The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-08 00:00:00

District p.tl 5.

The military camp at Kersall-moor, near Manchester,
has been broken np.
A drunken man, named Ryan, only 27 years old. was
killed a few days since at Manchester, through sitting on
two chisels, which perpetrated the femoral artery, and he

bled to death.
ANOTHER SWINGING-BOAT ACCIDENT.—At Manches-
ter, on Saturday evening, a young lad was killed by im-

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prxidently catching hold of a swing-boat whilst it Was in
furl motion. He was thrown six or seven yards into the
air, and alighted directly on his head.
Oh Monday great rejoking took place at Haigh, near
Wigan, to celebrate the return of the Earl and Countess
Balcarres from abroad. A grand dinner was given to the
numerous tenantry and workmen, at which 1900 sat down
in a spacious tent.
On Monday, as the Fenella, steamer, from Dbuglas.
Isle of Man, was proceeding on her passage to Fleetwood,
she ran down a coasting flat, on board of which were two
men, and completely cut her ifs two. Fortunately both.
the men were taken in safety onboard the Fenella.

MANCHESTER.—A proclamation from the magistrates,
signed by the• mayor, has been issued this morning, rela-
tive to the meetings of the Confederate Clubs. prohibit-
ing all such meetings, and pronouncing them illegal. The
meeting of the clubs, which it was believed would have
been held at three o'clock this morning did not take place.
IHE TEI4 ITOURS FACTORY ACT.—The Manchester
Guardian, a staunch opponent of this-act before it became'
law, thus bears testimony to its successful operation :
" We believe there cannot be a doubt that, on the whole,
a portion of the two hours by which tile labour in facto-
ries has been diminished, is made up by greater diligence
and punctuality on, the part of the workpeople ; but,
taking the whole of the trade, it will probably not exceed
half-an-hour."

NEW RAILWAY S'VATION AT CHESTER.—This beauti-
ful building was opened for general business on Tuesday
morning last. Upwards of 200 men were engaged during
the previous night in making preparations for the event.
The office, building, and the arrival and departure sheds
were brilliantly illuminated with gas during the night.
The new offices are all occupied, and the old station is
deserted. The opening commenced with the starting of
the London mail train, at seven o'clock in the morning.
DREADFUL PIT ACOrDENT.—On Tuesday eight pit-
men employed at a colliery near Kingswinford were pro-
ceeding with others along the gateway of the pit towards
the stations at which they usually followed their occupa-
tion, and while passing along bearing a light (whether a
safety-lamp or an ordinary lanthorn, is not yet ascer-
tained), a quantity of gas- that had been generated during
the night ignited and caused an explosion. They were all
dreadfully burnt and two have since died.
EMPLOYMENT IN MANCHESTER..—The last week's re-
turn shows that, as compared with the previous week,
there are seven more mills working full time, with the
full complement of hands; one less working full time,
with part only of the hands-; a decrease of four working
short time, and a decrease of five stopped. In the whole
number of hands employed there is a reduction of 314 ;
but there are 1,116 more on full time, and 470 less on
short time. There were last week 39,534 employed, this
week 39,220. Working full time last week, 35,800 ; this
week, 36,916. Working short time last week, 3,734 ;
this week, 4,204.
In the tables just issued, of the revenue, population,
commerce, &c., of the United Kingdom, prepared under
the direction of Mr. Albany Fonblanque, head of the
statistical department of the Board of Trade, there is an
account of the amount of postage collected during the
years 1846 and 1847, at Manchester, Liverpool, and other
principal towns. The following are the figures for those
places : 1846. 1847.
Manchester £45,618 /8 0 .... £46,608 6 1
Liverpool 62,08- 110 .... 63,055 0 4
It will be observed that the rate of increase has been
about the same in both towns, namely, at the rate of
£lOOO per annum. The only town that exhibits a de-
crease is Leeds, for in 1846, the receipts there were
£15,712 ls. 5d., whilst, in 1847, they fell to £14,703. Os.
Id., or nearly at the rate of £2O per week.
FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION.—On Monday while the
hands were at work at one of the mills belonging to Mr.
J. Cooper at Lambert Bottoms, Preston, a loud report-
was heard, and it was soon-found that one of the boilers
had exploded, and that one life had been lost, with the
great probability that some other parties had been fatally.
injured. A bricklayer, named W. Middleton, at work in
one of the flues, was killed upon the spot by the mass of
bricks and other materials- thrown upon him ; the engine
tender was most dangerously injured by the steam ; and
a number of persons so seriously injured, that six addi-
tional persons died the same or the following day. They
were William Middleton, 38, bricksetter, found dead in
the flue ; Mary Hart, 20,. reeler, died on Mondry night;:
Sarah llesketh 38, died on Tuesday afternoon ; Mary
Jackson, 24, died on Tuesday morning ; Jane Carr, 39,
died within a few hours of the accident ; Robert Wilkin-
son, 38, died on Monday evening ; and Thomas Hard-
man, 36, who was working in the boiler-house at the
time of the explosion, died on Monday afternoon. The
maker of the boiler, Mr. Joseph Clayton, deposed to hav-
ing warned the managers and others of the boiler being
defective. The coroner's jury, late at night, returned a
verdict of " Accidental death," accompanied with an ex-
pression of their opinion that blame attached to the
manager and the engine-tenter for working the boiler at
too great pressure. The jttry sat nearly eight hours.
THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE MANCHESTER WATER
WORKS.—The contracts for parts of the works for sup-
plying Manchester with water, will be let in the course of
a few days, and it is expected that the works themselves
will be commenced before the close of the present month.
'I he first of the works to be immediately commenced is
the Woodhead reservoir, which is about twenty miles from
Manchester. It is the highest of the Longdendale reser-
voirs, is nearly a mile and a-half in length, and about a
quarter of a mile in width, and 80 feet deep. It covers
about 132 acres of ground, and will contain 190 million
cubic feet of water, being the largest reservoir included in
the proposed works, with the exception of the Torside
reservoir, which is the next lowest of the Longdendale
reservoirs (the whole chain of which is four miles and
a half in length), and will contain 240 million cubic feet.
The Woodhead reservoir is principally intended for the
supply of the mills with water, and it is expected to be
completed in about 18 months. One of the heaviest
works in this reservoir is a viaduct of nine arches over a
part of the reservoir, and the river Etherow which runs
through it. The other portion of the works, which is
also to be immediately commenced, is the Mottram tun-
nel ; the water after being collected in the Rhodeswood
reservoir (the lowest of the Longdendale reservoirs), the
Arnfield and the Hollingworth reservoirs will be carried
by a covered watercourse behind the village of Holling-
worth up to the hill of Mottram. It then enters the
tunnel of which we have spoken, which is a mile and three
quarters in length, by which it will be conveyed to the
service reservoir at Godley, beyond the town of Hyde.
It will thence be taken in pipes to the reservoirs at Den-
ton and Gorton (the surface of the new reservoir at this
place being 70 feet higher than the present one) and from
these Manchester will be supplied. The Mottram tunnel
will, it is expected, occupy about two years in its comple-
tion.

Loss AND SINGULAR RECOVERY OF £4oo.—On Tues-
day afternoon last, a gentleman named Mr. D. Dockrey,
residinc, at Aigburth, near Liverpool, happened to be in
Manchester on business, and by some accountable means
he had the misfortune to lose £450 in Bank of England
notes, viz., four notes of £lOO each, and one of £5O. On
discovering his loss he communicated the circumstance to
Mr. Beswick, the chief.superintendent of police. Pay-
ment of the notes were stopped at the different banks, and
bills were issued offering a reward of £2O for their resto-
ration, but as no informrtion of their having been found
reached the police-office during the day, the loser almost
regarded their recovery hopeless. In the course of Wed-
nesday, however, a poor man, named John Greenwood, a
jobbing porter, living in Back Irwell-street, called at the
Town Hall, with £4OO of the money, which had been
found by his son, a little boy only five years of age, under
extraordinary circumstances. About four o'clock on Tues-
day afternoon, the lad was sent from home with his father's
tea: and on passing the corner of John Dalton-street he
picked up the notes, but unconscious of their value he
crushed them together in his hand, and proceeded on his
errand in happy ignorance of his good fortune. Having
been ordered by his mother to n-ait whilst his father got
tea, in order that he might bring her back the empty iug,
the little urchin, after reaching his father went out to play,
and remained absent for half an hour. On his return his
father noticed that he had something in his hand, when
he inquired what he had got, on which the lad threw down
what appeared to be a mere piece of waste paper, telling
his father he had found it in the street besides Veysey's
vaults. The astonishment of the father may be easily
conceived when he found the sort of prize his child had
picked up ; and a proper idea of his honesty may be ga-
thered from the fact that on the following day lie took the
money to Mr. Beswick, at the police-office. Whether or
no the child found the whole of the notes, and might have
lost the £5O note whilst at play, or whether some other ,
party found it, is difficult to conjecture, but Mr. Dockrey
may esteem himself fortunate in the recovery of the £4OO.
As a reward for his honesty, the father was paid £B, and
at the suggestion of Mr. Beswick, and with the father's
consent, Mr. Dockrey paid £lO into the savings' bank, in
the boy's name, where it is intended to let it remain at
interest until it may be advantageously applied to the
little fellow's welfare.—Manchester Courier.