The Express.
London, England, 1856-07-17 00:00:00

THE STEAM TRANSPORT SPARTAN.

ADMIRALTY, JOLT 17.
Ths following intelligence ham this day been re-
calved from Bear-Adrairal the Hoe. Sir M. Stopford :
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"Oa the might of the 11th of July, bar Majesty's
steamer Bbassreater, and Mali transport City of London,
arrived at Malta from Tanis; the former with
1 dicer and 196 men, mad the letter with 10
°Mem, 620 mew, 1 lady, 1 child, sod 6 henna, all of the
Land Traasport Corps, that had been wrecked in the stele
transport Bpattan."

GENERAL CODRINGTON AND MARSHAL
PELISSIER.

Accounts from Constantinople to the 9th, received
ant Bucharest, announce that Marshal Pslimier bad landed
at the Golden Horn from the Crimea. The Bahia has had
two palaces, as well as two magnificent equipages, prepared
'for the Marshal and General Codrington, and the Grand
Vizier is to preside at a grand banquet which is to be gives
to them previously to their departure.
♦ litter font Odessa of thi 3rd, says :—" A law days
ego, nearly 6,000 Turkish prisoners miming from Kars
arrived here; and at nine o'clock this atoning, General
Codrirgtoa, the Comzaander-ia•Chief of the English atmay
In the Crimes, arrived here unexpectedly. No preparation
bad been made for ►is reception, sad all that could be done
was to fire a seats of tweaty-four gunairom the Clementine
Battery, which is t►e may one now standing. Genital
eudrington hes been invited to dine with General Leder@
to-day, and to-morrow the Bagl,sh club will give him a
grand Imaciset. It is said that the general intends to me
main here for sense days, sad then to proceed to Baliklava."

THE DREADFUL COLLIERY RXPLOSION NEAR
CARDIFF. - ONE HUNDRED AND TEN
LIVES LOST.

The lose of life by the explosion of Bre-damp in
Cramer collie ry,msationed in yesterday's Nzpress,was feu-
fel. Ons hundred and sixteen men and boys went down to
thoir ue■l work on Tuesday morning, after the '. firemen"
had pronounced all oats, and only six returnel alms.
Almost every bolus has its bitter mourner and its dead
body.

Mr. George Owerton, of Merthyr, commenced his legal-
sides yesterday morning et the Ty Newydd, or New home
ion, at the upper end of the valley, Mr. Instill, the proprie.
tor of the colliery, beitg tresent, and a highly respectable
jar,.

This Caton** explained, In reading ever the list of jaron,
that he was always 111111i0111 in each oases to ►ave souse wi-
thin on the jury, that practical knowledge might be brought
'to hear upon the investigation.

The jury then proceeded to view the bodies, which lay
amid their sorrowing relatives, at their bosses in various
parts of the valley. The spectacle in the great mejwity of
ewe was frightful, The mi.jor part of the unfortunate de.
erased having met their deaths from the firs, not the oink*.
damp, the Limier teasing the body to become charred, and
literally 'wanted to almost a cinder, while the "damp'.
canoes death by suffocation, and leaves but little trace upon.
the countenance, except an expression like that of sleep.
It appeen that on Tuesday morning, 116 or 117 men and
boys went down into the eyeliner pit. The two firemen.
whose duty it was to the ph, to weertain if there
wee nay foul dr or gas, reeacended at about six o'clock, pro-
nossedeg the pit safe. In less than en hour after—indeed,
before some bad stripped off tbe:r clothes to commeatel
work—the gae expl:ded, end the affrighttd people ran
hither and thither for a few moments. Thee one fell is
the dark, and others staggering along stumbled on their
dead oompanioes, and fell dead also. Here, emus was
straggling mid the tortures of the fire ; there a tram full
of boys, all deal ; and in other places, in sidings or niches in.
the level, men bed sat down to await their fearful doom,
sad bad died with their elbows resting to their knees and
their faces buried in their bands. Some hid struggled
forward, no doubt hoping t s reach the airways and pomibly
escape.

Whoa tba report of We explosloo was heard on the no.
(moot was too well apprehended what had occurred.
Rumour says that fur a day or two previously iadicatioaa
bad been given of what was about to occur. .Bluwen,"
or maul explosions algae, had taken place. Two doorways
had bean blown down only on the previous day, and then
wore too many reasons to believe, from the quantity of
elesarioity wit° watch the air bad been charged, that as ex-
piates of a more satinets's nature might tab. plug. This
woe too tally verified.

The lemmas of the wives and mothers at the mouth of
the pit congregated there to await sad recognim the
dead—es daring the beg interval that ensued be-
tween the period when the first intelligence of the explo-
sion spread ou Tuesday morning till the last body we.
brought out on the morning of Wedneeday—were frightful
sad distrmaing. All day lung the bravo &noes who ven-
tured down, almost in the face of death, to bring up*,
deed, seat up the bodies of the unfortunate mos and boys
who had perished, and when them were brought to the ear.
fens the recognitim of a beloved husband or darlieg child
awoke harrowing cries. On Wednesday morning the 110th
body was brought out, sod it was lel t to orjecturs wheats,
say still lay in the p:t of death. It was supposed, however,
that all who had perished were now brought up.
Workmen were immediately put on to supply coffins for
the dead. There they were, working hastily with the save
and plane, to construct rade shells in which to deposit the
aelormasta dead in their untimely graves, amid therewith •
°reeve people, still weiusg to tea the lest of the dreadtel 7.
eataitrophs.

laepactor of colleriee, Mr. Evans, is
gaged in fully elucidating the facie.
The iaquest is adjourned 14 a fortnight.
It one home ore lying Ave bodie., and of echoic of singers
wide had attained considerable local alebrity, under the
name of the " Forth Choir," duly one male member is WO,:
silts. The 'bole of the male members of. dissenting shape'
slo • at hand am also numbered among the deed. Year"
years hays elapsed since any accident cf a very striated
nature has moaned in this valley, which is celebrated**
its coking coal, and from which the Greet WINANS
railway derives the supply for its locomotive pewee. The r
last explosion of a sweeping character was oas in 1863, tit
t►e Middle Dyffryik Colliery, near Aberdare, when sixty-
four men were killed.

The alteration of witness box and jury box in the
Crown Court at Worcester were the object of Mr. Hama _
Alden a's special °Natation on Tuesday. He sad-.
" Gentlemen of the jury, if I bed a telescope I might ISO
you., and if I bad a trumpet I might speak to you. Yon
look as if you were congregated together is a cheese
master—l sear saw asythlag a, ugly is my life. W.
shall never have a court properly construeted till we try two
or three architects In mule of their own building, when
they can see and bear nothing."
.•
RETURN or MR. JOHN FROST.—Thia gentleman'
having naiad her Majesty's unconditional pardon, arrived .;
at Liverpool from N.w York on Saturday. He looked in '
eatrellent health, and came to town to pay his ackeowledr °
mean to Mr. Thomas Duneorabe, 24. P , Sir Joshua
Welemley, end other gentlemen, for their exertions in
behalf, sad was present is the House of Commons during
the diesassion on the affairs of Italy on Monday last. B.
has lbw joined las family, who are raiding aver Bristol.
He states that Williams sad Pass, he believes, will aerl
avail themselves of her Majesty's pensions's to ratan is
listglend, as they are doing so will in Tumuli', the (onset
lasing ~gaged in mining, with a large number of nsa to
bin eisploymost, and the latter keeps a tavern with a `.

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prosperous trade. I
The Biarle says that Beringer, the poet, hie had a'
ematorresgo, but km sow so far roomed es tout's, ao foa-
--
I,thot anoosisoos to lab 'AWOL ,
A letter from Stuttgart, in the Paris Manikin.. f
says :—.. The Bowyer Dowocer of Rook mottoes, to kg,
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obilassefloial effects of the waters of Wafted. She si..._
peas a part of the time at the villa with the Prieto* Royal. ‘..
nor delights r, and afterwards proceed to Friedrichebsfor., am i
'the basks of the Lake of Cosetarco, to visit the Qtestrat -.
• Wartenbars. Her Imperial blejesty will afterwards ate
MIS SI -Wildbad, and remain there lentil the middle of -
Loges% when she will Isar* fir Ifoecow, to be pretest as
tiseilMlNltiOil of the Emperor. Fria* Peter of Olden-.
was expected at Wildhad "
' • kin days ago, M. d'Oubril, first secretary to tha '•
Itatimey at Vaasa, was driving a phsati sat fa
7itiws
dose the striate, to the Imminent dapper of the tool. ' '
, whea a polio mac, in the exercUe of his del,
Copps him, sad tail him bet'ore the neamileary of rola& ' •
H. d'Oalonl'oomplied with a good grace, and did sot plead
Ms diplomat* station; and, oa the attire head, the polies. 7
authorities 'visaed " becoming respect."
The following passage occurs in an order of ale,
Isy of the Russian earful ectamanding the 3rd corps ad
iataatry, which rental* provisionally in the Crimea. It',
refers to the burying pleas or the allies :—'• li they lava i!
hoes oar enemies they have sot the Wes bees brave sass ;
oho, as well tt thitailiatts of oar countrymen as these ene.e3
papas, have died as heroes ea the field of bosour.
were sea who preferred loom* sod their country ill.
the poesessiois of the earth, and this is why it * a sacialis,
dety for serfs one to boomer the memory of these brays.:
ioleiers ea we bean* that of oar own comrades." -is
• TUB PACED. or EWE rr,—A letter in the Timis '.
from AtineaSna, dated the 8 h, says:—" The positios of:
the Paella of Iv pt with fogad to the Sultan he,, devise,
he less lays weeks, %adage* a materiel insprovesissL
e days after the arrival here of Heschid P.cha, • A
estkiets !teaser of wer made her 'marline., hash's ea '..
id an es voy from the Sultan, woo breogtit to Said.
alba a 'greed end a robe of homier, to his son a ewrrd and -
tide of Pasha, shd three letter., sealed with the Selena%
seal, -ethic& ware *tidally reed at the Naha's Pala e Ks
SIM, a the penises of all the Egyptian setbentin sad n
}gnat mast* of troops. Them lei ten piece the Poch* !
kale ea a very friendly footing with the Sults., sad that;
soarport of theft wee—l, to thank Said Pasha for the es.-
dramas stalled by Egypt darisg the late war; 2, to Raw
lessee to him the feealusisa of the war; stud 8, tsl
sesesspeay ibe presorts. Said Paths seemed mash gretsdad:
'sy the honour thus shows him, his Righoew received OW
otters sad poses* sills the greatest marks of rnpeet, MAI
is evidently more at sem thee when be was es cool tirewri
-- - + go,isige. - - - ,he win bays ay
•or the . Hie see selsk
i of the Nghtien,
, octanes of the La- .
ateglish Dune, away.
i remarkable thing thee.'
seradosee gtvb.ealthek
\ Witlitalt. thee
--d it was strange th;
J awls coolideseeps,
tassel/luau of *Via*

brlete
eteeties or tie sheoleet
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the aushltar /1104
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