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SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1852.
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Death In Coal Mines Is Now One Of Tho Mo...
eight miles from Preston ; the time , Thursday morning The pit has three shafts , only one of which , however , is worked ; the other two being used for purposes of ventilation . The lessee of the pit had ordered additional caution ; hut , as will he seen , his intentions were frustrated hy the recklessness of the men . "Altogether , nearly 200 men were employed in the colliery , " says the report , which we quote from the Times ; " and of these , 60 or 60 went down on Thursday morning about six o ' clock to commence work . On making his rounds , Smith , the fireman , whose duly was to examine the southern workings , found the air at the three bottom pillars to he in a Very dangerous condition , upon whieh
he returned to one of the main air-doors , a little below the pit-eye , where the men were waiting for admission until he had concluded his examination ; and , explaining the position of the dangerous places , he told the coBiers that none were to go down that ' shunt with a naked light , but they were allowed to go into the top workings on the brow , where there was np cause for apprehension , leaving his son at that door , to warn any who might subsequently come down , Smith proceeded in a northerly direction towards the Old Coppull Pit , in order to procure , by ventilation , a current of pure air , ancLto displace the noxious vapour which had accumulated during the night . No sooner , however , had he left the men , than one oi them , named Thomas G-regson , with a recklessness of consequences peculiar to his class , passed through the
air-door with a naked candle , and was followed by four or five others , and , after they had proceeded some distance down the brow , many of their comrades , encouraged by their assurances , imitated their foolhardy example . One of the workmen , more cautious than the rest , remonstrated with them on the peril they were incurring , but being disregarded , he went to the pit shaft , and informed John Ellis , jun . ( who acted as superintendent in the absence of his father ) , of what was taking place , upon which he immediately hurried down the brow , where he overtook a number of the men , whom he ordered to return , remarking 1 that every man who had disobeyed the firemen ' s orders would be fined 5 s . Passing them , he followed those who had gone first , and while the former were
retracing their steps to the pit-mouth , a tremendous explosion was heard , followed by two others of less violence , which instantly diffusedthe greatest consternation throughout the mine . Those who had been commencing work in the side levels hurried on their clothes , and rushed precipitately into the main road or Down-brow , but on reaching it they-were almost suffocated by the clouds of dust and slack which had-been raised by the " explosion in consequence of the dryness of the mine , and in the darkness and subsequent confusion many of them mistook their way , and instead of going towards the pure air at the piteye , they wen ^ in an opposite direction , and were ~ by the after-damp , ' which completely overpowered them , Nor did those who had taken the right direction fare better
than their companions , for the deadly current pressed on them with lightning speed , and nearly the whole of them were thrown to the ground in a state of all but insensibility . It was about a quarter to seven o ' clock when the men in attendance at the top of the pit were alarmed by the report , and , feeling satisfied that an explosion had taken place , information was immediately sent to Mr . Ellis , the manager , who resides a short distance from the colliery He was just leaving his house at the time to go on business to Southport ; but hastening to the pit , he descended , and , notwithstanding the volume of' choke-damp' and dust which was streaming to the pit-eye , he proceeded on his hands and knees , followed by a few of those who had arrived from the northern part of the pit , to endeavour to
extricate the sufferers . The first body found was that of Thos . Banks , a boy , who was then alive , and giving instructions to those who followed to remove him to the pit-eye , Mr . Ellis proceeded down the brow , and , about six yards below , ho camo upon the dead body of the boy ' s father . The next body found was that of a boy named Robert Smith , the fireman ' s son , who had been feft to warn the mon against going into tho dangerous places ; and further on John Farington , Samuel Howcroft , John Yates , and two boys , John KiJshaw and Bobert Banks , were found , and got out alive . Notwithstanding the increasing density of tho choke-damp ,
Mr . Ellis still piloted tho way , in tho hope of finding living men ; but , alas ! ho camo upon a heap of 14 dead and dying . They , also , wore removed . Still eager to save life , and " hoping against hope" that his own son might yot survive , he went so far that lie fell down from exhaustion . A faint moan reanimated him , and , with a desperate effort , ho reached another blackened corpse . Finding it iraposniblo to render further assistance in that direction , ho returned to tho pit ' s-mouth , and relays of mon woro despatched in search of tho bodies , all hopo being abandoned that any could survive .
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Yesterday morning a firo broke out botwoon 9 and 10 o ' clock in the promises of Mr . Keating , chomist , St . Paul ' s Churchyard . Yesterday a deputation from tho manufacturers of tho West Iiiding of Yorkshire waited upon Sir J . Pakington » t tho Colonial-office for tho purpose of urging upon nim tho necessity of conveying an increased supply of labourers to Australia , with special reference to tho security of tho supply of wool from that colony . Sir John Pakington mado a statement of his intentions , which was an amplification of that delivered in tho Houso of Commons last wook . Ho said Government wero very anxious to promoto emigration ; and to facilitate this tho Emigration Commissioners had relaxed their regulations , especially with roforonco to tho sum required of an emigrant . Altogether tho deputation seemed eatiefactory and successful .
Tho Duke Do Broglio Has Resigned His Sca...
Tho Duke do Broglio has resigned his scat as a member of tho Oouncil-Gonoral of tho Euro and . of tho Municipal CounoU of JBroglio .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Db . Abno & d .
Absolutism Still Coming On. The Matter I...
ABSOLUTISM STILL COMING ON . The matter involved in Lord Palmerston ' s unexpected sally , on Friday last , is one essential to be understood ; but the question itself was insufficient or superfluous . "My object , " he said , " is to elicit from her Majesty ' s government some declaration of sentiment , or of opinion on these points [ the rumours of a coup d'Stat ¦ in Spain , and of reactionary intrigues in Piedmont J which may disabuse those persons on the Continent , who think that the arbitrary system may receive the countenance of Great Britain under the present Administration . " A declaration of sentiment was elicited : on behalf of the
Administration , Mr . Disraeli shook his head at " extreme opinions" ; but the facts remain as they were , / Neither the most touching- declaration of sentiment , nor the most solemn shaking of the head at Absolutism for going to extremes , will counteract the progress to which Lord Palmerston has not prematurely testified . Mr . Disraeli ' s objection , that Lord Palmerston ' s question alluded to " reports , " was a sorry quibble of new-fledged officialism . No one will suppose that Lord Palmerston is really uninformed , or dependent on rumours only : and when he refers to . " reports , " it must be because certain facts have reached him on which the
reference is based . When Lord Palmerston declares that the banded powers of Absolutism are steadily making way , and that they are advancing to a consummation of reaction in Spain , and to a disturbance of better promises in Piedmont , we must understand that , while the etiquette of a past and possible foreign minister limits his overt allusions to reports , his own knowledge confirms the inferences of uninitiated observation endeavouring to penetrate the disguises of diplomacy . The compactness and progress of the resuscitated Holy Alliance being confirmed by so
accomplished an authority , we look with keener interest to the scanty accidental revelations of the spirit moving that Alliance ; and here the quasi-diplomatic correspondent of the Times cornea to our aid . He gives a summary of the confidential correspondence between the Governments of the Alliance respecting the eccentric position , of Louis Napoleon towards the European system . From this correspondence we learn three facts . The first is , that the members of the Holy Alliance adhere , without qualification , to the principle of legitimacy . They abide , indeed , by so much as survives of the treaties of 1814 and
' 15 , but they carry back their adhesion to tho sacred principle far beyond the Congresses of Vienna or Verona . Drawing a distinction between a government de facto , and a government de jure , arguing that a ruler de facto cannot , on the strength of universal suffrage , convert himself into a ruler de jure , insisting that " sovereignty never cam proceed otherwise than from right of birth or of succession , " and , taking the usurpations of the Emperor Napoleon in France , and of Cromwell , in England , to illustrate the impracticability of the most successful violations of the sacred principle , it will be aeen that they still claim for the legitimacy a certain immortal sanctity , paralleled only by the apostolical
suc-. The second fact is , that accepting Louis Napoleon as Governor of France , de facto , but reserving tho right to cross-examine him as to the political tonaenpies of the French Government , its propagandism , and its encouragement to Polish or Italian refugees , the Holy Alliance , led by Russia and Count Nessolrode , is yot conditionally willing , as an extremity of concession , to grant to Louis Napoleon , with tho title of "
Emperor" for life , a position somewhat similar to that of the Elective Kings of Poland . The third feet is * that I ^ uis- , - evidently understood to be negotiating for the Emperorship to be made hereditary in his faimilv under the patronage of the Holy Alliance . This is no news j but it is soinething ' to have , the fact confessed on the face of a diplomatic docuinent emanating from the Russian ministry , and under the united cognizance of Austria and Prussia It is true that Louis Napoleon is assuming the place of a sturdy beggar , half petitionine half
threatening ; true , that he is craving from the patronage of the Enaperors that position which the first Napoleon arranged with Alexander as a boon companion , and extorted from Austria with a bride whose lineage superseded that of Louis Napoleon ; but , derogatory as those comparisons may be to him , th . & y do not materially affect the present consideratibn- ^ that lie is seeking to be admitted amongst the European crovras under the patronage of the Three Great Powers , and that they are willing to accept him as a kind of supernumerary by sufferance . We have for some time known that " Prussia " had not only been coerced and frightened back
into the Holy Alliance , buthad agreed to join his stakes with the grand conspiracy of Crowns against nations ; and the cordiality with which he has done so—for like walnut-trees and wives , good old womanly Frederick William becomes all the more affectionate after a beating—is illustrated by the banquet in the White Hall at Berlin , on Friday last . The Emperor 6 £ Russia sat bet ween the ICing and Queen . The Czar wore a Prussian uniform , the Bang and royal / princes wore the uniform of Russian generals ; Russia appearing as the officer of Prussia , and Prussia being the military vassal of Russia . Frederick William drank this toast with his accustomed nervous enthusiasm : —
* ' In my own name , in the name of my army , and in the name of all Prussian hearts , I drink to the health of his Imperial Majesty of Russia . God preserve
him to that portion of his world which he has given him for an inheritance , and to our epoch , to which he is indispensable !" Whereupon the Emperor replying , " God save your Majesty , " drank in return to the King of Prussia and his noble army . We did not need to be informed that the armies of Prussia and Russia are as interchangeable on occasion as those of
Russia and Austria with their minor contingents ; but it makes assurance doubly sure when we find this spirit of cordial amity trumpeted before the world ; and we now see Louis Napoleon awkwardly negotiating to enlist his contingent of 400 , 000 men in that enormous armament . Denmark has just received a favour at the hands ot " Russia , " who has waived his veto on the Danish succession . Take the map of Europe , and observe oi
that nearly the whole ofit , with the exception its south-western angle , and the north-western united kingdom of Sweden and Norway , is in possession of the . Holy Alliance . Sweden , . Belgium , and Piedmont , remain as patches precariously held in the name of Constitutionalism ; the Alliance is already negotiating to take possession of France , with Louis Napoleon as tne tenant-at-will , in trust , to set up again its own son , the apostolically-legitimate descendant oi St . Louis , Henry the Fifth . of the
In the enumeration by Lord Palmerston constitutional governments still extant in . Europe , Portugal , Spain , Sardinia , Greece , Denmark , ana Belgium , present an imposing array ; » ut °£ those States Denmark is , at least , the protegG oi the Alliance ; Prussia is its devoted vassal , ^ rown and Army ; and , as Lord Palmerston relates , Spain and Sardinia are insidiously assailed by tae same influence that has robbed Tuscany ana Hanover of the last remnants of royal oatns . Lord Derby lately praised these bucmbb « iu Sovereigns of Europe for their fieBioa to ^ ine spirit of " Peaoe ; " / but what need have they oi anything but peace , when peace * f . P ^ o their pulpose bo well P They are , able Jo oogj 9
nations and men ; to practise every «* " »» r-- f and refinement of tyranny , from the B & av * f i ™ professors to the incarceration or oxilo ot P ° 1 "V tions ; and what more would they require ? A * ambassador of the candidate for their proteo torate , Louis Napoleon , recently dedigwj w his Government has the best understanding , w « that of Great Britain , and this imposing deci ^ tion was ratified by tho silence of tho & w
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Leader (1850-1860), May 29, 1852, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29051852/page/12/
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