The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-08 00:00:00

SOUTH WAR WICKSHIRE ELECTION.

Yesterday the nomination of a member to reoresent
South Warwickshire, in the room of Mr. Evelyn J. Shirley,
took place at the County Hall. Warwick. It bad been
known for some time that Lord Guernsey, the eldest son of
the Earl of Aylesford, would be unopposed.
The Hon. C B. PINCY proposed Lord Guernsey as a
fit and proper person to lid the vacant seat. His
lordship had expressed doubts as to his youth and
inexperience qualifying him as their repress remise.
But they must revember that in the county of War-
wick, the same remark was male with reference to S.r John
Mordeunt, but had they been ashamed of him ? (No.)
He, Hr. Percy, bed told them they might truss bim-Iftle
they ever d. cetved in that tepees, ntative ? (No.) Let them
then 4 ok t e L srd Brooke's youth and inexperience when he
first solicited and °lvor's. d their suffrages were they
ashamed of him? (No.) Was there no promise in Lord
Guernsey, who was willing to forsske domerie tics an 4 put
to the armour and fight for their cause ? Ile had in his
addrees expressed his deep regret that native industry was
not properly protected ; that individual intern's of this
con try were preferred to those of the masses; let them
give him a trial and he would do his duty to them, con.
sistently with the liberty every independent gentleman
ought to enjoy. He then alluded to the inability of Lord
Job. Sere to attend the election, and eoecluded by pro-
posing Lord Guernsey, who, though young, though inexpe-
rienced, was honest, candid, and str iightiorward.
/dr. It. J B , seconded the nomination, in a very
few remark.. N. other member being propose d,
Lord 0 . stepped forward and thanked them for
the honour they bad conferred on him, and hoped be should
be enabled to deserve the confidence which they all had
laced in the late representative, Mr. Shirley. He was a
lover of his churl and that constitution which had
so long been the glory and envy of the world.
He would fight the good battle for those loyal and deserving
menithe Brotish farmers. (Cheers.) His lordsO.ip sincerely
hoped, and be believed the time WAS not far distant, when
pub:ie Opinion mould call oat for that protection of which
they bed been so treacherously deprived. (Cheers.)
The stuff then placed the sword end spurs on his lord-
ship, st.d the asremblage quietly dispersed.

EXPLOSION AND LOSS OF THIRTY-THREE
LIVES.

The Shields Gazette says, "On the morning of
Tuesday last an explosion took place at Hebburn C limey,
situated on the Tyne, about a mile and a half above Jarrow. I
The coal trade being very slack at the present time, none of '
the men were down the pit the preceding day, except tome
shifters or plate layers But a vessel having come in for
freight, orders were given for them to commence working
en Tuesday, and a rumba accordingly descended at the
usual time, between four and flee in the morning. About
half-past six the explosion took Vacs in what is termed the
A pit, sad, lamentable to relate thirty-'brae human
beings, men and boy., were destroyed. Of all who were
in teat part of the workings at the time, only one, a
young man twenty-seven years of age, was lift alive.
About 100 were in the pit eltoptner, but those who escaped
were in a different part of it. Two hours later, the loss of
life would have been double, as the second shalt would have
bean down. The exact eau,* of the catastrophe is unkaown.
Ihe likelihood is that the explosion was occasioned by gas
which had accumulated in the upper part of the drift and
which had sot been carried off by the current of air pinging
through it, on amount of the numerous inequalities in the
height of the roof, which virile from five-and-a-half
feet to eleven or twelve. The gas which oozes occasionally
from the unwrousht coal, being lighter then stmosphetio
air, rises and fills these cavities, but it was never before
known to do so to such en extent as to be dangerous. It is
supposed that the violent thunder-worm of the previous
evens g had deranged the ventilation of the pit, and that
two tuba passing along the tram-way at the same time had
caused the gas to flow out, and mode it come in contact with
the men's lighted candles. The spot where the explosion
took plane is about half a mile from the down-east shaft.
Those nearest the fatal locality were frightfully burnt and
mutilated, one of the bodies, we understend. being taken up
in three pieces. Others more at a distance presented no ex-
t-rnal marks of injury, having been killed by the after-
damp. The man who escaped was thrown down violently
by the shock, and lay for some time inoen.ible. He could
give no 'mount whatever of the way in which it happened.
" Upon obtaining news of the accident on Tuesday fore-
noon, we took a boat and repaired instantly toXtbborn.
The scone which there permuted itself was panful in the
extreme—friends and relations flocking from all qualms,
sager to gain intelligence as to the number and names of
the sufferer.; an anxious crowd thronging round the pit
month, and watching intensely the bucket as it was raised
or lowered ; carts bedded with straw waiting to carryon ome
thfieorposs; groups of sorrowful women, expecting pssibly
the remiss of a father, a hothead, or a sox, to be next
b011&M: most teaching, porker, of all, poet thought-
less OMM,' se, themselves, amid the yawns' bustle,
With Iltdr_ joyous sad penis, es It swift bed hap-
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