The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-02-20 00:00:00

Co bt Ed.

-
r PO be LET, a LICENSED PUBLIC-HOUSE and
1- WINE and SPIRIT VAULT, fitted up with Store
Casks and every requisite for carrying. on the trade of a
Victualler. The House contains four Bed-rooms, Parlour,
Kitchen, Bar, Ale Cellar, and a vie Yard. Incoming,
for the Licenses, Fixtures, &c., y £l5O ; Rent £lB ;
and free from Brewer or Spirit Merchant. Also, a WINE
and SPIRIT VAULT, within two minutes walk from the
Docks, now doing a first-rate trade, and free. Incoming
only £l3O. Also, an excellent BEER-HOUSE, a
PLUMBER and GLAZIER'S SI-TOP, &c.
Apply to PETER ALDERSEY, 4, Doran's-lane, Lord-
street.

IRELAND.
• COUNTY OF DOWN. /
THE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERSfor IRELAND
HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that they will receive
Proposals in writir, for
THE HOUSE, OFFICES, AND DEMESNE
LANDS OF DROMORE,
containing 226 statute, or 139 2 14 plantation acres, lately
the residence of the Bishops of Dromore. The House is
of the first class, with Pleasure Grounds and walled Gar-
dens, admirably suited as a Residence for a Nobleman or
Gentleman's Family, and the Out-offices are very exten-
sive, well adapted for farming purposes.
The Land for the most part is excellent Tillage and
Pasture, well divided, sheltered, watered, and fenced.
This Property adjoins the post and market town of Dro-
more, on the great northern road from Dublin to Belfast,
through which several stage and mail coaches pass daily ;
is 14 miles from Belfast, and 15 from Newry, from both
of which towns there is a large export trade.
The above Lands will be LET for any term of lives or
years, or lives and years, with a covenant against the sub-
letting or assigning any part thereof without the previous
consent of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, testified in
writing under their common seal.
Persons proposing are required to specify the particular
term desired, and the rent proposed to be given ; and if
be desired to fine down any portion of the rent, the same
is to be particularly specified, and at what rate per cent.
Proposals (post paid) to be addressed to the Secretary
of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Ireland, No. 30,
Upper Merrion-street, Dublin, (where a Map of the Pre-
mises may be seen,) and to be sent in or before the 29th
day of February, 18-14.

THE NEW DISCOVERY FOR THE NERVES,
"WI Y which the trembling hand may become steady, the
_ILI weak heart strong, and nervous irritability; (so often
the precursor of insanity,) may be arrested4s offered to
the Public, who may rely on nervous vigour being the
reward of a patient trial. By the ustiof this medicine
(which does not contain one particle of any opiate) re-
freshing sleep has been obtained by those who have not
enjoyed that blessing for years, and the most,. obstinate
indigestion conquered. Above forty of the Nobility now
use this wonderful restorative.

Prepared (for the Proprietor) in London, in Boxes, at
Is. lid., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. each, containing directions
for its use, and advice to the Patient, with Testimonials
attached. Sold by the Wholesale Houses, and all respect-
able Chemists. Ask for Dr. GRANDISON'S CHARITY
PILLS.

From W. A. GOFF, Esq., 11, Bloomsburg-square.
" Dec. 12, 1842.
" Sir, I cannot refuse to state that your Pill has had an
effect upon my Nerves, almost miraculous.

" Your obliged servant,
"`.7. A. GoFF.

" To Dr. Grandison."
Agent for Liverpool, Mr. CARTER, Chemist, Bold-
street.

STRIKE AMONGST THE COLLIERS.

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their earnings, a corresponding depression, amounting to
almost total stagnation, amongst the shopkeepers and
dealers of that town and neighbourhood, whose.chief de •
pendence is on the outlay of the pit labourers, and that
of the men employed in the various other works and ma-
nufactories around, which are also so much affected by
the strike, that the usual number of hands employed is
considerably reduced. It is difficult, if not impossible,
to arrive at that precise and accurate knowledge of the
facts, that would warrant us in expressing a definite opi-
nion on the respective merits of the pleas of the contend.
ing parties--the one for an advance of wages, and
the other in resistance to the demand. Neither can
the final result of the struggle be yet predicted,
though it is probable (judging by analogy from former
strikes of a similar nature) that the masters will hold out,
or submit to a small advance only. In reference to the
present aspect of the struggle, we may say that the deter-
mination which the colliers appear to have come to about
a fortnight ago, to remain out at all hazards until April,
has to a certain extent given way ; the point beyond which
the endurance of privation cannot be stretched has nearly
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neighbourhood, but may re-
ceive some support from the rest. Those that have gone
back hare been required to give up their tickets of mem-
bership in the union. By this partial resumption of work,
the numbers out, which were, we are informed, originally
upwards of 5.000, are reduced to about 3,000, and the
latter number will probably be daily diminished. Though,
however, the men have so far turned in, they persist on
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agreements with the men are made from spring to spring,
commencing, we believe, on or about the Ist of May, and
parochial settlement) 11 or months. Already the
miners in the north of England and in Scotland are pre-
paring for the general struggle, and how it will end (we
repeat) remains to be seen. At some of the collieries a
small number of hands have continued at work, but the
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in and about the district, and the want of them has caused
partial suspension in some of the manufactories and other

Feb. 20, 1844.

vocations, with a proportionate want of employrne
oa
amongst many of the hands. Au advance of wages to
small extent had been given previous to the strike at a
ll
the collieries in the neighbourhood hut one; but the tee%
notwithstanding, all turned out, some coals having bee
supplied to the customers of that one work by the °the',
masters, who, it appears, have a sort of protective al:
ciation and understanding amongst themselves. As mat
ters now stand, the general opinion is that the men bast
o
gained nothing by the strike; that they would have been
quite as well off as those of them who have returned 11
are, if they had remained at their work, and that more
them would have been employed.
At Blackbrook colliery (Messrs. Bromilow Brothers 7
a few are employed. At Eccles' and Stock's Ashton COv.
lieries there has been no turn out. At Stanley collier);
(John Stock and Brothers), three parts out of four, if n°,
more of the men have returned At Rushy Park (same
proprietors), about half the hands have gone in, and thereabout 40 tons of coals are raised daily. At the Grovel!'
the men are still out. At Eccleston pits (also Brow"
low's), some few have gone in. At Windle (saute pro-
prietary), the hands did not turn out at all.
From the commencement of the disagreement, both

parties have put forth statements and appeals to the Pu
in the form of placards, the masters urging that the urea
received high wages, with a prospect of an increase,;,
' that the turn-out was altogether unjustifiable—and
men meeting these assertions by counter statements,
dying that the amounts alleged—with the deductions '
be made for drawers, candles, and tools—arc actually re-
ceived. The masters recently published a refutation of
some statements published by the men, which were foal'
to be in general circulation in St. Helens on Saturday"
and they are not yet publicly contradicted.
The men are, we learned, paid at so much for a certsil
weight, or rather measure, of coals procured,—that is so much for what is called " a work" or i tons (say the
masters and their friends), for which they ought to bay"
ss. Even in " straight" work—that is, in a thin seal'
they ought, it is admitted, to receive this; and in oPe:
work, skilful and strong men have sometimes caret
7s. 6d. " a work." A full day's work is reckoned fr°,lll,
Bto 9 hours. The highest sums earned doily by tu;
workmen alluded to in the master's statement is 4s. ""'
per day, 4s. 2d.. and 45., for full day's works ; but it ar
pears that from some cause—whether inability to with;
stand the " climate" below or otherwise—they did 10"
accomplish full and continuous days' works within the
times given by them, though they are all that time t°
the pit.
terOesntetdheonotbhoetrhhsaidnedsfiotriswaellceognedvetrhsaetdtwheithmapsatretriseshluce"
selected a few isolated cases only of great earnings if/ " straightforward" work, owing to the easy nature of the
coal bed and the adaptness of peculiar workmen ; and that
the miners, taken as a body—and many of them obliged
to work in a painful recumbent position, exposed to cow
tinual accidents, and becoming old men ere yet their yeah
are ripe—do not on the average receive more than fru°
Bs. to 12s. a. week at the utmost ! They allege, that when
the beds of coal are thin, though they receive additions'
wages for extracting them, nothing is allowed for the exit'
toil in what is called " shifting and gobbing "—that is,
excavating and removing the super or sub-stratum of other
materials before they can bring out the black diamonds'
They further state, the " work " exacted is nine tons ill,
place of seven ; and that though the masters have raise,'
the price of coals is. 6d. additional upon nine tons, the/
allow the men for getting them an advance of only la,
or a fraction over Id. per ton.
Amidst these conflicting statements, how can we arrile
at a conclusion satisfactory to our own minds, or to thug
of our readers ? Our impression is, that from the nature
of the employment the wages ought to be-good and re-
munerative ; and that in order to settle the dispute between
the parties a parliamentary commission of inquiry should
forthwith be instituted, for the sake not only of the
masters and the men, but the public at large, who are'
third party interested.