The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-09-11 00:00:00

in tstrut Pclus.

The ravages of cholera in the beautiful and healthy
town of Clitheroe, have been most painfully distressing.
Henry Gaskell. Esq., bas given the munificent sum of
£llOO, to complete the erection of St. Thomas's Church,
`Wean.

At the Salford sessions, on Monday week, Thomas
Barnes, Esq., of Farnworth, near Bolton, qualified as a
magistrate of the county.

Between 1830 and 1848 inclusive, the length of main
and cross sewers, as also private drains, completed in the
borough of Manchester, amounts to 66 miles 901 yards.
On Monday, Mr. Thomas Tvndal, actuary of the Wrex-
ham savings' bank, &c., was drowned whilst bathing in a
pool, about two miles from that town. The deceased was
on the eve of marriage.
On Tuesday a number of the friends of Mr. E. W.
Topham, Clerk of the Course at Chester Races, presented
that gentleman with a handsome Silver Tea Service, in
testimony of their approval of his exertions in promoting
the prosperity of the Racing Meetings.
THE CROPS IN CHESHIRE.-Most excellent harvest
weather prevails. Stock in general sells very low at our
country fairs, and potatoes have a slightly downward ten-
dency, notwithstanding the disease, which, however, has
not half the alarming features of former years. Apples
would appear to be very abundant in some quarters, as we
hear talk of 3s. per bushel for them. Damsons are a very
scarce article.

HORSE-FLESH v. STEAM.—On Monday, a gentleman,
a resident at Bowdon, who daily comes to Manchester by
the omnibus, laid a wager of £lO to £5 with another gen-
tleman who prefers the rail for his daily journeys, that,
on the next morning the omnibus should beat the rail to
the Knott Mill station. The rail and the road omnibus
started at the same time from Bowdon, and the latter was
at the appointed goal some minutes before the train.
Civic BANQUET AT MANCHESTER.—Among the dis-
tinguished persons who will be present at this entertain-
ment on Friday week are the Prussian Ambassador,
Chevalier Bunsen, the Bishop, Dean, Canons, and Arch-
deacon of Manchester, W. Brown, Esq., M.P., A. Henry,
Esq., M.P.. Sir T. B. Birch, M.P., R. Cobden, Esq.,
M.P., Alderman Copeland, M.P., and other M.P.'s,
twelve mayors of the Lancashire boroughs, Sir Wm.
Warre, &c.
'TEN HOURS' ACT.—On Friday se'nnight the result of
the ballot, which had been taken to ascertain the wishes of
the spinners working in the parish of Leigh, on the ques-
tion of the duration of factory labour, was publicly de-
clared. The number of spinners to whom balloting tickets
had been sent was 226 ; deduct the spinners of Messrs.
Jones, who were prevented from voting by intimidation,
30 ; the number at liberty to vote, 196. Voted for ten
hours, 182 ; voted for eleven hours, 1 ; did not vote, 13 ;
total, 196.
GUANO OR NOT GUANO ?—A Garstang farmer, some
time since, bought some stuff called guano, by auction,
and after the sale, on having some of his purchase ana-
lysed, he ascertained that it was not guano at all. He had
paid £3 Os. 71d. for it, and applied to the auctioneer to get
his money back ; the auctioneer refused, and last week the
case was heard in the Garstang County Court, when the
judge decided that the money must be returned, the auc-
tioneer having sold for guano that whieh was not guano,
and, there being no other name to the advertisement of
sale, he was made the responsible party.
MANSLAUGHTER.—A most diabolical murder was per-
petrated on Friday, at Ardwick, Manchester. The mur-
derer is a blacksmith, and was at work when the unfortu-
nate man entered the smithy. The latter having given
some provocation, the murderer rushed upon his victim
with a pair of red-hot irons, and thrust them through his
body. He expired in a few minutes afterwards. The de.
ceased has left a wife and six children. After committing
the horrid deed, the murderer immediately resumed his
work for a few minutes, whilst the unfortunate victim lay
writhing in the most dreadful agonies, at his feet ; he
afterwards went out and gave himself up to the police.
PERVERSICN.—On Sunday week the lady of Mr. John
Sparrowe, justice of the peace for the county of Lancas-
ter, made a public renunciation of the Protestant faith
in the Romish chapel of St. Alban's, Blackburn. After
celebrating mass, the officiating clergyman, the Rev. P.
Kaye, robed in a magnificent white cope, proceeded to-
wards the font, which had been decorated with a profusion
of flowers, where Mrs. Sparrowe immediately afterwards
presented herself, accompanied by three ladies, her hus-
band, and his brother, Mr. T. Sparrowe, who, with one
of the ladies abovenamed, subsequently officiated as her
sponsors. She was attired in a costume appropriate to
the occasion.
MURDER OF AN INFANT BY ITS MOTHER.—A case of
murder by a mother of her new-born infant child, at
Chorlton-cum-Hardy, near Manchester, has just come to
the knowledge of the authorities, the circumstances of
which are of a most horrifying character. The mother,
whose name is Mary Ann Page, is a servant out of place,
and had obtained lodgings at the house of a person named
Philips, where she delivered herself during the night of
Tuesday, of a male child, and deprived it of life by pierc-
ing its cheeks and temple with the points of a pair of
scissors, which she had borrowed from the son of her
landlady. The landlady appears to have suspected that
she was with child and attempting to conceal the birth,
and the close watch she kept upon the unfortunate woman
led to the discovery of the truth, but not in time to pre-
vent the crime. She haS been committed for trial.
PROPOSED ADVANCE OF FACTORY WAGES. On
Monday, a meeting of delegates from the factory opera-
tives was held at the Millstone Tavern, Thomas-street,
Manchester, to consider the propriety of applyiug to the
master spinners and manufacturers for an advance of
wages. The meeting was at,ended by about sixty dele-
gates. Philip Knight was called upon to preside. A
cotton-spinner submitted the following resolution :
" That this meeting is of opinion that the time has arrived
when the factory operatives of Manchester should use
their exertions for obtaining an advance of wages."—
The motion was seconded. Several artisans addressed the
meeting in support of the resolution, which was carried
almost unanimously. The following resolution was then
proposed :—" That this meeting appoint a committee of
12 persons to carry into effect the objects of the foregoing
resolution." The motion was carried without discussion,
and the meeting proceeded to select the members of the
committee. A memorial was subsequently adopted.
A LIBERAL LANDLORD.—TweIve months ago we had
the pleasing duty of reporting an act of most unparalleled
liberality on the part of the Right Hon. Thomas Pember-
ton Leigh towards his workpeople, viz., of depositing £2
for each in the Savings' Bank, Wigan, and for every £1
up to £5 added to it in the course of twelvemonths he
would add £2 more. The right hon. gentleman has again
met his workpeople, to command them to give an account
of " the pieces of money which he had entrusted to the
care of his servants," and we are glad to hear that he had
the pleasure of commending them as " good and faithful
servants," and that the result which he has looked for-
ward to with so much interest has answered his expecta-
tions. On Saturday last the right hon. gentleman enter-
tained his servants and tenants to a dinner in the spacious
coach-house at Hindley Hall, when about sixty sat down
to a substantial old English repast. The right. hon.
gentleman can assert what we imagine no other employer
in the kingdom can, viz., that there is not one of his men
but can boast of having £5 " to the good."—Wigan
Herald.
REPORTED INSUFFICIENCY OF MEDICAL AID IN MAN-
CHESTER.—The cholera appears to be making more pro-
gress in Manchester than it has hitherto done ; and in
consequence of complaints that the means taken by the
boards of guardians, and other authorities, to provide
medical officers to visit poor patients, and treat the disease
while in a premonitory (or even in a more advanced)
stage, an inquest was held on Friday, on the body of a
cholera patient. At the close of the inquest, the coroner

said, if he recollected rightly, when the eholera visited
this country in 1832, three hospitals were established in
different parts of the town ; on this occasion there was.but
one, and the staff of medical visitors appeared to be too
limited. A gentleman observed that on the last occasion
there were three hospitals provided before a single case of
cholera occurred, and it appeared to him the provision
was then much more ample. Ultimately, the jury found
a verdict of " Died from Asiatic cholera," and recom
mended that the coroner should send copies of the &-
positions to the Board of Guardians, and to the Board of
Health in London.

LANCASHIRE COUNTY SESSIONS.—The adjourned an-
nual sessions of the county justices was held at the Court-
house, Preston, on Thursday. The Ven. Archdeacon
Brooks presided, and there was a large assemblage of
magistrates present. A discussion took place relative to
the expenses of witnesses at assizes, and a resolution,
calling upon government to reduce the charges paid to
the same scale as those allowed at quarter sessions, was
submitted. The matter was referred to the finance com-
mittee, with instructions to pursue the subject. An ob-
jection was raised to the payment of a guinea and a half
per day to Mr. Dolling, examiner of weights and mea-
sures for Kirkdale, whilst examiners in other districts
received only a guinea per day. The finance committee
recommended that this should be done away with. Sun-
dry other items of expenses were discussed and allowed.
After a desultory conversation, the general rate of one
penny in the pound was passed, as were also the following
rates :—Lunatic asylums, ld. ; ditto loan account, 1-16th ;
general police, id. Local Police—North Lonsdale, led. ;
South Lonsdale. Id. ; Amounderness, lid. ; Higher
Blackburn, 2d. ; Lower Blackburn, ad.; Leyland, 2d. ;
Bolton, lid. ; Bury, 2d. ; Middleton, 2d. ; Oldham, 2d.;
Ashton, ad. ; Manchester, 2d. ; Kirkdale. 3d. ; Prescot,
; Ormskirk, 21d. ; Warrington, 3d. ; Preston and
Kirkdale Gaols, lid. ; Salford Gaol, Id. Bridges—Lons-
dale, id. ; Amounderness, id. ; Blackburn, id. ; Leyland,
id.: West Derby, jd. ' After a conversation, the follow-
ing motion, proposed by Mr. Ashworth, was adopted, by
a majority of 54 to 23 That the settlement of the
balance due from the borough of Bolton, on the orders
made by the county treasurer, be forthwith come to, by
adjusting such orders on the same principle, and for the
same period adopted with regard to the boroughs of Li-
verpool and Manchester!' It appeared that the borough
of Bolton considered they had overpaid to the county,
some time ago, £617. and they refused to meet any further
demands until this dispute was adjusted. Mr. Ashworth
submitted a motion that, William Adam Hulton, Esq.,
the county treasurer, should be removed from office. The
grounds upon which the motion had been based were,
that the accounts of Mr. Hulton were not satisfactorily
kept, and that his sureties were insufficient. Several
gentlemen warmly addressed the court in defence of Mr.
Hulton, and the proposition made, and the course adopted
by Mr. Ashworth, were denounced as most abominable.
The resolution, which did not meet with a seconder, was
withdrawn.

VRV LIVERPOOL STANDARD.