The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-19 00:00:00

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The Mayor of Manchester has called a town's meeting
for this day (Tuesday), to relieve the present distress in
Ireland.

Two boys, respectively eight and eleven years, were
drowned, on Monday, whilst skating on a pit at Hollin-
worth, near Rochdale.

Mr. Simpson, butler to Mr. Hesketh, of Tulketh-hall,
has left £5OO to the Preston Dispensary, and the same
sum to the trustees of Thornton School, near Fleetwood.
THE LATE MRS. TOWNELEY.—Scarcely a week has
elapsed since we had to record the death of Mr. Towneley,
of Towneley, and we now have to add the death of his
lamented widow.—Preston Chronicle.

A meeting was held in Manchester, ou Wednesday, to
promote a subsciption to Major General Wemyss, who is
about to remove from that neighbourhood, on account of
promotion, consequent on the late brevet..
On Saturday, there was a fall of coal at the Black
Wagon Colliery, Rowley, by which four men were killed,
and three others so much injured that they are not ex,
petted to recover.

On Tuesday, an old woman in the train from Wigan,
got out on the wrong side at lluyton, just as the train
from Liverpool was passing. It went, over her, and tore
off a leg and an arm. She died almost instantly.
The late extraordinary rise in the price of barley and
malt has compelled the brewers of Chester and the ad-
joining neighbourhood, and the county of Flint, to make
an advance of four-pence per gallon on the previous
prices.

RATHER UNLUCKY.—A butcher of Kendal last week
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Fa drove of sheep for sale to Manchester, for which
he there received about
.£2OO. News arrived at Kendal
on Thursday morning of his having been robbed of the
sumit.zsimon, an actor, belonging to the Queen's
Theatre,
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STRANGE AMUSEMENT.—While the mayor
was engaged at the late fire at the Dee Mills, some person,
rs Chest
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for a " lark," entered his dining-room and .carriedooui
several articles of furniture into the street, amongst
others, an open plate chest, containing articles of consi-
derable value.
HAYDOCK LODGE ASYLUM. This asylum, which
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fined there, 32 private male patients, and 20 private
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female patients; 147 pauper male patients, and 197 pau-
per females.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.—The stocks of the pawnbrokers
in Wigan have latterly increased so rapidly, that some
of them were induced to close their shops on Thursday
week, and have come to the conclusion either to limit
the days of taking in goods on pledge, or to close their
shops altogether, for a day or two in each week, during
the prevailing pressure.
SHORT TIME IN BURY. None of the mills are work-
ing full time. The extensive mills of Messrs. Greg have
been at a stand for six weeks ; and those of Mr. L. R.
Openshaw have been stopped since the beginning of last
week. The foundries are also working shorter hours than
usual. The shopkeepers are loudly complaining, and
many families are in great distress. The applicants for
relief increase every week, and it is in contemplation to
establish soup kitchens.
A PROPHECY OF NixoN,—The superstitious in and
about Chester see in the recent destruction of a consider..
able portion of the Dee Mills by fire, the fulfilment of a
prophecy reputed to have been uttered by the celebrated
Cheshire prophet, who, tradition says, flourished in the
reign of Henry the Seventh. It was to the effect that the
Dee Mills, at Chester, should be thrice burnt down in the
spach of 60 years, which is really the fact, the first fire
having occurred in 1789, the next in 1812, and the third
and last in 1847. _ _

WHICH IS THE POPULAR COLOUR ?—Yesterday a lady
alighted from her carriage near St. Ann's-square, and
entering a fashionable mercer's requested to be shown
the newest fabriques de modes. The polite shopman was
assiduous in his attentions, and profuse in his commen-
dations of the beautiful products of British looms, which
lay outspread on the counter. "It is yet early," said
the lady, "to choose spring patterns. Pray, which arc
likely to be the prevailing colours here in the coming
season ? " The lady's accent was that of London •, and
the draper inferring she was but newly a resident in Man-
chester, and his mind having been running on election
!natters, he promptly replied : " Lincoln green for my
lord, and Bright drab for the quaker. Since his lord-
ll.in's 'visit here the Forester's colour has been decidedly
in
rilvthe ascendant, all the drabs are down, and even the
rouerdshade, is
at a discount, with the veriest of the
.reins•.' The lady was surprised at the turn given
quirY, but the draper having explained, she
ton he
chose the cavalier's colour ; and determined that when
Nature assumed her own beautiful hue with the approach-
colour—Lincolnarrayherself in the popular
ing spring, she would also
green.—Dfanchester paper.