The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-09-25 00:00:00

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ner-street, Manchester, were partially destroyed by tire,
The Mayor of Wigan has requested all the inhahitants
of that town to observe to-morrow (Wednesday) as a day
of fast and humiliation.
The Loan Commissioners have granted £4500 towards
completing Wigan parish-church, to be repaid with four
per cent. interest within twenty years.
On Tuesday, Mary Hilton, nearly nine years of age,
was killed, through her clothes getting entangled with a
fly wheel at Messrs. Whitehead and Andrew's colliery,
at Tonge, near Oldham.
On Tuesday. Mr J. Dalton Lamport, cashier to Messrs.
Ewart and Co., of Manchester, committed suicide in con-
sequence of some irregularities being discovered in his cash-
book.
On Saturday week a serious affray took place at Altcar,
between seven or eight poachers and a number of watchers.
Seven of the former were captured, after being seriously
injured.
A PUGNACIOUS CORONER.--On Friday week, Mr.
Rogerson, the coroner for Wigan, was summoned before
the magistrates of that place for an assault on Mr. Chas.
Phillips, another medieus. The assault had taken place,
from professional jealousy, in the bedroom of a cholera
patient, to which they had both been summoned. He
was fined 20s. and costs.

Mehamed Pacha, the Turkish ambassador to the court
of St. James's, arrived in Manchester on Tuesday. His
excellency is making a tour through the country, and has
spent several days in Birmingham, and inspected the
principal manufactories in that town.
At Rochdale, on Monday, a stone building three storys
high, 52 feet by 54 feet, built ten years ago for hand-loom
weaving of flannels, and also six cottages, were brought
to the hammer and knocked down for £225. The hand-
loom weaving shed was built ten years ago, at a cost of
more than £1,400.
A schoolmaster has been committed for trial at Man-
chester, for stealing, at intervals, eleven books from the
shop of a bookseller with whom he bad dealings. He
said that as the prosecutor had on several occasions over-
charged him in his dealings with him, he thought he
might as well take a few books to make it right.
AN AGED REAPER.—Betty Muckalt, of Lindale, in
Cartmel, widow, who is in the 83rd year of her age, has.
as usual, attended her harvest field this year, and, being
nothing daunted by her extreme age, has reaped and tied
up in the course of one day and four afternoons no less
than 42 hattocks of oats, of 10 sheaves to the hattock, be-
ing an average of 14 hattocks per day. She says that, if
the grain had not been so strong in the straw, she could
have cut more in the time. _ _ _

IMPORTANT CASE.—On Thursday week, and, by ad-
journment, on the following day, a case of considerable
importance, affecting vast pecuniary interests, was beard
before J, W. Harden, Esq., judge, and a jury of five, at
the County Court, Warrington. The plaintiffs in the case
were Alice and Richard Taylor, farmers, and the de-
fendants Messrs. Muspratt and Co., and the suit had been
preferred to obtain the amount of £l7 ss. for alleged da-
mage done to the plaintiffs' crops by reason of the vapour
emitted from the alkali-works of the defendants, at New-
ton. Mr. Cobbett, barrister, appeared for the plaintiffs,
and Mr. Wheeler, barrister for the defendants. After a
very patient investigation the jury returned with a verdict
for the plaintiff for £l7 ss. This verdict ruled several
other cases, in which verdicts for the plaintiffs for the

amounts claimed were taken.
AWFUL BOILER EXPLOSION.—On Tuesday as the
hands employed in Mr. Geo. Slater's cotton spinning
mill, in Burnley, were about to commence work, one of
the boilers which is underneath a portion of the mill,
suddenly burst with a most terrific explosion, but from
what cause cannot at present be ascertained. The ceiling
above the boiler was fire proof, being arched with brick,
and through this ceiling a large opening was made by the
explosion. In the room over this ceiling several hands
had begun their work. Amongst these persons was one
named John Parkinson, a warper, who unfortunately fell
through the opening made in the floor and alighted in the
boiler, trough the part which had burst, and on being
found was almost scalded to a jelly. Four others who
were in the same room were scalded with the steam so

much so that Henry Robinson, twister, one of the four,
died immediately on arriving at his home, whither he
walked, and James Pickles, also a twister, another of the
four died during the same evening. Thomas Tattersall, a
twister, and Margaret Salmon, the other two, are in a

most dangerous date.
ENLIGHTENED JURYMEN !—About a week since, in a
neighbouring village, an inquest was held upon the body
of a poor man. Now, it often happens that, after the
business has been ended, and the coroner left, the " gen-
tlemen of the jury" discuss the " matters in question,"
at the same time inhaling the contents of some three or
four glasses of foreign spirits, and metamorphosing a cer-
tain foreign weed into ashes. In this last state of unal-
loyed happiness sat these Verdictorians—glorious sons of
Bacchus—when we entered the room ; and, having an
interest in the cause of this man's death, we asked their
verdict. One jolly-faced man, very contentedly puffing
away at his long tube, asked his left-hand friend if he
recollected what " th' krunner caw'd it" ; but he had
forgotten. In succession each and all were applied to,
and in vain ! But suddenly a light of inspiration seemed
to infuse the face of the jolly gentleman aforesaid, and he
instantly replied—" Ah know neaw : it wur a Latin word
th' krunner caw'd it." This satisfied all present, our-
selves inclusive. Afterwards we were passing through
the village, and heard one man ask another what the ver-
dict was. " Whah," he. says, " it's a quare word ;ah
think they caw'n it trim. con., or else sine die."—lVigan
Times.

ROYAL NoRTIILANCASHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
—The annual meeting of this Society was held last week
at Lytham, this place being included in the list
where the meetings should be alternately held. The
meeting took place under the presidency of Thomas Clif-
ton, Esq. The entries of stock were larger than at either
of the Society's previous meetings ; this was especially
the case with horses, short-horned cattle, and pigs. The
sheep, though less numerous in proportion, comprised a
careful assortment of well-bred animals. The imple-
ments, which were both numerous and varied, formed a
leading feature of the show-ground, and the attention de-
voted to them proved the increasing interest attaching to
this department of agriculture. Altogether, the present
year's meeting is considered by all competent judges im-
measurably superior to those of former years. Among
the company were Mr. Wilson Patten and Mr. Heywood,
the members of the northern division of the county; Mr.
Greene, M.P. for Lancaster; Mr, Garnett, of Quernmore
Park; Mr. W. J. Garnett, of Bleasdale, and many other
influential landowners. The whole of Wednesday was
devoted to a trial of implements, and a discussion in the
Lytham Agricultural Hall, " On the best method of pre-
paring and laying down land to grass, with reference to
the different soils found within the limits of the society."

The dinner took place on Thursday evening, when covers
were laid for 300. A variety of toasts were proposed and
responded to, and among them was " Success to the
Royal Agricultural Society." The health of the chair-
man and that of the vice-presidents having been drunk
the company separated.
A COMPLICATED CASE OF BIGAMY.—STRANGE MODE
OF GETTING A WIFE.—A man named Wright was
brought up at the Borough Court, Manchester, on
Thursday, charged with allowing his wife and children to
become chargeable to the parish. It appeared that the
prisoner was some time since charged with bigamy, but
was acquitted on the ground that the husband of his first
wife was living at the time of his (prisoner's) marriage
with her. Tho prisoner said he did not think he was
bound to maintain the woman (the second wife), as he
did not believe she was his wife.—Mr. Maude : If a man
marries a woman, and then, while that woman is alive,
he marries another, the second marriage is null and void.
But if it turns out that the first woman bad a husband at
the time this man married her, then that marriage is null
and void, and the second marriage is good. The woman
you first married is alive yet, is she not ?—Prisoner : Yes,
sir.—Mr. Maude : Then she is not your wife, but this
woman is. It saves you from being a felon : you are
acquitted of felony, and you get a wife by it. (Loud
laughter.)—Prisoner: But that child (pointing to one
which the woman had in her arms) is not mine.—Mr.
Maude: Was it born after your marriage ?—Prisoner :

Yes ' • it was born six months and a week afterwards.—
Mr. Maude : Then it is yours, and you are answerable by
law for its maintenance.—Prisoner: But it is illegitimate;

and I have two others to support, which I belie-ve to be
mine. It 's a hard case, and I hope your worship will
look closely into it.—Mr. Maude : I think it 's no hard
case at all.—The relieving officer said he believed the pri-
soner was willing to pay the amount advanced by the
parish ; only he wished to have the point as to his liabi-
lity settled by the magistrates.—On this understanding,
Wright was discharged.
SHAMEFUL DISTURBANCE.—On Monday a meeting
was held in Manchester, for the purpose of assisting the
formation of a missionary college at Hong Kong. The
Bishop of Manchester was in the chair, and amongst those
present were the Bishop of Madras, his Excellency Che-
valier Bunsen, &c. When his lordship was about to put
the first resolution, a socialist named Southwell stood up
to move an amendment which he handed to the chairman,
but which his lordship declared to be irrelevant. He then
wrote another, which shared the same fate. The propo-
sitions which he desired to urge were merely to the effect
that the church was too rich, and that no foreign missions
should be undertaken until more had been done at home.
Much disturbance took place, and at length, the noise
and confusion being continued with great violence, the
ladies in the body of the meeting began to get alarmed,
and several of them rose from their seats. His lordship,
however, requested them to resume their seats, and they
did so. His lordship then requested Mr. Sharpe to come
to him, and appeared to be consulting with that gentle-
man, as a magistrate, upon the steps proper to be taken,
in order to enable the business of the meeting to be pro-
ceeded with. While his:lordship and Mr. Sharpe were
thus engaged, some of the police force, under the com-
mand of Mr. Superintendent Sawley, entered the room,
and were received with loud applause and shouts of dis-
approbation from the others. Mr. Southwell said, " I
protest against all violence as unbecoming at a public
meeting." Several persons, principally ladies, here again
rose from their seats, partly from curiosity, and partly,
apparently fearing some collision between the police
force and the supporters of Mr. Southwell; but at his
lordship's emphatic request all again sat down, and he
then called upon the Rev. Mr. Stowell to move the reso-
lution. The uproar still continued for some time, and at
length Mr. Southwell had to be ejected by the police,
after which harmoniously.
TAE CASE
OF proceedings
CLAIRVOYANCE went
AT B oLTo.
he ex-
traordinary recovery of £650, through the alleged agency
of clairvoyance, has excited considerable interest, not
only in Bolton, but throughout the whole country.
Mr. P. R. Arrowsmith, Mr. Willkm Lomax, his cashier,
and Mr. Frederick Jones, of Ashburner-street, have had
many communications from different parts of the country,
from parties who have lost money and are anxious for its
recovery. A person from Manchester, who was £lO de-
ficient in his cash, has been at Bolton, to obtain the aid
of Mr. Haddock's clairvoyant patient ; but Mr. Haddock,
who is an apothecary, has his own business to attend to,
therefore declincd to i-terfere i the matter. With
reerd to the disc(' # there is no doubt
whatever that it was sent to the bank by Mr. Lomax in
an envelope; that it was by some means Laid aside un-
opened, and got mixed up with some loose papers, and
that when application was made at the bank (which was
not until the expiration of five weeks, when Mr. Lomax
was balancing his cash) no tidings could be had of the
money. Mr. Lomax had no evidence that he had sent
the money ; and although Mr. Arrowsmith had unlimited
confidence in his integrity, yet his state of mind may
easily be imagined. Ho consulted his friend Mr. Frede-
rick Jones, who went with him to the clairvoyant patient
of Mr. Haddock (who is stated to have been the means
of recovering a cash-box lost some time before, by Mr.
Wood), and the information she gave them led to the
discovery of the envelope and its contents, among some
waste paper in a back room at the bank. We are assured,
both by Mr. Lomax and Mr. Jones, that no statement
was made to the female to lead her in any way to the
information she gave ; but whether it was a singularly
fortunate guess, or the result of a power which it is diffi-
cult, with our present knowledge, to give credit to, we
leave our readers to judge. We understand that the let-
ter sent to the police authorities in London, stating that
the pistol with which O'Connor was shot would be found
in one of the cellars of the house in Miniver-place, did

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not emanate from this female ;. and that if it be gentune,
it must have gone from another clairvoyant, in the town.
—Manchester Guardian..

GRAND CIVIC BANQUET AT MANCIIESTER.—On Fri-
day night, the Mayor of Manchester (John Potter, Esq.)
gave a grand banquet in the Townhall, in honour of Sir
James Duke, Bart., M.P. for and Lord Mayor of the city
of London. The banquet took place in the great room of
the hall, which has recently undergone a complete cleans-
ing and beautifying. Owing to the difficulty connected
with cooking at the Town-hall, the dishes served at the
banquet were chiefly cold. A gas cooking apparatus of
an ingenious character, brought from Liverpool exeressly
for the occasion by Mr. Johnson, was placed in the Coun-
cil-chamber. This machine. was invented by Messrs.
Steel and Edwards, principal managers of the Liverpool
Gas Works, and is now highly thought of by nistinguished
cooks. Water may be boiled by this apparatus in one-
half the time of the ordinary process, and there is never
any waste of gas, which may be turned on to a greater or
less intensity, according to pleasure, or the rt quirement
of the moment, by means of a tap. In the apparatus
there are fifteen holes, over which water may be boiled or
meat cooked, and in each hole arc a hundred gas jets, the
strength of which may be increases or diminished at the
will of the cook. This apparatus is adapted for the pur-
poses of baking, cooking, boiling, steaming, &c., &c.
By means of this apparatus there are cooked daily, at the
establishment of Mr. Feeney, Liverpool, 5 cwt. of meat.
The hot portion of the dinner embraced fifteen tureens of
turtle soul", fifteen dishes of fish, six splendid haunches of
venison, fifteen dishes of. game, &c. The dessert com-
prised fifteen of the finest pine apples, fifteen melons,
grapes, apples, prunes, nectarines, peaches, pears, &c.
Abcut 156 guests sat down to dinner, among whom were
the Lord Mayor of London, Earl Cathcart, the Bishop of
Manchester, his Excellency Chevalier Bunsen, Earl Wil-
ton, Lord Greenock, Sir W. Warre, the members for the
county, the Mayor of Liverpool, the Town-clerk of Liver-
pool, Edward Rushton, Esq,., the Canons of Manchester,
the Mayors of Lancashire, &c. After the usual loyal
toasts, the Mayor of Manchester proposed the health of
the guest of the evening, and in doing so said that he
knew that the liberties of Englishmen were everything to
the city of London; and when in the course of time,
when, by the fortuitous distribution of wealth, cities in
the country sprung up rapidly, strong, vigorous in their
youth, important and influential; cities, one of which he
had the honour and privilege to represent, and another of
which his friend Mr. Bramlev-Moore represented, the
main stay of the commerce and industry of the country—
it was important, most desirable, that they should be on
the best terms with the head of the greatest municipality
in the world. London was the centre of the wealth of the
British isles, the emporium of the trade of the world, the
most wealthy on record. Liverpool, he believed, was fast
treading in the steps of London as a port; and, it' he mis-
took not, in a few years would outstep it. Manchester
was the great focus of the manufacturing industry of the
country, the locality where the great staple articles were
produced, which were exchanged for the commodities of
the world ;. and he apprehended neither Liverpool or Lon-
don cculd flourish amid the depression of Manchester.
He of course, as in duty bound, stood up for his own
town ; but, notwithstanding, he trusted there would
be no absurd, no paltry rivalry between the great
cities of England. It was upon the prosperity, upon
our progression, upon our increased intelligence, the
welfare of our mutual country depended.—Sir James
Duke returned thanks, and after a few more excellent
speeches, the health of the mayors present was given,
to which Mr. J. Bramley-Moore was called on to
reply, and in doing so, he assured the Mayor of Man-
chester that all the kindly feelings that he had expressed
towards Liverpool were reciprocated by that town towards
Manchester. He hoped that a rivalry between the two
would long continue in its present spirit, improving and
promoting the general interests of the community and the
common good. For what affected the one affected the
other,—and if Manchester was depressed, Liverpool suf-
fered with it. He' then adverted to the Liverpool docks,
in which he said that Manchester, and the country at
large, had a common interest. They were not exclusively
the property of Liverpool, but belonged to the nation.
They were gratuitously managed, and their profits went
to the reduction of the charges of the port, and conse-
quently to the benefit of the community. It might be
interesting to the community to know that such was the
management of that estate, that in the course of the last
ten years, they had been ahle to make a reduction to the
enormous amount of £1,446,000, and that as they pro-
gressed, in course of time that charge would be reduced
Year by year, so that unless the extended commerce of the
country required fluffier accommodation, the only charge
on the imports and exports would be for paying the wages
of those working at the docks. Without Manchester,
Liverpool would not be so flourishing as it now was; her
docks would not be so fully occupied as they were at
present; there would be but comparatively trifling im-
ports of cotton, or exports of manufactures. They would
give credence to the fact that, the cotton trade alone
had added to the wealth of this country no less
than one thousand millions sterling. He congratu-
lated the different mayors present, especially those of
Manchester and Stockport, on the order, loyalty, and
English feeling manifested during the past year, by the
people of their respective boroughs, when the emissaries
of disorder were at work to destroy, to undermine, and to
uproot the constitution of their country. They had much
reason to be proud of this, for in not one of the towns in
this part of the country had there been any thing to ex-
cite the least apprehension or alarm. He not only took
this as a good omen for the future, but felt sure that as
we progressed, and as the Artificers, artisans, and others
became more enlightened, and availed themselves of the
advantages offered by the different institutions of their
towns, they would become better mechanics and better
men.

COURT AND FASMON,
On Wednesday, Wednesday, her Majesty and the Prince walked out
and visited Lochnagar Distillery.
Her Majesty has this week been sketching some bare-
footed Highland children ; Prince Albert has been very
successful in deer stalking ; and the Prince of Wales has
ridden out daily on his piebald pony, accompanied by Mr.
Birch, his tutor.
Her Majesty and the Royal Family leave Balmoral
Castle to-morrow (Wednesday), and sleep that night at
Perth: on Thursday, the Royal party will continue its
journey, proceeding along the Newcastle and Berwick
Railway to York, and thence along the Midland line as
far as Derby, where her Majesty will rest for the night.

CORRESPONDENCE,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Sin,—ln the course of a deeply impressive sermon yes-
terday, Dr. M'lsTeile intimated his desire that we should
follow the devoted example of so many parishes, by setting
apart a day for prayer and humiliation before Almighty
God for the withdrawal of his avenging scourge front
amongst us, and named Wednesday, the 31 of October, as
that on which he would have public service at his church.
Let us earnestly hope that those in local authority will
see the necessity of having that day set apart generally
for public prayer and humiliation. Be assured that every
right minded person desires such a day should be observed,
it therefore only requires that our excellent chief magis-
trate, in conjunction with the clergy, should express their
wishes to this effect, to its being devoutly carried out.
What a noble example has been set us by the metropoli-
tan parishes and large towns, where even more than Sab-
bath observance has been regarded—those shops usually
open on Sundays being entirely closed. Our excellent
Mayor has, by his many acts of Christian du y during his
year of office, won the good opinion of all,—let him give
the law (and that alone is required,) for the strict obser-
vance of Wednesday, the 3d of October, as a day of pub-
lic prayer and almsgiving, and it will indeed enable him to
look back upon his official year with dignified remem-
brance, as having, as a good steward, performed his duty
both to God andman.

I am, Sir,

Very respectfully yours,
A CHURCHMAN.

Liverpool, 24th September, 1849.
P.S.—lf some of our Christian townsmen of influence
would commence a memorial to the clergy and Mlyor upon
the subject, it would strengthen their hands in the matter.
[We have yet hope that in reply to the memorial about
to be presented by the clergy, the Archbishop of Canter-
bury will deem it his duty to appoint a day to be observed
by the country generally as a period of national humilia-
tion, but our correspondent's Christian suggestions are
nevertheless entitled to due consideration.]

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SlR,—There has been in Liverpool for sometime a gen-
tleman from London very zealously advocating the claims
of the National Society upon the benevolence of Liverpool
churchmen. To the inquiry repeatedly made,—" Is there
any foundation for the charge of encouraging Puseyite
practices, and of instilling into the minds of those who are
to be teachers of the rising generation, Puseyite doctrines,
preferred against the clergy in whose hands the central
management of this society is ?"—this gentleman has in-
variably given a most decided negative, and upon this
assurance has, no doubt, received much support.
You may have noticed that Mr. Pollock put the ques-
tion most pointedly at the meeting last week, and was re-
plied to by Mr. Howson. Will you allow me to suggest
that ycur readers make further inquiry upon the subject
before they entrust funds into the hands of management
so doubtful, to say the least of it. I would especially re-
commend to their notice the following
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tional Society attend, has circulated a document, from
is the third edition of the publication which lies before us.
How the National Society can subject the young people
committed to their care to the teaching of a person of
whose instruction this is a specimen, and how men of
scriptural principle can remain connected with a society
which, year after year, amidst strong remonstrancesto the
contrary, persists in having the children of the society so
initiated into the principles of Romanisin, it is difficult for
a sound churchman to imagine."
The extract alluded to is as follows—(it is recommended
to be used simultaneously, and with that view stated hours
are mentioned for its use) :
" 0 Thou, who didst die and rise again to be Lord both
of the dead and the living—whether we live or die, thou
art our Lord. Lord have pity on living and dead."

And again :
" For the souls of those who are in pain and suffering.
For the souls of those about to depart. For the souls of
the dying now instantly meeting Thee. For the souls of
those departed in the faith of thy holy name—that they
may have their perfect consummation and bliss. We
beseech thee to hear us, good Lord."
Surely this settles at once the point in dispute.
I am, sir, yours obediently,
September 20, 1849. NEDICUS.

el) ina.

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