The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-08 00:00:00

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The Rev. E. Unsworth, of Granby-row. Roman Catholic
Chapel, Manchester, has died of fever.
EDUCATION OF POLICEMEN.--The watch committee of
the Manchester Town-council have agreed' to establish a
library and newspapers for the use of the police force, the
funds for the supply of which are to be obtained out of tho
fines imposed on the men for breaches of, duty..
--On Wednes&y morning last; =:a portion of the circular
chimney at the Ravenhead Flint Glass-works, near St.
Helens, fell in with a loud crash. A. considerable quan
tity of the materials alighted upon a building, in which,
had the occurrence taken place a few minutes later, there
would.have been a number of men at.work.

Mr. John Forrest, solicitor, of Preston, and Deputy
Prothonatory of Lancaster, committed suicide on Friday,
by cutting his throat. He had been depressed in spirits
for some time. Many of our readers will remember the
deceased. He attended the assizes, and sat in the civil
court under the judge. He was sixty years of age.
The hands in several of the mills at Blackburn have
turned out rather than submit to the reduction of ten per
cent. on their wages. The operatives in the neighbour-
hood of Darwen have, on the other hand, submitted to
the reduction.

A fortnight since a fire took place at Messrs. Buins and
Dean's cotton mill at Dukinfield, when £BOOO worth of
property was destroyed; and, on .Sunday, another fire
broke out, which did near £2OOO damage. They are be-
lieved to be incendiary acts.

POTATO ROBBERIES BY IRISHMEN.—The farmers of
Speke, Halewood, and Woolton, have long been suffering
from the midnight ravages of a band of robbers, who have
for a length of time, eluded the observation of the guar-
dians of the public peace. Their depredations have chiefly
been confined to the despoiling of potato-holes in the
fields of the numerous farming community, who reside in
the locality we have mentioned. Three persons of the
names of Martin, Bryan, and Leannon, have been com-
mitted to Kirkdale, to await their trials at the next ses-
sions, on a charge of being,concerned in these robberies.

EXCESSIVE ASSESSMENT. UPON A COLLIERY,—On.
Tuesday last, before the bench of magistrates assembled,
at Prescot, Messrs. David Bromilow and Co., of Preston-
brook Colliery, appealed against the assessment of that,
colliery as it stood upon the rate-books of the township.
of Prescot, dated in June last. They objected to it on.
the ground of unfairness, inequality, and incorrectness_
Mr. Gaskell Taylor, solicitor, of St. Helens, represented.
the appellants, and Messrs. Brown and Traverse, the
overseers. It being the rule of law that the assessment
for the purpose of a poor-rate must be fixed at what any
mine or other property would let to. a tenant for, the
bench reduced the assessment to £55.

A SINGULAR AGREEMENT.—Twenty-nirte years ago,.
Betty Winal, then residing at Tarleton, bottled a quantity
of white currants in their green state, being then in. the
33d year of her age. Having kept them some time in. a
state of preservation, William (her husband) and she
agreed, that they, should be kept while they both, lived,
and that they should be made into pies at the funerd of
the one who should die first. The wife departed this, life
on the 2nd of this month, and was interred at St. Peter's
Church, Preston, on the sth, the family having removed
to Dawson-street, Preston. Their mutual. pledge was
fulfilled, and the pies made of these currants were served
out, after returning from church, every attendant taking
a slice. Though the currants had been kept. twenty-nine
years, they were as fresh as if just taken from the trees.
—Lancaster. Guardian.

DEPRESSED STATE OF RAND-LOOM WE' AvING.—Two
young women, in consequence of the factory wherein they
were employed being closed, betook themselves te,lituid—
loom weaving. They obtained work ; but the price they
are paid is so miserably low, that we really, wonder how'
they can afford " salt to their porridge."k or threescore
yards of cloth, about a yard wide, and twelve picks to the
quarter, they receive (we are almost ashamed to name the
sum) eightpenee And to earn this miserable pittance
they have to ply it closely for two.live-long days--a scale
of labour which brings each of them in two shillings per
week ! By dint of unremitting toil, a good weaver, they
told us, would earn three and threezienee! Such is the-
condition of the poor hand-loom weaver. What an
lustrious example does it offer of England's manufacturing.
greatness !—Preston Chroaiale.
AFFRAY WITH. POACHERS.—A.gang of poachers, about:
ten in number, entered the preserves of G. A. L. Keck:,
Esq., in Holmes,Tarleton,, on the night of Monday week.
About two o'clock, the keepers, after hearing several
in shots fired in the direction of the plantations, lost no time
obtaining assistance from the farmers in the neighbour-
hood, along with their servants, amounting to thirteen of
fourteen in number, and proceeded to the plantations. It
anpeara the poachers were armed with stones. as well ita
rifles, for on the keepers making their appearance, one of
them received a severe blow on the left arm with a stone.
The poachers soon after got upon the road leading to
Tarkiton, and. were closely followed by the keepers.
Finding that they were pursued they made a stand, at a
distance of about twenty yards from the keepers, when
one of the gang began to utter abusive as well as threat-
ening language, and almost immediately fired his gun of
the keepers. Mr. Robert Cookson, keeper being in front
of his corcrades, received nearly the whole of the contents
of the gun in his left side and arm, with one of the shots
a little above his temple, and is now lying in a dangerous
state. A reward of £5O is offered by Mr. Keck.

SICK HEADACHES, BILE, AND INDIGESTION, CHKEP
BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—TiIe innumerable proofs of the
efficacy of these invaluable Pills in the cure of bile, sidc
headaches, and indigestion, are so convincing, that eyed
person subject to these distressing complaints should ita-
mediately have recourse to them for relief, for no medicine
has hitherto been discovered that possesses such powerful
properties ir:i curing the above-named disorders. it aut.
so peculi:drly on the system, that all impurities of the
blowd are removed, and the patient becomes permanently
v:tred and invigorated. Holloway's Pills are also an. Le'
fallible remedy for liver complaints, and rank in th 42
highest estimation as a general family medicine,