The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-07-14 00:00:00

ISLINGTON MARKET.

The following are the questions put to the judges, and their
answers. They are referred to in our parliamentary report:—

" QUESTIONS:

"A chaster was granted by King Edward 111. to the corpora-
tion of the borough of A, with these words (inter alia) 'quod
nullenn rnercatunt infra septein leucas iu circuitu buryi preedicti per
nos I el lueredes nostras alicui concedatur:
"The corporation path continued to hold, as before it had been
holden by prescription, a market in Blackacre, and to take the
profits thereof.
"A charter is now granted to B by the crown of a market to
be holden in Whiteacre, within less than seven miles distance
from Blackacre.
"I. Is this second grant contrary to the first, and may it be
repealed by rd./a, as contrary thereto?
"2. The same question—Whitacre being less than seven
miles distant frothithe borough of A?
"3. In either of the said cases can it be pleaded, or in any
way taken into consideration, that the benefit of the public re-
quired a new market to be holden, other than markets hoiden by
the corporation of A, and within less than seven miles from
these markets or from said borough ?

" OPINION.

" I am to acquaint }our lordships that my learned brethren
and myself, in considering• the questions propouuded to us by
your lordships, assume that it is proposed to ask the first and
second question with reference to holding the new market at
the.same times with the old.
" The judges are agreed, that if this clause adds any prohibi-
tion other than that which is attached by the common law to the
grant of a market, it is void; for there is no consideration for
such restriction, nor any additional benefit conferred upon the
subject;. that it is a prohibition imposed in respect of an old
right, without a new consideration.
" The establishment of a new market to be holden at the same
times within the common law distance of an old market, prima
facie is injurious to the old market, and therefore void.
"Tho judges also state to their lordships, that they are of
opinion that the 'circumstances mentioned in the third question
—viz., that the benefit of the public required a new market to
be holden other than markets already holden by the first grantee,
would not of itself warrant the grant of such new market."

DREADFUL ACCIDENT IN A COAL MINE AT
1.117 LE LEVER, NEAR BOLTON.

SEVEN TEEN LI vEs LOST.—We have this week the melan-
choly task of recording another of those dreadful and over-
whehning calamities which have of late years been so frequent
in mining districts, and which seize on the sympathies of the
community, not as common misfortunes, but with the, force of
w Ne-lop real! and irreparable desolation. From the information
we have obtained, it appears- that at ,seven o'clock yesterday
morning a number of fresh hands (the night-workers having
done their allotment) entered a coal mice belonging to the fa-
mily of the late Colonel Fletcher, situate at a place called Oulert-
hole, in Little Lever, and proceeded to get coal. According to
accounts they were in number 38, men and boys. At one part
of the works, a distant one from the shaft, the coal had been got
until it nearly cropped out, that is, come to the surface of the
ground, and this part was unilatonately in the channel of the
river Irwell, swollen at the time by the previous night's rain,
and the waters of which burst upon them, and, cutting off seven
men and ten boys from every possibility of access to the shaft,
drowned them in the works. Twenty•one men and boys es-
caped by reaching the shaft, which they climbed by a ladder.
fastened to the side, and gave information of the dreadful and
certain fate of their fellow workmen. • None of the bodies have
yet been recovered, the works reing full of watt r, Which it must
take a very considerable time to displace. Tt were a vain task
to attempt even a faint description of the• affliction which this
calamity has caused in the neighbourhood where it happened.
Let us hope that the Being who permitted the awful visitation
would in mercy abridge their mortal pang., and accept them
where the weary find an everlasting rest.—Manchester Chronicle.