The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-10 00:00:00

" TAKE NOTICE

" Bring this unsanctified beast home to Winning and let
him plant him in evry where he'l be convenient at his hand
on the days of review where he'l have no more to do but
call him in to the fridays feast where this unhappy wrech
bartered his eternal selvation for beacon and pelf and do not
dare any More to inter his Infernal remains i❑ the church of
St. Patrick as be despised the church of the living god which
is the pillar and ground of truth they moral faithful chris-
tians despises him and will not of his bones to Moulder
among the just if he'l be interd again he'! be taken up if
they gard him for a year he'l be trown out and you may as
well bring for whin we'! lift him again, we'! w'l not lave him
visible arise ye dead and come to judgment"

What a mass of barbarity, ignorance, and crime, have al,
priests of Ireland to answer for !

DESPERATE AFFRAY WITH A POACHER.

At the Christmas General Quarter Sessions of the Peace
for the West Riding of Yorkshire, held at Knaresborough
on Tuesday, James Tomlinson was indicted for poaching.
The gamekeeper, who was the principal witness, gave the
following account of his fearful struggle with the prisoner :
I am gamekeeper to Mr. Garforth, who lives at Coniston
Bold, in the parish of Gargrave. I know Frederick Riley.
On the morning of the 23d of November last he called at my
window. I directed him to go to a green gate, and said I
would go to the Gill Plantation, belonging to Mr. Garforth.
When I got within the plantation I saw a man about 40 yards
off. I advanced about 30 yards, and said to him, " You
have got to work soon this morning, my man." He then
stepped back, and said that if I did not keep my distance, he
would shoot me. I said, I think not," and he said, " I
will." I said, "If you will shoot, then, shame on you." I
then heard him knock the stock of his gun, as sportsmen do
before firing, at the same time saying he would shoot me. I
said, "If you escape me, you cannot escape justice." He
then put the gun to his shoulder, but did not pull the trigger
that time. I then shouted to Riley, "This way, this way."
The man then went off, and I ran after him. When I was
within about five yards, he turned, and pointed the gun at
me, and pulled the trigger. He did not put the gun to his
shoulder. The gun missed fire. I then rushed forward, and
seized both him and the gun. To the best of it,y knowledge
the copper cap went off. There was a small report. A strug-
gle took place after that, and I felled him, several times
calling out, " Fred" to Riley. Whilst I was holding the
man, he tried to get his hand into his pocket. 1 then tried
to mend my hold, but I lost it. We then struggled much,
and he was rometimes uppermost and sometimes I. At length
I got his finger, next to his little finger on the left hand, into
my mouth, and bit it with all my might. He then liberated
his hand by biting me on the left jaw. After that we scuffled
a little time longer, and once he was in the act of strangling
me. He was then uppermost. I threw him off, but before
I could get up I was hit twice on the head. I could not tell
what it was with, but before the third blow, I saw the gun-
stock coming. I was unable to make further resistance after
the first blow. He struck me four times on the head and
twice on the body, and then he went away. My cap was
gone when I came to myself, and Frederick Riley found ano-
ther. I had not known the prisoner previous to this tran-

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Gill Plantation is about 500 yards from my house.
Sufficient evidence was afterwards produced to render the
prisoner's guilt unquestionable, and was sentenced to be
transported for the term of seven years.

THE CHURCH.—The following benefices 3 are vacant :
Rectory of Doddleston, Cheshire ; patrons, the Dean and
Chapter of Chester; value £593. Vicarage of Hunmanby,
York ; patron, -H. Osbaldeston, Esq. ; value £350. Rec-
tory of Millbrook, Bedfordshire ; patron, the Crown ; value,
£345. Vicarage of Llanefydd, Denbighshire; patron, the
Bishop of St. Asaph ; value £228. Rectory of Sutton, Nor-
folk ; patron, the Earl of Abergavenny ; value £292. Vicar-
age of Flitwick, Bedfordshire ; patron, Rev. W. A. Daw-
son; value £285. Perpetual curacy of Chorlton-with-Hardy,
Lancaster; patron, the Manchester Collegiate Church:;
value £lO3. Vicarage of Tiiton, Leicestershire ; patron,
Rev. George Greaves. Vicarage of Ippledon, Devonshire ;
patrons, the Dean and Canons of Windsor; value £119.
The following ordinations are announced :—Sunday, Jan.
15, Bishop of Ripon, at Ripon. Sunday, Jan. 29, Bishop of
Peterborough, at Peterborough. Sunday, Jan. 29, Bishop of
Norwich, at Norwich. Sunday, March 12, Bishop of Lin-
coln, at Lincoln. Sunday, June 11, Bishop of Oxford, at
Oxford.

I COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—On Saturday week, the 31st ult
about noon, in consequence of the inattention and careless-
ness of the engineman at the Allerton Main Colliery, York-
shire, neglecting to shut off the steam and furnish a sufficient
supply of water to the boiler, a most awful explosion took
place; the boiler was lifted off its seat, and carried into the
air to the supposed height of 200 yards, and falling in an ad-
joining field, nearly 100 yards from its original place. Iron
and slates, bricks and stones, flew about in all directions, and
covered the yard, orchard, and adjoining fields for a distance
of 250 yards. The windows and doors of the workshops,
cottages, and counting• houses were all blown in and shattered
to pieces ; and, what is more remarkable, a shower of bricks,
iron, and stones, were thrown through one of the cottage
windows, across the house in a slanting direction, where the
family were seated in an opposite corner at dinner; the In-
mates were knocked down and bruised, and the clock-case
and the cupboard, with its contents, were destroyed. The
most dreadful part of the affair is, the serious injury done to
two of the colliers who were in the yard (if the accident had
occurred a quarter of an hour sooner 14 men might have been
destroyed as they were leaving their work). One old man
of the name of Firth had his thigh broken by some of the
missiles from the boiler, and was conveyed to his house, and
immediately attended by the surgeon, but it is feared he will
be unable to work any more. Another man had his skull
dreadfully fractured, and was otherwise mangled in a shock-
ing- manner, but it is hoped he will recover, and be able again
to attend to his work. He has a family of six children. The
negligent engineman had a narrow escape, being nearly
crashed by the falling materials ; nut, wonderful to relate, he
is uninjured. Although this lamentable accident will occa-
sion a temporary stoppage of Messrs. J. Bower and Co.'s
coal-works, still, in consequence of having an extra boiler,
which is only displaced and removed from its seat by the ex-
plosion, they will be able to resume working the colliery in a
few days. The damage is esOmated at £5OO.