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THIS DAY, Four o'Clock.
EXPRESS FROM PARES.

INDIA AND CHINA.

We have our foreign express, with Paris letters and
papers of yesterday (Thursday).
A telegraphic despatch was reeeived in Paris on
Wednesday evening, giving a short summary of the
news about to arrive by the Indian mail. The
&drifts from Calcutta are to the 6th August. Up to
that date nothing important had occurred in the
PunjaLb. The communications between Goomsoor
and the :nhabitants of the mountain were still
interrupted. The supreme government had intervened
to prevent Mr. Deighton from being employed at
Hyderabad.
The news from China is serious. The English and
Indian forces were about to be withdrawn from Hong
Kong, where only a detachment of the 93th Regt.,
and one of the Rifle corps were to be kept.
The Royal Irish Regiment, and the Sled
Indian Regiment of Madras, had been retaised
by Sir John Davis. The opinion at Hong Kong was,
that new troubles would break oat, and that the
island of Chusan would be again occupied during the
present year.

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THE LATE FATAL EXPLOSION
ON THE RIVER.
ADJOURNED INQUEST.—(Seventh Sitting).—Pnr-
sent to adjournment from Wednesday, the coroner and
jury reamed this inqniry at half-put 10 o'clock this morning.
HENRY ROBILItT HAISMAN wee the first witness who pre-
sented himself. He said he wished to give evidence. He
deposed lam an engineer, residing in Temple-lane, Fitte-
st:vet. I am now engineer to the Ant. I have been employed
in the Cricket for some few days for 10 or 12 months past.
The machinery worked well during that time. The loaded
valves worked, well; I frequently tried them. On the 15th
of August the machinery was in as good condition as I had
ever seen it; all the valves then worked perfectly free ; I
tried them by lifting, I supposed the promote at which we
then worked to be 381 be. or 40 lbs. to the square inch ; that
was the premiere indicated by the mercury-gunge when the
valves lifted. I never put extra weight on the levers A
spun-yarn wss attached to each lever when I first went on
board. I took charge of the boat from Clark. The yarn
was then tied close to the weight, about six inches from the
end of the lever; the other ends were brought into the engine-
room; one hung over a rail in the beam, quite loose, and the
other over a small piece of bolt on the opposite side. Both were
slack. I never sew both the levers in the Cricket without
these yarns ; sometimes one would be without. They were
used to shake the valves, by giving the lever a jerk. I never
twisted them round the nails., Clark gave me no instructions
about them, nor made any remark about them to me. The
machinery continued to work well up to the time of the ex-
plosion. I noticed the mercury-gauge a minute or a minute
acd half before the explosion; it then stood at 38, and the
valves were just lifting, and the steam escaped lightly.
I think from the larboard valve, which was the most lightly,
loaded. This was near about half past nine. Two or three
months before, I had seen the yarns hanging as usual, one
looped over the nail, the other hanging over. Neither of
them wu twisted. There was no other person in the
engine-room. The last thing I did was to look at the
mercury-gauge, which indicated 38, and try the water-cock.
The water was " solid," or running full bore from the
middle cock. I then walked on deck, leaving no one in the
engine-room. I placed myself with my back against the
paddle-box. Crippe and Weldon were standing on
the aft larboard sponson. I remained there till the
explosion. The steam was just making its escape
when I left the engine-room ; I did not notice it doing so
alter I came on deck. I cannot be certain whether I heard
it or not. With a premium of 401bs. the steam would escape
with a gnat noise ; at a less pressure, the noise would be
very alight. The yarns between the levers and the nails
hung slack in a bight; that was their frequent position, and
the valves then bad liberty to work. There would be Bor 9
feet of yarn between its fastening to the lever and the nail.
The yarns are is sight of the person working the engine. I
never saw the yarns moved by the lifting of the
valves. That would be impossible, as the lever would
rise so gredully that the motion of the yarn
would be imperceptible. I have never noticed it
rendered tighter by the working of the valve. I have
never seen it in any other position. The opening of the
valves might raise the extremity of the lever an inch and a
half. Two inches and a half of slack" in the rope would
give the valve sufficient play. I never saw the ropes straight
b_y any chance. Nothing particular took place at the Dyer's
Hall pier before we left rt. We had been 6or 7 minutes at
the Fox-pier when the explosion took place. That was the
fourth trip. On the first trip down, the steam did not
blow off sufficiently. That was about half-put eight.
When at the Fox-pier, about 9 o'clock, the steam blew off,
but not mach. It might be discerned coming out of the
forme,. After the explosion I don't know how I got upon
the pier. I was not afterwards in the engine-room till the
day when the gentlemen made their examination. I have
heard of no one who has seen the engine-room just niter the
explosion. I sin form no idea oa to the cause of
the explosion. I saw nothing to lead me to rappose that
anything was wrong with the machinery. When Kent was
engineer, six weeks after the boat began to run, he celled
my attention to the bulging out of the front tube-plate of
the starboard boiler. It appeared to be bulged in the
centre, and was leaking at the upper corner of the starboard
side. I don't know whether it was previously quite straight.
I noticed that it was not straight, like the other. It was
caulked, and the leakage was stopped. I don't know of any
leakage eastwards. I never heard of the valves being tied
until after the exploded: ?
By Mr. CIIAMBRIUS : I have been an engiseer, and I have
worked steam-vessels eleven years. I wax engaged by Mr.
Joyce or Mr. Weaker', in the fleet instance, to drive these
boats. I never wore out more than one string in the Cricket,
and that was shaken off. If the valves lifted from i to 3-16
of in inch, or i of an inch at the most, the steam would
escape sufficiently for all ordinary purposes. I never did any-
thing to the emisecralves to prevent them from acting.
By M. JAMS/ : One salve, the starboard one, had on the
rope at the time of the explosion; the other bad been shaken
oft on the Sunday morning previousl and had not been re-
placed.
I believe the valve acted welkin the interval. Some-
times both meted ; but I could not my which was acting at a
untie time. The larboard valve acted well without a spun-
yarn ; I tried it on the morning before the explosion. They
are liable to stick at times. The valvu would be in action
whenever we were at the piers, if the steam was
at 38 or 40 ; and we were at the piers perhaps
100 time, a-day. Between Sunday and Thursday I had
not examined the valve front which theyarn wu taken.
I believe It acted well is that Was. I never Iron out a tope