The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AuGusr 13, 1869.

EXECUTION OF THE PO.RTLAND

MURDERER.

About a thousand hearts were made glad yesterday.
The Peers, or at least that. portion of Them who attend
to legislation, and her Majesty's 658 faithful Commoners
were set free, and may now go forth on their travels with-
out compunction of conscience or fear of recall by exigent
whips. The day of liberation fell upon the eve of a festi-
val much honoured by all frequenters of the moors. To-
day is the famous. "twelfth"—dies festus to sportsmen ;
dies lethalis to the grouse. It is a great point gained to
have prorogued before that, and you may be quite sure
that the few hon. members who remained to hear the
Queen's Speech were not over critical about its style.
Concerning that, silence is kind. I will only say that if
the speeches which Ministers make for themselves were at
all like those which they make for the Queen, it is not to
the select body which constitutes the Cabinet that the
public would look for its great orators.
Mr. Gladstone has been fortunate enough to win appro.
bation from both political parties by his ecclesiastical ap-
pointments. That of Mr. Lake to the Deanery of
Durham satisfied those who knew the fortunate nominee.
That of Dr. Moberly to the Bishopric of Salisbury has
given something more than satisfaction. There are but
two circumstances to diminish it. The one is that Dr.
Moberly having been so long identified with Winchester,
might better have been selected for that see, now soon to
be vacant, than for Salisbury. The other is that he is on
the shady side of 60- - is, in fact, older than Dr. Hamilton
was at his death—and is, therefore, somewhat old to
undertake all the hard work now expected of a bishop.
But to these objections there are answers. Win-
chester is one of the great prizes .of the Church,
and is reserved for one who has well earned
it—the Bishop of Oxford; and Dr. Moberly is most
active and even athletic. When head masterof Winchester,
he was always foremost in the chief sports of the school.
He is physically a fine man, with a commanding presence,
and this and his beautiful voice (which Keble loved to
hear) helped to make him a most successful preacher.
They helped him also to marry a lady who was before her
marriage the belle of Oxford, and who is as popular now
as her husband. At his first start in life he was not suc-
cessful. He lost a scholarship at New College. He then
went to Balliol, and took a first class in classics. He was
a candidate for one of the two fellowships that fell vacant
at Oriel (then becoming a famous college), but they were
carried off by Hurrell Fronde and the late Archdeacon
Wilberforce. He was more successful in winning the
Essay Prize ; and again, a year later, in winning an open
fellowship in Balliol. In 1831 he married the lady above
referred to, half sister, by the way, to that Mr. Church who
published a charming volume of literary criticisms which
were published under the title of " Essays and Reviews," r
title to be afterwards appropriated by a more celebrated
volume. At about the age of 35, Dr. Moberly succeeded
David Williams as headmaster of Winchester School. Up
to that time it was only the head master who had private
pupils, but the new head established the present system
of tutors' houses. He was at first very unsuccessful in the
school. Fever among the boys and the supposed
Tractarian proclivities of the master brought it down to a
very low ebb. But patience, energy, and scholarship at
last prevailed, and in time the pupils doubled, and in the
very year that Dr. Moberly resigned (in 1866), he had the
satisfaction of seeing an extraordinarily large number of
old Wykehamists take first class honours. Dr. Words-
worth, the present Bishop of St. Andrew's, was his second
master. It is a little remarkable that while this
Wordsworth was educated at Harrow and became
second master of Winchester, his brother was
educated at Winchester and became head master
of Harrow. The two brothers played against
each other in the first cricket match between the
two schools. Both brothers are now bishops, the other
having been appointed to Lincoln by Mr. Disraeli. And
now their old friend, the head master of Winchester, is
to be raised to the episcopate. Another of the players in
that same cricket match also wears the mitre—Henry
Manning, "Archbishop of Westminster" to wit. During
his mastership Dr. Moberly bought a farm at Hursley, and
spent much of the vacations there in constant intercourse
with his loved friend Keble. After resigning his master.
ship he was made a Fellow of Winchester College.
That fellowship now becomes vacant, and its revenues
will be devoted to increasing the number of boys on the
foundation. Year after year passed, and Dr. Moberly did
not obtain promotion in the Church. It was
generally understood that he was in bad favour
with the Queen in consequence of the opposition
which he offered to the late King of Prussia, who was a
Lutheran, being sponsor for the Prince of Wales. At last
the Bishop of Chester bestowed a canonry upon Dr.
Moberly ; and now the royal objection seems to have
been surmounted, and the English episcopate will be
strengthened by the accession of a man whom all parties
agree to respect.
Some mistakes as to the ages of divers prelates seem
to have gained currency. One touches Dr. Moberly him-
self, who is sixty-four years of age, and not seventy, as
has been reported. The exact date of the new bishop's
birth was 1805. A writer in the Daily News of this
morning, I see, speaking on the assumption that Dr.
Moberly is 70 years of age, says that Bishops Claughton,
Selwyn, Jackson, and Wordsworth were all more than GO
years old when they were appointed to their sees. In no
instance was this the case. Dr. Claughton was born in
1810, and was, therefore, 57 years of age when lie was
appointed Bishop of Rochester in 1867. Dr. Selwyn was
born in 1809, and was 32 years of age whenhe was appointed
Bishop of New Zealand in 1841, and 58 when he was
translated to the Bishopric of Lichfield in 1867. Dr. Jack-
son was born in 1811, and was 42 years of age when he
was appointed Bishop of Lincoln, and 57 when he was
translated to London last year. Dr. Wordsworth was
born in 1808, and was not quite 60 when he was nominated
to the Bishopric of Lincoln last year.
The canonry of Chester, which becomes vacant by the
elevation of Dr. Moberly, islikely to fall to Dr. Vaughan,
the new Master of the Temple.
Mr. Childers means to take a very pleasant holiday
trip. He has arranged that the Channel Squadron shall
join the Mediterranean Squadron in the latter sea, and
he will assume the command (of course only nominally)
of the combined fleet. The advantage of sending the
first-mentioned squadron into the Mediterranean is sup-
posed to consist in the facility for manceuvring which the
combination will afford. The cost of the experiment will
be £20,000, which will, among other things, pay for the
holiday of the First Lord of the Admiralty.
I had occasion a few weeks since to refer in praise.
worthy terms to the change wrought in Hyde Park by
the exertions of Mr. Layard. Perhaps the right hon.
gentleman will now turn his attention to the adjacent
Kensington Gardens, especially to the round ponds
by the fountains. In spite of the heavy
rains which have lately fallen, the water here is
quite stagnant, and emits an effluvia not at all
pleasant to the visitor. Considering the popularity of
this particular spot, and the health of the large number of
children who frequent it daily, it would be a graceful
action on the part of the First Commissioner of Works to
order that such a state of things should not continue
through the remaining hot weather.
A suggestion has just been made with respect to emi-
gration which is well worth consideration. It is proposed
that the colonies shall open industrial schools, and that
pauper children shall be sent there from this country,
with the understanding that they shall be instructed in
the arta best adapted to make them useful colonists, and
that the Lords of the Treasury shall be empowered to
contribute from the Consolidated Fund the sums required
for the removal of pauper children from any of the out-
ports to any such colony, and that boards of guardians
shall have power to defray the cost of removal to the out-
port and of maintenance in the school for three years. By
this means the mother country would be relieved of a
surplus population, and the colonies would have a supply
of young persons well trained and expressly adapted for
colonial life.

ME7 ROPOLMIN GO&sIP-7hursclay.

On Thursday morning, at 8 o'clock, Jonah Detheridge,
a rthtti6 -of Staffolt, and lately a convict at the
Portland Prison, was hung within the walls of the
Dorset County Gaol, at Dorchester, for the
murder cf Warder Trevett, at Portland, on March
23. In the morning Trevett complaineil of the way in
which Detheridge was doing Lis work, and the convict was
offended, and refused to do it as he was told. An hour
after, as the warder was standing with his back to
Detheridge, the convict stole up behind him, knocked
him down with a pick he was using, and
inflicted murderous wounds on his head, from which in a
few hours he died. Detheridge was tried at the Dorset
Assizes on July 22, and condemned to death. Through.
out the trial he was brutishly indifferent, and after sen-
tence he muttered " I shall not be the first inno-
cent man hung." Since that time he has shewn the
same carelessness, and neither the chaplain nor the Rev.
J. Mann (Wesleyan)— for Detheridge Nuts said to be a
Methodist—had the slightest effect in bringing Lim to a
sense of his guilt or the awful position in which he was
placed. He ate and slept well all the time, and was the
least touched of all about him at his fate.

LAW AND POLICE.

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EXTRAORDINARY FRAUD BY A SOI-DISANT CAPTAIN.—
When Hans Vanderdecken, who is charged with
having obtained a large quantity of goods under
false pretence; was again brought up at Marl-
borough-street, on Thursday, a new character was
given to the proceedings. The only witness called
was a Mr. Bartlett, a gentleman well known to the
prisoner, and with whom he had had dealings on several
occasions. In the course of the cross-examination it was
elicited that some years ago a memorandum of agreement
was drawn up, signed by the witness and the prisoner,
whereby " the United Mines of Anglesey " was
to be purchased with a capital of £50,000,
the solicitor and the promoter each to have
£5,000 out of the capital ; while from the same
fund £20,000 was to be divided in equal portions between
the two contracting parties. The money for the purchase
of the mines was, however, never forthcoming. Before
the witness's cross-examination was closed he expressed
his belief that the prisoner was mad ; and the magistrate
was so far inclined to agree with him that he ordered
-Varlerdecken to be remanded, with a view to an inquiry
into the state of his mind.
BETTING MEN FiN1:1) AT WOLVERHAMPTON.-The
Wolverhampton police authorities took steps at the
races in that borough, which have just terminated, to carry
out the terms of the new Gaming Act. Attiring some of
their best officers in "plain clothes," they watched the oper-
ations of the betting-men who tenanted the booths and made
and accepted bets, giving tickets to the public who wagered
with them, and cashing the tickets from within their booths
after the respective races had been run. The terms of most
of the summonses were that the defendants, being occu-
piers of certain booths, "opened" them for the purposes
of betting. William Moreton, of Wolverhampton, who
used a department of a booth over which there were

the names of " Lewis and Adamson," was con victed
and fined £2O and costs, the bench refusing to grant
a case asked for upon the plea that Adamson was
responsible. Warrants were granted against William
Williamson, of Manchester; against Philip Platt, of
Brunswick-street, Liverpool, who wore a courier's bag, on
which there was the name of " S. Sykes, Alliance Club,
Liverpool ;" and against A. F. Hill, of Manchester.
George Rowley, of Wednesbury, was fined £2O an,l
for allowing betting in his booth ; and Charles Crook, of
Walsall, was similarly charged, Lut had his case adjourned
for a week. It tranepired that a moiety of the fines in
these cases go to the Police Superannuation Fund of
Wolverhampton.

A NOTTINGHAM "LAMB."-At the Town Hall, Notting
ham, on Thursday, James Cosgrove was brought up on
remand, charged with having assaulted a cabman, named
Ephraim Paling, at the late election. The evidence for
the prosecution went to spew that on the polling-day
Paling was driving a cab and pair of horses. When in

Beck-street the cab was attacked by a number of
Yellow "lambs," the -windows smashed, and the horses
ill-used, and Cosgrove struck Paling a violent blow on
the right eye with a stick. Mr. Mickley, surgeon, stated
that he had examined prosecutor's eye-ball, and bethought
it more than probable that he would lose his sight. De-
tective Golding, said that while conveying prisoner to the
police station he shouted to some of his companions,
"They are taping me for that cab job." For the defence
several witnesses were called, who swore Cosgrove was
not the man wl.o struck Paling. One of these witnesses,

named Joseph Brazill, on being cross•examined by the
solicitor fur the prosecution, admitted having been con-
victed five times. He appeared very indignant at having
to answer these questions, and said that "he (the solicitor)
did not mind hurting a man's feelings,'' and that " the

convictions had nothing to do with his character." The
bench committed the prisoner for trial at the next assizes.

The foot and mouth disease has broken on
amongst the cattle in Northumberland, and is spreadin,
very fast.

TUE CEURCIT. —Two valualle pieces of cede-
sia4ical preferment fall to the Crown by the appointment
of Dr. Moberly to the see of Salisbury, a canonry in
Chester Cathedral, worth £5OO a year, and the rectory of
Brightstone, Isle of Wight, worth £7OO a year.
GusTAYE DORE IN LONDON.— Gustave Dorf and
Blanchard Jerrold have been making a systematic explo-
ration of London, from Wapping to Kensington, among
high and low, with a view to a work on the great capital.
Monsieur Dore has made a most interesting collection of
studies.

I mentioned in my last letter the difficulty which there
is in obtaining exemption from the duty of grand juror.
An incident has been mentioned to me which shews that
he who undertakes the duty is, to use a classical pun,
magis oneratus quam honoratus. Some time ago a car-
penter applied, in great distress, to a friend of mine for
pecuniary help. My friend aided him, and told him that
if he would come on a certain day he should have some
work. The man replied that be had been summoned to
serve on the grand jury of Middlesex. In theory, none
but gentlemen can serve as grand jurors. Nevertheless,
this man, though a labourer and a pauper, had been
cited. Be obeyed the summons, thinking that he would
get well paid for his work. After he had got through his
duties, my friend asked him what reward he had received.
Ire replied, "The judge was so well pleased with the
way in which we did our work, that he gave us an order
to see over the Middlesex Gaol."
I hear that the Presidentship of the British Association
for 1870 is to be offered to Professor Huxley.
After five years, new Blackfriars Bridge is all but
finished, and will probably be opened in about two months.
In reality, the removal of the old bridge took much the
longer portion of the five years, and the whole work will
have occupied little more than half the time which was
occupied by the construction of the old bridge. The new
will be thirty-three feet wider than the old, and at the
same time the gradient instead of being I in 24 will be
only 1 in 40. The navigation of the river, which was
sorely impeded by the nine arches of the formerstructure,
will be much less hindered by the five arches of the new
one. As a work of art there can be no comparison between
the two. Old Blackfriars had scarcely any pretensions to
architectural beauty, and was built of Portland stone.
New Blackfriars is built of granite'and iron, in the Gothic
style. The one great disadvantage is the close proximity
of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railvray bridge,

which shuts out the view of BLackfriars on the eastern
side. The new bridge will cost about £320,000.
It is rumoured in scientific circles that Professor Stokes,
in his presidential address to the British Association next
Wednesday, intends to attack the Darwinian theory
which was so ably advocated by Dr. Hooker from the
same chair last year. If this report be true, the address
will, no doubt, excite great interest, for mathematicians
have always been the most formidable opponents with
whom Mr. Darwin has had to contend, and Professor
Stokes being a man of deep scientific attainments, is well
qualified to break a lance in favour of the time-honoured
doctrine of special creation. Among other scientific
researches Professor Stokes made the discovery of
a change in the refrangible nature of light, and an
able paper published by him on this subject led the
Royal Society to confer upon him the Rumford Medal in
1842. In 1854 he became secretary to that society, and
its memoirs contain many very valuable scientific treatises

from his pen.
A celebrated photographer who has previously had to
take measures for the protection of his copyright, walked
into a printing-office the other day and found the establish-
ment engaged in printing some of his choicest specimens.
Having expressed his admiration of the good taste which
had been displayed in selecting his specimens, the printer,
desiring to obtain praise for shrewdness as well as for
good taste, confided to the artist that the originals,
from which he was printing, had cost him only a shilling
each. The artist then made himself known to the
astonished printer, and the result will be a suitable fine
and punishment for the robbery.
Messrs. Downey, of Newcastle, have recently taken
photographs of her Majesty, as she appears at her favourite
occupation of spinning flax ; they have also taken some
interesting photographs of the Prince of Wales's children,
which I should like to see published.
All the regular picture exhibitions are now closed, but
an exhibition of rather a novel kind has just been opened.
It is at Dickinson's, in Bond-street, and consists of 700
photographs illustrative of London society in 1854-5.
Among them are the portraits of 200 officers who served
in the Crimean war.
There are some interesting items of literary news to
mention this week. Sir Henry Bulwer's "Life of Lord
Palmerston" is fast approaching completion. Strictly
speaking, it is scarcely a life, but the correspondence
edited, or linked together, by Sir Henry Bulwer. The

papers placed in Sir Henry's hands will confirm the

popular estimate of the late Premier as a noble, manly
creature. The two volumes of the "History of the
Crimean War," upon which Mr. Kinglake is now engaged,
will complete the work by bringing the narrative down
to the death of Lord Raglan. Mr. Kinglake's
readers would have liked the story continued to
the taking of Sebastopol ; but his object waq
not to chronicle that famous campaign, but to defend
the English general who commanded it at the out-
set. I may also announce another work of great

interest, in which Mr. Charles Dickens will appear
under the new character of a biographical editor. It is
" The Religious Opinions of the late Rev. Chauncy Hare
Townshend." The book is ready now, but the publica-
tion is reserved until November, when the new literary
season sets in. The verses on Lamartine, written
by Mr. Charles Kent some sixteen years ago
(which so pleased the French poet at the time), have
been translated into Lamartine's own language by the
Chevalier de Chatelain, author of " Ronces et Chardons,"
and the translation has been published by Rolandi. Mr.
Edmund Yates is engaged on a new novel ; and Mr.
Arthur A'Beckett, editor of the Britannia magazine, and
Mr. Sidney Daryl, are about to follow the example of Mr.

Charles Reade and Mr. Dion Boucicault, by producing a

partnership novel. If it should have anything like the

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run of "Foul Play," the authors will have no reason to

complain. AU the Year Round contains a story entitled

"An Experience," written by a lady, which is so
remarkable in its way that those who read it will never
forget the reading. Lastly, I may mention that Mr.
Hotten has just published "A Letter to Cardinal Cullen,"
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which is a Freemason's answer to the Cardinal's attack

upon the Masonic Order.
The principal event in the theatrical world is Mr. Douci.

cault's new drama at Drury Lane, " Formosa ; or, the Rai

road to Ruin." With scarcely an exception the dramatic
critics of the different London papers, whilst speaking in high

;erms of the magnificent Mailer in which the piece is

placed upon the stage, strongly condemn the materials
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upon which it is founded.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

LORD STANLEY ON TILE AR3IY AND NAVY.

At the same meeting Lord Stanley uttered the
now usual Conservative protest against the exercise
of undue economy in the army and navy. Ile ad-
mitted that it was reasonable that men should grumble
when there was 25 millions of money to pay; but
thought a warning necessary, lest that grumbling
should lead to a depreciation of the army and navy
in the esteem of Englishmen. lie regarded the ser-
vices r.s a necessary, though a costly, insurance, and
there is no economy (he exclaimed), rather the
reverse, in neglecting to keep up insurances. As a
nation, England was rich enough to be robbed, and
prosperous enough to excite envy ; it ought, there-
fore, to make itself strong enough to be respected.
England did not want to go to war, was
not territorially ambitious, and was anxious to lot
other nations alone : but one could not be so sure
that other countries would let us alone. War was
about the oldest institution on record, and as the
world did not become wise in a day, we could not be
sure that it would not be rcs)rted to again. We
must therefore aria ; to disarm would be to invite
aggression.

HUSH CIIITP,CH GOVERNMENT.
The standing committee of the Irish Church Con-
ference has held its final meeting at Trinity College.
' A letter from the Archbishops of Armagh and
Dublin was read announcing that all the bishops
lately assembled agreed that it was not expedient to
reassemble the Conference, as reassembling would
be distasteful to a large body of Churchmen. The
committee expressed its dissent from this conclusion.
It cordially concurred, however, with the recom-
mendation of the prelates that a general synod,
representing the clergy and the laity in equal
numbers, be convened. The committee signified its
earnest desire that this recommendation be carried
out as speedily as possible.

THE FENIAN PRISONERS.
The Fenian patriots who have been provided with
board and lodging and light work at the expense of
a grateful country still find numerous sympathisers
with their unhappy condition. Another meeting has
been held at Dublin, and resolutions calling upon the
Government to release the unhappy prisoners have
been passed. The assembhge expressed its confidence
in Messrs. Gladstone and )fright, pledged itself to
support the Amnesty Association, and unanimously
agreed that "a general amnesty to all political
offenders would have a most powerful effect in
tranquillising the country." The political offenders
exerted themselves so energetically in tranouillising
the country when they were last at large, that the
best consequences ought to be anticipated from turn-
ing them loose again.

principle as well. All sorts of wild speeches were
LOSS OF THE GERMANIA.
made in support of this theory, and every domestic
evil—pauperism, bankruptcy, emigration (which was Two other steamers, the Germania and the Cleo-
looked upon as an evil)—was laid to the charge of patra, have been lost off Cape Race, Newfound-
Free Trade, just as every disease is attributed to land, and all—the marine authorities say—
facemation. it is no use endeavouring so shew these through the want of a fog signal. For years
people that it is better for us to abolish Protection, the necessity of such a safeguard at this
sven without the concurrence of other nations, than mist-hidden promontory has been advocated by the
io retain high tariffs because our neighbours do so. captains in the American trade. Nobody, however,
[t is a pity the practical remedy cannot be tried, and would spend the few thousand pounds required, and
the Shoreditch people be gratified with a taste of the the result is that a million sterling in property has
results which would accrue if England were again to gone to the bottom off this single Cape. Ten years
revive the old system, and every country were to keep ago a fog signal was erected at the entrance of the
is productions locked within its own boundary, harbour to St. John's, and there the disasters have
THE LAND QUESTION. decreased 90 per cent.
The Irish land question is to be settled next ses-
sion, we are told ; but how, or according to what
principles ? The non-development of public opinion
in the matter is, considering the time it has been
discussed by politicians, somewhat remarkable.
The general public seems to have no particular idea
about the real estates intestacy question, for instance;
and much haziness exists on the cheapening of
conveyances, the shortening of settlements, and
the large or small farms debate. There is
patient waiting upon statesmen in the
matter, which seems at first to augur well
for the success of any plan proposed. But
it is hardly so satisfactory as it appears, ignor-
ance being generally obstructive. The advanced
Reformers have recognised this, and are preparing to
take means for the development of the public mind.
Mr. Mill, Mr. Jacob Bright, Mr. Fawcett, Sir C. W.
Dilke, Sir 11. Hoare, and others of the same stamp
have attended the preliminary meetings of a pro-
posed organisation for spreading such information as
shall pave the way for a " courageous policy."
Lord Stanley, presiding at the annual banquet of
the Ormskirk and Southport Agricultural Society,
on Wednesday, enunciated his opinion on the pre-
sent proprietary propcsal. Ile laid great stress on
the progress of science as applied to agriculture,
and remarked that human and brute force were gra-
dually giving place to machinery. This revolution in
farming would make it imperative, he thought, that
the farmer—or rather the landowner—of the future
should be a capitalist. He would want to expend
money on drainage, improvement, and implements.
Could a peasant proprietor do so ? If not—and
Lord Stanley thought not—those amiable and
kind-hearted men who were seeking to hand
the land over to mere labourers were really
proposing to do that which would cause retrogression,
would impede very seriously agricultural progress,
and tend ultimately to separate the capital from the
soil. They were doing much as if they went to a
factory, took away the steam engines, and compelled a
return to hand-loom working. They were upsetting
the threefold system, which had hitherto worked so
well, of landlord, tenant, and labourer. To that
system objection had been made that it caused
dependence, but it only caused that mutual de-
pendence which must exist in civilised society.

EMIGRATION.

The committee which administers the British and
Colonial Emigration Fund has reported progress.
One ship was sent off a few days ago with
300 emigrants on board, and another will
shortly proceed to the remote colony of Queens-
land with 250 of the East London poor.
It is satisfactory to hear that this is not
altogether an eleemosynary undertaking, but
that each passenger will contribute at least
£3 ss. towards his expenses. The cry from the
colonies is still for more. A Government emigra-
tion agent in Canada reports that there is a greatly-
increased demand for youths between 14 and 18
years of age. No doubt ; these lads do a deal of
work for no great pay, but if the colonists want the
children they must take the parents likewise.

TUE lIAYDOCK COLLIERY EXPLOSION.
The Times notes that the inquest touching the
colliery accident at Ilaydock has had a more satis-
factory result than most of these inquiries. The
jury have come to a definite conclusion respecting
the cause of the disaster, and their verdict wax
justified by a remarkable concurrence of evidence.
he explosion was of firedamp, ignited by a " shot"
—that is, by blasting with gunpowder. It appears,
moreover, that a great deal of gunpowder had been
taken down by the miners. This was exploded at
the same time, and increased the destruction. The
jury are also of opinion that " if proper care had
'been taken to remove the gas from the cavity in the
fault, this explosion would not have happened." The
fact is, as they explained to the coroner, they could
not pronounce this catastrophe to be a matter of
accident, though they did not quite like to say
that it was due to culpable neglect. But the Times
has no such hesitation. Miners are much given to
using gunpowder in their work, though the in-
spectors have repeatedly declared that it ought never
to be employed in mines which need a safety lamp.
" Another session of Parliament ought not to pass
without some stringent regulations for better manage-
ment being imposed by the Legislature."