The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-03 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL•

INCREASE OF THE COMMERCE OP LIVERPOOL.—It
is a gratifying proof of the increase of the commerce of this
port, even under unfavourable circumstances, that the town
dues show an increase of 12,0001, on the year ending Aug.
31, 1847, in comparison with the preceding twelve months.
They have this year produced 52,0001. (in round numbers),
whilst last year they only produced 80,0001.
FREE-TRADE CONGRESS OP ALL NATIONS.—A
meeting of free traders was held on Saturday, at the League-
roonts,lteinter, when it was agreed that W. Brown,
Esq., M.P., be requested to represent the free traders of
Lancashire at the fres•trade congress of all nations, to beheld
at Brawl en Sept. 16.
YORKSHIRP.

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OPINION OF it JURY. ON COLLIERY EXPLOSIONS.
—An inquest was held on Tuesday at the Worsbro' Dale,
near Barnsley, on the bodies of Daniel Beevon, aged 30
years, who has left • wife and four children, and John
Cawthorne, aged 20 years, the two men we named as being
severely burnt on Friday last —W. Ellis, employed at the
Darby Main Colliery, said he and Beevon went into the pit
last Friday morning about half-put five o'clock. We met J.
Thompson, the fireman. Beevors went down the levels to-
wards hie work, which is • good distance from the bottom;
it is in the twelfth boardgate. Thompson never told Bauer'
that he was not to go to the piece where he had been
working. Can't tell whether Thompson bad been through
the works that miming or not. There is a good air where I
work; can't say se of any other place. It was Thompson's
duty to have told Beevon not to have gone if there
was any danger. —C. Hammond : I was working in
the next hole to where Cawthorne and Beevors
were working about six o'clock. My hole is about 30 yards
from theirs. Beevors shouted to my brother, and told him
his tinnier had brought one of the Oaks lamps with him.
The blast went off in two or three minutes after. I was •
little burnt, Beevors and Cawthorne severely. I was 30
yards from them when it went off. Can't tell the cause,
Can only blame the low steward, who had been told about
putting:eome boards up in the face of the boardgate, to drive
some air, which would came bock on the other aide of the
slit. Beevors, in my hearing, asked Thompson two or three
times to put some boards up. Thompson said he could not
that day, but would send somebody to do it. He has asked
him two or three times within the last fortnight.
We call the British boards. If the boards bad
been pat op, 1 moot certainly think the explosion
would mot have taken place. Don't know that the
mom haw refused to work in consequence of the boards not
Mpegiinat up. Both. had Davy lamps. I saw them.
said every time he would send somebody to put
the herds up. The boards were 20 yards too short.—The
Coroner Uwe said, I think nothing ought to be spared on the
part of the proprietors to make the works properly venti-
lated, and to prevent those accidents as much as possible,
for no persons' lives ought to be placed in jeopardy for the
sake of a few boards, but everything that science
end experience can do to prevent ouch occurrences
ought to be used.—John Parsons stated that Beevors
said to him, when going out, if the board had been
up the accident would not have happened. Believed if the
slit had been opened out the explosion would. not have
happened. It was Beavers' duty to have opened the slit a
isetaight since.—Mr. Look stated that he went through the
workings last Wednesday, and all was in a good stilts of
ventilation, and his opinion was that Beevore not finishing
dm slit was the muss of gar. accumulating, and so of the ex-
plosion ; therremm so was/on for boards until the slit was
properly eqsamand thin a sheet would have been nem-
ury.—l maid, I goround every place in a morn-
ing, said I a phial which is not right safe for the men
to week im nem a token for them to keep bade. On Friday
as I weergenson&this works I found Beevon' boardgate,
mush; wham I litho* to the bottom I rapped fcr the men
to owns dawn. I am sure when Beevors came down I told
him Misplace was not fit to work in. The next news I
heard was the explosion. Had left • pair of plates across the
imitennits state 13th boardgate, es a token. There was no
am with him when he paned me at the bottom. I will
swear that Beevon never asked me to
of the 13th Ber retalatony boards up to
to amp ea the sir the tics ms
waarlted me he would go into the slit. wthoess was
Beevors. Their lamps were dirty that morn-
ing.—Geerga H. Smith, surgeon, attended the deceased :
they wen completely roasted. About three quarters of an
hour before Beevon died, and was expecting to die, he
stated voluntarily to me that, if the boards had been put up,
which he had asked Thompson to do, to convey the air to the
face of the workings, the pit would have been in a working
condition, and he should have been well —J. Eletone and seve-
ral others corroborated the statement of Thompson in several
particulars. The witnesses were then called into the room,
and confronted one with another, each adhering to his own
statement.—The Coroner said he never met with more gross
perjury than he had heard during this inquiry. He should
leave it to the jury to judge which was the party.—He then
called Wm. Cooper, Esq., who said he had heard the evi-
dence; in his opinion the alit ought to have been cut
through ; had it been done no explosion would have taken
place.—The Coroner summed up in an able manner ; and,
after • lapse of thirty-five minutes, the jury returned a ver-
dict of " Accidental death," adding, " through the nume-
rous accidents at this pit there must be some neglect on the
part of the managers."—A correspondent says, in a post-
script, I have just been informed that the managers of the
shove colliery have given some of the witnesses notice to
quit their employment, for giving their evidence at the
inquest."
LINCOLNSIEIRE.
STAMPORD.—Two pieces of plate are to be pre-
rented to Mr. Rolt, Q.C., the liberal candidate for this
place at the late election, who endeavoured to break down
the influence by which Lord Exeter returns whomsoever he
pleAlte to put forward. Oae piece of plate has been sub-

scribed for by the non electors; and the funds for another
piece ere in course of collection from the electors.
DI:MAIL
_

Sin ROBET PEEL was complimented on Wednesday
at Darlington, by the presentation, in the Town-b►ll of that
place, of a congratulatory address upon his visit to the north.
In his reply to Mr. Pease, late lI.P. for South Durham.
who was spokesman on the ouuien, the ea. premier stated
that his visit to the north was one of friendship, and that he
did not expect to here to make any public demonstration of
thanks ; but it would, be said, have been an ill return for
their kindness if he had net thanked them in the wee moat
satisfactory to themselves. Sir Robert cantiously abstained
from alluding to public matters, and after partaking of ban-
' them, started for Wynyard.
_

A CASE OF SUPPOSED MURDER is in course of in-
veatigation at Pattuipham. An Irish labourer, named
Larkin, had been at work in the neighbourhood, when he
was suddenly missed. His brother received the money due
to deceased, and then he also left tke place. The body of
Larkin has eines been found in • pond with a mark of • blow
on the head. A jury commenced an inquiry on Monday,
but the proceedings were adjourned till the 6th inst.
itORCENTERSHIRE.

DISMISSAL OF VirOIIEME-74 FOB CONSCIENTIOUS
VOTING.—Under this heading a correspondent of the Wor-
cester Chronicle states that two of the workmen employed
by an extensive glove manufacturing firm have loot their
employment, because they voted for the libend candidates at
the recent election. The week after it took place they were
sent adrift with this observation from one of their em-
ployers—" You had better go to the friends you Nerved hut
week, as they may serve you this." The men were never
solicited by their masters to vote for the tory candidate,
neither was any intimation given them that they irould be
expected to vote for him. Prom this they supposed they
were free to do se they pleased, and never dreamed of being
discharged for not voting on the same side as their masters,
when these masters had failed to signify that such was their
desire. " Suppose," continues this local advocate for free
voting, "by way of following ant this pernicious system of
coercing opinion by the fear of lining the means of sub-
airtime., some of the great London glove houses, as Morri-
son's or Leaf's, for instance, the heads of which are gene-
, rally known to be supporters of liberal prineipl. s, especially
the two great firms I have mentioned, were to lay down a
rule not to deal with any manufacturers who held political
opinions in contradiction to their own, and for that reason
were to avoid dealing with your neighbours. I am sure
they would consider the rule arbitrary and unjust, and argue
that the manufacture of a good article, and not the political
views or conduct of the manufacturer, should regulate the
relations of trade. I would recommend them to submit their
own conduct to the same test, and consider whether the
capability of a workman is not the proper consideration
which should govern his employment, and not the com-
plexion of hie politics or his vote at an election. lam aware
' that the best mode of checking these arbitrary practices is to
bring them before the public, and for this reason I solicit the
insertion of this statement in your paper."
WARWICESHDIF.
SHAKSPEABI'S HOUSE.—The Mayor of Birming-
ham (Miss Harriet Martineau's brother) presided at a public
meeting in that town on Wednesday evening, for the
of devising the most fitting measures for aiding in threr4
now being made to secure for the public the possession of
Shakespeare's house at Stratford. Of artisans and others in
similar circumstances (says our reporter) there was a goodly
attendance : and these manifestly felt a deep interest in the
proceedings. Of the wealthier classee,—magistrates, town-
councillors, and others of this genus, the attendance was
miserably ;mall. Of all the great and wealthy manufac-
turers of the town scarcely a dozen were in attendance to
aid in rescuing the only relic of the world's poet from the
showman. Stillthere were a few goodmen anal true, who have
taken the matter up in a spirit which induces the hope that
Birmingham will afford some assistance on so interesting an
occrisioo.—Mr. Charles liolte Bracebridge, who formed one
of a deputation from the Stratford committee, addressedtee, the
amemb in advocacy of the movemeut in —Mr. W. &hole-
field, M. ~ urged the claims upon the reverence of English-
men "of the greatest genius which this country ever pro
duced—the man who had taught his fellow-men the most
splendid lessons of wisdom and truth, and in whose pages
were to be found lessons of as pure beauty as in than of
the professed moralist. Yet (lie said) there was not one
national monument to meek sufficiently the gratitude of
his countrymen; and was it now to be said that
Englishmen would forget the -home and the haunts'
of the greatest of its poets ? and would England now
loge the opportunity of testifying its reverence for
the house in which there was ample evidence the poet
lived in his earliest years '—Mr. G. Dawson spoke in fur-
therance of the cane. He had relied, he said, on the re-
spectable portion of society (as it was phrased) in the town
toe much. The wealthier dames had probably their reasons
for thinking that it was not quite the time of day to patronise
Shekspeare ; or perhaps they would come in at the death—
all the labour accomplished--and say, " Yes, we do really
honour Shakepeare." He discussed the motive for desiring
possession of this relic: people desired naturally to have
some outward visible sign of the thing they reverenced. He
preferred the house as it stood; perhaps some people would
have it removed for some modern abortion like the Welling-
ton statue. Against this he protested. He asked for no new
monument of Shakspeare but of " the old house at home."
They had preserved to them one of the sources of Shak-
speare's thinking—the house in which he dwelt. He was one
of those men who had ever renovated things in this couatry
when they had grown seedy or decayed. Who had been the
mightiest of men in the land ?—not their kings nor their
warriors; it was such men as Shakespeare, who had touched
the feelings and the hearts of his fellow-men. He was hope-
ful that now Englishmen would unite in the endeavour
to rescue from the hands of a vulgar showman the
house of the greatest of their countrymen. Th, re was to
his mind something revolting in the idea of men fattening
upon dead Shakspeare ; it would be a disgrace to the nation,
and he hoped the effort now making to place the house in the
on of the nation would be completely successful.—
Vhlertei v. Dr. Raphale spoke earnestly of the poet's claims
upon the gratitude of his countrymen: his fame was beyond
their reach, and it was for them to say whether they would
allow the stigma to be east upon them, that they had
permitted the house of Stiskspeare to pass from their
hands, perhaps to be razed to the ground.—The Rev.
Edward Illingworth and others addressed the meeting in a
similar vein, and resolutions were carried to the following
effect:—That the preservation of the memorials of its great
men, and of the greatest events in its history, is an object
worthy of the interest and care of a great nation. That this
to especially the case with the relics of those who have exer-
cised a great and goodly influence in the formation of the
character of a people, and that foremost amongst them is
our national poet.—Shakespeare. Further, that the meeting
rejoices at the opportunity of making the house of Shalt.
epeaze's birth national property, and resolves to aid in the
effort now making for that purpose. A committee was
appointed to carry out the resolutions of the meeting, and a
considerable sum was subscribed by those present.
AN ADDITION TO THE LIST OF CHEAP NEWSPA-
PHU has been made by the reduction of the price of the
Birmingham MatleasiCounties Herald from tourism* to
threepence. This journal has long been known as one of the
best provincial newspaper properties in the kingdom. It
may be added that Newcastle has proved itself a town suffi-
ciently advanced to support a cheap newspaper—the New-
castle Advertiser being now published at threepence.
GLOUCESTELSKIRE.
CHELTENHAM ELECTION.—It is tinderatOod that
steps have been taken to contest the return of air IP-
loughby Jones, Bart., for this town. Counsel have been
retained and other preliminary proceedings adopted for an
inquiry into the alleged canes of bribery and treating.
SOME PAINFUL ausionns are afloat touching the
deaths of two girls, at the Cheltenham old workhouse. The
subject is of too delicate a nature, mays the local paper, to be
fully discussed in public • but it may be proper to say that
two deaths have occurred from disease,Winch have hod a
most strange and suspicions appearance. In one of the cases
no inquest was held ; but in the other, that of a child eight
years of age, an inquest was held on Saturday, but nothing
was brought forward which suffices to clear up the mystery.
It is stated that in the seeond ease no entry was made of the
child's fitness in the books of the union, and that its parent,
who is an inmate of the new house, was not aware of its
being ill until after its death.

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THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1847.