The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-29 00:00:00

general in favour of Lord Palmerston.—Obserc-r.

THE RAWMARSII COLLIF:RY .Exti.oolON.—A sub-
scription has been commenced by the lice. Mr. Mahon, in-
cumbent of Itawmar,h, in aid of the widows stud orphans
of the men who perished by the explosion on Saturday weL,k,
when htty lives were lte4. Char:esworth, the
lessees of the colliery, have given 2.501., and Mr. J. C. O.
Charlcsworth, 501. There is perhaps no district of similar
extent in any portion of the kingdom which has been tho
scene of such frequent disasters, and involving so great a
sacrifice of life, as the tract of country comprised within a
circuit of live miles around Itawmarsh. To go back only
ten years, we find that during this comparatively short period
five accidents have occurred, by which an aggregate
of 220 lives has been sacrificed. In November, 1811,
15 men and boys were killed by en explosion in Mount
Osborne coal-pit, Barnsley. In January 1847, six lives were
lost, by on accident in the barley Main colliery, Worebro'
Dale. In the following March, seventy-Cues men working
in the Oaks pit, near Barnsley, met with almost instant
death from an explosion of tire damp, tho force of which
was so terrific that stones were proected out oT the shaft,
which is 2433 yards deep, to a height of about forty yards
into tho air. In January, 1849, another explosion occurred
at Worsbro' Dale, and within two miles of the former one,
by which 75 lives were lost. And lastly, the explosion at
Warren vale, by which 50 human beings have perished.
Almost the whole of these calamities have arisen from tiro
damp explosions.

ANOTHER RAILWAY COLLISION.—On Saturday,
between 12 and one o'clock at mid-day, as the mail train
which leaves Birmingham at 6 a.m., arrived near Liver-
pool, on the London and North-Western line, when be-
tween /Layton and Roby stations, the express train, due
about the same time, came in contact with it, and several
passengers by the former train received severe injuries. The
mail train, nevertheless, wee allowed to proceed on to
Liverpool, those who were injured bleeding profusely all the
way; and what adds to the discredit of the officials is the
fact that on arrival at the Lime-street terminus, the
wounded parties were wholly untwisted, and, but tor the
courtesy and attention of their fellow namengers, fatal re-
sults must have ensued. In one carriage, six persons were
very seriously, and three dangerously wounded. One of
them, Miss Rogers, of Iluyton, was conveyed to the house
of Dr. Bainbrigg, to Islington.sguare, where it was found
that she had sustained great injury in the head, the skull
being in one place laid completely bare. The wounds were
promptly dressed, but the young lady was too much in-
jured to permit of her return home, and was conveyed to
the house of a friend in Liverpool, where she is progress-
ing favourably. A gentleman, who was a passenger by
the mail train (the passengers in which received the
greatest amount of injury) stated to our reporter that at
the spot where the occurrence took place, trains can be
seen far more than half a mile distance on the line.
Although happily no fatal results have ensued from this
collision the gross negligence displayed is nut the less to be
condemned.

RAILWAY COLLISION AND LOSS OF LIFE,
At.nwten. FIODAY.—An inquiry before the county coroner
and a jury bus been resumed to-day, concerning an alarm-
ing collision on the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Rail-
way, which ended in loss of life, and a serious destruction
of property, besides injury to several persona who were pas-
sengers in one of the trains. In the course of Monday
afternoon a monster cattle train, driven by two powerful
engines, left Tweedmouth for Newcastle. The break van,
as usual, was at the rear of the train. On approaching
Christian-bank station, some four or five miles from here,
when there is a slight curvature in the line, the engines
became impeded in their progress. A passenger train from
Berwick being then due at that particular part of the line
the guard left the van, and went some distance back on the
permanent way with his rod signal lamp, dark having act
in, in order to stop the train. Tho evening is described to
have been foggy, and on the passenger train coming up
neither the driver nor the stoker observed, it is said, the
stop light, but went on, and with mock violence ran into
the cattle train. The shock was very severe. Tho train
was almost shivered to pieces, and tho poor fellow in the
service of tho Electric Telegraph Company was killed on
the spot. The drover had a marvellous escape ; he was
found under the train, and with the exception of being
stunned by a blow, he was scarcely hurt. The passengers
were thrown into much confusion and alarm, and several
sustained contused faces.

CONVEYANCE OF TIIE INDIAN MAIL.—ThC Staati
Courant announces that a convention has been concluded
between the Netherlands and Austria for the transport of
the Indian Mail via Trieste.

PARLIAMENTARY AND FINANCIAL REFORM.—At
the meeting of the Marylebone vestry on Saturday, 11.
Lewis. EN., in the chair, • deputation, consisting of
Mr. Belton, Mr. M'Dowall, and Mr. Peufold, pre-
sented the following resolution which had been unani-
mously agreed to at a public meeting held on the 18th
inst., at the Literary Institution, Carlisle-street, Portman-
market—That the reprecutative vestry of St. Marylebone
be resoectfully requested to order the use of a room at the
Court-house, for the ordinary meetings of the Marylebons
Financial and Parliamentary Reform Association. Signed
—J. A. Nie'tolay, chairman. ' After some discussion, a re-
solution to the effect that the request b• complied with,
arm tarried y a Large majority.

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