The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-21 00:00:00

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LOSS OF FORTY-FOUR LIVES IN A CO.\l
MINH.

NEWCASTLE, TUE-shall: NIGHT.—On Moody,.
nfriegti:utc:rintleoccofurtrhirstePeditth"entc:nedl-uPlirtiii.i.in; :k whin ar.. f
at Washington w Lich is about two mil, -•
Washington station on the York, Newcastle, and
Railway, and we regret to say that it ha, vaulted in tie
premature death of more than 40 persons. Lt. tween issue
and five it'eliwk in the afternoon of Monday st„,u„it.,
torn went down into the pit on the night didt, it' d
thing seemed to go on regularly until aimed
eleven o'clock, when thu inhabitatata of the a, iab'aiatiaeat
were aroused by u loud explosion upon the r. jurt..,l
which large of people rushed to the
pit to render all the assistance that lay in tie it r.
the head-overman was aroused, and, in p a •
few of the miners, he descended the pit, and
dead lashes, very much burnt and IlitHilab oh, •
rut way. They discovered that the explosion is .
the " whole" working% where about forty
ployed, and that the other twenty MPH, i•ri
working in the " brokings," were uninjunal. No
can describe the intense grief and horror in 8pi..., a Loss.
the first report being given, rushed to the •por•
remained to witne.a the blackened and
corpses of their husbands, children and father, 1' .
passed away in the moat painful suspense lasi,. •
latches were brought to bank. Almost imite
the exploaion took place two furnace n,
instrumental in saving the lives of tle ir mooned, • w.
down to render assistance, but the afterihanp sk•
strong that they were brought up again mine...,
of these brave men has since died, and little hop, ..r
tained of the recovery of the other. At thr.•
when only a few of the bodies had been recover. .1,
found necessary on account of the atter-damp to pa,
the furnau Ireton: anything further could be
was effeeted by a water-fall down tile other sh.dt,al
put out the furnace by nine ti Antra. Buraig
night the crowd hourly increased, and a HUM
of viewers from neighbouring eolli.rits
and rendered very valuable
the day from nine o clock in the months:, ears... :
intervals extricated, and up to seven Jic:ock loan
had been brought to bank, and identinial Ily ir I
tiers. At seven o'clock in the evening tin re 1•• t
it was supposed, about 10 bodies in the pit. An
generally prevails that the pit iv 'why v.;;;.1.•
many were heard to say that such an amid.,! 1..•; • .
petted for several weeks. A coroner'. jury aa • -
for yesterday to investigate the circumatances aa.. ,
the casualty took place.
WASHINGTON, morning at ta
coroner, Mr. ravel!, opened the inquest. r n ing
of the boditti, he proceede.l to take cvid 10. e. ;,..
witness examined was a man of the nam.: of
Dawson, who proved the time tie men went dos,
those killed. The names of those killed an,
deputy ; Thomas Crwin, deputy ; Robert (it. a.
Bewick, Thomas Bewick, Mithael lkov id:, NI
Mullen, George Jones, John 11IcLaren, Henry It nano
max Crwin, William Crwin, Tll.lllas
Whittle, Thomas Elliott, Reiter; 11..1.:in.
Itl`Naith, hewers ; Thomas Thompson, 11. u. y
John Todd, James Todd, James llawmai. l'lt.orli, V
Thomas Wright, Thomas House, Williaon
Harrison, putters; Andrew Hartley, driver; 'them... I
fad, John 3lcLaren, and James Stafford, tr tpiars.
furnace-man.
George IlutchinFon and John Errington, two flail
men, who want down below to the furnace. al Pit :an I.
after the accident, and who were brought up :r -o[
o'clock yesterday, have died in the night, niakitez
deaths. Mr. M. Dunn' the inspector of loin.,
don. Information has been sent to tlie. in-p. 41. - t..
George Grey. As I close this parcel, it pet ;tit,
evidence that James Bell, the depute siewer. me of
parties lett in charge of the colliery (lining tin
Mr. Cruiltlace at famelon, was drunk in a pu.3.'.is-boua
ten o'clock on Monday night.

DESPERATE HIGHWAY ROBBERY AT
BRISTOL, AND CAPTURE OF TUE RoBBEIL

A man named John Williams has just been :tr.
preheniled at Bristol upon a charge of Isialmay robla rv,
accompanied by circumstances &Ai:olldd, fable f rarity.
It
would seem from the tarts which Live transpire d upon an
examination byli,re the magistrates, taken at the head& al'
the unfortunate gentleman upon whom this outrage was
committed, that it was perpetrated in .imai daylight, in a
thoroughfare much frequented at this season of the ri
and almost beneath the walls of a sentient:ids minisio'n at
which a large establishment of servants is kept. Owing ¶0
the suddenness and violence of the attack, the asntleman
who was robbed, Mr. Godwin, of Auburn Villa, Gotham
New-4.°nd, was unable to give any particular description of
the offender, who, but fur the testimony of a young Man
named J lines Cull:mat, who is in the service of a boutmaki r
at Bristol, would have, in all probability, entirely escapsd
detection. Mr. Godwin, who is 73 years of age, could
merely state that he was taking a walk ter the benefit of
his health, and was in the carriage mad which passes be-
neath the pleasure-grounds of Bedlam! Court, when he
was auddehly attacked from behind by wane powerful man,
who grasped him round the fact with his hands,
closed his eyes and his mouth, kicked his legs from
under him, threw hint down, and then threw himself
upon him. When he was on the ground he was kicked in
the head and stunned, and upon his, to some extent, re-
covering he missed his watch and appendages which had
been stolen from hint. 'the young man Collamtt stated
that he was carrying a pair of boots to Welland Court, the
residence of Mr:Edwards, and upon entering the carriage
road he saw a man, who observing him approach went to
the side of the walk and began looking into the hedge as if
!he was trying to find something. The witness passed lieu
fur a yard or two, and as he began than to billow lino, Col-
limott, who had formed some suspicion in his mind that he
would try to steal his boots, turned suddenly round and
looked him full in the face. The man then again west m-
wards the hedge, and the witness went to the Court and
delivered his parcel. This detained hint for some little time,
and upon his again leaving the place he, upon re-entering
the carriage-road, heard a groan as of some person in dis-
tress. lie looked up the road and saw two persons struggling
on the ground. As he was approaching them he saw the
one who was on the top, awl whom he resioanisaal as tics
inan whom he had before seen, get up from the other, kok
him heavily and deliberately several times in the head,
' and then make off across the fields. Upon going to
see who it was that had been so savagely used, he Wand
Mr. Godwin, whom he assisted, and tram whom he
subsequently learnt that he had been rubbed. Collacott at
once raised an alarm, and sonic carpenter& and others
looked for the robber. but they could find within; of him.
The old gentleman was removed to his reside:ice much in-
jured, and medical aid was promptly called in, mil infor-
mation of the outrage was given to the police, who captured
the prisoner under very curious circumstances. AL-unstable
of the St. Phillip's division, 1' C 143 WAS nuking inquiries
fur evidence against an utterer of base coin, wh:eli pur-
pose he went to a beer-house in Lamb-street, St. Phillips,
called the Doze,' Ilead. As he approached the limier, the
prisoner was in the act of leaving it, but seeing an either
coming towards him, his conscience alarmed him. and be
ran back, got into a yard behind thu home, and elands-rid
nn to the roof of some premises in the rear. The police-
man at once suspected that he had committed some (Memo
for which lie expected to be apprehended, and followed
him, chasing him across the roots of several 110 Uses,
narrowly escaping being knocked off by a heavy pantie
which he threw at him. At length the (writhe lintheg
that escape in this way was hopeless jumped into a court
closely followed by the policeman. lt lu:ppened that the mart
did not communicate with the street, and the prisoner was
driven to take refuge in a house, where in rushing towards
the fireplace to arm himself with a poker stumbled over
some article of furniture, fell upon the ground, and was
easily secured by the constable. Assistance was then mos
cured, and he was taken to the station house, where an ac,
count of the robbery and a minute description of the ah
fender given by Collacutt had been received, and with
which he was found to tally. The witness was sent wr,
i
and at once identified him n the most positive way, and lic
was detained on the charge of highway robbery. The ma'
: gistrate, Mr. Lunen, who attended at Mr. Godwin's Weis
to take his deposition, having also examined the other wit'
WWI, fully committed the prisoner, who has been scat t•
gaol to await his trial at the next Gloucester assiree.

THE C.ANON or DritHAM AND TUX. EVANGELICAL
ALLIANCE.—Yesterday as soon as the Evangelical Alliance,
—a union of protestant Christians of all denominations—
had entered upon its first session, the Chairman (Sir Culling
E. Eardlcy, Hart.) introduced the Heir. Hr. it:minced,
Canon of Durham, an account of whose self-imposed visit
to the Pope, undertaken with a desire to find a basis for the
ecclesiastical reconciliation of Christendom, his I.ltCly been
given to the world. The rev. doctor having briefly es-
plainerl his views on the subject of the union or all sects et
Christians, expressed his desire that that alliance would se
lest five brethren from amongst themselves, of dilferent it`
nomination to come to his house and remain for a week or
so, to consult together on the question—How far is a oilier'
of all Christians possible ? The rev. geutlemali was received
with the utmost cordiality, and his proposition will be Os'
mediately considered.
VISITORS Ti.) lIAMPTON COURT PALACE ASP
KEW GAUDENS.—Yesterday a return to parliament ww
printed, showing that during last year there were T 2.1,111
visitors to ilampton Court Palace, and to the Royal Dot:Lei;
and Pleasure Grounds at Kew the number was 1i9,62,•
The grounds are, by a recent arrangement, open to tlc
public every day in the week during four months in
tbe
year, front the 12th of May to the 12th of September'
tween the hours of one and six.
F.tT.tl.W
ItAIL.VY ACCIDENT.—()n Tuebdav even.
log, about a quarter past eight o'clock, as a ope;:ial tr•d!
was running over the Lancashire and Yorkshire
itm
from Liverpool, ria Bolton, into Yorkshire, the gag!
Thomas Harker, who was collecting tickets, fell off ol'y
the line. Ile Was net missed till the train reached IkAlt
when a passenger who had seen him fall, sad suPluse4
other persons in charge of the train knew of the accolon
asked if he was hurt ? A messenger was sent back,
saa;bi
was found to have been killed b art of the train te,ut,
over him. This is nearly the only line on which the
genius practice of collecting tickets whilst the trains an
motion is practised.