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COLIJRRY EXPLOSIONS. Editor of the Gateshead Observer. U, CoQsia Sla'e 'he northern coal mines demands the most *t J'bbUr er#,i°D. Witness the awful explosions at Walls- ilgt0n' ^'low, Felling, &o., and now, the other day, .|life. Thomley, causing a horrible destruction of 'ion ca| '» k 181a0sl 'n'll«8 prove most clearly that the mode of ventila- c«k s,»e<i er^c,i»e. Now, I would ask, docs the system that Ks;hovvle(J,? northern district accord with the philosophi- in f6 »f l.'le Present time ? If it does not, why is it ^"drt^a,,1ef I 's con''nued from ignorance, that is, indeed, 'he le. the U ^ul ^rom obstinacy, it is still worse- Mr. °a' trjjP^'dent of the Viewers' Society, and secretary to NiJ^y trie,6)' ^j°Q'inua 11 y uses this sysiem, which, he says, is that we are acquainted with for preventing 11 ij°f 4ltio-.C l m'nes. It consists of a mechanical applica sweep away the inflammable gas as (J jI ln 'he works, extend ng to a course of thirty VPherit! • hatthe gas, when mixed with four parts of l'o"ctUal öltt, becomes inexplosive. Now, Sir, we know, i^Peai P«rf«*>er'm.en's' ,hat hydrogen gas, when mixed with fpa y0u a'r» is highly explosive. 1 will, therefore, ln ught t|, lo c°nsider with what danger aay system irrnst ^Po yftar^iQ6''63 on so erroneous a calculation. to j "06 a person waited on Mr. Branding with a k?*Ctnj0' hi»° away entirely with explosions, and he gave the r«, d to that gentleman and Mr. Buddie. He be j P',s» an(^ fully investigated the evil. Od co»| 11a demonstrated the truth of his principle, and laid Ns B^Ur^ ,L*'0rn» that where there is no dislocation of the k?(,tho1^'0yed e can he no confined hydrogen. This person 4» °f h Put his system into operation in the neigh- t0 ,ey. The late Lord Dudley and Ward desired fro(H J*0'01 out the most explosive of his mines. These 'h*! «»o t0 r the necessity of being artificially exploded I11 res times daily, even after all was done I 's j,H^liree °e by endeavouring to dilute the gas. In jjerj^lesj 4y.s he cleared these mines, and rendered them V th" n l8Km,nes over 'he dislocation are by nature. This ^0<:iet fWas ca"ed to the district of the Tyne and Wear in^ Preventing Accidents in Coal Mines. He '^ItK ° "ebhurn Colliery with Mr Buddie, lighted by Nv, kui ',Lan<' there he offered to clear it from gas in one \r°tt»lv e °^er was not accepted, though Mr Buddie had him atrial. S ^iitor, I would ask why this person's system— Shp^^hicl u D»v> has pronounced to be scientifically '1 ,8|t Pre^:1 e Society of Arts, in 1816, rewarded with their re"om-whichaPlul osophical Society at Newcastle, I ^ci^tefj^efided to the coal trade—and of which the ire, Worcestershire, and Shropshire, U l, is t|). 1" had exceeded their n ost sanguine expectations et»orn^4t> life sys,em not pursued in the. North of England 1 ^am ° ')e "1U3 continually sacrificed—property to an 's (0 Sfe w 0,ltlt almost daily destroyed and lost to the public >» be told as we were the other day, that no one if th Used ift 1 boldly assert, that the fosterers of the system 'eS?al?^ C °0a' mines of Durham and Northumberland. ^«d(t? 6**ilt» 'beir obstinacy, will be both morally and "*bov 6 oik lbe ciime of aggravated manslaughter. If Mr 'be^6 ^ttded °r Sectors °f mines are ignorant of the system Utjj'- °r al|0 lo,et them send for the inventor to instruct *K%|i !l M,illhp,!i 'ra. t0 dear the mines. When this is done "f hvH 4t ao m 6 imtnediately, if pride do not prevent it) we „ ore of immolations of poor colliers by explosions gas. A LOOKiR ON.

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