Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-22 00:00:00

FOUR MEN KILLED AND THIRTEEN

WOUNDED.

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.

WREXHAM, FRIDAY EVENING.

This morning about eleven o'clock a frightful collier!
explosion occurred in the lower pit, on the Tallan colliery
estate, the property of John Burton, Esq., of Minerva
Hall, situate about four miles from this town, on the
Ruthin-road. The men, about 45 iu number, descended
the pits at the usual time, and about 11 o'clock the
explosion, through fire-damp, had took place, and killed
four men, their names are as follows;—llaniel Jones,' Chas •
Master, leaves a wife and nine children ; Robert Rogers
wife and four children ; James Lloyd and William Jones►
each of whom leaves a wife and child. The following
five out of the other thirteen were seriously injured
James Kelly, leaves a wife and six children ; William
Williams, wife and six children; James Owen, wife and
six children ; Samuel Jones, aged 12; and Enoch Jones'
20. The origin of the explosion is not yet known, the
fire damp is said to have been very thick for some time •
At the moment we write it extends about a hundred
yards in the pit. All the men have been got out. An
inquest will be held on the bodies to-morrow (Saturday)
or Monday.

BANKRUPTS.

By Brilish and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.

J. Bean, Albert-terrace, Sydenham Park, coal merchant,
J. Thorburn Pleydell-street, bockbinder.
0-. Arkwright Peace, and Charles Peace, South WWI;
Pimlico, timber merchants.
Cornelius Tadies, and Frederick Norman, Great Scotland

Yard, Westminster, cement merchant.
W. A. Hunt, &rand, victualler.
W. Standing Kingsland•crescent, engineer.
J. Wilmott and J. Hartley, Essex-street, Kingsland-road►
timber merchants.
J. Fox, Well street, Oxford-street fret -cutter and moulder'
J. C. Cockerel, Wandsworth road, dealer in horses.
S. Murgin, Aitchurcb, innkeeper.
T. Wellborn, Potter, York, coal merchant.
T. Nathaniel Ashman, Yeovil, currier.
A. G-arforth, Paul and Enoch Garrorth, Earlsheato°'

manufacturers.
Alice Gordon, Sunderland, ship owner.
Robert Johnston, Phoenix-place, Gray's Inn-road, builder'
Jesse Bousfield, Yeadon, cloth manufacturer.

E. W. Hammond, Staincliffe, woollen manufacturer.
Alfred G. Chittenden, Cawthorn Stock Exchange, Throe
morton. street, dealer in shares,
William Anfield, Great Driffield, millwright.
C. Fairlamb, Newcastle-on-Tyne, cheesemonger.
T. Dale, Leek, dealer in drainage pipes.
John Dockree, Percival-st., Goswell-street, wine merchant'
John Gatrell the Younger, late of Askham Richard, York'

shire, miller.
W. Newsome and Edward William Hammond, Goose"
hill, Yorkshire, woollen manufacturer.
BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.
T. Pycroft, late of Caiston, Lincolnshire, and now of
Sandal Magna, Yorkshire, currier.
W. Robinson, Saddleworth, Yorkshire, dyer and cloth
merchant.
W. Organ, Winsall, saddler.

A REPREIENTAIIVE MAN.--Mr. Fox very (torten used
say, " I wonder what Load Z— will think of this.
Lord Z— happened to be very stupid, and the curiosit/
of Mr. Fox's friend's was naturally excited to know 1
he attached so much importance to the opinion of such
ordinary common-place person, " His opinion," said rl
Fox, "is of much more importance than you are aware I,
He is an Exact representation of all codmon place Engli96
prejudices ; and what Lord Z-- thinks of any tneasui,
the great majority of English people will also think. j
would be a good thing if every cabinet of philosophers IA
a Lord Z-- among them " The
VICTORIA'S PIN MONEY.—It is a pretty trait in -.0
character of William IV., that when his niece Vict°,,,rier
came cf age, he saw the propriety of increasing Pe)
income ; but knowing the distressed stab cf the reve,ll,B
at that tittne, he did not. like to bring the matter ber°,is
Parliament, but allowed her £lO,OOO a-year out of Pd
privy 'purse, to be employed in the charities befitt;
her :auk and station in the country,--A portion of
Jcicrnal of T. Paikes,
,rll6
THE RUSSIAN GUNS I, .R THE CITY OF BRISTOL.-- -If
two Russian guns presented by Lord Panmure to the 4:10
of Bristol, on the application of the mayor, arrived at the
Bristol railway station on Wednesday, whence they 11,,er
conveyed to Brandon-hill, which is situate midway wrg
tween Bristol and Clifton. The concourse of spectated
'upon the hill could not be less than twenty thousa°oo
'When the guns were near the top of the hill the l'i°llo
were ungeaied, and a number of long ropes attached to 6_04
guns; each rope was manned by three or four hundi?
vcounteers, who, at a given signal, commenced the " rot
and successfully hauled each gun to the summit, at°4lo
the tremendous cheering of the surrounding multitude,'
band playing " Rule Britannia."