The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-10 00:00:00

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INJURED.

Mrs. Ivy, injured in the spine from the concussion,
but not dangerously. She now remains at the Bay
Horse, the inn adjoining the station.
Mrs. Greer, of Preston, slightly injured, but not so
bad as to prevent her going home last night. She
and Mrs. Ivy were inside passengers, and it appear;
almost a miracle how they could have escaped alive,
when the broken state of the coach is taken into consi-
deration.

Mr. William Ward, landlord of the Swan Inn, Bolton,
severely injured about the head, with a heavy bruise on
the temple.
Mr. Paton, manufacturer, Manchester, collar-bone
fractured, with severe contusions on theforehead and
face. He remains at the inn, in a rather dangerous state.
Henry Elston, the coachman, severely injured in the
abdomen and kidneys.
Thomas Nixon, the station-keeper, one leg so severely
fractured as to require amputation.
Mrs. Craig, of Heaton Norris, slightly bruised on the
left arm.

John Eccles, turnpike-keeper at Chorley, severely in-
jured in the legs and extremities.
John Arnold, horse-keeper at the inn at Euxton,
slightly injured in the spine.
Mr. Dixon, surgeon, of Preston, and Mr. Pollard, sur-
geon, of Chorley, were quickly on the spot, and did all
in their power to relieve the sufferers.

Of course it would be premature in me to attribute
blame to any party, as the cause of the accident will be
fully investigated at the inquest about to be held on the
body ; but I ought not to omit to state that there is an
embankment on each side of the railway so high as only
to admit of the bonnet on the top of the chimney of the
locomotive engines being seen by coaches or carts passing
along the turnpike road.
The inquest is appointed for ten o'clock to-morrow
morning.

ANOTHER COLLISION ON THE NORTH UNION

RAILWAY.

On Tuesday night a collision took place at the Farring-
ton station, on the North Union Railway. It appears
that the train leaving Manchester and Liverpool for
Preston, at five o'clock in the evening, was rather later
than usual. The train stopped at Farrington station to
put down passengers, and to attach the red signal lamp
to the hind carriage. While this was being done the
London mail train came up, and running into the train
on the rails smashed to pieces a horse-box loaded with
sporting dogs. Mr. Threlfall, maltster, of Preston, had
his thigh broken, and all the other passengers were more
or less injured. The engineer of the first train, seeing
the danger, put his steam on, and then jumped off the
engine. The suddenness of start caused the engine to
break away from the carriages composing the train, and
it ran at a tremendous pace through the Preston station
on to the Lancaster line, and was at last stopped with-
out doing any injury.

NEW PROCESS FOR THE PREVENTION OF
EXPLOSION OF FIRE-DAMP.—It has been found by ex-
perience, that Sir H. Davy's safety lamp, though in
many respects an invaluable diseovery, has failed in
proving a preventive to the explosion of fire-damp in
coal-pits ; and the frequent recurrence of accidents in the
mining districts, evince the melancholy truth, that the
precautions hitherto devised are incomplete. I venture,
therefore, to propose a process for abating an•evil so fatal
to human life, which is at least worthy of trial. It is
well known, that fire-damp explodes on ignition by an
electric spark ; and on this principle it is proposed, that
an experiment be made with an apparatus consisting of
Professor Daniell's voltaic battery and electrical wires,
for the purpose of firing the gallery of a mine charged
with an explosive mixture. By means of this ingenious
and scientific contrivance, an explosion of fire-damp
can at all times be effected with perfect safety, when-
ever the gas is evolved in sufficient quantities to
generate the destructive element; and as the wires
can be conveyed to the remotest chamber of the mine
at a trifling cost, the experiment may be repeated with
great facility by the aid of a powerful battery, in■
place where it indicates its appearance, or creates a
suspicion of danger. The actual presence, quantity, and
position of the fire-damp, can always be ascertained with
precision and certainty through the agency of the safety
lamp ; but care must be taken that the carbonic acid
and azote remaining in the mine after the inflammation
be got rid of, either by decomposition, absorption, or
ventilation, before the workmen resume their labours.
This formidable and treacherous enemy
be
effectually and instantaneously annihilated,
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other-
wise could he but slowly, partiall,
consumed, combined with the advantage,un
of the miners will cease to be impaired from respiration
Mining
in a foul atmosphere.—Correspondent of the healtl
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Angel
Journal. .dthart°tlte
—The Rev. Mr. Crowe u.rgedft
DEMAND FOR BAPTIST NOEL'S
audience P Ama
Pt
street Chapel on Monday
question, to h
night orhtehwith to make
purchase the lion. and
end he recommended them to
them-
selves acquainted with the Corn.law which
end on the subject, not only for
Rev. Baptist Noel'sdnn
their own reading, but for distribution : the follOw
day not one was to be obtained at any of the booksellers
Worcestershire Chroniele. •
shops in this city.—