The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-01 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1, 1850.

POLITICAL REFUGEES IN THIS COUNTRY.
Lord DUDLEY STUART gave notice that
he should to-morrow put a question to the Secre-
tary of State for the Home Department re-
specting certain political refugees, who it was
stated, having taken refuge in this country,
had been delivered up to one of the Governments of.
Germany, and sent away from here in consequence of
being blamed as accomplices in a murder committed on
the continent.

POLICE FORCE IN LIMERICK.
Mr. SCULLY moved for a return of the number and
expense of the police force in the baronies of Costlea,
Small County, Owney-beg, and Clanwilliam, in the
county of Limerick.—Agreed to.
IRISH FRANCHISE BILL.

A conference took place with the House of Lords on
the subject of this Bill, at the conclusion of which
Mr. FREWEN, who conducted it on the part of the
House of Commons, appeared at the bar, and announced
that he had stated to their Lordships the reasons of this
House for disagreeing with their Lordships amendments
to the Bill.
ACTIONS AT LAW BY THE OFFICE OF
WOODS AND FORESTS.

Mr, R. TREVOR alluded to certain unsuccessful ac-
tions which had been instituted by the office of Woods
and Forests with reference, as we understood, to
harbours of rel uge, and wished to ask the
Chief Commissioners of Woods and Forests whether
it was his intention to proceed with certain other
actions which had ben commenced under similar cir-
cumstances?

Lord SEYMOUR denied the accuracy of the state-
ment of the lion. Gentleman. With respect to the cc-
tions which had been alluded to, the only answer he
could give was that he should take legal advice, and
proceed according to such advice.
VICTORIA STREET. •

In reply to Sir DE LACY EVANS.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
it was desirable that this street should be finished
as speedily as possible, and the subject was
under his consideration, but whether the Go-
vernment would advance any money for the purpose
would depend upon arrangements that did not rest with
himself.

his mind of the principal portion of the guilt charged
against him in the trial, he is a person of such a
peculiar disposition, and so extremely suspicious of all
who come in contact with him, that it is most diffi-
cult to get an explanation from him of certain points
necessary to throw light on the case. Mr. Hay could
not venture to avail himself of writing materials
during the time that Bennison wgs relating
the particulars of the poisoning. Ho was, there-
fore, obliged simply to listen to the harrow-
ing narrative of the culprit's guilt; and to trust to his
memory for the writing out of the details of the con-
fession when he went home. Mr. Hay read a copy of
what he had written to Bennison yesterday, when be
adhered to it all—making only some very slight altera-
tions upon it. A'copy of the confession so amended
was subsequently lodged with the Sheriff; and it was
afterwards, as we have already mentioned, forwarded to
Sir George Grey.

Bennison states that, on the Friday evening in ques-
tion, he made the porridge, and put a quantity of
arsenic in them. His child having previously gone to
bed, and Bennison having, on the score of illness ex-
cused himself from eating anything. that night, his wife
was the only one that partook of the porridge, and to
that her death is to be ascribed.
He states that the girl Robertson had not the most
remote idea that he had any interest in her except that
of a religious kind, and that he never spoke to her unless
in respect to her spiritual welfare.
He has made no confession with regard to the first
wife's sudden death at Airdrie; but as it is s•rongly sus-
pected that he also adminis'ered poison to get quit of
her, it is not improbable that we may have a further
confession from him to that effect.—Scotsman.

EDUCATION IN THE AIIMY.

The following is a copy of any instructions
which may have been issued by the Commander-in-
Chief respecting Examinations to be required on the
admission or promotion of Officers in the Army :"

THE FALL OF A COTTON MILL

AT STOCKPORT.

MANCHESTER, JULY 31.—The following is a more
minute account of this shocking, and fatal calamity than
appeared in our yesterday's publication.
On Tuesday afternoon, between one and two o'clock,
a large portion of a new mill at Stockport fell suddenly
to the ground, and caused the death, we regret to say, of
several of the hands employed about it. It is as yet
impossible to say how many, but probably ten or eleven.
The mill in question, which is called the Brinksway Mill,
is the property of Mr. Cephas Howard. It is a new fire-
proof mill, having been commenced in August last, and
having been only occupied about a month by Mr. Joseph
Heaword. It is a ratner handsome erection, and the
walls are apparently substantial enough. It is 47 yards
long and 20 wide, and is four stories in height, the
bottom one being the doubling room, the second
for throstlo spinning, the third for carding, and the
fourth for blowing. The mill was of rather peculiar
construction, being intended to be worked not only
by a steam-engine, but also partly by an undershot
water-wheel, which was in course of construction at
the time of the accident. The walls of the mill rested
upon the solid rock, and down the centre of the mill
ran a row of iron ribbed pillars, 26 feet long,
14 inches diameter in the cei.tre, ;pering to 8 inches
diameter at each end; upon the heads of these pillars the
flooring be am,,, from which sprung the fire-proof arche,
over the first floor, sprang. With one exe, ption, these
upright, pillars were 10 ft et apart frotn.elch other; but,
one pillar wax intermitted (where the teuond from the
west end of the mill should leave stoop), in order to
allow room for the water wheel being placed directly
under the mill. This wheel was to have been 20 feet in
diameter, and to have been supplied with water by an
arched tunnel running under the first floor of the mill, to
within 40 feet of the west gable. At 40 feet from that
table the first floor ceased, the space occupied by it
being for that distance taken up by the water-wheel and
gearing; or rather about two-thirds of the area of the
will was so taken up for that length, for there was a
lower floor across the other third, on the north
side of the mill, where some gearing was to
have been placed to connect the water-wheel
with the steam-engine; and this portion cf the floor-
leg was supported by a wall running longitudinally
parallel to the outer wall, and did not at all depend
for support upon the beams in the centre of the mill. We
have stated already that the beams down the centre of
the mill, and supporting the floors, were, with one ex-
ception, placed at a distance of 10 feet from each other,
and that in that single instance there was a distance of
20 feet. Now, in order to support the intermediate
flooring, a large and heavy iron flange beam, with an
arched top, 3 feet 4 inches deep in the centre, was car-
' ried longitudinally down the mill, and was supported
upon the heads of the two nearest pillars; and to the
centre of this beam the flooring beams for the outer
walls of the building were carried; the ends of the cross
beams were supported upon strong boxes, and their
ends were moreover strongly bolted to the longitudinal
beam. Of course, the nature of the construction of this
beam is of the utmost importance in determining the
cause of the accident (which, it will be seen, occurred
just at this point of the mill), but this we were not en-
abled to ascertain, for at the time that we visited it yes-
terday afternoon this beam was still covered with rub-
bish. We were also not able to ascertain whether the
upright pillars supporting the longitudinal beam were of
any greater strength than the reminder of the pillars,
which were obviously not subjected to anything like the
strain of the two in question. Our impression is that they
were not.

The above are such particulars as to the construction
of the mill as we were able to collect during a neces-
sarily hasty visit yesterday afternoon. The accident
took place yesterday afternoon, as we have alreedy
stated, between one and two o'clock. At that hour the
whole of the interior portion of the mill. from the point
where the first floor ceased, except that portion of it
which, as we have stated, was supported by the longi-
tudinal wall—that is, the whole of the building which
depended upon the longitudinal beam and its supporting
pillars—fell suddenly, and without any previous warning,
to the ground, with a tearful crash, burying several per-
sons under the ruins. Altogether about one-sixth part
of the mill has fallen to the ground. Fortunately, the
mill hands were almost all at dinner at the time, or the
consequences to life must have been dreadful. As it was,
there were only a few females, a boy, and a man, who
had remained to eat their dinners at the mill, as far
as we can learn, in the part of the building which
fell. John March, a machine maker, was one of
these. He was in the third story, and he states
that the first thing that alarmed him was seeing
the brickwork fall from the fire-proof arches of the
room; that he immediately ran to the other end of the
mill, and thus escaped, the building crashing down be-
hind him as he went. Of the women who were in the
mill at the time none wholly escaped; but three 'sere im-
mediately afterwards rescued from the ruins:—Elizabeth
and Ann, daughters of Richard Salt, butcher, Portwood;
who were on the first-floor of the mill when the accident
happened, and were not seriously injured, and Ellen
Ashton, who fell three stories; she was taken out of the
ruins dreadfully injured, and though every attention was
rendered to her at the Stockport Infirmary, she expired
in about two hours. The boy to whom we have alluded,
and who was in the lower room, was also carried down
amongst the ruins, and when found he had a severe flesh
wound on his thigh; but this, it is hoped, will not prove
serious. Four other women have nut bee❑ seen since the
accident, and it is supposed that they must have boon in
the mill at the time, and that their bodies must still (at
the time we write) be buried under the ruins. These are
Margaret Harding (single woman), of New Bridge-
lane; Ann Swindells, a married woman. with four chil-
dren; Elizabeth Sykes, a girl fourteen or fifteen years
old; another girl, named Cash. But besides these there
were workpeople—millwrights and their labourers—en-
gaged in putting up the new water-wheel at the time of
the accident. Of these Ephraim Kidson, Wright Bar-
ker, and John Bushby (millwrights), and James Robin-
son, Joseph Orme, and Samuel Harrop (labourers), were
known to have been engaged under the part of the mill
which has fallen at the time of the accident; the tour
first about the wheel, and the two last near the west
gable wall, throwing rubbish into the weir. As none of
!hese men have bee❑ seen since the accident, they also,
we fear, must be assumed to be buried under the rub-
bish. This would give eleven lives lost; as follows:
Ellen Ashton, Margaret Harding, Ann Swindells, Eliza-
beth Sykes, Cash, Ephraim Kidson, Wright Barker,
John Bushby, James Robinson, Joseph Orme, Samuel
Ilarrop.
The damage done to the mill and machinery is, as
must necessarily have been the case, very considerable.
A large piece of the upper portion of the west gable wall
is torn away, and this gable wall, and also about forty
feet (or four bays) of the southern side wall of the mill
are much shattered by large and numerous cracks in
them in all directions. It is estimated that the damage
thus resulting to the carcass of the mill will be about
1,0001., as nearly as can at present be calculated. The
damage to the machinery is, however, computed at no
leis than 7,000/. The machinery was all of the newest
and best construction, and the following (almost all of
them exceedingly valuable) machines are totally de-
stroyed :—Six carding engines, three jack frames, a
drawing frame, a pair of intermediate frames, ten thros-
les, eight or nine doubling frames, and two pair of reels.
But this does nct at all adequately represent the damage
done, for a large number of very valuable machines
have bee❑ most seriously damaged by the falling of the
longitudinal shafting carried down by the falling mate-
rials.

With regard to the cause of the accident, we are not
at present in a position to speak very decidedly ; it
seems pretty clear that it must Lave arisen from some
weakness in the two westernmost pillars in the beam
above the intended water-wheel which they supported,
fur not only has the damage been confined to the part of
the mill which depended upon these supports, but one
of the millwrights who, though under the part in question,
was fortunately sufficiently near the west gable to make
his escape through one of the arches for the outpouring
of the water after it had passed under the wheel, states
that he first saw the arches immediately above him give
way near the first pillar from the west gable—that is
one of the pillars supporting the longitudinal beam. We
apprehend, therefore, that the question will ultimately
resolve itself into one as to whether the accident has
arisen from thq weakness of the pillars or of the beam;
but until thelie are disinterred from the mass of rubbish
which at present covers them up, together with the
bodies of the several unfortunate sufferers, no examina-
tion of thew can be had, 'and no opinion can be formed
upon the point.
Since the above was written the removal of the ruins
has commenced, and three bodies, those of the wheel-
wrights, bad been got out yesterday morning. The in-
quest was fixed for last (Wednesday) evening, but as
the whole of the bodies had not been recovered, it would
necessarily be adjourned.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Mr. John W. Edwards, surgeon, St. Martin's-lane.
was brought before Mr. Hardwick, charged with having
used a certain instrument. with intent to procure abor-
tion.

Mr. Hutchinson said he attended to prosecute on be-
half of the Medical Protection Society. The prisoner
was charged with having used an instrument and drugs
to procure abortion, in the case of a female who was in
court, and it was suspected that the prisoner practised
the same offence commonly, as it would be proved that
he himself had confessed he had received money even
from ladies of title for performing the same operation.
Elizabeth Hobbs, a respectable lucking woman, was
called. She said she was the wife of James Hobbs,
Praed-street, Paddington, and went out to service. Last
Tuesday three weeks, the 12th of July, she went to the
prisoner's house, in St. Martin's-lane, and told him that
she suspected she was in the family way, and that this
would be very awkward if it were so, as she had to go
to a place in a few days. The prisoner asked her if she
was a married woman, and she replied she was. The
prisoner examined her and pronounced her to be enciente.
fie said if she would give him 51. he would make it all
right. She told him she could not afford 51., and then
he saki he would do it for 21., and told her
to go home and gather as much of the money
as she could. Next day she went to him, and
gave him 55., promising him the balance of 355., out of
her first quarter's wages. The prisoner was satisfied
with these terms, and he told her to place herself on a
sofa with her face from him. She did so, and she saw
him with an instrument like a pencil in his hand, which
es k in o
tTt hhee room.proscutSrhixe
he had previously taken from
had only a glimpse of the ns t ra u desk
then described the operation she underwent in which
the instrument was used. She telt only very little
pain, and she then went home. On Tuesday she went
again to the prisoner's house, and underwent precisely
the same operation. On Saturday she paid him a third
visit, and a repetition of the same operation occurred.
The prisoner told her he had now done all that was tie.
cessary, and he gave her a box of pills. Other particu-
lars were mentioned. To induce her to submit to the

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operation, the prisoner told her ho did more for gentry.
the p
that way than for poor people—that some ladies bad
paid him 201. On the following, Tuesday risoner
gave her a bottlo of medicine, as she was in
~I'.
dreadful pain. She went to her situation at
li.-!I
burn Priory, and on the 24th of the same month one
child
delivered of a stillborn child. She believed the
r.ltdwwaassbaubroteudt fourtnth
emgoanrtdhesoold. The body of l'he iri
ta pony
Mr. E. Fagg, surgeon, 18, Grotto road, St. (Jo
wtoood, was requested by a gentleman at Kilburn PrierY
be call and see one of his servants, who Kilburnuspected to
liTkeollyd
and
in the family way.
send
.eaerne d.
delivered.she wa s Witness went to priory
,-tr saw tho proseeutrix, who was in bed. She said go
keepa rry.
the r miscarry
cquiet,
bad riot th.idi
her some medicine. About four hours afterwarOro
again.ssenger came to his house, :lttendas
..
u arrived
Her
was Out; but his assistant went, and whet;
he he found the prosecutrix had been deliver
about half an hour before.
On cross-examination, witness said be saw the chill
b"
after it had been disinterred. It appeared to be .
a five-months' child. He examined it, but could
of the forcnot
state anything positively in consequence
which had be en used in pressing it into the
earth with
e
a spade. He found a conical wound on the head and
neck,r which he should say had been done by a ,r. e,
The wound was not such as would be likely to be pro'
dwell by such an instrument as the proaccutrix had -d
scribed. It was possible, had there been a punctured 103°,11
on the head, that the spade might hare obliterated it 4,
subsequent injuries. The menicine now produced 0%
common medicine. The medicine and pills bad not Ye
been ant, ly, ed.
Mr. Hutchinson said w
there was the evidence of gorr•
Fagg's assistant, and that of another servant, a
ih° s6ria
the child when born, and who could speak as to sIA"
on its head. He must therefore ask fora remand.
not
The prisoner, in defence, declared tbsit he h 3411,, to
acted in the way described. He produced his hc"9"o",,
prove that the prosecutrix had consulted hini ou 6 c•nd
won medical ease, and that, being in doubt, he W .
loco.
her in an old gown,' which was ragged at the 8 nod
alined it was possible the rags hanging down had c 5
rto think he had an instrument in his hand. one,
Mr. HARDWICK said the charge was a very seriously
_od
the ca till Saturda
but cases the evidence wandplt he should re 'l4
appearance,eacb himself in 2001., and two safeties ill I
--....1
y, take bail for the prisea.eo9l,

AQUATICS.
TIIE CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE TEll;is7iver
Mr.
Bone having challenged the holder of the :f the
sculls, the symbol of amateur chauipinnsgbricPundole
Thames, and having been objected to, on the
he_ had disqualified himself for that race by rcsvinegworld,
Bath regatta, in a sculler's match open to all ,th,ba pre'
in which the first prize was 101, the second 51, 'bo is
vious competitors for the challenge sculls, in w„eet V)
vested the duty of deciding all disputes ifilh„rehietid4
the honorary distinction, held a meeting 0" . otteoel
eavnedning, fir the purpose of inquiring into the objects aot
it being then stated by Mr. Bono that he 'to re-
enter for the race in question, but rowed onlY steer la
quest cf the regatta secretary, to prevent A Wi'll rstSna..
one of the trial heats, and with the express uncle so of
ing that should he win, the prize was to be disPeof to
amongst the other competitors, at the disereti culler
committee; the conclusion arrived at before theAd aot
sculls holders' tribunal was, that the objection 0,1:4 pre
be sustained, but in coming to that conclusioe,_rte thst
vious competitors felt it incumbent on them to too cilio
could
lamateurs thought proper to row with peesi°e-toore
not be considered such, they shoutbicle
pt:ceoseantevind:
carethan appeared to have been taken in
_ stance to have it understood that they wera not hicb hes
ing for the prize. Thus the important Poo' veto I°`
csauseed considerable excitement 1R the aquatic elrforti, the
hoomldertitmfethpessts,enhlalss,breecs.nigsnest
tahtemre,st. gr. Pleiltbere be
and shoul" it coo'
tany other challengers besides Mr. Bone, they Will
end on the 10th instant.
theTThehathmiersd of
Grandofthe sßereie,,satotfa,
THAMES BOAT RACES. . lien ~
next, amd will consist of a great coning base appointed tbr,sne lb°
picked watermen of the d v• The folloviing 1311
Pocock First SC.
paired by the c • a- '
committee of of management• bell ,}16,•
ainid George Campbells;
great boat races, in fl, idor
Heat—Charles and Henry CsniPci , ,
F. Lott
n_ard;T. Prince and J. Phelps; R. ;eritvel au
.'
maSeekcond Heat—T.
Goodrum. , t, od;, „,„
and H. Shelton; R. Doubledee ac.d , JeseP
R. CoombesennY Cole and James °llk'. Pll3l
_h (the champion) and J. 101)Plug' 0
the Pie
Leac and 11. Green.
have been ..hich A It
Prom the remarkably
first-rate
manner
ilsna"otTie- ip4eriteutbreit
, ek n
is, however, considered that the struggle i,;l,,tpiler ''lgeeectieneciejl
for the two first places will be between -'R- the
and Pocock, with their partners; and, in tid, flii
voubiviii les;
theire partners, will be placed. The rocirig eats (t!ld 0
e at six o'clock in the evening, and thveabtnei tic; ;
in number) will be rowed upwards from "
to Hammersmith

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THE COUNTRY MAlc2-114-00P; theAriregril°
Liens, JULY 30.—The arrivals of wheat 13 Rate OP
of fine weather caused considerable dulne'gh' Were °en tbot
per quarter over last week's ; but at Frida(s"cd tharl °- fly i°
imite
20 Act
The business done, however, much more
day. Barley as before. Oats, shellingst aod be
te 6
NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, JULY SO
. g 6UI value.
.:00:ri.°S. f fteild!
aresptuearnt. of
_fione_eWeather,.our market this motn7 witn . d ; a°
Hld rs remain firm, d Wets 11, co abrus d 11011
Supplies from the interior small,'an butrn liberal ir heat a° sali
the few transactions that took place in bethlirleY, oats'
Saturday's prices were fully maintained. I° '''.- e 011.1);
other kinds A grain, no change to note. 30.-Th lett' eel
N. EWCASTLE CATTLE AIARKET, JDLV , 01 lO6t 5 g
of beef showed a decline of about '2OO heel from 00,m If°
rate bhot `'.' gaud
quality very indifferent : trade dull at higher
clearance. The number of sheep and larnbs,_ a, 0 'n, st'
than last Tuesday; both descriptions of stoe,,,r.ieshe,elisitP
request, and all sold. Arrivals-13easts, '',`,;l4'ct 1;a;
lambs, 6,400. Beef, 4s 9d to 60; mutton, " re i°
44d to 51d per lb. ere ;1„!;.
Entivatutott MEAL MARKET, JULY' 3°.-"Tlijghiri,'9Y9 ''-'
the meal market to-day 15 sacks oatmeal, trocal, each cr,e''f at la-04e0
imperial, whereof 14 sold thus:-3 at 1110 s oe, 0.1_,5. ''', it
and 10 at 119 s 00. 2 sacks flour, which sold it.; d 65"30/
pot-barley,_pi whereof 7 sold thus :—1 at 114' t)cli:.Jtllii 0°1;
OatE straw, N Bu
~,i to , RGfrftomHAY AND STRAW 31A....Rogfri'6 stone- 7,
Ohl ha hay, from ls t7os
wheat ditto, 6s Od to is v ditto, 6eQvA to &di,
bae' new ditt°, °':-,fiere -01'
lOsd2tdoogds
;I'd per kerapie
per stone;
JULY
d,,„....Ther'_et veep
DALKEITIi MEAL MARKET, .,
_hid, w jet ,
demand. Oatmeal up 6d per bag on
48 bags oatmeal at this day's markets v''',l secoe",!-Dito
the top an" d '4, 04
Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Seeld 9°' °I
imperial ..
Barleymeal, per ditto.— ...
5 0 ,„,..9 04
Peasemeal '•• Od ''''''"° d ""..1 Od
Flour ... ••• ••• ''''..B od ...-5 ° /6
Od
Pot barley ...
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BBUegdbdilee:B _2l----,-------- y 158 Aj
COAL MAIMET.—YEstEI'D't • ..... 0; 'A
13s 3d Lembton ... ; I, .....' 145 0
,Wia.rtille)a,rtley l4s 3d:Kecpier Grang.
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Chester Main l3s Od Russell's 1:114`.° .... .' 166 aj
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Ha sting's Hartley l4B 3d!Stewart'B ............... s. 0,4
Od
Holywell
Canfield Moor
l'antield Moor Butes l3s Od Hartlepool ....... •
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Acorn Close
Benshain ...... .....
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Harton
Walker ... 13s tid Cowpen Bart 6.37. ;„ 14,
Eden Main ' • 14s ect Hartley .-....,;";_i.5e111,; ,il
Bell
Belmont l4s 9d Nixon's Paer.. . 144 t'
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fletton
Haswell
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