The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-20 00:00:00

FRIGHTFUL CONFLAGRATION,

One of the most destructive fires which have visited
the metropolis for many years broke out on Monday
evening, about seven o'clock, in the floor-cloth manu-
factory of Mr. Josiah Rolls, situate near the canal
bridge, in the old Kent-road. The premises occupied
a most commanding situation, fronting the main road,
and extending to a width of about 60 feet, running
back to a depth of 150. The progress of the flames
was terrific, and the whole building was on fire from
the top to the bottom in less than ten minutes from
its first discovery. Messengers had been despatched
on horseback to town for the engines, but from the
great distance (nearly four miles) a very long period
elapsed before their arrival. The fire meantime in-
creased in a most extraordinary manner, and the heat
from the burning mass became so intense that it was
found necessary, although the road is in this spot
nearly 80 feet wide, to throw water on the houses op-
posite to prevent their igniting. Two houses in Ranger-
place were from the first considered in great danger,
and all the moveable property which could be got at
was thrown_ out of the windows into the street. An
extensive factory belonging to Mr. Goulson, a very
lofty building, rising to a considerable height over the
dwellings in Ranger-place, was exposed to the full
action o the flames, which shot through the roof of
Mr. Roll's warehouse. A very short time elapsed be-
fore the rafters of this building caught fire, and the
most fearful apprehensions were felt for the safety of
the whole neighbourhood. The workmen and others
in the service of Mr. Goulston had been some time
previously engaged in removing the property, and con-
tinued to labour incessantly until long after the flames
had reached the second floor of the warehouse, when
the heat became so intense that they were desired to
desist.

Two of the brigade engines arrived shortly before
eight o'clock, and were quickly followed by the West
of England engine. The hose was immediately con-
nected and conveyed to the canal, the only source from
which water could be obtained. Mr. Rolls's factory
was however at this time a mere skeleton; every timber
burning fiercely, and the .joints shortly after giving
way, the whole structure fell to the ground at once
with a tremendous crash. The flames had now also
communicated to the two dwellings in Ranger-place
before alluded to, which divided the factory of Mr.
Rolls from that of Mr. Goulston, and the whole range
was one mass of flames. Other engines now arrived ;
but all hope of saving any part of the premises to
which the fire had already communicated was at an
end, and the labours of the firemen were confined to
the salvage of the surrounding premises, on which a
large quantity of water was thrown by the engines.
The rapidity with which the terrible element spread
was most extraordinary. Mr. Bradford states that by
the time he reached the scene with the engine from
Watling•street station, a period of not more than 25
minutes after the fire had been discovered, both the
immense factories of Mr. Rolls, as well as that of Mr.
Goulston, the other floor-cloth manufactory, together
with that gentleman's dwelling-house, that of his
father-in-law, Mr. Gibbs, with the extensive outhouse
attached, were enveloped in one mighty mass of flame,
to approach which within 200 feet was utterly impos-
sible.

It is a singular fact that. Mr. Rolls and Mr. Goulston
were formerly in partnership, and when a dissolution
took place the latter gentleman erected a new factory
near that of his former partner; both are now
destroyed by the same unfortunate accident.
Most of •the property consumed is insured. The
different offices that are sufferers by the destruction of
Mr. Rolls's premises are reported to be as follows :
Sun Fire-office, £5,000; Phcenix, £5,000; Imperial,
£3,000; Union, £3,000 ; Atlas, £3,000; London,
£2,000; Royal Exchange, £3,000. Total, £24,000-
Mr. Goulson's factory is also insured in the follow-
ing offices, and their several losses are given out as
subjoined :—Sun Fire-office, £3,000 ; Licensed Vic-
tualler's-office, £2,000; York and London, £2,000;
two.others, £1,700. Total, £8,700.
The fire insurance companies will suffer by the
calamity a loss of between £30,000 and £40,000.

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A MAN FOUND DEED.—An old man, called Bruce Morrow
who lived in the neighbourhood of Banbridge, was returning
home a few night since, after having drunk pretty freely, and
when near his own house fell over a wall of a bridge about
fourteen feet high, in Mr. Brice Smith's nursery grounds,
where he was found next morning dead.
The Journal de Coulances states that a whirlwind of extra-
ordinary violence passed over part of the town on the 11th
instant, and did considerable damage, taking away stones,
slates, and tiles, and stripping several houses. A letter from
Bourges, of the 13th, mentions that for five days a tempest
had been raging in the neighbourhood, and had committed
some ravages.

TRIAL OF THE DUNFERMLINE RIOTERS.—In the High
Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, on Friday last, James
Ramage, jun., miner and coalhewer, Dunfermone ; William
Penman coalhewer, Halbeath ; and Thomas Joyce, weaver,
Dunfermline, were placed at the bar, and pleaded guilty to a
charge of mobbing and rioting in Dunfermline, at the riots
which took place there in August last. The court sentenced
them to ten months' imprisonment.
SUDDEN DEATH.—With extreme regret we learn that
Mrs. Ewing, wife of the Rev. William Ewing, Rector of
Donegal, while teaching one of her children its le-sson on
Monday evening last, was attacked with apoplexy, and in-
stantly expired. It is an event of the deepest sorrow to her
afflicted husband and disconsolate children, and is much
lamented by a wide circle of friends and acquaintance. She
bas left a young helpless family.—Ballyshannon Herald.
MURDER OF MR. SCULLY'S ITERDSMAN.—Again has
blood been shed ! On the evening of Thursday, about half-
past seven o'clock, Thomas Bourke, herdsman of James
Scully, Eeq., was waylaid and murdered in Tipperary, by
two men, who assaulted him with stones. The left side of
of the body, by Captain Bradshaw,
his skull was broken in. The dire outrage was perpetrated
at the end of Mr. Massey's garden wall. On Friday an in-
quest was held on view
and a verdict of wilful murder returned.—Nenagh Guardian.

it
any proor were wanting of the progress of physical and
moral degradation amongst the manufacturing population,
we have a very strong opinion that the result of the last
quarter's registration of births and deaths will furnish abun-
dant evidence of the fact ; at least if the result in other dis-
tricts is similar to that of Leeds, the proof cannot be dubious.
The quarter's returns are not all made up yet, and, therefore,
we cannot give the result in detail • but we can supply some
particulars. Whilst the marriages at the register-office and
Dissenting chapels have not increased in number, those at
the parish church, in 1842, are less by between 200 and 300
than in the year 1841. In the number of births registered
during the last quarter a decrease of a fifth or sixth will be
manifest, as compared with the corresponding quarter of 1811,
while the number of illegitimate children born have been
trebled in some, if not in all, the districts.—Bradford paper.

The Constantinople letter of the Morning Herald, of yes-
terday, gives the particulars of an atrocious murder com-
mitted by the Khan of Bokhara, in Central Asia, on two
British officers—namely, Colonel Stoddart, formerly attached
to the British legation in Persia ; and Captain Conolly, the.
author•of a well-known book of eravels irrthe east. It ap-
pears that these gentlemen, travelling through the country,
were seized as spies ; that they refused the interference of the
Russian resident agent, who might have saved them, and that
both were beheaded in the market-place—Colonel Stoddart
first, and Captain Conolly after, the latter having refused to
save his life by renouncing Christianity.

A'dividend, at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, was de-
clared at the meeting of the proprietors of the London Joint
Stock Bank, on Thursday, the affairs of which appear to be
progressing in a satisfactory manner. The directors in their
report, allude to the excessive abundance of money in the
mai kets, and the few channels open for its safe investment
which has, of course, in a certain degree, checked the oppor-
tunity they would otherwise have had to increase profits.
The accounts, however, on the whole, present a fovourable
condition, the net profit for the half-year being £19,189.
Of this sum they have appropriated £lB,OOO, to the pay-
ment of the dividend, and added the remainder to the guar-
antee fund, now amounting to £94,403. 17s. 2d.
REBECCA AND HER DAUGHTERS.—A party of Major
'Whylock's detachment of Royal Marines, stationed at Mil-
ford, was despatched on Thursday morning, in carriages,
from that place, under the orders of Captain Wilson, to St.
Clare's, Carmarthen, to suppress sonic riots, founded on a
warfare against turnpike-gates, described in a paragraph
headed " Rebecca and her Daughters," which has gone the
round of the press. It is supposed, that as the farmers have
refused to be sworn in as constables, they are encouraging
their labourers in these acts of destruction. The rioters are
armed with muskets, pistols, and scythes, and fancy they
will be able (not calculating on the arrival of-the " redcoats")
to effect the demolition of every turnpike-gate in this way,
and then attack the union-house at Neorbeth, to which they
have also a very great antipathy.—Hampshire Telegraph.
BARN-FLOORS.—The present price of oak timber renders
a barn-floor of that material an expensive article; and if any
substitute could be found, the landed proprietor would be
much benefitted by the discovery. It is not, perhaps, gene-
rally known that beech has been for the last half-century
used for that purpose in Buckinghamshire, with great suc-
cess. It should be cut early in the winter, and laid on oak
sleepers, filling up the interstices with a composition of coal-
tar, sand, and coal ashes, so as to come in contact with the
plank, which may also, if exposed to a damp situation, have
its under surface coal-tarred also. This will effectually pro-
tect it from all moisture arising from the earth. There are
two sorts of beech, the black, and the white ; the black
should be preferred. One of these floors will last nearly as
long as an oak one of the present day; for the quality of the
oak now-a-days is sacrificed to the value of the bark, by
cutting so late in the spring. Two beech floors may be had
for the price of one of oak.
it. L. WATSON'S BANKRUPTCY.—The bankrupt, who is
described as a dealer in flags, but is better known to the pub-
lic as the projector and manager of the system of communi-
cation called " Watson's Telegraph," appeared before the
court, in Basinghall-street, on Thursday, on his final exami-
nation. His debts he stated to be £5,132, and his assests
about £56. It appeats his liabilities were for the most p,art
contracted under the arrangements he made for that project,
and, not receiving the sum he expected to be paid by parties
connected with him in his undertaking, lie was obliged to
raise money at the rate of 50 per cent. to meet his engage-
ments, which he said, "had eaten him up." He expected
a fortune through his wife, who, he was sure, would meet
his creditors with more favourable prospects than he could
at present. After some further examination, be was
adjourned for three weeks, to allow time for the amendment
of his balance-sheet, which, it appears, had been improperly
compiled by his accountants. Sir C. F. Williams said if this
occurred on another occasion he should make the parties who
were the cause of the adjournment pay the expenses of the
sitting.

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TUESDAY, JANUABY 17.—Wind W. moderate.
The Ellen, from Rio Janeiro, at Hamburg
Harmony, Carroll, henee for Galway, at Kingstown, towed in
with loss of bowsprtt, &e.
Mersey, Steele, sailed from Oporto for this port 3rd January
Enterprise, Mather, hence for Savannah, at Dartmouth, with
loss of sails
Wm. Clarke, from Calcutta, at Deal
John Dugdale, Millward, from Sincapore, off Dover
Ann Mondell, Roberts, from Jamaica, off Margate
Rob Roy, Bammant, from Yarmouth for this port, at Ramsgate,
with cargo shifted, and loss of sails, mainboom and bulwarks
Betseys, Hadgraft, from Ipswich for this port, at Lymington.
with loss of bulwarks, and pumps choked
ABERDOVEY, Jan. 14.—A vessel is sunk about 3 miles to the
northward, with 2 masts above water. Some papers have been
picked up near the spot, marked ' Capt. Bayard, Phoebe, of New.
port, Pembrokeshire.' It is feared the crew are drowned.

WEDNESDAY. JANLARY 13.—Wind variable and light.
ARRIVED.— Ocean, Willard, from Charleston—Clarendon, Stod-
dart, and Plymouth, Fuller, from Al obile—Siddons, Cobb, from New
York—and Colombo, Eldridge, from Savannah.

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Ilindostan, (steamer) Moresby, from Southampton, at the Cape
of Good Hope 24th Nov.
Watkins, Whiteside, hence at ditto 28th November
Harriet, Duthie, sailed from Algoa Bay for Mauritius sth Nov.
Old England, Hodson, sailed from St. Helena for this port Ist
December
Kate, Scott, hence at Rio Janeiro
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Rose, Bayles, sailed from Rio Janeiro 14th Nov. and the Princess
Royal, Guilbert, the 24th, both for Trieste
Thomas Sparks, Sparks, hence for New Zealand, has been re-
paired, after striking on the Whale Rock, Table Bay, and sailed
on the 12th Nov.
Pet, Shutten, hence at Bourdeaux
Harp, Fletcher, from Dublin, at ditto
Old Tom; Le Gros, from Civita Vecchia, at Cadiz
Totness, Beer, hence at Corunna
Royal Saxon, Crawford, from China, at the Cove; sailed gth
August, and Cape of Good Hope 28th Nov. On the er,
passed the wreck of a barque, sunk in ti fathoms water, O
thecto b
tops
just a-wasit. She appeared to have gone down suddenly in a squall,
under all sail ; could see nothing from which her name could be
ascertained. There were no topgallant yards aloft, and the top.
sails appeared to have been washed away. On a part of the main.
topsail, which was an old one, was marked " T. Peake, Liverpool;"
on the foresail was " Richardson, Liverpool." On the tith Oct.
two days previous to falling in with the wreck, passed a barque
towing a ship's launch; it had been housed over, as if to shelter a
crew; and observed the barque's own launch on deck. , Had no
doubt that the one she was towing belonged to the sunken vessel,
and there is every reason to hope that the crew was saved.
Mary, Riches, from Ipswich for this, off Lyrnington, with loss of
jib, bulwarks, &c.
Oxford, Cutter, for Portland, U.S. has put back, with loss of
bowsprit, having been in contact last night With a ',hip off the
Ormsheads
Rockshire, --- from Quebec, at this port, towed in from
Waterfortl, dismasted
BOSCASTf

..., Jan. 16.—The Jessie Logan, from Calcutta for
Liverpool, was driven on shore near this place, this afternoon,
direlict, and went to pieces; very little of the cargo will be saved
ALDBOROUGII, Jan. 16.—The Columbine of Liverpool, supposed
from Calcutta for Loudon, is off this port, having been blown out
of the Downs with loss of anchors and cables ; she has been sup-
plied from Harwich
ABERDOVEY, Jan. 15.—The vessel containing hides, wrecked to
the northward of this place, is a schooner of 120 tons burthen. On
the stern of her boat, is Victoria, of Barcm, (query Barmonth)
Thomas Stone.
BIDEFORD, Jan, 16.—The John Lilley, Mouncey, froni Liverpool
for Old Calabar, has become a wreck : part of the cargo saved in a
damaged state.—The Albert Edward Prince of Wales, from Liver-
pool to Galway, which was on shore at the back of the Burrows,
has become a total wreck ; a small part of the
zargo. saved.
PWLHELI, Jan. dove 13.—The Hope, Hughes, from Liverpool to Aber-
y, got in contact with the Mary & Ellen, in Studwell Roads,
and was abandoned by the crew.
WORKINGTON, Jan. 14.—The William Porter, from Liverpool to
Harrington, came on shore S.W. of this port yesterday, during a
hurricane, and knocked her keel off; cargo discharging.
GREAT YARMOUTH, Jan. 16.—The Catherine, Nicholson, of
Liverpool, has been assisted into our harbour, with loss of anchors
and chains
Rio JANEIRO, Nov. 26.—The Mary White, Johnson, from Li-
verpool to Valparaiso, put into this port leaky, 21st instant, but
will shortly proceed
COVE, Jan. 16.—The Royal Saxon, Crawford, in proceeding for
London yesterday, grounded on the bank near Corkbeg, ou a soft
bottom, and remains
NEWCASTLE, Jan. i4.—A large barque is wrecked near Rude.—
The Alletta Elizabeth, Bakker, is totally lost at Cruckinghaven, to
the northward of this place; crew drowned. Mem.—The Alletta
Elizabeth, Bakker, sailed from Liverpool for Rotterdam 2nd Jan,
RAMSGATE, Jan. 16.—The Betsey, Thompson, from Liverpool,
has put in here, with loss of anchor and cable, sailB split, and very
leaky
BOULOGNE, Jan. 14.—The Conqueror, Duggan, from Calcutta to
London, after beating about in the Channel during the heavy gale
on Friday night, she was driven on shore off Lorel, a small town
on the French coast, only six miles distant from Mirlemont, (where
the Reliance struck,) at half past ten p.m, and almost inunediatei y
went to pieces. A boy saved, (one of the Cuddy servants,) and all
therest on board were lost. There were about 45 seamen, exclu-
sive of officers, and 18 passengers.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 10.-Wind S.W.light.
Attain:ft.—General Parkhill, Hoyt, from Savannah—and Pow-
hattan, Marshall, from Charleston.
SAlLED.—Martha, Lyon. for Africa—Pegasus, ll`Gub, and Betsey
Hall, Choiditch, for Genoa—lrt, Grier, for Pernambuco—Patriot
Minin, Tideznan, and Curlew, M'Lea, for Havana—Eliza Warwick,
Davies, for Boston—Mary Wylie, Scotland, for Berbice—Star,
Ewart, and Susan, Artis, for Leghorn—Agnes Gilmour, Meikle,
and Tamenend, Lovett, for New Orleans—Ventlia, Vickers ; Bruns-
wick, M'Manus, and England, Thompson, for Mobile—Parana,
Watkins, and Magnolia, Johnson, for Barbadoes—Charles, Rick_
mars, for Ostend—Firefly, Holland, for Constantinople—Gipsey,
Cresswell, for Rio Janeiro —Ariadne, Silver, and Vulcan, Mitiiken.
for Malta—Europe. Furber, for New York—Scotland, Buchanan,
and Elizabeth, Warren, for Charleston—Queen, Dixon, for Savan-
nah—Euphemia, Nightingale, and Eliza, Woolley, for Valparaiso—
Mazeppa. Bingham, for Vera Cruz—Ruth, Randall, for Sierra
Leone—Pickwick, Cornish, for Lima—Silksworth, Meldrum, for
Constantinople—Nereid, Longford, for Alexandria—Patriot, Po-
lack, for Antwerp—Margaret Forbes, Prescott, for Virginia —Tal-
!entire, White, for I3arbadoes—Enterprise, Robinson, for Calcutta
—Cornelius, Ditcham, for Barcelona—Chieftain, Payne, for Bombay
—Antigua Packet, Hunter, for Ceylon—Visiter, Moffit, for Trinidad
—Autumns, White, for Jamaica—Reindeer. Kemp, for Galatea—
Rob Roy, Marsh, for Virginia—Emily, Nicholas,-for Azores—Cum-
berland, Power, for Apalachicola—Countess of Westmoreland,
Clarke, for Malaga—Grecian, Rowett, for Cephalonia—and Alba.
nian, Windsor, for Trieste.

Old England, Hodgson, from Calcutta, at this port 1 sailed from
St. Helena Ist Dec. On 12th Dec. in lat. 3 N, long, 23 W, spoke
the Aylsford, hence to Monte Video. On 13th Jan. in lat. 47, lbng.
18, experienced a gale, lost quarter boat, bulwarks, &c, and had
forepart of cabin and long boat stove
Oseola, Childs, from New Orleans, at this port, with loss of bul-
warks, &c. having been struck by a sea 15th instant, off Cape Clear
Thomas Tattersall, hence at Scilly for Limerick, with loss of sails
Princess Royal, Brock, from Calcutta, at the Downs in 92 days
Helen, Ildag, from Calcutta, at the Cape of Good Hope, and
sailed 28th Nov. for Liverpool
Mysore, Ward, from Sincapore, at the Cape of Good Hope
John Woodall, Williams, at ditto
Heart of Oak, M'Donald, sailed from Calcutta 15th Nov. and
Spencer, Birkett, 16th Nov. both for Mauritius
Maranham, Fleming, hence at Falmouth, for Charleston, with
decks swept, covering head slipt, and other damage
Mantura. hence at Studwell ituads
GREEIvocx, Jan. 17.—The Sapphire, Dick, which sailed from
Liverpool for Clyde 27th Dec. was seen off the Isle of Man two
days afterwards, and has not since been heard of.
SCILLY, Jan. 15.—The Emma, Percival, from Liverpool to Leg.
horn, parted from her anchors in St. Mary's Bay, during a heavy
gale 13th instant, and drove on shore where she fills with the tide

VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING
(SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION.)

EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, Bre.
Hindley, T Grierson, 190 Cape of Good Hope and Mauritius,
J Aikin & Soa

WEST INDIES, Brc
225 Demerara,

Chapman & Willis

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WARRINGTON CORN MARKET, JAN..I7
Wheat Total quantities. Total amount. Pric
Oats
2235 • 1825 5 0
Barley
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0 0 0

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 17. The demand for Cotton to-day has again been exceedingly
moderate, and barely 2000 bales have been sold, at prices not
quite equal to those obtained yesterday. The quantity offer-
ing is too heavy to keep the market steady with so moderate
a demand.