The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-10 00:00:00

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Farnworth fair, near Warrington, for the sale of cattle,
sheep, pigs, &c., will take place on Tuesday next.
A young woman named Elizabeth Cooke has been cont.
mated for trial, on a charge of breaking into a public-
house at Manchester.
The Manchester Town Council having memorialised the
Postmaster-General that he order their Post-office to be
closed on a Sunday altogether, his Lordship has declined
acceding to the request, beyond closing it after 10. a.m.
On Tuesday, a poor woman looking for work stepped
over the spindle of a thrashing-instrument, then at work,
at Spelce. Her clothes caught, and she was drawn into
the machine and killed.
A LONG WALK.—Several children living at the top of
Turvin, near Blackstone Edge, and who are `•short
timers" at Copley Mills, have a daily walk of 10 miles to
and from their work.:
The Rev. J. R. Stephens, formerly " a great gun"
amongst the Chartists, refused to preach in his chapel, at
Ashton-under-Lyne, on Sunday, because a policeman
and a reporter were present to take notes of his sermon.
The street-sweeping machines have been entirely aban-
doned in Manchester, and the old practice of cleansing
the streets resorted to. The machines have not been
found to answer.
The creditors of Scott, Alison, and Co., Manchester,
warehousemen, have agreed to wind up the affairs of the
house, the liabilities being much smaller than expected,
under £20,000, and the assets equal to about 10s. in the
pound.
The Chartists of Manchester have now for some time
confined their public demonstrations to weekly meetings,
on Sunday evenings, in the People's Institution, Hey-
rod-street. These are very thinly attended, and the pro-
ceedings are of a very tame description.
The Oddfellows in the Prescot district had a gala day
on Monday at the village of Rainhill. In the course of
the proceedings, the Rev. J. B. Ingham had a handsome
coffee urn, manufactured by our townsman, Mr. Mayer,
presented to him.
The Lancaster Guardian mentions a man in that neigh-
bourhood, formerly a red-hot stickler for the "points" and
physical force, but now of very moderate opinions, who,
being asked the other day whether he was not a Chartist,
said, " I was one, sir, but I have lately built two cottages."
A young man, named John Ashmore, aged twenty-one
years, who had been at work at a factory at Manchester,
with a young girl named Isabella Hudson, for three years,
committed suicide last week by taking arsenic, because
the young woman refused to renew an engagement which
had been broken off between them after a quarrel.
FIRE AT MANCHESTER.—A serious fire broke out on
Saturday afternoon, at the mill of Messrs, English & Co.,
in Angel Meadow, by which it was totally destroyed. The
fire was occasioned by one of the boiler plates having given
way, and the force of the steam driving the fire and ashes
from underneath the boiler through the windows of the
warehouse opposite. With the exception of a few bruises
in one instance, no other casualty has occurred, although
250 of the persons employed in the mill jumped from the
windows into the street. The loss is estimated at from
seven to eight thousand pounds,
Edward Corbett has been committed by the borough
magistrates at Manchester to take his trial for stabbing
his mother and a man named Plumb. with whim Qt,o m 4
Kermess. it appears that the prisoner had been taunted
by his shopmates with his mother's guilty life, on Sunday,
the 11th ult., when he rushed to their dwelling, and, on
being admitted, stabbed both of them several times with.
a knife. The man Plumb has recovered sufficiently to
give evidence in the police-court, but the wretched woman
lies in a hopeless state in the infirmary.
ALL SAINTS CHURCH, PRESTON.—This church was
opened with sermons by the Rev. Dr. M`Neile and the
Rev. W. Pollock, under circumstances peculiarly gratify-
ing, The Rev. Mr. Walling, who had a curacy in the
town, was some time ago about to leave the neighbour-
hood, to the great sorrow of the poorer classes of the
town in which he had officiated, when, singular to relate,
these worthy people conceived the notion of retaining
their pastor, by building a church for him. With their
own hands many of them contributed to the holy work,
and by interesting their wealthier neighbours, they have
actually succeeded in the accomplishment of their pious
purpose. The church is a neat and commodious build-
ing.

EMPLOYMENT IN MANCHESTER.—The government
returns of the number of persons employed in the manu-
facturing districts are now to be discontinued. The fol-
lowing is the last return :—One cotton mill formerly stop-
ped altogether is now working short time ; while another,
previously working full time, but with only a portion of
the hands employed, is now working full time with the
whole of the hands. Of the hands employed in the cot-
ton mills, 90 more are working short time, and 372 fewer
full time. Of the total works included in the table, one
previously stopped is now working short time, and three
previously working full time with a part only of the hands,
are now working full time with the whole of their hands.
Of the total hands included in the table, there is an in-
crease of 359 working short time, and a decrease of 616
working full time. The return is, therefore rather of an
unfavourable character.
MURDER.—Near Tongfold, in the neighbourhood of
Bolton, on Saturday night, a man named Joseph Schol-
field was found murdered. Schofield was a labourer at a
cotton mill, situate at Under-the-Shore. About five
o'clock on Sunday morning, a man, named Robert Bar-
low, a collier, was at Tootel Bridge, about a mile front
Bolton, and near Under-the-Shore, when he heard a noise
as of some one moaning, which, on examination, he found
to proceed from the foot of the bridge. On going thither
he discovered Scholfield lying near the water's edge, in an
almost insensible state. When taken home he said that,
when on the bridge the night before, he was met by two
men, one of whom was a tall person, and they asked him
to deliver his money, which lie refusing to do, they threw
him over the battlement, a height of fourteen yards. He
continued unwell up to a quarter-past twelve on Sunday
at noon, when he expired.
EXPERIMENT BY THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COM-
PANY.—An experiment was made at Manchester, on
Wednesday, by Mr. Cox. superintendent of the Electric
Telegraph Company, and assistants, as to the practica-
bility of passing electric currents along covered wires
under water. The wire was that ordinarily used, of cop-
per, wrapped with cotton, and then passed through shell
lac and coated outside with India rubber (cold naptha
being used to cement the latter). One end of the wire
was in communication with the Telegraph Company's in-
struments at the office near the Exchange, and the other
end with an instrument at Mr. Win. Gaskell's mill, on the
Salford side of the river, at about five hundred yards' dis-
tance. A portion of the wire, including a coil of about
half a mile in length, was submerged in the river Irwell.
Communications were passed along the wire with the or-
dinary facility.
DESERVED COMPLIMENT.—A very spirited effort ha 9
been set on foot by the inhabitants of Congleton and its
neighbourhood, headed by the Mayor, to celebrate the
fiftieth anniversary of the occupation of the office of high
steward of that borough by Randle Wilbraham, Esq., of
Rode-hall. A fund already amounting to more than £3OO
is in progress of contribution, to be chiefly invested for
the foundation of three free scholarships at the Grammar
School of Congleton, to be in the nomination of Mr.
Wilbraham and his heirs for ever. The deed of endow-
' ment is to be presented in a handsome silver box, bearing
a suitable inscription, at a public dejeuner, which will
take place at noon, on Wednesday, the 18th instant, when
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presentation. A gold medal is preparing by Mr. Wyon,
R.A., which will bear suitable emblems and inscription,
and will be presented along with the other portion of the
testimonial.
Two FEMALES KILLED.—On Tuesday a valuable young
mare was being yoked, at Stockport, to a waggon with
two other horses, for the purpose of being broken in for
carriage use, when the drag chain falling on her heels, she
took fright, and galloped out of the yard towards Brinks-
way Bridge, where three women were returning. The
animal attacked them with great ferocity with its forefeet,
beating them violently to the ground, and then trampling
upon them with continuous fury. It then stopped quietly
upon the bridge, without inflicting any further mischief,
and was conducted back to the mill. The females, being
seriously injured—two of them fatally so—were carried to
the Woolpack Inn, Brinksway. Ann Faulkner was
wounded about the head and body in a frightful manner,
so much so, that she died the same night ; whilst the other
(Ann Sherrock) had sustained such severe fractures be-
hind the right ear from the hoof of the animal, that no
surgical aid could prevent her death, which occurred the
next day. The carter was instantly dismissed from his
situation, and the noble-looking animal, worth 120
guineas, was destroyed next day, by the direction of the
Owner.

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The advantages offered to Shippers are Moderate Rates of
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