The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-29 00:00:00

THE HARTLBY COLLIERY CATASTROPHE.

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NEW HARTLEY, TOM" Noos.

The water-bottles, tin candlsboxre, leather hats,
and whatever amid be gathered up in the yard seam be-
longing to the lest as and lads, were brought to " beak"
yesterday, sad have bees earetully maredeed by the withers
sad Meade, wales to power a precious owners
of their "own." From the Lei WS e Webb
quatity of between the been hand In weed
of the men sad lade' bottles brought to thskonnjethed with
the very brief memoranda that have been dleseeseed (the
memoranda isdkstiag that the men were meek ethaested
sad certainly hopeless the day atm the sadist in the
shaft), it is certain that they perished much esdia than
was even anticipated—probably on Friday night, the
17th, oertainly on Saturday. Os a tin can marked
James &wicks is inscribed, " Friday—My dear Sarah, I
leave you." And on another can, not identified, is snatched
the beginning of a memege left unfinished, for the writer
has tried to carry It to the other side, but having become
powerless to do so, there is merely a scratch. The wards
on the can appear to be, " Mary, 0 God !" It is stated
that another letter ham been received from Osborne, but the
oontenta have not transpired. Public meetings were held in
South Shields, Gateshead, and other towns yesterday, is
aid of the relief fund. A very determined movement ap-
pears to be set in amongst the pitmen here to call upon the
legislature to fore* upon every coalowner the obligation to
make two shafts, or at least two means of exit from the
pit, in ems et ea amidest occurring in the shaft.

HARTLEY COLLIERY RELIEF FUND. Daring
yesterday a large number of donations were rewired at the
Mansion-boeme, for the alleviation of the distress canoed by
the incident at the Hartley Colliery. The total amount re-
ceived during the day was 1,1241., making together with
that which was received on the previous day • total of
nearly 2,0001. in two days.
lithrOnlAL TO THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT.—The
total amount received in aid of the Memorial Fuld up to
last night wee between 20,0001. and 21,0001. Among the
principal subscriptions received during the day was 1001.
from the Marquis of Normanby, 1001. from Means. Prescott,
Grote, and Co., 1051. from the Sun Life Aseuranorooffloe,
1001. from Colonel Pennant, 1001. from the Dowager
Duchess of Sutherland, and 1001. from the Marchioness of
Londonderry.
CONDOLENCE WITH HER MAJETTY.—The addresses
and resolutions of condolence on the occasion of the death of
his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, which, es stated in
the London Gazette, have been transmitted to the Right
Hoe. Sir George Grey, But., her Majesty's Principal Seers-
trey of State for the Home Department, have been laid
before the Queen by Sir George Grey, and have been re-
ceived very graciously by her Majesty. Addressee
and resolutions of condolence, on the occasion of
the death of his Royal Menses the Prince Consort,
have been transmitted to Furl Russell, her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to be laid
before the Queen, from the British subjects residing at
Boulogne, Ostend, and Oporto. An address of condolence,
on the occasion of the death of his Royal Highness the
Prince Consort, from the British residents at St. Peters-
' burg, has been forwarded to Earl Russell, her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, by Lord
Napier, her Majesty's ambassador at St. Petenburg.—
Gazette.
DOWNING-STREET, JAN. 25.—The Queen has been
[pissed to appoint William Murray, Esq., to be • member of
the executive council of the island of Barbelees ; and
Howard Lloyd, Esq., to be a member of the council of the
island of Dominica.—Gazette.
Wurriaau., JAN. 27.—The Kirkdale Industrial
and Ragged Schools, in Stanley-road, Kiikdale, in the
county of,Lancuter, and the St. George's Catholic Industrial
Schools, in West Derby-road, Liverpool, in the county of
Lancaster, have been certified by the Secretary of State as
At to be industrial schools tinder the provisions of "The
Jaded:lel Schools Act, 188L"—Gazette.
Dwain or LONDON.—The Bishop of London
has Banned the Rev. Henry Geary, 8.A.. of Corpus Christi
College, Cambridge, to the curacy of All Saints China,
Shoreditch. The incumbency of St. Saviour's Church, Pad-
dington, has become vacant by the death of the Rev. T.
Maryland Hopkins, M.A. It is worth 7001. • year, and is
la the gift of the Bishop of Loudon.
DEATH or THE Paovoer or Drox.—We regret to
annosse• the death of the Rev. Edward Craven Hawtrey,
Provost of Eton. which occurred on Wednesday night last,
at the Provost's-lodge, Eton College, io the 72nd year of his
us. This eminent man was appointed insistent master of
Eton, in 1814, to the head mastership on the sth of August,
1834, upon the resignation of Dr. Keate, and elected provost
on the demise of Provost Hodgson. Dr. Hawtrey was an
Eton boy with Mr. Justice Patient's, Sir John Coleridge,
N. Simon, Esq., the Bishop of Winchester, and other emi-
nent men. The cause of death was paralysis, from which
Dr. Hawtrey had been *arteries sines the Bth of December
la* having been attsalts4 on the Founder's-day.
DINITRUCTION or run FOREIGN-OPTIC/L.—The last
brick of the old Foreign-Aloe in Downie's-street has been
removed, and contemporaneously with the removal there
has taken place • complete destruction of many of the ad.
jacent streets, so that the new building in the Italian style
so earnestly contended for by Lord Palmerton against the
Gothic predilections of Lord John Manners may be forth-
with commenced. As the old Foreign-office wee removed,
Fludyer-street disappeared, and there is now an immense
open space caused by the removal of one side of Downing-
street on the north, Charles-street on the south, King.
street on the east, and Charles-street on the west.