The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-01 00:00:00

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The assizes at Chester will commence on Wednesday,
March 29th.

The new market house at Blackburn was opened on

Friday

Mr. Cobden and other free traders, met at Bolton, on
Wednesday, to present a piece of plate to Mr. Brooks, as
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OPERATIVES IN MANCHESTER.—The number of cot-
ton mills working full time, with a full compliment of
hands, and of those working short time, remains this
week the same as last ' • but one mill which had been
_ full time, with a portion only of the hands, has
stopped altogether. _ _ . _ _

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Acime excitement has been caused at Ashton by the Rev.
J. R. Stephens and Dr. Lees, of Leeds. The former
accused the teetotallers of trickery, and the latter placard-
ed Mr. Stephens as a " buffoon." A public meeting has
since been called, and they exonerated Mr. Stephens,
and said that the language of Dr. Lees had excited their
disgust.
On Thursday, at St. Helen's, Mr. J. B. Heard, clerk at.
the Patent Alkali Works, in that town, was committed by
the magistrates to the sessions, but admitted to bail, on a
charge of defrauding the company by making out false
returns of the amount of work done by the men employed
in the works. John Truman, a junior clerk, was, also
held to bail charged with being an accessory.
A SCHOOL ON THE VOLUNTARY SYSTEPC—A short
time since, a new school-room was built, between Port-
land-street and Bloom-street, by subscription,,
purposes of a day-school in connexion with St. James's '
Church • the Rev. John Hollist, the incumbent,
great efforts among his flock and friends to raise the ne-
cessary means. The school, or schools (for we believe an
infant school was added), were opened ; a master and a
mistress employed, and notwithstanding the district is
full of children whose making
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very poor one, parents ought to de.
sire to seek instruction for them at a good day school, it
has been found that the subscriptions fell off; that it was
in vain to hope to make the school self-supporting; and
the result is, that the managing body have come to the
determination to close the schools, as far as they are con-
cerned, next week. We believe that they have offered
them to the master, giving him the option of conducting
them for his private benefit, and taking upon himself all
pecuniary responsibility ; but, having tried the experi-
ment, they are at length satisfied that they can no longer
work the schools, relying on the voluntary contributions
of the friends of education connected with St. James's
Church and the district,—Manchester Guardian (4iberal
paper.)

Feb. 1, 1845.

SEPTUAGENARIAN BIRTH-DAY DINNER.—On Friday
last, the Rev. Canon Wray, sub-dean of Manchester,
having on that day completed his seventieth year, invited
seventy poor and aged persons to dine at his house, and
regaled them with the best old English fare. For some
years past the rev. gentleman has, on the anniversary of
his natal day, invited to his house as many of the aged
poor as his own life numbered years,—a graceful and
Christian way of commemorating these milestones in life's
journey,

- THE EGERTON MEMORIAL.—The concluding meeting
of the committee appointed to collect subscriptions for the
erection of a cenotaph in Oulton Park, to the memory of
the late Captain Egerton (brother of Sir P. Egerton, M.P.)
was held at the Hop Pole Inn, on Saturday. The total
amount subscribed was £369 2s. Sir P. Egerton has en-
gaged Mr. Romney to make a drawing of this monumen-
tal cross ; from which the worthy baronet intends to have
a number of engravings executed for the purpose of pre-
senting a copy to each of the subscribers.
THE COAL MINE ROBBERIES AT WIGAN.—The two
men, Enoch Grimshaw and Henry Bleasdale, who have
been taken into custody charged with being concerned in
the robberies which have been committed in Mr. John
Bleasdale's mine, were again brought up at Wigan on
Tuesday. Our readers will be aware from our previous
reports of this case that Grimshaw had left Mr. Bleasdale's
colliery some months ago.. He has up to the present
time been in the employ of Messrs. Byrom, Taylor, and
Byrom, at the Strangeways colliery. In the course of
the examination on Tuesday, it wsis stated what encroach--
ments had been made under the property of forty-two;
proprietors,-and that no less than two hundred and twenty
houses had had the coal or canal either wholly or partially
taken away, The amount of canal gotton beyond Mr.
Bleasdale's boundary was stated at 19,000 tans, and of
King coal at 1900; the former being valued at £lO,OOO,
and the latter at £BOO or £9OO. The two- prisoners were
committed for trial' at the approaching Liverpool Assizes.
THE FREE TRADE DEMONSTRATION—A FAILDRE.--*
On Thursday night last, the long and much-talked of
" Great Demonstration" came off in the Free Trade
Hall, the edifice which was specially erected a fevryears ago
for such exhibitions. Anticipating, to some extent, a
great display of league oratory and reasoning, and-anxious
to behold the formidable array of newly-fledged Free
Trade M.P.'s announced to be present, some 2,500 per%
sons met together in the hall to grace the " great delnons
stration" by their presence. They were, however, doom--
ed to-disappointment, in more ways than one, and many.•
now that the bubble has burst, are loud in the expression
of their dissatisfaction. In the' first place, they went' to
learn the prospects of free trade, - and to ascertain when,
how soon) and in what way it was' to benefit them to th;
extent once so confidently predicted, instead of which'
they were regaled with anti-war speeches, and the worn--
out effusiOns of the peace society. There was on the
part of all -the speakers, a timid shrinking from the main'
question, each and all of them preferring rather to talk
about the national defences, or any other subject foreign
to the meeting. Another great source of disappointment
was the quality of the wines and viands, the former being
pronounced execrably bad, whilst of the latter there was
not a sufficiency. This we rather wonder at, as the
" League" provided all, and we can only aecxnutt for it by
supposing that they are getting out of funds, and were
anxious to realise a trifle by the speculation.- Kven were
this the case. it is no business of ours further' than that
we should be sorry that any innocent licensed' victualler
should be blamed when Messrs. George Wilson- and Co.
were selling on their own account, and are the only parties
whoni the blame rests. It is satisfactory, however, to
know that this unkindness met its reward, for we are
assured that it has recoiled on its grasping authors, who
are likely to lose by the affair. Many disappointed parties
talk unpleasantly about having been decoyed to the " de-
monstration" by false pretences—that is, induced- to- go
for the purpose of hearing the new lights of the free trade
party, instead of which they were enlightened only by
the new gas chandeliers, which certainly threw more light
upon the subject than all the " unadorned eloquence" of
Messrs. Cobden, Bright,- and Gibson, whose oft heard
speeches possessed no charms, especially for those- who
went expecting to hear the gentlemen who were keptaway
by " previous engagements" or indisposition, which,ww
suppose really meant, that they were indisposed to, be-
seen in such company.—Manehester Courier.

A FEW WORDS TO THE ASSISTANTS UPON
EARLY CLOSING.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDAR:II
_ _ .

has been written, much has been spoken?
and much also has been done, towards the accomplish-
went of early closing ; but much more still remains to 130
achieved. What has been,done with the exceedingly
limited means possessed, is a sufficient proof that, with
increased means, unity of purpose, continued agitation,
and persevering zeal, all that is- sought to be done, all that
is desired, may, and will be accomplished. It is now
simply a question of time, when shall these things be ?
The assistants have the solution in their own power; let
them aid the moral movement of their friends, their bre-
thren, and the enlightened portion of the favourably-dis-
posed and generous public, and their enfranchisement
from the bondage of unnecessarily-lengthened toil will
soon become a verified and substantial fact. If the mass
of the assistants, however, notwithstanding the cheering
signs of the times, will not arouse themselves, but still
remain callous to all entreaties, and suicidally apathetic to
their own well-being, the evil, great as it is, must conti-
nue, and more young and sanguine hearts be sacrificed
upon the accursed altars of Mammon and Indifference.
Once, again, I entreat the present sufferers to do their
duty. This is the age of sanitary reform, this is the pe-
orifodonwyhseenotailolnatotfempthete
conito health and
wmiOrsiSlling'
aid of- philanthropists of every grad noblest,
clergy, gen-
try, influential tradesmen, all are willing to help those
who first chew a desire to help themselves. Seize, then,
I beseech you, the good that is offered. If you arouse
yourselves, now you may be saved; you may have your
ills, or at least a large portion of them, removed. Delay,
and the means may pass out of your reach. Shall a just
and reasonable reduction of the hours of labour, be ob-
tained by the unity and exertion of the present genera-
tion, or must it be delayed until a more liberal and en-
lightened one succeed ? We hope the former ; God grant
that we may not be deceived.—Yours, &c.,
January 28th, 1848

J. B. J

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