The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-02-03 00:00:00

or about 1,400 io all. These m

frontage, the outer or fr .
warehouses on each side) did not fall, though it consider

it wall of whit

ably bulged out from between the gr

—who kee

n oyst

Hood-street. He is an intelligent man, and has given us
some intereEting information. He and his two companions,
Edward Norman and Patrick

loft. The first intimation of impending danger was a gust
of wind. He was then about eight, yards from the en-

his exit

gearing and ropes to jump over in man..
three of them were, at the time, in the gangway, a long
narrow scaffold boarded up at the sides, and near the roof
e of the building, being the corn munication, for convenience,
)0 f ' •• kle at one hoot of the warehouse tr

om the jigger tac
that at the other.

prawn and were launched into Moor-street. A crash
was first heard, and a cracking in all directions. An im-
mense cloud of dust instantly enveloped them, and they
had to grope their way. He. got out of the loft first—he
scarce knows by what Providence. The others followed,
and they got do. n stairs with a celerity they never ex-
ercised before. They, in fact, tumbled down, and were
more or less hint, though not seriously. Our informant
states that he found the door at the bottom jammed up,
and was almost hopeless of escaping, but telt himself
endowed, as be thought, with " the strength of a lion,"
and succeeded in forcing it open. Thankful he and his
comrades expressed themselves for their delivery.
In room No. 2 eight out of the nine escaped. Two of
them jumped out of the doorway, a height of nine or teo
feet. Six of the eight were hurt more or less. Kelly
thinks that there were six or seven thousand lons of stuff
in the warehouse altogether, including wheat in bulk,
American flour in barrels, a large lot of peas, &c. If the
accident had happened on the previous day, when the men
were employed at the Moor-street end, all of them would
have perished, except two who were at the Old Ropery
end. The missing man, Peter Tracey, was trucking at
the time, and was down the room No. 2 about two-thirds
of its length from the Old Ropery frontage. He is stated
to be a respectable, industrious man—a widower, with
three children. On Saturday afternoon one of his sons
was seen about the ruins, crying for his father, and on
Sunday his daughter was there, also in great distress.
Amongst the injured were Owen M'Kenna, aged 26, who
had his hip knocked out of joint; Thomas Cash, disfi-
gured in the face and arid hands; John Solaa, hurt with
a nail in the shoulder, and also hurt in the back. One of
them was sent to the Infirmary,. . . .

Three of the rooms were
pease, and the others with 4000 or 5000 barrels of flour
A great number of men were employed on Saturday, Sun-
day, and yesterday, in carting off the grain, materials, &c.,
and as the weather has been dry the destruction of the
produce will, probably, not be very treat, though, doubt-
less, considerable from admixture with the rubbish. It is
still a matter of uncertainty whether there are not

h wheat, one with

parties under the ruins in Moor•street—casually passing
at the time ; but the probability seems to be, that but one
man has lost his life. There were several narrow escapes
—especially of a servant girl at Mr. Dodd's public-house,
nearly oppo-ite. who was shaking a carpet when the ava-
lanche took place—ardl two horses in a lorry who took
fright at the crash, and got away.

•
It is suggested that there shduld be appointed an in-

Spector of warehouses' who shall determine what weight,
particularly of grain, the several mercantile buildings are
capable of sustaining, so that such accidents_may not

At the request of the mayor, Mr. S. H

early on the ground, and speedily got his m

the insecure wall standing in the Old Ropery. A very
perilous piece of wall left at the t.outh corner of the
warehouse was also pulled down by them on Saturday
afternoon. A great number of men continue to be em-

ployed in extracting the flour, wheat, pease, &c., from the
ruins, and the ends of the streets leading to the scene of
destruction are still crowded with anxi9us enquirers. The
ruins are yet upwards of 12 feet high in :Moor-i treet,
although a large quantity of stuff has been taken away.

the body of the supposed only man killed t ad not been
found; and from the immense mass of materials, it may
be some time before the remains are found. Parts of the
upper floors at the Old l.opery end sre left standing, still
supporting tiers of flour barrels.

EARLY CLOSING OF THE MARKETS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Sts,—lt is with great pleasure I have been informed
that the Markets' Committee, having had the memorial
for the earlier closing of the markets under their consi-
deration, have kindly passed a resolution recom-
mending to the Council that they should be closed at
seven o'clock, the first five nights of the business week,
and on Saturday evening at ten o'clock, thus dividing the
difference between the wishes of the memorialists and the
present time of closing, which it is hoped will be pleasing
to the public. Too much praise cannot be given them
for,the promptness they have evinced in doing away this
great evil, which has been the cause of such a desecration
of the Sabbath. _ _ .. _

It is understood, however, that a petition the last few
days has been got up against the closing on Saturday
nights, but I would strongly urge upon the members of
the Council the necessity of protesting against it, and
• support the resolution of the Markets' Committee, which
-• will be the means of lessening the disorder in the neigh•
'B, bourbood of the markets, and will cause the shops to

After 1

the pa

two mo

rent, which 1 re

the door was found locked, and on
mine from the interior, found the do

We the

tion until last Sunday week
le of my tenants, M

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Sherringti

st Sunday

s thick

large pol
made. When

to pay, be-
'red. Next

•en'ly new

the aisle

d the pole

Ira. Eastwood got up he I.
She s4d, " pray let me pass." He said
•not." She then tried to enter, but he
pressed her back with the pole. I asked by whose orders
he stopped up the passage; lie said, " by Mr. Smith's"
(the priest). I asked to pass, he refused, arul lat tempted,
but he pushed me back with the pole. Mr. Eastwood then
related the facts that occurred ht aisle No. 2, where

simi;ar obstructions were offered and i 3
looking down the chapel he saw the vestry

and Mr. Croft standing in his vestments prepared to say
took to be Mr. Smith,

pother person, whom

both looking on

They then went to the g

where Atkirison pushed-back both Mr. East-vt
son : and then on the ounosite stairs. where

1 and his
len be-

They then went to the children's platform, which was not
now occupied. it being early mass, and the children attend-
ing only at high mass. On Mrs. E. ascending the plat-
form she was met by Thomas Walmsley, who pushed her
back with a plate with so much violence, that had she not
been supported by witness she would have fallen back on
the flags. Thos. Walmsley and Worden pushed her with
poles. Mr. E. then confirmed what took place furtber on
the platform, as stated by Mr. Catterall.

In cross-examination, Mr. Eastwood said that Mr.
Heatley had given Mr. Smith £lOO to build the tribune,
and that he did not know whether the benches on which
he afterwards sat were penny benches or not. heard the
priest give out two Sundays hi-fore that persons coming to
the benches at early mass would pay one penny for the
accommodation. The priests had got enough of his mo-
ney without paying pennies.
A long discussion ensued betwixt the attorneys and the
bench, as to whether the Catholic priest possessed the
power of making a charge for sittings in his chapel, and of
excluding from those sittings parties who refuse to pay.
The whole question appeared to resolve itself into this
point, Mr. Noble (defendant's solicitor) declaring that if
the Triest had this power—which he maintained be had—
then Mr. E tstwood himself was the aggre•sor in attempt-
ing to ►emove the obstructions to a gratuitous entrance
which had been legally placed there, and he contended
that in repulsing Mr. and Mrs. Eastwood the defendants
had only acted in the discharge of their duty, and had
commited no asault whatever. Mr. Catterall, (Mr.
Eastwood'p solicitor) on the other hand, maintained that
the priest had no such power, and that in violently pre-
venting Mr Eastwood's access to the chapel accommoda-
tion, they had, in fact, committed a breach of ti

declared that until this leg

uestion

case, and would refer it to the next sessions, in the mean
time binding over the defendants to keep the peace. The
two Walmsleys then entered into their own recognizances
for £2O each, and the Rev. Mr. Smith was accepted surety
for the others in the amount of £lO each
Irnariare mat rpmPtitt

6-
wood's name has been often before the public, in connec-
tion with legal disputes affecting property which Mr. E.
alleged several Romish ecclesiastics have become possessed
of, in violation of.his (Mr. E.'s) just claims.],

STATE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE

PAST QUARTER

(From the Quarterly Table' of Mortality.)

The quarterly returns are obtained from 115 districts,
sub-divided into 576 sub-districts. Thirty-four districts
are placed under the metropolis; and the remaining Si

districts comprise, with some agricultural nistric
principal towns and cities of England. The population
was 6,579,693 in 1811.

_ in the last quarter of 1845 was much
lower than is uy,ual. for only 39,178 dent

oortali

were reeis-

tered, which is lest by 14,740 than the number (43.918)
regis,ered in the corresponding quarter of 1814, and
and 2,857 less than the average quarter of seven previous
years, notwithstanding the increase of the poi ulation at
the rate of ab0ut,1.74 per cent annually.

There had beeii a great decreas

December quarter of 1844 giving the numb& r of deaths
at 43.918, whilst last quarter there was only 39,178
deaths. The mildness of the season was one cause of di-
minished mortally. This is illustrated by the table of
the deaths, exclusive of those by violence, registered in
the metropolis, and the mean temperature at Greenwich
of the last six weeks of 1844 and 1845. • The deaths and
the temperature were the same at first; on the fifth week
the deaths were 1,343 in 1844, and only 933 in 1845 ; the
temperature in the previous week (the fourth) had fallen to
28 deg. 2 min. in 1844, and only to 39 deg. 2 mio. in 1845.
A fall of the mean temperature of the air from 45 deg.
to 4 deg. or 5 deg. below the freezing point (32 deg.) of
water destroys from 306 to 500 lives in the metropolis.
It produces the same results on a larger scale all over the
country. Nor is it o be wonderei at that a grsat change of
the heat of the air which we breathe and live in should
have such an effect. _ _

The deaths returned by the registrars for each year are
thus given :—Deaths registered in 115 districts in the year
1838, 162,867; 1839, 162,605; 1840, 171,694; 1841,160,733;
1842, 161,948; 1843, 163,201; 1844,167,708; 1845, 166,789.

In the first three years• there were 497,166 deaths; in
the last three years, 496,698. The population increased
in the districts from which returns have been rrocured,
about 1 74 (nearly 1) per cent. annually, in the intervals
of the last censuses, and the excess of births over deaths
has continued, so that it may be sa'ely assumed that the

about 9 per cent in-the five years, from the middle of
1839-40 to the middle of 1843-b. Now. the deaths, in-
sttad of increasing with the population 9 per cent, arid

to 541,960 in the last three years

were 496,601

, 5,262 than if the rate of mortalityhich prevailed in the three years 1838-40 had been sus-
_

ed for by other circa

s; but As far as ran be st

oval of

of employ

trent, and, we may hope. a consequent amelioration in
the condition of the great body of the people in the dense
town districts of the kingdom. Bt

eniiet get

—.— ... ..lis or any neighbouring pnpuotion, may speecov
reverse the results of th‘tablesand carry off the thousands
of lives that appear to have been spared and saved.

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