The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-22 00:00:00

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" Will you be deceived and deluded to your ruin
by your immitigable enemies ? What have those
cruel landlords ever done for you, that you should
lose your lives in fighting their battle ? •
" Recollect—recollect, we beseech of you—that un-
der the poor-law now coming into operation, their
estates shall be confiscated, if needed, for the support
of those whom their tyranny has made, or is making,
paupers.
" These are not idle words. The new law compels
out-door relief to all applicants the moment the work-
house is full. If your landlords so impoverish you
that you cannot continue to pay your portion of the
rates for this purpose, those very landlords must, to
their last shilling, supply the deficiency.
"Their only hope is, if you can be driven into a
wild insurrection, and by the spilling of your blood,
and the waste of your lives, either the number of
applicants, will be greatly diminished, or a mitigation
obtained of the Government demands upon the land!
" Never violate the law,' was the maxim of him
you so long trusted, and so affectionately loved—of
Daniel O'Connell ! Fellow-countrymen, let us im-
plore of you to recollect his teachings, though he be
no longer here to guide us. Put not yourselves in
the power of the enemy by doing wrong !
" Even though our voices and those of your Par-
liamentary representatives, demanding protection,
mercy, justice for you, should be unheeded, your fate
cannot be bettered, but must be rendered infinitely
worse by violence, outrage, or any breach of the law.
Give not the pretext to the cruel landlord to bring
the soldiery and police to slaughter you! Pay him
his rents. Pay the rate collector his rates. If
the landlords and the English Parliament persist
in their grinding exactions from your poverty,
recollect the land of Ireland is now pledged
for your support I Those who deny your
honest industry its due returns, and snatch from
you the means of independent support, shall be
compelled to maintain you as paupers. To peace we
then exhort you under the worst of your present
evils. You cannot right yourselves by violence and
illegal combination, but must bring destruction on
your wretched families and yourselves. 'Whereas,
by peaceful submission to the law, you must, at any
rate, be secured in subsistence—the land, being
pledged to the last acre, and the last shilling of its
rental for your support.
"But have we no brighter hope to hold out if you
be peaceful ? Oh, yes. In peacefulness you have
won all yet obtained for Ireland. In peacefulness
you shall accomplish, fully and immediately, the
glorious work of repeal. England now sees that the
union drainage of our money has rendered us a dead
weight to drag herself down to destruction, and that
nothing but the stoppage of those drains by the return
of the absentees, revival of our manufactures, and
spending of Our moneys at home under the protecting
influence of our own Parliament, can save us from
utter ruin, and the empire from convulsion..ersverance in
" And, if assured of our glodrious p
her own interest
have hitherto so steadily pursued,
back our Parliament, and
bloodless course we
will impel her to give us
twhiethpeiatethefeupbrocospensrtiittyutoiofnoaul:
! Call upon
" Join, then, your voice with ours
come forward as one man and
your representatives to
Parliament, without
demand back of England that
apeoyle.
which we are but a miserable mendicant province;
but with which we shall be once again, and for ever-
more, a powerful, a prosperous, and a happy nation.
(Signed) " JOHN O'CONNELL,
Chairman of the Committee."

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The great iron works of the park of Messkirch, in
the grand duchy of Baden, belonging to the Prince de
Furstenburg, have just been destroyed by fire. The
loss is estimated at several millions of francs, only a
portion of which is insured. The destruction of the
buildings alone is estimated at 150,000 florins (300,0001.)
About nine hundred men were employed in the works,
all of whom, with their families, are *ow without re.
lIQUIC9E.

THE LATE STEAM BOAT
EXPLOSION.

ADJOURNED INQUEST.—(THIS DAY.)
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
In reply to Mr. Chambers Mr. Lloyd stated that
he had merely cursorilly looked at the boilers of the
Ant and Bee. If they were of the same character as
the boiler of the Cricket they were dangerous.
Mr. Galloway said they 'were ten times thicker,
he had examined them and could depose to the fact.
Mr. M. Chambers said he asked the question for
the satisfaction of the public.
Mr. James, on the part of Mr. Joyce, stated that
the boilers were not of that thickness.
The inquiry was proceeded with after a short ad-
journment.
Mr. M. Chambers stated that Polletti, Clarke, and
Haisman were ready to be examined. The company
did not put those persons forward as their witnesses,
but simply as witnesses: whom the Coroner or jury
ought to examine, if they thought proper.
Thomas Clarke then voluntarily tendered his evi-
dence. He said he was a smith and a machinist, and
lived at 62, Commercial-road, Lambeth. He-said
when I first took charge of the Cricket, on the 4th
of April last, Edwards was the stoker. I took. the
first opportunity of examining the boilers. I found
one of the plates at the back of one of them blistered.
I commnnicated the fact to Mr. Joyce, and on inves-
tigation it was discovered to be of no importance. I
had some words, I think, on the 25th of April, with
Skinner, and as Edwards passed by he said, " Give
it to the —." He also swore at me. I discharged
Edwards on the Monday. It was on that morning
that I first heard that the valves had been tied. I
heard it first from Poletti, the superintendent, and
Mr. Smith, who spoke to me about it. He told me
that Edwards had informed him so, and he cautioned
me not to do so. The valves never were tied down
whilst I was in the boat. I remained in the boat
about five weeks after. Other men were employed
iu it. I have been away from it three weeks at a
time. I drove the boat the last time about three
weeks before the explosion. Haisman was in charge
of the boat from the Bth to the 15th of August. I
never saw anybody tie the valves. The boat worked
very well, but, like other boats, she required over-
hauling occasionally, and I repaired her with
assistants. After I had been in the boat a
fortnight the steam escaped accidentally. The
engine sometimes got hot, but it was easily
cooled. I can only account for the occurrence by
saying that the " listing" of the boat on one side
almost lying at the pier, that the steam was generated
too fast for the valves to emit it. Sometimes, when
the boat was lying on her side, the boiler fullest of
water would not blow off her steam. The safety-
valve worked well—everything of that kind worked
well. I have known the safety-valves to stick—l
have known them to stick twice, and on one occa-
sion I called the attention of the engineer to
it. I lifted the lever with a piece of iron
at these times. There is no pulley to lift the lever
up. I used to shake the stalk of the valve with a
piece of iron until I got it free. The last time I had
to try to move it several times. I know Knight. I
never saw Knight do anything to the levers except
shake them, and then only by my direction. He
used to shake the string, and tie one end to a nail ;
but I never gave him any directions to tie the other
end of it.
By Mr. M. Chambers—l worked for Mr. Joyce
for nearly four years before I went into the service
of the company. I was a kind of foreman. I put
up two engines in Mr. Smith's premises, by direction
of Mr. Joyce. This was about six months before I
went into the service of the company. This required
engineering knowledge, but a great deal of the work
was done at Mr. Joyce's. After I left Mr. Joyce,
and before I entered into the service of the company,
I worked as a turner, for six months, for the General
Steam Navigation Company. I worked a good deal
at repairing engines during the last fourteen years.
I was apprenticed to Mr. Davis of the Blackfriars-
road, and remained with him six months after its ex-
piration ; also of Mr. Evans, of Moorgate-street, and
two or three other persons. A person named Kent
drove the Cricket before I went. Buttress was there
a few days before me also. I found strings attached
to the lever. I did not notice them particularly, as I
thought I had a good stoker. I was not spoken to
about tying the valves the Sunday Edwards com-
plained of me. Mr. Smith and Poletti came down
on the Monday. The valves were not tied down. They
did not come down together. Poletti came down early
in the morning. Poletti told me about the charge.
I asked him if he thought I was mad ? We had
some more words, and he said he should tell Mr.
Smith. The strings on that day had been put round
the nail to get them out of the way. They were not
so tight as to prevent the valves working, if there was
steam enough. When Mr. Smith came down,, he
said he hoped I did not tie the valves, and put peo-
ple's lives in danger. lie told the not to run any
risk. I told him I did not tie the valves. Mr.
Smith travelled both before and after that by the
boat. Ile could have come down at any time. He
came down, I think, about twice after. Sometimes
he stopped the whole length of the journey. Once
he said he did not like to call me away trom the
engine, so that if there had been any danger, he
would have been one of the first to suffer from it.
When I went first the fronts of the boilers was a little
convex—five-eighths or three-quarters of an inch.
I believed that they had been made in that shape. I
had no idea of any danger. The boat was sent down
to Mr. Joyce on the 3d of August to have her
boilers repaired. She returned on the Bth. That
was the first time since I have been in the service of
the company, that the boat went to Mr. Joyce's. Mr.
Joyce did not come to examine the engines or boilers.
Mr. Meecham came some times, but he did
not overhaul the boilers. I used to ease the braces,
take the pistons out, and repair tear and wear. That
is the business of a repairer. They were not impor-
tant repairs otherwise. The boat would have been
sent to Mr. Joyce's I stopped up a tube since the
boat was at Greenwich, that was all I did.
It did not increase the steam. On the morning of
the explosion I was in the wheel with Haisman. We
moved by the steam to the place we required. This
was from half-past seven or a quarter to eight. She
took her first trip at eight. There were
two broken arms, and a float was off. It
takes about an hour and a quarter to get the
steam up. After performing a journey, during which
we lost about ilbs. per inch of steam, it required
about five minutes to get the steam up again. I
think that I left the boat at about a quarter past eight.
I went to the Ant to repair her. I was not
near when the accident happened. I used to
work the engine at a pressure of from twenty-four
to twenty-five pounds. I used to work more with the
weighted valves than with the gauge. I used to
work the lever with the weight at the end of the
lever. I did not know that the placing of the weight
gave a pressure of 66. I judged by the other boats.
When the steam blew off the gauge used to be at 24,
or a little higher. The gauge was, I believe, out of
order.
By Mr. James—l used to look at the gauge two
or three times a day. When I leftthe boat I used to
shift the weight to a pressure of 19 lbs., and to
unscrew the spring valves. I have not been exa-
mined by the company's solicitor. Mr. Smith asked
me questions. I have given a statement to Mr.
Duke, the solicitor to the company. I have
told Mr. Nash that this was a bad job.
I put a new cord on the lever perhaps once in
three weeks ;it was spun yarn. It used to be worn
out with constant pulling.—(Laughter.) It used to
be burned near the weight. It was three yards and
five yards spun yarn. I have fastened it to
the nail. [Knight was called to face t the
witness.] I dare say I have given Snigh
ar tht
aitnslrudcid-
dons to fasten the string.
not tell him frequeontlyrsto dolsowilllssivviell swear that I
did not give him deb to fasten it when " Stand
the captain. I was not
by " was called out
always present when bye tied them. I have pulled
the string three or four times while we have been
lying at the pier. I used to lift the valve two or
three times a voyage. I did not think that the blacks
could stop the valves.—(Laughter.) I applied to
Mr. Meecham for a new gauge, and he gave me a
card where I could get one. I did not apply
to the company. Mr. Joyce, I understood,
was to supply the guages. His name was
on it. I don't think an engineer could fail to
know that the string was tight, if it was tied; but
it was not in my time. The strings were just loose
enough not to be tight. I recollect giving the boat
to Buttress. I will swear that the lever was
not tied tight with the string, At night
the string was generally taken off. The string was fas-
tened to the beam, and two or three times round a
nail. After shuting the valve, the string was usualy
tied. The steam has often blown off when the string
has been fastened. The valves could open an inch at
these times. Two inches would be enough. I never
looked to see the cause of the valves sticking. I have
frequently gone on the deck, and lifted the levers.
The inquiry had not terminated when we went to
press ; it would not terminate to-night.

Males
Females

Males
Females

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT ANCIIESTEII. TUESDAY.
MANCHESTER AUTUMN lIANDICAP.-6 to 4 agst Caw-
rouch (t), 6 to 1 agst The Squire of Dialton (t), 6 to I
agst The Dart (t), 7 to 1 apt Romance (t), 7 to 1 agst
Deloraine.
CESAREWITCH STARES.-13 to 2 agst War Eagle (t),
12 to 1 apt Wood Pigeon (t), 18 to 1 agst Ulysses, 20
to 1 apt Lady Wildair, 20 to 1 agst Tartar (t), 20 to 1
agst-Nottingham (t).

.ETROPOLI

Old Age, or Natural Decay ... 52
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intemperance ... 49
Causes not specified ... 2

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ...

1,169

Population Average weekly Deaths
Enumerated, Deaths, 1842-6. in the
1841. Five Summers. 'week.
West Districts... 301,326 • . 137 ... 149
North Districts.. 376,396 ... 175 ... 208
Central Districts 374,759 .• . 173 .•• 211
East Districts ... 393,247 .•• 212 ... 290
South Districts .. 502,483 ... 244 ... 311
T0ta15........ 1,948,211 ... 940

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

1,169
- 595
- 574

... 594
... 56S

Totals ..

-.1,162

BRUSSELS FREE - TRA-13
CIATION. -‘
SSO-
, - - •
COLONEL THOMPSON'S SPEECHESc....., ;t'll- t E
.
DINNER GIVEN BY THE BRUSSEL • EE-
TRADE ASSOCIATION TO THE " st• '
AN-
GERS WHO HAD ATTENDED TH aN-
GRESS, SEPT: 18th, 1847.
After the dinner, Count Arrivabene, the Ch an,
gave " The Freedom of Commerce." M. for
Faider, one of the secretaries to the Congress, ' ve
" The foreign Members." The Duke d'H 'rt
returned thanks.
Colonel Thompson was called upon to give—" A
toutes les associations," which may be translated in
dGba
yue nt; t
al
se
om dinneraint,
ma
aiysCon-
gresst
emore
isw aayo
rather
fs than
every
formidableomn ea . n
aHn ed everys ai d
affair,—
business
allowable to take a greater liberty on the occasion. I
have been directed to give a toast—" A toutes les asso-
ciations." The field is rather wide. In the first place,
therefore, I will take for granted that this is intended
to include the associations for free trade; but as this
subject has been a good deal talked of lately, we will
pass on to the rest. Next, then, there are the asso-
ciations for political objects.—(" Park:, panic:," an-
swering to " Hear, hear.") The institutions of free
countries enforce the right to such associations; and
the exercise of this right is a source of strength
to these nations in return. In England we
have given over having any fear of asso-
ciations of the working classes or anybody else. The
time is gone by when the different classes of society
in our country were afraid of one another. We have
given over having any apprehensions on this AC.,
count ; and the consequence is, that as a nation we
are stronger than we ever were before. I do not
know that I can wish anything better, than that the
same state of things may find its way into the habits
of all the nations of Europe besides.
There are more associations yet ; for instance there
is that association of worthy men and handsome
women which people call Belgium.—(Cheers.) May
not I be allowed to include that in the toast. My
fellow-traveller can tell you with what recollections I,
a native of the Pays Bas of England (Holderness),
in coming from your seaport to your capital, looked
at these features of your country which are so like
those of my own. It is true our streams do not run
as fast as in the Alps; but for all that, we love that
country, and should be ready to defend it if required.
But we mean to have no chance of that. Is it not the
best way to join one another in these peaceful asso-
ciations, where we are destroying bit by bit the seeds
of war.—(Bien! Tres-Lien.) Let our hearts then be
set upon perpetual peace.
They talk about Utopia ; we will show them whe-
ther there is as much of Utopia in it as they think.
It is in meetings like these that we intend to lay the
grounds for a perpetual peace. But, gentlemen, are
there not some other associations still ? There are
associations which a man carries always in his heart,
and which distance only serves to make more vivid.
It shall be understood then, that we are to drink to
all we love, when I give you my toast A toutes les
associations.
M. Wolowski gave " The Working Classes." M.
Rittinghausen, one of the small number of anti-
free-traders who had presented themselves at the
Congress, gave the health of the president, M. De
Brouckere. M. Surginer, a Hollander, gave " The
Little and the Great," and made an interesting
speech upon his text. Dr. Bcwring gave "To the
fusion and holy alliance of the people of all nations."
Mr. Welcken, • " The liberty of nations." M.
Bartels, a specimen of what may be called
Young Belgium, made an ardently liberal speech,
and concluded with the health of " Pope Pius the
Ninth," amid thunders of applause.
Colonel Thompson rose and said—As one that is
sprung from the most Protestant of Protestants, I
cannot lose the opportunity of telling you with what
high hopes the English have viewed the noble deeds
of the new potentate of Italy. When we see Pius
the Ninth taking in hand all the interests of human
kind, we are all Pope's men together.--(Cheers.)
If our Government saw occasion, believe me, every-
body would march. We have a fine Scotch regiment
that glories in the title of being the descendants of
the Protestants who were persecuted in worse times.
Just see whether they will march or not, if they are
told. But it will never come to that. Everybody
has sense to a certain extent, and the despotic powers
in
like the rest. I therefore unite with M. Brtels
calling on evebody to join in a health to our ad-
mirable Pio Nryono.—(Drunk with every possible de-
monstration of enthusiasm.)
Mr. Ewart gave, " To Belgian hospitality," Mr.
Horace Say, " The health of Richard Cobden and
Frederick Bastiat," M. Jottrand, " The independence
of Belgium." The festival ended by the president a
giving " Sir Robert Peel," after which the party se-
parated.
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REGINIE REDITITS IN ANGLIAM.
Ecce I regalis rediit magistra,
Regis turba comitum fidelam
In viram clarum solium potentum
Tuta, valcnsque.

Jam gravel quisque ex animo dolores
PeHat, et grate mcluletur ore
carizina, et terra moveat choreas
Leeta juventusl
Scotia, mcesta lacrymis, relictit,
Principe Alberto eximio reducta,
Angl'm jam delicim decusque,
Inclyta sponse.
Cordibus fidis populi manebis,
Civium veris precibus bests,
0 In 03terrium imperium reeepta
Lucida vivo!

2, New Westen-street, Bermondsey.

G. J.

IN COLLIERY.—
named Thomas Dobin-
sonOn Friday_ afternoon,
descended the pump shaft of
and Walter Murray,
Main Colliery, near North Shields, tor the purpose
FATAL ACCIDENT
twoAT
men, named MA
Percy
examining pumping gear, which it used for the
of
of
wing the water from the bottom of the
purpose
This shaft forms part of the main shaft whence
the coals are drawn from the pit, and is partitioned off,
and only examined at stated periods when the gear and
pumps require it. The men who undertake this job are
lowered down by means of a gin rope wrought with
horses, and to facilitate the intercourse with the surface,
a string leads up the shaft to a bell, upon which the sig-
nals are given to pull up or lower as the case may re-
quire. On the evening mentioned these two men des-
cended the shaft to the bottom, and, having completed
their work, gave the signal to pull up. The men were
both in the loops formed in the chain, within which they
placed each one leg and clung to the main rope. The
horses went to their work and the rope ascended, when
suddenly something seemed to check it ; the horses put
forth their strength, and the rope came up without the
men. It was broken, and a frightful calamity had hap-
pened. Immediately steps were taken to ascertain the
fate of the unfortunate men, and they were afterwards
discovered hanging at some distance from the bottom,
still in the rope, which had got entangled with the scaf-
folding and the signal
bell rope. They had fallen a
considerable height, and were both dead, having received
Isevere injuries from striking the scaffolding in their
descent. It is supposed that the shaft-rope had fouled
the bell-rope in the ascent, and this circumstance lid to
the catastrophe. They were married men, and Murray
has left eight children to mourn his loss.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT SIR WILLIAM JOLLIEFEIS.
—Yesterday Mr. William Payne held an inquest at St.
Thomas's Hospital, on the body of James Holmes, aged
fourteen years. The deceased had been working at Sir
William Jolliffe's, at Chepstead, and whilst he was feed-
ing a thrashing machine, his left foot was drawn in and
the limb was extensively juju's d. Ile was removed to
the hospital, when it was found necessary to amputate
the limb, but on Sunday he suddenly expired.—Verdict
accidental death.
WIGAN.—ANOTUER PRIEST ILL OF FEVER.—We
are sorry to state that the Rev. J. Walker, the second or
junior priest at St. John's Catholic Chapel, Wigan, now
lies in a dangerous state, ill of typhus fever, caught in
visits to the filthy dwellings of the lower class of Irish
resident in the borough. The Rev. J. Hearne and the
Rev. J. Johnson, the two ministers whose lives have
already been sacrificed in attending to their sacred
duties, were successively the head priests at the same
plum of worship.—Liverpovi I'ltrcury.