The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-02 00:00:00

Listrirt getus.

The subscription for the soup kitchens at Warrington
amounts to £6OO. .-
Mr. Daniel Grieve, Comptroller of the Customs at Clay,
in Norfolk, has been appointed Collector at Runcorn, and
Mr. James Philips, Comptroller at Bridlington, has been
appointed Comptroller at Runcorn.
The potato stores belonging to several farmers in the
neighbourhood of Warrington, have recently been exten-
sively pilfered, and, through the inquiries of the police,
quantities of the stolen articles have been discovered in
various cottages, the inmates of which have been com-
mitted for trial.'

ROBBERY.—A few evenings ago, three men with black
masks entered the provision shop of an old man named
Mills, at Lower Whitley, near Warrington. Mills is 90
years old, and his wife is nearly the same age, and they
live with a stepson aged 60. They were supposed to have
some little money, and the robbers broke open a cupboard
and found £6. .

AN OPINION.—The Manchester Guardian gives the
following opinion of Miss Cushman's performance of Meg
Merrilies :—" Our opinion of Miss Cushman's perform-
ance of this character has been so recently expressed that
we need not again dwell upon it. It is melo-dramatic
clap-trap, not legitimate drama. As usual, the proprieties
of the scene were repeatedly violated that she might give
certain effects, especially at the last, where she is dragged
off by Dandie Dinmont, that she may have time to wash
her hands and face, and show the audience, when called
before the curtain, that she is not old and haggard 1"
The Leigh Short-time Committee have transmitted a
memorial to Lord John Russell, expressing their grati-
tude for his valuable aid in carrying the second reading of
the Ten-hours Bill, and earnestly entreating his lordship
to support, in committee, the ten-hours clause, and thus
bring about a final settlement of the question, and put a
stop to the present agitation which retards the progress
of that good feeling which it is desirable should subsist
between the employers and the employed. The vicar has
prepared, for transmission from the same quarter, a me-
morial on the same subject from the clergy in that neigh-
bourhood. A petition from a portion of the parish, in
favour of the bill, signed by five clergymen and 2,600
persons, has been presented to the Commons.
PLOUGHING MATCH AT HOOTON.—The ploughing
match for premiums given by Sir William Massey Stan-
ley and John Stanley, Esq., came off at Hooton on Tues-
day last. There were twenty-three teams entered, and it
was admitted by very competent judges that •a finer col-
lection-of horses had not been seen for a long time assem-
bled in one field : those of Sir 'William Stanley and John
Somerville Jackson, Esq., attracted great attention.
Those who sent teams were Sir William Stanley, Charles
Stanley, Esq., John Stanley, Esq., J. Somerville Jackson,
Esq., Messrs. Walker, Heyes, Bell, Ifampson, Hughes.
&c. The day was very fine and dry, but remarkably cold.
The judges were Messrs. Simpson and Charles Ellis, both
of Bromboro', whose decisions gave universal satisfaction.
The first class prizes were awarded to Mr. W. Walker, of
Storeton—first and third ; to John Somerville Jackson,
Esq., Eastham—second and fourth. Second class : Mr.
Hampson, Mr. Charles Hancock, and J. S. Jackson, Esq.
The ploughmen had each a quart of ale, and as much beef
and .bread as they could eat, provided for them at the
Stanley Arms ilotel,• Eastham, after they had finished
their work, at the expense of their generous friend, Sir
William Stanley.
SINGULAR INGENUITY OF A SHOPLIFTER.—A shop-
lifter, named Edward Marsden Chadwick, has been com-
mitted to trial at Manchester, charged with shoplifting to
an extraordinary extent. The culprit has a shop at
Ashton-under-Lyne, where he sells cigars and snuffs,
and lie has been in the habit of going to make his pur-
chases at wholesale shops in Manchester, and, though sus-
pected, could not be detected. On Friday week be went
into the shop of Mr. Newby, tobacconist; Manchester,
and a watch was fixed upon him. He had entered with a
small brown paper parcel under his arm, and this he
placed on the counter while he made inquiries about goods.
On leaving, he took up his parcel; the shopmcn were
sure he had taken nothing off the counter but the parcel
he put on it, and' still there was a box of cigars deficient.
Mr. Newby, however, seized the mysterious parcel, and
the mystery was at once revealed. The parcel was a tin
case, a 'size larger than a cigar box, nicely covered with
brown paper, and corded on three sides to resemble a
parcel. The fourth side was open, and the shoplifter car-
ried it under his arm, with the open side or mouth down-
wards, and on entering a shop, placed it over a box of
cigars. He was given in charge, and the police, on going
to search his shop, found 42 boxes of cigars which bad
been stolen from Mr. Newby, and 48 boxes stolen from
Mr. Nevin, tobacconist, six barrels of snuff, also stolen
from Mr. Newby, a large quantity of pigtail tuorbtiaceres:
stolen from the shop of Mr. Campbell,
in all nearly a cart load of goods, and valued at upwards

of £l2O. •
COLDS AND COUGHS.—Those troubled with coughs or
colds cannot do better than supply themselves with
Keating's Cough Lozenges,--r-11 cheap, safe, pleasant, and
most efficacious remedy ; agiteable and b4noxiousuven to
the healthy, but most efficacious in stopping a cough or
removing the effects of a cold. We speak advisedly of a
remedy, probatum est.—Wesleyan, Feb. 10.—(See advt.)