The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-02 00:00:00

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 this
subject we refer to the annexed extract from
the Dublin Evening Packet, by which it will be
seen that the Nation 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 the
midnight summoner of cut-throats in Tipperary
catches behind his ear some vibration of the blast
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 him
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 kind. The whole was the in-
cendiary's own work. At the Mallow meeting he
stood precisely in the position of the conjuror of the
last century—
" Katterfelto with his hair on end,
At his own wonders wondering for his bread."
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
is 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 in
appearance, and that they are the only fitting objects
of punishment.

DREADFUL OCCURRENCE AT
OLDHAM.
TWENTY-ONE PERSONS KILLED.

(From the Manchester Guardian of this day.)

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 in 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, Greenacre 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 bodies 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.
; a twister; aged 17 years.
Q. 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. Edmund Wimpenny, of Fouleach, a twister,
aged 50 ; has left a widow and a large grown-up
family.

7. Ann Buckley, 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
Moor; aged 63 years. He did not work at the mill,
but was coming to fetch a key from his wife to get
into his hoase. He has left a widow, who is 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 unmarried, and the niece
of Taylor (No. 10), with whom (and his wife, Han-
nan Taylor, who is numbered amongst those hurt)
she resided.