28 NOVEMBER 1868, Page 3

A terrific explosion occurred on Thursday morning in the Arley

Colliery, near Wigan. Fifty-six miners were either suffocated or burnt. The cause of the explosion is not known, but it is remark- .able that a scientific writer in the Daily News has been predicting colliery explosions for some days. There was on the 21st and 23rd a sudden fall of an inch and a quarter in the barometer, and -scientific men have noticed that these explosions always occur in the first few days after a sudden fall. The preventive is ventila- tion, and it seems certain that a little attention to the clear warn- ing given in the Daily News would have saved all these lives.