The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-04-01 00:00:00

LOCAL AND PROVINCIAL NEWS,

Lord Stanley left town on Tuesday for Knowsley.
On Sunday week, whilst the psalms were being read,
the Rev. Dr. Whittaker, vicar, fell down in his pew in
the Parish Church, Blackburn, in a fainting fit. Medical
aid was immediately procured, and he soon recovered.
CHURCH EXTENSION.--On Monday week the founda-
tion stone of a new church was laid in Springfield-lane,
Salford ; and on Friday last the first stone of another new
church was laid at Longsight, near Manchester.
HoUSEBREAKEAS.-011 Saturday week, two fellows,
named Ainsworth and Ormsby, were committed by Mr.
Rushton for three months for having been found in posses-
sion of some skeleton keys and matches, a chisel, and
other articles used by housebreakers.
STEALING A WATCH.—On Saturday week, an aban-
doned female, named Mary Williams, was committed for
trial on a charge of having stolen a watch, value four
guineas, from the person of Mr• James Crow, dealer in
provisions in St. John's Market.
The committee for the foundation of new parks in
Manchester, have purchased Lark Hill, late the residence
of W. Garnett, Esq., for the purpose of one of the new
parks. The purchase includes an area of seven acres,
and the pike asked by Mr. Garnett was £5,000, but
he ultimately agreed to accept £4,500, desiring the com-
mittee to consider the difference of X5OO as his contribu-
tion to the public parks.
The friends of Mr. George Walker, wh' was summarily
convicted, it will be remembered, be'ore Mr. Rushton, on
a peculiar charge, and who appealed unsuccessfully at the
sessions against the conviction some three months ago,
was entertained by his friends at a public dinner, which
took place on Thursday night, at the Brunswick Hotel.
The Company, which was numerous, partook of an excel-
lent dinner.

ASSIZE BANQUET AT THE 1 OWN-HALL.—On Tues-
day evening, our worthy Chief Magistrate entertained toe
Hon. Mr. Justice Wightman, Pudsey Dasson, Esq., of
Hornby Castle, the High Sheriff of the county, the Rev.
Rector Brooks, the High Sheriff's chaplain, Richard
Dawson, Esq., brother of the High Sheriff, the Town-
clerk, and a number of the most distingnished members
of the bar at a grand banquet at the Town-hall.
MANORIAL RIGHTS OF MANCHESTER.—The Council
of Manehester. on Monday last, resolved to purchase of
Sir Oswald Mosley, the lord of the manor of Manchester,
all the manorial rights and properties, for the sum of
£200,000 ; of which £5,000 only is to he paid down, (as a
deposit,) and the corporation is not to be compelled to
pay in liquidation of the purchase money more than
£4,000 a-year, but with an option on their part to in-
crease that payment to £6,000 a-year.
MANCHESTER ANNUAL EASTER WRESTLING.—On
Tuesday last, the annual athletic sport took place at the
White Horse Gardens, Manchester. The attendance
was greater than on any former occasion. The sum given
was £4O, for 101, and all weights. During the day there
was some excellent throwing,, especially amongst the heavy
weights. Bordley, of Preston, took the chief prize, Lup-
ton the second, and Longtnire the third. In the light
weights White took the first prize, and James Crimson,
of St. Bees, the second. During the sport, a stage on
which were a number of persons fell, and several legs
were broken, and other parties more or less injured.
LECTURES ON ASTRONOMY.—Yesterday evening, our
townsman, Mr. W. M. Fisher gave the first of two highly
interesting lectures on this important subject, which were
illlustrated by diagrams, the painting and working of
which were unequalled by anything of tne kind we have
hitherto seen, and conveyed with the lucid descriptions of
the lecturer (who has that tripling on the tongue that ren-
ders his discourse particularly pleasing) a clear impression
of the noble science—of which he is evidently the mas-
ter. Want of space alone precludes us from giving the
substance of his lectures; and Mr. Fisher has voluntarily
offered the whole of the profits to that excellent body—
the Church Missionary Society; we cannot too strongly
recommend our readers to attend his next iecture which
takes place on Friday evening.