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

of all our friends.

'eenth Century. Southern Division

g the concluding portion of
ow published. It describes, almost exclusively,
mines in that remarkable western county, and

Part 5, bl

g them, and on these points it is itse
rmation. The few, but well-adaptec
r are here detailed, with wood-cuts c
.s used in ascending and descending

umps, kibbles, entrances to the seve

&c. The following short extrac

nt of the miner is very liable to accident;
'escend to his labour, and to ascend after
t hours, but he has in many cases to
at depth below the surface before he
of work ; and so deep are the mines, that
..osts an hour to reach the surface after his
Jne. Few have an idea of the magnitude of a
.line of the more extensive kind ; but some notion
formed of the vastness of the workings, when we
)at those of the Consolidated Mines alone extend 63
ground, or 55,000 fathoms. The ascent and de-
ay ladders, which were formerly perpendicular to
,s of the mine, and fifty feet long ; but as the mines
yen worked deeper, the ladders have been shortened to
\t length, and placed as slopingly as possible, to ease
er, whose weight is thus rendered more dependent
feet than it was before, and less upon his hands."

Cornish miners are, it appears, a superior class of la-
s, and are very different, morally and physically consi-
from the degraded and unhealthy labourers in coal
He is even superior to the agricultural labourer, has
gee and a comfortable cottage, and employs his leisure
cultivation of an acre or two of ground, or, if he
near the sea, in fishing. Many of the workings are of
t extent, and some of them even under the ocean. At
Botallack mine, near the Land's End, the workings are
a the verge of a cliff overlooking the Atlantic, and are
ied out 480 feet beyond low-water mark ; and in some
es, not 18 feet between the workings and the sea, the
ring of which is distinctly beard by the miners. " The
ire of the work of the Cornish miner," says our author,
ay be further estimated from the fact of the shafts alone
le mine being together twenty miles in depth beneath the
Ice, and some 1652 feet deep, or nearly five times the
ht of St Paul's, from the cross to the ground. The
at adit,' cut from side to side of the county, measure
than thirty miles, including its branches; and in sou
sit is 400 feet below the surface of the ground. T 1
!st branch of this adit is five and a-half miles, and
opens into the sea above high-water mark at Restrong'
Cr

urs in t

This is tunnelling of some character, and evinc
lv the perseverance, ingenuity, and hazardous n

ndertakings, as well as the character of those

them into effect." A pleasing account
.iven of a descent of the author and some friends into one
The reader will here find, too, estimates
of the vast wealth in copper, tin, silver, &c., annually dug
" from the bowels of the harmless earth." The steam-
engines for pumping out the water are the largest in the
world, some of them being upwards of eleven hundred horse
power. One of these is described, which pumps directly
from a depth of 1600 feet. The number concludes with a

r mines

Inca4l4 account of some of the most interesting portions of
the el)tultrY above ground, and there is an appendix contain-
with th by " Statistic Relations of Cornwall"—the whole,
e pre...l:-
ll' „,..-cwg numbers, forming "AN ILLUSTRATED
aso IN"
07t TRZ COUNTY OF CORNWALL." The part
contains a beautiful engraving
on the Tamar. on steel of the new bridge

THE LACE TRADE. 'r
-light degree imp-joy-IT fancy bobbin-net trade is in
:e trade ; or more strictly may be said of the whole of
than it has been for y peaking, it is not worse this
someA time past.—Ulster Times.
IGHTFUL ACCIDENT.
'ng the death of Margaret"lrd inquiry took place
, who was killed on
morning by falling down t:eana
Cave Hill. From the
-,f her sister, it appeared thatva
deceased had arranged
g
g manwalk t with o
the Cave -lii whom she
eeping company, to
1- expecting to return
,and they left home
,e
Cave-Hill, J m./407tile time the tea
1 deceased, happened to slip 0' able Young man
way down,
'ate girl ran to his assistan
d-
'ou can walk none," and inan:Zinlsg, in a
she was
-I r ecipitated down the rocks, e;depth of
200 feet. The young man
saw her
' over three times in the descent among
was deprived of sight and sense. Theg
lent occurred was about ten perches
ong the Deer-Park Wall. Deceased's
man and young man saw the girl alive
--1, She died on her way to

lETY FOR BUILDING CHURCHES
ry full meeting of the acting
cohmeldmit-
e and most useful society was
Tra-
on
Chambers, in St. Mart-place,
Lord Bishop of Durham pre,.
.—Towards whuaisldvii3ntgm ag churchrnone
for building a chapel
h at Lladynidd,
Aaaaerminster, Worcestershire ; building a
tagrela ;cbliguailtde:
'y, Gloucestershire • building a chapel at
; rebuilding the church at Llanamore,
cowards enlarging the church at Arlington,
enlarging by rebuilding the church at Basford,
Ire; towards repairing the church at Holme,
towards building a gallery in and repewing the
South
Lynn, Norfolk ; repairing the church at
d Abbas,
Dorset ; building a chapel at Crook, Dur-
enlarging the church at Burghfield, Berkshire ; en-
g the chapel at Newton Heath, Manchester ; being in

business transac►

Hampshire

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all sixteen grants, amounting to several thousand pounds, all
supplied by voluntary subscriptions to enlarge the means of
nu"'tut inatructigD) chiefly by increasing free Aittings•