The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-29 00:00:00

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Thomas German, Esq., of Preston, has given a thou-
sand pounds for the erection of a handsome tower and
spire to the Church of St. Peter's, in that town.
The Grand Duke Constantine of Russia intends to pay
a vis_it to this town and Manchester. He will in all pro-
bability be here this week. He was last week at Bristol..
THE CA'SAREAN OPERATION.—rhiS happily rare but
critical operation was performed on the 15th inst., yr
Mr.- Braid of Aland) ester, - said-itr—Thaan of Wilmslow-,
on Mrs. Elizabeth Soft, of the last-named place. It is
to be regretted that she only survived the operation five
or six hours.

fixonr TIME—The act for the reduction of the hours of
labour in factories comes into operation next Thursday,
when the time of work will be limited to eleven hours.
Nearly all the mills in this town, will, however, adopt the
ten hours' system at once; many, including some of the
leading firms, having already adopted it.—Preston Chron.
Seurn.—The Blackburn Standard has the following :
—" Wanted, a candidate for the borough of Blackburn.
Tory or Whig, Conservative or Radical—Protectionist or
Free-Trader—High Church or DryChurch—orno Church.
Any gentleman with money to spend, and the spirit to
spend it, will find this an opportunity seldom to be met
with—of walking easily over the course, and winning a seat
in St. Stephen's. Applicants, stating qualifications, may
address To the Worthy and Independent Electors.' "

MANSLAUGHTER IN MANCHESTER.-A hawker and a
fish-dealer having quarrelled in the fish-market at Man-
chester, they had two fights. In the second encounter
Watson, the dealer was knocked down, his antagonist,
Bradley, falling on him. Peter Swift, a young man lit
Watson's service, seeing his master worsted, struck Brad-
ley a violent blow on the forehead ; the man fell senseless,
and in a few minutes he was dead. Watson and Swift
were committed for trial at the assizes, on a charge of
manslaughter.

JENNY LIND.—To give some idea of the extent of the
desire to hear her, we may mention that several families;
are coming more ban fifty miles for the express purpose,
and one party has been made to hear her on both nights,
who have applied for eighteen tickects on each night for
the dress circle. The admissions for this party alone will
amount to :.C56 14s. The prices fixed on at Manchester
are—Dress circle, 31s. 6d. ; dress stalls (in the pit), 21s. ;
upper circle, 15s. ; amphitheatre stalls (front row of gal-
lery circle), 10s. Gd., to all of which the seats are reserved..
The remainder of the lower, and the whole of the seats in
the upper, gallery, are not reserved seats, and to these the
admission is ss.

A SPECIMEN OF WOMANKIND.—The relieving-officer
of Warrington last week reported a distrs3ing case of
fever, and the disgraceful conduct of a wife towards her-
husband. He said he had been called upon to visit a case
of fever, on Cockhedge, and, on going to the cottage,
he found the inmates, consisting of a man, his wife, and.
two men lodgers ; the husband and one of the lodgers
were ill of a fever; and, to prevent strangers from being
taken into the house to lodge, he wrote on the door, in
large characters, with a piece of chalk, " there is fever in
this house." He then gave the wife relief, until he made
arrangements to remove the patients. On his next visit,
which was the following day, he found that the wife had
absconded that morning with the other lodger, and had
left her husband in a deplorable condition, when he re-
moved him at once to the hospital.