The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-06 00:00:00

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MANCHESTER RACES.—Through the intervention of
M. Philips, Esq., M.P., the queen's plate has been
transferred from the old to the new race course. _

It is rumoured that several of the factories in Wigan
are about to re.commence the short system. At present
there is only one,
Mr. Warburton, the member for Kendal, has announced
his intention, at the dissolution of the present parliament,
to retire altogether from public life.
CHESHIRE Assizes.—The business of these assizes
commenced yesterday morning. Mr. Justice Wightman
commenced in the Crown Court, and Mr. Justice Coltman
at Nisi Prins.
SOUP KITCHEN.—This-establishment still continues to
supply daily thousands of the poor of this town and
neighbourhood with a wholesome diet. The quantity of
soup prepared varies from 5,000 to 6,000 quarts, with a
greater or less number of loaves.—Manchester Examiner.
NEW LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE RIBBLE.—The first stone
of this structure, about to be erected at the Double Stanner,
was laid yesterday week, by Paul Fleetwood, Esq.
TAE CROPS.—Never did we see, at all events, for a
considerable period, the crops look so well as at the pre-
sent time, in the neighbourhood of Wigan. During the
week the weather has been very changable, but to use the
farmers' own words, "it has been all for the better."—
Preston Pilot.
NEW COURT FOR SMALL DEBTS.—J. S. T. Greene,
Esq.. judge of the county court, held a court at Rochdale,
on Monday last, for the appointment of officers, when
Mr. James Woods, solicitor, was appointed clerk, and
Mr. Henry Lord, high bailiff. The next court is fixed
for the sth of April, for the dispatch of causes.
On Thursday, as fourteen colliers, men and boys, were
descending a pit, at Church dresley, a wheel broke, and
the nest was precipitated to the bottom, the rope giving
way and falling upon them. Seven were taken out dead,
and six were so dreadfully injured that their recovery is
despaired of.
CAUTION TO SMOKERS ON THE RAILWAY.—At the
Rochdale petty sessions, on Wednesday last, a foreigner,
named Adolph Cassebohm, cotton manufacturer, resident
at Rochdale, was convicted in the penalty of ss. and costs
for smoking a cigar in one of the first class carriages on
the Manchester and Leeds Railway, on Saturday week.
REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.-- In Conse-
quence of the recent decline in the corn markets, the
bread bakers of Wigan (at all events a great portion of
them), have this week reduced the price of their bread
from ad. per lb. to 2d. for the same quantity.—Preston
Pilot.

BLACKBURN POST-OFFICE.—The mid-day departure
for Manchester, Liverpool, Preston, and all parts of
England, &c.. has been discontinued, in consequence of a
change in the arrangements of the Blackburn and Preston
branch of the East Lancashire Railway. A bag is now
despatched at 11.30 a.m. instead of the late despatch at
1 p.m.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday last, an inquest was
held at the Half-way House, on the Oldham Road, before
ll r. Henshall, deputy coroner, on the body of a collier
named Samuel Fletcher, who was killed at the Woodside
colliery, on the previous day, by a large stone which fell
upon him from the roof of the pit. A verdict of acci-
dental death was returned.

TB E SEASON.—We have had a remarkable variety of
weather this week. After a good spell of comparatively
warm days, we were on Thursday morning surprised by
the changed face of nature, the whole country beinc, cov-
ered with snow. Snow continued to fall, sometimes
pretty thickly, the whole day. Yesterday being Good
Friday, we are obliged to suspend our record till next
week.—Lancaster Gazette.
BREACHES OF THE FACTORY ACT.—At the Oldham
petty sessions, on Thursday, Messrs. Wm. Heginbottom
and Co., of Greenacres Moor, were charged by Mr. E.
Davies, sub-inspector of factories, with having neglected
to enter the name of Sarah Whitaker, one of their factory
workers, in the registry of workers, on the 26th of March,
and also with having neglected to obtain a medical certi-
ficate of the age of Sarah Whitaker. The defendants
admitted the offence, and were convicted in two penalties
of £2 each and costs.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.-His fate furnishes a remark-
able instance of the instability of human greatness, and
there is no doubt that his dislike to medicine remotely
caused his early dissolution; for rather than take some
simple remedy, he allowed disease to gain the ascendancy
over his constitution, and death was the result. Thus it
is that persons cannot be too watchful of their state of
health, and being always provided with a safe and efficient
medicine, such as Frampton's Pill of Health, enjoy the
two greatest blessings of this world, health and long life.
AN UNINTENDED TEMPTATION.—On a field in the
outskirts of Manchester, there is erected a board, on
which is painted the following rather tempting notice :
" Five Pounds Reward. Any Person found, breaking
down or removein,,c,, any Rails or Posts, from the fences of
this estate, shall upon conviction receive the above
reward." We omit the name of the solicitor, to whom
application is to be made for the reward, lest he should be
pestered with a crowd of applicants, willing, for the sake
of the £5 offered, to break down as many fences as might
be thought desirable, and to find witnesses to convict
them of the offence.

CHANGE RINGING.—On Tuesday evening last, the
ringers of Prescot rung in a masterly style, on the bells of
the Parish Church, a peal of grandsire triples, consisting.
of 5040 changes, in three hours and three minutes. The
ringers were placed as follows :—Robert Clitherow, treble;
Thomas Hutchen, second ; James Halsall, third ; M. D.
Dumbell, fourth ; Lawrence Wainwright, fifth ; Thomas
Denton, sixth; John Bullock, seventh; William Byron,
eighth ; conducted by John Bullock. Considering how
lately change ringing has been introduced into Prescot,
the above performance does great credit to the ringers of
that town.

AN IMPOSTOR.—At the Bury petty sessions, on Thurs-
day last, Henry Savage, a young man, about 24 years of
age, who has been residing in Bolton, and has only one
arm, was brought up on a charge of imposing upon the
charitable inhabitants in the neighbourhood of Bury,
Tottington, and other places, by means of a fictitious
letter, which recommended him as an object of charity,
and asserted that he had lost his arm in consequence of
injuries received while tending a thrashing machine.
When apprehended at Tottington, on Wednesday, by
police-constable Saggerson, a sum of 6s. 51d. was found
upon him. He stated that he had purchased the letter
from a man on the road from Bolton to Bury. He was
committed for fourteen days.
INFAMOUS DECEPTION. TRANSFORMATION OF
CALVES INTO RABBITS.—We understand that a novel
and extraordinary trick, in connexion with the " slinking
trade," amongst a class of the butchers of Blackburn, has
just been detected. It consists in the conversion of calves,
extracted from slaughtered cows, skinned, and otherwise
manipulated upon, into fine full-grown rabbits There
are certain mysterious changes effected in the external ap-
pearance of these unborn calves, such as splitting the
skull, &c., which, it is said, gives them very much the
appearance of the genuine denizens of the rabbit warren.
We are informed that no fewer than six of these trans-
formed animals were found by the police yesterday, in the
possession of two parties in this town, who had purchased
them as rabbits. It is high time that disgraceful tricks of
this kind, too long and too generally practised: in this
town and neighbourhood, should be visited with an amount
of punishment proportionate to the enormity of the offence.
Imprisonment, with hard labour, is the least penalty to
which these traffickers in carron and other unwholesome
food ought to be subjected.—Blackburn Standard.
WESLEYAN ASSOCIATION MISSIONS. —The annual
meeting of the Auxiliary Society, Grosvenor-street Circuit,
was held in the Tabernacle, Grosvenor-street, Chorlton-
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connexion of upwards of £3OO. This societyugh
missionaries, who labour in the West Indies, Germany,
America, America, Ireland, and some parts of Great Britain. A
good deal of interest was excited in the meeting, which
closed a little after ten o'clock. The total contributions
for this year amount to £77 9s. tid.—The Juvenile Mis-
sionary Society, in connection with the Sunday School,
held their annual meeting on Tuesday evening, in the largo
school-room under the Tabernacle. William Wilson, Esq.,
in the chair. The report was read by Mr. Millen, the
secretary, from which-it appeared that the boys and girls
have not been behind in the great missionary cause.

CHANCERY OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 1.

(Before Horace Ticiss, Esq., Vice-Chancellor.)
WOODWARD V. STAVELY.

The purpose of this suit was to carry into effect the
trusts of the will of a testator named Woodward, who
left several infant children, the plaintiffs in this cause,
and directed that 'his business, -which was carried on at
Manchester and Preston, should be carried on for their
benefit. The trustees were desirous of acting in this
respect under the sanction of the Court, and it was ac-
cordingly referred to the Registrar to inquire whether it
would be for the benefit of the infants that the trade
should be prosecuted. The Registrar found that the
Preston business produced an annual profit of £4OO or
thereabouts, but that the Manchester business was not a
profitable concern. The Registrar also found that the
testator had especially recommended his children to the
care and management of Mrs. Staveley, the wife of the
trustee by whom the business was to be carried on, and
therefore lie found and submitted that the same lady
would be a proper person to be appointed a guardian of
the infants.

Mr. Little and Mr. Adams appeared for the parties in
the cause. A doubt was expressed whether it would be
regular and proper, and according to the course of the
Court, to appoint a married lady the guardian of infants :
it was, in fact, vesting the appointment in the husband.
The Registrar mentioned a case in which the court had
ordered the allowance for the maintenance of infants to
he paid to a married lady for her separate use, but to ae
by her applied for the benefit of the children.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR said, that the Court was in
the habit, generally, of approving of the appointment of a
married woman as the guardian of infants ; but there was
no absolute rule precluding such an appointment. Many
circumstances might appear, as age, the state of the
family, consanguinity, absence of other persons willing to
undertake the office, or other reasons, rendering such an
appointment one of peculiar fitness. In this case there
was the strongly expressed confidence of the testator, and
the fact that the husband of the lady was the party in-
trusted by thetestator and by the Court to.carry on the
business, which appeared sufficient to make it proper that
the Conrt should support the finding of the Registrar.
The Preston business was ordered to,be carried on, the
Manchester business discontinued, aW.the stock. sold..