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ther at Macclesfield upwards of an 

 hour after proclamation had been 

 made to disperse. The two former 

 to be imprisoned three years, the 

 latter one year. 



Thomas Whitaker was convicted 

 on the evidence of one Parnell, of 

 administering an unlawful oath to 

 18 or 20, in which they entered 

 into a solemn obligation to destroy 

 steam-looms, &c. Whitaker was 

 sentenced to seven years trans- 

 portation. 



His lordship passed the awful 

 judgment of death upon sixteen; 

 and, in a most impressive address, 

 held out not the smallest hope of 

 mercy. Only five however were 

 left for execution. 



^5. A lamentable accident hap- 

 pened last week in a coal-mine at 

 Orrell, near Liverpool. The work- 

 men had been warned not to ap- 

 proach a certain part with fire or 

 light ; notwithstanding which, one 

 of them entered it with a lighted 

 candle ; when a tremendous ex- 

 plosion took place, by which all in 

 that part of the mine, consisting of 

 nine men and one woman, lost 

 their lives. 



26. The Carlisle Journal states, 

 that tumult and disorder at present 

 prevail in that neighbourhood, 

 to a greater extent than at any 

 time since the disturbances first 

 broke out. It enumerates a varie- 

 ty of outrages. Even the asylum 

 of the poor was not spared by 

 these offenders. On Monday night 

 the workhouse of St. Cuthbert's 

 parish was entered by one of the 

 windows, and a quantity of bacon 

 and hams taken away. — The Leeds 

 Mercury says, the arms-stealing 

 system still prevails in the vicinity 

 of Hudder^fieki. 



Ncwcastlc-itpon- Tyne, Mondaijf 



May 26. — Yesterday, one of the 

 most terrible accidents on record, 

 in the history of collieries, took 

 place at Felling, near Gateshead, 

 Durham, in the mine belonging to 

 — — Brandling, esq. the member 

 for this place, which was the admi- 

 ration of the dictrict for the excel- 

 lence of its ventilation and arrange- 

 ments. Nearly the whole of the 

 workmen were below, the second 

 set having gone down before the 

 first came up, when a double blast 

 of hydrogen gas took place, and 

 set the mine on fire, forcing up 

 such a volume of smoke as darken- 

 ed the air to a considerable dis- 

 tance, and scattered an immense 

 quantity of small coal from the 

 upper shaft. In the calamity, 93 

 men and boys perished, the re- 

 mains of 86 of whom are still in 

 the mine, which continues un- 

 approachable. Meetings are to 

 be called at Newcastle, and the 

 neighbourhood, to raise subscrip- 

 tions for the widows and orphans 

 of the sufferers. 



28. Lincoln. — A storm came 

 on here in the afternoon, which 

 was uncommonly severe, and has 

 been attended with very fatal con- 

 sequences in this neighbourhood. 

 At Southray, a village three miles 

 from Bardney, three boys were 

 killed by the lightning, namely, 

 John East and Richard Pask, aged 

 12 years, and Levi Day, 1 1 years. 

 They were tending geese, in com- 

 pany with another, named Charles 

 Blakey, about the same age, who 

 escaped in a most providential 

 manner. They were in a field 

 near home, and, when the storm 

 approached, retired to a hovel. 

 Here they sat down on the ground, 

 Blakey having two companions on 

 one side, and one on the other. 



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