The Express.
London, England, 1847-11-01 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH Will, it is expected,
be completed from Manchester to London during the pre-
sent week.
DEATHS FROH DEFECTIVE MACHINERY.—The
adjourned inquest held on the unfortunate sufferers by the
bursting of a boiler at New Rey Mill, near Rochdale, was
concluded on Thunday.—Mr. James Nasmyth, of the firm
of Nasmyth and Gaskell, of the Bridgewater Foundry,
Patricroft, after describing the boiler, ' its dimen-
sions, its alteration from a waggon-shaped to a
cylindrical form, and its other mending, and petch-
ing,, said that the safety-valve wee very defective
is its proportions ,• much too small ; of Bach a size as he
shouldnever think of putting on a boiler of these dimen-
sions. Then, the rivet-holes were closer than usual, and the
rivets larger than should be put to • haler with piste al
that thickness, and badly placed, Was Makin` teatime
strength from the plate than they gave to lt.ra
steam-gangs was without mercury ; was pl at
iron plug, and the cock had not hiss turned der sum
years 1 As to the safety-valve " came of its chief defects,
is its exceedingly neglected Mr. Nasmyth
added:
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has not urred till now. But there is another vary im-
portant feature In this ors, to which too much publicity
cannot be
given • he it amends the most serious conside-
ration. Here ilia syslimsa M the sort of person to whose
skill and are was entreated the lives of hundreds of work-
people. Robert Booth, the eastine4untsr, a young man who
bad had the are of this engine sad bailer only since Whit-
suntide last, sad who bad sew haze had the sole charge
of any steam miss, but bad assisted his father for three
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about machinery; that, having other business, he interfered
very little in the concerns of the mill ; but he had men at
the head of each department who ought to know their
business, and they each had orders to obtain whatever they
might require in their general work. After the jury had
consulted for about an hour and a half, the foreman delivered
the following verdict :
We end the John Leach, came by his death acciden-
tally, the 4011/Salle MIS the captor on of a steam-toiler, at
the New Hey 1/111, m the parish of Rochdale, on Thursday, the 21st
day of Get, width expladon we, mused by undue pressure of stem.
We And that Insesafety-valve was defective in constructioy and neg-
lected la Kellitiell ; that it appears the mercurial steam-gauge was
plea* with as Iria.xflug, and consequently tatter ; and we beg to
events a etring on that Robert Booth, the engine-tenter, is
inMilappimit am situation, and that great blame is attachable
to paellas employing such incompetent persona in such responsible
sitaidena. _ _

The ere of the four other unfortunate sufferers were after-
wards gone into; but there would, of course, be only a slight
variation in the medical evidence relating to each, and the
one verdict virtually decides the whole,
WARWICKSHIRE.
THE LATE MURDER IN BlRMlNGHAM.—Subsequent

to the despatch of our parcel on Friday evening the jury re-
turned • verdict of felo-de-u in the CB AC of the woman
Wilkes, who murdered her children on the preceding Satur-
day, and inflicted wounds which caused her own death.
Two of the jury dissented from this finding on the part of
their brethren. On Saturday the interment of the murderess
took place, and, as usual in such cases, out of consecrated
ground.

THE LATE CHARGE OF J
FEWT AGAINST TWO
LPARIES OP COaIeMINE4.—A fortnight since we published I
a detailed account of a charge which Lad been preferred and
heard in the Wolverhampton police.court against two lessees
of coal-mines at West Bromwich (Mears. Salter and Ray-
bould), for having exceeded the limits of their own royalty,
and procured upwards of 900 tons of coal from beneath the
surface of land the property of a Mr. Caddick. On Friday
morning the case was further heard at Wolverhampton.
Bailey, the agent of Lord Dartmouth, who had
refused to obey the subpoena with which he had been
served on the last occasion, now appeared upon a
warrant and apologised. He stated that he was a mining
engineer, and knew the Heath Colliery, West Bromwich,
which the defendants leased from Lord Dartmouth, working
the coal on royalty. It was no part of his duty is see the
workings properly carried on, but to look after Lord Dart-
mouth's interest ; to see the coal taken clean out, and made
the best of at the surface, and that his lordship had his fair
right of what it sold for. He did not check White's plans
with the workings, but thought they corresponded. He saw
the plans occasionally ; they did not inform him that the
defendants were getting Mr. Caddick's coal ' • and if they
were the plans did not show it. White brought the
plans to him, but he never saw him lay them down. lie
did not know whether Mr. Caddick's property was laid
down on the plan. He did not recollect that there was any other
property shown on the plan other than Lord Dartmouth's,
but there might be. Witness never heard or supposed
they were getting Mr. Caddick's coal until within the last
two months. This he could most positively swear. Lately.
the defendants had admitted to him that they had got some
of Mr. Caddick's mine; but Mr. Salter said he was unaware
of it at the time. He had had some conversation with the
defendants, as to the propriety of Lord Dartmouth's pur-
chasing the different small patches of land, and had told
them the time would come when he should so advise, but he
could not do so at present. The witness further stated that
the impression would be conveyed to the defendants that
Earl Dartmouth et some time or other would purchase tke
property.—The magistrates ultimately respired on commit-
, tins the defendants, but accepted bail in 2001. each and two
other recognisance', 1001. each.—Their solicitor intimated
that in consequence of the novelty of the proceeding it would
' be removed by certiorari to the Court of Queen's Bench.

flu ens.
DEATH OE MR. WATSON, THE SCULPTOR.—Mr. M.
L. Watson, the sculptor, died on Thursday the 28th of Oct.,
at his studio, in Bidborough-street, Burton-crescent. He
was a young and a rising artist, though hardly known (for
he seldom exhibited) beyond the few real patrons of art and
the studios of the London sculptors. He began life in a
very humble way, and worked for very small wages in the
studios of Chantrey, Westmacott, Bally, and Behan, where,
however, he saved sufficient to carry him to Italy, and to
keep him there, while he dedicated his time to the study of
the antique. His art engrossed the whole of his attention—
he thought, worked, modelled, and talked of nothing but his
art—basing his criticisms on acknowledged foundations, and
talking not as too many artiste are accustomed to talk in a
wild rapture about everything which chance to hit their fan-
cies for the moment. }lumen was his favourite sculptor,
and how deeply he had studied his works and the sources
from which he drew his inspiration. his beautiful bas-reliefs
of " Dante and Beatrice," and " Sleep and Death bearing
off tho body of Sarpedon," are admirable instances. One of
his first works was the bas-relief on Mr. Moxhay's Hall of
Commerce (a harried performance, though clever), end
among his most recent productions a figure of " Literature,"
part of a monument to the memory of Allan Cunning-
ham, and the bas-relief of " Iris " and " Bebe," for
Mr. Barry's new gates at Bowood, the seat of the Mar-
quis of Lansdowne. While working at Chantrey's
his skill in modelling and fine poetic feeling for all that is
beautiful in art attracted the attention of Allan Cunningham,
and induced him, on the death of Sir Francis Chantrey to
recommend him to Lord Eldon as the artist to be employed
on the twin colossal statues of Lords Eldon and Stowell
for the ante-chapel of New College, Oxford. That the
recommendation was a wise one no other testimony is needed
than the two noble statues fast rising from the marble, and
the general approbation they have obtained from the artists
and cities invited to view them. Another of his recent
works (unhappily unfinished) was a statue of Flanman—
perhaps the best statue in the Chantrey style since Chantrey's
death. The frail figure and fine fate and head of the great
sculptor are capitally rendered, the action easy, and the
modelling throughout of • moat careful character. This
was • subscription statue, started by several noblemen and
gentlemen, who subscribed largely among themselves, and
lent their names to further a public subscription for making
the plaster model a permanent statue in marble to the me-
mory of }lumen. The well-known names of Mr. Roger,,
the poet; Mr. Hallam, the historian; Mr. Eastlake, the
painter; Mr. Gibson, the sculptor; and Mr. Barry, the
architect ; appearing among the subscribers gave a reputation
to the artist, and induced the government to select him as
one of four to supply the battle bas-reliefs for the Nelson
Monument. The battle of St. Vincent fell to Mr. Watson's
share, and the sketch which be sent in wu approved by Lord
Lincoln, then at the headof the Woods and Forests; but such
has been the delay occasioned by the change of government,
that little has since been done to advance the work. Mr.
Watson's death will occasion a further delay, nor will it be
easy to find an artist to supply the same poetic feeling which
he always brought to bear upon everything he touched.

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