The Express.
London, England, 1856-07-30 00:00:00

LAW IPITELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.

•DOI lit.

ilt 11.1 JOSIPII MALTOID.
Thie insolvent, comedian end dramatic writer, WOO op.
pored by Mr. Pearce, fer Him &Mom hams, the vocalist.
He hat brought sa minims against Mae Isis for perfcem•
leg some plays, and failed la the same. Her coots were
112/. He now mend that be hod no property, amt his
atterorp, with brcmht the actioo, held SOUS play, which
were worth acthieg.
Mr. Commissioier Phillips told him he was modest In-
specting h a own prednetions.

The ierolvout said he was a balladmonger and writer of
barletiece.

Cosmonaut Phdlips uid there staid be no ma-
tans aelvact.

Mr Pearce had sorbing further to say.
Mr COMM iNiOl/1 r Paillirs—Then Mr. Raiford way main
act." (A laugh) I mop, II be is sot sorry for it ?
The issoireet, who said be was sot sorry, was ordered to
be discharged.

THE POLICE COURTS.

THIS DAY.

BOW-STREET.

William Braila, wits described himself as • photographic
artist, sad a ,id that t • lie, dio New•etrett, Covent-11Am
wu charged Mr. tad. • coffee holm keeper I. the
Blued, with creation a dietatbance them and amok og
his.

Mr. o,siond stated that ►. wu 'toadied at the door cf
►i. stop, last teenier, when the prnoner cams op to him
ate upaniul by a (ma!* and claimed argaaintseee. He
said that he did mot know them, and requested them to go
away. The roarer sail he wasted a private
interview with hie, hat le (Hr. Ormond) refused to
hive sa3thied to say to him, and retired late his
own shop, closing the door after him. The puss:easy
pushed sgaiast the door, threw it op• e, and forced his waylap
the ship, pashieg Mr. Otmond heron him. At the
same time he c'unoni only, sod with rainy ceche, demanded
whit witting wss going to do with a child which hie
mother-it-law was maintaltind at Margate, gad which
he alleged to be the Illegitimate offspriag of witness.
Mi., however, wee not the tun. Mr. Osmond was not
even guars of the child's existence till *fin the death
el at. mot►,r, who was for olives years is his service. The
prisoner said that the child's mother was sister of the
woman who was with him, cad that the latter was hie wife.
Amongst other aboard imputations, be accused wits's' of
!teeing polemicd his servant. Is short he was so shady.
and vieleat, that it bey.* mugged to seed foe a mutable
and give bin is charge.
The coastable said the prisoner was drank.
The prisoner repeated the t►e 'hems be ►ed made
edgiest Mr °sound, hat said nothing is sourer to the CON.
He insisted that Mr. Ounoed ►aew him and his wife.
Mr. Osmond said that whin. his servant died she left about

4001. is sooty, btoidssottier property, *Melt WU diary ttod
is It's this two months by bit brother-is•lasi (the primossr,
hiinapposad) ssd isms oilier Dials's.

Mr. Henry said it mu a clear attempt to extort money.
Even if the story shout the shad Wogs lir. Osenend's bad
Men tree, the prisoner 'weld have no claim on Mr.
Osmond, as he had been pat to no asp's,' for It. He had
behaved very violently, sail must pay a Sae of IL, or be
imprisoned for one month.

THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION IN GLAMORGAN-

SHIRE.

PONTYPRIDD, TOZSDAT.
Oo the re•auembliog of the jury yesterday alter-
cate,

Mr. Polities, barriste►, of the Western Cireuit, wu in
etteedesscr, and stated that he had been seat down by the
government t waist the coroner in his inquiry. Any evi-
dence vr suygestion calculated to elicit ?ha roil cause of
this usfortusate catastrophe would receive the greatest at-
testion.

Mr. Davies, SUTOIIOII. of Cymmer, was then examined,
and dip gird to having attend. d the seffrren in the accident
at Mr. ill, le's colliery. He described the injuries which
had best 11111tSint dby a great number of the demised col
lien. The number of weans killed on the spot, and who
bad diet since the accident, amounted to 114. Of that
member 16 were badly burnt, 21 agh•ly burnt, 73 cuff --
cited, and 6 bruised. Five were brought up alive, who had
Derived injuries from burniag, end one laboured under
asphyxia. These peruse were progressing far 'Drably, and
would be able to attend and give evidence in the costes of a
week or ten days. •
Mr. Williams, yor, raid he bad made a plan of the
Claimer Colliery, which he produced. Was acquainted
with the course of the air in the part of the pit in which the
explosion occurred. The pit was en oval one, 16ft. din. by
91t. 6 n. ; but a patios of it was Imattiesd off, reducing it to
14ft. by 91t. bin. Toe area was between 9 and 10 feet. The
Wattles wee composed of brick at the bottom and void at
the tcp. Oo this working thi re was only one pi•, and the
principal portion of it we. used lor winding, pumping, and
SI a (Lwow% shaft. The air on reaching the bottom of the
pit travelled slug a level besdieg up to a point called Evan
Paull pt' heading. After ventilating the workings, it pared
along the northern portion of the colliery, and ultimately
escaped by the upeast At Evan Phillips' pit a part of the
air returned at a split," and after going to the tooth
week., escaped in ant.ther direction. Toe euploelon oc-
curred in the smith workings. The witness here described
at somas length the mode In %hick the various stalls of the
mine were ventilated. Small portions of the air were
allowed to snipe fions the m►in air course for the purpose
of ventilating the old workiego.
By Mr. Evans—The sire of the air-way between Bran
Phillips' dip and the wind-way heading I. 6 feet by
2 Get 4 inches, and gives an area of 14 tut. This surreal
all paws to the south portion of the workings, when the
expleeron took place.
The inquiry was then adjourned at kalLpest six o'clock
till Tuesday,

TVUDAY.

The jury recesembled at bait pant ten o'clock thin morn
jug. Mr. residet, from the Home-ofice, and Meters.
Mather ortb, Suss, and Dickensoo, her Mejinty's inepeetcre
of wpm, were spin is attendance. Mr. Huddlesion* ap•
pealed on behalf of the owners of the Cramer Co'llere ;
end Mr. Owen for the friends and relatives of the deceased.
Before any whams. were called,
Mr. Iluddlestote, addressing the corner, said he was de-
sirous of calling attention to a matter of very considerable
inurtanne. He wait/led to that the government bed cos-
snared the cue of sufficient importance to send down a gen-
tleman of great experience to assist in conducting the in-
quiry. 8, far, however, mbe understood the position of
that gentleman, it was in so way to interfere with the
power whim) the morose, pensioned in that court, or
rods erl in any way to it Peers in the arreagements which
the scrum might think it neemeary to make ; hat Mr.
Pouldea was simply the penes named on the act (or amend-
ing the law for tog inspeetin of end mina, who was sent
down by the government foe the pupae of protecting the
in 00000 ta of every elan of society interested in the inquiry.
Reprinting the owners and manegen of the colliery, he
(ilr. Haddlestone) was as WIZIOIN as the goveromsot for the
most rigid inveetitatien. He woe moat &ciente that the
oases of the accident shield be probed to the bottom, that
all the eitCallillanees attending it should be investigated,
and ttat no individual should be messed from any blame
which might attach to bin. Blase yesterday be had coon-
&red the mouse which had been taken and the evidence
which had been addend, and he was compelled to admit
that • pontos of that evideace had burst spas him by ear-
prise. Ha bad hoped that the object of the adjuremest
epos the last occasion was to *dad the susviun of the
OCIMASt an opportanity of attending to state all that they
knew of the occurrence. It was obvious that the inquiry
weld not terminate until these persons had ben examined;
sad it was always usual in cues of tail &Kelpies to
preesed with the evidence of the peewee on the
spot Ant. He therefore believed then it wield be
the best wane to adjourn the inquest until the mar-
viten weld attend, 'belt would probably be is ten
days or • fortnigbt. It would certainly be unfair to
them, sautuesetoey to the ands of inner. and •oglitt have
the 'protases of Inflow the 'equity, if the proonomp
were to be precipitately broaght to • dee. He therefore
begged to apply for an adjournment.
Mr. Owen, on behalf of the univers, esincidod in the
intense captioned by Mr. Ruddiest's*.
Mr. Peados) also anotrred, and explained that he bad
bun sent down by thisgoversesent for the purpose of assist-
ing in the) notary. Hie Instructions were not to tithe the
la oat of the heads of the ureter, nor to wane
the of • plMautoe, but to gin his profearional aid
is meldog the fnYmt benignities into the emu of the dis-
ineleel 11110111011111111. As fat as the government were eon-
amid they semisoft desired that a lull, fair, Impartial,
sad peeps therein should take place into the whole of the
eireamonmess.
Mtag • 'beet 4113111111•61111 it was agreed that at the clue
of
till 11 inquest shield stand adjourned
sem&
Mr. Wil ethiliegy surveyor, was then recalled, and
in answer to Mr.ivegs.eald that the total length of the main
air sanest ce the see* side of the pit wee 10,325 yards.
There were 67 deem )winding well dolls, aid the men
carnet of air depended epee the whole number of doors
In meet of the stall demo time was a liability to leak, as
aperture being inteatiemelly left on each side of the door
foe the purpose of elleseing the air to pus into the Medlars,
se that the drawing roads might be vestilated as well as the
stalls. He believed that the tutus to which he referred
would not glandes the quantity of air passing along the
main workings moth thee woe neasegary. In some head-
ing* the leakages wield se doubt lajarionly diminish the
main curtest of air. Is some pert' of the mine there were
doable doors for the pup ege of preventing leakage. Diable
goon were marked urea the plea as haring stud at the
bottom of a working called Jacob's heading. All the doors
were blows down by the "spleens.
Is reply t) the morose,. the witness stated that whenthe
coal had bees g.t rubbish was put in to Ail up the vacuum,
and the rubbish went by the same of "sue." Thine
were 256 Tares of " goal" from the end of the straight
beadiest to the face of the level.
Mr. Owen—An I to understand, from your evidence,
that you think the pit was properly ventilated ?
Witnees-1 de not meth to say anything of the sort.
Mr. Haddleitoa—Mr. Williams has gives no opinion
tepee the subject.
By the Jury—The titans of the nine peoduced was made
before the accident. I cannot say whether there wee any
sit current to the old workings from John Cagassaes head-
ing. In point of feet, I did not examine Jobs Csenatea
heading because it bad bees abandoned.
The format said It was most Important that Jobs Cae-
mast's headier; showld be thoroughly examined and that the
evidence should be very precise as to the amuse of the air
through that heading.
Mr. Owen—Have you not said that you did sot go through
the rl4 workings because you were gfreid that there was
Are damp

Witter—l said I did not visit Jaeob's beadirg frr that
reason ; bat I did tot go to the o.d w. Adage bemuse
they were abandoned. After the implosion, I found a door
blows down near Jobs Caemaur's heading which iodated
nut tt holieve that there bad been a door la that position
previous to the accident. I saw ladm.tions of fire damp et
the month of Griffith Williams' beading. and also at the top
of the straight beading. I saw mules brought oat of
Moen' heading, but the elj tot of say Malt tom simply to
prorate a plea of the works sad not to make inquiry tats
th, se maven.

The proeredings were adj mimed at bell put 1 o'elook for
as hoer, mad the jury has sot reassembled whoa oar panel
wee dt4atelted.