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

•MPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS. Jul,' 30.
REDEVALE, in the absence of the Lord Chan-
took his sec on the Wooliack at Five o'clock.
Earl of CARLISLE presented a petition from
in favour of the retention of the Crystal Palace.
PRIVATE BILLS.
uu .he motion of Lord REDESDALE, several pri-
vate Bills were forwarded a stage.
CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL.
Ti-,a report on this Bill was brought up.
ieral other Bills were forwarded a stage, and their
I...r,i4hips adjourned.

ROUSE OF COMMONS, July 30.
Cuntinned from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS.
A messenger from the Lords stated that their Lord-
ships had agreed to the following Bills:
Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption.
AMMdflaßnt to Manchester Improvement.
Copyhold and Enclosure Commissions.
Smithaeld Market Removal Lords' amendments
'..greed to.
Pay
Soap Duties.
Manchester, Buxton, 111tIo'z'g, and Midlands Junction
K.ngdom Elce.tric Telegraph Company.
Lioc Anstare Eittwy.
Eu - .pean and, American Printing Telegraph Corn-
pasiy, &c.
Caiedonian Railway (Glasgow Garnkiik, and Coat-
. 14-!olloc, and Govan, &c. li,l,ilways) (Amend-
ment '..nd Continuation, &c.)
CUM:WI:I BUILDING ACTS AMENDMENT BILL.
[louse then went into Committee upon this Bill.
k.,
,
kuse 1, after a short di)cusaion, was struck out.
1714uies 2,3, 4,5, 6,7, and 8 were agreed to.
Oo Clause 9,
I:IEADL AM proposed an amendment, to omit
from the clause toe peuviaions of exemption from the
operation of the Mortmain Act.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL opposed the amend-
meat.
At ter a short conversation the Committee divided
when there appeared—
For the amendment ...
Against it

19
49
-30

- Majority ••• •
Vie amendment was consequently lost.
The clause was then agreed to.
The other clauses of the Bill from 10 to 28 were
tgree to.
Mr.d FREWEN proposed the following clause:—
"And be it enacted,that upon tae next avoidance of any
which
church or chapel belonging to it,
benefice, has 110
and which has a population of forty persons, or upwatredds
of forty porsous, and which has not been urn
to üby other benefice or benefices by order
of her Majesty in Council, the said benefice
shall remain and continue void until a church or chapel
ia 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
archoishop or bishop of the diocese, who, together with
the -archdeacon of the archdeaconry, and patron or
patvons of the said benefice, shall act as trustees for the
ref.:oipt of the said fees and emoluments, which shall be
appropriated by the said trustees for the purpose of
budding 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
ali the rights, fees, and emoluments, and perform
all the duties appertaining thereto, and who shall be
Ruder 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
sk.all 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
nudec the same ecclesiastical control and authority as
any other incumbent."
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL opposed the clause,
as Lot coming within the scope of the Bill.
Alter a snort conversation the Committee divided,
when there appeared—
For the clause ... 40
Against it ... 37
Majority ... —3
0,1 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 he brought up on Friday.
PETTY SESSIONS (IRELAND) BILL.
The House then went into Committee upon this Bill.

On 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 dtting at sessions might
dispose of all cases included in the Summary
Jurisdiction Act, with the exception of treason,
an 1 should also be empowered to imprison a person with-
out fine for the space of twelve calendar months. He
aoKed the House whether it was wise or expedient to in-
vest a single magistrate with such considerable powers?
Colonel DUNNE was perfectly satisfied that by enabling
a magistrate to a.-ijudicate summarily they conferred no
benefit upon him, but, on the contrary, gave him a great
deal of trouble, though the people would derive many
advs.ntag,es by such an arrangement.
The clause was agreed to, as were also the following
eight clauses.

Oa clause 10 being proposed,
Ir. M'CULLAGII moved the omission of section 2,
enabling one magistrate to adjudicate summarily in all
c asoo.
Sir W. SOMERVILLE 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
alt cases.
Alter some discussion the Committee divided, when
there appeared—
For the amendment 13
Against it ... ••• 49
Majority . . ... —36
The clause was then agreed to, and the Chairman was
directed to report progress.
The House resumed, and the Chairman obtained leave
to sit again to-morrow.
The remaining orders wore then disposed of, and the
Fluil,e adjourned, at. Six o'clock, till to-morrow (this
day), at Twelve o'clock.

FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
S'lR,—The Danish charter for the submarine and
lar,d telegraphs is granted to Messrs. G. Shepherd, C.E.,
tyld C. Button, patentees ct the submarine telegraph,
land not to Messrs. Sheppard and Botton, as stated in
your impr.,,,ssion of this day. Please correct this error,
and oblige year obedient servant,
G. SHEPHERD, C.E.
Ilulborn-bars, 29th July, 1851.

THREE LIVES LOST.
ic,,V.;rP received last evening a communication to the fol-
t ming effect from Lees, near Oldham :
Aliirit nine o'clock this (Tuesday) morning, the boiler
belonging to the mill of Messrs. Rhodes and Co., of Hoy,
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
ccemealing the aperture it had made in the floor, they
rentortunately tell 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 off, and the water flowed awa
third man was extricated, still living, but he expired in
a fp w moments afterwards. It is geeerally thought that
the F, ,ilex was short of water; and it is said that the
went-r-puinp had just been looked to, and set to work.
Another statement is, that there was no whistle to in-
dir:ete the quantum of water in the boiler. The boiler
almost a DOW one.
Oar correspondent adds the following suggestions:--
That boilers should always be outside, and detached
from the mill or works; that they should always have
atteched to them a whistle, to indicate the state of the
water; one or two sufficient safety-valves; and a mer-
cury e'ouge, to indicate the pressure of steam in the
boiler..
Previously to receiving the above communication, we
4;0 heard a vague ruosour of this fatal accident. and had
"I',Patched a reporter to the spot. He was enabled to
Pt:'eaa the following additional particulars. Hey is about
miles east of Oldham, as the crow flies. The pre-
mise,,ce which the accident has occurred are the pro-
perty tY of Messrs. James Rhodes and Brothers, and con-
ssmell'efr°" large building, four storeys high, and several
rilB'
A portion of the larger building and some
of the arealler
ones are occupied by Messrs. Fielden and
Schofield, who,
as well as Messrs. Rhodes, are cotton
spinners. The
the whole of larger building is filled with machinery,
ore engine, the which,s, in both the occupancies. is turned by
steam for which has been supplied
boiler of about 426 by a
evening to inspect ti?.ergeapower. We were unable last
but from what boiler in consequence of the dark-
ness;and !lad a flue or fluese could
learn, it was cylindrical,
This boiler, which is nearly a
DOW one, is fixed in a cellar un ing beneath two build-
ings, at the south-eastern side of the principal mill. The
l uildings over this cellar are only 43 storey high; that
over the firing end of the boilerise:icceut:ll as a willow
room, while the other is the en
n fireplace of house.
Imme-
diately in front of theboiler
war, a wall, which supported two very large
of the
f 10.14,,, forming a portion :of the floor
vvidow room; and the space below these flies
and another
portion of the floor, was used as the coal hole, to
which access is obtained by a flight of steps leading
how the yard. In the willow room there are two
willows and a lap mechine. This last is placed ex_
ad,ly over the boiler; and the others immediately at
Vat, lido of it. At all these machines men were at work
yesterday morning, the names of the men at the wil-
lows being Jonah Brirley and James Winterbottorn,
and of the man at the lap machine, Samuel Lord.
The: engine was started about half_ ast eight o'clock
Ye,,torday morning, and nothing unusual wasob -
IY-rved until about ten minutes before nice, when
'the boiler burst with a loud noise, and the steam
and water 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