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THE DREADN F UL
ORT LIU COLLIERY ACCIDSNI
IN MBE.

NEWCASTLE, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
An announcement just made, that the Home-office
will send down a special commissioner to attend the
inquest which opens next Monday, has been re-
ceived with general satisfaction. I find there exists
among the mining population considerable discon-
tent with the manner in which colliery accidents
aro for the most part investigated. Coroners' juries,
they say, are generally composed of persons directly
or indirectly connected with the coalmasters, and
interested in making things pleasant ; and " acci-
dental death" is the stereotyped verdict, whatever
the evidence may be, The presence of the inspector
does not always give them an assurance that the
inquiry will be complete and exhaustive, as it may
frequently happen that he himself is virtually as
much on his trial as the colliery manager ; in fact,
I may say in passing that the men appear to put a
very slight value on the protection they are sup-
posed to get from Government inspection, and coro-
ners take such different views of their duty on these
occasions that it is quite a matter of chance whe-
ther the question—to them the most important of
all—of the general management of the mine is ever
entered upon. At various times they have asked for
special commissioners or special coroners to be Ap-
puiu tea -for- tnining-accidet!tclittd'lOT 'ZtFuti ges 'in
the law regulating the choio. of jurors ; and if there
is to be a revision in the AlVies Regulation and In-
spection Act, it may be well to consider whether
some amendment might not be introduced into it
to meet those objections to the present system,which
in many cases—in this district perhaps not so much
as in others—are undoubtedly well.founded. There
is nothing, however,in the present case which makes
it desirable to remove it from the ordinary tribunal.
The points involved are plain and intelligible enough,
the manner in which public attention has been fixed
on the case is sufficient to prevent any of them being
passed over, and the presence of the commissioner
from the Home-office will probablysatisfy even those
who have endeavoured from the first to fi xthe respon-
sibility on someparticularperson,inspector or owner,
—and not on the system. It is to be hoped that
before the inquest means will be taken to test the
metal of the broken beam. Its quality is said to be
of the best, and professional men maintain that no
casting of that enormous size could have done its
work better. It was one of the celebrities of the
coal trade in this district, and I believe was calcu-
lated to bear a strain some eight or ten times greater
than that which was being put upon it at the time
of the accident. If this be the case, in addition to
a double-shaft movement a further demand ought
to be made—that for the future beams which work
in that dangerous position should be constructed of
malleable iron. This accident ought to be a final
warning to put no further faith in castings, however
enormous, when exposed to sudden shocks. In con-
firmation of the suspicion I expressed the other day
as to the insecurity of the shaft, I may mention that
at the pitmen's meeting on Saturday one of them
is reported to have said, in reference to the shaft,
that " she" was as rotten as a bunch of matches, and
was certain to break in at the first touch. I am
told this is the case with not a few old pits in this
neighbourhood. and it might not be amiss if Sir G.
Grey called upon the inspectors to add to the re-
turn already asked from them a list of pits in which
the special rule which requires every shaft " to be
securely cased or lined" is not observed. There is no
doubt that at least three-fourths of the time spent
in getting up the men might have been saved if the
sinkers had had to deal only with the broken brat-
tice-work, for the distance they had to penetrate the
work was quite as difficult and infinitely more dan-
gerous than sinking a new shaft. Great and de-
served admiration of the indomitable courage dis-
played by these men has been expressed at all the
pubtio t
woottnsgo held in the aietric, and ic` "
gested tiftealbrsti..„-1..a come--. Irina /Afield& he
presented to them. The subscription list is rising
rapidly to very respectable dimensions. The
following sums have just come in :—His Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales, £lOO ; Lord Hast-
ings, £4OO ; Lady Hastings, £2OO ; the Dean and
Chapter of Durham, £2OO ; Mr. R. W. Jackson,
West Hartlepool, £lO5 ; the owners of Horton and
Hilda Collieries, £lO5 ; Duchess Dowager of
Northumberland, £100; Duke of Cleveland, £100;
the owners of Backworth and West Cramlington
Collieries, £lOO ; the Marchioness of London-
derry, £100; Mr. Wentworth Blackett Beaumont,
M.P. ; Captain John Grant, Hyde Park-street,
£lOO ; Hird, Dawson, and Hardy, Low Moor Iron-
works, £lOO ; Losh, Wilson, and Bell, £lOO ;
Marchioness of Waterford, £5O ; Earl of Tanker-
ville, £5O; Lord Lovaine, £25; Earl Vane, £25;
Sir F. Baring, Z2O. More than £6OO, has been
collected on the London Coal Exchange, and
Messrs. Dixon and Harris, of the coal trade, have
in addition forwarded £4OO, collected by them in
various quarters. In all the great establishments
along the Tyne side, and in the towns about, com-
mittees have been formed for collecting subscrip-
tions, and there are few individuals in the commu-
nity who will not contribute something to the
fund, however small the mite. It is reckoned that
about £20,000 will be required for the effectual
relief of all those who have been deprived of their
means of support by the accident, and if the Bur-
radon precedent be followed the scale will be
somewhere about 4s. a week for the widows, with
2s. for every child, and an addition for schooling
wherever it may be necessary. The coalowners
have not decided yet what course they will follow,
whether to subscribe singly or as a body. They
are to have a meeting to discuss the matter some
day:this week. If there is to be any opposition on
their part to the compulsory double-shaft sys•
tem on the ground of its expense—and if any
weight; is to be given to the remarks of Lord
Adolphus Vane Tempest at a meeting at Sun-
derland yesterday, this is not unlikely—perhaps it
would be as well if they would employ an expe-
rienced actuary to calculate for how much a
ton on the coals raised they could afford to take the
desired precautions. The public are now asked
for £20,000 ; in 1860 large sums were raised for
the sufferers at the Burradon and Risco. explosions ;
the year before that there was the Lundhill cala-
mity, and next year there may be another; in fact,
these large accidents have begun to recur regularly
once a year of late, so that it might not be alto-
gether unwise, even in an economical point of view,
to compound with them for an additional ld. or 2d.
per ton of coal. Besides the subscriptions of money,
presents of clothing have been forwarded from many
quarters. One benevolent lady has offered to sup-
ply all the widows with a widow's cep. The Prince
of Wales accompanied his donation with a very
kind and sympathising note to Messrs. Carr, and
the letter from her Majesty, read on Sunday, has
called forth such expressions of gratitude from the
bereaved, that copies of it have been struck off on
mourning paper, and one furnished to each family.

At a dinner given in Liverpool on Saturday to
Sir Charles Fright, of the Magnetic Telegraph Company,
Sir Charles, in his speech, made a few very interesting state-
ments referring to the progress of telegraphy in this couli-
try. Ten years ago, ho says, the company's staff did not
exceed a score of people ; now it amounted to about 1,500.
At that time there was only ono telegraph in the country,
now the mileage was computed at 15,000. The total amount
receiving for telegraphic messages in this country in a year
amounted to the enormous sum of £350,000. This startling
information will set at rest the question often asked by the
uninitiated as to the payable nature of telegraphic lines.
The Government line between Malta and Alexandria, Sir
Charles says, produces a revenue of £OOO a week.
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