The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-27 00:00:00

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BOILER EXPLOSION at MANCHESTER.
The shocking catastrophe at Manchester, on Tuesday
afternoon, by the bursting of a steam-engine boiler, of
which a brief description was given in The Sun of yes-
terday, has resulted, so far as could be ascertained up to
last evening, in the loss of nine lives, besides seven per-
sons being seriously injured. The building destroyed
by the explosion was about forty yards long, bounded
on the east side by North-street, on the west by Riga-
street, with Mayes-street at the north end, and other
buildings close adjoining it to the south. The premises
belonged to Messrs. Hardman, Price, and Sons, calico-
printers, and were let by them to Mr. Thomas William-
son, sawyer by steam power, who occupied a portion of
the lower part of the building, and sublet the remaining
portions of the first and three other floors above to other
parties. Mr. George Parker occupied part of the lower
story, and had a willowing machine for cotton waste
there. Mr. John Lester, wood-turner, occupied part of
the second story, employing about twenty hands; and
Mr. Percival, rule-maker, Lower Mosley-street, occupied
a part of this story. Mr. Melloy, who had eight work-
people, occupied part of the third story, and the upper
part of the building was unoccupied. About three
or four men and women were in Mr. Parker's room
at the time of the explosion, and four men were
in the engine.house, but it is not know-sal
how many were in the saw-mill. As stated yester-
day, the engine had been stopped for repairs after din-
ner, and had not been started at three o'clock, when
the boiler burst. A man named Thomas Lambert, who
had been promised work by Mr. Williamson, states that
he went into the engine-house a little before three
o'clock, and found three men there, who were
grumbling i
that the engine could not be started. They had been I
lifting at the fly-wheel—the engine having stopped
when the crank attached to the wheel was at the bottom
—with a view to assisting the steam-power by giving the
first impulse, but had not succeeded. Ile lent them as-
sistance, and while all four were lifting at the wheel the
boiler, which stood in a yard close adjoining that part
of the building, burst and brought down the whole of the
three upper stories cf the mill upon the lower one,
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gether with a tall chimney at the north end. A part
the boiler forced its way through the wall and chimney
at the north end, and destroyed a large stable on the
opposite side of Mayes-street, besides breaking the win-
dows of the Wilton Arms Inn, adjoining the stables, and
otherwise damaging the front of that house. Lambert
found his way into Mayes-street without knowing how,
without injury, though his escape Lem the falling ruins
seems miraculous. Egerton, the engine-driver, who was
in the engine-house at the time, also escaped. Such of
the workpceple as escaped, and numerous other persons
who soon collected round the heap of ruins, rushed
upon the top, as soon as the dust began to clear away,
and liberated all the people who could be found, in-
cluding Mr. Melloy, one of the tenants of the building.
A more regular search then commenced by the fire-
police and labourers employed to assist them, which was
continued till 12 o'clock on Tuesday night, and was se-
mimed at five o'clock yesterday morning. Not half the
ruins, however. had been removed up to five o'clock last
evening, though it was believed all the bodies (or all but
one of them) had been recovered.
The following are the names of the dead whose bodica
have been found:—
Timothy O'Neal, 10, Osborne-street.
Elizabeth Brewnan, aged 23, 67 Bennett-street. Em-
aged 14 years
ployed to pick cotton waste for Mr. Parker.
Mary Ann Dunn, aged 9 years, 11, Hanover-street.
A child who was not employed in the mill, but was in
Mayes-street when it fell.
William Fender, aged 12, Ludlow's-court, Ludlow-
hill, weocia:urner.
mujcalalsecsalßdreide, andrY' 2, erthington's-court, Bengal-street,
bruised about the head.
William Whiteley, aged 36, wood-turner.
Daniel M'Cloud, eget 40, wood-turner.
John Holmes, a ood-turner.
The bodies of the three men last-named were not tacos
cored from the ruins until twelve o'clock yesterday.
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Richerd Webster, aged 50, labourer, in the employ of.
Mr. Williamson.
Thomas Dirasdale, aged 35, drover, from East Witham,
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te d about the chest,
and not likely to recover.
who was passing the building when the explosion took
place.
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John Cross, aged 30, No. 3, Frederick-street.
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Daniel Harrison, Brook-street.
John Holland, 14 years, 95, Bank Osborne-street.
James Field, aged 51, wood-turner, 12, Bedford-street.
These make eight killed and seven wounded by this
shocking accident, and it is expected that the body of a
boy earned Fender is still in the ruins.
The irquest commenced yesterday afternoon, before
Mr. Herford, coroner for the borough, and evidence:in
identification of the dead bodies was being taken when
our report left. The engine-driver, Egerton, was in cps-
tody, ana it is expected that it will be shown that be was
intoxicated when the boiler burst. Whether any evi-
dence throwing light on the cause of the boiler bursting
will be adduced is not known.

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POLITICAL CHIVALRY.—A newspaper, that advo-
cates unreasonable bread, calls Lord Stanley " the noble and
chivalrous leader of the Country party." Chivalrous comes
from checal, a horse. What Lord Stanley has to do with a
horse, in a political sense, we do not know, except in as far
as, without disrespect, he may be called a clever jockey. As
for Protection, it is merely hia hobby.—Punch.

The Queen held a Levee yesterday afternoon in St.
James's Palace. The Levee was numerously attended,
and was the third held by her Majesty this season.
The Queen and Prince Albert arrived from Bucking-
ham Palace shortly before two o'clock, and were re-
ceived by the Great Officers of State.
Before the Levee the Queen gave audience to Lord
John Russell.
Her Mjesty and Prince Albert were attended by the
Mistress of the Robes, the aintess of Desert (Lady in
Waiting), the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the
Master of the Horse, the Groom of the Stole to the
Prince, the Treasurer of the Household, the Comptroller
of the Household, Lord Elphinstone (Lord in Waiting),
Lord George Lennox (Lord in Waiting to the Prince),
Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps (Keeper of
her Majesty's Privy Purse), Colonel the Hon. Charles
Grey (Private Secretary to Prince Albert), Captain the
Hon. Joseph Denman, Royal Navy (Groom in Waiting),
Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Seymour (Groom in Wait-
ing to Prince Albert), Lord Alfred Paget, Clerk Marshal
(Equerry in Waiting), Colonel Bouverie (Equerry in
Waiting to the Prince), and Messrs. Gordon and Forbes
(Pages of Honour in Waiting).
The Queen wore a train of black silk trimmed with
black crape and black ornaments. The petticoat was
also of black silk, trimmed with black crape. Her Ma-
jesty wore black ornaments in her head-dress.
The Queen's Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms was
on duty in the State Saloons.
Her Majesty's Body Guard, under the command of
Captain Phibbs, the Exon in Waiting, was on duty in
the Palace as usual.
In the Diplomatic Circle the following presentations
to her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Al-
bert took place:—
By the Bavarian Minister—M. Schaffbault, Aulic
Councillor and Professor at the Munich University and
Bavarian Commissioner to the Great Exhibition.
By the Russian Minister—M. Le Capitaine P. Lisi-
ansky, and M, le Capitaine J. Shestakoff, do la Marine
Imperials Russo.
By the Netherlands Minister—Baron de Tuyll, Offi-
cier d'Ordonnance de S. M. le Roi des Pays Bas, and M.
de Steenberghe, Officier d'Ordonnance de S. M. le. Roi
des Pays Bas.
By the United States Minister—Mr. Charles F. Stans-
bury, American Commissioner to the Industrial Exhi.
bition.
By the Austrian Chargé d'Affaires—Captain Baron
Scholl (Engineers), Captain Uchatius (Artillery), and
Lieutenant Flies (Hussars)—all three officers in the
service of his Majesty the Emperor of Austria.
The Diplomatic Circle was attended by Baron de
Cetto, Bavarian Minister; Baron de Brunnow, Russian
Minister, and M. Alexandre de Berg, First Secretary of
Legation; Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Minister, and Mr.
Bethmann, Secretary of Legation; Count de Reventlow,
Danish Minister, and Count de Moltke and Count de
Reventlow Criminil, Secretaries of Legation; Count
Schimmelpenninck, Netherlands Minister, and Baron de
Stratenus, Councillor of the Legation; Baron de Re-
hausen, Swedish and Norwegian Minister; Mr. Abbott
Lawrence, Minister of the United States of America,
and Colonel T. B. Lawrence, Attaché to the Legation;
Senor X. Isturitz, Spanish Minister, and Mr. J. T.
Comyn, First Secretary of Legation; the Marquis
d'Azeglio, Sardinian Minister, and le Comte Louis Corti.
Secretary of Legation; M. de Marescalchi, Chargé
d'Affaires of France, ad M. De Saux, Secretary of the
French Embassy; Cabouly Effendi, Chargé d'Affaires de
la Sublime Porte, and Dilaver Effendi, Attaché to the
Embassy; Chevalier de Ribeiro, Charge d'Affaires of
Portugal; Senor Francisco de Rivero, Charge d'Affaires
of Peru; and M. Fabricio Caceres, Attaché, and M.
Emilio de Althaus, Attache to the Mission; Viscount
Palmerston, G.C.8., the Qeen's Principal Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs; and Lieutenant-Colonel the
Hon. Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H., her Majesty's Master
of the Ceremonies.
The General Circle was attended by the First Lord
of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home
and Colonial Departments, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, the Right Hon. Sir F. Baring, the President
of the Board of Control, the Earl of Carlisle, the Mar-
quis of Clanricarde, the Right Hon. H. Labouchere,
the Lord Chief Justice of England, the Captain of the
Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, the Captain of the
Yeomen Guard, the Marquis of Anglesey, Gold Stick in
Waiting; the Lord Bishop of Oxford, Lord Almoner ;
Sir Edward Disbrowe, her Majesty's Envoy Extraordi-
nary and Minister Plenipotentiary to his Majesty the
King of the Netherlands; Mr. Coiquhoun, Agent and
Consul-General for the Hanse Towns; Mr. J. B. Heath,
Sardinian Consul-General; Chevalier Hebeler, their
Prussian and Wurtemberg Majesties' Consul-General;
Mr. Adolphus Brandt, Bavarian Consul-General ;
Mr. William Tottie, his Swedish and Norwegian Ma-
jesty's Vice-Consul ; Mr. H. Howard, Secretary of her
Majesty's Legation at Vienna; Sir Charles Lock East-
lake, President of the Roya Academy; Mr. James,
Tyler, Lieutenant of her Majesty's Hon. Corps of Gentle-
men-at-Arms; Sir George Lee, Lieutenant of the Yeo-
men Guard; Hon. and Rev. Edward S. Keppel, Deputy
Clerk of the Closet; Mr. Sheriff Hodgkinson; Mr. Fre-
derick Elliot, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Colo-
nial Department; Colonel H. Bentinck, Colonel Clark
Kennedy, and Colonel Sir J. Schcedde, A.D.C. to the
Queen; Colonel Buckley, Equerry to the Queen; Colo-
nel Sir William Davison, Equerry to his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge • Colonel M'Douall (2d
Life Guards), Silver Stick; Colonel Cornwall, her Ma-
jesty's Assistant Master of the Ceremonies; Reverend
Thomas W. Wrench, Chaplain to Mr. Sheriff Hodgkin-
son; Colonel Chaplin (Coldstream Guards), Field Officer
Brigade Waiting ; Captain Newdigate (Coldstream
Guards), Adjutant in Brigade Waiting; Captain Curl-
ing, Adjutant of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms;
Lieutenant-Colonel Fitzmaurice, Adjutant of the Yeo-
man Guard; Colonel Sir Frederic Smith (in Waiting),
and Mr. Charles Heneage, Gentlemen Ushers to the
Privy Chamber; Mr. Alfred Montgomery, Lieutenant-
Colonel Diggle (in Waiting). Mr. Arthur Blackwood,
Mr. Edward Flobhouse, and Captain the Hon. Mortimer
Sackville West, Gentlemen Ushers to her Majesty; Cap-
tain G. C. Blake, R.N., Gentleman Usher to his Royal
Highness Prince Albert in Waiting.
The following noblemen and gentlemen had the honour
of being presented to her Majesty:—
Lieutenant-Colonel F. Abbot, C. 8., on appointment as
Lieutenant-Governor of Addiscombe Military Semi-
nary, by Viscount Hardinge.
Captain Airey, 3d Foot, by Major-General Duffy.
Lieutenant Andrews, R.A., on promotion and return
from foreign service, by the Marquis of Anglesey.

Mr. Astor (of New York), by the American Minister.
Mr. John Arthur Bailey, on appointment, 52d Regiment,
by Viscount Hardinge.
Dr. H. Melville Balfour, on appointment, Assistant-
Surgeon, 84th Regiment, by Sir W. Gibson Craig.
Lieutenant J. M. Barstow, by Lieutenant-Colonel
Brandling.
Lord A. W. Beauclerk, Commander R.N., by Viscount
Milton, M.P.
Mr. A. Bellasis, Bombay Civil Service, on return from
India, by Lord Broughton.
Lieutenant W. Bellers, by Colonel Sir Michael Creagh.
Rev. J. M. Bellew, by Mr. Perfect, M.P.
Lieutenant-General Sackville H. Berkeley, on appoint-
ment, 75th Regiment, on return from the command in
the West Indies, by the Commander-in-Chief.
Captain J. Biden, on appointment to the Artillery Com-
pany, by Sir George Grey.
Captain Sir George Bisshopp, on succeeding to the
Baronetcy, by Captain Sir George B. Pecbell.
Major Blacken, on appointment as Lieutenant-Governor
of Dominica, by Lord Grey.
Lieutenant Blewitt, by General Hall.
Lieutenant Edward Bode, by Earl Granville.
Lieutenant Bostock, on return from foreign service in
the lonian Elands, by Major-General Sir Richard
Armstrong.
Lieutenant Charles Brackenbury, on obtaining his
commission, Royal Artillery, by the Master-General
of the Ordnance.
Mr. Charles Brandling,Grenadier Guards, by Colonel
Sir Ord Honyman.
Captain and Adjutant Brandling, Royal Horse Artillery,
by Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Downman.
Captain Bridge, on promotion, on return from China,
by Viscount Gough.
Ensign Briscoe, on appointment 16th Regiment, by
Major-General Sir Richard Armstrong.
Mr. W. IL Brodhurst, on his return from India, by Mr.
Loftus Wigram, M.P.
Ensign F. Browne, by the Earl of Strafford.
Commodore Bruce, on appointment to the Naval Com-
mand of the Coast of Africa, by Sir F. Baring.
Sir Richard Bulkeley, on appointment as Lord-Lieute-
naut of Carnarvon, by Sir G. Grey.
Cornet G. Sapte Barnand, by Major-General Brotherton.
Second-Lieutenant C. W. Burton, R. M., by Colonel
Owen, R.M.
Mr. R. R. Burroughes, by Mr. Pigott, M.P.
Lieutenant Butler, on appointment to the 87th Regi-
ment, by Viscount Gough.
Lieutenant R. H. Payne Crawfurd, by Major-General
Sir Frederick Stovin.
Commander S. S. L. Crofton, R.N., by the Hon. Admiral
Crofton.
Viscount Crowhurst, by the Bishop of Worcester.
Mr. Cubitt, President of the Institution of Civil Engi-
neers, by Earl Granville.
Mr. George N. Curzon, by Earl Howe.
Lieutenant Cairnes on appointment, R.A., by Master-
General of the Ordauce.
Ensign Charles Calvert, on appointment to 43d Regi-
ment, by Major-General Mercer.
Lieutenant H. M. Campbell, R.A., by the Master-General
of the Ordnance.
Mr. George Campbell, B. C. S., by the Marquis of Bread-
albane.
Rev. Dr. Cartmell, Master of Christ's College, Cambridge,
on being appointed Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen,
by the Lord Chamberlain.
Lieutenant Castle, 8.A., by Colonel Hay.
Ensign R. Charlton, on appointment to the 81st Regi-
ment, by Major-General NV: Power.
Lieutenant Chichester, by Sir Bruce Chichester.
Mr. Richard Clarke, the Accountant in Bankruptcy, by
the Lord Chancellor.
Lieutenant W. H. Clements, R.M., by Colonel T. A.
Parke, R.M.
Mr. Cobham, by Mr. Pigott, M.P.
Captain Copinger , on return from foreign service in the
lonian Islands, by Major-General Sir Richard Arm-
strong.
Professor Philip Corridi, Director of the Royal Tecno-
logical Institution of Florence, and Commissioner of
the Tuscan Government for the Exhibition of 1851, by
Viscount Palmerston.
Mr. Charles James Cox, on appointment to her Majesty's
Hon. Corps of Gentlemen.at-Arms, by Lord Foley.
Mr. Weston,Cracroft, on appointment as Deputy-Lieu-
tenant, county of Lincoln, by the Earl of Yarborough.
Rev. Edward liartopp Cradock, on change of name by
Royal licence, by Lord John Russell.
Viscount Cranley, on his marriage, by Lieutenant-Colonel
Hon. Peregrine Cust.