The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-30 00:00:00

Btstrat 41- etus.

Haymaking has commenced in the neighbourhood of
Colne.

It is now pretty well ascertained that the convict
Mawdesley, who accused himself of having robbed the
Rev. Mr. Germon, is not the man who committed the
offence. .

On the 4th inst., at Hulme, near Manchester, while a
female, named Forshaw, was about lo wash and dress her
child, twenty months old, she was seized with a fit (to
which she was subject), fell against the fire, and upon the
child, and each were so much burned before assistance ar-
rived that they died a few days afterwards.
Oneof thesigns of thetimcs, as exhibited in our borough,
is the issue of a printed placard. In the Market-place
and other principal streets, many of the best shops are
closed and tenantless, and upon which is affixed the fol-
lowing significant notice ;—" These premises to Let—well
adapted for a Free Trader. Enquire of Messrs. Cobden
and Bright, Manchester."—Stockport Advertiser.
SUDDEN DEATH, DECEASED FRIENDS WANTED.—On
Sunday week, a man named William Henderson, who
hed been working at the new Hotel erecting at Bury by
the Earl of Derby, suddenly expired ; he had worked at
Bury for two or three years, and stated he was an illegi-
timate child, and was brought up by an uncle at Portobello
in Edinburgh. There was £l5 in money on his person,
there was also found at his lodgings, one box filled with
books, one box with clothes, and a box of valuable
Joiners' Tools. There was no paper that would lead to
the discovery of his friends. The property is left in
charge of Mr. Sellers, Superintendent of Police, Bury,
until his friends are heard of.

TARLETON.—On Sunday week, two sermons were
preached in Tarleton Church, in behalf of the Sunday
Schools and the Girls' Day School, by the Rev. George
Dover, incumbent of St. Bartholomew's Liverpool. The
collections after the sermons amounted to £9 10s. The
children's feast was held the day after, when the weather
was most favourable for such a purpose. Two hundred
and ten children were in attendance, who formed a pro-
cession and walked to the parsonage, where they sang
most loyally the National Anthem, after which they re-
turned through the village to the school-room. At four
o'clock they were treated with an abundant supply of
buns and coffee.
CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS IN LANCASHIRE AND CHE-
SHIRE.—From a parliamentary return recently laid before
the House of Commons, it appears that the number of
convicts under sentence of transportation on Ist January
last, in the county prisons in Lancashire, was :—Kirkdale
31 ; Lancaster Castle 1 ; Liverpool 44 • Preston 11 ; and
Salford 10 ; making a total of 97. The return for the
nine years, 1839 to 1847 inclusive, was respectfully for the
same places, 57, 19, 29, 34, 44, 91, 39, 43, 58. This the
year 1848 (or rather 1847) exceeds all the other years.
In Cheshire the number of convicts within the same
period was respectfully 29 (in 1839), 31, 14, 19, 19, 12,
16, nil, nil, 15 (in 1848). The total number in England
and Wales, Ist January last, was 6523, showing a consi-
derable increase. In Wales there have been only 27 con-
victions within the whole ten year.

ORMSKIRK.—The remains Of Henry Pennington, Esq.,
late Captain in her Majesty's 29th Regiment of Foot,
were committed to their last resting-place on Wednesday
morning last, at the parish-church of Ormskirk, the
neighbourhood of his birth ; the funeral service being
read by his friend, the Rev. R. Battersby. chaplain to
the Right Hon. Lord Skelmersdale. The gallant officer
entered the service at an early age, as ensign in the 3rd
Royal Lancashire Militia, and volunteered into the 29th
Regiment, prior to the first campaign in Portugal, under
his Grace the Duke of Wellington, then Sir Arthur Wel-
lesley ; was present at the battles of Robeia, Vimiera,
Talavera, Albuhera, Oporto, and other minor actions in
the Peninsula. He also served with the 29th Regiment
in North America, and entered Paris with the allied
armies in the year 1815, after the battle of Waterloo.
Without an expression of regret for the death of this
gallant officer, we cannot permit his eminent military
vrvices to be passed over. His amiable disposition, his
honourable principles, and kindly feelings, endeared him
to all who had the pleasure of his society. In life he
was highly respected, and in death is regretted by all who
knew his worth and integrity. As a soldier and Christian
he had ever lived, and as such he died, at his residence,
Scarth-bill, Bickeystaffe,in the 73rd year of his age. This
short sketch is given by a brother officer of many years'
acquaintance.— Correspondent.