The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-08-13 00:00:00

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The Dee Bill has been withdrawn from Parliament for
he current session.

The wheat crops about Rufford are light, but bid fair
to he of good quality.
R. Palmer, Esq., of Preston, paid his 123 d visit to Lan-
caster Assizes last week.
A new Roman Catholic chapel has been opened at
Ormskirk.

The bazaar held at Blackpool last week to obtain funds
for further enlarging the church, produced the sum of
£6BB.

At Prescot Sessions, on Tuesday, the five men who
were recently apprehended at Wootton for a riot, were
bound over with sureties to keep the peace.
The Preston Chronicle says that seagulls have been ob-
served on a bank, near Lytham, to gather cockles, and fly
with them to a great height. They then let the cockles
fall upon the hard sand, that they may break them in
pieces, and afterwards fly down and eat them.
The yacht " Vision," belonging to Mr. Birchall, of
Preston, has won no fewer than twenty-one cups, besides
other prizes. The " Royal Cup," won by the "Vision"
at Cork, on Saturday week, was presented by her Majesty
and Prince Al ert.

A verdict of wilful murder against Ann Ball, has been
returned by the coroner's jury at Sou hport, for leaving
her infant in the sand, as we have already narrated. She
was heard to say that it " came into the world naked,
and should go out naked."
The post-driver, who runs the mail-bags from Rainhill
station to Prescot. and from thence to St. Helens and
Rainford, was accidentally thrown out of his cart near the
Four-lane Ends, in Eccleston, on Saturday night. He
was pitched on his head, receiving two dreadful wounds,
and now lies dangerously ill.
THE FALL OF THE MILL AT STOCKPORT.—At the co-
roner's inquest the jury found a verdict to the effect that
the deceased's deaths were accidental, " through Jhe par-
tial falling of the floors of the Brinksway factory, be-
longing to Mr. Cephas Howard, which were supported by
a cast-iron beam of an imperfect construction, and of an
improper calculation, considering the weight it had to
bear."

At the Chester assizes, on Wednesday, John Taylor,
aged 54, was charged with the wilful murder of his son
James Taylor, at Tushingham, near Malpas, on the 28th
of May last. He had fractured the boy's skull with an
axe, who was found dead and weltering in his blood.
When asked at the inquest, after having been cautioned,
what he had to say, he replied " I am guilty, and cannot
say more." Three surgeons deposed they were unable to
detect any instances of insanity in the conduct of the pri-
soner ; but other witnesses deposed that he had several
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was ushered in by the ringing of the Parish Church
bells, and about ten o'clock, according to arrangement,
the superintendents and a few of the scholars from the
respective protestant schools, and also a great number of
the clergy arrived at the rectory, and were shortly after-
wards followed by the mayor and corporation, accompa-
nied by some of the borough magistrates and several other
gentlemen. A procession was then formed, and headed
by the churchwardens of St. Catherine's, moved up the
Hallgate to the Pat ish Church, which was already nearly
filled with respectable parties who had been admitted by
ticket. On entering the church the ceremony of conse-
cration was performed, and his lordship afterwards
preached an impressive sermon applicable to the subject.
A collection was made, and amounted to upwards of
£133. At the conclusion of the service, the procession
moved to the National School, where a repast was pro-
vided. This, together with a tea-party, concluded the
proceedings of the day.
THE NEPAULESE AMBASSADOR IN LANCASTER.—
His Excellency with a suite and staff of servants, amount-
ing altogether to 26, arrived at the Castle station, Lan-
caster, by the mail train on Wednesday morning. His
Excellency alighted from the train, and through his in-
terpreter requested one of the porters to supply him with
cold spring water. The porter, doubtless unused to con-
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declined to allay his thirst in the manner the porter
offered him, and being informed that there were excellent
sprin,ge.at the Ozenholme station, he re-entered the car-