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TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31,

ness said that her brother was in the practice of
drinking to excess, and that he had repeatedly threat-
ened to murder her and her mother. He had been
out of employ for twelve months.
Mr. YARDLEY—HOW came he by so much money ?
101. was taken from him by the police. Witness—
I-Es uncle lent him money to pay his passage out to
Australia, where he intends to go for the purpose of
joining his brothers.
Mr. YARDLEY—It's of no use for him to go to Aus-
tralia if he's a drunkard. Sober, steady, and indus-
trious men are wanted there, not drunkards.
The prisoner, with great composure, said a good
deal of what his sister had stated was false and a good
deal true. He came up from the kitchen with a knife
in his har.d to speak to his mother, and his sister said
he should not speak to her.

The prisoner's sister was recalled, and said she did
not see the knife till the prisoner forced her head back.
Louisa Lawson confirmed the statement of her
daughter, and said the prisoner was her son by her
first husband. Last Thursday week he obtained
from her 111. for the purpose of paying a deposit to a
shipbroker for a passage to Australia, and he had not
been sober since. He had since asked for more money,
but she had refused to give him any. She promised
to buy him a complete outfit, and provide him with
all the comforts he required, directly he produced a
' receipt for 101., half the passage-money, which be had
not done. The prisoner was quite wild on Saturday,
and said that she wanted to starve him out. Mrs.
Lawson, in conclusion, said he was a bad son, a7),-1
that her daughter was a good girl, and had exhibited
the greatest fondness towards him. She had borne
with her son's bad temper and intemperance for
twenty years, and was almost worn out with grief.
Mr. YARDLEY said this was a sad story of a brutal,
fellow, who had rendered the life of
god
aokir; fo-
dmrontohtehng
mother
very
miserable, and attempted the life
of a kind sister. The question was whether the pri-
soner was not mad ? If be was not so, and was to be
made answerable for his actions, he deserved severe
punishment. In order that the position of the pri-
soner should be looked into by persons capable of
judging of his state of mind, he should remand him
for a week. He directed the policeman who had
charge of the case to give the whole of the money
taken from the prisoner to Mrs. Lawson.

HAMMERSMITH.
Thomas, the secretary to the Royal Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, applied to
11r. Beadon, the Os is; magistrate, shortly after the
disposal of the night charges, for three summonses
against Mr. T. B. Simpson, the proprietor of Cre-
morne-gardens, and M. and Madame Poitevin, for
cruelty to a horse which was suspended to a balloon
that ascended from the gardens on 'Thursday after-
noon last.

The applicant stated that he was prepared with
evidence to prove that the balloon ascended at half-
past six o'clock on Thursday afternoon last from Cre-
morne-gardens, and that Madame Poitevin sat upon
the back of the horse, which was suspended from the
machine. Her husband was in the car of the balloon
at the time, and Mr. Simpson, the proprietor of the
gardens, was also present when the ascent was made.
He should also be able to prove that Madame Poite-
vin remained for some time upon the back of the
horse while in the air before she entered the car with
her husband.
Mr. BEADON supposed that it was intended to raise
the question whether it was an act of cruelty to the
horse to suspend it to a balloon ?
Mr. Thomas replied that it was, and said the weight
upon the animal's back while suspended in the air and
.he construction of the bandages would be sufficient
to prove the act of cruelty. One of the officers of the
society was present during the ascent, and also a veteri-
nary surgeon, and they both would be able to prove
the act of cruelty to the animal.
Mr. BEADON said he fully expected that the sum-
monses would have been applied for, as it was a ques-
tion of considerable importance, and should be settled.
Mr. Thomas hail stated quite sufficient for the sum-
monses to be granted.
Mr. Thomas was then asked whether he intended
to proceed against them for the ascent or descent.
Mr. Thomas said for the ascent from Cremorne-
gardens.

Mr. BEADON observed, in that case the matter
would not come under his jurisdiction, as the whole
of Cremorne-gardens was in the district of the West-
minster police-court. His district only extended as
far as the road near the gardens.
Mr. Thomas said he was very sorry for troubling
his Worship unnecessarily, but he had been informed
that Hammersmith was the right court to apply to for
the summonses.
Mr. BEADON inquired where the balloon descended,
as if it fell in his district he could then grant the
summonses.
Mr. Thomas said the balloon descended at Heaton,
near Hounslow.
Mr. BEADON said that place was also out of bis
district. He believed that the first balloon ascent

of M. Poitevin with his horse terminated by
the machine falling in Wimbledon, which place came
under his notice at Wandsworth, and, if Mr. Thomas
had evidence of that descent, he would listen to the
application.
Mr. Thomas said he had not. The only evidence
he had related to the ascent of the balloon on Thursday
last. He understood that Madame Poitevin in-
tended to ascend that evening upon the back of a bull,
from the same gardens, as " Europa carried away by
Jupiter."
Mr. BEADON thought the best course to adopt by
Mr. Thomas was to apply to the sitting magistrate at
Westminster police-court for the summonses, as the
question was an important one, and ought to be de-
cided in the proper district.
Mr. Thomas thanked his worship for the attention
he had paid to the application, and said he should
tapply immediately to the magistrates at Westminster
police-court.

THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY.
RICKMA.NSWORTII7 SA/Tit
DAy.—An important and
rather remarkable inquiry has been
proceeding here
during the week, under the direction of the Court of
Chancery and 14 and Pi Vic., for dissolving the Na-
tional Land Company and Chartist Co-operative Land
Society, and for disposing of its lands, properties, and
building, the principal estates connected with which
situate at O'Connorville, or Herringegate, three
miles from Rickmansworth ; at Minster Lovell, near
y ;
at itedr”rley, near Tewkesbury; and at
Witne
s End, near Gloucester. The
Lowlands and Soig
estate called O'Connorville, though not the most ex-
tensive,
was one of the earliestlocated, and was pur-
chased in 1846, and parcelled out into allotments, upon
the experimental plan of enabling its occupants, " by
means of the re-productive and co-operative principle,
and by moderate industry, to live in
comparative
comfort and independence," on two and three acres of
land, and at the same time to form the nucleus of a
propaganda for promoting the exploded six
political
points of the charter. In the attainment of both these
objects the experiment, as the present inquiry goes to
show, has proved a signal delusion, the occupants of
the estates being, more or less, in embarrassment, and
the projector of the plan, as is well known, in a state
of mental aberration.
The sittings to inquire into the subject have been
held here at the Swan Hotel, before Mr. William
one of the official assignees of the Court
Goodchap,
of Chancery, assisted by Mr. Roxburgh, as counsel
and assessor ; Mr. John Tucker, of the firm of
Tucker and Sons; and Mr. Woodthorpe, surveyor
and architect ; Mr. C. Roche, of the firm of Symons
and Roche, representing the allottees or occupants,
who attended very numerously.
The report of the official assignee set forth that
the inquiry was instituted under the direction of
the Court of Chancery, to inquire into the cases
of all those persons to whom lands had been allotted,
but who had relinquished title or claimed compensa-
tion for loss or expenditure in respect of them, and to
ascertain by the best and most economical means to
what amount the value of the capital and labour
expended by the allottees had exceeded the value of
the occupation, and the advances of aid money, seed,
and stock made by thet company, and to determine
the sum by way of renh
olde paid for past occupation
by each allottee who a ou prove his title, making
all just allowances. The report, a
which went very
fully into the origin and constitution of the National
Land Company, as regarded the
purchase and al-
lotment of lands and theballoting for members
by Mr. Feargus O'Connor as trustee, further stated
that on 11th April, 1846, it was notified to the share-
Feargus O'Connor that he had
shareholders by Mr.
Connorv, consisting of 130
purchased the 0' ille estate
subjec'; to an annuity 601. of
acres, for 2,3441.,per
annum, conveyed
by T. Ayres and J. Margetson,
but the title deed of which is now retained by
Mr. W. P. Roberts, solicitor, of Manchester, on
the ground of alleged lien. Soon after a ballot, for
two, three, and four acres respectively, took
members of the eon,.
place among those
pany who had paid 21. 10s. deposit, being the
value of one share in the company. The members
who became located were principally mechanics, or
weavers totally unacquainted with agricultural pur-
suits, from Stockport, Bradford, Manchester, Leeds,
and Wigan. The two-acre balloted members holding
one share had allotted them a house, two acres of land,
, and 15/. ; the three-acre members, a house, three
acres, and 221. 10i. ; and the four-acre members of two
shares, a house, four acres, and 301. In this way the
103
acres were parcelled out, two acres being set
apart for the school at the head of the estate. The
members entered on their locations on let May,
1847. Some are still in possession ; others have
I underlet. During the period they remained they
received aid money, cultivation money, and bushels
of wheat. Some sold their right of location, which
latter was of the average value of from 40/. to 1001.
In some cases distresses were levied on the goods,
chattels, and growing crops, and this state of things
continued until the Act of Parliament for winding up
this and other estates in a similar position was ob-

tained, and which, amongst other things, it is the
object of the inquiry to determine and adjust.
The allottees, with some exceptions, have proved
their title to the allotments, and the amount of back
rent to be paid by them will have to be determined.

" It was stated in evidence that 70 per cent. of the
deaths from explosions were occasioned not by the ex-
plosion of firedamp, but by the' afterdarcp ' which suc-
ceeds it. If the latter be inhaled in its pure state by the
miner it causes immediate death. But since, from the
miners being subsequently discovered in various stages
of prostration, it is apparently inhaled in various degrees
jet
placed dilution, it seems clear that a power like the steam
placed at the top of the downcast, out of reach (which
the furnace at the bottom of the upcast occasionally is
not) of the effects of the explosion, and capable of sweep-
ing the galleries of the mine with an almost irresistible
force immediately after the explosion, might be the
means of saving a large proportion of the lives now lost
for want of such a power. The furnace under such
pressing emergency is inapplicable, and incapable of
being used for the purpose.
" Your Committee, however, are unanimously of opi-
nion that the primary object should be to prevent the
explosions themselves; and that, if human means (as
far as known) can avail to prevent them, it is by the
steam-jet system as applied by Mr. Forster, although
even in such case it might be prudent in a mine espe-
cially fiery to add an inexpensive steam-jet apparatus at
the top of the downcast, as a means in reserve in case of
explosion from neglect or otherwise.

Your Committee still are unwilling to recommend a
compulsory enforcement of any particular system of
ventilation; they would rather point to the conditions
under which alone they consider the mine to be sate,
and leave it to some improved system of inspection or
control to secure those conditions being universally
adopted.
" The proper condition of a mine, as regards its venti-
lation, your Committee consider is when the current of
air through all the air courses, more particularly in the
extreme workings, is from four to six feet per second in
rate through an ordinary-sized airway (say) 50 feet sec-
tional area. This, in the extreme workings, would com-
mand a rate of current to a much greater extent (and
which would be necessary) through the less remote work-
ings of the mine. Without a current of air at the rate
of at least four feet per second, equal to about three
miles per hour, in every part of a mine at all fiery, the
miner cannot be considered safe from explosion. Such
current would be the truest indication of the actual
amount of fresh air circulating through the general
workings of the mine. It seems immaterial by what
mode this rate of current is produced, so that it be cer-
tainly produced, and a means be furnished to the inspec-
tor at each visit to ascertain that such rate of current
has constantly existed during his absence.
" There is a seeming contradiction to the conclusion
at which your Committee have arrived, that a generally
increased ventilation is the truest security against ex-
plosions, in the fact that these explosions have become
more frequent, in spite of more attention having been
given of late years to the subject of ventilation. The
contradiction, however, is in appearance only. To pro-
duce explosion of the firedamp the presence of a cer-
tain quantity of air (or proportion of oxygen) is re-
quired to make it explosive at all; and with less than
that proportion explosion does not take place; and, also,
after certain additions to that proportion of oxygen, the
tendency to explosion ceases. In the former case the
atmosphere of the mine is unhealthy, in the latter it is
healthy. The postulatum in this matter of ventilation
may be considered to be such a thorough ventilation as,
together with a wholesome air to breathe, should so
sweep the mine clear of the gases as they escaped
from the goave and fissures, or so dilute them with
pure air, as that they ceased to be explosive. To
leave the mine to its natural state of ventilation
would be to leave it in undisturbed possession of a
poisonous, but possibly inexplosive atmosphere; proper
ventilation, on the contrary, would, by dispelling that
poisonous atmosphere, leave to the miner an atmosphere
to breathe nearly as pure as the outer air. But a partial
introduction of an insufficient quantity of atmospheric air
into a fiery mine may cause the very mischief against
which it is intended to guard. It should not be forgotten
by the coal proprietor that the unhealthiness of some
mines, together with the danger of explosion, greatly
enhances the rate of wages they mast pay, so long as
their workmen have to encounter such evils; while the
removal of those evils, on the other hand, must tend ere
long to reduce the rate of wages in collieries more to a
level with that of labourers in ordinary occupations.
These observations, of course, extend also to the injury
to health and risks arising from ' black' or choke
damp' (carbonic acid gas). The poison generally, in
smaller quantities, is slow in its operation, but not the
less sure. The miner is proverbially short-lived.
" The attention of your Committee has been directed
to scientific and practical means of decomposing or
neutralising the explosive gases as they exude from the
coal and goaevs; but it does not appear to your Com-
mittee that science has discovered any practical means
for producing this desirable effect. It is, however, on
the minutes of evidence, that an individual well versed
and long engaged in mining operations, a member of the
House of Commans,* has offered, through the Royal
College of Chemistry, a premium of 1,000/. for the dis-
covery of some simple practical means for the attain-
ment of this important object.
" Your Committee would now refer to some more in-
cidental means of security against explosion; first,
stating their concurrence in the opinion expressed,
directly er indirectly, by the Committees of 1835 and
1849, and also with that so strongly expressed by the
South Shields Committee, that where a proper degree
of ventilation does not exist in a mine, a Davy lamp,
or any modification of it, must be considered rather
as a lure to danger than as a perfect security. Prac-
tically secure in a still atmosphere it may be con-
sidered; and in the hands of a cautious overman
an admirable instrument for exploring, or as an indi-
cator of danger; but in a current, as admitted by its il-
lustrious inventor himself, it is not a security; and in
the hands of an ordinary workman, under circumstances
of excitement, when danger is threatened, it is not im-
probably, far oftener than imagined, the very cause of
the explosion which if was intended to prevent. The
experiments of Dr. Bachhoffner, at the Polytechnic In-
stitution, before your Committee, were very interesting
on this point. Nevertheless, in a mine that is at all
fiery, it will be a prudent precaution to work with a
lamp, until it can be proved that by means of ventilation
a mine can be so far cleared of all explosive gases, as to
prevent any accumulation of them in the workings,
goaves, or elsewhere. Some of the witnesses point to
such a possibility; and, if it were for the sake of the
health of the minors alone, a current of fresh air pasing
through the mine which could produce this effect would
render such a power one of the moat valuable contribu-
tions of the age. One of the principal objections to the
Davy lamp on the part of the workmen has been the in-
sufficient light which it affords. A lamp of greater re-
flecting power, which would, at the same time, admit of
a double gauze protection, has been suggested, and is ex-
plained below. Too entire a reliance on the safety of
the Davy lamp appears to have led, in not stew instances,
to the neglect of ventilation.
" In the furnace system of ventilation the power de-
pends on the difference of the temperature of the air
going down the downcast shaft and that ooming up the
upcast; and when temperature of the outer sir is high
the power of the furnace is reduced. When the ther-
mometer, therefore, exhibits a high rate of temperature,
the ventilation is lessened. This may account for acci-
dents being generally more frequent in spring and
summer. It is very desirable, under such circum-
stances, that an extra power of ventilation should be
applied.
",Under the ordinary pressure of the atmosphere its
weight operates in a fiery mine to keep the escape of
gas from the recesses of the mine. When the pressure
is less the explosive gases have greater power to escape.
Whenever, therefore, there is a fall in the barometer,
showing a diminished pressure of the atmosphere, danger
is indicated, and an increased amount of ventilation re-
quired. In every mine, therefore, it should be impera-
tive for a barometer to be kept. It should be placed
near the ventilating power, properly connected with the
external air, through the downcast, so as to take the
pressure of the atmosphere. A " differential barometer"
is much more sensitive than a common one; and, since
it costs only a few shillings, there would be no excuse
for not having one.
" A water gauge should be placed at the bottom of
the upcast, to indicate the power of the drag of the mine,
where the furnace system is used, so as to indicate the
presence or approximation of the furnace limit.
" But an instrument of even greater importance than
the above, especially in reference to the periodical visits
of inspectors, is a self-registering anemometer, by which
the inspector would know at each visit the rate at
which the current of air had been passing through the
mine in his absence. The best instrument of this kind
at present known, perhaps, is that of Mr. Biram. Three,
at least, of these should be kept in every mine ; one at
the intake (bottom of downcast shaft), one at the return
(bottom of upcast), and, especially, one or more in the
extreme workings.
" The goaves (old workings) in extensive mines are a
principal source of danger. It has been suggested, if the
water would permit, that the goaves might be, as it were,
drained of the explosive gas by a bore-hole from the
surface, acted on by a steam jet; that gas, being lighter
than common air, would thus be drawn through the bore
to the outer air.
" For a similar purpose gas drifts have been recom-
mended, as described in the Technical Definitions and
Explanations.'
" It was suggested by Mr. Gurney, also, that refuge
stalls might be established at small expense, in places
familiar to the miners, throughout the workings, to
which, upon an explosion, they could at once fly from
the fatal effects of the afterdamp. A description of
these will be found among the " Explanations."
" It has been stated in the evidence that boys are
employed in mines to perform duties the neglect of which_
in a single instance might be productive of great losst of
life. They are employed, in particular, to attend to h,_
opening and shutting of the doors or traps
regulate the courses of air in every system
ofvenbtest-dis-
It has further been stated that, even in the
necessiaary
guilty of
ciplined pits, where the men are rarely, if
serious acts of neglect or carelessness,
found impossible to guard against siwilaFt appears that
etivilsr' Yet been
the part of the boys- and, accordingly, 3 negligence on
in various instances 'fatal accidents haveeihe duties allotted
such negligence in the performance lbeen traced to
to them. The Committee, therefoorfew,
harieehofwoopordiegvothlvaet
no responsible duties, the neglect
Dine to be intrusted to
serious risk of life, ought in any •
of inexperienced persons,
boys, or to any other clahsosse
judgment and discretion
but solely to persons in vs.
full reliance can be placed of England and other dis-
" The miners of the
tricts, notwithstanding norththeir cehrasraocftetrhfeoirr
employment.reclelessne
recklessness,
are keenly alive to the clang
This they have evinced both by representations to your
especially from Lancashire and Northum-
berland, and b Committee,a petition to the House itself, nume-
rously signed,y from
the miners of Lancashire. The
points
they chiefly dwell upon are the necessity of in-
creased ventilation, of increased inspection, of the ap-
pintment of
o sub-inspectors, and of the unsatisfactory

* Mr. Blakemore.

nature of the inquests hitherto held, after even the mol

distreesing explosions.
" It has been strongly recommended by severs! wit-
nesses of knowledge and ex.,)erienco that, in the inquests
held after explosions, more diligent inquiry should be
made than has hitherto been customary into the remote
as well as the proximate causes of explosion and loss of
life. Your Committee would further recommend to the
attention of the Home-office whether it might not be
expedient to institute such an office as a Special Coro-
ner for these investigations. In connexion with this
suggestion, it may also be worthy of consideration how
far local feelings or prejudices may not tend, in occa-
sional instances, to interfere with the impartial discharge
of their duties on the part of juries.
" In the letter of Sir H. De la Beche to the chairman
(vide appendix), it will be seen that education is a point
insisted on as a precautionary means both among the
working colliers and their managers, as also that the
qualifications of inspectors should be rigidly tested pre
vious to their appointment. In these views your Com-
mittee entirely oalcur. They not only trust to see
education more rapidly spreading than heretofore 11113014
the working colliers, but schools of mines established,
without certificites from which no overman, under-
looker, or manager shall be legally appointed to his

office. __
" The qualification of inspectors for their office is a
point of the first importance; and should be efficiently
tested before a competent board, analogously with the
test exacted in various professions where the interests of
life and health are involved. They should be acquainted
generally with natural philosophy (e
tics), chemistry, mechanics, also a c ompetent knowledge
of geology and mine-aloey; and should also have had
practical experience of colliery working.
epecielly pnetuna-
" Almost every witness, however, bore testimony. to
the total inadequacy of the present system of inspection.
The numbers were too small, its powers too limied.
klech of the inspectors summoned before the Committee
had something like 400 mines in his district,
of which he would be unab'e to go through in less than
four years. Many mines they had never visited. YOut;
Committee cannot, therefore, hesitate to visited.
They
that the number of inspectors should be increased.
at present amount to six. That number, probably,
should at least be doubled; and two sub-inspectors t,o
each chief inspector added. In Sir H. de la Beebe °
the whole
letter it is indicated, and it appeared also in evidencet,
that the present salary of an inspector was too swell' °
leastspeetetro
tiondrueleuaiopieorshoins really fitted for the office of in-
" To increase the power of the inspector is; a Wee!
more delicate matter. To this some of the most Wel
Tent of the managers of mines who were examined ob-
jtehceted; and with some reason, for it was evident to sal
least, that they were in all respects, both as to
practical and scientific attainments, upon a par with the
inspectors. But the objection was taken less to the,.
principle itself than to the possible unfairness a
subjected to the caprice, perhePe igoo-
- of an individual inspector. To the es-
tablishment of a board with increased powers oo obiee"
Y° '
tioon seemed to be taken. Same such central body 31 d
Cmmittee would strongly recommend, cotere ,eas
scientific and practical men, to whom the insPee"-et
offiell-
might report, and from whom they might receive
instructions, which would give greater efficacy to
eventheirs
recommendations. To this board should be _ea
of
to enforce penalties under ordinary eircomstrmie„
neglect—and in cases of death, a power to
victims
anh enforcement of justice to the families of the viet.iwo -'-
through the ordinary channels of law; the spryly, r!„
temselves being in a condition of life which repol;
them comparatively helpless to obtain theirs ust reef' to
." One additional power, however,
give to inspectors, at all events temporarily, until tei:i
decision of a board can be obtained; viz, where %see
dangerto evidently exists, and the owner of a mine re Ito
security,
resort to the most approved system for increasing ~.6
it seem desirab.le_
the inspector should have the power to orde2,":l,
working to cease until its condition be improved.
,lr',',,,
would appear to be the principal point of superio_ll
;the inspection of the mines of France, GernaanYt e.,ue,
,lii:lgium over that of this country. In one case, 4,
I ted in the evidence, it appeared that preceoi b.
the
the explosion there had' been a great fall to d
barometer, which indicated the necessity of incare.o%
ventilation and vigilance. The overlooker hciuor
barometer, and therefore was in ignorance of the facto
the diminished pressure of the atmosphere, whieh lager
the while thus allowing the firedamp to esear 'll
owe.
proportions from the goaves and fissures of the :,‘,r,,
In another case (that of recent occurrence in th .4.,`'',41.
dare Valley), Mr. Blackwell, late inspector of that to
trict, advised on a previous visit certain precatitTosioa
be taken. The advice was disregarded; the elect the
ensued. To a system of inspection thus forted
to the
objection could scarcely be raised which is retie and
present system—that it relieved the
owneY' for
managers of responsibility while it was efficientin
its object. the
" Your. Committee, therefore,
the rights and privileges of private property'. hut ,e, due
same time forming, to the best of their ability,
the
ex,,
estimate of the value of human life,
and
°f resent
treme danger to which human life,
system of working mines,ender the k',_
...s.
having full regertd
ceptions, is exposed, consider that mend -er
their duty if they did not recom that a pea
should be placed somewhere to enforce precautionse
ieel
to facilitate the exaction of penalties where utn;
with a few
of such precautions was pertinaciously persevere
and that until those precautions
should exist a power to stop the working Crier° n%ion
They have already pointed to what in oPttei
would be an improvement on the present serge° e. it-
quests, and to constituting a board which might be re-_
a loss
gardedlife as a species of public prosecutor in case
of
~ _ from neglect of proper precautions.
were adopted thioeler!
It has been suggested that the families of those of
perish should be supported for a limited numbe, bg
yaars by the proprietor of the mine. Injustice tolgo,
be done under such a law; for the owner might glee
orders for the proper precautions, and an overleoker 3
miner might neglect them. In such an instance,be
would be hard to enforce the extreme penaty., The
conduct of owners after the fatal effects of an esee°sl„,,,
eaxppteenadrisogto, have been generally considerate and he°l.lcest
Aberdare miinne justman ymienosttiaonhceeds:
families of those who perished. , e;secteed
tionctlhuedinsguptphoartt ocf,f the
" Your Committee, for their own part, feel "'"'d eis
rather to trust to the appointment of an efficient and
gilant board ; to an increased number of well'tl°,looll
inspectors and sub-inspectors, who should Pree"ot 01
have the power of enforcing such a rate of etretheir
air through the various parts of the mine as, 'll paver
judgment, the safety of the miners required, tO/640" to
with the adoption in each mine of such seieatilatioll
struments as both preserved a register of the yes
and gave warning of danger; that these power° 5 piers
extend to the inflicting penalties for the noopossetioto
of such instruments, and nonattention to the
, Prsecriti the'
recommended, and to stoppage of the raine eeeeteets
right measures were taken. Such measures, tte: fish'
with the better education of the miners, and the et-
et; tbe
colliers
of schools of mines, and the circulation am led in
o ters of such rules and regulations as are adePthe foe
the. pits of Mr. Forster and Mr. Darlington (wbiewetild
Tali(' their evidence), your Committee cosder to
tpiroo: ehnuts,
beenthe
g tr to diminish, and ultimately almost entirelyitn,
dreadful explosions to which their 0
no
the
lea.s,
tAimlapstorttoophitc,
vriezm.,atihn:,
paenedueitehryat, perhell°' a rrlieg
wens or C"' wade,
outrr the suggestions and recommendations bere
ghoul
This is a point which your Committee consider:, %city,
devolve upon the House, in its collective
show a tbe
rather than upon themselves. They have
e ecnoiesi
principal causes of danger; the easy and bee bale'
means by which the danger may be voided; the be imp
hinted at the scientific instruments which show; wow
they 70 their
peratively required to be kept in every Wine, n 9,00 ilr"
ing or test of safety or impending danger;
ferred to the species of authority to which' the Or
opinion, should be intrusted the powers to see „waitl
gestions carried out. The finan peruseof the cl!oloos
they consider properly belongs theo R a Cow
at large."

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RAILWA Y SHARE MRKEV•
LIVERPOOL, AUG. 30. is Again
STOCK
EXCHANGIC.—Our share market to-day
depressed,doing-
and only a limited amount of business __
The transactions reported were Ditto,
C.oull.
_South-Eastern
Lancashire
and Yorkshire, 83IA---Ditto, Fiftute;.o ayzetßeld,
London tieos4ldic's......
and and North-Western, 1221/a—gancilgidiand, 75%
Lincolnshire,
Preference,6lllCDewover
rd ANC EIESTIs It, AUGto-day was very
Blocs
EXCHANGX The business done (lacy. The
limited, and prices .
, 2 i
,!': P 3.0.
Eastern Counties, 11— ,as
transactions.. were as follow :-- .h. 82.54 -Ditto,
Lancashire, and Yorl.s ire, L
18 'A—Lancashire olnshire,
generally ha ward ten r t
Fifths, 3T4, ex div.—Manchester, Sheffield, and inc
283 A —Ditto, PrefeTence, I IDitto, New visbury
7-16 n. n S
r•--OUth-Eastern hateover,2llh Sbre_
~,
and Chester, 21% c.—Alidland, 75% ex cii,r..-..North Drituy
Preference, 5. Preference.

NEW SOUTH WALEs.-- The Johnstone, (foul
Sydney, has arrived off Falmouth, with 9,099 ounces of gold
on board. Her advicee, which are to the 6th of May, 110°
been anticipated.

BIRTH&
OF A SON.
On the 26th inst., at Ballymore Castle, Ballinasloe,
the wife of Henry M. Daly, Esq. r the
land,
On the 27th inst., at Reedings, Newick, the wife or
Rev. Thomas Edward Crallan.
OF A DAUGHTER.
On the 24th inst., at Bracondale, the Lady llenriettli
Ilarvey.
orto°'
On the 24th inst., at Galway, the wife of Major
of the 9th Regiment.

AnAsttrßutahlseoryTerhoCmasstolne, MARRIED.
the 25th inst., I°ll°
_ Derbyshire,
, daughter' ofsilth"eofßeevh.arjeothnn
line Maria
Carntyne, Lanarkshire.
,ifFanraesibuiorne, to Cara
o•

On the DIED.
24th inst., at Bath, John Palmer, Esq ,
court, near NIT. of porner
incisor, aged 58.
On the 26th inst., at Carp oration Richard IV, JaPP°
Esq., aged 85, senior member of the corporation of Londolip
and for 54 years clerk of the Company of Carpenters. ,0.
At Rothsay, on the 23d inst., Miss Emilia LumenOto
daughter of the late Sir Alexander P. C. Gordon, of Altyre,
and Gordonstoun. Bart.
On the 26th inst.. at Liaslingdane-place, Sibertsvoult
Kent, aged 87, Mrs. Mary Goff, relict of the late Elijah Go'
late DU'
Esq., of London.
On the 27th inst., Mrs. Valiance, relict ofthe
Philip Valiance, of Brighton. iars.roft I
On the 21st inst., in Nelson-square, Blackfr d
Joseph Joseph,Esq., aged 58.
, i f
London : Printed and Published by NERD° Y 0 1/1"..'il 2,
No. 112, Strand, Printer. at The Sun Mimi, .1"1°•,,„ of
Strand• in tt- e Precinct of the 9,1 V
or. in the coulbm
Middleotex, Tuesday, August 31, 1852.