The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-04 00:00:00

NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY.

The foundation of the viaduct over the Tyne at
East Linton is begun to be dug on the south side of

the river. It crosses where the Linton distillery
stood, which has been dismantled for some years, and
will now be wholly removed to make room for the
course of the railway.
WILTS AND SOMERSET RAILWAY.

A numerous and influential meeting was held at
Weymouth on Wednesday, including deputations
from Southampton, Bridport, and the Great Western
Company. Colonel Henderson, the Mayor of
Southampton, brought forward the subject of a pro-
posed line, to be called the Salisbury and Dorsetshire
Railway, for the purpose of connecting the eastern
and southern parts of Dorsetshire with the grand
railway system of the kingdom. Mr. Hayter, M.P.,
contended for the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth
Railway, as affording the best facility of communica-
tion with the north of England, and as most con-
ducive to the interests of Weymouth. After a
lengthened and able discussion, resolutions in favour
of the latter were carried by large majorities.—
Bristol Mirror.

FEARFUL CONFLAGRATION AT
ST RAT AV EN.
FouTy IlousE* DESTROYED.—yesterday forenoon,
~..bout twelve oclock, a fire broke out in this quiet little
town, about It; S.E. of Glasgow, by which upwards of
forty houses, with a brewery and tan-work, were burned
to the ground, nearly one hundred poor families thrown
destitute into the street, and the annihilation of the entire
town seriously threatened. We have heard several
versions of the origin of the fire—one to the effect that it
was occasioned by a poacher recklessly throwing a
parcel of gunpowder into the fire-place of a house
where he had been visiting ; another, that it arose
from a child having lighted some chips of wood which
communicated with the bedding in the house of a
person named Hamilton ; and a third, that it occurred
from a boy drying some guilipowder near afire-place. Which
of these versions is the right, we are in the meantime
at a loss to say with correctness ; certain it is, however,
that about the time we have mentioned, the conflagration
commenced at the south end of the town, a little away
beyond a place named Todd's Hill, where the houses are
nearly all covered with thatch, and where the impala.,
tion are chiefly weavers, that the wind, being hi!,l-, at
the time, and blowing from the soath-east, rapidly spread
the flames from house to house on both side": of the street,
until in the space of a few hours, not:withstanding the
efforts of a body of the inhaUterils who turned out to
check the flames, about forty houses were com-
pletely destroyed, in %adition ;to the brewery of Mr.
Valiance, and the large tan-work of Mr. Semple,
where it is alleged not less than 2,000/. worth of
property has been consumed. The fire in its pro-
gress, which was fearfully rapid, spread terror and
dismay on all hands. As house by house crumbled before
the devouring element, the inhabitants in the vicinity of
the burning got out their furniture tc.• the street, where
it lay in confused heaps until tins houses from which it
had just been removed shared in the general catastrophe,
So apprehensive were the shopkeepers that the entire
town would be burned up, that numbers of them at the
Cross, which is some distance from the place where the
fire originated, emptied their stock of goods into the
street, and awaited with terror the approach of the
flames. The scene, as witnessed by people at a dis-
tance, is described as awfully grand and imposing.
Kirkhill, which is about half a mile from the town,
was clustered with hundreds of spectators, inhabitants
of the other end of Strathaven (who certainly would
have been better employed in lending a hand to stay
the progress of the fire), but who for a time
seemed lost in wonder at the fearful majesty of the sight.
Not so the more spirited and more interested portion of
the inhabitants. Headed by the Rev. Mr. M'Lay, Relief
clergyman ; Mr. Tennent, banker ; Messrs. Currie,
Reid, and others, two large bodies of active men pro-
cured pails and other vessels capable of containing water,
and forming two chains from the scene of the fire to the
nearest places for procuring a supply of water, they
worked away without intermission for several hours,
one party han.:ling on the pails filled with water, and
the , other returning them empty, until finding these
means unavailing in extinguishing the flames, they
adopted the plan of pulling down two or three
buildings in the line of street, which had the desired effect
of stopping its further progress. The loss of -property by
the fire has been very considerable, and ;..s the more to be
lamented, as few of the houses of ti sufferers were in..
cured, and the sufferers them elves are mostly of the
poorest and most industri',os part of the community.
Some accounts state about 53 houses in all have
been destroyed, and 104 families deprived of the means
of livelihood, or made dependent for shelter and support
upon friends, relations, and neighbours. It is calculated
that from fifty to sixty looms with webs, principally be-
longing to Glasgow manufacturers, have been consumed,
and it will take a long time, indeed, before the loss to the
operative weavers can be made up. No such conflagration
has been known in this part of the country for many
years, and it has created amongst all classes the deepest
sorrow and regret.—Glosgetv Saturday Post.

At a meeting of the Edinburgh town council, held
was elected, by a majority of 20 votes to 12, master of
on Friday, Mr. John 11I'Millan, High School, Glasgow,
the High School, Edinburgh, in the room of Dr. Pyper.
EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY AT A DISTILLERY.---
For some days past great excitement has prevailed at
the east-end of the town, in consequence of some
sweeping measures having been adopted by her Me.
jestyrs Commissioners of Excise towards Messrs. Smith,
distillers, Whitcchapel. It will be remembered that
some time since nearly 3,000 gallons of spirits were
seized by the officers of Excise, but after some time a
great quantity was returned, although Crown proceed.
ings were instituted against Messrs. Smith th recover
a tTi 41.111 e o f
result the
wassam e
thati
al
heavy penalties against them. In the beEr,',nning of the
naliii
sdsi
ohni information week some suspicious circumstances transpired in the
same
number of labourers were en ;aged to accompany the
Excise officers to excavate the ground around the pre.
mises, who found several hundred feet of pipe extending
along nearly the whole front, around the counting.
ce
houses and private residence of mof r. George Smith,
about two feet From
the surface of the earth, which, it
is stated, were impregnated with spirit, and used for the
purpose of secretly reducing their stock. The workmen
engaged on the occasion have left the pipes exposed tit
public vii,w. The solicitors and chief officers of F47:cise
have been in daily communication with her Ma'estes
lawl authorities, and it was rumoured that the. Excuse
Commissioners would go so for as to seize the
.whole
of the distillery, plant, 84c., which is Pd stiraatect to be
worth nearly 200,0001. On inquiry, however, this even+
ing at the police•station, Arbour-equare, Inspectol
Shaw, of the H division, stated that he had -received
no fresh instructions on thq adiject.—Sunday Paper.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.

GLOBE.—If Government be not positively im-
pervious to the lessons derived from well-ascertained
and established facts, obtained by an investigation
conducted by a Select Committee of the House of
Commons which sat in the last session, the duties
on tobacco must undergo an early revision, with
a view to a material reduction of their present
enormous amount. This course is not merely
dictated by sound policy ; it is demanded by stern
necessity. The contraband trade has increased so
steadily—it has acquired a system so perfect, and an
extent so enormous, that its precautions against de-
tection bid defiance to the regulations of the Excise

and the vigilance of the Coast-guard. The revenue
is robbed to an enormous extent ; and the fair trader
is, at length, either reduced to the alternative
of becoming a guilty participator in the illicit
traffic, or he is involved in ruin, through in-
ability to compete in the market with the
low prices at which the smuggler can
afford to supply the article. Within the present week,
a tobacco and snuff-manufacturer (named Thomas)
carrying on business in Ratcliff-highway, appeared
at Lambeth-street Police-office to answer two infor-
mations, charging him with having on his premises
173flbs. of smuggled tobacco, which had been
found by the Customs' officers on the sth and 7th ult.
The truth of the charge was admitted by the de-
fendant, who stated, in excuse, in the first place,
that the house in which he had resided and carried
on business had been upwards of half a century in
his family ; and that such was the competition in h!s
business at present, through the means resorted to by
smuggling and adulteration, that goods were sold for
much less than they could be fairly manufactured for.
He should, therefore, throw himself upon the consi-
deration of the Court.
" Mr. Henry—Then, what you mean to say is, that
you cannot carry on and live by your business without
smuggling ? Defendant—Why, Sir, I did not say that
exactly ; but I have said that there is so much smug-
gling and adulteration in the trade, that there is no get-
ting a living in a regular way."
The man was convicted in penalties amounting to
1681. 18s. sd. He also stands exposed to proceedings
in another form, for having adulterated stuff in his
possession, on which he will be liable to penalties
amounting to 6001. Yet, notwithstanding the high
amount of penalties on detection, and the vigilance
of the Excise and Custom-house officers, it is
estimated that from twenty to twenty-five mil-
lions of pounds of tobacco are annually smuggled
into the United Kingdom—a larger quantity than
finds its way into the market in the legitimate course
of trade ! The returns made to the Select Com-
mittee of the House of Commons to which we have
alluded, show, that with a population which has
doubled in numbers since the commencement
of the present century, the consumption of
tobacco on which the duty has been paid
has not increased in a proportion approaching to
that ratio. In the ten years, from 1808 to 1818, the
consumption of duty-paid tobacco was 189,083,261
lbs. ; while from 1818 to 1828 it was only 172,706,368
lbs.—showing a decrease on the whole of that
period of 16,376,893 lbs. The Committee remark,
that the decrease was greater by 6,000,000 lbs.
The obvious conclusion is, that this great decrease
in the amount of duty-paid tobacco consumed
was owing to the extensive smuggling, which
supplied the deficiency. If the twenty-four years
from 1820 to 1843 be referred to, it will be found

that the average yearly quantity of tobacco paying
duty was 19,916,893 lbs. This shows an increase
on'y of 1,818,567 lbs., compared with the ten
years from 1808 to 1818. The evidence ap-
pended to the report displays a most instructive
comment on the system of high duties. The nu-
merous ingenious schemes to which the smugglers
have recourse to deceive the revenue officers, both
afloat and ashore—the desperate risks they encounter
—and the accurate calculations upon which they enter
as to the chances of detection, and the number of
" runs" which cover loss sustained by seizure—these
matters were detailed to the Committee by witnesses
who had themselves been actively engaged in smug-
Fling, or had participated in the traffic, but who were
indemnified V the Committee against the Conse-
quences of their evidence.
STANDARD.—The repeal faction in Ireland has
been so utterly routed and disgraced by the proceed-
ings of her Majesty's Attorney-General in that king-
dom—let us never forget to whom we owe so great
a service—that we should be ashamed to refer to their
ignominious overthrow for any less purpose
than to correct a serious error or to estab-
lish a useful principle in politics. Most of our
readers will recollect that up to the commence-
ment of the State trials last year, it was
the constant cry that Mr. O'Connell and his ac-
eomplices, priests and laymen, were not free agents,
that the people it was who urged them onward,
and the inference was not very logically drawn,
that to deprive Mr. O'Connell of the power of
controlling the people, by putting him into prison,
must lead to civil war and anarchy. This rea-
soning, d:d not, however, prevail with the Right
Hon. T. B. Smith ; he put Mr. O'Connell into gaol
—the luminary was eclipsed behind the walls cf
the Richmond Bridewell ; but the threatened night
of anarchy did not follow ; Nox nulla secuta est. On
the other hand, the obscuration of the portentous
star was followed by the most peaceful, the most
cheerful, and the most prosperous day in Irish his-
tory. True, he has been let back once mere
into our system ; but, like other comets,
he comes back shorn of his beams, and al-
most destitute of a tail, and no longer
" with fear of change perplexing kings," or any body
else—comes hack, not merely to be comparatively
quiet himself, but to cause the quietness of others.
Now this very clearly proves the falsehood of the
notion that Mr. O'Connell was not a free agent last
year—demonstrates that it taxed all his energies and
all his audacity to excite the sedition of which
he was represented as the passive instrument.
The people are the same people who collected
at monster meetings, established arbitration courts,
promised to meet in Parliament on College-green
with or without the Queen's writ. Why do not we
hear anything of these projects now ? Because the
people are afraid ? This could hardly be the case,
bee .use the punishment of the offence could
hardly reach the millions of repealers, we for-
get how many millions, it is so long since we heard
of them. No, it is in truth because Mr. O'Con-
nell is afraid, because he has had a sharp
hint that it is not safe to challenge the Government
to "go either to war with him or to law with
him"—because Mr. T. B. Smith has shown
the danger of " hurling defiance at the Saxon"
—that the repeal movement, monster meeting;,
and all, are dead and gone. Now it is obvious that
if the prudence or cowardice, call it which you
will, of the one man, Mr. Daniel O'Connell, is
sufficient to produce this sedative effect, Mr,
Daniel O'Connell was the author and master, not
the creature and servant, of the extinct sedition.
So absolute and complete is still the man's power
in his faction that he is able to control even the
most violent, and what were believed the most
enthusiastic, journals in that faction. Upon thi'
subject we refer to the annexed extract from
the Dublin Evening Packet, by which it will, be
seen that the Yation itself has been muzzled.
There can be no doubt that, in the course of his
treasonable progress, Mr. O'Connell may have felt
something like an external pressure—just as th?
midnight summoner of cut-throats in Tipperary
catches behind his ear some vibration of the bhtst
which he blows into the crooked cow's horn, but
still it is merely his own breath he feels, and
when the breath ceases the discordant vibration
from behind ceases also. Mr. O'Connell at Mallow
" hurled defiance at the Saxon," with gesticula-
tions which are to be eternised in marble or in
brass. Some of the poor savages about hini
shouted " lead us on against them." Foolish
people inferred from this that the people were more
forward for mischief than Mr. O'Connell. Now
it was nothing of the kin The whole was the in -
cendiary's own work. At the Mallow meeting lie
stood precisely in the po3ition of the conjuror of tie
last century—
" Katterfelto with his hair on end,
At his own wonders wondering for h;s brea,l."
Mr. Moore has said of his countrymen something
like this—
" Oh there never were men, if our leaders would let us,
More form'd to be loyal and blessed than ours,"
and the truth of the proposition seems to be sup-
ported by the events of the last year. Now what
as the useful principle that we would deduce from
this ? That in all cases of popular disorder, the
leaders are always the leaders in fact as well as in
appearance, and that they are the only fitting objects
of punishment.

OXFORD, Nov. I.—The Rev. W. Goodenough
Penny, M.A., Student of Christ Church, and Perpe-
tual Curate of Ashendon, Bucks, has resigned his
studentship, on conforming to the Roman Catholic
faith. It is also announced, and the intelligence has
produced a deep sensation, that the Rev. John Henry :
Newman has intimated to the Rev. Mr. Williams,
She late candidate for the Poetry Professorship, the
impossibility of his continuing a member of the
Anglican Church.
BOTANIC4I. SOcurry op L
was
heroic —The ordinary
meeting of this society
Bedford.aotu Friday evening at
the Society's rooms, 20,in
the chair. ;
J. Reynolds, Esq., treasurer,
raNn
announced.
donations to the library and herbarium veywer;oe
Z 'l'., 1114,t A, Notice of the Discover
..- ,
_vonantlip, Aliew British plant, discovered by G.Ggri.dra II
ib-
c onl) of the members of the Society near
_ saffron Waldefit Essex, in September last." Specimens
;fere presenteft: .. The Chairman announced that the '
eiglthiinniver meeting of the Society would beheld
OR Friday, the th inst., being the anniversary of the
birth of the pi rated Enzlish botanist, John Ray.
"y
,

DREADFUL OCCURRENCE AT
OLDHAM.
TWENTY-ONE PERSONS KILLED.

We copy the following particulars from the pro-
vincial papers, in addition to those which We published
on Saturday.

(From the Manchester Courier of Saturday.)
One of the most extensively fatal disasters ever
known in Oldham occurred on Thursday afternoon
last. The scene of this deplorable catastrophe was a
large cotton-mill, known as Lower House Mill,
situate at Greenacre's Moor, belonging to Messrs.
Josiah Radcliffe and Brothers. The old mill had re-
cently been considerably enlarged by the erection of
an additional building, of equal height, six stories ;
and on Wednesday afternoon the workmen had begun
to lay the shafting in the lower story, and had got in
a few looms, but no heavy machinery.
The time when the aceident occurred, as near as
we can ascertain, was half-past three o'clock on
Thursday afternoon. There were at the time thirty-
two persons employed in the mill, including some
bricklayers, plasterers, and painters, who were
finishing off the upper stories; but the majority were
mill hands, who were preparing for getting inithe ma-
chinery, and were employed in the second floor, and
one immediately over the boiler-house. The catas-
trophe occurred quite suddenly. Of the survivors, a
man named Lees, a plasterer, who was at work in the
sixth story, gives the most detailed account of the ac-
cident. From his statement it appears that as he was
plastering an arch, on the north side of the room,
he observed that the brick work of an arch near the
centre of the floor of the story above, close to
one of the iron cross beams of the floor, was giving
way. In its giving way there appeared to be a moving
of the arch itself, but none of the brickwork
fell. Lees instantly left the room, and went as
quickly as possible to the manager of the mill
and acquainted him with the circumstance. The
manager was at the other end of the mill at the time.
He then returned to the spot he had left, and was just
going on the scaffolding to resume his work of plas-
tering, not being absent more than seven or eight
minutes, when he heard a sound as of a tremendous
rush ; he was then about eight yards from the door
leading into the corresponding story of the old mill ;
he, as it were, almost instantaneously sprung over
these eight yards, and had just got within the door-
way in a safe position, as it proved, when the floor on
which he had been fell with an awful crash, carrying
with it to the lowest story all the floors underneath,
and rendering nearly every portion of the new part of
the mill a heap of ruins, except one single range of
windows, which are left standing from the bottom
nearly to the highest parapet, presenting a singular
appearance, forming the only remaining fragment
of the new mill. The roof having, of course, lost
its means of support, fell upon the lower floors,
and served to add to the already large and frightful
heap of ruins, underneath which had been instantly
buried all, or nearly all, the workpeople who were at
work in the lowest story, and a few in the stories
above them. The alarm created in the town and
neighbourhood by this dreadful accident was ex-
tremely great ; hundreds of persons were on the spot
in a few moments, and a number of men were set to
work, without loss of time, for the purpose of re-
moving the materials, in order to discover the bodies
of the sufferers as soon as possible. In little more
than half an hour from the time of the accident, the
magistrates and other authorities of the town were ort
the spot, and about five o'clock a detachment of the
67th Regiment of Foot, under the direction of Eri•
sign M'Dunnor, arrived from the barracks, and re-
mained on duty during the night and yesterday.
The labourers engaged in removing the ruins
worked during all the evening and night of Thursday
by relays, and at noon yesterday the bodies of four-
teen persons (ten male and four female) had been dug
out. There were still seven persons missing, two
males and five females, whom there is every reason to
believe have been killed.. The total number who
have been bereaved of life by this dreadful catas-

trophe may, therefore, be stated to be twenty-one
persons, of whom sixteen were upwards of twenty
years of age. Most of the bodies were shockingly
crushed or otherwise injured. Seven other persons
were more or less injured, and several very narrowly
escaped.
The appearance of the fallen portion of the mill •at
the moment of the accident is described as horribly
startling to those who witnessed it. The two main
walls sprung, as it were, outwards, and then in-
stantly closed in, involving nearly the whole portion
in one common ruin.

The cause of this lamentable occurrence is not yet
clearly ascertained ; but it can only he referred to
one or two causes—the shrinking of the foundation
of the old boiler-house, on which the mill was
reared, or the breaking of one of the cast-iron prin-
cipals. The total damage to the mill and machinery
probably amounts to 4,0001.
The old mill, it is hoped, will be got to work again
in about ten days. At present 800 hands are unem.
ployed in consequence of this disaster.
(From the Manchester Guardian of Saturday.)

It becomes our painful duty to record one of the
most extensively fatal catastrophes that has happened
in this neighbourhood for many years past ;—one,
indeed, more terrific ITT its nature, and more fatal and
disastrous in its consequences, than anything that
has occurred since a similar catastrophe at the fire-
proof factory of Mr. Nathan Gough, near Oldfield-
road, Salford, on Wednesday the 13th October,
1824, by which eighteen or nineteen persons lost their
lives. This dreadful accident occurred on Thursday
afternoon last, in a suburb of Oldham, named Lower
House, Greenacres Moor, at the mills of Mr. Samuel
Radcliffe and Sons, called the Lower House Mills.
The firm, now consisting of Messrs. Josiah Radcliffe
and Brothers, the four sons of the deceased Mr. Sa-
muel Radcliffe, had recently built a new mill ad-
joining their old one, at one end ; and about half-past
three o'clock on Thursday afternoon, the whole of this
new mill fell in with a tremendous crash, at a time
when there were thirty-two persons in it, of whom
there is reason to fear that twenty-one have been
killed, as the bodies of fourteen had been found and
taken from the ruins up to noon yesterday, and seven
others were missing. Of the remaining eleven, five
were more or less hurt, of whom one is not expected
to recover ; and six escaped with little or no injury.
The following, we believe, will be found a tolerably
correct list of the different class of sufferers :
KILLED.

The hodie3 of the following were taken out of the
ruins during Thursday afternoon and evening:-
1. Joseph Tweedale, of Lower House; a manager;
aged 48 years; has left a widow and five surviving
children ; two of his sons being killed at the same
time.

2. Robert Tweedale, of Lower House, a son of No.
1 ; a twister ; aged 17 years.
3. James Tweedale, of Lower House, a brother of
No. 2 ; a reacher or assistant in drawing-in; aged 12
years.
4. William Mannock, of Dirtcar-lane, one of the
hands, an assistant or reacher-in, aged 12 years.
5. Susannah Wright, of High-street-hill, a twister,
aged 40 years ; has left a widower and five children.
6. F Imund Wimpenny, of Fouleach, a twister,
aged 50 ; has left a widow and a large grown-up
family.
7. Ann Ilickley, of North Moor, a twister, aged
22 years. She was the daughter of Joseph Buckley,
a blacksmith, and was unmarried.

8. John Kershaw, of Bath Bank ; a drawer; aged
26 years ; has left a widow and one child. His brother
James is amongst the missing.
9. Ann Ogden, of Fouleach ; a twister, aged 25
years ; unmarried.
10. George Taylor, of Lower House ; a fly dealer
and also apparitor at St. James's church, Greenacres
floor; aged 63 years. He did not work at the mill,
but was coming to fetch a key from his wife to get
into his house. He has left a widow, who was hurt ;
and his neice, Hussey, is killed.
11. Daniel Dunkerley, of North Moor, or May-
gate-lane ; a beam carrier and jobber for dressers ;
aged 35 years; has left a widow and a large family
of small children.

12. William or Robert Butterworth, of Green-
acres Moor ; a weaver ; aged 24 years ; has left a
widow.

The following persons were found yesterday morn-
ing and forenoon :

13. James Ridgway, of Lower House, assistant in
twisting or drawing-in ; aged 16 years.
14. Mary Ann Hussey, of Lower House, twister;
aged 28 years. She was unmarriei, and the niece
of Taylor (No. 10), with whom (and his wife, Han-
nan Taylor, who is numbered amongst those hurt)
she resided.
MISSING.—SUPPOSED TO BE KILLED.

I 15. Ann Hulme, of Henshaw-street, Priest Hill ;
a twister ; 26 years of age ; has left a widower
(Ralph llulme, a power-loom jobber) and one child.
16. Hannah Slater, Rhodes Field; a twister;
aged 26 years ; has left a widower and two children.
17. Elizabeth Smethurst, of North Moor ; a
twister; aged 26 years ; unmarried, but she has left
a child.
18. James Kershaw, of Lower Moor (brother of
No. 8) ; a drawer-in ; aged 30 years; has left a
widow and four children.
19. William Whitehead, of Lower House or Fou-
leach ; an engineer ; aged 25 years; unmarried.
20. Sarah Watmough, of Lower House; a twister;
aged 26 years; has left a widower and three children.
21. Ann Ashton, of Priest-hill ; age not ascer-
tained ; unmarried, and a sister to John Ashton, shoe-
maker.

It would thus appear, that at the time our re-
porter left, about one o'clock yesterday, there were,
besides the fourteen persons known to be killed,
and whose bodies had been found, seven others
inissing, being, in all probability, under the
ruins, and doubtless all dead, viz., two men and
seven females ; so that the total number of persons
who have lost their lives by this dreadful accident may
be stated to be twenty-one persons ; twelve males and

nine females; of whom sixteen were upwards of
twenty years of age. Most of the bodies were fright-
fully crushed and mangled.
MAIMED AND OTHERWISE HURT.

Hannah Taylor ; lived on the premises ; a twister ;
about sixty years of age; she received a compound
fracture of the leg, and is otherwise very much hurt ;
it was apprehended that her shoulder was dislocated.
she was the wife of No. 10, who is killed.

Betty Dearden, of Lower-house; aged 40 years;
a twister. She was got out about six o'clock on
Thursday evening, very much scalded and bruised ;
she was taken from the top of the boiler. She is
married, and has several children.

William Mills, of Pipe Row, or North Moor
bricklayer. He has received several cuts on the head
and was on the roof when the building fell.
Mrs. Rayner, of Lower House ; wife of the carter
so much hurt that she is not likely to recover; she
was going past the stables when the accident oc-
curred.

Joseph Travis, of North Moor ; bricklayer; said
to be maimed.

John Lees, of the Star Inn, Saddleworth, plasterer,
who was running out at the time ; cut in several
places, and much bruised about the head, neck, and
back. He is a brother of Thomas Lees, plasterer,
who had a narrow escape from the sixth story.
Thomas Mellor, Higginshaw-lane, or Greenacres
Moor, a bricklayer ; slightly hurt.
ESCAPED WITHOUT SERIOUS INJURY.

Joseph Mellor, of Dirt Car-lane, ope of the en-
gineers; he was got out a few minutes after the
accident.

Robert Brierly, of Greenacres Moor, a painter ;
his brush was struck from his hand by some of the
falling material.
John Rushworth, a painter.
Thomas Lees, of the Star Inn, Saddleworth,
plasterer.
John and Thomas Whitehead (brothers), of Man-
chester-street, millwrights.
Thomas Windle, millwright.
James Whitworth, a stoker, who had a narrow
escape. He was mending the fire under the boilers,
in the fire-hole, below the ground-floor of the new
mill. Hearing a tremendous crash and fall above
him, he crept along the fire-hole, which is arched
under the yard, and in this way escaped unhurt.
It would be a vain attempt to endeavour to depict
the scene which ensued on the fall of the mill. The
hands in the old mill, about eight hundred in number,
quitted it immediately, and commenced working with
the greatest energy, to remove the mass of building
materials, and iron beams, pillars, &c., in order
to rescue any of the sufferers who might still sur-
vive. One or two were thus rescued more or less
hurt, and several bodies were also found; and, during
the afternoon and evening, twelve bolies were taken
from the ruins. On the first alarm, which, as may
be expected, spread rapidly throughout Oldham, hun-
dreds of anxious relatives, chiefly women, might be
seen hurrying towards the premises, in order to ascer-
tain if their relatives were amongst the sufferers.
Several surgeons of the neighbourhood were
promptly on the spot, and rendered every assist-
ance in their power. Amongst those mentioned
as being first, were Messrs. John Henshavv, Wilkin-
son, Enoch, Dunkerley, Rowntree, and Fawcett.
They inspected several of the bodies as they were
discovered, and pronounced that life was totally ex-
tinct. They also examined several of the living suf-
ferers, applied dressings to their injuries, and gave
directions as to their being conveyed home.
We understand that a subscription has been com-
menced already for the bereaved families, and also
for the living sufferers ; and the authorities of Old-
ham have convened a public meeting for this, Saturday
evening, to promote this object. We understand
that there is some intention to propose the transfer to
this fund, of a considerable sum, report says 4001., the
balance of a subscription some years ago for the suf-
ferers by the destruction of the Union Mill by fire.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
SlR,—Since my last, several other bodies have been
found dead, among which are the manager and his
two sons; about sixteen now have been got out;
three or four are expected to recover. It is supposed
there is five or six more missing. Several workmen
employed on the uppermost stories were carried down
to the ground, aid escaped with slight bruises. Four
or five painters, engaged in the interior, feeling the
movement, had presence of mind to rush into the old
mill, which joined to this, and were preserved. You
may form some idea of the disaster, when I tell you
that an extent of six stories in length, and the same in
height, fell without a moment's warning. As to the
cause, nothing certain can yet be assigned ; but it is
generally supposed the walls were too weak to bear
the weight of the columns and beams, which are all
iron, and the floors being formed of heavier materials
than usual, as it was intended to be fire proof.'
I am, Sir, yours respectfully,
A CONSTANT REA.DER.
Oldham, Nov. 1.