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it jiist in time to save their lives. The two men who were 

 working near them, the boy before mentioned, and fifteen other 

 men and boys who were on the rollvway, were so fortunate as 

 to make their escape, but not till the last of them was up to his' 

 waist in water. Every possibility of retreat to those left behind 

 ■was now cut off; and, shocking to relate, seventy-five human 

 beings, including Mr. Miller, were shut up in the workings to- 

 wards the rise of the colliery, either to perish bv hunger, or die 

 for want of respirable air ; and twenty-four hours elapsed before 

 the water rose to twenty-five fathoms in the engine pit ; if it 

 Gould even then displace the air confined in the higher part of 

 the mine. Some faint expectations were entertained during the 

 course of the first day, that a communication might be opened 

 to these unhappy people, by micovering and descending through 

 one of the old shafts at Heaton Banks; but before the scaf- 

 folding was reached, the surrounding earth fell in, and every 

 glimpse of hope vanished. — Workmen are now busied in clearing 

 out a shaft in front of Heaton Hall; but owing to rubbish which 

 has accuriiulated at the bottom, and the carburetted hydrogen 

 which is ascending in great profusion, nmch time must be spent 

 before that part of the workings can be inspected, where most 

 of the pitmen were known to be employed when the accident 

 took place. 



The sufferers who thus found a living graA'e have left twenty- 

 four w^idows and seventy-seven orphans, besides Mrs. Miller 

 and her eight children, to deplore their untimely fate. — I am 

 happy to add, that a subscription is now on foot to relieve the 

 pecuniary distress of their families. N. 



P. S. — ^Thirty-seven horses were in the mine at the time of 

 the catastrophe. 



LXVII. Notices respecting New Books. 



OlservationSy chiefly practical, on some of the more common 

 Diseases of t fie Horse; together with Remarks upon the ge-r 

 veral Jrthies of Diet, a?ul the ordinary Stable Management 

 of that Animal. By Thomas Peall, Veterinary Professor 

 and T,eclurer to tfie Right Hon. the Dublin Society, and Fth- 

 terinary Surgeon in the Royal Artillery. 4to, 360 pages. 



JVJ R. Peall speaks with much modesty of his pretensions as an 

 author. Flis work, however, is replete with so much useful 

 practical information, that it cannot fail to prove acceptable, not 

 only to professional people, but to every gentleman who would 

 rescue his cattle from the destructive empiricism of grooms and 



common 



