Year: 1868

BY an arrival at New York yesterday we have
European advices to December q


ENGLAND.


The Scenes and Incidents at the Recent


COlltery Explosion.


The English papers have detailed accounts OF
the recent disaster;-


The explosion took place between and A.
NJ, November 26 in the Arley Mine of Hindlev
Green Coliery, near Wigan, belonging to q
firm which formerly owned the pit, Messrs
John Scowcroft & Company. The Hindley
Green Colliery is one of the oldest mines in
the neighborhood but the particular section
of the workings in which the explosion
took place, and to when IL was confined,
five years. The down cast shaft is twelve feet
in diameter, and three hundred yards deep.
At the pit bottom there are workings extending
in three or four directions through the seam of
coal, which is a level one, and about four and
men and boys are employed In the mine. or
these, fifty-nine were in the working on the
explosion would seem not to have been a very
violent one. 1t was, however sufficient to cause
the reversal of the air current. but the proper
ventilation was soon restored by means of
water being pumped into the downcast
shaft by engine power. None of the machinery
OF the shaft was injured, and therefore. as soon
as the ventilation was restored, those who were
on the pit bank were enabled TO descend and
ascertain the extent of the calamity. In the
course of seven or eight hours they brought out
ifty-four dead bodies. Two men were rescued
alive nearly four hours after the explosion;



to his home died there shortly afterwards,
and two bodies are reported to be in the sump.
An underlooker named Ellis was close to the
upcast shaft, near the furnace, at the time of
the explosion, and he 1t was who first went to
the surface. The manager, Mr.; Thomas South
with an active band of volunteers, at once
commenced the painful task Of ascertaining
the extent of the disaster. The first who were
found to have suffered were some persons at
work near the upcast shaft; they were burned
owing to the flames from the furnace having
been driven along the workings. The labors of
the explorers were both tedious and arduous,
for the ex plosion had so completely destroyed
the ventilation that 1t was necessary to pro-
ceed with great caution, and OF course every
delay only increased the fears of the safety of
those walled In by the deadly choke damp. A
few succeeded in penetrating the suffocating
vapor, and escaped with their lives and one
who was apparently dead was brought back to
lie by the employment of artificial respiration
for nearly ten minutes. AS the explorers pro-
tiemen from the adjacent coliieries' wilIinse to
render all the assistance in their power. Mr..
George Gilroy, of The Ince Hall Coal and Iron
Company, was among the number, and shortly
after noon the Government inspector, Mr.. Hig-
son, reached the pit, and at once descended TO
take part in the search. 1t was six hours after
the explosion when the last body was found and
the extremity of the workings was reached.
places, and were found in the main pony road
along which evidently they ad been trying to
escape. The condition OF the corpses varied
killed had clean faces, and the features were
placid as If the healthy looking lads were





wounded; others were much burned, and in
one instance the flesh had been burned to the
bone off q mans fingers. Many of the killed are
relatives. In the workshop last night lay the
corpses of two brothers named Tyldesley. Tney
We're twoof four sons OF widow who only lost
sons were In the pit at the time OF the explo-
sion; one escaped without injury, but the other
had TO be taken home. One man had his hat
blown off his head and his lamp extinguished
by the explosion, but escaped unipjured. The
dead number sixty, and it is expected that the
list will be Increased by other cases, several of
the injured men and boys being In great dan
GER. A boy named Richard Highton. aged
twelve years. son of the fireman who was killed
in the explosion, died the next afternoon. His
mother has nine other children remaining.
their husbands and between fifty and sixty
children of their fathers.


The New Parliament.


The London Times of November 2S suggests
that one principal cause of the general mo-
notony in the character of the members
Gently returned has been the perfect definiteness
of the object which the country had present to
its mind in electing them 1t had no desire to
choose represent tatlves who should regenerate
society; IL wished simply TO take men to whose
sense of honor it could trust to keep faithful to
their pledge OF redressing our special national
profited by reform, and 1t returned many con-
spicuous politicians, both In gratitude for past
and in the hope OF future services The
pride in a measure which they regarded as
their own work, and retained by the offer of
in ' the new % House Tory borough proprietors
themselves gave to the Legislature some illus
trious contributions of this class, though with
a different object But neither the middle
class nor the patrons of bOroughs have gained
anything by last years reform to make them
anxious TO quicken The movement The work
ing class has reduced its political influence to
nullity by the vain ambition to be a power In
the State itself. II squandered it's sympathies
on candidates whom no other class, and not
even their own with any unanimity, would
support, while Its more educated champions
were left to fight close boroughs. The same
agencies which nave made a crotchet
Infinitely more fatal to candidates chances
than any want of brillancy explain the
usually marked preference shown for local
candidates. The country had no ear for the
flattering tale OF new liberal trophies to be won
which a gallant company from oxford and
Cambridge was eager to unfold. IL felt It's need
of one definite end, and was inclined to con-
nde its case to persons who knew II would not,
or could not, exceed It's instructions. The
Times regrets the excessive manifestation of q
rather provincial sentiment IL is a fault OF
the whole that local respectabllity will be re-
presented in the new Parliament at some cost
of a deprivation OF talents which might have
benefited the nation at large


The Prince of Wales Journey Postponed
From tho International of London and Paris.
The intended journey of the Prince OF Wales
owing to the political events that are passing
In England at the present moment on leaving
Paris the Prince was to proceed to Marseilles
and embark thence for Egypt; but the Queen
time at the Court of Denmark, SO that he will
be nearer London should her Majesty decide
upon adopting any serious resolution.
SPAIN.


Its Present Condition.


From he London Globe, NOv. 80.


The policy OF procrastination which still finds