The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-21 00:00:00

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PRINTING.—CharIes the Second's parliament passed an
act, that only twenty printers should practise their art in the
kingdom. About six shillings current was paid for one and
a half hour's reading in 1685.
Loss OF LIFE BY. BATHING.—Last week, 17 persons were
drowned while bathing in the river Thames, between London
Bridge and Battersea, besides many others below the bridge
and in the canals. Since last Sunday, 8 more have perished.
—Standard, Wednesday.
A terrific hurricane burst upon Brest on the 9th instant,
which caused much injury. Heavy claps of thunder were
followed by a fall of enormous hailstones, which broke the
greater part of the windows in the town. Some persons were
killed and many severely wounded.
EXTENSIVE FIRE AT BURY.—On Friday morning, about
ten o'clock, a fire broke out in the factory of Mr( James
Witworth, of Bury, and notwithstanding that it continued
little more than an hour, upwards of £2OOO worth of pro-
perty was destroyed.
It is expected, in consequence of the approaching great
agricultural meeting at Bristol, at which Prince Albert and
several foreign princes will be present, the receipts on the
Great Western Railway will exceed £20,000, from the 11th
to the 18th of July next.

DISCONTINUANCE OF 'WORKING FEMALES IN COAL
MINES.—During the past week the colliers in the employ of
the Earl of Balcarris, have received notice that the working
of females in the colliery will be discontinued as soon as the
necessary arrangements can be made for that purpose.—
Bolton Chronicle.

HONOURS FOR TILE BRAVE.—DOWNING-STREET, JUNE
16, 1841.—The Queen has been graciously pleased to nomi-
nate and appoint Colonel Sir Robert Henry Sale, Knight
Commander of the Most Honourable Military Order of the
Bath, serving with the rank of Major-General in Affghanis-
tan, to be a Knight Grand Cross of the said order.
COLLIERS IN LANCASHIRE.—From the statistical state-
ment of trades, &c., in Lancashire, we learn that there are
330 collieries in that county, employing, when in full work,
about 1,400 persons. The yearly consumption of coal by
all the steam-engines is estimated at about 3,000,000 tons.
THE GARRISON OF GHUZNEE.—" AHNIEDABAD, April
22, 1842.—Intelligence has just arrived that these poor fel-
lows have been destroyed to a man. There were about 25
officers and 700 men, sick included. The sepoys could not
hold their muskets, and the Ghazis referred to in the P.S.,
perceiving this, closed upon and destroyed them."
THE HORSE ATTlLA.—Colonel Anson has, it is said, won
by the Derby, £22,000 ; Lord Chesterfield, £12,000. The
horse Attila, the winner, was taken by Colonel Anson in ex-
change for a doubtful debt of £220 or £l4O. His first win-
ning was £3,000, his second £B,OOO ; so that in all he has
returned the lucky possessor £33,000, a profitable enough
exchange for a suspicious or bad debt.—British Queen.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council having di-
rected that the costs of all the parties who litigated the will
of the late Mr. James Ward, of Gloucester, should be paid
out of the estate, the proctors attended the court of surro-
gates on Tuesday week with their bills, as taxed in the regis-
try, for the purpose of being sworn to them, and of their
being signed by the court. The aggregate sum of these
costs was £17,535. • -

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differences resulting from the reckoning where the more
wholesale price involves a figure or fractional part of a sum
which cannot be equally resolved and represented by any
piece of coin now legally current.
The last advices from Alexandria afford satisfactory proof
of the desire of 'Mehemet Ali to cultivate and promote the
interests and conciliate the friendship of this country. In
compliance with the wishes of the Oriental Steam Naviga-
tion Company he has allowed them to place steam-vessels on
the canal of Alexandria—a point on which he had been
hitherto very tenacious. The Pasha had also given orders
for clearing snd otherwise improving the road between Cairo
and Suez, for building transit depots, an hotel at Suez, and
making other arrangements for facilitating intercourse with
India via Egypt.
INDIA AND CHINA.—EXTRA MAIL.—The extra mail
from Calcutta was to leave Calcutta by the India steamer on
the 28th of April, and may be now daily expected, having
been out 47 days. The last mail sent by this route left Cal-
cutta on the 10th of January, and reached this country on the
27th of February, making 48 days' including some loss of
time at the coaling stations. The dates from Calcutta will
be about eight days later than by' the last overland mail, and
may probably bring some news from that city, and from
China. From Bombay or Affghanistan, however, no later
accounts can be expected.
WESTMINSTER ABBEY.—By the recent report " on the
present state of national monuments, made by order of Par-
liament," it appears that the dean and chapter of Westmin-
ster Abbey (868) " have given orders for a portion of their
ornamental fund to be laid out upon a splendid painted glass
window, to be put up immediately in the south transept."
The abbey being rather deficient in this species of ornament,
it will have a very imposing effect, besides that of giving a
seasonable impetus to artists who are endeavouring to effec-
tually revive this interesting art.
TENDER OF SILVER COIN.—By the act 14 Geo. 111., C.
42, sec. 2, it is enacted, " That no tender in the payment of
money, made in the silver coin of this realm, of any sum ex-
ceeding tae sum of twenty-five pounds, at any one time, shall
be refuted in law, or allowed to be a legal tender within
Great Britain or Ireland, for more than according to its value
by weight, after the rate of five shillings and twopence for
each ounce of silver; and no person to whom such tender
shall be made shall be anyway bound thereby, or obliged to
receive the same in payment, in any other manner than as
aforesaid ; any law, statute, or usage to the contrary, not-
withstanding.
HAVRE, JUNE 11.—The agent of a Liverpool steam packet
company has been here inquiring into the port and harbour
dues for steam vessels. The Liverpool company is about to
put on two vessels to run between Southampton and this
port, in opposition to the South Western and South of Eng-
land companies. The consequence of the opposition will be
that the shares will be reduced considerably. The Liverpool
company will also run a vessel between Southampton and
the Channel Islands. The intercourse between Havre and
Southamptom increases. There is a daily communication,
and every vessel carries between 40 and 50 cabin passengers.
PROSPECTS OF THE GROUSE SEASON.—Accounts from
the moors represent the present as the most favourable sea-
son for hill game which has been experienced for years. The
rainy and stormy autumn and early winter last season, pre-
vented the usual destruction among the young birds, so that
there was an abundant supply of breeders for this year. Eggs
were found on the low and sheltered grounds by the middle
of April, and upon the higher Grampians by the end of it.
The dry and warm weather which followed in May was
greatly in favour of the young broods, while the occasional
showers which took place during the latter half of the month
supplied them at hand with the necessary moisture, the
search for which is so often fatal to them. A continuance of
the present weather would bring the birds perhaps too rapidly
to maturity. At all events, there will certainly be no cheep-
ers to be found by the 12th of August, and the deficiency of
the returns in numbers will be more than compensated by the
quality of the game. On the whole, the ensuing grouse sea-
son is likely to be the finest experienced in the Perthshire
Highlands for many years.—Perth Courier.
ALARMING FIRE AT COLNE.—On Wednesday morning,
last about half-past two o'clock, the cotton spinning mill
belonging to Mr. Sagar, of Carry bridge, near Colne, was
discovered to be on fire, and so rapid was the dovouring
element, that about five o'clock the roof of the old part of
the mill fell in. One fire engine was upon the spot soon
after three o'clock, another from Barrowford and three from
Burnley arrived as soon afterwards as the distance from the
respective places would permit, by means of which the
steam engine, water-wheel, and sizing house, were preserved
entire ; bnt, the upper rooms and roof of the new part of the
mill are much injured. The flames were subdued about
eight o'clock, and soon afterwards the front wall fell, leav-
ing the old part of the mill, with the exception of the back
wall which is still standing, a complete wreck. At the time
of writing this, no information has been obtained how the
fire originated. The hands left work at half-past five on
the preceding afternoon, and the mill was accidently seen
by the proprietor at half-past ten o'clock that evening, and
by three other persons was past it is as late as twelve o'clock
when all appeared safe. In the forenoon of Wednesday, a
box containing, lucifer matches was found about 50 yards
beyond the mill, which causes little or no doubt that the fire
has been the work of an incendiary. The hands in this and
the neighbouring mills, some of their proprietors, two gentle-
men from Burnley, and numerous other individuals, came
forward to assist in staying the progress of the flames with
a praiseworthy alacrity highly creditable to themselves.
The mill and contents are insured in the Norwich Union
Fire Office.

ACCIDENT ON TIIE BRUSSELS RAILROAD.—The Moniteur
Beige gives the following account of an accident which took
place on Saturday, on the Brussels Railroad, near Mon
Plaisir :—" An unevenly-turned eccentric—a piece of me-
chanism by which the rails are displaced, to give a passage
from one line of rails to another—caused the train to get offthe rails, but, fortunately, without any person being injured.
The engineer perceived what was taking place sufficiently
soon to use the cheek and stop the movement, but not in
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time to prevent part of the train from going off, and over-
turning on an embankment, with some damage to the panels.
Another locomotive having immediately arrived to their
assistance from Brussels, the travellers proceeded on their
journey in such of the carriages as remained on the rail.
The engineer, it appears, showed great presence of mind.
The moment the travellers had departed, measures were
taken to clear the road for the other trains, and the carriages
which were overturned were thrown over into a meadow be-
low. It was the sight of these carriages which led the
travellers in the other trains to suppose that the persons who
were in them must have been overturned also into the depth
below. The minister of public works and the director of
the railroad immediately repaired to the spot to examine into
the matter."—The Observateur of Brussels states that the
train consisted of thirteen carriages, and that although the
engineer acted with great prompitude, the violence of the
shock was sufficiently great to more or less damage the car-
riages. Some persons received slight contusions, one of
which was a luxation of the wrist, with a slight cut. Physicians
immediately came from Brussels, and paid every attention to
such travellers as complained.—The Independant states that
the person wounded was one of the men employed on the
railroad, and adds, that a lady received a severe bruise on the
head. The same paper mentions that another accident oc-
curred the day after from a similar cause. The train from
Malines had arrived at the stations of the Rue Neuve
and
the Allee Verte, when the eccentric broke. The train im-
mediately got off the rail, but was stopped almost imme-
diately. The tender was damaged, but no person was hurt.
The service was suspended for two hours.