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 comes 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.

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 had notice of the act.
Injunction granted.

CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN OF
THE HEALTH COMMITTEE.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT.
GUINESS ti. TURNER.
Mr. HEATHEIELD moved for a perpetual injunction to
restrain the defendant, Mr. Geo. Turner from selling
" Guiness's stout" other than such as shall be supplied
by the plaintiffs, or their agent, Sparks Moline, or any
other authorized agent, and particularly from selling the
same in bottles, with labels in imitation of those used by
the plaintiffs, or corked with corks marked or branded
with the words " Guiness, Son and Co.'s extra stout,"
and also from representing himself as agent for the plain-
tiffs. The learned counsel also moved that the defendant
should pay £6O by way of damages.—His HONOUR ; Is
the latter part of the motion consented to ?—Mr. HEATH_
FIELD : The whole is submitted by Mr. Glasse, counsel
for the defendant.—His Hoxotßo: Take the order.

: GENTLEMEN,—Though I feel considerable reluctance
and diffidence in addressing you thus publicly on a subject
which you may not possibly at the present time have the
rower to entertain or interfere with—at least in the way
am going to propose—yet my duty is imperative, and I
therefore offer no further apology. Gentlemen, I regard
you as the special conservators of the health of this my
native town, and I am sure, from the benevolent character
and constitution of your committee, the humble, yet well-
intentioned, suggestions of any member of the commu-
nity will have your best consideration. Gentlemen, it
has unfortunately occurred, within a very short time past,
that the lives of two individuals, belonging to our Parish-
office, have been sacrificed by fever, in the course of [the
execution of their perilous duties. Mr. Charles S. Row-
land, than whom there could not have been a more oblig- PICKING POCKETS.—Yesterday, Thomas Young, John
ing, gentlemanly, and efficient officer, was cut off in the Phillips, and Patrick Doyle were brought up, charged
. course of a very few days; and Mr. Smith, whose duties with picking pockets. Young was sent to gaol for throe
• led him to be almost constantly mixed up with the lowest,
months, and the others were discharged.
and poorest, and filthiest portion of the distressed Iris
and Bateman, at em
Delineator an, tli eocelebrated
Ethiopian lepcteceurleirariotniesN,
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also fell a victim to their contamination. I have myself
only been a short time an assistant relieving officer in the ing crowded houses. He is a strange mortal—decidedly
southern district, comprising Thomas'-street, Atherton- talented, and certainly worth visiting.
street, Crosbie-street, Brick-street, New Bird-street, &c., THE ORIENTAL DIVAN.—The unprecedented success
and I have had the misfortune to be laid down by typhus of this now leading Restaurant, is attributed to a muiti-
fever, which had very nearly terminated my existence, plicity of causes. Some say it is the moderate charges—
and I now remain extremely weak, and almost helpless, some the excellence of the viands and wines—some the.
although lam now making periodical efforts to write my neatness and beauty of the Establishment ;—but the fact
letter out. Now, gentlemen, we are only three sufferers; is that these alone have- not led to so desired an effect.
but look, I entreat you, at the numbers of poor, destitute, The Proprietor " keeps the best of everything." No
forlorn, creatures, who must inevitably suffer unless price precludes an article from the table. He personally
something be done for them. superintends every department, and—advertises in the
If I had my official memorandum-book at hand, I could STANDARD.
enter into details of suffering such as lam sure you can DARING ROBBERY.—Yesterday, two men, named Jame 3
have no conception of, nor, indeed, could any one unless Barn and Thomas Brideson, were placed at the bar.
by personal investigation. charged with breaking into the house of a poor woman,.
I well remember opening the door of a cellar in Tho- residing in Garden-lane. The complainant stated that,..
mas'-street, and when I had done so, I was compelled to on Sunday morning, about three o'clock, the prisoners .
retreat instantly, for I most truly felt the weight of the with two other men, came to her house and knocked at. •
poisoned atmosphere, as it made its escape past me. One the door, threatening to break it in if it were not opened;
of the inmates was ill, and was cold, having little fire and Their request not being complied with, they smashed in
no food, and in order to keep the place warm, every crea the Pinnels of the door, and effected an entrance; after
vice and aperture was stuffed up with old bags and old which they carried off a quantity of wearing apparel..
rags. This of itself was enough to engender fever, and The complainant gave the alarm, when a police-officer
so spread its fearful influence in that dirty locality. On came up and succeeded in apprehending the two prisoners,
another occasion I visited a cellar, where there were no The other parties escaped. The wearing apparel was
less than three poor helpless infants, lying huddled toge- found near the house, having been dropped by the prisoners
ther in a bundle of collected filthy rags—not bed-clothes— when they were pursued. They were both committed for
and all sick of the sniall-pox in its worst stage, ;—and, oh! trial.
' the cellar was awfully and diseu ainely unclean. These Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pill 4 effectually cure every
are heart-rending recitals; but. I have yet worse to tell, description of gout, rheumatic gout, rheumatism, lum-
More towards the south end of the town, (I forget the bago, tic doloroux, pains in the head or face, &c. They
name of the street, for my memory is somewhat impaired are recommended to the afflicted with a confidence, aris-
by sickness,) I went on a visit to a court-house. 1 had ing from experience, as one of the valuable results of the
no sooner entered, and enquired for the person making I improved state of medical science, and the only efficient
application for relief, than a wretched half-starved Irish remedy ever discovered for these disorders. The conti-
- woman came flying as it were down the stairs, exclaiming, nued authenticated proofs of decided approbation sent,.
" 0 master, master, what shall I do, I can't get tile unsolicited, to the proprietor, from all parts of the king,
woman into a Boffin." She had not rightly understood , don], and from all classes of society, with a rapidly in- - •
' what was told her at the Parish-office, in reference to the creasing sale, and demand for them at home and abroad'
registrar's certificate being first required. and therefore unparalleled, fully warrants the assurance that .no person,
l.she had lost her labour on Ibis first day. I can, however,. subject to such complaintswill,.after a trial, ever be with 4
hear my most solemn ,testimony to the fact, that every out them. Sold by all medicine venders. Price 2s. 9d.,
possible care is taken by all in the office, without excep- per box. Observe the name of " Thomas Prout, 229,
tion, to explain distinctly •to these poor ignorant beings, Strand, London," on the government stamp.
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what the requirement is, before they can obtain a coffin Tim DEMOS ANATOMICAL VENUS.—This splendid
or eepulture. But my business had terminated with the ' production, to which we have before called the attentions dead, and_ I was then seeking to relieve the living. My of our readers, is a most beautiful piece of art, and well;
recipient was up stairs sick of a fever. - I went up to satisfy worthy the attention of those wishing to gain instruction% .
myself of the truth; as well as to give into her own hand in the wonderful works of nature. It is a wax representh-; ..
the relief I had to offer, when, to my great horror and f tion of an exquisitely-moulded human figure, from which
surprise, I saw the poor corpse stretched on the bare the integuments can be removed at pleasure, anti the mus-
boards of the floor, and covered only with what appeared cies, nerves, arteries, &c., brought. into view, both upon
to me a cotton window blind, streaked and stained, and the face and limbs. The Cacarium admits ofremoyalfor the
only one half' washed from its filth. . About eighteen purpose of permitting the extraction of the brain for exaa .-
inches only from the feet of the corpse lay the object of initiation. In fact, those persons whose feelings may de- ..
my \ isit ; and on the other side of the room, about a bar them from examinjng the wonderful formation of the'
yard distant, there was an empty bed, which would no human being in au anatomical school, can here see ex-
doubt be the aesting-plaee of, some other of the inmates t posed the divine mechanism of the human body, free -
of the lazar house. All was pullution and loathsomeness, ' from any sensations of di-gust, or associations connected
and heart-sickening beyond description. • with mortality. As the exhibition closes in two weeks,
Gentlemen, I will not lengthen out my statement with we would strongly advise all who have not done so to pay.
any more tales of misery, but I shall tell you at once, a visit to 82, Bohi-strect.---See advt.
what sort of treatment I think would be of essential set,. Tilt: INIANtirACTIMING. DISTRICTS.----The operatives.
:vice to the poor, as well as those who are obliged to visit of Manchester who have been suffering some months from
them. I would have a low cart constructed of good stout want of employment, met on Thursday morning to take •
iron, particularly at the bottom, to run on four wheels. measures for their own relief. The assembly was ad.. .
It should be divided into two corer ed compartments ; and dressed by several working men out of employment. The
underneath these, there should be placed a small furnace, whole of the speakers seemed to throw the responsibility.
to heat the materials to be conveyed from house to house. of their present deplorable condition on the 'Shoulders of
The first should contain a strong lime wash, with a tti- ;those speculators in corn and cotton who are-now sup-
fling admixture of chloride of lime—not too much of posed to be fatteeing on the misers-of the workingclas . •
this, for it is too overpowering in its effects on some weak The following resolutions were 'unanimously carried:—
and nervous systems, and might at the same time consti- That in the opinion of • this meeting it is the duty •
lute a grbund of
.objection to the uscof the wash in any. of government to protect the working classes against.'
bshap O
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ree o. verhangicg' 0/nLeach side the cart, there should all monopolies, inasmuch as the monopolists of corm
eth four bukets, say eight in all, with as ninny and cotton poesess within themselves the power to brushes. '
• throw the working classes out of employment and starve.
Set all these into full operation by any of the ables j them into act.; of violence. That while we admit the
bodied inmates, and you would very soon make clean and I principle, of equal. exchange. and distinctly deny ising •
comfortable dwellings for them, and no doubt they would barriers or oir:ta.cks to trade, we protesthr t9bk-- •,-,- _
he very grateful. Then with a few strong whisks- or preF.:nt specious 'and capricious system of co NC, ;119:it.:,-,,se\.
brooms, sweep
away all the cougregated filth, which is prevents •an equitable distribution of the frui - .4iustrase•'--'4X izi) re,,
nothing less than their straw. beds worn to dust by con- destroys the home marl:et, and drives the y,t. , ..-608444 1!' ..2 lel
Want friction—and this done, send up a basket or two of wealth into pauperism and crime. That as ~"I'n. etr4las47,Z7f, ~'
het send, (which . I mean should be contained in the Igreatly super,eded manual labour, and ina.,, ~..._llli._,_,_m.€l**7' ~..
tsecond. compartment of the machine,) and set the most to an or:Unlit-ea extent, and consequently recd' '77 vililK-- ~......' -:. robust to. work with the- holy stone--and' after. the cx- ing millions to the lowest depths of small .se a.... • eio
,te,
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emple of one of • our most scientific Arctic navigators, therefor(' urge on the Government to pl. )Ilit a1.,:-....,.t1.
who thought mud& of the health of his crew, let them ; people neon'the land, where they would p Iks,e4e. it,
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scrub vigorously at their. rooms, until they are completely : Ilan:sell:es ;to unite agriculture with ;mum Atre,..e4titc, ;iv
cicqnsed. . Lome consumption. rani unite the landewners andtes -se
. The sand and dirt should afterwards be carefully p/c in the bonds of mutn4l inte.rest. A poitiouN7
bruAl
mi into the street, Auld removed speedily, and I have on the foregoing resole.tiuns was s,Uopt.ed„