The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-04-30 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL DOCK BILL.

The Committee met again on Monday last, and
declared that the preamble or the bill was proved ; and
the Committee then proceeded to deliberate on the respec-
tive clauses, and, on their separation, had agreed to the
three first.

Thus the preamble, and several of the principal clauses,
having been concurred in, it may be confidently antici-
pated that there will be no further hindrance to the bill
speedily passing the committee, in its integrity; as any
discussion that may now arise will refer merely to the
settlement of comparatively unimportant details.
We congratulate the merchants and other inhabitants
of Liverpool on the satisfactory settlement of this im-
portant question.
[fhe above appeared in an early second edition of our
paper of last Tuesday. On Tuesday the committee went
through the remainder of the clauses of the bill, when the
chairman was directed to report to the house, and the
committee broke up.]

A rumour has been extensively circulate 1 that Captain
Hamilton, member for this borough (Aylesbury). intends
to resign in favour of Mr. Thesiger, the new Solicitor-
General. We can assure our readers that nothing could
be further from the truth than this report.—Bucks Herald.
The rumour still prevails, that foreign free-labour sugar,
including that of Siam and Jaya, Will be admitted for
home consumption, although the amount of duty has not
transpired. The whole measure is kept so profound a
secret, that the best informed persons do not believe that
even the inferior officials of Government know the precise
intentions of Ministers.
GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY.—The general half-
yearly meeting of the Globe Insurance Company was held
at their office in Cornhill, last week, when the annual re-
port on the affairs of the company was read, and the meet-
ing haying been made special for the further purpose of
receiving a report from the directors, with reference to the
bill now before parliament, the same was discussed clause
by clause, and it was resolved :—" That the thanks of this
meeting of proprietors are justly due, and are hereby given
to the chairman, deputy chairman, and directors, for their
general attention to the interests of the company, and es-
pecially with reference to the bill now before parliament,
for enabling the company to alter and amend some of the
provisions of the deed of settlement, and also for the very
satisfactory report on the affairs of the company made
this day."
MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—A very awful and dis-
tressing occurrence took place at Barmoor lime kiln on
Thursday morning last. James Johnston, a labourer,
went on the kiln for the purpose of breaking a large lime-
stone into pieces ; the stcne on which he stood suddenly
sunk under his weight, and he suddenly became embed-
ded in the contents of the centre of the kiln. His fellow
workmen seeing the accident, gave immediate alarm, and
attracted to the spot the quarrymenand others thereabouts.
These parties threw a rope towards the sufferer which he
tied roundhis body, but they could not succeed in drawing
him out ; he continued throwing from him the stones
which pressed against him until his fingers were com-
pletely burned off. In this horrible situation he existed
for about three quarters of an hour, when death released
him. Horses were procured from Mr. Philips, but these
also failed in drawing out the body ; ultimately a pulley
was erected over the spot, and by its means, and after
great difficulty, the body was raised out of the kiln. The
scene was most painful from seven o'clock, the time the
accident occurred, until ieleven when the body was got
out. He retained his senses up to his death, and in the
midst of his tortures made great lament for the fate of his
children ; bis sisters were on the scene before he died, and
witnessed his awful fate. When the body was got out it
was found that his legs so far as they had been buried in
the limestone were not the least burned, but his thighs
and body were dreadfully
injured ; and his intestines pro-
truded. and his limbs were nearly severed from his body.
The deceased was a widower.—Edinburgh paper.