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

AUGUST 1, 1850.

George Archer, Liverpool, butcher.
John P. Steele, Liverpool, optician.
John Tyson, Lefton, Laacishire, glass-dealer.
Thomas Denton, Liverpool, glass-dealer.
Samuel F. Williams, Liverpool, laceman.
John Warren, Liverpool, greengrocer.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION.
J. Nelsom, Edinburgh, poulterer, to meet within the
Star Hotel, Edinburgh, Aug. 2, and 30, at two.

PRICES OF SHARES

IN RANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM

COMPANIES; STOCK.
From the Official List.

PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING,
LONDON. TUESDAY, JULY 30.

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1.-STOCIE BAIVXB.

Dividend Aseouat
Name of Company, per of Paid. Prise
Annum. Share.
------• -
A s. d. A s. d.
Australasia •• --•• •• 245. 40 0 0 40 0 0 -
Britsh North American 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
1 Ceylon ••--••• • • • • • 71. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Commercial of London 151. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 -
C denial. -
Gloucestershire ••• • - 115/per cent.l - - -
1
lonian .......... ••• • 1 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Lewin and Westminstr 1 61. per cant. 100 0 0 20 0 0 27%
Ditto ---••• • •• • • 1 - - 13 0 0 -
London Joint-Stock... 1 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 17%
Provincial of Ireland.; , 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
Ditto, New... •••• •• ' tif. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 -
National of Ireland .. 51. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 -
Nat. Provncial of Eng. , Si. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 -
Ditto, New. ••••• •• 1 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 11
South Australia •. - - 61, per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Union of Australia.... • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Ditto ........ ••.• • • 1 61. per cent. - 210 0 -
Union of London. -•• 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 -
Union of Madrid - 40 0 0 40 0 0 -
IN SUR.ILZEC E COMPANIES.
• Dividend Amount
Name of Company. I per of
_I Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
- - -
X a. d. l X s. d.
Albion - ...• ••••• • •• 3/. 10.. 500 0 0 50 0 0 82
Alliance grit. and FOT. 7114 s 6d& bs 100 0 0 11 0 0 21
Ditto Marine. •• .• •• 61. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 -
Atlas ... •.••.••• • • • • • 135.6 d. 50 0 0 5 6 8 17
British Commercial •• 7s. 6d. 50 0 0 50 0 7y4
Clericl,Med.&Gen.Life spr ct.& be. 100 0 0 10 0 0 20
37. 100 0 0 10 0 0 62
14s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 14%
Eagle ...
European Life •• •• •• 434 per cent. 20 0 0 An paid. 15
General ••-- •• - - - - 50 0 bt,
GI lue -128 k
alardian .......• •• •; 51. 100 0 0 36 10 0 55
Imperial Fire ........ 12/. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 230
Imperial Life ........ 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14
Indemnity Marine.- 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 01 20 0 0 -
Law Fire •• •• -••..- - 100 00'2 10 0 2%
LAW I.ife• ••••••• •• .. 11. 163. 100 0 0 lO 0 0 43k
Legal and General Life - 50 0. 0 20 0 44
Licensed Victuallers .. - 5 0 0 1 0 0 -
London Fire ...• .. .• 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 174
London Ship • ••• -•• 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 174
Marine .. ••••••• •• - • 12s.per share 100 0 0 15 0 0 11
Med. Invild&Gen.Life 4541. per ct. 50 0 0 2 0 0 -
National Lean Fund 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 -
National Life- - Bl. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 -
Palladium Life bi. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 21 Os
Phcenix - - - 145
Professional Life.. ••• 5/. per cent. 6 5 0 010 0 126.66
Pi otector Life...• •• • • 51. per cent. - - -
Provident Life•• •• •• • • 11. ss. & ha. 100 0 0 10 0 0 26
Rock Life ...... .. .... 55.. 5 0 0 010 0 6
loyal Exchange 6l. per cent. Stock. - 209
Sun Fire. - 61. 10s. - - 209
Ditto TM-0 . .
United Kingdom
Universal Life lO% pr cnt. 100 0 0! 10 0 0 -
Victoria Life ...... .• • 51. per cnt. - i 412 6 47,

DOMES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of I Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
- -
B. .
East and West InV Xa... 61. pr cent. Stocks £ s. d.-
141
East Country - 21
London 51. pr cent. Stock. - 120
Ditto Bonds.. • •• 41. por cont. - - -
St. Katharine .... •• • • 4 per cent. Stock. - 82
Ditto, Scrip...-. . - - 85 0 0
Ditto Bonds-- - • • 061. pr cent. - - -
Southampton •• - - •• 21. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 8%
BRIDGES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. •A per of Paid. Price
Annum. • Share.
X.
Chating-cross • • • • •• - X. a. d. s. d.
- - 15
Southwrk .......... - 100 0 0 - 2
Ditto Nw of 7% p.c. 355. per cent. 50 0 0 - 16
Waterloo - •• • • • • •• •• - 100 0 0 - 34
DIU") Old Ann. 0(81. 11. 4s. Od. - 60 0 0 24%
Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 11. is. Od. - 40 0 0 21
Vauxhall .... ... Ay. 11. 70 10 3 - 18
WATER-vroxics
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
East London..•• •• •• •• X a. d. X a. d.
. 81. 100 0 0 - 166
Grand Junction ...... 41. per cnt. 50 0 0 - 73
Kent................ 31. 10s. 100 0 0 - 77
Lambeth ............ i 51. per cnt. 100 0 0 - 97
New Ttivr Lndn Brdge , 21. 10s. - - 55
Vauxhall ............ 51. per cnt. 100 0 0 - 98
West Middlesex . . • 61.05. pr cnt. - - 115
OAS.MIGIIT AND CONE COMPANIES.
. . Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per I of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
--
X. s. d. A. s. d.
British .• •• - - .. •• - 11. 40 0 0 to 0 0 14
Ditto Provincial.• •• 11. Ba. 20 0 0 20 0 0 18
Brighton •• •• •• •• - •• 151. , 20 0 0 - -
City of London .. • • - 61. 100 0 0 150 0 0 , -
Continental Consolidat. 925. ! 75 0 0 31 5 0 1 -
Equitable.. - ........ 50s. 150 0 0 50 0 0 28
[lmperial ............ 31. 50 0 0 50 0 0 70
Independent ......... 61. 40 0 0 40 0 0 48
Lendon• • ...... ...... - 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Ditto
- 5 O 5O 0 0 50 0 0 -
Do., Pstg. Prnfrrnes 6!. 25 11 0 2 10 0 -
7.'hrerux.. ............ 4W. , 50 0 0 49 0 0 ' 29
11 ttcli: .... • .... .... 1 Al. 'lOO f) 0 oo 0 o 75
United General •••• •• I 1/. 50 0 0 so 0 0 i:p„
WestmiasterCh,,rtered V. 50 0 0 - 47
Ditto, New ..'.. -... 12s. . 50 0 0 10 0 0 91,i

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.
Oa Tuesday afternoon, between one and two o'clock,
large portion of a new mill at Stockport fell suddenly
.o 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 rather 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
.tie time of the accident. The walls of the mill rested
upon the solid rock, and down the centre of the mill
an a row of iron ribbed pillars, 26 feet long,
14 inches diameter in the centr.-, tapering to 8 inches

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diameter at each end; upon the heads of these pillars the
I,oring beams, from which sprung the fire-proof arches
A over the first floor, sprang. With one exurption, these
tpright pillars were 10 feet, apart from each other; but
pne pillar was intermitted (where the recond from the
west end of the mill should have t,tood), in order to
illow room fur the- water wheel being placed directly
index the mill. This wheel was to have bean 20 feet in
diameter, and to have been supplied with water by at

arched tunnel running under the first floor of the mill, to
within 40 feet of the west gable. At 40 feet from that
cable 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
nill 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 of the floor-
,:g was supported by a wall running longitudinally
aarallel to the outer wall, and did not at all depend
tor support upon the beams in the centre of the mill. We
-lave 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,
end 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
srched top, 3 feet 4 inches deep in the centre, was car-
Pied 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
3ncla were moreover strongly bolted to the longitudinal
van). Of course, the nature of the construction of this
*am is of the utmost importance in determining the
3ause of the accident (which, it will be seen, occurred
just at this point of the mill), but this we were not en-
sbled to ascertain, for at the time that we visited it yes-
terday afternoon this beam was still covered with rnb-
aish. 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,
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,
o the ground, with a fearful crash, burying several per-
ions under the ruins. Altogether about one-sixth part
)f 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
ss we can learn, in the part ,of the building which
fell. John Marsh, a machine maker, was one of
r.hese, 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
Dill at the time none wholly escaped; but three were 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,
mad who was in the lower room, was also carried down
amongst the ruins, and when found he had a severe flesh
'sound on his thigh; but this, it is hoped, will not prove
merious. Four other women have not been seen since the
accident, and it is supposed that they must have been in
he mill at the time, and that their bodies must still (at

tie time we write) be buried under the ruins. These aro
Viargaret Harding (single woman), of Now Bridge-
lane; Ann Swindells, a married woman, with four chil

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' Iren; Elisabeth Sykes, a girl fourteen or fifteen years
)Id; another girl, named Cash. But beside.; 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 Rubin.
son, Joseph Orme, anti Samonl 1-.l!rrop (!qty-mrpn;), were
!tnown to hare been engaged under the part of the mill
which has fallen at the time of the accel,.w; the tour
first abort the wheel, and the tee last near the west
gable wall, throwing rubbish into the weir. As none of
these 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 lest; as follows:
. .

Ellen Ashton, Margaret Harding, Ann Swindells, Eliza-
beth Sykes, earth, Ephraim Kidson, Wright Barker,
John Bushby, James Robinson, Joseph Orme, Samuel
Harrop.
The damage done to the mill and machinery is, as
aaust 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 ahout forty
'eet (or four bays) of the southern side wall of the mill

are much shattered by large and numerous cracks in
,hem 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
iess 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-
4troyed :—Six carding engines, three jack frames, a
drawing frame, a pair of intermediate frames, ten thros-
(lee, eight or nine doubling frames, and two pair of reels.
But this does nct 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
weakness in the two westernmost pillars in the beam
Above the intended water-wheel which they supported,
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
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 the weakness of the pillars or of the beam;
but until these 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 them 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-

wrighte, had been got out yesterday ,The in-
quest was 'fixed tor last t Wedhe'sday) ,evening, but as
the whole of the bodies had not been recovered, it would

necessarily be adjourned.