The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-10-30 00:00:00

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BliTriNG ROOM, MONDAY, Ottossa 90.

11 to I opt colt out of S. 1 13 to 1 opt Marcella,.
core:. I 20 -to 1 apt e. out of Plover,
12 to 1 apt cult out of 120 to 1 aget c. out of Yalta.
Landscape.

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11 to 1 apt Cooloraeserve 14 to 1 apt f. out of Tip•
11 to 1 apt Major Willows. pitywitchet.

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710 4 Gottavue ago Paths sto 4 North-Wearer not
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The Lambkin fot-hoonds meet on Thursday. lot Novent-
bee, at Houghton ; and tau Friday. the td, at Burimpolde...
each morning at te• o'clock. Thu.. booed. will bust from
Nedigefield oN tbe ith of November.
The Noethnnahlariaod hounds meet oo Friday, November
I, at Waniallell, al leu o'clock.

THE GRAND BOAR HUNT

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Friday, the 111th issues, was the day appoistad for the
greed fete M lisuover. As early am lire o'elork is the warn-
ing •11 the people of Datiorer were in aatie., and every
horse sod vehicle that amid be procured at any price carte
pot isle requisition. The grimed where the slaughter was
to take place lay at the distance of about twenty Englioh
miles from town, and thither did the whole population of the
tawdry repair with impatieet curiosity. The wesery Moog
the way was wild sad romantic. Segregated hills fevered
with tremor • mooted growth rosette all sides, and at length
we came he s thick forest of vast extant, where poles with
dark green flags aMsed to teem, served as so many guides
through a region of mad, over which acne bet Gemmel;
would hove the temerity to restore a carriage. At urea.
load istervals Moths sod sheds were etiostromed as plume
of miertaimmet, mid she wretched cheer they supplied was
eagerly puckered. You alight see a dasisiug Colonel
*gbh,. seAstmm (spirit.) out of a glass that salon d the
lips of ammo hominids of squalid cilium.; haring at the
NM the • plees of black bread is ow side of hie mouth,
sod a sew he the other, *Stile a wedge of German
asualie, sormosoleal by a pima of raw bacon, gave elm
Moyment to the thumb of his right hand. After pen,-
deettie* about a mile mid • half jolt; lhe forest, we Came
ha oPitati enclosed by canvass and eel work, within which
As Mop sad wild boars bed fur some time before bees
oeSsMed. At the extremity of the oselentre a sort of peri-
ls, was Mated fee the acersimodatiem of the King, had his
Majesty encoded. It was is his Mesmer occupied by the
Km* , with the Duke ..f Cambridge at their
I. !lose were allowed to use liremms hot his Royal
Nigliwass, with she Archduke Ferdinand of Austria and the
Doke of Mockleohuryrh Shelia. At times o'clock the
work of destruction enonseaced, tied • hoard of boar, came
dove to the extremity ofthie aselimurr, where the sponsume,
if so they could be called, aloud ready to attack the.., the pea.
email at the sow time raising load yells through the woods,
and keeping op • wild comers with the mond of the bogie
natio* doted is rpm the prey. Ilirgy-liee victims felt in she
fetal attack, an/ they went literally butchered. The poor
anion& did sot attempt any resismoco; sad it was shorkiog
Nme the torture is which they were kept, from their
assail-
ants sot being adroit enough is the use of the spear to put
them promptly out of existoore. Wisb elfre.exeipiioe of Lend
who acquitted himself like a tree oportman,
there was mare* an 'Maritime' that attacked the prey in a
fair
DRSADPVL ACCI DR Nit

It is this week, we lament to my, oar most paltered duty
is reeved iww of obese fatal accidents, S. which the workroom
hi the aid wises of this weighbeerhood ate trubepprly
so exposed. One of these accidents is, uefortrestrly, of
an unmet which it is shocking to humanity to commit-
piste sad bee produced • degree of suffering, of which
we shorty is vain atiesnps so convey as idea. At eight
o'clock out the snorting of Trendy lasi the neiglibeerbood
of Walleeed colliery (Rumen's) was alanweil by as explosion
of lellsenesabk sir, it the A pit of that iniieneiet
The greatest exertions were instantly made by Mr. Boddie,
the viewer, to save, if possible, the lives of the me. who were
at that time working is the pit, and as woe* as it was practi-
cable, be deaceeded with his assistants, 'her • MOM neelita-
doily seem pretested itself. Mb' wartime. who wens is the
pit, nearly SO were found dead, some severely injured, though
still alive, sad only Iwo mew unhurt. By ter o'clock they suc-
ceeded in raising some of the bodies to bank, and as by that
time weadeliao-pereoas, most of she. relation, sad friends

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of the deceased, had collected round the pit, a most heart-
readiag setae of distress ensiled. Of those wise were hirosight
up with life, wily two now survive, but their recovery is
dooldfol-.-tbas malting the number of sufferer, on this most
awful oemmier, amount to tot. The bodies of the deceased
were moat dreadfully scorched, and many of them strangely
disioited. Many of them have left wive" and families, and
what adds to the ea !amity, several of the widows are a t this mu-
ttered pregnant ; 5. the deceased were very et 'tetchy related to
each other, the depth of dieters. which has been caused in
that aelehboorhood by this calamity, may be more easily
iebagisied theta described. The Narrate of the deceased took
era Thursday alterames, when 46 were buried at
Waseind, 14 of whom, befog relations, were buried in me
grave; some of the remainder were burled at the Ballast
Hills, sod some at Wallemil old church. A great coo-
seam of people assembled to whores the raelaschuly cere-
mony, which was of the most Directing description. Moat of
the men from the adjacent milieu ies attended as mourners or
neeletatits. The following as e the nausea of the unhappy suf-
ferers:—Michael Moon, and his sons Michael and Alexander;
Edward sad John Shottou, brothels • Richard Heppe'',
sealer, sad Richard Heppe% jou. fluke; sad son; Woo and
Jobs Hatlitio, brothers; David and inert, brothers;
John and William Johnson, brothers ; Thomas mod Christo-
pher Waggut, brothers; George Penlington and hue nephew
John Poolington; Edward and William Wilson, brothers;
Jobe Norm's,. William Jackson ; W. Rogerson; Roger
Boddie; H. ; H. and It. Serfdom, brothers; Win.
Bell, min. and Wm. Bell, jun. father sad son; George Kyle;
James Waker ; John Gordon ; George Mason; T. Lowrie; T.
Devises; John Birtley ; James Kelly ; GicireeThompsoo ; S.
Garrett, John Elliott, George Lougstaff, Nichols' English,
Edward Campbell, William Coxon, Themes Holt, Peter
Hay, Robert Delap, Joint Richardson, Robert Baiubridge,
JanieeJobling, Julie Ferry; Juba Smith, and Geo. &Achy.
Most of them were young mew; one of them has lift eight
diadem, sod another seven.
Edward Coomby and W. Jamison yet emotion( ill. Thos.
Huggup and Robert Bell fortunately escaped.
How the melancholy accident originated as not known. It
teok place is whit is called the Belcher Seam, which Wieldy
lately began to be rooked. The workings, we esiderumed,
extend as yet only 100 yards, sad un the night preterites
were mouldered 13 a perfectly sere state. Whether the de,
ceased men were using safety lamps or candles at the time,
we have not been able to ascertain, but we believe they were
provided with both. Their bodies were all firmed near the
bottom of the shaft, as if they had been attempting vs escape,
sad all the waste-men were found lying together, from which
it haalseensopposed that they were in 'bract of consultation,
when overwhelmed by the blast. The two men elms escaped
inshart were the farthest in the pit, and beyond the spot
where the 6re originated; after thee:plosion took plate they
succeeded in *annex the shaft, and by clashing up the
brattier, or partition erected is it fur the purpose of
ventilation, preserved themselves from the fatal effects of
the after-damp. By the violence of the blest a full turf was
Wow, up the shaft' and thrown over the pulleys, erected
above the mouth of the pit. The explosive wee beard as
far off as Whitley. The depth of the seam where the men
were welding is 144 fathoms.
A Ceres et% Inquest was held ow the bodies on Wednesday,
sod after the Joey had impreted them, was adjeaseed to
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