The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-10 00:00:00

WATER BILL

The Town-clerk reported that this bill had passed both
houses of Parliament, and had received the royal assent.
Upon the motion of Mr. Nicol., the Water Committee
were reappointed, with instructions to take all the neces-
sary steps for the purchase of the existing water companies.
An application to permit the children attending a
Ragged School, in Naylor-street, to have the gratuitous
use of the Baths, in Paul-street, was read, and referred to
the Health Committee.

A letter from Mr. Henry Booth, secretary to the Lon-
don and North-western Railway Company, on the subject
of adopting Greenwich time in Liverpool, was also read,
and referred to the Observatory Committee
The MAYO

a 4 Ki Lll
Huskisson was being erected at the north side of th
Custom-house.

District llclus,

The foundation-stone of a new church at Walkden
Moor, near Worsley, in the parish of Eccles, was laid on
Tuesday last. The ceremony was undertaken by Lady
Brackley, to whom a handsome silver trowel was presented
for the purpose.
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kARCUMSTANCE.—The town of UhowL.
consisting of about five thousand inhabitants, has riot a
solicitor or lawyer resident in the place, although there
are three county magistrates residing in the tow-
qty sessions b 'd

pe. ield in the place every fortnight.
BONDING.—THE PORT OF RUNCORN.-An official no-
tification has appeared, that the privilege of bonding goods,
in general, has been extended to the port of Runcorn,
which already possesses docks and ample wharf room.
Warehouse accommodation has also been prepared for
the reception of bonded goods, and a yard for bonding
timber of all kinds.

ST. Jollies SCHOOLS, LATHOM.—On Sunday week,
the anniversary sermons were preached in St. John's
Church, by the Hon. and Rev. W. Wingfield, M.A.,
Vicar of Leix, Queen's County, Ireland ; after which col-
lections were made for the benefit of the schools which
amounted to £47. 3s. ld. There are four hundred and
thirty children in these schools receiving a sound Scriptu-
ral education, which must be a great blessing to the
neighbourhood.

POULTON-LE-FYLDE.—The crops of corn in this neigh-
bourhood are, on the whole, very promising. Wheat is
excellent, is exceedingly well fed, and in the course of a few
days will be ready for the sickle. Beans promise to be an
abundant crop ; and we may also say the same with regard
to barley and oats, though the latter, in some places, will
be rather deficient. Potatoes are most plentiful ; and if
the blight should happily disappear, the produce will be
astonishing. Mr. John Butler, of this place, commenced
cutting a field of barley on Saturday week, which proves of
excellent quality.
THE WEATHER AND THE HARVEST.—The weather,
during the last fortnight, has been most beneficial in
ripening the crops about our neighbourhood. The genial
sunshine, which had tinged the growing wheat with ver-
dant ripeness, has been succeeded by growing showers,
which fell fast on Wednesday afternoon, and on Thursday
also intermittent rain moistened the parched corn fields,
so that prolific crops are confidently expected. The stalk
of wheat and oats was scarcely ever known so high, many
specimens we have seen reaching six or seven feet in
height, whilst the ears are of more than the ordinary size,
from three to four hundred grains having been counted in
some of tIL- '

,ne ears, whic, lave been plucked as specimens
of astonishing fertility. It is to be sincerely hoped that
Providence will realize the ardent prayers of the country,
and prosper the exertions of the husbandman, so that the
poor may be satisfied with bread, and famine may be no
longer known, spreading desolation and death throughout
the land.—Preston Pilot.

EXTRAORDINARY FREAK. A JUVENILE DELIN-
QUENT.—Never, perhaps, since the new act " for the
more speedy trial and punishment of juvenile offenders"
passed, has its usefulness been more fully evidenced than
in a case which was heard in Salford, on Wednesday,
before Mr. Trafford and the Mayor. A boy, twelve years
of age, named Nehemiah Jones, was charged with having
robbed his own father of a box, containing two £lO notes,
35 pounds in gold, two silver watches, and a number of
silver spoons and other valuables. From the evidence of
the prisoner's parents, it appeared that the robbery was
committed on the previous afternoon,_ when the young

unity of stealing the box during the
As soon as the box was missed,
given to the police, and the same evenint

1 the box

£2 lOs

which. the prisoner had squandered away
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nuitnipt, uuier purchases ne naa nought a donkey, for
which he paid 255., and astride this animal he had been
riding up and down until both he and the donkey were
fairly tired out. Whilst thus enjoying himself, the young

[mounted anc

stances, the bench very wisely came to the conclusion
that it was a case in which it would be exceedingly impo-
litic to send the young rascal to be contaminated in a
prison, and he was accordingly ordered to be well whipped
and discharged. The same afternoon, the sentence was
carried into effect, in one of the lock-ups under the Town-
hall; when Sub-inspector Brown administered such a fla-
gellation with a stout birch rod, on his naked back, as he
will not soon forget. He was then given up to his pa-
rents.—Manchester courier.
THE MooRE RENTAL.—Under this title, the twelfth
volume of the historical and literary remains connected
with the palatine counties of Lancaster and Chester,
printed by the Chetham Society, which has just made its
appearance, is most interesting. It is a species of rent-
roll raisonni, drawn up by Edward Moore, of Bank-hall,
near Liverpool, and of Old or Moore-hall, in that town,
It bears the date of 1667-8 ; and even if the fact were not
known from other sources, it would show him to have
been a considerable magnate in those days. The rental
is preceded by a variety of scrinturni +Dv,.

j giseness of injuries

but the bedyort
limposes on hi

ion John, forr-whom it was written, the perpetuation of
malice and hatred. His tenants and lessees appear to
have been eminently guilty of the peculiar sin of which
defeated candidates at parliamentary and municipal
elec-
tions complain to thi. . --- - - -

= ,===y , auu in consequence ne ue-
came a good hater, using to them more of the evil terms
common with the Roundheads. His son, however, died

betore he came of age, so that the greatest use made of
the rental was to enlighten a curious posterity as to the
state of social feeling existing after the close of the civil
wars. Many details of Liverpool history are given, par-
ticularly concerning the families of Stanley, Molyneux,
Norris, Williamson, and others • and the introduction
from the pen of the editor, Mr. Thomas Heywood, F.S.A.,