A Resolution has passed the Town Council of Bath, ordaining that the chimneys in all the houses belonging to that Corporation shall in future be swept by machinery. The Mayor’s Lady writes:--“Finding upon inquiry that here, as in Bristol, the machine keepers, though professing to forego the use of boys, keep them, and most generally use them, it occurred to me that we might have one of Glass’s Machines, and establish it on our own terms. I am enabled to inform you, that the machine has arrived, and answers very well. Not wishing to have one of the chimney-sweeping fraternity, we have selected a respectable man, who appears to manage the undertaking very well. He is already feeling some of the trials of the business, in the persecuting spirit of the chimney-sweepers; but having the Mayor of the city as his patron, we hope we may proceed without much opposition.” Your Agents are constantly employed in One Hundred and Ten Government and other Public Buildings, and in Eleven Banking Houses. Twenty-two Thousand One Hundred and Ninety-three chimneys have been swept by your Agents in London and its immediate neighbourhood during the past year. Machines have been purchased since the last Report by His Grace the Duke of Leinster; the Earl of Cawdor; Lord Skelmersdale; Lord Lynedoch; the Right Hon. B. Bathurst, Lydney Park. And by persons at the following places--Bath, 2; Belfast, 1; Brighton, 4; Deptford, 1; Gloucester, 1; Greenwich, 1; Hounslow, 1; Ipswich, 1; London, 6; Liverpool, 1; Margate, 1; March, 1; Northampton, 1; Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1; Stone, 1; Wellington, 1; Wisbeach, 1.--Total, 31. Thirteen soot doors have been put into Thirteen chimneys during the past year, at an average expense of 14s. 7½d. each, to adapt these ill-built chimneys to the use of the machine: this is all that is required, and this alteration is the real amount of what is described by the enemies of the cause as a most serious destruction of house property, and involving an outlay of money, not for one moment to be conceded. The foregoing has been selected from among the agreeable transactions of the year. Your Committee would now draw your attention to a part of the painful evidence which is forced upon them, of the utter impossibility of regulating the trade aright, if children are to be at all employed in it. The following details are selected from what has occurred since the last Report:-- Peter Mollby of Kilkenny, stood charged with the murder of James Shea, his apprentice, a child of ten years old. It appeared in evidence that the little creature had been treated with such habitual cruelty and indifference as to cause his death, but no one instance could be fixed upon as establishing the crime of actual murder. The sentence was, therefore, “Manslaughter,” and Mollby was transported for life.