The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-06 00:00:00

THE FATAL ACCIDENT AT ADELAIDE
COLLIERY.

This accident, following so closely as it deem on
the meet one at Auckland Park, has awakened the
despot feelings d regret. and seat a thrill d eemoberstisa
through the entire neighbourhood. It is only 'boat two
years ego that thiscolliery was oink to the mein seas—a
depth of 171 fathoms from the soda" and it has slaw been
beaded down as something retnarkablethat the whole al the
sinking was completed, under the saperistradenee el Mr. I
Cooling, without any accident or mishap wbatenr. It hew
always been the endeavours of the OWII6II to do all they!
possibly.l ce could for the safety of the wen; and Owes the
tastrophe a drift has beau waited Otte the Week
Boy lit, so fiat in cased aceideut to the shafts of either
colliery the drift might be node available. The present
fatality, however, in the eyes of easy, seems to boo arise
eenrely by aocideint ; but the majority at the miners thee-
' semis have had opposite views, and have arprostad then is
a free and unmistakeable manner. Numbers of them sig.
sifted their intention of attending beton the owner, to
endeavour to " carpel " the brakeman, as they did sot
0021 aider, their lives safe in . .

The inquestWreaOniZneed to be bald at the beam al
lir. Peter Maw, Eldoe-isue Cottages, on Saturday mereing,
but on the snivel of Mr. Trotter, the coroner, it was dis-
covered that. owing to the numbered wortmes who wished
to be present, the room was too mall for the inquiry: sal
therefore in the midst of • cooling shower of rain the jury,
Miasma, sod workmen were "biked to canon their quar-
ters to the commodious agar "Maiming the egals7. Mr.
Atkinson, governmeet impeder ; Yr. Grahe.cd New
Shildoe, bred viewer of the mime ; and lir.
were pretest daring the whole al the inquiry, which looted
nearly Ave boon.
The jury returned s verdict of " healdental Nab," with-
out attaching any blame or neglect to anyone of the parties,
but merely &Mihail:2g it to the cage piling out of the
abate—Nerosak Ckrassiole.

Cirrus OF TIM WHIWIffa. GRANOZ BMW-M
B will be remembered that ea Toseday sight Use, Wigweff
Orange, the residers of Captain Goodwin, and the gore of
the late murder of Miss Goodwin, wee broken into by a
burglar, whose object, no doubt, wee to role Captain Good-
win of the rents which he bad that day been reorriu, bat
which he bad fortunately oeaveysd to Wirksworth Bask.
It was a custom with Captain Goodwin to bold his rent day
half yearly, and this happened ca Troia, bet. Some
years since, as the arm date, the 29th of September, the
Grange was broken rib. and a sum of money steles. A man
who was suspected &brooded at the time, and bad sot bees
heard of sire until about a fortnight ago, when be wee oh-
servedlostering about the neighbourhood. After the bur-
glary on Tuesday last this man wee suspected, and oe Friday
lie -was apprehended in a low lodging-house at Helper, with
arse shirr and a out belosgiog to (Aspire Goodwin in his
poesorse.
AT/10[Pr TO BREAK FROM ETITZR PRMON.—On
listardaymerniegan ingenious and all but socoerful attempt
ems made tower from the city pesos by Peter Mearthy,
✓eef the two burglars sentenced at the lug City Assizes to
110 years' pert servitude. Information bad bees received
flow some soros or other by Mr. Supaintrodent Steel
that an attempt would be made to break the prison.
arrangemear were made to meet the movement ele=ilt
rise by
Meru an extra pore of countable* on the prison
premises, and keeping communications open between the
gaol and the police station, so that reinforcements could
be immediately brought up if required. The attempt
was made, but only by the prisoner in question,
who was observed to be climbing up the wall
about seven o'clock, from which he was brought
down by the trencher of Folise-coastable Branscombe.
The perseverance, labour, sod ingenuity displayed by this
man in prosecuting his life of roguery. would have earned
him respectable bread if he had applied them to gar an
boson livelihood. It appeared that the "rope" by which
he was puffing himself up wee manufactured by himself
from his blankets, and woe as furiously put together as
it was strops. life towel be made into a bag which he tied
to the end of his rope, oontainiog a stone DOW a quarter of •
owt., which wee to serve the purpose of a balance to the
weight of his body. The stone had bees taken from the
door of his cell. By getting on a low wall near the high
boundary wall, the prisoner wee able to jerk this
heavy affair over the higher wall, which dove, he bad
nothing to do but to fallow it ea quick sr be could,
which he was doing when be bad, for him, the bad
luck to be caught. Bride this rope the fellow, who is by
trade a Milts, had arrived to make a Burl jacket and
cap for himself, which would enable him to throw ride his
perm livery, and start on his travels in very tolerable
disguise as a working stonemason, or journeyman baker.
lisearthy wee let Out cot his cell that morning at the usual
time, into what is called the day-room ; now between this
room and the airing-yard there is a door, which he would
need to go through, if be is to escape efore the usual
time of its beingopened. This he bad provided far by
cutting the pixel round by the edge with the handle of
an old iron spoon, aoecealing his work while in Pr
by rubbing some smutty substance into the curve. 'leis
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cutting he took care should reach pearly through—not
quite through—end all be had to do this morning wee to
give it a push with hie toot, when out west the board,
sad through west the rogue. How he could any cm
them venom operettas. of rope-making, tailoring. sawing,
and general sogoseetior, without detection, until within
an au of encases, is • question for the prison officials to
setts. This genius mud his companies Weston were, with
the rest of the primmer., transferred to the minty gaol on
Wednesday. `• Bed lock this time, said the rogue to
as. of the officers, " may have berm leek next."— Warr
Daily Preys.
CH /LOREN EATINO POISONOUS BERIMIS. —Oa
Saturday aftersocis six little boys, of ages varying from two
to five year., the children of poor parents, and living in
Wolverhampton, went for a walk along a reed whisk Is
skirted as either side by the frost gardens of geritlement
houses. Through an open gate auto one of these gardens
they entered. Locking around. their um IMO lillight by
the ripening and attractive berries of the atreps bidkrienra
or deadly nightshade. The leader of the little party Mese,
bops to pick sad eat ; four of the others followed bb
• sod by the time the children had quitted the guise
they had not only glutted their appetite with the pekoes=
repast, but had each secured a plentiful supply In Shia
pinafore.. Two of the little urchins were brothers, mono'
respectively William and Joseph Hotibins,the Int Aveandthe
mooed thre years old. These, es retuning home is shut
as hour after the Gruner& sat dors by the fire. Sou
Unusual symptom made their apwearaaos. The children
were diet seised by an unusual desire for sleep ; this was fol-
lowed by hysterical agitation. Doctors were called to, re-
medies were administered, and in the ease of she elder boy
these proved sucersfuL The yowler, however, either be-
mese of the quantity he had sates or braves of his nortes-
der years. gradually sank intoutupor whisk es lisoday rani.
leg sailed in death. In the eases of the ether three similar
symptom, were observed, hat it is hoped Yrs them will
recover. The sixth little by did sot Week the barrios.
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