The Express.
London, England, 1858-07-05 00:00:00

TER BOILER EXPLOSION AT MANCHESTER.

A coroner's inquiry into the cause of the terrible
explosion at the Atlas Iron Works, Maneneer. wsa com-
menced on Saturday. Mr. Raiford, the nun for the
city, bald hie eon at the Royal I en there were
preen, is oddities to the jury, Mr. Jam stlsne. en Mr.
Stewart, peephole's of the Ades meths; Me. J. inks,
engineer, at Bolton ; Mr. John wegetindest
of the Landes and North Wasillill • Imemettve
werbe, at Crewe; and Mr. J. C. Forsyth,
Treat (nen st the thiosssid Mr. Than regenyth"M
inqnywee =beta Minaery ahmeeethadiwee
cum
Mse Ide the meting eisliesellnlia
deesteekth ender thth thotillethes of beethl idea Minn
to the Meade of the pan scree to
this evidempei nee were nee le
all by the of the heineethe on y, their ones
beheg—Mr. Feseylly mosetgar of the weam; Mr.
'ZitraginDew:::. el Morseling Mr. Thome
N redeems appease ; Ines Cannella
hollerseeker ; Adthems, bellersthlur ; and Wm.
Oman (a boy), rivet-oinks to bothessehme. Mr. hale
Maseos, erronsonsly stated to our nen at Saturday to
be deed, wee Sill thee apeman day, beg wee lying at the
talrissty is Tory down hate, es sem Use four other
parson thhon them ler Mk.
wltheemeselled by the amen kw the Men.
fiethlAtr the bens wee Jahn lin, who stated that ha was
preen at the Meng el the benotive when the implosion
amend. Ha ni skis the nun was at 116 to 118Ibs.
riwrewas ilthitablidaso=oonst the
frar:nikal:
tool late Net el the works. Ha fetched the test, and
headed It le who was on the locomotive. Wines
tend been and whilst doing so the ex-
-
piens 11•01111101.
The inquest wee ultimately adjourned to Friday next,
when it ta understood that witness dame inn& mann
will be called to give evidence as to tin cense of the explo-
sloe. The jury visited the nth to ace the remains of the
locomotive, and it appeared to be the opinion d no& par-
MN who examined the edges of the plate that had glow way
that it must have been in a faulty state Mae the manes
tore It out, as the mime were is pieces diacoloured. In other
wards, the edges were not white la all parte, as hem a recent
rending In two, so that it la probable the Mete above re-
ferred to was from a flaw In this plate, which rendered It
unsafe.

The " St. Bernabas Church Defence Society "
solicits 'oboe:JO/lama towards defraying the legal expeases
incidental to the dillies of the Rev. Alfred Poole.

THs litnamovonta POOL: This morning was
honed the report from the Select Committee on Irremovable
11 Poor, twig= with the proceedings of the Committee on
Mi=tes of Evidence. The committee report that, " teat-
'Miring that the state of public business before the house
renders it Improbable that there will be sufficient time before
the close of the eardon, to Ming to a conclusion the subject
submitted to your committee, or even any portion of it, and
that it is =advisable to enter upon any such subject
without the prospect of being able to receive evi-
dence both for and against any proposition that
may be made—your oomraittee do report the evidence
already received, and recommend to the house to re-appoint
the committee at the commencement of the next session."

The committee met for the Ent time on the 11th of Teeth
end the only witness whose toridshos has hem lakes is W.
G. Lumley, Eaq , minim seems secreerry to the Poor-law
Board. The chairman of the committee is the Right Hon.
T. H. Botheeon Batoourt.

FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION IN SOUTH WALES.—
On Saturday last the mining vtWgaef Vickels, South
Wakes, wee the scene of a fatal boiler mimics, by which
four men were killed and several others wounded. The
boiler in which the explosion took place was forty feet long
and seven feet in dismsier, and was one of a safes of three
which were connected together and served by a stalk of
eighty or ninety feet high. It appears that a few alludes
before the eaploeloa , Thomas Price, the entriumr, Thomas
Ham a youth, and the fireman or stoker, David Nunuary,
were on the top of the bailer. One of them was chewy"! to
put his hand upon the top of the safety-valve lever unarms
it down, and in a minute or so Pries, the engine-driver, get
on the lop of the safety-valve and sat upon it. The 111011.18
which led him to commit so realms an act an only be sou-
jecturad ; bat it is thought that es the stem from two only
of the kik, 'add reach the seek he found some doe
ilideney of power, end got on to the valve for the purpose of
its blowing off steam. Whatever might hemi
his t, the comseqessces to himself and all within
reach were most disastrous. He had not been sitting oaths
top of the valve more than half a minute, when the explorion
took pleas, blowing the boiler, the large eta*, a puddling
stalk contiguous, sad all the surrounding masonry to atoms.
Ths Nunnery, sad the young man. Rees, were
blown into the sir with snob tome that the bodies were not
mama/ea for some time afterwards, when they were Hound
madly maimed sad sodded. mad quite dead, amongst the
alikria, some sixty rude off. The corpse of Thaw Price,
the engine-tentsr, was found nearer to the stalk, and lona-
than Woodford, who died soon after being discovered, at no
great distance from him.

LOOK UNDER THE BED.—About three o'clock,
on Thursday morning, Mr. W. Enos, warettoussmen,
Belgress-elmet, Burton, was awoken/4 ley his wife, who
declared diet she heard somebody downstairs. He want
below, and is the lobby be found a strange coat, with a
strange pair of boots stuffed In the pockets, and, after a
further search, • man. minus mat end boots, wee towed
stretched at length under the identical bed from which Mr.
Esau had just risen. He wu wound by the aid alb'. Evan e
nephew, ms also was • ascend mae, who apprised to be on
the watch' outside. Their moue ere James Cormkk and
Thomas Bark', and they are supposed to be ticket-of-learnsmen. They were taken before Mr. Mansfield co Thursday,
and remanded.—Liverpool
STEEL ESTRANER.—Botne time ago a EEO screw
Mesmer, of 170 tens, named the Rainbow, and built of
peddled dog plebes of Ste eighth of an inch thick, wee con-
structed by Kr. John Lobil, of Birkenhead, In 05101311100
with the Niger Ergiorlag Expeditkot. She is 130 feet long,
16 feet beam, sad is supplied with a high pressure engine of,
60.1 torso power. Preciously to her departure for Africa
this week, she was 'objected to • trial trip on Saturday, when
she made the satisfactory average speed of 12 to 13 ranee on
hoar.

^763L OUTWARD EAST INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.
—The steam-ship Pas left Southampton asterday with the
Rost India and China malls, a full cargo, Sea boss of grate
of the vane of 99,8021, and 80 peassomers, among whom are
Captain. Maguire sod Barbee and staff; Assietad-Sarpore
Cotton, M`Donald, Wiles, Woo&owe, Croke, Spam, Col-
Nue, Hopkins, Masterson, Hope, Johnson, and Cameron;
also fourteen native women returning to Calcutta. At Malta
Mr. Albert Smith, having weed through Prance, will
Jots the Porn on hie way to China.

STEAM To Nair iloaL—The steam-ship Austria,
froze Hambarg to New York, left Southampton yetterday is
her datlination, with freight and pmerngers.

THE STEAM-13111P CeLT.—This ship arrived at
Bonstampwe on Saturday to discharge her cargo, haring
tended the Caps midis at Plymouth on the preceding day.
The new iron screw Indian mail dessaerNortboas.
which left Southampton on the 20th nig, with the Catania&
and China mails, arrived out at Gibraltar in 4 days 11 btu&