The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-12-21 00:00:00

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EMBEZZ LEMENT.—WiIIi3M
clerk and townsman in Manchester for M
bury and Son. bleachers, near Chorley, has been cow.
witted for trial, charzed w

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embezzling the money o
to the extent of 4'200.

his employer

, oung woman, of bad character, named
committed suicide at the police-station,
Blackburn, yesternight week, by hanging herself from
One of the stanchions of the cell window. She had been
apprehended on a charge of felony.

SIIICIDE.-.

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AppoisTmExT.—A valuable governmenrappointment,
RS one of the senior chaplains in the Island of Ceylon, has
just been conferred upon the Rev. Jahn Wise, 8.A., of
Clare.hall, Cambridge. This gentleman• is, we are in-
formed, brother to Mr. Charles Wise, of Roscommon-

street, in tt

his town,

Scorrtsn LADIES' SOCIETY. —The annul sale, in
connection with the Ladies' Society for Clothing the
Scottish Poor, was held on Wednesday last, at the As-
sernbly.rooms, Great George-street. The articles offered
were those useful to the poorer classes, and sales to a

large extent were made

PUBLIC CHARITIES.—A sermon was preached by the
Rev. Mr. Acker, M.A.. at St. Ann's Church, Aigburth,
,y week, for the benefit of the local charities. The
“s taken from Ecclesiastes, 11th chap. 2d verse—
ortion to seven, and also to eight." The
amount collected was £57.

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Loss OF THE FAIRFIELD.—The local marine board
held an investigation, on Wednesday, into the circum-
stances attending the loss of the Fairfield, Hughes, on the
11th ult., on the coast of Anglesea, when bound with a
general cargo to Bombay. The board acquitted Captain
Hughes of blame in the matter.
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AINTREE CHARITY BALL.—This fashionable and de-
athtful assembly took place on Thursday last, at the
Grand Stand, and was the most numerously attended
meeting for years past. The excellence and completeness
of the arrangements were highly satisfactory, and the
Proceeds were, we understand, larger than usual.

THE LATE BIRKENHEAD CRUELTY CASE.—We are
informed that, on Tuesday last, a memorial praying for
the release from gaol of Mr. John Pemberton, convicted
at the recent Knutsford Sessions, was forwarded to the
home secretary, signed by about SOO gentlemen residing
in Liverpool, Birkenhead, and the neighbourhood.
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WEAVERS' TURN-CWT.—The weavers of Messrs. John
Walmsley and Co., Greenbank, Blackburn, turned out
last week. in consequence of a redaction, which they
allege to have been made in their wages, compared with
those paid by their late employer, Mr. M. Swithenbank,
but the firm deny that they have made any reduction.
MR. R. HOUGHTON, aged 24, station master and
secretary to the Preston and Longridge Railway, was
accidentally drowned yesterday week in the dam at Mr.
Marsden's mill, near Longridge. He was on his way to
Mr. Marsden's house about six o'clock that evening, and
the night being dark he is believed to have slipped into
the water.

THE ST. SILAS' CHURCH RAGGED SCHOOL has been
removed from Pembroke-street to much larger premises.
in Oak-street, where not only a large number of little
children are taken care of during the day, but upwards of
a hundred young persons, of both sexes, from eight to
twenty years of age, receive instruction during certain
evenings of the week.

HOSPITAL AT SOUTIIPORT.—A new hospital is about
to be erected at Southport. The land, worth £6OO, has
been given by C. Scarisbrick, Esq., and the plans for the
building, which is to form a square in the Tudor style of
architecture, with an open area, and to be capable of
accommodating 160 patients, have been prepared by Mr.
Thos. Withnell. The estimated cost is about £5OOO.

ARCHITECTURAL SOCIETY.—A.t the fortniehtly meet.
ing of the Architectural and Archaeological Society, on
Wednesday. Mr. Varelst in the chair, Mr. Councillor
zitham exhibited a machine illustrative of the principle
of Parker's patent method of banding pullies. An inte-
resting discussion also took place on papers contributed
by Mr. Frank Howard, on Nature and Art.

AN EVENT ANTICIPATED.—The following letter ap-
peared in the Morning Herald. of Saturday :—" To the
Editor of the Morning Herald. Sir,—Having seen in
➢our paper, a report that I am about to be married, I beg
You will contradict the same, as being totally false.—l
have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant. J. G.
torewe. 23d Regiment. Barracks, Liverpool, Dec. 15."

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ACCIDENTS.—WiIIiam Welsh, a seaman, belonging to
the Guy Mannering, was taken to the Northern Hospital
on Thursday last with a fractured leg, caused by being
thrown from the wheel by a lurch of the ship while at sea
about three weeks before.—Thomas Barrett, on the pre-
tious day, was received as an inmate of the Southern
Hospital, his skull having been fractured by the fall of a
brick from a building while he was at play in Crosby-street.

CLARE.STREET SUNDAY AND EVENING SCHOOL.—
The third annual tea meeting of the supporters of this
school was held in the school-room on Tuesday evening
last, when the Rev. V. M. White presided. The report
read on the occasion contained some highly encouraging
statements relative to the prosperity of the school. A
number of subscriptions and donations were received at
the close of the proceedings, to give a tea-party to the
children attending the school.

FIRE IN A COTTON MILL.—The spinning mill of
Messrs. Nield and Son, Ashton-under-Lyne, took fire
yesterday week, while the hands were at work. It is said
to have been caused by a boy walking through the blow-
-1,11g-room in the upper storey with a lantern, when some
;loss, which was flying about, ignited, and set fire to a
larger mass of cotton. The two upper stories were totally
destroyed. The reported loss is £5,000, partly covered
by insurances in the Manchester, West of England. and
other offices.

LIVERPOOL SEWERS.—At the meeting of the institu-
tion
of Civil Engineers, on Tuesday last, the adjourned
discussion was resumed on Mr. Rawlinson's paper on the
drainage of towns, in the course of which the practice of
constructing the main sewers at Liverpool, by cutting the
sand-stone rock to a curve, so as to form a natural invert,
and arching over the top with bricks, using pipe drains
only, for separate feeders, from each house, and court,
as the case might be, was fully described and stated to be
very successful.

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TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION.—Now that the corn-
traunication with the Continent, by means of the Sub-
aukrine Telegraph, is placed on a permanent footing, its
advantages are being extended by means of the European
and American Electric Telegraph Company. A line has
already been laid from the London station to Dover, in
".aner.ion with the submarine cable, and its advantages
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soon be extended to the principal towns of the king-
Qm• The advantages of such an extension to Liverpool
can hardly be over estimated.

„ Gnosr.—At Blackburn, on Sunday night (12th inst.)
tae shop of Mrs. Cross, confectioner, was broken
!tit° through a window in the back kitchen, but on enter-
tv,tig the shop the thief saw before him a figure in white—
'''lrs• Cross, in fact, who bad gone down stairs to procure
aerne water for her mother—which he believed to be a
ghost, and with a loud yell of affright he abandoned his
enterprise, and fled through the window and over the yard
What has since become of the fugitive the police
'lave not vet been able to ascertain.

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• ISIT OF THE AMERICAN MINISTER TO LIVERPOOL.
is stated to be the intention of his Excellency the
en n• J. R. Ingersoll, the American Ambassador in this
untrY, to pay a visit to Liverpool early in January. We
understand that he has accepted an invitation to dine
wr
it!th the American Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday,
'„s.!e 4th of January and with the Mayor on the 6th. His
~of,ze.ellency and his, niece. Miss Wilcox, will be the guests
3^'lr• W. Brown, M.P., during their stay in Liverpool.
he hon. gentleman will afterwards visit Manchester.

I)DrriEATH OF THE TOWN-CLERK OF PRESTON,
.—Mr.
ler the venerable town-clerk of Preston who held
Voffice for upwards of fifty years, died on Monday, the
instant, in the .80th year of his age. lie was a native
Lancaster, but early removed to Preston, where he was
'uoied to a solicitor. During 64 years he never missed
altettdin,, the Lancaster aszizes, to which he paid 127
Visits, 'He witnessed f -P--.ton guilds in 1782, 1802,

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1820
las and 1542, and officiated as town-clerk at the three
t.. was also coroner for
.theAir,ision of Amounderness
mu g LesJand, in Leis county..