The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-22 00:00:00

THE COLLIERIES EXPLOSION FUND.

The weekly meeting of the Mansion-house Com-
mittee for the relief of the sufferers by the recent colliery
explasiormin the West Riding of Yorkshire and in Stafford-
shire waa held yesterday, pursuant to adjournment from
the preceding Monday. Of the members of the committee
' there were present the Lord Mayor (in the chair), Colonel
Stuart Wortley, Mr. R. A. Gray, Mr. Alderman and
Sheriff Witterlow, Mr. C. T. Gabrkl, Mr. George Moor*,
Mr. F. Thompson, Mr. B. C. L. Bevan, Mr. Maxwell, Xt.
J. Duke Rill, Mr. J. P. Gaascitt, Mr. Alderman Dairy
Mr. Alderman Finnis, Mr. B. N. Fowler, and Mr. Alder-
' man Cotton.

After reading the minutes of the proceedings of the
last meeting of the committee (which were confirmed), the
secretary (Mr. Gibbs) reported that the total amount
which had been received and promised up to the piesent
meeting was 20,7161. 10e. lid.
Pursuant to a suggestion thrown out at the previous
meeting, it was announced that the Lord Mayor had
written to Mr. Peacock, the secretary of the Barnsley
local committee, urging that some of that committee
should attend the present meeting of the Landon com-
mittee. The expediency of this step was consumed in,
and accordingly the Rev. C. F. Cobb and Mr. F. G. Jack-
son, M.D. now attended as • deputation from the
Barnsley local committee, and afforded full and complete
information as to the mode in which the local fonds
raised for the relief of the sufferers were being adminis-
tered. The funds raised locally amounted to about
15,0001., and the deputation confirmed the expreencei of
the opinion the Barnsley committee had promulgated,
that the requirements for that locality would at least
amount to 70,0001. more. The deputation further ex-
plained the manner in which the guardians of the parishes
had acted in the matter of the relief afforded, and that
though at the outset they had seemed to think that the
calamity ought to be met by public benevolence yet now
they were ready to supplement the relief afforded from
the public subscriptions and donations by aid from the
parochial resources. This intimation was received with
satisfaction by the London Committee. After • discussion,
which was conducted in • conversational tone, it was re-
solved, " That it was most desirable that a return should
be forwarded to the Mansion-house Committee ea soon as
possible, setting forth the names and ogee of all the men,
women, and children dependent on the Barnsley Committee,
with a statement of the present scale of relief, together
with a memorandum of the various causes of their depend-
ence on the local fund." The committee then adjourned for
a week.

Among the subscriptions received at the Mansion-house
yesterday were the following:—From five Wesleyan
Chapels in the Oxford-street Circuit, near Manchester,
501. ; from the Congregation of the English Church at
Cronstadt, 271. 3s. 61;; proceeds of an Amateur Reading
at Brentwoxl, 15/. ; from a Collection at Brentwood
Church, 151. 10a. from a Collection at Rhyl, Flintshire,
10/. 14s. ; from sir. G. 0. W. Dishy, 10/. ; proceeds of a
Ferny Reading at Barrow in Furness, $l. Is. The total
received op to yesterday amounts, as already stated, to
20,7161. lOs. 6d.