The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-12-30 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SUDDEN DELTLIS.—On Wednesday evening, a female
named Barber, living in Back Russell-street, aged 41,
after taking tea in her usual health, lay down on a ,bed,
gave a sigh or two, and expired. On Wednesday night;
Sarah Jones, of Gascoigne-street, sixty-three years of
age, after spending the evening with some friends, fell
down in a fit, and expired.
The supporters of the Anti-Corn-Law League held a
meeting at Manchester, on Tuesday, at which from 1,500
to 2,000 persons were present. The accounts of the
£lOO,OOO fund were read and passed. There is a balance
of £12,033 in hand. The gentlemen present then pro-
ceeded to subscribe in aid of the proposed quarter of a
million fund, and before the meeting closed upwards of
£61,800 was subscribed. Among the donations were—
John Bright and Brothers, £l,OOO ; It. Cobden, £5OO,
&c. &c., &c. Since the meeting, several additional
subscriptions have been handed in, and amongst the
larger doners there are—One of £1,500, twenty-four
of £l,OOO, one of £7OO, twenty-five of £5OO, four of £4OO
seven of £3OO, twenty eight of £250, seventeen of £2OO,
nine of £l5O, one of £125, and seventy of £lOO. [lf our
agricultural friends intend to maintain their ground against
the object of this illegal body there must be equal liberality

DREADFUL CALAMITY

quote to support the weigl
The tank was contracted

it of so large a body
for with the Hawa

, in Flints

hire, for, it is said, £l5OO, they agreei
) guarantee its sufficiency for twelve months. For t

on their par _
HIGHWAY BOARD.—Mr. Tinne qualified as
missioner, and took the usual oaths. The state of Upper
Frederick-street, which had been ordered six months ago
to be re-paved anti repaired, was brought under the con-
sideration of the Board by Mr. Tinne, and the surveyor
of the district was directed to proceed with it as soon as
possible. The chairman said there was great difficulty in
obtaining the required number of paviours. An applica-

a com -

purpose of suiplying with-water tl

le of th

between the wor
element itself, it

'ksand the docks by the gravity of the
was (though the site itself is consider•

ably elevated above the greater part of I
raised six feet from the surface of the yard, upon mas

oxteth Park)

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iron columns and archwork of stone and brick, and the
horizontal iron plates, bedded on this foundation, there

was certainly no conceivable chance of its giving way at

the bottom

tion frona Mr. Richard Harbord, for an estimate of the
expense of paving, with wood, South John-street, between
Canning-place and King-street, led to a discussion upon
the merits of that system of-pacing ; and it was the
general opinion that it bad failed in this town. Several
members said it was decidedlunfit for heavy traffic, and
that the wood pavement in Exchange-street East, and
other places, would have to be replaced by Macadam.
The application was consequently declined. A deputation
of occupiers, residing between Grove-street and Vine-
street, was introduced for the purpose of representing the
defective drainage of part of Myrtle-street South ; and
they requested the Board to complete the sewer up to
Grove-street, a distance of about sixty yards. The de-
putation were told that the subject would receive considera-
tion when the annual estimates for new sewers were laid
before the Board in January next. Helsby, the son of
the late messenger to the'Board, was appointed to that
office in the place of his deceased father. Mr. Higgins

The tank was completed on Wednesday last, and early
on Christmas Day the engine set to work to fill it, no
doubt being entertained of its sufficiency. During the
morning, Mr. M`Donald, the manager, thirty of the
watermen under him, andigathers belonging to the works,
were in the yard, and observing every thing apparently
secure, they went uway to dinner—a most fortunate
movement for them, for had they remained a short time
longer, probably nearly the whole of them would have
lost their lives by drowning, or crushing by the broken
masses of materials, or a combination of both.

At about a quarter to two o'clock in the afternoon, as
a man in charge of the tank was on the top of a ladder at
the north-east corner, looking into the cistern, which
was then three-fourths full, be heard what he calls " a
cranch," and instantly both sides gave way. He was so

complained of the district under his charge being so far
from his place of business, and lie suggested that at a
future day the arrangements for the, appointment of the
districts be revised. Mr, Glidstone agreed in the pro-
priety of the suggestion, and h 6 said there were certain
pet districts which were always monopolized, but he had
never been fortunate enough to get appointed on one.
Mr. Procter charged Mr. Higgins with inconsistency in
wishing the districts to be re-appointed, after his speech
iu council, where, not having enough to do, be appointed
himself inspector-general of all the committees. The
snbject soon after dropped. In reply to Mr. Higgins,
the Chairman stated that Mr. Cooper had postponed his
motion respecting the transfer of the £lO,OOO from the
paving to the sewerage account, in consequence of the
absence of the Law-clerk' and it would come on again
that day fortnight. It was intimated, that the opinion
taken by the Law-clerk was to the effect that the Board
had no power to repay this sum back from one fund to
the other.

DOCK COMMITTRE.—The Sub-committee of Works re-
ported ag'inst an application of Messrs. Jackson and
Co., for shed accommodation on the quay of George's
Dock Basin, on the ground that there was not adequate
room, and that it would be an obstruction. A stage
berth was ordered to be appropriated on the south side
of Victoria Dock, for a line of packets to Boston, as an
experiment for six months. The Harbour Master's Sub-
committee were authorized to recommend a proper per-
son for the vacant situation of master of George's Dock.
The Warehouse Sub-committee produced a report of
what would he required by the Customs in the Albeit
Dock warehouses, and some alterations were suggested,
in order to b-ing the south-west stack into work previ-
ously to the whole pile being completed. The Commit-
tee of Works were irstructed to execute all the necessary

works. The month's receipts at Runcorn were stated to
be £3O Os. 10d., being £3 t3s. Id. less than the same pe-
riod last year. The Chairman announced that the follow,
ing gentlemen were applicants for the situation of sta
tioner to the Doc

mmittee for the ensuing twelve
Ir. Wareing Webb.

months:—Mr. Geo, M'Corquod
Mr. Wm. Pitt, Mr. James Mawdsley, Messrs. Ross and
Nightingale, Mr. Henry Taylor, and Messrs. Lace and
Addison. In reply to a question from Mr. Horsfall, the
Chairman said, that Mr. M'Corquodale never had the

Mr. Maifdsley I

iad it from 1841 to 1842

they h

Ir. Taylor had t

ery in 1841. ' Lace and Addison never had It. Mr. Bold
seconded by Air. Chilton, moved that Lace and Addisot
be the stationers for the ensuing year. Mr. Middleton
seconded by Mr. Smith, moved, as an amendment, tha
Mr. M'Corquodale be the stationer. Upon a divisiot

The following
—For Lace and Ad

Id, Tobin
bton' Mann
col, and the Chairman.- ForM'Con

ison—Messrs. I
11, Ripley, Houg

quodal

Moon; and Rankin. Messrs LaCe and Addison were
ccordingly appointed. The Chairman announced tha
were three candidates for the office of printer--
James Mawdsley, Mr. Thomas Carter, and Messrs
le. Mr. Kendall 'moved, and Mr
Mr. Mawdsley be appointed. N
g been proposed, Mr. MawasTey'
name was put and carried without opposition.

nod Fecont
her canrua

late havin

THE CHRISTMAS PANTOMIMES

I hole, and w

.ND LOSS OF LIFE. I convi

creation for alew minutes, doting which the awful

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catastrophe took place! He would otherwise hays been
In order to supply a sufficiency of water for the extin- in the yard near the tank at the time, and there, such was
guishinent of fires occurring in the southern districts of the destruction and havoc by water and projected materials,
the town, the Liverpool and Harrington Water Company that it is scarcely possible to suppose he could have es-
commenced, some time since, the erection of an immense caped instant destruction. On Friday and Saturday the
iron tank, in the yard attached to their works in Water- scene was distressing, a gloom pervading every counten-
street, Toxteth Park, which runs eastward from South ance. Crowds pressed to see the ruins, but barriers were
Cheater-street, just behind St. Patrick's Chapel. The placed, and the police properly kept mere spectators at a
tank, when filled, would contain, it is said, upwards of safe distance. In Rock-street fragments of furniture,
1000 tons of water, was of an oblong square shape, and bedding, &c., taken from the demolished dwellings were
entirely formed in its walls of large iron castings, put to- piled in every direction, and the surviving owners were
getber, interiorly, by bolts passing through flanches cast busy removing them in carts. These were taken from the
on the inner edges of each piece. The exteriors of the tottering floors, and from the wreck below by the police
castings were so moulded as to represent large ornamen- officers and others employed at imminent risk. The houses
tal pannels. As a security against the lateral pressure of were shored up as speedily and skilfully as possible, to
the water, a number of tension rods were extending from prevent them falling on their heads. Mr. James Law-
the ends and aides, at various heights, along and across rence, chairman of the Watch Committee, was on the
the reservoir, and also diagonally at the corners : but the spot immediately after the accident, and ren
whole material employed, unhappily, proved to be inade- all night. On Friday he was early on the

ained neatly
ground, and

up the

ions workmen were employe
id searching amongst them for missinf

,r was on the spot on Thurs

and Mr. Dowling was in constant a

Id its I

ength of t

20 feet—it was 15 feet wide

or but

tresses of

ides. of
lick

ast-iron p 1

afternoon

an inch tt

There e

y kind outside of

were three quarters of

Ole account states

three-fourth inch thict

ran, about

I :—" Three rods, of
xteen feet I

1. along

the whole tank, and the ends and sides were strengthened
by diagonal inch-and-a-half rods, five on each side, and
four at each end. These were fastened to two strong iron
sleepers at the bottom. There were no girders—
binders ; no cross beams of any kind. The d

no other
irect and

lateral pressure, at the bottom of the sides low down, was

about 7 pounds to the square inch, or 1000 pounds per
foot. The pressure on the whole side was therefore im
mense." The general opinion is that the rods first gave
way at the nuts, and that from the weight of water, the
destruction that followed was instantaneous.