The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-02 00:00:00

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On Saturday at the Borough Court, Bolton, a person
in that town, agent for the sale of Dr. Coffin's medicines,
was bound over to the Quarter Sessions, to answer a
charge of practicing as an apothecary and selling medicine
without a certificate for that purpose.
WIGAN.—The Manchester Express says that Mr.
Standish, M.P., is dangerously ill; but the Preston Pilot
says that the report is very likely an election ruse.—On
Saturday week, the cabinet-maker's workshop and con-
tents of Mr. John Cooke, near Scholes Bridge, were
destroyed by fire. The loss is £3OO.
On Sunday week two sermons were preached by the
very rev. the Dean of Bangor, at the parish church of
Eastham, on behalf of the suffering Irish, after which the
sum of .£2l was collected ; also, on the same day, a ser-
mon was delivered by the Rev. Thos. Collinridge, for the
same purpose, and a collection made at the private chapel
of Sir W. Massey Stanley, Bart., at Hooton.
SUBSCRIPTION AT MANCRESTER.—The amount sub-
scribed in Manchester and Salford for the Irish and
Scotch is £7OOO. Amongst the subscriptions we see the
munificent one of £315 from Messrs. William Grant and
Brothers (half for each country), and one from Messrs.
J. and N. Philips and Co. of £250 for Ireland, and
" young men in the employ of H. Bannerman and Sons,
£95 4s. 2d."

MRS. BUTLER.—We noticed in our last that Mrs. But-
ler, late Fanny Kemble, had been in negociation with Mr.
Bunn, for an engagement at Drury-lane Theatre ; but Mr.
Bunn, having offered her just one-half the amount she
asked, she declined to accept her engagement there We
now learn that this celebrated actress is to make her first
reappearance on the British stage onthe boards of the
Theatre-Royal Manchester, in all probability in the month
of February.
CHILD POISONED.—The village of Garston was thrown
into a state of great excitement on Tuesday evening by
the circulation of a report that a woman, named Mary
Bates, had poisoned her child, half a year old, by the
administration of laudanutn. Bates was taken into cus-
tody by one of the rural police, and an inquest was held
on the body of the child on Thursday, when, it appearing
that the woman had administered the dose to the infant
to keep it asleep whilst she went out to work, and not
with any felonious intent, she was discharged.
In proof of the increase of heat gained by burning the
smoke, we may cite the experiments of Mr. Henry Holds-
worth, of Manchester, who has shown, that in the front
flue of a furnace, of common construction, the thermo-
meter seldom rose above 1,100 degrees Fahrenheit, and
often fell below 900 degrees, the mean being 975 degrees;
while in the sane furnace, when consuming its smoke,
the mean temperature was 1,160 degrees Fahrenheit,
ranging between 1,400 degrees and 1,000 degrees. The
quantity of water evaporated by a pound of coal was one-
half quarter more than when the smoke was not con-
sumed.
. A NEW RACE-COURSE FOR MANCHESTER.—It is stated
that a site has at length been fixed upon to be converted
into a race-course, and that in a few days the necessary
lease will be signed. The place chosen is the low ground
near Agecroft Bridge, in Pendleton, the property of John
Fitzgerald, Esq., of the Pendleton collieries ; but we have
not heard the extent of the ground, nor the price which is
to be given for it. It appears, however, to be a prevalent
opinion that an enormous sum must be expended before
it can be got into a proper condition for horse-racing.
The races at Newton are, this year, to take place in
Whitsun-week, doubtless in consequence of there being
no races on Kersal Moor at that time.

• SUICIDE AT WARRINGTON.-011 Wednesday an inquest
was held at Sankey Bridge, before Mr. Heyes, coroner, on
view of the body, of Joseph Hanley, aged 34, carter to
Messrs. Winstanley and Hobson, flour merchants. He
was a steady, careful man, and put his spare earnings in
the savings'-bank. On going, on Saturday, to his money-
box for this purpose, he found £2 had been taken, which,
he ascertained, his wife had taken and squandered in drink
and other vile ways, in consequence of which he became
intoxicated, and on the following day, while labouring
under head-ache, and in the absence of his wife, he hanged
himself by a clothes line from the banister of the stairs.
Verdict, " Temporary insanity."
THE WARRINGTON FILE MAKERS' TURN-OUT.—It
will be recollected that several of the workmen in the em-
ployment, under contract, of Mr. J. Edelsten' file manu-
facturer, absconded some months ago, at the dictation of
the Trades' Union, without any assigned reason or com-
plaint of grievance. Several of them, after inducing others
to leave, were apprehended, and some were kindly re-
ceived back by Mr. E., but soon afterwards again
absconded, taking others with them. Seven or eight of
the runaways were apprehended in various parts of the
country, and taken before the Warrington magistrates ;
three of them were committed for three months. An
attempt was made to show that Mr. Edelston (who had
forgiven several others) did not pay the regular wages ;
but this was not proved, and Mr. E. said that if it were he
would be the first to respond.

Loss OF TIIREE LIVES AND FIVE SEVERELY BURNED.
—An inquest was held at the house'of William Johnson,
sign of the Bull's Head, Parr, before John Heyes, Esq.,
coroner, on the bodies of three young lads who came by
their deaths in consequence of the explosion of fire damp
in Messrs. Bourne and Robinson's colliery, at Parr.. It
appeared from the evidence that one of the lads went with
a lighted candle into the place where he worked, and the
explosion took place in consequence.
EMBEZZLEMENT AT MANCHESTER.—OD Wednesday
morning, a respectable-lobking man, named Thos. Smith,
was brought up at the Borough Court, Manchester, before
Mr. Maude and a full bench of magistrates, charged with
embezzling several sums of money from his employers,
amounting in the whole, it is said, to several thousand
pounds. It appeared from the evidence, that the prisoner-
had been in the employ of Mr. John Shuttleworth, stamp
distributor for that district, cotton-broker, and agent for
Messrs. Strutt and Co., of Derby. Mr. Mande sent the
prisoner to the sessions.

- DREADFUL ACCIDENT NEAR HALSALL Moon.—Four
men, James Cowsill, aged 40, William CoWsill, his son,
Peter Harrison, 38, and William Johnson, 30, all brick-
setters, lost their lives on Tuesday last by suffocation,
while at work in a coalpit. The pit had been excavated
to the depth of 61 yards, and two sets of men were alter-
nately employed. Those named were at work, during a
storm of thunder, lightning, and rain% which had prevented.
other workmen from coming, when the banksman at the
top heard a loud noise from the bottom of the pit, and
immediately an immense flame issued frOm its mouth. A
man was sent down, and discovered the bodies of the four
men, all dreadfully burnt. Some days before, the work-
men discovered a fissure in boring through the rock, from
which a small quantity of gas escaped. It was stated that
stormy weather had always considerable influence on the
air in coal mines, and that some gas had collected under
the scaffolding on which the men were working, which
had come in contact with a lighted candle. The verdict
of the coroner's jury was, " Died from suffocation."
MEETING AT ST. HELENS.—A highly respectable pub-
lic meeting of the inhabitants of St. Helens and neigh-
bourhood was held in the Town-hall there, on Wednesday
last, in aid of the funds of the British Association for the
relief of the destitute in Ireland and Scotland. The chair
was taken by E—Pilkington Esq., and the meeting was
successively addressed by Mr. Mulvany, the Rev. Mr.
Carr, Incumbent ; the Rev. Mr. Mostyn, Incumbent of
St. Thomas's, Eccleston; Mr. Fincham; the Rev. Mr-
Edmonds, Independent Minister; the Rev. Mr. Wat-
mough, Wesleyan Minister; Mr. Bishop; and by the
Rev. Mr. Pollock, lately Incumbent of St. Helens, and
now of St. Mark's, Liverpool. The following was the
first resolution moved :—"That Almighty God having, in
his inscrutable wisdom, permitted a widely spread and de-
solating famine to fall upon our fellow subjects in Ireland
and Scotland, we desire deeply to sympathise with them,
and feel it our duty to contribute out of our necessities,
still more out of our abundance, towards its alleviation."
The sum of £325 wai subscribed in the room, and an.or-
ganization formed for further collections amongst those
who were unable to attend.