The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-05 00:00:00

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" We are of opinion, that, in all the cases above suggested,
the party is entitled to be put upon the Burgess List.
{ FRED. POLLOCK,
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" Signed, W. W. FOLLETT,
THO. WILDE."

"Temple, Ist October, 1841."
The Miorox said, himself and the assessors had had a
meeting before they came into court, and they had come to
an unanimous decision, that it was their duty to act accord-
ing to the opinions which had been so decidedly expressed
by such eminent counsel. The claim of Mr. Wilkinson was,
therefore, allowed.
Mr. Witxiss said, in the case submitted there was the
suppression of a fact which would have given a different
aspect to the question. This case supposed that the com-
plainant himself went to the society, and that it was entirely
his own act; instead of which it had been proved, that, in
many cases, the society had instigated him. There was no
proof, in this case, that the man had acted as a principal.
The parties who had come forward at the last revision, and
who had been paid for through this society, were all paupers.
Mr. SNownatt objected to this statement.
Mr. WILKINS said, they were all parties who had failed to
pay their rates till assisted by this society, and, in that view,
they were paupers, and, consequently, disqualified. These
facts ought to have been laid before these eminent persons.
The fact was, that the claimants were not principals, but
passive beings in the hands of other parties.
Mr. YATES : I presume you have read Mr. Temple's
opinion.
Mr. WILKINS : I have, with very great care.
Mr. YATES : the case is there more strongly put than in
any other instance that has been brought before the public.
The MAYOR: The case is allowed, and we do not sit here
to re-try the cases which were brought forward previously."
_ Previously to the commencement of the lists of objections,
the Solicitors of the Conservative and Reform Associations
had come to an agreement to withdraw such a number of
objections on both sides as would greatly reduce the lists.
All the objections in Castle-street and Rodney-street were
withdrawn. In Everton Ward they are reduced to 30 on the
part of the Conservatives and 10 on the part of the Reformers ;
in Scotland Ward, to 50 Conservative and 18 Reform objec-
tions ; in Vauxhall Ward, to 50 Conservative and 18 Reform
objections; in St. Paul's, 60 Conservative and 60 Reform ;
in Exchange, 70 Conservative and 70 Reform ; St. Peter's,
72 Conservative and 37 Reform ; Pitt-street, 60 Conservative
and 60 Reform.
SATURDAY AND YESTERDAY.
The revision proceeded on Saturday and yesterday, and
our reporter attended in court for a long time, but no case
of peculiar interest took place. A considerable number have
been struck off the list on either side, principally in conse-
quence of the absence of the parties when their names were
called. We understand that arrangements have been come
to by which many of the objections on both sides will be
mutually withdrawn, so that the revision will be completed
much earlier than was anticipated.

THE LATE DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT PENY-
DARRAN WORKS, MERTHYR TYDVIL.

(Abridged from the Merthyr Guardian.
The tidings of this distressing accident having only reached
us last week on the eve of publication, we were unable to give
as full an account of it as could be desired. The main facts,
as stated, were, however, correct. _ .

On Saturday last a jury was summoned by the coroner,
William Davies, Esq. ; the only duty which they performed
was the distressing one of viewing the bodies, in order that
they might be buried ; it was then adjourned till Wednesday.
The funerals of the deceased workmen took place on Sa-
turday morning last ; the unfortunate woman who met her
death was interred the day following the accident.
On Wednesday morning we paid a visit to the Penydarran
Works, and the scene of the awful catastrophe was such a
one as we shall never forget. The interior of the premises
are almost completely demolished, one large and very high
stack towering over the ruins. Had this stack fallen, the
consequences must have been far more disastrous even than
they were; providentially it withstood-the shock.
It is impossible to give our readers any accurate idea of
the present appearance of the Pennydarran Works. The
immense boiler which burst, and which weighed upwards of
twelve tons, with the tube, lies 45 feet from its original sta-
tion, it having been blown to that distance ; the boiler tube
was projected about the same distance in a contrary direc-
tion ; four stacks were knocked down, and one has been taken
down since ; the iron roofs are bent in all directions ; im-
mense masses, and beams of iron, are lying about in the
places to which they were driven by the explosion, and the
whole place is filled with a network, if we may so speak, of
massive iron bars, beams, &c., almost inextricably blended
together. The surrounding houses are also much injured,
many 'of the roofs being full of holes, caused by the fall of
bricks and pieces of iron.
The account given us by the individual who attended us
through the works were most heart-sickening. In one place
we were told that such a man had been killed there; that in
another spot a poor workman had been literally broiled alive;
that here a poor woman had discovered her dead husband ;
and there a child had in vain sought for a missing parent.
The narrow escapes, too, which some of the workmen expe-
rienced, were most wonderful. One young man told us that
an immense quantity of iron fell around him, but he did not
receive a scratch. Several, who were close to the boiler
when it burst, escaped, whilst others at a distance were either
killed or seriously injured.
On Wednesday and Thursday an inquest was held on the
bodies, and after a most searching inquiry, the coroner ad-
dressed the jury, and stated that he would read over the
whole of the evidence if they requited him so to do. This,
however, they did not desire. On the conclusion of the co-
roner's luminous address, the jury retired, and, after re-
maining in consultation for about two hours, retuined the
following verdict of " Homicide by misadventure ; they find
that the death of John Williams was occasioned by the pro-
jected part of the tube, which fell upon him ; they find also
that that explosion was occasioned by an insufficient supply
of water On the tube, whereby it became heated, and that that
insufficiency was produced partially through the ignorance of
the engine tender and superintendant, and they affix a deo-
, dand of 55.. on the part of the tube causing the death. The
jury recommends to the noticewohficthh,e signall)pyrobperiientgorpsrtohpaetrly
whistles should be adopted. at-
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tached to the boilers, will give timely warning of approaching
danger.

CONVERSIONS TO PROTESTANTISM.—On Sunday, the
26th ultimo, in the parish church of St. Audoen, Dublin,
twelve persons conformed to the holy' apostolic church of
Ireland. The Rev. Thomas Scott preached on the occasion,
from the 16th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, 30th and
31st verses—" Sirs, what must Idoto be saved ? And they
said, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be
saved and thy house." He administered also the oaths, ab-
juring the errors of Romanistn. The church was crowded to
suffocation.