The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-10-09 00:00:00

* Mr. Cafferatta, however, came to the meeting afterwards.

BILLS OF EXCHANGE.—An important notice from the
American Chamber of Commerce, to all persons connected
with bills of exchange, appears in our advertising columns.
The object of the notice is to secure the attendance of
such parties at their offices this morning, between nine
and eleven o'clock, to prevent the necessity of protests.

DREADFUL FIRE.—The warehouses of Messrs. Gooch
and Cousins, the well-known wool brokers, at London
Wall, London, were destroyed by fire on Saturday night.
The range of premises were probably as large as any in
the city of London—being about 300- feet long, and two
wings about 100 feet wide each. On the different floors
were from 3500 to 4000 bales of wocl, valued at £BO,OOO.
The loss is estimated of £lOO,OOO.

BURGH HALL AGAIN, ESCAPE OF MISS DURIE, alias
MRS. ELLIS NORRIS.—On Sunday evening week, some
time between the hours of six and eight o'clock, Miss
Dune, alias Mrs. Ellis Norris, escaped from one of the
upper rooms of Burgh Hall, near Chorley, where she was
residing as a lunatic patient. The public is already ac-
quainted with Miss Durie's elopement and marriage,
towards the close of last year, and her re-capture, and
confinement again in Burgh Hall, and the legal proceed-
ings which followed, when judgment was given against
Ellis Norris, and not being able to pay the expenses, he
was placed as a debtor in Lancaster Castle, where be was
kept for four months, and was discharged on Thursday
the 20th ult. About the time referred to on Sunday
evening, she made her escape through the window of the
room where she was confined. It appears very evident
that she had an accomplice, who has furnished her with
the means of escape, as the cords of the sash are cut, and
the step of the window frame wrenched off, in order to
enable her to take out the window inside, and then she
would have to descend 15 or 16 feet to the ground, and
there were no marks of her having droppe.i that distance
to the ground. The escape took place while the family
were at church in the evening, they not having attended
evening service for some time back. The police com-
menced a rigid search the same night, and in less than
two hours from the time of her flight every place likely
for concealment was searched, including Ellis Norris's
room at Birkacre, in the house of Mr. S. Potter, printing
master, who employed E. Norris as groom, but without
success, as there has not yet been any clue to her where-
abouts. On the Monday morning Mr. Potter discharged
Norris from his employ, and that, and the circumstance
of her escape, caused a great sensation in the town. On
Wednesday afternoon, placards were posted on the walls
of the town, offering a reward of £lO to any person who
could give such information as would lead to her re-cap-
ture, but so far without success.

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