The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-30 00:00:00

EPISCOPAL INCOMES.

Sir B. HALL gave notice that, early next session,
he would move the appointment of a Select Commitvie
to inquire in'io epitieopal incomes.
ADJOUINMENT OF THE HOUSE.

Lord J. RU,SELL bltid, if the courso of public ha-
slues& would permit, he would move, on Friday, thin
the House at its rising should adjourn uutil Weciaesday
nest.

PUi3LIC LIBRARIES.

On the motion of Mr. EWART, the Committee on
public libritri3s was re•appoiated, for tte purpose of r
so ale form.-. 1 evidence on the subject of forei,:n

The dropped orders were re-appointed.
COALWHIPPERS (PORT OF LONDON) BILL.
This Bill w4s read a third tithe and passed.
PATENT LAW AMENDMENT BILL.

On the motion for going into Committee on this Bill,
Mr. T. EGERTON objected to prooceeding with u
Bill of this itoporte.nce at this late period of the session.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said th.e.
Bill and ita details had loosen fully eonmdered in Cie
L-rds. Its principles nad also been affirmed by tile
House, and its provisions were not of that vast impo r-
tauee as to justify the postponement of the 8,11.
Sir F. TIIESIGEII. sate the measure was one of ewe.-
siderable importance, and although it might have be en
fully considered by the House of Lords it did nut foll,e‘v
that this House was to be bound by the opinion of the
Howe of Lords. This House might with to follow the
course pursued by the Lords, and refer the Bill to the
consideration of a Select Committee; and, as many
its provisions must inevitably lead to discussion, he hoped
it would be postponed.
Mr. MACGREGOR said the country was looking for
tl-1, passing of the Bill with great interest, and ho hoped
its progress would not be stopped.
Sir DE LACY EVANS said the principle of the
Bill had been affirmed with only one dissentient, and he
therefore saw no reason for postponing a measure which
would have the effect of reforming ono of the greatest
evils that existed on our statute book.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said it was only in-
tended to go into Committee pro form&. Five hundred
persons had taken out protections for articles exhi-
bited in the Crystal Palace, and they were anxiously
waiting to see if they would bo allowed to take up
patents under this Bill.
Mr. BROTHERTON had received communications
from Salford in favour of the Bill, and he hoped the
Houses would proceed with it without delay. The Bill
would confer a great boon upon the manufacturing an-
terest of the country.
Mr. NEWDEGATE admitted that defects existed in
the Bill of last session, and if he supported the motion
for proceeding with the Bill, it would be to amend these
defects.
Mr. SPOONER asked when it was proposed to go
into Committee again on the Bill, if it went throt.gh
pro formci?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER repl fed,
on Friday morning.
Mr. T. GIIBENE suggested that the practice of allow-
ing a patentee six months to specify wa a great evil,
and ha hoped it would be dealt with by this Bill. As
the Bib. now stotal it would nava the effect of chenclig
the intellects of the country of many of their best woras,
and if it were in,,t amended he hoped it would be with-
drawn
altogether. For instance, the proposal to appoint
examiners Was highly objectionable, and ought not to be
agreed to.
Me. BROWN said the object of the Bill he big hly
approved of, but there were defects in its details, anca he
trusted they would be amended in Committee.
Mr. CARDWELL supported the Bill, but did not
consider it as
,s final settlement of the patent law', which
required a thorough reform. He suggested that the
Government should appoint a Committee next session
to make a full, searceing, and dispassionate inquiry
into the subject, with the view of producing a
more perfect measure. He hoped no objection would
now be made to going pro forma through Committee.
Alderman SIDNEY regretted that the Go-
vernment would not consent to alter the Bill, as,
under particular circumstances, it increased the
cost of obtaining patents. Though die incomes of
the Attorney and Solicitor-General would be diminished
for the next three years, yet, as after that period there
would be an additional fee of not, and after seven years
of a 100/, the incomes of those officers would ultimately
be greatly increased. Instead of there being a
permanent reduction in the
cost of obtaining
patents, there would be a considerable increase in con-
sequence of these different payments.
Lord J. RUSSELL said it was very inconvenient,
and, as far as he knew, a new practice to introduce a
debate on the merits of a Bill on the motion for going
into Committee pro forma. He hoped the practice would
not be encouraged or prevail in the House.—
(Hear.)
With respect to the suggestion of the Hon. Member for
Liverpool (Mr. Cardwell), all he could say without cora-
anitting himself at present was, that the Government
would take the subject into consideration with the view
of seeing whether they could agree to the proposal.
They cnly treated the present Bill as an improvement
on tne existing
law. (Hear, bear.)
The Bill
then wentthrough C 'tt e pro forma, and
the report was, ordered to be brought up
CHURCH BUILDING ACTS AMENDMENT BILL.
t into
The house then en OD Friday.
Clause 1, after a wCommittee upon this Bill.
short discussion,
On Clause 9, was struck out.
Clauses 2,3, 4, 5
, 6,7, and 8 were agreed to.
Mr. HEADLAII proposed an amendment, to omit
ofrom
eratLn the clothe use the Provisions of exemption from the
of Mortmain
The SOLICITOR-GENERI
p L
opposed the amend-
ment.
After a short conversation the Committee divided
when there appeared—
For the amendment ...
••• ••• 19
Against it
Majority ••• •• 49
••• —3O
The amendment was consequently lost.
The clause was then agreed to.
The other clauses of the Bill from 10 to 28 were
agreed to.
Mr. FREWES proposed the following clause:—
" And be it enacted, that upon the next avoidance of any
benefice, which has no church or chapel belonging to it,
and which has a population of forty persons, or upwards
which has
of forty persons, and w not been united
to any other benefice or benefices by order
of her Majesty in Council,tae said benefice
chapel
shall remain and continue void until a churchor
ndh
ta Wilt where divine service shall be performed;a the
r"g nth] • e shall
olurnenta arising from the said benefice the
ea over to
• ftoni., to time, whilst it is void, be
Lea together with
ref •• • • or bishop of the diocese, whe,
.:acoa of the alohdeacoary, and patron or
Pa cat., the said benefice, shall act as trustees for the
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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 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 be 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 the clauso ... 40
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 Committee upon this Bill.
On clause 1 being proposed,
Mr. M'CULLAGIi 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 should also be empowered to imprison a person with-
out fine for the space of twelve calendar months. He
asked the House whether it was wise or expedient to in-
vest a single magistrate with such considerable powers?
Colonel DUNNE waa perfectly satisfied th at by enabling
a magistrate to adjudicate summarily they conferred no
benefit 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 clause was agreed to, as were also the following
eight clauses.
On clause 10 being proposed,
Mr. M..CULLAGH moved the omission of section 2,
enabling one magistrate to adjudicate summarily in all
cases.

Sir W. SOMERVILLE ; pposed 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—
For the amendment ... ... ... 13

Against it

... 49
-. ...

Majority . . ... —36
The elauze was then agreed to, and the Chairman was
direete,i to report progress.
The House resumed, and the Chairman obtained leave
to sit again to-morrow.
The rermaininr orlrls were then disposed of, and the
Howe at:jot:rued, at &x o'clock, till to-morrow, at
Twelve o'clock.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR—The DALish charvr for the submarine and
hod telegraphs is gran:ed to Messrs. G. Shepherd, C.E.,
and C. Button, paentees of the submarine telegraph,
and not to Messre. Sheppard and Rotten, as stated in
your impression of this day. Please correct this error,
and oblige your obedient servant,
G. SHEPHERD, C.E.
Holborn-bars, 29th July, 1851.

FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION.
THREE LIVES LOST.

We received last evening a communication to the fol-
lowing effect from Lees, near Oldham:—
About nice 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 flee 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, end seeing the rush of steam from below, ran
towards the dour of the room to escape, and the steam
concealing the aperture it had made in the fluor, they
unfortunately fell through it into the steam and boil.
ing water in the boiler-hcuse below. Two of them
were almost instantaneously killed. When the
steam had passed eff, and the water flowed away, the
third man was extricated, still living, but ho 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 tu, and set to wells.
Another statement is, that there was no whistle to in-
dicate the quantum of water iu the boiler. The boiler
is almost a new cue.

Our correspondent adds the following suggestions:—
That boilers should always be outside, and detached
from the mill or wetly; that they should always have
attached to them a wl-Atstle, to indicate the state of the
water; ono or two sufficient safety-valves; and a mar-
eury gauge, to indicate the pressure of steam in the
j boiler.

Previously to receiving the above communication, we
had heard u 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 Oldham, as the crow flies. The pro-
mis.ea on which the accident has occurred are the pro-
perty Messrs. James Rhodes and Brothers, and con-
sist of one large building, four storeys high, and several
smaller ones. A portion of the larger building and abme
of the smaller ones are occupied by Messrs. Fielden and
Schofield, who, as well as Messrs. Rhodes, are cotton
spinners. The larger building is filled with machinery,
the whole cf which, in both the occupancies, is turned by
one engine, the steam for which has been supplied by a
boiler of about 42 horses' power. We were unable last
evening to inspect the boiler in consequence of the. dark-
ness; but from what we could learn, it was cylindrical,
and had a flue or flues. This boiler, which is nearly a
new one, is fixed in a cellar running beneath two build-
ings, at the south-eastern side of the principal mill. The
buildings over this cellar are only one storey high; that
over the firing end cf the boiler is occupied as a willow
room, while the other is the engine house. Imme-
diately in front of the fireplace of the boiler
was a wall, which supported two very large
flags, forming a portion :of the floor of the
willow room; and the space below these flags and another
portion of the floor, was used as the coal hole, to
which access is obtained by a flight of steps leading
from the yard. In the willow room there are two
willows and a lap machine. This last is placed ex-
actly over the boiler; and the others immediately at
the side of it. At all these machines men were at work
yesterday morning, the names of the na?n at the wil-
lows being Jonah Brierley and James Winterbottom,
and of the man at the lap machine, Samuel Lord.
The engine was started about half-past eight o'clock
yesterday morning, and nothing unusual was ob-
served until abut ten minutes before nine, when
the boiler burst with a loud noise, and the steam
and eater rushed fiercely out. The immediate effect
of this was to throw down the wall supporting the
flagstones in the floor of the willow room, and the
three men becoming alarmed and running towards the
door, in order to get out, they fell down with one of
these stones into the space beneath. At the time the
explosion happened, Mr. George Rhodes, one of the part-
ners in the firm was going into the willow room, and
upon opening a door leading into it from the principal
mill he was met by a cloud of dust followed by a rush
of steam. He at once shut the door, and returned
to the mill, from the lower floor of which he sent out
all the workpeople, being afraid that the dan-
ger was not over. Some of these people going
round to the door leading from the willow room
into the mill yard, and finding that room full of steam
and a portion of the flooring fallen in, were at once con-
vinced that the three men, whom they could not see,
must be severely injured. After the steam had some-
what cleared away, some persons descended into the
firing hole, where they found the three men, who had
been working in the willow room lying on the fallen
flag. The men were at once brought out, when it was
found that Winterbottom was quite dead, The other
two were still alive, but almost immediately expired.
Mr. Elliot, surgeon, was speedily in attendance, but was
of course unable to render any assistance, and the bo-
dies were soon afterwards removed to the Red Lion
public-house, at Austerlands, where they are now lying.
The bodies are all very severely scalded, but do not ap-
pear to have sustained any injury from the fall; and
there can be no doubt that, as stated by the surgeon,
death was caused by the scalding.
Upcn examination, it was found that one of the plates
in the upper part of the flue, immediately over the fire-
box had been rent by the explosion to the length of
eighteen inches. The boiler was not moved from its
position, nor was any damage done to the nachinery
or the building, with the exception of the throwing
down of the wail, and the falling of the large flag-
stone already mentioned. The cause of the accident
has not yet been ascertained. The names of
the deceased: were Samuel Lord, laptenter, about
forty years of age, living at Lees; Jonah Brierley,
wallower, about fifty or fifty-five years of age, living
at He,y; -
and James Winterbottom, willovver, about 35,
also living
at -ey. Lord and Brierley have both left
widows; the former one, the latter two children. Win-
terbottom was unmarried. The inquest is expected to
be held to-day (Wednesday) at the Red Lion, Auster-
lands.—Manchester Guardian of this day.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the .Manchester Guardian of this day.)
MANCHESTER, TIIESDAY.—By the Africa, which ar-
rived in the Mersey on Saturday night, we learn that cot-
ton had lost from i to 1 cent per lb. at New York during
the week, and that rarely has a growing crop presented a
more healthy or vigorous appearance, or a better stand
than the present one does. In Liverpool, a considerable
business continues to be done, and prices are reported
to be about itd. above those of Friday; but
buyers find an anxiety to sell which enables
them
aboutthestsatitl same generally to do as well as on that day. In
our own market, the operations in yarns have been on
a fair scale for India and Russia; and the prices paid are
mans still show much backwardness, and complain of
out moderate orders, et:: on Friday and Saturday. The Ger-
mans
the dull eir
Mediterranean markets,
yarns,continue
nd givinglow
counts generally, remain scarce. There is still a good
demand for warps, up s ,
to number 20's, both for continental
and home consumption, but particularly- the latter; and
the makers are,
in many instances, supplied with
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contracts for several weeks to come; yet higher prices
cannot be obtained, and those who are open to
orders take them on the terms which have lately
prevailed. Medium pin-cop weft is quiet. In goods,
there has been a fair business of a pretty general
character. Some manufacturers of stout fabrics and.
printing cloths have entered into renewed engagements,
of rather considerable extent. The Indian buyers,
seeing an unfavourable telegraphic statement about
piece goods, have held aloof, waiting for their letters,
which will be received this evening. On the whole,
there is no decline to-day in any descriptions of yarns
or :goods, neither is there any advance; but there is
more steadiness throughout, and many articles exhibit
what is called an increased stiffness.
RCCHDALE, MONDAY.—The peace market has under-
gone little change since last Monday, either in price or
demand. In wool the demand is steady, and prices farm,
with a scarcity of that quality of wool varying from 9d.
to 13d. per lb.
MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY.—Our manufactured goods
trade is, if anything, less active than of late; owing, in a
great measure, to the interim which usually takes place
at this season, prior to preparations becoming general
for the autumn trade. The demand for thrown silk re-
mains quiet. The appearance of the market is, however.
satisfactory; prices maintaining their firmness, which
operates favourably with producers, who aro gradually
extending their operations. The raw silk market re-
mains very firm, with an upward tendency. The delive-
ries continue good.
HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—In our piece hall to-day there
has been rather more doing in light fancy goods; but for
heavy fabrics there is hardly any inquiry. Yarn remains
in the same condition of extreme depression. The de-
mand is tar below the production, and the quotations are
consequently in a drooping state. Scarcely any wool is
ehanging hands, and the turn is still in favour of the
buyer.
HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—Our market continues
much the same as last week. A pretty active trade has
been done during the weak. It seems to be generally
expected that we shall have a good autumn trade. The
wool warehouses have been rather more active to-day.
LEEDS, TUESDAY.—The market at the cloth halls has
been good, and a fair qvantity of goods continue to be
delivered to order. Prices remain firm, and business in
the warehouses is brisk.