The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-12-28 00:00:00

` TO MR. DELL, BROMSGROVE."

" Sir,—ln our own names, and in behalf of our school-
fellows, we beg to offer the fullest apology in our power
for the unwarrantable outrage committed on your person
on Tuesday, the 30th of November. It was unjustifiable
as an interference with your sentiments, which you had a
full right to express, and as offending aeainst the personal
security which the law demands of every one. We can
assure [you] that it was far from our intention to wound
your feelings, or insult your opinions, and we had no idea
at the time that what we looked upon as a youthful joke
would have been viewed in so serious a light. We sin-
cerely hope that your acceptance of this apology at our
hands will at once obliterate a remembrance of the past
in a renewal of t good feeling for the future.

"A. AL ALINGTON.
" G. H. BONNOR.
" C. D. CROSSMAN.
" G. DAY.

" R. GRICE.
"WILLIAM KER
C. MASON.

" Bromsgrove Grammar-school, Tuesday, Dec. 14."
POPISH TACTICS AND PROTESTANT TACT.—IO reli-
gious respects England, and especially the Church of
England, is the great antagonist of Rome. And now the
Church of Rome in France, and elsewhere, looks with
confident hope and eager longing towards England. She
hears of conversions, too numerous, alas ! but exaggerated
beyond their true number and importance, and she
regards a handful of perverts as the first fruits of an
abundant harvest. For a striking proof of the interest
she takes in the work of " our reconciliation to Rome,"
as she would call it, let us look at the thousands of names
of Frenchmen and Frenchwomen, who have shown their
sympathy with Dr. Newman, as " the Apostle of Eng-
land," by contributing to the expenses of his trial. The
Church of France feels a strong sympathy with the Celts
and Romanists of Ireland. She regards their cause as
her own, as the cause of the Church Universal, and of its
Divine Head. She is therefore read yto invoke the bene-
dictions of Heaven on what she would calla religious war,
and to offer sacrifice of masses, and to chant religious
litanies, in behalf of the legions of France, which would
avenge the wrongs of Roman Catholiclreland,and advance
the cause of the Church, as well as the glory of France,
by an assault on Protestant England. We have thus
given expression to feelings which we doubt not are in
the minds of many of our readers. The position of our
affairs is indeed critical, and it is time that all within the
limits of our shores should awake to a due sense of what
is before us. Under the influence of the Divine Spirit,
public dangers excite national courage, inspire national
wisdom, and promote national unity. So may it be with
us ! Let the conflicting parties, political and religious,
by which we have been distracted, abate their asperity
towards each other, and combine" for the defence of what
is dear to all.—English Churchman.

FRIGHTFUL COLLIERY EXPLOSION.—ShortIy after one
o'clock on Wednesday, a dreadful explosion, which has re-
sulted in a fearful loss of life, took place at the Elsecar
Low Colliery, in Yorkshire, belonging to Earl Fitzwilliam.
The mine is 157 yards deep; and about 140 men and boys
were down in the pit, pursuing their labour. The first
intimation of the explosion was signified by a sharp
buzzing sound, and shortly afterwards came a loud report.
Its import was not to be mistaken, and shortly afterwards
the scene immediately around the mouth of the pit be-
came one of the most grievous and heart-rending descrip-
tion. Wives and mothers who had rushed to the spot,
were wringing their hands and utttering the loudest
lamentations of grief and the wailings of despair, while
their feelings were further deepened by the impossibility,
for some time after, of correctly ascertaining the extent
of the calamity, and the inevitable delay which occured
before a descent could be made. At length a number of
men resolved to descend, the first attempt to relieve the
sufferers being to throw a volume of water down the shaft
in order to assist the circulation of the air, and to force
out the foul gases which had been generated in the pit.
As soon as the men were descending, they found that the
fan worked by steam power to promote cil culation had
been deranged. The explosion had broken down the stop-
pings, and destroyed some of the machinery, and also had
blown a portion of materials to the mouth of the pit, from
which a quantity of steam continued to issue for some
time. There are two divisions in the pit, which are known
as the north and south sides; and while the men who
were working in the former part were almost to a single
man more or less injured, those in the latter escaped
without any comparative injury. It was ascertained by
four o'clock, that several dead bodies had been got out,
and that several others were alive, but seriously injured.
Later, the whole of the sufferers were got out, dead or
injured. The former amounted to nine, and the latter to
thirteen. There is said to have been no want of ventila-
tion in the pit, and the accident is ascril

to some

negligence on the part of the miners themselves

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