The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-06-22 00:00:00

DISTRICT NEWS.

WARRINGTON.

SOUTH LANCASHIRE ELECTION.—On Thursday last
John Cheetham, Esq., the new free-trade candidate for
the southern division of the county, addressed the electors
in this district, in the large room of the Nag's Head
Hotel.

BOARD OF Guannutigs.—The weekly meeting of the
board took place on Wednesday at the Workhouse ; 13
guardians were present, and Mr. Hodgson presided. The
following are the returns :—ln No. 1 district, 1.059 per-
sons had been relieved, at a cost of £5l 7s. 2d., for which
£27 ss. 6d. was in kind, and cost £24 ls. Bd. in money.
In No. 2 district 242 persons had been relieved, at a cost
of £ll ls. 6d., of which £4 15s. 6d was in kind, and £7
in money. In No. 3, the rural district, 425 persons had
been relieved, at a cost of £22 Bs. 9d., all in money.
Total number relieved in the Workhouse was 130, and
the number of vagrants lodged and relieved, 119. Com-
pared with the corresponding week last year, these returns
show a decreaee of 127 in the number relieved, of
£8 19s. Id. in the cost of relief, and of 133 in the number
of vagrants ; but an increase of 13 in the inmates of the
Workhouse.

MELANCHOLY EFFECTS OF DISSIPATION.—On Wed-
nesday. Thos. Kinsey, a member of a respectable family
near Warrington, was charged before Mr. T. Lyon with
having run away, and left his wife and two children
chargeable to the township of Grappenhall. His wife
stated that She was married to him three or four years
ago, and they had two children ; he was a joiner, and had
been in the receipt of upwards of £BO per annum, in a
situation which he might have held still, had he been
steady. Both her own and his friends had supplied them
with furniture. but he always took to drinking, and they
were sold up. She, with her children, were now in the
workhouse, but her friends would again place her in the
way of obtaining a comfortable livelihood if the defendant
were out of the way. The defendant, who was appre-
hended in Manchester in a wretched state of depression,
stated that of late he had taken to drink, and that was the
cause. He was committed to Knutsford for three calen-
dar months to hard labour.

ANNUAL DEMONSTRATION OF SCHOLARS.—There is
perhaps no day in the whole year which the inhabitants
of Warrington devote so entirely to a holiday as that on
which the several Sunday and charity schools hold their
anniversary demonstration. This demonstration took
place on Friday, and was observed as a general holiday ;
the inhabitants were habited in their best attire, and the
general appearance was that of a Sabbath day. At nine
o'clock, the children, dressed in their gayest holiday cos-
tume, assembled in the Market-place, and proceeded to
the parish church. They occupied the entire body of the
church, the galleries being occupied by the congregation.
The sermon was preached by the Hon. and Rev. Horace
Powys, rector, who selected as his text, the 3rd chapter of
the 2nd Epistle of St. Paul to Timothy,: 7th verse. At the
conclusion of the service the children proceeded to the
lawn in front of the St. Elphin Training Schools, and,
round a gaily-decorated Maypole, sang " God Save the
Queen." in the afternoon the children amused them-
selves in the " Park" with a variety of amusements, and
partook of tea in the evening.