The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-25 00:00:00

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The Rev. G. H. Sumner has been appointed Chaplain
to the Sheriff of Lancashire.
An excellent paved road is about to be constructed
from Southport to Birkdale.
A portion of the sea wall and promenade at Southport,
has been again washed away.
An auctioneer of Southport rode to Ormskirk and back
for a wager, in an hour and a half, the other day, the dis-
tance being eighteen miles.
The new station at Southport will be only a few yards
from London-street, one of the most central streets in
the town.
The old church at Southport, after undergoing an ex-
tensive enlargement involving an outlay of £lOOO, will be
reopened early in April.
Mr. Palmer, solicitor, of Preston, paid his 124th visit
to Lancaster assizes last week. The venerable gentleman
is in his 79th year.
Many stranaers are now in Southport. The mildness
of the season has, no doubt, induced them to come. One
lady, who keeps a respectable boarding-house, has refused
five families, her apartments being all engaged.
The Corporation of Warrington have purchased the
market-tolls from J. I. Blackburne, Esq., lord of the
manor. It is understood that this is the first step to-
wards a covered market being erected in the town.
A ball, which a pensioner, named Nicholson, now living
at Lancaster, received in his right hip, at the battle of
Moodkee, in December, 1845, worked its way out of his
thieh on Saturday week.
On Thursday evening, as a gentleman named Alford,
residing in Manchester, was waiting the arrival of the
train at the Bolton Railway Station, New Bailey-street,
Salford, some adroit thieves contrived to abstract a red
morocco pocket-book, containing £BOO, from his person.
It is currently reported that the individual who was
tried at Lancaster, upwards of twenty years ago. for the
murder of Mary Downes, at Heaton Norris, and acquit-
ted, died on Tuesday, at Dukinfield, after confessing that
he committed the dreadful crime.
One of the workmen, who was seriously injured by the
naphtha explosion in Salford on Friday week, by which
Mr. Hodgetts, manufacturing chemist, lost his life, ex-
pired the following day, making the second victim to the
calamity .
The citizens of Chester have presented to the Rev. H.
S. Joseph, chaplain of Chester Castle, a massive silver
inkstand, with silver penholder, pencil case, &c., for
having kindly delivered a course of thirteen lectures on
the errors of the Church of Rome.
Mr. Baily, R.A., has been selected to execute the
bronze statue to be erected in honour of the late Sir R.
Peel at Bury, his native town. It will stand in an open
space of ground in front of the market-place. The sum
subscribed for this purpose amounts to £2,500.
BOILER EXPLOSION AT MANCHESTER.—On Thursday,
a boiler attached to a timber yard, near Victoria-station,
exploded, killing one person, and so seriously injuring
another that he died soon after. The cause of the explo-
sion is not accurately known.
Samuel Donaldson, the late actuary of the Ulverston
Savings Bank, was convicted at the Lancaster assizes, on
Wednesday, of having obtained by false pretences several
sums of money, the property of the trustees of the bank.
Sentence was deferred.
On Friday week, Sarah Mottram, and Ann, her child
(aged eighteen months), were found drowned in a lodge at
Breightmet, near Bolton. The mother was twenty-four
years of aee, and, it is said, had been at variance with her
husband, whom she left on the 4th instant. The infant
was tied upon the mother's back.
A tailor at Manchester offers to provide a " splendid
suit of clothes," and a ticket to London and back, after
the opening of the Great Exhibition, for three guineas,
to be paid by instalments of 3s. per week. Great emer-
gencies produce great efforts, and the tailor is evidently
determined not to be left behind in the race of competi-
tion.
A CASE FOR COUNSEL.—During the Manchester ses-
sions, which are just terminated, a brief, of which the
following is a copy, was put into the hands of one of the
leading counsel by an attorney engaged to defend a person
tried for felony :
Mr. -, 1 have no defence to offer; but blackguard the
police as much as you possibly can.
-, Solicitor.
ALLEGED ELOPEMENT.—The Manchester correspon-
dent of the Daily News gives a gossiping account of an
elopement from that place, which has been pretty exten-
sively copied into the local journals. We see in the
Manchester papers a formal announcement of a marriage,
written in that commonplace, every-day style, which
no one ever dreams of connecting with incidents of ro-
mance. The statement alluded to, which appears under
the interesting head " Married," shows that, however
the young lady and her gallant admirer, urged by love
and opposition, may have departed from the every-day
routine of hymeneal proceedings, they have nevertheless
become man and wife.
FAILURE OF THE FLAX EXPERIMENTS AT ROCH-
DALE.—We regret to learn that Chevalier Claussen has
abandoned the idea of spinning flax on the ordinary

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