The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-09 00:00:00

FEARFUL COLLIERY ACCIDENT.

We regret to record a fearful coalpit accident, .attended
with the loss of nearly eighty lives, which took place on
Friday afternoon at the Great Ardsley Main, or Oaks
Colliery; near Barnsley. About three o'clock, several
persons 'near the mouth of the pit were alarmed by-'a
terrific explosion from the shaft, which was followed by
an eruption of smoke, timber, coal, stone, &c., resembling
the eruption of a volcano. Two or three of the men were
removing the corres from the pit mouth at the time.
We understand that there had been no previous indica-
tions of danger up to the very moment of the explosion.
On the first report being given, women were seen run-
ning in a state of distraction from every part of the town
towards the scene of devastation. After considerable and
unavoidable delay, two workmen, named Littlewood an
Armitage, succeeded in getting down the shaft (which is
284 yards deep), with a trunk or iron bucket, and bringing
up three men. Armitage kept going down, and bringing
up with him men and boys, until he had succeeded in
getting 24 persons out alive, but each succeeding arrival
at the mouth of the pit brought to the view of the horri-
fied spectators nothing save corpses and mutilated remains.
Carts were employed the whole of the night carrying the
unfortunate men to those dwellings which they had left'
in health and spirits but a few hours before. Before
twelve at night, 41 bodies were taken out; and between
30 and 40 bodies yet remain in the pit,

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VICE CHANCELLOR'S COURT.—SATURDAY.
CORPORATION OF LIVERPOOL V. NORRIS.
Mr. Bethel asked for an injunction, restraining the de-
fendant from building on a place called Islington-place, in
Liverpool, contrary to the provisions of a local act, which
directed that when the old buildings were pulled down
none should be erected on the site, but the new ones
should be built so as to range with the rest of the street.
The defendant had bad notice of the act.
Injunction granted.

Etteraturr.

POETRY

SONNET.

(For the Liverpool Standard.)

"And now abideth these three, faith, hope, and charity; but
lie greatest of these is charity."—ST. PAUL., ' •

What glorious form- bursts
Robed in the brightest sr
'Tis Faith, whose gaze, fixe
Steadfast, the world's te•

the astpni§lieft sight,

rs of the sky?
true and right,
ns can defy.

And who is she, whose mild,yet eager eye
Looks to heaven's mansions of eternal rest,
While from her heart escapes the wiShfill sih?
'Tis Hope- c-' er of the troubled breast.
who las, h tearful eyes, that glow
✓ith love an, 11 human kind?,--
bo thinks not ev., want and woe
Assiduous waits to t. tal hastes to bind
The worn and broken heart

lair charm
And who last comes, wit.
With love and pity fore
Who thinks not evil, and t
Assiduous waits to cheer

Lireria 01, February

26, 1817

?—Say who is she ?
'tis Charity.

SKETCHES OF A TRIP TO THE CONTINENT
ITALY, AND EGYPT.
ET, ESQ.

BY EDWI

Written fol

No. VIII

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your ticket, and, passing the
sanctum sanctorum of- eccle
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occasions, &dies are only admitted s'ithout bonnets, their
heads and faces veiled. Did my fair countrywomen know
and degradation there is

how much of public inferiorif
inflicted upon them with all t

private adulation, prying
curiosity, and fulsome insinuations into their most trivial
acts, over their thoughts, over their words ! They would
pause ere they would run from Protestantism to Puseyism

or Romanism

re in the Sistine Chapel. There, in glorious
shadow, ill-defined, but half made out, is Michael Angelo's
Last Judgment. This -wondrous work, now so palpably
sally kept so. Michael placed one of

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