The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-05 00:00:00

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A woman at Blackburn became last week so excited by
passion that she fell down in a fit and expired.
The Bishop of London is on a visit at Whittington
Hall, near Lancaster, .the seat of Thomas Greene, Esq.
A little girl, four year' old, was burnt to death a few
days since at Lancaster, through her clothes catching fire,
whilst playing with lucifer matches, which unexpectedly
ignited.
William Bolling, Esq., M.P. for Bolton, whose death
on Wednesday we record elsewhere, was long a Sunday
school teacher, and on the Sunday before be received his
final summons he was instructing a class in the Bolton
Parish School.

On Sunday week, the bodies of most of the persons
drowned by the flood on Wednesday week were interred
in the presence of tens of thousands of people. Six of
them were buried in Trinity Churchyard, Darwen ; two
in the Parish Church, Blackburn ; two at the Lower
Chapel, Darwen • one at Ebenezer Chapel; and one at
the Methodist Chapel, Belgrave-square.
IMPORTANT TO AUCTIONEERS .—At Bolton county
court, on Friday, the judge allowed a defendant to set off
a claim which he had against a party who had sold his
goods by auction, and a portion of which were bought by
the defendant. The action was brought by the auctioneer
on the occasion. His honour said that though the auc-
tioneer had a right to sue, he must do so subject to the
claim of the defendant against the owner of the goods.
FATAL EXPLOSION.—An explosion of fire-damp hap-
pened on Monday at Mr. Wood's coal-pit, Hindley, , (close
to the road leading to Leigh,) which caused the death of
five persons. Three others are dreadfully burnt, and
one of them not expected to recover. The real cause of
the damp taking fire is unknown, but some people sup-
pose it was occasioned by a collier lighting his pipe out
of one of Davy's safety lamps.
PAUPERISM IN PRESTON.—The first of the periodical
lists of paupers receiving out-door relief in Preston, was
laid before the board of guardians on Tuesday last. The
list contains nearly seven hundred names. As the pressure
of work prevents the guardians and relieving officers inves-
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known who are the recipients of relief, in order that those
who know of parties receiving relief improperly may ap-
prise the relieving officers of the same.
MAGISTRATES.—The number of magistrates now in
commission of the peace for this county is 403; being in
Lonsdale hundred, 58 ; Amounderness hundred, 20 ;
Blackburn hundred, 57; Leyland hundred, 20 ; West
Derby, 101 ; Salford, 147. The three oldest magistrates
in the commission are, W. W. Carus Wilson, Esq., of
Casterton Hall, who qualified; October 8, 1799; Lord
Skelmersdale, who qualified January 20, 1809; .and Ed-
ward Hornby, Esq., of Dalton Hall, who qualified Octo-
ber 6, 1807.
WATERSPOUT NEAR GARSTANG.—On Thursday after-
noon, a waterspout passed near Garstang, and covered
the railway with water for upwards of two miles. The
train which leaves Lancaster at five minutes past three
was compelled to stop at a cutting near Garstang. where
the water was between two, and three feet deep. Several
attempts were made by the engine driver to drive the
train through the water, but he was afraid to proceed,
fearing that the earth had been washed away from, the
rails. The passengers then got out, and some of, them
took conveyances and went on to Garstang—and others
waited with the train. The express train was due at the
time, and signals were put out to stop its approach. The
express and two other trains from Preston were alsocom-
pelled to stop on the other side of the water. After hav-
ing been delayed about an hour and three-quarters they
were enabled to proceed.
FESTIVITIES AT RAWCLIFFE HALL. —During last
week there were gay doings at Rawcliffe Hall, to welcome
the heir to the' Raweliffe estates on the attainment of
his majority, and to congratulate the family on that aus-
picious event. Wednesday last was a day that had been
looked forward to with much interest by the family and
those connected with them, not only, on account of the
entrance upon manhood by the young squire, but also be-
cause the attainment of that epoch would enable the pre-
sent owner of those estates to obtain a more permanent
tenure of the property over which he has presided for
nearly twenty years. The manor and estate of Out Raw-
cliffe, now held by T. R. 'Nilson France, Esq., was for-
feited
by its owner, one of the Butlers, taking part with
the Pretender, at the rebellion of 1715. The then heir to
the estates was also tried for participation in the rebellion,
and sentenced to death, hut he died in prison, in London,
in January, 1716. The estate had been in the family of
the Butlers, formerly the De Botelers, from a very early
period of history. The estates were then sold by authority
of parliament. They were purchased by a Mr. Roe,
whose only daughter, by marriage with John France,
Esq., of Eccleston. brought the estate to that:gentleman,
whose son and successor, John France, dying issueless,
left the estates to Thomas Wilson, Esq., of Preston and
Norbreck, for his life, awl afterwards to his eldest son,
Thomas Robert Wilson, Esq., and his heirs male ; failing
which, to other and distinct families. Mr. Wilson and
Mr. T. R. Wilson (the present owner.), assumed, thr,
former for himself alone, and the latter, on succeeding to
the estate, for himself and issue, the name of Franc., in
additiou to that of Wilson,.