The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-12 00:00:00

AND °SEAT LOSS OF LIPS.

DBEADFUL COLLISION TEE, CII.A.A.VEI,

A telegraphic message was posted at Lloyd's yea.
torday, announcing the sad lose of the Dutch screw steamer
Sophie, eland horn Rotterdam, which foundered early that
morning, near Dungeness, after Wig in collision with the
William Hutt, a screw steamer, and, melancholy to add, we,
attendee' with a &thoua lose of life. The Sophie was a first-
chin vessel, and belonged to some merchants at Rotterdam,
It is reported that she kft that port on \Value'sloy night,
and about one o'clock yesterday morning she was a few
miles off Dungeness, making her way down Channel for
Bristol, when she came in fearful contact with the
William Hutt. She immediately began to fill, and
in a comparatively brief period r!eo went down in
several fathoms, carry tog with her the captain, nine
of the crew, and two female passengers. The survivor. (set)
of the crew wire picked up by the William Hutt, end
landed at Dover in the course of the morning. Some of the
pour fellows when rescued were in a very exhausted con-
dition. They received every attention froth the Dutch vie,.
consul of the port. Several boatmen have gone to the
vicinity of the sunken wreck to pave whet property may be
cant up. The morning was dark sal stormy, with rata.
Whether both ships exhibited the usual lights that are re-
quired of steamers to prevent collision remains to he ascer-
tained. The Sophie was a sister ship of the Mn.x., which,
singular to state, was lest let year. The Sophie had re-
cently been detained at Bristol for a broach of the Co•totes
hews. She was seized, and her officers and crew, amounting
iu all to 20, were arrested upon some charge of smuggling.
Through the intervention of Mr. May, the consul in Lon-
don, the vessel was released and allied by • fresh crew,
She resumed her station. The William hurt, which sus-
Joined damage, continued her voyage.

FEARFUL COLLIERY EXPLOSION NEAR
DUDLEY-SEVEN LIVES LOST.

Another of those appalling colliery explOtrione
which unfortunately are so freq.. art in the coed mince of
South Surffordehire, orcurred on 'l* Lumley Dan aing last, in •
tordpit, belonging to Mr William Mills, of Rowley, and
sit crated at Windmill End, not far feint the mouth of the new
Netherton Tunnel, and about two mill, trout Dudley. This
restful caroulty boa reeultth in the deceits of FIX men end •
boy, and in lupines more or lees severe to five or tc:x where,
moo of whom We scan ely expected to "orvive. The I;, it
atop adopted after the explosion by thorn above remind, was
to theow a quantity of wider down the eli/ving shrift (the
atone pit), in order to form the sulphur up the abaft of the
teal-pit. Some time elapsed 1a hire thin bad the desired
effect, and after some feather delay, the men who were in
the " dip" succeeded in making their way to the immediate
scene of the eataetrophe. as they ate uced through the
works, the devastation mmmitted by the expluion wa. appa-
rent. The gate node, belt-holes, dome, ike., were injured
to arc ry sericite. extent, and teethe dto the tome with which
the explosive element hod fueled tower"s the mouth of the
pit. Near the bottom of the curl-pit they found that a ;mg.
quantity of the urine bed been for eel luau the tied, arid for
six or some yards up the dude itself the brick-work was
loin down. It wee coon itsretioicted thee several
of the men who had left off work, end were about
ascending, were buried betroth the e eal jost referred to, and
colliers were after a lime pieced at work to tereove it. Fur-
ther search in the direction of the "ere," h:d to the die.
comfy of the scorched remains of the doggy, Gee,r,:e French,
who a short time befit had bon telling with Feincis
Gtif-
Orbs, as before nu claimed, and not for dean bee were also
found the equally charred and M'-lece bodice of two other
men, Abraham Sherwtod (or Situ-nen) and Will Son Tim-
wine. Amongst the Loth of cool.. dr., near the bottom of
the "heft, after three or four hours hard work, was found the
body of Jueeph Oriflithe, the brother of the betty, and hie
war the time body taken to the surfeee. Ile was quite dead.
A man named Samuel Smiler was found in dove proximity
to some hot bricks and burning coole. Ile was dread-
fully burnt by Ouse, but wen got out alive,
and though much injured to extorted to cornice. The
urea continued at work to remove the coals from the
men buried beneath, and cat inlet vale found the bodice of
John Medely, who was not dead when token to the top, but
shade:el dully afterwards ; and dime. Derby, a hex, who
u quite dead. The body of John Dainty wan not item
vered until ts...lve o'clock on 'I Lureday night. Ile sae alive,
having been partially buried f=ir upwarda of sixteen hours.
From inquirieo wed, yesterday we underebtal that it is
thought likely he also will survive. One other urn, Daniel
Chink, Ile known to be buried under the same cools, but op to
tea o'clock yesterday morning 100 body was not extricated,
the operations from some came or other haring bran
'upended after the recovery of Dainty. It was,
however, then underetood that Chink must from ne-
cessity have expired long before that time. A scorch in the
course of Thursday led to the discovery of a safety-lamp,
very near to where the explosion occurred, end which is
imposed to have been need by the doggy, George French.
Nothing can be satiefactorily or retained as to the precise
state of things immediately before the taro-rence, end we ate
unable to clear up the runner rummies which are obroad re-
epecting it, but which which most necesenrity be without
foundation. One of the rumours is that French, having
gone into the forbidden place with a gaiety lamp, the ulpher
end air combised caused the lamp to buret, end hence the
expineion. But we can state that the lamp wes found in •
complete state, and is now in the 1.,41102,111011 of the bailiff.
The general opinion is that Freteh, on going into the ex-
treme end of the " crop," met with a slight mioimp, which,
clueing en indentation, or some Kindler accident to the lamp,
led to the explosion.
The following is, we believe, a cornet lief of the unfortu-
nate deceased, with their resident-,a and families
George Fremb, ,butt thirty-live yens of age, having •
wife and four. children ; at Blackheath.
Joseph Griffith, aged forly...x, wife nod seven children; at
West Bromwich.
Abrehem Sheerwood (or Sharratt), aged about thirty-forr,
wife such flee children; at Church-bridge, Oldbury.
John Medely, treed shout torty, wife and threw children;
Block Waggon-etteet, Old-hill.
William Timmins, aged twenty six, single; of Darby
James Darby, aged eleven yeue, Rowley and Daniel
Chink, about thirty-two, having a wife and three children,
at Church-bridge, near Oldbury.
There ere six or seven men and Inc, injured, but we bus
been able to learn only the names Of Samuel Siviter, erred
twenty-one, single; Rowley. who is much buret about his
hande, heed, end bale; mud Jelin Dainty, aged about nine-
teen, having wife and child at Old Hill.
As we have said, the " crop" was clear from sulphur a
short time before the e xplopitru, and w e also that though
the betty prohibited the men Wen entering it, it W. on that
scorning t' ea clear tea tense," end the betty himself wee
M it with a bare candle. He, however, from the " nastiness"
of the morning, feared it would le unietfe, as the sulphur
would accumulate in two or time minute..
As may be oupposel, the pit batik wan thronged with per-
sons throughout the clay, by the idol:yes and friends of the
men in the pit, end by the ;
The birdie. of the &mud lie in three different perishes.
and there will therefore le them inquiries—the coronas
being W. Robinson. Bpi., fre Dudley pariah ; It. Docker
Ertl., for o:deury pond. ; and G. it. Iliuchliffe. Esq., fie
Rowley end West Brum. kb.
The Mimes in the pit art the limo were recovered without
inch injury.

CENTRAL AFRICA.—An official despatch has
been received at the Foreign-office from her Majesty's
Coastal at Tripoli, throwing some doubt on the reported
death of Dr. VogeL The courier who had been de-
spatched in April last for the :sootier of World, to ob-
tame, if prasible, same tidiage of the fate of thin scientific
traveller, having returned to ilurefik, brings with him
ale a letter frosts the Sheikh of Borg's. From the re-
port of some people comp...Mg o small airman that bed
reached Braga from Warbri it appears that Itr. Vogel,
after having succemeively visited several places. SR
reached Andre, whence he woe summoned to Were, the
capital of \Valhi, by the Solent, by whom he had been
some time detodued, but was supposed to be preparing
for hie deportees to Darfur. Upon the receipt of this
report the Sultan of Boren, who lid eritlonely Interested '
himself in the matter, at once sent off two couriers to Wedal,
both of whom had retioud wills reports voiroborating the
story of the *maven ltrapectitig the death of the
g Meat Maguire no doubt appear., unfortunately, to be sr
rertemed ; sad the favourable report of the existence of pear
Vogel is still art !litlCil a matter of unrusainty that, should
no positive tidings of his fate be ureter d by the large cars-
' van, which woe daily expected at Mitred's, other curial
will be immediately hastened off to obtain, if
mitten evidence of his fate. To the friends of Dr. V
it will be a great consolation to know that Lord Clematis
is than staking every effort to urartain his fete, sat
should he be held is captivity, to des ;so means for bas Tr
demption.— Trion.
INCENDIARIB/4 IN FRANCE RT A LITTLE BOT.—.
The !/roil records a curious case of ineendiariern hied as tie
7th lust. at the *Piot', of the Indricet-Loire. A boy d
twelve years of age, wonted Cluiwau, in the sere ire of ose
Ginitd. •fanner, at Savigny. in Tours/at, had teen for some
time dissatisfied with his situation, complaining that his
wages were ineuffitient. One day he told a women tiny
on the farm that would sot fire to his master's hoses, 1
no notice was token of hie threat,. On the night of the 11th
ult. the fanner was awakened by cries of fire, and, on PZ
into the yard, saw that a bundle of straw close to •
filled with bay was on fire. In a moment the fire spread le
the shed, which was speedily burnt down ; au wljacriet tun
was eased with difficulty. About mix hours afterwards tee
fire broke out again, end emseunied this too, end ell its es-
tent.. The boy admitted that ho had eel fire to the stn.
with some match& which he Arend on hie muter's chimney-
=and stated that he did so because hi* moan: bad
The farmer denied that he had in any oil
ill-used the boy. The jury found the prisoner guilty, sell be
was sentenced to eight years' impriarannent.
The accounts from the south of Russia represent
the harvest round the Sea of Atoll as wonderful, end that
Berdianak is likely to take away much of the trade of Odessa
The wtatther (says the Aberdeen were pendent of
the Edinburgh Expres.) continue* very unfavourable for lbe
harvest. Not a fourth part is yet Fecund in the 'tackled,
and sprouting has commenced extensively.