The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-10-05 00:00:00

A istrittlvs.

The fever cases at Blackburn are not on the decrease
as regards number, though the disease is less virulent in
its attacks.

The Royal Amphitheatre (late Cooke's) at Manchester
was sold by auction on Monday last, and knocked down
at £6OO, to Mr. Samuel Hall, box money-taker at the
Theatre Royal.
A few days ago a large whale was left by the tide be-
tween Hilbre Island and the sand hills at Hoylake. He
was seized by some parties, who extracted upwards of fifty
tuns of oil out of the animal, which now lies on the sand
hills at Hoylake.
The sum of £25,000, it is stated, was placed by Lord
Stanley at the disposal of the agents and stewards for the
recent Knowsley festivities, and the manner in which it
has been expended seems to intimate, on the part of these
gentlemen, a proper sense of the original munificence.
The millowners of Ashton-under-Lyne, at a meeting
held on Wednesday, agreed to give notice to their hands,
that the advance of ten per cent. made in their wages dur-
ing the late period of prosperity in the trade, would, un-
der existing circumstances, be withdrawn. How this pro-
posal is likely to be received by the workpeople, we are
wholly unable to say.
On Monday evening, a very serious affray took place
between a mob of the turn-outs from Messrs. Walsh's
mill, at Over Darwen, and a party of police stationed in
the town. The military were sent for to Blackburn, on
Tuesday, but quiet had been restored. A large number
of the prime movers in the affray have been summoned
before the magistrates.
On Friday, two children, aged respectively seven and
five years, sons of a weaver in Blackburn, were acciden-
tally poisoned with arsenic, and but for the presence of
mind of the father, would in all probability have died.
They had eaten some crushed oatcake mixed with arsenic,
which had been carelessly put under the bed to kill mice,
but were made to vomit by copious draughts of hot water.
PROLIFIC PEA.—Mr. Sandwell, of Garstang, butcher,
sent four seeds of a purple flowering pea, in March last,
to a first-rate London grower, for his opinion of their
merits. The following has been communicated to Mr.
S., as the result :—The 4 peas produced 129 pods, from
which were. taken 700 large peas, which, though not con-
sidered to be well flavoured for boiling, are well adapted
for field culture, owing to their prolific production.
INTERESTING FACT.—At a meeting at Blackburn last
week, in aid of Moravian missions, it was mentioned that
the little vessel which, once a year only, takes out the
annual supply of provisions, &c., to the Missionaries
among the Esquimaux, in Labrador, has performed its
voyages for seventy-six successive years without the
slightest mischance; and so convinced are the managers
of Lloyd's (Assurance Company) that the vessel is guarded
by Providence, that they insure her for one-half the usual
rate.

MANCHESTER AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The annual
meeting was held on Tuesday. The show was as a whole
a very excellent one, though in number the animals ex-
hibited were inferior to those shown last year. There was
a very great display of agricultural implements. The din-
ner took place in the Palatine Hotel, Hunt's-bank. The
chair was occupied by Mark Phillips, Esq., president of
the society. In the course of the evening he stated that
the Manchester Agricultural Society was now out of debt,
and in a condition to effect a union with the Liverpool
Society, at the earliest period within which the necessary
arrangements for that purpose could be mutually effected;
so that instead of there being two agricultural associationß,
the Manchester and Liverpool, there would be but one
great association for South Lancashire. And it might be
that a junction would lead to a great saving of capital.
SERIOUS INJURY FROM THE HEAVY RAINS.—Early
on Wednesday, a violent storm of thunder, lightning,
and rain visited Wigan and the neighbourhood, and
continued to pour in torrents for several hours. At day-
break, the river Douglas was found to be swollen to a
great height and the adjacent fields nearly all flooded.
In one of these fields, at the back of Messrs. Eccles's
mill, and near the mill of Messrs. Taylor and Brother, in
Church-street, the roofing of an old coal pit gave way in
two places, and for five or six hours the stream rolled
impetuously into the hollows, carrying large quantities
of soil, sand, and other materials into the old mine below,
which it is anticipated will seriously interfere with the
working of all the mines in the immediate neighbourhood.
Several of them are already flooded out ; indeed, the
quantity of water carried into the hollows must be
immense, for at the spot we have just mentioned, there
was a fearful whirlpool formed, which for hours was 'un-
approachable,