The Express.
London, England, 1857-06-03 00:00:00

LATE COLLIERY ACCIDENT AT IN CZ.

On Monday Mr. Drifffeld held an inquest upadt
the bodies of seven of the men killed by this accident, at the
Ws
briny Arms, lace.
ilosfizaler, who was fireman at the pit when-the sod.
dent , gave it es his opinion that the pa had par
tended • hidden fell in the root of the " goaf," or oil
JOworkings.
Join' remmgh, father of • boy who had died from lAA.,
Ike received be the explosion, said that his son told him
that a drawer had " eat the pe oar by holding a mid
candle isp to the reef.
John Mitten. a collier, said that they were acemdemed Is
work with asked candles, and he considered them per.
hotly safe. The mine was so well ventilated that the rent
were secastomed to work with their shies on. The pit wen
very fres from goo, and be could not tall how the exploMoll
halr.beteneseter, the weigh, Fernier of Hirkleerdiall
Coat Company, stated thm there did not imper to any
damage done t• the workings. The Menke cloth at • plea
sans where it was supposed then the sahebs came&
was net singed, and some candles were roma in their general

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This witness and an underbolier both attributed
accident to a fall of roof in the " oaf."
The jury, after deliberating for about half on het%
entre& at the unanimous verdict "That the deceased insi
their deaths accidentally in a coal mine by an explosion of
gas, but how that explosion originated them ensue( evidence
to show," and recommended the use of aefety lamps in plank
of candle. in the Ilindley mine in future.

THE KING OF BAVARIA IN PARlll.—Yelltdalla
Mariam. my' that the King of Bavaria pn Sunday,
hearing mass at the Toilets', visited the PM°. .1
MIIM. TM hours and It half were devoted to the Metal°
on the ground door. The King was accompanied
At ttfacetbetharegtadg
tO NAIL On Manley morning. The "King of Bavatia, so.
companted by Count Teacher de la Pagerie, went over the
of modern pictures, the palace, and the garde og
glellembourg. In the afternoon hie Majesty went 4
the Malmaison, where he visited her Majesty Queen Chris*
the. Is the evening his Majesty dined with the Minietw seg
Foreign Arkin.
A Paris letter, in the Nord of Brussels, says :...
" I am informed that the matter of the governorship of the
Bank at France has been added. If. Gererdp7, Sow=
of the Credit Fourier. will be appointed to the
will be replaced in the Credit Fourier by M. Boisaers4
eice-preent of the committee of finance* at the Council
State, who will in his tarn be replaced by M. Vuitry, COats
cillor of State. I have reason to believe that these arm.•
mono will certainly take place."
Yesterda's on states atPalace of
St. Cloud, on Sunda ifeur
v, the Empiroethat t
his received Ex
the Berl Cowley, ambassador eztraordinary of bar
Majesty, who goes to London on leave of absence. Dr.
Kern, minister plenipotentiary from the Swiss Confiders.
don, charged with a special mission to Paris, who hi re.
turning to Switzerland, has oho been received by his
M'itYineident related I,v the OAS of Cracow, which
represented that a Russian emend had received=
punishment in the Kiew theatre at the bands of the
of that town, turns out, as we had inspected, to be a hoax.
The Austrian government hes given au oltlraal warning sad
a were reprimand to the above-named journal, for having
published what may be considered as an improper reflection
on a friendly power.
A letter from Marburg, in the Augsburg Gazette,
states that Luther's mardsge-ring has just been found, being
of plain gold, with • mom in rubor* and bearing inside the
Inscription of "D. Martino Luthero Catharine Note." Tbir
authenticity of the ring may be questioned, as a description
of the real one was given in a work published in 1741, and in
' aeslalogee in 1817.
The French Academy of Moral and Political
r Relented bee proposed the following %object for the prise of
1868 :—"To sleeeribe in a phileephieal and moral point 01
view the various influences of punishmenta on the ideas, ens
timents, and habits of those en whom they are inflicted."
The French Minister of War has addressed a de.
culee to the generals commanding diviaione, prefects, sobs
prefects, ke., ordering that the number of young men of the
clue of 1866 to be left at home by way of eupport to their
families le to be increased from one to two out of every hems
dred, meklag 2,000 on the euatingent of the clue.
Resesel, condemned by the Court of Assizes of the
Scam for murder and robbery, was executed on Warden
at Mamas
Foists/4 orrict, Jules 2.—The Queen bee been
approve of Mr. Goorpe B. Kerferd as causal at
v~pod for the Republic of Salvador.—Gazette.
WHITEHALL, JUNE I.—TheQueen has been
pleased to present the RM. George Hunter to the church
and perish et Klrkton, in the presbytery of Jedburgh, and
ebbs of Roxburgh, vacant by the death of the Rev. William'
Sewer' Martin, late minister thereof.—Gareffe.