The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-18 00:00:00

THE CHASE.

The Cheshire Hounds will meet to-morrow (19th) at: Wrenhusy, Thursday (20th) at Cholroondeley, and Satur—
day (22d) at Ravensmoor Windmill, at half-past ten.
Sir W. W. Wynn's Hounds- will meet this day (18th)
at Bryn-y-pys-; Friday (21st) at Petton ; and Saturday
(22d) at Hawarden. at half-past ten.

Disirtrt

Lieut.-Ctionel Pollock, of Newton, near Middlswich,„
shot himself last week.
The Church Missionary Association connected with.
Christ Church, Salford, (Mr. Stowell's), has this-year
raised 1:3,,Z0, being about ..E47- more than last year..
An attempt is now being made at Manchester teestab-
lisb a weekly half-holiday, on Saturday afternoons,, for the
milliners of that town.
Si4ANOATH.-At a meeting of the inhabitants,on Wed-
nesday, it was resolved to light the township with gas, and
£l.s.lhwas granted to inset the expenses of the first year.
The High Sheriff has appointed, as his chaplain, the
Rev. George Henry Sumner, M.A., rector of Old Aires_
ford, Hants, and chaplain to the Archbishop. of Canter-
bury and the Bishop of Winchester.
A boy fourteen years of age has been committed to take
his trial for manslaughter for having killed, at Man-
chester, another boy, aged nine, by kicking him upon
the head and breast.

The comtnitbee appointed to inquire into• the conduct
of the master of the Southport life-boat,, in refusing to
render assistance to a vessel in distress, have decided that
he failed in the strict performance of his.duty.
The Rev. George Richards has been presented by the
Sunday-school teachers of the parish church, Warrington,
assisted by some of their friends, with a purse containing
fifty guineas. The presentation was made by Mr. Wilson
Patten, M.P.
A serious accident, happened on Monday, to Mr.
Thomas Barnes, of Farnworth. Whilst proceeding in a
gig to Little Bolton to perform his magisterial duties, the
horse took fright, and both he and the coachman were
thrown out. Mr. Barnes's right foot and ankle were so
fractured that amputation had to be resorted out.
LARGE COTTON MILL.—Tile largest cotton mill, it is
said, ever built at one time, has just been completed at
Bottoms, Mossley, by Mr. John Mayall. It is 137 yards
long by 261 broad, inside measurement. It is 43 win-
dows long and six stories high. The building is to be
fitted with spinning machinery principally, and will
employ a great number of hands. The engine now being
put down, is upwards of one hundred horses' power.
FATAL EXPLOSION.—On Friday a retort at the chemi-
cal works of Mr. Hodgett, exploded, and a quantity of
boiling naptha struck Mr. Hodgett on the face, set
his clothes on fire, and so frightfully scorched his body,
that he died almost immediately. Two other retorts ex-
ploded a few moments afterwards, by which another man
was very severely injured. The heat from the furnace
ignited the naptlia, and set the building on fire, the flames
raging with such violence that the fire-engines had no
effect upon them, and they were only ultimately ex.
tinguished by large quantities of brick and sand being
thrown into the retorts.
COUNTY MAGISTRACY.—In our obituary this week are
recorded the deaths of two of the oldest county magis-
trates in Lancashire, W. W. Carus Wilson, Esq., and
John Aspinnll, Esq. ; the former being senior in the
AmOunderness hundred, having received the commission
in October 1799 i and the latter in the Blackburn hund-
red, having been created a magistrate in October, 1810.
The former gentleman was for several years M.P. for
Cockermouth, but retired from parliament in ]826, and
was for a short time Vice Lieutenant of Westmoreland
during the absence of the late Earl of Lonsdale from the
country. He had been presiding last week at a Protestant
meeting at Kendal, to petition parliament against the
papal aggression, and on his return home was taken very
seriously ill, and died in a few days. By his death several
families will be placed in mourning.
HUMBLE BOTANISTS.—Mr. Harris, the well-known
natural historian, says that some years ago, whilst living
in Manchester, he became acquainted with two " con-
firmed botanists" : the one a sort of porter on the Duke
of Bridgewater's canal ; the other a weaver, with a large
and increasing family ; both very poor, who were in the
constant practice of walking four miles into the country,
and of returning the same distance, before proceeding to
their daily toils. On one of these occasions, the porter,
who was a little in advance, laid his hat, which, as usual,
was filled with botanical specimens, down on a bank, and
his companion, who was hard by reading volumes in a
leaf, was quickly recalled to his finite state by hearing a
sudden plunge, and the next moment the joyful voice of
the porter, exclaiming, "Jenkins (the weaver's name),
hoive got er !" and the humid fellow, pleasure beaming
from his dripping visage, held in his hand a specimen of a
very rare plant, for which he had long sought in vain.
A FIGHT ON THE STAGE.—On Thursday evening, the
stage of the Theatre Royal, Chester, witnessed a veritable
rough-and-ready bout of fisticuffs, after the most ap-
proved fashion of the prize ring. Two of the corps dra-
matique, having a private grudge between them, and
making mouths and grimaces at one another during the
business of the stage, the stoicism of one was not proof
against the defiance of his comrade, and he incontinently
dealt him a facer, which was returned forthwith. A re-
gular set-to ensued, among the cheers of the audience,
not very many and although scanty not select, who en-
joyed this display of human nature as far superior to any
holding of the mirror up to it. The row and the fun con-
tinued, until one of the bruisers received a staggering
blow which tumbled him into the orchestra, and there
amid the " din of broken lamps and the crash of wounded
fiddlers," and the frantic cheers of the pit, the discom-
fited hero picked himself up, and withdrew.—Chester
Chronicle.