The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-05 00:00:00

mined on committing the fOur prisoners

ALARMING Acc
of Richard William -
sisting of Mrs. Williams. two d
Elizabeth Fisher, daughter of James Fisher, Esq., of
Cheltenham, were taking an airing ia the neighbourhood,
one of the horses became restive and began to kick vio-
lently, when they both became unmanageable and gal-
loped off; and had it not been for the presence of mind of
Mrs. 'Williams, who desired the servant, when they were
at their utmost speed, to overturn the carriage, no doubt
some lives would have been sacrificed, as they were on the
eve of descending Pengluis Hill. The ladies were all
thrown out, and lay insensible on the ground, and are
much hurt and ' bruised, but fi
broken ; the servant likes
wheels having passed over hi
to pieces

.s the family
'with, con-
Mary

iughters, and Miss

eunately no bones are
Tas much bruised, the
was knocked

BRISTOL. AUTUMN • FAIR.—The great horse and cattle
fair held at Bristol annually in September. commenced on
Friday, in the new cattle market, Temple Mends. There
was a large supply of horses of all descriptions, but, as is
usually the ease, all the better descriptions for hackney
and carriage purposes had got into the hands of the deal-
ers, who were asking high prices, which were in many
instances obtained. Good useful kinds of cart colts also
fetched good rates. The stock of store cattle offering
large, but the market was far from lively, and pric,
somewhat in favour of the buyer. There was a
ply of fat oxen and heifers, many of which were sole
beef fetched from 525. per cwt. for fair qualities
per cwt. for superior. Some of inferior des,

good sup-
__ Fat

..old even below the
holders were asking 605., s,
be submitted to by the butchers. There was a great num-
ber of store sheep, and some fat mutton fetched from 6d.
to 6i-d. per pound for good saleable qualities, though there
were some bargains closed for inferior at lower
Pigs were not in such good demand, and befor
closes prices will probably be a turn lower.
MONEY MARKET.—No alteration is to be noticed in
the value of money. The bill brokers still charge 21 to
3 per cent. for the negociation of first-class paper. They
receive deposits "on call" at 21 per cent. The Bank
directors maintain their former minimum rate for di-
counts. The Consol market has experienced flucti'
amounting in the extreme to 1 per cent.
which have produced these changes a
first. instance, the doubt n-h.
Chancellor of the Exchegr
raising the £2,000,000 for State pt
degree—then the actual course
finally resolved to pursue—and 11 a
ter of the intelligence from Paris it
There has not generally been al
done, and considering the opp;ar le
lators, the outside rice and fall 1 a
less important events have at
The mode which the Chancellor cl
poses to follow, of throwing Stock upon ti
eat
met with both --' '
••• -

for a few very prime oxen

'hich would not, it vas tho

.e the fair

The causes.

are various. In the
ich existed as to the mode the
--;,-ht adopt with respect to

i some
Wood

tunity afford

of the Excl

selling the required' 'amount in t•
ferent periods, as circumstances
however, Sir Charles Wood's nla

Whether

most economical

one, or otherwise, time only can d,
certain that he will by it avoid exe

influence on prices
and as low as 85k, bu
Money and Account
pressed from the expectation that " Defick
would have been created in order to make up the
The closing quotations ( n Saturday were22s. t
for the June hills, end 275. to 31s. pm. for tht
issue. Reduced Three per Cents. left off at 855
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents.. 86.1; Bant
1972 to 1982 ; India Stock, 237 to 240: ditto Ron

high as Wit,
to'i for

on Saturday at
chequer Bills ha'

to 235.
DKRADFUL FIRE AT Col%
ponacnt of the Af.,,ninn--fireri

ful fire whic

Wednesday. T 1
seven in the ev

ascend from the Per
and bright flames

ginated inYemish
the two bridges. It ex

became intense, 4
timber yard, 100 f
whole becaMe
building around s
ping„ laden with oil
took fire. The flame
cries of mariners an(

ships, &c., were awful.
still further, rising up ti
stroyed five houses, mos(

latter, a mile from t

Icaught fire, and a pi
on extending and raN

aisK the r

Boned, and a

down buildings. Ai
death. At one plac

shed. A