The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-09 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1852.

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wishes if I did not r.spond to the ohm rvations that were
made by Dr. Lloyd regarding our meeting is Dublin.
(Cheers.) We have rem ived pressing invitations to go to
various places iu England and Scotland, and I may remark
that. in deciding at which place we should meet nest, we
will be irflm need very much by priority of invitation; and
I would beg Dr. Lloyd to remember, that the sooner the
invitation from Dublin is given us the better. (Lisaghter,
and cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN gave "The Harbour Commierioners and
Railway Boards," coupled with the names of Mr. Whine
and Mr. Allen.

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Mr. AMAX replied for the railway boards; Mr. Ezyn,
la the absence of Mr. Whale, fur the harbour commie-
sionrre. _ .

The concluding tout from the their was " Professor
Phillips," who replied, after which the proceedings termi-
nated.

TIIE BOILER EXPLOSION NEAR BOLTON.

The inquest upon the victims of the boiler explo-
sion at the works of bleun. Smith was commenced on
Sa.urday last. The deceased persons were three in num-
ber, and were named William Lever, Michael Chant, cad
Jane Watson. Lover, who was a drier, aged 57 years, residing
near the work o,w ss crossing the yard between toe boiler•hosse
and the mechanics' shop, when he was otruek, the upper
portion of his bead being literally blown off. Ile has left a
wife and flee children. Clrant, a pipe-coverer, of Great
Moor•street, Bolton, was working in the mangle-room, and
died shortly after being removed from the reins. Ile had
only gone to the works that morning. lie was about 40
years of age, and has left a wife and family. Watson, •
stitcher, aged 31 years, was in the mangle-room, and was
crushed and scalded to death. fib) was a single woman,
and resided near the works.

After the jury hat viewed the bodies, end surveyed the
some of the disaster, the following witnesses were
exa-
mined :
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John Taylor said he was foreman at the bleach works of
Mews. Smith and Co , Great Lever. He was in the gas.
house when the explosion took place, and bad only just
left the fire- hole, which wu a distance of 20 or 30 yards
from where he then was. Samuel Taylor, the engineer,
was in the fire-hole when he left. There was a water gauge,
with a wheel and a weight on the boiler, and one with a
glass tabe in front. When witness lett, the engineer was
1 trying the gauge, on the top of the boiler. The glass tube in
front was about 12 inches long, and wan about half full of
water. There would then be about nine inches of water
covering the flues. It was the practice of the engineer to exa-
mine the water-gauge about every 20 minutes. At the time
vri,ness left the are-hole, the sham was up to 49 lbs. to the
square ineb, and the steam had been blowing off two or three
minutes. Witness went into the fire-hole about ten
minutes before the explosion, and the steam was then up
to 611 lbs. The boiler was usually worked with a pressure
of 351 v. ; though it bad been worked at from 40 lbe. to
40 lbs. When the explosion took place, the steam was
being got up for the purpose of turning a new calendering
machine. Witness never raw the steam higher than 61 lbs.
The engineer had been trying to get the steam up half an
hour. Witness attributed the cause of the accident to the
boiler being too weak fur the quantity of steam pat upon
it. He bad heard it said that the boiler would carry 60 lbs.
or 7010 s. It had only been in use about eight or Dino
mouths, and was made by Mr. Daniel Wood Latham, of
Bolton.

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Lake Hodson, a carter, spoke to rindiug the bodies of the
deceased.

Wm. Howe, a mangler at the works, said he was at
work in the mangle-house at the time of the explosion. A
few minutes previously, a mangier, named James Entwistle,
called witness's attention to the steam gauge in front of the
boiler, and asked him if he had ever seen it so high before.
He replied he had not. The steam was then up to shout
50. Ile had never before seen it higher than 45, which he
believed was the ordinary height. Witness was aware that
the steam wastseing got up for a particular purpose—to start
a new calendering machine ; and the eagles was nearly
stopping.
Mr. John Ilesketh, one of the firm, said he was in the
calender house at the time of the accident, and was standing
near the new ealender. Ile had never given the engineer
any instructions to Mena,* the steam, nor was he aware
that any one else had done so. Ho was not certain whether
the new calender was working at the time of the explosion.
He did not know that the steam wee any higher than
He never noticed the state of the gauge. 'I he boiler which
exploded was feeding the smaller engine, which drove the
caleoders and some other portions of the machinery. On
seeing the engineer after the explosion, witness asked him
what pressure he had ou the boiler, and understood him to
say it was only 451 b. The engineer was perfectly steady at
the time. Waimea produced the contract for the boiler,
which stipulated that it should be made to bear • pressure
of at least 60Ib. to the square inch.
Mr. James Cetterill (another partner in the firm) proved
that the contract was duly signed by Mr. Latham, who said
that the boiler was capable of working with • pressure of
100th. to the square inch. Witness had seen it working at
651 b., but never higher. He always believed it would work
at least 601 b. He observed anything wrong about it.
Taylor, the engineer, was • steady, attentive, and industrious
man, and had been at the works IS years in that capacity.
Witness could not account for the explosion. The boiler
was working under its guaranteed pressure. To work the
new ealender, which wee being started, would require more
power than the engine had ever before worked; but the
engine had previosiely had comparatively little to do. The
boiler had been at work frees six o'clock in the morniag.
Witness was not present at the time of the explosion. He
did not think it possible to make any scientific enmi-
nation of the bailer—at least, not with any satisfactory re-
sult—because it was si shattered. The smaller engine was
• 20 hone power, and the larger one a 50. horse. Both
boilers were in use, but not attached, when the explosion
happened. The other boiler was worked with a pressure of
91b. The boiler could not have been short of water,
because in that cue the dale would collapse ; and, in this
isetanee, they had retained their "Filarial arm.

Seinuel Taylor was next enmintial—He rid be had been
engineer at the works 18 yews, and had had an acci-
dent like this before. At the time of the explosion he was
ping shrunk the mangle-hums to the new building where
ditro was rho falitoprawant teeny sad bad been gone from
the chills only the.. or her nia•las. At that time the
MS= IMO about 631 b. to the Kaman kelt. It was generally
wished at between 30 and 40. and semetimes up to 30. Ho
aster bad it higher than 631 b., vim the steam always
baps to blow off. He had "Wu that the plates had
stun way, and that the steam escaped through some aper-
tures, when it was worked at a pressure of 301 h. or 401 b.
The flues wont bare. Thom would be about seven
imam of water in the glam, and nine or ten on the flue,
wheat the boiler exploded. He bad examined the water
genie previously, and never was without examining
saw dam ten minutes or a quarter of an hour. The
dada was blowing off vary fast when it reached 531 b.
Mie man for getting up the steam to inch a height
was. be..... be thought he would be in readier,' for the
sew Weeder, which they were starting. He should
en hie own responsibility, have worked at a higher pres-
dun 6Mb. He should have been afraid to have done
ans en sseoant of the oozing out of the steam. He could
1141tno reason for the explosion, except that it was awed
additional pressure.
Mr. Cotterill observed that he had mentioned the escape
of steam to Mr. Latham, who said that the aperture would
gradually close up.
The Coroner then addressed the jury, on the nature of
dm evidence adduced, and said that if they were desirous
of tilling in additional evidence of a scientific nature, he
should be most happy to secede to their wishes. The jury
were th-s left to themselves for a few minute., when it
wee determined Out Hr. Fairbairn, of Manchester, should
make an examination of the boiler ; aid the inquiry was
accordingly adjourned to Friday next, at half-put two in
the afternoon.—Materhorter Guardian.

GIIINUAL PACIItCO.—We are /MTV to learn that
tha oeisterated lath AMAMI Omani 'Pacheco, who is
haws a the immder of li ia Use Uruguay and who
l't•tatatoolildell the poet of ambSsaador at
,Paris that republic, way ea his return to the scene of
his poildelion, attacked by a violent yellow fever, at Rio
Jamie.
Jamie. Os the sissies be was attended by his old
Need esil eeihressist
_Des Ikadrea Lamas, who tad been
eisseedly by his side is every struggle (or indepeo-
isms, cad Sew came to watch what was suppored to be
as Mat swats of his gallant friend. Fortunately,
bavever, the strength of the General's constitution over-
came the dictate, and, by the lest sarownts, he had so
tar rallied as to give hope of speedy recovery. An inci-
dent bee SOW to oar knowledge, which adds additional
Maim to the name of Pacheco, and chows him to be as
hemso is the *amities of civil life is be is chitin and
MOM" in military encesator. At a time when he believed
W parr OU earth bad been rue, _sad the baud of death was
Eyes ,hie smustry nil his Diesels were ow premiesit
is hie thesible. At me bibs ssetsee he reesived •
letter hesalcsdon ken MO lite lad hen bug home to
him ; and, with a mgssubsess consideration, he directed
a reply to be returned, la Mt mom cordial terms, stating
that the gourd had pee chin that this applicant should
leareiorth resist a besibme_ pulse, me a small tribute to
his meritorious unless. Lissitset sett as this requires no
comment; iteasvimitasuspesegyriewhereveritisknown,
est will, wise bases, add te the anxiety of all interested
is the true welders of See* Areeries, that the genteel may
be INS spiral le sesht, r Ihe *SSC% and if necessary
slissis, is the bid, is nebreirdsg the independence and ad-
mmeing the Wow et the Beads Oriental and its capital,
ideate Viese.—LieespeelAitess.

A STOAT or FOSTOWL—We have been informed
that a y man, who left Paisley about three years ago
to push his ieelMe in Autralia, has within them few days
returned beam Oa entering his mother's dwelling he
hung her winding weft on weavers' pints. After
animal ps.d.pe is the happy meeting, the boa told his
mother to erg by her pies wheel. "Ns, na, Jamie," said
she, I'll wean by say Ora wheel till I ken co' something
better." "Aeek" meld Jessie, Mak at this," at the mum
time producing abeak cheque Ike 10,0001., the graham of
his industry at the Australian SW diggings. We give the
story as we have heard it, bet have se means of verifying
its accuracyy. ; still it is not mom atonishing than the news
we bear every day of the •bearing fertility of those
auriferous regsous.—Negni kings Mail.
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THE BALLOT.
TO TUN TDITOA OF TIM DAILY 1111/11.

Sin,—l road in your impression of Tuesday lout,
a letter from " A Reformer." on the subject of the ballot,
in which your correspondent inquires," what is doing by
those who generally hike the lead in •tioh mitten to ergs-
nbe the ballot party?" and proceeds to recommend that
" a ootainittee should be formed in London, to receive the
communications which ate ready to be poured in upon it
from all parte of the United Kingdom, with of of co-ope-
ration." The writer adds that " the first duty of such a
body should be to collect as many authentic facts as possible,
illustrative of the hideous abuses of open voting as prac-
tised at the last election." Being a member of the Na-
tional Parliamentary end Financial Reform Association, I
called this morning at the elfin at Charing-erns, and re-
ceived a copy of the short 'chime just publiabed, and which
I have seen noticed in your columns as well as in these of
one of your contemporeries.
. This addrem appears to me, singularly enough, not only
to answer the inquin of your correspoadenff but to act
upon his advice by anticipation. As you printed it pester-
day, I sired not repeat what it states (either than to podia
out that the ballot is one of the prominent principles of the
association, end has been invariably insisted upon as abso-
lutely indispensable. Mr. Cobden, et • meeting held at the
London Tavern on the 26th of May, 1851, made use of the
following 4:pensions:
" I consider the success of our new Reform Bill to depend
mainly upon the ballot being incorporated with it. If Lord
John Russell wishes to create that (-mount of enthusiasm
amongst the electoral body which will enable him to sorry
a measure of parliamentary reform, I say, let him include
the ballot in his programme. I will deal tnakly, and state
that I very much doubt it any great amount of enthusiasm
will be produced amongst that body by the introduction of
any new Reform Bill, unless the ballot is included in it.
A scheme of reform which includes a large extension of
reform and triennial parliaments, and which gives the bal-
lot as a motive to the electoral body to exert themselves in
the canes, I believe would be carried. You have in the
counties, at the present moment, a complete apathy as re-
gards streets fur reform. There is no movement that you
con create by any appeal to them for the simple extension of
the franchise; but the measure that would enlist the county
constituencies—that would go home to their bosoms. and
make them put forth their beat efforts in order to assist in
carrying a Reform Bid, would be the promise of that safe-
guard which they above all others want in tho exercise of
their franchise—the ballot. Anybody conversant with the
electoral constituencies of the couuties must know that'
liberalism there always takes the direction of the ballot. I
must confess, I think, that so tar as regards the interests of
the party to which Lord John Itnesell belongs, I very much
doubt whether they will raise an amount of enthusiasm in
the country in favour of any Reform Bill which does not
include the ballot."

I cordially eoneur in your correspondent's excellent ap-
peal to Mr. Grote. That gentleman well deserves the
eulogy of "A Reformer." Ilia name, as a leader in this
great question, would be of infinite value; and I trust the
appeal to him in your columns will not be made in vain.
MUNICEPS.