The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-04-25 00:00:00

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A POCKET CLOCK.—Mr. Summersgill, Tirestodo2o
now in his possession a watch of extraordinary dimenstons-
It is thirty-eight ounces in weight, measures in circure‘
ference fourteen inches, and goes two days.
An appeal against an order of affiliation upon tbe Tice
of Mottram, in Cheshire, came on for hearing at Kifuts'
ford, before Trafford Trafford, Esq., and a very full bench
of magistrates. The trial lasted till six o'clock in the
evening of Saturday, the second day, when. it ended in
the order being quashed.
MUNICIPAL GUARDS AT MANCITESTEK.—Under the
name of the " Town-Hall Guard " a constabulary fore.
has recently been organised at Manchester. This body,
which is regularly drilled, is to form " a permanent volun-
teer force," to consist of two companies, each of 48 rank
and file, 4 Captains, and 8 Lieutenants. Two senior Cap-
tains will command the force, which will muster in all
total force of 122. Another similar body is about to be
enrolled under the title of '• The Corporation Guard'
A MYSTERIOUS REQUIREMENT IN A HATTER,--11
party in Manchester advertises for a journeyman hatter
to serve in a wholesale and retail shop, who must have' "5
clear head and active practised hands." We presume
that, as the wisdom is often in the wig, a man who grief
on so many people's hats is apt to get confused with the
variety of the wisdom they contain. Or, perhaps,
the
head in question is only required to have nothing in Li'
Either way the advertisement is not complimentary
those to whom it is addressed. _

THE EXCURSION PARTY THAT DID'NT SEE THE CO.
WAY RAILWAY TUBE.—On Friday, a vast train, cnrrY-
ing some 2000 persons, we suppose, went down to Liver
pool, many of the party having tickets for an excursion
to see the iron railway passage across the river Conway.
They were accommodated with a steamer, and after reach-
ing Great Ormes Head, within a few hundred yards,e`
the river, the captain, by a series of pretences of inability
to proceed, and threats to stay all night at Conway, led
some of the company to ask him to return, and this 110
did at once. The party reached home last night at *
quarter to eleven o'clock.—Manchester Courier. _

fanner,
SAGACITY OF A HORSE.—Mr. John Holywell.
of Lindale, having nothing to do one day for his favourite
horse " Roger," which is upwards of 30 years of age,
turned it into a field adjoining. his house, where a young
horse, about two years of age, was pasturing. Roger, to
some means, became " cast," and the young one obsess'
ing it, most laboricusly set to work to extricate hit°.
First of all it took Roger by the mane, and after repeated
pulls raised him on his fore legs, and then with wonderful
sagacity, placing its head and neck behind them, cans'
pleted its affectionate task. Before night Roger was split'
in the same predicament. but his faithful• companion after
several attempts, each made with renewed determinations
failed to accomplish its human-like design.—Lancatier
Guardian.
EMPLOYMENT IN MANCHESTER.—A comparison of
last week's return with that of the previous week gives
the following results :—Of the cotton mills, four have gone
from full to short time. Of the hands employed in the
cotton mills. 1,677 formerly working full time, and 43 for-
merly out of employment, are at present working short
time.. Of the total works included in the table,. two pee;
viously working full time, have gone on short time, and
two have stopped working altogether. Of the total halm'
included in the table, 1,172 have gone from full, to shert
time ; and 107 formerly working full time, are now out of
employment altogether. Altogether, the return is of sit
very unfavourable character. Of the total number el
hands- engaged in the Manchester cotton mills. (28550
5,380 are working short time, and 5,306 are wholly out of
employment. Of 209 mills, print works, foundiies, Sce;t
41 are working full time. with only a portion of the hands
employed, 53 are working short time, and 18 are stopPe'
altogether.
STOCKPORT.—In this borough there are 68 mills, era'
ploying 18,256 persot.s. There are now 779 more hands
out of employment than there were a month ago) OA!
increasing the sufferings of the working people to the
extent. 230 fewer are working two days per week than
was the case in November; and with respect to three_,
days, it will be seen that 2748 more are gone to that perl°'
of employment within a month, though 1458 fewer than
in November last. Those working three and a half days
have increased 623 since the end of the year; and, at
four days, the above table exhibits a decrease of 1711
during the month, and an increase of 544 as compared
wits November. The more extended period of employ"
ment, five days, has decreased 433 over Nove--_ber, 00°,'
still more striking declension to 1412 since March /A
and, again, the number working full time in March 11
fallen from 4762 to 3688, showing a tangible decrease
_A°
1047. There are no fewer than 4560 wholly unemplOP"
and nearly 5000 working only three days a week.
MYSTERIOUS MURDER NEAR RUNCORN.—On Sung
week, a mysterious affair occurred in the neighbourho,..
of Rocksavage. Three boys. who were strolling-in' tr
fields near the dilapidated buildings of that ancient pile,:
picked up a pedlar's box, which they found empty
bespattered with blood. Proceeding onward a little, the,
found various jewellers' trinkets of little value, scattered
in different places along the footpath of the fields. Me
of blood were also traced in the course of the track' 1,11
of the lads brought the box to Runcorn, and went with
it direct to Mr. Richardson, the constable of the town,
who immediately took active measures for the discovel
of the murderers ; and on Monday, Tuesday, and Weu;
nesday, the fishponds in the neighbourhood of Rocksalug@
were dragged for the purpose of finding the body
.of tb
victim. Very active measures are still persevered in, bit
up to Thursday evening the body had not been found.
is a reenarkably lonely path from Runcorn to Frodsht;
through the Rocksavage fields.: It is supposed thutolc
murderers flung away the less costly trinkets, and ',.„"ir
away with them the more valuable articles. Six 7er,
stables-under Mr. Richardson are on the alert to diseLed.
if possible, the murderers and the body of them ulu4
The various pawnbrokers in the immediate neigh b°ll if
hood, and at Liverpool and Manchester, will, do Wen
they. can assist in the discovery. The person. hnlant,S
the box is pretty well known to several of the into", age.
of Runcorn ; he was a young Jew, about 17 years,.°`.ffair
with black hair, and a rather light complexion. •Ife-
has caused a great sensation in the neighbourheo '

and Thati
if
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pens that it will not be done at all.
IMPROVED SOCIAL HABITS 01, OUR UPPER CLASS°s•
—lf the advance in the social condition of the le'd
classes be decided, that of the upper classes is alnif'd
startling. We believe that the change which has Wl°-
place within little more than a hundred years is unsay
passed in the history of mankind. We can scarcely 11%
derstand that at a time when our political constitutipti
was formed, when our literature flourished in all il9„,,Purod
and elegance, when our religious and moral writ,.i°s-noil a
reached an excellence unequalled now, that, a3'
time, a young man would have lost caste in genera, Algscof
ety if he failed to lard his conversation, amongst 'll7dies
rank, with ribald and obscene allusions. The .48e0s.
themselves would have quizzed him for his sheep!sln:e.
Such was the state of things in the time of the
SP ic-
tator." Still later, how disgusting are some of the t
e r;00
tares of society in the pages of Smollett ! An 43' of
attacked with the coarsest language in the midst Ato
drawing-room to see how he would take it, the inis,lcia,
of the house abetting in the plot, the company COll%ips
ing it a most excellent joke ! Peers of the realm P of
and swindlers! Even where we still retain the viqoae„
our forefathers, who can charge us with the same lit' he
ceney ? Lord Sandwich invented sandwiches t°B
might gamble for four-and-twenty hours without the 4
termission of a dinner. Who now would relish stluoce
Pendant to his name ? When the advance in apPearaira-
is so great, we may be sure that we can claim goof
provement in reality.—Church of England Quarterigibio
CHANCES OF SUCCESS.—Every young man intocet
metropolis, if he will only attend to his business, wei?„9
it is, and keep out of scrapes, is a rising man, and of
the prizes and hononrs of the nation before him• It
pa'o
for himself or his children, at least for his chilu-
this
is
children. There is no reason to complain when eaf
' the case. We have no exclusions of race. Take of
dozen men in good circumstances, either uat the ell' 01,
the west end of London : take them in a club in Pall-tiboe
or in the Exchange, and inquire into their o igin;crelsh'
is an Irishman, another a S,utchman, another is .1 nedi"
man. Perhaps half of them can show a Celt in h sg.iveti
gree. The same number can produce an ancestor ,
to this country by the revocation of the edict of 17"'h for
or a foreigner of still more recent date. So mu% was
race. As for condition, the great-grandfather of one
et
a labourer; of another a gentleman's butler, of ati°4other
weaver, of another a journeyman blacksmith, of t and
-a hairdresser, and so farth. So far from the trallot0:
commerce of London being at all a Monopoly, it is.. then
rious that nearly all the tradesmen of London,' or 51e
51v
immediate ancestors, came from the country. "Jewel°
persons now at the very head of their trade or Pr9n reor°
who, forty years ago, were country lads, knowing 140"01 the
of the metropolis than what they had learned ,f 1 turil
story of Whittington and his Cat. In the mannittfo 014,,
districts these examples of successful iudustry
_aia`cie o!1,1
more numerous. Manchester, for example, is ndoughl4
of nothing.—The whole city is raised from the
and set among princes.--Times
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041 cir
ALBERT, OUVRIER, alias LORD BROUGHA' ‘‘ .
friend is great to-night," whispered Monte-Christ° yield;
he may be greater to-morrow. If Louis PhiliOP.4.39f,ren
he may be prime minister—if firing begins I have 11 A lheio..
notion ho won't be anywhere. Ah, Monsieur, P:oo
welcome from Cannes. We have been expectin,
some time, and you have arrived not a moment ;vacs
The individual thus accosted was of middle heighti',ty
ced age, and very plainly dressed. He wore a r_rt of Pt,
surtont, trousers of plaid check, and the lower pt coo
countenance was buried in the folds of a bleocr7ostilFtegrr4oo;
The features were remarkable, and, somehow
thought that I had seen them before. The son't..holies
eyes rolled restlessly beneath their shaggy Pe deep 'le,
the cheek-bones were remarkably prominent ;
(lathe Intl%
row was cut on either side of the mouth ; I,l__Aued W,sry
which was of singular conformation, seemed
spontaneous life, and performed a series of e Taraticeo.
mechanical revolutions. Altogether, the ePP'll.regil_ti,
the man impressed me with the idea of strong,!„oli_ot
ted energy, and of that restless activity which isrt' ciet.
tally the mother of mischief. Monsieur Albefic ratu 0t
seem very desirous of courting attention.. ,_ll, WO we
winked than replied to our host, threw a sup!ewurel,ll,
Bagsby, who was staring him in the face, hone,,ow kiai,
with a survey, and then edged away into tny_bot.l;oo.
felt rather curious to know something iner° 'this
" Pray, my dear Marquis," said I, " who tneY, .t you,idit
sieur Albert be ?" Albert ! It is le . o•.,1
won ,
' not—but I forget. I can only tell you, a lo
this Monsieur Albert is a very remarkable
be heard of hereafter among the ranks of th.? Inthereooo
seem to suspect a mystery ? Well, well which
mysteries in all great dramas, such as that most black.
going on around us ; so for the present, Y°4l.jor---P
tent to know my friend as simple Albert, '
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