The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-26 00:00:00

Nov. 22

week were rather les
438,0541 b. The market w
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last, when the public sales commenced, and from the large

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and the range of prices is, for free trade parcels, id. to ld.
per lb. lower on this day week. Company's Congou, which,
when we last wrote, was ls. 10d. per lb., is now ls. 9d. to
ls. 9d. per lb., cash. The public sales have been in progress
again to-day, and have been going off heavily.

INFANT LABOUR.—An infant, in the parish of Snenton.
near Nottingham, was taken from a free school which was
bept by benevolent ladies. She was put to work by her
mother, at home, being employed in drawing lace, when only
21 months old., She continued at that work two years, and
is now at such work, working daily from six o'clock in the
morning to eight o'clock at night, being allowed only a quar-
ter of an hour each for breakfast, dinner, and tea. The
mother pays this infant one penny at the end of the week
by way of encouragement. She has three or four children,
and, when excusing herself for thus treating her infant, she
said, " If I do not thus make my infant work, I should have
to go to the workhouse F.!—The Fleet Papers.

THE NEW COURTS OF EQUITY IN LINCOLN'S INN.—
These courts, designed for the new Vice-Chancellors Wig-
ram and K. Bruce, have, in the short space of eight weeks,
been completed and rendered tit for immediate occupation.
The exterior of the building is of brick, plain and unassum-
ing, without the least attempt at architectural display. The
entrances are of ample dimensions, and well calculated to
afford every facility of ingress and egress, and also to secure
good internal communication between the courts. The in-
terior appears commodious, light, and convenient; and the
simple, though neat, unostentatious, decorations, have a very
pleasing effect. The tables, &c., are covered with deep
crimson cloth, the curtains of drab moreen damask. Though
far from gaudy, the whole presents a grand appearance. On
Sunday the Lord Chancellor, their honours, the Vice-
Chancellors, and several friends. inspected the buildings, and
were pleased to express their approbation of the excellence of
their construction, as well as of the extraordinary expedition
with which the builders (Messrs. Cubitt) had completed
them. It is nndersLood that sittings will take place there,
for the first time, on or about the 2d of December..
TERRIBLE EXPLOSION IN A COAL-PIT AT BARNSLEY.—
On Wednesday morning about thirty-six colliers had gone
to work in the coal-pit belonging to Messrs. Day and Twi-
bell, of this town, when an explosion of coal gals took place,
which destroyed a great number of persons in a moment,
and burnt a number of others, several of whom, it is feared,

will not recover. Amongst the sufferers are E. Walton, W.
Walton, and C—Walton, three brothers; B. Hinchliffe and
C. Hinchliffe, two brothers ; C. Hinchliffe, uncle to the two
preceding men; W. Scholey, R. Walker, J. Overend, D.
Thompson, J. M'Carthy, J. Peas, C. Crow, J. Mitchell, and
J. Deakin and C. Deakin, father and son, all of whom are
dead. The coal-pit adjoins the, town, and the news of the
misfortune spread amongst the relatives of the unfortunate
workmen. Wives came to the mouth of the pit as the men
were drawn up to know the fate of their husbands, and chil-
dren that of their parents, and an awful scene it was. The
lire so disfigured them by burning off their eyebrows and
whiskers that the women:at first could not recognize their own
husbands and childeen. Lamentation and woe overpowered
some, whilst others rejoiced at again meeting their friends.
The accident has spread a gloom through the town. The ex-
tent of the loss is not ascertained with certainty, but it is
hoped that there will not be many more cases of .a fatal
character.

SCARBOROUGH, Nov. 19.—(Extract of a letter.)—l have
just witnessed an appalling accident, the fatal results of which
are wholly, and without any abatement, owing to the crimi-
nal apathy and negligence of the authorities of this town.
After a stormy night there was, at ten o'clock this morning,
still a hard gale and a heavy sea, the wind E.S.E., when a
small sloop, apparently of 25 or 30 tons, was descried making
for the harbour. She had laboured through the waves till
within a very short distance (a few boats' lengths) of the
pier and of safety. when a heightened gust of wind and an
enormous wave overset het' in an instant. Her crew, con-
sisting of two men and a boy, held on as long as their strength
in a tempestuous surge permitted. The poor boy was visible
the latest, still holding up his hands as he sank. In a very
short time they had all disappeared. Had the life-boat be-
longing to this place been in readiness, every one of them
could have been saved. But it was twenty minutes after the
accident before the life-boat touched the waves ; and so
hopeless was then the effort that, after proceeding about
half-way towards the spot where the already broken frag-
ments of the vessel were floating, she returned back again.
THE EXCHEQUER BILLS.—It has long been foreseen that
the exchequer-hill affair must provide some employment for
the courts of law, and that all holders of spurious bills, find-
ing that the government refused in any way to acknowledge
them, would seek that other remedy. The name of Lord
Strangford has been already before the public in this affair,
and no one doubts his protestation against any knowledge of
or participation in the original fraud. But this, unfortu-
nately, does not wholly protect his lordship from the conse-
quences of having induced parties to ingest their money in
these bills, which afterwards, on investigation, turned out to
be spurious, and it is currently stated in the city that he has
been served with a notice of action by Messrs. Coutts and
Co.' connected with some such bills, of which that house
has become possessed. In what manner his Lordship can
have become responsible does not appear, and hence the sub-
ject is expected to exercise all sorts of ingenuity on both
sides, on the part of the gentlemen of the long robe. The
exchequer bills held by Messrs. Coutts and Co., are under-
stood to amount to £40,000. There are other houses and
private individuals in similar circumstances, but we have not
heard that any other step of that kind has been taken, and it
is believed they are waiting for the result of the approaching
trial of Rapallo at the criminal sessions, and in order to see
by what kind of evidence the charge against him is supported
by the government.—Times.
EXCHEQUER BILLS.—At the present time, when the
public feels so deep an interest in everything that relates to
Exchequer bills, in consequence of the recent extensive for-
geries that have taken place. it may not be uninteresting to
our readers to give them a short outline of the origin of this
species of government securities. In the years 1696 and
1697, the silver currency of the kingdom being, by clipping,
washing, grinding, filing, &c. reduced to half its nominal
value, Acts of Parliament were passed for its being called in
and recoined, but whilst the recoinage was going on, Ex-
chequer bills were first issued to supply the demands of trade.
The quantity of silver recoined, according to D'Avenant,
from the old hammered money, amounted to £5,725.933.
It is worthy of remark that through the difficulties expe-
rienced by the Bank of England (which had been established
only three years) during the recoinage, they having taken the
clipped silver at its nominal value, and guineas at an advanced
price, bank-notes were, in 1697, at a discount of from 15 to
20 per cent. " During the recoinage," says D'Avenant,
" all great dealings were transacted by tallies, bank-bills, and
goldsmiths' notes. Paper credit did not only supply the
%place of running cash, but greatly multiplied the kingdom's
stock, for tallies and bank-bills did to many uses serve as
well, and to some better than gold and silver ; and this arti-
ficial wealth, which necessity had introduced, did not make
us less feel the want of that treasure which the war and our
losses at sea had drawn out of the nation."
CASUALTY AT SEA.—The brig Sarah, of Bristol, John
Mill, commander, sailed from Liverpool on the 31st ult. for
Newfoundland, with a general cargo and passengers, Captain
Sanders, R. V. C., and Mr. Cormack. She experienced a
succession of gales from her leaving port, and on the night
of the 13th instant, in latitude 48 20 N., longitude 8 15 W.,
whilst lying to, was run on board of by a bark of about 300
tons burden, and by the concussion the brig was totally dis-
masted, and the stranger is supposed to have had either her
fore or maintopmast carried away. Providentially the crew
of the Sarah were unhurt by the falling spars. On the fol-
lowing morning the brig Heroine, of Teignmouth, spoke her,
and, rendering her no assistance, passed on her voyage. On
the 15th the Prince Albert schooner, of Scilly, came up, and
took her in tow ; but, after five hours' service, and two
hawsers having snapped, she abandoned the brig most unac-
countably, taking with her the tow-ropes. The French trig
Heroine, of Nantes, remained by her throughout most of the
night, and, it is believed, was separated only by the violence
of the gale and the prevailing darkness. Two small spars
having been lashed to the stumps of the masts, studding sails
were set thereto. The wind being in her favour she was
enabled to reach the Blook-head on the morning of the 18th,
when she was taken in tow by a Falmouth pilot cutter, and,
anchored in that port, the remuneration being £2O and the
customary pilotage.
DUBLIN, Nov. 21.---THE TRIBUTE DAY.—The walls of
the city were extensively placarded this morning with bills,
dated " Mansion-house, Saturday evening," and 'signed
" Daniel O'Connell," the purport of which is, that as the
subscriber now holds the honourable post of chief magistrate
of the second city in the empire, anything in the shape of
eleemosynary aid towards the sustairunent of such dignity is
earnestly entreated to be postponed till next year, and the
writer calls on the faithful 8,000,000 in this, as in other in-
stances, implicitly to attend to the advice of their devoted
friend, " Daniel O'Connell." The ruse (for, of course, such
it was) might have told to the detriment of the great beggar-
man, had not the most prompt measures been taken by his
emissaries to mutilate the placards ere any serious conse-
quences could have resulted from the hoax. All the chapel
doors in the metropolis are vigilantly guarded to-day by the
tribute sharks, who, by begging, beseeching, and bullying the
persons about to attend divine worship, seem to be gathering
in the harvest in a most workmanlike manner, and, from what
I can learn, cannot fail of realising, so far as this city is con-
cerned, the most sanguine expectations of the right hon. the
lord mayor of Dublin. A sum of £5B was collected at first
mass in one of the poorest parishes in the metropolis, and
double that sum, it is calculated, will be realised at the same
chapel before the close of the day. There are about thirty
chapels in Dublin and in the immediate suburbs, and, sup-
posing that the average amount collected at each at £lOO,
which is by no means an over estimate—the metropolitan
alone generally trebles that sum—Dublin will supply £3,000
towards swelling the begg,ing bags of the right hon. the lord
mayor of Dublin.

SHOCKING MURDER.—KENNILLY, Nov. 16.—This town
and neighbourhood was thrown into a state of excitement on
Sunday last, by the announcement of a most savage and
brutal murder, which it was ascertained had recently been
committed at the finger-post of the Rushy Glen, King's
County, on the body of an unfortunate female, named
Catherine Carroll. At an early hour yesterday morning Mr.
Dillon, one of the county coroners, arrived here on his way
to the scene of this barbarous atrocity. After viewing the
body, which presented a most revolting spectacle, he adjourned
to a farm-house, more than two miles distant, the only ac-
commodation these wilds afforded, to hear evidence relative
to this lamentable occurrence. The great mass of evidence
adduced was of the strongest circumstantial nature, and satis-
factorily fixed the guilt on a person named John Gorman,
of Moher, in the Queen's County, who was there amenable,
and against whom a verdict was recorded, when the coroner
consigned him to the custody of the police, for transmission
to Tullamoore gaol, to abide his trial at the next assizes. He
is a diminutive, repulsive-looking man, having a wife and
large family of children. but by whom it appeared the ill-fated
woman was far advanced in a state of pregnancy. The cir-
cumstances which combined to reveal this horrible murder,
point out, as it were, the interference of Divine Providence
in the direction of the murder, and corroborates the proof
that, no matter how secret the deed be done, it cannot con-
ceal itself from the all-seeing eye of the great Creator, or the
justice.
During escape the avenging hand of retributive
the night of Saturday some snow had fallen on the
mountains, whereby the footsteps of the accused and the de-
ceased were traced- from his residence to the scene of the
murder in the glen. Here one of the
.gamekeepers of the
Castle Bernard estates, iromediatelyafter daylight on Sunday
morning, observed a quantity of blood, foot-prints, and other
marks on the road at the cross, and from thence to the Rushy
Glen Lough, in which he discovered the mutilated body of
the murdered female, with large stones thrown on it to pre-
vent its floating. This person described with clearness and
precision the impression made by the right shoe of the indi-
vidual, whose steps led to and from the lough, marking the
size of the heel, the length of the sole, and the number of
nailsit contained. An active and intelligent policeman,
named Brennan, from the Cadamstown station, traced the
footprints to and about the residence of the accused, and ul-
timately succeeded in procuring the shoes, which were se-
creted in a neighbouring farm-house in the Queen's County,
which were proved to belong to the prisoner, and which ex-
actly corresponded with the description of the impression
made.—Leznster Express.