The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-20 00:00:00

rary department exhibits much classical
iwearied research, and the reader is carried
ngled stream of the descrip-
traditional. The account of

!Me and very ancient mansion, is
sties of Whalley, with its church
depicted. " Clitheroe "

'—to use

" reminds us of the Norman

valry Stonyhurst, of new Roman
)ey, of the old." All the remains
atcresting objects in the surround-
etched. The account of Wadding-
feeblest of monarchs, Henry VI.,

.00n after captured, is interesting.
ions of Mitton next claim attention,

" princely Stonyhurst," the descrip-
a a considerable portion of the number.
for the part it was found impossible to

to the pressing engagements of the

en with the next number. The il-
its are numerous and well executed, and,
number will be found to be highly enter-

nstructi ye

ion of the Iron Skew Bridge across the'Regent's
on the .Eastern Counties Railway. By Edward
n, Assoc. Inst. C.E.

fridge is built with a direct span of 54 feet, at an
79° with the centre line of the canal. The level of
is 14 feet 6 inches above the water, and it is con-

to have a water-way of 44 feet with a clear headway
t above the towing path. The dimensions of the
parts of the bridge, and the mode of putting them
with the masonry and the cost of the construction,
:ribed in detail and illustrated by an elaborate work-

ks an appendix to this paper a description is
s bridge over the same canal, on the line of the Lon-
gham Railway, on account of the similarity
struction. The span of this latter bridge is 50 feet,
made for two double lines of rails it was thought
nt to have three main ribs instead of two, as in the
The details of construction of this bridge are also
vith a drawing of one of the main ribs and its tie-bar.

9 on some late Publications from Oxford. By an
wet Layman. London : Hatchard and Son.
:marks here published by an aged Layman, were ori-
ddressed to the editor of the Morning Herald, and
leased to see their re-production in a separate form.
!rstand they proceed from the pen of the venerable
the Rev. Carus Wilson, of Casterton, and formerly
for Cockermouth. They establish the fact (of which,
there could be no doubt) of the Popery of the Oxford
ns, and of the existence of members of the College
aors. The " Remarks" are written in

tractari
of Jesu

s at our very d

a very temperate, yet convincing, style, and we recommend
them to the notice of all our friends.

England in the Nineteenth Century. Southern'
CORNW ALL. Part 5, being the concluding portion of
Cornwall, is now published. It describes, almost exclusively,
the principai mines in that remarkable western county, and
the manner of working them, and on these points it is itself
a perfect mine of information. The few, but well-adapted,
tools used by the miner are here detailed, with wood-cuts of
the ladders used in ascending and descending,
shafts, the engine-pumps, kibbles, entrances to the seve-
ral levels, the adits, &c., &c. The following short extract

;—also,

" The employment of the miner is very liable to accident ;
he has not only to descend to his labour, and to ascend after
it is over, every eight hours, but he has in many cases to
traverse levels at a great depth below the surface before he
reaches his place of work ; and so deep are the mines, that
it frequently costs an hour to reach the surface after his
labour is done. Few have an idea of the magnitude of a
Cornish mine of the more extensive kind ; but some notion
may be formed of the vastness of the workings, when we
stlite that those of the Consolidated Mines alone extend 63
miles under ground, or 55,000 fathoms. The ascent and de-
scent are by ladders, which were formerly perpendicular to
the sides of the mine, and fifty feet long ; but as the mines
have been worked deeper, the ladders have been shortened to
half that length, and placed as slopingly as possible, to ease
the miner, whose weight is thus rendered more dependent
upon his feet than it was before, and less upon his hands."
The Cornish miners are, it appears, a superior class of la-
bourers, and are very different, morally and physically consi-
dered, from the degraded and unhealthy labourers in coal
pits. He is even superior to the agricultural labourer, has
fair wages and a comfortable cottage, and employs his leisure
hours in the cultivation of an acre or two of ground, or, if he
live near the sea, in fishing. Many of the workings are of
great extent, and some of them even under the ocean. At
the Botailack mine, near the Land's End, the workings are
upon the verge of a cliff overlooking the Atlantic, and are
carried out 430 feet beyond low-water mark ; and in some
places, not 1S feet between the workings and the sea, the
heaving of which is distinctly heard by the miners. " The
natura of the work of the Cornish miner," says our author,
" fa:6ler estimated from the fact of the shafts alone
of one mine being together twenty miles in depth beneath the
surface, and some 1652 feet deep, or nearly five times the
of St Paul's, from the cross to the ground. The

from side to side of the county, measures
ty miles, including its branches; and in some
feet below the surface of the ground. The
of this adit is five and a-half miles, and it
; sea above high-water mark at Restronget

Tbis is tunnelling of some character, and evinces
andantly the perseverance, ingenuity, and hazardous na-
.e of the:a undertakings, as well as the character of those
.0 plan and carry them into effect." A pleasing account
given of a descent of the author and some friends into one
the larger mines. The reader will here find, too, estimates
the vast wealth in copper, tin, silver, &c., annually dug
from the bowels of the harmless earth." The steam-
'noes for pumping out the water are the largest in the
°,rvid, some of them being upwards of eleven hundred horse
0
er. One of these is described, which pumps directly

trona a depth of 1600 f

The number concludes with a

r•--" Lit account of some of the most interesting portions of
the county above ground, and there is an appendix contain-
ing valuable " Statistic Relations of Cornwall"—the whole,
with the preceding numbers, forming " AN ILLUSTRATED
ITINERARY OF THZ CODNTY OF CORNWALL." The part
also
on the Tacontai mar. ns a beautiful engraving on steel of the new bridge

HE LACE TRADE. Tt---'---,,,e fan
proved
slight degree improved, cv bobbin net trade is in
ce trade ; or more at • 'taal„, may be said of the whole of
°.A 04e vast._ jungoetr worse
7i this
than it has been for snocM' "'king.
GHTFUL ACCIDENT.
us,
who _was.i—k.. place
'rig the death of MargaretVna inquiry tn:les.
:a_ling down
y morning by 1 1 the: Fromilled on
ice of her sister, it appeared thatedave Rill.
young man with whom she was reased had arranged the
morning walk to the Cave-Hill
, aging company,
six o'clock, expecting to return bydolhey left 110,into
ady. At the Cave-Hill, J M'Keown, the time the tea
Tolnpanied deceased, happened to slip oniii,rung man
e unfortunate girl ran to his assistance, 6:',Y clown,
• way, " You can walk none," and instantly in
—lanced and precinita:ed down the rocks, a he was
Ably from 150 to 200 feet. The young man
sapwthhof
clothes flying over and over three times in the descent arrnmer
the rocks, and then he was deprived of sight and sense. Thge
place where the accident occurred wa
as
Wabaout ten p
eceerased 'ches
s
from M'Art's Fort, along the Deer-Pall. D
sister and another woman and young man saw the girl alive
after the fall, but unable to speak. She died on her way to
town.— Ulster Time

jocular

BUIL 1%.
INCORPORATED SOCIETY FOB.
AND CHAPELS.—A very full meeting of thepl
tee of this indefatigable and most useful socient
.aGc t i nCgi cuonmc iEt s-
Monday last, at their Chambers, in St. Marti
money
-square, London ; the Lord Bishop of Durham pro-
Vpalasche,elTdroan-
sided. The principal business transacted was v
for the following purposes, viz. :—Towards building a church
at Westpool, Somerset; for building a chapel at Blackgaie
;
Durham ; building a church at Llanfynidd, Flintshirebuild'
ing a chapel at Kidderminster, Worcestershire; building a
chapel at Dursle Gloucestershire ; building a chapel at
Hardway, Hampshire; rebuilding the church at Llanarnore,
Denbighshire; towards enlarging the church at Arlington,
Devon ; for enlarging by rebuilding the church at Bastard,
Warwickshire; towards repairing the church at Holme,
Yorkshire; towards building a gallery in and repewing the
church at South Lynn, Norfolk ; repairing the church at
Bradford Abbas, Dorset ; building a chapel at Crook, Dur-
ham ; enlarging the church at Burghfield, Berkshire ; en-
larging the chapel at Newton Heath, Manchester ; being in
all sixteen grants, amounting to several thousand pounds, all
supplied by voluntary subscriptions to enlarge the means of
spiritual instruction, chiefly by increasing fro Pitting°.