The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-14 00:00:00

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Edmund Sharpe, Esq., has been appointed Mayor of
Lancaster.

The Rev. Thomas Nolan preached in the new church at
Crewe on Wednesday.

William Alcard, Eaq., has been elected Mayor of War-
rim.Tton.

M. Hawksley has been engaged to make some exten-
sive alterations in the water works at Chester.

Onions were so plentiful in Chorley on Tuesday, that
6011: of good sound onions were sold for sixpence.
Major White of the 31st Regiment, was on Tuesday
last elected chief constable for this county, in the place of
the late Major Wemyss.

On Thursday last -the Rev. Fielding Ould preached in
6t. Thomas's Church, Lancaster, in aid of the schools at-
tached to the church.

Major-General Wemyss, late Assistant Adjutant-Gene-
ral of the northern district, has been presented, at Man-
chester, with a splendid dinner service of plate.
" During the chase, on Thursday, with the Cheshire
Hounds, a valuable horse, the property of Sir Thomas
Hesketh, had its back broken.
Mr. Potter, eldest son of the late Sir Thomas Potter,
is Mayor of Manchester, and Mr. Longworthy Mayor
of Salford for the ensuing year.

Sir Robert Peel in acknowledging the receipt of the
silver medal for draining his estates in Lancashire, enlosed
a £lO note to be devoted by the Blackburn Agricultural
Society, as a premium for agricultural exertions.
Wilbraham Egerton, Esq., of Tatton-park, has, with
his usual liberality, presented a donation of £l5O in aid of
the funds of the North Cheshire Conservative Registra-
tion Association.

Her Majesty has signified her intention of conferring on
Mr. Alderman Armitage (late Mayor of Manchester) the
honour of knighthood, for his judgment and vigilance in
suppressing the late riots. Mr. Armitage has accepted
the honour.

ANTIDOTE FOR POISON.-Mr. E. Brown, formerly of
Preston, one of the persons who has invented the marine
light, has found by his researches and experience, that
the application of chloroform prevents or retards the action
of certain poisons. _ _

MANCHESTER SOIREE.—The Archbishop of Dublin
and the Rev. R. Montgomery have sent apologies for
non-attendance on the 16th, when Lord Mahon is to
preside, and the following are promised for the platform
—Lord Nugent, Messrs. Alison, Robert Bell, Craik, J.
Forster, Gleig, G. Godwin, Marston, Brotherton,,Mark
Phillips, &c.
A married woman, named Sarah Airey, in order to get
some men out of her house, in Malaga-street, Manchester,
who had b:en drinking there on Saturday night last,
pushed one of them, Henry Worthington, a brass moulder,
down some steps, and his head coming in contact with a
kerb-stone, his skull was fractured, and he died soon
afterwards. Mrs. Airey has been committed for trial for
manslaughter.

RETRENCHMENT.—As the trade of Lancaster has fallen
off, the port has been reduced from the fourth to the fifth
class of ports, and the salaries of the officers regulated ac-
cordingly, by which arrangements a saving of £220 per
annum is made to the public. The same principle has
been acted upon at the port of Bridgwater, the trade of
which place has of late years diminished.

LOYAL ORANGE INSTITUTION.--On Saturday week a
meeting of the above institution was held at Mr. Glover's,
the Lord Nelson, in Hindley, on which occasion several
members of the Wigan district attended for the purpose
of opening a new lodge. On the same day a lodge was
opened at Preston, but as the time would not allow of all
the members who presented themselves being admitted,
the lodge was adjourned.
The tower of the Manchester Cathedral is said to be SO
dilapidated and insecure that orders are said to have been
issued that the bells shall be rung no oftener than is abso-
lutely necessary for conducting the ordinary services of
the church. With a view to raising the necessary funds
to rebuild the tower, it is in contemplation to levy a
church-rate, or attempt to levy one, about two months
hence, as a preliminary, should the attempt prove unsuc-
cessful, to commencing a voluntary subscription.
COMMITTAL OF A SWINDLER.—James Henry Hughes,
alias Swanson, alluded to in our last publication, was again
examined on Wednesday, before the maaistrates at Pres-
ton, and fully committed to take his trial at the sessions,
on a charge of obtaining goods under fraudulent pretences.
This man, who had been living for a few days in George-
street, Birkenhead, before his fortunate capture, made
several attempts upon the shopkeepers in this town, but
his motions being well watched, it is believed his designs
were entirely frustrated.
JENNY LIND IN MANCHESTER, NEXT MONTH.—
Some time ago, Madlle. Lind gave a promise to Mr. Salis
Schwabe, that, in the course of the present winter, she
would re-visit Manchester, and cheerfully offer her ser-
vices gratuitously, to sing at two concerts, in aid of the
fund for erecting the west wing of the royal infirmary—
that next Mosley-street. A few days ago, Mr. Schwabe
received a letter from Miss Lind, in which, recurring to
her former promise, she intimates that her engagement
will leave her at liberty to visit Manchester, for the pur-
pose, about the 20th of December next.
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THE PENNY POSTAGE IN THE ROYAL NAVY.—The
benefit of penny postage is extended to seamen in the
navy ; but what is the plan hit upon ? In these days of
" march of intellect" and " steam," it is refreshing to
hear of a -simple and original method of carrying out a
project. A penny piece is ordered to be sown outside
each letter, and the commanding-officer signs his name at
the bottom of each, to certify that the penny is sewn on,
and that the letter is a seaman's. A landsman might
imagine that I was trying to impose upon his credulity,
but you will believe my statement. The consequence of
this most original idea is, that a bag containing a thou-
sand letters has a thousand ounces in dead weight added
to it ; and on distant stations where pence cannot be
procured, writing is put a stop to, as no one letter can go
without a penny sewn to it. The sewing a penny securely
to the outside of a letter is no easy operation, as ony one
will find who tries. I need not make any remarks on the
framing of such a regulation, nor need I observe that the
purser's steward might have a supply of penny stamps;
but these, at present, a seaman is not allowed to useg—f.
Fraser,