The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-11 00:00:00

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Miss Cushman is said to be lying dangerously ill at
Chester.

The Mayor of Manchester has, in compliance with a
requisition, consented to call a public meeting to take
into consideration the propriety of petitioning Parlia-
ment that the Corn-law may not be allowed again to come
into operation.

CHESTER RACECOURSE. - Further improvements of
the Rhodee for next year are in contemplation. Th 2 cop
is to be removed nearer to the river's edge, by which
means considerably more space will be gained at the
Grosvenor Bridge turn and at the Dee side of the course.
Some alteration is also to be made in the area at the
Grand Stand.

Mr. Tollemache, M.P. for South Cheshire, has pre-
sented to the House of Commons a petition from the
parish of Wallasey, signed by 320 owners and ratepayers
of property, in favour of the government bills for the better
sewerage and drainage, securing supplies of water, gas,
&c., and other conveniences for towns and populous dis.
tricts. The health of towns bill incorporates the towns
improvement clause bill, commissioners' clauses bill,
water-works clauses bill, and gas-works clauses bill.
THE FEVER.—In the temporary hospital at Manchester
there are now upwards of two hundred cases of malignant
fever, an-I in the crowded part of that town new cases are
daily occurring. In Ashton-under-Lyne a relieving officer
has fallen a sacrifice to the malady, having caught infec..
tion from the Irish. At Rochdale one of the Union dis-
trict surgeons died a few days ago of typhus, caught during
his attendance on Irish fever cases ; and another district
surgeon there is now confined to bed with fever. At Bol-
ton the mayor has issued a notice exhorting the inhabit-
ants to cleanliness.

ALARMING SPREAD OF FEVER. - This contagious
disease is greatly on the increase, and is widely spreading
amongst the Irish poor in most of the courts, alleys, and
narrow passages in the townships of Warrington and
Latchford. Several deaths have taken place during
the past week, and many others are in an almost
hopeless condition. One of the nurses in the Fever
Hospital died on Saturday evening last of this dreadful
malady. Mr. Aspinal, the assistant relieving officer, is
still unable to attend his duties by reason of fever imbibed
from this class of cases at the office. The different parts
of these townships where the regular inhabitants reside,
are healthful and free from desease.

The Times states that the pressure for money was felt
on Monday with as much severity as on any previous oc-
casion ; and that the accounts from the provinces indicate
that in the manufacturing districts matters are daily be-
coming more critical. Speaking of the high rates paid for
money at Manchester, one writer,_ occupying a leading
position, observes, "Ere long there will be very little to
pay or receive in this town, for business seems entirely
suspended. Nobody dares to buy, and spinners and ma-
nufacturers must slop their works. A great number are
now standing still, and if discount accommodation is not
to lie had, the whole must cease, AND THEN WE SHALL
SOON HAVE LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE AS BAD OR
WORSE THAN IRELAND,"
THE SEASON.—The season continues most unfavour-
able for the grass crops, and the farmers' granaries are,
consequently, very heavily drawn upon for the sustinenco
of cattle. The frosty mornings have prevented the moss
farmers in this neighbourhood from burning their land
for grain and potatoes. Where the latter have already
appeared above ground, they appear to stand the weather
well, and are strong and luxuriant. This has rather
caused the price of seed potatoes in the market to recede.
The young wheat and corn have not been so much affected
as the grass, as the winds have not been so injurious to
them. The cookoo has been heard in the neighbourhood
now for about I,a week,—rather later than usual for this
welcome visitor to appear. The swallow, and other birds
of passage, are also late this year.—Preston Pilot.

MURDER AT CHORLTON, NEAR MANCHESTER.—On
Wednesday evening last, a barbarous murder was perpe-
trated by a man named George Leach, a beerhouse-keeper
at Chorlton, upon the body of Francis Deakin, a former
and market gardener. Words had occurred in the house
between Leach and his wife, and the former used an ap-
probrious epithet to the latter, for which Deakin remon-
strated with the ruffian, who forthwith went to the kitchen,
selected a scimetar-shaped carving-knife, and, returning,
thrust it into the breast of his victim, whom he met in
the passage. The weapon penetrated to the vertebrae of
the back, and killed Deakin on the instant.—An inquest
was held on the body on Thursday evening, when a ver-
dict of " Wilful murder " was returned against George
Leach, who was present, and indeed had never attempted
to escape. The prisoner was committed to Kirkdale gaol,
to take his trial at the next Liverpool Assizes.
The Manchester papers of Wednesday contain further
returns of the present state of the mills and mill-hands in
the county of Lancaster. From these returns it appears
that of 1161 mills, 603 are working short time, and 125 are
stopped. The total number of hands usually engaged in
these mills is 226,087 ; of these, 125,330 are working full
time, 76,918 short time, and 23,893 are out of employ-
ment. The Manchester Courier remarks with reference
to these returns, that " the borough of Bolton is not in-
cluded ; neither is the town of Stockport, or that of Staly-
bridge, both of which latter towns are situated partly in
Lancashire and partly in Cheshire. In the Blackburn
district there are, besides the mill-hands mentioned in the
' return, about 23,000 mechanics and handloom weavers out
of employ. It must be remarked that these returns do
not show the depressed state of the cotton manufacture to
its fullest extent, as the return comprises silk and flax
mills as well as cotton mills, the two former of which are
generally fully employed ; the adding of these mills to the
aggregate, therefore, makes the depression of the cotton
trade relatively less apparent."
THE ASSESSED TAXES QUALIFICATION.—In conse-
quence of the payment of assessed taxes, as one qualifica-
tion for voting, being deemed by some members of parlia-
ment a hardship, a return has been printed of the number
of houses of the value of £lO and upwards, in England
and Wales, in boroughs returning members, and of the
number of persons omitted from the lists of voters in
1846, for the non-payment of assessed taxes. From this
return it appears, with respect to Lancashire, the follow-
ing is the result :

Houses of .£lO Persons omitted
and upwards. from the Lists.
Blackburn
Bolton
Liverpool 39,266 89
Manchester
Preston 2.680 0
Salford
Warrington
Wigan
From the summary, the following results.appear :
Houses as above. Omitted as above.
England 487,760 18,065
Wales 10,665 808

Total 498,425 18,873
Wolverhampton has suffered most. The qualified houses
are 3,769; the persons left out of the list 1,423, in 1846.