The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-02-09 00:00:00

THE BANK OF ENGLAND

LIABILITIES

Circulation—Present return

Before

£16,230,000
16,112,000

Increase

£llB,OOO

Deposits—Present return

Before

£7,365,000
7,019,000

Increase

£316,000

ASSETS

Securities—Present return

Before

Increase.

£22,595,000
22,362,000

Bullion—Present return,

Before

£233,000

Increase

£3,816,000
3,557,000

Present return
Before

£259,000

Increase.

£2,816,000
2,758,000

BARBAROUS CRUELTY

£58,000

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The facts are these man of the name of Jones, a
well-known character, and his wife have for a long time
shamefully ill-treated an illegitimate son of the latter : such,
indeed, previously this occasion, has been the extent of the
mother's cruelty to her child that it was found necessary to
remove him from her house. He was, however, six weeks
ago restored to his mother, only to be made the victim of in-
creased—nay, unparalleled barbarity. On Thursday, the
21st ult., the ruffian Jones, having seized the defenceless and
innocent victim, actually thrust his little hands into the
fire and held them there till they were burnt shockingly.
Not content with even this frightful torment, he heated sonic
wire and drew it, red hot, through the quivering flesh. Pre-
viously to this he had tied his legs together a little above
the ankles, and with his clinched fist inflicted such injuries
upon this wretched babe as have left his body blackened from
his head to his feet, not even excepting his face and arms.
The writer of these few lines has seen (yesterday) the un-
fortunate little victim of this frightful treatment, in company
with several gentlemen residing in the immediate neighbour-
hood ; and, although ten days or more have elapsed since the
child was removed from this house, during which time he
has had the best medical treatment and care, the appearances
on the wh9le of his body presented the most heart-rending
spectacle imaginable. So awfully severe has been also the
use of the rod, that without exaggeration there is scarce an
inch of surface on any part of his person that does not even
now present deep traces of its barbarous use.

The child is three years and-two months old. and gives
himself, in answer to questions, a most clear and consistent
account of the horrors above related.

The monster Jones and the unnatural mother have, we
hear, both absconded, but will, it is confidently hoped, not
long be able to elude the pursuit of the police.

FIRES CAUSED BY LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES

Many of our readers will probably feel interested in peru-
r sing the following remarks on this important subject, which
we have taken the liberty to extract from the pages of the
, Railroad Quarterly Journal, a new periodical published In
London by Messrs. Simpkin,'Marshall, and Co. Stationers'
Hall-court. The commencing number appeared on the lst
of the current month :
, "We are enabled to state that a great number of these ac-
t cidents have not found their way into the public press; and
this will generally be the case. No coroner's inquest is re-
quired here—and if the damage is speedily paid for, the mat-
ter is bushed up as close as it can be : in the mean time, the
pockets of shareholders silently suffer from the ignorance or
gross neglect of their servants. These fires, whether (as our
present remarks will have reference to) they take place in
waggons and coaches, as is most:), the case, or from cinders
igniting the agricultural produce lying on the adjacent lands,
have been a constant source of danger and loss, especially
when we see that so totally do the engine drivers direct their
whole attention (and it cannot be better directed) on what is
before rather than what is behind, that in one instance, not
long ago, at the Edge. hill Grand Junction Railway Station,
the person whose duty it was to attach the mail carriage to
the tender did not do so, and the engine-man and stoker
actually proceeded sixteen miles from Liverpool before they
discovered their mistake.
" In such a fruitful source of danger as that arising from
ignited cinders constantly issuing from the engine funnel,
what has been done to prevent accidents arising ? Fire-proof
covering for waggons is a well-known thing, and attainable
at a moderate price—has such been used? We answer, no.
The good old system of stand-still tarpaulins is persevered
in, and the natural consequences follow of course.
" What contrivances have been resorted to for the purpose
of preventing sparks or live cinders from coming out of the
funnel ? The answer here is, worse than nothing. The prin-
cipal attempt has been a wire-gauze covering at the top.
Now, if this is not very small in the mesh, it is of no effect ;
if it is small, it materially decreases the steam draught, from
a cause which we shall presently show, and annihilates a
large portion of the engine power. For the sake of argu-
ment, however, let us consider it small enough to he effect-
ive, and prevent sparks from being thrown gut ; what follows?
With a velocity of twenty miles an hour, and with driving
wheels to the engine five feet and a half in diameter, we find
(Treatise on Railways, p. 177,) that there are four times
seventeen blasts of steam in ten seconds, or nearly seven in
one second. The steam-blast having therefore carried an ig-
nited cinder up to the wire gauze, and it being there arrested,
what is to become of 'this unhappy instrument of mischief ?
The supposition appears to have been, and we have frequently
heard it asserted, that it forthwith is to fall down into the
smoke-box, and there harmlessly do what it pleases. To ar-
rive at this blessed result, we must first of all annihilate the
laws of gravity. Turning to Lecount's examination of Pro-
fessor Barlow's Reports on Iron Rails, we find at page 166,
that a heavy body will fall by the force of gravity, in one-
seventh of a second, about four inches ; at this portion of its
descent, therefore, the cinder is met by the next blast of the
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steam-pipe, and carried back again from whence it came.
Succeeding ashes are acted upon in the same manner, and in
a very short period of time such an accumulation takes place,
that Prom this cause, the indirect, and not the direct action
of the close wire, the blast is so much reduced that the boiler
will no longer generate sufficient steam. All attempts to
cure the evil in this manner must of course be not only use-
less, but actually productive of a greater evil. The wire-
gauze must be close to the mouth of the blast pipe to be of
any service, and should be funnel-shaped, or placed as an in-
clined plane, so that when the cinders impinge against it, they
are thrown to the side of the funnel farthest from the pipe ;
there, and there only, would they have a chance of falling
into the smoke-box, and the evil be radically cured."

STATE OF TRADE

MANCHESTER, FEB. 6.—The markets both for goods and
yarns have been but in a dull way all week : but we do not
note any change in prices. The flatness has arisen from the
unsatisfactory news respecting the United States Bank, as
also from the unsettled character of the Liverpool cotton mar-
ket. Holders however, are not generally disposed to press
sales, (indeed to do so would be to submit to ruinous rates,)
but seem rather disposed to wait till matters adjust themselves
one way or the other. It is morally certain that either cotton
must decline considerably, or yarn advance, else the spinners
must universally stop.theirmills, as it is impossible for them
to buy cotton at to-clay's price, and sell their yarns at the
same, without a sacrifice of something like
a half-penny or
three farthings per lb. The India mail,
bring us more cheering accounts from the east. At present
everything wears an uncertain aspect. _

HUDDERSFIELD, FEB. 2.—The rather unfavourable and
very unexpected accounts from America, relative to the Uni-
ted States Bank operated a little on things here to-day

though prices were not lower.
not generally so good as last weel

The demand, however, Waj
, the principal demand be

ing confined to goods which have for some time been scarce in
the market. Wool steady.
BRADFORD FEB. 4.—Things were fully as good to-day

as were expected ; a fair business was done, and at prices not
lower than last week. Stocks are by no means heavy. Yarns
are fully as dear, and some spinners will not sell at the pre-
sent rates. In wools no change in any description.

By the returns of the quarterly Bank of England average
of weekly liabilities and assets, from November 10 to the 2d
instant, the following results appear as compared with the
last return :

(From a Correspondent of Friday's Times)
WHITCHURCH, SALOP, JAN. 31.—Considerable excite-
ment prevails in this neighbourhood (Whitchurch, Salop) in
consequence of the recent disclosure of one of the most re-
volting atrocities which ever disgraced civilised society.
For the satisfaction of the public, it is as well to state
here, that through Mr. Atcherly, the overseer of the poor in
this place, the magistrates have been made acquainted with
the particulars, and every necessary step will, of course, be
immediately taken to bring the perpetrators of this shocking
outrage to justice.

" We imagine that it is not quite So easy to repel this ca-
lumny as the Morning Chronicle imagines. In fact, we are
ashamed to say. that we are afraid this story of Mr. Stowell's
is in substance perfectly correct. We do not, indeed, believe
that any Roman Catholic in Yorkshire has uttered any such
nonsense as the speaker repeated ; but we do believe that a
certain Roman Catholic gentleman of property, but more re-
markable for piety and good works than for clearness and
soundness ejudgment, does at this pre,ent moment hold the
opinion, not only that the war fury of the French canaille is
perfectly justifiable, but that inasmuch as the conversion of
England is only to be expected from her humiliation, every
good catholic ought to pray, first of all (we suppose) for
war, and secondly, for the utter defeat of England in any
war in which she may be engaged with France.
" Such a ridiculous, and even criminal, opinion ought not
to be lightly imputed to any man; and it is, therefore, only
proper to say, that we have heard the story at third or fourth
hand ; but still on such authority that we can hardly doubt
its accuracy.

" We believe that some such sentiment has been uttered by
a catholic gentleman : but as to rendering the catholic body
at large responsible for the extravagant imaginations of any
gentleman who happens to have a trifling obliquity in his
powers of intellectual vision, it is only one degree less absurd
than the opinion we are now treating of. When we find it
generally received for a maxim that Protestants are bound by
the prophecies of Sir Harcourt Lees, we will admit the pro-
priety of making the catholics responsible fcr the vagaries of
their fellow-catholic."