The Express.
London, England, 1856-03-22 00:00:00

EXPLOSION OP POWDER limbs-max

LIVES LOST.

On Tuesday kat, Mr. 0. B. Brent, the deputy-
coroner for West Middlesex, concluded an adjourned ar-
oma at the Bleak Deg pnblic-bouse, Stainearoad, Bedfont,
near Hcamdar, on the bodies of Janus Edwards, William
Holt, and stank mused Walker.
It appeared that ma sephstion took plate at she Batten
Gaspewikur Milk, war Hanadow, on she 7th inst. The de-
mand raw were anployal is the raixiag-house male;
eilp sad nitre, when =wards °smelly opened the door
of the hulMing, and, Were halted caved it, wee seen to
open lie lantern fey theipurpose, at was conjectured, of en-
Wegnishisg the light. The men Holt, who happened to he
mina to Mast the time, stated benne he died that at the
.cement he observed a spark fly from the lantern towards
the enixinthosse, when the latter instantaasously exploded
with immanent*, and was shattered to pieces, the three men
beiag blows into a brook on another part of the premises.
Edwards was killed on the spot, and the other two man
were ea malt Warred that they afterwards died. It ap-
peared that lighted lanterns were used throughout the
works, end bad always been an, as the men were employed
there night and day.
It was stated by the ormemer and several of the jurors that
the wonder wee, sot that the present expiation occurred,
bat that similar aeeidents bad not been more numerous.
Yet it was given a evidence that none had occurred in-
vnlviag lees of life for the last 28 years.
I. answer to the Cormier, Mr. Archer, the foreman of the
Hansa Mills, said that the whole of the men employed
' there were absolutely prohibited from either triturimag en
extinguishing their lights, or opening the door. of their
laments, neat at the mat-bowie, where the lanterns wore
kept, and which is at • considerable distance from any
moisdah.
TM Jay urges* tromnweaded that in Metre the
Lateens sbnald be leileed and the keys kept at the wash*
home, so UM it shod* be impossible to open them eke-
when.
The Osmium impend that each lantern might be fen.
aged wale a. nahlgillithth meting by a spring from the
°abide, ha seise he suable the light to be unwashed
without opening the leaters, end than esggesticos were
soma to be teNNIMMISMiIidi to the ecopriekes dike mils.
Veldist—"Assidsmtl Death."

A MONSTER CANARD..—The Press* Greylass
relates that " a discovery of great 'deride ineportuse hs
just bra merle at Calmest (Hanle Marne). Some mm
employed in sitting a teasel whioh is to unite the It.
Misr and Nancy railways, had just thrown dawn an GOOF
moss bleak et etre by mass of gaa powder, aid ware ha
the act a breekrir it in press, when from a cavity is fa
they made* saw merge a living berg eta measieweit
form This esimel. whisk below to the date el minds
hither* *eddied is he antimet„ hes a Corp Imo week =a
a month Sid wilt slop Math. If stasis ea few keg lap,
whir aire united tegetber by two membeemeh denlithas in-
tended aen pmt the rims! r the tlr amt aro armed with
her dews toishielied by long sad smoked tears. Its pae
rat form resemhhe that of a bat, differ's/ ealy in its sir,
whir is that of • Inge goon. Its Isembreaor wings,
what spread out, measure from tip to tip 3 metres za
centimetres (wady 10 feet 7 lashes). Its mbar is a livid
black ; eke is naked, thick, and oily ; its intestines may
tines
a colorless liquid, like clear water. On reaching
the light this mosmege pro sembisrlytt signs alibi, by shak-
tag its wisse. hot este , uttering • hoarse my.
Thy strap rear" w may be given the near el
'living MO, km hem twoopt to Gray, where a natal-
Wet oral versed la the shay of paleontology immediately
resepisad ft ea behapft to the genus Pterodactyl's mak
luny hued sewers artists have bra found army the
strata width issimpele have designated by the same of liar.
The Net fa whisk this meamar was dimmed bleep pre-
Me* to Shot demedee the deposit of which is so old that
geologiste dale it Isere the a million of years back. TM
eavity,la which the animal was lodged forms an Isar hollow
mould el its body, whisk baditatas that it was esaapietely
eamisped with Um sedimestery deposit."
Rums= or Snanirrn.—We noderetand that,
is esahormhy whit the resolutions of the sane attioit famed
is 141111111 fee dintaiebisi the expenses of shrills, the big*
sheNl ef this moo* (Andrew Artiederine, Beg.) will di-
pore with the sweetmeat of jardiamea as his euclidean'
at the amiess, mai/ me of the county constabulary foe
the pen ell oda. W. observe that at Carmarthen
esinse the dwell was Aced by Yr. Julies Wilkens
At net OM anal attendee." of bailiffs and other
the leered Judge thought due to the
retireesatattee el her liejeety. The questioa bow far these
earn are bard is to their purses for the country will so
doubt be Wets& under parliamentary rivalry. In tree
days, whoa is atm limn are aimed legalist &sideman'
privilege% it mat set be wondered at, if the amps, which
mop the prise paid for those privileges, should be shake*
off se far ea pemilete.—Bury cad Norwich Post.
CIiTITAL PLUM-011Z BEILLDIO DAT, MANOR
21.—Admimieea am mutat, 16,296 s ditto by mama take%
1.2121 Was 17.207.