The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-11 00:00:00

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SPAIN.

Our accounts from Madrid are of the 2nd inFt. The
Gazelle published a Royal decree, suppr,ssit,g the Com-
mittee on the Codes, which bad nearly terminated its
labours. The Eco del Comercio btat-s, that M.lwer,
the British Ambassador, had removed to a country teat
near the chute, of San Isidro, but that it was not on al,
count of his health. which was excellent. A,„
the Espanol. the d ff rencee between Spain cod Portugal

rding to

were n'egnmitte to a9sume a less alvrtbing aspect ; and,
thanks to the mediation of England, they ate likely to be
amicably a,ljusted.

EXTENSIVE DFSTRUCTION OF PROPERTY
ar THE BRISTOL DOCKS,

BRISTOI. AUGUST 9,

An accident .1a most hal
been the means of sic, itiong propery to the extent of
several thousand pounds, occurred last night at our publie
(looks, otu eils.

s,s
at both ends of the
For some time past extensive works have been in pro-
gress tor the purpose of widening the southern entrance-
lock at Cumberland basin, so as to ',ford a sufficient-
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lock. This was done by means of driving double rows Ml
piles of large size, and loading the interstices with
rubf:le.
Last night was the highest spring tide, and just at the
point of high wat-r the accident occurred. A workman,
who was in the bottom of the lock, pumping out wafer
which had been left from the heavy rants, observed a
crack in a wail, and while he was examining. it he perceivt.J
that the timber+ were diving way. tie are ideated danger,
and without waiting to pick up his tools or anything,
rushed ro a ladder and ascended es rapidly as possible.
His escape was a miraculous one. Tne vressure of the
tide f,:reed in the dam et the eastern entrance, the huge
piles snapped wi:h a tremendous crash, and tl+c poor fel-
low na. oo the top ',Lind of the ladder when he found
himself in mersed to the waist.
The rush of the tide carried away everything within its
reach, and dashed down the props which it had beers
deemed expedient to ercct against rc row of hous-s on the
side of the lock. The seene or con,ternation which fol-
lowed it would be dlfienit to describe : the inhabitants
rushed screatininf,‘ from their houses—the crowds whie%
had congregated on the quays. to scab h the arrivals of
the p4ekets, fl-tl with precipitancy from the spot—and
the greatest alarm prevailed among the may era and crews
of the diffaent vessels, whose safety was jeopardised, in
. the basin. Cannon Perfltt, of the Swift steamboat, its
attempting to jump on shore from les paddle.. box, missed
his footing, and, striking against the quay with violence,
fell into the water, from which he was got out much in-
jured. A female. tamed 13sily, was likewise knocked
down by a piece of the timber, and had her collar-bone
fraetnred.

The spectators on the banks of the river, below the
Hotweits, part'cipated in the general al

rm, tur, finding

the tidy pu 1 rnly torown over the roads, and' then recede
20 or 30 feet, they believed that it waft the shock of as
eartliqu ike.
Feats arr entertained that the tide to-night will throw
down the house• on the i.laod railed IsLi-rnao's Island.

THE PAINTINt:S VI"! HE JUDGES' LODGINGS
DURING THE VISIT OF PRINCE ALBERT.
As in the bury of reporting last week, after a very brief
vipit, sod the ptill grEater burly of prititifig. we made some

mistakes, and nec,s,arily hoik.e °missing's, ha nvircla the
s at the .1 udeez,'

we now supply a correct