it is probable that the bodies
have been exposed to the action of a strong dry heat,
which would reduce them to a state somewhat approanhing
to that of mummies; certainly the three bodies recovered
on Friday night last resembled this state, but this may
have been caused by the men being near the furnace when
the explosion took place.

The above recommendations are being, and will con-
tinue to be, carried out as fully as possible. On
Tuesday night five more bodies were discovered, all
mutilated and decomposed. The work of clearance
proceeds slowly, the Liebris from the fallen roof in
volving much labour in its removal.

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DENISON v. DITCHER.

ARCHDEACON DENISON'S appeal that as proceedings
had not been taken against him within two
years, according to the provisions of the Church
Discipline Act, the whole matter must fall to the
ground, was finally adjudged on Thursday by the
Dean of Arches The learned judge reviewed all the
facts of the case, and said the question at issue was,
whether the proceedings were taken against the
archdeacon within two years of the commission of
the offence. He (the learned judge) must rule that
the issue of the citation was to be taken as the com-
mencement of the proceedings according to the
Church Discipline Act, and that as more than two
years elapsed between the commission of the offence
and the commencement of legal proceedings, his
opinion was, that whoever might be to blame, this
suit had not been pursued with sufficient activity,
and that the archdeacon must not suffer. Having
cited many cases to the same effect which had been
decided in that court, and finding no adverse decision
in any of the superior courts, the learned judge said
he must pronounce for the appeal, and thus reversed
the decision which dismissed the archdeacon from
his preferments in the Church.