The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-01-02 00:00:00

he lollowing accident on t

In the course of

seamen, a captair

was John Blac

ast week the sloop

yemouth harbour, water-

The owner being apprised
id a mate, to take charge 01

and the mate's David Rat

a name

left Dundee on Saturday morning, and at Edinburgh
took out second-class tickets by the mail train to Ayton.
They were acquainted with the locality, and therefor(

e most convenient place at
rain to gain Eyemouth, They kept
and, as the mail train does not stop
ved to leap from th^

aware that 13urimouth was
which to leave tl

their seats at Ayton
at Burnmouth, they had resol

'Triage I

whilst the train was in motion. This they d
ington-bridge, about a mile and a balf from Ayton

t Flem.
It

was' then nearly eight o'clock, and consequently dark.
Having thinwn their bundles out, the. mate leaped first
and the captain immediately after. The former had his
arm fractured and his shoulder seriously bruised, and for
some time it would appear he lay on the ground insensi-
ble. On recovering, he managed to get to the Ayton
station, and there communicated what had taken place.
As he had seen nothing of the captain, he suggested that
something serious must have happened to him ; where-
upon the attendants proceeded along the line to ascertain.
They came upon the body of the captain, lying in the
drain. He was quite dead; his skull was fractured, and
his face seriously bruised. The place of the accident was

. ,
a shallow cutting in the rock, and it is supposed that,
having struck the hard side of the way, ho had rebounded
into the drain, where, falling on his face, he had proba-
bly been suffocated.

POLITICAL

lIIISC.

r.i'L L A NY.

Mr. Roebuck is at Bury t;ing toinsinuate himself into
the good graces of the electors in anticipation of Mr.
Walker the present member retiring.

talk still exists, than

Russell to

propose a

t it is the intention of Lord J..
ty on corn, as he can ill afford
o part with two millions of revenue. Stranger things
have happened. Parliament, however, will soon meet ;
and till then, the public must wait patiently. _

FINANCIAL REFORM.—On Wednesday a public meet
ing, under the auspices of the Financial Reform Associa-
tion, was held in the Waterloo-rooms, Edinburgh, for
the purpose of passing resolutions in favour of economy
and retrenchment in the national expenditure. The
meeting was very numerously and respectably attended.
Amongst those on the platform were the Lord Provost,
Charles Cowan, Esq:, M.P., William Chambers
A. Dunlop, Esq., advocate, &c.
A HINT FOR THE PREMIER.—Dr. Murray, the Dean of
Aradagh, says, in a letter just published, " Should the
present government be so infatuated as to bring in a mea-
sure for the endowment of Popery in this country, the
only property they could, with any semblance of justice,
make available for that purpose, would be the property
once belonging to the monastic institutions, now in the
hands (as already remarked) of the landed proprietors of
England and Ireland ; and as the endowment of the Ro-
mish Church in Ireland must, as the natural consequence,
be followed by that of the same Church in England
" The Convent Garden," now called " Covent Garden,'
of London, would be a pleasing and disinterested kind
of first-fruits to devote to this their favourite measure.
This subject is especially worthy of Lord John Russell's
serious consideration_ '

, Es9•r

Tnz TIMES" ON THE CI'REENCY.—Tt is not for us
ivine " what's in the wind ;" but neither Louis Na-
poleon's election, nor Cobden's "bold stroke" for the
chancellorship of the exchequer, could be more startling
thal certain letters which have recently found a promi-
nent place in the Times, coolly proposing not only paper
in lieu of gold, but a positive reduction of the standard !
Remembering the fierceness of the Times, only a twelve-
month since, towards any one who ventured to breathe a
word against the Peel and Jones Loyd system—even to-
wards the ministers themselves, for infringing the act of
1844—we should have expected to find any correspondent
who proposed to establish a state bank, for the iss

he powers t,
being. ind

aat in,
irectly

who submit and on the sell
flict. The object is that the people
taxed, may not see " the bitterness of taxation in undi

blessing

we arei

according t

limit to our