The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-19 00:00:00

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The Mayor of Manchester has called a town's meeting
for this day (Tuesday), to relieve the present distress in
Ireland.

Two boys, respectively eight and eleven years, were
drowned, on Monday, whilst skating on a pit at Hollin-
worth, near Rochdale.

Mr. Simpson, butler to Mr. Hesketh, of Tulketh-hall,
has left £5OO to the Preston Dispensary, and the same
sum to the trustees of Thornton School, near Fleetwood.
THE LATE MRS. TOWNELEY.—Scarcely a week has
elapsed since we had to record the death of Mr. Towneley,
of Towneley, and we now have to add the death of his
lamented widow.—Preston Chronicle.
A meeting was held in Manchester, ou Wednesday, to
promote a subsciption to Major General Wemyss, who is
about to remove from that neighbourhood, on account 'of
promotion, consequent on the late brevet.
On Saturday, there was a fall of coal at the Black
Wagon Colliery, Rowley, by which four men were killed,
and three others so much injured that they are not ex-
pected to recover.

On Tuesday, an old woman in the train from Wigan,
got out on the wrong side at Huyton, just as the train
from Liverpool was passing. It went over her, and tore
off a leg and an arm. She died almost instantly.
The late extraordinary rise in the price of barley and
malt has compelled the brewers of Chester and the ad-
joining neighbourhood, and the county of Flint, to make
an advance of four-pence per gallon on the previous
prices.

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STRANGE AMUSEMENT.—WhiIe the mayor of Chester
was engaged at the late fire at the Dee Mills, some person,
for a " lark," entered his dining-room and carried out
several articles of furniture into the street, amongst
others, an open plate chest, containing articles of consi-
derable value.
HAYDOCR LODGE ASYLUM. This asylum, which
some time ago acquired a not very creditable notoriety,
now contains 396 patients. There are at present con-
fined. there, 32 private male patients, and 20 private
female patients ; 147 pauper male patients, and 197 pau-
per females. _

SIGNS OF THE TIMES.—The stocks of the pawnbrokers
in Wigan have latterly increased so rapidly, that some
of them were induced to close their shops on Thursday
week, and have come to the conclusion either to limit
the days of taking in goods on pledge, or to close their
shops altogether, for a day or two in each week, during
the prevailing pressure.
SHORT TIME IN BURY. None of the mills are work-
ing full time. The extensive mills of Messrs. Greg have
been at a stand for six weeks ; and those of Mr. L. R.
Openshaw have been stopped since the beginning of last
week. The foundries are also working shorter hours than
usual. The shopkeepers are loudly complaining, and
many families are in great distress. The applicants for
relief increase every week, and it is in contemplation to
establish soup kitchens.
A PROPHECY OF NIXON,—The superstitious in and
about Chester see in the recent destruction of a consider-
able portion of the Dee Mills by fire, the fulfilment of a
prophecy reputed to have been uttered by the celebrated
Cheshire prophet, who, tradition says, flourished in the
reign of Henry the Seventh. It was to the effect that the
Dee Mills, at Chester, should be thrice burnt down in the
space of 60 years, which is really the fact, the first fire
havinr, occurred in 1789, the next in 1812, and the third
and last in 1847.

WHICH IS THE POPULAR COLOUR ?—Yesterday a lady
alighted from her carriage near St. Ann's-square, and
entering a fashionable mercer's requested to be shown
the newest fabriques de modes. The polite shopman was
assiduous in his attentions, and profuse in his commen-
dations of the beautiful products of British looms, which
lay outspread on the counter. "It is yet early," said
th
k e lady, "to choose spring patterns. Pray, which are
liely, to be the prevailing colours here in the coming
,seas" ? The lady's accent was that of London ; and
ct draper inferring she was but newly a resident in Man-
matters, he
ester, and his mind having been running on election
promptly replied : " Lincoln green for my
lord, and Bright drab for the quaker. Since his lord-
ship's visit here the Forester's colour has been decidedly in the ascendant, all the drabs are down, and even the
silver shade is at a discount with the veriest of the
roundheads." The lady was surprised at the turn given
to her inquiry, but the draper having explained, she
chose the cavalier's colour ; and determined that when
Nature assumed her own beautiful hue with the approach-
ing spring, she would also array herself in the popular
colour—Lincoln green.—Mancheater paper.

SHORT TlME.—Several of the principal mills of Ashton
and Stalybridge continue to work four days a week, and
this, with the high price of provisions, causes loud com-
plaints among the working classes, who are being fast re-
duced to a very dis tressed state.

RECIPIENTS OF Poon RELIEF.—The Board of Guar-
dians finding that a portion of the relief funds which they
distribute is expended at gin palaces and spirit vaults, in
order if possible to put a stop to such mis-application
have issued a notice offering a reward of ss. to any
person who shall detect one in the receipt of relief from
the guardians spending their money in those places. This
notice was read to the paupers assembled on Thursday
morning at the Union Offices, and it was universally ap-
plauded.—Manchester paper.
COINCIDENCE IN BIRTHS.—It is a somewhat uncom-
mon circumstance to hear of children of the same family
being born at intervals of time on the same day of
the month ; hit it must be a much more unfrequent
occurrence, where, in one family, the rarity has become
doubled, or repeated. A case of the latter description
has occurred in the family of Mr. Joseph Noblet, of Head
Nook farm, Myerscough, who has four sons, the eldest of
which was twelve years old on the 28th of April last ; the
second ten on the 28th of April last ; the third eight on
the Ist of September last ; and the fourth six on the Ist
of September last. Further, the above four children were
alllborn between four and five o'clock in the afternoon.—
Preston Pilot.

DARING BURGLARY.—On Monday three men were
apprehended at Manchester, on a charge of having been
concerned in a daring burglary, committed at a farm
house called Ladybarn, near Burnages, four miles from
that town, on Saturday morning. On that morning, at
an early hour, a party of ten or twelve men, with faces
blackened, and armed with bludgeons, broke into the
house in question, occupied by Mr. John Wood, a farmer
of 70 years old, supposed in the neighbourhood to be a
hoarder of money. They went to the bedroom of the
old man's nephew, Mr. Charles Wood, and fastened him
and his wife down, and then proceeded very leisurely to
demand the old man's money from him. They remained
threatening him and searching the house, making his
servant girl carry a light, for about an hour and a half,'
and at last bore off a booty of about £24 in money, a
watch, and some other valuables. It appears that though
they threatened to hang Mr. Wood, and to set fire to
the house, he resisted all attempts to get a disclosure
of his hoards from him, and they were indebted to the
fears of his servant for what they did obtain. There was
no conclusive evidence against the men taken in custody,
but after a long examination at the New Bailey Court-
house, before Mr. Trafford, they were remanded.