The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-24 00:00:00

LOCAL AND PROVINCIAL NEWS•

The Manche,ter testimonial to Sir Henry Pottinger
amounts to £3OOO.
• Miss Bryers and Mr. Wooley have sold up their public
house in Frederick-street. and left Liverpool.
Mr. Booth, keeper of !the lock-ups at Birkenhead for
the last thirteen years, has sent in his resignation.
The Liverpool Observatoiy is now. as regards it most
popukr use, the determination of time, in full operation.
On Thursday a fire, which did but trifling damage, took
place on the premises of Mr. Mantling, cabinet-maker,
Stanley-street.
MANUFACTURING PROSPERITY.—The sum deposited
in the savings bank at Bolton amounts to £100.000., and
in the two lst consecive weeks the dposits aid into
the bank have exc. edeut the sun drawn out by £lpooo.
On Sunday week, at the parish church, Oldham, after
a sermon from the Rev. W. Falloon, of Liverpool, the
handsome sum of 1:128 was collected in aid of the schools
attreled to the church.
On Sunday week the Demerara racket, which sailed
from this port on Friday week, with a general cargo, and
amongst other things, a quantity of lime, was destroyed by
fire off Dublin. The crew were saved.
Yl Quarter Sessions will be
The Lancashire E; iphan
held at Lancaster on Monday, December 30 ; at Preston,
on Wednesday, January 1 ; at Salford, on Monday, Jan.
6 ; and at Kirldale, on Wednesday, Jan. 15.
SELLING OBSCENE WORKS.—On Friday, Bailey,
bookseller, of Manchester-street, was found guilty, before
the Itt,corder, of having exposed obscene bo-ks for sale,
and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday morning, a painter,
of Birkenhead, named Henry Norman, accidentally fell
from the front of one of the new houses in Hamilton-
square, where he war in the act of graining, and died
almost immediately after.
Several merchan's in the various out-p• rts of Britain,
who have henefitted so much by the importation of guano,
have been intimating a wish to join in a public testimo-
nial to Norman M'L( od, Esq. of Liverpool, who was the
first individual that sent out a ship, at his own risk, for
guano, from the west coast of Africa.—Fife Journal.
Sure ON SHORE.—The ship Captain Henderson, from
this port to Ca cut's, struck on the Black water Bank, on
Friday morning, and afterwards went on shore in the
North Bay, about three miles to the northward of the
spot where the James Matlaie,on was lately wrecked.
The crew were all saved, and the discharge ot the cargo
was proceeding.
TOE DUTY ON COTTON WOOL.—On Tuesday last, a
meetiog of the itiliabit ants of Manchester was held at the
Town stall, in that place, in compliance with a equisi-
lion to the mayor, for the purpose of promoting the re-
peal of the tax on cotton wool. The mayor presided, and
after resolutions against the duty had been adopted, a de-
potato!, was appointed to watt ucon the lords of the
treasury to urge the removal of the duty.

DEATHS FROM BURNING.—On Saturday week, a child
(aged 7) of Mr. ,Thomas Sayle, of Scotland-road, was
burned to deith in conseque ice of its clothes catching
fire, while at play, in a best.roo-tt, with its sisters.--
On Tuesday last a child (aged 31) the son of a man
named Peter Bradley, living to Stewart-street, died from
injuries received, the previous day, from its clothes hav-
ing caught fire whilst playing in the next cellar with two
other children.

THE LATE COLLISION.—On Monday week, as the
crew of one of the team•tue company's packets were
hauling up tt,e anchor off the T.ltteth Dot k, the body of
Mr. John Harrison, one of the persons who were in the
boat which swamped in the river cn the night of the 21st
ult., by swinging of the Birkenhead steamer James, at the
time of the cAsinn with the Roydist, was brought to
the surface and conin-ed to the dead house. On Tues-
day an bluest was held on the Loh, and a verdict of
found drowned was recorded.

SERIOUS AFFRAY WITH POACIIERS.—On Wednesday
night last, as George Bury, be id keeper to W. Garnett,
Esq., (if Qui-rtimore-park, and two of his assistants, were
going the round of the preserves, they heard some shots
tired from the direction of the wood, where pheasants are
usually found. The three, having no guns but stout
sticks, and accompanied by a large muzzled dogs made
towards the spot. Sue posing there were three poachers,
act agreed to seize his man. One of the poachers was
ihrown down and secured ; but between the head keeper
and another named Bury a desperate struggle took place.
The poacher struck his interrupter a terrible blow on the
head with the muzzle of his gun, inflicting a dangeroui
wound. The dog, finding his master abused, became fu-
rious, and drapes stay attacked the poacher, tearing off
le,rt of his coat. before he got away. The keeper was
unable to pursue hire from loss of blood, and he has hi-
therto escaped. • A le,s serious struggle took, place be-
tween two of the others who have been taken and com-
mitted for trial.
A great deal of noise has been made about a few bags
of Venezuelan sugar imported at Liverpool. This noise
has been made on the ground that the sugar is slave-
grown.—The territ ry of Venezuela—a territory as large
us. France—has a population under 90,000, of whom, not-
wiihstat,dine that slavery has been long abolished by law,
about 30,000 (one in thirty) are iii a state of qualified
slavery, for this sole reason, that the Republic has been
hitherto tco poor to • buy out the liberty of all its slaves,
though having made the best provision it was able to do
so. No slave, however, can be born in Venezuela, for all
are born free. No slave can be imported ; and even the
remnant of the slave population that lingers, notwith-
standing large annual redemptions; and manumissions
cannot be transferred from master to master—the thirty
thousand slaves—one in thirty the papultrion, are thus
almost necessarily employed as house servants, or in the
cultivation of gardens and small farms, and, from the na-
ture of things, cannot be employed in sugar grounds.
The Venezuelan sugar, therefore, is neither slave-grown,
nor the produce of a country attached to slavery. All the
world is net as rich as Great Britain, and able, like her,
to buy the freedom of the negro ; but the Venezuelans are
doing the best they can to imitate our example, and there-
fore deserve all the encouragement that we can give them.
Unfor unately, however, we have little opportunity to en-
courage the sugar trade, for the country produces little
sugar, and it coats a dollar the hundred weight to tarry it
t) the coast. To compare Venezuela in any respect with
slave trading countries, like Cuba and the Brazils, would
be the grossest folly as well as injustice.—Stondard.