The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-03-18 00:00:00

The " Statistics of British Commerce," the first nure'
ber of which has just been published by Mr. Braithwaite,
Poole, contains some curious details, showing the octal'
to which the brewing trade is monopolized by the large
common' brewers, or carried on by the retailers ink
various towns and counties of the United Kingdom.
give the statistics of a few of the leading towns in this dia'
trict. In Manchester collection there are 96 common
brewers, 1,706 licensed victuallers, and 3,159 beer-houses;
971 victuallers and 1,128 beershop.keepers brew their 001
beer.—Liverpool has 77 brewers, 1,551 licensed victuallers'
and 1,227 beershops ; only 19 victuallers and 15 beershoP'
keepers are their own brewers.—ln Chester collection
there are 43 brewers, 1,037 victuallers, and 372 beerholise;
keepers ; 592 victuallers and 188 beershoa-keepers bre"
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neir own.—Lancashire district contains 29 con 110:
brewers, 1,109 victuallers, and 886 beerhouse-keepo,;
769 victuallers and 286 beerhouse-keepers brew thei,
own.—Leeds collection contains 25 brewers, 1,015 victus
lers, and 9(0 beerhouse-keepers ; 900 victuallers and ,1
beershop-keepers brew their own.—Northwich collectP:
contains 30 brewers, 1,197 victuallers, and 722 beerbegse9'
668 victuallers and 150 beershop-keepers brew their ovcgi
With the exception of London, in which out of 4,2'•,,r
victuallers and 2,119 beershops, only one of the fornil
and 58 of the latter brew their own, Liverpool is the on
large town in the
_kingdom in which the laree bred

possess anythir

like a monopoly of ihiii;a:

THE CHASE

Went
The Cheshire Hounds will meet to-morrow at Wre4
bury, on Thursday at Cholmondeley, and on Saturday
Crewe Hall, each day at. half-past ten o'clock. at
Sir W. W. Wynn's Hounds will meet on Thursday
Glascoed, and on Saturday at Overton Cross each daY
half-past ten o'clock. ,

Distrialus.

At Gidlow-lane Colliery, near Wigan, three Y°ll-fl3O
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were killed through about ten yards of the roof falling •""si
The Rev. Canon Stowell was announced to deliver, lag.
night, at Manchester, a lecture, "On the duty 01
Christian community towards its unemployed membereie
While a man was standing on the canal bank near „to
stone bridge at Goole, on the 28th ult., his dog bee,i-t,
scratching the earth at the bottom of one of the EinA
ments of the bridge, and continued to scrape until euv-
-265. in silver were uncovered.
RADICAL SQUABBLES.—At the Ormskirk County Con,
a plaint was brought by Mr. Thomas Worsley,
against Mr. James Moorhouse, agent for the South
cashire Reform Association, for upwards of £l4 for err
vices rendered relative to the claims of voters. £2 Os. ;0
was proved to be due, and paid into court, and the 1)1a.
was dismissed.
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NARROW ESCAPE.—The Venerable Archdeacon 1-elied
man, formerly incumbent of Over Darwen, travel e,
through thenarro-7 gorge among the mountains of Ma,t°,lo
the day before that on which the treacherous Kaffirs 01.0.,""ey
out, into open hostility, and slaughtered our troops as "05
passed in single file. The rev. gentleman was return
from a visitation of six hundred miles into the interl"
attended only by a Kaffir boy. 0
A man, named Greaves, from Manchester, set oPor
stand at the Oldham steeple chase, on WednesdaY, ed
rifle shooting at targets ; and although frequently W 9 11e
of the danger attendant upon practising the sport, ;;;
Greaveshite - i n
s
stubbornly persisted, and the result was that a Yelo
imnanthe
diately apprehended. Whitehead has been pp:3ollc'
out of danger.
OPENING OF THE OWENS COLLEGE, MANCHESTER,
argiegdhtseeviedne t,eebnreicin years,g Wanteda ib Whitehead,-was a
wasd,wa
The new collegiate institution, founded in Manchester
the principle of the national universities (except that it j
open to all without religious distinction), out of fUllo
0
provided by a munificent bequest made several years 011
iilsl of Mr.
ProfessorO Awe:3.s. givingscot nlaotepoowf etrheteLeo.rretacitortn:
by the late Mr. John Owens, to the amount of near:
£100,000; was opened on Thursday. The building 0"::
gewerly resided, in Quay-street. The princilt
building) was the spacious house in which Mr. Cebdel
MloUefce.ttPilevid.ee'rcef(oiottlhryleme, who was prevented from delivering his " •
augural address by sudden illness, awl the session sc.!e
opened on Thursday morning by the delivery of a lectue'o
introductory of a course of instruction in the languaLt
and literature of ancient Greece and Rome by Profes:o
J. G. Greenwood, 8.A., followed by one, on rnatheel-LIA,
and physics by Professor Archibald Sandeman, 61,
The other resident professors—Mr. Edward Frankly
Ph. D., who presides over the classes studying chreis the
and Mr. W. C. Williamson, M.R.C.S., who takes_..,..o
department of natural history, anatomy, and physiolocio,
were also present. The teacher of French is M. Pecleol.
and of German M. Theodores. The principal of the ~,c)
lege (who is also professor of logic and moral philosellor
it is expected will now postpone his inaugural addresl•
some weeks, if not till the opening of the next 90"ili0
The' public were admitted on giving their names tO Ler
introductory lectures on Thursday, and a great numb
of ladies and gentlemen presented themselves. .Amolif
the gentlemen were Mr. J. Potter (mayor of Manchester);
the Very Rev. Dr. Bowers (Dean of Manchester). Alder:
man Watkins, Alderman Shuttleworth, Mr. S. Fleteit;
Dr. Hodgson (principal of the Chorlton High Sche°,,e
Mr. G. Osborne (Wesleyan minister), and Mr. Alexanfo
Kay. There were about 18 or 20 youths present wh°
already been admitted students.

neer
PATENT OieNlßus.—A good deal of curiosity waS
sioned on Thursday in the line from Bayswater toChal.p
cross by the appearance of anew omnibus, which certel„c›
brings to bear many, if not all, the desired ends of S'ori
conveyances. Each traveller has a seat to himself, lieo
such seat is as private as a box at the opera, while 15"01
may thus ride as secure from annoyance as in their °poi,
carriage. The contrivance altogether is certainly iegolo
ous, and divested of all cumbrous appearance, the %"00/
not weighing more than an ordinary omnibus, The oio
novel feature is the way in which the passengers ont,
their places both in the body of the omnibus and on ,00c
roof; to the latter, indeed, a child may ascend with
fear of injury. 0
A PICTURE ON GLass.—We have recently seet,oo
picture enamelled on glass, by Mr. Edward Bailie,
Mr. John Wood's " Shakspeare:Reading:one of his lea
before Queen Elizabeth and her Court, which is inteo es.
for the Great Exhibition. It is 6 feet by 5 feet. It.tfle
hibita a high degree of finish, and is painted in ? 'jot
rarely attempted in this country, being, in truth,.
"stained glass," but a picture on glass, with quiu:pOr
peculiarly its own. It must have cost much time, a.irel.lita
and trouble. On the left of the picture is Sir yvio,
Raleiah, (statesman, seaman, soldier, chemist, end 00
torian( ; the next is Lord Southampton •, and then c°re.:
William Shakspeare. The Queen is the central "w-el)
dressed in the gorgeous style for which she was di
known. Lady Hunsden, Lady Nottingham, and ?a,
Southampton makeup the group. When we say the2:4os
heads and principal parts of this picture have been no'
five times, it will show the time, risk, and trouble d/
tailed on the painter by this style of art. This pletuArttd
composed of nearly eighty pieces of glass, which areP.bley
into a copper frame; the joinings are almost impercePt de
and, with the exception of Shakspeare's legs and fee„dei
not interfere with the effect of the whole.—The