The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-13 00:00:00

and Baron Rothschild'i are bolh dubious starters

Feversham and Umbriel are merely sent out to clear the
way, by making the running for their relative stable com-
panions.
Honeywood, and Orestes, two very considerable Derby im-
posters, might just as well remein in their stables, and this
observation can be applied even more consistently to the half-
bred, second-rate, Mr. Sykes. I suppose him to be sent
merely as a reminiscence of the name of Sir Tatton."
I have not seen one sporting paper which has, of course,

. . .
given any other than the—eracit; and those who think that
by my differing from that universal opinion, I am contum -
cious, I may say; await the fiat of the juda:e, which can alone
tell true, before opiaionizing on what I conceive that fiat
will prove, viz. :

SITTINOBOURNE ..
WEST AUSTRALIAN

RATA P LA N

Yours respectfully,

ighS WING

Porn CHILDREN POISONED.—A serious and fatal case

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On Friday morning a boy darned Thomas Guest, seven
years old, with his sister, a younger child, residing with
their parents in Audley-street, London-road, and accom-
panied by two other children named Evans, went into the
fields in the neighbourhood of Green-lane, and on their
return were met byJohn Heyworth, one of thecounty police,
who asked them where they had been to, when they replied
that they had been gathering blackberries. This was

opposite to Green-lane. soon aruerwarus
returning towards Liverpool, and saw the children about
two hundred yards in advance of him. After following
them a few moments, he saw one of them fall down, as if
he was in a fit. He ran forward to his assistlnce, and
when he arrived at the spot the boy was black in the
face. In a few moments afterwards another of the boys,
named Evans, also fell down, and he, too, appeared
to be in a fit, and vomited what seemed to be unripe
hl.plawrries. Hevworth took them to a house in the

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road, where the boy Guestt began to vomit

other children were also taken in snorti3,
and Heyworth took Guest and the two Evanses to
the Infirmary, where Guest died on Saturday, and the
other two boys are both lying in a dangerous state,
The deceased's sister, who was taken home to Audley-
street, is also in a precarious state. Heyworth found
some roots in the pockets of one of the boys named
Evans. The house-surgeon at the Infirmary states that
the boy Guest's death was caused by his having eaten the
root of a poisonous plant, and there can be little doubt
that all the children partook of the same plant. An in-
quest will be held on the body to-day before the borougb

coroner

THE DYERS' STRIKE AT MANCHESTER,—TRADES'
MEETING LAST NIGHT.—Last evening a meeting of the
trades was held in the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street,
for the purpose of receiving a deputation from the dyers
of Manchester, respecting the strike which has now lasted
amongst them for eleven weeks. There was but a thin
attendance. Mr. Allen, chairman of the Trades' Guardian

Society, presided, and, after briefly addressing tne
called upon Mr. Tear, one of the deputation from the
dyers of Manchester, who at considerable length explained
the circumstances under which the strike had origit he
nated
and continued. After endeavouring. to show tha t
dyers and finishers had been very inadequately paid, he
proceeded to state that the present prose rd
cond.tion of
in an o
manufacturesw
askiligforan ra
and trade
so as to egenerally i
placethemselvesustified t
re-
spectable position. Their average wages were now only
a week, and all they demanded was an
sixteen shillings
advance of sixpence per, day ; but the masters seemed in-
exorable in their determination not to accede to the ad-
vance, and the consequence was that there was nothing
left to the men but to continue the strike. The men had
offered to leave the matter to arbitration, and had named
the Mayor of Manchester as their arbitrator, but the
masters would not listen to it. After showing that the
expressed
masters
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would hadft hne
odemanded,ttrades
payrecentlyoi obtainedalthoughtthh : theth e
would support the dyers, not more than one or two weeks
more would elapse before they would gain their object,
and the strike would be at an end. The meeting having
been addressed by another member of the deputation from
Manchester, a resolution was proposed and carried, to the
effect that the meeting deeply sympathised with the dyers
in their strike, and pledged itself to enter into a sub-
scription for the purpose of supporting them. Other re-
solutions having been carried, the proceedings terminated
a little after ten o'clock.

Mr AVERSION TO POPERY is founded not only on its
Paganism and idolatry, but on its being calculated for the
support of despotic power ; and inconsistent with the genius
of free government.— Comyers Middleton.
NonLu BEQEEST.—It is understood that Mr. Salis
Schwabe, whose death was recently announced, amidst
universal regret in Manchester, has left £3OOO to the
Manchester Infirmary, of which he was a patron during
his lifetime.