The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-26 00:00:00

THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION NEAR

BARNSLEY.
EIGHTY-ONE LIVES LOST.

The somber of persons ascertained to lr killed at
Darnley Main Colliery is eigatynne, men and boys.
Seventy-five have been drawn out dead; twenty.seven have
bean drawn oat alive, three of whom have since died, and
three remain in the works. This Is considerably more then
perished at the Oaks Colliery in 1847. It is not known how
the I:plosion took place, but it is supposed that it took place
et the north part of the works, which is called by the work-
men the " dip" or "deep" end, near the barracks at Mount
Vernon.
The following is a list of the nt mos of the sufferers:—ilea.
and Uriab Buckinshsm, Ed. at.d Wm. Billington, Joseph
Sonar, 6 children, Wm. (Nett, Ed. Remngtoo, Caulks
Wood, George Baraclo9gh and son, John Burton, George
Lame., George Loyd one son, Charles Brook, jun., and son.
George Guest and son, William Winter, Wm Honing, Geo.
Field, Thoth Firth, inn. Sykes, Jan. Winder, Jno. Smith,
Intr. Hartley, two Sellers. Jno. Btevor, Thos., Chas , and
Andrew Hammond, Ed. Uttley, two Gillota, Geo. Tetley,
George Batty, John and Thomas Darwin, Geo. Winter,
ttalph Taylor, RA:. Winter, Hy Firth, Geo. Fisher,
Thos. liordisty, Wm. Grimes, Ed. Atkinson, William
Murphy, D. Brown, G. Winter, Amos Harper, G. Harper,
James Seddon', Patrick Daniel, H. Firth Gold, George
Swill, W. Hutchinson, Issue Swift, William Boyhood,
Francis Bitty, John Taylor, John Ellison, Joseph Ellison,
John Smith, Geo. Burbtt, Samuel Geodlif, Thomas Little-
wood and son, John Kay, Lanky Jim (mining) : 27 lives.
Mr. Lock went through the works, along with Mr.Jeffoock,
a fortnight ago, aad the fire man, Thompson, went through
the works en the morning of the explosion.

CHOLERA. Yesterday the Board of Health re-
ceived reports of the following fresh came :—Whitechapel, 3,
1 fatal; Battersea, 2, 1 fatal; Wandsworth, 6, 2 fatal;
Wakrarld, 1 fatal; Gateshead (trom Bth hrt.), 47, 23 fatal ;
Otfohurch, 4, 2 fatal ; Liverpool, 2 fatal •, Edinburgh, 2,
1 fatal; Glasgow, 63, 19 fatal; Selkirk, 5, 1 fatal;
2, 1 fatal ; Loudon, 4, 1 fatal • Old Monkland, 12, 6
fatal; Greenock, 2 fatal; Rita:skin. 15, 4 fatal; Den.
blame, 1 ; Dunoon, 1 fatal; Donne, 1 fatal. Total sew cam,
172 ; 69 deaths.
MR. B. HAwEa.—THE LAMBETH TESTIMONIAL.—
A dinner was given yesterday evening, at the HOIMI Tavern,
Kennington, to Benjamin Maces, Esq , M.P., by his
friends in the borough of Lambeth. There were
about 180 gentlemen present, among whom we observed
Mr. Lawrence Redhead, who occupied the chair, Captain
Wood, Meseta. Roseiter, Orissell, Forest, Sim, Young, Mil-
ler, Mitchell, M.P., T. Roston, &c. At the ehd of the room
was exhibited a grand salver, evaded by Mr. Prier, of Ken-
,,:ngion.common, on which was the following inscription:
To Benjamin Hawes, Esq., M.P., from sway public edmirers and
numerous emetitteents, In the borough of lambeth, seeking by this
!inmate tribal. to mead their mitnosrledst et Ms labours whilst
the guardlsa et their new-born sesetoni sad the clumplus of
their tree minim in maintaining those grinalphs winch be.
Amend ea them eakenehissment: their sews st kis poWe sereisis se
their tried sad Wald mgemastathe idea surismaim perils-
Ms neslawg Inlegrtly,lds orgy mg elilttp, whisk have ren.
Moot him M Ihr andrillmos Noss onomporselso n to eve
=8"to matiatoomy orvoill. to Amin kr aim in
pertideolaso Is tho moo oolairoboodos dodos oftatisi the
netters et the 011ie it large; sad as a Mellmeial Aram so record
that the alai saiseMbed after ids defeat at the eased= Is August,
1817, was apareprimed In aid of his return to the hemmer Hams or
Psrliament /or the berough of Rimed* in Horeb, INB. Prommind to
hint while Under Nerratszy for her Igkiesty's Colonise, Dsomatrer,

1818.
The usual loyal town having been done due honour to,
the health of Mr. Hawes was proposed by the chairman and
acknowledged by Mr. Hawes in a speech expressive of his
warm attachment to the principles of civil and religions
liberty. The guests did not separate until a late hour.
THE LONDON MASTER BAKERS' PENSION SOCIETY.
—Yesterday evening the seventeenth annual meeting of the
London Master Bohm' Pension Society, which is established
for the relief of aged end infirm muter baken and their
widows, was held at the White Hart Tavern, Bishopsgate, to
receive the report for the put year, ending Dee. 31, 1848
There are 41 pensioners on the nasty, of whom 26 are
males, and who receive Se. a week, the pension of the fe-
males being se. a week.—Mr. T. Napier in the chair.—Mr.
Deane, the secretary, read the report, which !bowed the
amount of the income to be 9341. 10s., which included 2011.
se. 9d. balance of last year, 6001. Is. 6d. subscriptions, &c.
After paying the necessary excesses, among which was the
sum of 7071. Ils. Bd. for pensioners, the'er,mained 'balance
in hand of 1341. 31. ld. The funded stock amounted t 02,6001.
The report was received, after which the officers for the en-
suing year were elected.
ALLEGED MURDER IN ST. GEORGE'R•IN-THE-
EAST —This morning at an early hour, in the vicinity of 8
George's-in-the-East, a man t arced Young, sized about fifty,
was found (1,-ad at his residence in Split's•buildings, Ellen-
street, Back Church. lane, under circumstances which lead
to the suspicion, that death bed been the result of a crime.
The deceased was in the employ of Misc.. Hoare and Co.,
brewers, of East Smithfield, Wapping. The wife is a very
dissipated character, and was frequently in the habit of
ill-treating the deceased when he came home from labour.
He returned from his employment at a late hour of the even-
ing, and soon atter his reaching home the neighbours were
alarmed by hearing the deceased qtt ,rrelling with his wife,
who appeared to be abusing him. About midnight, a dread-
ful struggle was heard, and immediately afterwards a violent
fall down stain. A groaning noise ensued, end soon
afterwards all became quiet. Nothing more was seen
or heard of them until an early hour this morning, when
the woman called in a next door neighbour to see the
donned. who she said had fallen down stairs and
bided himself. Information was forwarded to the Leman-
street police station, when several constables repaired
to the spot, and, from what transpired, it was thought mem
ftry to take charge of the woman. A surgeon having been
called in, it was found, on examination, that the force of the
fall had broken the deceased's neck.

Emmen WIDOWS' FursD.—Tbe Brut aiumal sleet-
' lag of this emaciation took plus yesterday at the 'Mots, 87,
Plestnetrert. Edward Esq., having taken the 'bib.,
the meretary proceeded to reed the report, of which the fol-
lowing is the substance :—Frees the ccuanseseentent of the
association, on the 19th Nov , 1847. to 'he 31st Dee.. 1848,
208 proposals had beta mods of which 168 had resulted in
vies to the amount of 38,6821 95., produces an annual
of 1,2211.45. Bd. &viral others thin remained for
emapietion on whisk policies lad since been granted. One
lite eannity had been purchased of the value of 4991. In
the ameba of a 11110111111117 castinn, the directors had declined
business es the amount of 8,1991. Notwithstanding the ge.
sera' mertality which bad prevailed during the past year in
all parts of the united Meadow, only one life bad [Aka, and
that hem tae prevailing epidemic, and the loss was only
1001. Agenda bad been established in the principal pro-
vincial towns, and ac plications for the same Ind been re-
ceived from Ireland, fleetiard, sad Holland, bat for the pre.
sent the dinner, had determined on cleaning their opera-
tions to England and Wales. The only other noticeable
features se the report were the suasion' of his
Royal Highases the Duke of Cambridge as Presi-
dent, sad the Earls ef Northampton and Carlisle as
Pia-Presidents of the association. In conclusion, the direc-
tors called attention to the distinguishing feature of the
asulation, whisk was the extension to the great body of the
working classes of the benefits of life assorauce. The chair•
man congratulated the shareholders on the prosperous con-
dition of the association, notwithranding the gnat amount
of commercial depression which the last year bad everywhere
exhibited. After .rxials Mt. T. Robison moved and Mr.

Stephenson seconded the adoption of thethe report, the latter
recommending that every exertion should be made for
making generally known the objects of the society. Among
other expedients, he recommended the occasional delivery of
public lectures explanatory of the advantages of life ius•
sureness. The motion was screed to. The outgoing direc-
tors having been re-eletted, thanks were presented to the
directors on the motion if Professor Owin.—E. ficard,E'q.,
a director, end house surgeon to the Doke of Cambridge, in
returning thanks, smeared the meeting that his royal h. gh-
nese took the most lively interest is the prosperity of the in-
stitution. Every member of his royal highness's household
had become members, and his royal highness had given the
institution the benefit of his advocacy In every circle in
which he had any influence. The other routine business
of the meeting having been disposed of, the proceedings
terminated.

LOl3B op THE STEAM-MP UNICORS.—The Eastern
Comas. Herald of yesterday says : The steam. ship Rob
Roy, Capt Knowles, arrived at this port (Hull) yesterday,
after a very heavy passage and strong head winds, from Ant-
werp, which port she lilt on Sunday morning. Captain
Knowles states that about eleven o'clock on Sunday night,
which was rather dark, and during very heavyweatber, when
about forty miles from the French coast. he perceived a light
of a veiled a-head ; he immediately put his helm herd a port
and stopped his et.gints. The two vessels were, how ever,
immediately in co:lision. It, was then ascertained to be the
steam ship Unicorn, Capt. Dickinson, of Hull, bound to
Antwerp. It was very s ton found that the latter v,smel
was in a sinking state. Fortunately sufficient time elapsed
for Capt. Knowles to cave the whole of the crew and
passengers of the Unicorn in his life-boat, and to take
them on board the Rob Roy, which steam ship remained
in the neighboureciod of tne accident until ten o'clock
nest morning, but tothing could be seen of the Unicorn,
and there is no doubt she very soon foundered, as all
sight of her was lost in about thirty minutes after the
collision. The crew and parsengen have been landed here
all well. The Rob Roy has received considerable damage,
lust lite boat, and must be docked. Both captains assert
that all the laws of navigation were observed in their respec-
tive ships."

SHIPPING.

ARDROSSAN, Jan. 22.—The ship Atlantic., with emigrants,
has been towed in here with loss of mainsail, fore-top, and
jib.
Ant, Jan. 22.—The amble Campbell, from Belfast, in
attempting to take the harbour on the night of the 20th inst.,
struck on the South Pier, and is now on shore on the south
beach, close to the harbour; should the weather moderate
she may be pot off.
BRISTOL, Jan. 25 —W.N.W.—Arrived : Kitty, Milford ;
Shamrock. Dublin; Sabrina, Cork.
Caamvr, Jan. 24.—Toe Jessie, from Troon for Bor-
deaux, put into Penarth Roads on the 23rd Mat., leaky, and
with loth of sails, bowsprit, jib boom, &c.
Celia, Jan. 24.-8. W., strong breeza.—Arrived for or-
ders : I'ollio, Buenos Ayres ; Fhellan, Constantinople ;
Euphrates, Philadelphia ; Colonel Puleine, Ihrail ; Candulb,
Alexandria; Valerha, Svcxholm to New York, put in with
cargo atifted.
Dean, Jan. 24.—W.N.W. to W., strong.—Arrived: John
Cubbold, bl- untius. Arrived from the river : Roseberry,
Port Philip; Orestes, Bombay; Amwell, Mauritius; Nile,
Pernambuco; Adele, Demerara; Reward, Antigua; Ro-
-1 mittance, New Orleans; Switzerland, New York; Nauti
Ilea,
Doyen, Jan. 23.—The Tigris, from Ceyloa, for London,
which was stranded to the westward of this harbour pante-
day, has broken up, and the remainder of the cargo (except
the cocoa-nut oil in tanks) washed out.
FALMOUTH, Jan. 23.—The Richard Mount, which sailed
hence for Limerick on the 17th inst , has put back today,
leaky, and with loss of bulwarks, cook-house, water•casks, &c.
O 8: Arrived: Maria Sophia, Batavia; Triton, Porto Rico,
and sailed for Hamburg.
Henn, Jan. 24.—The Unicorn (at.), hence to Antwerp,
sunk off West Capel (Schelde) on the 21st inst., haring been
in contact, during a gals, with the Rob Roy (st.), from Ant-
werp to Hull ; crew save d by
the latter vessel, arrived here,
with loss of bowsprit, head, cutwater, etc. The Helen
M'Gregor (st ), has arrived here from Gluckstadt, which
place she last on the 20th inst., and reports having found
much foe below Gluckstadt, and experienced very heary
weather.
KINGSTOWN, Jan. 25.—Her Majesty's steam-frigate
Dragon left the harbour at 2 p.m , to smut and tow in the
American ship Washington, from Ncw Orleans, which had
lost her foremast, and was at anchor *ye miles 8. E. of
Bra) bead. Captain Hall succeeded In bringing her safe into
the harbour.
KIRCALDY. Jan. 22.—The finanieside, of and from New- '
castle for Greenock, has put in here with assistance.
LIVERPOOL, Jan. 26.—N. W., squally.—Arrived : Julius
Carer, St. Michael's. Off; Patrick Henry, and Saxony,
New York; Elvin, Demerara; Jamas. Maori llt ; William
Fisher, Bahia. Put back Suffolk, B Ann, leaky ; she tailed
hence on the 15th inst.
Nano/alarms, Jan. 24.—1 t still continues to blow a heavy
gale from N N.W.—The Mary, brig, of this port,•after hear
lug out her ballast yesterday morning, at Benner Point, was
driven off the land; her mute were cut away, and have not
since been seen.
PLYMOUTH, Jan. 23.—The Mary, from Bilboa, for Cardiff,
put in here this day with loss of bulwarks, jibhoom, sails,
I &c., and with her pumps chi ked.
Suanarruss, Jan. 24,—The Johannes Marinate, from Bata-
via, which was on shore near Dungen, le, hie been assisted
into this harbour in a leaky state this day.
SurrinshaNn' Jan. 24 —The Gleaner, of this port, from
Konigsberg to London, has put in here with damage.
WATSRP3RD, Jan. 24.—Arrived : Volo, Constantinople ;
Jenne Esther, Marseilles ; Trio, Galati. The Two Brothers
put back, after being_ on shore.
YARMOUTIitiI. W.), Jan. 24.—This day it has been blow-
ing a strong k • from W.S.W., with every appearance of a
dirty night. All the wind-bound resifts are riding safe. •
The May Dugdsle, from Cubs, for Swansea, was spoken
off Crooked Island, by the Harriet, arrived at the Mumbles,
and purposed going to Nassau to stop a leak.
The Sylph, from Africa fee Liverpool, put into Sierra
Leone, previous to the 26th ult., very leaky, after being on
shore in the Bay of Benin, and assisted eff by her Majesty's
steamer Blazer ; cargo discharged, vessel repairing, and ex-
pected to sail about the 10th February.
The Bertrand, of Boston, is reported at anchor near the
Dutchman-bank.
DARDANELLES, Jan. B. The Alabama, from Ohara,
which was on shore near Gallipoli, previous to the 24th
ult., was assisted off on the 6th inst., after discharging
part of her cargo, with rudder unshipped, and towed into
Gallipoli Rotelatead, where she will have to discharge
toe remainder. The Achilles (Greek vessel) was totally
lost at Porto Cameras, Sea of Marmora and the Greek
vessel Elisis,near Gsllipoli lighthouse, during the late gales.
Limn, Jan. 19.—The- Laurel, from -Liverpool, for
Tampico, put in here on the 15th inst., having been totally
disunited en the 31st ult., in let. 44, long. 16, and is leaky ;
her cargo is being discharged. The Nathan Hales, from
Bangor, far Boston, put in here on the 12th iost., with loss
of sails and top-sides strained.