The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-01 00:00:00

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The PLEA/11/MA OF STEAM.—llardly a day has passed
during the last fertnight,without a "cheap trip" from some
of the towns of Yorkshire and Lancashire. The number
and extent of these pleasure excursions has, indeed, been so
great as to comnel the use of the old waggons, accurately
called " open-tops," now happily discarded from general
use ; and the use of which on these trips has revived the old
complaints. The railway companies had, however, no other
alternative; for the cheap trip from Manchester to Scar-
borough on Wednesday, there was great difficulty in getting
the requisite number of carriages of any kind. Whilst at
Leeds a hundred people or more were left behind in the
cheap trip from that town to Scarborough, because they
could not be accommodated, though the train numbered
eighty carriages.
FACTOILY INFORMATIONS Ann CONVICTIONII—On Wed-
nesday, at the court-house, Bradford, Mr. Baker, the sub-
inspector of factories, preferred • number of informations
against two millowners, for violation of the provisions of the
factory act. He complained, as last week, of the complete
inability he felt to enforce the act, by the course hitherto
pursued, of inflicting, generally, mitigated penalties, and he
asked the bench to assist him in an endeavour to enforce the
law. The magistrates expressed their determination to in-
flict full penalties hereafter,if any similar cases were brought
before them. No fewer than ten informations were pre-
ferred against Messrs. Greeuwood, Thornton-road, for viola-
tions of the factory act; on the first information, which
charged them with not boxing off certain machinery, they
were fined 201. and costs, and on each of the remainder 61.,
Ibesides costs in each; the sum to be paid being more than
701. There were five informations preferred against Mr.
Freeman, of Thornton-road, chiefly for not allowing the
Irma' breakfast hour to his workpeople and he was finld 61.
in each case, besides costs.
FATAL Acme:fr.—A distressing and fatal accident took
place on Saturday last, at Ileadingley, near Leeds. Mr.
Samuel Smith, a young man about 27 years of age, a son of
Mr. George Smith, the banker, of Leeds, paid a visit in the
course of the afternoon to the farm of Mr. Scholey, an inn-
keeper at Headingley, near Mr. Smith's residence, where a
perambulating thrashing machine had been engaged, and
was then at work. After looking ou for acme tune, Mr.
Smith volunteered to drive the horses that were working the
machine ; and he had done so for some time, when, as i. sup-
posed, he became dizzy, and fell amongst the machinery.
An alarm was instantly given, but before the machine could
be stopped, his body had become entangled with the hori-
zontal shaft, and had been shockingly mangled, the left leg
being entirely torn away, and other injuries inflicted, the
effect which he survived only about a quarter of an hour.
An inquest was held on she body tke same evening, at the
Oak Inn, lleadingley, borough of la eds, when • verdict of
" Accidental death" was returned.
MILL ACCIDENT.--On Saturday Mr. Blackburn, the
coroner of Leeds, held an inquest at the Three Horse-shoes
Inn, Meanwood, near Leeds, on the body of Isa Sella Beck-
with, a woman about fifty years of age, who died from in-
juries received on the previous Thursday at the paper-mill of
Mr. James Martin, at that place. The deceased was em-
' ployed in the calendering department ; and whilst following
her avocations about ten o'clock in the morning, her we,r;ng
apparel caught the end of a revolving shaft about half a
yard from the ground, which drew her round, tore off her
clothes, and then threw her on the ground, causing a con-
cussion of the brain, and extravasation of blood, from the
effects of which she instantly became insensible, and died
soon afterwards. The jury returned a verdict of "Acci-
dental death."