The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-15 00:00:00

' LONDON PRODUCE MARKET.—Tics DAY.

West India Sugar is firm, at fully previous prices; Re-
fined in firm demand ; Grocery Lumps, 465. to 495. ; for
Foreign there is a fair inquiry for export, at stiff prices ;
a fair inquiry for yellow Havannah in bond at 223. to 255.
Little passing in Coffee; buyers are awaiting the result
of the Dutch sale. Native Ceylon, 475. to 48s. The
Tea market is firm, and a fair amount of business doing;
common sound Congou, 10d. to 104 d. Tallow is very-
flat, at 445. on the spot, sellers.

LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.—Tars DAY.
The arrivals into this port, up to and since Friday last,
include, for the entire week, a fair supply of Oats, with a •
considerable increase of Oatmeal, and a few parcels of
other produce, coastwise and from Ireland. During the
same time, the imports from abroad comprise chiefly a
moderate quantity of Wheat and Indian Corn, with up-
wards of 5000 barrels of Flour from the United States,
14,284 sacks of the same article from France, and a few
minor lots of grain from Europe and Egypt.
There was but a moderate business doing in Wheat
and Flour at this morning's market, at the prices of
Friday last ; but the trade was by no means active. The
same remark will apply to all other descriptions.

PROTESTANTISM is said to be rapidly on the increase
in Florence, notwithstanding the efforts of the Jesuits to
check it.

COLONIAL CIVILIZATION.—An immense order for
handcuffs and leg-irons is now in course of execution in
Birmingham. A large quantity has already been shipped
for Melbourne.

MR. HERD, a farmer at Lincoln, has had to pay £2O
damages to the friends of a boy. eleven years of age,
whose leg had been bitten by a dog belonging to the de-
fendant, which, according to the indictment, supported
by evidence, he kept, knowing that " it was accustomed
to bite mankind."

IRON CHURCH FOR AUSTRALIA.—At the monthly
meeting of the Society for Promoting Christian Know-
ledge, the committee gave notice that at the next meeting
they would propose that £1,300 he granted towards send-
ing out an iron church and parsonage house to the gold
fields in Australia.

CHANCERY REFORM.—There will benumerous appoint-
ments under the new Suitors in Chancery Relief Act,
ran zing from junior class, £lOO per annum, to senior class,
£BOO per annum ; pension, if disabled after fifteen years'
service, one half—the whole after fifty years' eoroloo tho
appointments will be in the gift of the Lord Chancellor.

EAST INDIA CHARTER.—It is said that Government
is contemplating the renewal of the charter for ten years
instead of twenty, and th.lt the requirements of the in.
terval are to be satisfied by investing the Court of Direc-
tors with the privilege of electing a third of their own
number and expanding in some degree the Legislative
Councils of India.

COUNTY COURTJUSTICE.—CADTION TO SURVEYORS.'
At the Lambeth County Court, a few days since, a house-
agent was plaintiff against a surveyor for payment of an
account for work done to a house, put into his hands to
let, and which he had taken upon himself to do, not only
without any authority whatever, hut in defiance of
written directions he was not to do it, which document
was produced in court, and although it was dated the
21st February, 1832, and the man's account, for drain
cleaning and a few other similar works, consisted of items
dated from the 27th February to the Bth March, the
judge (if it is not a libel upon the title) actually gave
judgment for the plaintiff!
THE FIRE AT DONCASTER CRURCH.—The coroner's
inquiry into this calamity was resumed on Friday week,
and the evidence seems conclusive that the fire bad its
origin with the flues connected with the heating apparatus.
On Monday a meeting of clergy and inhabitants was held
at the Guildhall, for the purpose of considering the best
measures for the restoration of the parish church, when it
was resolved to adopt immediate measures for rebuilding..
The Doncaster Chronicle states that at a meeting of the,
Town Council on Thursday, that body " set a very muni-
ficent example by heading the subscription list with the
sum of £5,000." It is estimated that the restoration will
involve an outlay of £35,000, and as the townspeople,
through their representatives, have by this noble grant
shown such cheerful willingness to help themselves out of
the disaster in which they have been involved, public libe-
rality will be promptly applied to make up the residue.
CANADA CLERGY RESERVES.—The Society for the Pro-
pagation of the Gospel has had one or two rather storm y
discussions at its meetings on the subject of the Canada
Cergy Reserves. It was very forcibly argued; and, in spite of
the threats of at least one bishop, a petition against the
Government measureempowerinz the Colonial Legislature
to deal with them, and, if it likes confiscate them, was
adopted by a large majority, and was ordered to be taken
to Lambeth to hare the corporate seal affixed to it, of
which the Archbishop of Canterbury is the keeper. It is
not above once or twice in a century that the Society
adopts the course of petitioning the Legislature ; and
it has always been very chary in showing any opposition
to measures of Government. So that this Clergy Reserves
Bill of our present Ministers must be deemed very ob-
jectionable to have produced such a movement on the
present occasion.

BLOWING UP OF Two STEAMERS.—On Saturday in-
formation was received of two very serious disasters off
the north coast. The George Bolton, belonging to Great
Grimsby. left the Doggerbanic on Wednesday, with a full
cargo of cod fish, from the numerous craft engaged in
those fisheries, for Grimsby, to discharge her cargo. On
Friday morning, about seven o'clock she was steaming
past the New Sand, near the entrance of the Humber,
when her boilers exploded with terrific force, tearing up
her decks, and nearly splitting the vessel in two. The
chief engineer, Christopher Jewitt, was blown up high on
to the deck, and fell near the mainmast. And another man,
named James Smith, was similarly hurt. In a few
minutes it was discovered that the vessel was fast sinking.
Her boat was immediately lowered, and the master and
five of the crew, carrying with them the two sufferers,
got into it, and abandoned her just in time to avoid being
drawn down by the schooner which foundered in deep water.
In the excitement which prevailed, two men were lost.
The other mishap befel a new steamer, called the
Engineer, which had been recently built on the Tyne.
She made an experimental and first trip on Friday, to
test the capabilities of her engines. As usual on such oc-
casions, a number of persons were on board who had been
attracted to witness her success. When some miles out
to sea, off Tynemouth, her boilers exploded, and eight
or nine persons are reported to have been scalded. The
injured.
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miles of its destination, when, owing to some derange-
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of coming to a stand still. The ' engineer and stoker both
got off and endeavoured to ascertain the cause of the
stoppage, and also to r • the damage. •
repair For this pur-
pose the train was entirely stopped. At this time an
engine, which the previous cvening had gone up the line
for the purpose of assisting a heavy luggage train up the
steep incline,.was in the act of returning to the engine-
house at the Bristol station. The driver of this engine,
being wholly unaware of any stoppage on the line, and
the morning being very foggy, did not see the disabled
train till just as he was turning a sharp curve near the
Mangotsfield station, and had arrived within a very short
distance of it. He applied the breaks, and did all in his
power to stop the engine and avert a collision, but in
vain, for it ran into the train with alarming violence,
completely smashing the two last carriages all to pieces.
Of course, the most disastrous consequences ensued.
Subjoined is the list of casualities :—Mr. Thomas Jones,
Gloucester, killed ; Mr. William Bantell, Gloucester,
killed ; Mr. James Moreton, severe contusions and in-
juries of head and person ; Mr. S. Chas, a foreigner,
injuries of the ancle •' Bennett (the mail guard) wounds
and contusions of the face and head ; Mr. Henry Thomp-
son, fractured arm. In addition to this several other
passengers were severely bruised.