The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-01-09 00:00:00

BANK OF ENGLAND.

The usual average return of the liabilities and assets
of the Bank of England, embracing the period from the
7th of October to the 30th of December, both inclusive,
which appeared in Friday night's Gazette, gives the fol-
lowing results, viz.:—

That the average of the thirteen weeks, ending the
30th of December, as compared with the average of the
thirteen weeks ending the ith of October, shows—

4. decrease in the circulation of

468,0,0

ILA of
XMilq=7-gsn-AeniffecVock of bullion z-7:44,0
Wherefore it appears that the decrease in the liabili-
ties is £178,000, and this represents the decrease in the
total quantity of money in the thirteen wef ks ending the
30th of December, as compared with the th rteen weeks
ending the 7th of October, in so far as regards the ad-
ministration of the currency by the Bank of England.
The yearly comparison is as follows .—The average
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ending the 31st of December, 1842, shows—

A decrease in the circulation of .. • • .. 132,000
• •
An increase in the deposits of
.. . 2,685.000
An increase in the stock of Bullion of :. • 2,525.600
Wherefore it appears that the increase in the liabili-
ties is £2;556,000, and this represents the increase in the
total quantity of money in the thirteen weeks ending the
30th of December, 1843, as compared with the thirteen
weeks ending the 31st of December, 1842, in so far as
regards the administration of the currency by the Bank
of England.

PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE OF FIFTY-THREE FISHER-
IMEN.—On the morning of the Ist instant, at five o'clock,
nine fishing boats, and fifty-three men left Aberdeen for
the fishing ground, with light winds from the south-west.
Soon after sunrise, the wind suddenly increased to a heavy
gale, right off the land, and by ten o'clock blew a hurri-
cane, rendering their position almost hopeless. Every
exertion was made to pull in for the land, but their efforts
were in vain, and they became quite exhausted. By a
merciful interposition of Protidence, her Majesty's re-
venue cruizer Greyhound, Lieutenant Dooley, R.N.,
commander, was running to the southward at the time,
and fell in with the scattered boats, eight miles off the
land, with their crews so exhausted that to reach the
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of age, so weak from exertion that they required to be
parhuncled" up the side of the cruizer. The boats
were all taken in tow, and eve ry effort made to preserve
them and the property; but the gale continuing, and the
sea increasing, some of them already sinking or sunk, the
last two were cut away about three in the afternoon.—
Edinburgh Courant.

ESCAPE OF SIX CONVICTS FROM NOTTINGHAM GAOL.
—On Sunday afternoon six convicts made their escape
from the county gaol at Nottingham. Between four and
five o'clock, on the second turnkey going down into the
felons' yard, an attack was made upon him, the key taken
out of his hand, and he was locked in the yard. Six con-
victs rushed up the steps and proceeded to the outer
door, where, meeting with the head turnkey, they fell
upon him, knocked him down with great violence, and
forcing the key from his band, which he resolutely held
for some time, they unlocked the door, and ran out. An
alarm was given, but the men all escaped. The names of
the men are—J. Smith, aged 21 years ;J. Bowers, aged
30 ; J. Binns, aged 24 : these three men were convicted
of burglary at Sutton Bonnington, at the houseotftinthge:
Rev. Robert Meek, and were sentenced to transportation
for life at the late special assize. ThOWRS Burton, aged
36, under sentence of transportation for 15 years, for steal-
ing ten lamb hogs at Farnsfield, in the county of No
ham ; William Thompson, aged 22, convicted at the late
special assize of burglary, and sentenced to be transported
for 10 years ; Thomas Green, aged 24, convicted of bur-
glary at Fiskerton, and sentenced at the late special as-
size to transportation for life. The convicts all had the
A large reward
an hour and a half afterwards, within two miles of the
town, near Colwick Wood.
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DISASTROUS ACCIDENT.—A melancholy catastrophe
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mine had partially set to work, when a terrible explosion
took place. The effect of this was fortunately confined
to what is technically termed a " heading," where the
deceased were employed. The custom, it appears, in
order to guard against fire-damp in the pit, was for a man
to descend, for the purpose of securing the doors to the
various headings, and exclude the damp air that might
have been generated in the interval between the leaving
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off and the resumption of work by the men. On Satur-
day night the person to whom this duty was entrusted
entered the pit for that purpose, and, it is supposed, neg-
lected to secure the door to the heading where the explo-
sion took place. A quantity of foul air was in consequence
generated in this particular part. On its contact with the
candle used by the party there it immediately exploded.
The rest of the men employed in the other headings im-
mediately took the alarm, and escaped to the mouth of
the pit, whence they were drawn up. The only effect of
the explosion on the machinery at the mouth of the pit
was the displacing a few of the stakes on the shore which
protects the machinery. Two lads were seriously hurt—
one had both his legs broken, the other sustained a dis-
location of the arm. In the course of the day every effort
was made to rescue the sufferers, but twelve individuals,
consisting of eight men and four boys, were found missing
en cling over the li-t of names. 'These, unfortunately.
from the nature of the operations, cannot be taken out
without a new boring, an oferation of considerable tiaa•
and labour.

.lan 9, 1814.