The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-06 00:00:00

The Committee was then named. It is as follows :

The Lord Mayor, Duke of Leinster, Lord Cloncurry, Mr.
O'Connell, Mr. Grattan, Mr. O'Neill, Mr. Classon, Mr.
Mahony, Mr. Dixon, Mr. Bermingham, Mr. T. Gresham,
Mr. Perry, Dr. Gray, Mr. O'Donoughoe, Rev. Dr. Yore, the
O'Connor Don, *Sir J. Power, C. Fitzsimon, C. M'Lougblin,
J. Dunn, Alderman Keshen, Alderman Gardiner, Sir J.
Murray, Dr. Kane, Alderman M'Kenna, Alderman O'Brien,
M. T. Whelan, M. J. O'Connell, Mr. Tennyson.
The Committee is to assemble each day at two o'clock, at
the Mansion-house.

Mr. FrrzsuroN spoke of the course adopted in Belgium.
They had stored provisions of all kinds in that country in
granaries. But the Belgians had adopted one plan in the
stubble lands they had already ploughed, and sowed with
oats, barley, rye, and berg, and that in the hard season, the
time between the two crops. They would have food, if the
farmers adopt the wise example of the Belgians. The Bel-
gians have also planted already hundreds of acres of potatoes,
which, though the frost is very severe there, they protect by
scattering straw over them in winter, and this crop also they
will have early next year.
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Mr. BERMIIIGHAII said the landlord who did not tell his
tenantry to keep his oats in his haggard, could not die
easy on his bed. Lord Clonbrock had told him he desired
his tenantry not to touch their oats, and the landlord who
did otherwise would incur a curse which all the prayers of his
household could not stay.
Mr. O'Neill was then called to the chair, thanks were
voted to the Lord Mayor, and the meeting separated.

COLLIERY EXPLOSION.

NINE LIVES LOST AND TEN OTHERS DREAD-

FULLY BURNT.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

WARRINGTON, Nov. s.—This morning at five o'clock, the
No. 3 coal-pit, belonging to Messrs. Turner and Evans, at

Haydock, near Newton, Lancashire, caught fire, (by some
means at present not known,) and a most tremendous ex-
plosion took place, which uplifted and carried to a consider-
able distance the planks fastened at the mouth of the pit.
These collieries are at work both night and day ; the night-
men had just returned from the pit, and the day-men in the
act of descending, nineteen of whom had gone down when
the explosion occurred; had it happened a few minutes later
about twenty more would have shared the same fate as their
unfortunate companions. Some were actually hanging by
the rope when it took place. As soon as safety would permit
their fellow-men went down to explore the full extent of the
mischief, and nine dead bodies were found, amongst whom
was that of a boy, who was so dreadfully mutilated that they
were under the necessity of putting him in a sack in order
to get him up. Ten men were got up alive, but all so seri-
ously burnt, that not the least hopes are entertained of their
recovery, except one, who seems to have been more fortunate

than the rest. These most unfortunate men are nearly all
married, and have left most of them large families to lament,
and it is to be feared grievously suffer this their sudden, un-
expected, and to them irretrievable loss. The iqquest will
take place at Haydock to-morrow.
Since writing the above, I have been informed of an acci-
dent by gunpowder, to a boy in this town, who, having some
in his hand it ignited, and he is so seriously burnt that his
life is despaired of.