The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-12-17 00:00:00

tent here in earth ; and I trust anon, sari he, t!abnet
heaven with Jesus Christ, and the church triutliP' 1;e11.
ever; and so was he led forth through the Quire° west
gate ; there rested about an hour in prayer, and
an s°dthete
to the fire in his apparel! manfully and joYfullY' hoar
for lack of a speede fire was two quarters of
alive. And when the left arm was on fire a". bAci
he rubbed it with his right hand and it fell from
and he continued in prayer to the end without More rnq
e re
The account goes on to show that Sir Thomas N(i sto
ttinsti
the chief cause of the immolation of this unint'
NOW.
man.

LOCAL MEETINGS.

SELECT VESTRY.—.At a meeting of this body „nw
day a letter was read from the office of the Privy o"ocer.
promising further proceedings towards checking tiled tot
crowding of the Irish steamers.—Mr. Harbord stoaftrseeri,
in consequence of the recent inquiries by the r' vporl
upwards of £lOOO was now the amount of Cl.B'r°fioce
other parishes for the twelve months, for the tosg°""nerlf
of lunatic Kupers, which had hitherto been iloP,ogo
chargeable to Liverpool.—The minutes of the. Worko
Committee recommended the aprointment of I\l7,:rcof
water as assistant storekeeper to the matron at 3 "...kV
£l5 per annum.—The tender of Mr. Turner to Put 130,
rugated iron roof over one of the buildings for
was confirmed.
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amerous ahae

L'UBLIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM.—A in.--- - tt,
highly influential meeting was held on Tuesday, a on
Town-hall, presided over by the Venerable Arebdelaery,
Brooks, and convened by a-circular from the tovrn'con-
addressed to the nobility, clergy, gentry, and other the
t.uatriino
nu; formed,
al
icntoderri
oas irfsyttiaininegdopsfrceitsehildieteicnfilteesrignfyos troi
nected with Liverpool, inviting their co-operation mow
establishment of a free public library and museum, b. Y os
tributions of money. books &c., &c. An associat.ian
of
all donors to the library or museum, of the mern`lngi-
the. Joint committees of the Council and' the Roiat 'lthe
d the ft"'
Horsfall. Esq. was appointed chairman; an
Dr. Hume, secretary. tfutha't
the time
ntdisem.neoTnibbeionir;aiso,ontf:
ea

,-,
.UOCK COMMITTEE.—The weekly meeting was “."'El2os'
Thursday. A recommendation to pay over to M,r,;0001
Threlfal and Mr. James Lawrence the sums of 4upock,
Committee.mi
te,
i.t,f,:p'scosflutl
£5OO, on account of property required for WapPinznright,
was confirmed. A letter from Messrs. Gibb.,,:ve salt•
requesting berths at the north-west corner of t% vra9
house Dock for a line of sailing packets to Austrn„l,l: Se-
on the sth instant, to the effect that the comm'
not recommend the adoption of the road in ceet:n 00
'ea'ltliCom
construction of the road, and a note had been reck bad
revnet;so-rr oad
said,
that
tit a
swuams nuoft
xi nmaoofi twsatisa
patste ni rt.oerri
vteib e
from the borough engineer, certifying that the w°l. the
been efficiently done. The matter was referred °mop
Committee of Works. A memorial was read frog t' so
Tocrrefhefeetßar
surveyor
uey: read t ° t the Harbour
resolution
of Mastersthe ,
garet Itodick, stating that, on the 2nd of October ia:tireett
was severely injured by the fall of a gate in Ma'°°:work'
which had been left in an insecure state by ouirrs he or
men in the employ of the Dock Committee. ' with
plicant claimed £ll lOs for medical attendance, S'eight
any amount of compensation the cotnmittee tho
think fit to allow. The memorial was referred to
Committee of Works.

Distrirt D€llls.

c: tcloll/
The house inLord-.street, Preston, in which oil' I

Arkwrient lived, has been pulled down.,
A Protestant Association for Reston and thet°
Ong
'
has been formed, and the worthy vicar of Pre`
consented to be pre.qdent. ,etebls
Blackpool is about to be lighted with gas, the `7.'.0 eur
Oil Gas CoMpany, of London, having undertake'
ply the town for five years at their own risk. ,ter, °r/
Two boys were drowned in a pit near Manct:chthey
Wednesday, through the ice giving way on "I
were sliding

The distance between Preston and Kendal 201'1,-rO,
which was recently walked within twenty-four 1,0
eighty-six miles.
The Mayor of Manchester entertained a great 1311°1bet
the
of gentlemen to dinner on Wednesday.
company were T. Thorneley, E.g., M.P., Jos.
Esq., Thos. Rodick, Esq., of Gateacre.
The bells of Preston parish church rang a nor! 51,
on Friday evening, to announce the acquittal Ideal
Henry Blackhurst at the Liverpool assizes. So 00,40
was Mr. Blackhurst of of his acquittal, that he gas'
for the bell-'ringing six weeks ago. thatele

A correspondent of the Fred-on Chronicle says, "_mteer
mice of Southport forsake the houses during the su., the
months, to ramble in the fields and make nests,'"oitv
sandhills. In October they return to the houses f"

ter quarters. lir goy'
CHILDREN EMPLOYED IN FACTORIES.—In
ner's (the Lancashire) district, 148 factories empicy ;tit.
dren —boys, 14e5 ; girls, 544 ; total, 1949. ;11 15'
Howell's district, 11 factories—boys, 72 ; girls,
total, 87

Js
deliaere.he

The Rev. Hugh Stowell, of Manchester, c-- a t tilt
lecture on Wednesday to a crowded audience,oat
Beaumont Literary Institution, Mile-end, on the sruecjeilt
of " The Defences which have been set up for the
Papal aggression."

tic',ester.

MANUFACTURING PROSPERITY. The Mat—
a sis'
papers state that 62 persons were summoned by thebefore
tant overseer of the parish of Radcliffe, to aPP` u ar„, on
the magistrate, at the petty sessions held at '
Monday last, for non-payment of poor-rates-
MILDNESS OF TIIE SEASON.—The gardener of 011
Egerton, of Eaton Bank nea Tar °He, on the 4th 'not
gathcred a dish of green, peas,r andPon thye 6th inst. herflo
12p a dish of new potatoes, all sound and perfectly

fttwhrheoeTermehbeerdffbeisease. Both were grown in the open air. 46
Thomas Lever Rushton. E.q., ex-ma or of Boltoll,ol'd
given £lOO to the Dispensary, as a public exPres,sTabi
his gratitude for the testimonial (£330) subscribed ;ice@
his fellow-townsmen, in acknowledgment of his serbicl)
to the borough, during the period of two years is
he officiated as chief magistrate.
On Wedneoofsßfwd
:aelstayribiem,
eodppar
walking along Edward-street, Preston, some skips sforopoaf
rope, which
Guianahae gentlemanwindow
unfortunaterde
af namedbecelhl
become
doognme eanh
rottenmlseermm,Portertsuco:
o_for:00:010
lived a eaegLekinntoiasgarrdgteel r of an hour. iS
Huyton Church on Sunday week, and a very hannropo:
collection was made "in aid of the more extenEive. ' wen'
gation of the gospel in his diocese, by the estab,clsrcl'
of a college and an extension of the ministry." "ii`' „least
ship has also preached in Sutton Church, near St. "
for the same object.
ag /31°f%
CHARGE BY ROMAN CATHOLICS AGAINST T--
SOCIETY.—At a meeting of Roman Catholics in rding
e' chester on Tuesday last, a Mr. W. J. Cleary, ace°,.ring
to a report in the Manchester Guardian, said
to the progress which Roman Catholicism had
Great Britain,--" That it was a fact, that there wet abets
four times the number of Catholics in England fiat ions
were three hundred years ago. The tide of cot' GI
to Romanism set in immediately after the esrablii.otion
of the Bible Societies—those societies and &morn° fthe
had continually run side by side. The reading °,OlO
Bible had done more to demoralise the inhabitants cotto
country, and especially the youthful inhabitant!, 1, 00
anything else. Children were trained to read it 60,1'ere
early and unthinking age, and eventually theY. over,
brought to treat it with contempt and to threweietl
board." These false accusations against the Bible ovf the
are, we fear, generally participated in by the mass 7ation
Roman Catholic body, and their public enenfrse to
affords evidence that the Roman Catholics are

the reading of the Word of God.
~,u NAllt
DRAINAGE OF MARTIN MERE: EXTRAO.-- . tip,
CROPS.—About eight months ago we gave a des"rlif of
of the process adopted by D. Boosie, Esq., en beoB,4°
Sir T. G. flesketh, Bart., for the drainage of that „I.7rer
sive tract of land, near Rufford, known as Martin fie`{ of
which in past years has been frequently under wattle of
weeks and months together, and was thus expert'incaPa
profitable cultivation. Mr. Boosie's enterprising tioll
went Las, we are glad to say, resulted in the reclatir trigof many hundred acres of land, a portion of whiroiPs'
year has yielded most satisfactory crops of oats, t-of tllO
&c. From one plot of this reclaimed land two toll balb6
largest turnips were found to consist of only4llollbs'
without either tops or tap roots, thus averaging otill'
each, a weight seldom equalled over such a 0%00
The plot altogether measured only about four statute also
acres, and is a heavy crop all over. . The crop of 01%00
(of which there were about 100 acres this last sciaitf•
were also abundant, and are turning out of good ,geheroag
These results must he highly satisfactory to Sir .11,' j to
flesketh, whose spirited example may be coalmen Wo
other landed proprietors in that neighbourbootongiol
lately observed about four square miles of land be.. caps'
to the latter completely
under water ; yet all this l'abutt•
hie of being brought into cultivation and produeillei!
dant crops of almost all sorts of agricultural pro '''
il„agnkw;here they were
Preston Pilot.
next, the' ist Weel('
BRILLIANT Fox HUNT.--011 Thursday, it' 'with tt!°
one of the most brilliant runs of the that
bcdiaetwukgnnh°3,'‘b' near J. F. Anderton s'
crack pack of foxhounds belouzing to that eat ciaugh'
admirer of the chase, T. P
C.oßverrosekbeles:oleitlgr'i,:de,or(nlis:
nin
ton Hall, took place. The .. meet', w.r.'s at the ,er Oil
Goosnargh, at eleven o'clock, when Basnape en ditto;
E4.a, r
Hargutu
~,,
tosi
e to un-' ou.e
, almost sure to ,_,,, fl -_.,,
that cover was drawn, and `''' fox brow- for
with the pack close up. Havingafine] dog fox
Isis wag lr
600
short distance, he made throughg cWlriiitinglianhu ticerj
nargh, and up the high
Fell, but from some cause round for Claato
closely pressed, e turned short ,r of `,.s
ton, going throu 1 '
g 1 the covers of the masie ts-
bounds. Altering his colittle, he took ,tlieipi
ground in tile direction of JJe -b.
1 Bleasdale Fells, thence down towards a ill Ping, nu,i-fill
S • '
Sykes Fell, the hounds drivinroguhitt; at a rattling Peee rile,
Marsha thence wyreflo
he whipped n his nose P°inteui
A VV'
through the lantations at
and when last seen and followed by the shepherdteiii
dogs that were up were carrying a most brilliant tetlP
over Tarnbrook Fell, but night closing in brought
Sete
horsemen and shepherds to a standstill, and they "oft:
obliged to leave the brave little pack to finish the ;3,0c,L
with as game a fox as ever broke cover. At twelve o 000,
rot a single hound had returned, but strange t°, (Of
though the kennel door was left open and food place',el
;tber
them, many were found asleep under the trees in l
localities, in the morning. Ten of the pack Were bro. er
to the kennels on Friday night by the Tarnbrook snetl
herds, who stated that they thought, from being thane
on the fell the following day, flirt old reynard, after,rbe
close run, had returned to the covers at Claughton. "so
distance gone over by the horsemen, and that at a 11).,,x
which none but riders and cattle of stamina and P "
could have sustained, was, at least, twenty.five Mile&