Tho inquest vpon the bodies of the sixteen unfor tunate men and Luis killed in the Walker Pit was opened by Mi. liced, the coroner for South North umberland, tins afternoon, at the Railway Inn, Walker, and was going on when our parcel was des patched Tho following is a description of tho interior of the pit after the explosion, and the discoveries of the bodies :— "The first news of the catastrophe produced great alarm among tho col'iery people living in the village, and tlio distress of thoso whose relatives wete known to bo down the pit was mo«.fc poignant. Occasionally, duiing the clay, a weeping woman might be seen near the colJieiy; but the inajonty of the afflicted ones widely reftained fiom leaving their homes to visit a scene which might add to, but could not alleviate their woo. The colliery operatives and other men, to the number of 200 or .lOO, assembled about the colhoiy, -nheic they waited with patience and remarkable quietne-s for such tidings fiom below as might be communicated to them. The high platform of the pit, wheic the woik of the downcast shaft is cat tied on, was kept clear by a foico of the Northumbeiland county police, and the work of exploring and clearing the pit of gas was conducted steadily and with despatch. With that heroic sacrifice of self which, in times of peiil, is ono of the noblest chaiacletistics of the noith-coitntry minor, plenty of men were ready and willing to descend into tho dangerous windings of the mine in sosuch of their comnules* and every man of them took his turn with the utmost alacrity. As first among the foremost we miy men tion John Knox, Thomas Collins, and Mason, who between 7 and 8 o'clock made their way to the fur nace to lenew the tires, in order to restore, as far as possible, the ventilation of the miuo. At first the nir, even near the shafts, was foul and dangerous, bub as the morning advanced tho pit cleaied itself to some extent; but it was apparent that, in tho shat tered condition to which the ways bad boon reduced, bratticing must bo fixed, in order to effect a complete clearance. 