The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-21 00:00:00

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in this trade every week, at low
FALL OF EARTH.—About one o'clock on Friciay morn-
ing week a stream, carried by a culvert under the Man-
chester and Saltersbrook turnpike-road a.. Woodhead,
became so swollen from the excessive rains, that the cul-
vert, unable to bear the pressure from within, burst,
bringing down with it the turnpike-road and part of the
embankment, consisting of earth and rock, tt,any hundred
tons in weight, right across the line of the Sh,-ffield and
Manchester Railway. The railway, of course, was ren-
dered impassable for some hours, and passengers had to
be taken over the hill by stage-coaches, which were im-
mediately provided, but the labour of 150 men was not
long in making an impression, and by three o'clock in the
afternoon the mass•of material was so far removed as to
admit the trains proceeding as usual. No injury appears
to be occasioned to the railway beyond the temporary
stoppage from this unexpected irruption of the turnpike.-
road and its works.

DIDSPERATE CH ARACTERS.— At Marlborough-street
police court, on Tuesday. Julia Higgins and Sarah Crick
were brought before Mr. Maltby, charged with having
wilfully broken five squares of glass in a coffee-shop in
Oxford-street. From the evidence of a witness, named
Dyke, it appeared that the prisoners went about one
o'clock in the morning into No. 5, Oxford-street, a coffee-
shop, and after being served with refreshments, they set
to work and broke the windows. They were taken to the
station-house, and while. there they pull?d a stretcher
pillow to pieces, and made up the stutli,g into balls,
which they concealed in their dresses. When the evi-
dence against them was finished, and after the magistrate
had sentenced them to pay the damage, and a fine of 20s.
each, the prisoners, with a- volley of execrations, drew
out these missiles, and sent them at the head of the ma-
gistrate. The gaoler and several police-constables imme-
diately seized the prisoners,, who swore, screamed, and
fought lustily, and it was with considerable diffiCulty
they were forced out of court, and secured in the lock-up
cells.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday, a fatal acci-
dent occurred on the Midland railway, near the Barnsley-
station, whereby one man, John Salter, aged 29, a cloth
dresser, in the employ of Messrs. Gott, at B-an Ing.
Leeds, was killed on the spot, and Mr. Robert Neale, of
the Bull and Mouth Tap, Leeds, received such severe in-
juries that lie died on Friday. John Salter, along with
Mr. Neale and other friends, left Leeds, with the first of
two special trains, conveying the members and friends of
the Leeds Mechanics' and Literary Society, on a plea-
sure excursion to Wentworth Howe, the seat of Earl'
Fitzwilliam. Salter had been very anzinus to give
as much information as he possibly could to his friends in-
the same carriage, (a third class on?,) Mr. Neale being,
immediately behind him, with his hack to the end of the
carriage, and as the train was approaching the Barnsley-
station, near ten o'clock in the forenoon, the steam being
turned off to slacken the speed caused a sudden jerk of
the carriages one against the other, which threw Mr.
Neale backwards, and in his endeavours to r-c •rer him-

self, he caught at Salter, and pull
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him vv -r the end,
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over them

COACHING IN THE NORTH.-Union-street, Aberdeen,
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witnessed in any other town or city in Great Britain, and
a!so. We refer to the coaching establishment. There
are some 10 or 12 departures every day, and, of course, as
many arrivals. But the chief bustle anti excitement oc-
curs at seven o'clock, a.m., when no fewer than six or
seven finely appointed four-horse coaches may be found
stationed near the same spot, and starting within a few
minutes of each other, north, south, and w: s:, with
crowds of passengers and heaps of luggage. On Wed-
nesday last there was more than the usual excitement. It
was the anniversary of the birthday of the Defiance, and,
as usual, the employers and their employe's had made
great preparations for celebrating the event. For 17
years the Defiance has run regularly. Its main line is
from Edinburgh to Aberdeen, a distance of 115 miles, but
it has a grand branch to Glasgow of 70 or 80 miles, and a
continuation to Inverness of 100 more, so that altogether
it accomodates not far short of 300 miles of traffic.—Scotch
paper.

BIRMINGHAM MUSICAL. FESTIVAL. The programme
of our musical festival is at length cornplate, and we give'
an outline of it in another column. It will be see' that
the committee have taken good advantage of one of the
most valuable functions of the large and perfect band
about to be assembled within the walls of our Town-hall,
namely, the power of giving a more perfect developement
of the magestic grandeur of some of the highest class of,
compositions than could be attempted with success-by a:
less numerical orchestra, (however talented,) and in a.
smaller room. The intended performance of Beethoven's
grand Mass in D, is an illustration of this Lct. Last year
this noble work was executed on a gigantic scale at the•
great meeting at Bonn, and made a most profound im-
pression. It was pronounced by all who heard it to be
the most sublime monument of the genius of its composer..
The same piece, performed during the present season, by
the Philharmonic Society, at the Hanover-square Room,
though admirably got up in many points, was marred by
the totally inadequate size of the room. It now remains
for the Birmingham festival, with its vast congregation of
executive talent, the advantages of its immense musk-
rival, if not eclipse, the celebrated performance at Bonn.
hall, and its powerful and fine-toned orggnatinh,sa,ewnaaschtoeondoh.nbacysTenthhtoeoet
The attraction of Mendelssohn's new oratorio,
which will be conducted by the composer in person, will
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room to the entire band, will enable the srnphonies and;
overtures to be heard to the greatest advantage. One of,
the most charming novelties in the evening concerts will.
be Mendelsschn's overture to " The Midsummer Nigh
Dream," with the whole of the vocal music. The most ef-
fective arias, duets, and concerted pieces have been al-
lotted to the various.vocalists, both foreign and Englifh
and from the efficient manner in which the choir is being
trained, we may expect the highest success in every de-
partment.—Midland Counties Herald.
FIRE Esearas.—Teere can be no question of the
great value and importance, more especially in large
towns, of possessing the means of saving life in case of
fire. Mr. A. Wivel, of Birmingham, has invented an

apparatus, which has been brought into successful opera—
tion in London, Birmingham, Gloucester, and other.
places. The following description, ;Hn the Herefiwa
Journal, gives a correct idea of the invention :—"10
order to convey a familiar idea of the escape, we tonal
state that when passing along the streets, wuich, being
upon wheels, it is enabled to do at a very rapid rate, it
resembles a tall, slanting chimney, and somewhat ren3hlo6
one of the approach of a majestic locomotive railway
engine to a station. The ready means afforded for three
men to run with the machine before them, and to raise
the ladders to each floor of the house, surpass ever!
attempt of the kind before witnessed. The whole ni
arranged upon a spring carriage, at the end of which is°
lever, with two ropes extending from the sides to the toP
spokes of the principal ladder, whilst two ropes are sus:
pended under to strengthen and keep everything straigb"
Upon this ladder is another on hinges, with iron leve'
and ropes, by which it is raised in a few seconds to this
highest window or the roof, whilst a third ladder tg
removed to the first window from the pavement. Aged
under the main lader is a canvass trough, enclosed inset'
tine, into which persons rescued get and slide down
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hold and leisurely as they choose, having a rope to 01,4
hold of to regulate their descent. This ladder with its
slanting hough, as we have termed it, can be raised 0;
depressed at pleasure. When the apparatus is takenis
few paces from a house, the command over the lever, e
such that Mr. Adams, the Superintendent of PniLc„j
ascended with the leather hose of the fire engine (the e:O5
of the hose being attached to his side by a strap acts„
the shoulders, which is a very happy thought,) to the tors
of the ladder, a height of 32 feet, when the engine ehio
worked to the best effect. Such a command as b.,.
must, in an actual case of fire, tend to prevent
siderable damage to property, as the branch PIP,,f
can he immediately directed on the main bodY,
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