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      Thi Ibs 1r1ate3t Sale Of Ast Lleduhnb!* "Jj The Globe .

      THi IBS _1 R 1 ATE 3 T SALE Of AST llEDUHNB _!* "JJ THE GLOBE .

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      . aicvMCVk . _.. Pa . _Patisatui adjingstate , Cured of a Disorder in the Chest & _i & _tract of a Letter from Mr Robert _CakerU _Oemtit , _SUtiesly , dated January 23 t * i _ lSU . To rrofessor Holloway . S _ _i Su , —Ur Thompson , _National Schoolmaster of this ! * _« wf _« wn _, dtsires me to send you the particulars respecting 11 sun sua of his , who had been seriously ill for three years 1 nd aid a half , and who has derived thegreatest benefits from ihe ihe use of yonr medicines , after trying all ordinary re-1 _omoniocs without effect . The _tooyjis eight years fage , of _llraakumoMorscrofhloas constitution . He se _^ ms to We 1 iad tad a _rdeorUv . which ended in a large collection of matter

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      IETHE Earl of Aldborough cured of a Liver and Stomaeh Complaint . _Efsferactof a letter from tho Earl of Aldbor' _-ugli , dated YUla _XaSlina , Leghorn , 2 lst February , 1845 : — . . Tn _Professer Holloway . S Sis , —Various circumstances prevented the _po-sibi'ity Sf sf Hiy thanking you before tbis time for your politeness tain senate ? me your pills as yon did . I now take this _ajajajappiiitunity of _scndiug youau order forthe amount , and , tttat the same time , to add that your pills hare effected a _atiatmTe of a disorder in my liver and stomach , which all the ¦ most eminent of the faculty at _h-me , and all over the ocoomia eni , had not been able to effect ; nay ! not even the wwatvrs of Carlsbad sad _ilarieubad . I wish to have anotfther box and a pat ofthe ointment , in case any « f my te family shonJd ever require either . Yonr most obliged and obedient servant ,

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      ON THE CONCEALED CAUSE OF COSSTITUTIOKAL 8 _R ACIjmRrlD SB 1 LITIBS OF THE _GESERATITB _srsTBir .

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      _oe-rr spate of time , wkhemt _eonnneaieat to the I _«<__ tex * a W * MW . ... i _Thea 1 we m « U « hie _« _are red 01 % by _Uetsrs . R t * i L . ISST aa * C * ., 8 _* augex _> TU _, U , BenMMta- « _tt , _ajxfere _^ _trest , l _^ _adoa . M _* _m * . PaiUtY _*^ , » he nc *** _dteAbi 1 ttUr , kUtmV < fee * fOMPc _^ , * _iltet * _hichntiu ) lUiwlmmer ** M e « i _< _rJte «/ t _^« _e < _M « maaTa 4 ic « . . _patses * _areretjuesseel to be as minute 88 _pttsibllin he _afeteU « rf _Ac * * cases * as to thedurataiOOOf *• _OOtnlalnt , toe _symptem * _. age , habits of living , and general eeupetloo . Medicines ean be forwarded to any part ef _ _t _« waseid , - ne dlflcalty caa ocear _. ai they will be securely _aekei . aad _oau-efuUy protected from _obserraHea .

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      GOUT ! _( xOUTI ! GOUT !! . ' Sfte Jfew fi f _«<^« -Patented Uedidnefer Gout , Patronised by «« FexuUy , _SoWHx } , aad « e » tr _* , in .

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      P _M'DOUGALL'S DROPS FOR GOUT . Rbeumat tism , Sciatica , Tic Doloreux , Lumbago , and all painful Affections of tbe Joints . The unparalleled local reputation attained by these drops , during the time they have been before the pul . Uc { now upwards of _adglat _jaaars ) , has induced the proprietor earnestly to recommend them to the attention of those persons who ave lahonrinj ; nnder the painful effects of the abore-mentioned distressing complaints . Authorit */ has been piven by upwards of 300 persons , residing within a mile of tbe proprietors residence _, to use their names as vouchers ofthe extraordinary effects and wonderful efficacy of these drops , which effectually relieve , in the course of a few hours , the most extreme cases . About 20 , 000 bottles have been sold , without a _sinjle instance of failure having oceurrci

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      SriSAI . APPECTWXS . THE DISCOVERER OF THIS _INVALUAUL 1 SPECIFIC has , after great study and iong practice , proved by facts that this is the only efficient remedy for all Spinal Diseases ever yet _discovcrei The followim _.-are a few testimonials out of the many hundreds whicb might be _adduced : — I , John B < _- _-rber , of Adlington , had lost tlie use of my limbs for the space of eighteen months . By the use often pots I was enabled to walk well , and by persevering in the use often more I was perfectly cured , and am now able tn fallow my _employment . —Signed , John Barber , _Adlin _^ tOU , ' near _MaaTclesJfield , Cheshire , _St-ptemba-r 10 th , 1816 . TO MB HAIGU . _ Dear Sir ,-I cannot refrain expressing my gratitude for tlie _perfect cure I have neeived by the use of your ointment . I was afflicted for eighteen months , ami had lost the use of my Umbs . By using ten pots of your inrahiiue intmeiat I was _perfectly restored , and am n « w in tbe full enj . _'jinent of goed health . - Richard Jcnkin > on , Sew Mill , near Huddersfield , Yorkshire , Janu _ary 2 Gth , 18 * 7 .

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      . . THE POPULAR MEDICINE . The following important testimony to the efficacy of PARK'S LIFEPII . LS hasjustbceavtcttWedby the _rrn ' _-rietnra . TO MESSRS T . ROBERTS AXD CO ., LONDON . Athlone , December 7 tli , _lSifi . Sirs , —Yon will please to send me six dozen more Parr's Life Pills ; I am just out . I can assure you tliey are doing an immensity of good ; every one who has tried tinm in affections of tlie Liver and --tomacu derive a - _ rcat deal of benefit . l ' _a . urs , ate , WULIAM GlLCnRIST , Apothecary and Surgeon .

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      The extraordinary properties of this medicine arc thus _aiesirihtd by an eminci > t physician , who says , " After particular observation of the action of Purr ' s Pills I am determined iu my opinion , that the following are their true _properties : — *• F . rstiy , —Tlaeyiiicrcasefhc strength , whilst most other medicines have a weakening effect upon the _svst-m . Let any one take from three to four or six pills every twentyfour hours , and , instead of having weakened , they will be fonnd lo have revived the animal spirits , and to have imparled a _lafctiaig strength ta > the bo < y < " Secondly . —In their operation tliey go direct tothe disease . After you _h-ive taken six or twelve pills von will experience their effect ; the disease upon you will become tess and less by every dnse you take , aud if you will persevere in regularly taking from three to six pills every day , _yeur disease will be entirely removed from the svstem .

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      THE LATE AWFUL COAL-PIT EXPLOSION . _Wegare in our last number what turns out te have been a very incorrect acoount of the dreadful coal-pit explosion near Wigan . By oversight it waa not mentioned that that report waa taken from the Manchester Guardian , a paper not too scrupulous as regards the truth when pursuing its natural avocation of sheltering the _master-olasg from blame and punishment . We take the following account of tbis _frighftul catastrophe from the Manchester Times of Friday , July 2 nd . The Manchester Timet commences its report by saying : — So far as the circumstances have been elicited they are calculated to excite astonishment aa well as horror , at tbe circumstance tbat any human beings should bave been allowed to proceed with tbeir work hourly exposed to such an awful catastrophe as that which has uow 6 vcrreken them . il

      The facts of the case are these . At the colliery In question , called Kirkless Hall Colliery , there are two shafts opening into a considerable vein of coal nt about 280 yards depth , called pits No . 1 and Ne . 2 , and situated at a distance of only about 30 or 10 yards from each other . The stoking of the shafts , as ire understand , wai completed only about nine months or a year ago , and the workings are consequently all of tbem very recent ones . In pit No , 1 , where tbe accident has occurred , the workings are divided into two main sections i _> y a drift wa ; or road of considerable width , right and left from the bottom of the shaft , and extending to the ajutince of 800 or 900 yards . In these workings * at various points , a large number of men were engaged on Tuesday , when a collier named Hurst , employed in

      getting coal at the farthest working in the right-hand section ( which does not extend near so far as the left-band section , and wbo was not above two hundred andfifty yards from the shaft ) , set fire to the mine under the following circumstances . It appears tbat tbe colliers in this pit are allowed—or at least It they are _^ uot * " allowed , " properly speaking , by the masters , the practice has been winked at by the overlookers and _underlookers— -to fire shots , or "blast the coal , " in the manner adopted In stone quarries , and by the sinkers of coal-pits when ths */ come in contact with rocks . The _processes one of _UBing gunpowder and exploding It , whereby large-fragments of rock or coal can be detacbod from the . seam , and brought down wholesale , saving an immense amount of labour and time to the workmen , who would

      otherwise hav 6 to hew it down !< y means of " picks ; " bat ir coal-mines , bo liable to accumulations of explosive gases , it will strike the mind of the most uninformed person in such matters that it is a dangerous practice . And what renders the practice more extraordinary , as brought tc light through the present accident is , that in this mine , though a large number of persons were scattered about at great distances from each other , bat in places connected by means of opea passages , where all were ex . _VGsed to more or less common danger , these " shots" or "blasts" were fired wittout any Intimation king con-Keyed from party to _party _, so that the ; might be prepared in case of explosion to escape . On the contrary , it was no uncommon thing for the miners , after setting fire to the gas accumulated in their localities by resorting to

      this system ef " _blsaUiag , " to straggle with it , and attempt to master it , by smothering it up , or walling it in , without even then communicating any alarm to their fellow-workmen . Hitherto they had hy sueh means succeeded in preventing the spread of these fires to such an extent as to cause what is called an explosion , though they must frequently have run the risk of such a catastrophe . The fire in these workings on Tuesday morning bad its commencement exactly in this manner ; and Hunt and _bAr _* . companions had set fire io some-gas accumulated behind tbe coal they had dislodged , aud the ; attempted to , extinguish it themselves , as it is supposed ; tben they went fur assistance to somo ot the other hands , and as a last resource * o cut it ofi from the other part el the mine an attempt was made to build walls up across tbe workings or roads , so as to choke it up ; but while these attempts were making , the fire got into communl

      cation with a more p werful bod } ' of foul air , and a fearful explosion succeeded . How many were killed by this explosion it is not yet known , but the danger of those who _ha-pened to be in the direction it took may be ima gined , when it is stated that their position would bo something like that of parties placed in the barrel of a cannon during an explosion of gunpowder in it . The result war , that some of the colliers had to wall up a portion of tbe workings , _fcauin _. _; tit tlem six of their fellow workmen thus imprisoned—whether dead or alive is not known , though it was tben thought there could be no possibility of their bi * ing alive—and to make their own escape , as they best eould ! These men , upwards of twenty in number , more ov _lm burnt , escaped to the top of the shaft , or pit , carrying with them the lifeless body of one of tlieir companions ( that of John Cartwright ) , and John Beiry , who was so badly burnt that he died the following day , —the remaining six are still shut up in the mine !

      Tbe following wiU be found to be a more complete list ofthe killed and wounded than previously given , and will serve to correct some inaccuracies : — LlSr OF _PSBSONS STILL IN TBI" MlIM *—3 OPPOSED TO be Dead . —Joshua Penman , John Harding , Robert Salt-House , or Southern , James Hurst ( the man wbo fired the _niinej , William Daintry , a boy , and James Harding . List of Miners Bpbnt , add wno ha vis Died . —John _Cartavright _, brought ont of the pit dead ; Jahn Berry , _t-ged 32 . brought out of the pit alive , but who died on the fallowing day ; John _Rhodes , died on Thursday , leaving a widow and five children . Lt . t ov Persons hore oa less Buhnt — some vebx _SEVZHEtr—BDT WHO ABE _TBT _AlIVE , —Jofltl _HolcrOft John Bolton , James _Saylcr , a boy , Robert Wilkinson Joseph Wilkinson , George Evans , Samuel _Erans , a boy Henry Horsham , John Biely , Ely Monks , William Jackson , Richard Curry , James _Belsbaw , John Mills , Tbos . _Li-rison , Samuel Simpkins , John Webster , and Whittle ,

      TBE INQUEST . An inquest was held on Thursday on the body of John Berry , who resided at New Springs , _Aspul Moor . The inquisition was taken by Sir Vf . S . Butter , county enroner , at tbe Banning Horses public-bouse . Mr Roberts , solicitor , and comtuonlj known by the title of "the olliers ' attorney-general , " appeared at the inquest as the _representative , we presume , of the colliers' union . The following evidence was given : — Edward Hayes , of Scholes , Wigan ( a colliery boy ) , said he was e » ployed in the pit , whieh was near to Springbridge , township of Ince , It was Messrs Lancaster's pit . The explosion took place about ten minutes to one o ' clock on Tuesday , just as I had come up out of tbe pit , and reached the brow . I came up because thu pit

      was then on fire at the far end of the _workinars , and I saw there would be danger . I worked at the sccotidcye , not at the far end , bat I had beon ( o tako them two waggon loads of stuff to put out the fire . Could not say how long the fire had been burning at the time . I had hoen going about a good deal , and whilst doing so the time would knock on . A _ytung man ( Hurst ) had been to the pit eye ( where I was . haviug taken a tub of coal ) , and said he had fired his shot , and the coal had taken fire , and he could not get the fire out . t cannot way whnt o'dock it wafl , whether twelve o ' clock or earlier . I had two masters , that I drew for , one was Jno . _Hording , und

      the other bis cousin . They had been driven to that phace by the fire . I have seen nono ofthe men since who were with bim . Wben we had been told of the flrv Harding and I came to * the pit eye , he with a full tub and I with an empty one . " Well , "he said palling off his jacket , " we must go and help them to get the fire out , " and when we had gotten to the second landing , where I had met with Harding , we _fouudGeorge Evans , the uaderiooker , who said he wanted two tubs full of bricks as soon as he could get tbem , ami we got them for himthe bricks being found between the first and second land _, ing . We then _t-. 'ok the bricks to the other landing , further on ( the third ) .

      The Coroner ( to Mr John Lancaster ) : What do you call a landing !—Mr Lincaster : A turn table , where the workings meet at right angles , to turn carriages round upoai , » o as to move them in another direction _. Witness : "Whin we got to the third landing we opened the door , and took one tub into the part of the workings where the fire was ; the fire was at about thirty yards' distance , and we emptied tbe tubs , and thenbeing another tub emptied by another man , George , the _utiderloi'ker , said he wanted them out of the way to make _morerocm for tktt current of air ; so I pulled one out of tbe pit . He said , " What ' s the uie of going out t " and that he would not go till the fire was out . 1 wax afraid to remain , and that made me wish to go . seeing toe fire so big . I then went oat , and had been ill the cabin at tbe top of the pat about twenty minutes when tha _a _.-xploeum took place . There are now _stvetal V 8 i 6 on * in tbe mine , for anything I know : \ have never _hearii anything of tbem since . The Coroner : Where is Hurst t

      Mr Lancaster : Ue is tbe man who set fire to the place , and is supposed to bo still in tbe mine . The Coroner : Bat George _. _—where is he 1—He _ibadly burnt . Mr Roberts : What , ware you afraid !—I was afraid ol the sulphur . —Was tlitro much sulphur _lu the pit at th , time ! -Not that I know of . _^ -Did you work with _safetlamps !—Yes . —Why work with safety lamps if then was no sulphur!—Because we thought haply there might bo some . I never knew of any sulphur takta , ; fire in that pit before : cannot say whether there has or has nut been an explosion there before . The Coroner asked if the man who fired the shot was ih attendance ! Mr Lancaster explained , that be bad nevor been found since , having been left in the mine .

      _Peta-r Britton called : I am a _hooker-On at the furnaee-plaee «> f No . 2 pit , and wne there at the time of the a _xplosion . The fire was not above 200 or S 00 yards ft om there . I heard of the coal taking fire about half-pnst eleven o ' clock in the morning . The man who had fired the shot came th * re and said , " Wbero _' _s the fireman ?" I said , " I don ' t know—what ' s ami 9 S ! " He said " M . i place is on fire . " I went up with him quick , and found all the place on fire , but the coal was not on fire . I then » ent for the fireman , Geo . Evans , and he came and brought a number of othor men . I went with them ,

      aud we began , to build and slop up the place with bricks , that we might smother It out . I went down to get them a few more bricks , and in backing tbem up , George said . " We shall want some good clay to fasten up crevices . " We had some at the shaft , which onl y wanted softening , nnd I went for it . It was between the two pits ( 220 yards' distance from tho fire ) , and the explosion took place while I was there . [ The pits ate 30 or 40 yards asunder . ] I had been where the clay wns lyin _* _- about two minutes , when the explosion took place , i don t know where it fixed . _\ knew the ( .. c . _fljed John

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      i Berry , aid he was helping ma to build np the stopping 1 havo mentioned . There were about three men , I think , thera with the deceased . One was Samuel Evans ( brother to the underlooker ) , and Robert Southern , who is not found yet . I waa not awara of any sulphur being in the mine : I bad seen no signs of nny . By Mr Roberta : I do not know the time , but I staid to help them get all the hands ou * . When I say tbat the coal was not on fire , I suppose It to hare been tbe sulphnr that was burning . The m » n have never complained , that I know of , in consequence of the foul state of the air . They left the pit one day , as soon as we had opened it nearly , In consequence foul air . Tho pit has been open nine months . There was only four men left working then . I cannot tell the distance between the _up-cast and the _down-cast shafts . ThoCoroner : It Is said between 80 and 40 yards .

      By Mr Roberts : Have any attempts been made to get the other men ont since ! No , and I don ' t know who would venture to make it . —Hare not several men asked leave , and been refused 1 Not that I know of . The Coroner : How * did you get ont deceased ! Why we saw him just as we were leaving , and he was nearly exhausted . We carried him sixty yards about , through tbe Bulphur . He was a little en this side the place we hadwalledup . ... By Mr . Roberts : I have never told any one I could have got more colliers out if I had had proper tackle _. Southern was near to Berry when I left bim , and I asked him to go with me , but he would not . I do not know whether be may be alive . I do not know whether any of the others in tbe pit may be alive ! ThoCoroner : Could they not haye walked out , if alive _, like the others ! Mr Rob erts : They are bricked up I Witness : They are bricked up .

      MrRobertB : They are bricked up—they are murdered ! Mr John Lancaster : The fact is I was there till we wero nearly all choked , and I knew no one could live were those men were , and so we bricked up the place for the safety of tbe others : Mr Roberts : You ought to have them ont by now , either dead or alive , I hope to God that an officer from government will be aownh « e by to-morrow , to Investigate the matter . ¦ These mon might , or may be alive , and are cut off from all escape ! Ho you not know that yon are liable to indictment for what you bare done ? [ Mr Lancaster here pointed out atthe request of the coroner , ou a plan ef the mine which he had brought , the position of the passages in the mine whioh had been blocked an . ]

      George Gough was next called . Ha said : I was in the mine oi Tuesday , wben this happened , at my place nf work , wMch ia about MO yards from the bottom of the shaft , I was putting my clothes on there , when the explosion occurred . Tho first notice I had of It was a little stoppage , or sucking of the air , and the next thing l felt was a gust « f wind coming , with cobbles of coals and dirt agaiost my head , I then made the best of my way to the pit shaft , and came ont , 1 did not know where the mine had exploded , but I did know it had " fired " some time before , and in consequence of the smoke caused by that fire I had left off work three quarters of an hour before . I had not seen the fire , ami there was none where I worked . I worked with a safety lamp . By Mr Roberts : Why did you work with a lamp t Lamps had been regularly nsed tbere , and it was given to me when I went to the mine .

      By the Coroner : I did not search for any of the men . I was too ill and exhausted with walking through tbe Bmoke to do so . By Mr Roberts : Is tbe place on fire new ! I cannot say . —Have you ever known of any fires in thatpit before ! Yes , there hns been several little flashes up , when firing shots . —Sometimes , I suppose , there is no explosion wben these "flashes up , " as yoa call them , occurt No . —And at other times they catch the sulphur , and tben tbere is ! Yes . Tbe Coroner ; What is the necessity for firing these shots 1 Mr Lancaster : It is an easier way for the men of getting tbe coat . Mr Roberts ; It is easier for the men and easier for the masters also—no doubt of it , sir _. The Coroner : But it is not common to do it in coal mines !

      Mr Lancaster * It is common to do it here ; but it is not desirable , because it shatters the coal and renders it less marketable . Mr Roberts ( to tbe witness ) : Do you think tbe cage going down the up-cast shaft would render the ventilation loss perfect , and mako such an accident more likely to occur ! It would interrupt the passage of air to some ox _" ent , perhaps . —Do you know if any colliers have * . sked leave to go down this pit since it was closed up t » recover these poor men who are buried in it , and have been refused ! Hot that I know of . The Coroner : Durst you go down ! I should not like . Mr Roberts t Wby , what danger is there with yonr safety lamps ? Tbe lamps , I think , are not always safe when there is a fire . —Bo you think there is a sufficient current of air through the workings to prevent explosions , with care ! I think there has been aforetime but not in such weather as this . :

      William Whittle , sworn : I worked in this mine till Tuesday last , in the first drift of tho second level . Recollect the explosion . Nearly an hour before It teok place the firemen came for our spades that they mieht use them in putting out the fire . He said there was a place fired , but he did not say the coal was on fire , It did not alarm me , and I kept at work ttll I felt the wind . I did not hear it . [ Mr Lancaster explained that the witness was working further up the workings than whore the fire took place , but in another section . ] I and my fellow-workmen then went out . We found no difficulty nly from the after-domp , or choke-damp , to avoid which we laid down awhile . We had used gunpowder in our part of tbe mine last week . I cannot say what others did .

      By Mr Roberts ; I do not know that we ever played more than part of one Saturday in consequence ol sulphur . I have heard the men say the cage being let down tbe up-cast shaft would be a little injury to the draft . I do not know that twenty men have offered to CO down the shaft sinee tbe accident , and help those out vrho are in . Ishould not like to venture down . Mr Lancaster : I can assure you , Mr Roberts , we have not had one application , Mr Roberts : You may not have heard of it , but I can assure you tbat at least a dozen colliers have made the application , I could havo them down to-night , if you will allow it . Mr _Irfincastcr : Well , we should be very glad of any assistance to help our own men _. The _Coroue . r asked if any witness could b _^ e had to Bpcak to the explosion . Mr Lancaster said he thought not . The Coroner : Are you prepared to be examined !

      'Mr Lancaster said he was willing to give evidence , _l-ut would rather postpone it till he had had an opportunity of going- into the pit again , when he could discover the place where the firing took place , anal probably given more correct account of its cause . George Evans , ho understood , who was getting better , would also ou a future day bo able , probably , to give _evidence , and teU the exact cause of the accident . Mr Roberts thought it would be best then to adjourn . The Coroner thought bo too . Subsequently , at the requcstof Mr Lancaster , another collier , who was working in another part of the mine when the accident occurred , was briefly examined , the object of tbe examination being to show , as he observed , tbatthe fire was only local , and confined to one part of the mine ; and his evidence tended to prove that it was so .

      The inquest was then adjourned till Thur _.-aday , July 8 th . _ __ Here ends the report from the Manchester Times . Should tbe report ofthe adjourned inquest reach us in lime to appear in our second edition of this day ' s _Stau . it shall be given ; if not , we shall continue this frightful narrative in our next . We subjoin a copy of an important PETITION PROM THE COLLIERS AT WIGAN , LANCASHIRE , RESPECTING THE EXPLOSION AT KIRKLESS HALL COLLIERY . To the Honourabh tbe Houso of Commons of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled , Tbe Humble Petition of tho _underslgneal Colliers , working in tbe collieries , near Wigan , in Lancashire , and other places in the ndghboorhood of tbe _Kirkless Hall Colliery , ( Signed , July 3 rd , 1817 ) Humbly _Sheweth . —

      That your petitioners havo heard with sorrow and dismay that your Honourable House bas postponed till the next Session ef Parliament the appointment of insp _. ctors for the preventing ; deaths and accidents in collieries . . Your petitioners respectfully cravo leave to tell jour Honourable House , that as the _coUittles axe now managed , it is almost a certainty tbat many lives may be sacrificed before the nest Session of Parliament which might be saved if your Honourable Home would interfere in behalf of jour petitioners . Your petitioners iuform your Honourable Houso , that the _cauBeof the lato explosion at Kirkless Hall Colliery was , that the colliers , with tho knowledge of the master and tho underlookor , were ih the habit of using gunpowder for gettitig the coal , although it was known that the pit continually made sulphur , and tbe men were therefore obliged to use lamps instead of candles . On

      tho blast being fired , it set firo to tbe sulphur , and then the coals were set on lire , and a quantity of gas that hud been accumulated In another part of the pit , was blown upon the fire , and there was an explosion _. And further , your petitioners inform your Honourable House , tbat the Kirkless Hall Colliery was not properl y ventilated , and thut if it hud been the sulphur would have beeu cavried awny _bb fast ns it was made ; and that there was but ono downcast shaft and one upcast , and that the air from the downcast was divided into six

      parts , to ventilate different parts of tlio mine , instead of ill guiug together , as it ought to do , through the whole of the workings , and that therefore the part where the explosion was had but _one-sixth part or thereabout of the air from the shaft , which was only about ha feat in diameter ; and , moreover that a cage was continually travelhng up and down the upcast shaft , thereby H back he foul air into the works ; and for the Ch of this statement your petitioners humbly refer your Hon z : t o r to theeviaenob tukCtt _•**> £ ' fore the county coroner , on Thursday lest

      . Your petitioners are well aware that it will be said by tiie masters , nnd thoso who wish to prevent inquiry , that the colliers need not use gunpowdor , and that it is theit own fault if tb . _ j , <_„ j , n _4 _^ x tbe ; hare been told not

      The Late Awful Coal-Pit Explosion. Wegar...

      tou » it , a _* _4 dtbat their masters cannot _jjwjrt _* heir using it ; butthen , unfortunately for your _J _»««™ "' it _isthat coal _isgotten morecheap ly by _™*«* f _£ * f _ ' and ( dlparMes , men , maste » , « nd nnderlookers , h _« vean _interwt in getting as much coal as they em * ta * -J ™ _ifone master were _tc-tnforw the prohibition organ powder , he wonld be at a disadvantage with other _^ aiten , wbo did not e » force the prohibition ; and the same argument holds good with the men . And , therefore , It is that , whatever is said against using gunpowder , it _isstUl continued to be used , aad with the knowledge of their matters and their agents .

      lour petitioners inform your Hononrablt nouse that at tbe inquest on Thursday , on six or seven of the bodies , the master ofthe pit , Mr Lancaster , said , tbat he _couli do no more than he had done to prevent the using of gunpowder , for that the men would use it , and he could not hinder them ; fer tbat , if he did hinder them , they would » U give over working . And your petitioners , therefore , fear that , thoug _* n gunpowder n » y not be _nsea for a time , yet it will bo resume- " agaia before very long . And , moreover that in other pits in the neighbourhood , where there Is sulphur , gunpowder is _censtantly used .

      And with regard to what was said in your Honourable House about the power of the magistrates to interfere , your petitioners inform your Honourable House that whether they have porter or not , it will he of very little use to your petitioners ; for that in a cal * of wages on Friday last ( yesterday ) at Wigan , it transpired that gunpowder was in use in the pit , ond that there was sulphur tbere , and ' when the attention of the magistrates was directed . to this , they said that they could do nothing , and that the men had been repeatedly cautioned . Your petitioners pledge themselves to your Honourable House that if tbey are allowed the opportunity , they will prove ( and they undertake to pay all the expenses by a subscription among themselves ) , that all the recent deaths and accidents would have been prevented , if there had been inspectors to make general rules for _thegevernment of colUeries . The explosion at Barnsley , in Yorklives

      ihlre , in March last , by which more than seventy were lost , was in consequence of tbe men working with candles , instead of lamps , close to old workings which were well known to be full of sulphur ; and your Honourable _Hcais * viUl * _w that this was so , by referring to the report on the accident and inquest , published by tbe desire of your Honourable House . At Saint Helen ' s , in the neighbourhood of _yuur petitioners , tbere was an explosion and several deaths , from the men breaking , in the course of their work , iato old workings , from whence tbere was a rush of sulphur to a candle , which caused an explosion . And since the last explosion at Kirkless Hall Colliery , there have been three other explosions close by , and two colliers are now lying like to die from tbem . Your Honourable House bas no knowledge how constant these explosions are , for the newspapers do not speak of them , unless there are a great many colliers killed at

      once , Yourpetltioners submit most respectfully that , to say that some of tbem are ' careless , is no answer to the case of this , their petition ; for it is not only the careless who _Buoer , but all who happen to be in the pit at the time . Labouring men , not bronght up as colliers , are frequently employed , and young boys ; and , besides , some mett are naturally reckless . But all in the pit are alike subject tothe danger , although only one may have been guilty of neglect or _Ignoronce . Yourpetltioners humbly implore your Honourable House to grant them some protection . It has been said that your petitioners do not care about these things—but the truth is not so . And this petition , signed in less than an hour , is a proof that , they feel tho necessity for appealing to your Honourable House .

      Your petitioners take leave to remind your Honour _, able House that the explosion at _Haswell's colliery on the 28 th of September , 1844 , by which nearly 100 colliers were killed , was brought under yonr notice at the time , and commissioners appointed , and a report made ; and that then it was said that the government had " taken the matter into tbeir serious consideration , aad that some general measure would be pasBed ; and since then in reply to letters , and whenever s large number of colliers have been killed during the sitting of parliament , the same promise has _bten repeated . But still nothing has been done ; the old plans have been continued , and many scores of lives have been Io 3 t . Your petitioners humbly submit that the usual observation , that no harm will occur from a delay ol a few weeks , does not apply to their case , for almost every day some accident is occurring .

      Your petitioners are anxious not to appear intrusive t » your Honourable House , and they admit witb sorrow that the time of the present session may be too short to allow of tbe passing of any large measure of protection . But still they venture to implore your Honourable House not to separate without passing some short act to last for a limited time ; or , until a more complete law could be passed , rendering it highly penal to suffer the use of candles or gunpowder in collieries , where it was known or suspected that there Ib sulphur . Your petitioners humbly submit that there could he no fair objection to a law , that the Secretary of State might require the owners of collieries to send him an

      account of the state of such collieries with regard to sulphur , and the mode iu which they were worked , and therefore to direct the same to be inspected and reported upon , and afterwards to give orders for the alteration of any mode of working or circumstances that appeared to eudanger life . And your petitioners , with even mure confidence , submit that there could not be any fair objection to a law doing awoy with the use of candles or gunpow . der where there was sulphur either known or suspected ; and inflicting high penalties , and making it an infamous crime in tbe owners and agents where such use wos allowed , and an infamous crime also in the men who used candles or gunpowder at any time when warned not to do so ,

      Your petitioners have no desire to screen the working colliers from punishment , but they venture to submit that the guilt of permitting the oontinuanee of any practice dangerous to life is much greater iu thu masters than in the men . Yaur petitioners firmly believe that such a law , however imperfect as a government measure , would save more than 100 lives in six months . Had such a law been in _existence ' _sixjmontbs _ajjo , at least 150 lives would have been saved . Such a law would not take long to prepare and pass , and it would claim and obtain the lasting gratitude of your petitioners . And your petitioners , as in duty bound , will ever pray . July 3 rd 1817 .

      ANOTHER COALPIT EXPLOSION . On Thursday , July 1 st , an explosion took _rjlace in a pit belonging to A . T . IJaliburton , Esq ., adjoining the North Union Railway , in Wigan , known M the No , 2 pit . At the time of the explosion taking place , ( our raeu were in the pit , engaged in sinking lower down to a bed of coal called the Arley Mine . It appears the men , on account of the quantity oi damp in the pit , carried on their works without the use of lights , * and , in blasting , came to the top of the shaft and fired the train , by a process called " ringing it , " each explosion of which , caused the damp also to be fired . A shot was laid on Tuesday

      last ; and it would seem , from some part of tho train being imperfect , the main body of powder was not ignited , the damp alone being fired with part of the train . _^ The men , on Thursday morning , were at work with the boring-rods again , aud , at the explosion , it is supposed they were boring through the powder laid on Tuesday , from the friction of which the powder was fired , and the explosion produced . Itis also supposed , in the blowing up of the ' rocks , the damp would also be fired . Two men , named Winatanley and Morgan , were taken out very seriously injured , with , it is feared , very little hopes ot their recovery ; but the other two , who were at the time behind a tub of water , escaped apparently unhurt .

      Dugkiding Exposuke Of 1'N'Soners Before ...

      _DuGKiDING EXPOSUKE OF 1 ' _n'SONERS BEFORE TftrAI . —We cannot refrain trom an expression of our feelings which were indignantly excited on Tuesday morning last , by the utter want of all moral feeling and _suoil comon decency as all ranks of society , in the improved age in whioh we live , most properly indulge in and cherish . As Englishmen , we blushed for our country , to see , in the streets of Winchester , tux countrymen of exceedingly decent appearance , hand-cuffed and heavily chained tosether , and surrounded by policemen _enough to eat them , if they had been _fricaseetl in the last New Zealand fashion . We concluded , of course , they were all murderers , ° l _lijghwaynien , or burglars , and on their way to the hulks , after ctmviotion ; instead of which , we

      found they had not even been tried , but were on their way for snch ordeal from the gaol to the County Hall , and their offences , wiring a hare , destroying partridges' eggs , neglecting to provide for an illegitimate child , and rebellion in a workhouse , or such other minor offences as the magnates of the hind ( county magistrates ) adjudicate upon . We denounce this improper and _disgraceful exposure of men , who may in a few minutes after be found to _beinnocont , and insist that the Visiting Justices ought to have had them conveyed in a covered vehicle . The George Inn would hare found a buss gladly at sixpence per head ; and the county-rate is not yet so ruined but tbat it might havo borne the expense . — Hampshire Telegraph , Win-moo—A drive of about two hours on tho highroad to Namur and Liege will bring the excursionist to thia field of slaughter . The distance is ten

      miles . A carriage with two horses , to go and return will cost about 20 fr . A vigilante ( cab ) may be hired tor about one-half , there and back . About two miles trom Brussels the road passes through tho forest of Soigmes _, a gloomy track of woodland , nine miles long and seven and a half broad . On the outskirts ot tho lorest is the little village of Waterloo , whence the principal portions of tho plain will bo found about two mileo distant . May no citizen of the world " set toot on this sadly memorable plain without solemnly reflecting that " seventy thousand men were - slaughtered on the field of Waterloo ! " And may no one return from it without a firm resolve to do _souiethitig towards the prevention of war , and the promotion of that feeling which reco » _niseB the perfect brotherhood of the great family of nations !—Brackland ' s Continenthtl Guide .

      Sir William Burnett ' s process for tlio preservation of timber from dry rot has been extended to surgical purposes , ennabling dissecting operations to be carried on in the hottest weathor without _injuryto health or danger of losing life . The fluid , chloride of line , constituting hia _prvcess- . has no effect upon tho knives _.

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      --- ' — _. * ' _If-H-V _^ WHAT 18 AN "EQUIVALENT t * TO TBI _BDITOB OF TUB _HOXTHWH STAl . _DlA » 8 ib , — •• At length , and at last , " the grand problemi is solved as to what really is an " equivalent , ** "It is . '' says'Lord Holland , "in acts not words , to rob the publio of tho right of way ; and to restore t _» them one of which they have- been robbed some time ago . tbat is an _equivalent ; " ay , and a pretty equlvv lent it Is too , abont as pretty a one at the " _equlvale » t *» of the pedlar in the Winter ' s Tale , wbo makes a man « •_ present of his own money . How would Lord _Holland like to be robbed , this year , of one-half of Holland * . Park , and next year , to be told by those wbo had stolen snch half , that they had taken a fancy to the other half , but wenld give bim an " equivalent' * for the same , la

      the shape of th _« half already stolen t Would he consider it an " equivalent !'' and if he did not , ( and h » could not ) how , In the name of common sense and outraged feelings , can he think , that the public will ever consldsr his "New (?) Footway" through Holland Park aa " equivalent , " when it is nothing more than an old way of which they had been robbed , and is intended aa a substitute for one of which they are to be robbed I Giving to the public their own is no " equivalent , " It d nothing more than an act of Justice , and I really an t surprised that the son of so distinguished an _advocate of publio rights as the late Lord Holland was allowed to be , should prove himself so Ignorant of first _principUt as , in this case , be has done , The late Lord Holland would not shut up the public footway before Holland House , though it was suggested ( as an aid to the Hip , podrome scheme , ) tbat he should do so ; and why f because , as he said , tbe public valued it . Such respect

      for public feeling is above all praise ; but the respecter is no more , and we are now to bo robbed of one of tht most convenient thoroughfares in Kensington , publio feeling being no more _connlderod than public convenience . It is not of the aristocracy that the people complain , but their acts—their most oppressive acts—and let bat the present Lord Holland respect public feeling in tbis case as his father did , and be will find tbab those who honour his father for such conduct will honour bim . " All men bave their feelings , brother . " as the Iato George Colman observed , and although * Englishmen ( from the wrong they have suffered ) may be quick to - "ensure , tbey are uot slow to praise . Trusting that you will give publicity to the above , ' I remain , Dear Sir , Yours , for respect for Public Bights , Tne _SEcasTiaT or the West _Londou _Csnna ** _i Ann ENCtosoki A 830 CUT _10 _K . —Marylebone , Jnly t _ ttb .

      Tbe Leeds Election. To Tne Editors Or Th...

      TBE LEEDS ELECTION . TO TnE EDITORS or THE _NORiaiBM STAB . OlsTLIKlK , —From the announcement at the head of the leading articles in this day ' s Star , I anticipate s rich repast being laid before us in the forthcoming num . ber ; I am therefore glad that " A sincere Chartist" of Holbeck has not imposed upon mo a task requiring « multitude of words . His letter is no reply to wbat I advanced , yet it maw require a remark or two :

      He alludes to my motive— -tbat is on the head ami front of my communication , I wish to see the same spirit evinced by the Chartists tbrongbout the provinces , as was manifested by the men of Westminster . I alto deem it an act of consummate folly , on the part of tbe Chartists of Leeds , to sacrifice their energies in aid ol the forlorn hope of a disjointed and almost defunct f & o * tion . Tho tumult at the Black Bull , Wosdhouse , ths other evening , was the outpouring of Whiggery ' a ex . piring agony , which I would rather increase tbaa assuage . We are quite strong enough to fight onr own battles ; hat we should beware lest faction shears away our strength while we toll in its lap . The writer next thinks I am wrong . I allow him to think so . However , I think U we the Chartists abide bs the principles whieh distinguish ui from faction , we shall not find _onrselvet long wrong .

      Next , he " thinks" I have " abused" Joseph Sturge by alluding to the " Complete" humbug . I allow him to think so too . I recollect the Baines' clique gulling tbe peoplo with unmeaning jargon about" full , free , and fair repre . sentatlon . " Man ; nibbled at tbe bait . At length we got their definition of tbe " full free , and fair , represen . tation , " in tbe sbape of " tbe bill , the whole bill , and NOTHING but the bill . " The " full representation , " and the " complete suffrage , " are s ; _nonymons terms— . gilded pills prescribed for gulls . ' A sincere Chartist" says he heard J . Sturge say ha would " vote for the Ballot . " Who are we to believe f Our reporter in the Star of the 12 th alt . gives us these words *— " He was not friendly to vote by ballot , " sea page 2 , col . 6 , Perhaps Joseph can harp on two strings . We are told that it j a tbe government scheme of education that has driven Edward Baines to the support of Joseph Sturge . If that be the only reason , I must con . fess that my mind is too obtuse to foresee any mighty effect result from such a tiny cause .

      There is nothing more in tbe letter calling for remark , save the exertions spoken of , as being made by Joseph , and lauded to the skies by the Editor of the Northern Star . Tbe Editor of the Northern Star and I may differ is our opinions of Joseph Sturge as a politician , er we may agree in opinion . 1 don ' t ask that question . How . ever , 1 find the following crumbs of comfort for the Sturgeites in the Northern Star _.- — " Dr . Wade told us at Birmingham , that it was our principles , and not our name , tbatthe Sturgeites dreaded . This is the fact ; and gloss their deeds over as they may , that belief will never be disturbed from the minds ofthe Chartist body . " See leader in iVorf / _asm Star , Aug . 19 , 1848 .

      Another crumb : — "There needs no other argument than tbis one alone , to satisfy the mind of an ; unprejudiced man , wbo is not a fool , that the object of the Sturgemen has always been to perpetuate divisions when they found them among the Universal _Suffraga ranks , while many other portions of their conduct show equally their determined purpose , and tbe deep , dirty schemes resorted to for the creation of divisions , when _, they fonnd union in those ranks . " Again , in the same leader , ( Jan . 14 , 1843 , ) tbe Editor speaking of unity on the principle of Universal Suffrage says : —

      " Tbis was the very thing the Sturgeites never wanted —the very thing they always dreaded . hence the con . stant doctrine of Friend "NO , " that he did not wish tht _Cbartists to join him . " This is" l . iuding to the skies , " _alnt It 1—Yours trul y , July 3 , 1847 . WiliUM Ridm .

      Misplaced Lm - Iisscr.—A Man Named Lesou...

      Misplaced Lm iisscr . —A man named Lesourd _, who was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment fur theft , appealed against the judgment . The President represented to him that he had been Terr leniently dealt with , since he had confessed ths offence . " That leniency , " aaid the man . ' * is the very thing I complain of ; for as I am to beimprisoned from May 29 , 1 shall get out on Jan . 29 , wbich is an inclement season of the year that I do not like . Could you not , therefore , give me a few months more , to bring me into the spring ? _' _» The Court rejected this prayer , and confirmed the former judgment ; but the prisoner gains something by bis appeal in tho way that he desired , as it caused a delay of nearly twa months , which will not count in the imprisonment on the first sentence . —Galignani .

      Pension to Mr Lilian _Ilctir . —We last week adverted to the terms of tbe letter in which Lord John Russell had conveyed to Mr Hunt her Majesty ' s recent favour towards him . The following is the letter itself . There arc few who will not read it witb interest and admiration : — " _Oowniug-street , aTune 32 , 13 * tT . 11 , —I have much pleasure in informing you tbat the Queen has been pleated to direct , that in consideration of your _distinguished literary talents , a pension of tiro hundred pounds yearly should be settled upon yoa from the funds of the Civil List . " Allow me to add that the severe treatment you formerly received , in times of unjust persecution of Liberal writers , enhances the satisfaction with which I maka this _announcement . " I have the honour to be . Sir , jourfaithful serrant ,

      "Leigh Hunt , Esq , "J . R 0 S 8 BU . ~ Unjust persecutions of Liberal writers has now , it ia to be hoped , taken its place with other unjust persecutions ; and in such a letter as tbis we have an excellent guarantee against its possible return . All writers , no matter what their opinion may be , will know how to value such expressions from the foremost statesman of the time . —Examiner . [ We are not quite so sure as the Examiner seems to be , that there will be no _moro unjust persecution of Liberal writers ! " Snch persecution has , before now , been , countenanced by Lord JohR Russell _himBelf . As that may happen again , we think it well to place " his lordship ' s " ' _lettar on record ; it may be useful to refer to in days to come . _—fcu . N . S . ]

      Rotal _PoMiKCiiNio _IssTiTDTiox . —At a recent visit to this excellent establishment we observed a splendid engraving , Head of Christ , " from a painting by Ltty . This engraving , which appears quite original m style and execution , ia engraved with great vigour and freedom of hand , and ia highly creditable to the talents of Mr Haas . There ia no subserviency of copy , nor any preconception from the _Ueada ot the _Mossiah , so repeatedly produced by the Italian and Spanish masters . It partakes of the _huimn attributes , and is not _idealiaed _, or rendered effeminate by an attempt to refine ! lt is engraved m a manner that preserves solidity , and brings it nearer to the style of * the painter and to the imitatioa of painting than heretofore has been mot with . There ia smnetlnng original in the manner in which , the engraver has produced this effect—it being certainly quite a novelty in art , and also a great iraprovement in portraits engraved from oil paintings .

      Debilitt And Coummed Asthma. — Extraordi...

      Debilitt and coumMED Asthma . — Extraordinary y Cure by Holloway ' s Pills . —Extract of a letter from J . Thompson , _Esij ., proprietor of the " Armagh Guardiau , " , " April 17 , 1817 : — " To Professor Holloway . — Sir ,-A A _serjeaiit living in this city , lately returned from the East it _luiUass , caught a _seiere cold by the change from a tropkal al to a moist climato ; ho became very ill , weak , and id atthniatical , I am happy to' say that ho is not only ly quite cured of the asthma , but is also now so strong and k 1 rigorous that ho can run rouud the mall with any verson » i in the city . This cure has been effected entirely by _uelug ug your _miiUcluefc-SkncO . J . _Thom-MQu , *

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 10, 1847, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_10071847/page/2/