The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-06-24 00:00:00

SCHOOLS.

Blue Coat Hospital
Female Orphan
Old Church
Hunter-street
St. James's
Welsh Charity
St. Pau 's I
St. Mark'.
Everton & Kirkdale
Mill-lane, Everton,
St. M ary's,Xii kdale
St. Simon's
Edge-hill
St.Clernent's, Wsr.
St. Michael's ....
St. Andrew's ....
North Ch. of Engd.,
South Do.
St. Bartholomew's
St. Augustine's ..
St: Bride's
St. Jude's..
St. Catherine's
St. Luke's
Christ Church
St. John Baptist
St. Barnabas'
St.Thomas',Toxth.
Mariners' Church .'
W. Derby Workhse.
L'pool Industrl do.,

3 1 Schools..

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SHARE MARKET—YESTERDAY.—EFFECT OF THE
DECISION ON THE BROAD AND NARROW GAUGES.—
We had an active business yesterday, and the transactions
were numerous ; yet the market may be said to have
been flat, and prices to have had a downward tendency.
The effect of the decision, as to the broad and narrow
gauges, has not exercised a perceptible influence. Grand
Junction are however firm, whilst London and Birming-
ham are quoted a turn lower. Most stocks however have
shared in the general depression, even the successful
broad gauge line itself, (Oxford and Worcester.) In
Great We,tem we have not a quotation or a price fixed.
On this subject there appears a different feeling in the
London market, both these lines having advanced several
pounds per share on Saturday, whilst Birmingham and
Rugby, the competing line to the former, declined.
ST. H ELENS.—MON DAY, JUNE 23.—TWO fatal acci-
dents occurred her: on Friday last, in collieries belonging
to Messrs. Broomielaw, extensive coal owners. The
first took place at a mine in Eccleston, to a young man
named James H uyton, who, as he was ascending the shaft,
was struck by some stones which fell from the side and
knocked him out of the basket. He was taken up quite
dead.—ln the other case, a youth named William Littler
was the victim. The accident took place at a pit in Black-
brook, and one of the witnesses at the inquest, which was
held on Saturday, gave the following account of it. " On
Friday night, about ten or eleven o'clock, the ground
where I was at work was torn open with great violence,
and with much noise, making altogether such a commo-
tion as 1 never heard in a coal pit. There was an explo-
sion of foul air, and I saw the fire passing along the up-
brow. After the first noise all the men made towards the
pit-eye when the foul air ignited at the deceased's candle.
The tearing up of the earth must have been occasioned
by the foul air forcing itself out of a lower vein of coal,
but I never knew such a thing to happen before though 1
have worked fifty years and upwards in coal-pits." The
deceased was burned so seriously that he died six hours
afterwards.—ln both cases the jury found verdicts of ac-
cidental death.

WOOLTON NATIONAL SCHOOLS.—These schools, at-
tached to Woolson Church, are attended by upwards of
220 children, of both sexes. On Thursday forenoon last
the examination of the girls and the infants took place at
the school-rooms, in presence of the respected incumbent,
the Rev. Robert Lister, and a number of the subscribers
(chiefly ladies) and others, who expressed themselves
much gratified by the neat appearance of the whole group,
and the manner in which they acquitted themselves. The
girls, were examined in reading, and in the Church Cate-
chism, and the infants in the usual routine of infant-
school education. After the examination the whole of the
boys, girls. and infants—all neatly clad—walked in pro-
cession to Woolton Wood, the seat of Henry Ashton, Esq.
After going through the beautiful pleasure grounds and
gardens, they were conducted to the delightful lawn in
front of the hou,e, where they were regaled with tea, bun-
loaves, &c., served to them by several young ladies of the
neighbourhood, who were assiduous in their kind atten-
tion to the joyous little guests. The haymakers in the
adjoining field were also regaled with tea. After the
children enjoying themselves, to their full extent, they
were drawn up in order, and sang " God save the Queen,"
" The Evening Hymn," and, in conclusion, " The Bene-
diction."

•
CLAIM FOR DAMAGE DONE TO A VESSEL—At the
police-court, yesterday, an information was laid against Ed -
ward Pritchard, a pilot, by the owners of the schooner
Helena, for damage done to that vessel by the brig Lyra,
running foul of her in the river, through the alleged
negligence or mismanagement of the defendant. who was
then in charge of the latter vessel. It appeared that both
vessels and others were about to enter the Salthouse
Dock, or some other in that neighbourhood, on the
evening of the 4th instant, when by some means the two
vessels named became entangled and considerable damage
was done to the Helena, a German vessel. There was
also a pilot on board of the Lyra at the time, and his
orders to the other pilot were obeyed nearly to the point.
It appeared, however, that little or no blame was attach-
able to either of the pilots, who had acted for the best
under the circumstances, but that the crew of the damaged
vessel were at the time at their supper, and could not
be got upon deck in time enough to veer away cable,
which would have preventeil the accident. Mr. Rushton,
who consulted with Mr. Askew the harbour-master, said
that they ought to have been in readiness to meet such a
contingency, and that damages could not therefore be
allowed to the applying parties.