The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-12-16 00:00:00

BOILER EXPLOSION-LOSS OF LIFE

Yesterday, (Monday,) at one o'clock, a terriffic explo-
sion occurred at Messrs. Bothwell and Kitts' cotton
mill, situate in Rothwell-street, Bolton, and adjoining the
terminus of the Bolton and Leigh railway. The work-
people were returning from dinner, and several of them
had entered the mill, when, without any warning, the two
boilers exploded with a terriffic noise, carrying away the
whole of a new end of the building, five stories high, and
two windows in breadth, together with two rooms erected
over the boilers. The boilers were lifted upwards of
thirty yards from their bed. Too soon it became known
that many were buried beneath the ruins, and every exer-
tion was made to clear away the rubbish. The body of
the manager was first found. He was quite lifeless. At
the time when the latest account left Bolton last night,
the number of dead bodies extricated from the ruins was
five, amongst whom was that of Mr. Bothwell, one of the
firm, and the number wounded was six, including Mr.
Kitts, another partner. The accident is attributed to
there having been too much pressure on the boilers.

The subject of the lecture at St. Andrew's church this
evening is " Public Worship." Being the thirtieth anni-
versary of the consecration of that church, no doubt the
Rev. Mr. Jones will deliver the lecture. The occasion
cannot but prove interesting to all, but particularly to
those (few probably in number) who were witnesses of
the consecration on the 16th December, 1815. It is
perhaps scarcely necessary to say that Mr. Jones has
continued his ministrations at the church from that day
to the present with increasing favour. The next lec-
ture will not be this day week, but this day fortnight, and
the subject, " Self-Examination."
THE ANTI-MONOPOLY ASSOCIATION.—This somewhat
immodest body are just now busy at their trickery. By
a circular, recently issued by them, dated December,
1845, and signed by Charles Ed. Rawlins, jun., they
boast that " 2000 qualifications were made last year in
the West Riding of Yorkshire, and a still larger number
in South Lancashire ;" inform the public that "a share
qualification will not cost more than from £3O to £4O ;''
and request the names of parties wishing to be provided
with their faggot votes to be sent to them, for the purpose
of getting them placed upon the Register. The Counties
which they give, as " most nearly within the control of
the free-traders, are South Cheshire, North Lancashire,
North Cheshire, West Riding of Yorkshire, South Staf-
fordshire, and South Lancashire." With respect to the
former, they remind their friends that " Birkenhead and
its vicinity is in South Cheshire," and that South Lanca-
shire "is considered safe." It is surely time that Con-
servatives should open their eyes to the necessity of coun-
teracting the efforts of this confederacy, whose activity
amply makes up for their want of brains to understand
the result of the dangerous game they are playing.
It is rumoured in Radical circles that in the event of a
dissolution, the Hon. Fcx Manle and Mr. Ewart are to
be their candidates for this town.