The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-01 00:00:00

Sept. 1, 1846.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Friday evening as the
workmen were engaged at the warehouses in course of
erection on the margin of the new docks at Birkenhead,
a soaffold gave way, and a number of men were precipi-
tated to the ground, burying several of them under thou-
sands of bricks. Four were very seriously injured. They
were immediately attended by Mr. Jermatte, surgeon,
who bad them removed to the hospital, and administered
proper medical assistance to them. Their injuries are
very serious, but it is hoped they will eventually recover.
The following is a list of the parties more se►iously
injured --Patrick Moran. 33 years, labourer, St. A nne-
street ; Terry M'Coen, 33 years, labourer, Oak-street;
John Conway, 30 years, labourer, Albert-terrace ; Henry
Reach, 35 years, labourer, 4, Wood.strert. They were
all married men.

• The last exhibition for the season, of the Bebington
Horticultural Society, took place on Thursday, and was
numerously and fashionably attended. Several beautiful
baskets of flowers were contributed by Sir W. M. Stanley,
Miss Creenham, G. J. Wainwright. Esq., C. Rawson,
Esq., and others. Amongst the plants, including a large
variety of fusehias and verbenas, with some rnaes, ericas,
petunias, cockscombs, calceolarias, &c. ; the followinz
were prominent for their beauty :—" Burnett Lindleyana,"
sent by Harold Littledale, Esq.; " Depladenia Crag-
sinoda," and " Martynia I..'ragrans," from the conserva-
tory of G. J. Wainwright, Esq. ; " Bourgmansia,"
" Plumbago." " Lilium Laneetolium Rubrtm." and
" Lilium Lancefolium Album," belonging to Sir W. M.
Stanley. Mr. Wainwright had the gold medal awarded
to him for having won the greatest number of prizes in
the season.

WEST DERBY UNION..--At the meeting on Tuesday,
a letter was produced and read from the annuli overseers
of Kirkdale, Messrs. Pee and Wareham. It was on the
subject of Mr. Pritchard's complaint oft lie alleged neglect
of his duties, by Mr. Parnell, in his office as assistant
overseer, or collector of rates of that township. The two
overseers assured the board that Mr. Parnell has their
fullest confidence, and unqualified approbation ; express
their surprise that the board shinid. have paid attention to
any " loose, verbal charges" made by "au individual ap-
pearing before them," seeing that " the board had receier d
no complaint from them" (the overseers) who are, as they
say, the responsible parties. Mr. Roskell, one of the
guardians for Kirkdale, deprecated any interference of the
board in the matter, but ultimately it was agreed to pro-
ceed on Tuesday with the ir quiry. Mr. Rowland, re-
lieving officer of the Park, addressing the chairman, said
that lie again felt it his duty to report to the board the
alarming prevalence of fever in that place. The streets
that were especially spoken of as being in a bad and dan-
gerous state were, Fisher-street, Mann-street, Bell-street,
and Albert-street ; in the titter, in a court of only. 'six
houses, he had. within a very few days, found fourteen
persons afflicted with fever, w hich he believed to be typhus.
Several of them died, and some were removed ;o the 1116'
fir mars.

DOCK COMMITTEE.—Mr. David Rowland, keeper of
the telegraph, in Chapel-street, terdered his resignation,
which was accepted, and Mr. G. Jones, the assistant
keeper. was appointed to fill the vacancy, at a salary of
£BO per annum ; Thomas Brannan was also appointed
assistant keeper, at a salary of £3O per annum. A report
was read on the state of the telegraph stations in Wales,
which were represented to be, so far as regarded the
buildings and machinery, in an efficient state, and the
keepers performed their duties well ; some alterations re-
commendedin the management of the Anglesea branch.
The report was adopted, with the exception of that part
relating to the general superintendence, which was re..
ferred back for consideration. Iu reply to a question rut
by Mr. Horsfall as to whe,her the electric telegraph might
not be empioycd with effect on the Welsh coast, Ms,
Henderson stated that they were contemplating putting
down a line to Formby, on the electric principle, as
an experiment ; plans were in progress, and would in ti
short time be laid before the committee. It was agreed
that the experiment of lighting the vaults of the Albeit
Warehouses should be tried in the north stack, and that
the appointment by the treasurer of Mr. Thomas Burton,
as his book-keeper, be confirmed.—A letter from Mr.
Horsfall, chairmen of the African Associati, n, ceiling the
attention of the committee to the rates proposed to
he charged at the Albert warehouses for palm oil, which
they considered much too high, was referred to the Ware
house Management Committee. Mr. Aikin stated, as•
he had done on former occasions, that each association
should have been consulted ; he conceived the rates were
much too high, and, as a proof of it, stated there were
only two vessels now in the docks—for his own wilt, he
corld not afford to send a vessel there. It was stated by
Mr. Henders,n, that a scale of rates was in the course of
preparation by the cornmittee,which would shortly be sub-
rnitttd, and, as respects goods brought across the quay,
which was the principal grievance, we ull, tr) doubt, be
satin actory. A letter was received from the dock solici-
tor, to the eff•ct that, the trust had power to make reT
gitl .1 ions as regarded the fishing smacks leaving George's
.• •

IJOCK nasal, in ectrorthly Kith the request of Mr. Tear:
a code of regulations was ordered to be drawn up. A
letter from Mr. Deane, law-clerk to the Hi4hway Board,
respecting the laying down of water pipes, when thealtera.
tions are made at Wapping, in .connexion with buiiding
the new dock, was referred to the Committee of works..
The chairman laid upon the table a bill which had been
introduced into the House of Commons for the better
management and protection of the ports and harbours of
the country, but as it was stated ti at the measure had
been deferred until next session the subject was not enter;
tainrd. The secretary read a report from the surveyor t!
to the progress of the new dock-works ; it went COtisl"
derably iwo detail. and represented every department BS
being in a most satisfactory 613k,f- ; the total amount ex-
pended Ln the new works vras £321,491 Ili. 10.1. A letter
was read from Capt. Crawley, stating that he was about to
enter on foreign commission, and thanking the committee
for their unform kindness towards him since he had been.
an duty in this town. The dock•surveyor stated that it

was two yearr that day since the firrt
north works was laid, and he wished the committee to in-
spect them.

e of the new

THE POTATO FAILURE A PROVIDENTIAL
DISPENSATION.
(From the Record )

The subject of Providential dispensations, especially
when assuming the character of national judgments, is
unquebtionably me which requires to be handl-d a ith
caution. The infidel and sceptic, indeed, would press this
caution so tar, as to close our mouths entirely. They are
ever ready to warn us not to

damnation round the land,

On each w<e cecm tits toe."
But the general tenour of scripture is of a very opposite
kind. We are directed, in various ways, to connect pub-
lic events with the Divine will.

Yet, as we have said, much caution is necessary. WO
must not hastily or erbitr• ily affix our own sense to every
dispensation that comes across our path. Hence, we
would merely suggest a thought or two to others, arising
out of recent events, rather than pronounce a positive
opinion on them ourselves..

1. Last sear, 1845, was lamentably remarkable, as be•
ing the first year in which Protestant England lad resol-
vedly de ermined to set up a Popish establishment. For
many years befote, she had given an annual dole, or belie-
f ction, to the Romish College of Maynooth ; but each
year it was declared to be a mere bounty, and was apolo.
g:zed for, on the ground that it was a kind of I..gacy be.
queathed to us by the Irish parlia.nent. In 1815, how-
ever, it was perversely and quite needlessly resolved. both
to increase the grant threefold, and also to make it a na-
tional act, by endowing and establishing the College for
ever, by a statute of the legislatute. Here, then, was the
first adoption and establishment of Popery by a P, otest-
ant parliament ; the plea being, that it would pacify and
tranqull z.!lreand.
2. If t' ' -t - di9-' rising to God. as we firmly

...its act were - _ .y be-
liece it to have been ; and if he thought fit to rtbuke and
punish us &a* it,—wLat kind of a visitation might wo
exp-et ?
When David sinned against the Lord, a pestilence was

sent among the people. Yet this vis;tation both grieved
and rebuked himself; the latter as strewing that the great
niulousness of his realm, on which he prided himself,
might be made to vanish in a night, by one breath from
y I the month of God.

Ireland was to be necified, tranquilliz.A, and made
happy, and thus Sir It, ben Peel's "great difficulty" was

nooth endowment of last

sum tiler

Was the result reaiiz

A new and unexpected calamity quite frlstrated this
hove. Wi:hin a very few weeks after the enactment of
that "healing measure," a strange and portentous visita—
tion came upon Ireland. rendering her government "
difficulty" greater than ever.
An unknown, unforeseen, and hitherto incurable, dis-
ease, appeared among the growing crops of that produc-
tion of the earth on which the people of Ireland chiefly
depend. And thus before parliament, " aftertranquilliz-
ing teland," had separated more than a few weeks, the
state and condition of that unhappy country became more
alarming than it had been for a quarter of a century. And
surtly we ought not to overlook the fact, that it was not
a draught, or a wet season, Gr any other of the cOntrnoll
mishaps, that came upon Ireland, but a visitation alto.
g<ther new, inscrutable, and bathing all human skill ex-
erted fur its prevention or removal.

The remaining fact to be seriou,ly thought upon is this
—that this new and strange calamity, which no man ( °old
foresee or prevent, had this important result, that it des-
troyed the Government which passed the Maynooth En-
down►ent B►ll.

Sri Robert Peel's Administration was a successful one,
and his governm, nt appeared unassailable by any human
force. He was gradually and prudently relaxing commer-
cial restrictions, and would have pursued the same course,
with certain success and popubitily, had not the alarm of
an impending famine in Ireland been raised.
Sir R. Peel has himself told us in Parliament, that this
event entirely changed his plans. Instead of proceeding
gradually with a series of commercial relaxations, he re-
solvedn nthrough all branches, by one
Lange his plans broke up.
• urge year had elapsed, from the pas--
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his Ministry was overthrown.
Nothing more unlikely could have been imagined a twelve—
month previously. Yet it has been already witnessed
and foremost among its avowed causes is the uotato-rot
Ireland. which assuredly was not the work of man.
We might go further, and observe, that the bin of the
nation bung not abandoned or
finites to be felt. A

be more severe ibis year

sitation prom'aes tO
But we will not at-

tempt 10 prophecy,—pau,iog rather to recap tulate the
f:ctb. to which we have already referred ; and to lease them

le eon,ideration of oor rratirrA

1. In the summer ol 1845, the ruing Administration of
Sir R. Peel used its power to give Puptry a national OM'
shment in Ire-land.
2 In the autumn of the same year, a new and wiliest&
of (Amity dflleted the People ut Irdand.
3. And ht-t. re Chriatmas ..t the ttn.e year, under the
irltluence of this alarm, Sir Roheut Peel ad..pted a course
wl.ieh, in the end, uiesulved his patty, and broke up ha
Government.