Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-03-13
foreign Ncws.


Files OF English papers by The Ppr,I
1T New York, from Liverpool eis, i
put Us in possession Of some aadido,.,
foreign news.
The following is a resolution iniro5so.s
in the House of Lords, by tie Maro,;,
of Clanricarde, relative to the Cover,
ment of India:
That the system under which n.
government of her Majesty's Indian -.
ritories is administered, is no longer "A,
able to the condition and prospects Of,b,,
vast empire, or the development Of :,
resources and The improvement and mi
fare of its inhabitants. The noble ma.
quis, in a speech Of very great len,,l
supported his motion BY an inmen,.
nu nber of facts. statistical, judicial. ana
political. The general scope of lbs n,
gument was that the government, Of In
dia should be removed from the Eas, h
dia Company, and some other means q,
administration adopted for which he,
Majpsty's ministers should be diree,lyp.
sponsible.
W. II. Russell, the London Times
correspondent, has entered into an On.
gagement with Mr., Beale, Of London 10
deliver three lectures a week, on the eli.
mea, till April, 1858, for a sum which
rumor calls 10000.
About $500 have been subscribed IN
Cork for monument to the late Father
Mathew.
The following is brief notice Of III,
Earl of ElIesmere, whose death has been
announced, and whose visit to this coan.
| try win be remembered by many Of our
readers:
+" He was a nobleman who was d;stin-
guished and admired for the liberalitv Of
his political views, his freedom from par.
fty fetters and rlneOr, his love OF litera.
ture and art, his patronage Of rising mer-
it, and the amiabiIity Of his manners and
life. He first attracted attention in the
world of letters by the publication. in
two volumes, of translation of Faust,
accompanied by free and spirited YER
sions of popular lyrics selected from the
works Of Goethe, Schiller, Burcher,
Sails, and Korner. After an expedition
to the Holy Land in 1889, he published
a graceful poem entitled, The Pilgrim.
ages but, although these productions
went through several editions, ihey have
Tor several years been withheld from cir
; culation.
Lord Ellesmere was liberal patron of
tie fine arts, and as heir to the ragnifi.
cent picture gallery of the great Duke Of
Bridgewater, valued at f200 900, set a
! brilliant example to the posse5sors of sim
liar collections By the erection of a noble
gallery at his mansion in London, to
> which the public were freely admitted"
The following particulars of The fear
: full colliery explosion at the Land llill
5 Colliery, are given in the Manchester
? Guardian
l A few minutes after II o'clock noon
5 yesterday (20th) THURSDAY, } an awfu
E explosion took place at the Land Nil
: Colliery, about half Wombwell Station
: on the South Yorkshire RAILWAY, b,
J which a fearful number of human live
5 have been sacrificed. The pit, which
n about 22O yards deep, belongs to AIessr
Taylor d Co., and is worked by separ
ate g shafts" or relays of men, night an
f day The day workers, TO the humble
). of $50 men and 8 lads, descended at
d O'Clock yesterday morning. At
O'Clock noon, p OF them. Who live nea
IF the pits came up TO dinner; the rest re
naming to partake of that meal il tn
Il pit.
Shortly afterwards fearful explosion
Of shook the ground for a great distano
around. The frame in which the corye
y descended was blown up the shaft, and
lodged in the gearing above the pi, mouth
b Numbers Of men from the neigIIborini
colliers focked to the spot to render a
Of sistance; and up to seven O'Clock la
evening, sixteen men had been drawn U
N alive some Of them, however, most s.
riously injured. There then RENAME
below no fewer than one hundred an
IS. torty-t1co men and boys.
l. The interior Of the pit was set on &
u. by the explosion, and the flames spre;
or with such rapidly as, IT is feared, to c
re off all chance of repehins chat part
III the pit where one hundred and forty.tv
II. men are supposed TO be- Some idea
NJ the fearful nature of the fire in the I
Of may be gathered from the fact that, d
flames ascending up the air-shaft ~
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