The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-13 00:00:00

APPREHENSION OP THE SECRETARY OP THE

DONCASTBB BUILDING SOCIETY.

Yeatmrday, John Haatie, late secretary of the
Doncaster Building Society, was brought up at the Don-
cuter Borough Police oourt, before William Sheardown,
FAct., charged with defrauding the Doncaster Building
Society of a large sum of money, amounting to at least
4,0001., and appropriating the name to his own use.
Mr. Smith (Messrs. Smith and Atkinson) was instructed
to prosecute. The prisoner was undefended.
Haiti., who for many yearellisa occupied a respectable
position in the town, was the secretary of the Doncaster
Building Society, and taking advantage of the great
confidence reposed in him be defrauded the society of a
sum which was at first supposed to be between 2,7001.
and 2,800/., but which has since been found to exceed
4,000 i. The directors decided, with the consent of the
shareholders, to accept • bill of assignment from Hastie,
and it wee understood that on his signing the deed by which
the sum of 2,0001. was obtained, no legal proceedings would
be taken. Still further defalcations transpiring, • warrant
for his apprehension was taken out, and served upon the
prisoner at Hackney, London, as he wax leaving the real-
duce of his nephew.
Mr. Smith called Mr. Thomas Wood, the present
secretary of the society, who stated that the defalcations
amounted to more than 4,000 i., and he feared that this
sum would not cover the loss that the shareholders would
sustain. Mr. Smith applied for • remand, which wee
agresdto..
The prisoner observed that he had drawn out a statement,
which be had handed in to the superintendent of police,
Mr. Gregory, and this would, he believed, place his trans-
actions in • different light to what bad been represented.
The prisoner was remanded until Monday.

TEE COLLIERY EXPLOSION NEAR BARNSLEY.

Yesterday morning, about 8 o'clock, a communi-
cation was made between the fifth shaft trench that has been
dug from the pit mouth and the Damn and Dove canal, and
the water was allowed to flow into the workings. When the
pit ia at work about 50 cubic yards of water are removed from
the low dip workings per day. Pumping having ceased
since Monday forenoon, there will be in the lowest part of
the pit about 250 cubic yards of water. It is the intention
of the engineers to fill up two broad gates, each 30
yards long and Gift. 6in. broad, by 7ft. high, which will
give 80,900 cubic feet of space. Of this already 750 ft.
are filled by the water accumulating in the mine, and
the stream of water is at present running in at the rate of
400 cubic feet per hour. In the space that will be thus sub-
merged it is believed that no bodice will be found, so that
the friends of the deceased men will not have this trouble
to aggravate their already deeply wounded feelings. When
sufficient water has been run into the pit, the engineers in
chaise will take steps to ascertain the state of affairs below,
and, if the fire is out, measures will at once be taken to re-
cover the bodies. The temperature yesterday, in the down-
cast shaft, at 12 o'clock, was 42 degrees, and in the upeast
55 degrees. There was a small quantity of smoke issuing
from the cupola- The relatives of the entombed below ap-
to have been satisfied with the explanations that have
been given of the position of affairs, and are awaiting at
their home* with what resignation they may the time when
it will be possible to recover the bodies. The men who were
injured by the explosion are all reported to be progressing
favourably. .

On Thilnday afternoon a meeting was held in the Na-
tional Schoolroom, Woreborough Dale, at which a number
of the clergy and gentry of the neighbourhood were pre-
sent. The Rev. N. Benham, incumbent of St. Thom,s's,
Woraborougb Dale, was called to the chair. It was re-
solved, on the motion of Mr. S. J. Cooper, second, 1 by
the Rev. J. Newman, " That this meeting desires to ex.
peens its deep and heartfelt sympathy with the surviving
sufferers at the late awful catastrophe at Edmund's Main
colliery, and with the widows, orphans, and relatives of
those who have been so suddenly deprived of life, and that,
as an expression of such sympathy, a public subscription be
immediately set on foot for the relief of such sufferers, in
addition to any parochial relief that may be granted by the
authorities of the district." The proprietor of the collie),
have given 2001., and undertake to defray the coat of the
interment of the dead.

The President of Liberia arrived at Cape Palmas
on the 16th Nov., in the African mail steamer Ethiope.
The President landed under a salvo of guns, which was
fired from the African mail steamer, which was returned
by the Liberian wet schooner Quail and the shore battery.
His Excellency, in reply to • deputation which welcomed
him on his arrival, spoke highly of the British nation, and
expressed himself most grateful for the kind and generous
manner in which he bad been treated by the people of
Great Britain.

From Sierra Leone we learn that his Excellency
]Yajor•General Wensley Blackall, the new governor of Sierra
Leone, landed at that place on the 11th of November, and
wee duly sworn in on the following day. The mutineers of
the Gold Coast Artillery Corps, who were sent to Sierra
Leone to be tried by general court martial, were sentenced
sa follow. ;—One to be shot at Freetoun, and another to be
sent back to Cape Coast Crale, and there to meet with
the same fate. The one shot at Sierra Leone was named
William Neizer, the ringleader, • bugler, who sounded the
assembly in the Castle-yard for his comrades to assemble
and attack the fortress and the town. He walked
to the fatal spot with the greatest coolness, holding
on to the chaplain's hand, and exclaiming, " Now is
the appointed time ; now is the day of my salvation." He
received the shots in the lower part of the body, and life
not being extinct, the provost-marshal stepped forward, sad
discharged the contents of • revolver into the unfortu-
nate man's temples.

At Tenerike much distress prevailed in conse-
quence of the prevalence of yellow fever, which was com-
mitting great ravages at that place. When the Athenian
called off Toned& the captain refused to communicate
with the shore. Pratique was refused him at Madeira, and
the consequence was that several ladies and gentlemen (pas-
sengers on board the steamer), who wanted to land, were
obliged to come to England at the long of • great deal of
time and money.
A PASSENGER KILLED AT • RAILWAY STATION.
—Yesterday evening au accident of a fatal character oc-
curred at the New-street Railway Station, Birmingham.
The 7 p.m. tram for Derby starts from the Midland platform,
at the extreme end of which are the urine's and closets.
Just at this point the platform runs down level with the
line, and there is a little crossing with rails and
• turn-table. The train was last night started • few yards
babied this, and when it had moved on and was still going
slowly, a man is some way got between the carriages of the
train and was run over. The sole parson who saw the acci-
dent can only say that he saw deceased fall, but whether from
the platform or the foot-board of a carriage he cannot say.
The only supposition that can be made as to the way in which
the accident occurred *that the deceased had gone into the
water-closet, and having miscalculated the time, found that
when he came out the train was moving, and that he
then ran forward, and either stumbled or fell between
the carriages, or having taken hold of • carriage,
and got on the foot-board, he in some way slipped down.
However this may have been, the unfortunate man got
under the wheels of the carriages, and the whole of the
train passed over him. The body was frightfully mangled
and cut, and the neck was dislocated and both arms broken.
Death must have been instantaneous. From letters found
on the person of deceased it appears that his name is Richard
Gibson, and that he is • cattle dealer, living at Castle
13rornwich, to which place he had a railway ticket in his
pocket. He is between sixty and seventy years WI
BAPTISM or MORMoNB. —IL will scarcely be
credited, bet the veracity of our informast—who was an
eye-witness to the spectacle—is undoubted, that at this in-
clement season of the year the Mormons have been baptis-
ing their disciples in the sea at Hendon. Lut Sunday
afternoon, when walking along the beach below the New
Gag Works, he came upon a damp and dripping batch of
them "Latter Day Saints "—for such, be says, they told
hies wee their coned designation, and not Mormons—the
name menMeeed by him when he asked one or two of them
if they belonged to that body. The dieciplee were fourteen
in somber, of both sexes, the men beiug mostly young, and
evidently of the elms of unskilled workmen. An " elder"
from Utah (so 'twaa said) conducted the business of the
atteneoss.—Sesiderested Herald