The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-18 00:00:00

ST. PANCRAS VRSTRY.

Yestariay evening a meeting of the ratepayers of
the No. 1 ward of the parish of St. Pancras wrs held in
the Highgate Literary Institutioa, to arrange for the no-
=laths of candidates who should represent the ward in
the new vestry to be elected ender the Metropolitan Local
Management Aet. About thirty gentlemen were present.
Mr. CaasTila, of Highgate, took the chair, and spoke of
the great topmasts of the Me measure, the extensive
powers whisk it bestowed open the vestry, and the neoessity
for taking care that those powers should not tall lab ill.
proper hands, which might render them misobievous
rather than beneficial, bet that they should be
eatreskd to those who would enrolee them for this
racial benefit of the perish, and mot fir the in-
Week of may clique. He observed that Highgate
hod mew as yet bee& properly represented la St. Bantam
maim andthe equitable division of the pubis into wards,
gager this se, would giros aa opportunity of supplying that
filditat.
• Kr. WILKINSON the* moved a resolution, declaring
that OMB "mkt to be • full, fair, sad impartial represeata.
des daft Amor fa the vestry, without regard to religiose
is paled ilistisideas, wad with a view to secure economy
of MO SNOW mad ellsieeer of the °Mom. He briefly ex-
ploited the presidia& et the oat, so far as they wawa the
detain el eUya The parish of St. Panama has bees
dhffiJi fate wards, sad u

the tiveral wards in propogion to their respestive amounts
of population sad usessmeat to the rates. By this distrlbu-
lion, the No. 1 ward, which includes the Xestish.towa sad
Highgate neighbourhood, is to rotors Mae members to the
parish vestry. The ?toupees mast be qualified by being
rated at a rental of 401., sad being occupiers within the
ward. The nomination will take place on the 14th Nov.,
and the election on the 16th ; etch ratepayer has oaly a
tingle vol.. The vestry will have under their 'onkel the
sewers, drains, and matter, regulations, the highways, the
paving, lighting, cleansing, watering, and street improve-
meats of the pariah, and will be authorised to make stria-
Sent bye laws, end impose penalties /or their infraction. The
t. Pancras vestry will also sleet two members of the metro-
politan board, which is to consist of forty-siz mem-
bers. Having dwelt upon the important results for
good or evil which might ensue from this act, according to
the charsoter of thaw who should have to administer it,
Kr. Wilkinson appealed to hie neighbours of this district
to lend their best assistance to carry it properly into eaten
dos.

The Rer..7. B. DYNE seconded the Tualatin, which we.
gemmed unenimmody.
Mr. DutentiL, on behalf of a large committee which
bee been formed is this ward, stated the objects whieb they
sought in calling the meeting, end suggested that a sub-
committee be appointed for Highgate, I. reemamend two
candidates out of the nine who should represent the entire
ward. _ _

Mr. BRINDON then proposed, and Mr. WaTHIRILL
seconded a resolution pledging the meet itig to support inde-
pendent candidates.
This having bees agreed to, after some explanations by
Mr. Sandy. of other matters contained in the act,
Mr. BIM:MONT proposed that, instead of appointing a
Highgate nb•committse, the meeting should recommend
two gentlemen who were before them, Mr. Wilkinson and
Mr. Brendon, as candidates for the representation of the
ward, on ',shallot the Highgate district.
This was seconded by Mr. Hertelet, and unanimously
agreed to; Mr. Wilkinson and Mr. Brendru intimating that
they would not withhold their eervices, if it plessed the in-
habitants of the 'Nerd 'paint them as vestrymen.
The meeting then separated, with enamel eatigratulationa
upon the unanimity and practical result of ita proceedings.

EXPLOSION OF SULPHUR IN A COALPIT,

NEAR BILSTON.

An explosion of a frightful character occurred on
Monday morning last, at No. 2 pit, in the Bilston Colliery,
situate between Bilstoo and Wlllenball, which is the pro-
perty of Philip Williams, Esq., iron and coal master. It
seems that the whimsey by which the No. 1 pit is worked, is
also used to work two other pits, one of which is fortunately
connected by a subterranean passage with the pit in chute '
the explosion took place. Oa the morning in question. the
whole of the men employed in both pita, smothering 40 in
each, were, as usual, at work, sad about 10 of them were
engaged near the spot where the fire damp ignited, which
is Galled a " snap ;" and about 10 o'clock it is said that a
bo, whether accidentally or not is unksown, dropped a
lighted candle through the boarding which covered the
' "snap," and that a fearful explosion was the consequence.
Bad it not been for the existence of the underground
pumas above referred to, it is probable that the lose of
and injury to human life would bare been still more
serious. As soon as the men employed at a distance from
the "soap" were aware of the fire, they escaped into the
sparkle(' of the pit with which number one is o?nneeted.
The pior fellows, however, who were employed at the
stamp, tan in number, were unable to escape. Assistance
was soon at hand, when it was found that one unfortunate
man, named James Stanley, bad lost his life ; that a second,
named Bailey. had suffered injaries of so severe a nature
as to render It impossible for him to survive ; and that the
remaining siabt were alive, bat their bodies were mach
burned. The extent of the injaries they have received
renders them incapable, we believe, of giving any account
of the disastrous occurrences The sufferers were speedily
rescued from the Neese of the explosion by means of the
abaft sonneeted with the adjoining pit, and the surgeon to
the colliery, Mr. Best, atleaded them, and administered
what was necessary to alleviate, as fat se possible, their
indescribable stifferiop. The man Bailey still lingers, we
are informed, but the ether men are going on quite as well
as might be expected. The presence of sulphur in the pit
cannot be accounted for ; such has sever previously been
found to exist therein.— Woltierhesepton CAremick.

THE BOILER EXPLOSION ON THE TYNE.
NEWCASTLE•ON-TYNE, TOZSDAT MOUT.
The coroner's inquest upon the seven persons
killed by a boiler explosion at Messrs. Loth, Wilson, sad
Bell's iron works, at Walker, was resumed today. The
eagissonan, one of the stokers, and the foreman of the
sea who repair the boilers were examined at considerable
length. Mr. M. Dann, the government inspector of minas,
assisted the coroner in takiog the examination. As one wit.
ness's linden* was pretty much a repetition of the other,
it will not be needful to give the examination at full length.
The boiler, with others, was cleaned on the day pretectisg
tee explosion, and the steam was got up in four of them at
six o'clock on Monday morning. The engin-driver, a
young lad of the nuns of Hark, 'useless years of age, said
that be *atomised the index on the boiler four times before
half pest ten o'clock oa Monday morniag, sad found it had
sa ample supply of water ; he looked at the index at sin
ceeliek, meets, half-past eight, and a quarter of ea boar
before the explosion took plus. The boilers had scab
a stop dap, which was self.seting, and could not be inter-
fered with from the outside. Thom flaps were intended to
prevent the boilers printing one into the other ; bat if they
got wrong that nasequenos might ensue. There is a sed
meaty, deposit left by the Tyne water used in the boilers,
bat the witnesses thought that the explosion send not have
been caused by any such deposit, as the boiler bad been
cleaned eat the previous day. The foreman of the boiler
smiths had axembsed the boiler sines its explosioa, and be ,
said that the plans had a red, esorebed appearance, which
left so doubt in his mind that the boiler had became over
which overheating waa the cause of the explosion.
Be said that it could not have arisen through the pressure
of the steam on the plates.
The Jansen was adjourned. The other wens esricoesly
injured by the explosion are recovering.

Letters from Odessa, quoted by the 'avoidance
Beige, 'snoozes that is sonsequence of orders front the
Emperor Aleraodsr a wonsaission of ingoisy has boon ap-
pointed at Kim to &adds on the fate of each volunteers
I. the foreign logics serving the Wolters Powers as rasp
bs taken toilworn ; Mess ntso, it is said, will not be eon•
sidered prisoners of war. Hungarians La this eategory
will be delivered up to Aostria. - _

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The director of the new opera-house at Tonis is
at Milan organising a eompany.
FATAL ACCIDENT IN THIS Toni TRINITY °AI-
I:MIN.—Os Friday evening, between six sod Nina o'clock,
as saddens of a fatal ekaracter occurred to a lad, mailed
Joke Beveridge, sight can of see, the is. of a widow re-
siding fa Unieemart, Tsisity-Ime. For some time past s
number of youths base massed themselves by larkiag"
at the Wesleyan chapel sad aim beildisp sow is mares of
enemies I. the Trinity-Aardens, whoa the workmen have
Taft off their employ for the day; sad ea Friday sight, es
usual, there ems seversl lads sasemlisell ter the wpm of
iambi; all sorts of peaks, Bored* befog smart Me
number. He nu acmes as. Wank elf& will Newt W
flooring is • mom of am of Om balkiimp, sad dem se
seeded a ladder nada be siellieddle cep et the hew. It
befog dark at Oa sima. the erksegy path missed hie feet.
lag imssedisealy after be gained dmesammit, and fell head-
long lam the miler bemath, • disouree awards of forty
feet. Assistance wee promptlyall band, let the lad died
Omar immediately, his body emeftelly bruited sad
leeeralute sod revs& of his ribs fib enittleted
seeps WM takes hose to his widowed wettacr. sad ea be.
geset was hold apes the body as Saturday, whom a verdict
we siren to dm effect that the doomed was tosad with
esreala mortal wounds epee his e, bat that the *Mears
wee imafteiwat teams new Perer smaid.—Torkshin-
Moh