The Express.
London, England, 1848-12-27 00:00:00

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OBTUNIINENI EXTRAORDINAIit—In the course of a
minion case, lately tried by Mr. justice Erle, a number of
old and net very brilliant witni sees were examined, to prove
the :tent and mode of working a mine. The following
dialogue took plc e between one of them and Mr. Junea,
the barrister engaged for the pEsoner :-1111. James: " Now,
you say you worked at the mine?"—Witness: " Em, sir."
—Mr. James : " How did you work?"—Witness: " Why it
was woorked oop and down, you know—this way, that way,
t'rr her way, foot ridden way—ding it, every way." (Loud
laughter )--Mr. Jams: " I must melees I don't under-
stand you." —Witness: I think I spoke plain one."
(Loud laughter.)—Mr. James: " No doubt you did, bat the
I stupidity m on my side, not on yours."—Witome : "That's
it. You are quoit stupid. (S. ars of laughter.) You coons'
ouderatand Nieliati." (Continued laughter.) The Judge
" If we had been fa the habit of working in mines, deo-M-
-ims your language would be perfectly intelligible, bat as it
is we cannot understand you."— Witmer : " Well, I mune'
epake ony plainer. Dmg me if ever I seed such stupid
people atom I left pit." Some further attempts were made
by the learned counsel to obtain a rauf.! definite viewer to
the question, but it was "no g and the evilness was at
length told to leave the box, watch he did apparently with a
still stronger .moviction than before of the natural and irre-
mediable obtuseness ofjwine, Jury, counsel, and auditory.

POACHTNO ATNIAT.—Ou the morning of the 22nd
instant, the servants of Mr. Wiliam Femme, of Shawdow.
hall, neer Aluwiek, were alarmed by beefing the reports of
the guns of a gang of poachers in the Holly Shrubberies
•u•r muting the home, dud w. tit and reused the kvekar, Mr.
o,orge Thompeon, and others living upon the premises.
Thompson, with five assistants, went tom pert of the grounds
which, kora its abouudiug with pheasants, he thought

would be the plata to what the poacher world meet proba-
bly direst their etas ; and before waiting many awes
they WV WAN me approaching. When they Gann a&
neatly near Thompson seised the foremen, sad afterwards
a second, sad while straggling with them, mon of the
pandas, seven la number, sod all snarl, Doming up,
Thomases we. =ask with a biog.= end hank= down,
when they kielted sad beat him moat drernifelly. While
the eaglet was going on, the pasha =dieted
some woade upon themaalves which wen in-
tended for the keeper. Oa of them, when so sank
and out Be islet, it is Jen." In the Wife which took
place eae of the pasha made a blow with the batt.end of
his gsa, sad repeatiag It brae the sleek ; in broalar, the
pan want nil, bet =Aa ri, aim* &rag farther injury
I then burning the bee pert d the elelMs isf the man who
used it. The same ea, with the slalom& mode a blow
at the heed of Mr. Paweem's eseehmee, who partially
warded It of with hie ank ad la se debg eseerned so severe
a Now ea the darn that be hoe bees unable he use it =toe.
Two of thelneaftecealernmaamaid Tatabalisail Wilson,
were also knoched awl Meshiedead , sad while Thompson
and nay were am weepemerod, the other aseileale ran
away, leaving the palm mestere of the Sal, gad the
whole escaped at the See; bat slam then thee. Mn
have
been arrested at Alai* by the pollee, ea graspidea. Os
the 26th, they weretaken to ilkawdea, whey* Themplos lies
dangerously ill, when two of them wen ideal= as bag
the leaden of the party the one James Renwick, as being
the man with whom Thompson grappled; the other, Thomas
Hewey, as the man who ethnic the coach.cus with the gun.
The third men apprehended I. named Shelley. The three
men have been remanded to Alnwlek Horne of Correction.

STAITORIKIIKE.
COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—Six LIVIA LOST.—A dia-
estrous incident occurred at Bent,lee Colliery, in the occu-
pation of Messrs. Hawley, Bridgwood, and Co. shoot three
miles from Henley, on the morning of the 22nd lent A party
of workpeople, consisting of five men and • boy, were
drawling the abaft, about six o'clock, wires the Unk of the
chain to which the cons was attached broke, and the unfor-
nate people were precipitated to the bottom, a depth of 120
yards, and killed on the spot. The 11•111111 of the sufferers
are Joseph J nue, of Lonnion,•msnied man with one child;
William Cotton, of Lonwon, a married man with four chit.
dren; Thos. Britta, of Wseherwell, single man; Charles
Horl, stone, of Wasberwall, a Earned man with ens child ;
William Winn:ince, of Bentlloe, a married man with three
children ; and Joseph Derrloote, a lad of fourteen. Four
widows and nine fatherless children have thus to mourn a
melancholy bereavement. The pit is 130 yards deep, and is
worked by a flat chain. Ono party of six had descended in
safety before the accident occurred. The breakage was at
what is technically termed the " clevet link," at the end of
' the chain, which is col eider,' an improvement on the hook
to which the corfe was formerly attached. At the time of
the accident the carte was about ten yards down the pit.