The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-08-20 00:00:00

Btstrirt P,CII/5.

The new church at Heaton Norris will be consecrated
by the Bishop of Manchester on Monday.

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The subscriptions in Manchester for the Sir Robert
Peel monument amount now to £5OOO.

A man named Gregson was suffocated in a well, near
Ashton, on Friday week, by the foul air.
The people of Blackburn are going to erect either a
park, baths, dispensary, or cemetery, as their testimonial
to the memory of Sir Robert Peel.
The Rev. J. F. Herschell, of Preston, has received the
appointment of chaplain to the Gloucestershire county
gaol.

A boy has died at Manchester from internal hurts given
by an hydraulic press. The boy had thoughtlessly got
under the press, and he was crushed before he could be
got out.
PLEASURES AT A WATERING PLACE.—No less than
1:2(1) a.week are spent in donkey riding, at Southport ;
as much as £lOO in bathing on the shore, and £5O per
week at the baths.

Captain Mangles Denham, R.N., F.R.S., has repaired
to Southport, on the coast of Lancashire, to hold a
government inquiry into the causes and circumstances
attending the recent wreck of the Prince Arthur steamer.
On Monday the boiler at the mill of Messrs. Lees and
Mills, at Oldham, suddenly burst, and Mr. Fox, a boiler
maker, who was at that moment leaving the premises with
an order in his pocket for two new boilers, was killed, and
two others were very severely scalded.

THE EARL OF STAMFORD:—On Tu"sday, the Earl and
Countess of Stamford and Warrington arrived at their
seat, Dunham Hall, for a stay of several weeks. They
had a large number of attendants with them. A party of
gentlemen from the neighbourhood, with a couple of flags,
met and cheered them as they entered the lawn.

THE STANDISH GALLERY.—It has been decided that
the gallery of paintings bequeathed by the late Frank Hall
Standish, Esq., of Duxbury Park, to Louis Philippe, is
the personal property of the ex.king. It is not improba-
ble, therefore, !hat these pictures may find their way into
England.

A VERY PROPER REBUKE.—During the trial of a
criminal case before Mr. Justice Talfourd on Friday, the
book containing the four Gospels on which the witnesses
were sworn were several times thrown rather violently
across the barristers' table. His lordship, on observing
this, emphatically addressed the crier of the court—" Pray,
Mr. Ta) lor, don't allow the Testament to be thrown about
in that manner. Always show becoming respect to the
sacred volume."—Chester Courant.

At Chester assizes, Mrs. Milward, a publican's widow,
obtained £2OO damages from a man named Littlewood,
a machine-maker, who under a promise of marriage se-
duced her. The servant and a female friend of the
plaintiff spoke positively as to the promise, and that the
widow had given up her late husband's business in con-
sequence. For the defence it was alleged, and sworn to
by the friends of the defendant, that they had warned
Mrs. Alilward that her suitor was already " a married
man," o which s to replied, " She didn't care." I t however
appeared the t she had made inquiries of his brother's
wife, and fie m her had learnt the tact.
SLANDER.-At Chester assizes, a case was tried in.
which Mr. Thomason, brewer, of this town, sought to
recover compensation from Mr. Forshaw, also a brewer.
It appears that before the Borough Court, some time
ago, the plaintiff produced a receipt with the initials P.F.
on it, and produced witnesses who swore they were the
defendants. The defendant, on the other hand, pro-
duced witnesses who swore they were not his. The
decision was against Mr. Thomason. After the defen-
dant stated in a public-house at Birkenhead " that the
plaintiff was a d—d rogue, and if he could get hold of the
document he would transport him." The jury found for
the plaintiff, damages £6.
MANCHESTER REGATTA : SUCCESS OF THE CLASPERS.
—The annual boat races on the river Irwell commenced
yesterday week. The principal event of the day was the
Chadwick Cup, of twenty pounds, for four-oar gigs.
There were three entries, two of them being Manchester
boats, and the other being a Newcastle-upon-Tyne boat,
manned by John Salter and the four Claspers. The course
is a mile up the stream and a mile down again, and a good
start being obtained, and the boats getting well off to-
gether, the breath of the spectators seemed suspended
almost for twenty lengths or so, so equally did the com-
petitors appear to pull with each other. The boat of the
Claspers, however, now drew slightly ahead. The up
stream race virtually decided the contest, and the New-
castle boat came back half-a-dozen lengths a-head, an
apparently easy winner, the Princess rowing in second.

• LEGAL HINDRANCES TO THE MILLENIUM.—At Lan-
caster assizes, last week, Mr. Justice Cresswell and a jury
were occupied in an action for slander arising from some
drunken remarks at an inn, near Chorley. Mr. Sergeant
Wilkins, for the defendant, designated the whole as a dis-
graceful public-house brawl, which but for the interference
of the village attorney, to whom the plaintiff's wife had
gone, would have been amicably settled by a friend in five
minutes. It was complained of by some that there would
soon be no more business for the lawyers ; but they might
depend on it that the millennium would not arrive so long
as there were pot-house quarrels, an attorney living near,
one of the parties comfortably off, and with enough to pay
the costs. He submitted to their judgments that the
smallest coin in the realm would be adequate compensa-
tion for the damage the plaintiff had received. His lord-
ship having summed up, the jury found a verdict for the
plaintiff—damages, one farthing.
A STRANGE PAIR.—The Manchester papers give some
curious details respecting two individuals, Cropper and
Booth, both of whom left this country some time since
in debt. Cropper set up a gun-manufactory in Philadel-
phia, and took Booth into his service. Booth having
abstracted £4BO from Cropper's carpet-bag, absconded
and hid himself in Manchester. Cropper, on discover-
ing his whereabout, sent over warrants to Mr. Beswick,
Chief-Constable of Manchester, who, however, could not
make use of them because they were informal. Cropper
then came over to England himself, but was unable to
make his charge out to the satisfaction of the magistrates.
Cropper, with several men, then seized Booth forcibly
and were about to convey him to Liverpool, but the men
fearing trouble, relinquished the job. Finally, one of
Cropper's old creditor's hearing that he was in England,
lodged him in Lancaster Castle, where he now is. Booth
is said to have 2,000 dollars in one of the Philadelphia
banks ; and efforts are being made to attach this sum.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS,

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The Rev. Henry Wray, M.A., senior curate of Kirk-
ham, has been presented to the Incumbency of St. An-
drew's Church, Manchester.

The Birmingham Gas Company, at their meeting on
Tuesday, unanimously voted the sum of £5O to the St.
Martin's Church Restoration Fund.

It is stated that the whole costs in the Gorham case
amount to nearly £BO,OOO. Sir F. Kelly received nearly
£2OOO.

THE COMMISSION TO THE UNIVERSITIES OF OXFORD
AND CAMBRIDGE.—We are enabled to state authorita-
tively that the names of the commissioners appointed
under the Royal Sign Manual to visit the Universities of
Oxford and Cambridge have been communicated by the
premier to the respective chancellors of these learned
bodies, and that they have been transmitted to the go-
verning bodies in residence. At the time we write, the
only names which have transpired are those of the very
reverend Dr. Talt, Dean of Carlisle, formerly Fellow and
Tutor of Balliol College, and late Head Master of
Rugby School ; the Rev. Dr. Jenne, Master of Pembroke
College, Oxford, formerly Dean of Jersey, and late Fel-
low and Tutor of Lis Society ; and the Rev. H. Liddell,
formerly Student and Censor of Christ Church, Oxford,
as commissioners to that University. Certainly, what-
ever objections may exist in various quarters to the prin-
ciple of a commission, the parties named thue f:er are a
guarantee of the perfect fairness, intelligence, and friendly
feeling, with which the crown desires the enquiry to be
conducted.—Church and State Gazette.

INDUCTION ON MR. GORHAM.—On Saturday week Mr.
Gorham went to Brampford Speke accompanied by two
clergymen and Montague B. Bere, Esq., of Barley House,
Exeter, and though the curate, who was appointed by the
Bishop of Exeter, had been apprised of the vicar's intended
visit, he had left for the afternoon and locked up the keys
of the church. It was soon evident from the servants'
mi.nner and from hints by several inhabitants that the
cause of this impediment to induction was not acci-
dental. Neither the vicar nor any of his friends were
asked into the vicarage; they were compelled to loiter
about the vicarage grounds or the churchyard for nearly
two hours, when one of the principal inhabitants, Furs-
den, Esq., invited them to take refuge in his beautiful
villa. At half-past four the curate returned, expressed no
regret at the delay, acknowledged that he thought it pro-
bable that the keys would be wanted, but said it was his
" usual habit" to lock them up. lie then delivered them
to the vicar, did not accompany him to the church, but
said he should not continue the charge of the parish after
the induction had taken place. Mr. Gorham reminded
him of his obligation to give three months' notice, accord-
ing to the ninety-seventh section of the Pluralities Act,
or to accept a six weeks' notice, according to the ninety-
fifth section, which Mr. Gorham left with him. He per-
severed, however, in his determination to throw up the
curacy, and to leave the church unsupplied, the very next
day, though he is in actual occupation of the vicarage,
which he has furnished. During this unpleasant delay,
the villagers had collected in considerable numbers to
welcome the new vicar, and to witness the induction;
after which they nearly filled the church while the man-
date was being endorsed as executed, and, on the Vicar
withdrawing, a merry peal was rung.

ADVANTAGES OF EARLY TRAINING.—The following
dialogue is reported to have taken place at the Queen's
County Assize between a medical witness and a barrister:
Mr. Hayes (the barrister)—" If a person, lying on wet
straw, were deprived of all the comforts or necessaries of
life, would it not hasten death ?" Dr. Edge—" That
would greatly depend upon whether he had been accus-
tomed to them ?" Mr. Hayes—" Do you mean to tell
us that if a person lived in a horse-pond it would not be
injurious to him ?" Dr. Edge—" I think not if he bad
lived sixty or seventy years in it."

ANECDOTE OF THE LATE VICE-CHANCELLOR.—The
health of the Vice-Chancellor was, till within a late
period, most robust. He was in the habit of bathing
every day, no tnatter how severe the season, in one of the
creeks running from the Thames, near his house, at Barn
Elms, and to this practice the vigour of .body which he
showed, even at his advanced period of life, is, we believe,
to be attributed. There is an anecdote, that on one occa-
sion his honour granted an injunction in the water, during
the long vacation. The counsel and solicitor having
come to Barn Elms, counsel stated the facts of the case
from the bank ; after which his honour ducked under the
master, and, sputtering out water, said, " Take an in.
teem order, sir."