The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-02-08 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,—In consequence of the repeated shocking accidents
which have lately taken place in Liverpool, owing to the Ig-
norant and careless persons employed in our warehouses,
and after the shocking death of poor Captain Ellis last Tues-
day, occasioned by such mismanagement, I think it high time
that the inhabitants of this large mercantile town should
rouse themselves, and try to remedy this gross evil. Of
course, accidents will occur with the best of us, but in the
case of poor Ellis he came by his death as all others have
done, through sheer carelessness, and such persons I say
ought to be severely punished, and made an example of. It
is a well-known fact, that scarcely a day passes over our heads
but some one has a narrow escape of his life by bags of cotton
rolling out of the warehouses and falling out of the slings.
Of course, this is owing to the employing improper people;
and it will always be the case without some person in each
warehouse is made responsible. Now, being an old sailor
myself, I should strongly recommend that an old sailor should
be employed in each warehouse, and go by the name of
slingsman ; and that he alone should be responsible for all
accidents that might happen through carelessness. I know
no class of people so well fitted for this situation as seamen,
as they are in the daily habit of taking in and discharging
cargoes, and it is very seldom an accident occurs through
their ignorance of either slinging, or hoisting, or lowering
with can-hooks : for this reason—they know properly how to
sling every individual thing that the ship's cargo consists of.
Do you think, that, if a sailor had been employed in the
warehouse, and on the duty I propose to pine him, that
Captain Ellis would have met with such a shocking death ?
I say, decidedly not ; for he would have known better, as
experience would have taught him that the staves of a madder
cask are good for nothing, and scarcely to be trusted to the
can-hooks until you can get the slings underneath them. I
also think that a sailor would be useful in another respect;
that is, he would know when a rope would be safe for the
purpose required, both for slings and fall, and keep them
properly in order.

• I, myself, have repeatedly pointed out stranded rope hoisting
cotton, and have got nothing but abuse for my pains. One
person told me I knew nothing about a rope, that the rope
was a good one, and had been in that same state six weeks !
You will perceive, that, through the ignorance of these people
we are in jeopardy of our lives every day.

, . . .
I should also recommend, for the safety of the unsuspecting
public, where any hoisting or lowering is going on in any
warehouse, that there should be a hurdle placed on each side
of the warehouse underneath, so as to prevent persons from
passing.

I also think that it would be very advisable to every owner
of warehouses to adopt the London plan, in having a tilt-
board to every floor, to haul up and let down by a chain. I
consider it an excellent plan, as neither casks, cotton, bags,
oa any other article of merchandize can ever through neglect
roll out into the street when the said board is up, and when
a cotton-bag or a cask once enter within the said board it is
cut of all danger.
I should also strongly recommend to every master lumper
a slingsman, as the persons generally employed are the lower
order of Irish, who scarcely know the difference between a
rope and a chain cable. It is melancholy to see the accidents
that happen daily through the ignorance of those poor crea-
tures.—Yours, &c., D. T.

POVERTY OF THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICT OF MAN-
CHESTER.—The receipts of Monday and Tuesday's Anti-
Corn-law Bazaar, of Manchester, for the support of their in-
cendiary missionaries, were—first day, £1,684 165.7 ;
second day, £1,501 s.—of which £4BB was received at the
doors, and £2,698 at the stalls, &c., making in the two first
of six days, £3,186 !! ! We are credibly informed that the
next step of, political agitation on the part of the Manchester
league, seeing that any system of annoyance against the
aristocracy will be encouraged by certain classes of dissenters,
is to be an assault regularly organised against the established
church, recommending the non-payment of tithes and church
rates.—Stockport Advertiser.

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Several extensive and destructive fires occurred in London
on Saturday.
The Leominster election takes place to-day, when it is
expected Mr. Arkwright, a staunch Conservative, will walk
the course.—The Taunton election is fixed for the following
day, when it is expected the Conservative candidate will be
returned.

LIVES LOST IN LONDON.—On Thursday morning, the
lower part of an old house, in Charles-street, Drury-lane,
which a number of bricklayers' inen were pulling down, fell
with a tremendous crash, burying. several persons under
the ruins. Two lives were lost by this appalling calamity.
A PATRIOTIC ENGLISHMAN.—SOIne one was telling a
worthy son of Albion a day or two ago of the splendid burst
of enthusiasm made the other day by Marshal S6bastiani,
when he exclaimed,—" If I were not a Frenchma❑ I should
wish to be an Englishman. " After having explained to our
magnanimous ally attic other side of the Channel the meaning
of the above exclamation, he was asked whether he felt that he
could say as much with regard to France. "As for me,
replied this thorough John Bull, " if I were not an English-
man I should wish to be an Englishman."—La France.
The Gloucester Diocesan Board of Education have esta-
blished a school at Bristol, to the Head Mastership of which
the Rev. Francis Laing, M.A., has been unanimously ap-
pointed.

The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. David
Sutherland to the Church at Strathy, in the parish of Farr,
in the presbytery of Tongue and shire of Sutherland, vacant
by the transportation of the Rev. A. M'Gillivray to the
Church and Parish of Dairsie, in the presbytery of Cupar
and shire of Fife.—Gazette.

The French correspondent of the London Times states that
the treaty of the five powers, for the suppression of the slave
trade, will not be ratified on the part of France. The treaty
was to be ratified on the 20th, which will not be unless it
undergo some important modifications.

A true bill was returned on Friday, at the Central Crirni
nal Court, against Lord Ashburton, Francis Baring, and
Henry Mildmay, for a conspiracy to bribe members of the
Mexican Legislature to pass a law preventing foreigners from
holding land, to the detriment of the prosecutor. The opi-
nion of the Recorder was that the Court had no jurisdiction
in the case.

A stock of bees belonging to Mrs. Bishop, of Leigh, were
in full charm at twelve o'clock at night on Old Christmas
eve, showing every indication of their intention to swarm, as
in the hottest days of summer.—Sherborne Journal.
FORTY " BLACK Cnows."—On Tuesday se'nnight the
frost was so severe in the neighbdurhuod of Horncastle, that
on the farm of Mr. I3etts, of Benniworth, forty crows were
taken up alive by the hand, their wings being so frozen as to
prevent their flying.—Lincoln 2lfercury.

The following are the receipts of the railways for the last
week, that is to say, up to the date to which the respective
returns are made :—Blackwall, £563 ; Hull and Selby, £694 ;
Manchester and Birmingham, £306 ; Eastern Counties,
£641 ; Birmingham. £12,988 ; Northern and Eastern. £839 ;
South Western, £3145 ; North Midland, £3727 ; Midland
Counties, £2156 ; Great Western, £10,475 ; York and North
Midland, £l2Bl ; and Birmingham and Gloucester, £1477.

A shocking tragedy occurred at Toynton, St. Peter's, on
Monday morning last. Francis Jeffery, an old man, having
had some words with his wife, took the poker and beat her
so as to break her arms and fracture her skull in a dreadful
manner, in consequence of which she died in a few hours.
Jeffery has been considered deranged for some months, and
since the death of his wife has attempted to cut his own
t h oat.—Stonford Mercury.
A most disgraceful affair lately occurred at Stoke. A
young man for the sake of two quarts of ale, promised him
by a dastardly scoundrel, providing he would for one half
hour turn his hand round in a bowl of snow, thinking no
harm, immediately agreed to accomplish it, the inhuman
wretch having contrived to convey a quantity of salt into the
bowl. The victim, unconscious of the trick intended, pro-
ceeded with his task. We are not aware that he completed.
it; but suffice it to say, the effect was such as might be ex-
pected—viz., the loss of his band.—Staffordshire Gazette.

PRESBYTERIAN MARRIAGES.—At a public meeting of
the ministers and laity of the Presbytery of Antrim and Ul-
ster, held in Belfast, on Wednesday last, the following reso-
lution, amongst others, was passed :—" That, in our opinion,
it is essential to the well-being of the community, to the sa-
tisfaction of the minds of dissenters, and to the prevalence of
peace and harmony between the different religious denomi-
natinos, that the law of marriage in Ireland be henceforth
definitely settled by an act of parliament, founded on the basis
of religious liberty, and affording equal advantages to all
sects ; and that as all religious dnominations in England
and Scotland enjoy a perfect equality of privelege, as to the
right of celebrating marriage, we trust to the justice of par-
liament to concede an equal measure of religious liberty to
Ireland."

THE PRINCE OF WALES.—We understand that the An-
cient Britons of the Principality looked forward with intense
anxiety to the names of the Prince of Wales, hoping fervently
her Majesty would perpetuate the name of an Arthur, a Cad-
walladr, or a Llewellyn ; but on finding that " Albert Ed-
ward" only were to be his designation, they bore it with ad-
mirable temper, and ingeniously tried to reconcile themselves
to their disappointment by the discovery that the etymology
of Albert will bear a Welsh interpretation of the most appro-
priate and significant description—which they. hope her
gracious Majesty was aware of-211(in Welsh) being a Welsh
prefix that always hi
"ghly enhances the affixed epithet ; and
" Pert," or " Bert, being one of the Welsh primitives—
hence Albert implies in Welsh " The exalted lovely one"
(or loveliest), which certainly is an appellation most admi-
rably suited to this royal heir of England, Scotland, Ireland
and Wales. ,

SUICIDE.—A most melancholy case of suicide occurred
yesterday evening, about six o'clock, in the rear of Bucking-
ham-place, North Strand. The deceased, whose name was
Cresswell, and who filled the situation of book-keeper in the
office of the Liverpool Steam Packet Company, had for the
last three weeks been labouring under an aberration of mind,
and was so severely affected that it was found necessary to
commit him to the care of a keeper. About the hour above
stated, the man to whose care lie was committed was sent on
a message by the sister of the deceased, who undertook to
watch the patient until his return ; but he had scarcely left
the room when the unfortunate maniac leaped through a
window sixty or seventy feet from the ground, and was killed
on the spot. His.remains were removed into the house, and
an inquest was held this day on the body. On last Monday
week he made an ineffectual attempt at self-destruction by
throwing himself into the canal.—Dublin Mail.
We regret to learn that about four o'clock on Wednesday
morniug-last the life of E. C. Lister, Esq., was attempted
at his residence at Fairfield House. We believe the circum-
stances of the attack are as follow :—Mr. Lister was disturb-
ed by some noise, and perceived a man with some instrument
about to strike him, Mr L. immediately sprung up and
said, " You have no occasion to murder me—what do you
want ?" He replied, he had come on purpose to murder him.
Mr. Lister seized him, wrenched the instrument out of his
hand, threw him on his back, and was about to strike him on
the head with it, but threw it to a distance, and then let him
get up. He immediately made another spring, and Mr.
Lister again threw him down. One of the servants then
came in and said, "It is the butler. " Mr. Lister exclaim-
•ed, "Oh, James, what could induce you to do this ?" He
replied, a man with large black whiskers had haunted and
tempted him to do it. Mr. Lister perceived that he was de-
ranged, and had a surgeon sent for, who bled him, and he
then expressed his sorrow, but reiterated the statement about
the man tempting him. He was an old and confidential
servant, and has for the last 10 years been in connection with
the Wesleyans. He has since been removed to the York
Lunatic Asylum.—Bradford Observer.

SINGULAR SCENE.—Burton-on-Trent was-made the scene
of a very unusual and remarkable occurrence on Tuesday
morning last. It appears that a dispute exists between two
gentleman respecting the site upon which stands a new
building, erected by one of them. After considerable liti-
gation, and tired, perhaps, of " law's delays," the last-named
gentleman determined upon razing to the ground the disputed
building.vi et arinis. Accordingly he marched a troop armed
with pickaxes, &c., to the scene, but found it pre-occupied
by a defensive party, most effectually equipped. The leaders
themselves were not without their accoutrements, the one
wielding a most formidable and longtailed pitchfork, and the
other a no less dangerous hatchet ! The attack was not
commenced, however, owing to the display of the enemy
indicating that a quid pro quo was intended ; and the bellige-
rent parties continued to face each other from morning till
midday, inactive though so hostile. At length Mr. Butt, of
Cotton-hall, a magistrate, very opportunely arrived, and fear-
ful that the peace of the town might be broken, menaced the
parties with the reading of the Riot Act, upon which they
immediately ,dispersed. The affair created a great deal of
amusement and considerable apprehension of serious conse-
quences, and some hundreds of the inhabitants assembled to
watch the proceeding.—Staffordshire paper.

THE REV. ROST. MONTGOMERY AND M. D'AUBIGNE.
—Mr. Montgomery having sent a copy of his new poem,
called " Luther," to the French historian of the Reforma-
tion, has been favoured with the following reply :—(Tran-
slation.)—Sir,—l have not received the books which you
have had the kindness to send me, and I wrote to Paris, in
order that they may be sent as soon as possible. Your name,
sir, is not unknown—it is dear to all the friends of religious
poetry ; and it will be with great interest that I shall read
the poem of which you speak—consecrated to the great re-
former. Luther himself was a highly distinguished Christian
poet. Happy are we, sir, if, verse or prose, we can exalt the
great cause of the gospel, which is not that of a particular
church, neither that of an ecclesiastical government, or of
the fathers or doctors, but which is the cause of Christ, con-
sequently that of man. Accept my thanks for your present
—the expression of my Christian sentiments.
(Signed) MERLE D'AUDIGNE.
COMMERCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND.—A general meeting
of the shareholders of this suspended bank was held osi Wed-
nesday last, at the Athenaeum, Manchester, when reports
of the directors and the inspectors of the accounts of the
bank were laid before the meeting. It appeared from these
reports, that, notwithstanding the difficulties of the times,
and some unexpected losses, the liabilities had been reduced,
during the last half-year, by the sum of .1-.:34,432 • and an'
they amounted, on the 29th ult., to 4:111,666 ; of which sum:
£59,656 is owing to shareholders, and £43,472 to otheiPacr..
ties. The amount of probable loss, in winding uP Inflalt.
counts, in addition to that mentioned at the previon_ally
yearly meeting, was stated to be £6,502, arising Ohr'otai
from a farther deficiency at Birmingham ;
°akin& balance
loss of bad debts, £203,431 ; and leaving an aP P aar, estimated
to the credit of the shareholders, after deductingeUy
losses, of £57,500. The reports were unanimously 1
by the shareholders.
OVER
THE POLITICAL SUPERIORITY OF PROTESTANTISM
st
Which strikes the
POPERY.—I will not speak of the contrauent
Dr. Chalmers)
approved
eye of every traveller (says the 9
dustrious population of
I will not speak of the moral and in,
between the Catholic and Protestan
their "Ineasurable superior-
the United Provinces, or tell of
all that makes for the superi.
the people of Spain,
!eicciantous of Switzerland.
ity in virtue and freedom, and ,
soever
d despotism—the land of
vvhom they nobly revolted,
their proud oppressors eget h
T e lesson may be learned by us
°thriattYlaonr land at once well-beingof soufpae rus
cal:trot nn
and as nobly triumphed•
ho runs may read it in Ireland
and in the course of a few days
tent as the light of day, that the
rapid travelling. :1! h marks off the distinction between the
wax
nearer
drtehr ahtoomne; cuLilt2errYailsgi3ripo9hnecew'
same geography
1.0 marks off the distinction between, on the
,amilies ; and on the other a land teeming with
two faiths, al-Li-ad of industry and peace, with a population
orders—a land of mendicity and midnight tums;
political dis
ce
is abroad in their streets and high w. • nand
where violen
..
h 1 ' h found, wt
home in then• wretchedove s, t ere are and almost
at
oofthtehrrihvainngd'ra
invariably, the filth and the squalid destitution of perhaps the
worst conditioned peasantry in Europe. Let us have but the
names of the Popish and Protestant countries, and we could
learn from the map which is the region of grievous and gene-
ral distress, of unequalled turbulence, and incessant agitation;
and which the region of prosperous industry, of peaceful and
orderly habits, and of decent respectable sufficiency, even
down to the lowest labourers of the soil. The truth is open
to us through many channels, and by various statistics, as the
amount of crime and number of commitments in the province
of Ulster when compared with the rest of Ireland—the propor-
tion of military required in these two great departments, to
protect from outrage, and maintain the authority of govern-
ment—the vagrancy that meets us everywhere in the one
territory, and is comparitively rare in the other. These all
speak for themselves • and if our statesmen are afraid of the
theological question, ;,ve ask them to take it up as a question
\
of Policy, and tell us in the name of all that is dear to Protes-
tantism, whether it were better to have a nation of
or a nation a Protestants in that unhappy land. Papists

snrances of their earnest desire to maintain

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