The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1853-06-07 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MONSELL.  MR. COMMISSIONER PHILLIPS, while crossing the Strand, London, on Tuesday, was knocked down by a cab, but fortunately sustained no injur y. FEARFUL EXPLOSION AND SERIOUS ACCIDN Wednesday, an explosion occurred in a hougEeiTns.G—roe an Queen-street, Westminster, which was attended with serious, if not fatal, injuries, to one of the Coldstream guards and his wife. The house was let out in lodgings, and Eliza Dye, the wife of one of the Coldstream guards,' was engaged to cican the place. For the last day or two a strong smell of gas has been experienced by the inmates, but no one could tell whence it came, especially as no gas was laid on in the building. On Wednesday afternoon, Robert Dye, the husband of the woman, called to see her, preparatory to his return to the barracks at Kensington. Whilst there, the soldier and his wife went into the coal cellar in front of the kitchen, and under the pavement, when an explosion took place, which blew the stone flags up in the street, set fire to both man and woman, and forced them a considerable distance. Their screams brought assistance, and several persons rushed down stairs and rescued them, and having extinguished the flames about their apparel, they were found to be so fearfully injured that they were at once removed to Westminster Hospital. .It is at present impossible to tell whether they can recover. An escape of gas from the mains in the street having accumulated in the cellar btu been found to have been al cause of the dimter.  mined on  _nation is indulged in by the New York rs in consequence of the searching for deserters of a ed States schooner, at Bermuda, by One of H. M.  Much hid pap(  From New Zealand we have advices to the Gth of April. The King delivered a speech on the opening of the Legislature on the 6th. It was reported that Captain Cash, of the whaler Columbus, had discovered coal on the northern shores of the Ochotsk Sea, in lon. 156 E., which proved to he of a superior quality. CA LIFORN lA.—By the arrival of the steam-ships United States and Falcon, at New Orleans, we have advices from San Francisco to the 30th April. We find no mention of the amount of gold brought by these steamers, but the accounts from the mines appear to be of a very favourable character. Two fires had occurred at sprz Francisco, but  they were fortunately extinguished before any damage m importance was done. The banking-house of Page, Bacon, and Co., had been robbed of £3,000. New discoveries of gold near Negro-hill were reported. The agricultural prospects were in a very flattering condition. The grand jury of the District Court of San Francisco had ignored the bill brought against Captain Sampson, of the steamer Independence, for manslaughter ; but said if they had the power they would bring bills against the owners and agents of the Vanderbilt line, on account of miserable outfit, unseaworthiness, and other acts, and the unjusti. flable negligence which entailed the loss of 100 lives. Three men were executed at Sacramento on the 28th April, for murder. Their names were, Thompson, aged 25, a native of Southampton, and Stewart and Ackerman, Americans. The two latter smoked cigars until they mounted the scaffold.