The Express.
London, England, 1865-11-09 00:00:00

Ind countenance in the constant and urgent

ILOOR CFHLDIUDI Or WM WARD SCHOOLS OW
1565.' " FARRIBODON

Imre in charge of Mr. Carter and Mr.
rag of the school, and Mr. Simpson, Mr.
od Mr. Chambers, C.C. The gallery eon•
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wu gailydees eated, sad a tenet wu
net, inscribed "We welcome otir beloved
ayar ;" end also another which was pre.
hoot by hie lordship. There we. no reply
It was lewd impracticable to march the
wires in Newgate-street, and seats were
at the back of the children, of their
ly enlivened the company.
the procession some 300 or 400 of the
in the metropolis immediately followed
ayor's carriage, and .rommitted the
tut outrages arm the thousands
who lined the pavement. The
on, knocking women and child's' downs
men and throwing their shattered hate high
pa:pet:sting robbery in all directions. The
rabble beak from driving his lordship'.
them, but nothing Wes dote by the polies,
stiened their desperate rash until the pro.
Westminster.
on its return wu jo'ned by the MOW
jesty's Ministers of State, the nobility.
of pediment, and other psrao:■ of
td to the banquet at Guildhall.

T GAS EXPLOSION AT NIZMELMS.

[LNQIJBAT.—(THIS DAY.)
.ng the inquest upon the bodies of the
e victims of the catastrophe at the London
resumed by Mr. W. Carter, the ooroner for
the oompany's works, Nine-elms-lane.
. the barrietar, attended for the Gas Com-
ity, solicitor. for the relatives of Mr.
of the deemed ; sad Mr. Mays for the
Donnell, another of the Wad.
e geometer, the meter proving-hones, sad
bearing upon the inquiry, had been we-
d the company, and were exhibited in the

ving wavered to their amass,
ey, foreman of the stokers at the London
ho was erverely hurt by the accident, and
his band and face bandaged up, having been
to having been in the employ of the Loud=
during the last thirty yeets.—My duties were
the retort houses. I was there when the
the diet of October took yea. It occurred
ror twenty minutes tow I was in No. 4
at the time. The explosion did sot take place
house, but in the meter house. A man atm*
ed Smith, and told me there woe something
meter house, and that the gas was escaping,
meter house immediately, and pushed
• • ugh several men who were standing
i oorway. I sew Donnell and Thom.
left hand standing by the side of the
on. There were also five or six other persons
the governor by pressing on the top on the
the wall. I did not know them by mune,
term and labourers. I have not seen them
I knew that thee persons were engaged
tering the walls and ceilings. I believe it was
o employed them. They were working under
sail and Thoresett, I understand, were two
who lost their lives. I have not seen them
have no doubt that they were present hs
use when the explosion took place. It
almost the minute I entered. I had oily
to the platform when it occurred. The meter
idled to the ground by the explosion. I saw
from the aide of the governor when I went into
honor. Water also was coming out of the
The escape was very large in (quantity. lam
gas was escaping out of the governor. I did
any break or damage. I had not time to
ly. (A model of the governor was here shown
, and he poiatsd out the part from which
soapier, viz., the chamber below the tank
the water). Examination continued—The mat
es down the tank. They were reeling it down
• had they pressed it down evenly the escape
bare been so great ; but as they least epos it
Ter a little. There was • fire in the further room
tort.house to sir the room. but that was at some
•in the governor. Thee* was one lamp near the
the meterhouee—a test light. I did not notice
was alight whoa I Pared. I had not time to
• y the men were holding the tank down. When I
platform I saw what was amiss, and ailed for
.If I could have got a few pailsof water at
et I could have put it into the tank, and the
would then have been no kepi unsoiled. No am.
• ever been made to me on that or any other day
pe of gas. These works were first put into
in October, 1864, and they had been in work
t not these governors. The governor had been up
or six weeks when the explosion oceurzel
It
to me to act very well all the time.
foreman—lt was a new governor. One of the
I believe, had been worked before at the lower
It was the new governor in which the escape was.
. Seeley —The escape of gas was increasing while
the meterhouse. I notioed a flash of light coming
tly from the comer of the meter-house nearest to
termakers' shop. The lash immediately ignited
that was escaping from the governor and blew up
• ing. I was thrown forward by the force of the
n. but I retsieed my panels perfectly. I heard the
the explosion following instantaneously the auk I
e corner. I did not hear any wood explosion.
• Ooroner—My opinion is that the flash came from
.r.makers' shop. The gas from the governor was
g towards that direction. I do not know whether
•ow in the porno? was open or shut, but it is Ida
it was a little way open. There were gaslights in
ter•inakers' shop. Thera was a teat light in • closed
o the meter.bonse. My belief is that the gas enesn•
e in oontuct with some flame that was external to
-house, and not with any light that we inside.
juror—l do not know if there were any broken
in the window. Ido not know what object the
in had in pressing the governor down, but my im.
is that they found the gas escaping, and that they.
• nothing about it, attempted to stop it by premed
area down, and that, tilting it on one side, they
ed tinges chamber of the governor more, and allowed
ore gas to escape.
the Coroner—l was in the meter.hona half an hour
the explosion, and the men were at work there ; wine
mon the stage on which the governor stood. They
plastering the side wall, which was carried up elbow
yenta. I imagine that they must have trod oa the
or and tilted it ea ate side, and that so the gas woe
to amps in the first instance, and that then they
to put it right by pressing it down. The gas chamber
• ;laded by eater, which is in an outer chamber.
the jury—l have no idea when the governor was last
ed with liquor. When once charged it will last for •
erable time ; bat that is not part of my duty.
the Coroner—l do not know if all the persons who
in the metre-house lost their lives. 1 have not seen
them. The men appeared to be working together
terms. There was no strike or quarrelling antooPt
to my knowlege. I had no reason to suspect the
ty of any of the men, or that either of them would
• act of mischief from malice. My opinion is that the
*ng upon the governor was an inadvertent eirmanstucei
• non who did it probably not knowing what sour
might follow.
Mr. Mayo—l cannot say whether any tobacco senoldeS
going on in the meter-house. I did not smell any.
O Bassett, a porter in the service of Mr. Sella, grastre
he Elms-lane, was the next witness called. Ile depeped
caring the explosion at the works near his meeter's
• and going upon the premeds where he saw several of
building destroyed, and assisted in getting the injured

sone oat of the ruins.
'homes Shutter, coke clerk in the service of the cow
wu entering the gas works at ten minutes past 2
lock on the 31st of October list. tad to
explosion just as be got oppoelte the large
moister. Saw the people all running out, end 05 licisg
iber saw that the meter hones had been tiowo
en, and the gas-holder had burst. Understood that
revel persons were under the debris. Assisted in
Ana them. Three that he sided in getting oat were deed
d one was alive. Two of the dead men were Thosiodita
d O'Donnell. They were lying (doe* to the relent*
use.
Mr. Kienpater, surgeon, of Oak Bougie, Battersea. WI.
lie called In is attend the wounded immediately snag "

anion, deposed to having emitted in *striating several
go, smongct others O'Donnell, who, he mid, presented
ory Wle external injury, but bad died from suffocation.
11, body was much coompenred by the weight of the
tam wig palverised mortar upon it. It bad been more
tub on boar seder the ruins. Thoemett was found Wag
ogees sad over O'DoonelL All the doomed whom be
oisieed died from 'alteration and pumenre.
Jobs Bartlett deposed—l am chief 'avows in the cam.
pio impley. I have chugs of all the valves, governors.
pa metro oe the works at Nun Elms.
By Mr, Baeley—lt is my duty to attend at the work, at
the UM ps is lighted by the consumers in the aftereeon,
cad to remain during the heaviest period of consumption•
we and the pressure out to the distribution mains through
the governors. It is the governor which regulates the
row& The pa comes into the governor from the pe

err' whims, by direction of the learned barrister,
aligned, by the ail of the model, the mode
at uing the goversor. The outer tank of the
evertor rental's water, which seals in the gas.
The depth of water is the tank tinder the gas chamber of
the governor should be about eight inches. There was
thee depth of water In the tank on the day of the explo•
ace. The water does not often require renewing ea the gas
beat maw water. The water riming up sad round the side
d the pa chamber would be within about three-quarters of
p Web below the top of the teak. The pa chamber
ag the governor is about three feet deep. I went,
es duty *bout 4 o'clock on the Monday previous to the e;2l
opea. There were two governors In the meter.honee, the
els Wog rather smaller than the other. There 111111 also
third in the house, but it was not gabbed and not in use.
Done that was tilted over by the plasterers was the
maw one of the two. I etteaded to that gevernor
pike Moodayeemain preying be the socidect, mad used
it It had bees working at Nina Elms about three months.
It bed before been working fully six years at the \rum-
ba' works. It worked well during the whole of
she time. I was working it oa the Monday eveniag.
At 1 a.m. on the Twiggy morning it was at the usual night
pimp, and se it remained when I left the works at
shoat hapset 4on Tuesday morning. I left it in charge
of Michael Doolan. The water was then all right.
end the gas sealed by means of the water. I
renal my what quantity of gas there was in
Na g pegnader, the one that exploded. It would
told 1,020,000 cubic feet when fell. No. 2 gas-holder,
whet is filled from the meter-hones, would hold the same.
The valves were all perfect belonging to the No. I pa•
balder what I loft the works on Tuesday morning. I was
Dot present when the explosion took plats,.
[The inquest was prooeeding when our report left.'

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.

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gams, is gene.—(Before the Lord Chief Baron Pollock,
and Barons Bramwell, Chanson, and Pigott.)
SIMON P. TEI SOUTH ZASTIRI RAILWAY COMPANY.
Ir. Joseph Brown. Q.C., moved for • nil* calling upon
is South Baster° Railway Company to show mum why
• iainnolion shonid not be granted to netznin them from
pale; the plaintiff for the carriage of his goods other-
s', then " equally with all other perms and after the
anomie in respect of geode of the like description under
▪ lib cireumstaness." The affidavits stated that
Ike the plaintiff bad obtained the indgmeet of
tai tout in his favour in an action brought
him for the recovery of the over-
they had made, the company had oontinuoi
rrarge the higher rate imposed by them os " packed
pima' The vitiation whether railway companies were
sailed to charge upon a paroel of this kind, which eon-
owed of a number of amine: parcels oollected by the plain-
of from different warehouses in the City, and is trans-
aided by him to his agent in a particular town in the
mimes for distributioo, ham been reprobedly before the
outs during the last twenty years, and is still a matter of

e court granted a rale niaL
notriuks v. V./L[I.VMM.
Mr. Bova!, Q.C., oa behalf of Madame Valentin, the de.
Infant, resumed hie argument against the rule which bad
tem obtained by Mr. Kerslake, Q.C., foe a new trial
mthe ground that the verdict in her favour was
spinet the evidence. With regard to the snapicion
welled against his client by her denying, when io
hris, that she had possessionof certain shares be-
Mein to M. Doedloa, the learned counsel said it
me to be remembered that when M. Caution shortly before
lie death gave ber the.sealed packet, he merely told her
that it conmined 1,000 femme, 'Loa that she might not,
therefon, have hawse that these shame farmed a part of its
entests. Bees, however, if she knew they were there, her
deal was scarcely to be wondered at, considerieg the way
the plaintiffs treated her, and their efforts to deprive her
of everythisg eke possessed. He a.lmitted that her
'key was open to suspicion. bat the jury
wee the proper sad ocestitutiooal tribunal to determine
the loth or falsehood of the statement on one aide and
the other, and in this iridium it saki not be mid that a
setidectory trial had not been obtained. The trial lasted
five days, every possible scrap of evidence was given,
sad every topic thoroughly diecassed, and the
jury bad e,Lio the advantage at seeing all the vit-
amin. It was no doubt one of those oases
is vhioh one jary might take one view and another jury
seether, or the judge might entertain a different *Maim
from that of the jury ; but still it was a matter exclusively
for a jury, and after this prolonged and careful inquiry,
the jury had found a verdict for the &deadens ; end was
the now to be exposed to the exposes sad ineoevenience of
a third trial? He did sot know whether Mr. Baron Pigott,
who presided at the trial, agreed with the jury, or whether
he congratulated himself that they had to decode the quie-
tist end not the judge.
Mr. Baron Pigott—lf you ask me for my opinion L should
have found the verdict the other way.
Mr. Baron Bramwell—Bat we ought not to make the rule
atedate unless we are satisfied that the verdict was wrong.
If we were to grant new trials in all cases where the judge
disagreed with the verdict a jury would be a mere form for
prim effect to the opinion of the judge. We have here to
dcWe whether Madame Valentin's story was such as
would warrant a jury to believing it.
Mr. Borill urged the hardship of seeding this case down
win for a new trial upon the defendant, who had been
most meetly persecuted, and who, having been deprived of
leery farthiog she had possessed, wend new have bees
enable, without the mistimes of her ocaumel, to appear in
cost and show maw against this rule.
Mr. derjcant Simon followed en the same side.
The arguments had sot omichaded when our report left.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
Thin court was occupied all day in hearing in private a
oration respecting the custody of the children in the case of
Chidwynd v. Chetwynd.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
THE 'Pr commissions.
It wu expected that M►. Whiglow would sit this mowing
couuniesiousr. sod a list of 0161411 wu made out for hie
impala ; bat ae he has not yet bete wrote in by the Lord
Chancellor (which areaway will not take place until to-
sorrow), the caws were ueceseardy adjourned, with the
emotion of some that were takes by Mr. Oomiu;aalener
retilburn.

THE NEW REMETEAN.
By the elevation of Mr. Registrar Winslow to the bench,
vacancy is occasioned in the registrarship, and this has
.I.lse filled by the appointment of the Ron. William Cecil
wing Rice, son of Lord Monteagle. The bon. gentleman
rya in court to-day, but will not take his seat officially fog '
'gay or two, when the formalities nonnected with botk
'ffinintments are completed.
114 ss A. 8. non=
The bankrupt was a supernumerary clerk in the War-
like, mains in Mount-street, Grosvenor-square. Debts,
Yr. Aldridge stated that at a former sitting the creditors
lei passed a resolution taking the case oat of court, on
linnet of 2.51. • year. The bankrupt had paid two instal-
Isis of 124 lOa. each ; bat he had sine been discharged
the War-office, not for any rniscoadnet, but because
haemices were no longer required. Re now asked for an
Ilasieditional order of d
His Roo granted thei 7.1".

DI ae EDWARD SCHULLER.
he baukrept was a merchant, of Water.laue, Tower-
*est. Unsecured debts, 2,001. ; ditto secured, 1,92154. ;
lb 'MAL
16. &mood, foe the salvoes, said the bankrupt bad
*allied goods of a miscellaneous character from several
oviitors abroad, and had pledged them.
lbs Oommiesiotaar—Hypothecating with the pawnbroker
it Ole proper term. (Laughter.)
, yr. Bargood said the bankrupt had raised 7661. by pawn-
ht tools which he had boogbt on credit; be alleged that
WO applied this money in taking op certain acceptances;
out the 'ellipses did not believe his statement—some of
the bilk preeentin a very suspicious appearance.
After bearing Mr. E. Reed for the bankrupt,
His Honour directed ea adjonranteot.

IN 111 JOIBINS.
~:nlelmtikrupt wu • wholuale and export oilmen, late of
ars Weston Works, Bermoedes7, This wu the sittiog
lot examintties and discharge. The bankrupt having `h.
antod el there were no '''nets, but his liabilities ere bit-
owed to be between 3,0001. and 4,000 L Susie expected , to
Mhos :300/, or 4001. The beekrept sulteaseg to bore
tikes with him 'bout SOW. no priacipal creditors are the
Cosisolidated Bank (Limited), and the Fast London Banking
Caspar (Limited).
lits Honour dinertel an adjournment Mies die, without
Preteen's.