The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-16 00:00:00

FOUR MORE DEATHS.

The results of the explosion on Monday morning,
at Messrs. S. Even and Sons' colliery, at Homer Hill, see
becoming daily more serious as death after death ensues.
We are sorry to announce that four more deaths have
occurred, and it is to be feared that several others will
be added to the list. The names of the miners who have
died since our last notioe was written, are:—William Att.
wood, of Cradley ; Eland Bourubmok, of the Lye ; William
Westwood, and William Summers. Westwood leaves a
wife and four children. The following, we are informed,
are not expected to recover:—John Bolton, Quarry Bank;
Solomon Guest, Quarry Bank ; William Gordon, the Lye;
William Buttleton, the Lye ; and Daniel Hart, the Lye.
Besides these there are ten other men injured, the number
being larger than was computed at the time the excite.
nient of the accident was fresh. Mr. R. Docker formally
opened the inquest on several of the bodies, on Thursday,
but the inquiry into the nature of the accident will net
take plane till next month.—Binsinghast Post.

Mr. E. Mall was entertained last night at
banquet in Bradford, by his friends and supporters;
followed by an enthusiastic and brilliant meeting in the
St. George's Hall, under the presidency of Mr. Holden,
M.P. Mr. E. A. Leathern was also present, and reeds.
tions were adopted, complimenting Mr. Miall on his
honourable and gentlemanly bearing during the contest;
and further pointing out the necessity for the liberal party
putting forward a clear and definite programme of its
objects.
THE FENIAN TRIALS IN DUBLIN.—COStRUO wY
convicted yesterday, and he will, together with Warren
and Halpin, be sentenced to-day. _ _ _

THE DVS!. OF EDINBURGH.—A good deal of
gossip has reached this country from the Cape of Good
Hope in reference to his Royal Highness the Duke of
Edinburgh flying the standard of England on the occasion
of his entering Simon's Ray, in the presence of his senior
officer, and thus expecting from the latter a salute, which,
in fact, was duo from the former. An explanation, we
understand, ensued, which led to the ordinary compliment
being paid to Captain R. Purees, from the guns of the
Galatea, and so the matter was settled ; but, doubtless, the
attention of the Admiralty has been called to the subject,
AA although the duke is entitled to, and will receive all the
honours which are consistently due to a prince of the blood,
it must be remembered that be is • captain in the royal
navy, and as he is in command of one of her Majesty's
ships, it is expected that he will comply with the rules ot
the service.—driets 414(i Nary Gazette.
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR THE
ENSVING WF.EK.—Monday : Asiatic, at 3, " Abyssinia and
Prosier John," Dr. Oppert ; Royal Academy, at "4
ture,"Mr. esttuiroott. Tuesday : Statistical, at 3, `lllltiC
lie Instruction in Turkey," Mr. Hyde Clarke ; Engineers,
at 8, " Removal of Organic and Inorganic Substances in
Water," Mr. Byrne. Wednesday : Society of Arts, at 8,
opening Address, Mr. Hawes ; Geological, at " Supposed
Glacial Markings in Valley of the Ere," Mr. Whitley
" Glacial Structure of Lincolnshire, &c.," Mr. Wood and
Rev. J. L. Rome ; " Disturbance of Level of Land,
Youghal," Mr. Wynne ; Literature, at 8 " Knowledge of
Abyssinia by the Ancients," Mr. Van:. Thursday : La-
uren at 8, " Chinese Corylacare, Dr. Hance ; " Loam'
Capsularis," Mr. Scott ; Chemical, at 8, " Pyrophosphoria
Amides," Dr. Gladstone ; " Results of Analysis and Simi-
tau Condition of Water," Mr. Chapman ; Antiquities, at
"Shrine of St. M.edoes of Ferns and Box of the
Gospels of St. Molaise," Miss Stokes ; Royal, Si,Additions
to " Resultants of a System of Two Equations," Professor
Cayley ; " klethylio Aldehyde" Dr. Hofmann ; " New
Reflecting Telescope for Melbourne," Dr. Robinson.—
dfAeturans. _ . _

Baxter thus gives the probable effects of
the Reform Act :-1. The county constituencies increased
by about 180,000 electors' or 34 per cent. 2. The borough
power in county elections diminished. 3. The voters of
the small towns considerably increased. 4. The relative
power of the great landowners diminished. i. The power
of the small landowners and theirtenante largely increased.
6. The excessive representation of the boroughs over the
counties reduced from three times to twice as great.
PRIVATE BILLS FUR NEXT SESSION. —The num-
ber of private bills for nextseadon will be very small. Last
year there were 317, and in the previous session more than
600. Next session there will be a great falling olf. By the
end of the present month all the plans are to be deposited
at the Private Bill-office,

Tois Riora me Davoestuaz.—The prisoner'
captured in the recent disturbances in Barnstaple and at
Buekfaatlelgh hare been taken before the magistrates.
Some few have been dealt with summarily ; but the major
portion are committed for trial. In the county nape.
trates' court, Larum, the prisoners brought up were
Samuel Martin, James Shedilick, Thowazin Pasamore,
William Tanner, Charles Griffith., and William Black-
more, and they were charged with participating in the
riot at I'laistow Mills on Friday. Tanner was discharged,
but the others were committed to the @elisions. At the
borough police-court John Merles, 15, William Houle, 13,
Thomas Nicholls, 14, and Richard Stanbury, 13, were
charged under the 31st bye-law of the borough with
wantonly throwing stones at Messrs. ArnoU, Rowe, and
Baker's windows on the night of the riot. They were fined
10e., or 14 days' imprisonment. Robert Jeffery, 20, was
fined 40s. and costs, or one month's i mpriiionment, for
throwing • stone at Police-constable &meek Henry
Locaseinore, James Lemon, and William Scott, charged
with rioting, were committed for trial. At the Tanga
Guildhall, Samuel Winter and Nicholas Ferry, jun., were
committed for trial on a charge of rioting at Buckfastleigh.
There are other prisoners in custody who hove nut yet been
disp_osed of.
WHITECHAPEL COSTEHMONOERS. The stall
keepers and costermongers of Whitechapel and its neigh-
bourhood have adopted a petition to parliament respecting
the terrible amount of want and stiffening which they
anticipate will be caused to no fewer than :0,000 of the
poor of London if the sixth clause of the New Metropolitan
Street Act be carried into full execution. Within the
limits of Whitechapel union alone they calculate that
2,000 persons gain • livelihood by selling articles in the
streets, representing with their families a total of about
10,000 individuals. Nearly all these are said to be
threatened with absolute ruin and starvation by a sum-
mary deprivation of their sole means of subsistence, and
this just as winter is coming on. The petitioners earnestly
pray that clause S of the New Metropolitan Street Act
may be enforced only where the necessities of the Oaf%
absolutely require it.
KANGAROOS. —The extent to which kangaroo,
increase on rime of the sheep stations, thus occasioting
serious nuisance to the sheepowners, is very remarkable.
On some of the Itiverina stations the squatters offer 6d.
a head for their extermination, and it is said they are
so numerous that the work of killing them
could be made to pay well. Then it is stated
that on some rims in the western pasts of Vie-
toria these animals are se plentiful as to keep the sheep in
low condition, by sating the best of the grass. kanprcer
being as numerous as sheep on several of the runs. Hunts
on a very large scale, in which these animals are driven 11
by hundreds, and sometimes by thousands, into yardar
and there slaughtered, are often undertaken with a view 04
thinning their numbers, but apparently with little effect.—
ifelborme dregs.
CEVITAL PALACE.—At this afternoon's concert
the artistes are Mdme. Sinico, Signor Foli, and Mr. Tom
Holder, with solo pianoforte, Miss Amy Coyne (her first
appearance).

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