The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-30 00:00:00

George Grant, Esq., Charles
Esq., Charles Challoner, Esc

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opinion that the prolonged hours of business, particularly in
drapers' shops, is destructive of the health of their numerous
assistants, as well as inimical to their morals, by leaving them
little or no time for rational relaxation or the improvement
of their minds, while at the same time (provided one uniform
system of early closing were strictly adhered to by the whole),
shorter hours would rather benefit than injure their employes,
in the reduction of expenses in gas and otherwise ; and little

or no inconvenience would be experienced by customers, who
would soon learn to make their purchases in good time. We,
therefore, learn with regret, that the arrangements for closing
the shops at seven in the evening has already been infringed.
It was observed by the greater part of the trade in Church-
street and Bold-street until Monday evening, when one indi-

vidual broke through it, and others (probably in self-defence)
followed the example. In many of the principle thorough-
fares the regulation has also been abandoned. It is stated

Market is kept

open till eight o'clock, and that no general concurrence in
earlier hours can be expected, particularly from the smaller

The market people, it is said, are themselves favourable to
closing at six o'clock, and, it is added, that a memorial on
he subject to the Common Council is in preparation. We
)aced to offer an opinion on the propriety of such

are not

rangement that may benefit those in their employ, while, as
we trust, it would not in the end militate against their own
interests.—Chronicle. [We have made some enquiry into
this matter, and find that in one of the largest establishments
in this town, a positive saving has been effected by closing
the shop at seven o'clock, and that so far, the young men
employed, have shown the best results. They have worked

more cheerfully and better. If a saving can be effected in a
large establishment in the same ratio, a small one will benefit
by early closing. We noticed one evening last week, that in
only one shop out of 47 was there a single customer at half-
past seven o'clock—that shop was a chemists—" necessity
hath no law." The houses that have shown a disposition to
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meet the wishes of the young men in their employ, deserve,
surely, to be patronized by the public. It is really monstrous
that nilmhera of vetting men chnailri he enmnelled to citerifiee

that stand idling all day, and can only find time to go shop
ing at night. We have noticed that men very rarely make
purchases by gas-light—they know better.—E. L. S.]

ST. HELENS COURT OF REQUESTS.—The first sitting of
this court took place on Saturday last, in the Town Hall, St.
Helens, before H. L. Trafford, Esq.., the judge.. The nuTber..

transacting business under the improved regime of a court of
requests has given unqualified satisfaction to the inhabitants
of St. Helens, because it affords not only a certain, and

efficient mode of recovering, at comparatively trifling cost,
debts so large as £l5 when vexatious refusals have been made
to their payments, but establishes a means whereby many of

the pernicious practices followed out amongst the low-er el

formed, if not entirely nullefied. There is no doubt it will
become the ordinary channel of recovering debts not exceed-
ing £l5, therefore, the populous district over which the act
extends. The next court, it appears, is appointed for Friday,
31st December.

INQUESTS.—On Thursday and yesterday, an inquest was
held before P. F. Curry, Esq., on view of the body of Henry
Robinson. Elizabeth Robinson said she lived in Prince
William-street, and the deceased was her husband. He was
25 years old. Last Saturday four weeks, the deceased left
home after dinner, and was then quite well. He did not re-
turn till about one o'clock next morning, when he said he
had been ill-used by a man, and that he was maimed and