The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-24 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the J O URN ALS,

TROX TIM RIMMING PAPERS Op YESTERDAY.
GLOBS,—Excessive expansiveness (though no
one would have supposed so) is -the complexional
foible of Lord Aberdeen. "Le garcon epicier," says
the French comic novelist, " est eminemment seduiteur;
quoique cela ue.paraisse pas." Lord Aberdeen is not
less eminently communicative, though he seems not
quite equally seductive, if we may judge by the
final issues of his expansive communications. His
Grace of Newcastle, a good many years ago, said
he was not accustomed to " 'dilate with his pen." It
would be just as well if our present Foreign Secre-
tary would try to get out of the habit of "dilating"
with tongue or pen, at least on occasions when every
word exposes, a weaker and more extended front toan
enemy. The
.word too much appears invariably the
point he has" most happiness 'in hitting. This some-
times happens to people who are by no means led into
it by excessive warmth of sympathies. On the contrary,
caring abou'i.sro iuch for one party addressing them as
another, they do not feel. the distinctions of demea-
nour required by their tempers or positions. We
have thus Lord Aberdeen expanding to Mr.
Everett on the desirableness of abolishing slavery
in America ; and now we have him expanding to
Lord Ranelagh on the questions which have most
divided European opinien,.in late years.. But the
ord' too AstaCh (Acura most emphatically at the
close of th's curious correspondence. Lord Aberdeen
gets out of _teniper.,at -Lord Rapelagh's intention of
publiihing it.; theugh, what on earth an amateur
diplomatist ova dees want but to possess the world
with the importance of his-opinions and of his over-
tures—or why
_on earth Lord Aberdeen took pains to
" dilate with the pen " at such a rate, if he did not
mean to furnish materiala for publicity--are questions
his Lordship might have asked himself at the outset.
Lord "Aberdeen, liowever,gets out of temper, and this
is the way he shovis it : ,
" I should naturally feelmuch disposed to of to
the publication-of fetters ,which, by me at least, had
never been written with any such view or expectation ;
but as my request "might be liable to misconstruction,
and as I conjecture that the suppression of the cone-
sposidenee would'be more painful to your Lordship than
its publication would be disagreeable to me. I leave you
o do as you think proper. Should. your Lordship finally
decide on giving this correspondence to the public,
have only to express a hope theta part of it may be sup-
pressed." • .
Oh that our .enemips would- •write us such letters 1
Here is a noblesseasa amature years—of qualities (it is
presumable) such as to fit him for precisely the post in
her Majesty's Government which requires the most in-
tuitivetact and habit of keeping in view—when he
writes or speaks—all probable consequences—and who
yet shows evident irritation at so simple a fact as that
an amateur Carlist crusader, whom he favours with long
letters (when short snubbing ones would have served
every purpose), should Set his heart upon printing
them,' and' " Shaine the fools" who undervalued the
inotnentonsness of his mission as Minister Plenipoten-
tiary•froin Don Carlos to the Court of Great Britain !
It'4l, Lord Aberdeen gets . angry. But surely -he
might have kept snore wit in his anger than to hazard
the hope" that "no part" of his correspondence
would he "suppressed" by a gentleman in publishing
it I Why,if such an unsupposable case should happen,
he had his remedy in his own hands. Or are we to
understand, as the climax to all this mature. states.
man's .uniuspiciousuess, that he keeps no copies: of
letters addromed on such subjects to such parties?
The following is the Parthian shot of Lord Rane-
-144h. We cannot recover from our astonishment that
even our expansive Foreign Secretary should. not.
'have lx.en .'‘far noith" enough to forbear dibiting
v th the pen on a point so obviously open to such gn
, . • • • s
=? Lord—Jn
,acic.nowleclging. the 'receipt of your
letrer r r,yesterday, I trust beg your Lordship to exeu.3e
rue, frost} C.olhlr:in,c,,, the ex v.ple. which you have set me,
infujhag into,Pais correspondence any• portion of per-
.•• „
I shalbmPrOy-observe,,. that, until I had read. your.
L rdship's• letttr. now Wore m never had en-
iuto inv,mind that any: gentleman would entertain
f nosieve ,garbling a correspondence
ch hcf4Alit4o.ile miry to gircrto the public."
.1:,N010I01,1S, PA RT II IN
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Yesterday an inquest was held at the Coseley Ta-
vern, at Cowley, on the body of Benjamin Smith;
a miner; who,e death, with that of two other men,
was caused by an, enormous tall. of earth ip a mine in
vibletl.they
°were wjjrliirigt., .rhe,,ascpinpanying state-
urt.itt given before coroper, Jay- one of the sur-
, viniat ba with
.4p interest,:--
Cosely, in this parish,'
and am kroiner.., (*Friday last I was at work with
the 'keened Benjamin Smith (who was about thirty-
two yeArs 41,, and -a.aniner,•living at Cosely), in a
coal-pit at the Fox Yards,
this county, and in the parish of Tipton, in
while- ..akte
thatwere at
.work- there,
about . half-past • 0ine.0•404,
thy' of clod aid earth` fell in toraolrning, a quanf-
t the amount o
more than, it thousand ton. and almost every man
in the
pit, was stopped up. Souse few of the ja
•
were a distance Off, and clear away; but thedee-n-
-ceaso, my slf, and four Others, .were stopped Up in
one of .the hollows. reat.„ exertions were made to'
get us Qut there was plenty of help, and nearly all
the iuiaers from the adjoining collieries came to their
assistance,' ,Several tons of stuff were soon removed,
and in ,about an hour one of the. six men was got out.
very badly hurt, but he is still alive. Another was
. got out soon
.after without much' injury. As fast as
the miners, got the stuff away more tell in, but in the
course of tile' fillip all the remaining men, except my-
self, were got out, but I was not got out till about ten
o'clock that night.' I ,was not at all hurt, but was very
weak droop the dainp and confinement, and being,
withont food. I had not had anything to eat from the
previous„ .night, so that I was I
more than
tlatenty-togr .;hours, without tasting it. was quite
sensible all the time, and conversed with all the men..
I Naked with Smith as long as he lived, which was
about fallout and' a half, as near as I can guess, after
stUSN'lft. 'other, rap viere:killed. 'One of