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been made against this Bill. He must disassociate him-
self altogether from those Members who had made so
wanton an attack on the feelings of a large por-
tion of the community. This measure had never
been brought forward as a Sabbath observance Bill
at all.—(Hear, hear.) It was only a Bill for
diminishing the amount of unnecessary trading on the
day called Sunday. He denied that any of the working
classes, save the most dissolute part of them, were against
this Bill. He had never come into contact with any
decent working man who had communicated to him
(Nfe. G. Thompson) any solid objection to this Bill. He
submitted that this measure ought to have been treated
with great respect, emanating as it did from those
who bad shown so wise and considerate a respect
for the feelings of their fellow-creatures.—(Hear, hear.)
If this Bill should be thrown out during the present
session, be would charge such an event upon its oppo-
nents, who bad made so bitter and wanton an attack
upon the relitdous feelings of a large part of the com-
munity.—(Hear. hear.)
Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR denied that either the
Hon. Member for Youghal or the Hon. Member for
Montrose was the exponent of the opinions entertained
by the working classes with reference to this Bill. He
had presided over a meeting of the working classes on
the subject of this Bill, held in the metropolis, and at
It est five to one were in favour of the measure.
Mr. W. J. FOX was at a loss to understand how it
was then that the working classes had petitioned sgainst
it so much. In passing this Bill the House would be con-
sulting the convenience of two or three at the expense of
hundreds, and such had been the effect of the Post-office
change. He protested against the system which now
prevailed of one party setting itself up as the
judges of all the world, and endeavouring to force
all parties to conduct themselves and spend their
time as they thought proper. He had never till now,
since he had held a :seat in the House, opposed the
motion for going into Committee after a Bill had
been read a second time, but this Bill contained
no principle. At all events the principle, such as it was,
would be only partial in its operation. It only applied
to such places as the New-cut; but if the principle were
good, why should it not extend to Hyde-park, where the
groom,the footman, and the coachman were all engaged in
working on the Sunday ? The Sabbath at the present time
was very becomingly observed in the metropolis, and
he was glad of it. It served as an illustration of the
good sense of the people, and he warned the House
not to disturb that state of things, or they might drive
the people to extremes, and produce irreparable mischief.
Mr. HEALD wished to make only one observation.
He admitted that the Sabbath to some extent was ob-
served in London, but by no means to the extent that it
was in the country, and hence the desire to confine the
operation of this Bill to the metropolis.
The amendment was withdrawn with leave.
On the question that the Bill be withdrawn,
Mr. ANSTEY announced his intention to oppose any
Bill of this sort, or for the better observance of the
Sabbath, no matter from what party it came.: The House
had no more right to legislate upon this subect than it
had to forbid idolatry. This was one of those matters
which neither the House nor the Government had any
right to interfere with.
Sir G. GREY said, the object of this Bill had been
very much misunderstood. He was glad that it had
been withdrawn at this period of the session.—(Hear.)
The only way to obviate the necessity for passing a Bill
of this nature was the adoption of some plan amongst
employers of paying wages on Friday instead of Satur-
day; and he really did hope the examples which had
been mentioned in the course of the debate on this Bill
would be extensively followed.
Alderman COPELAND was glad the Right Hon.
Baronet had referred to this subject, and bore his testi-
mony to the advantage which resulted from the practice
of paying wages on Friday.
The Bill was then withdrawn.
The Ecclesiastical Residences, &c. (Ireland) Bill, the
Churches and Chapels (Ireland) Bill, and the Clergy
(Ireland) Bill, which stood for second reading to-day,
were withdrawn.
The Distress for Rent (Ireland) Bill, and the Small
Tenements (Ireland) Bill, which also stood for second
reading to-day, were postponed till Friday.
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES BILL.

Sir J. DUCK WOATLI said it was not his intention
this session to proceed with this Bill, though he was
Fully convinced that some alteration in the law
was necessary with regard to weights and measures.
He hoped, therefore, that the Government would
introduce some measure on the subject next session, and
if they did not that they would support him in the event
of his brining in one himself. He concluded by moving
that the Bill be read a third time this day three months.
Mr. HUME hoped that no measure would be intro-
duced respecting weights and measures, except by the
Government.
After some further observations the amendment was
agreed to.
LANDLORD AND TENANT (IRELAND) (No. 2)
BILL.
On the motion for the second reading of this Bill,
Mr. R. FOX was understood to support the Bill.
Mr. S. CRAWFORD moved that it be read a second
time this day three months.
Mr. HUME thought the Government ought to state
what course they intended to adept with regard to the
measure.
Sir G. GREY observed, that though he agreed with
some of its previsions, he thought that many of the
clauses were very objctionable. He considered the Bill
was not one which ought to receive the sanction of the
House without further consideration.
M. DICKSON was understood to oppose the Bill.
Sir H. W. BARRON said the effect of the Bill was
to assimilate to a certain extent the law of Ireland
to that of England. As the law now stood, after a land-
lord had instituted an expensive law suit to recover the
possession of certain land from a tenant who might owe
him considorahle arrears of rent, the tenant might, tP4
soon as possession was recovered, by stealth, and by the
aid and assistance of a mob, break in upon the land
and hold it in spite of the remonstrance of the landlord.
Though this practice was contrary to all justice and
common sense the landlord could not turn out the per-
son unless he instituted a second law suit. In fact in
nine cases out of ten the landlord was the aggrieved
party in Ireland, and the leaning of persons
i❑ authority was always against them, and in favour of
the illegality and injustice of the proceedings by the
tenantry. He would ask a British House of Com-
mons if it would countenance a state of things
which allowed defaulting tenants to carry off
crops even on Sundays in spite of the remon-
strances of the landlord, and in the face of the autho-
rities, who ought to repress instead of inciting such
a proceeding. All who voted against the second reading
of the Bill would, in fact, be parties to the continuation
of this system, which had so demoralizing a tendency on
the peasantry of the country.
Mr. REYNOLDS said the Hon. Baronet had made
an unfounded charge against his fellow-countrymen of
the tenant class, and had said they were robbers and
swindlers, and persons guilty of frauds by wholesale.
Sir W. BARRON denied that he had used those words.
Mr. REYNOLDS said he clearly understood the
Hon. Member to call the tenantry robbers, cheats, and
swindlerst,and that they who voted for the second read-
ing of tha till would be sanctioning their conduct. He
also had said that the Irish landlords. were a calum-
niated and oppressed class of persons, and that the
tenantry were quite the reverse. Mr. Reynolds then
referred to the statements of the Rev. Mr. Osborne, an
English clergyman who had lately travelled through the
country, to show that this account of the Honourable
Baronet was' incorrect and*at the landlords were
the oppressors of the tenantry. This Bill had been in-
troduced to give power to the landlords of Ireland for
the recovery of their rents which neither the manufac-
turer, merchant, nor trader of this country possessed for
the recovery of their legitimate debts. If a tenant owed
any rent, the landlord was to be at liberty to step in
and dictate to the tenant. when and how he should re-
move his crops. He considered this an insulting and
tyrannical measure, and he h4ped the Government would
not give it their sanction ; and he would particularly
caution them against receiving the advice of the Hon.
Baronet, who, he considered, had borne false evidence
against his country.—(Hear.)
After a few words in reply from Sir W. BARRON and
Hr...11,0m.T0N,

Colonel RAWDON considered that the Bill had
been introduced under false pretences, and was solely
one for the interest and benefit of the landlord as
against the tenant.
Mr. ANSTEY said this was purely a landlord's
Bill. It had no pretensions to amend the ex-
isting law,. its whole object being to give
the landlord a lien over the property of the
tenant which he did not now possess. If a tenant
was to remove his crop between sunrise and sunset—
that period during which. many small holders who were
labouring men could only attend to their farms—the
Hill would make him guilty of a misdemeanour,
and he would, be punished with imprisonment, hard
labour, and a .fine. Was tenant-right in such a satis-
factory state that they could venture to pass an unjust
and stringent measure of this kind? In the north of
Ireland, at least, Hon. Members had no right to pre- 1
vent a tenant removing his own property until they were
satisfied that the tenant had no interest in his holding
beyond what the pleasure of hit Landlord gave him. He
deprecated any interference, on the part of the. House,
worked ao well for the tenantrywiOsiftillesutert7
with the view of doing away • I a
which• bad
as submitted bamni tt ed on ly
Mrjor BIACKALL aupporte
persons should be found
improperenhaocuterdftrhaautduilferiltel the Bill, which he
Re carrying away crops
they should.be liable to a penalty!
if any one could say. that that would ba an
.injury t 0
00uthsee
have for
tenant, or prejudicial to any right he might
compensation for his improvements? -
Colonel CIIATTERTON was understood to say he
would support the Bilk grounding his,opinion upon a
collision he had once seen in Ireland in his own neigh.:
bourhood between the military and a mob of persons
engaged in carrying away crops.
.Ir.. P. -SCROPE protested against an ex parte and a
one-sided legislation for increasing the powers of the
landlords of Ireland, especially at this period of the Bye.
sion, and in this period of the history of Irelandk when
the Government haul refused to do anything a put a
stop to the exterminating process which had long gone
on in Trelandoin evicting the tenantry from their homes
and holdings under circumstances of such unparalleled

cruelty.—(Divide, divide.) The world stood appalled
at the number and cruelty of the evictions which were
now going on in Ireland ; and he contended that the
Government must go into the whole question Of I.4ndlord
and tenant before they passed a measure like this, cal-

j culated to increase the Powers of the landlords.
Mr. M'CULLAGII moved that the debate be ad-
journed, seeing that at that hour (twenty minutes past
five) it was scarcely possible for the House to come to a
satisfactory decision on the second reading of the Bill
.befeie tha adjournment of the House.
Mr. HAMILTON trusted his Hon. Friend (Mr.
M.‘Cullagh) would not press his motion for the adjourn-
raeut of the lobate. .

Mr. S. CRAWFORD4briefly opposed the Bill.

Mr. REYNOLDS would oppose any measure cal-
culated to increase the power of the landlords of Ireland.
Captain JONES advised the Hon. Member who had
charge of this Bill to throw the responsibility of it upon
the Government.

After some irregular conversation,
Mr. HAMILTON said he would consent to the ad-
journment of the debate.
After some observations from Mr. REYNOLDS and Sir
G. GREY, the debate was adjourned till to-morrow.
COUNTY COURTS EXTENSION BILL.

The House then proceeded to consider the amendments
made by the Lords to this Bill, which were agreed to
with a few verbal alterations.
Clauses 17 and 18 were struck out.

In answer to a question from Sir G. PECHELL, i
was stated that the Lords' ameniments relative to a con,
current jurisdiction were agreed to.
INSPECTION OF COAL MINES BILL.

Sir G. GREY moved the second reading of this Bill.
Mr. FORSTER deprecated, the second reading of so
important a measure at so late an hoar (ten minutes
to six).
Atter some discussion,

Mr. WAWN moved that the debate ba adjourned.
Strangers were ordered t ) withdraw, and the House
divided, when there appeared--
For the adjournment of the debate ... 15
Against it ... 54
Majority against the adjournment ... —39
It b:ing now fix o'clock, the Clouse adjourned.

vance, and some sorts of silks aro held from market for
a further advance.

HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—The chief inquiries in OUT
Piece-hall, to-day, were for damasks and low lastings,
neither of which kind of goods is to be readily ob-
tained, partly from the current prices not being re-
munerative, and partly from the difficulty of obtaining
warps for those descriptions. The yarn trade is very
active,.at improving rates; but, as regards low wefts.,
the merchants seem desirous to realise their late pur-
chases before they give out now orders. There is not
very much doing in wool, as the spinners purchase
sparingly, and take the advantage of making their se-
lections from the large stocks in the markets.

George Archer, Liverpool, butcher.
John P. Steele, Liverpool, optician.
John Tyson, Lqton, Lancashire, gla,ss•dealer.
Thomas Dmitoo, Liverpool, glass-dlaler.
Samuel F. Williams, Liverpool, hiceman.
John Warren, Liverpool, greengrocer.
SL3OTCII SEQUESTRATION.
J. Nelson, Edinburgh, poult rer, to meet within the
Star dote!, Edinburg', Aug. 2, and 30, at two.

PRICES OF SHARES

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THE FALL OF A COTTON MILL
AT STOCKPORT.

MaieenEsTEß, JULY 31.—The following is a more
minute account of this shocking and fatal calamity than
appeared in our yesterday's publication.
Oa Tuesday afternoon, between one and two o'clock,
a large portion of a new mill at Sotikport 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
is the property of Mr. Cephus Howard. It is a new fire-
proof mill, having been comrn..nced in August last, and
having been only occupied about a month by Mr. Joseph
lleaword. It is a rattler hand.ome erection, and the
calls 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 throttle spinning, the third for carding, and the
fourth for blowing. 'rho 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 tine of the accident. The walls of the mill rested
apon the solid rock, and down the centre of the mill
'an a row of iron ribbed pillars, 26 feet long,
4 inches diameter in the centr-, tapering to 8 inches
diameter at each end; upon the heals f these pillars the
1 .orinfr beams, from which sprung the fire-proof arches
over the" first floor, sprang. With one cxe, riot), these
'ipright pillars were 10 ft et apart from etch other; hut
.no pillar was intermitted (where the i-e;:ond from the
west end of the mill should have good), in order to
Wow room for the water wheel being placed directly
ender 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 e,f the mill, to
within 40 feet of the west gable. At 40 feet from that
gable 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
mill was so taken up for that length, for there was a
ice 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
2 Nub the steam-engine; and this portion of the floor-
' jag was supported by a wall running longitudinally
sarallel to the outer wall, and did not at all depend
7k for support upon the beams in the centre of the mill. We
nave stated already that the beams down the centre of
2
the mill, and supporting the floors, were, with one ex-
ssi ception, placed at a distance of 10 feet from each other,
5 and that in that single instance there was a distance of
51•4 .10 feet. Now, in order to support the intermediate
5 flooring, a large and heavy iron flange beam, with an
o arched top, 3 feet 4 inches deep in the centre, was car-
-5U tied longitudinally down the mill, and was supported
upon the heads of the two nearest pillars; and to the
ik 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
Dem. 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
os 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-
oish. We were also not able to ascertain whether the
upright pillars supporting the longitudinal beam were of
any greater strength than the remainder of the pillars,
=Mich 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 already
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-
aidinal 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,
the ground, with a fearful crash, burying several per-
sons under the ruins. Altogether about one-sixth part
if the mill has fallen to the ground. Fortunately, the
mill hands were almost all at dinner at the time, or the
!onsequences 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 Marsh, 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 were im-
,ce. rnediately 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
eappened, and were not seriously injured, and Ellen
Ashton, who fell three stories; she was taken out of the
r -limns 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 not been seen since the
ce. accident, and it is supposed that they must have bean in
_ the mill at the time, and that their bodies must still (at
the time we write) be buried under the ruins. These are
Nlargaret Harding (single woman), of New Bridge-
, lane; Ann Swindells, a married woman. with four chil-
. Iron; Elizabeth Sykes, a girl fourteen or fifteen years
• ild; another girl, named Cash. But besides these there
were workpeople—millwrights and their labourers—en-
'aged in putting up the new water-wheel at the time of
she accident. Of these Ephraim Eidson, Wright Bar-
ker, and John Bushby (millwrights), and James Rubin-
ton, Joseph Orme, and Samuel Harrop (labourers), were
known to have been engaged under the part of the mill
is which has fallen at the time of the accident; the four
irst about the wheel, and the two last near the west
sable wall, throwing rubbish into the weir. As none of
hese men have been 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:
ice. Ellen Ashton, Margaret Harding, Ann Swindells, Eliza-
beth Sykes, Cash, Ephraim Kidson, Wright Barker,
John Bushby, James Robinson, Joseph Orme, Samuel
Harrop.
The damage done to tho mill and machinery is, as
must necessarily have been the case, very considerable.
,U A large piece of the upper portion of the west gable wall
,34 is torn away, and this gable wall, and also about forty
'eet (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
1,000/., as nearly as can at present be calculated. The
damage to the machinery is, however, computed at no
less 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-
itroyed:—Six carding engines, three jack frames, a
irawing frame, a pair of intermediate frames, ten thros-
tles, eight or nine doubling frames, and two pair of reels.
But this does not at all adequately represent the damage
lone, for a large number of very valuable machines
have been 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 have arisen from some
►k, weakness in the two westernmost pillars in the beam
4 Above the intended water-wheel which they supported,
ti for 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
;bat he first saw the arches immediately above him give
)% way near the first pillar from the west gable—that is
Gd one of the pillars supporting the longitudinal beam. We
3 apprehend, therefore, that the question will ultimately
3s• resolve itself into one as to whether the accident has
arisen from the weakness of the pillars or of the beam;
but until these are disinterred from the mass of rubbish
134 which at present covers them up, together with the
bodies of the several unfortunate sufferers, no cxamina-
is, tion of them can be had, 'and no opinion can be formed
3d. upon the point.
6d Since the above was written the removal of the ruins
has commenced, and throe bodies, those of the wheel-

wrights, had been got out yesterday morning. The in-
quest was fixed for last (Wednesday) evening, but as
6d
)% tho whole of the bodies had not been recovered, it would
9d 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
ctoeupmroacnudreitabwoartaioane,spineettehde
tchaaste otfhea
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N, the same offence commonly, as it would be proved that
he himself had confessed he had received money oven
from ladies of title for performing the same operation.
Elizabeth Hobbs, a respectable looking woman, was
134 called. She said she was the wife of James
obbs,
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
vitas a married woman, and she replied she was. The
prisoner examined her and pronouuced her to be enciente.
!le said if she vi ould give him 51. he would make it all
right. She told him she could not afford Si., and then
he said 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 cf
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 Yo, and she saw
him with an instrument like a pencil in his hand, which
he had previously taken from a desk in the room. She
had only a glimpse of the instrument. The prosecutrix
then described the operation Ow underwent in which
the instrument was used. She felt only very little
pain, and she then went home. On Tuesday she went
a wrin 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 ne-
cessary, and he gave her a box of pills. Other particu•
lara were mentioned. To induce her to submit to the