The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-07 00:00:00

BOILER EXPLOSION AT HALIFAX.

A coroner's inquest, adjourned on last Saturday,
use held on Thursday at the Town
The Coroner ,toted that he was svrry to tar that since last
wee It another person had died. Su•suoah Smith expired at
toe Infirmary on Monday night, and the jury would conme-
qu•ncly have to view the body.
Moline. Wilson, engineer, of Lvw Moor Woties, stated
that bMsell and Mr. J. W. Wright bad both examined
the boiler, and bad agreed upon &joint rep,r. as to the
cause of the melancholy occident.
John Wright Child then read the report which was

adoPted by toe court.
sir. Wilson (whose statement embodies the sobstance
of this ftec. report) added :—Tne ars: causo of the accident
was that the boiler was much too week for the usual pres-
ent. upon it. The neat cause was that the stays lied
been allowed to get out of order. In this instauce, there
are no bottom stays. Had never before seen any waggon
shaped boiler, of this Bile, without stay,. I would
at once have pronounced the tidier unsafe at a working
pressure of 7114. to the inch. Few resin* tenter* had such a
knowledge of these things as to enable them to perceive what
was riquired. The second and immediate cause was the
bottom stay, which goes from aide to side, being out of re.
pair, and giving way by the pressure. In the pressure gauge
we found the openiog for the steam to be all but entirely
closed. He should have t xpected, from the state of the en es
stay, that it would have been discovered by the engine-tenter.
There was a great want of attention that it was not disco-
vered. The aperture in the mercury 'canoe was nearly clamed,
but he exonerated the eneine-tentir from any blame. The
bad state of the gauge bad no doubt deceived the engine.
tenter as to the real amount of pressure.
DI?: Child stated that the usual mode in which engine-
testers tried choir stays and cotters was by a ham:List.. If,
instead of using the hammer, the engine-tenter had felt the
stays and cotter*, he w• uhf have discovered the imperfict
one, which had caused the explosion. Hut not one engine-
men in 20 would have done that.
Inconsequence of some enquiries as to the esfety-valve,
Mr. Wilson declared, upon examination, that its action was
uncertain.
The coroner hers inquired whether the jury would require
more evidence on the point as to whether Messrs. Finn or
any person in their service had any knowledge of the boiler
being in • dangerous irate previous to the time of the is.
plosion, because On y had no such evidence so far, although
it was currently reported that they had such knowledge.
Several kirors declared that they could not be c intent to let
the Wintry close without endeavouring to ascertain whether
there was any truth in the report adverted to.
The jury here retired for consultation, and presently re
turned to say they were agreed to have the is quiry adjourned
iu order to determine the point raised.
The jury was then, at 4 o'clock, adjourned till Wakes-
• moroing nest.

"The pungent cedes of titillating duet." (Laughter.)
Bat there wee one other cined in the poetic lyre which
Pope, shit y oaag in years, had yet to show his power to
strike, end it is the most tbrillie.; in the whole compass of
song—the poetry of the passions and the heart. To thie
clam I amigo the elegy to the memory of en unfortimate
lady, end the ever memorable epistle from Eloise to Mislaid.
A few words will iodice bees tor the elegy ; its morel ten-
dux, cannot be defended, as it appears, incidentally at
lease, to excuse and consecrate suicide. In its execution it
combines in s high degree poetic diction with pathetic tel
tog. I must pause lot ger on the epistle from Eloise to
Abelard. I ought, however, before I glee vent to the lull
gluw of panegyric, to make two admissions; one, that a
sensitive delicacy would have avoided the subj. et; the other
that the matter is not orinnal, but is supplied in • great
degree by the actual I. tiers of the distinguished and un-
tortunate pair who gave their name to the epistle. Where
tee adaptation, however, is so consummate, this gasket • very
slight deducYesterday the tenth annual meeting of the pro- tion from the merit of the author. The poem is
not long, but in point of execution, it appears to ate one of
prietors was held at the capempas offices, Leadennall-
stern. Sir John Pim touk chair at one o'cl.ick. the most faultless of human compositions; every thought IS
passion, and every lice Is music. The struggle between
The SiCKITAIII read the report, from which it appeared
aspiring piety and forbidden love forms its basis, and the
that the nett profits of the company for the year ending 30th
scenery and 'neuritic@ of monastic life, and the Rouses
September last, after protechng f n certain clings', are unities ritual, furnish a backgroued highly congenial.
86,6001., which, with the previous balance, gives a sum of solemn, and picturesque."
93,1101., out of which sum 7,5001. is appropriated to the
guarantee insurance fund, end the put and present half. Toe noble lecturer cited many portions of this poem, and
e ear's dividecd le a v load,
5,6191. to be carried to the nest then Patted to the" Ikea:"
account. The gamin,. fund last year wee 150,000 e, which, "It would be • strange @minion in an estimate of the
as there has been no serious casualty from sea risk duress poetical sehievements of Pope, to make no mention of his
the year, has bees iucreased to 180.0001., sufficient to geey translation of Homer, though the fact f its being • trawle-
r twee the company's prop, ity from all extraordinary ties, and its length, would both rather put it beyond the
casualties, and eaabie the directors to make • payment of limits of my present criticism. Dr. Johnson calls his
11. per share to the proprietors on account of their risk p
erfectDe end I em inclined to believe with no MOTS than
as underwriters. Toe establishment of • steam cow p truth, the noblest version of poetry which the world
municati.h with Aus.ralia is spoken of favourab.y. The has ever seen. The mein objection alleged against it is, that
directors have determined upon opening en ezperi. being a profaned translation of Homer, it is not Homeric;
meant communication between 'tense', Pusan, Singap_ore that it is full of rid en
sparkle, but mines the un-
and China, by means of two vessels, the Lady Mary Wood matched simplicity and majesty of that great father of
and the Erin, whico it is elpected will prove f•u/All2llflllill*, verse—that, if I may so express mune it has not the
The proposed incense of the capital of the company,•by the twaog of Homer. All this, I thiok, meet be admihed ; by
creation end issue of 10,000 share of 501. seen, is to be cu- some the poems of Sir Walter Scott, aud old ballads like ,
rind out in the proportion of one new stone at par to every Chevy Chase, have been thought to clayey • better notice of
two a the present shires. The transit of goods end per this Homeric twang then can be getbered from ell the pee
aengen through Egypt continues under the friendly aue limbed c supine of Pope. Cowper ,an hmonted name) trted
pins of the Praia. In conclusion, it is obsetted by this a more literal version in blank verse, which certainly may
"It its progress up to the present time has been marked oberiglaiindalt°.
by • degree of prosperity whets few enterprises of a similar Lord Byron has asked concerning these two translations,
nature have been fortunate enough to experience, that pros- Wno can ever read Cowper, end who will ever lay down'
company, that— reLepreet
u....e. thmoo.recivcelr,
coelyineet
toleaetththopeinmentpiliciclittynott—thase
parity, they vesture to asse
nt, his not proceeded so much Pope, except for the original ? As e child I first read Pope's '
ia adventitious circumstaces as from the active and judi- Homer with • rapture which no subsequent work could ever
onus exertions which have been successfully made to render affouage. rd, and ch
Itilis no meredren *TO riot the worst
that)
itgesis the of thchannel
eir own
it instrumental in promoting the public interests.
lang praise
"It has never been entrusted with any of the serving which bas conveyed the knowledge of Homer to the general
in which it Is now employed, until it bad first placed itself, English public, not to our scholars of coarse ; though
W its own enterprise, in aposition to undertake them on far it is far less to the purpose how I felt about
more favourable terms for the public than could be otherwise this as a child than how Lord Byroa felt. I too
obtaiued; and it has executed those services with efficient, remember the days(l fear, indeed, that the anecdote will
—to the doe luifilment of its contracts, and to the satisfies. savour of egotism, but I must sot mind the imputation of
Lisa of the gover¢ment. egotism if it illustrates my author), when I used to learn
It has now attained to • magnitude considerably soh Pope's Iliad by heart bellied a screen, while I was supposed
abaft ne that of any other private steam navigation enterprise. to be engaged en lessons of more direct usefulness ; end I
[ Rues have been provided for maintaioing the integrity of fancy that I was under the strange hallucination et the time
its property, and the position which it has now acquired that I had got by heart the four first booka. (Chun.) I
enable it to execute eny future services which it may be do not mention this u a profitable example, but in order to
called upon to undertake, for the improvement of either cosi- show the degree in which this tranalation was calculated to
mercial or postal intercourse, on more advantageous terms gain the mastery over the yoatkful mind."
for the public than any new enterprise can offer—and, onA very effective attempt was made to exhibit Pope, not as
these solid grimed', the directors consider that ern may he is frequently
regarded as the satirist, butes the pan B 7
look with cone lune to its future program and continued of his contemporaries:
sucicees." " Having attempted to do Judie, to Pope's powers of '
A dividend of 4 per cent. was finally declared for the past satire, I must not omit to mention what I consider to be
half-year. another of his facilities almost of an opposite airmen,
The company's fleet c.ompriees 26 vessels of 27,156 toss in though 1 have perceived with pleasure since I noted this
the aggregate, and 9,310-horee power, which will be in- topic that I have been anticipated in the same line of et-
creased by two steam-vessels, of 800-hase power end about mark by the late Mr. "Iselin. I say with pleuure busses
2,000 tons each, for the Southampton ass
Alexendrian rer- that ingenious person was ace of the guides nod favourites of
vies ; one easel of about 800 toss sad SOO horsepower, for a school the moat opposed in theory and practice to that of
the tome service; and two veer& of 1,100 tons eon, ,e Pope the Lake poets; I allude to the extreme tact, skill,
anew propellers and engines of 2.50-hoese power each, ht- sad delicacy with which he conveys • compliment, and Jim
tended for cargo vessel.. queenly embodied in one pregnant line or couplet a oom-
On the motion of Dr.COWQlllT,amtonded by Mr. Pinner, plate panegyric of the character he wishes to distingsisb.
a vote of thanks wee given to the board. Let me issues* this by a few exempla. Sometimes the
The CzAtaltat Windy. replied, sad the meeting than compliment appears merely to be throws wet, almost as it
alitelattls were by dm/mite lilliefilate kis meaniag. Be dike/Jake el

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