The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-10-09 00:00:00

Dislrittlt)s.

The cholera is very fatal at Wigan. Last week the
deaths were seventy one.
On Wednesday morning early one of the out-offices
attached to the rectory, Wigan, was broken open, and a
quantity of bacon and other articles were stolen.
On Wednesday the foundation stone of a new church
was laid at Prestwich, near Manchester, by the Duchess
of Cambridge. The Earl of Wilton has given £5OO
towards erecting the sacred edifice.
A child of five years, named Thomas Pears, died of hy-
drophobia at Latchford, on Tuesday, having five weeks
before been bitten in the arm by a mad dog.
Several mills in Lancashire have within the last ten days
been closed, and many are preparing to work short time.
It is chiefly of those engaged in spinning the coarser kinds
of yarn that this is true.
At a late inspection of the houses of the poor in the
town of Chester, in eleven lodging-houses were found domi-
ciled two hundred and thirty-six souls—men, women, and
children,—four beds only among this number.
Mr. Brindley, the principal of Tarvin Hall School, has
been invited to open the present session of the Lancaster
Church of England Instruction Society, which is supported
by the Lord Bishop of Manchester, the Vicar and clergy
of Lancaster, J. Wilson Patten, Esq„ M.P., and other
gentlemen.
" LOOK ON THIS PICTURE AND ON THAT."—It was
quoted in worthy John Bright's Manchester paper, the
other week, that a portrait of Mr. Iludson was sold by
auction lately, at a very small price-10s. We saw one
knocked down 'at Manchester the other day, in perfect
order (not of Hudson, but of Bright), with gilt frame and
glass, for one shilling and tenpenee !
A MULTITUDE OF RELATIONS.—At the present time
there is a person residing in Whittle-le-woods, aged 31,
of the name of William Monk, who has one father
and one mother, two brothers and five sisters, three
fathers-in-law and three mothers-in-law, eleven brothers-
in-law and seven sisters-in-law, thirty-four uncles and
thirty-three aunts, besides cousins without number. His
father and mother reside at Preston.
Several deaths from cholera have taken place at Cros-
ton, near Chorley. On Monday last four persons died
from it, after a few hours' illness. Their names arc John
Wren, aged 52, who died seven hours after his attack ; his
son, who died after ten hours' illness, aged 22 ; John
Farrington, aged 32, after sixteen hours' illness ; and a
child named Edward Stirzaker. On Tuesday, William
Stirzaker, aged 75, died after nine or ten hours' illness.
PRINCE ALBERT A JUDGE OF CATTLE.—The first prize
in bulls was gained by an animal named Boatswain, at the
recent meeting of the North Lancashire Agricultural So-
ciety at Lytham. He is the property of Mr. Stewart, of
Clapham. When this animal was exhibited among the
short-horns at the Royal Agricultural Society of England,
held at York in 1848, Prince Albert was so struck with his
beauties that he walked up, and patting him, said that
however the prize might be allotted, that was his favourite.
AN INCORRIGIBLE OFFENDER.—OR Tuesday, a young
woman named Mary Clifford, was brought up at the Bo-
rough Court, Manchester, charged with being drunk
on the previous night, in Great Jackson-street, Hulme,
and assaulting a policeman. Superintendent Taylor stated
that he had bad the prisoner confined in the lock-ups of
his division more than 130 times, mostly on charges of
drunkenness. She was committed for one month.