The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-06-04 00:00:00

ANSWERS TO CORRESSO NDEDTTS.

J.N.—The flower you sent us is Saxifrage hirsute, a
very pretty species.
J. Gibson.—lt is not a general rule to apply manure to
Azaleas, Rhododendrons, and other American plants,
but we have heard lately of its being done with success.
Where there are plenty of plants, the experiment is worth
trying.
Florist.—The mere markings of a calceolaria are not
sufficient to constitute a good flower; it must also have
the more important quality of form, and size.

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be done without giving a slight check to the plant ; where
a well sheltered place can be commanded, it is time to
begin placing out such greenhouse plants as, having flow-
ered early, have made a new growth of wood, the sooner
they can be hardened off and finish the growth of new
wood the better. Slates answer best for setting the pots
on, both on account of their cleanliness and also because
they prevent the roots pushing into the ground through
the holes in the pots.
Flower Garden.—All bedding plants should be got out
without delay ; the old plan of making pegs for fastening
them down is entirely exploded, the much more simple,
and equally efficient plan of using a piece of bOot, which
is put round the branch and pressed. into the 'pound
with a piece of stick.
• ICitchen Garden.—Transplut leeks illt4 well-prepared

shallow trenches ; they like a soil in which plenty of well
rotted manure has been thoroughly incorporated. Plant
out scarlet-runners which hare been raised in pans, and
sow french beans if for a succession.

The Manchester Assembly Rooms have been sold for
£9,000, and it is intended to erect warehouses on the site.
The new church at Heathfield, Greenheys, Manchester,
was consecrated on Monday. Dr. Carpenter is the
,in—
cumbent and Mr. Gardner the patron.

The colliers of St. Helen's are still out on the strike,
but it is said that the proprietors of the Laffock Colliery
have taken some of the hands back.

There is at present a beautiful canary in Poulton-le-
Fylde, possessing the imitative powers of a parrot, and
can mimic a great variety of sounds and expressions.
The enormous number of two hundred and two thou-
sand persons left Manchester during the Whitsun-week
just past, against one hundred and fifty thousund last
year, and one hundred and sixteen thousand in 1843.
GOLD DIGGINGS AT WIGAN.—A good deal of local
curiosity was excited on Friday morning by the discovery
of a parcel of glittering stones, by some excavators who
were working at the new street in Scholes. For soma
time it was supposed that a local California had turned
up, but the stones turn out to be decomposed granite.
A match of cricket, between the St. Helen's and War-
rington clubs, took place on Friday, on the ground of the
former, at St. Helen's. The Warrington gentlemen went
in first and scored 29, and in their second innings 41.
The St. Helen's, in their first innings, scored 103, thus
beating their opponents in one innings, with 33 runs to
spare.

The Newton Races, which take place next week, pro-
mise to be unusually attractive ; the public money amounts
to the large sum of £BlO, and the stakes already closed,
which include the Golborne and St. Leger Stakes, tha
Lord of the Manor, Borough, and Manor Cup, have filled.
well. The plates, &c., to be named for on the day of en-
try, are well recommended.

Mr. Justice Cresswell has appointed his Marshal to
succeed the late Mr. E. W. Lloyd as Clerk of Assize for
the Chester and North Wales Circuit ; the appointment
is vested in the senior judge who last went the circuit
before the vacancy arose. Mr. Horatio Lloyd, the eldest
son of our deceased friend, ha. the reversionary appoint-
ment to the office of Judge's Associate, which Mr. Reade
holds till Mr. Lloyd attains his majority.
A blacksmith, named John Entwistle, who got a third-
class ticket on the 20th ult., from Preston to Croston, onc
the East Lancashire Railway, having fallen asleep and
rode beyond the Burscough Station, fearing, it is said, an
extra charge for his over-ride, he jumped out and was
found next morning with his ticket in his pocket, his head
in two, both arms cut off, and his chest brtiised in a most
dreadful manner. A mail train had passed over him, but
it was also found that other trains had gone up and down
the line.

On Wednesday last the anniversary meeting of the
Rainbill School was held ; on which occasion the scholars,
amounting to 170, paraded the village, and were regaled
with tea, buns, cakes, &c., after which the annual tea
party, in aid of the schools, was held in the school-rooms,
and was attended by upwards of 300, amongst whom we
remarked B. Bretherton. Esq„ and,party, J. Birchall,
Esq., and family, the indefatigable incumbent (the Rev,
T. B. Ingham), Miss Ingham, W. Owen, Esq., Mr.
Meek, the Churchwardens, the Rev. Moran, St.
Mark's, Liverpool ; Rev. Mr. Walker, Runcorn ; Rev.
Mr. Jump, St. Helen's ; together with all the leading
families in the neighbourhood.
A large party of ladies and gentlemen left Manchester
to spend the Whitsuntide holidays at a watering place in
the neighbourhood of Morecambe Bay ; and on Friday
morning a boating party was formed to cross the water
from Silverdale to Grange, consisting of five gentlemen,
five ladies, and two men servants. The names of the
ladies, have not been ascertained ; but the gentlemen
were Mr. John Morris, solicitor, of Manchester; Mr.
North, sen., and Mr. North, jun., his son ; Mr. Alfred
Coates, and Mr. Porter, also of Manchester. In the
afternoon, Mr. Morris and Mr. North, sen., returned with
the ladies to Silverdale, crossing the sands at low water
in a car, but the gentlemen determined to wait till the
tide served in the evening, and recross the bay in the
boat. It would be high water at eleven o'clock, and it is
supposed that the gentlemen attempted to cross the water
at that time. Their friends, however, at Silverdale re-
mained in painful suspense till the following morning,
without tidings of them, and at daylight intelligence was
brought them of the boat having been found capsized on
the sands, with the dead bodies of Mr. Coates, Mr. North,
jun., and Mr. Porter lying near it. There were also two
other bodies found, those of the boatmen employed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

A. begging impostor was o
obtaining money under f

lay committed to gaol,
pretences from the Rev.
He had previously obtained money from
the rev. gentleman by using another name.
On Wednesday, Mary M'lntyre was fined 20s. and
costs for having, by means of a false registry, caused her
daughter, who is under thirteen years of age, to work
more than seven hours per day in the North Shore Cotton
mill. Mr. Ewings, the government inspector, at whose
instance the information was laid, said it was the desire of
the proprietors of the factory that the regulations of the
Factory Act should be carried out to the fullest extent,

and there was no establishment where so much consi-
deration was given to the hands employed.
On Thursday, Patrick ,•Laughlin was fined 40s. and
costs for striking Duncan Campell, master-porter, although
it appeared that Campbell first struck defendant with a
stick.

On Thursday, Patrick M'Dermott was committed for
trial, for having broken into the house of Messrs. Medley
and Co., clothiers, Whitechapel, and :stolen some ;boots
and other articles, also the contents, (some shillings,) of
a missionary box.

On Friday, Geo. Riley, and Wm. Jones, both master-
sweeps, were each fined £5, for employing each a boy to

cveep a chimney

Margaret Russell and Thomas Hushes were each fined
£5, for harbouring bad characters at Mr. Tuton's rooms,
in Lime-street.

Andrew Leech, a boy, was charged with smuggling 111bs.
of cigars from a vessel in the Albert Dock. The cigars
were contained in empty bottles. It appeared that the
boy had been sent for empty bottles, and that he had re-
ceived the bottles in question from the mates. He was
therefore liberated.

Joseph Stanton, Owen Brogan, and Ann Kealty, were
committed for trial for heartlessly robbing of her carpet
hag a young woman named Huggard, who had come from
Ireland to emigrate to America. While she was carrying
the bag Stanton offered to carry it for 3d., and aided by
the others ran off with it. Portions of the property were
subsequently found in Brogan's house.
On several days a number of wretched clad Irish pau-
pers were brought up for begging. On most of them,
however, money was found, and Mr. Rushton ordered it
to be devoted to their maintenance whilst in gaol.
On Saturday a respectably dressed girl, named Evans,
living at Anson-terrace, London-road, was remanded on
a charge of having been found at the steps at the north-
west corner of George's Dock, with an intention, as she
stated, of drowning I erself. The prisoner, on being
questioned by Mr. Rushton, confessed her fault, but said
that she should not have done so bad she not taken a
little too much wine. _ . . _

On Saturday, in reply to a gentleman who complained.
of a newspaper report of a case at the police court, Mr.
Rushton complimented the reporters of the press on the
general and substantial accuracy of their reports.
SURRENDER OF AN ALLEGED MURDERER.—On Se.
turday Police-officer Connolly, 898, brought before the
court an Irishman named Edmund Welsh, who, at half.
past nine o'clock, on the Prince's-pier, gave himself into
the custody of the officer as the murderer of Martin
Welsh, at Kilmacoo, county of Kilkenny, Ireland, on the
14th of last month. The prisoner's statement is that the
deceased and he were quarrelling, and that the former set
his dogs on him, (the prisoner,) who in self-defence
struck the deceased with a stone, which knocked him
down and he then otherwise illused him, from which he
died.

Two of the ruffians engaged in the outrages at Tran-
mere were brought before the Birkenhead magistrates on
Tuesday, and fined respectively £5 and 50s, with costs.
Theree others were ordered to find bail—two months'
imprisonment in default.