The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-23 00:00:00

AWFUL' COLLIERY EXPLOSION.

One of these dreadful explosions which have been so lenient-
ably frequent-In mining districts, took place at one of Mr. Rus-
sell's coliieriels, at -Walls'erid,knewn by the name -of the Church'
Pit, or Russelt's Old Wallsend; on • Thursday afternoun, ,by
which it is feared that upwards of a hundred individuals, men
and boys, haVelost their lives.. The nuMber of work-people 'em-'
plbyed •in this colliery is about 220: The hewers commence
working early in the morning, and having finished getting the
coal, it is left to be brought to the buttout -of the shaft by the
*Olinger men and boys: during .the day. As every individual
who was down the shaft at the time of the explosion remains
there still,' it not noir,'nor, as all have probably perished, is it
likely to be explained,•by what means this lamentable catastro-
phe was Occasioned ; similar accidents have generally been pro-
duced by incautiously'removin'g the gauze from the saTety lamps,
and it is supposed in this instance to' have originated, in the
same way, though evety precaution was taken to prevent its re-
moval. The colliery'was vielVed'in' the morning by Mr. Atkin-
somend his'son, under-viewers, and it was by them considered
perfectly safe and secure in every respect, there not being the
least indication' of any escape of gas, and at the•time of the ex-
plosion, there were four overmen and deputies' dOwn who: had
• been accustomed to work in the pits:for upwards of thirty years.
These are milting the sufferers. The catastrophe was made
known tolhe bankamen by a considerable report, which they
speak of as being like an earthquake, accompanied' by a' rush-
ing of choke-damp to the mouth of the shaft, bringing up
with it:a .considerable: quantity of the pitmen's clothes and
other light articles from the bottom. There are other two shafts •
connected with the same colliery, iu one of which only two men
were at work, who say that-they felt "a slight shock, and soon
after a quantity of choke damp. They escaped by being drawn
up immediately. In the third shaft no one was at work. On the
alarm being given, eight men- vOliinteered to. go' down in the
hope of being able'to save and bring up some of their compan-
ions. After descending to, the bottom, however, in attempting
to go into the works, they instantly found themselves being suf.,
focated by the foul air; they had the greatest difficulty in re-
gaining the ropes, and were almost insensible before they could
be'drawn up again.; 'We are Sorry to say that but small hopes
are entertained of. being able to save any of their lives, as it is
feared that either by being burnt at the moment of the explosion,
orisuffocated since; they are already the'vietims of this melan-
ably accident. The relatives and 'friends of the poor sufferers.
are in a dreadful state of anxiety—almost to distraction. In
782fltherewas en explbsion 'the same colli4ry, by which 75
lives were lost. Up:to a late hdur last evening, the accounts
received from Wallsend state that twenty-one bodies had been
raised from the pit: Many of these were unitultiated. and had
consequently been killed by the after damp-;in other words, the
foul air which remains after explosion. It appears that the aw:-.
ful number of 104 persons are'niissing, all'of whom; there is too'
much. maxim-to-fear,: must have perished.-,,Newcastie Journal'

NOTICE TO QUIT FOR THE MEMBERS FOR
MARYLEBONE.

The fribble, Mr. Henry Lytton Wiggett, and the utterly in-
capable'Sir Samuel St. Swithen Burden Whalley.'marconsider
themselves as served with a " notice to quit" the borough of
Marvlebone. At the last general election the want of energy,
the absence of all management: and the non-appearance'of a
candidate of their own, (for 'respectable us Sir W. Horne was,•
he was not the g.ract person whom they-could support) caused
the conservatives to be thrown in the back ground,. and the re
presentation of the borough of St. Marylebone, which has a
rental of about three-quarters of a million, to be placed in the
hands of two merobers iii eVery'senge of the word unqualified to
suktain that trust. But matters now assume a new aspect; and
as Mr. Hume must bid adieu to Middlesex, so must Messrs.
Whalley and Bulwer flit from 'Marvlebone. The conservatives
are now awake; and the organized •plan upon which they are
now proceeding will ensure a correct registration of the voters,
which will necessarily ensure the
_rejection of the St. Swithens,
and Wiggetts, and Murphy's!
We have been induced to make these remarks in Consequence
of the proceedings at the conservative association of the borough
of Marylebone, held OTI Tuesday last; where the most pertinent
observations were made by a person whose natural powers,
added to his.great local knowledge, make him a most valuable
and estimable ally. We allude to Mr. Hibble, who bas hitherto
been a'tvhig or liberal, but who, disgusted with the trickery and
humbug of that party, has abandoned it in disgust. Mr. Hibble
properly rebtiked the'apathy of the propertied constituericy'of
the borough, and very emphatically remarked :
" Itthe gentry had not deserted us, we should not have two
such representatives as we have at present. I will speak in
plain terms—it is a privelege in my station of life—and I boldls
say.that the two
Omen who at present represent the borough, are
totally unqualified to do so either by wealth, abilities, or cha-
racter."

To• which opinion we entirely subscribe. In calling attention
to This meeting, we earnestly entreat our country conservatives
to follow the example: It is-at the registration the battle must
be fought—if fought properly, the election-victory follows as a
matter of course.-49e.

StinGroNS IN t~I6t2CitANT
-es,their position
may be thought of, it is iu their own power, by improving the
opportunities their mode of life affords for the extension of natu-
ral science in almost all its depart:tents, to elevate it very
effectually in public estimation. The number of persons
destined for this branch. of the medical profession, who can
afford to cUltiVate and expand their minds by expensive travel
at their own charge, is extremely limited. A few voyages in a
merchant ship afford a very good succedaneum, and may serve"
to. fill up, not only pleasantly; butin eveor sense of the worth,
profitably, those years which hang .the heaviest on the spirits as
well as the purse of the young practicioner, whether in town or
in village. No professional Man, it Must be 'remembered, is so
effectuallylfetteied to the spot efterbe has once settled himself-
in life as he who labours
.in this, honourable walk. The lawyer
has his long vacation, and nlteally'roti-trites; in -these days of
steam-boating, to refresh himself with an annual excursion
either to another of his majesty's kingdoms or to some interest-
in‘g part of the continent: But a 'week after he has been bask-
ing himself, h,Owever, in die noisome. atmosphere :of Westniin-
s* Hall, he may be detected in eating pates de chamois on the
Simplon, or dancing reels in' We Hebrides; or'gliding in a
catrie(A` amidst the gloom- of- a Norwegian forest; nay, by
skilful management, ho may re-appear at Michaelmas with a
,budget. of good, -stories from Moscow or Constantinople, or
even bring back with him from Jerusalem legitimate claims to
the.sty!e and title.of Hadj. Even the parish clergyman may
occasionally command a furlough, and enlarge and strengthen
his attachment to his own country and calling, by a few months'
perambulation of less favoured regions. But the country doc-
tor is ,a complete fixture ; nay, it is considered as the most
hazardous thing in the world even for the first-rate physician or
surgeon of London to absent himself for a fortnight on end,
even at the dullest season of the year, from the habitual scene
of his exertions. In short, patients are apt to regard and re-
sent it as -a positive injury, when they are compelled by the ab-
sence of a first confidant to make their delicate discoveries to a
second. On every account then the young Esculapiati, if he
has any ambition to " survey mankind in the ettensive view,"
ought to make carpe diem his motto.— Quarterly Review.