The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-07 00:00:00

ORATIONS UPON ITALY AND GARIBALD,

The first of two lectures or " orations" o
the moat popular topic of the day was delivered last e
ing by Mr. T. Mason Jones, in the large of AR Jam
hall, which was about half filled with ladies and gel
men, atiancted either by the notoriety of the speaker, 0
the interest of his subject. Mr. Jones, having just mho
from an escuriion to Naples, where Father Okvilazi in
doted him to the Liberator and Dictator of thatportics
Italy, was enabled to bring home frets Garilal,
special message to the audience he had in,w
honour of addreasing. He accordingly began
announcing to them that the hero himself,
bidding him adieu at Deserts, amid :—" I shoulsetake
an especial. favour If, in all your anamenteseions
your fellow•eountrymes, you would express the deep

eternal gratitude I feel to Englishmen for the moral
and material support they have given myself and 1
in the great struggles in which we have been
itgaged,
should Italy mums united and iedependeut, laud
always reckon upon her alliance—an alliance whir* will
be so expensive es those of some other lends." after
vexing this message, which was very cordially reseived,
Jones said that in a second lecture he meant to gin
account of the state of parties in Italy, to compere Weil
with his rivals and contempoearies, and to make
startling revelations about Mazzini—upon whom ht
vested a high eulogy, which he had heard from the
Garibaldi himself. lie then very hastily eaumerstad
well-known incidents of Garibaldi's adventurous life,
toadied upon some of the event, of the late Sicilian
Calabrian campaign ; but there was nothing in his name
beyond what is quite familiar to every newspaper Ica
The exalting vicissitudes of the battle fought L
the Volturno, on the Ist of October,, were i 1
upon by Mr. Jones with much animation of man
and he pathetically deathbed the lathes w
he had himself witnessed in the hosital, s
Garibaldi went there to visit his wounded and dying 1
Mr. Jones had likewise visited the horrid cells of St. E
and those of the Prefattura, in which so many of the
and noblest citizens long suffered a cruel ineetyrdoni,
revolting details of which, as first made known to u. by
Gladstone, have been amply conformed. A food
declamation was bestowed upon the character and rim
Garibaldi, whom, for his talent as a military leader,
James ehiedy likened to Hansibel, although, he clui
Garibaldi with the defect of a complete incapacity for
ganisatioo u shown by the strange confusion which
veiled both in his army and in the civil administration.
moral excellencies of this heroic man of the people
generosity and purity of soul, were most empbeti
praised, though with a somewhat invidious. referee(
other worker in the same cum of Italian emencipatior
union. The second lecture is dud for next Vedoesda3

THE APPALLING COLLIERY EXPEOSION
SOUTH WALES.

BISCA, Toneanat
Notwithstanding the rain which has set in,
people still throng towards the Black Vein Phi, and
there in masses as closely as the police will permit is
some of mere/lees, for upwards of fifty human bodie
yet enimi among the debris of the explonion, end
they remain these their relatives and friendegather I
spot in anxious suspense, and refuse to be comforted.
stated yesterday that the precise position of a console
portion of these corpses had been ascertained, mid that b
of Mr. Stough, the guverument impector, ea
Mr. manager to the Rises Oral and Iron
may, aaatld Mr. Merriam, the head viewed. of the n
tha ventilation had been so directed as In some it
to catty off the firedamp accumulated at this
so as to forbid all moms without danger to
and that it was limed that in the course of
night these bodies would be recovered, and conveyed a
17efortuaately thin hope hell not been real
fratrsisen pretty clearly ascertained that the numb
bodies lying brae was at first 15 ; of these three have
brought up, oas being that of a man mooed Wil
*bother that.of a man named Isaac Sage, am.
thud act,
at of a boy named William Bevan, kbout 133
old. The other 12 of them 15 bodice stall remain belt,
we write, bat with every prospect of being opcovered it
comma of the night, although, so great is the aecumth
of firedamp in the galleries and stalls, that thb work of
very meat nemesenly proceed slowly, end Minot bid
attended with some danger to those engaged, in its p
action.

Meanwhile we have to record the death of another vi
to this sad oahunity. Out of the 64 persona who
brought up from the pit alive on Saturday, most err
jured mars or less, and six seriously so. Of these six a
boy named Senders. 13 years of age, died this morning,
two others are in so dangerous a condition that their
mate recovery is hardly anticipated.
The work of interment proceeds but slowly. The cor
snd jury yesterday completed their circuit, and vies
the bodies recovered up to that time. The numb
widows and orphans left by the explosion does not ay
to be very accurately ascertained at present. The
however, are not lees than from 30 to 40, and the no
of haiplas eluldram is probably much larger. Moat of t
are now ormtplettly destitute, awl even the families of no
Mom ernMoyed at the pit, and still survive, will stiffer
adorable paranoia, unlmor some means can be Adopted lo
purpose of emitting them until the Black Vela Pit shall
more be *de to work in. Under these oircumsttnees
intended to organise a committee, with the view of sei
on foot a public subscription Maid of the sufferers. Meani
the Rev. William Phillips, curate of Rioca,nrill he Wig
receive any subscriptions that may be formartled to
and to apply them in the way that may seem most li
to give some alleviatiou to the sorrows and sufferings
prevalent in the neighbourhood.
Mr. Though, although he has not yet commenced his
eial impeetion of the mine, has forwarded • natement t
G. Lewis, Secretary of State, upon the subject of th,
plosion.

CAUTION TO AOILICULTUIIIIITS. —The conti,
British femme should be on the alert now, end during
approaching festive mum It bas been the custom
many years poet for a set of swindlers in London to
out notices to f through the columns of em
confiding country our ista, stating that thejy are rear
moire aod to sell, oa a alight commission, any (pantie
poultry, butter, eggs, gams, and so forth, that ma
vent up to them. When they have had the supplies
have sold them, and them wade themselves sauce.
have eveady received advertisements of this character.
having sent up to my that the advertisements must
through the hands of oor London agents, or that the fir
must be sent doss beforehand, nothing further has
beard from these liberal commission Lwoliers.—Plym
Journal.

THE SILL TRADS—During the past n
Wears. ComeauWand Co. intimated to the weavers in
nemglz teehnically called "broad silk weavers" (plain
man and velvet branches), that they have con
the non "ling determination rot to kerne any more von
that department. We understand that Mr. B. Court,
in arlo.incusg the abandoement of this portion
their mane'actrre, entered somewhat fully into
reasons why the film was unable to compete ,
other houses, stating, moreover, that this breech of t
operatioua had been for some time conducted at a
which they were noodling longer to sustain. We art
formed that this result is not due solely to the recent to
with France, as the trade was previously not in • prove
state, but the recent revision in the tariff bas perhaps
toned the decision of the firm. The consequences of
decision are not yet fully apperent, but it affect' we
told, the interests of :he heads of upwards of 160 fami
Many of these hinds have a knowledge, of the velvet, w,
ing, and are already in the employ of Mews, lie
of London, who are extensively engaged in that tr
in Sudbury and other placing in the esateris 'counties.
workmen still out of work are taking active 'steps to in
duce other firms into the town, and deleipifes will eoet,
in London throughout the week seeking to achieve thk.
important, not only to the hands. but to the tradesmen
town generally. A subecriptioa to defray the expense,
the delegates wee headed by Mr. Coartaidd with a doow
of LI., and the gjeiritry and tradespeople bare added id.
subsotintie.e. Berridge, oue of the churchwardew
Bt. AwarAndrew's, has kindly consented to act as treasurer ; I
with the winter season already in view, it is hoped t
‘hishtt.tifordes
rbeoni,nlee.ither onerous nor long continua