The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-26 00:00:00

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The price of gas in Chester has been reduced to 6s. 8d
per 1000 cubic feet from the Ist instant.
Only two manufacturers at Manchester are now work
ing full time.

The machine trade at Preston is suffering severely.
Where more than a hundred men were employed, only
four or five are now engaged.
On Sunday, Catherine Sharpies, aged 58, drowned her-
self in the reservoir near Bury, whilst in a state of intoxi-
cation.

A meeting, originating with the Odd-fellows, was held
in Ormskirk, on Monday, the vicar in the chair, to pro-
mote a subscription for Ireland. The sum subscribed in
the room was £4O.

trade of this port is still on the in-
crease ; no fewer than 3300 vessels arrived during the past
year, and upwards of 1500 vessels received cargo export
from thence, and thirty vessels arrived from foreign ports.
SHORT .TlME.—This is the twelfth week that the spin-
ners and manufacturers of the borough have worked their
mills four days per week, and we hear nothing said of any
extension of time.—Stockport Advertiser.l
Dixon, who attempted to commit suicide during his
trial at the last Chester sessions, has since attempted to
starve himself to death. He is now nearly recovered from
the effects of the wound which he inflicted on himself in
the dock with a razor.

On Friday, an inquest was held at Moss Bank, St.
Helens, on.view of the body of John Hoggatt, a Thbourer,
who was found dead in the school-room, at Moss Bank,
where he had gone to sleep the night previous. Mr.
Blundell, surgeon, of St. Helen's, gave his opinion that
deceased died in a fit of apoplexy.
CHARGE OF MURDER TWO YEARS AGO.—A man,
named Charles Foley, was appiehended on Tuesday
night, at Wigan, on a charge of committing a murder
near Ballaghaddereen, a mile and a half from Sligo, about
two years since. He was removed from Wigan on the
following morning, in custody of an Irish officer, who had
come over to apprehend him.
THE CONSPIRACY AT NEWTON.—On Monday last, at
the Sessions Room, Elijah Bowman, Joseph Blamires,
and John Roberts, three of the parties included in the in-
dictment for conspiracy against Messrs. Jones and Potts,
of the Viaduct Foundry, Newton, surrendered themselves,
and entered into the necessary sureties to appear and
take their trial with the others, at the next Liverpool as-
sizes.

DINNER TO POOR AND AGED PERSONS.—Upwards of
150 poor persons, above the age of sixty-five years, were
provided with an excellent dinner, in the National School
Room, Warrington, on Monday, a subscription having
been entered into for the purpose. The Hon. and Rev.
Horace Powys, rector, presided. In the evening, the
children educated in the schools had an entertainment
provided for them.

- On Thursday se'nnight a fire broke out in an office at-
tached to a timber-yard belonging to Mr. James Latham,
joiner and builder, St. Helen's ; the office was destroyed,
and a great many articles belonging to his trade consumed;
yet with the assistance of the neighbours, and the timely
arrival of the engines, the fire was confined to where it
first originated. No cause as yet can be given as to the
origin of the fire. The loss will be considerable.
SHORT TIME.—The hands at the extensive cotton mill
of Messrs. Eckersley, spinners, Wigan, have been, as al-
ready stated, put upon four days a week ; and yesterday,
the Sovereign Mills, the property of Messrs. John Woods
and Co. was put under the same regulation. There is
little doubt that several other mill owners in the borough
will almost immediately reduce their hours of labour.
One mill, that of Mr. Henry Bullock, has been shut up
for a month.

WOMAN KILLED BY HER HUSBAND.—James Ingham,
an engineer employed at Messrs. Jamison's, machine
maker. s, Oldham-road, Ashton, has been committed to
Kirkdale Gaol, for trial at the assizes, charged with kill-
ing his wife. The man came home late at night, found
his wife fighting with another woman, the watchmen
about, and his furniture broken, and was so exasperated,
that he knocked his wife down and kicked her. She was
far advanced in pregnancy, and this treatment occasioned
her death.

THE MANCHESTER BOROUGH GAOL.—The result of
long debate in the Manchester Council on Wednesday
last, was the passing of a resolution to the effect that the
committee for general purposes be authorised to take the
necessary steps for the construction and management of a
new Borough Gaol, and to borrow from Government (un-
der the Act 5 and 6 Vic.) the sum required, on the most
fovourable terms as regards interest. It appears that the
sum to be borrowed .is £84,000, at four per cent., but
that Government have undertaken to nay the cost. out of

the consolidated fund, of maintaining convicted prisoners.
FALL OF THE LEVIATHAN CHIMNEY,—The enormous
chimney, recently erected to the height of 140 yards, by
Mr. John Dobb, manufacturing chemist, Wigan, fell to
the ground on Thursday afternoon, about four o'clock.
The chimney was erected within a few yards of the Leeds
and Liverpool canal, in which direction it has fallen,
forming a bedding in the canal at least twenty-five yards
in width, and ten feet above the level of the water. The
traffic on the canal through Wigan will thus be stopped
for several days. Several workmen were on the chimney
up to twelve o'clock at noon. No person has been hurt
by the fall.

REPENTANT THIEVES.—In September last some thieves
entered the gardens at Springfield-hall, the residence of
Mr. R. Godson, M.P., and helped themselves liberally to
grapes ; but, besides this, they broke into the garden-
house and stole a gun. A reward for the apprehension of
the rogues was offered at the time, without effect ; but
whether the fellows have repented of their dishonesty, or
whether, the shooting season being pretty far advanced,
they have no further occasion for the implement of de-
struction, certain it is that they have secretly found their
way back to the garden-house, and deposited the stolen
gun in its playe.—Lalzcaster Gazette.

IRISH EMIGRANTS IN MANCHESTER.—It is a very re-

mansaune 'act, that, notwithstanding the large influx of
Irish paupers and mendicants into this town, during the
last few weeks, they have scarcely at all applied for relief
to the board of guardians of this union. .During the pre-
sent week, only seventeen Irish families have applied to
the board, who have resided in Manchester for a shorter
period than three months. Perhaps this fact may be ac-
counted for by the vigilant and careful inquiries which
the guardians cause to be made into the circumstances of
every applicant, and to their invariably requiring labour,
in return for relief, from all who seem capable of perform-
ing it.—Manchester Guardian.

At the annual meeting of the Manchester Chamber of
Commerce, on Monday, samples of the most excellent
cotton were shown, which had been grown on the experi-
mental farm of the East India Company, in Madras.
They were pronounced equal to the best New Orleans
cotton, possessing a good staple, perfectly clean, and
quite fit for the common purpose of spinning. An ex-
perienced cotton broker, who was shown the samples,
without being informed whence they had come, expressed
his surprise, perceiving that it was a new kind of cotton.
He valued it at Bd. per lb., and yet it is stated that this
cotton might be laid down in Liverpool at as low a rate
as 3d. per lb.

DEATH FROM SUPPOSED QUACKERY.—An inquest was
held on Monday, at Manchester, on the body of a la-
bourer named Greenhalgh, aged 25 years, who it was ru-
moured, had been " killed by one of Coffin's men." He
was afflicted with asthma, and applied to a quack named
Flitcroft, who gave him a powder called "Dr. Coffin's
pick." It was green, and mainly consisted of India to-
bacco and cayenne. Soon after taking it he died. The
jury returned a verdict of " Died from inflammation on
the lungs," which they accompanied with an expression of
opinion that the deceased had been improperly treated by
Flitcroft ; and that as Flitcroft was a bricklayer by trade,
and had no knowledge of medicine, it was highly wrong
for him to act as he was doing.

OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH.—A public meeting
was held on Friday, in the large room of the Town-hall,
Manchester, for the purpose of hearing the addresses of
Sir Andrew Agnew, DO.-Candlish, and other clergymen
and gentlemen, upon tha question of " a bettor observ-
ance of the Sabbath ;" -and also of adopting a memorial
to the directors of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway,
congratulating them upon the noble struggle which they
have made to vindicate.the sanctity of the Lord''s Day,
in resolving to discontinne the running of trains on that
day." There was a Large number present. The Rev.
Chancellor Raikes occapied the chair, and urea the plat-
form we observed the-;allowing clergy and gentlemen :
Sir Andrew Agnew, the Revs. Hugh Stowell,. H. W.
M`Grath, Mr. Bleasdale ; the Revs. Mr. Holland and
Mr. Roby, methodist:new connection ministers ; Robert
Gardner, Esq., Dr. Mack, &c. A memonal:tbo the direc_
tors, exhorting them to persevere in not running Sunday
trains was agreed to..

A Juvenile Refuge and School of Industry-was opened
in Manchester on the lath instant. It is situated in.
Nelson Street, near the Leeds Railway
_Station. Thirty
vagrant children between five and twelve years of age
have been admittud. The boys have hash, employed
during the intervals of tuition in untwisting old ropes,
And the girls in sewing.. One good meal of soup and
bread is given in. the day, and a piece of bread in the
evening. A similar institution is being established in
London.

On Tuesday, rttfineschooner, named the Margaret anti
Martha, belonging,to Mr. T. T. Rigby,, and intended for
-the coasting trade,- was launched from the building yard
of Mr. S. Mason,,,-at Runcorn. A dinner was provided
for Mr. Mason't workmen, and afterwards another was
sat down to hy, the owners and builders of the vessel, and
their friends,, at Mr. John Rigby:A, Boathouse Inn;
Captain Reimer presided, assisted by Mr. Lancaster, of
Liverpool, piliot, as vice. When we state that Mrs. Rigby
was the caterer, it is almost supererpjatory to say that al/
was excellent, About ten minutes previnus to the launch,.
the brig Ilatuptnn, which has beers, undergoing extensive
repairs at this yard, was let off the slip to the astonishment
of the Spectators, who consideredit to be accidental, and
in the frrst- instance appeared to- be rather alarmed ; but
the appearance of the gallant tars on board this vessel
allayed a-4. apprehensions. This brig is, we are inform.edi
one of the largest ever repaired upon slip ; she is 210 tons

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