at Wallsend Colliery, June, 1835. 



379' 



We have already pointed out the mode by which the various workings of the colliery should 

 be ventilated — we think it advisable, wherever practicable, to shut off by dams the districts 

 entirely worked out ; having discharging-pipes through the dams into the return drifts ; by 

 which means, these districts will be effectually insulated from the general workings of the 

 mine. 



Looking forward to the very probable increase of pillar working, we would also recom- 

 mend that the A Pit furnace should be furnished with a pipe drift, &c, similar to the B Pit. 

 With regard to the mode of lighting, in the pillar working the safety lamps should be ex- 

 exclusively used. In the whole mine, there are places in the north-east district in the C Pit, 

 which we find cannot be worked with candles, but there are other districts where candles 

 may be used with safety ; therefore, the use of them in the whole mine must be left to the 

 discretion of the viewer of the colliery. 

 We are, Sir, 



Your obedient Servants, 



Geo. Johnson, 

 Nich. Wood, 

 Thos. Morriss, 

 Matts. Dunn. 

 To John Buddie, Esq. 



No. IV. 



STEPHEN REED, Esq., Coroner. 

 Jury impannelled June 19, 1835. 



Anthony Easterby, Esq., Foreman. 



John Wright, Esq. 



Rev. John Armstrong, Curate of Wallsend. 



Mr. Patrick Pye. 



Mr. William Jameson. 



Mr. Robert Henry Coward. 



Mr. M. Elliott. 



Mr. Joseph Atkinson. 



Mr. John Horsley. 

 Mr. Robert Swan. 

 Mr. R. S. Fothergill. 

 Mr. Joseph Brough. 

 Mr. George Shanks. 

 Mr. John Falcus. 

 Mr. Charles Weatherley. 

 Mr. Washington Potts. 



Mr. Joseph Mordue. 



The inquest was continued by frequent adjournments till the 29th June, when the fol- 

 lowing verdict was read by Mr. Easterby, the foreman : — 



" We find our verdict to be accidental death, arising from an explosion of inflammable 

 air; but how, or in what part of the mine it originated there is no evidence to shew. In 

 recording this verdict, the jury must express their full conviction that there has been no 



