The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-12 00:00:00

Dtstritt Retuo.

A burglary was committed in the house of the Mayor
of Manchester,. on Wednesday night, and several articles
of plate were stolen.
A few days since a young man, named Leicester, was
killed at St. Helens, through his father throwing the
poker at him in a fit of anger.
A journal, to be called the Wigan Times, and to be
conducted on Conservative principles, is announced for
publication early in. tne new year.
HERRING FISHERY.—The boats which left Poulton for
the fishery have been very successful, the boats getting as
many as 30,000 at a time. They are Sound in the direction
of Whitehaven and Maryport.
The Committee of Council on Education have appointed
the Rev. J. W. Kennedy, formerly secretary of the
National Society, Inspector of School's for Lancaster,
Westmorland, and Cumberland. Mr.. Kennedy has
entered upon his duties.
A GLORIOUS PROSPECT FOR STOCKS'ORT.—A very
short time ago, and it is quite certain no. improvement
has taken place in the trade of the borough since that
period, there were 2177 empty assessment. We are now
speaking of the township of Stockport, not of the whole
borough.

DEATH. PROM EXCESSIVE:COLD.—On Monday, Wm.
Marshall, aged 23, went out fishing in Morecambe Bay
with a little boy, and owing to the stormy weather of Fri-
day week,• could not get back. He was knocked over-
board by the boom of the boat, but got in again, and
shortly after died through excessive cold.
On Saturday night week, the premises of Mr.. Ashley,
hatter, Duke-street, Douglas, Isle of Man, were destroyed ,
by fir.;. The inmates, two in number, made their escape
by one of the back windows, and one of the neighbours
was carried out upon a bed, whilst others barely escaped
without any article of clothing but their night dresses.
The building was insured for .£4oo—the stock for £1,200.
A MORNING DOSE.—At Bolton, on Thursday, a pub-
lican was charged with selling drink on Sunday morning,
when an old man stated that he was the party who had
had the drink, and that every morning for the last Arty-
three years he had swallowed, " by the doctor's orders,, '
a pint of ale, with a gtan3 of rum irrit! Suppuzing-he had '
had no other liquor, his morning drams had cost him
upwards of £3OO.
The annual meeting of the Manchester Protestant
Operative Association was held in the Free Trade Hall,
on Thursday evening, at six o'clock. The great ball was
densely crowded by a highly-respeetable assemblage of
ladies and gentlemen, who gave evidence that they took
the deepest interest in the meeting, which was of a most ,
enthusiastic character. The chair was taken by the Rev.
Hugh Stowell, M.A., Honorary Canon of Chester.
NUPTIAL FESTIVITIES.—The marriage of T. Dixon,
Esq., of Littleton, to a daughter of Colonel Williams, was
celebrated on Friday at Cristleton, with a variety of vil-
lage festivities. In Chester, the high respect in which
Mr. Dixon is held,, was marked by the ringing of bells at
the various churches, and by a public dinner at the Royal
Hotel on Thursday evening, under the presidency of Dr.
Phillips Jones. The party was a most pleasant one.
ORAISKIRK.—On Monday a meeting of the Church
Missionary Society was held in the Town-hall. E. Boyer,
Esq., was called to the chair. The Rev, Mr. Wannop,
secretary, read the report, and the meeting was afterwards
ably addressed by the Rev. C. Hesketh, No'rth Meols,
Rev. H. Carpenter, M.A., Rev. Hugh M'Neile, D.D.,.
and L. Wright, Esq, The ball was crowded almost to
suffocation, and a collection, which amounted to upwards
of £4O, was subsequently made.
The death of two children at Manchester illustrates
the mischievous tendencies of burial clubs. An inquest
was held ; and as nothing could be brought home to the
mother of the children, the verdict was " accidental
death" : but the facts were suspicious. One of the suf-
ferers was burnt to death by its clothes having caught fire
while it was left unattended by the- mother ; and the other
had been taken to a house where a child was lying dead
of scarlet fever, and it took the disease. A juryman sug-
gested that it might have been held to kiss the corpse.
The coroner mentioned a recent case where a child died
from exposure to cold : the father got a large sum from
burial clubs.

DARING BURGLARY.—On Sunday week some burglars,
three of whom were seen by the inmates, entered the
house of Mr. Benjamin Aspinall,, a respectable farmer, re-
siding near the White Crow, in Adlington, about four
miles from Wigan, by taking a pane of glass from a win-
dow and removing an iron stancheon placed inside. Some
one of them then got through the aperture and went to
the front door and admitted his accomplices, of whom it
is supposed there were six. The ruffians proceeded up
stairs, and finding the family aroused by the noise they
had made, and awake, they demanded all the money, and
threatened if it was not instantly delivered up they would
shoot them, at the same time presenting pistols. They
were disguised and with blackened faces. After a short
parley they broke open the drawers, in the presence of
the owners, and succeeded in getting a gold watch and
about nine or ten pounds in money ; after this they pro-
ceeded down stairs, helping themselves to cheese, &c.,
and left the premises without detection.
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CHOLERA.—The Manchester Guardian of Wednesday
reports two deaths from cholera. The first that of Mr.
Alex. M'Clellan, of Higher Broughton, aged twenty-nine,
the agent and traveller of Messrs. Grundy and Wright,
drysalters, Liverpool. It appears that, on Thursday
week, Mr. M'Clellan was at Dumfries. On that day, he
set out by railway to return to Manchester, somewhat
alarmed, but perfectly well: lie stayed the night at
Carlisle, and started again the following day. Shortly
before his arrival at Preston, he was attacked with sick-
ness and diarrhoea, which continued until his arrival at
home about eleven o'clock on Friday night. He was at-
tended by Messrs. Miller and Harrison, surgeons, and by
Dr. Radford, whose efforts were unavailing, and the pa-
tient died at five o'clock on Saturday morning, with all
the symptoms of Asiatic cholera. The other case was
that of a man, named Henry Gough, aged sixty, who was
taken ill about ten o'clock on Saturday night week, and
died about the same hour on the following morning. This
case was supposed by the medical attendant to be one of
aggravated English cholera only.
BRUTAL TREATMENT OF A CHIMNEY.SWEEP.—At the
Salford sessions, on Friday, before J. F. Foster, Esq.,a

master chimney-sweeper, named Samuel Thompson, was
charged with ill-treating a climbing-boy, about eight
years of age, named Edward Thomas Combe. The boy
said he bad been with the prisoner about eight weeks. On
the 21st ultimo the prisoner tied a strap round him, fast-
ened the other end to a nail in the wall of the coal place,
and hung him up. Ile was then quite naked, and his
feet did not touch the ground. He was there left all
night. The prisoner also beat him, and threw hot water
upon him. On one day he got no food, and his master
refused to give him any, though entreatel by a person
who wen; in. He got a bit of bread at last and crept
with it under the bed to eat it. Upon this prisoner drag-
ged him out, and struck him with a red-hot spindle.
Several other brutal assaults upon the poor boy were also
proved. The prisoner was found guilty. The learned
chairman, in sentencing him to hard labour for eight
months, said that he had never heard of a more aowardly,
inhuman, and brutal assault.
CHESTER ASSIZES.—On Wednesday, George Joseph
Mantle, aged 22, was convicted of sedition. It was proved
that at a meeting, in Hyde, the prisoner advised the peo-
ple to arm themselves, in order to obtain the Charter.
He was tired of moral force, and nothing but physical
force would do now. He said he wanted no Queen, nor
Archbishop of Canterbury, with his £75,000 a year ; and
that Prince Albert and all the little Princes must be sent
to Germany to make German sausages of. He advised
them to get guns and pikes, to put down the tyrannical
government. He was sentenced to two years' imprison-
ment, and to find sureties afterwards for his good beha-
viour.—Sixteen young men pleaded guilty to a conspiracy
and riot at Dukinfiela the Attoruey-General pleaded

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for mercy, in consequence of their contrition, and the
judge discharged them on entering into their own recog-
nizances to keep the peace for two years.—Seventeen per-
sons were convicted of sedition at Hyde, and the judge,
on Friday, passed sentence on them as follows :—Sellers
to two years' imprisonment. Hindle, Armitage, Isaac
Cheetham, Collier, Markland, and Isaiah Cheetham, each.
to 18 months' imprisonment, and at the end of that period
to enter into recognizances for one year, themselves in
£5O. and two sureties in £2O each. Brown, Schofield,
Shawcross, Mattock s, and Wilde, one year's imprisonment,
and at the end of that year to enter into recognizances for
one year, themselves in £4O, and two sureties in £lO
each. Hall and Shaw to be imprisoned for nine months ;
and, Shore to be imprisoned, with hard labour, for two
years in the house of correction.—[This prisoner had been
imnrisoned for felony.]
EMBEZZLEM ENT.—On Wednesday, at the Borough
Court, Manchester, a young man named George W.
Mortimer, lately employed as cashier by Mr. Alexander
Glendinning, proprietor of the Seedley Printing Works
at Pendleton, near Manchester, was committed on a
charge of embezzling a sum of upwards of £700; the
property of his employer. The prisoner had been em-
ployed by Mr. Glendinning for a period of nearly three
years. That gentleman resides in the south of England,
and is in the habit of coming to Manchester two or three
times in the course of the year. In October last he ar-
rived in Manchester, and called upon the prisoner to see
his cash accounts. Mortimer told Mr. Glendinning that,
in consequence of illness, his accounts were not prepared
for inspection. Mr. Glendinning then directed the pri-
soner to have the accounts ready on the following Thurs-
day morning. On that day Mr. Glendinning called at
his counting-house, but found the prisoner was not there.
Mr. Glendinning remained in his counting-house until
the evening, but the prisoner did not make his appear-
ance. This aroused Mr. Glendinning's suspicions, when
he sent to his bankers, and their accounts convinced him
that something was wrong. Various drawers in the office.
of which Mortimer had the treys, were then broken open.
Confused heaps of money, private memoranda, promis-
sory notes for money lent by the prisoner to his private
friends, &c., were found in the drawers. Search was then
made for Mortimer, and he was found in a state of ine-
briety, and placed under the surveillance of a police-
constable until he became sober. After a few days all
restraint was removed, upon an undertaking given by the
prisoner's brother, that he would make up his accounts,
which he did, and it was then discovered that he was de-
ficient in his cash account £450, and deficient in a sum
of £250 on account of rents.