The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-16 00:00:00

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Five men were so seriously injured by an explosion of
fire damp at Messrs. Price's colliery at Platt Bridge, near
Wigan, on Saturday week, that three of them died soon
after.

A good deal of land is in course of draining about New-
ton ; and drains are also in course of formation on Chat
Moss, for the purpose of carrying off the water on the
Astley estate. They will drain about 700 acres of land.
At Rochdale sessions, on Tuesday last, John Rider,
aged fourteen years, was committed for trial at the next
Liverpool assizes, for having, with a file, stabbed in the
abdomen, another boy seventeen years of age, named
Edmund Chadwick.

The directors of the Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows
have appealed to the various districts throughout the
country, on behalf of our starving fellow-creatures in
Ireland and Scotland, and the sum of £6OO has already
been subscribed for that purpose.
THE UNEMPLOYED.—Another large open air meeting
of the unemployed was held on Monday, at Manchester,
in Stevenson-square. A petition to the House of Com-
mons was adopted, denouncing the foreign trade, the sys-
tem of trading in corn, and praying that the act of Queen
Elizabeth against forestalling should be put in force, and
that the people should be allowed to go upon the land.
COLLISION.—On Wednesdzy evening, as the five o'clock
passenger-train from Manchester to Leeds was passing near
the Blue Pits station, between Manchester and Rochdale,
a pilot-engine came up behind the train at great speed,
and a violent collision was the consequence. The two
last carriages, both first class, were considerably smashed,
and the majority of the passengers were more or less
stunned, and several of them had their faces cut with
glass. After a delay of about ten minutes the train was
enabled to proceed.

FORGERY OF A MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE.—CURIOUS
CASE.—At the Salford Town Hall, on Thursday, a let-
terpress printer, named John Heywood, was charged with
uttering a marriage certificate, knowing it to have been
forged. The facts appear to be as follow :—About six
years since, the prisoner formed an intimacy with a young
woman named Burrows, who, in order to impress her
father with the belief that she was married to the prisoner,
borrowed a certificate of marriage from an acquaintance,
the printed form of which the prisoner printed, and filled
up with fictitious names. Three children were the result
of this intimacy, but a few months since they quarrelled
and separated. The prisoner became connected with ano-
ther woman, and, in revenge, Burrowes gave information
to the police about the false certificate, in consequence of
which the prisoner was apprehended. Mr. Trafford de-
cided upon committing the prisoner for trial at the ap-
proaching assizes. The woman, on hearing this, cried
bitterly, and begged very hard for the prisoner's libera-
tion, but the magistrate was inexorable, and even refused
bail the amount of £2OO, which was offered for the
prisoner's appearance at the assizes. _ _ _

ST. HELEN'S COURT OF REQUESTS.—On Wednesday,
the final meeting of the St. Helen's Local Court was held
in the Court-room, Town Hall, before Henry Leigh Traf-
ford, Esq., barrister-at-law, who has acted as judge since
its establishment in 1841. The necessity for such a court
was fully exemplified on Wednesday last, there being up-
wards of 180 cases tried and disposed of. About four
years ago a guardian or protection society was established,
for the purpose of punishing refractory debtors, as well
as to protect shopkeepers and others from fraudulent
persons, which society, through Mr. Silver Marsh, soli-
citor, delivered an address to the respected judge, at the
closing of the court, and previously to retiring from his
labours in St. Helen's. The importance of this neigh-
bourhood, together with its increasing population, is such
that government has selected St. Helen's as the court
town for the district, which includes the towns of Prescot,
Rainford, Knowsley, Huyton, Roby, Cronton, Ditton,
Widnes, Garston, Speke, Hale, Farnworth, Bold, Sut-
ton, Parr, Windle, Eccleston, &c. The new county court
for the recovery of debts not exceeding £2O, and for ob-
taMing possession of houses, &c. from refractory tenants
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r £5O, will be open at least once a month.
It is supposed the first court will be in April. The new
judge
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of Requests for the last sixyears, with much credit to
himself, and great satisfaction to the public.

THE COLLEGIATE CLERGY OF MANCHESTER,

We find in the Manchester Courier of Saturday last a
copy of a correspondence between the Dean (of Man-
chester) and Bishop of the diocese, the subject of which
has recently excited much interest in the public mind in
that locality. It appears by a letter from the Rev. W.
Herbert, the Dean of Manchester, to the Bishop, that a
petition to parliament has recently been preferred by three
of the churchwardens against the, Chapter of Manchester,
containing statements which the dean alleges to be quite
unfounded, as to the conduct of the head clergy of the
Manchester Collegiate Church. On the 23rd of last
month, the dean of the college wrote a letter to the bishop,
stating that he and the (superior) clergy under him had
been grossly misrepresented as non-residents ; as having
been violators of moral duty ; and of having " starved"
the chaplains, who, by charter, have the exclusive
cure of souls. The bishop, in his reply,. states that
the cure is vested in the chaplains ; that the chapter
have been gifilty of no moral wrong ; that the corn
plaint of want of church accommodation for the whole of
the town was not to be thrown upon the collegiate clergy,
inasmuch as their jurisdiction was limited .by law to the
district of the Collegiate Church. With regard to the
complaint of " starvation" of the chaplains, his lordship
states that this is incorrect, as they receive from £5OO to
£6OO per annum. His lordship con iudes by saying :—•
" I have much pleasure in bearing this testimony to the
conduct of the dean and canons; and I especially regret
that at the moment when you were taxing your recovered
strength in promoting education and mitigating the suf-
ferings of a severe season, your mind should have been
harassed by the circumstances which have occasioned this
appeal to my opinion."
A public meeting was held on Friday last in the Town?
hall, to consider and decide upon the steps which it may
be desirable to adopt in reference to the ecclesiastical
revenues of the parish, and with a view to promote the
object of the churchwardens in their recent petition to
the House of Lords. Mr. Henry Houldsworth was, called
to the chair. The meeting was, on the whole; not
unfriendly to the collegiate clergy, nor did the speakers
attribute to them dereliction of duty. -A petition to
Parliament, brought forward by Mr. Heelis, was unani-
mously agreed to, nearly to the same effect as that pre-
viously sent up by the churchwardens. The main paragraph
in this document is :

" That'ioUrPetitiOners understand that a measure is to
be submitted to your right honourable house in relation
to the proposed bishopric of Manchester, and they respect-
fully urge that in any bill which may be introduced for
that
Purpose, provision should be made for securing, in
such manner as shall be deemed expedielit, the whole
income and revenues of the rectory to the efficient pastoral
and ecclesiastical superintendence of the parish of Man-
chester, devoliing and expressly imposing upon the reci•
pients of such income the cure of souls, and subjecting
them to all the obligations and penalties against
and for enforcing residence, applicable to benefices with
the cure of souls."