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

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TO be LET, a LICENSED PUBLIC-HOUSE and
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 good Yard. Incoming,
for the Licenses, Fixtures, &c., only £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 SHOP, &c. ,
Apply to PETER ALDERSEY, 4, Doran's-lane, Lord-
street.

IRELAND.
COUNTY OF DOWN.
THE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS for IRELAND
HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that they will receive
Proposals in writing 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.
Ttle above Lands will be LET for any term of lives or
years, or lives and years, with a covenant against the sub-
letting or ass►gning 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, 1844.

THE NEW DISCOVERY FOR THE NERVES,
BY which the trembling hand may become steady, the
weak heart strong, and nervous irritability, (so often
the precursor of insanity,) may be arrested, is offered to
the Public, who may rely on nervous vigour being the
reward of a patient trial. By the use of 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, Bloomsbury-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,
" NY. A. GOFF.

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

STRIKE AMONGST THE COLLIERS.

The turnout amongst the coal-miners round St. Helens
still continues, and, with it, an, if possible, accumulated
amount of distress and destitution amongst that' numerous
class of labourers; and, from the consequent cessation of
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
arrived, and from stern necessity and want, a considerable
number heave returned to their work at the old wages, and
it is fully expected by persons conversant with their con-
ditionhha
Many
withinyo f t them,
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however,fortnight
active part in inducing others to leave, will not be received
obnoxious to their masters by taking an
back have been required to give up their tickets of mem-
have
bership any of the works in that neighbourhood, but may re-
ceiveoff madeertsthoahenmei drme
services.psserulop pepsoe ct
ts
from the rest. Those that have gone
reduced to about 3,000, and the
upwards of 5,000, are
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latter number will probably be daily diminished. Though,
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originally
however, the men have so far turned
.in, they persist on
f the pit, and if the masters are inclined to sent out o
re-
sist this system, they cannot as yet take any steps to pre-
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fur-
ther stated in well informed quarters that the turn in, to
whatever extent it may at present be carried, will by no
it, as they have no stocks on hand. And it is
means involve a final settlement of the dispute; for that
there will be a general turn out in about two months
amongst the miners throughout the kingdom, when the an-
nual agreements terminate in April, is certain. These
agreements with the men are made from spring to spring,
commencing, we believe, on or about the Ist of May, and
closing about the middle of April in the following year—
the term being (with a view to prevent parties obtaining a
parochial settlement) 11 or 111 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
quantity of coals raised has fallen far short of the demand
in and about the district, and the want of them has caused
partial suspension in some of the manufactories and other

Feb. 20, 1844,

atnotipt many of the hands. A., advance of wages to a
vocations, with a proportionate want of employment
small extent had been given previous to the strike at all
[ the collieries in the neighbourhood but one; but the meal
• notwithstanding, all turned out, some coals having been
supplied to the customers of th it one work by the other
masters, who, it appears, have a sort of protective asso-
ciation and understanding amongst themselves. As mat-
ters now stand, the genet 1 opinion is that the men have
gained nothing by the strike; that they would have been
quite as well off as those of them who have returned now
are, if they had remained at their work, and that more of
them would have been employed.
At Blackbrook colliery (Messrs. Bromilow Brothers')
a few are employed. At Eccles' and Stock's Ashton col-
lieries there has been no turn out. At Stanley colliery
(John Stock and Brothers), three parts out of four, if not
more of the men have returned At Rushy Park (same
proprietors), about half the hands have gone in, and there
about 40 tons of coals are raised daily. At the Groves,
the men are still out. At Eccleston pits (also Bromi-
low's), some few have gone in. At Windle (same
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 public
in the form of placards, the masters urging that the men
received high wages, with a prospect of an increase, so
that the turn-out was altogether unjustifiable—and the
men meeting these assertions by counter statements, de-
dying that the amounts alleged—with the deductions to
be made for drawers, candles, and tools—are actually re-
ceived. The masters recently published a refutation of
some statements published by the men, which were found
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 certain
weight, or rather measure, of coals procured,—that is at
so much for what is called " a work" or 7 tons (say the
masters and their friends), for which they ought to have
ss. Even in " straight" work—that is, in a thin seam,
they ought, it is admitted, to receive this; and in open
work, skilful and strong men have sometimes earned
7s. 6d. " a work." A full day's work is reckoned from
Bto 9 hours. The highest sums earned daily by the
workmen alluded to in the master's statement is 4s. id.
per day, 4s. 2d.. and 45., for full day's works ; but it ap-
pears that from some cause—whether inability to with-
stand the " climate" below or otherwise—they did not
accomplish full and continuous days' works within the
times given by them, though they are all that time in
the pit.
On the other hand—for we conversed with parties in-
terested on both sides—it is alleged that the masters have
selected a few isolated cases only of great earnings in
" 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 con-
tinual accidents, and becoming old men ere yet their yearS
are ripe—do not on the average receive more than from
Bs. to 12s. a. week at the utmost! They allege, that when
the beds of coal are thin, though they receive additional
wages for extracting them, nothing is allowed for the extra
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 in
place of seven; and that though the masters have raised
the price of coals 7s. 6d. additional upon nine tons, they
allow the men for getting them an advance of only 10d.,
or a fraction over Id. per ton.
Amidst these conflicting statements, how can we arrive
at a conclusion satisfactory to our own minds, or to those
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.