The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-11 00:00:00

THE EXPLOSION AT HEBBURN COLLIERY.

100 the eic bm den* din it pawn up the apeactahaft,
way bp_ mien of a selpiS. Ibi 4108 lie bigb,
aide' whet the dr eni esmu, Ina thnie is the ape*
shaft, without moles_ ner the theneese. The staple is
eight hat *meter. -The *darn asearred *tide • hw
yards tithe in, sad killed the um seat mad west of that
pet. Witaue idea was, theAgesalive height et man has
spem for the pole Mage is the laties above
be talk of the mirtent of dr. The minas
term for vadalation le " Miley.. The pit wee
worked am Saturday night, sad ressised on Tass-
els, **swing shoot live eckisk ; the maapassee et re-
sundae • work would be that the tabs and home would
men amnia the cement olds eighty yards math at the
punt of mploslon, and have the aims of delving mon air
'nod by Ow *dahlias., whisk mainnicated with the
hone read at the east sod. This Unease of air would
earry wltk it wgm whiskbail ledge& in the "adu-
lation, to the spot when the men wen working
with mad*, sal dos igailisa had tame owe.
The when et tb. pit tem worked with candles. The
only lamp ha roe we the kW. ham, which wee hand
in • pallet state after the saddest. The diarist where it
warred we *der the charge of Edward Low* •
deputy sad plate-layer, who went down about fast o'clock
in gt• *rang. He has bees killed by the et:plosion.
He probably *aid go near the place wane it occurred.
his would have a asked esatila. No person had hen work-
ing ma the previoss evening in that pat of the pit, but
men were employed shifting the rails about 300 yard, net
of the plan where the *platen- is supposed to have
originated. Jana Heppell and Richard Br.:.ek mats
out of dm pit that morning at four o'clock ; the men who
anemeded them at work were killed. Whams thought
the gas had accumulated from the fees of the whole oval.
Bad sever found soy gas there before, and had so me-
picioa there WY any, or it comld easily Dave bees re-
moved, by reducing the area of the inane way by a
deed Watt*, from twelve feet to six feet high, ar ander,
the ordinary height of the .em t so that what a rasa or
tub pined under it, the air would have beef toned above
the breaks, sad es have removed any gas that might
have amtuaelated. Had known CAM where this had been
don. Had heard ao complahat of inanaciant ***ibis.
[The Coroner appealed to the oversee and others is the
nom, who all declaim' that thetener hard any emplane.]
Sunday was • very lot day. Was down oe the Monday, on
which day there we a great deal of thunder, and this fact,
he said, might have caused the gm to accumulate.
Tee Mown was adjourned.
It evens that several explosions have Iv-fore taken plan
in this colliery. Testy-three years ago upwards of tarty ia-
dlvidaals were ktheill la this meaner, in 1806 fire line, and
in 1814 or 1816 ma or alma lime ware loot.
In the onto el lecithin as to the situation of the wives
sod *di* nit e w iens by at late calamity, one pecu-
liarly Oatmeal/ ems became Mews. It was that of a woman
aimed *mak who loot her husband sad seam Wednesday
monelsett, eke having, • few day. Imam burled another eau
rapidly appremidog meakeed, sad who was herself endued
our the evesing proem*, the exploit* We hope that la-
mediate wan will be takes to adonis* timely relief to
the &strewed. Oa Thursday allinass the remains of 28 of
the deceased were buried in the enwehyard at Jarrow.
There was • large amasses of enstatere, I. whom minds
the sone evidently noted a deep *ling.

ANOTHER INQUEST ON A MORMON
PATIENT.

At Cardiff ore Wednesday, en inquest wan held on
the toady of a child named Girlie Howe. aged Piz yeari.
The tether of the child (says the Carder Guardia) is a
coal-beaver. He is aloe r oognbed as • teacher in the aeon.
Woos of the Lattar-dey Sainte. He and • shetmaker,
named George Taylor, a demon with the saints, were pre-
ens at the inquest, se it bad been alleged that the child's
death was 'aestivated by theireatment it had ronived dar-
ing its illness at the Made of its parents and Taylor.
Harriet Brod said—ties. Bowe was taken very ill on
Whit-Monday. Eike was looking dangerously ill. She was
not in bed, but was arise between men and women. She
besame worse ; and was pat to bed on Whit-Tuesday, when
I saw her. She was mask oramped. Mr. Paine, sarceen,
Was sun Tor cm WhitMosday. He asked Mr. Howe if she
would take mediskse, and the said, "no." Mr. Paine gave
mime for me to some for medicine for my husband, who was
and I went Ia to ask Mn. Howe if I should bring
her some the same time. She, or her husband, said they
would fast in • better physicion. Oa Saturday mooting
her husband told sae that she was better, bat that kis
Wile girl had bee. taken very ill. I went out to our
yard two or three thaw; and I could hear the child
piaifully. I saw her father on Monday, sad asked
t rait the child had had say doctor ; cad he said, " No, the
child would come as wall se km mother did." I saw Mr.
Paine on Tuesday moraine, and I asked him if he would go
sad see the child : he went directly. I had not seen the
child ohm, bat I could hear her 'nautili I was most feint-
ing from her serums and moms. I heard her father say,
" Hush, Cecilia," when she would bowling or moaning. I
Bald not stand to beer bee trim. George Taylor said the
" saints " mould not sorry out their work as long as tiara
were evil spirits I. the hones; she were his child be
would take her into a room whore so spirit or devil should
sir her. Oa Tuesday alternates her father brought me a
powder, and asked me to give it to her. I told him it wee too
late to give anything: he ought to have thought of that
before. He said—" No, no : medical men could not save
the child's life if it was to die." I told him I did not see
anything but death io the child. I told hint the first
thing is Tuesday morning that I was sure the child was
going fast. George Taylor said the child should not die.
He said that a quarter of an hoar before the child died.
He asked me if -I would turn tie their religion if the child
lived ? I told hies I would venture to do anything if It
did. By his rellgion he meant that of the " Latter day
Saints." He told ma he would keep the and alive m
dames of all evil spirits. He was disturbing the child
ow, much, and hindering It from dying by his hallooing
sad scarmoking for God to keep the child alive. H. said
that so medicine was to be tires to the child. I heard
him several times advise the Esther and mother not to let
medicine be given to the child. lam quit* sure of that.
Whoa I heard the father checking the child in her agony
for moaning, I thought I should bare fallen down. I could
hear the latter-day saints in the boom, but act see them.
The substance of Taylor's prayers was for God to restore the
Child is perfect health to her father and mother, as they
ware not willies for her to go, It was three o'clock on
Tuesday afternoon when I was requested to give the child
the powder and her death took place at about six the seam
main. When the was shutting her eyes in dying, Geo
Taylor mid as bow she would bogie to move soon. I said
the would never mac
Mr. Poise, surgeon, said—On Tuesday, about noon, be
found desessed in a halTermsatose state, sad in an almost
insensible condition. She was very mach exhausted, and
very low. He went to see the child In consequence of
Moberg been told by the neighbours that she had been ill
some days, and shrieked dreadfully. The child's mother
told Mr. Paine that it was wicked to Merton in eases
of sickness, as if people were to get well they would, irre
ono ive of human egeney. Upon a sabseqeent occasion
Kr. Paine told eke " saints " who were in the house that it
was wail to allow • poor infant to lie in that state with-
out attempting to do anything to mitigate her sufferings.
I have so hesitation in sal*, that her death wee accelerated
by ambit. The child died from exhaustion, produced by
exeserive waling hem vomiting and purging. I folly
believe that if proper attention had been paid to her, her life
would have been spared.
The Coroner said that if an adult were to refuse
medicine, or to suffer a earned mu to wait upon him,
sad were to die is eassequeom, the cue would be very
different from this. Ia tries case, • child of tender yeses
was rued with a gainful Wane—eke was too young to
think and sat he Unodf-4be was is the lands of her
naberal probriess, who were bound by the laws of God and
man to take mow of bee; but they had not done so. The
thilffe death had been sommisethei by their mandatet ; and, in
point el kiw and romman as... as well, they must be held
tragotribie lee the melt. It would not do to plead eon.
saleatiesto semegles. Parents might murder their children,
U mash pima were admitted, and allege that they knew
their thildren would be hater off in another word—that
they would be here exposed to all the treenpeations of sin ;
sod the& their eonoolenees prompted *ma to destroy their
elipsieg. He (the Coroner) thought it would be diagram
to admit seek Sew
Aker remising in deliberatkin for nearly three boom
the jury returned as their verdist thee the r ind, " Died by
the visitailea of God."

Ai *wet ow thirty-two of the seers by this
agreawas held at ilobbsia • Wrimmisy
ltillima Haman!, et Jarrow. salsa Ora be was
surgeon to the colliery. Moat 1 Vasa sa the pis
marbles be was mat km is eamtquars al as trairdes. Hs
had ezariasi the bodies el snare! of the psalm Med,
rase at who wen burst, sad
Ohms shelled by As saes
Asap. AI the errs bad balsa dot/eyed by the bin al IM
1/18- • •
maws BA who we. is the pit at ths time stile explo-
des, Ina mat sailed. He stated that oil he gab say was,
that he week be pit at the dais ; M adt tha wird, sad was
Yanked bath, it. He Mew as awn about it. Hs had
Whims to ase drat the issasesuiest or ',Bristle* el the
alt. Had arab heed et say casiglidst of the vsatiladaa.
The sir was seal fa the part of the pit where he wee weak.
be; be marked with a asked simile. Did sot see say
warms= ea the sessube at the *missies ; the vastness
wart drib half sea hear bilfase him. •
Xs. lastas, views sad pet somas ebbe pit, dersegthst
st ths ties of the bieg tif the pit the sea Were irsehlw
the Barham seem of Ms Alit eslieb, the 4181114 et ~i
Is 1111 Mbar. The dlanstse able Alb es annassat
shaft is 11 flat lands; the 0 pit es sprat theft is are 13
far air, sad 145 Whams bib _ It is about 840 yordelbria
the dowager to the apertsbab That is the arose &WO
by the
boa
seats. The 7.441 s lad irsyslied ebbs 1.11111
yenis boa the doinrset dolt to the plea wings Ihe
ids Seek pima, whitest purse thisielt say
Mehl of the mast it, ea as re=dBstbst_ilvieltsfig
abreirsit ebbe tile
dr tsar& braeast to war, sea el where Usk
pins the sear umbras swab sad thus sable*. lab
beta est out, sad radioed ha atirsiekt Has. TM MOM ef
voutliadas is by gliraillie pima at Ohs Orb Th..
fames sus would nee the Mal essibe, deb rho assiitat

TUX EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 11, 1849.

be taken out of the list of the navy Vigilant, Soppy, sod
Cosseck, et.-mmals. Ordered, to be built, at this. port ; Fer-
mat sad Florentine, st.-vemals, ordered to he built at
Woolwich ; Cludkages, corvette, Biter and Boxer. R.-vemerh,
sad two ser.-eteecheroners, ordered to be built at Chatham.
I—The Corn meant war talus out of harbour on Friday to be
tried prior to being reported at fm envies. The num
5T of foss rasa at the 'assented mile in Stoke's Bay win
ots—ik• onlino• working exceedingly well. The speed
war nearly a Let more than when in commission before
redtted.—Tensagest, se.-et. frigate, built by White, wee
takm cat of the basin cm Thursday, and placed absinths
the jetty.
07111011 07 SITPIIIIIITZIIDIII7 07 TSB 807111_61IPTON
Paccar STATtOX.—By the death of Admiral Hill, the
mere of whisk nuked the Admiralty on Friday last,
Sir Jobs Goods* SS Bart., the senior captain on
the naval list, has &Mimed kb deg. He has, therefore, re-
signed the MN et Admiralty Superintendent of the South-
ampton FltaYut Made. The duties of thh aloe are to me
that thohimmemm amid peelrAM heinnOiu to the Pealasular
and Orients,. Royal Wash Beal Mai and the New
South Wu". airom lierigadent Cbsepany, leave South-
aniptCla ameedisg to the tem, at the government contracts
and to despatch a lientinent if the Royal Navy in charge of
the fees* mans im Dowd each matrect packet. He has
nearly Mier mama UNISIIIMIS Malt him, who ue engaged
in the Pwalsoolor, Modboosoassa. Boot and West India, and
China mail prime stations. Au addition to this force will
shortly, he required for the Bresitisn and Australian
mail station. The salary of the Alailralty Superin-
tendent in the south and weal of Busload has been reach
redseed sins* the removal of the packet station from Fal-
mouth to Southampton—it is Row 6001. a year; a boat's
crew is allowed him, and his name is borne oa the Victory's
books, by which be gains his sea-time. Three parties have
been named who are likely to succeed Admiral Sinclair at
Southampton. vin., Capture Bowyer, Duff, arid Smith.
Captain Benet, we believe, bracts claim en the present
t, b i
ty vies bola
a Sir many years
South ope
Hof the hailers of
rwrgriraparn Bembimptoh ea. ants. Captain
Smith is the inventor of the paddle-box boats, and the Ad-
miralty are indebted to him in the elm of several thousand
pomade for thew et his patent.