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

Sept. I, ISM.

abundance of coal and coke, which enables her to produce
the locomotive power much cheaper than her neighbours.
The cost of earthwork is much the same in England and
France. The rails and chairs on the Southampton line
wete laid down at £2,790 per mile, while those on the
Paris and Rouen line cost £4,635; the working of the
former line costs ls. a mile, of the latter, Is. 4d. ; the
locomotive power and the carriages of the former 141 per
cent., of the latter, 16 1-3. On the South Western Rail-
way the general expenses are about 12 per cent., whilst
on the Paris and Rouen they are 16. On some other
roads, the report states the balance is still more in favour
of England. There is, however, one item of expenditure.
in which the English companies Jar outstrip their neigh-
bours of the continent. We allude to the Preliminary
charges incurred before the permanent works are even
commenced. The Eastern Counties Railway. which is
51 miles long, expended £41,000 in passing their bill, be-
sides other charges, amounting to £48,000. The Parlia-
mentary expenses of the London and Birmingham were
£650, and of the Great Western, £l,OOO, per mile. In
the case of the Rotten and Havre line, the expenses in-
curred in the inquiry before the board, and up to the time
the act was obtained, did not exceed £7OO.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—OD Friday evening as the
workmen were engaged at the warehouses in course of
erection on the margin of the new docks at Birkenhead,.
a scaffold 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 had them removed to the hospital, and administered
pniper 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 seriously
injured •—Patrick Moran. 33 years, labourer, St. Anne-
street ; Terry M'Coen, 33 years, labourer, Oak.srreet ;
John Conway, 30 years, labourer, Albert terrace ; Henry
Roach. 35 years, labourer, 4, Wood street. They were
all m 'riled 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 Greenham, G. J. Wainwright, Esq., C. Rawson,
Esq., and others. Amongst the plants, including a large
variety of fuschias and verbenas, with some roses, ericas,
petunias, cockscombs, calceolarias, &c. ; the following
were prominent for their beauty :—" Budlea Lindleyana,"
sent by Harold Littledale, Esq.; " Depladenia Cras-
sinoda' " and " Martynia Fragrans," from the conserva-
tory of G. J. Wainwright, Esq. ; " Bourgmansia,"
" Plumbago." " Lilium Lanceiolium 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.

Loral anb Vrobtitrial

On Tuesday, a man, named Peter Burns, fell into the
Clarence Dock, and was drowned.
On Wednesday, the foundation stone of the National
School at Fleetwood, to be erected as a testimonial to Sir
Peter Hesketh Fleetwood, was laid midst great rejoicing.
On Tuesday morning, a child named Fagan was found
dead in his bed, in Marquis-street ; and another child
named Ramsden, in Park-street.
On Tuesday, a boy named Lowe, broke his arm whilst
playing with other boys on some waste ground, near
Northumberland-street.
A contract has been entered into for taking down and
rebuilding the parish church at Runcorn. The work will
be proceeded with immediately.
On Monday, Sarah Hallain, aged thirty-seven,residing
in Lionel-street, was found dead in bed. She bad been
labouring under pulmonary consumption for three years.
On Sunday week, as a boy named John Hitchman, was
bathing in Tranmere-pool, he got out of his depth, and
was drowned.
'The Blackburn factory operatives have signified their
approval of the determination to work the mills only four
days a week, adopted by the masters, and call upon the
latter to assist them in obtaining a ten hours bill.
On Sunday week James Holden, a weaver, whilst eat-
ing voraciously at a beer shop in Oldham-road, Manches-
ter, was choked by a piece of beef, and died almost im-
mediately.
CRICKET.—A match was played on Thursday between
the Olympus, of this town, and St. Helen's cricket clubs,
on the former's ground, Toxteth-park, which was won by
the Olympus, with eight wickets to go down.
Mr. Justice Wightman finished the criminal business on
1 Thursday afternoon, and was occupied during the whole
of Friday in trying civil causes. On Saturday morning he
returned to London.
QUICK WORK.—Mr. Pollock, barrister, left the Crown
Court on Thursday morning at a quarter past ten o'clock,
went to Manchester by railway, attended the Salford ses-
sions, defended a prisoner, and was again at two o'clock
performing the same office for a prisoner in the Crown
Court of this town.
The masters of the steam-packets frequenting this port,
have presented to Capt. M'Bride, who has recently been
promoted from the Clarence to the mastership of the
Albert Dock, with a gold snuff box, as an expression of
their approbation of his gentlemanly conduct during a
period of sixteen years.
It will be seen by an advertisement in another part of
our paper that the Rev. M. Adolphe Monod will deliver.
a lecture at St. George's Presbyterian Church, Myrtle-
street, on Friday evening next, on the state and prospects
of evangelical religion on the Continent. We understand
he will also preach in the same church on Sunday next,
BIRKENHEAD DOCK COMPANY. The half-yearly
meeting of this Company was held on Wednesday, when
the report of the state of the works, &c. read to the pro-
prietors present, was deemed very satisfactory. Mr.
Ambrose Lace was elected a director, in the room of Mr.
Boothby, who has resigned in consequence of not residing
in the neighbourhood.
The United Order of Forresters had a grand field day
on Thursday. The morning was fine, and the members,
attired in complete custome, formed into procession, and
paraded the principal streets. They then gathered to the
Zoological Gardens, the centre of attraction—where old
British sports were indulged in through the evening. The
Concert Hall was thrown open, and dancing was conti-
nued for upwards of an hour.
STONEMASONS.—A meeting of the operative stone-
masons of this town and neighbourhood was held on
Tuesday. Resolutions were passed pledging the meeting
to " continued exertiongs, until the masons of England
have one and da become members of the association,"
and recommending, " for defensive purposes, that a Co-
operative Building Association be formed, in order to
secure employment for the masons when they are unable
to obtain it elsewhere on fair and honourable terms."
PRINCE ALBERT.— His royal highness having expressed
himself much gratified with the works of art executed by
Mr. John R. Isaac, of Castle-street, on the occasion of
the royal visit, has been pleased to appoint him his
medalist, lithographer, and engraver at Liverpool. His
roya! highness was presented, through Mr. Isaac, with
the gold medal, accompanied by an address, beautifully
illuminated on vellum, and emblazoned in a very elegant
manner, which was solely executed by Mr. Isaac.'
IMMENSE PLACARD.—At the Pilot office, Preston, on
Saturdao, a placard of immense dimensions was suspend.
ed. It contained the words, " The Pilot is now enlarged
to 48 columns," and covers paper to an extent of twenty-
fuur feet long by thirteen wide. The letters of the word
" enlarged" are upwards of six feet long, and the bill
altogether is of a size never equalled in a provincial town.
Printers will understand its rnagn tude when we state
that it is forty.eicht sheets of double royal.
EXCESSIVE MORTALITY IN MANCHESTER.—A let- THE POTATO FAILURE A PROVIDENTIAL
ter addressed to the Mayor of Manchester, by Mr. 0. K.
DISPENSATION.
Holland, appears in the Manchester Guardtan of Satur-
day, in which it is stated that an unusual amount cf fatal (From the Record )
disease is now prevalent in Manchester, being principally The subject of Providential dispensations, especially
in various forms of bowel complaint. It appears from a when assuming the character of national judgments, is-
table given, that in eight of the ten registrars' districts unquestionably ene which requires to be handl-d with
(which comprise what is popularly called Manchester), caution. The infidel and sceptic, indeed, would press this
the ordinary number of deaths is about 600 per month; caution so far, as to close our mouths entirely. They are
but that, in JWy last, it was 1,034, of which 389 are ever ready to warn us not to
stated to have been caused or accompanied by bowel corn- o deal damnation round the land,
plaint. If the deaths of London-road and Deansgate On each we <teem His foe."
districts were added to the above, it is probable that the But the general tenour of Scripture is of a very opposite
excess of deaths, caused by this class of diseases, would kind. We are directed, in various ways, to connect pub-
be found to exceed 120 weekly. tic events with the Divine will.
BEAUMARIS REGATTA.—The race for a purse of £l5, Yet, as we have said, much caution is necessary. We
for yachts of eight and not exceeding twenty tons, was must not hastily or arbitr,,ily affix our own sense to every
won by Mr. F. Little's Jilt, beating the Hon. Col. Pen- dispensation that com,es across our path. Hence, we
nant's Diamond, Mr. W. W. Shand's Petrel, Mr. H. Ty- would merely suggest a thought or two to others, arising.
rer's Nautilus, Mr. W. Owen's Samuel Smith, Mr. Jo- out of recent events, rather than pronounce a positive
seph Edward's Editba, and Mr. R. Batley's Dickey Sam. opinion on them ourselves.
The principal prize, of £5O, for yachts not exceeding 1. Last year, 1845, was lamentably remarkable, as be-
thirty tons, was won by Mr. Birchall's Vision, beating ing the first year in which Protestant England had resol-.
Mr. Moss's Phoebe, Mr. J. Grindrod's Leander, and Mr. vedly de'ermined to set up a Popish establishment. For
H. Beaver's Zoe. A prize of .£25 was contested for by many years before, she had given an annual dole, or bene-
yachts exceeding fifteen tons, and not exceeding thirty f iction, to the Romish College of Maynooth ; but each
tons. Four warted—Mr. It. Batty's INckey Sam, Mr.
W. W. Shand's Petrel, the Hon. Col. Pennant's Dia- year it was declared to be a mere bounty, and was apolo-
gized for, on the ground that it was a kind of legacy be-
mond, and Mr. F. Little's Jilt. Immediately after start- queathed to us by the Irish parliament. In 1845, how-
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a quarter of an hour behind her opponents.
ever, by a statute of the legislature. Here, then,'Was the
SHOCKING SUICIDE AND ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—On first adoption and establishment of Popery by a Protest-
Thursday morning great sensation was created in the ant parliament ; the plea being, that it would pacify and
neighbourhood of Ancoats, Manchester, by a man who tranquiltze Ireland.
had cut his own throat attempting to destroy also the :life 2. If this act were displeasing to God, as we firmly be-
of his wife. The man's name is Abraham Ashworth, and lieve it to have been ; and if he thought fit to rebuke and
it is stated that soon after 7 o'clock on Wednesday morn- punish us fcr it,—what kind of a visitation might we
ing the wife was awoke by his untying the strings of. her expect ?
night-cap, and perceived to her great horror that her hus- When David sinned against the Lord, a pestilence was
band had cut his throat, and was attempting to reach her sent among the people. Yet this visitation both grieved
own with the same razor. It is said that she instantly and rebuked himself; the latter as shewing that the great
rose from the bed and ran into the street, pursued by the populousness of his realm, on which he prided %himself.
husband, where some passers-by interfered, and the as- might be made to vanish in a night, by one breath from
sailant was easily disarmed, having suffered considerably the mouth of God.
from the loss of blood. A surgeon was sent for, but the Ireland was to be pacified, tranquillized, and made
unfortunate man, who is supposed to have been labouring happy, and thus Sir Robert Peel's "great difficulty" was
under insanity, was dead on his arrival. Jealousy is sup- to be removed, by the Maynooth endowment of last
posed to have been the primary cause of excitement in the summer. Was the result realized ?
deceased's mind. He was a weaver by trade, and only 18 A new and unexpected calamity quite frustrated this
years of age. His wife is only 16 years old. hope. Within a very few weeks after the enactment of
MEETING OF THE HIGHWAY CommtssloNees.—On that "healing measure," a strange and portentous visite-
Tuesday, the usual weekly meeting of the Commissioners tion came upon Ireland, rendering her government " a
of Highways was held at the Parish-office Mr. John difficulty" greater than ever.
Holmes presided. The following members were present : An unknown, unforeseen, and hitherto incurable, die-
Whitby, Denton, Walthew, Leyland, Kilshaw, Tinne, ease, appeared among the growing crops of that produc-
Morris, and Lawrence. Mr. Duncan reported that the tion of the earth on which the people of Ireland chiefly
walls of the engine-house in Green-lane were nearly up to depend. And thus before parliament, " after tranquilliz-
their height, but that there was a want of stone for going ing Ireland," had separated more than a few weeks, the
on with their works. At the suggestion of Mr. Mason, state and condition of that unhappy country became more
the board sent a written communication to the Dock alarming than it had been for a quarter of a century. And
Committee to know when the dock-works at Wapping surely we ought not to overlook the fact, that it was not
would be commenced. A letter from the Bootle Water- a drought, or a wet season, cr any other of the common
works office announced that one of their pipes had been mishaps, that came upon Ireland, but a visitation alto-
broken by the town-water-works in Litherland-alley. Mr. gether new, inscrutable, and baffling all human skill ex-
Duncan made the following report on this subject : erted fur its prevention or removal.
"The iron pipe referred to above cannot, in fairness, be The remaining fact to be seriously thought upon is this
charged to the commissioners. I can prove that it was of —that this new and strange calamity, which no man mulct
so defective a character, and so injured by some chemical foresee or prevent, had this important result, that it des-
agent, that I actually cut a portion of it with my knife. troyed the Government which passed the Maynooth En-
The Bootle Water-works Company ought rather to pay dowment Bill.
the commissioners for finding it oat. "At the suggestion Sir Robert Peel's Administration was a successful one,
of Mr. Lawrence, a water report, handed by Mr. Simp- and his government appeared unassailable by any human
son, to the parliamentary committee some time since, force. He was gradually and prudently relaxing commer-
Was ordered to be laid on the table. The board soon cial restrictions, and would have pursued the same course.
after adjourned. with certain success and popularity, had not the alarm of
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—The Collins family have been an impending famine in Ireland been raised.
charming the audiences at the gardens during the past
Sir R. Peel has himself told us in Parliament, that this
week. On Tuesday, the United Ancient Order of event entirely changed his plans. Instead of proceeding
Foresters held a grand fete, of which wt have elsewhere gradually with a series of commercial relaxations, he re.
attempted a brief sketch ; and for this week the celebrated solved to abolish proter tion, through all branches, by one
Mr. Distin, and his four sons, whose performance on the summary process. This change in his plans broke up-
silver sax-horns, since their first appearance, has attracted his party, and before one year had elapsed, from the pas--
so much astonishment and admiration, have been engaged. sage of the Maynooth Bill, his Ministry was overthrown.
The sweet vocalist, Moriat O'Connor, of the Nobilities' Nothing more unlikely could have been imagined a twelve-
Concerts, London, will accompany them. Mr. Atkins month previously. Yet it has been already witnessed ;
spares no expense in procuring talent, and we are proud and foremost among its avowed causes is the potato-rot elan
that his exertions meet with such success. Ireland, which assuredly was not the work of man.
THE SHOOTING SEASON.—In anoi her part of our paper We might go further, and observe, that the sin of the
will be found an advertisement of a gun, made by Mr. nation being not abandoned or repented of, the scourge con-
Bentley, of South Castle-street, in this town. The ad- tinues to be felt. Apparently, the 7isitation promises to
vantages possessed by this gun over those in general use Ibe more severe this year than last. But we will riot at-
are so manifest, that they will be at once admitted by all tempt to prophecy.—pausing rather to recapitulate the
who take the trouble to inspect it. But what renders it facts to which we have already referred ; arid to leave them
an improvement upon all others is the mode of fixing the for the consideration of our readers.
, nipple or touchhole, which is so contrived that an accident 1. In the summer of 1845, the Wrong Administration of
with that particular part—hitherto the most unsafe part of Sir R. Peel used its power to give Popery a national esta-
the fowling piece—is rendered impossible. Colonel Ham- i blishment in Ireland.
her and the late Mr. Johnson, of this town, were of opinion i 2 In the autumn of the same year, a new and unheard,
that a mode of discharging a gun by driving the flame from of calamity afflicted the people of Ireland.
the priming directly to the centre of the charge was a 3. And before Christmas of the same yeltr. under the
great desideratum; and this, with the improvement we influence of this alarm, Sir Robert Peel adopted a course
have just noticed, is now accomplished by Mr. Bentley. which, in the end, dissolved his party, and broke up his
We recommend our sporting readers to call upon him. Government.

WEST DERBY UNION.—At the meeting on Tuesday,
a letter was produced and read from the annual overseers
of Kit kdale, Messrs. Pee and Wareham. It was on the
subject of Mr. Pritchard's complaint of the 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 confi,tence, and unqualified approbation ; express
their surprise that. the board sh.•uld have paid attention to
any " loose, verbal charges" made by " an individual ap-
pearing before them," seeing that " the board had received
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 it quiry. Mr. Rowland, re-
lieving officer of the Park, addressing the chairman, said
that he 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, Ma nn-st reef, Bell-street,
and Albert-street ; in the latter, in a court of only six
houses, he had, within a very few days, found fourteen
per-ons afflicted with fever, which he believed to be tephus.
Several of them died, and some were removed to the In-
fit mare.

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-
commended in 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. In reply to a question put
by Mr. Horsfall as to whether the electric telegraph might
not be employed with effect on the Welsh coast, Mr.
Henderson stated that they were contemplating putting
down a line to Formby, on the electric principle, as
at experiment ; plans were in progress, and would in a
short lime be laid before the committee. It was agreed
that the experiment of lighting the vaults of the Albert
Warehouses should be tried in the north stack, and that
the appointment by the treasurer of Mr. Thomas Burton,
a ltiA nook-keeper, be confirmed.—A letter from Mr.
Florsfall. chairman of the African Association, ceiling the
attention of the committee to the rates proposed to
he charged at the Albert wart houses 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—tor his own part, he
could not afford to send a vessel there. It was stated by
Mr. Henderson, that a scale of rates was in the course of
preparation by the committee.which would shortly be sub-
mitted, and, as respects goods brought across the quay,
which was the principal grievance, wt uld, no doubt, be
satis-actory. A letter was received from the dock solici-
tor, to the affect that, the trust had power to make re-
gulitions as regarded the fishing smacks leavine George's
Dock Basin, in conformity with the request of Mr. Tear ::
a code of regulations was ordered to be drawn up. A
letter from Mr. Deane, law-clerk to the Highway Board,
respecting the laying down of water pipes, when the altera-
tions are made at Wapping, in connexion with building
the new dock, was referred to the Committee of works-
The chairman laid noon 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 tfat the measure..44:l-
- deferred until next session the subject was not enter-
tained. The secretary read a report from the surveyor as
to the progress of the new dock-works ; it went consi-
derably into detail. and represented every department as
being in a most satisfactory state ; the total amount ex-
pended in the new works was £321,491 Ils. lOd. 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 bad been
an duty in this town. The dock-surveyor stated that it
was two years that day since the first stone of the new
north works was laid, and be wished the committee to in-
spect them.