The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-31 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, July 30.
Lord REDEVALE, in the absence of the Lord Chan-
tellor, took hip seat on the Woolsack at Five o'clock.
The Earl of CARLISLE presented a petition from
Bradford in favour of the retention of the Crystal Palace,

PRIVATE BILLS.
On the motion of Lord REDESDALE, several pri.
'rate Bills were forwarded a stage.
CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL.

The report on this Bill Wag brought up.
Several other Bills were forwarded a stage, and their
Lordships adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 30.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
MESSAGE FROM TUE LORDS.
A messenger from the Lords stated that their Lord.
ships had agreed to the following Bills:—
Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption.
Amendment to Manchester Improvement.
Copyhold and Enclosure Commissions.
Smithfield Market Removal Lords' amendments
agreed to.
'Militia Pay
Soap Duties. •
Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midlauds Junction
Railway.
United Kingdom Electric Telegraph Company.
Lincolnshire Estuary.
European and American Printing Telegraph Com-
pany, &c.
Caledonian Railway (Glasgow Garnkirk, and Coat-
bridge, Pollee, and Govan, &c. Railways) (Amend.
ment and Continuation, &c.)
CHURCH BUILDING ACTS AMENDMENT BILL.
The House then went into Committee upon this Bill.
Clause 1, after a short discussion, was struck out.
Clauses 2,3, 4,5, 6,7, and 8 were agreed to.
On Clause 9,
Mr. HEADL I.M proposed an amendment, to omit
from the clause the provisions of exemption from the
Operation of the Mortmain Act.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL opposed the amend-
ment.
After a short conversation the Committee divided
when there appeared—
For the amendment ...
Against it ..,
Majority ...
The amendment was consequently lost.
The clause was then agreed to.
The other clauses of the Bill from 10 to 23 were
agreed to.
Mr. FREWEN proposed the following clause:—
"And be it enacted,that upon the next avoidance cf any
benefice, which has no church or chapel belonging to it,
and which has a population of forty persons, or upwards
of forty persons, and which has not been united
to any other benefice or benefices by order
of her Majesty in Council, the said benefice
shall remain and continue void until a church or chapel
is built where divine service shall be performed; and the
fees and emoluments arising from the said benefice shall
from time to time, whilst it is void, be paid over to the
archbishop or bishop of the diocese, who, together with
the archdeacon of the archdeacoary, and patron or
Patrons of the said benefice, shall act as trustees for the
receipt of the said fees and emoluments, which shall be
appropriated by the said trustees for the purpose of
building or assisting to build a church or chapel for the
said benefice; and as soon as such church or chapel has
been consecrated or licensed for divine worship by the
archbishop or bishop of the diocese, then it shall
be lawful for the patron or patrons to present a spiri-
tual person to the said benefice, who shall enjoy
all the rights, fees, and emoluments, and perform
all the duties appertaining thereto, and who shall be
under the same ecclesiastical control and authority as
any other incumbent in the same diocese: provided al-
ways, that if the said archbishop or bishop shall license
any room in the said parish for divine service, then it
shall ba lawful for the patron or patrons to present a
spiritual person to the said benefice, who shall perform
all the duties appertaining thereto, and who shall be
under the same ecclesiastical control and authority as
any other incumbent."
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL opposed the clause,
as not coming within the scope of the Bill.
After a short conversation the Committee divided,
when there appeared—
For tie. clause
Against it ...
Majority ..„ —3
On the question that the clause be added to the Bill a
discussion took place, in the course of which it was
arranged that the Solicitor-General should draw up a
clause embodying certain alterations which were sug-
gested by Mr. Gladstone.
The House then resumed, and the report was ordered
to be brought up on Friday.
PETTY SESSIONS (IRELAND) BILL.
The House then went into Cceamittee upon this Bill.
Oa clause 1 being proposed,
Mr. M'CULLAGLI opposed the Bill, and observed that
if the House agreed to it, they would adopt the principle
that a single magistrate sitting at sessions might
dispose of all cases included in the Summary
Jurisdiction Act, with the exception of treason,
and shou'd also be empowered to imprison a person with-
out fine for the spice of twelve calendar months. He
asked the Reuse whether it was wise or expedient to in-
Test a single magistrate with such considerable powers?
Coloat4 DUNNE was perfectly satisfied that by enabling
a magistrate to n'ijadic•ite summarily they conferred no
benetit upon him, but, on the contrary, gave him a great
deal of trouble, though the people would derive many
advantages by such an arrangement.
The ciau3e was agreed to, as were also the following
eight clauses.
On clause 10 bein,. proposed,
Mr. M `CULL AG LI moved the omission of section 2
enaolieg one magistrate to adjudicate summarily in al.
cases.

49
-30

... 40
... 37

Sir W. SO JERVILLE cpposed the amendment, be-
lieving that it would be a virtual denial of justice to in-
sist upon the attendance of two or more magistrates in
all cases.

After some discussion the Committee divided, when
there appeared—
FA- the amendment ... 13
Against it ... 49
Majority . . ••• ... —36
The clad Lie wa%; th,:n agreed to, and the Chairman was
directei to report progress.
The House resumed, and the Chairman obtained leave
to sit again to-morrow.
The rem,ininz: ordora were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned, at Six o'clock, till to-morrow (this
day), at Twelve o'clock.

TO TilE 'EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—The 1) shish c'iarter for the submarine and
land telegraph,. !s granted to I%feasrs. G. Shepherd, C.E.,
and C. Button, patcatues of the submarine telegraph,
and not to Messrs. Sheppard and Botton, as stated in
your impression of this day. Plcaso correct this error,
and oblige your obedient servant,
G. SHEPHERD, C.E.
Thlborn-bers, 29th July, 1851.

FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION.
THREE LIVES LOST.

We received last evening a communication to the fol-
lowing effect from Lees, near Oldham:—
Ail ,at nine o'clock this (Tuesday) morning, the boiler
belonging to the mill of Messrs. Rhodes and Co., of Hey,
burst—it is said somewhere near the dust-hole, in the
bottom of the boiler—and of course the steam rushed out
with tremendous force into the fire-hole. Over the boiler
was a willow-room in which three men were working, and
the force of the steam threw upwards a small portion of
the flagged floor of this room. The men, hearing the
explosion, and seeing the rush of steam from below, ran
towards the door of the room to escape, and the steam
concealing the aperture it had made in the floor, they
unfortunately fell through it into the steam and boil-
ing water in the boiler-house below. Two of them
were almost instantaneously killed. When the
steam had passed elf, and the water flowed away, the
third man was extricated, still living, but he expired in
a few moments afterwards. It is generally thought that
the boiler was short of water; and it is said that the
water-pump had just been looked to, and set to work.
Another statement is, that there was no whistle to in-
dicate the quantum of water in the boiler. The boiler
is almost a new one.
Our correspondent adds the following suggestions:—
That boilers should always be outside, and detached
from the mill or works; that they should always have
attached to them a whistle, to indicate the state of the
water; one or two sufficient safety.valves;
and a mer-
cury (4auge, to indicate the pressure of steam in the
boiler.
Previously to receiving the above communication, we
had heard a vague rumour of this fatal accident, and had
dispatched a. reporter to . the spot. He was enabled to
glean the following additional particulars. Hey is about
two miles east of Oldhen, as the crow flies. The pre-
mises on which the accident has occurred are the pro-
ti of Messrs. James Rhodes and Brothers, and eon_
t of one largo building, four storeys high, and several
smaller ones. A portion of the larger building and some
Schofield, who,
°I the smaller ones are occupied by Messrs. Fielden and
spinners. as well as Messrs. Rhodes, are cotton
The larger building is filled with machinery,
the whole of which, in both the occupancies, is turned by
one. engine, the steam for which has been supplied by a
boiler of about
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unable last
horses' power. We were _ , -
neveessn;inbgUtto
fromiilsl)ect:he boiler in consequence of the dark
and had a fine Iv
at we could learn, it was cylindrical,
Dow me, is fixedoringues.
.4,,,a,teellar running beneath This boiler, which is nearly a
at the south two build-
ings,CelleaT side of the principal mill. The
buildings over thee
end
of
thearbeopinly one storey
over the firing high; that
fieerreinsigoincecuphioeudsea.s a
iwmilmlo7 .
room, while the other is the
diately in front ef el
..Th
~,,," a wall, which supeerteepdace of
the 'boiler
very Large
pace below these Ha sound fiv.:, forming a ror.;. a :oe the e of the
willow room; and the s
gs and another
used a 3
portion of the fl or, was
the coal hole, to
which access is eh'aived by a flight of steps lear e;
e
from the yard. In the willow room there are. 'tinw--
o
willows and a lap machine. This last is placed x-
actly over the bill,- r; and the others immediately at
the side of it. At all these machines men were at work
yesterday morning, the names of the men at the wit.
lowa being Jonah 3rierley and James W, interbettom,
and of the mail at the
lap machine, Samuel Lord.
; e.ght o'clock
yesterday morciag, end
nothing unusual was ob-
The engine was started about. ball-past
before nine, when
served until about ten minutes
.
the boiler burst with a loud noise, and the steam
and water rushed fietcely out. The immediate effect
of this was to throw down the wall supporting
thee
r'''\ ..: \\ . flagstones in the floor of the willow room, and h t
'I. ree men becualieg alarmed and running towards the
tot, in order to got out, they fell down with one of
, "IV? Omni into the space betieittl. At the time the

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